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Reticence by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsBookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's The Custard Protocol series.Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her best friend are building themselves a family of misfits aboard their airship, The Spotted Custard...Categorized as:
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Dark State by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDark State is the second book in an exciting series in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series, following Empire Games.In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent...Categorized as:
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![Kiss of the Spindle by Nancy Campbell Allen]()
Kiss of the Spindle by Nancy Campbell Allen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA steampunk Sleeping Beauty story from the author of Beauty and the Clockwork Beast.Doctor Isla Cooper is cursed. Literally. Each night, at the stroke of midnight she falls into a death-like sleep from which she cannot be awakened for six hours. To make it worse, the curse has an expiration date—after a year, it becomes permanent. And the year is almost up...Categorized as:
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![A Study in Ashes by Emma Jane Holloway]()
A Study in Ashes by Emma Jane Holloway
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs part of her devil’s bargain with the industrial steam barons, Evelina Cooper is finally enrolled in the Ladies’ College of London. However, she’s attending as the Gold King’s pet magician, in handcuffs and forbidden contact with even her closest relation, the detective Sherlock Holmes.Not even Niccolo, the dashing pirate captain, and his sentient airship can save her...Categorized as:
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Effendi by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMasterfully blending speculative fiction and hard-boiled mystery, Jon Courtenay Grimwood's acclaimed Arabesk series plunges readers into a world eerily familiar and shockingly unpredictable. Here a troubled detective follows a trail of clues through a city where innocence itself may be a thing of the past. . . -
![The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross]()
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsBob Howard, from The Laundry, secret UK agency against evil forces, narrates boarding yacht of Ellis Billington for Gravedust device that talks with dead. Ellis plans to raise Jennifer Morgue, monster from deep sea, rule world. U.S. Black Chamber sends lethal Ramona Random, in conflict with her bosses. Includes: Pimpf tale - Bob in virtual game; Afterword; Glossary...Categorized as:
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![Clones: The Anthology by Jessica West, Daniel Arthur Smith]()
Clones: The Anthology by Jessica West, Daniel Arthur Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHuman cloning. Technology evolves faster than we do. The law shields us from our worst temptations.But the opportunity is there, dangling just out of reach—perfection and ascension… or delusion and destruction. In this collection of clone-themed stories, ten of today’s top speculative fiction writers explore our morality, our built-in societal restraints, and reflect upon our state of grace...Categorized as:
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Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction.Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks... -
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Even Angels Fall by E.V. Sauvage
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings300 years ago, my world collided with Earth.My kind has been ruling over the world ever since, passing as archangels.Doves, swans, cockatoo, their white wings in half shifted form are the sign of their power.I should have been the next in line.I should have been the new archangel Michaël.But my wings aren’t white.So instead I have to stay hidden. Instead, I’ve been trained my whole life...Categorized as:
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![The Secret of Abdu El-Yezdi by Mark Hodder]()
The Secret of Abdu El-Yezdi by Mark Hodder
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBurton & Swinburne return in a new series! The Beast is coming. History will be remade. Since the assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840, a cabal of prominent men-including King George V, HRH Prince Albert, Benjamin Disraeli, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel-has received guidance from the Afterlife...Categorized as:
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![The Goblin Reservation by Clifford D. Simak]()
The Goblin Reservation by Clifford D. Simak
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFirst-class entertainment (The Sunday Times) from a classic SF author. En route to an interplanetary research mission, a scientist is abducted by a strange, shadowy race of aliens and taken to a previously uncharted planet, a storehouse of information that would be invaluable--even to an Earth so advanced that time travel allows goblins, dinosaurs, even Shakespeare to coexist... -
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Neat by Russell Zimmerman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Meanest StreetsJames Kincaid is the type of guy who might be described as down on his luck, if only he’d had some luck to begin with. Like so many people in the shadows of Seattle, he’s trying to get by with what he has... -
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The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsEven in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it’s hard for a robot to make his way. It’s even harder for a robot named Mack Megaton, a hulking machine designed to bring mankind to its knees. But Mack’s not interested in world domination... -
![The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland]()
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFrom bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world...Categorized as:
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![Valentine's Exile by E.E. Knight]()
Valentine's Exile by E.E. Knight
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDavid Valentine is revered as a hero for his part in fighting to regain Earth's freedom. When a former Quisling traitor is badly wounded, he asks Valentine to find his wife, who has vanished into the darkness of the Kurian Order. With the help of old friends and new allies, Valentine traces her to a mysterious, heavily guarded compound in Ohio...Categorized as:
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![The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross]()
The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsNEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY ...Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed...Categorized as:
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![The Deaths of Tao by Wesley Chu, Mikael Naramore]()
The Deaths of Tao by Wesley Chu, Mikael Naramore
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBooklist Starred Review Shelf Awareness Starred ReviewThe sequel to The Lives of Tao.The Prophus and the Genjix are at war. For centuries they have sought a way off-planet, guiding humanity’s social and technological development to the stage where space travel is possible...Categorized as:
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![Ghost of the White Nights by L.E. Modesitt Jr.]()
Ghost of the White Nights by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in a fascinating alternative world in which ghosts are real, the United States never came into existence and Russia is still ruled by the Romanovs, this sequel to Of Tangible Ghosts and The Ghost of the Revelator continues the adventures of semi-retired spy Dr. Johan Eschbach...Categorized as:
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The Ghost of the Revelator by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsL.E. Modesitt, Jr., has gained a legion of devoted fans for his science fiction as well as his epic fantasy novels. The Ghost of the Revelator is one of the best displays yet of his ability to blend dramatic, imaginative stories with rigorous social and scientific extrapolation... -
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Shadowrun by FanPro
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Shadows Have Evolved The year is 2070. The world is not only Awakened -- it's wired. Cyber and bioware implants make your meat body better-than-flesh, while the wireless Matrix enhances your perceptions with hyper-real senses. Deals are made in steel and lead more often than gold or nuyen; success and failure live only a razor's edge apart... -
![The Dervish House by Ian McDonald]()
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsISTANBUL: QUEEN OF CITIES. Here histories, empires, and continents meet and cross. It is the mid-twenty first century and Turkey is a proud and powerful member of a European Union that runs from the Atlantic to Mt. Ararat.In the sleepy Istanbul district of Eskiköy stands the former whirling dervish house of Adem Dede. Six characters' lives revolve around it...Categorized as:
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![The Illustrious by Pavel Kornev]()
The Illustrious by Pavel Kornev
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this world, science took the place of magic. Meanwhile, the transition from the era of steam to the epoch of Sublime Electricity is already underway. But magic hasn’t simply disappeared without a trace. It still exists, concealed in the blood of the illustrious.Detective constable Leopold Orso of the metropolitan police counts himself among their number... -
![Countdown City by Ben H. Winters]()
Countdown City by Ben H. Winters
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThere are just 77 days to go before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Hank Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, Hank's days of solving crimes are over...until a woman from his past begs for help finding her missing husband...Categorized as:
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![Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson]()
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsQuicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight...Categorized as:
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The English Assassin: The Cornelius Quartet 3 by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe third book in the Cornelius Quartet reissues published by Titan Books featuring the enigmatic character Jerry Cornelius, written by influential, award-winning author Michael...Categorized as:
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![The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder]()
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLondon, 1861.Sir Richard Francis Burton—explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead...Categorized as:
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![Junkyard Cats by Faith Hunter]()
Junkyard Cats by Faith Hunter
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the author of the best-selling Jane Yellowrock and Soulwood series comes a tough new heroine who is far more than she seems.After the Final War, after the appearance of the Bug aliens and their enforced peace, Shining Smith is still alive, still doing business from the old scrapyard bequeathed to her by her father. But Shining is now something more than human...Categorized as:
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![A Cure for Cancer by Michael Moorcock]()
A Cure for Cancer by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA mirror-image of his former self, Jerry Cornelius returns to a parallel London, armed with a vibragun and his infamous charisma and charm to boot. On the trail of the grotesque Bishop Beesley, Jerry hunts for a mysterious device capable of manipulating the cosmos. Corruption, violence and greed are rife in a war-torn Europe, but Jerry is against history; he is outside of history...Categorized as:
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Ghosts of War by George Mann
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGhosts of War picks up the story a month after the end of Ghosts of Manhattan. New York City is being plagued by a pack of ferocious brass raptors – strange, skeleton-like creations with bat-like wings that swoop out of the sky, attacking people and carrying them away into the night...Categorized as:
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![The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu]()
The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsWhen out-of-shape IT technician Roen woke up and started hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumed he was losing it. He wasn’t. He now has a passenger in his brain – an ancient alien life-form called Tao, whose race crash-landed on Earth before the first fish crawled out of the oceans...Categorized as:
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![The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett]()
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe year is 1919.The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built the guns that won the Great War before it even began. They built the airships that tie the world together. And, above all, they built Evesden-a shining metropolis, the best that the world has to offer.But something is rotten at the heart of the city... -
![Rabbits: A Novel by Terry Miles]()
Rabbits: A Novel by Terry Miles
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsConspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly underground alternate reality game might just be altering reality itself, set in the same world as the popular Rabbits podcast. It's an average work day. You've been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 pm...Categorized as:
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![Blades of Winter by G.T. Almasi]()
Blades of Winter by G.T. Almasi
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn one of the most exciting debuts in years, G. T. Almasi has fused the intricate cat-and-mouse games of a John le Carré novel with the brash style of comic book superheroes to create a kick-ass alternate history that reimagines the Cold War as a clash of spies with biological, chemical, and technological enhancements...Categorized as:
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![Winter by Rod Rees]()
Winter by Rod Rees
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Demi-Monde is the most advanced computer simulation ever devised. Created to prepare soldiers for the nightmarish reality of urban warfare, it is a virtual world locked in eternal civil war...Categorized as:
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![The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon]()
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 57 ratingsFor sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel... -
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New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAbigail Irene Garrett drinks too much. She makes scandalous liaisons with inappropriate men, and if in her youth she was a famous beauty, now she is both formidable--and notorious. She is a forensic sorceress, and a dedicated officer of a Crown that does not deserve her loyalty. She has nothing, but obligations.Sebastien de Ulloa is the oldest creature she has ever known...Categorized as:
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Fall or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Phillip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire...Categorized as:
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![The Unnaturalists by Tiffany Trent]()
The Unnaturalists by Tiffany Trent
Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn an alternate London where magical creatures are preserved in a museum, two teens find themselves caught in a web of intrigue, deception, and danger.Vespa Nyx wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life cataloging Unnatural creatures in her father’s museum, but as she gets older, the requirement to become a lady and find a husband is looming large...Categorized as:
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![The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith Saintcrow]()
The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith Saintcrow
Rated: 3.39 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsEmma Bannon, forensic sorceress in the service of the Empire, has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare, a failed, unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary, and her own sorcery is not inconsiderable. It doesn't help much that they barely tolerate each other, or that Bannon's Shield, Mikal, might just be a traitor himself...Categorized as:
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The Difference Engine by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 41 ratings1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time... -
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Mainspring by Jay Lake
Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsJay Lake's first trade novel is an astounding work of creation. Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of the Creator is visible to anyone who simply looks up into the sky, and sees the track of the heavens, the wheels of the Moon, and the great Equatorial gears of the Earth itself...
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