Back Science Fiction & Fantasy | December Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Science Fiction & Fantasy  
The Life of Elves

Muriel Barbery · Europa Editions, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A moving and deeply felt homage to the power of nature and art by one of the world's most beloved authors. Maria lives in a remote village in Burgundy, where she learns that she has a gift for communicating with nature. Hundreds of miles away in Italy, Clara discovers that she possesses...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Borne: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer · MCD
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Book Riot, Chicago Reader, The Week, and Publishers Weekly."Am I a person?" Borne asked me."Yes, you are a person," I told him. "But like a person, you can be a weapon, too."In...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Outriders

Jay Posey · Angry Robot
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

The start of a Military SF series from imprint best-seller and Tom Clancy game series writer Jay Posey.Captain Lincoln Suh died on a Wednesday. And things only got harder from there.Snatched out of special operations and thrown headfirst into a secretive new unit, Lincoln finds himself...
Read More check catalog
 
 
It Devours!: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel

JOSEPH FINK · Harper Perennial
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A new page-turning mystery about science, faith, love and belonging, set in a friendly desert community where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life. Welcome to Night Vale ... "Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. I'm packing...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Humans, Bow Down

James Patterson · Little
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In a world run by machines, humans are an endangered species.The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices--they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Children of the New World: Stories

Adam Weinstein · Picador Usa
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Children of the New World introduces readers to lost characters in a near-future of social media software implants, manufacturers of memories, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and frighteningly intuitive androids. Some of these characters live in a superficially utopian future...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Never Dare a Dragon

Ashlyn Chase · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Third in Ashlyn Chase's light paranormal romance series featuring hot dragon shifters. No one would believe that lovely Lt. Kristine Scott of the NY Fire Department is an actual dragon, but there's no denying the flames that ignite when she meets firefighting phoenix shifter Jayce...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Impersonations: A Story of the Praxis

Walter Jon Williams · Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Nebula Award-winning author Walter Jon Williams returns to the sweeping space opera adventure of his Praxis universe with Impersonations, an exciting new novel featuring the hero of Dread Empire's Fall!Having offended her superiors by winning a battle without permission, Caroline Sula...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Berlin Project

Gregory Benford · Saga Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Gregory Benford creates an alternate history about the creation of the atomic bomb that explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to be used by June 6, 1944.Karl Cohen, a chemist and mathematician who is part of The Manhattan Project team,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Eleventh Grave in Moonlight

Darynda Jones · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A typical day in the life of Charley Davidson involves cheating husbands, missing people, errant wives, philandering business owners, and oh yeah...demons, hell hounds, evil gods, and dead people. Lots and lots of dead people. As a part time Private Investigator and full-time Grim Reaper,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Hystopia: A Novel

David Means · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"Brilliant. Nothing but." -- Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime WalkAt the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Red Queen: The Chronicles of Alice

Christina Henry · Ace
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The author of Alice takes readers back down the rabbit hole to a dark, twisted, and fascinating world based on the works of Lewis Carroll... The land outside of the Old City was supposed to be green, lush, hopeful. A place where Alice could finally rest, no longer the plaything of the Rabbit,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Highland Dragon Rebel

Isabel Cooper · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Madoc of Avandos is on a journey to cement alliances. Targeted by an assassin, he needs a companion who can fight. When dragon shifter Moiread MacAlasdair returns from war, he knows she's the best woman for the job. Duty and political strength compel Moiread to agree, but when they cross...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

HUGH HOWEY · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Orbs II: Stranded: A Science Fiction Thriller

Nicholas Sansbury Smith · Simon451
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The thrilling sequel to Nicholas Sansbury Smith's bestselling Orbs - when one of their own is captured, Dr. Sophie Winston and her team of survivors must exit the safety of their biosphere and fight off the growing horde of aliens.The Organics are still draining the oceans, raising...
Read More check catalog