Dead Man's Hand
Top 10 Dead Man's Hand
: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Of Mice and Magic, Sea of Shadows, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Hard Magic, The Camelot Spell, Discount Armageddon, Crystal Rain, Mad Amos, Century Rain
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
| Author | Charles Yu |
| ISBN | 0307379205 |
A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time.
Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people...
| Author | David Farland |
| ISBN | 1577349180 |
More than anything, Benjamin Ravenspell wants a pet. But when he buys a mouse named Amber, he gets more than he bargained for. No sooner does Ben take her home, than Amber turns him into a mouse too. You see, Amber has magical abilities, and it so happens that Ben is a familiar, a creature that stores magical...
In the Forest of the Dead, where the empire’s worst criminals are exiled, twin sisters Moria and Ashyn are charged with a dangerous task. For they are the Keeper and the Seeker, and each year they must quiet the enraged souls of the damned.
Only this year, the souls will not be quieted.
Ambushed...
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
| Author | Ken Liu |
| ISBN | 1481442546 |
A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.
With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now...
| Author | Laura Anne Gilman |
| ISBN | 0373803133 |
Welcome to P.U.P.I.—Private, Unaffiliated, Paranormal Investigations
A handpicked team trained to solve crimes the regular police can't touch—crimes of magic.
My name's Bonnie Torres. Recent college grad, magic user and severely unemployed. Until I got a call out of nowhere...
| Author | Laura Anne Gilman |
| ISBN | 0060772794 |
On the eve of the Quest for the Holy Grail, every adult in King Arthur's castle falls into an enchanted sleep. The future of Camelot rests on the shoulders of fourteen-year-old squire Gerard, who has dreamed of becoming a Knight of the Round Table his whole life. With the help of Newt, the stable boy, and...
| Author | Seanan McGuire |
| ISBN | 0756407133 |
Cryptid, noun: Any creature whose existence has not yet been proven by science. See also "Monster."
Crytozoologist, noun: Any person who thinks hunting for cryptids is a good idea. See also "idiot."
Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night......
| Author | Tobias S. Buckell |
| ISBN | 0765312271 |
Long ago, so the stories say, the old-fathers came to Nanagada through a worm's hole in the sky. Looking for a new world to call their own, they brought with them a rich mélange of cultures, religions, and dialects from a far-off planet called Earth. Mighty were the old-fathers, with the power to shape...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345393627 |
MOVE OVER, PAUL BUNYAN--MAKE WAY FOR MAD AMOS MALONE!
Strange things lurk up in the mountains and out in the plains and deserts of the West, but few are as unique as the giant mountain man named Amos Malone, the man some call Mad Amos, though not to his face. But when the world gets weird, there's...
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0441013074 |
Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust.Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose.
Something...
| Author | Jeffrey Ford |
| ISBN | 2290319732 |
Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel: Cley has mastered the art of physiognomy—and now he is about to learn its ultimate truth
In the Well-Built City, Master Drachton Below’s power is absolute, and he will not hesitate to use it. His primary method of control is through his...
| Author | Walter Jon Williams |
| ISBN | 1597801259 |
Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world...
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
| Author | Gregory Maguire |
| ISBN | 0060987103 |
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?
Gregory Maguire creates...
| Author | Theodora Goss |
| ISBN | 1907881182 |
The reprint of In the Forest of Forgetting by award-winning author Theodora Goss, first published in 2006 by Prime Books, with an introduction by Terri Windling and cover art by Virginia Lee. The table of contents has been slightly modified: "Phalaenopsis" has been replaced by "Her Mother's Ghosts,"...
| Author | Robin Wasserman |
| ISBN | 0439933382 |
Some things are too painful to remember--and too deadly to forget.
Found: One girl, age 13. Unconscious. Unharmed. Unclaimed. Unidentified.
Lost: Everything.
J.D. may not know the truth about her past, but she knows she's in danger, and she can't shake the dark visions...
The Man with the Golden Torc
| Author | Simon R. Green |
| ISBN | 0451461452 |
Five stars stands for awesome, and that's what this book is! I loved it. I was a little worried that I wouldn't like it as much as the Nightside series, but boy was I wrong.
This book takes my love of James Bond spy movies and supernatural stories and makes a wonderful hybrid, but it has Simon R. Green's...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0805096647 |
One night during the Perseid meteor shower, Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm. About a year later, one of their horses gives birth to a baby centaur. The family has enough attention already as Arianne's six-year-old brother was born with birth...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0310746485 |
Young James, the duke's son, asks too many questions. At least that's what everyone at Callendar Castle thinks after all but the last of James’ tutors quits and his uncle ships him off to be educated at Cranford Abbey. Unfortunately, the once-beautiful abbey has problems of its own, including cracked...
| Author | Tad Williams |
| ISBN | 0886777631 |
Let me just start by saying this: the first time I finished this series, I immediately went back and started reading it again. I can't think of any other series that I've done that with.
This is one of Tad Williams' "economy-sized manuscripts," similar to his fantasy classic Memory, Sorrow and...
| Author | Julianna Baggott |
| ISBN | 0385737610 |
Twins Truman and Camille have been deserted by their father. Now their mother is leaving them for three weeks with their paternal grandmother Swelda, whom they’ve never met and only know from her disappointing gifts of soap and ChapStick. Things look up when Swelda turns out to be weird but cool. When...
| Author | Yoon Ha Lee |
| ISBN | 1607013878 |
There is no such thing as conservation of shadows. When light destroys shadows, darkness does not gain in density elsewhere. When shadows steal over earth and across the sky, darkness is not diluted. Featuring an Introduction by Aliette De Bodard, Conservation of Shadows features a selection of short...
When young Code falls down a hole while following a mysterious robotic insect, he lands in a world that defies all imagination. Everything in Mekhos is made from metal and circuitry, including the citizens-who happen to be robots. To find his way home, Code must first cross Mekhos's bizarre and dangerous...
