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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Staff Pick Snow Crash is one of my favorites. It's an epic cyber-punk tale that contains elements that are both fantastical and very realistic. The characters are richly imagined, even the villains. It is fast paced and well embellished, containing elements of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Staff Pick Part of the thrill was the anticipation. After waiting for over a year for its publication, I grabbed 1Q84 and swallowed it whole. While it read simply and progressed slowly, it filled like a three-course meal. Being a long-term Murakami fan, I have seen... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $16.00 Used - Hardcover
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Android: Netrunner Living Card Game by Fantasy Flight Games Staff Pick A great card game for two players that emphasizes strategy and deck construction. Both players pick a different faction to play (either Runners or Corporations) and build a deck to defeat the other. Both factions play completely differently from each... (read more) Your price: $39.95 Gifts - Miscellaneous
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American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman Staff Pick Do you ever wonder where gods go when all their worshippers are gone? Neil Gaiman tries to answer that question. Some live quiet lives in the Midwest, some don't remember who they are, and others have plans. Gaiman, as always, has a unique voice and good... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Assassin's Apprentice :Farseer by Robin Hobb Staff Pick Assassin's Apprentice is a great, enjoyable reads. Assassins, intrigue, magic, and an interesting world — what's not to love? Usually I don't like coming-of-age stories, but this one is very well done and steers clear of many of the traps that fantasy... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Gardens of the Moon: Malazan Book of the Fallen #01 by Steven Erikson Staff Pick Gardens of the Moon is the first book in one of my favorite fantasy series. Unconventional in it's characters and scope, this series rocks. The world and the races in it aren't your average Tolkien-derived orcs and elves. Everyone in these books is... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Changes (Dresden Files #12) by Jim Butcher Staff Pick Jim Butcher takes risks with Changes, his 12th Harry Dresden novel. Darker than usual, it lives up to the title. The risks pay off: This is undoubtedly Butcher's best Dresden book. Harry faces his worst enemies and battles his darkest internal demons to... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman Staff Pick You've probably seen the movie, but you should definitely read the book, for it's a hilarious gem. Worth it for Goldman's asides about Morgenstern's "original text" alone.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov Staff Pick In 1965, Asimov's Foundation trilogy beat out several other science fiction and fantasy series (including The Lord of the Rings) to receive a special Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series."... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi Staff Pick I'd heard all manner of praise and complimentary comparisons for The Windup Girl, but it wasn't until I started to read the book that I began to believe, and in believing I was filled with sadness and wonder. Bacigalupi throws us into a terribly possible... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Magicians by Lev Grossman Staff Pick The Magicians is a modern-day fantasy story about a precocious though morose young man who yearns for a fantasyland like Fillory, the magical realm of his favorite childhood books. The result is a novel that is as compulsively readable as a thriller, yet... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman and Brett Helquist Staff Pick A Neil Gaiman story at any length is a treat. Odd and the Frost Giants is like the perfect finger food: brief but intensely, deliciously satisfying. If you aren't a fan of Norse mythology when you open the cover, you will be by the time you close it.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 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!... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Munchkin Deluxe by Steve Jackson Games Staff Pick Munchkin Deluxe is fun with just two players, but once you get more than that, it's outrageous! This is the game where you find out who your true friends are or who would sic an even bigger monster upon you when you're at your lowest, sharing the loot... (read more) Your price: $29.99 Gifts - Miscellaneous
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Dune by Frank Herbert Staff Pick I'm sure other Powell's employees have chosen Dune as a staff pick, and for good reason: It's a science fiction classic. It is densely written and almost prophetic in nature. The spice, and the desert wars over it, sound so very much like our current... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (P.S.) by Neil Gaiman 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.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs Staff Pick I love this series and couldn't wait for the third installment, Iron Kissed. It was well worth the wait! Mercy is a kick-ass hero who takes no prisoners and just happens to be a shape-shifting mechanic living in a world of werewolves, vampires, and other... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Passage by Justin Cronin Staff Pick Justin Cronin's The Passage is a marvel — an epic, post-apocalyptic vampire novel that's extremely well written and a great work of storytelling. Reminiscent in some ways of Stephen King's The Stand, but wholly unique in its approach, The Passage is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blade Itself: The First Law, Book One (First Law #01) by Joe Abercrombie Staff Pick I will freely admit that I love dark fantasy, and this is dark fantasy. If you're looking for a series that isn't G-rated like so may fantasy stories are, this is it. The usual fantasy character types are present, but how they play their roles is very... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Forever War by Joe Haldeman Staff Pick Dealing with time dilation, the realities of war, sexuality, and the ever-changing definition of what it means to be human, Joe Haldeman's Hugo Award-winning Forever War is not to be missed.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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