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The Dying Game: A Novel

Asa Avdic · Penguin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state The year is 2037, and on the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a forty-eight-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna...
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Tarnished City

VIC JAMES · Del Rey
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The captivating dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage continues in this second novel filled with magic, intrigue, and upstairs/downstairs drama in the vein of Downton Abbey.
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The Salt Line

Holly Goddard Jones · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian genre with this gripping story of survival and humanity about a group of adrenaline junkies who jump "the Salt Line." How far will they go for their...
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Acadie

DAVE HUTCHINSON · Tor.com
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

The first humans still hunt their children across the stars. Dave Hutchinson brings far future science fiction on a grand scale in Acadie.The Colony left Earth to find their utopia--a home on a new planet where their leader could fully explore the colonists' genetic potential, unfettered...
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Fever

DEON MEYER · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa -- and the world, as far as they know -- to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country. Their world turned upside down,...
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The Uploaded

Ferrett Steinmetz · Angry Robot
Pages: 448
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Life sucks and then you die... a cyberpunk family drama from the ingenious author of Flex. In the near future, the elderly have moved online and now live within the computer network. But that doesn't stop them interfering in the lives of the living, whose sole real purpose now is to maintain...
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Retrograde

Peter Cawdron · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

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The End of the World Running Club

ADRIAN J WALKER · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

#1 International Bestseller"Extraordinary" -- Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2 "Will thrill and delight ... a terrifically well-observed, haunting and occasionally harrowing read" -- Starburst"What sets this novel apart is Walker's extraordinary emotional articulacy"...
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Phasma

DELILAH S DAWSON · Del Rey
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Discover Captain Phasma's mysterious history in this "Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi" novel.
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