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2021
by Anthony Doerr
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The her…
2016
by Eric Flint
"A new novel in New York Times best seller Eric Flint's science fiction Jao Empire series. It has become clear to both the Jao and their human and Lleix partners that if they are going to defeat the Ekhat who have been terrorizing the galaxy for eons, they need more allies. To th…
2014
by Elizabeth Moon
"Acclaimed author Elizabeth Moon spins gripping, richly imagined epic fantasy novels that have earned comparisons to the work of such authors as Robin Hobb and Lois McMaster Bujold. In this volume, Moon's brilliant masterwork reaches its triumphant conclusion. The mysterious reap…
2014
by Eric Flint
"New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling alternate history series. Book #14 in the Ring of Fire series created by Eric Flint. Eddie Cantrell, now married to the king of Denmark's daughter, is sent by Admiral Simpson to the Caribbean to secure access to the most valuab…
2014
by Ryk E. Spoor
"In a world of data manipulation and cyberspying, an investigative journalist find that the supernatural lurks! A major revision of Spoor's first novel, Digital Knight, with all new material. Being an expert in information searches, image processing and enhancement, pattern match…
2010
by Connie Willis
In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds--great and small--of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past…
2010
by Orson Scott Card
The book begins with Rigg, a boy that has the strange ability to see the path of any living being, no matter how long ago it existed. He spends his time hunting with his father in the mountains, trapping for valuable pelts. His father is his mentor, and so he has taught Rigg ever…
2010
by RJ Palmer
In 1969 a woman is admitted into the hospital in critical condition after having been the victim of a drunken driving accident. It was only after having undergone extensive testing including several x-rays to determine the nature and scope of her injuries that her pregnancy was d…
2009
by Philip K. Dick
[v. 1] Four novels of the 1960s: The great accomplishment of Philip K. Dick, in the words of editor Jonathan Lethem, was "to turn the materials of American pulp-style science fiction into a vocabulary for a remarkably personal vision of paranoia and dislocation." These four novel…
2008
by Neal Stephenson
Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable — yet strangely inverted — world.Fraa Erasmas is…
2006
by Dan Simmons
From the author of the Hyperion Cantos -- one of the most acclaimed popular series in contemporary science fiction -- comes a powerful epic of high-tech gods, human heroes, total war, and the extraordinary transcendence of ordinary beings. The first book in a two-part epic. "I am…
2006
by James Rollins
The bestselling master of astonishing adventure James Rollins delivers his most relentlessly exciting page-turner to date -- a gripping and explosive novel of an ancient conspiracy to create a terrifying new world order out of the ashes of modern civilization.The crime is inhuman…
2005
by Dan Simmons
Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before one observer -- Twenty-first Century scholar Thomas Hockenberry -- stirred the bloody…
2005
by Albert Russo
General introduction to Albert Russo’s work by Martin Tucker: “Albert Russo’s art and life are all of a unique piece, and that piece is a plurality of cultures. Born in what was then the Belgian Congo and now is Congo/Zaire, he grew up in Central and Southern Africa and writes in…
2005
by George R. R. Martin
Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in *A Feast for Crows*, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a k…
2005
by Nora Roberts
Eve Dallas Investigation In Death New York City of 2059 'Murder was always an insult, and had been since the first human hand had smashed a stone into the first human skull. But the murder, bloody and brutal, of an entire family in their own home, in there own beds, was a differe…
2004
by Neal Stephenson
Volume One of The Baroque Cycle (Not to be confused with [Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle #1](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18199543W/Quicksilver)) Quicksilver is a massive, exuberant and wildly ambitious historical novel that's also Neal Stephenson's eagerly awaited prequel to…
2001
by Connie Willis
One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless suspense and cutting-edge science unlike anything you've ever read…
1998
by George R. R. Martin
***A Game of Thrones*** is the inaugural novel in ***A Song of Ice and Fire***, an epic series of fantasy novels crafted by the American author **George R. R. Martin**. Published on August 1, 1996, this novel introduces readers to the richly detailed world of Westeros and Essos,…
1996
by Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, Edward Bryant, James Frankel, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Charles de Lint, Lamsley, Terry, Midori Snyder, Peter S. Beagle, Ellen Kushner, Michael Marshall Smith, Scott Bradfield, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stuart Dybek, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Eileen Kernaghan, Pat Mora, Peter Crowther, Rick Moody, Christopher Kenworthy, Douglas E. Winter, Sue Kepros Hartman, Jane Yolen, Lucy Taylor, Steve Rasnic Tem, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Mary O'Malley, Sharon N. Farber, Tanith Lee, Louise Glück, S. P. Somtow, Vivian Vande Velde, Margaret Atwood, A. S. Byatt, Susan Moody, Pat Cadigan, David J. Schow, Gary A. Braunbeck, Marcia Guthridge, Robert Reed, Joyce Carol Oates, Delia Sherman, Nancy Willard, Patricia A. McKillip
A collection forty-six horror and fantasy fiction stories from the year 1995 from a wide selection of well-known genre authors Acknowledgement -- Summation 1995: fantasy / Terry Windling -- Summation 1995: horror / Ellen Datlow -- Horror and fantasy in the media: 1995 / Edward Br…
1994
by Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was one of our most beloved authors, and when he died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two he left behind an unparalleled legacy of thought and imagination. In a career that lasted more than fifty years, he wrote more than 470 books and innumerable articles and short st…
1993
by Isaac Asimov, Melisa C. Michaels, Randall Garrett, Vicki Ann Heydron, Garry R. Osgood, Jack C. Haldeman, Nancy Kress, John Varley, Linda I. Isaacs, Ted Reynolds, Kevin O'Donnell, Jr, Steve Perry, Barry B. Longyear, Sally A. Sellers, Brian W. Aldiss, Sharon N. Farber, Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, Jo Clayton, Poul Anderson, Jack L. Chalker, E. Amalia Andujar, Sherwood Springer, Conway Conley, Gary D. McClellan, A. Bertram Chandler, Paula Smith, William John Watkins, Drew Mendelson, Alan Dean Foster, Steven Utley, Keith Minnion, Robert Lee Hawkins, Roger Zelazny, Michael A. Banks, George Wagner, Anne Lear, F. M. Busby, John M. Ford, Jesse F. Bone, F. Paul Wilson, James E. Gunn
Editorial: Escape to Reality? - essay by Isaac Asimov In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See - short story by Melisa Michaels Keepersmith - novelette by Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron Good Taste - novelette by Isaac Asimov To Sin Against Systems - novelette by Garry R…
1993
by Stephen King
A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns . . . and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could…
1992
by Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Ambrose Bierce, Frederik Pohl, Isaac Asimov, Jack London
Collection contains: After / Henry Slesar -- All cats are gray / Andre Norton -- The assassin / Robert Silverberg -- Better than we know / William F. Temple -- The big bounce / Walter S. Tevis -- Bounty / T.L. Sherred -- The briefing / Randall Garrett -- Capsule / Rosalind Strale…