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Walkaway

Cory Doctorow · Tor Books
Pages: 379
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death."Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle." -- William GibsonHubert...
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Neverwhere: Author's Preferred Text

Neil Gaiman · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

National BestsellerSelected as one of NPR'S Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All TimeThe #1 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text" - and including his special Neverwhere tale,...
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The Devourers

Indra Das · Del Rey
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

For readers of Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night,...
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Hadriana in All My Dreams

REN DEPESTRE · Akashic Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

"One-of-a-kind...[A] ribald, free-wheeling magical-realist novel, first published in 1988 and newly, engagingly translated by Glover...An icon of Haitian literature serves up a hotblooded, rib-ticking, warmhearted mélange of ghost story, cultural inquiry, folk art, and véritable...
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Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris

Serena Burdick · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Born into a wealthy Parisian family at the center of Belle Epoque society, 18-year-old Aimée Savaray dreams of becoming a respected painter in the male-dominated art world; and secretly, she also dreams of being loved by Henri, the boy her parents took in as a child and raised alongside...
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Castaway Odyssey

Eric Flint · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

#5 in the Boundary series universe, and sequel to Castaway Planet, by New York Times multiple best-selling author Eric Flint and veteran science fiction and fantasy author Ryk E. Spoor.Worst-Case Scenario: Sergeant Samuel Morgan Campbell had been in plenty of tight spots before, but nothing...
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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 Book of Phoenix

Nnedi Okorafor · DAW
Format: Hardcover

A fiery spirit dances from the pages of the Great Book. She brings the aroma of scorched sand and ozone. She has a story to tell ... . The Book of Phoenix is a unique work of magical futurism. A prequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death, it features...
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Earth Bound

Christine Feehan · Jove Books, 2015.
Pages: 371
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Air Bound returns to the mysterious coastal town of Sea Haven where six sisters of the heart are bound by the elements, and one is stalked by an inescapable past ... After escaping from a cult, Lexi found refuge with her sisters on the farm that...
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Assassin's Price

L E JR MODESITT · Tor Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Assassin's Price is the eleventh book in the bestselling, epic fantasy series the Imager Portfolio by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. and the third book in a story arc which began with Madness in Solidar and Treachery's Tools.Six years have passed since the failed uprising of the High Holders, and the man behind...
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The Iron Assassin

Ed Greenwood · Tor Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In Ed Greenwood's The Iron Assassin, Victoria never ascended the throne; the House of Hanover held England only briefly before being supplanted by the House of Harminster. It is a time of gaslamps and regularly scheduled airship flights, of trams and steam-driven clockwork with countless...
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The Providence of Fire

Brian Staveley · Tor
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

Brian Staveley's The Providence of Fire, the second novel in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, a gripping new epic fantasy series.The conspiracy to destroy the ruling family of the Annurian Empire is far from over.Having learned the identity of her father's assassin, Adare flees...
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Semiosis: A Novel

Sue Burke · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance in Seimosis, a character driven science fiction novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke.Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and...
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The Lightning Stones: A Novel

Jack B Du Brul · Doubleday
Pages: 338
Format: Print book

"Sinking thousands of feet below the surface of the earth in the Leister Deep copper mine in Minnesota, Philip Mercer rides a series of heavy-duty elevators to visit his old friend and mentor, Abraham Jacobs. Jacobs has led a research team to the deepest section of the mine for a groundbreaking...
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Necessity.

Jo Walton · Tor
Pages: 334
Format: Print book

Necessity: the sequel to the acclaimed The Just City and The Philosopher Kings, Jo Walton's tales of gods, humans, and what they have to learn from one another.More than sixty-five years ago, Pallas Athena founded the Just City on an island in the eastern Mediterranean, placing it centuries...
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