Dan Simmons
2) Hardcase
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ex-con Joe Kurtz is hired by a Buffalo mob boss to find a missing accountant.
3) Black Hills
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Ceremoniously attending the battlefield death of General George Armstrong Custer at Little Bighorn, a young Sioux warrior invokes the general's spirit, who haunts the Native American with visions of the pasts and futures of legendary historical figures.
4) Hard freeze
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A Reason to Kill... Joe Kurtz, former investigator and convicted felon, is on parole. But his years in Attica for snuffing the mob killers of his beautiful partner didn't make his old haunts any safer. Back on the streets, he's already marked by a local Mafia don with unfinished business. A Reason to Live... If watching his back wasn't enough, Kurtz has been hired by gravely ill John Frears whose daughter met a grisly fate at the hands of a child-murderer....
Author
Series
Hyperion volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, the far future is resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever be the same.
7) Endymion
Author
Series
Hyperion volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion--to tell a story of love and memory, triumph and terror in a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.
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Series
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English
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Description
The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the...
10) The hollow man
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own. For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge. But Gail is dying, her mind ebbing slowly away, leaving him vulnerable to the chaotic flood of thought that threatens to sweep away his sanity. Now Jeremy is on the run--from...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
America, 2036. Powerful magnate Hiroshi Nakamura needs ex-cop Nick Bottom's services, and his memories. As head of the original investigation into the murder of Nakamura's son, Bottom's flashbacks hold the key to solving what was the toughest case of his career.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix guide, and an idealistic young American -- find a way to take their shot at the top. They arrange funding from the grieving Lady Bromley, whose...
13) Drood: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale inspired by the mysterious final years of Charles Dickens finds the fifty-three-year-old literary master irrevocably changed when a train journey with his mistress ends in violence.
14) Summer of night
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1991.
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds that a lifetime of changes will never erase. But then a dark cloud threatens the bright promise of summer vacation: on the last day of school, their classmate Tubby Cooke vanishes. Soon, the group discovers stories of other children who once disappeared from Elm Haven. And there are other strange things happening in town: unexplained holes in the ground,...
15) Olympos
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Achilles and Hector lay seige to the home of the gods, inadvertently triggering a massive conflict between humanity and such powerful beings as Setebos, Prospero, and Caliban.
16) Fires of Eden
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
Billionaire Byron Trumbo wants to sell his posh Hawaiian resort to a Japanese investor but must make it appear prosperous while the deal is being struck. Due to the high prices, guests have been scarce. Unfortunately, they are becoming even scarcer as someone or something is kidnapping and murdering them. Drawn by the sketchy news accounts, Eleanor Perry has come to Mauna Pele on a sort of pilgrimage, using her aunt Kidder's 1866 travel diary as a...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly...
19) Song of Kali
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Robert Luczak, sent to Calcutta to interview the mysterious poet, M. Das, who has been missing for ten years, discovers that the missing man is mixed up in the death-worshiping cult of of Kali.
20) Ilium
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
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Description
On Mars, a group of metahumans living out their existence as the Greek Gods have recreated the Trojan war for their amusement, and Thomas Hockenberry, a former 21st century professor and Iliad scholar is returned from the dead to report on the battle's historical accuracy. Meanwhile, 4 sentient machines from Jupitar's lunar system embark on a mission to Mars to investigate, and perhaps terminate, the unexplained and dangerous quantum-flux emanating...