Sarah Zettel, Author, Steve Alten, Author . Tor $27.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-312-87441-4
Alternating between her lighthouse-keeper heroine's native Wisconsin and the magic-ridden world of Isavalta, SF author Zettel's (Playing God) first fantasy novel, despite a plodding plot, should please readers eager to leave this dull world...
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Steve Alten, Author . Forge $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0064-5
Bestseller Alten's (Meg; Domain; etc.) latest near-future techno-thriller opens with a riveting burst of action—an attack on an American aircraft carrier and its escorts by a rogue U.S. super-sub called Goliath
("the equivalent of an
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Steve Alten, Author . Forge $25.95 (431p) ISBN 978-0-312-87558-9
Bestseller Alten's sequel to Domain
(2001), based on the Mayan Popul Vul myth, charges bravely out of the gate, but quickly loses momentum. Centuries ago, Mayan legend predicted the death of hero Michael Gabriel, who would sacrifice himself to...
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Steve Alten, Author . Forge $24.95 (361p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0890-0
The giant prehistoric shark, carcharadon Megalodon
, that put Alten on bestseller lists with his debut novel, Meg
(1997), and its follow-up, The Trench
, returns in a messy, exuberant, potboiling action thriller. It's 18 years since Angel,...
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Steve Alten, Author . Cedar Fort/Sweetwater $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59955-094-7
Even die-hard conspiracy theorists will be dubious about the sinister government-led plots that form the shaky foundation of this political thriller. Alten, best-known for his gory novels featuring giant prehistoric sharks (Meg
; The Trench
), goes...
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Steve Alten, Author Variance Publishing LLC $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-935142-04-1
Bestseller Alten's fourth Meg thriller recycles plot lines from earlier books in the series based on the premise that the fearsome prehistoric shark, Carcharodon megalodon, survives in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. Jonas Taylor, who discovered
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Steve Alten, Author Forge $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-87476-6
The author of Meg taps Mayan mythology and Old Testament lore in his sci-fi/fantasy take on the age-old battle of good and evil. Archeologist Julius Gabriel is ridiculed when his research shows that ancient wonders like the pyramids, Stonehenge and...
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Steve Alten, Variance (www.variancepublishing.com), $25.95 (487p) ISBN 978-1-935142-16-4
At the start of Alten's new apocalyptic series, a plan to infect the Iranian delegation at the UN with a weaponized bubonic plague called Scythe goes awry, unleashing the plague on Manhattan. Manhattanite Patrick Shepherd, a crippled vet, is quickly
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Steve Alten. Tor, $24.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3033-8
In Alten’s messy third Domain thriller (after Resurrection), a handful of genetically selected heroes, products of alien intervention, struggle to save humanity from its own hubris. A narrow escape from apocalypse in 2012 and a program to replace...
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Steve Alten. Forge, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3632-3
In Alten’s exuberant SF thriller, humans must relearn that elemental lesson: never build super artificial intelligence computers and put them in charge of anything. Robert “Ike” Eisenbraun has invented GOLEM, a thinking machine designed to oversee...
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Steve Alten. Tor, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8796-7
Alten’s fifth Meg novel (after 2009’s Meg: Hell’s Aquarium) demonstrates the limits of centering a series on surviving prehistoric sharks devouring human victims, the first of whom is chomped in half while kayaking in the Strait of Juan de Fuca off...
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Steve Alten, Author, Alten, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-57566-430-9
So how bad is this spawn of Meg, which Doubleday declined to publish (albeit perhaps in an earlier version)? About as bad--and as good--as its predecessor. Alten can still write a mean giant prehistoric shark scene, but he flails like a fish out of...
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Steve Alten. Forge, $17.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-62152-8
Some 30 years before the present-day action of Alten’s predictable sixth thriller centered on rapacious prehistoric creatures (after 2016’s Meg: Nightstalkers), Navy Cmdr. Jonas Taylor encountered a Megalodon, a humongous shark believed long extinct.
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Steve Alten. Forge, $30.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-250-76424-9
This reissue of bestseller Alten’s 1997 Meg novel, the first in the series, shows how the original hasn’t aged well. Paleobiologist Jonas Taylor believes that Carcharodon megalodon, a gigantic ancestor of the great white shark, still exists. Seven...
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