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Perdition

Ann Aguirre · Ace
Format: Paperback

WELCOME TO HELL The prison ship Perdition, a floating city where the Conglomerate's most dangerous criminals are confined for life, orbits endlessly around a barren asteroid. Life inside is even more bleak. Hailed as the Dread Queen, inmate Dresdemona "Dred" Devos controls...
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We Are All Completely Fine

Daryl Gregory · Tachyon Publications

Harrison was the Monster Detective, a storybook hero. Now hes in his mid-thirties and spends most of his time popping pills and not sleeping. Stan became a minor celebrity after being partially eaten by cannibals. Barbara is haunted by unreadable messages carved upon her bones. Greta may or may not be a mass-murdering...
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The Bees: A Novel

Laline Paull · Ecco
Pages: 340
Format: Book

The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues...
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Provenance

Ann Leckie · Orbit
Pages: 439
Format: Hardcover

Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain...
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Natasha Pulley · Bloomsbury
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori, a kind,...
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Full Fathom Five: A Novel of the Craft Sequence

Max Gladstone · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

On the island of Kavekana, Kai builds gods to order, then hands them to others to maintain. Her creations arent conscious and lack their own wills and voices, but they accept sacrifices, and protect their worshippers from other gods--perfect vehicles for Craftsmen and Craftswomen operating...
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Sirius: A Novel About the Little Dog Who Almost Changed History

Jonathan Crown · Scribner
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover

A highly original, tragicomic novel as seen through Sirius, an extraordinary dog who helps his Jewish family escape from Germany to California, becomes a Hollywood star, and ultimately contributes to Hitler's downfall.Levi, a fox terrier, lives with his family in a grand townhouse in Berlin....
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The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia

Jaymee Goh · Rosarium Publishing
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

Steampunk takes on Southeast Asia in this anthology The stories in this collection merge technological wonder with the everyday. Children upgrade their fighting spiders with armor, and toymakers create punchcard-driven marionettes. Large fish lumber across the skies, while boat people...
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Year of the Demon: A Novel of the Fated Blades

Steve Bein · Roc
Format: Paperback

A MASK OF DESTRUCTIONDetective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro has been promoted to Japans elite Narcotics unit—and with this promotion comes a new partner, a new case, and new danger. The underboss of a powerful yakuza crime syndicate has put a price on her head, and hell lift the bounty only...
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To Sail a Darkling Sea

John Ringo · Baen Books
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover

BOOK II IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to Under a Graveyard Sky. A family of survivors fightS back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization.A World Cloaked in Darkness With human civilization annihilated by a biological...
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Born of Vengeance

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 406
Format: Print book

A fate worse than death . . . Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks....
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The Coincidence Makers

YOAV BLUM · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this genre-bending novel, there is no such thing as chance and every action is carefully executed by highly trained agents. You'll never looks at coincidences the same way again.What if the drink you just spilled, the train you just missed, or the lottery ticket you just found was not just...
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Trail of Lightning

Rebecca Roanhorse · Saga Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally...
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Spirited

Mary Behre · Berkley
Format: Paperback

She's running from who she is ... All Jules Scott wants is to live a normal, quiet life - preferably one that doesn't include ghosts. Jules's talent for communicating with the dead has brought her nothing but trouble. Despite her best efforts, needy spirits always find her and draw her into...
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Low Chicago: A Wild Cards Novel

GEORGE R R MARTIN · Tor Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

In Low Chicago, a gang of criminals are scattered throughout the past threaten the stability of the world in George R. R. Martin's latest Wild Cards adventure. The stakes where already high enough at Giovanni Galante's poker table that night in Chicago. Poker. Dealer's choice. Seven players....
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