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Wonderblood: A Novel

Julia Whicker · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Set 500 years in the future, a mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off most of the U.S. population. Those remaining turn to magic and sacrifice to cleanse the Earth.Wonderblood is Julia Whicker's fascinating literary debut, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic...
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The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick · Mariner Books
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback

"The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career." - New York Times It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because...
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The Last Mortal Bond: Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, Book III

Brian Staveley · Tor Books
Pages: 665
Format: Paperback

The trilogy that began with The Emperor's Blades and continued in The Providence of Fire reaches its epic conclusion, as war engulfs the Annurian Empire in Brian Staveley's The Last Mortal Bond The ancient csestriim are back to finish their purge of humanity; armies march against...
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In Another Life

Julie Christine Johnson · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 358
Format: Print book

Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. But instead of finding solace in the region's quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows...
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Undead and Done

Maryjanice Davidson · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor continues her rule in Hell in the scorchingly funny finale to the Undead series from New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson.It had been a well-kept secret for centuries, but now the existence of vampires is all over the news, thanks to Betsy Taylor's...
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Poison Fruit: Agent of Hel

Jacqueline Carey · Roc
Format: Hardcover

The hot-as-Hel series with the Sookie Stackhouse type of vibe Paranormal Haven is back—but this time the paranormal Midwestern town of Pemkowet is feeling a frost in the air and the residents are frozen in fear....The Pemkowet Visitors Bureau has always promoted paranormal tourism—even...
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Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad

George R R Martin · Tor
Pages: 524
Format: Print book

Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad -- book four of the original Wild Cards series now in trade paperback -- featuring two brand-new storiesThe action-packed alternate fantasy returns for a new generation, featuring fiction from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin, Michael Cassutt,...
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The Power

NAOMI ALDERMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover

One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2017An NPR Best Book of 2017One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2017A Bustle Best Book of 2017A Paste Magazine Best Novel of 2017A San Francisco...
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Kill the Farm Boy: The Tales of Pell

KEVIN HEARNE · Del Rey
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In an irreverent new series in the tradition of Terry Pratchett novels and The Princess Bride, the New York Times bestselling authors of the Iron Druid Chronicles and Star Wars: Phasma reinvent fantasy, fairy tales, and floridly overwritten feast scenes. Once upon a time, in a faraway...
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The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle · Pan Macmillan
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback

In a rip-roaring journey of peril and adventure, four explorers find a lost prehistoric world in the remote wilds of South America. Huge pterodactyls rule the skies and the jungle beneath is home to lumbering stegosaurus, carnivorous dinosaurs, and terrifying ape-men. If the adventurers...
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

CARMEN MARIA MACHADO · Graywolf Press
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

A highly anticipated debut by "one of the most ferociously gifted young writers working today" (Michelle Huneven) In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror,...
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Afterwar

Lilith Saintcrow · Orbit
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

History is written by the victors; but when you've been fighting your fellow patriots, your own brothers and sisters, does anyone really win? A harrowing gut-punch of a novel, Afterwar tells the story of a dark future where America has been devastated by a second civil war. As the fighting...
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A Long Day in Lychford

PAUL CORNELL · Tor.com
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

A Long Day in Lychford is the third book in Paul Cornell's increasingly popular Witches of Lychford series.It's a period of turmoil in Britain, with the country's politicians electing to remove the UK from the European Union, despite ever-increasing evidence that the public...
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Skitter: A Novel

Ezekiel Boone · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Ezekiel Boone follows up his terrifying "apocalyptic extravaganza of doom and heroism" (Publishers Weekly) The Hatching with Skitter, the horrifying sequel in which the carnivorous spiders are running rampant - but for what's left of humanity, the worst is yet to come.Tens...
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