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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 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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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
Hardcover: 17 Aug 2004
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| A brilliantly original fiction that reveals how disparate people connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. |
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Darwin's Children
by Greg Bear
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: 1 Jun 2004
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| The chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution continues in this provocative tale where "survival of the fittest" takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions. |
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The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Hardcover: Aug 2003
Paperback: 27 May 2004
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| A funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on relationships. |
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The Merlin Conspiracy
by Diana Wynne Jones
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: 1 May 2004
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| A masterful weaving of mystery, intrigue and magic into a complex plot that's full of twists and surprises. In this astonishing novel, the characters' actions have unexpected consequences, and nothing in the multiverse is as it first seems. Ages 10+. |
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The Briar King: Book One of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone
by Greg Keyes
Hardcover: Jan 2003
Paperback: 1 Mar 2004
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| It has been two thousand years since the Born Queen defeated the last of the Skasloi lords. In doing so she freed the race of humans from slavery. Thus begins the saga of the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, an epic tale of war and virtue, sorcery and betrayal... |
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Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: 3 Feb 2004
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| With his first novel written in the present, Gibson carries his perceptions of technology, globalization, and terrorism into a new century. Suspenseful, wry, and elegantly written, this is his most ambitious and broadly appealing novel to date. |
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Zulu Heart
by Steven Barnes
Hardcover: Mar 2003
Paperback: 1 Feb 2004
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| An ambitious and absorbing sequel to Lion's Blood - the magnificent abundance of detail of this alternate world carries the day, with considerable assistance from skilled characterization leaning to the romantic side. |
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