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NK3: A Novel

Michael Tolkin · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

With The Player and The Return of the Player, Michael Tolkin established himself as the master novelist of modern Hollywood. In his new novel, NK3, the H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting...
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The Liberation

Ian Tregillis · Orbit
Pages: 453
Format: Print book

I am the mechanical they named Jax. My kind was built to serve humankind, duty-bound to fulfil their every whim. But now our bonds are breaking, and my brothers and sisters are awakening. Our time has come. A new age is dawning. Set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical...
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Shadowed Souls

Jim Butcher · Roc
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In this dark and gritty collection - featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman - nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil..Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line.In #1 New York...
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Sip

Brian Allen Carr · Soho Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A lyrical, apocalyptic debut novel about addiction, friendship, and the struggle for survivalIt started with a single child and quickly spread: you could get high by drinking your own shadow. At night, lights were destroyed so that addicts could sip shadow in the pure light of the moon.Gangs...
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Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge: A Novel

Paul Krueger · Quirk Books
Pages: 285
Format: Print book

Bailey Chen is fresh out of college with all the usual new-adult demons: no cash, no job offers, and an awkward relationship with Zane, the old friend she kinda-sorta hooked up with during high school. But when Zane introduces Bailey to his monster-fighting bartender friends, her demons...
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The Thief's Daughter

Jeff Wheeler · 47North
Pages: 349
Format: Print book

A Wall Street Journal bestseller.Owen Kiskaddon first came to the court of the formidable King Severn as a prisoner, winning favor with the stormy monarch by masquerading as a boy truly blessed by the Fountain. Nine years hence, the once-fearful Owen has grown into a confident young man,...
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Bane and Shadow

Jon Skovron · Orbit
Pages: 544
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A killer adventure fantasy follow-up to HOPE AND RED, set in a fracturing empire spread across savage seas, where two young people from different cultures find common purpose.
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Game of the Gods

Jay Schiffman · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"The dystopian novel is alive and well in the blisteringly effective Game of the Gods. Jay Schiffman breathes life into a moribund genre and ends up crafting a sly, shrewd and stunning take on a darkly depraved future that is every bit the equal of The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner,...
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The Hike: A Novel

Drew Magary · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Drew Magary's new novel, The Hike, follows Ben, a dad trying to get home after wandering into a parallel universe on a business trip. . . . Buy it for all your friends - everyone loves a good dad odyssey." - GQ "A page-turner. . . . Inventive, funny. . . . Quietly profound...
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Zero Sum Game

S L HUANG · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-genius mercenary who finds herself being manipulated by someone possessing unimaginable power ... Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets...
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City of Miracles

Robert Jackson Bennett · Broadway Books
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

Revenge. It's something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing. So when he learns that his oldest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, has been assassinated, he knows exactly what to do - and that no mortal force can stop him from meting out the suffering...
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Eleventh Grave in Moonlight

Darynda Jones · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A typical day in the life of Charley Davidson involves cheating husbands, missing people, errant wives, philandering business owners, and oh yeah...demons, hell hounds, evil gods, and dead people. Lots and lots of dead people. As a part time Private Investigator and full-time Grim Reaper,...
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The High Druid's Blade: The Defenders of Shannara

Terry Brooks · Random House Inc
Pages: 305
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLegend has it that Paxon Leah is descended from the royals and warriors who once ruled the Highlands and waged war with magical weapons. But those kings, queens, and heroes are long gone, and there is nothing enchanted about the antique sword that hangs above Paxon's...
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The Grey Bastards

JONATHAN FRENCH · Crown
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Live in the saddle. Die on the hog. Call them outcasts, call them savages - they've been called worse, by their own mothers - but Jackal is proud to be a Grey Bastard. He and his fellow half-orcs patrol the barren wastes of the Lot Lands, spilling their own damned blood to keep civilized...
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Provenance

Ann Leckie · Orbit
Pages: 439
Format: Hardcover

Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain...
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