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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: A Novel

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

"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past....
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Imprudence.

Gail Carriger · Orbit
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes the delightful sequel to Prudence. Rue and the crew of the Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy,...
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Bite

K.S. Merbeth · Orbit
Pages: 416

Kid is trying to survive in a world gone mad.
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Infomocracy: A Novel

Malka Older · Tor
Pages: 380
Format: Print book

It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority...
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Life Debt: Aftermath

Chuck Wendig · Del Rey
Pages: 430
Format: Print book

Set between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, the never-before-told story that began with Star Wars: Aftermath continues in this thrilling novel, the second book of Chuck Wendig's New York Times bestselling trilogy.It is a dark time for the Empire. . . . The Emperor...
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Waypoint Kangaroo

Curtis C Chen · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Kangaroo isn't your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of clever (to him) quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is "the pocket." It's a portal that opens into an empty, seemingly infinite, parallel...
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Alliance of Equals

Sharon Lee · Baen Books
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

A new novel in the popular and exciting science fiction Liaden Universe® series. Over a half million Liaden Universe® books sold with an audience that keeps growing!Beset by the angry remnants of the Department of the Interior, challenged at every turn by opportunists on their new homeworld...
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Hell Divers

· Blackstone Publishing
Format: Audiobook

More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search for a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving...
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The doomed city

Arkadiĭ Strugat︠s︡kiĭ; Boris Strugat︠s︡kiĭ; Andrew Bromfield · Published by Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pages: 416
Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats

"The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various...
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The Year 200

Agustn De Rojas · Restless Books
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

The cult classic from the godfather of Cuban science fiction, Agustín de Rojas's The Year 200 is both a visionary sci-fi masterwork and a bold political parable about the perils of state power.Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity...
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