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Through Darkest America – Neal Barrett Jr.

2018-10-02

Howie Ryder’s pastoral childhood is torn from him as a brutal civil war comes home, sending him on a trek across the post-apocalyptic wilderness of Darkest America.

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Burning Chrome – William Gibson

2017-01-24

Collecting ten of William Gibson’s early cyberpunk short stories from the late 1970s and early 1980s, dark visions of a globalized, high-tech, and deadly future.

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Radio Free Albemuth – Philip K. Dick

2016-04-04

As the United States is taken over by fervent anti-Communist paranoia, one man receives visions sent by an alien divinity. These hold all the answers for Earth’s salvation.

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Books of Blood, Vol. 1 – Clive Barker

2015-11-16

The first of Clive Barker’s six-volume horror anthology series, the book that kickstarted his career: six unnerving stories of horror and blood.

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The Cormorant – Stephen Gregory

2015-10-12

A young English family inherit a Welsh cottage under the prevision they care for the deceased’s pet cormorant—a savage and wild bird with an preternatural presence…

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The Windchime Legacy – A.W. Mykel

2015-09-30

The greatest secret of America’s intelligence agencies is SENTINEL: a computer intelligence, a thinking intelligence, far advanced and in control of American intelligence …

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Grass – Sheri S. Tepper

2015-09-20

A plague threatens to doom all of humanity, but a cure may lie on the planet Grass—a world of boundless prairie ruled by elitist aristocrats and their demonic mounts.

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Mrs. White – Margaret Tracy

2015-08-08

In this taut thriller, Mrs. White begins to suspect that her husband is really a serial killer, whose gruesome murders have rocked a small Connecticut town.

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Dead in the West – Joe R. Lansdale

2015-06-22

Reverend Jebediah Mercer picked the wrong day to hold a revival at Mud Creek—the townsfolk just hung themselves an indian shaman, who cursed the town so its dead will rise…

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Michigan Roll – Tom Kakonis

2015-02-02

Timothy Waverly heads to Traverse City, MI, planning to spy on his estranged son. Plans change when he meets seductress Midnight and is sucked into her troubles with the mob.

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Schismatrix Plus – Bruce Sterling

2014-12-20

Abelard Lindsay, disgraced Shaper diplomat, sets out on a grand tour of the posthuman solar system, showcasing some extreme changes in our far-flung future.

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