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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional sci-fi, fantasy & alternate history novels.
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Angelmaker: A Novel
by Nick Harkaway
Hardcover: 20 Mar 2012
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| A blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction. |
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The Technologists: A Novel
by Matthew Pearl
Hardcover: 21 Feb 2012
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| The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl's spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word "technology" represents a bold and frightening new concept. |
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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: Oct 2011
Paperback: 18 Sep 2012
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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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