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Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Book 14
Destiny's Way
by Walter Jon Williams
The time of reckoning is close at hand. Events in the New York Times bestselling Star Wars The New Jedi Order series take a decisive turn, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemy—from without and within. In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife, and on the verge of bowing to... (more)
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Dagmar Shaw: Book 1
This Is Not a Game
by Walter Jon Williams
Once upon a time, there were four of them. And though each was good at a number of things, all of them were very good at games... Dagmar is a game designer trapped in Jakarta in the middle of a revolution. The city is tearing itself apart around her and she needs to get out. Her boss Charlie has his own problems -- 4.3 billion of them, to be precise, hidden in an off-shore account. Austin is the... (more)
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Dread Empire's Fall: Book 1
The Praxis
by Walter Jon Williams
All will must bend to the perfect truth of The Praxis For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The dread empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order . . . and bloody chaos. A young Terran naval officer marked by his lowly... (more)
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Dread Empire's Fall: Book 2
The Sundering
by Walter Jon Williams
The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive for the myriad sentient races enslaved for ten centuries, as an even greater terror arises. The Naxids -- a powerful insectoid species themselves subjugated until the recent Shaa demise -- plan to fill the vacuum with their own bloody domination, and have already won a shattering victory with superior... (more)
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Hardwired
by Walter Jon Williams
Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals.
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Dread Empire's Fall: Book 3
Conventions of War
by Walter Jon Williams
The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- at the mercy of the merciless insectoid Naxid, who now hunger for domination. But the far-flung human descendants of Terra have finally tasted liberty, and their warrior heroes will not submit. Separated by light-years, Lord Gareth Martinez and the mysterious guerrilla fighter Caroline Sula each pursue a... (more)
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Drake Maijstral: Book 2
House of Shards (Crown Jewels)
by Walter Jon Williams
One obsessed cop. Two master thieves. A very small island in space. And The Greatest Treasure in the Empire. Silverside Station is a small asteroid resort catering to the rich, the famous, and the celebrated— but is it big enough for both Drake Maijstral (the devious hero of The Crown Jewels) and Geoff Fu George (rated the galaxy’s top burglar by the Imperial Sporting Commission), both of whom have set their... (more)
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Voice of the Whirlwind
by Walter Jon Williams
Steward is a clone. A beta. His memories are fifteen years old, because his alpha never did have a brain-scan update. And in those fifteen years, the entire world has changed: The Orbital Policorp which held his allegiance has collapsed; dozens of his friends died in an off-planet war which he survived; an alien race has established relations with humanity; both his first and second wives have divorced him. And... (more)
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Implied Spaces
by Walter Jon Williams
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 Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide... (more)
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Dagmar Shaw: Book 2
Deep State
by Walter Jon Williams
Walter Jon Williams has been nominated repeatedly for every major SF award, including Hugo and Nebula Award nominations for his novel City on Fire . His most recent books are The Sundering, The Praxis, Destiny's Way , and The Rift . Mr. Williams lives near Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife.
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Angel Station
by Walter Jon Williams
Ubu has four arms, a fantastically faithful memory and is 13 years old. His 11-year-old "sister" Maria is more conventionally constructed, yet so psychic she considers herself a witch. (Both mature with the artificial aid of "mones" to the time of their late teens.) Their "father," Pasco, a small-time trader with an ancient spaceship, originally assembled them from spare genetic material and personality programs,... (more)
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Drake Maijstral: Book 1
The Crown Jewels
by Walter Jon Williams
Peleng is a planet ripe for the plucking, and Drake Maijstral is an Allowed Burglar rated in the Top Ten by the Imperial Sporting Commission. But what should be a simple case of breaking-and-plundering turns into an intergalactic crisis when Maijstral steals something so rare, so valuable, so utterly desirable, that everyone wants it— everyone including well-armed Imperial spies, gun-toting human militias, a... (more)
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The Rift
by Walter Jon Williams
It starts with the dogs. They won't stop barking. . . . And then the earth shrugs--8.9 on the Richter scale in the world's biggest earthquake since 1755. It hits New Madrid, Missouri, a sleepy town on the Mississippi. Seismologists had predicted the disaster . . . but no one listened. Within minutes, there is nothing but chaos and ruin as America's heartland falls into the nightmare known as the Rift--a fault... (more)
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The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future
by Gardner Dozois
"The most important and influential SF-magazine editor in the world."-InterzoneIt is the essence of science fiction to chart the possibilities of the future, but it takes the hand of a master to capture the farthest reaches of time--futures almost unimaginably distant. The Furthest Horizon collects seventeen ofthe most inventive and audacious visions of the future by many acclaimed writers, including:* Brian... (more)
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Drake Maijstral: Book 3
Rock of Ages
by Walter Jon Williams
In the sequel to The Crown Jewels, someone turns the tables on Drake Maijstral, the Human Constellation's number-one-rated Allowed Burglar, when Drake's father's coffin is stolen. Reprint. AB. LJ.
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City on Fire
by Walter Jon Williams
The provocative sequel to the critically acclaimed Metropolitan embarks on a suspenseful, mind-bending odyssey through a world rife with tyranny as a rebel group schemes to harness a radical new energy source--plasm.