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The Sky People

S.M. Stirling Tor Science Fiction

Now in paperback, the launch of a new alternate-history series, from a writer with a growing following

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Slan

A Novel

A. E. van Vogt Orb Books

In the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine Astounding. Editor John W. Campbell, Jr., discovered and promoted great new writers...

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Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Voyage of the Space Beagle A.E. van Vogt Orb Books One of the great original classics of modern SF returns! An all-time classic space saga, The Voyage of the Space Beagle is one of the pinnacles of Golden...

Trade Paperback : $21.99 Buy	Tales of the Dying Earth Including 'The Dying Earth,' 'The Eyes of the Overworld,' 'Cugel's Saga,' and 'Rhialto the Marvellous' Dying Earth Jack Vance Orb Books Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of...

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True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

Vernor Vinge; Edited by James Frenkel Tor Books

Once in a great while a science fiction story is so visionary, yet so close to impending scientific developments that it becomes not only an accurate...

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A Fire Upon The Deep

Zones of Thought (#1 of 3)

Vernor Vinge Tor Science Fiction

In this popular and widely praised novel, a rescue mission races against time to save a pair of human children being held captive by a medieval lupine race-and...

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Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library

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A Deepness in the Sky

Zones of Thought (#2 of 3)

Vernor Vinge Tor Books

After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders,...

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Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge Tor Science Fiction

A Novel of the Day After Tomorrow

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Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	Starfish Rifters Trilogy (#1 of 3) Peter Watts Tor Books Civilization rests on the backs of its outcasts. So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below the surface of the...

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Blindsight

Peter Watts Tor Books

The Hugo Award–nominated novel by “a hard science fiction writer through and through and one of the very best alive.” —The Globe and Mail Two months have...

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Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang

A Novel

Kate Wilhelm Orb Books

Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics...

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Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	The Humanoids A Novel Jack Williamson Orb Books On the far planet Wing IV, a brilliant scientist creates the humanoids--sleek black androids programmed to serve humanity. But are they perfect servants--or...

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Axis

Robert Charles Wilson Tor Science Fiction

The sequel to the Hugo Award-winning SF epic Spin.

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Darwinia

A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century

Robert Charles Wilson Orb Books

A novel of a very different 20th Century

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Litany of the Long Sun

The First Half of 'The Book of the Long Sun'

Book of the Long Sun (#5 of 6)

Gene Wolfe Orb Books

Litany of the Long Sun contains the full texts of Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun, that together make up the first half of The Book of the Long...

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On Blue's Waters

Volume One of 'The Book of the Short Sun'

Book of the Short Sun (#1 of 3)

Gene Wolfe Tor Books

On Blue's Waters is the start of a major new work by Gene Wolfe, the first of three volumes that comprise The Book of the Short Sun, which takes place in the...

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Trade Paperback : $21.99 Buy	Epiphany of the Long Sun The Second Half of 'The Book of the Long Sun' Book of the Long Sun (#6 of 6) Gene Wolfe Orb Books The two novels combined in this omnibus (Caldé of the Long Sun and Exodus from the Long Sun) comprise the second half of Gene Wolfe's long novel, The...

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In Green's Jungles

The Second Volume of 'The Book of the Short Sun'

Book of the Short Sun (#2 of 3)

Gene Wolfe Tor Books

Gene Wolfe's In Green's Jungles is the second volume, after On Blue's Waters, of his ambitious SF trilogy, The Book of the Short Sun. It is again narrated by...

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Return to the Whorl

The Final Volume of 'The Book of the Short Sun'

Book of the Short Sun (#3 of 3)

Gene Wolfe Tor Books

Gene Wolfe's Return to the Whorl is the third volume, after On Blue's Waters and In Green's Jungles, of his ambitious SF trilogy The Book of the Short Sun . ....

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The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Three Novellas

Gene Wolfe Orb Books

Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus is a universally acknowledged masterpiece of science fiction by...

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Sword & Citadel

The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

New Sun #2

Gene Wolfe Orb Books

The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to...

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Shadow & Claw

The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

New Sun #1

Gene Wolfe Orb Books

The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to...

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The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

Gene Wolfe Orb Books

A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcends all genre...

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Endangered Species

Gene Wolfe Orb Books

Wolfe, whose tetralogy The Book of the New Sun was the most acclaimed science fiction work of the 1980s, offered his second collection of short fiction in 1990...

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