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Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
by A.S. Byatt
Hardcover: 31 Jan 2012
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| War, natural disaster, reckless gods and the recognition of impermanence in the world are just some of the threads that AS Byatt weaves into this most timely of books. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, this is a landmark. |
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Embassytown
by China Mieville
Hardcover: May 2011
Paperback: 31 Jan 2012
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| With Embassytown Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war. |
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Home Fires
by Gene Wolfe
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 17 Jan 2012
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| Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. |
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1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
Hardcover: 25 Oct 2011
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| A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's - 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami's most ambitious undertaking yet. |
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Zone One: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
Hardcover: 18 Oct 2011
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| Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One brilliantly subverts the genre's conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century. |
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When She Woke: A Novel
by Hillary Jordan
Hardcover: 4 Oct 2011
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| When She Woke is a fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, who embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith. |
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Prospero Regained: Book 3
by L. Jagi Lamplighter
Hardcover: 13 Sep 2011
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| Prospero, the sorcerer on whose island of exile William Shakespeare set his play, The Tempest, has been captured and imprisoned in Hell, and time is running out for his daughter Miranda and for the great magician himself. |
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The Map of Time: A Novel
by Felix J. Palma
Hardcover: 28 Jun 2011
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| A skeptical H. G. Wells investigates time-travel mysteries including an aristocrat's love affair with a murdered prostitute from the past, a Victorian woman's escape to the future, and a plot to murder celebrated authors to steal their written works. |
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