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Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded<\/span><\/a> Edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Blending the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with modern scientific advances, the popular Steampunk genre spotlighted in this collection is innovative and stimulates the imagination. This artfully assembled anthology of original fiction, nonfiction, and art can serve as an introduction to the Steampunk culture or provide dedicated fans with more fuel. Stories of outlandishly imaginative technologies, clockwork contraptions, eccentric heroines, and mad scientists are complemented by canon-defining nonfiction and an array of original illustrations. This collection showcases the most sensational Steampunk talents of the last decade, including Daniel Abraham, John Coulthart, William Gibson, and Margo Lanagan, and demonstrates exactly why the future of the past is so excitingly new.<\/p>\n \n Solitary Man<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Ben (Michael Douglas) once ruled a car-dealership empire vast enough to fuel a glossy Manhattan lifestyle and endow a library at an East Coast university. But by the time he arrives at the college with his girlfriend\u2019s daughter, Allyson (Imogen Poots), who is a prospective student, his world has collapsed around his ears. A business scandal has cost him his income and his marriage to Nancy (Susan Sarandon). His ever-present lust for every passing attractive woman threatens to take what little Ben has left. Even his new relationship with Jordan (Mary-Louise Parker) oscillates with tension. When Ben takes Allyson to tour the school, his motives are more than mixed.<\/p>\n \n Bare Throat, Naked Hunger<\/span><\/a> by Paige E. Roberts<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Slender hands with deceptive strength embrace you in the shadows. You glimpse a flash of sharp fang between full sensuous lips. You offer the tender vulnerable flesh of your throat. A caress of hot breath sends tingles up your spine and gooseflesh flowing down your arms. And then she tastes you, and your strength dissolves in the heat of the need to sink your own body into hers. The erotic lure of the vampire’s deadly kiss brings many a strong man to his knees. Kneel at the feet of a deadly beauty and know true ecstasy before the darkness claims you.<\/p>\n \n How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe<\/span><\/a> by Charles Yu<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space\u2013time. <\/p>\n Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That\u2019s where Charles Yu, time travel technician\u2014part counselor, part gadget repair man\u2014steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he\u2019s not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It\u2019s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he\u2019s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him\u2014in fact it may even save his life. <\/p>\n Wildly new and adventurous, Yu\u2019s debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space\u2013time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded Edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer Promo copy: Blending the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with modern scientific … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51bmsJSmMZL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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