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The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSomeone is killing Britain's warlocks.Twenty-two years after the Second World War, a precarious balance of power maintains the peace between Great Britain and the USSR. For decades, the warlocks have been all that stand between the British Empire and the Soviet Union-- a vast domain stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the English Channel...Categorized as:
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Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe first casualty of war is truth . . .First, Denland's revolutionaries assassinated their king, launching a wave of bloodshed after generations of peace. Next they clashed with Lascanne, their royalist neighbour, pitching war-machines against warlocks in a fiercely fought conflict. Genteel Emily Marshwic watched as the hostilities stole her family's young men...Categorized as:
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Foreign Devils by John Hornor Jacobs
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe world is on the brink of war. Fisk and Shoe - mercenaries, very much not wanting to get caught in the middle of a political whirlwind - must deliver a very important message, and find a very dangerous man. They have caught the eye of the powerful men of the world, and now the stakes are higher than they like... -
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The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 30 ratings'The Drawing of the Dark is not only one of my favourite Tim Powers novels, it's simply one of my favourite novels. The seamless and seemingly effortless blend of action and humour, the wonderful characters, the rich settings, the brilliant plot - all of it is perfect' James P... -
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Fenrir by M.D. Lachlan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Vikings are laying siege to Paris. They want the Count's sister, in return they will spare the rest of the city... -
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The Incorruptibles by John Hornor Jacobs
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the contested and unexplored territories at the edge of the Empire, a boat is making its laborious way up stream. Riding along the banks are the mercenaries hired to protect it - from raiders, bandits and, most of all, the stretchers, elf-like natives who kill any intruders into their territory. The mercenaries know this is dangerous, deadly work. But it is what they do...Categorized as:
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Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in betweenRaybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him...Categorized as:
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The Dead of Winter by Lee Collins
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCora and her husband hunt things – things that shouldn’t exist.When the marshal of Leadville, Colorado, comes across a pair of mysterious deaths, he turns to Cora to find the creature responsible. But if Cora is to overcome the unnatural tide threatening to consume the small town, she must first confront her own tragic past as well as her present...Categorized as:
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Wolfsangel by M.D. Lachlan
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Viking King Authun leads his men on a raid against an Anglo-Saxon village. Men and women are killed indiscriminately but Authun demands that no child be touched. He is acting on prophecy. A prophecy that tells him that the Saxons have stolen a child from the Gods. If Authun, in turn, takes the child and raises him as an heir, the child will lead his people to glory... -
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Twelve by Jasper Kent
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe voordalak--creature of legend, the tales of which have terrified Russian children for generations. But for Captain Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov--a child of more enlightened times--it is a legend that has long been forgotten. Besides, in the autumn of 1812, he faces a more tangible enemy: the Grande Armee of Napoleon Bonaparte...Categorized as:
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Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow by Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWar has engulfed the Known World, and Maika Halfwolf is at its epicenter. As she and her friends grapple with the consequences of their actions, long-buried secrets and long-awaited reunions threaten to change everything. Join MARJORIE LIU and SANA TAKEDA in the newest volume of this Eisner, Hugo, Harvey, and British Fantasy Award-winning series...Categorized as:
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![Belisarius I: Thunder at Dawn by Eric Flint, David Drake]()
Belisarius I: Thunder at Dawn by Eric Flint, David Drake
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTwo complete novels in one volume—the beginning of the Belisarius saga.An Oblique Approach : In northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil. Guided or possessed by an intelligence from beyond time, with new weapons, old treachery, and an implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the whole Earth...Categorized as:
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American Vampire, Vol. 3 by Scott Snyder
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTwo epic World War II tales in one massive volume!In the Pacific, Pearl's husband Henry joins a clandestine group on a secret mission to Japan to hunt a new breed of bloodsucker. Meanwhile, Skinner Sweet has plans of his own...And in Europe, vampire hunters Felicia Book and Cash McCogan go behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied Romania in search of a rumored vampire cure...Categorized as:
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Monstress #1 by Marjorie M. Liu
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSteampunk meets Kaiju in this original fantasy epic for mature readers, as young Maika risks everything to control her psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, placing her in the center of a devastating war between human and otherworldly forces...Categorized as:
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Monstress #5 by Marjorie M. Liu
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMaika struggles with the monster inside... -
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Monstress #3 by Marjorie M. Liu
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMaika must confront the deadly secrets that live inside her... -
![The Unwritten, Vol. 6: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words by Mike Carey, Peter Gross]()
The Unwritten, Vol. 6: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words by Mike Carey, Peter Gross
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn this volume, Tom Taylor goes to war against the cabal that has tormented, imprisoned and tried to destroy him. To have a hope of winning, Tom must use every weapon he can get hold of, but even storybook magic carries its own risks. Tom's crusade plays out against the backdrop of the cabal's sinister secret history and delves deep into the dark past of some of the series' major players...Categorized as:
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The Sixth Gun, Vol. 1: Cold Dead Fingers by Cullen Bunn
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTHIS IS NOT THE OLD WEST AS WE KNOW IT. In the passing shadow of the Civil War, defiant Confederate General Oleander Hume waits to be let loose, too evil and warped to die, too mad with bloodlust to let go of his black magic. He hungers for his lost and most precious possession, an ancient weapon of foreboding doom...Categorized as:
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Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsSet in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers...Categorized as:
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![Demon Knights, Vol. 1: Seven Against the Dark by Paul Cornell, Diogenes Neves]()
Demon Knights, Vol. 1: Seven Against the Dark by Paul Cornell, Diogenes Neves
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in the Dark Ages of the DC Universe, a barbarian horde is massing to crush civilization...Categorized as:
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