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9781439198483 | Pocket Books, September 25, 2012, cover price $7.99

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9781781163153 | Titan Books, September 18, 2012, cover price $7.99

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9780765367358 | Tor Books, June 26, 2012, cover price $7.99

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Product Description: In a near-future dystopia, a limited nuclear strike has destroyed portions of Europe, bringing the remaining nation-cities under control of the Second Alliance, a frighteningly fundamentalist international security corporation with designs on world domination...read more
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9781607013303 | Prime Books, April 4, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In a near-future dystopia, a limited nuclear strike has destroyed portions of Europe, bringing the remaining nation-cities under control of the Second Alliance, a frighteningly fundamentalist international security corporation with designs on world domination.

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Product Description: Twenty-year-old Russ arrives in the northern California town of Freedom to visit his dad. Freedom has peculiarities other than its odd name: the local mayor''s ideas of "decentralization" have left it without normal connections to state or federal government and minimal public services...read more
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9781607012924 | Prime Books, January 4, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Twenty-year-old Russ arrives in the northern California town of Freedom to visit his dad.

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Product Description: WHAT KIND OF MAN MAKES A LIVING IN HELL? His name’s Roland. Soldier class, a former mercenary, he’s on a full-time mission to scrape a living out of the most dangerous planet in the galaxy. Is he qualified? He’s well armed, he’s ruthless, and he’s tougher than skag hide...read more
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9781439198476, titled "The Fallen: The Fallen" | Simon & Schuster, November 22, 2011, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: WHAT KIND OF MAN MAKES A LIVING IN HELL?

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In this collection of darkly funny, disquieting stories, John Shirley brings his substantial talent to bear on human morality through the absurd, violent blunderings of his characters. In Extremis features more than twenty of Shirley’s most intense stories, including two never-before-published pieces that are sure to roil even the most hardened readers.
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9780982663981 | Pgw, August 9, 2011, cover price $45.00

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9780982663943 | Pgw, August 1, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In this collection of darkly funny, disquieting stories, John Shirley brings his substantial talent to bear on human morality through the absurd, violent blunderings of his characters.

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Product Description: Your favorite award-winning, critically acclaimed, and best-selling authors unite to tell stories set in the Dungeons & Dragons world, filled with desperate dragons and cruel elves, honorable demons and fickle gods, wild magic and the sharpest of steel...read more
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9780786958375, titled "Untold Adventures: A Dungeons & Dragons Anthology" | Wizards of the Coast, June 7, 2011, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Your favorite award-winning, critically acclaimed, and best-selling authors unite to tell stories set in the Dungeons & Dragons world, filled with desperate dragons and cruel elves, honorable demons and fickle gods, wild magic and the sharpest of steel.

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Product Description: "WETBONES, the acclaimed and viscerally powerful work by John Shirley, is being released for the first time in a new, improved form. *Fully revised and updated edition. *First fully-author-approved text ever released. *INCLUDES a Brand-New companion story...read more
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9781617562020 | Gardners Books, August 31, 2010, cover price $21.90 | About this edition: "WETBONES, the acclaimed and viscerally powerful work by John Shirley, is being released for the first time in a new, improved form.

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9781151619884 | Textstream, May 5, 2010, cover price $14.35

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Product Description: It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business has many watching their backs...read more
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9780765324849, titled "Rapture" | Tor Books, July 19, 2011, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: It's the end of World War II.

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9780765324856, titled "Rapture" | Tor Books, July 19, 2011, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: It's the end of World War II.

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Product Description: Already optioned for feature film, an original dark and gritty urban fantasy novel from acclaimed and award-winning author John Shirley! In near-future New York City, bounty hunter Gabriel Bleak, a man blessed and cursed with the ability to communicate with the dead, is relentlessly hunted by a clandestine government organization with mysterious links to his past...read more
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9781416584124 | Pocket Books, August 18, 2009, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Already optioned for feature film, an original dark and gritty urban fantasy novel from acclaimed and award-winning author John Shirley!

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9781416584261 | Pocket Books, August 18, 2009, cover price $11.99

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Product Description: Who better than Batman to protect the dangerous city of Gotham, where even the cops are crooks? But the latest imminent terror might be too much for the burgeoning CAPED CRUSADER, who is still carving out a place for himself in the minds of Gotham's criminals...read more
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9780345479440 | Del Rey, July 25, 2006, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The Dark Knight takes on his ultimate enemy, a psychotic mastermind called White Eyes, who plans to use a host of deadly new weapons, along with his allies, Gotham's racist Bavarian Brotherhood, to pursue his goal of the white supremacist takeover of America.

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9781599505992 | Graphic Audio, July 1, 2009, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Who better than Batman to protect the dangerous city of Gotham, where even the cops are crooks?

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9781435223011 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, January 11, 2008), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Who better than Batman to protect the dangerous city of Gotham, where even the cops are crooks?

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Product Description: Taking the fall for his younger brother, Richard Candle went from being a cyber cop to a condemned criminal. After four years of "UnMinding"—with his mind suppressed and his body enslaved—he's released to discover his brother has slipped back into the underworld of the V-Rat: the virtual reality addict...read more
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9781934501078 | Elder Signs Pr, November 1, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Taking the fall for his younger brother, Richard Candle went from being a cyber cop to a condemned criminal.

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Product Description: Someone on Earth knew about the aliens. Someone battled them, and survived. Before Ripley, there was a first encounter. Aliens and humans have fought before! When a human spaceship discovers a vast egg-shaped vessel in Saturn's orbit, the crew powers in to investigate...read more
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9781595821140 | Dh Pr, September 26, 2007, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Someone on Earth knew about the aliens.

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Product Description: Do you ever think that the human world is hopelessly out of balance, blighted, off track, and the only hope is some kind of apocalypse, some sort of end of the world that would allow the human race a new beginning, a fresh start without...read more
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9781587671500 | Ltd sgd edition (Cemetery Dance Pubns, May 30, 2007), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Do you ever think that the human world is hopelessly out of balance, blighted, off track, and the only hope is some kind of apocalypse, some sort of end of the world that would allow the human race a new beginning, a fresh start without.

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Product Description: One of the darkest, edgiest, boldest writers around, John Shirley lays down an adrenalized yet artful prose that fairly skids across the page, dragging the reader along into shadowed corners of terror and desire. Yet while it's thrilling, there's psychological depth, too, as Shirley bores into the brains of his characters, revealing the motivations of those who walk on the wild side...read more
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9780809557868 | Prime Books, April 11, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: One of the darkest, edgiest, boldest writers around, John Shirley lays down an adrenalized yet artful prose that fairly skids across the page, dragging the reader along into shadowed corners of terror and desire.

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When Tonsell-by-the Stream, a small village outside of London is swallowed whole by the earth, occultist John Constantine ventures deep into the underground lair of the Sunless, a phantasmagorical realm ruled by the merciless Gloomlord for whom the tiny town was only his first strike against the surface world, in a novel based on the popular comic book series. Original.
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9781416503446 | Pocket Star, November 28, 2006, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: When Tonsell-by-the Stream, a small village outside of London is swallowed whole by the earth, occultist John Constantine ventures deep into the underground lair of the Sunless, a phantasmagorical realm ruled by the merciless Gloomlord for whom the tiny town was only his first strike against the surface world, in a novel based on the popular comic book series.

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Product Description: An ancient evil deep beneath New York City turns subway stations into bloody altars for ritual sacrifice. Monsters made of blood arise from drains, an invisible hellhound devours human flesh, feral children stalk the shadowy streets and make murder a terrifying game...read more
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9780974290799 | Writers.Com Books, April 30, 2006, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A modern classic by a master of the macabre in a new revised edition.

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9780974290782 | Writers.Com Books, June 30, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An ancient evil deep beneath New York City turns subway stations into bloody altars for ritual sacrifice.
9780380798711 | Avon Books, May 1, 1982, cover price $2.75 | About this edition: An ancient evil deep beneath New York City turns subway stations into bloody altars for ritual sacrifice.

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Product Description: The year is 2117 A.D. Humanity has seized the stars, using reverse-engineered alien technology to explore the far reaches of space. For a hundred years, the Predators, sadistic extraterrestrial hunters, have been a dim memory. For a hundred years, we've been safe...read more
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9781595820341 | Dh Pr, May 24, 2006, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The year is 2117 A.

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Product Description: Zero is a young film maker who believes his whole life and career are mapped out before him. That is, until the night he and his friends walk into a rock club ... and are caught in a dazzling trap that spans worlds. They are dropped onto a dreamlike planet whose surrealistic beauty cannot hide its grotesque reality...read more
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9781930235236 | Babbage Pr, March 30, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Zero is a young film maker who believes his whole life and career are mapped out before him.

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Occultist John Constantine has been feeling out of sorts, disconnected from himself, after his soul is rescued following a fouled-up spiritual quest in Iran, until he is recruited as an agent for the supernatural Hidden World to match wits with a secret cabal called the Servants of Transfiguration that is out to unleash an ancient demon god known as the Warlord on an unsuspecting world. Original.
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9781416503439 | Pocket Star, January 31, 2006, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Occultist John Constantine has been feeling out of sorts, disconnected from himself, after his soul is rescued following a fouled-up spiritual quest in Iran, until he is recruited as an agent for the supernatural Hidden World to match wits with a secret cabal called the Servants of Transfiguration that is out to unleash an ancient demon god known as the Warlord on an unsuspecting world.

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Product Description: This book covers all aspects of starting and running a professional sound recording studio, from smaller project-style facilities to million dollar majors. For the first time, here is one guide that combines serious business planning, studio design, and audio engineering as interconnected aspects of starting and running a studio...read more
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9780879308407 | Backbeat Books, October 20, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This book covers all aspects of starting and running a professional sound recording studio, from smaller project-style facilities to million dollar majors.

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An elite team of space marines is sent to the dead planet of Olduvai to investigate a distress signal from a top-secret Union Aerospace Corporation research facility and discovers that an archaeological excavation within the ancient ruins of Olduvai has unlocked the very gates of hell itself. Original. (A Universal Pictures film, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, releasing October 2005, starring The Rock, Karl Urban, & Rosamund Pike) (Science Fiction)
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9781416509950 | Pocket Star, September 27, 2005, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A team of elite space marines travels to a distant planet to battle demonic monsters.

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Product Description: No writer combines the "delight in dread" with social consciousness and metaphysical meaning the way John Shirley does. Although In Darkness Waiting begins in much the same vein as many horror novels (mysterious deaths; a small town invaded by evil; plucky, attractive young lovers; the logical level-headed doctor; some salt-of-the-earth townsfolk...read more
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9780974290751 | Infrapress, February 28, 2005, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: No writer combines the "delight in dread" with social consciousness and metaphysical meaning the way John Shirley does.

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9780974290737 | Infrapress, October 30, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: No writer combines the "delight in dread" with social consciousness and metaphysical meaning the way John Shirley does.
9780451400802 | New Amer Library, April 1, 1988, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: When Perry and his Aunt Jane travel to Jasper, Oregon to visit relatives, they discover a horde of winged evil creatures have begun taking over the minds of the local inhabitants

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