NPL Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2011
Annotation:Told from multiple points of a view, a bloody battle unfolds around the ancient stones known as The Heroes in a great struggle between the King of the Union and the Protector of the North.
Annotation:Able to control the building blocks of reality with the power of her mind, Tanyana, a gifted engineer, must find out who is trying to destroy her after a horrific disaster causes her to be demoted to the lowest of the low as a debris collector.
Annotation:After losing a limb in an industrial accident, Scientist Charles Neuman sees an opportunity to mechanize his human body.
Annotation:Zinzi, accompanied by a magical Sloth that helps her find missing things, searches for a missing pop star in the ghettos of Johannesburg, while a crime lord sets out to kill anyone who tries to find her.
Annotation:Private Brownwyn Hyatt, an Iraq War veteran and member of a group of people in Appalachia who have a magical power over music, returns home from war to find she must save her family from an unknown, future death.
Annotation:In Victorian London, Eliza O’Malley, who witnessed her childhood friend kidnapped by faeries, ends up in the land of Faerie and finds more trouble than she anticipated.
Annotation:Shapeshifter Mercy Thompson learns more about her heritage when she and werewolf Adam investigate an evil presence stirring in the Columbia River. Mercedes Thompson Series #6.
Annotation:Wizard detective Harry Dresden, murdered by an unknown assassin, must save his friends and his soul without any magic to help him. Dresden Files #13.
Annotation:Pursued by the demon who cursed him, Nicodemus must try to avoid spinning the word into chaos with his unique disability, the nasty inclination to misspell magical texts.
Annotation:Immersing himself in a virtual utopia, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.
Annotation:After Captain Jim Holden discovers an abandoned spaceship, he unearths a secret that threatens to throw the entire solar system into war.
Annotation:avore Paran struggles to hold her army together in order to combat an alien force, while the gods threaten to unleash dragons. Malazan Book of the Fallen #10.
Annotation:When a CDC researcher arrives on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun Mason, the head of a news organization, is plunged into the biggest story of his life. Newsflash Trilogy #2.
Annotation:Quentin, a magician, and his old friend Julia try to find a way back into the magical land of Fillory, and only Julia's dark magic can get them back. Sequel to The Magicians.
Annotation:Atticus O'Sullivan, the last of the Druids, finds his life in Arizona shattered by the arrival of an angry Celtic god who wants Atticus's magical sword. Iron Druid Chronicles #3.
Annotation:Warrior-monk Thomas Cale engages in battle while agonizing over what he will decide when the fate of the human race is placed in his hands. Sequel to The Left Hand of God.
Annotation:Shahar, the last scion of a ruthless family must choose her loyalties and uphold the family's interests at any cost, even when the Maelstrom, feared even by gods, is summoned. The Inheritance Trilogy #3.
Annotation:After witnessing the murder of his mother and brother, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath returns to his father's castle and his birthright, but faces treachery and dark magic once he arrives. The Broken Empire #1.
Annotation:New threats emerge to endanger the future of the Seven Kingdoms, as Daenerys Targaryen fights off a multitude of enemies, and Jon Snow faces his foes both in the Night’s Watch and beyond the Wall. Song of Ice and Fire #5.
Annotation:In the distant future, aliens and humans manage to co-exist tenuously through mutually beneficial economic agreements until a new group of humans arrive, throwing everything off balance.
Annotation:In the distant future, aliens and humans manage to co-exist tenuously through mutually beneficial economic agreements until a new group of humans arrive, throwing everything off balance.
Annotation:A magical veil entrapping a condemned god and his monsters weakens, compelling hunter Than Junell and his companions to undertake a dangerous journey to protect their people.
Annotation:Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch attempts to take a vacation, but, as usual, nothing goes as planned. Discworld Series #39.
Annotation:After a mysterious woman breaks con man Jean le Flambeur free from a nightmarish prison, he must complete the heist he left unfinished as payment.
Annotation:The crew of the Chathrand race across the seas to stop the sorcerer Arunis from unleashing the Swarm of Night, while Pazel and his companions face a journey through altered realities, which offer glimpses of what might have been and the terror of what is to come.
Annotation:Kvothe continues on his quest to reclaim the honor of his family in the Fae realm and learn the truth about the death of his parents and Amyr, the Chandrian.
Annotation:Mining contractor Jack Holloway discovers an indigenous race of small, furry, sentient beings who his corporate partners are determined to eliminate in order to secure their stake in the treasure.
Annotation:When his high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.
Annotation:Estranged from her superhero parents, Celia finds her dream of a quiet life as a Commerce City accountant shattered while working on a notorious supervillain's tax-fraud trial.
Annotation:Morweena escapes a tragic childhood by reading science fiction novels and visiting with faeries, but eventually she must return to the tragedy of her youth and battle her black-magic obsessed and abusive mother.
Annotation:Turk Findley is transported 10,000 years into the future world of "the Hypotheticals," where he is directed to travel to a dying Earth and fulfill a potentially apocalyptic prophecy. Sequel to Spin.
Annotation:Two decades into the future, humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.
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