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Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original
foreword by Ayobami Adebayo. 'A marvel of imagination, empathy and
detail' NEW YORK TIMES 'The marker you should judge all other
time-travelling narratives by' GUARDIAN 'One of the most
significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot
exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ -- In 1976, Dana
dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When
Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning. She
saves his life - and it will happen again and again. Neither of
them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is
threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them. And
each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life
might be over before it's even begun. This is the extraordinary
story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than
time. 'No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as
gut-wrenching or as essential' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE -- PRAISE FOR
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI 'Butler's evocative,
often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex,
power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES
'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the
painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision'
GUARDIAN 'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS 'An icon of
the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed
black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR 'Butler writes with
such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She
really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' LUPITA
NYONG'O
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Lights of God
(Paperback)
Murat Ukray; Translated by Cigdem N Dosoglu
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R841
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Part IV - Kat Severn turned her back on her privileged and moneyed
upbringing, instead pursuing a career in the Military of the early
22nd Century Federation of America, Britain, Canada, Australia and
New Zealand. She has been given her first independent command a "
In the remote waters of the Southern Atlantic. For a Fleet Officer
with a reputation for not following the rules, ita s a posting that
rapidly becomes more of an exile than a stepping-stone towards her
next promotion. But where Kat goes, trouble seems to follow a " and
she isna t there long before discovering mercenaries are sabotaging
the navigation beacons that mark the safe-transit-routes for
shipping. Whilst establishing the extend of the damage she
unintentionally finds a previously unknown, but Long-abandoned
Chinese military base on a remote and desolate island. A base that
contains devastating technology. Technology that Kat must ensure
never falls into the wrong hands.
He can jump between worlds. But can he save his own?
As a totalitarian Inspectorate tightens its grip, one man discovers the
power to slip through the gaps and traverse alternate universes. World
Walkers by Neal Asher is an exhilarating standalone novel set within
the Owner universe.
Ottanger is a rebel and mutant on an Earth governed by a ruthless
Committee. But after its Inspectorate experiments on him, he discovers
the ability to reach alternate worlds. The multiverse is revealed in
all its glory and terror – and he can finally flee his timeline.
Then Ottanger meets the Fenris, an evolved human visiting Earth from
the far future. He’d engineered the original world-walking mutation, so
those altered could escape the Committee’s regime. Yet this only aided
a few, while millions still suffered. And Ottanger sees that the
Committee will become unstoppable if not destroyed.
However, the Fenris's visit also attracted the Hive. With the power of
its trillion linked minds, it craves world-walking biotech and will do
anything to get it. As conflict looms at home, and war threatens the
multiverse – the Fenris, Ottanger and his companions must prepare for
battle . . .
The sequel to the Times Thriller of the Year bestseller, This is the
Night They Come for You.
Trouble has a way of finding those those who spend most of their time
trying to avoid it. Or so it appears to Superintendent Taleb, whose
attempts to wind his career down to an unobtrusive retirement are once
again in jeopardy.
When delegated a television interview to discuss a thirty year old
political controversy, his instructions are clear enough: whatever you
say, do not rock the boat. But an inexplicable urge in the moment to
tell the truth lands him in dangerously hot water. It also reopens some
decades wounds which will bring him to the forefront of an
investigation he is keen to avoid.
Whether he likes it or not, the past is coming for him. And the past in
Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentless, quick to consume the
unwary traveller. He will soon find himself staring down the barrel of
a long buried mystery, which looks likely to add him to its lengthy
roster of victims.
This Is the Day They Dream Of is the scintillating sequel to the
critically acclaimed This Is The Night They Come For You, which
introduced the world-weary Taleb and his always resourceful colleague
Agent Hidouchi of the Algerian Secret Service. Together they must
navigate the country’ treacherous history to save themselves from its
perilous present.
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Gliff
(Paperback)
Ali Smith
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R304
R276
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O brave new world, that has such people in't.
Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find
a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house.
What does it mean?
It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort
out our increasingly toxic world.
What would that actually be like?
In a state turned hostile, a world of insiders and outsiders, what
things of the past can sustain them and what shape can resistance take?
And what’s a horse got to do with any of this?
Gliff is a novel about how we make meaning and how we are made
meaningless. With a nod to the traditions of dystopian fiction, a
glance at the Kafkaesque, and a new take on the notion of classic, it's
a moving and electrifying read, a vital and prescient tale of the
versatility and variety deep-rooted in language, in nature and in human
nature.
In the dead of winter, an EMP attack destroys the U.S. power grid.
1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed
since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr
Norrell. Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the dead and
summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French.
Yet the cautious Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another
magician. Young, handsome and daring, Jonathan Strange is his very
antithesis. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men -
which overwhelms that between England and France. And soon their own
secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble
than they can imagine.
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Wool
(Paperback)
Hugh Howey
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The epic that began with the HUGO and NEBULA Award-winning classic DUNE -- now a major motion picture from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival -- continues ...
The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone.
But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy.
Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions - but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens ...
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