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Science Fiction & Fantasy

Steal Across the Sky
by Nancy Kress
Published 2009 by Tom Doherty Associates

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The aliens appeared one day, built a base on the moon, and put an ad on the internet: "We are an alien race you may call the Atoners. Ten thousand years ago we wronged humanity profoundly. We cannot undo what has been done, but we wish humanity to understand it.... More...

Steal Across the Sky

Patient Zero
by Jonathan Maberry
Published 2009 by St. Martin's Griffin

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Joe Ledger is a Baltimore detective who has just been secretly recruited to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can't handle. His first mission: stop a group of terrorists from releasing a bio-weapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies.... More...

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Lamentation
by Ken Scholes
Published 2009 by Tom Doherty Associates

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This remarkable first novel from an award-winning short-fiction writer envisions an Earth so far in the distant future that our time is not even a memorya world where magick is commonplace and great areas of the planet are impassable wastes, but war, faith, and love still move princes and nations.... More...

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The Caryatids
by Bruce Sterling
Published 2009 by Del Rey Books

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"The Caryatids" looks at the near future and forecasts not just problems but incredible solutions using technology currently under development. Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny verisimilitude.... More...

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