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The Chaos Function

Jack Skillingstead · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

For readers of the best‑selling novels Sleeping Giants and Dark Matter, an intense, high‑stakes thriller with a science‑fiction twist that asks: If technology enabled you to save the life of someone you love, would you do so even if it might doom millions?
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The Time Collector

Gwendolyn Womack · Picador
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

A thrilling page-turner from Gwendolyn Womack, the USA Today bestselling author of The Fortune Teller

Travel through time with the touch of a hand.

Roan West was born with an extraordinary gift: he can relive memories across centuries and glean history...

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The Problem of Susan and Other Stories

Neil Gaiman · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

From Hugo, Eisner, Newbery, Harvey, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning author Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell (The Sandman, The Giver) , Scott Hampton (American Gods) , and Paul...
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Velocity Weapon

Megan E. O'Keefe · Orbit
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback

Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in Velocity Weapon, the first book in this epic space opera by award-winning author Megan O'Keefe.
Sanda and Biran Greeve were siblings destined for greatness. A high-flying sergeant, Sanda has the skills to take...
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Titanshade

· DAW
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

This noir fantasy thriller from a debut author introduces the gritty town of Titanshade, where danger lurks around every corner.

Carter's a homicide cop in Titanshade, an oil boomtown where 8-tracks are state of the art, disco rules the radio, and all the best sorcerers wear designer...
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Finder

Suzanne Palmer · DAW
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From Hugo Award-winning debut author Suzanne Palmer comes an action-packed sci-fi caper starring Fergus Ferguson, interstellar repo man and professional finder

Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder.
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War of the Spark: Forsaken

Greg Weisman · Del Rey
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Return to the multiverse of Magic: The Gathering as the hunt for Liliana Vess is on in the aftermath of the War of the Spark.

The Planeswalkers have defeated Nicol Bolas and saved the Multiverse - though at grave cost. The living have been left to pick up the pieces and mourn...
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The Outside

Ada Hoffmann · Angry Robot
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Humanity's super-intelligent AI Gods brutally punish breaches in reality, as one young scientist discovers, in this intense and brilliant space opera.

Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates...
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Alien Archives: Eighteen Stories of Extraterrestrial Encounters

Robert Silverberg · Three Rooms Press
Pages: 404
Format: Paperback

Every day we are discovering new worlds in far-reaching galaxies which may or may not sustain life as we know it. In Alien Archives: Eighteen Stories of Extraterrestrial Encounters, sci-fi Grand Master Robert Silverberg collects his finest short stories and novellas about one of the genre's...
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Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery

Kelley Armstrong · Titan Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Brand-new stories of witches and witchcraft written by popular female fantasy authors, including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon writing in their own bestselling universes!

These are tales of witches, wickedness, evil and cunning. Stories of disruption and subversion...
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Seasons: All-New Tales of Valdemar

Mercedes Lackey · DAW
Pages: 336
Format: Mass Market Paperback

This thirteenth anthology of short stories set in the beloved Valdemar universe features tales by debut and established authors and a brand-new story from Lackey herself.

The Heralds of Valdemar are the kingdom's ancient order of protectors. They are drawn from all across the land,...
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Armed in Her Fashion

KATE HEARTFIELD · ChiZine Publications
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"The novel is written with arresting detail and challenges literary tropes about women. Its roster includes half a dozen complex female characters and one trans male character, all of them captivating, sympathetic, repulsive, flawed, dangerous, selfless, determined, and damaged....

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The New Voices of Science Fiction

Nino Cipri · Tachyon Publications
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

What would you do if your tame worker-bots mutinied? Is your 11 second attention span enough to placate a cranky time-tourist? Would you sell your native language to send your daughter to college?

The avant-garde of science fiction have landed in this space-age sequel to the World...
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Kill Creek

Scott Thomas · Inkshares
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

-Shortlisted for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel

-Winner of the American Library Association's Horror Book of 2017

"Intensely realized and beautifully orchestrated Gothic horror." -- Joyce Carol Oates

"A match...
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The Deepest Blue

Sarah Beth Durst · Harper Voyager
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The natural magic of the classic The Island of the Blue Dolphins meets the danger and courage of The Hunger Games in this dazzling, intricate stand-alone fantasy novel set in award-winning author Sarah Beth Durst's beloved world of Renthia.

Life is precious and precarious on the islands...

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Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope

Darcy Van Poelgeest · Image Comics
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning filmmaker DARCY VAN POELGEEST teams up with Angoulême nominated artist IAN BERTRAM to bring you the highly acclaimed, dystopian sci-fi, LITTLE BIRD.

With the same limitless scope as Star Wars, and the social-political explorations of A Handmaid's Tale, LITTLE BIRD...
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Upon the Flight of the Queen

Howard Andrew Jones · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"A fast-paced adventure combined with an engrossing mystery, all set in a unique and original fantasy world. I can't wait to find out what happens next!" -- Martha Wells, Hugo Award-winning author on For the Killing of Kings

In this sequel to For the Killing...

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Frogcatchers

Jeff Lemire · Gallery 13
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Experience a surreal descent into one man's psychosis in this haunting and chilling graphic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Roughneck and Sweet Tooth, "the Stephen King of comics" (Maclean's) .

A...
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A Parliament of Bodies

Marshall Ryan Maresca · DAW
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Mixing high fantasy and mystery, the third book in the Maradaine Constabulary series follows Inspectors Satrine Rainey and Minox Welling as they track down a dangerous murderer.

The city of Maradaine is vexed by the Gearbox Murders: a series of gruesome deaths orchestrated by a twisted...
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The Cunning Man

D.J. Butler · Baen
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

The demons of the Great Depression are real. The cunning man is here to fight them.

Hiram Woolley is a cunning man.

A witch is someone whose craft is malevolent, someone who curses you. A cunning man is the person who is master of the lore necessary to defend you against...
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Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Ken Liu · Tor Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Broken Stars, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu-- is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Following...

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