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Gather Her Round: A Novel of the Tufa

Alex Bledsoe · Tor Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In Cloud County, where music and Tufa, the otherworldly fae community, intermix, a monster roams the forest, while another kind of evil lurks in the hearts of men."Beautifully written, surprisingly moving, and unexpected in the best of ways." -- Seanan McGuire, New York Times...
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A Hundred Thousand Worlds

Bob Proehl · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut." - Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand SaintsValerie Torrey took her son Alex and fled Los Angeles six years ago - leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar...
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Dark Lightning

John Varley · Ace
Format: Hardcover

Known for “superior science fiction” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), author John Varley returns to his Thunder and Lightning series with a novel of how one man’s volatile genius could alter a starship’s epic plunge into a future where human survival is just a theory…On...
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The map of bones

Francesca Haig · Gallery Books
Pages: 406
Format: Print book

Book Two in the critically acclaimed The Fire Sermon trilogy "The Hunger Games" meets Cormac McCarthy s "The Road" in this richly imagined post-apocalyptic series by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following...
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Broken Homes: A Rivers of London Novel

Ben Aaronovitch · DAW Books, Inc.
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback

My name is Peter Grant, and I am a keeper of the secret flame -- whatever that is.Truth be told, there's a lot I still don't know. My superior Nightingale, previously the last of England's wizardly governmental force, is trying to teach me proper schooling for a magician's...
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Cyador's Heirs

L. E. Modesitt · Tor Books; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Cyador's Heirs -- the new novel in L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s New York Times bestselling Saga of Recluce.Decades after the fall of Cyador, its survivors have reestablished themselves in Cigoerne, a fertile country coveted by hostile neighbors in less hospitable lands. Young Lerial, the second...
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Shadowed Souls

Jim Butcher · Roc
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In this dark and gritty collection - featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman - nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil..Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line.In #1 New York...
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Spells of Blood and Kin: A Dark Fantasy

Claire Humphrey · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Where we love, we ruin ... Some families hand down wealth through generations; some hand down wisdom. Some families, whether they want to or not, hand down the secret burdens they carry and the dangerous debts they owe.Lissa Nevsky's grandmother leaves her a big, empty house, and a legacy...
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The Weight of Words

Dave McKean · Subterranean
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

The consummate artistry of Dave McKean has permeated popular culture for more than thirty years. His images, at once bizarre, beautiful, and instantly recognizable, have graced an impressive array of books, CDs, graphic novels, and films. In The Weight of Words, ten of our finest contemporary...
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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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The Weaver

Emmi Itäranta · Voyager
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The author of the critically acclaimed Memory of Water returns with this literary ecological tale in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin and Sheri S. Tepper, in which an innocent young woman becomes entangled in a web of ancient secrets and deadly lies that lie at the dark center of her prosperous...
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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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Feral

James Demonaco · Blumhouse Books/Anchor
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From James DeMonaco, the writer/director of The Purge film franchise, comes the provocative and terrifying last stand of a lone outpost of women in the wake of a deadly pandemic. Allie Hilts was still in high school when a fire at a top-secret research facility released an air-borne pathogen...
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Acceptance: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer · FSG Originals
Format: Print book

It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed on itself in confusion....
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Virtues of War - March of War

Bennett R Coles · Titan Books
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

VICTORY AT ANY COSTThough narrowly thwarted in their attack on Earth, Centauri rebels continue assaulting targets across Terran space, placing Jack Mallory and Thomas Kane in the thick of the action. On Earth, Centauri spies whip up anti-war sentiment, seeking to cripple the government...
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