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Terminal Alliance

JIM C HINES · DAW
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In his hilarious new sci-fi series, Jim C. Hines introduces the unlikely heroes that may just save the galaxy: a crew of space janitors.The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. However, they happened to arrive after a mutated plague wiped...
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Down Among the Sticks and Bones

SEANAN MCGUIRE · Tor.com
Pages: 187
Format: Hardcover

Seanan McGuire returns to her popular Wayward Children series with Down Among the Sticks and Bones -- a truly standalone story suitable for adult and young adult readers of urban fantasy, and the follow-up to the Alex, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, Hugo and World Fantasy Award finalist,...
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The Witch of Painted Sorrows

M. J. Rose · Atria Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this gothic novel set against the lavish spectacle of 1890s Belle Époque Paris.Sandrine Salome flees New York for her grandmother's Paris mansion to escape...
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NK3: A Novel

Michael Tolkin · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

With The Player and The Return of the Player, Michael Tolkin established himself as the master novelist of modern Hollywood. In his new novel, NK3, the H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting...
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Children of the Fleet

ORSON SCOTT CARD · Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Click Here For the Autographed Copy After the Third Formic war was won by Ender Wiggin, the alien threat to Earth was over. The terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans and the International Fleet became the arm of the Ministry of Colonization, run by Hirum Graff. MinCol...
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Hearts and Minds

DAYTON WARD · Pocket Books/Star Trek
Pages: 400
Format: Mass Market Paperback

An electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestselling author in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe.2031: United States Air Force fighter jets shoot down an unidentified spacecraft and take its crew into custody. Soon, it's learned that the ship is one of several dispatched...
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A Plague of Giants

KEVIN HEARNE · Del Rey
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

In the start of an enchanting new series, the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Druid Chronicles creates an unforgettable fantasy world . . . one that is forever changed when an army of giants invades. The kingdom's only hope? The discovery of a form of magic that will call...
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Provenance

Ann Leckie · Orbit

"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 Tourist

Robert Dickinson · Orbit Us
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

THE FUTURE HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. It is expected to be an excursion like any other. There is nothing in the records to indicate that anything out of the ordinary will happen. A bus will take them to the mall. They will have an hour or so to look around. Perhaps buy something, or try their...
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Blood and Iron

Jon Sprunk · Pyr
Pages: 427
Format: Paperback

This action-heavy EPIC FANTASY SERIES OPENER is like a sword-and-sorcery Spartacus set in a richly-imagined world.It starts with a shipwreck following a magical storm at sea. Horace, a soldier from the west, had joined the Great Crusade against the heathens of Akeshia after the deaths of his wife...
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Babylon's Ashes

James S.A. Corey · Orbit
Pages: 538
Format: Print book

The sixth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series from Syfy A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled...
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The Suicide Motor Club

Christopher Buehlman · Berkley Books
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

"Rising horror star"* Christopher Buehlman, author of The Lesser Dead, returns with a chilling and thrilling tale of dark evil lurking on the lonely, open road... Bram Stoker, quoting the ballad "Lenore," said, "The dead travel fast." Those words have never...
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Recluce Tales: Stories from the World of Recluce

L E Jr Modesitt · Tor
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

For over a thousand years, Order and Chaos have molded the island of Recluce. The Saga of Recluce chronicles the history of this world through eighteen books, L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s longest and bestselling fantasy series.Recluce Tales: Stories from the World of Recluce collects seventeen...
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Void Star: A Novel

Zachary Mason · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortalityNot far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous...
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The Elusive Elixir

Gigi Pandian · Midnight Ink
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Dorian Robert-Houdin, the three-and-a-half-foot gargoyle chef who fancies himself a modern-day Poirot, is slowly turning into stone, and it's up to Zoe Faust to unravel the alchemical secrets that can save him. When they discover that a long-lost stone gargoyle with a connection to Dorian...
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D'Arc

ROBERT REPINO · Soho Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The startling saga of Mort(e) continues . . .In the aftermath of the War With No Name, the Colony has been defeated, its queen lies dead, and the world left behind will never be the same. In her madness, the queen used a strange technology to uplift the surface animals, turning dogs...
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