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Ancestral Night

Elizabeth Bear · Saga Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from multi award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.

Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually....
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The Predator: Hunters And Hunted Official Movie Prequel

JAMES A MOORE · Titan Books
Pages: 322
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The official prequel leading directly into THE PREDATOR, available the film and introducing key concepts that then will explode onto the screen in the movie.The official prequel novel leads into the summer blockbuster The Predator, Shane Black's new movie set within the universe of the previous...
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The Prey of Gods

NICKY DRAYDEN · Harper Voyager
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor....

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Aliens: Bug Hunt

Jonathan Maberry · Titan Books (UK)
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Eighteen brand new stories - exclusive to this collection - featuring the Colonial Marines in bloody conflict with the deadly Aliens. ALIENS: BUG HUNT will send the marines into deep space, to alien worlds, to derelict space settlements, and into the nests of the universe's most dangerous...
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Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones

BALLANTINE. · Bantam
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO's Game of Thrones.

With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally bestselling author George R. R. Martin,...
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The Wall: A Novel

John Lanchester · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time.

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall -- an enormous concrete barrier around its entire border. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender,...

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The Delirium Brief: A Laundry Files Novel

CHARLES STROSS · Tor.com
Pages: 381
Format: Hardcover

"Smart, literate, funny." -- Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians

Someone is dead set to air the spy agency's dirty laundry in The Delirium Brief, the next installment to Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning comedic dark fantasy Laundry Files series!

Bob...

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Strange Music: A Pip & Flinx Adventure

ALAN DEAN FOSTER · Del Rey
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover

Unlikely duo Pip and Flinx return to right another wrong in this all-new sci-fi adventure from one of the genre's living legends.

Fans of fun, fast-paced, imaginative science fiction adventure, rejoice! #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to his much-loved...
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Things that Fall from the Sky

Selja Ahava · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

One quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction ... Things that Fall from the Sky is a stunning narrative that explores the unexpected and inexplicable nature of reality. Three lives are changed forever by a series of random events: a young girl loses her mother...
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The Spider

Leo Carew · Orbit
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Control of the land under the Northern Sky rests in the balance as two fierce races collide in the sequel to The Wolf, a thrilling and savagely visceral epic fantasy from Leo Carew, an author who "will remind readers of George R. R. Martin, David Gemmell, or . . . Joe Abercrombie."...
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Worlds of the Imperium

Keith Laumer · Dover Publications
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

American diplomat Brion Bayard is on assignment in Stockholm when he notices he's being shadowed. Before he can escape, Bayard is kidnapped and transported to a parallel universe: the Imperium, where history has taken a different turn and the British Empire and its allies rule the world....
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House of Assassins

Larry Correia · Baen
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

LARRY CORREIA'S BEST-SELLING EPIC FANTASY SERIES, SAGA OF THE FORGOTTEN WARRIOR, CONTINUES.

Ashok Vidal was once a member of the highest caste in all of Lok. As a Protector, he devoted his life to upholding the Law, rooting out those who still practiced the old ways and delivering...
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The Expert System's Brother

Adrian Tchaikovsky · Tor.com
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Bestselling British master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky brings readers a new, mind-expanding science fantasia in The Expert System's BrotherAfter an unfortunate accident, Handry is forced to wander a world he doesn't understand, searching for meaning. He soon discovers...
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Muck: A Novel

Deror Bursht?ain · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

"Those who lament that the novel has lost its prophecy should pay heed and cover-price: Muck is the future, both of Jerusalem and of literature. God is showing some rare good taste, by choosing to speak to us through Dror Burstein." -- Joshua Cohen, author of Moving Kings and Book...
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They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded

James Alan Gardner · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Award-winning author James Alan Gardner returns to the superheroic fantasy world of All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault with They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded.Only days have passed since a freak accident granted four college students superhuman powers. Now Jools...
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