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Children of the New World: Stories

Adam Weinstein · Picador Usa
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Children of the New World introduces readers to lost characters in a near-future of social media software implants, manufacturers of memories, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and frighteningly intuitive androids. Some of these characters live in a superficially utopian future...
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The Half-Drowned King: A Novel

Linnea Hartsuyker · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

"Lovers of epic rejoice! Hartsuyker illuminates these old stories with authority and visceral detail, bringing to life the adventure, bleak beauty, and human struggle that lie at their heart. A vivid and gripping read." - Madeline Miller, bestselling author of The Song of Achilles"Linnea...
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Red Sister

Mark Lawrence · Ace Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show,...
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Immortal Nights: An Argeneau Novel

Lynsay Sands · Avon Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In a sizzling new argeneau novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands, an impulsive rescue pairs a sexy immortal with the woman made to be his for eternity

Abigail Forsythe's life hasn't been easy lately. Still, if there's one thing guaranteed to take her mind off an empty...

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American War: A novel

OMAR EL AKKAD · ALFRED A KNOPF
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle - a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.

Sarat Chestnut, born...
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: A Novel

Becky Chambers · Harper Voyager
Pages: 443
Format: Print book

The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, included on Library Journal's Best SFF of 2016, the Barnes & Nobles Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog Best Books of 2015, the Tor.com Best Books of 2015, Reader's Choice, as well as nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Kitschie, and the Bailey's...

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Passing Strange

ELLEN KLAGES · TOR COM
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World's Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer...
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Ghost Talkers

Mary Robinette Kowal · Tor
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Ghost Talkers: a new novel from beloved fantasy author Mary Robinette Kowal featuring the mysterious spirit corps and their heroic work in World War I.

Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Harford, an intelligence...

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The Wolf Road: A Novel

Beth Lewis · Crown
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

ELKA BARELY REMEMBERS a time before she knew Trapper. She was just seven years old, wandering lost and hungry in the wilderness, when the solitary hunter took her in. In the years since then, he's taught her how to survive in this desolate land where civilization has been destroyed and men are at the mercy...
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The Wall of Storms

Ken Liu · Saga Press
Pages: 858
Format: Print book

In the much-anticipated sequel to the "magnificent fantasy epic" (NPR) Grace of Kings, Emperor Kuni Garu is faced with the invasion of an invincible army in his kingdom and must quickly find a way to defeat the intruders.

Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin,...
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After the Crown

K. B. Wagers · Orbit
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The adrenaline-fueled, "Star Wars-"style sequel to "Behind the Throne, " a new space adventure series from author K. B. Wagers. Former gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to fill her rightful position in the palace. With her sisters...
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Revenger

Alastair Reynolds · Orbit
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

A superb science fiction adventure set in the rubble of a ruined universe, this is a deep space heist story of kidnap, betrayal, alien artifacts and revenge.

The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien...
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Empire's End: Aftermath

Chuck Wendig · Del Rey
Pages: 423
Format: Print book

Following Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Life Debt, Chuck Wendig delivers the exhilarating conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy set in the years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.

EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING.

As...
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Bloodwalker

L X Cain · Freedom Fox Press
Pages: 284

Lightning flashes. Another child disappears...When Zorka Circus performs, its big top roars with laughter and cheers, but when it moves on, children vanish from the European towns it leaves behind.Circus Security Chief Rurik suspects a killer hides among the international performers, but they...
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Feedback

Mira Grant · Orbit
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

A new beginning for Mira Grant's "New York Times" bestselling NEWSFLESH series "There are two sides to every story... " We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we unleashed something horrifying and unstoppable. The infection spread leaving...
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