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Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as "eye-opening, " this alternative history of the last 600 years begins as the Black Death kills nearly everyone in Europe, and China, India, and the nations of Islam now control the ...

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Magic and murder engulf the realm of Kelewan. Fierce warlords ignite a bitter blood feud to enslave the empire of Tsuranuanni. While in the opulent Imperial courts, assassins and spy-master plot cunning and devious intrigues against the rightful h...

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In the spellbinding Arthur C. Clarke tradition, here is an exhilarating adventure into the hearts of both the Universe and mankind... <BR>By the twenty-third century Earth has already had two encounters with massive, mysterious robotic space...

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On steamy Pryan, never-ending sunlight and plentiful rain have created a jungle so vast that humans and elves dwell high in the trees and only dwarves live anywhere near the ground. From the treetops the aristocratic elves sell weapons to the othe...

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Abarrach, the Realm of stone. Here, on a barren world of underground caverns built around a core of molten lava, the lesser races -- humans, elves, and dwarves -- seem to have all died off. Here, too, what may well be the last remnants of the once...

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The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor's secret fortress: clone soldiers. As ...

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This Author's Preferred Edition of this bestselling coming-of-age saga celebrates the 15th anniversary of its publication. Feist introduces a new generation of readers to his riveting novel of adventure and intrigue, revised and updated as he alwa...

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It's five years after Return of the Jedi, the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Sol...

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The Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of "The Doomsday Book" returns with an epic time-traveling story that follows three researchers from the future who are stranded in the past during World War II.

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For all those who enjoyed The Handmaid's Tale comes a captivating novel set in a frightening future. Human civilization has evolved into a dual so ciety where walls enclose the peaceful women and keep the warrior men out, and yet there is a gate b...

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It's the Hollywood of the future, where moviemaking's been computerized and live-action films are a thing of the past. It's a Hollywood in which Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe are starring together in a remake of A Star Is Born, and if you don...

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On a devilish sabbatical in Europe, Azzie discovers that morality plays are all the rage. He decides to strike back by producing an "immorality play", in which seven nondescript human pilgrims will be allowed by magic to attain their hea...

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Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballrooms, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. When her uncle dec...

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Fleeing the ghosts of their past, a healer and a killer escape from the ruined Copper Country to the city of Ashamoil. But as they salvage new lives, they will discover that the ghosts of the past are also the ghosts of the future.

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Out of print in the United States for more than two decades, four early fantasy works by the award-winning author of "Light" are gathered for this omnibus edition. Includes "The Pastel City, A Storm of Wings, The Floating Gods,"...

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Simmons received the World Fantasy Award for his first novel, Song of Kali; the Hugo Award for his epic Hyperion; and horror's highest honor, the Bram Stoker Award, for his novel Carrion Comfort. Now he masterfully combines all three genres in thi...

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Continuing the Deverry saga, this novel tells the story of Lillorigga, a magically gifted young woman who has been the puppet of her scheming mother. But as Lilli learns to control her wild powers under the tutelage of the mysterious dweomermaster...

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Only a handful of authors write with such startling originality that the uniqueness of their vision has become synonymous with their name. In Spares and One of Us, Michael Marshall Smith has earned that distinction. In this unsettling, suspenseful...

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From a gifted new voice in fantasy comes this saga of a war-ravaged land and the young woman destined to restore it. Sixteen-year-old Eliana studies at the Conservatory of Music hoping for an Imperial Court appointment. But in a land blighted by f...

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Men live and die by the sword on the treacherous streets of Riverside. Within this elite, dangerous world, Richard St. Vier is the master, as skilled as he is ruthless--until a death by the sword is met with outrage instead of awe. The city then d...

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The bestselling author of "The Years of Rice and Salt" and the classic Mars trilogy launches an exciting new trilogy, set in the near future, in which science and ethics reach the boiling point in Washington, D.C.

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From the World Fantasy Award-winning author comes this inspired retelling of an ancient legend that weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart.

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This debut novel--the first in a hard-edged, inventive, military science fiction trilogy--introduces Jenny Casey, a very unusual heroine dealing with international politics in a world greatly altered by global warming. Original.

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Sorcerer Marla Mason, a beguiling and only slightly wicked witch of the East Coast, must head to San Francisco to increase her powers in order to beat a murderous magical nemesis, in a new urban fantasy from the author of "The Strange Adventu...

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With their most treacherous mission yet behind them, heroes Seregil and Alec resume their double life as dissolute nobles and master spies, in this fourth Nightrunners book. But in a world of rivals and charmers, fate has a different plan. Original.

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At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei. To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Galileo is a revered figure whose actions will influenc...

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After slightly wicked Witch of the East Coast Marla Mason gets a visit from her con-artist brother, she soon finds that he may be up to a new kind of grift, sparking the interest of a few magical enemies. Original.

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"One of the most satisfying science fiction novels I have read in years."-The New York Times Book Review Here is a novel as original as the breathtaking, unspoiled world for which it is named, a place where all appears to be in idyllic b...

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A woman returns from the dead with disastrous results for the family who loves her.... An old-fashioned barbershop is the site of a medieval ritual of bloody terror.... During a post-apocalyptic Christmas celebration, a messenger from the South br...

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