Mary Robinette Kowal
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Katya deals in Authenticities and Captures, trading on nostalgia for a past long gone. Her clients are rich and they demand items and experiences with only the finest verifiable provenance. Other people's lives have value, after all.
But when her A.I. suddenly stops whispering in her ear she finds herself cut off from the grid and loses communication with the rest of the world.
The man who stepped out of the trees while hunting deer cut her off from...
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process"--
"The Fated...
Author
Series
Glamourist histories volume 5
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"[T]he magical adventure that might result if Jane Austen walked on the grimmer side of the Regency" --
"Jane and Vincent have finally gotten some much-needed rest after their adventures in Italy when Vincent receives word that his estranged father has passed away on one of his properties in the West Indies. His brother, who manages the estate, is overwhelmed, and no one else in his family can go. Grudgingly, out of filial duty the couple decide...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Harford, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force ... Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate channels. While Ben is away at the front, Ginger discovers the presence of a traitor. Without the presence...
5) Seveneves
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Five thousand years later after a catastrophic event rendered the Earth a ticking time bomb, the progeny of a handful of outer space explorers--seven distinct races now three billion strong--embark on yet another audacious journey: to return to Earth.
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience...
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program. The IAC's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes uninhabitable is being threatened. Elma York is on her way to Mars, but the Moon colony is still being established. Her friend and fellow Lady Astronaut Nicole...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"El futuro de la humanidad está en manos de un grupo de mujeres. En un frío día primaveral de 1952, un meteorito impacta contra la Tierra y arrasa la Costa Este de Estados Unidos. Pronto, las consecuencias de tal cataclismo harán del planeta un lugar inhóspito, como ocurrió antes de la extinción de los dinosaurios. Esta terrible amenaza obliga a la humanidad a acelerar radicalmente sus esfuerzos para colonizar el espacio. Elma York,...
10) The original
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Hugo Award–winning authors Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal team up in this exclusive audio-first
production of The Original, a sci-fi thriller set in a world where one woman fights to know her true identity and survive
the forces that threaten her very existence. In the near future, humans choose life—for a price. Injectable nanite technology is the lifeblood that flows through every individual wishing to experience the world through...
12) I am Princess X
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Years after writing stories about a superheroine character she created with a best friend who died in a tragic car accident, sixteen-year-old May is shocked to see stickers, patches, and graffiti images of the superheroine appearing around Seattle.
13) Amnesty
Author
Series
Amberlough Dossier volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The revolution has come and gone, with Amberlough City striving to rebuild itself from the ashes. The Ospies have been ousted and the very face of the nation has been changed in the process. Now, a rising politician is determined to bring Amberlough's traitors to justice, including double agent Cyril DePaul. Everyone believes Cyril deserves to suffer for his crimes--except an old lover and an estranged sister. Soon, they become entangled in a web...
14) Armistice
Author
Series
Amberlough dossier volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Armistice returns to Donnelly's ravishing 1930s Art Deco-tinged fantasy world of the Nebula and Lambda Award-nominated Amberlough with a decadent, tumultuous mixture of sex, politics, and spies
"A hefty novel full of fascinating characters exploring oversized topics such as sexuality, music, culture, fascism, nationalism, class wars, revolution and love." -Shelf Awareness
In a tropical country where shadowy political affairs lurk behind the scenes...
15) Amberlough
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Amberlough City, the illustrious but corrupt cosmopolitan beacon of Gedda. The radical One State Party--nicknamed the Ospies--is gaining popular support to unite Gedda's four municipal governments under an ironclad, socially conservative vision. Not everyone agrees with the Ospies' philosophy, including master spy Cyril DePaul and his lover Aristide Makricosta, smuggler and emcee at the popular Bumble Bee Cabaret. When Cyril's cover is...
16) Mystic
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"For hundreds of years, high-born nobles have competed for the chance to learn of the Mystic. Powerful, revered, and often reclusive, Mystics have the unique ability to summon and manipulate the Myst: the underlying energy that lives at the heart of the universe. Once in a very great while, they take an apprentice, always from the most privileged sects of society. Such has always been the tradition--until a new High Mystic takes her seat and chooses...
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