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The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester

2017-01-04

For the first time in centuries, someone has committed premeditated murder—almost unthinkable in an age of telepathy. Psychic detective Lincoln Powell will risk it all to meet out justice.

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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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Wylding Hall – Elizabeth Hand

2016-11-05

The surviving members of a ’70s acid-folk band relive their strange days at Wylding Hall for a modern-day documentary, retelling the strange disappearance of their lead singer.

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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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Central Station – Lavie Tidhar

2016-05-18

A fixup novel by Isreali author Lavie Tidhar, following the inter-connected lives of those living in the shadow of a spaceport towering over a Tel Aviv.

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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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City – Clifford Simak

2015-07-29

Clifford Simak’s cerebral fixup novel that takes humanity out of its far-future cities, to the stars, and beyond humanity itself.

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The Word for World is Forest – Ursula K. Le Guin

2015-06-06

Terran exploitation of an alien planet causes the “docile” near-human natives to rise up in bloody rebellion, in this novel rich in ’70s SFnal themes.

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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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Downbelow Station – C.J. Cherryh

2013-12-31

Pell’s World and Downbelow Station become the heart of turmoil in an interstellar war, the fulcrum where the fate of Earth and Union will be decided.

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