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Change Agent: A Novel

Daniel Suarez · Dutton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself.On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle...
 
 
Markswoman

Rati Mehrotra · Harper Voyager
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

An order of magical-knife wielding female assassins brings both peace and chaos to their post-apocalyptic world in this bewitching blend of science fiction and epic fantasy - the first entry in a debut duology that displays the inventiveness of the works of Sarah Beth Durst, Marie Lu, and S. J. Kincaid.Kyra...
 
 
The Affinities

Robert Charles Wilson · Tor Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In our rapidly-changing world of "social media", everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies--genetic,...
 
 
Summerland

HANNU RAJANIEMI · Tor Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From Hannu Rajaniemi, one of the most exciting science fiction writers in the last decade, comes an awe-inspiring account of the afterlife and what happens when it spills over into the world of the livingLoss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning.In 1938,...
 
 
Ultima

Stephen Baxter · Roc
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

Hailed as "one of the most inventive writers that science fiction has ever produced" (SF Site) , Stephen Baxter builds on the massive success of Proxima with a career-defining novel of big ideas....On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered - hatches that allowed...
 
 
Joe Steele

Harry Turtledove · Ace
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove's thought-provoking forays into the past have produced such intriguing "what-if" novels as Ruled Britannia, Days of Infamy, and Opening Atlantis. Now "the maven of alternate history" (The San Diego Union-Tribune) envisions...
 
 
The Doomed City

Arkady Strugatsky · Chicago Review
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic, has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel that was their own favorite, and that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus,...
 
 
Lord of California

ANDREW VALENCIA · Ig Publishing
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback

"A remarkable debut. Valencia writes with a sinuous maturity, a boldness of vision far beyond his years. In Lord of California, this beyond-seeing is literal: wild, impressive, at times menacing invention about what a separatist California might look like begins to look downright prescient,...
 
 
An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon · Akashic Books
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback

Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls...
 
 
Born of Vengeance

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 406
Format: Print book

A fate worse than death . . . Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks....
 
 
The Half-Drowned King: A Novel

Linnea Hartsuyker · Harper
Pages: 431
Format: Hardcover

"Linnea Hartsuyker brings myth and legend roaring to life in this superbly good page-turning saga of Viking-era Norway. The book's fiercest magic shines in the characters of Ragnvald and Svanhild, as unforgettable a brother and sister duo as I can remember. Linnea Hartsuyker is an exciting,...
 
 
A Gathering of Shadows

V. E. Schwab · Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift, and into Black London. In many...
 
 
Starbound: Volume Two of the Lightship Chronicles

Dave Bara · Daw Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

An action-packed, military science fiction thriller - and second in the new Lightship Chronicles series.
 
 
Beautiful You: A Novel

Chuck Palahniuk · Anchor
Format: Hardcover

"A billion husbands are about to be replaced."From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of a new product that gives new meaning to the term "self-help."...
 
 
Baptism of Fire

Andrzej Sapkowski · Orbit
Pages: 389
Format: Paperback

The Witcher returns in this action packed sequel to The Time of Contempt in the series that inspired The Witcher video games The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and in the uproar Geralt was seriously injured The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent a protector...