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SCIENCE FICTION
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New in this week we have the book which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award
for best novel, Distraction by Bruce Sterling. It's 2044, and the US
is coming apart at the seams. People live nomadic lives fuelled by
cheap transport and even cheaper communications. The new cold war with
the Dutch is fought over the Net, and the notion of central government
is almost meaningless. This is your future, and Oscar Valparaiso's
too- or it would be if he wasn't only half human and could sort out
his love life. Available in UK paperback for =A36.99
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Homunculus by James P. Blaylock has been reprinted and is now in the
shop. Set in 1870's London this book is populated by the usual
suspects: fishwives, worldly philosophers, new messiahs, inspired
inventers, mad scientists, millionaires, and grave robbers.In this
city of contradictions and improbabilities, a dead man pilots an
airship and living men are willing to risk all to steal a carp. Here,
a night of bangers and ale at the local pub can result in an eternity
at the Blood Pudding with the rest of the animated dead. Available in
trade paperback for =A314.99.
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Two titles to look forward to next month are Blood to Blood:The
Vampire Story Continues by Elaine Bergstrom, available in US paperback
for =A35.99, and Invisible Ring by Anne Bishop, available in US
paperback for =A36.99. Both these titles will arrive in October.