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Brother's Ruin

EMMA NEWMAN · TOR COM
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

The year is 1850 and Great Britain is flourishing, thanks to the Royal Society of the Esoteric Arts. When a new mage is discovered, Royal Society elites descend like buzzards to snatch up a new apprentice. Talented mages are bought from their families at a tremendous price, while weak mages...
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Arcanum

Simon Morden · Little Brown & Company
Pages: 765
Format: Paperback

Rome was the center of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen, but that didn't stop it falling to Alaric the Goth, his horde of barbarian tribesmen and their wild spell-casting shamans. Having split the walls with their sorcery and slaughtered the inhabitants with their axes,...
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Pirate Utopia

Bruce Sterling · Tachyon Publications
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Original introduction by Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun MachineWho are these bold rebels pillaging their European neighbors in the name of revolution? The Futurists! Utopian pirate warriors of the diminutive Regency of Carnaro, scourge of the Adriatic Sea. Mortal enemies...
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Otherworld Chills

Kelley Armstrong · Plume
Pages: 457
Format: Print book

The final anthology from the #1 New York Times bestselling Otherworld series Embrace the obscure. New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong once again opens the gates to the Otherworld. This collection of rare and never-before-published novellas and short stories brings the clever...
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The Clockwork Dynasty: A Novel

Daniel H Wilson · Doubleday Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An ingenious new thriller that weaves a path through history, following a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries, written by the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient...
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The Mongrel Mage

L E JR MODESITT · Tor Books
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

The Saga of Recluce chronicles the history of this world with world-building detail and an ingenious and disciplined magic system. L. E. Modesitt, Jr. returns to his longest and bestselling fantasy series with volume nineteen, The Mongrel Mage, which marks the beginning of a new story arc.In...
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Hope and Red

Jon Skovron · Orbit
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback

In a fracturing empire spread across savage seas, two people will find a common cause. Hope, the lone survivor when her village is massacred by the emperor's forces is secretly trained by a master Vinchen warrior as an instrument of vengeance.Red, an orphan adopted by a notorious matriarch...
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The Long Cosmos: A Novel

Terry Pratchett · Harpercollins
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The thrilling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Long Earth series explores the greatest question of all: What is the meaning of life?2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, a new society continues to evolve in the Long Earth. Now, a message has been received: "Join...
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Bane and Shadow

Jon Skovron · Orbit
Pages: 544
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A killer adventure fantasy follow-up to HOPE AND RED, set in a fracturing empire spread across savage seas, where two young people from different cultures find common purpose.
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Leopard's Blood

CHRISTINE FEEHAN · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan cuts straight to the heart of a man who stalks the shadows in an intoxicating Leopard novel. Though he was born into a leopard's lair in the bayou, Joshua Tregre's fighting skills were honed in the rain forests of Borneo. Sleek...
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Killing Is My Business

ADAM CHRISTOPHER · Tor Books
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover

"Robot noir in 60s Los Angeles? You had me at 'Hello.'" -- John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling authorAnother golden morning in a seedy town, and a new memory tape and assignment for intrepid PI-turned-hitman -- and last robot left in working order -- Raymond Electromatic....
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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

DIANA GABALDON · Delacorte Press
Pages: 526
Format: Hardcover

Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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Kings of the Wyld

Nicholas Eames · Orbit
Pages: 529
Format: Paperback

GLORY NEVER GETS OLD. Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best, the most feared and renowned crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld. Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk, or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate...
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Froelich's Ladder

Jamie Duclos-Yourdon · Forest Avenue Press
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

When Froelich disappears from the fourth-tallest ladder in the world, his nephew's quest to find him interlaces with the journeys of two spunky young women who outwit their guardians. In a Wild West populated with immigrants, skittish Civil War veterans, hungry clouds, a circus menagerie,...
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