May 15, 2013
New Arrivals · Science Fiction
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Earth Afire
May 7, 2013
Card, Orson Scott.
New York : Tor, 2013.
336
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Traces the events of the First Formic War, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
Appalachian overthrow
April 24, 2013
Knight, E. E.
339 pages ; 24 cm.
"Captured and sold to the Kurian-allied Maynes Conglomerate to work as a slave in the coal mines of Appalachia, Ahn-Kha is angered and appalled by the dangerous working conditions and the brutal treatment inflicted upon his fellow miners. When a protest against shortages is deliberately and bloodily suppressed, Ahn-Kha sets himself against the ruling Maynes family and embarks on a trail of vengeance through the Coal Country. Finally, the people of the Coal Country are driven to the breaking point. But they now have a powerful and battle-hardened leader who is determined to forge them into an army that will wage guerrilla warfare against the Maynes family and their Kurian masters--and free the Appalachians from their tyranny"-- Provided by publisher.
The folded world
April 22, 2013
Mariotte, Jeff, author.
288 pages ; 18 cm.
En route to a diplomatic mission, the Enterprise receives a distress call from the USS McRaven. As the Enterprise approaches the area where the McRaven appears to be, the crew encounters an anomoly unlike anything they've ever experienced. Space itself seems inconsistent, warping, changing appearance. But during the brief periods of calm, they locate the McRaven along with other ships of various origins, all tightly surrounding and being held in place by an enormous unidentified vessel.
Antiagon fire
April 17, 2013
Modesitt, L. E., Jr., 1943-
New York : Tor, 2013.
496
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Promoted to commander and assigned to convice the Pharsi High Council to submit to Lord Bhayar's rule, Quaeryt leads an Imagers team into hostile lands once held by the tyrannical Rex Kharst, where they confront a powerful order of women.
Ghost spin
April 17, 2013
Moriarty, Chris, 1968-
New York : Spectra Books, [2013]
480
"A Spectra trade paperback original"--Title page verso.
The human division
April 10, 2013
Scalzi, John, 1969-
431 pages ; 22 cm
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Alien in the house
April 10, 2013
Koch, Gini.
New York : Daw Books, c2013
viii, 534 p. ; 17 cm.
Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini have learned the ins and outs of Washington politics, not the mention how to prevail in intergalactic war and foil dangerous plots. But, in the aftermath of Operation Destruction, the Gower girls' powers are burned out, the entire A-C population has been "outted" as aliens living on Earth and ACE is nowhere to be found. Then murder and mayhem are served up at an important dinner party at the American Centaurion Embassy and when the dust settles Alpha Team and the Diplomatic Corps have more problems than just a dead Congressman. It's up to Kitty and the rest of the gang to find out what's really going on and why. But will they be able to stop the killer or killers before the rest of the U.S. House of Representatives become casualties?
The repeat year
April 10, 2013
Lochen, Andrea.
vi, 393 pages ; 20 cm.
"Everyone has days, weeks, even months they wish they could do over--but what about an entire year? After living through the worst twelve months of her life, intensive care nurse Olive Watson is given a second chance to relive her past and attempt to discover where she went wrong... After a year of hardships, including a messy breakup with her longtime boyfriend Phil, the prospect of her mother's remarriage, and heartbreaking patient losses at the hospital, Olive is ready to start fresh. But when she wakes up in her ex-boyfriend's bed on New Year's Day 2011--a day she has already lived--Olive's world is turned upside down. Shouldering a year of memories that no one else can recall, even Olive begins to question herself--until she discovers that she is not alone. Upon crossing paths with Sherry Witan, an experienced "repeater," Olive learns that she has the chance to rewrite her future. Given the opportunity of a lifetime, Olive has to decide what she really wants. Should she make different choices, or accept her life as she knows it, flaws and all?"-- Provided by publisher.
Wool
March 20, 2013
Howey, Hugh.
508 pages ; 22 cm.
In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. In a society full of regulations meant to protect the community, Sheriff Holston, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: he asks to go outside. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken....
The Lost Fleet : Beyond the Frontier : Guardian
March 20, 2013
Campbell, Jack.
401 pages ; 24 cm.
Admiral Geary's First Fleet of the Alliance survives the journey deep into unexplored interstellar space, a voyage that led to the discovery of new alien species, including a new enemy and a possible ally.
Blood of dragons
March 20, 2013
Hobb, Robin.
xvi, 425 pages ; 24 cm
The Tarman expedition has at last found Kelsingra, a city filled with ancient treasures. Here, the dragons and their Elderling keepers may discover their full potential, but only if the magic of Kelsingra can be unlocked. Already rumours of the city have floated down the Rain Wild River. Adventurers, pirates and fortune hunters will soon be coming to pillage what they can. Among them, Hest Finbok, determined to claim back his errant wife, Alise. Meanwhile, Selden Vestrit finds himself a prisoner of the ailing Duke of Chalced, who believes him to be some sort of dragon-man whose flesh and blood may work miracle cures. Soon Tintaglia's singer will be sacrificed to keep this vile old tyrant alive. Where is Tintaglia, the greatest of all dragons, when there is such need of her? Attacked, dying of a poisoned wound, can she survive? She holds the memories that will unlock the mysteries of Kelsingra, and the power to defend it, and her own. Without her, all may be lost.
Necessary ill
March 20, 2013
Taber, Deb.
347 pages ; 23 cm
Jin is a designer and spreader of plagues intended to keep the human population in balance with the dwindling resources at hand. Jin is also a neuter, one of a clandestine group of naturally genderless humans. When a young woman named Sandy is thrust violently into the world of the neuters, the worlds of genders and neuters begin to clash. From the limestone caverns deep beneath the New Mexico desert to the streets of Albuquerque, Amarillo, and St. Louis, Jin straddles the line between creation and destruction. With the help of Sandy, an enclave of underground artists, and an unwitting ally bent on taking the neuters down, Jin struggles to create the disease that will save humanity from itself.
Doughnut
March 20, 2013
Holt, Tom, 1961-
New York, N.Y. : Orbit, 2013, c2012.
393 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes extras.
"A novel" -- Cover.
Physicist Theo Bernstein has lost his job at a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, his wife has left him, and he has no money. Then a fellow physicist and Nobel laureate dies and leaves the contents of a safety deposit box to him, setting off a quest of epic proportions that will rewrite the laws of physics.
The departure
March 20, 2013
Asher, Neal L., 1961-
San Francisco : Night Shade Books, 2013, c2011.
380 p. ; 23 cm.
Visible in the night sky, the Argus Station, its twin smelting plants like glowing eyes, looks down on nightmare Earth. From Argus, the Committee keep an oppressive control: citizens are watched by cams systems and political officers, it's a world inhabited by shepherds, reader guns, razor birds and the brutal Inspectorate with its white tiled cells and pain inducers. Soon the Committee will have the power to edit human minds, but not yet, as twelve billion human beings need to die before Earth can be stabilized, but by turning large portions of Earth into concentration camps this is achievable, especially when the Argus satellite laser network comes fully online.
Star wars : the last Jedi
March 20, 2013
Reaves, Michael.
New York : Ballantine Books, 2013.
480 p. ; 18 cm.
"Lucas books."
When Jax Pavan, one of the few remaining Jedi, takes on the vital mission of transporting a rebel leader away from Coruscant, he and his crew face the might of Darth Vader, who will stop at nothing to exterminate the Jedi.
Odds against tomorrow
March 13, 2013
Rich, Nathaniel, 1980-
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
306 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
While working for a mysterious financial consulting firm that offers insurance to corporations against impending catastrophic events, a gifted young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his actual worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.
The void of mist and thunder
March 12, 2013
Dashner, James, 1972- author.
[New York] : Shadow Mountain, 2012.
xi, 418 pages ; 22 cm.
When an all-consuming void from the Fourth Dimension opens up, unleashing monsters throughout the Realities, Mister George has one last weapon at his disposal--the mysterious and powerful Karma button, which might be even more dangerous than anyone imagined.
Superman : reign of doomsday
February 28, 2013
Cornell, Paul.
New York, NY : DC Comics, c2012.
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Superman created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster.
Originally published in single magazine form in Action comics 900-904.
Notes from a coma
February 27, 2013
McCormack, Mike, 1965-
New York : Soho Press, 2013.
199 p. ; 21 cm.
"Rescued from the squalor of a Romanian orphanage, and adopted by the rural community of west Mayo, J. J. O'Malley should have grown up happy. The boy has no gift for it, though, and his new life has a brutal way of giving him plenty to be unhappy about. After a sudden tragedy, J. J. suffers a catastrophic mental breakdown. Unable to live with himself, he volunteers for an improbable government project which has been set up to explore the possibility of using deep coma as a future option within the EU penal system. When his coma goes online the nation turns to watch, and J. J. is quickly elevated to the status of cultural icon. Sex symbol, existential hero, T-shirt philosopher--his public profile now threatens to obscure the man himself behind a swirl of media profiles, online polls, and EEG tracings. Five narrators; his father, neighbour, teacher, public representative, and sweetheart; tell us the true story of his life and try to give some clue as to why he is the way he is now: floating in a maintained coma on a prison ship off the west coast of Ireland. Brilliantly imagined and artfully constructed; merging science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland; Notes from a Coma is both the story of a man cursed with guilt and genius and a compassionate examination of how our identities are safeguarded and held in trust by those who love us"-- Provided by publisher.
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