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Science Fiction and Fantasy


2008 Holiday Catalog

Science Fiction and Fantasy

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New Arrivals

  1. The New Annotated Dracula
    $39.95 Hardcover add to wishlist

    The New Annotated Dracula

    Bram Stoker and Leslie S. Klinger
  2. Nation
    $16.99 Hardcover add to wishlist

    Nation

    Terry Pratchett
  3. Fast Ships, Black Sails
    $14.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist

    Fast Ships, Black Sails

    Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer
  4. Just After Sunset: Stories
    $22.00 Hardcover add to wishlist
  5. Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
    $24.95 Hardcover add to wishlist

    Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

    Charlaine (edt) Harris
  6. The Children of Hurin
    $10.46 Trade Paper add to wishlist

    The Children of Hurin

    J. R. R. Tolkien
  7. Ender in Exile (Ender)
    $25.95 Hardcover add to wishlist
  8. The Illustrated Wee Free Men: A Story of Discworld
    $17.50 Hardcover add to wishlist
  9. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story
    $19.99 Hardcover add to wishlist
  10. Dragonheart (Dragonriders of Pern)
    $19.50 Hardcover add to wishlist
  11. All the Windwracked Stars (Sci Fi Essential Books)
    $24.95 Hardcover add to wishlist
  12. Cast in Fury (Elantra)
    $14.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist

    Cast in Fury (Elantra)

    Michelle Sagara
  13. Collegium Chronicles #01: Foundation
    $25.95 Hardcover add to wishlist
  14. Destiny Kills
    $6.99 Mass Market add to wishlist

    Destiny Kills

    Keri Arthur
  15. Midnight's Daughter
    $4.95 Mass Market add to wishlist

    Midnight's Daughter

    Karen Chance
  16. Thirteen Orphans
    $24.95 Hardcover add to wishlist

    Thirteen Orphans

    Jane Lindskold


Featured Titles

The Road (Oprah's Book Club Selection #57)
by Cormac McCarthy
Powells.com Staff Pick
Strike-me-dead beautiful and bleak — this is the book I put into every customer's hands. Absolutely the best thing out of 2006, and perhaps many years preceding, The Road reminds me of McCarthy's early novels, only matured to perfection. Recommended... (read more)
List Price $14.95
Your Price $8.00
Used - Trade Paper

Science Fiction Book Group

Tuesday, November 11
Little Fuzzy Little Fuzzy
by H. Beam Piper
This classic novel — a nominee for the Hugo Award in 1963 — is the first book of Pipers series about the discovery of another sentient race, the Fuzzies, and the one man who fights to prove them mankind's equal.
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Dark is Rising December 9, 2008
Dark is Rising
by Susan Cooper
Pride of Chanur: The Chanur Novels, Book 1 January 13, 2009
Pride of Chanur: The Chanur Novels, Book 1
by C.J. Cherryh
The Princess Bride February 10, 2009
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman

Sale Books

Space Trilogy #03: That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups Space Trilogy #03: That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups
by C S Lewis
Publisher Comments
The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet... (read more)
List Price $14.95
Your Price $7.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

Used Books

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (P.S.) Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (P.S.)
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick
Fantasy author Gaiman is at his best in this short story collection, which contains an embarrassing riches of storytelling that is at times dark, funny, terrifying, beautiful, and always brilliant. Recommended by Bolton, Powells.com... (read more)
Your Price $10.50
(Used - Trade Paper)

General

The Sci-fi Dollar Mystery Book The Sci-fi Dollar Mystery Book
by Team Geeky @ Powell's Books

From Powells.com
Just can't get enough sci-fi? Have a deep affection for the forgotten, out-of-print sci-fi gems of yesteryear? Unafraid to try your luck? Have a dollar that's just burning a hole in your pocket? Then the sci-fi team at our Hawthorne store has just the book for you — and it's only a dollar! Order the Sci-Fi Dollar Mystery Book today and they'll pull one of the many outstanding $1 sci-fi books they've lovingly collected and placed on their special shelf. One of them has your name on it! ...(read more)
 
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A to Z

The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick
Neil Gaiman has once again created a world filled with both dark humor and adventure. Nobody Owens, orphaned as an infant, is raised by the ghosts, ghouls, and werewolves of a graveyard. Exciting and oddly touching! Recommended by Rachael, Powells.com... (read more)
Your Price $17.99
New - Hardcover

Fantasy

A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years (The Wicked Years #03)
by Gregory Maguire
Powells.com Staff Pick
A worthy next chapter in the Wicked saga, A Lion among Men is a reflective, enlightening look at Maguire's Oz from an Animal's perspective. Recommended by Tessa, Powells.com... (read more)
List Price $26.95
Your Price $17.95
Used - Hardcover

Classics

Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
Publisher Comments
Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has... (read more)
List Price $13.95
Your Price $8.00
Used - Trade Paper

Fantasy-Contemporary

Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries)
by Charlaine Harris
Publisher Comments
Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her "disability" to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's the type of guy she's waited for... (read more)
Your Price $4.95
Used - Mass Market

Fantasy-Epic

Dead Until Dark
by Charlaine Harris
Publisher Comments
For years, Charlaine Harris has delighted fans with her mystery series featuring small-town waitress-turned-paranormal sleuth Sookie Stackhouse. Now, we are pleased to offer her first novel in the series in a special hardcover edition. And with HBO... (read more)
Your Price $7.99
New - Mass Market

Criticism

The Zombie Survival Guide
by Max Brooks
Publisher Comments
Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, "The Zombie Survival Guide"is one's key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking thestreets right now.... (read more)
List Price $13.95
Your Price $9.50
Used - Trade Paper

Fantasy-Historical

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
Powells.com Staff Pick
I know you shouldn't recommend books that you are only halfway through, but this is such a lush tapestry of a book I can't resist. Like a moist rich chocolate torte, Strange and Norrell is the sort of book you ration out to avoid finishing it too soon... (read more)
Your Price $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

High Tech

Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson
Publisher Comments
With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.... (read more)
Your Price $5.95
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Bestsellers

Friday November 21, 2008
The Road (Oprah's Book Club Selection #57)
  1. The Road (Oprah's Book Club Selection #57)
    by Cormac McCarthy
  2. The Graveyard Book
    by Neil Gaiman
  3. A Lion Among Men
    by Gregory Maguire
  4. The Children of Hurin
    by J. R. R. Tolkien
  5. Anathem
    by Neal Stephenson
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