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Arkwright

Allen M Steele · A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Written by a highly regarded expert on space travel and exploration, Allen Steele's Arkwright features the precision of hard science fiction with a compelling cast of characters. In the vein of classic authors such as Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke, Nathan Arkwright...
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William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return

Ian Doescher · Quirk Books
Pages: 165
Format: Print book

The epic trilogy that began with William Shakespeare's Star Wars and continued with The Empire Striketh Back concludes herein with the all-new, all-iambic The Jedi Doth Return - perchance the greatest adventure of them all.Prithee, attend the tale so far: Han Solo entombed in carbonite,...
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The Last Days of Magic: A Novel

Mark Tompkins · Viking, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

"Simultaneously sweeping and intricate . . . Tompkins's amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless...
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The House of Shattered Wings

Aliette de Bodard · Roc
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

Multi-award winning author Aliette de Bodard, brings her story of the War in Heaven to Paris, igniting the City of Light in a fantasy of divine power and deep conspiracy ... In the late twentieth century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins, the aftermath of a Great War between...
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The Gone World

Tom Sweterlitsch · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope. The Gone World follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind. Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval...
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Radiance.

Catherynne M Valente · Tor
Format: Print book

Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from Catherynne M. Valente, the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.Severin...
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A Call to Duty

David Weber · Baen
Format: Hardcover

NEW SERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHORS. Book #1 in Manticore Ascendant, a new series set in David Weber's best-selling Honorverse from multiple New York Times best seller David Weber and #1 New York Times best seller Timothy Zahn. Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned...
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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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Pacific Fire

Greg van Eekhout · Tor Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Pacific Fire: Another thrilling ride through Greg van Eekhout's wildly imaginative world of California Bones, featuring entertaining new characters and a dangerous magical plot unfolding in Los Angeles.I'm Sam. I'm just this guy. Okay, yeah, I'm a golem created from the substance...
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Dreams of Distant Shores

Patricia A McKillip · Tachyon Publications LLC
Pages: 274
Format: Print book

A collection of short stories, within whose pages we "find a youthful artist possessed by both his painting and his muse and seductive travelers from the sea enrapturing distant lovers. The statue of a mermaid comes suddenly to life, and two friends are transfixed by a haunted estate"--Amazon.com.
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Emergence

C J CHERRYH · DAW
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The nineteenth book in C.J. Cherryh's beloved Foreigner space opera series begins a new era for diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi.Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, has taken aboard five thousand...
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Den of Wolves

Juliet Marillier · Roc
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

The "powerful and emotionally-charged"* fantasy series from the author of the Sevenwaters novels continues, as Blackthorn and Grim face haunting secrets and old adversaries... Feather bright and feather fine, None shall harm this child of mine... Healer Blackthorn knows all too well...
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The Girl with Ghost Eyes

M H Boroson · Talos Press
Pages: 274
Format: Print book

"A brilliant tale of magic, monsters, and kung fu in the San Francisco Chinatown of 1898."--Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewIt's the end of the nineteenth century in San Francisco's Chinatown, and ghost hunters from the Maoshan traditions of Daoism keep malevolent spiritual forces...
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Bird Box: A Novel

Josh Malerman · Ecco
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover

Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world - a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman.Something is out there...
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The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel

Katherine Arden · Del Rey
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. At the edge of the Russian...
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