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Before the beginning…

The mining ship Red Dwarf is in orbit around Saturnian moon Titan, and the bulk of the crew is heading down for their shore leave plans: A strangely reluctant hen party; a relaxing cheaty golfing break; a terminally-boring cultural Odessey; a marathon drinking and fighting binge; a stomach-challenging culinary beanfeast and an invigoratingly violent tour of Shore Patrol . . .

Menial chicken soup machine repairmen Dave Lister and Arnold Rimmer have slightly less noble ambitions.
Rimmer is in search of some illicit exam-cheating tech, to land a much-lusted-for promotion, and Lister plans to acquire a cat to smuggle back on board as part of a nefarious scheme to return to Earth. Mainly they just want to get as far away from each other as possible. However, their objectives are scuppered when they receive a cryptic message . . . from the future.

The two feuding crewmen are catapulted into a breakneck race to save not only this, but every other Reality.
Along the way, they’ll find themselves united again, for the first time, with some new, but somehow old friends, as they embark on a labyrinthian quest through the seediest, most dangerous underbelly of humankind’s furthest outpost, where lurk bizarre off-worldly dangers and one mysterious hidden nemesis with an obscure, yet clearly lethal agenda.

So strap yourself into your Holly Hop Drive, and set your bazookoids to “thrill” – the Dwarfers are taking on TITAN.

‘Don’t tell my mother I died with my arm up a gorilla’s bottom.’
‘But sir – it will be on the death certificate.’

Source: AwesomeBooks.com

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Half a millennium ago, librarians were info custodians: acquirers, catalogers, curators, retrievers. Tûma had shown me photos of shy-looking people working in monastic silence amid dusty stacks. With the dawn of the first internet, the profession changed to one of navigator, providing maps through the thickening forests of hearsay, misinformation, and conspiracy. If the trollbot takeover had been sudden, humans might have galvanized a defense. Instead, the slippage was fitful until mods reached societal saturation and the full lethality of the Snarl was unleashed. Librarians rapidly evolved into a fellowship of warrior-poets who gave their lives to the storehousing of human history. Equipped with Arthurian training, librarians led safaris into the Snarl, hacked away at bad info, and slayed attacking trollbots. A staggering 26 percent of librarians lost their minds in the line of duty.

“She didn’t talk about it much,” Feng said. “You go into the Snarl that often… you see things. The literal worst things that humans can imagine. Worse, actually.”

Source: The Sixth Nik by Daniel Kraus

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Selected as One of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year
A Barack Obama Summer Read
Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel
Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel
Locus Award for Horror
Libby Award for Best Horror
Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award Finalist
A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, The Toronto Star, and Publishers Weekly Best of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction

The New York Times bestseller and “horror masterpiece” (NPR) from Stephen Graham Jones—the master of modern horror—is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

“Jones has written his Interview with the Indigenous Vampire. A landmark of horror and historical fiction alike, perhaps the closest thing we have to horror’s Moby-Dick.” —Vulture

“Inventive and spine-tingling…a master class in voice. Queasy, uneasy, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter plays with the interplay between religion and historical guilt, identity and appetite.” —The Washington Post

A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.

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