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And Another Thing
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Eoin Colfer

This is "part six of three" of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and came about when Adams' widow agreed to Eoin Colfer being the one most suited, in her view, to honour Douglas Adams' work. Colfer does an outstanding job of completing one

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The Winter Ghosts
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Kate Mosse

An evocative tale of love and mystery set in the south of France in the winter of 1928. Still trying to come to terms with the death of his brother in The Great War, Freddie Watson is travelling through France when an accident forces him to stop at a smal

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The Gathering Storm
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

Working from the late Robert Jordan's extensive notes, Brandon Sanderson has completed this novel, the twelfth in the Wheel of Time saga. To say it is eagerly anticipated by Jordan fans around the world is somewhat of an understatement, and it is not yet

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Dust of Dreams
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Steven Erikson

The penultimate volume in Erikson's momentous ten-volume fantasy saga, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, is in fact only the first half of a concluding two-part novel. By this stage there are so many characters and so many plots and subplots that it takes s

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The Dragon Keeper
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Robin Hobb

This is Book One of The Rain Wild Chronicles. When the dragons first emerge from the Rain Wild River, the Rainwilder Thymara is presuming they are the dragons of old. But as Alise Finbook, an expert in dragons, soon discovers these creatures are far less majestic than their predecessors and will be burdens to the Rainwilders rather than saviours.

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The City and the City
Price: AUD 34.99 Author: China Mieville

China Mieville’s new novel defies easy synopsis. The story revolves around a brutal murder in the eastern European city of Beszel. But this is no ordinary city – it exists side by side with the parallel city of Ul Qoma. Individual streets can cross from one place to another and the residents have to carefully ignore the existence of their foreign counterparts in order to avoid “breaching” – a transgression rigorously prosecuted. When Inspector Tyador Borlu’s investigation crosses over the divide, he finds himself embroiled in a shadowy conspiracy that reveals strange truths about his homeland. This superb fantasy is challenging, complex, and strikingly original.

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Galileo’s Dream
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Kim Stanley Robinson

Galileo was a visionary who, like all such people, was both revered and reviled. He was at odds with the establishment and went beyond the point where most people were happy and secure in their own certainty about how the world and the universe worked. Kim Stanley Robinson paints an absorbing picture of this man at odds with his world whilst setting his sights to new worlds. And it is this that the author uses as a plot device. Galileo finds himself the subject of attention by people living in the year 3020 who need to enlist his help.

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The Adamantine Palace
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Stephen Deas

This is, quite literally, a rollicking ride through kingdoms on the backs of dragons. Prince Jehal is the archetypal usurper who is out to conquer all, but in his way stand the Kings and Queens of all the Realms. The excellent depiction of the dragons helps place this debut novel into the ‘realm` of classic fantasy tales.

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The Rise of the Iron Moon
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Stephen Hunt

The opening scene of this book describes Purity Drake, a sixteen year old orphan, strapped to a table as blood is taken from her as part of the processes of the Royal Breeding House post the invasion of the Kingdom of Jackals. Purity is not to know the unfolding drama will have ramifications for the whole Kingdom and that she, and a foreigner, will join together to save her race and her land.

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The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

Edited by his son, this book is the first ever publication of two poems that Tolkien wrote, based on ancient Norse mythology. Titled “The New Lay of the Volsungs” and “The New Lay of Gudrun”, they are over 500 stanzas in length and are interspersed in this volume with commentary by Christopher Tolkien.

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Skin Trade
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

This is the realm of the paranormal, where vampire serial killers are at work and Anita Blake realises she has been sent a message to warn the Las Vegas authorities of what is really behind the shocking crimes. Laurell K. Hamilton has had great success with her lead character, Anita Blake, across several books and Anita is now set to become a television character, with one of the series producers also having worked on the original X-files series.

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The Edge of the World
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Kevin J. Anderson

A war has been raging for two decades between rival groups worshipping different Gods. But now both sides of the war have made important discoveries and embark on a race to be the first to the holy kingdom of Joron.

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Drood
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Dan Simmons

Staff Review by James: Drood tells the story of the last five years of Charles Dickens’ life and his relationship with fellow author, Wilkie Collins. This is a surprisingly gruesome tale set in a dark Victorian underworld of opium dens, crypts, and sewers. Collins narrates the story of Dickens’ fascination with mesmerism and his obsession with a shadowy, ominous character named Drood.

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Little Brother
Price: AUD 22.99 Author: Cory Doctorow

Staff Review by James: In this clever update of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four America is a country beset by paranoia in the wake of terrorism. Constant surveillance is conducted through the technology of CCTV, face recognition software, smart cards and Internet monitoring. But the DHS is not ready to tackle a tech-savvy teenage boy who takes on the system and beats the authorities at their own game!

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Memoirs Of A Master Forger
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: William Heaney

Memoirs Of A Master Forger centres on an influential bureaucrat in the policy area of homelessness in central London. William is involved in a lucrative sideline operation involving the forgery of first edition books, the proceeds of which he donates to his favourite refuge for the homeless. Added to this mix is the fact that William sees demons. This detail would ordinarily make this novel a no-go area for me, but to my great surprise I was completely seduced by William Heaneyâ€™s skilful storytelling.

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The Temporal Void
Price: AUD 34.99 Author: Peter F. Hamilton

This is part two of the Void trilogy. Investigator Paula Mao is confronting the reality of the extremes to which opposing factions will fight the natural order of the universe. The Intersolar Commonwealth is in disarray yet Edeard, the Waterwalker, who has ever been a force for leadership is still affecting all that is taking place.

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Anathem
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Neal Stephenson

Historical and philosophical ideas form the heart of Stephenson's work. In the best fiction such ideas spring naturally from the story line, as with the author's previous Baroque trilogy, examining the dawn of the 'Age of Reason'. When the ideas discussed seem to take precedence over the plot, however, this is normally a major technical flaw. Stephenson is such a stylish, witty and erudite writer that he almost manages to get away with it. Almost - but, unfortunately, not quite. Parts of Anathem border on the didactic at times, with long discussions of mathematical theorems and the philosophical ideas of Plato (or Protas as he is called in this universe). Nevertheless, there are still some trademark Stephenson set pieces to enjoy along the way and the finale is both exciting and thought-provoking.

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Blood Of Elves
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Andrzej Sapkowski

This is listed as Book Two in the series because it directly follows on from short stories that are the beginning of The Witcher Saga. Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, is the one the witchers have been waiting for as they believe she alone has it in her destiny to change the world. The problem is that her power does not differentiate between good and evil and she must be directed in its use. Ensconced with Geralt, the witcher of Rivia, it is thought she is safe. But, all is not as it appears and Geralt and Ciri are in grave danger. This Polish author brings a new voice to the fantasy genre.

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The Kingdom Beyond
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: The Waves Stephen Hunt

Once you get your head around the baroque weirdness of the characters and setting, this is an enjoyable fantasy adventure involving submarines, robots, zeppelins and mad scientists. Think of an hallucinogenic version of Jules Verne and you'll get the rough idea! Perhaps not quite as well sustained overall as his first book but still compelling and highly readable.

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The Steel Remains
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan is on record as trying to "do noir in a fantasy landscape" and this is the result - a world of unrelenting viciousness that needs a particular type of hero to come along and reset the natural order. Ringil Angeleyes might be just the one for the job.

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Principles of Angels
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Jaine Fenn

In this story, angels are emissaries of death, policing as they do the assassinations for the state. Khesh City has many layers and when Taro and Elarn meet whilst they are both on a quest to uncover murders, undertaken by the angels, they must traverse these layers and survive.

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House of Suns
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Alastair Reynolds

A tale of clones, multiple galaxies, and time travel. The thirty-second reunion of the Gentian Line - begun with a thousand clones of one woman - is under threat and two errant clones seem destined to act as saviours or destroyers.

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The Ninth Circle
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Alex Bell

This is not a simple matter of one man's injury and amnesia. It is a battle between angels and demons and a battle for the hearts and souls of the population. Aman awakens, lying in his own blood, and begins to piece together the sequence of events leadin

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The Red Wolf Conspiracy
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Robert V.S. Redick

It is literally the calm before the storm as Pazel awaits the departure of the Imperial merchant ship on which he is a tarboy. The ship will disappear, presumed sunk. The Emperor will weep for the loss of 800 subjects who were on board. Questions however,

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The Margarets
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Sheri S Tepper

Staff Review by James: Tepper's first book in five years is ambitiously complex, involving multiple characters on many different worlds (or at least multiple versions of the same character). In this cautionary tale over-population on Earth has reached such epidemic proportions that human children remain the only proitable export and are sold off en masse as indentured servants or house-pets to various alien cultures, in exchange for water. The rather convoluted nature of the story unfortunately robs it of some of the impact of her earlier work. Nevertheless, Tepper stil maintains her unique and individual voice within the SF genre and her deep-felt environmental and sociological concerns are once more powerfully to the fore in this new novel.

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Matter
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Iain M Banks

Djan Seriy Anaplian hears that her father and brother have died in a war against a neighbouring kingdom and knows that she must journey home, several thousand light years away. Meanwhile someone on Susamen seeks her out believing Anaplian to be their last hope.

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The Accidental Sorcerer: Rogue Agent
Price: AUD 24.99 Author: K E Mills

When Gerald Dunwoody lands a job as Royal Court Wizard to the King of New Ottosland it seems his disastrous career has inally taken a turn for the better. But does King Lional have Gerald's best interests in mind?

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The Name of the Wind
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Patrick Rothfuss

Staff Review by James: The remarkable thing about this novel is the way Rothfuss draws on so many stock-standard fantasy themes and yet manages to totally reinvigorate them in the telling. The power of the writing lies partly in the depth and sensitivity

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