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Two science fiction events in one night. The territory first explored in Jay Lake's novel Mainspring deserved further exploration. Escapement goes in for another look. In it, a remarkably bright girl who lives on a hundred mile high wall in the middle of the Atlantic ocean decides to leave her home for ... (lisää)England, where she assumes she will find a place to learn from her intellectual equals. Brenda Cooper's Reading the Wind explores the way war affects societies and individuals as it follows a brother and sister caught in conflict.

This is the fifth book in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, in which the author re-imagines the Napoleonic Wars in a fantasy setting where dragons serve as the mounted air force. The dragon Temeraire, believing his captain is dead, trains a squadron of scaly, leathery-winged, and unmanned comrades to fight ... (lisää)against the French.

Chuck Palahniuk is one of a kind. No one else writes like he doesand really, there aren't that many who would even try. He's been mining difficult territory in his novels, stories, and essays for years. His ninth novel concerns the porn industry, and an aging star who decides to end her career by breaking ... (lisää)a record on camera—that of most partners in a single session.

Who destroyed the Phoenix Space Elevator, the 22nd century's grandest, global achievement? Could it be the South American insurgent group, Autumn Rain, who are claiming responsibility? U.S. counterintelligence agents Claire Haskell and Jason Marlowe set out to find the group and discover the truth.

Private Investigator Harper Blaine is a Greywalker—an individual who moves easily between the worlds of the living and the dead. With this paranormal power comes paranormal responsibilities, as Blaine's caseload has become increasingly odd and zombie-filled. Seattle's underground is filling up with ... (lisää)the living dead, and Blaine must hunt down the culprit in this new book. Seattle's Richelle Mead reads from her new book, Storm Born, about a mercenary shaman who discovers a prophecy that says her first-born child will threaten the future.

Three young people dream of a city at the edge of time—the Kalpa—and find themselves hurtled into it. There, they inhabit the bodies of two inhabitants who have been retro-engineered to possess the qualities of ancient humanity. They hold objects, stony artifacts that move forward and backward through ... (lisää)time with them, always unchanging—and it is these that a powerful entity, the chalk princess, wants to possess. Check out cityattheendoftime.com. For a signed copy of City at the End of Time, email our resident scifi/fantasy expert Duane no later than August 12 @ noon.

This third book in the Genesis of Shannara series deepens an already deeply realized fantasy setting. The mortal world and the magical collide as Logan Tom must protect the world's only hope for salvation—and settle a score with the demon who killed his family.

Interview, Q&A, signing.

Fans of the Imriel Trilogy have been waiting—and dreading—Kushiel's Mercy, the final book in Jacqueline Carey's fantasy series. The relationship between Imriel and Sidonie is public, and the result is turmoil throughout the land. To stop an uprising, Queen Ysandre is forced to refuse to acknowledge ... (lisää)the lovers, and in order for a marriage to take place, Imriel must find his mother and return her for execution.

Connie Willis peppers her live appearances with humorous insights on everything from the Oscars to current geopolitical events. Willis has won six Hugo and six Nebula awards, more than any other science fiction author. Perhaps best known for her time-travel-based novels Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing ... (lisää)of the Dog, and Fire Watch, Willis explores comedy and tragedy through characters that run the gamut from desperately likable to sweetly infuriating.

Sheree R. Thomas is a Memphis-born writer, editor, poet, and educator living in New York City. She has edited two World Fantasy Award-winning anthologies. The first, Dark Matter: a Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her work has ... (lisää)appeared in a wide spectrum of publications, from Strange Horizons to Essence and VIBE.