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The Kingdom Beyond
Price: $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: $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: $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: $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: $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: $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: $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: $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: $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: $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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The History of the Hobbit Volume 1
Price: $120.00 Author: John D Ratcliff

It is seventy years since the first publication of Tolkien's masterpiece. This edition includes the complete text of the original manuscript and is presented as a commemorative boxed set.

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Discworld 31: Making Money
Price: $49.95 Author: Terry Pratchett

The Discworld series is but part of the prolific Pratchett publishing list. Fans will be delighted, as always. And, maybe new readers will enter the world that is Pratchett.

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Fatal Revenant
Price: $49.95 Author: Stephen Donaldson

Staff Review by James: Not quite as gripping as the opening instalment but still a first-rate, high concept fantasy. In this second volume, Donaldson concentrates on developing some of the complex back-story to this series. Thomas Covenant has apparently

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Cowboy Angels
Price: $49.95 Author: Paul McAuley

You enter this world of one America, where covert agent (the cowboy angel of the title) Adam Stone is chasing an old friend across the various Americas. A tale of parallel worlds that strikes a worryingly familiar chord for readers of 'our' present realit

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The Ultimate Encylopaedia of Fantasy.
Price: $49.95 Author: David Pringle, ed

An ideal chronicle for both the aficiando and the new reader.

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Brasyl
Price: $32.95 Author: Ian McDonald

Brasyl: land of futebol, telenovelas, violent crime, lost jungle tribes, teeming cities, incredible wealth, and grinding poverty - the perfect setting for a novel about James the endlessly juxtaposing realities of quantum physics. An undeniably audacious

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The Dreaming Void
Price: $32.95 Author: Peter Hamilton

It is AD 4000 and a human has started to dream of the existence of The Void. This Void is the black hole at the centre of the Intersolar universe.

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Spook Country
Price: $32.95 Author: William Gibson

Cuban, Russian, and American influences are part of Tito's world; a world of information transfer. How does the junkie, Milgrim, have a connection to Tito and which of them will uncover the true nature of this information?

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Sepulchre
Price: $32.95 Author: Kate Mosse

Meredith arrives at the Domaine de la Cade and is immediately entranced by the tragic story, from 1897, of the young girl who disappeared on the same night a priest was brutally murdered.

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The Court of the Air
Price: $24.99 Author: Stephen Hunt

Staff Review by James: An enjoyably strange tale set in a quirky, baroque world filled with bizarre resonances of Victorian London and intermixed with an underworld of Aztec inspired blood sacrifice. With dark rites, ancient gods, crab people, steam-power

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The Last Wish
Price: $32.95 Author: Andrzej Sapkowski

Poland's most famous fantasy writer now in English. Geralt de Riv is a sorceleur, a man whose magic powers have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin.

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Heart-Shaped Box
Price: $32.95 Author: Joe Hill

'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. It was perfect for his collection. But then the rest of his collection doesn't force him to run for his life.

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Nova Swing
Price: $32.95 Author: M. John Harrison

Staff Review by James: Harrison is a great Stylist. His latest novel depicts in loving detail a noir inspired, seedy underworld populated by low-life characters. Never an easy author to read but this is more than compensated for by the dreamlike, hallucin

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Immortal Prince
Price: $20.99 Author: Jennifer Fallon

On the world of Amyrantha, the immortals have power over the natural elements, their power peaking every 1,000 years at the high tide of the Tide Star. At the time of the 10,000-year King Tide there is an opportunity for one Tide Lord to gain supremacy.

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Voices From the Street
Price: $36.00 Author: Philip K. Dick

Staff Review by James: This previously unpublished manuscript has been sitting in Dick's papers since its completion in the 50s. One of only a handful of mainstream novels Dick wrote early in his career, it is markedly different in style to his later scie

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End of the World Blues
Price: $32.95 Author: John Courtenay Grimwood

Kit Nouveau has been living in Tokyo for 15 years having fled from a difficult past in England. But, when a man is murdered on his doorstep and the pub he owns gets blown up, that past comes rushing back to haunt him. Throw in some decidedly nasty charact

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Fragile Things
Price: $32.95 Author: Neil Gaiman

e for Gaiman’s new collection, dealing as it does with ghosts and disappearances, lost childhood and lost love, late-night confessions and mysterious beings. Perhaps not quite as fine overall as his first collection, Smoke and Mirrors,

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