New Releases
Divisions by Ken MacLeod
Orb Books. (ISBN-13: 978-0765321190) Paperback. Length: 496pp
This volume contains both The Cassini Division and The Sky Road. In the 24th century, post humans, god-like descendents of humans who transformed themselves with high technology, have warped the very fabric of the solar system for unknowable reasons. Ellen May Ngewthu has a plan to rid humanity of these beings, but she must first travel the entirety of the Solar Union, convincing others that post-humans are the threat she knows they are…
The Human Disguise by James O’Neal
Tor Books. (ISBN-13: 978-0765320148) Paperback. Length: 368pp
The world has been shattered. Disease and war have ravaged the Earth. A resurgent Germany once again threatens Europe, and the United States is engaged in the Middle-East while New York sits, an empty, radioactive ruin. The city of Miami has become a virtual prison, home to the worst life has to offer. Tom Wilner lives on the outskirts of this foresaken realm. He’s what this future passes off as a police officer. With his family shattered, Wilner is just a pale version of the police hero he once was. When a chance encounter in a rundown roadhouse erupts in violence, Wilner is forced to step in.
Hylozoic by Rudy Rucker
Tor Books. (ISBN-13: 978-0765320742) Hardcover. Length: 336pp
After the Singularity, everyone and everything is sentient and telepathic. Aliens notice and invade Earth. In Rucker’s last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened and life on Earth was transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and into telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity.
Slan Hunter by Kevin J. Anderson
Tor Books. (ISBN-13: 978-0765323507) Paperback. Length: 272pp
Working fluently from an incomplete draft and outline by the late van Vogt, Anderson picks up where the classic pulp predecessor, Slan(1940), left off, with the true mutant (or slan) Jommy Cross trying to head off the impending invasion of Earth by the Mars-based group of slan without tendrils. Opposing him again are John Petty, head of the secret police and chief slan hunter, and Jem Lorry, traitorous presidential adviser and leader of the invasion. Seeking his dead father’s hidden retreat, Jommy hopes to uncover the origins of both the true and the tendrilless slan, to stop their internecine war and to relieve human fears of being replaced by artificially created supermen.
The Sorceress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel) by Michael Scott
Delacorte for Young Readers. (ISBN-13: 978-0385735292) Hardcover. Length: 512pp
Nicholas grows weaker with each passing day. Perenelle is still trapped in Alcatraz, and now that Scatty has gone missing, the group is without protection. Except for Clarent—the twin sword to Excalibur. But Clarent’s power is unthinkable, its evil making it nearly impossible to use without its darkness seeping into the soul of whoever wields it. If he hopes to defeat Dee, Nicholas must find an Elder who can teach Josh and Sophie the third elemental magic—Water Magic. The problem? The only one who can do that is Gilgamesh, and he is quite, quite insane.
Xenopath (Bengal Station) by Eric Brown
Solaris. (ISBN-13: 978-1844167432) Paperback. Length: 416pp
Working for a telepathic detective agency, Vaughan investigates a series of murders linked to the colony world of Mallory, and the slaughter of innocent aliens there by a colonial organization.
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