Tobias Buckell
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Language
English
Description
From the powerful storyteller Tobias Buckell (Crystal Rain, The Tangled Lands), a complex novel of humanity's passion for the written word. At the revolutionary crossroads of magic, betrayal, and long-forgotten truths, a naïve, compassionate royal and a determined, hunted librarian discover a dangerous world of mortal and ancient menaces.
The life of the youngest musketress of Ninetha has been one of hard training. But Lilith's days have also contained...
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Language
English
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Description
Traffic is piling up, and strange things are headed your way in this new story collection by World Fantasy Award-winning author Tobias S. Buckell. In these twenty-seven stories you'll find inhabitants of a small town who won't vaccinate against a zombie plague, a lone sentry keeping motorists from stumbling into something ancient and evil, a man who puts stranded ghosts to rest, an ex-soldier traveling the seas who trades his new life of hardship...
Author
Series
Halo series. Standalone novels volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
5) The Trove
Author
Language
English
Description
A new, science fiction adventure based on Treasure Island! Jane Hawkins lives on a floating space port where she tries to help her mothers run a failing inn. Every day she watches starships land from far-off places, bound for exotic adventures. But a new occupant under their roof is about to change everything. His name is Villem Osteonides. More machine than man, he's crewed aboard ships that sail through the universe faster than light. And he has...
6) Envoy
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! It has been six years since the end of the Covenant War...and yet on the planet Carrow, a world on the edge of the Joint Occupation Zone, a decisive new battle suddenly erupts. Human colonists and the alien Sangheili have already been living a tension-filled co-existence in this place, with Unified Earth Government envoy Melody Azikiwe...
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Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The life of the youngest musketress of Ninetha has been one of hard training. But Lilith's days have also contained many pleasures, the royal privileges of her family's guardianship of the Cornucopia, a mystical source of limitless bounty. Lilith has never seen a book, and she never expects to encounter one within the safety of the citadel. When Ishmael, an outcast librarian, shows up outside the Afriq Gate, Lilith saves him from immediate execution...
Publisher
Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"[This book] showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many races telling stories filled with shocking delights, powerful visions of the familiar made strange. Between this books covers burn tales of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their indefinable overlappings. These are authors aware of our many possible pasts and futures, authors freed of stereotypes and clicés ready to dazzle you with their daring genius. Unexpected brilliance shines...
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Comprehensive guide to one of the most successful video game franchises in history, the "Halo Encyclopedia" details the origins of the game along with the characters, weapons, vehicles, equipment, and locations from "Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST," and "Halo Wars." Created in full collaboration with Microsoft, it is packed with hundreds of images, illustrations, and technical drawings that highlight all the information fans and newcomers to the...
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Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic until it became toxic. It is run by a tyrant known as The Jolly Mayor and his devious right hand, the last archmage in the world. Together they try to collect all the magic for themselves so they can control the citizens of the city. But when their decadence reaches new heights and begins to destroy the environment, the people stage an uprising to stop...
14) Galactic empires
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Neil Clarke, publisher of the award-winning Clarkesworld magazine, presents a collection of thought-provoking and galaxy-spanning array of galactic short science fiction. From E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman, to George Lucas' Star Wars, the politics and process of Empire have been a major subject of science fiction's galaxy-spanning fictions. The idiom of the Galactic Empire allows science fiction writers to ask (and answer) questions that are shorn...
15) Wastelands
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon—these are our guides through the Wastelands.
From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing so, these visionary authors have addressed
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