![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51mAdhZW2UL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
<\/p>\nLet\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Body, Inc.<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n New York Times<\/span> bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has always been on the cutting-edge of science fiction. In Body, Inc.<\/span>, he creates a tomorrow where genetic manipulation has become ubiquitous, and the very meaning of what it is to be human is undergoing drastic transformation.<\/p>\n In a world deeply wounded by centuries of environmental damage, two unlikely souls join forces: Dr. Ingrid Seastrom has stumbled into a mystery involving quantum-entangled nanoscale implants\u2014a mystery that just may kill her. Whispr is a thief and murderer whose radical body modifications have left him so thin he is all but two-dimensional. Whispr has found a silver data-storage thread, a technology that will make him wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. He is also going mad with longing for Dr. Ingrid Seastrom. Their quest to learn the secrets of the implant and the thread\u2014which may well be the same secret\u2014has led them to the South African Economic Combine, otherwise known as SAEC. Or, less respectfully, SICK. SICK, it seems, has the answers.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, SICK has also got Napun Mol\u00e9, a cold-blooded assassin whose genetic enhancements make him the equivalent of a small army. Mol\u00e9 has already missed one chance to kill Ingrid and Whispr and now he has followed them to South Africa. This time, he is not only going to succeed, he is going to make them suffer.<\/p>\n RevSF contributing editor Alan J. Porter interviewed Foster<\/a> about The Human Blend<\/span><\/a>, the first volume of The Tipping Point Series.<\/span><\/p>\n \n Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n There can be no surrender. In the stunning finale of the epic Fate of the Jedi series, Jedi and Sith face off\u2014with Coruscant as their battlefield. For the Sith, it\u2019s the chance to restore their dominance over the galaxy that forgot them for so long. For Abeloth, it\u2019s a giant step in her quest to conquer all life everywhere. For Luke Skywalker, it\u2019s a call to arms to eradicate the Sith and their monstrous new master once and for all.<\/p>\n In a planetwide strike, teams of Jedi Knights take the Sith infiltrators by swift and lethal surprise. But victory against the cunning and savage Abeloth, and the terrifying endgame she has planned, is anything but certain. And as Luke, Ben, Han, Leia, Jaina, Jag, and their allies close in, the devastating truth about the dark side incarnate will be exposed\u2014and send shock waves through the Jedi Order, the galaxy, and the Force itself.<\/p>\n \n Angels of Vengeance<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n When an inexplicable wave of energy slammed into North America, millions died. In the rest of the world, wars erupted, borders vanished, and the powerful lost their grip on power. Against this backdrop, with a conflicted U.S. president struggling to make momentous decisions in Seattle and a madman fomenting rebellion in Texas, three women are fighting their own battles\u2014for survival, justice, and revenge.<\/p>\n Special agent Caitlin Monroe moves stealthily through a South American jungle. Her target: a former French official now held prisoner by a ruthless despot. To free the prisoner, Caitlin will kill anyone who gets in her way. And then she will get the truth about how a master terrorist escaped a secret detention center in French Guadeloupe to strike a fatal blow in New York City.<\/p>\n Sofia Peiraro is a teenage girl who witnessed firsthand the murder and mayhem of Texas under the rule of General Mad Jack Blackstone. Sofia might have tried to build a life with her father in the struggling remnants of Kansas City\u2014if a vicious murder hadn\u2019t set her on another course altogether: back to Texas, even to Blackstone himself.<\/p>\n Julianne Balwyn is a British-born aristocrat turned smuggler. Shopping in the most fashionable neighborhood of Darwin, Australia\u2014now a fantastic neo-urban frontier\u2014Jules has a pistol holstered in the small of her lovely back. She is playing the most dangerous game of all: waiting for the person who is hunting her to show his face\u2014so she can kill him first.<\/p>\n Three women in three corners of a world plunged into electrifying chaos. Nation-states struggling for their survival. Immigrants struggling for new lives. John Birmingham\u2019s astounding new novel\u2014the conclusion to the series begun in Without Warning<\/span><\/a> and After America<\/span><\/a>\u2014is an intense adventure that races from the halls of power to shattered streets to gleaming new cities, as humanity struggles to grasp its better angels\u2014and purge its worst demons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. Body, Inc. by Alan Dean Foster Promo copy: New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has always been on the cutting-edge of science fiction. In Body, … Continue reading
\nby Alan Dean Foster<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/5189%2BdyfRrL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
\nby Troy Denning<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nThere will be no mercy.
\nIt\u2019s not just the future of the galaxy at stake\u2014
\nIt\u2019s the destiny of the Force.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/516AiiuO1%2BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
\nby John Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n