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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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The Traveler: The First Novel of the Fourth Realm Trilogy
by John Twelve Hawks
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: 18 Jul 2006
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| The Traveler explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. A world that exists in the shadows of our own. A conflict we will never see. One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom. |
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by Wu Ming
Hardcover: 3 Jul 2006
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| Set during the height of the Cold War - with the world divided into East and West - 54 features Cary Grant as a real-life spy dealing with Italian partisans, KGB agents, Parisian lowlifes, and cameos by David Niven, Marshal Tito, and Grace Kelly. |
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The Sea of Trolls
by Nancy Farmer
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 23 May 2006
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| The year is A.D. 793; Jack and his sister have been kidnapped by Vikings and taken to the court of Ivar the Boneless and his terrifying half-troll wife; but things get even worse when Jack finds himself on a dangerous quest to find the magical Mimir's Well in a far-off land, with his sister's life forfeit if he fails. |
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Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
by Eoin Colfer
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 1 Apr 2006
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| Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl is back . . . and so is his brilliant and dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi. For ages 9+. |
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 14 Mar 2006
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| A tale of deceptive simplicity that slowly reveals an
extraordinary emotional depth and resonance – and takes its place among Kazuo
Ishiguro's finest work. |
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Magyk: Septimus Heap Book 1
by Angie Sage
Hardcover: Mar 2005
Paperback: 1 Mar 2006
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| The first part of an enthralling new series leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters, clever charms, potions and spells. Ages 9+. |
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Going Postal: A Discworld Novel
by Terry Pratchett
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 1 Oct 2005
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| Set in Pratchett's wonderfully crazed city of Ankh-Morpork, Going Postal hilariously reflects the plight of post offices the world over as they struggle to compete in an era when e-mail has stolen much of the glamour from the postal trade. |
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 5 Sep 2005
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| Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that eight hundred pages leave readers longing for more. |
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