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Dark Universe – Daniel F. Galouye

2017-01-16

A post-apocalyptic society built in the darkness of underground caverns finds its world-view tested when strange monsters emerge, bringing with them a terrible screaming silence.

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This Census-Taker – China Miéville

2016-11-10

A child is shocked by what he sees, flees to the city, but is brought back to live with his increasingly deranged parent. Hope seems lost, until the arrival of a strange record-taker with a gun.

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The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle

2016-10-27

When he delivers an occult tome to an old woman in Queens, a street-smart hustler opens a door to deeper kind of magic and attracts the attention of things best left sleeping…

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Tower of Glass – Robert Silverberg

2016-10-23

Industrialist Simeon Krug’s dream is to contact the source of an alien code broadcast to Earth, building his communications tower on the backs of android servitors yearning for their freedom.

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Rogue Moon – Algis Budrys

2016-03-13

The investigation of a deadly alien artifact on the Moon leaves its investigators shattered, broken men—until the perfect man is found to plumb its mysteries.

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Six-Gun Snow White – Catherynne M. Valente

2016-03-09

The Snow White fairytale recast through the lens of the gritty Old West, an enchanting glimpse through the looking glass at guns, blood, women, and race.

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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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Embassytown – China Miéville

2015-05-21

Avice Benner Cho returns to Embassytown, home of the enigmatic Hosts and soon to be a flashpoint as cultures, factions, and even languages come into conflict.

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Universe 3 – ed. Terry Carr

2015-01-09

3rd anthology in the Universe series. Stories by Gene Wolfe, Robert Silverberg, Edgar Pangborn, Gordon Eklund, Ross Rocklynne, and Edward Bryant.

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Not This August – Cyril M. Kornbluth

2015-01-05

The United States has capitulated, sealing its defeat against the Communists. But when one dairy farmer discovers a lost state secret, the world may be freed again…

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Inverted World – Christopher Priest

2014-12-04

At the age of 650 miles, Helward Mann begins an apprenticeship with the Futures guild that will alter the course of the city of Earth forever. (What the hell did I just read?)

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