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Bacigalupi, Paolo. The Windup Girl What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation. 2009 Appears on the following book list:  Science Fiction: Contemporary
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Baxter, Stephen Navigator As the fearsome war between Christianity and Islam leaves its mark across the land, a rogue Spanish priest dreams of the final defeat of Islam, for he has found a rent in the tapestry of time, a point where agents from the future used diabolical weapons of destruction to change history. 2008 | ||||||||||
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Birmingham, John, 1964- Without Warning Imagine what would happen if an unexplained phenomenon virtually erased the U.S. overnight--leaving the rest of the world to survive without it. 2009 | ||||||||||
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Brooks, Terry The Gypsy Morph Eighty years into the future, the United States is a no-man's-land: its landscape blighted by chemical warfare, pollution, and plague; its government collapsed; its citizens adrift, desperate, fighting to stay alive. But from around the country, allies of good unite to challenge the rampaging evil and a young elf entrusted with an ancient magic, must deliver his entire civilization from a monstrous army. 2008 | ||||||||||
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Butcher, Jim Changes : a Novel of the Dresden Files In the twelfth book of the series, Harry finds out he has a daughter and has to work with his former lover, Susan Rodriguez, to protect them both. 2010 Appears on the following book list: Horror: Contemporary
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Chabon, Michael The Yiddish Policemen's Union In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy. 2007 Appears on the following book lists: Science Fiction & Fantasy Award Winners Science Fiction & Fantasy Award Winners
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Drake, David. The Legions of Fire Set in the new world of Carce, based on Europe during the later Roman Empire. 2010 | ||||||||||
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Fforde, Jasper. Thursday Next in First Among Sequels : a Novel Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in the fifth installment of Fforde's wildly popular series. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's newest adventure will be celebrated by fans and critics alike. 2007 Appears on the following book list:
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Finlay, Charles Coleman. The Patriot Witch Follows Proctor Brown, ready minuteman and reluctant witch, through the opening battles of the American Revolution. Caught between the demands of a loyalist girlfriend and the needs of his aged parents, Proctor is eager to join the American cause and put his hidden abilities to good use. As he learns more about witchcraft, he finds it employed by both rebels and Royal Marines, and he struggles to master his talents without being exposed. 2009 | ||||||||||
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Flint, Eric. Worlds A collection of stories and short novels includes several works set in the Ring of Fire alternate history series, as well as tales from the Joe's World fantasy series, a story from the Rats, Bats and Vats series, and short novels from the Belisarius and Foreign Legions series. 2009 | ||||||||||
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Gregory, Daryl Pandemonium In the 1950s, ordinary people of varying ages and backgrounds are possessed by entities that seem to spring from the collective unconscious, that many would call demons. It is believed that the key to resolving this plague pivots around the possessed Del Pierce; for whom the cure may be worse than the disease. 2008 Appears on the following book list:
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Hamilton, Laurell K. Skin Trade When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're really dealing with. 2009 | ||||||||||
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Harrison, Kim. White Witch Black Curse Witch detective Rachel Morgan attempts to solve the mysterious death of her boyfriend by an emotion-sucking banshee. To exact her revenge on the killer, she brings in her PI partners--Ivy, a bisexual vampire, and Jenks, a pixie in existential crisis--along with empathic psychiatrist Ford and the banshee victim's father, Federal Inderland Bureau captain Edden. 2009 Appears on the following book list:
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Mieville, China. The City the City Inspector Tyador Borlu must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in the city of Beszel. 2009 Appears on the following book list:
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Murphy, C. E. (Catie E.) The Pretender's Crown Aliens known as the Heseth, the people of the sun, have visited Earth in what would be our 16th century, but the supernatural elements are limited to the occasional use of magical abilities. The plot is more focused on the struggle for power in Echon (Europe), which features familiar rivalries between Aulun (England), Gallin (France) and the Prussian Confederation. 2009 | ||||||||||
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Novik, Naomi. In his Majesty's Service Capt. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring a most unusual cargo--an incalculably valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation's history. 2009 | ||||||||||
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Priest, Cherie. Boneshaker Inventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's widow, lives in the poor neighborhood outside the wall that's been built around the uninhabitable city. Life is tough with a ruined reputation, but she and her teenage son Ezekiel are surviving--until Zeke impetuously decides that he must reclaim his father's name from the clutches of history. 2009 Appears on the following book list: Steampunk
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Stirling, S. M. The Sword of the Lady : a Novel of the Change Rudi Mackenzie has journeyed far across the land that was once the United States of America, hoping to find the source of the world-altering event that has come to be known as The Change. On the island of Nantucket he finds a beautifully made sword waiting for him--and once he takes it up, nothing will ever be the same. 2009 | ||||||||||
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Stross, Charles. The Revolution Business Things are going badly for the Clan. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan's leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come. Miriam, rescued from a tight spot in New Britain, finds the hopes of the young, progressive faction focused on her. She soon finds herself thrown into a desperate struggle for power. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the Clan, researchers working for the US government have achieved a technological breakthrough. The War on Terror is about to go transdimensional. 2009 | ||||||||||
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Turtledove, Harry The Disunited States of America When the latest war breaks out between Virginia and Ohio, using a tailored virus that unleashes a plague on the tiny upland town of Elizabeth, Virginia, Crosstime Traffic operatives Justin and Beckie become trapped in the middle of the conflict. 2006 |
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