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Alien Morning

Rick Wilber · Tor
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

"Rick Wilber has written the best "first contact" story I've seen in decades: deeply human, eerily alien, and altogether an exciting, moving and thought-provoking novel." --Ben BovaThe fate of two civilizations depends on one troubled family in Rick Wilber's science-fiction...
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Deadmen Walking

SHERRILYN KENYON · Tor Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon debuts a sweeping new epic saga sure to appeal to her millions of fans!Deadmen tell their tales . . . To catch evil, it takes evil. Enter Devyl Bane -- an ancient dark warlord returned to the human realm as one of the most notorious...
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Equoid: a Laundry Novella

Charles Stross · Subterranean; Deluxe Hardcover edition
Format: Hardcover

For Bob Howard, a working day tends to alternate between desperately trying not to fall asleep in committee meetings and being menaced by tentacular horrors from beyond spacetime. Thats because Bob works for the Laundry, the secret British government agency tasked with protecting the realm...
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The Wolf Road: A Novel

Beth Lewis · Crown
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

ELKA BARELY REMEMBERS a time before she knew Trapper. She was just seven years old, wandering lost and hungry in the wilderness, when the solitary hunter took her in. In the years since then, he's taught her how to survive in this desolate land where civilization has been destroyed and men are at the mercy...
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Doctor Who: The Shining Man

CAVAN SCOTT · BBC Digital
Pages: 256
Format: eBook

"Being scared is the least of your worries."The Shining Men are everywhere. You spot them out of the corner of your eye. Abnormally tall, with long lank hair, blank faces and blazing eyes. If they catch you, they'll drag you away to who knows where. No one is safe. They're...
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Nova

Margaret Fortune · DAW Books
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

*36:00:00*The clock activates so suddenly in my mind, my head involuntarily jerks a bit to the side. The fog vanishes, dissipated in an instant as though it never was. Memories come slotting into place, their edges sharp enough to leave furrows, and suddenly I know. I know exactly who I am.My...
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Eleanor: A Novel

Jason Gurley · Crown Publishers
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

Eleanor and Esmerelda are identical twins with a secret language all their own, inseparable until a terrible accident claims Esme's life. Eleanor's family is left in tatters: her mother retreats inward, seeking comfort in bottles; her father reluctantly abandons ship. Eleanor is forced...
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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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Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard

Lawrence M. Schoen · Tor Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The Sixth Sense meets Planet of the Apes in a moving science fiction novel set so far in the future, humanity is gone and forgotten in Lawrence M. Schoen's Barsk: The Elephants' GraveyardAn historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared by the past. A child who feels no pain and who should...
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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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Artemis Awakening

Jane Lindskold · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Artemis Awakening is the start of a new series by New York Times bestseller Jane Lindskold. The distant world Artemis is a pleasure planet created out of bare rock by a technologically advanced human empire that provided its richest citizens with a veritable Eden to play in. All tech was concealed...
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Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song

Jenny Colgan · BBC Books
Pages: 219
Format: Print book

'Hello, sweetie!'Melody Pond, Melody Malone, River Song ... She has had many names. Whoever she really is, this archaeologist and time traveller has had more adventures (and got into more trouble) than most people in the universe.And she's written a lot of it down. Well,...
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A Secret History of Witches

Louisa Morgan · Redhook
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

A Secret History of Witches follows five generations of women-all of whom happen to be witches-from nineteenth-century Brittany to London during World War II.
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The Black Wolves of Boston

Wen Spencer · Baen
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

From the Romantic Times Sapphire award winning author of the Internationally best-selling Elfhome series.REBUILD A LIFE, SAVE A CITY Silas Decker had his world destroyed when he was attacked by vampires outside of New Amsterdam. He has rebuilt his life a dozen times in the last three hundred...
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Rituals: The Cainsville Series

KELLEY ARMSTRONG · Random House Canada
Pages: 471
Format: Hardcover

The fifth book and the exciting conclusion to bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's "impossible-to-put-down" Cainsville series, in which she mixes hard-hitting crime writing with phenomenal world-building to create a brand of fiction all her own.When Olivia Taylor-Jones found...
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