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9780330493109
The City and the City
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NZ$ 28.00 each
Paperback
Author:
China Mieville
Published by:
Tor Books
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Bes el, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984 , "The City & The City" is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
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9780441016167
Accidental Time Machine
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author:
Joe Haldeman
Published by:
Ace Books
Grad- school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose in taking a time-machine trip himselfaor so he thinks.
Paperback 275pp h173mm x w106mm x s20mm 136g
First published 2007; this edition with sampler from Marsbound 2008.
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9780060882327
Ally
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author:
Karen Traviss
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HarperPaperbacks
Powerful, award-worthy author Karen Traviss returns to the explosive "Wess'har War" novels, in her most accomplished, action-packed story yet. As the Isenj civil war continues, the ghosts of Shan Frankland's past come back to plague her present. For the c'naatat genie will not go back into the bottle, and the implications are boundless. Once infected, c'naatat carriers are virtually immortal...and the process cannot be reversed. And asking for help from a vastly superior alien military means that the changes they bring may or may not be what you initially asked for. As pressures mount from every side, Shan must make a difficult decision - leave the new life she has created on F'nar to save Earth from itself, or turn her back on humanity forever?
Paperback 352pp h171mm x w106mm x s27mm 186g
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780553591088
Chill
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author:
Elizabeth Bear
Published by:
Spectra Books
Sometimes the greatest sin is survival.
The generation ship Jacob's Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within. Now, riding the shock wave of a nova blast toward an uncertain destiny, the damaged ship--the only world its inhabitants have ever known--remains a war zone. Even as Perceval, the new captain, struggles to come to terms with the traumas of her recent past, the remnants of rebellion aboard the ship still threaten the crew's survival.
Yet as Perceval's relatives Tristen and Benedick play a deadly game of cat and mouse in pursuit of a traitor through a vast ship that is renewing itself in strange and dangerous ways, an even more insidious threat is building in a place no one ever thought to look. And this implacable enemy could change the face of the ship forever if a ragtag band of heroes cannot stop it.
The award-winning author of "Dust" delivers the second volume in her groundbreaking space ...
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9780980226010
Finch
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Author:
Jeff Vandermeer
Published by:
Underland Press
In "Finch, " mysterious underground inhabitants known as the gray caps have reconquered the failed fantasy state Ambergris and put it under martial law. They have disbanded House Hoegbotton and are controlling the human inhabitants with strange addictive drugs, internment in camps, and random acts of terror. The rebel resistance is scattered, and the gray caps are using human labor to build two strange towers. Against this backdrop, John Finch, who lives alone with a cat and a lizard, must solve an impossible double murder for his gray cap masters while trying to make contact with the rebels. Nothing is as it seems as Finch and his disintegrating partner Wyte negotiate their way through a landscape of spies, rebels, and deception. Trapped by his job and the city, Finch is about to come face to face with a series of mysteries that will change him and Ambergris forever.
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9780060882402
Judge
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author:
Karen Traviss
Published by:
HarperPaperbacks
Even light-years and millions of miles away, Shan Frankland cannot escape her duty. For the wess'ar are going to Earth, to reclaim and save the ecology...whether humanity is willing or not. And they are accompanied by thousands of die-hard alien Skavu, who will stop at nothing to carry out their environmental crusade. For if the alien savior and ultimate parasite c'naatat gains a foothold among humanity, Earth will be destroyed completely.
Paperback 400pp h171mm x w106mm x s27mm 195g
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9781416555476
Miles in Love : Komarr / A Civil Campaign / Winterfair Gifts
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Lois McMaster Bujold
Published by:
Baen Books,U.S.
Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume: "Komarr" - Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr, a planet that could be a garden with a thousand more years of terraforming; or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming project fails. The solar mirror vital to the project has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course, and Miles Vorkossigan has been sent to find out if it was an accident, or sabotage. Miles uncovers a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever-and discovers an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own. "A Civil Campaign" - On Komarr, Miles met the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, who has no intention of getting married after the heartbreak and betrayal of her first experience. But Miles has a cunning plan to change her mind. Unfortunately his clone-brother Mark and his cousin Ivan have cunning plans of their own, and the three-way collision of cunning plans ...
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9780441015405
Odyssey
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author:
Jack McDevitt
Published by:
Ace Books
Known for "combining galaxy-spanning adventures with the genuine novel of ideas" ("Washington Post Book World"), multiple Nebula Award-finalist McDevitt returns to the world of "Chindi" and "Omega" and humanity's struggle with its own existence.
Annotation: Known for "combining galaxy-spanning adventures with the genuine novel of ideas" ("Washington Post Book World"), multiple Nebula Award-finalist McDevitt returns to the world of "Chindi" and "Omega" and humanity's struggle with its own existence.
To boost waning interest in interstellar travel, a mission is sent into deep space to learn the truth about "moonriders," the strange lights supposedly being seen in nearby systems. But Academy pilot Valentina Kouros and the team of the starship Salvator will soon discover that their odyssey is no mere public-relations ploy, for the moonriders are not a harmless phenomenon. They are very, very dangerous-in a way that no one could ...
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9781597801584
The Windup Girl
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NZ$ 42.00 each
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Author:
Paolo Bacigalupi
Published by:
Night Shade Books
What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man"( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these questions.
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9781841492278
Ender in Exile
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Author:
Orson Scott Card
Published by:
Orbit
At first, Ender believed that they would bring him back to Earth as soon as things quieted down. But things were quiet now, had been quiet for a year, and it was plain to him now that they would not bring him back at all, that he was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconveniently flesh-and-blood person. At the close of ENDER'S GAME, Andrew Wiggin - called Ender by everyone - knows that he cannot live on Earth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Saviour of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living under the Hegemon's control, a pawn in his brother Peter's political games. Or he can join the colony ships and go out to settle one of the new worlds won in the war. The story of those years on the colony worlds has never been told ...until now.
First published 2008.
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9781857230741
The Left Hand of Darkness
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NZ$ 26.00 each
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Author:
Ursula Le Guin
Published by:
Orbit
Winter is an Earth-like planet with two major differences: conditions are semi artic even at the warmest time of the year, and the inhabitants are all of the same sex. Tucked away in a remote corner of the universe, they have no knowledge of space travel or of life beyond their own world. And when a strange envoy from space brings news of a vast coalition of planets which they are invited to join, he is met with fear, mistrust and disbelief...'The Left Hand of Darkness' is a groundbreaking work of feminist science fiction, an imaginative masterpiece which poses challenging questions about sexuality, sexism and the organisation of society.
First published 1969.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780330442077
Winterstrike
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author:
Liz Williams
Published by:
Picador
Winterstrike spy Hestia Mar has been sent to Caud to recover details of an ancient weapon. During her stay in the Martian city, she encounters the ghost of a warrior, who turns out to be the encoded representation of the city's bombed library. Hestia Mar manages to access the library's data, but realizes too late what she has done: by downloading the information, she has virtually guaranteed the use of the weapon against Caud by her own government. Desperate to rescue the situation she makes her way back home across the dangers of the Crater Plain. Meanwhile, in Winterstrike itself, the festival of Ombre has been taking place upon the eve of war.Hestia's cousin Shorn -imprisoned by her family for accidentally consorting with a male - manages to escape. Her sister Essegui, pursuing her to the dangerous mountains of Mars, discovers a plot by creatures who hold the secrets of the Martian past, and its future. While Essegui battles forces ...
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9781741141979
Blackout
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Connie Willis
Published by:
Allen & Unwin
Four time-traveling history students from Oxford are in 1940s England studying different aspects of World War II.
But when their means of getting home is destroyed in an air-raid, the four find themselves facing a future as dark and uncertain as the English in 1940: alone, cut off from help and time running out ...
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9780575083585
Yellow Blue Tibia
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Adam Roberts
Published by:
Gollancz
Russia, 1946, the Nazis recently defeated. Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside somewhere. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years away, and equally convinced that the Soviet Union needs a massive external threat to hold it together, to give it purpose and direction, he tells the writers: 'I want you to concoct a story about aliens poised to invade earth ...I want it to be massively detailed, and completely believable. If you need props and evidence to back it up, then we can create them. But when America is defeated, your story must be so convincing that the whole population of Soviet Russia believes in it - the population of the whole world!' The little group of writers gets down to the task and spends months working on it. But then new orders come from Moscow: they are told to drop the project; Stalin has changed his mind; forget everything about ...
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9780765359230
Julian Comstock : A Story of 22nd-Century America
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NZ$ 27.00 each
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Author:
Robert Charles Wilson
Published by:
Tor Books
From the Hugo-winning author of Spin, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fal
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