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 The Terror
Dan Simmons
The bestselling author of Ilium and Olympos transforms the true story of a legendary Arctic expedition into a thriller worthy of Stephen King or Patrick O'Brian. Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of The Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have turned to poison before they open them, or the ship slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The real threat is whatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching one seaman at a time or whole crews, leaving bodies mangled horribly or missing forever. |
 The Crystal Skull
Manda Scott
The end of the world starts now ...Ancient wisdom predicts the end of the world with uncanny precision. But it also provided the key to staving off apocalypse: a flawless sapphire of incomparable beauty carved into the perfect likeness of a human skull. Hidden for four centuries, a crystal skull of exquisite beauty has just been found by Stella Cody, who also inherits its legacy of dark secrets, intrigue, and murder. Facing an increasingly implacable enemy, Stella and her lover, Kit, struggle to crack the code that hides the Skull's intended resting place. Their search takes them from the intellectual rigour of Cambridge University to the untamed wildness of England's prehistoric stone circles. But time is against them, and they have days - hours - left to uncover the secret that may yet save the world. |
 Shield of Stars
Hilari Bell
A former pickpocket, Weasel is the type of boy most people would avoid. Certainly, no one would ever trust him - except for one man. Justice Holis took Weasel off the streets, gave him a home, a job as his clerk, and a key to his house. Weasel's new life may be a bit boring, but for the first time someone actually cares about him. Now Justice Holis is the one in trouble. Arrested for treason, he will surely hang unless someone saves him - and that someone can only be Weasel. But what can one boy do? Not much without help. So with a mysterious girl named Arisa by his side, Weasel goes in search of the Falcon, the most dangerous bandit in Deorthas, but also the one person who would be able - and possibly willing - to stage a prison break. |
 Recoil (Starfist Force Recon #03)
David Sherman & Dan Craig
Swift, silent, and deadly-they strike where no one else dares.
Fear is the fastest-growing crop on Haulover, a newly colonized planet where someone-or something-is destroying isolated farmhouses. The unseen enemy strikes without warning, then disappears, leaving no stone standing, no trace of families or farm animals. When the Confederation receives a desperate plea for help, it's time to send in the Marines. Impossible missions are a matter of course for Fourth Force Recon's second platoon squads, and the situation at Haulover - with no witnesses and few clues - is no exception. But this assignment turns out to be even tougher and bloodier than usual because the devastation is a ploy to lure the nine Marines into a trap, and to force them to bust the Confederation's terrible secret wide open.
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 The Toymaker
Jeremy de Quidt
What good is a toy that will wind down? What if you could put a heart in one? A real heart. One that beat and beat and didn't stop. What couldn't you do if you could make a toy like that? From the moment Mathias becomes the owner of a mysterious piece of paper, he is in terrible danger. Entangled in devious plots and pursued by the sinister Doctor Leiter and his devilish toys, Mathias finds himself on a quest to uncover a deadly secret. |
 Saint Antony's Fire
Steve White
In our universe, Ponce de León is remembered for his fruitless search for the mythical fountain of youth. But, in an alternate universe, his quest found something very different and very dangerous. After his return to Spain, bizarre rumours flew about what he had found there, and what had come back with him. Eighty-five years later, Spain sent a fleet of ships against England. The English were confident that they could repel the threat but Englands fleet was annihilated by weapons shooting beams of fiery light, weapons which seemed to employ the blackest of sorcery, wielded by odd-looking beings in monks garb. The Queen herself was forced to flee to the New World on Captain Thomas Winslows ship, Heron, accompanied by her advisor Dr. Dee, whom some called a sorcerer, and an odd fellow named Shakespeare, hoping there to find the source of Spains powerful weapons. But they would find far stranger matters there than they had expected, such as a grown woman who had been only an infant a year before, and eerie tales of a gate to another world with beings who were not human...
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Rave (Reviewed by Matt)
 Confessor (Sword of Truth #11)
Terry Goodkind
During high school, I had plenty of free time on my hands. One day I was so bored that I grabbed my brother’s neglected copy of Terry Goodkind's Wizards First Rule (Pb $19.99) and stumbled headlong into a fantasy epic, the likes of which I had not seen since Raymond E Feist's Magician (Pb $24.99).
Absorbed by the humanity of the characters, the vast scope of the world, the visceral intimacy of the scenes of battle, I tore through the series as might one of Goodkind's own underworld beasties - and I have the worse-for-wear paperbacks to prove it. But then I hit a roadblock. At my local bookshop, I was informed that book five was yet to be published! And so began the long wait, slowly absorbing each book as it was released, re-reading the series multiple times over, until...
It has been 14 years since we started our journey with Richard Cypher and Kahlan Amnell, but now that journey has finished. Confessor, the third book of the Chainfire Trilogy and the eleventh and final book of the Sword of Truth is the long awaited climactic ending of this epic series.
Terry Goodkind does the seemingly impossible. The complexities and loose ends of the ten preceding novels are all neatly tied up and, although Confessor leaves room for expansion in the future, the story is by no means incomplete... (I'm looking at you, Lord of the Rings!). More... |
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 Cordelia's Honor (Vor #1 & #2)
Lois McMaster Bujold
This is an omnibus of the first two Vor books (Shards of Honor and Barrayar) in chronological order. With the release of a reference book on the series and the author working on a new novel, I got all nostalgic and, even though I really don’t have the luxury of re-reading stuff, I had to start the series again.
Set in the far future, Captain Cordelia Naismith is the commander of a survey team for the Betan Expeditionary Force. She comes from an extremely liberal planet. On an expedition, she and one other crew member are the sole survivors of an attack by a group of Barrayarans, an extremely conservative, militaristic, patriarchal society that has only just come out of a long period of isolation. The Barrayaran captain, Aral Vorkosigan (Vor is the prefix given to the elite ruling class), also universally known as the ‘Butcher of Komarr’, has been left behind on the planet, a victim of mutiny. Cordelia is captured by Aral, but the two make a deal that they will work together to get themselves off the planet and, in the process they fall in love. They succeed, but even bigger problems await them as they get to Aral’s ship and Cordelia makes it back to Beta Colony. She is later forced to leave Beta and escapes to Barrayar, where she and Aral, now retired, marry. Their quiet life doesn’t last long, as the Emperor is dying and names Aral the Regent for the six-year-old Prince.
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