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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

PHILIP K DICK · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The Inspiration for the Upcoming TV Show Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, over the course of his career Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams collects ten of the best...
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The Red: First Light

Linda Nagata · Saga Press
Format: Hardcover

Reality TV and advanced technology make for high drama in this political thriller that combines the military action of Zero Dark Thirty with the classic science fiction of The Forever War. Lieutenant James Shelley, who has an uncanny knack for premeditating danger, leads a squad of advanced...
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Binti

Nnedi Okorafor · Tor.com
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

"Prepare to fall in love with Binti." -- Neil GaimanWinner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novella!Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy....
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Morningside Fall: Legends of the Duskwalker

Jay Posey · Angry Robot
Pages: 510
Format: Paperback

Second in the Tales of the Duskwalker series.The lone gunman Three is gone. Wren is the new governor of the devastated settlement of Morningside, but there is turmoil in the city. When his life is put in danger, Wren is forced to flee Morningside until he and his retinue can determine who can be trusted....
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Back into the Cubeworld: A Minecraft Novel

Karl Olsberg · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Kindle Edition

At first, everything seems all right when Marco wakes up from his coma and is finally allowed to go to school again. But where is Amely, who should have long since been back from her vacation? And why is he having strange visions of Minecraft time and again? As he struggles to keep his grip...
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Jagannath

Karin Tidbeck · Vintage
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

An award-winning debut story collection by Karin Tidbeck, author of Amatka and heir to Borges, Le Guin, and Lovecraft.A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time. Welcome to the weird world of Karin Tidbeck,...
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Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction

James E Gunn · McFarland
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback

Hugo Award winning writer James Gunn (1923-) has been called "the last Golden Age author" of science fiction. In a career of almost 70 years, he has written 28 books and dozens of short stories and participated in the production of films, radio and television programs and comic...
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The Mercy Journals

Claudia Casper · Arsenal Pulp Press
Pages: 234
Format: Print book

This unsettling novel is set thirty years in the future, in the wake of a third world war. Runaway effects of climate change have triggered the collapse of nation/states and wiped out over a third of the global population. One of the survivors, a former soldier nicknamed Mercy, suffers...
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Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction

Suzanne Church · Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Format: Paperback

Award winning author Suzanne Churchs cast of distinct characters asks quotWhat ifquot in this collection of science fiction fantasy and horror short fiction Can humanity survive an ice age Will the storm man steal Wandas baby When will Bob and Sebbee escape the relentless march of the Lost...
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Shadow of Victory

David Weber · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

The Mesan Alignment is revealed, and, for Honor Harrington and the Manticoran Star Kingdom, this means war!Unintended Consequences Sometimes things don't work out exactly as planned. The Mesan Alignment has a plan - one it's been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically...
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The Wrath of a Shipless Pirate

Aaron Pogue · 47North
Pages: 295
Format: Paperback

Foully betrayed and left to die alone in the tomb of a dead god, Corin Hugh has emerged victorious from an unexpected quest, hungry for revenge and sporting strange new powers. He soon sees the perfect chance to right the wrong that was done to him and rescue an innocent victim in the process....
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Women of Karantina: A Novel

Nael Eltoukhy · The American University in Cairo Press; Tra edition
Format: Book

Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station. Fugitives, friendless, their young lives blighted at the root, Ali and Injy set about rebuilding, and from the coastal city's arid...
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Supersymmetry

David Walton · Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pages: 303
Format: Print book

When physicist Ryan Oronzi's development of military applications of Higgs projector technology leads to the return of the varcolac, which seeks to destroy human life, Sandra and Alex Kelley strive to defeat it.
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Infinite Rooms

David John Griffin · Urbane Publications
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

While narrating to a remembered psychiatrist, Donald Clement's inner reality becomes infused with surreal fantasy: Neptune rising from the sea; a giant showing the wonders of the universe; an incredible stranger who promises to reveal the secrets of infinity. As Donald falls deeper...
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Ice: 50th Anniversary Edition

Anna Kavan · Penguin Classics
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

A dazzling and haunting vision of the end of the world, Ice is a masterpiece of literary science fiction now in a new 50th anniversary edition with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem In a frozen, apocalyptic landscape, destruction abounds: great walls of ice overrun the world and secretive...
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