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the only priest of a god that even hedoesn’t believe is around any more.After a particularly dangerous butlucrative tomb robbing adventure, theywant to take it easy for a while, but areforced by an angry wizard to join aneven more dangerous tomb robbingexpedition. Lots of rollicking fun.Sandman Slim by RichardKadrey ($7.99, signed copies available)came out in 2009, and is constantly onour recommended fantasy shelf. JamesStark was a troubled teen growing up inL.A., who fell in with a bad group ofteens, all of whom could work magic.James was the strongest magic user, sothe others ganged up on him and senthim to hell. After eleven years as agladiator in hell, he escapes back toL.A., and he’s looking for paybackagainst the others. What follows is fastpaced, profanity-laden violence, withlots of humor.Next came Kill the Dead($22.95 signed hc still available, or$12.99 trade pb), then Aloha From Hell($12.99), and Devil Said Bang ($12.99).Each was fun, but each was a little lessfun than the one before it. Kill CityBlues ($24.99) just came out, and it’sthe best since the first.Stark (aka Sandman Slim) hasmisplaced the Qomrama Om Ya, aweapon from the banished older gods,who are trying to come back into ouruniverse (which would be a Very BadThing). Supposedly, a dead man in KillCity (an abandoned multi-story shoppingmall in L.A. that’s been taken over by allkinds supernatural forces that youwouldn’t want to encounter) hasinformation that Stark needs, so he leadsa team into the Kill City maze.Abaddon’s Gate ($17.00) byJames S. A. Corey is the third in theexcellent space opera series that beganwith Leviathan Wakes ($15.99) andcontinued with Caliban's War ($15.99),and should only be read after reading thefirst two volumes.The alien artifact that orbitedSaturn for two billion years has noweaten much of Venus and then set up agate on the edge of the solar system.Mutually suspicious fleets from Earth,Mars, and the Asteroid Belt go toexplore the gate, but one of the humanshas a plot to frame and destroy JimHolden, captain of the Rocinante, which................................................................ $26.95Barron, Laird The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All (Interlinking tales of cosmic horror bythe award-winning author)........................................... $26.99Bein, Steve Daughter of the Sword (Fated Blades #1: Tokyo cop Mariko Oshiro investigates theattempted theft of an old samurai sword, forged by a swordsmith whose blades may havemagical qualities. She is only the latest in a long line of warriors to confront this power, andit threatens to turn against her even as she learns to wield the sword). . . . . . . . . . $7.99Bennett, Christopher L. Only Superhuman (2107: Genetically engineered superheroes, inspired by classicEarth comic books, fight to keep the peace in the wild and woolly space habitats of theAsteroid Belt)...................................................... $7.99Black, Holly The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (YA; In the walled Coldtowns, quarantined monstersand humans mingle in a bloody mix of predator and prey - and if you enter the gates, youcan never leave. After an ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The onlyother survivors of this massacre are her ex-boyfriend, already infected and on the edge, anda mysterious boy with a terrible secret. Tana's race to save the three of them takes herstraight to the wicked heart of Coldtown).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19.00Block, Francesca Lia Love in the Time of Global Warning (YA; 17-year-old Pen has lost her homeand family. Now she must navigate a dark world full of strange creatures, and face hermortal enemy). ................................................... $16.99Bond, Gwenda The Woken Gods (PBO; YA; In a Washington, DC, dominated by embassies of divinepantheons, 17-year-old Kyra's father has disappeared with a dangerous Egyptian relic. TheSociety of the Sun isn't interested in Kyra's protests that she knows nothing about it - theywant her to get it back). ............................................. $9.99Bujold, Lois McMaster Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan #14: Hugo Award finalist. Ivan isenjoying his life on Komarr, far from the Byzantine court politics of his home system. Butwhen an old friend in Barrayaran intelligence asks him to protect an attractive youngwoman who may be on a criminal syndicate's hit list, danger and adventure once again findCaptain Vorpatril).................................................. $15.00Butcher, Jim Cold Days (Dresden Files #14: Harry realizes that maybe death wasn't all that bad.Because he is now Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. Andher word is his command, no matter what she wants him to do, no matter where she wantshim to go - and no matter who she wants him to kill). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9.99Card, Orson Scott Ruins (Serpent World #2: A destructive force with deadly intentions is hurtling towardGarden. If Rigg, Umbo, and Param can't work together to alter the past, there will be nofuture). ......................................................... $11.99Card/Yost/Perry Ender's Game graphic novel (Full color graphic novel; collects 10 issues of thecomic book adaptation of the sf novel).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24.99Connor, Ellen Daybreak (Dark Age Dawning #3: Pen is one of the few still practicing magic for thegood of humanity. She's determined to bring down the O'Malley crime ring, and skinwalkerTru is the best man to help her do it. Fighting alongside the last holdouts of humanity, theyunleash a passion that tempts them to risk everything for love). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7.99Cooper, Susan Seaward (Reissue; Kids; West and Cally, who speak different languages and come fromdifferent countries, find themselves wrenched into a strange and perilous world where theymust travel together on a quest for the sea).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6.99Crockett, S.D. After the Snow (YA; Enter the new Ice Age. Ice and snow are all Willo has ever known.His survival skills are put to the test when he arrives home one day and finds his familygone. Were they taken by the government, or by scavengers? His search for refuge and hisfamily takes him into the city he's always avoided, with a girl who needs his help more thanhe knows)......................................................... $9.99Dark, Juliet The Angel Stone (Fairwick #3: PBO; The door to Faerie has been closed by the cabalof witches; many of Callie's magical friends have been banished. And a new administrationhas begun its reign of terror at Fairwick College. Callie is determined to save her friends, aquest that takes her to 17th-century Scotland, where she encounters a sexy ancestor of herlost love)......................................................... $15.00Datlow, Ellen (ed) The Best Horror of the Year Volume 5 (Anthology; some of the best stories of2012). .......................................................... $15.99Di Filippo, Paul WikiWorld (Collection; his best and most recent short fiction). . . . . . . . . . . . $16.95Doctorow, Cory Pirate Cinema (YA; In dystopian near-future Britain, artists and activists are tryingto fight a new bill that will criminalize harmless internet creativity, making felons ofmillions of British citizens. Parliament is in thrall to a few wealthy media conglomerates,