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California: A Novel

Edan Lepucki · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"In her arresting debut novel, Edan Lepucki conjures a lush, intricate, deeply disturbing vision of the future, then masterfully exploits its dramatic possibilities." ---Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon SquadThe world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've...
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A Hundred Thousand Worlds

Bob Proehl · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut." - Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand SaintsValerie Torrey took her son Alex and fled Los Angeles six years ago - leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar...
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Arabella of Mars

David D Levine · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, he proved that space travel was both possible and profitable.Now, one century later,...
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The Fire Sermon

Francesca Haig · Gallery Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined first novel in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization...
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Black Ice

Susan Krinard · Tor Books
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Susan Krinard continues the thrilling urban fantasy series that began with Mist in Black Ice.Centuries ago, all was lost in the Last Battle when the Norse gods and goddesses went to war. The elves, the giants, and the gods and goddesses themselves were...
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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...
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Thornlost

Melanie Rawn · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Melanie Rawn returns to her rich high fantasy world in Thornlost, the sequel to Touchstone and Elsewhens. Cayden is part Elf, part Fae, part human Wizard--and all rebel. His aristocratic mother would have him follow his father to the Royal Court, to make a high-society living off the scraps...
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The Oversight

Charlie Fletcher · Orbit
Format: Paperback

"The end always happens faster than you think." Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five.When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters,...
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The Forgotten Room: A Novel

Lincoln Child · Random House Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

New York Times bestseller Lincoln Child returns with a riveting new thriller featuring the charismatic and quirky Professor Jeremy Logan, renowned investigator of the strange and the inexplicable, as he uncovers a long-lost secret experiment only rumored to have existed.      Jeremy...
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The Rising

Ian Tregillis · Orbit
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

The second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war.
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Empire Games

Charles Stross · Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 331
Format: Print book

Charles Stross builds a new series with "Empire Games. " Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travellers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British...
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Cibola Burn

James S.A. Corey · Orbit; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

The explosive fourth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series.
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The Falcon Throne

Karen Miller · Orbit Us
Pages: 688
Format: Hardcover

WHEN KINGDOMS CLASH, EVERY CROWN WILL BE TARNISHED BY THE BLOODY PRICE OF AMBITION.
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The Fold: A Novel

Peter Clines · Crown
Format: Hardcover

STEP INTO THE FOLD. IT'S PERFECTLY SAFE. The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would say he's just your average, everyday guy. And that's exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he's chosen isn't much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts,...
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The Waking Engine

David Edison · Tor Books
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to die.Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where they are fated to live until they die again,...
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