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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel

Neal Stephenson · William Morrow
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern...
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The Day After Gettysburg

ROBERT CONROY · Baen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

New Alternate History from a Master of the Form: Robert Conroy was an unalloyed master of alternate history. Now, J.R. Dunn completes one of his final novels.LEE STRIKES BACK! After a terrible setback at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee does not retreat across the Potomac and his ultimate...
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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 Dispatcher

John Scalzi · Subterranean Press
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life. Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher - a licensed, bonded professional whose...
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The Queen of Blood: Book One of The Queens of Renthia

SARAH BETH DURST · Harper Voyager
Pages: 416
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Everything has a spirit: the willow tree with leaves that kiss the pond, the stream that feeds the river, the wind that exhales fresh snow ... But the spirits that reside within this land want to rid it of all humans. One woman stands between these malevolent spirits and the end of humankind:...
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Good Morning, Midnight: A Novel

Lily Brooks-Dalton · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

For readers of Station Eleven and The Martian, Lily Brooks-Dalton's haunting debut is the unforgettable story of two outsiders - a lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Earth - as they grapple with love, regret, and survival in a world transformed. Augustine,...
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Spaceman of Bohemia

Jaroslav Kalfar · Little
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discoveryOrphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Procházka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut. When a dangerous solo mission to Venus offers him both...
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The Dragons of Heaven

Alyc Helms · Angry Robot
Pages: 413
Format: Print book

Street magician Missy Masters inherited more than the usual genetic cocktail from her estranged grandfather. She also got his preternatural control of shadow and his legacy as the vigilante hero, Mr Mystic. Problem is, being a pulp hero takes more than a good fedora and a knack for witty...
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