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City of Lost Dreams: A Novel

Magnus Flyte · Penguin Books

The exhilarating, genre-bending sequel to the sensational New York Times bestseller City of Dark Magic“If you’re looking for a time-travel mystery with laughs, danger, and a romantic interest clad in lederhosen (and who isn’t?), look no further.”—People (4 Stars)In...
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Claire North · Redhook
Format: Hardcover

SOME STORIES CANNOT BE TOLD IN JUST ONE LIFETIMEHarry August is on his deathbed AgainNo matter what he does or the decisions he makes when death comes Harry always returns to where he began a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before Nothing ever changes...
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Something More Than Night

Ian Tregillis · Tor Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Ian Tregillis's Something More Than Night is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas’s vision of Heaven. It’s a noir detective story starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub stigmatics, a priest with a dirty secret,...
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The Stone Sky

N K JEMISIN · Orbit
Pages: 445
Format: Paperback

The shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016, and The Obelisk Gate, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2017.

The...
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The Long Mars: A Novel

Terry Pratchett · Harper
Format: Hardcover

The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration."2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum...
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Clade

JAMES BRADLEY · Titan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

On a beach in Antarctica, scientist Adam Leith marks the passage of the summer solstice. Back in Sydney his partner Ellie waits for the results of her latest round of IVF treatment.
That result, when it comes, will change both their lives and propel them into a future neither could...
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The Disestablishment of Paradise

Phillip Mann · Gollancz; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

An ecological SF thriller with elements of Avatar and Silent RunningSomething has gone wrong on the planet of Paradise. The human settlers—farmers and scientists—are finding that their crops won't grow and their lives are becoming more and more dangerous. The indigenous...
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Dark Wolf

Christine Feehan · Berkley; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

WHERE DARK LYCAN ENDED, DARK WOLF BEGINS...BOOK NUMBER 25 IN CHRISTINE FEEHAN'S ACCLAIMED CARPATHIAN SERIES#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan now delivers her most eagerly awaited novel of all—ten years in the making—in the “the erotic, gripping...
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Shovel Ready

Adam Sternbergh · Random House Inc
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover

The futuristic hardboiled noir that Lauren Beukes calls "sharp as a paper-cut" about a garbage man turned kill-for-hire. Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a blown-out shell...
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The Dark Between the Stars

Kevin J. Anderson · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in The Saga of Seven Suns, a new threat emerges from the darkness. The human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for the survival of the galaxy. In Kevin...
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Twenty-First Century Science Fiction

David G. Hartwell · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-First Century Science Fiction is an enormous anthology of short stories--close to 250,000 words--edited by two of the most prestigious and award-winning editors in the SF field and featuring recent stories from some of science fiction's greatest up-and-coming authors.David Hartwell...
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Noir: A Novel

Christopher Moore · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including...

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New Earth

Ben Bova · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author Ben Bova brings us New Earth, his latest tale of science fiction in his Grand Tour series.The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere....
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The Luster of Lost Things

Sophie Chen Keller · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

In this story for readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Man Called Ove, when all seems lost, he finds what matters most.

Walter Lavender Jr. is a master of finding. A wearer of high-tops. A maker of croissants. A son keeping vigil, twelve...
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