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In a secluded monastic society of mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers, a young avout named Fraa Erasmas must confront the outside world during a rare rite, becoming the key to preventing a looming global disaster.

Inspector Tyador Borlú journeys from Besźel to Ul Qoma to investigate the murder of a woman, navigating two distinct cities that both share one physical space yet have separate identities.

In the grim, alchemical city of New Crobuzon, scientist Isaac Underwood faces a half-bird, half-human Garuda and a ravenous caterpillar that threatens the entire metropolis.

A 1980 digital scan of Thomas Pynchon's 9th printing edition of *Gravity's Rainbow*.

A crew of remade prisoners aboard a massive ship is diverted to a floating city of pirate hulls when pirates strike, forcing them to navigate a bizarre, oppressive society and uncover a deadly secret beneath the waves.

Latro, a soldier whose memories vanish at sleep, sets out across Egypt in an attempt to escape a curse that leaves him in a perpetual state of forgetfulness. Guided only by his journal, he confronts deities, dangers, and the mysteries of the Nile.

A story of historical fiction blending with alternative history, focusing on the American Civil War era and its aftermath, with a twist of the 1930s and 1940s war scenarios that are set in the North.

The Great War - Breakthroughs: A Science Fiction Novel Set in the Interwar Period Featuring Alternate History and Innovations from World War I.

A sweeping epic blending history and fantasy, following soldiers through a world where iron reshapes power in the ages that birth the Iron Age Trilogy.

Agent of Byzantium is a historical fiction novel by Harry Turtledove that blends imaginative storytelling with historical context.

In San Francisco, Mist’s ordinary life is upended when a frost giant attacks her and she encounters an elf and her boyfriend’s true identity as Loki—the trickster god. As a Valkyrie, Mist must use her powers to thwart divine schemes and protect modern Earth.

When the Soviet Union invades its tiny neighbor Finland in November 1939, Marko volunteers to help the war effort. Even though his leg was weakened by polio, he can ski well, and he becomes a messenger on the front line, skiing in white camouflage through the forests at night. The dark forest is terrifying, and so are the odds against the Finns: the Russians have 4 times as many soldiers and 30 times as many planes. They have 3000 tanks, while the Finns have 30. But a tank is no help in the snowy forest--a boy on skis is. And the Russians don't know winter the way the Finns do, or what tough guerrilla warriors the Finns are. Marko teams up with another messenger, Karl. Gradually Marko learns that Karl's whole family was killed by the Russians. And Karl has a secret--he's really Kaari, a girl who joined up to get revenge for her family's deaths.From the Hardcover edition.

Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague in 1937. A Soviet spy network's clandestine operation in the shadow of World War II espionage and intrigue.

Gameknight999 is hot on the trail of Entity303, who has kidnapped Weaver. He follows the mysterious villain into the strange mod world of Mystcraft, with green skies, trees with blue leaves, floating islands, and a blood-red moon. Entity303 makes his way to a tower made of sparkling blue crystals, where he steals a linked book from the User-that-is-not-a-user, disappearing into one of Mystcraft s many ages.