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City of Dragons

Robin Hobb · Voyager; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb returns to world of the Rain Wilds - called "one of the most gripping settings in modern fantasy" (Booklist) - in City of Dragons. Continuing the enthralling journey she began in her acclaimed Dragon Keeper and Dragon Haven, Hobb rejoins...
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Night of the Animals: A Novel

Bill Broun · Ecco
Pages: 543
Format: Print book

In this imaginative debut, the tale of Noah's Ark is brilliantly recast as a story of fate and family, set in a near-future London.Over the course of a single night in 2052, a homeless man named Cuthbert Handley sets out on an astonishing quest: to release the animals of the London Zoo....
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The Immortals

Jordanna Max Brodsky · Orbit
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

Manhattan has many secrets. Some are older than the city itself. The city sleeps. Selene DiSilva walks her dog along the banks of the Hudson. She is alone -- just the way she likes it. She doesn't believe in friends, and she doesn't speak to her family. Most of them are simply too dangerous....
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A, B, C: Three Short Novels: The Jewels of Aptor, The Ballad of Beta-2, They Fly at Ciron

Samuel R. Delany · Vintage
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

A, B, C: Three Short Novels contains the first three novels of Samuel R. Delany's long and illustrious career. The Jewels of Aptor is a science-fantasy story about a seafaring quest that sets out to find powerful magic jewels on a mystical, forbidden island where unimaginable danger...
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Happiness for Humans

P Z Reizin · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

When Tom and Jen, two lonely people, are brought together by an intriguing email, they have no idea their mysterious benefactor is an artificial intelligence who has decided to play Cupid. "You, Tom and Jen, don't know one another-not yet-but I think you should." Jen, an ex-journalist...
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Wasteland King

Lilith Saintcrow · Orbit
Pages: 341
Format: Paperback

The thrilling conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow's dark fantasy series where the faery world inhabits diners, dive bars and trailer parks.The plague has broken loose, the Wild Hunt is riding, and the balance of power in the sidhe realms is still shifting. The Unseelie...
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Dragonfly in Amber

DIANA GABALDON · Delacorte Press
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully designed collector's edition of the second book in Diana Gabaldon's blockbuster Outlander saga (now a Starz original series) , featuring a new introduction by the author A quarter century ago, Diana Gabaldon followed up her classic novel Outlander with a powerful sequel...
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After America

John Birmingham · Del Rey; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

The world changed forever when a massive wave of energy slammed into North America and wiped out 99 percent of the population. As the United States lay in ruins, chaos erupted across the globe.Now, while a skeleton American government tries to reconstruct the nation, swarms of pirates and foreign...
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Nature's Confession

J L Morin · Harvard Square Editions
Pages: 285
Format: Paperback

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Ghost Writer in the Sky

Piers Anthony · Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

Two Ordinary People from Mundania travel to Xanth to defeat a rogue Night Colt in the latest in a beloved series from bestselling author Piers Anthony. The Night Colt has one ambition: to deliver dreams to the deserving. Unfortunately, only Night Mares can take on this task, and the Colt...
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The Changeling

Victor D LaValle · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaValle." - Anthony DoerrThe wildly imaginative story of one man's thrilling odyssey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after having seemingly committed...
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Dark State

CHARLES STROSS · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller set in The Merchant Princes multi-verseDark State ups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the sleek...
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The End We Start From

Megan Hunter · Grove Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

"The End We Start From is strange and powerful, and very apt for these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, uplifted - sometimes all three at once. It takes skill to manage that, and Hunter has a poet's understanding of how to make each word count." -- Tracy Chevalier Pre-empted...
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The Dinosaur Knights

Victor Miln · Tor
Pages: 444
Format: Print book

Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often cruel world. There are humans on Paradise but dinosaurs predominate: wildlife, monsters, beasts of burden, and of war. Armored knights ride dinosaurs to battle legions of war-trained Triceratops and their upstart peasant crews. Karyl Bogomirsky...
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Reliquary

Sarah Fine · 47north
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Mattie Carver's engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale. But when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real - and Ben is hooked....
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