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Through Darkest America – Neal Barrett Jr.

2 October 2018

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

24 January 2017

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

4 April 2016

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

16 November 2015

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

12 October 2015

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

30 September 2015

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

20 September 2015

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

8 August 2015

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

22 June 2015

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

2 February 2015

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

20 December 2014

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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