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July 1, 2014

Today's Featured Title and Contest July 1, 2014
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Tuesday, July 1st at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of ALL THOSE VANISHED ENGINES by Paul Park, which hits shelves today. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest: ALL THOSE VANISHED ENGINES by Paul Park

In ALL THOSE VANISHED ENGINES, Paul Park returns to science fiction after a decade spent on the impressive four-volume A PRINCESS OF ROUMANIA fantasy, with an extraordinary, intense, compressed SF novel in three parts, each set in its own alternate-history universe. The sections are all rooted in Virginia and the Battle of the Crater, and are also grounded in the real history of the Park family, from differing points of view. They are all gorgeously imaginative and carefully constructed, and reverberate richly with one another.

The first section is set in the aftermath of the Civil War, in a world in which the Queen of the North has negotiated a two-nation settlement. The second, taking place in northwestern Massachusetts, investigates a secret project during World War II, in a time somewhat like the present. The third is set in the near-future United States, with aliens from history.

The cumulative effect is awesome. There hasn’t been a three part novel this ambitious in science fiction since Gene Wolfe’s classic THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS.

-Click here to read an excerpt.

Click here to enter the contest by Wednesday, July 2nd at 11:59am ET.
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