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Robert Charles Wilson · Tor
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Robert Charles Wilson was born in California and lives in Toronto. His novel Spin won science fiction's Hugo Award in 2006. Earlier, he won the Philip K. Dick Award for his debut novel A Hidden Place; Canada's Aurora Award for Darwinia; and the John W. Campbell Award for The Chronoliths.
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Hard to Be a God

Arkady Strugatsky · Chicago Review Press; Tra edition
Format: Book

This 1963 masterpiece is widely considered one of the best novels of the greatest Russian writers of science fiction. Yet until now the only English version (unavailable for over thirty years) was based on a German translation, and was full of errors, infelicities, and misunderstandings....
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Godzilla - The Official Movie Novelization

Greg Cox · Titan Books (UK)
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

The official novelization of the much-anticipated brand-new Godzilla movie--a rebirth for the major international franchise! Gareth Edwards' Godzilla will be released on May 16, 2014! An epic rebirth of Toho's iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world's...
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Leopard's Blood

CHRISTINE FEEHAN · Berkley
Pages: 404
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 and deadly,...
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The Girl in the Tower: A Novel

Katherine Arden · Del Rey
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home - but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege....
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The Heart Does Not Grow Back: A Novel

Fred Venturini · Picador

EVERY SUPERHERO NEEDS TO START SOMEWHERE...Dale Sampson is used to being a nonperson at his small-town Midwestern high school, picking up the scraps of his charismatic lothario of a best friend, Mack. He comforts himself with the certainty that his stellar academic record and brains will...
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The Infernal Battalion

Django Wexler · Ace
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

Military might and arcane power clash in Django Wexler's thrilling new Shadow Campaigns novel. The Beast, the ancient demon imprisoned beneath the fortress-city of Elysium for a thousand years, has been loosed on the world. It absorbs mind after mind, spreading like a plague through...
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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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All Your Wishes

Cat Adams · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A client begs Celia Graves -- part human, part Siren, part vampire -- to help return a genie to his bottle. The attempt makes Celia a target for the currently incorporeal ifrit. If she doesn't give him her body, he'll kill everyone she loves. If she does, he'll use her physical...
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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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Three Years with the Rat: A Novel

Jay Hosking · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in recent memory." -- Blake Crouch, author of Dark MatterAfter several years of drifting between school and go-nowhere...
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Black Arts

Faith Hunter · Roc
Pages: 325
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestsellerJane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker who always takes care of her own - no matter the cost....When Evan Trueblood blows into town looking for his wife, Molly, he's convinced that she came to see her best friend, Jane. But it seems like the witch...
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The Power

NAOMI ALDERMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWhat would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power?In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature;...
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Assassin's Fate: Book III of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy

Robin Hobb · Del Rey
Pages: 847
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The stunning conclusion to Robin Hobb's Fitz and the Fool trilogy, which began with Fool's Assassin and Fool's Quest"Every new Robin Hobb novel is a cause for celebration. Along with millions of her other fans, I delight in every visit to the Six Duchies,...
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The Big Book of Science Fiction

Anne VanderMeer · Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pages: 1216
Format: Print book

Quite possibly the greatest science fiction collection of all time - past, present, and future! What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases...
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