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A recently released convict accepts, perhaps unwisely, an ill-defined job from a strange man named Wednesday and soon finds himself involved with ghosts, knights, and alternate planes of dimension. Winner of the 2001 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.
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The brown-skinned, yellow-eyed people of Mars live a beautiful, peaceful life rich with art, music, and philosophy, until the humans from Earth land on their planet and attempt to colonize it in this classic collection of linked short stories. The planet Mars acts as a mirror to the worst (and, very occasionally, the best) of humanity--sometimes literally, as when the telepathic Martians masquerade as the humans' long-dead relatives. Eventually, the humans are defeated, both on Mars and on Earth, by their own weaknesses. THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES is not hard SF in any sense. It's a poetic, mythic vision of Mars, as Percival Lowell might have imagined it to be when he saw shadows through his telescope and thought they were canals. And it's a series of vignettes about real people who react in very familiar ways in a strange place. As Bradbury describes it in his introduction to the revised 1997 edition, he was attempting to write WINESBURG, OHIO, set on Mars.
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The destruction of the ancient magical source of the mage storms by the combined forces of Valdemar and Karse has alleviated great peril to all the kingdoms of the West. But its annihilation is not without a heavy price, for it has permanently altered the laws of magic throughout the land. Can the kingdoms of the West gather their forces to learn a new system of magic in time to counter a devastating assault from the Eastern Empire--the most powerful enemy they have ever faced?
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The second half of the Hyperion Cantos. While the universe teeters on the brink of interstellar war, a group of pilgrims--having reached the Time Tombs on the planet Hyperion--prepare for their eventual reckoning with the Shrike, a mythic creature also known as the God of Pain. The follow-up to Hyperion, this novel was a finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
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