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Finch
By: Jeff VanderMeer

In the occupied and oppressed city-state of Ambergris, the detective John Finch must solve a sensitive double-murder for his inhuman masters, the Grey Caps.  Nothing is as it seems as he negotiates his way through the landscape of spies, rebels, and deception.  The fate of the city is in the balance, with Finch caught squarely in the middle.

A blunt sharp shock to the system, VanderMeer's latest takes noir mystery, adds surreal fantasy, and comes up with a startling new hybrid.

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Last Days
By: Brian Evenson

Last Days was frst published in 2003 as a limited-edition novella titled The Brotherhood of Mutilation. Its success led Evenson to expand the story into a full-length novel. In doing so, he has created a work that's disturbing, deeply satisfying, and completely original.

This book is available as Trade Paperback and as Limited Edition.

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Last Days Limited Edition
By: Brian Evenson

This is the limited edition of Brian Evenson's remarkable book Last Days. Underland Press produced only seventy-five finished copies of the limited edition: twenty-seven lettered and forty-eight numbered. In addition to the lettered and numbered copies, there are five printer proofs. Once they're gone, they're gone.

The limited edition package consists of the offset-printed text hand-bound into a foil-stamped hardcover, with a letterpress-printed jacket. Brian Evenson wrote longhand sentences from the book on each jacket, making each one unique. It's quite beautiful. 

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Real Unreal: The Best American Fantasy 3
By: Kevin Brockmeier

A city in a bottle. Kings. Genies. Jane Austen and Frankenstein. Grandmothers at sea… The acclaimed Best American Fantasy series continues with twenty stories chosen by bestselling writer Kevin Brockmeier, author of A Brief HIstory of the Dead and The Truth About Celia.

With stories by Stephen King, Peter S. Beagle, Laura Kasischke, Jeffrey Ford, and Lisa Goldstein alongside tales by Kellie Wells, Thomas Glave, Ryan Boudinot, Rebecca Makkai, Will Clarke, Martin Cozza, Chris Gavaler, John Kessel, Deborah Scwartz, Paul Tremblay, Shawn Vestal, and Katie Williams, Best American Fantasy 3 promises a richly diverse experience of contemporary fiction.

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The Pilo Family Circus
By: Will Elliott

"Audition or die." Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ultimatum plunges Jamie into the horrible alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between hell and earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have originated. Yet, in this place-peopled by the gruesome, grotesque, and monstrous-where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself. When he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. And JJ wants Jamie dead . . .

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Exit Vector
By: Simon Drax

Mori Kim Marr’s personal force-field of drugs and drink has worn thin: she’s a burned-out teenager in a burned-out world, an Earth wracked by wars and rumors of wars, plagues and disasters, the hopelessness of every human heart. when an artificial woman from the 19th century and a boy with psionic powers wander into the smoke and squalor of Mori’s favorite watering hole, gore-drenched violence and city-wide destruction erupts, catapulting Mori and her new-found “friends” into the thick of a battle that began long ago, a war that has raged since before the dawn of civilization, a blood-feud fought and overseen by the sole-survivor of an ancient, pre-human race: Trista Ska Shearn, last of the Cantarans. Trista has been waiting 65,000 thousand years for this, the final battle; she has waited millennia for the glum, sallow teenager, Mori Kim Marr. For Mori is . . . the Exit Vector.

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Chaos
By: Escober

When British soldier Alex Fisher returns home from his tour in Bosnia, he's plagued by blackouts, recurring nightmares, and uncontrollable acts of violence. Escaping to Mexico, Fisher sets off on a globetrotting tour in an attempt to distance himself from the demons in his head. A chance meeting with a mysterious woman named Angela introduces Fisher to a far more passionate-and far more dangerous-life. After a series of life-threatening encounters, Fisher begins to wonder just who Angela really is-or even if she's real at all. With his grip on reality slipping, Fisher's demons return in full force, awakening a flood of suppressed memories. As he attempts to sort through his complicated and half-remembered past, Fisher discovers that the truth is harder to accept than the lies. The first of four books by a popular Dutch writing duo, this tense, psychologically acute thriller marks their American debut.

This book is on advance order. It will ship in May.

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FirstWorld
By: Jemiah Jefferson

March 2036. The world has been divided, not by geography, but by standard of living and technological status. Some have nothing but their ideologies; some their addictions, their cunning, their desperation. The luckiest, safest, healthiest live in the  first world–all of them employees of FirstWorld Corporation. A global communications network, a consortium of manufacturers and energy suppliers, a system of belief: this is FirstWorld. They are your doctors, your teachers, your bankers, your technicians. They are everywhere and they are you.

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The Living
By: Kealan Patrick Burke

Months after the Marseilles Plague ravished the planet, Madison McKay must escape from the city to the safety of Salus Island, the last sanctuary for those of her kind. Madison is a Reborn, one of the lucky few who traveled through death to the other side. Outside the walls of the farmhouse in which she is hiding with a ragtag group of allies, a desperate enemy awaits-a horde of murderous, bloodthirsty humans known as the Living. They are the uninfected, doomed to live life as it used to be before the plague. And they need Madison, and the secret she is carrying, in order to survive. With the help of her fellow Reborn, Madison tries to escape the farmhouse and make it to Salus Island. Will they make it out alive? In this groundbreaking, online wovel, the reader decides.

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