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After her rollicking standalone Dual Memory, Sue Burke returns to her Semiosis series and the world of Pax in Usurpation, which combines the thrill of M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening with the eco-empowerment of VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts. Steveland, the dominant sentient lifeform of Pax, has clandestinely sent some of its progeny to Earth. To explore, to spread, to report back. Since their germination, Earth has been a powder keg. Human r...

Sue Burke, author of the acclaimed novel Semiosis, returns with Dual Memory, a standalone novel blending the hard science fiction of Her with the action adventure of The Third Man.Antonio Moro lost everything to the Leviathan League. Now he's alone in a city on an Arctic island fighting the ruthless, global pirates with the chance to be the artist he always wanted to be. Unfortunately, he thinks it's a cover story for his real purpose-spying o...

Sue Burke, author of the acclaimed novel Semiosis, returns with Dual Memory, a standalone novel blending the hard science fiction of Her with the action adventure of The Third Man.Antonio Moro lost everything to the Leviathan League, ruthless global pirates. Now he's alone in a city on an Arctic island fighting Freebooters with nothing but lies-and the mistaken idea that he's a spy.When things look bleak, he discovers an unusual ally. His new ...

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Sue Burke, author of Semiosis and Interference, gives readers a near-future, hard sci-fi novel. Immunity Index blends Orphan Black with Contagion in a terrifying outbreak scenario.Bustle's 40 Best New Books May 2021In a US facing growing food shortages, stark inequality, and a growing fascist government, three perfectly normal young women are about to find out that they share a great deal in common.Their creator, the gifted geneticist Peng, ma...

Sue Burke, author of Semiosis and Interference, gives readers a new near-future, hard sf novel. Immunity Index blends Orphan Black with Contagion in a terrifying outbreak scenario.In a US facing growing food shortages, stark inequality, and a growing fascist government, three perfectly normal young women are about to find out that they share a great deal in common.Their creator, the gifted geneticist Peng, made them that way-before such things...

Sue Burke's sweeping, award-finalist, SF Semiosis epic continues in Interference as the colonists and a team from Earth confront a new and more implacable intelligence.Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission.But the Earthlings misunderstand the nature of the Pax settlement and its real leader. Even as Stevland attempts to prot...

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Burke's sweeping Semiosis epic continues as the colonists and a team from Earth confront a new and more implacable intelligence. Even as Stevland attempts to protect his human tools, a more insidious enemy than the Earthlings makes itself known. Stevland is not the apex species on Pax.

Human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance in Semiosis, a character driven science fiction novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke.2019 Campbell Memorial Award Finalist2019 Locus Finalist for Best Science Fiction NovelLocus 2018 Recommended Reading ListNew York Public Library-Best of 2018Forbes-Best Science Fiction Books of 2019-2019The Verge-Best of 2018Thrillist-Best Books of 2018Vulture-10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2018Chi...

`Up there with the best of Le Guin in terms of beautiful, engrossing, brilliantly imagined sci-fi' VULTURE `SEMIOSIS combines the world-building of Avatar with the alien wonder of Arrival, and the sheer humanity of Atwood. An essential work for our time' STEPHEN BAXTER

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A Novel. Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but theyll have to survive on the one they found. They dont realise another life form watches... and waits.

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