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Weave a Circle Round: A Novel

KARI MAAREN · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Discover your inner child once again in Weave a Circle Round, a debut fantasy adventure for fans of Madeleine L'Engle, Diana Wynne Jones, and E. L. Konigsburg. Now nominated as a finalist for the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Novel!When the unexpected moves in next door,...
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Ready Player One

ERNEST CLINE · Broadway Books
Pages: 608
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The bestselling cult classic - soon to be a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying...
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Archangel

Margaret Fortune · DAW
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Archangel is the second installment of the explosive, pulse-pounding Spectre War science fiction series.An enemy you can't kill. A soldier who can't fight. An interstellar war that can't be won - until now.As a soldier of the Celestial Expanse, Guardian First Class Michael Sorenson...
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Subhuman

MICHAEL MCBRIDE · Pinnacle
Pages: 400
Format: Mass Market Paperback

THEY ARE NOT HUMAN. At a research station in Antarctica, five of the world's top scientists have been brought together to solve one of the greatest mysteries in human history. Their subject, however, is anything but human . . . THEY ARE NOT NATURAL. Deep beneath the ice, the submerged...
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The Storm

DAVID DRAKE · Baen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

THE THRILLING RE-TELLING OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND FROM MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY DAVID DRAKE CONTINUES! A young Champion must rescue a friend and battle an enemy at the heart of a chaotic world.The universe has shattered into chaos and monsters. Jon, the Leader, is dedicating his life...
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Heartstone

Elle Katharine White · Harper Voyager
Pages: 337
Format: Paperback

A debut historical fantasy that recasts Jane Austen's beloved Pride & Prejudice in an imaginative world of wyverns, dragons, and the warriors who fight alongside them against the monsters that threaten the kingdom: gryphons, direwolves, lamias, banshees, and lindworms.They say a Rider...
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Chapelwood: The Borden Dispatches

Cherie Priest · Roc
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

From Cherie Priest, the award-winning author of Maplecroft, comes a new tale of Lizzie Borden's continuing war against the cosmic horrors threatening humanity ... Birmingham, Alabama is infested with malevolence. Prejudice and hatred have consumed the minds and hearts of its populace....
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The Grace of Kings

Ken Liu · Saga Press
Pages: 623
Format: Hardcover

Two men rebel together against tyranny - and then become rivals - in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards.Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like...
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Independence Day: Crucible

Greg Keyes · Titan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Cities were crushed by the falling spacecraft - but one ship didn't crash. It remained intact, and disgorged hordes of alien soldiers determined to fight to the death. The abandoned vessels also contained a wealth of advanced technology. Led by David Levinson, the greatest minds of our world...
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Shadows of Self: A Mistborn Novel

Brandon Sanderson · Tor
Pages: 445
Format: Print book

Shadows of Self is the sequel to the USA Today bestselling The Allow of Law, part of the Mistborn seriesWhen family obligations forced Waxillium Ladrian to forsake the frontier lands and return to the metropolis of his birth to take his place as head of a noble House, he little imagined...
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Iraq 100: The First Anthology of Science Fiction to have Emerged from Iraq

HASSAN BLASIM · Tor Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

A groundbreaking anthology of science fiction from Iraq that will challenge your perception of what it means to be "The Other""History is a hostage, but it will bite through the gag you tie around its mouth, bite through and still be heard." -- Operation DanielIn a calm...
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The Return: A Novel

Joseph Helmreich · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

During a live television broadcast on the night of a lunar eclipse, renowned astrophysicist Andrew Leland is suddenly lifted into the sky by a giant spacecraft and taken away for all to see. Six years later, he turns up, wandering in a South American desert, denying ever having been abducted...
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The return of the discontinued man : a Burton & Swinburne adventure

Mark Hodder · Pyr
Pages: 367
Format: Paperback

Explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and poet Algernon Swinburne return in a new series of wildly imaginative steampunk adventures. SPRING HEELED JACK IS JUMPING BACK It's 9 p. m. on February 15, 1860, and Charles Babbage, the British Empire's most brilliant scientist, performs an experiment....
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Claire North · Redhook
Format: Hardcover

SOME STORIES CANNOT BE TOLD IN JUST ONE LIFETIMEHarry August is on his deathbed AgainNo matter what he does or the decisions he makes when death comes Harry always returns to where he began a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before Nothing ever changes...
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Sisters of the Fire

Kim Wilkins · Del Rey
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In the next chapter of a fantasy series featuring five unforgettable sisters - the warrior, the magician, the lover, the zealot, and the gossip - an insidious threat jeopardizes a fragile peace. Four years have passed since the five royal sisters - daughters of the king - worked together...
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