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Quofum<\/span> by Alan Dean Foster<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster\u2019s new adventure takes place in the amazing Humanx Commonwealth, home of the ever-popular Pip & Flinx. Although the dynamic redhead and his daring minidrag do not appear in Quofum, this knockout thriller sets the stage for their explosive date with destiny in the duo\u2019s final climactic adventure, Flinx Transcendent.<\/p>\n The mission to planet Quofum is supposed to be a quickie for Captain Boylan and his crew. Boylan is tasked with delivering four scientists\u2013two men, one woman, and one thranx\u2013to the unknown world, setting up camp while the experts investigate flora and fauna, then ferrying them safely home. The team encounters three intelligent, warring species\u2013some carbon-based, others silicate-based, all bizarre\u2013along with thousands of unique, often unclassifiable life-forms. Quofum\u2019s wild biodiversity doesn\u2019t appear to be natural. But if it is by design, then by whose, and for what purpose?<\/p>\n There are more revelations, more highly evolved species waiting to be identified, even tantalizing clues to a civilization light-years ahead of the Commonwealth\u2019s. But the crew members are not ready for the real shockers, because none of them expect to find a killer in their midst, or to discover that their spaceship is missing and, with it, all means of communication.<\/p>\n Of course, the marooned teammates know nothing about the Great Evil racing toward the galaxy, and they certainly have never heard of Flinx, the only person with half a chance to stop it. Nor do they know that Quofum could play a crucial role in defeating the all-devouring monster from beyond.<\/p>\n One thing the scientists do know, however, is how to ferret out the truth. But whether that will be enough to alter the course of the oncoming catastrophe is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n The Watchers Out of Time<\/span> by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Venture at your own risk into a realm where the sun sinks into oblivion\u2013and all that is unholy, unearthly, and unspeakable rises. These rare, hard-to-find collaborations of cosmic terror are back in print, including<\/p>\n \u2022 Wentworth\u2019s Day A fellow figures his debt to a dead man is null and void, until he discovers just how terrifying interest rates can be.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Shuttered Room A sophisticated gentleman must settle his grandfather\u2019s estate, only to find that the house shelters dark secrets.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Dark Brotherhood A beautiful woman and her companion meet the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, in a tale as terrifying as anything Poe himself ever created.<\/p>\n \u2022 Innsmouth Clay A sculptor returns from Paris to create a statue not entirely of this world\u2013and not at all under his control.<\/p>\n \u2022 Witches\u2019 Hollow A new schoolteacher puts his soul in peril while trying to save one of his students from a ravenous creature. <\/p>\n Going Under<\/span> by Justina Robson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Lila Black is off with the faeries . . .<\/p>\n Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals and their worlds are open to us. Things have been different for Special Agent Lila Black too: tortured and magic-scarred by elves, rebuilt by humans into a half-robot, part-AI, nuclear-fueled walking arsenal, and carrying the essence of a dead elfin necromancer in her chest, sometimes she has trouble figuring out who she is.<\/p>\n And a mission to the world of the fae may not help her work it out.<\/p>\n The fae are beautiful, glamorous, exotic, and talented. Their inventions make food taste better, make beer divine, and bring sparkle and mischief to the world but that’s only the surface. And Lila is being sent in at the deep end, to the deepest, darkest levels of Faerie: on the primal level, nothing about the fae is glamorous at all.<\/p>\n In a winter-locked, raw, and primitive world, Lila has to deal with the fae at their most basic levels, as tricksters and dealmakers and the only deals worth making are bloody ones. If Lila’s quest is to succeed, and if she is ever to escape Faerie, the right question must be asked, the right sacrifice must be made, and the right quarry must be hunted down on the winter solstice. All of which is difficult, when the only aides Lila brought to Faerie are her friends . . .<\/p>\n Justina Robson’s new series combines her trademark themes of identity and reality, magic and technology, break-neck plots, a mischievous sense of fun, and a seriously sexy new heroine.<\/p>\n More in Part Two<\/a>.<\/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. Quofum by Alan Dean Foster Promo copy: Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster\u2019s new adventure takes place in the amazing Humanx Commonwealth, home of … Continue reading
\nThe first surprise is that Quofum, which regularly slips in and out of existence on Commonwealth monitors, is actually there when Boylan and company arrive. The second surprise is more about what Quofum is not: The planet is not logical, ordered, or rational.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51bG3mKmRlL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_AA219_PIsitb-sticker-dp-arrow,TopRight,-24,-23_SH20_OU01_.jpg\")
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