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The Nightjar

Deborah Hewitt · Tor Books
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt is a stunning contemporary fantasy debut about another London, a magical world hidden behind the bustling modern city we know.

Alice Wyndham has been plagued by visions of birds her whole life...until the mysterious Crowley reveals that Alice...

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The Warrior Moon

K Arsenault Rivera · Tor Books
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

The Warrior Moon, the sequel to The Phoenix Empress and striking conclusion to K Arsenault Rivera's wildly buzzed about epic fantasy, which began with The Tiger's Daughter

Barsalayaa Shefali, famed Qorin adventurer, and the spoiled divine warrior empress, O-Shizuka,...

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To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Becky Chambers · Harper Voyager
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

A stand-alone science fiction novella from the award-winning, bestselling, critically-acclaimed author of the Wayfarer series.

At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts...

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Chilling Effect

Valerie Valdes · Harper Voyager
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.

Captain Eva Innocente and the crew...

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The Last Astronaut

David Wellington · Orbit
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth's last astronaut--and last hope--in this gripping near-future thriller where a mission to make first contact becomes a terrifying struggle for survival in the depths of space.
Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended...
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Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir · Tor.com
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A USA Today Best-Selling Novel!

"Unlike anything I've ever read. " -- V.E. Schwab

"Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!" -- Charles Stross

"Brilliantly original, messy and weird straight through." -- NPR

The...

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The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alix E. Harrow · Redhook
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."--Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boys
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery...
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The Future of Another Timeline

Annalee Newitz · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The Future of Another Timeline is a dark thriller from Annalee Newitz, the founding editor of io9, about the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love. In a modern-day United States that's just a step away from our own, time travel is possible. But a secret war is brewing...

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The Wolf's Call

Anthony Ryan · Ace
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

VAELIN AL SORNA RETURNS

Anthony Ryan's debut novel Blood Song - the first book of the Raven's Shadow series - took the fantasy world by storm. Now, he continues that saga with The Wolf's Call, which begins a thrilling new story of razor-sharp action and epic adventure.

Peace...
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Gamechanger

L. X. Beckett · Tor Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

Neuromancer meets Star Trek in Gamechanger, a fantastic new book from award-winning author L. X. Beckett.

First there was the Setback.

Then came the Clawback.

Now we thrive.

Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation....

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The First Girl Child

Amy Harmon · 47North
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a breathtaking fantasy of a cursed kingdom, warring clans, and unexpected salvation.

Bayr of Saylok, bastard son of a powerful and jealous chieftain, is haunted by the curse once leveled by his dying mother. Bartered, abandoned,...

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A Trick of Light

Stan Lee · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Book

Nia, a gifted but desperately lonely hacker, is living in isolation with her strict single dad. As a social-media maven, she is wildly popular and has more than a million friends. But they are all strangers who love her posts but know nothing about her that is real.

Cameron...

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Spaceside

Michael Mammay · Harper Voyager
Pages: 368
Format: Mass Market Paperback

From the author of Planetside, a Best Book of 2018 (Library Journal)

A military legend is caught in the web between alien intrigue and human subterfuge ...

Following his mission on Cappa, Colonel Carl Butler returns to a mixed...

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The Nobody People: A Novel

Bob Proehl · Del Rey
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

When a group of outcasts with extraordinary abilities comes out of hiding, their clash with a violent society will spark a revolution - or an apocalypse.

Avi Hirsch has always known his daughter was different. But when others with incredible, otherworldly gifts reveal themselves...
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Steel Crow Saga

Paul Krueger · Del Rey
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Four destinies collide in a unique fantasy world of war and wonders, where empire is won with enchanted steel and magical animal companions fight alongside their masters in battle.

"Pokémon combined with Avatar: The Last Airbender . . . clever, stylish, and gloriously...
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A Hero Born: A Novel

Jin Yong · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The epic Chinese classic and phenomenon published in the US for the first time!

A fantastical generational saga and kung fu epic, A Hero Born is the classic novel of its time, stretching from the Song Empire (China 1200 AD) to the appearance...

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Dahlia Black: A Novel

Keith Thomas · Atria/Leopoldo & Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

For fans of World War Z and the Southern Reach Trilogy, a suspenseful oral history commemorating the five-year anniversary of the Pulse - the alien code that hacked the DNA of Earth's population - and the response team who faced the world-changing phenomenon.

Voyager 1 was a message...
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Medusa in the Graveyard: Book Two of the Medusa Cycle

Emily Devenport · Tor Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Medusa in the Graveyard is the action-packed, science fiction sequel to Emily Devenport's Medusa Uploaded.

Oichi Angelis, former Worm, along with her fellow insurgents on the generation starship Olympia, head deeper into the Charon System for the planet called...

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A Little Hatred

Joe Abercrombie · Orbit
Pages: 640
Format: Book

From New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie comes the first book in a new blockbuster fantasy trilogy where the age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die.
The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities....

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The Eagle Has Landed: 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction

Neil Clarke · Night Shade
Pages: 600
Format: Paperback

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, the endlessly-mysterious moon is explored in this reprint short science fiction anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld, The Best Science Fiction of the Year) .

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A Song for a New Day

· Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.

In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit...
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The Border Keeper

Kerstin Hall · Tor.com
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

"Beautifully and vividly imagined. Eerie, lovely, and surreal" -- Ann Leckie

She lived where the railway tracks met the saltpan, on the Ahri side of the shadowline. In the old days, when people still talked about her, she was known as the end-of-the-line woman.

In...

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Age of Legend

Michael J. Sullivan · Grim Oak Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Each culture has its own myths and legends, but only one is shared, and it is feared by all.

With Age of Myth, Age of Swords, and Age of War, fantasy master Michael J. Sullivan riveted readers with a tale of unlikely heroes locked in a desperate battle to save mankind. After years...

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The Unkindest Tide

Seanan McGuire · DAW
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Now in hardcover, the thirteenth novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-bestselling Toby Daye urban fantasy series!

Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would...
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Medusa Uploaded: A Novel

Emily Devenport · Tor Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Medusa Uploaded by Emily Devenport offers readers a fast-paced science fiction thriller on the limits of power and control, and the knife-edge between killing for revenge or a greater good.

Vulture -- 10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2018
io9 -- 28 New Scifi...

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The Harp of Kings

Juliet Marillier · Ace
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

A young woman is both a bard--and a warrior--in this thrilling historical fantasy from the author of the Sevenwaters novels.

Eighteen-year-old Liobhan is a powerful singer and an expert whistle player. Her brother has a voice to melt the hardest heart, and is a rare talent on the harp....
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