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Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Alternate History
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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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Gossamer
by Lois Lowry
Hardcover: Apr 2006
Paperback: 8 Jan 2008
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| Where do dreams come from? Two people face their own histories and discover what they can be to one another, renewed by the strength that comes from a tiny, caring creature they will never see. |
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Foundling: Monster Blood Tattoo Book 1
by D M. Cornish
Hardcover: May 2006
Paperback: 6 Sep 2007
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| Set in the world of the Half-Continent—a land of tri-corner hats and flintlock pistols—the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy is a world of predatory monsters, chemical potions and surgically altered people. For ages 12+ |
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Farthing
by Jo Walton
Hardcover: Aug 2006
Paperback: 30 Aug 2007
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| In an alternate history, a radical group overthrew Churchill and made peace with Hitler. Now, eight years later at a country retreat, one of the group is murdered; and suspicion falls on the Jewish husband of one of their adult children. |
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The Looking Glass Wars
by Frank Beddor
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: 1 Aug 2007
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| An intruiging re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland, in which Wonderland exists, and Alyss is a princess escaping a bloody coup to hide in Victorian London. Lost and alone, she tells an aspiring author the surreal story; but he believes it to be mere fantasy. Now, years later, she is found by a loyal bodyguard, and together they fight to regain her lost throne. |
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Armageddon's Children: The Genesis of Shannara, Book 1
by Terry Brooks
Hardcover: Aug 2006
Paperback: 31 Jul 2007
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| Set in a near-future United States ravaged by nuclear fallout, widespread plagues, and chemical contamination, Armageddon's Children follows a handful of unlikely heroes as they struggle to survive in a poisoned world infested by demons, insane "once-men," and other mutant creatures too horrific to describe. |
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The Stolen Child: A Novel
by Keith Donohue
Hardcover: May 2006
Paperback: 8 May 2007
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| Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double. |
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: 28 Mar 2007
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| A searing, postapocalyptic novel by the author of the much loved Border Trilogy. |
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The Dreamwalker's Child
by Steve Voake
Hardcover: Apr 2006
Paperback: 1 Mar 2007
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| A young boy, in a coma after an accident, wakes up in a new world full of danger and aventure. |
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