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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 Fifth Elephant: A Novel of Discworld
by Terry Pratchett
Hardcover: Mar 2000
Paperback: 1 Apr 2001
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| Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? What happened to the fifth elephant is only one of the many perplexing mysteries solved in this new novel by today's most celebrated fantasy humorist. |
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Atlantis Found: A Dirk Pitt Novel
by Clive Cussler
Hardcover: Nov 1999
Paperback: 1 Feb 2001
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| A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by and impossibility - a vessel that should have died fifty-six years before. |
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Ender's Shadow
by Orson Scott Card
Hardcover: Aug 1999
Paperback: 1 Dec 2000
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| A companion volume to Ender's Game. The story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean--the one who became Ender's right hand. |
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Timeline
by Michael Crichton
Hardcover: Nov 1999
Paperback: 1 Oct 2000
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| Combines a science of the future -- the emerging field of quantum technology -- with the complex realities of the medieval past. In a heart-stopping narrative. |
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Resurrection Day
by Brendan DuBois
Hardcover: Jun 1999
Paperback: 1 Oct 2000
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| A chilling tale of intrigue and betrayal in the aftermath of an American nuclear war, and one of the most inventive novels of alternative history since Robert Harris's Fatherland. |
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The Culling Dark
by Bettyann Craddock
Paperback: 1 Sep 2000
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| A story of the beginning of civilization, of myth and legend, of the roots of perception and the unavoidable consequences of choice. |
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A Clash of Kings
by George R R. Martin
Hardcover: Mar 1999
Paperback: 1 Sep 2000
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| As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky - a comet the color of blood and flame - six factions struggle for control of a divided land. |
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Carpe Jugulum
by Terry Pratchett
Hardcover: Oct 1999
Paperback: 1 Aug 2000
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| England's best-known and best-loved modern satirist presents an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. King Verence invites Uberwald's undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. Ever. |
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