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ARCs Ahoy!
We just got in a boatload of ARCs (Advanced Reading Copies) from the American Booksellers Association. Most of these books won’t be out until January or even March 2016. I don’t have time to read them all (though there are … Continue reading
Book Review: Supersymmetry
SUPERSYMMETRY by David Walton, 290 pp., $9.99, pub date Sept. 1, 2015 Following on its prequel, Superposition, this starts 15 years later with some of the original characters, including the family affected by the varcolac in Superposition. The varcolac is … Continue reading
A review: the new Margaret Atwood
THE HEART GOES LAST, by Margaret Atwood (pub date Sept 29, 2015) As noted in the flap copy for this title, the basic premise for this latest dystopian novel from Atwood revolves around a society that’s undergone some sort of … Continue reading
The Fire Children by Lauren M. Roy
THE FIRE CHILDREN by Lauren M. Roy (Rebellion, $9.99, pub date June 30, 2015) https://www.netgalley.com/re/1791244?r=f This quest-type YA pulled me in from the start with the unusual setting of a society that must retreat underground to historical tunnels beneath their … Continue reading
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Superposition: a book review
Another review for you: A book that will soon be in the store (next week!): SUPERPOSITION by Dave Walton (Pyr, trade paperback, $17.00) A cross between a whodunit and some of the best quantum physics SF I’ve ever read, this … Continue reading
The Galaxy Game, by Karen Lord
I just reviewed this on Netgalley, as I read this in ARC (advanced reading copy) form before it was published, but it’s out now, and we have it in the store. I can’t recommend it highly enough: it blew me … Continue reading
And yet more books! Fiction & nonfiction, just in time for the holidays…
Now to the fiction & nonfiction we just received that have me particularly delighted! THE ART OF ASKING by Amanda Palmer. Bestselling author, musician, performance artist—and TED talker. Amanda Palmer asked her base online followers to help fund an independently … Continue reading
New YA and science fiction books!
MORE BOOKS, this time our YOUNG ADULT & SCIENCE FICTION acquisitions that just came in. STEELHEART, by Brandon Sanderson (trade paperback) From the jacket: “Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men … Continue reading
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New children’s books!
NEW BOOKS AT STAR CAT BOOKS! I’m so excited about some of these new books we just got in in time for you to snap them up for Christmas. We have limited copies right now, so get in here while … Continue reading
Engines of War, by George Mann
Just finished reading Engines of War, the new Doctor Who novel that’s being released on Sept 9, 2014. This is apparently going to be the one and only “War Doctor” novel, and while it has some overblown scenes and descriptions … Continue reading
