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Telekinetic by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Telekinetic” is the first of a series of stories featuring the Hyllis family, who tend to inherit telekinetic “talents.” The story is set after a plague induced apocalypse. The resulting collapse of civilization has reduced mankind back to iron and horsepower.Tarc Hyllis’s mother (and his grandfather before her) could “feel” things with their talent...Categorized as:
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![Echo and Ember by A.J. Scudiere]()
Echo and Ember by A.J. Scudiere
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFBI agents Donovan and Eleri left their last case with a sense of unease.Unable to close the investigation, they’ve been thrown into their next assignment far too fast. A string of strange arson-based murders are just part of the trouble. Not only is former agent Wade de Gottardi on their team for this one, so are two other NightShade agents: Dana Brantley and Christina Pines...Categorized as:
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Salvage by A.J. Scudiere
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Agent Derek Westerfield first offered her a chance to be an agent with NightShade, Walter Reed didn’t really understand what that meant. She went to Quantico, trained, and even got her first case, before she realized why NightShade was off the books. Her only ally—and her new partner—is GJ Janson, the know it all who wound up hand-cuffed in a hotel room for stealing from the FBI...Categorized as:
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![The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross]()
The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats... -
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![Preserving Will by Alex Albrinck, Todd McLaren]()
Preserving Will by Alex Albrinck, Todd McLaren
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe's provided for each of them the opportunity to lead a life of health, wealth, and power far beyond their imagination. By his own example, he's shown them that such gifts are meant to be shared, used to make the world a better place. And he's never asked them for anything in return, showing a willingness to risk even his own life to live to his own ideals. Now Will Stark needs their help... -
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Stark Cataclysm by Alex Albrinck, Todd McLaren
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt is a time of unknowns for members of the Alliance. They have no information to guide their actions, no record of the key events to influence their research. For Fil Trask and his sister, Angel, it is also a time of growing up. It is a time when they must learn the deep sacrifices it often takes to keep a family together through great trial and tribulation... -
![Convergence by Alex Albrinck]()
Convergence by Alex Albrinck
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHostility has formed over the centuries. It's grown with each Hunt, each capture, each death. It's been magnified at each effort to thwart global dominion over those unable to defend against the advance of a ruthless tyrant who won't rest until the entire world is full of those who exist solely to do his will. Circumstances have prevented outright warfare. Until now... -
![Unrequited Death by Tamara Rose Blodgett]()
Unrequited Death by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Graysheets remain ominously quiet during the teen's senior year.When tragedy strikes Tiff, her confidence shatters into a million pieces and the group doesn't know how to pick up the scattered mess of her emotional health... -
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Death Weeps by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCaleb faces possible jail time for using Clyde as a undeadly weapon. When he's exonerated with probation lasting a year, Caleb has to watch his every action. Tensions run high when after the death of Jade's only relatives, she must live with an undesirable foster family who are anything but what they seem... -
![Death Screams by Tamara Rose Blodgett]()
Death Screams by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCaleb's second year of high school starts off without a hitch until Jade touches the wrong clairvoyance sample that foretells a murder in her future... -
![Exile's Gate by C.J. Cherryh]()
Exile's Gate by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMorgaine must meet her greatest challenge—Gault, who is both human and alien, and also seeks control of the world and its Gate. She will meet the true Gatemaster—a mysterious lord with power as great, or greater, than her own...Categorized as:
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![Tolkien's Ring by David Day]()
Tolkien's Ring by David Day
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsJ.R.R. Tolkien had a great knowledge of, and love for, world mythology when he wrote his beloved trilogy of Middle Earth. In particular, the symbol of the Ring has a rich and fascinating heritage, and this beautifully illustrated literary detective work searches down Tolkien's sources and inspiration... -
![Perdido Street Station: Tome 2 by China Miéville]()
Perdido Street Station: Tome 2 by China Miéville
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsLors de ses recherches pour l'homme-oiseau, Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin a libéré des monstres volants, les Gorgones, sur Nouvelle-Crobuzon. Le gouvernement est vite dépassé par les événements et en appelle à la Fileuse, une araignée géante vivant sur plusieurs plans de réalité, pour l'aider à endiguer le péril...Categorized as:
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![The Twice-Dead Boy by Laer Carroll]()
The Twice-Dead Boy by Laer Carroll
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRoan Kinnison had lived more than two centuries before he was buried in a California hillside and died for the second time. Freed by a freak of nature after a century he is in modern-day Santa Monica and must navigate it--as an apparent 17-year old boy... -
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![The Enlightened by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires]()
The Enlightened by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a USA Today bestselling author comes the exciting continuation of the Mind Dimensions series Kidnapped. Consciousness expanded. And that was just the start of my day. I always thought I was a nice enough guy. The kind who’d never want to commit murder. Turns out I simply lacked incentive. Some crimes can never be forgiven... -
![Birth of the Alliance by Alex Albrinck]()
Birth of the Alliance by Alex Albrinck
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFreed from the constraints of the Aliomenti, Will Stark creates a new group, an Alliance of men and women committed to using the Energy skills they've developed and technological advances they've made to improve the lives of all.It's an act of rebellion that won't go unnoticed--or unpunished--by the Aliomenti Elites...Categorized as:
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![Mountain of Black Glass by Tad Williams]()
Mountain of Black Glass by Tad Williams
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsMountain of Black Glass is the third volume of Tad Williams' highly acclaimed four-book series, Otherland... -
![The Thought Pushers by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires]()
The Thought Pushers by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat am I?Who killed my family?Why?I need to get some answers before the Russian mob succeeds in killing me.That is, if my own friends don’t kill me first... -
![The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown]()
The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThing is a young girl who hides beneath a mask. Her companions include a crow, a toad, a goldfish, and a kitten, each in some way handicapped. Never has there been a more unlikely band of unheroic heroes. Yet each needs the other to discover what they all seek -- the Dragon of the Black Mountain, who can restore them to health and happiness... -
![Preserving Hope by Alex Albrinck]()
Preserving Hope by Alex Albrinck
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt was his mission to save her life.But first, he'd need to convince her that hers was a life worth saving.Will Stark has been sent on a mission to save the life of a young woman named Elizabeth. He does not know who is threatening her, or why. He only knows that failure is not an option, for it will mean three of the most important people in his life will cease to exist... -
![Death Speaks by Tamara Rose Blodgett]()
Death Speaks by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCaleb's in high school now and thinks the chaos of last year is behind him. Unfortunately, a serial killer is on the loose and children are his victims. Caleb agrees to help the police apprehend the murderer...until the killer takes notice of Caleb and his paranormal friends.Carson and Brett remain the bullies they always were and their posse continues to grow... -
![A World Divided by Marion Zimmer Bradley]()
A World Divided by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn omnibus volume of three classic, long-unavailable Darkover novels--Star of Danger, The Bloody Sun, and Winds of Darkover--tell of two men of mixed Darkovan ancestry, who must choose where their true allegiances lie...Categorized as:
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![Death Inception by Tamara Rose Blodgett]()
Death Inception by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLibrarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B008CHLMGE.Kyle Ulysses Hart and his team of scientists mapped the human genome in the year 2010. As Brain Impulse Technology came online... so did the long arm of the United States government. A covert, military-driven regime was born with genetic manipulation the key to future widespread control... -
![River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams]()
River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsOtherland. In many ways it is humankind's most stunning achievement: a private, multidimensional universe built over two generations by the greatest minds of the twenty-first century... -
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![Writers of the Future, Vol 34 by L. Ron Hubbard, Brandon Sanderson]()
Writers of the Future, Vol 34 by L. Ron Hubbard, Brandon Sanderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings24 Award-Winning Authors and IllustratorsAccompanied by Orson Scott Card, Brandon Sanderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Jerry Pournelle, Ciruelo and Echo Chernik and Edited by David FarlandYour search for something new and different in sci-fi and fantasy ends here.Presenting this year’s collection of fresh voices, fabulous worlds, and fantastic new characters... -
![L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 by David Farland, Anne McCaffrey]()
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 by David Farland, Anne McCaffrey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou are about to meet: YOUR NEXT FAVORITE AUTHOR. The 33rd edition of Writers of the Future may be the best new book yet! Brand-new adventure through space, time and possibility. Along the way new authors will introduce you to fascinating characters... -
![Writers of the Future Volume 31 by L. Ron Hubbard, Kevin A. Anderson]()
Writers of the Future Volume 31 by L. Ron Hubbard, Kevin A. Anderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe future is here…the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field... -
![Sacred Fire: Kingpriest Trilogy, Vol. 3 by Chris Pierson]()
Sacred Fire: Kingpriest Trilogy, Vol. 3 by Chris Pierson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe final title in the historical Kingpriest trilogy. This titles completes the exploration of a key part of Dragonlance history. The era explored in this novel, although referred to frequently throughout many Dragonlance novels, is being finely detailed for the first time. In addition, this title features popular characters that appear throughout the Dragonlance Legends trilogy... -
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Of Cinder and Bone by Kyoko M.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOF CINDER AND BONE is Ron Howard's Ransom meets Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park! After centuries of being the most dangerous predators on the planet, dragons were hunted to extinction. That is, until Dr. Rhett “Jack” Jackson and Dr. Kamala Anjali cracked the code to bring them back. Through their research at MIT, they resurrected the first dragon anyone has seen alive since the 15th century... -
![Perdido Street Station: Tome 1 by China Miéville]()
Perdido Street Station: Tome 1 by China Miéville
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsNouvelle-Crobuzon : une métropole tentaculaire et exubérante, au coeur d'un monde insensé. Humains et hybrides mécaniques y côtoient les créatures les plus exotiques à l'ombre des cheminées d'usine et des fonderies. Depuis plus de mille ans, le Parlement et son impitoyable milice règnent sur une population de travailleurs et d'artistes, d'espions, de magiciens, de dealers et de prostituées...Categorized as:
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![Ascent of the Aliomenti by Alex Albrinck]()
Ascent of the Aliomenti by Alex Albrinck
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Aliomenti village is in ruins, destroyed by one of their own, its population nearly eliminated in the calamity. From the ruins, the Aliomenti rise to international prominence, influencing buyers and sellers, warriors and bureaucrats, as they patiently and invisibly expand their empire.Will Stark serves as the driving force behind that expansion... -
![The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 6 by Jonathan Strahan, Neil Gaiman]()
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 6 by Jonathan Strahan, Neil Gaiman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe science fiction and fantasy fields continue to evolve, setting new marks with each passing year. For the sixth year in a row, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan has collected stories to captivate, entertain, and showcase the very best the genre has to offer... -
![Crafter's Passion by Kris Schnee]()
Crafter's Passion by Kris Schnee
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStan can't afford to have his brain removed. The richest and luckiest players of the video game "Thousand Tales" get their minds uploaded to its virtual paradise world, while Stan can barely buy a handheld console. Instead of sulking he plays, and grows, becoming a skilled craftsman and seafaring explorer... -
![Lady Death by Laer Carroll]()
Lady Death by Laer Carroll
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn modern-day Earth Anna Prince is known as a genius financier who, upon her parents' deaths, took over a million-dollar business and grew it into a billion-dollar commercial enterprise. In the star-spanning Human Interstellar Confederation she is know as a Guardian who, in a war ship the size of a small moon, finds and neutralizes star-traveling predators... -
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![Last Horizon: Beta by Daniel Schinhofen]()
Last Horizon: Beta by Daniel Schinhofen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAdvances in technology have led to the creation of ever more realistic virtual reality games but now Full Immersion Virtual Reality is finally coming true. Join David and his oldest friends as they sign up to beta test the first game of it's kind. Last Horizon will give the old gamers the chance to live out one last adventure together...Categorized as:
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![Bone Dance by Emma Bull]()
Bone Dance by Emma Bull
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSparrow’s my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all is information on the Horsemen—the mind-control weapons that tilted the balance in the war between the Americas. That’s the prize I’m after... -
![Otherland: The City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams]()
Otherland: The City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsRenie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the network. Kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, and cannot escape. Clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but investigators all end up dead... -
![The Necessary Beggar by Susan Palwick]()
The Necessary Beggar by Susan Palwick
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSusan Palwick, author of the remarkable Flying in Place, now returns with a compelling new novel of a family cast out of an idyllic realm, learning to live in our own troubled world... -
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Ink by Hal Duncan
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness . .Categorized as:
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![The Lion of Farside by John Dalmas]()
The Lion of Farside by John Dalmas
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Macurdies had been farmers for generations, and Curtis Macurdy would have been content to spend his life with his exoticallybeautiful wife Varia, earning a living by tilling his plot of land in the American Midwest. Varia was from Yuulith, a magical world separated from Earth by only a dimensional barrier that could sometimes be broached... -
![The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley by Marion Zimmer Bradley]()
The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNote: Published in slightly different form in 1993, under the title Jamie and Other Stories: The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley. That version contains a new introduction by Bradley and one additional story...Categorized as:
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![The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7 by Jonathan Strahan, Theodora Goss]()
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7 by Jonathan Strahan, Theodora Goss
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn print and on-line, science fiction and fantasy is thriving as never before. A multitude of astonishingly creative and gifted writers are boldly exploring the mythic past, the paranormal present, and the promises and perils of myriad alternate worlds and futures. There are almost too many new and intriguing stories published every year for any reader to be able to experience them all... -
![Escape Velocity by Christopher Stasheff]()
Escape Velocity by Christopher Stasheff
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsDemocracy is crumbling in the Interstellar Dominion Electorates and if Dar and Samantha can't get their message to Terra in time, a coup is inevitable. What's more, every police ship in space has just been alerted that Dar and Samantha are dangerous telepaths to be shot on sight... -
![The Eternal Footman by James K. Morrow]()
The Eternal Footman by James K. Morrow
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDealing with the Death of God With the publication of The Eternal Footman, James Morrow brings to a close one of the most audacious, brilliantly sustained accomplishments in recent American literature: the Godhead Cycle... -
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![Other Worlds Than These by John Joseph Adams, Stephen Baxter]()
Other Worlds Than These by John Joseph Adams, Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S... -
![The Time Stopper by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires]()
The Time Stopper by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom a USA Today bestselling author comes a novelette in the Mind Dimensions series. This short story does not require you to have read the other books in the series. I can stop time, but I can’t change anything. I can access memories, but not far enough. My name is Mira, and my life is about finding the Russian mobster who killed my family...Categorized as:
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![The Shadow Roads by Sean Russell]()
The Shadow Roads by Sean Russell
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter the King of Ayr died without naming an heir, a century of enmity destroyed the one kingdom, as the mighty families of the Renn#233; and the Wills fought to determine the crown in a bitter storm of treachery and blood. But now the decades of hatred have woken the unquiet river spirits from their timeless sleep, andrevived a feud more deadly than any conflict of man... -
![Digital Knight by Ryk E. Spoor]()
Digital Knight by Ryk E. Spoor
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJason Wood was just an information specialist - finding data for research, enhancing photos for the police, a nice, usually quiet profession whose only dangers came from and occasional crook trying to eliminate the evidence... -
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Of Things Gone Astray by Janina Matthewson
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsOn a seemingly normal morning in London, a group of people all lose something dear to them, something dear but peculiar: the front of their house, their piano keys, their sense of direction, their place of work.Meanwhile, Jake, a young boy whose father brings him to London following his mother’s sudden death, finds himself strangely attracted to other people’s lost things...Categorized as:
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![Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy]()
Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTo master five greats arts of magic and win a queen was not enough for Alodar the apprentice. He must do what no man dared! Alodar was a mere apprentice thaumaturge, learning the least of the five great arts of magic. As such, he had no right to aspire to the hand of the fair lady, Queen Vendora, not even when he saved her during the demon-inspired siege of her frontier castle. But aspire he did...Categorized as:
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