The Snow Queen – Joan D. Vinge

About the book The imperious Winter colonists have ruled theplanet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the seamers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. All is not lost ifArienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an…

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Spellbound – Blake Charlton

About the Book Francesca DeVega is a healer in the city of Avel, composing magical sentences that close wounds and disspell curses, but her life is thrown into chaos when a newly dead patient sits up and tells her that she must flee the infirmary or face a fate worse than death. Now Francesca is…

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The Dervish House – Ian McDonald

About the Book It begins with an explosion. Another day, another bus bomb. Everyone it seems is after a piece of Turkey. But the shockwaves from this random act of 21st century pandemic terrorism will ripple further and resonate louder than just Enginsoy Square. Welcome to the world of The Dervish House; the great, ancient, paradoxical…

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Hounded – Kevin Hearne

About the book Tempe, Arizona is as far removed from paranormal activity as is possible. And that’s where Atticus O’Sullivan, rare book salesman, herb peddler, and 2,000 year old Druid the last of his kind has decided to set up shop. He’s been on the run, guarding a very powerful sword from a very angry…

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Palimpsest – Catherynne M. Valente

About the Book Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse—a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the…

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Discussion: Who got you into reading?

I wasn’t always a reader, though reading was always part of my life. For example, when I was a little kid, my mom and I would read Laura Ingalls Wilder books in bed before I went to sleep each night. It was, at that time, rare for me to actually want to read. I was…

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The Void Trilogy – Peter F. Hamilton

The Dreaming Void At the far edge of the known universe stands a Centurion Station, a research base built atop ruins two million years old, abandoned by aliens since the dawn of time. Recently however, this quiet zone is attracting notice because of signs that the dread Void has begun to stir again. The Temporal…

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Element Keepers – E.P. Marcellin

About the Book Rhet guts fish for a living, content in obscurity until the day he is plucked from the wharves by nine exotic strangers and carted across the continent to a life-sentence of imprisonment. Though he has done nothing (as far as he knows) to warrant such capture, his captors are certain he will…

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After the Golden Age – Carrie Vaughn

About the Book Can an accountant defeat a supervillain? Celia West, only daughter of the heroic leaders of the superpowered Olympiad, has spent the past few years estranged from her parents and their high-powered lifestyle. She’s had enough of masks and heroics, and wants only to live her own quiet life out from under the…

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