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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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Lost In A Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: 1 Feb 2004
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| The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with the second installment in what is sure to become a classic series of literary fantasy. |
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Prey
by Michael Crichton
Hardcover: Nov 2002
Paperback: 1 Nov 2003
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| Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact, Crichton's new novel is a breathtaking tale of suspense about a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. |
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Night Watch
by Terry Pratchett
Hardcover: Nov 2002
Paperback: 1 Oct 2003
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| Flung back in time by a mysterious accident, Sam Vimes has to start all over again. He must whip the cowardly, despised Night Watch into a crack fighting force -- fast. Because he knows what's going to happen. It's part of history. And you can't change history... |
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The Visitor
by Sheri S. Tepper
Hardcover: Mar 2002
Paperback: 1 May 2003
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| A thousand years after our 21st century civilization was obliterated by an asteroid, little remains other than myth and superstition; but a wasted world is coming back alive and the hope of recovery rests on Dismé who will uncover the truth and reclaim a lost world. |
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Lion's Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alterative America
by Steven Barnes
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: 1 Feb 2003
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| A passionate and richly imagined epic of courage, survival, and revelation on a slave plantation in the old South...the African-ruled South. "History turned upside down—a bold, daring speculation." |
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The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Jan 2002
Paperback: 1 Feb 2003
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| Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun - a novel unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe. |
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The Carnivorous Carnival: Book the Ninth (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: 1 Jan 2003
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| In the continuing, appalling tales of the Baudelaire siblings, the children
are on the run having been falsely accused of murder, so they hide in the
carnival, as part of Madame Lulu's House of Freaks. Ages 9+ |
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The Sterkarm Handshake
by Susan Price
Hardcover: Sep 2000
Paperback: 1 Jan 2003
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| The Sterkarm Handshake is a stirring tale of a clash of two cultures, beautifully told by master storyteller Susan Price. |
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