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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 Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
Hardcover: Oct 2004
Paperback: 1 Sep 2005
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| This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and convincingly realistic in its portrayal. The reader watches, horrified yet totally absorbed, as America spirals down the path toward fascism. |
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The Runes of The Earth: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 1
by Stephen R. Donaldson
Hardcover: Oct 2004
Paperback: 30 Aug 2005
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| The triumphant return of the Thomas Covenant fantasy series, with the first in a new trilogy: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. |
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Something Rotten: A Thursday Next mystery
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Aug 2004
Paperback: 26 Jul 2005
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| Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop the hostile takeover of Hamlet by Orphelia? Can Swindon win the world croquet championship and thus prevent the end of the world? All this and more is revealed in this, the 4th volume in the Thursday Next series. |
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Eragon: Inheritance, Book I
by Christopher Paolini
Hardcover: Aug 2003
Paperback: 26 Apr 2005
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| Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? |
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Tears of The Salamander
by Peter Dickinson
Hardcover: Aug 2003
Paperback: 8 Feb 2005
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| When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio - a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna who has sinister plans for his nephew. |
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
by Andrew Sean Greer
Hardcover: Feb 2004
Paperback: 1 Feb 2005
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| An extraordinarily haunting love story told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards. |
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Wolves of the Calla: The Dark Tower V
by Stephen King
Hardcover: Nov 2003
Paperback: 1 Jan 2005
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| The Wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to, and they can give the Calla-folken both courage and cunning. |
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The Grim Grotto
by Lemony Snicket
Hardcover: 1 Sep 2004
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| In their desperate search for something lost, the Baudelaire children encounter new and terrible horrors, including mushrooms, a mechanical monster, a distressing message from a lost friend, and tap dancing. Ages 9+. |
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