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The Butlerian Jihad (Legends of Dune #1)

Brian Herbert · Tor Books; 1 edition
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the grandest epics in the annals of imaginative literature. Selling millions of copies worldwide, it is science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings, a brilliantly imaginative epic of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and immense...
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The Moon and the Other

John Kessel · Saga Press
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

John Kessel, one of the most visionary writers in the field, has created a rich matriarchal utopia, set in the near future on the moon, a society that is flawed by love and sex, and on the brink of a destructive civil war.In the middle of the twenty-second century, over three million people...
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The Silver Gryphon (Mage Wars Trilogy, Book 3)

Mercedes Lackey · DAW Hardcover; 1st edition
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Windsong and Tadrith, the children of White Gryphon City's rulers, escape the shadows of their parent's fame by joining the Silver Gryphon defense force, and their first assignment brings them face-to-face with disaster.
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The Bookman

Lavie Tidhar · Angry Robot
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In a 19th century unlike our own, the shadowy assassin known as the Bookman moves unseen. His weapons are books; his enemies are many. And when Orphan, a young man with a mysterious past, loses his love to the sinister machinations of the Bookman, Orphan would stop at nothing to bring her back...
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Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization

TIM LEBBON · TITAN Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In March 2017, the producers of Godzilla transport audiences to the birthplace of one of the most powerful monster myths of all in KONG: SKULL ISLAND, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures. When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature,...
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Sonora

Hannah Lillith Assadi · Soho Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, grows up in the arid lands of desert suburbia outside of Phoenix. In a stark landscape where coyotes prowl and mysterious lights occasionally pass through the nighttime sky, Ahlam's imagination reigns. She battles chronic...
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Dr. Potter's Medicine Show

Eric Scott Fischl · Angry Robot
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The year is 1878. Dr Alexander Potter, disgraced Civil War surgeon, now snake-oil salesman, travels the Pacific Northwest with a disheartened company of strongmen, fortune-tellers, and musical whores. Under their mysterious and murderous leader they entertain the masses while hawking the Chock-a-saw...
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The Long Earth

Terry Pratchett · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An unmissable milestone for fans of Sir Terry Pratchett: the first SF novel in over three decades in which the visionary inventor of Discworld has created a new universe of tantalizing possibilities - a series of parallel "Earths" with doorways leading to adventure, intrigue,...
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Contact Harvest (Halo)

Joseph Staten · Tor Books; 1st edition
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

<DIV><DIV>This is how it began...<DIV> <DIV>It is the year 2524.  Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space.  But we have trespassed on holy ground--strayed into the path of an aggressive alien...
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The Golden City: A Novel

John Twelve Hawks · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A world that exists in the shadow of our own . . . the thrilling conclusion to John Twelve Hawks's Fourth Realm trilogy, The Golden City is packed with the knife-edge tension, intriguing characters, and startling plot twists that made The Traveler and The Dark River international hits.John...
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Cory Doctorow
Format: Paperback

On The Skids In The Transhuman FutureJules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.Disney...
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Dark Lover

J.R. Ward · New American Library; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, theres a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing their enemies-the lessers-more...
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