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Science Fiction & Fantasy Catalogue Pulp Fiction Booksellers • Shop 4, Level 1 (first floor) • Blocksidge & Ferguson Building Arcade • 144 Adelaide Street • Brisbane • Queensland • 4000 • Australia Postal: GPO Box 297 • Brisbane • Queensland • 4001 • Australia • Tel: 07 3236-2750 • e-mail: [email protected] www.pulpfictionbooks.com.au Includes new books by: THE ANGEL OF THE CROWS trust fund to search for him, the next time the Kernel returns… for thousands of years. But when Ryx discovers a visiting envoy ADDISON, Katherine By 2570, Earth is transformed. A mere billion people are supported attempting to break into the tower, a magical accident leaves her This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters by advanced technology on a world that is almost indistinguishable with blood on her hands. Unwittingly, Ryx has unleashed a threat Stephen Baxter you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting. In an from the natural, with recovered forests, oceans, ice caps. It is not that could engulf the whole continent. She and an unlikely collection alternate 1880s’ London, angels inhabit every public building, an age for expansion; there are only small science bases beyond of newfound allies must contain it, and the political conflicts that Trudi Canavan and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings the Earth. But this is a world you would want to live in: a Star follow, or else everything she loves will fall to darkness. The first in a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few Trek without the stars. After 500 years, the Kernel returns, and a in a new trilogy, by the author of Ron’s faves: the Swords & Fire things: Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in descendant of Stoney, who Malenfant will call Emma II, mounts a trilogy, beginning with The Tethered Mage (PBK, $22.99). Melissa Caruso both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings mission to see what became of Malenfant. She finds him still alive, Fantasy PBK $22.99 remain human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and cryo-preserved… His culture-shock encounter with a conservative Jay Kristoff murderous intent. Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London, future is entertaining… But the Kernel itself turns out to be attached DAEVABAD TRILOGY 03: THE EMPIRE OF GOLD too. But this London has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows. to a kind of wormhole, through which Malenfant and Emma II, CHAKRABORTY, S A While this is not the sequel to Addison’s The Goblin Emperor exploring further, plummet back in time, across five billion years… Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city Mercedes Lackey (TP, $26.99) we were all hoping for; we might be thankful for The first in a new series. of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected what we’ve received. ;) Science fiction PBK $22.99 commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and June 2020 Gaslamp fantasy HC $57.95 stabilise a fractious, warring people. But the death of his people Cixin Liu DEVOLUTION: A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF and loss of his beloved Nahri have unleashed the worst demons of RISE AND SHINE THE RAINIER SASQUATCH MASSACRE Dara’s dark past. To vanquish them, he must face some ugly truths Corey J White ALLINGTON, Patrick BROOKS, Max about his history and put himself at the mercy of those he once Each morning, the last humans start their day with graphic footage As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and considered enemies. Having narrowly escaped their murderous from the front. This is what sustains them – literally. In a world finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed families and Daevabad’s deadly politics, Nahri and Ali, now safe … and many others. where eight billion souls have perished, the survivors huddle unnoticed, unexamined… until now. But the journals of resident in Cairo, face difficult choices of their own. Though, Nahri is together apart, perpetually at war, in the city-states of Rise and Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture finding peace in the rhythms of her old home, she is haunted by the All the books in this catalogue Shine. Yet, this war, far from representing their doom, is their a tale too harrowing – and too earth shattering, in its implications knowledge that the loved ones she left behind and the people who are new books due for release in means of survival. For their leaders have found the key to life when – to be forgotten. Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and considered her a saviour, are at the mercy of a new tyrant. Ali, too, June 2020. crops, livestock, and the very future have been blighted – a key that resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s cannot help but look back, and is determined to return to rescue turns on each citizen being moved by human suffering. Yet, is this gaze, and inevitably, of savagery and death. Yet, it is also far more his city and the family that remains. As peace grows more elusive Because they are new books, we are at small hope, this compassion, enough to sustain them against the than that. Because if what Kate Holland saw, in those days, is and old players return, Nahri, Ali, and Dara come to understand despair born of all the friends they’ve lost, all the experiences they’ll real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that the that in order to remake the world, they may need to fight those they the whim of the publishers and, to some never know? Or must they succumb to, or even embrace, darker creature, known as Bigfoot, walks among us – and that it is a beast once loved… and take a stand, for those they once hurt. The final extent, the shipping companies – books desires? Rise and Shine is a tale that speaks to our troubled times, a of terrible strength and ferocity. chapter in the Daevabad trilogy, which starts with The City of Brass can sometimes arrive later (or earlier) Kafkaesque fable of hope from the imagination of Miles Franklin Horror TP $32.99 (PBK, $19.99). than, or occasionally be a different retail nominee Patrick Allington. Fantasy TP $29.99 Science fiction TP $27.99 MILLENNIUM’S RULE 04: MAKER’S CURSE price than originally quoted. Because CANAVAN, Trudi HOUSE OF DRAGONS 01: HOUSE OF DRAGONS space is a luxury, we bring in limited HARBINGER 02: RAGE AND RUIN Rielle is now the Maker, restorer of worlds. She has lost count CLUESS, Jessica quantities of books. Prices are subject to ARMENTROUT, Jennifer L of the number of worlds she has been sent to save. Tyen has cast Five royal houses will hear the call to compete in the Trial for the Half-angel Trinity and her bonded gargoyle protector, Zayne, have off his old identity. No longer a spy, he now attempts to teach dragon throne. A liar, a soldier, a servant, a thief, and a murderer change without notice. been working with demons to stop the apocalypse while avoiding new sorcerers and find ways to counteract the war machines that will answer it. Who will win? When the Emperor dies, the five Please reserve copies of falling in love. The Harbinger is coming… but who or what is it? are spreading throughout the worlds. But when an old enemy royal houses of Etrusia attend the Call, where one of their own will All of humankind may fall if Trinity and Zayne can’t win the race brings news of something worse than magically dead worlds and be selected, to compete for the throne. It is always the oldest child, anything you want so you against time as dark forces gather. As tensions rise, they must stay dangerous sorcerers – a threat unlike anything the worlds have faced the one who has been preparing, for years, to compete in the Trial. don’t miss out – ASAP! close together and patrol the DC streets at night, seeking signs of before – Rielle and Tyen must reunite, if they are to have any chance But this year is different. This year, these five outcasts will answer the Harbinger, an entity that is killing Wardens and demons with of saving humanity. The Millennium’s Rule series begins with the call… The Liar: Emilia must hide her dark magic or be put to If a book has sold out by the time we no seeming rhyme or reason. Forbidden to be with each other, Thief’s Magic (PBK, $19.99). death. The Soldier: Lucian is a warrior, who has sworn to never lift receive your order, we will back-order and Zayne and Trinity fight their feelings and turn to unusual sources Fantasy TP $32.99 a sword again. The Servant: Vespir is a dragon trainer, whose skills supply, when available. for help – the demon Roth and his cohorts. But as deaths pile up alone will keep her in the game. The Thief: Ajax knows that nothing and they uncover a sinister plot involving the local high school ONCE AND FUTURE is free – he must take what he wants. The Murderer: Hyperia was Pulp Fiction has access to thousands and endangering someone dear to Zayne, Trin realises she is being CAPETTA, Amy Rose & MCCARTHY, Cori born to rule and will stop at nothing, to take her throne. The first in Ari Helix has been an illegal immigrant in the galaxies for as of books not shown in our monthly led… herded… played for some unknown end.