James Rollins/James Clemens

1. Subterranean (1999)

A hand-picked team of scientists and specialists ventures deep beneath the Antarctic ice into a subterranean labyrinth that takes them into a perilous darkness toward an encounter with a terrifying mystery that is older than time itself.
-- Review from http://ts3d.informata.com

Descriptor:
Voyages to the otherworld -- Fiction.
Voyages, Imaginary -- Fiction.

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2. Excavation (2000)

The discovery of a corpse five centuries dead in the South American jungle portends the a wonderful and terrifying secret waiting to be unleashed upon humankind.
-- Review from http://ts3d.informata.com

Descriptor:
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Peru -- Fiction.

Genre/Form:
Adventure fiction.
Science fiction.

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3. Deep Fathom (2001)

When the first solar eclipse of the new millennium cause solar flares and earthquakes to wreak havoc upon the Earth, Air Force One and America's president vanish amidst the chaos and ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland must embark on a perilous mission below the ocean's surface to save the world from destruction.
-- Review from http://ts3d.informata.com

Descriptor:
Solar flares -- Fiction.

Named Corp:
United States. Navy. SEALs -- Fiction.

Genre/Form:
Adventure fiction.

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4. Amazonia (2002)

The mysterious reappearance of the body of a missing CIA agent lost in Brazil four years earlier sparks a mission into the Amazon by a team of American scientists and military people.
-- Review from http://ts3d.informata.com

Descriptor:
Prion diseases -- Fiction.

Genre/Form:
Science fiction.

Geographic:
Amazon River Region -- Fiction.

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5. Ice Hunt (2003)

When an American research team discovers a hidden Russian ice station in the frozen abyss of the polar ice cap, a frenzied dual cover-up takes place, trapping an Alaskan couple in the middle of a horrifying scientific experiment.
-- Review from http://ts3d.informata.com

Descriptor:
Cryonics -- Fiction.

Genre/Form:
Suspense fiction.
Science fiction.

Geographic:
Polar regions -- Fiction

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6. Sandstorm (2004)

Twenty years after a wealthy British financier disappears near the site of a lost fabled city, the man's daughter leads an expedition of scientists in search of the city, which harbors a powerful but dangerous energy source with the potential to both fuel and destroy the planet.
-- Review from http://ts3d.informata.com

Descriptor:
Scientific expeditions -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
British -- Oman -- Fiction.
Antimatter -- Fiction.
Sandstorms -- Fiction.

Genre/Form:
Suspense fiction.
Science fiction.

Geographic:
Ubar (Extinct city) -- Fiction.
Oman -- Fiction

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7. Map of bones: a Sigma Force novel (2004)

When a group of parishioners is burned to death during the theft of a treasured religious artifact, commander Gray Pierce, a new member of the U.S. SIGMA force, pursues a clandestine aristocratic fraternity of alchemists who would use the artifact to establish a new world order.
-- Review from http://ts3d.informata.com

Descriptor:
Americans -- Germany -- Fiction.
Secret societies -- Fiction.
Magi -- Cult -- Fiction.
Cathedrals -- Fiction.
Alchemists -- Fiction.
Relics -- Fiction.
Named Person:
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. -- Tomb -- Fiction.

Genre/Form:
Suspense fiction.

Geographic:
Germany -- Fiction

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8. Black order: a [Upper case Greek letter "sigma"] Sigma Force novel (2006)

Painter Crowe, Commander Gray Pierce, and the other members of Sigma Force enter into an uneasy alliance with an old enemy to unravel a baffling scientific mystery, the origins of life, the secret of which is locked within cryptic runes that could hold the key to the very future of all humankind.
-- Review from http://ts3d.informata.com

Descriptor:
Secret societies -- Fiction.
Conspiracies -- Fiction.

Named Person:
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Fiction.

Geographic:
Europe -- Fiction

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1. Wit'ch Fire: Book One of the Banned and the Banished (1998)

In the land of Alasea, Elena, 13, discovers she has magical powers, being the reincarnation of an ancient sorceress, and that she could use them to defeat the evil Gul'gotha. But the evil one knows this too and sends killers after her.
-- Review from http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org

Descriptor:
Prohibited books -- Fiction.

Genre/Form:
Fantastic fiction.

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2. Wit'ch Storm: Book Two of the Banned and the Banished (1999)

A farm girl who according to a prophecy is destined to save her country from evil, battles invaders in the fantasy land of Alasea. In the process she discovers she has two magic hands, one fire, the other ice.
-- Review from http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org

Descriptor:
Witches -- Fiction.
Occult fiction.

Genre/Form:
Fantastic fiction.

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3. Wit'ch War: Book Three of the Banned and the Banished (2000)

Third entry in Clemens's fantasy saga set in the kingdom of Alasea, where young blood magick-powered wit'ch Elena and the usual array of helpers must recover the lost Blood Diary in order to defeat the world-threatening Dark Lord and his customary evil lieutenant. Ho-hum, though fresh in the detail and lively in the telling.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com

Descriptor: Witches -- Fiction.

Genre/Form: Fantastic fiction.

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4. Wit'ch Gate: Book Four of the Banned and the Banished (2001)

The wit'ch Elena's victory over the Dark Lord is short-lived as she learns of the existence of four magical Weirgates through which her rival hopes to unleash a power that will destroy the world. Clemens's takes his heroes on separate quests to find and close the sorcerous portals. Along the way, love and death take their toll, changing some of the characters forever.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com

Genre/Form: Fantasy fiction.

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5. Wit'ch Star: Book Five of the Banned and the Banished (2002)

The three deadly Weirgates are destroyed but the threat of the Dark Lord remains. And so Elena and her companions have gone their separate ways to prepare for what is yet to come. Elena herself has journeyed to the beautiful city of A’loa Glen, there to recover her strength and spirit.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com

Genre/Form: Fantasy fiction.

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6. Shadowfall: Book One of the God slayer Chronicles (2005)

The first novel in a new series about a world where mysterious gods hold powerful secrets, knights walk in the shadows, and demons claw up from the darkness, as one man struggles to prove he didn't kill a god.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com

Genre/Form: Fantasy fiction.

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7. Hinterland: Book Two of the Godslayer Chronicles (2006)

All of Myrillia is held in a grip of unease when a skull, twisted and corrupted by dark Graces, is found. It's the work of the Cabal, a faction of daemonic naethryn intent on destroying the Nine Lands. Former Shadowknight Tylar must unravel the mystery of the skull before all of Myrillia is threatened.

To save the Nine Lands-and himself-Tylar must enter the Hinterland, the desolate territory beyond the blessed Lands, where rogue gods roam and dark Graces flow-and from which no Shadowknight has ever returned.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com

Descriptor: Knights and knighthood -- Fiction.

Genre/Form: Fantasy fiction.

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