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Crossways: A Psi-Tech Novel

Jacey Bedford · Daw Books
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback

Ben Benjamin, psi-tech Navigator, and Cara Carlinni, Telepath, can never go home again. To the Trust and Alphacorp alike, they are wanted criminals. Murder, terrorism, armed insurrection, hijacking, grand theft, and kidnapping are just the top of a long list of charges they'll face...
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Semiosis: A Novel

Sue Burke · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance in Seimosis, a character driven science fiction novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke.Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and...
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A Short Film About Disappointment: A Novel

Joshua Mattson · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An ingenious novel about art and revenge, insisting on your dreams and hitting on your doctor, told in the form of 80 movie reviewsIn near-future America, film critic Noah Body uploads his reviews to a content aggregator. His job is routine: watch, seethe, pan. He dreams of making his own film,...
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A Secret History of Witches

Louisa Morgan · Redhook
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

A Secret History of Witches follows five generations of women-all of whom happen to be witches-from nineteenth-century Brittany to London during World War II.
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The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand Novel

James Howard Kunstler · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From renowned social critic, energy expert, and bestselling author James Howard Kunstler, The Harrows of Spring is a moving and gripping novel that completes the story of the quaint upstate New York town of Union Grove, thrown into a future world that in many ways resembles the nineteenth...
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Weave a Circle Round: A Novel

KARI MAAREN · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Discover your inner child once again in Weave a Circle Round, a debut fantasy adventure for fans of Madeleine L'Engle, Diana Wynne Jones, and E. L. Konigsburg. Now nominated as a finalist for the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Novel!When the unexpected moves in next door,...
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The Devourers

Indra Das · Del Rey
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

For readers of Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night,...
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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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The Immortal Throne

Stella Gemmell · Ace Books
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

No one is safe, and no one is to be trusted as the bloody war that began in Stella Gemmell's The City continues... The dreaded emperor is dead. The successor to the throne is his nemesis, Archange. Many hope her reign will usher in a new era of freedom and stability. Soon however, word...
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The Rise of the Empire: Star Wars: Featuring the novels Star Wars: Tarkin, Star Wars: A New Dawn, and 3 all-new short stories

James Luceno · Del Rey
Pages: 703
Format: Print book

Witness the rise of the Empire with these two thrilling Star Wars novels - plus exclusive short stories by Melissa Scott, John Jackson Miller, and Jason Fry! TARKIN "Compelling . . . The villains of Star Wars are as much fun as the good guys." - New York Daily News Under Governor...
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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

DIANA GABALDON · Delacorte Press
Pages: 526
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A magnificent collection of Outlander short fiction - including two never-before-published novellas - featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, from Diana GabaldonAmong the seven spellbinding pieces there is "The Custom of the Army,"...
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Dune

Frank Herbert · Putnam
Pages: 557
Format: Book

Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family -- and would...
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Firefly - Big Damn Hero

NANCY HOLDER · Titan Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The first original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon.The Battle of Serenity Valley was the turning point that led the Independents to their defeat at the hands of the Alliance. Yet the Browncoats had held the valley for weeks...
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The Man in the High Castle

Philip K Dick · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career." - New York Times It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the yellow pages. All because...
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1984

· Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover

With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell's 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. "Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power."...
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