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The Night Sessions<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it\u2019s a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It\u2019s been a long time since anyone saw anything like this. Terrorism is history\u2026.After the Middle East wars and the rising sea levels\u2014after Armageddon and the Flood\u2014came the Great Rejection. The first Enlightenment separated church from state. The Second Enlightenment has separated religion from politics. In this enlightened age there\u2019s no persecution, but the millions who still believe and worship are a marginal and mistrusted minority. Now someone is killing them. At first, suspicion falls on atheists more militant than the secular authorities. But when the target list expands to include the godless, it becomes evident that something very old has risen from the ashes. Old and very, very dangerous\u2026<\/p>\n \n Lance of Earth and Sky<\/span> (The Chaos Knight<\/span>, Book Two)<\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Vidarian Rulorat, a captain without a ship, faces the con\u00adsequences of opening the gate between worlds. Elemental magic is awakening across the planet after centuries of dormancy, bringing with it magically powered wonders including flying ships and ancient automata. After decades of peace, empires leap into war over long-disputed territory as their technologies shift\u2014and on top of it all, Ariadel, Vidarian\u2019s one great love, isn\u2019t speaking to him. Called into service by the desperate young emperor of Alorea, Vidarian must lead skyships in a war against the neighboring southern empire, train the demoralized imperial Sky Knights to ride beasts that now shapeshift, master his own amplified elemental magic, and win back Ariadel\u2014all without losing his mind.<\/p>\n Compounding his task is a political minefield laid by the Alorean Import Company, which may or may not be fomenting war across the world, and a shapeshifter that bonds to Vidarian during his early attempts to subdue the rogue birdlike seridi. And, as always, the Starhunter, goddess of chaos, is never far from Vidarian\u2019s heels, inexorably guiding him toward her own concern: the lance of earth and sky.<\/p>\n \n Cuttlefish<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n The smallest thing can change the path of history. Clara Calland is on the run. Hunted, along with her scientist mother, by Menshevik spies and Imperial soldiers, they flee Ireland for London. They must escape airships, treachery, and capture. Under flooded London\u2019s canals, they join the rebels who live in the dank tunnels there.<\/p>\n Tim Barnabas is one of the underpeople, born to the secret town of drowned London, place of anti-imperialist republicans and Irish rebels, part of the Liberty\u2014the people who would see a return to older values and free elections. Seeing no farther than his next meal, Tim has hired on as a submariner on the Cuttlefish, a coal-fired submarine that runs smuggled cargoes beneath the steamship patrols, to the fortress America and beyond.<\/p>\n When the Imperial soldiery comes ravening, Clara and her mother are forced to flee aboard the Cuttlefish<\/span>. Hunted like beasts, the submarine and her crew must undertake a desperate voyage across the world, from the Faeroes to the Caribbean and finally across the Pacific to find safety. But only Clara and Tim Barnabas can steer them past treachery and disaster, to freedom in Westralia. Carried with them\u2014a lost scientific secret that threatens the very heart of Imperial power.<\/p>\n Book received 5\/3\/12 Pyr edition<\/a> was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod Cover by Stephan Martiniere Promo copy: A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the … Continue reading
\nby Ken MacLeod
\nCover by Stephan Martiniere<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51WCwENv8cL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\"){kind=icon}
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\nby Erin Hoffman
\nCover by Dehong He<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51tlkMYcbgL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby Dave Freer
\nCover by Paul Young<\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe year is 1976, and the British Empire still spans the globe. Coal drives the world, and the smog of it hangs thick over the canals of London.<\/p>\n