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The Complete Cosmicomics

Italo Calvino · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 401
Format: Print book

The definitive edition of Calvino's cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories - including some never before translated - in one volume for the first time In Italo Calvino's cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles...
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On the Steel Breeze

Alastair Reynolds · Ace
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of Blue Remembered Earth continues his saga as the next generation of the Akinya family crosses interstellar space seeking humanity’s future... Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary space explorer Eunice and heir to the family empire, is just...
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The Mountain of Kept Memory

Rachel Neumeier · Saga Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

In this gorgeous fantasy in the spirit of Guy Gavriel Kay and Robin McKinley, a prince and a princess must work together to save their kingdom from outside invaders ... and dangers within.Long ago the Kieba, last goddess in the world, raised up her mountain in the drylands of Carastind....
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Alias Hook

Lisa Jensen · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

"Every child knows how the story ends. The wicked pirate captain is flung overboard, caught in the jaws of the monster crocodile who drags him down to a watery grave. But it was not yet my time to die. It's my fate to be trapped here forever, in a nightmare of childhood fancy,...
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Thomas Sweterlitsch · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Thomas Sweterlitsch is a superstar. ... Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a brutal, beautiful book. Read it. —Jesse Kellerman, internationally bestselling author of TroubleTomorrow and Tomorrow is a rich, absorbing, relentlessly inventive mindfuck, a smart, dark noir a wild mash-up of Raymond...
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Parable of the Sower: A Novel

Octavia E Butler · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people...
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NK3: A Novel

Michael Tolkin · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

With The Player and The Return of the Player, Michael Tolkin established himself as the master novelist of modern Hollywood. In his new novel, NK3, the H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting...
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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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The Fortress in Orion

Mike Resnick · Pyr
Format: Print book

The Democracy is at war with the alien Traanskei Coalition. War hero Colonel Nathan Pretorius has a record of success on dangerous behind-enemy-lines missions, missions that usually leave him in the hospital. Now he's recruited for a near-impossible assignment that may well leave him dead....
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City of Stairs

Robert Jackson Bennett · Random House Inc
Pages: 452
Format: Paperback

An atmospheric and intrigue-filled novel of dead gods, buried histories, and a mysterious, protean city--from one of America's most acclaimed young SF writers. The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions - until its divine...
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Influx

Daniel Suarez · Dutton; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

What if our civilization is more advanced than we know?The New York Times bestselling author of Daemon--"the cyberthriller against which all others will be measured" -Publishers Weekly) --imagines a world in which decades of technological advances have been suppressed in an effort...
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Dracula vs. Hitler

Patrick Sheane Duncan · Inkshares
Pages: 500
Format: Print book

"A thrilling action adventure with brilliant literary homages to Bram Stoker's original. You never wanted to root for Dracula more!" -- Felicia Day, founder of Geek & Sundry and New York Times best-selling author of You're Never Weird on the InternetRavaged by the Nazi...
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Women of Futures Past: Classic Stories

Kristine Kathryn Rusch · Baen
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

ANTHOLOGY OF GREAT SF STORIES BY RENOWNED WOMEN SF AUTHORS! A collection of wonderful SF carefully selected by ground-breaking editor and author, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Stories by Andre Norton, Anne McCaffrey, Lois McMaster Bujold, CJ Cherryh and more.Meet the Women of Futures Past: from...
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The Sunlight Pilgrims: A Novel

Jenni Fagan · Hogarth
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The stunning new novel from the highly-acclaimed author of The PanopticonIt's November of 2020, and the world is freezing over. Each day colder than the last. There's snow in Israel, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is expected to drift just...
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