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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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Journal of a UFO Investigator: A Novel
by David Halperin
Hardcover: 3 Feb 2011
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| A sparkling debut novel set in the sixties about a boy's emotional and fantastical journey through alien worlds and family pain. |
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The Dream of Perpetual Motion: A Novel
by Dexter Palmer
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 1 Feb 2011
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| Beautifully written, stunningly imagined, and wickedly funny, The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a heartfelt meditation on the place of love in a world dominated by technology. |
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein: A Novel
by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 7 Sep 2010
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| When two nineteenth-century Oxford students—Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors. |
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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
by Alison Goodman
Hardcover: Dec 2008
Paperback: 31 Aug 2010
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| Action - a stunning magic system - swordplay galore for ages 12+. |
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Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 10 Aug 2010
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| It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. The Leviathan is a living airship, the most formidable airbeast in the skies of Europe. |
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The Magicians: A Novel
by Lev Grossman
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 25 May 2010
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| A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the real world. |
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The Red Wolf Conspiracy
by Robert V. Redick
Hardcover: Apr 2009
Paperback: 26 Jan 2010
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| The Imperial Merchant Ship Chathrand is the last of her kind. Six hundred years old, the massive vessel dwarfs every other sailing craft in the world. It is on its most vital mission yet: to deliver a woman whose marriage will seal the peace between Arqual and its mortal enemy. But the ship's true mission is not peace but war. |
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Runemarks
by Joanne Harris
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 13 Oct 2009
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| Master storyteller Joanne Harris has created a magical and epic romp– a fresh, funny, and wonderfully irreverent new take on the old Norse tales, sure to be enjoyed by readers young and old. |
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