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The Devil’s Alphabet<\/span><\/a> by Daryl Gregory<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium<\/span><\/a> was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy.<\/p>\n Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease\u2013dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)\u2013vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies.<\/p>\n Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn\u2019t change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside.<\/p>\n Having fled shortly after the pandemic, Pax now returns to Switchcreek fifteen years later, following the suicide of Jo Lynn. What he finds is a town seething with secrets, among which murder may well be numbered. But there are even darker\u2013and far weirder\u2013mysteries hiding below the surface that will threaten not only Pax\u2019s future but the future of the whole human race.<\/p>\n I’ve been eagerly anticipating this novel ever since I finished Gregory’s extraordinary first book Pandemonium<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n \n Star Wars: Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth<\/span><\/a> by Karen Miller<\/span><\/p>\n The Elder Scrolls: The Infernal City<\/span><\/a> by Greg Keyes<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil. It is Umbriel, a floating city that casts a terrifying shadow\u2013for wherever it falls, people die and rise again.<\/p>\n And it is in Umbriel\u2019s shadow that a great adventure begins, and a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary prince with a secret. A spy on the trail of a vast conspiracy. A mage obsessed with his desire for revenge. And Annaig, a young girl in whose hands the fate of Tamriel may rest . . . .<\/p>\n Based on the award-winning The Elder Scrolls<\/span>, The Infernal City<\/span> is the first of two exhilarating novels following events that continue the story from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion<\/span><\/a>, named 2006 Game of the Year. <\/p>\n \nMore in Part II<\/a><\/span><\/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. The Devil’s Alphabet by Daryl Gregory Promo copy: From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51LS0OdeEzL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\")
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