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The Hike: A Novel

Drew Magary · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the author of The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you've read before, weaving elements of folk tales and video games into a riveting, unforgettable adventure of what a man will endure to return to his family When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania,...
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The Big Sheep

Robert Kroese · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Los Angeles of 2039 is a baffling and bifurcated place. After the Collapse of 2028, a vast section of LA, the Disincorporated Zone, was disowned by the civil authorities, and became essentially a third world country within the borders of the city. Navigating the boundaries between DZ and LA proper...
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Betrayals: The Cainsville Series

Kelley Armstrong · Random House Canada
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The exciting fourth novel in bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's "impossible-to-put-down" Cainsville series.When Olivia's life exploded--after she found out she was not the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers--she...
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Too Like the Lightning

Ada Palmer · Tor
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also...
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Crosstalk

Connie Willis · Del Rey
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G. Wodehouse in Crosstalk - a genre-bending novel that pushes social media, smartphone technology, and twenty-four-hour availability to hilarious and chilling extremes...
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The Dark Side

Anthony O'Neill · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon.Purgatory is the lawless moon colony of eccentric billionaire, Fletcher Brass: a mecca for war criminals,...
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The Masked City: An Invisible Library Novel

Genevieve Cogman · ROC
Pages: 372
Format: Print book

Librarian-spy Irene and her apprentice Kai are back in the second in this "dazzling"* book-filled fantasy series from the author of The Invisible Library. The written word is mightier than the sword - most of the time... Working in an alternate version of Victorian London,...
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Heaven's Fall

David S. Goyer · Ace; Reprint edition

Mankind’s first contact with extraterrestrial life led to an incredible revelation. Their last may lead them to extinction.Twenty years have passed since the mysterious Near-Earth Object nicknamed Keanu appeared in the night sky and transported humans from all over Earth into its interior....
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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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Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

George Saunders · Random House
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other...
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