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Future Home of the Living God: A Novel

LOUISE ERDRICH · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.The world...
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Rough Justice

KELLEY ARMSTRONG · Subterranean
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Mallt-y-Nos. Matilda of the Hunt. The lone woman who rides with the Wild Hunt, tasked with finding killers who've escaped justice and letting the hounds reap their souls. For Olivia Taylor-Jones, Matilda isn't just a legendary figure from Welsh lore. She is Olivia's past, and her future,...
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The Spark

David Drake · Baen
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

NEW STANDALONE NOVEL BY SF MASTER DAVID DRAKE. In a violent world in which civilization has fallen and monsters roam, a young hero will rise.In the time of the Ancients the universe was united - but that was so far in the past that not even memory remains, only the broken artifacts that...
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Gather Her Round: A Novel of the Tufa

Alex Bledsoe · Tor Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In Cloud County, where music and Tufa, the otherworldly fae community, intermix, a monster roams the forest, while another kind of evil lurks in the hearts of men."Beautifully written, surprisingly moving, and unexpected in the best of ways." -- Seanan McGuire, New York Times...
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Doctor Who: The Shining Man

CAVAN SCOTT · BBC Digital
Pages: 256
Format: eBook

"Being scared is the least of your worries."The Shining Men are everywhere. You spot them out of the corner of your eye. Abnormally tall, with long lank hair, blank faces and blazing eyes. If they catch you, they'll drag you away to who knows where. No one is safe. They're...
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Gather the Daughters: A Novel

JENNIE MELAMED · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover

NEVER LET ME GO meets THE GIVER in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.A New York Magazine best book of the monthA Real Simple best book of the monthPeople Magazine's Book of the WeekYears ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland,...
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The Infinite Future

Tim Wirkus · Penguin Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An exhilarating, original novel, set in Brazil, Idaho, and outer space, about an obsessive librarian, a down-at-heel author, and a disgraced historian who go on the hunt for a mystical, life-changing book--and find it. The Infinite Future is a mindbending novel that melds two page-turning...
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Malice of Crows

Lila Bowen · Orbit
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The sequel to Conspiracy of Ravens and third novel in Lila Bowen's widely-acclaimed Shadow series.
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Apocalypse Nyx

KAMERON HURLEY · Tachyon Publications
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Move over Mad Max -- here comes Nyx.Ex-government assassin turned bounty-hunter, Nyx, is good at solving other people's problems. Her favorite problem-solving solution is punching people in the face. Then maybe chopping off some heads. Hey -- it's a living. Her disreputable reputation...
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The Crimson King

GRAHAM MCNEILL · Games Workshop
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

Broken by the destruction of their home world Prospero at the hands of the Space Wolves Legion, Magnus the Red and the Thousand Sons retreat into the Eye of Terror. Is there any way for the Crimson King to rise again?After the razing of Prospero, Magnus the Red spirited the Thousand Sons...
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The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

J R R TOLKIEN · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Unavailable for more than seventy years, this early but important work is published for the first time with Tolkien's "Corrigan" poems and other supporting material, including a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien. Set 'In Britain's land beyond the seas' during the Age of Chivalry,...
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The Cloven Viscount

Italo Calvino · Mariner Books
Pages: 115
Format: Paperback

In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bisected lengthwise by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate...
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The Wild Dead

Carrie Vaughn · John Joseph Adams/Mariner Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

A Mariner Original Mysteries and murder abound in the sequel to Carrie Vaughn's post-apocalyptic mystery Bannerless. A century after environmental and economic collapse, the people of the Coast Road have rebuilt their own sort of civilization, striving not to make the mistakes their...
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The Clockwork Dynasty: A Novel

Daniel H Wilson · Doubleday Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An ingenious new thriller that weaves a path through history, following a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries, written by the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient...
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The Story Peddler

LINDSAY A FRANKLIN · Enclave
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Selling stories is a deadly businessTanwen doesn't just tell stories--she weaves them into crystallized sculptures that sell for more than a few bits. But the only way to escape the control of her cruel mentor and claw her way from poverty is to set her sights on something grander:...
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