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The Long Utopia: A Novel

Terry Pratchett · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The fourth novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's internationally bestselling "Long Earth" series, hailed as "a brilliant science fiction collaboration . . . a love letter to all Pratchett fans, readers, and lovers of wonder everywhere" (Io9) .2045-2059....
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Eggshells

Caitriona Lally · Melville House
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

- Irish Book of the Year Finalist!A whimsical, touching debut about loneliness, friendship and hope... Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in - and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, living alone in Dublin, the neighbors...
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Dangerous Women

George R. R. Martin · Tor Books; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors' bestselling continuities-including a new "Outlander" story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden's world...
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The Galaxy Game

Karen Lord · Del Rey
Format: Paperback

Karen Lord is one of today's most brilliant young talents. Her science fiction, like that of predecessors Ursula K. Le Guin and China Miéville, combines star-spanning plots, deeply felt characters, and incisive social commentary. With The Galaxy Game, Lord presents a gripping adventure...
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Influx

Daniel Suarez · Dutton; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

What if our civilization is more advanced than we know?The New York Times bestselling author of Daemon--"the cyberthriller against which all others will be measured" -Publishers Weekly) --imagines a world in which decades of technological advances have been suppressed in an effort...
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A Night Without Stars: A Novel of the Commonwealth

Peter F Hamilton · Del Rey
Pages: 702
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Peter F. Hamilton returns to his acclaimed Commonwealth series in this thrilling follow-up to The Abyss Beyond Dreams. Featuring Hamilton's trademark blend of intricate plotting, riveting suspense, high-concept science, and vivid characters, A Night Without Stars brings...
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The Broken Eye

Brent Weeks · Little Brown & Company
Pages: 795
Format: Hardcover

The Broken Eye continues the spectacular Lightbringer series from the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Prism and The Blinding Knife. As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known...
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My Real Children

Jo Walton · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know-what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying...
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The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel

Norman Lock · Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Paperback

“Make[s] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone.” —SCOTT SIMON, NPR Weekend Edition“Brilliant. . . . The Boy in His Winter is a glorious meditation on justice, truth, loyalty, story, and the alchemical effects of love, a reminder of our capacity...
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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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Forsaken

Kelley Armstrong · Subterranean; Deluxe Hardcover edition
Format: Hardcover

Three years after being named Alpha of the North American pack, Elena Michaels is in London battling for respect from the British pack. When it becomes apparent she won't get it, she heads home, expecting a much-needed rest on her family vacation, only to discover a battle brewing of a very...
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Lovecraft Country: A Novel

Matt Ruff · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose...
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Seventh Grave and No Body

Darynda Jones · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Lead me not into temptation.Follow me instead! I know a shortcut!--T-shirtTwelve. Twelve of the deadliest beasts ever forged in the fires of hell have escaped onto our plane, and they want nothing more than to rip out Charley Davidson's jugular and serve her body to Satan for dinner....
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Citadel: A Novel

Kate Mosse · Harpercollins
Pages: 686
Format: Hardcover

Combining the rugged action of Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of Sepulchre, #1 bestselling author Kate Mosse's eagerly awaited Citadel is a mesmerizing World War II story of daring and courage, in which a group of determined women fighting for the French Resistance risk their lives...
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Nevernight

Jay Kristoff · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Nevernight is the first in an epic new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author, Jay Kristoff.In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.Daughter of an executed...
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