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The Top of the Volcano: the Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison · Subterranean
Format: Hardcover

''Only connect,'' E.M. Forster famously said, and Harlan Ellison was canny enough to make that the lifeblood of his achievement from the get-go.New, fresh and different is tricky in the storytelling business, as rare as diamonds, but, as a born storyteller, Harlan made story...
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Poseidon's Wake

Alastair Reynolds · Ace Books
Pages: 608
Format: Print book

"Few SF writers merge rousing adventure with advanced futuristic technology as skillfully as Alastair Reynolds" (Toronto Star) , the award-winning author of On the Steel Breeze. In the conclusion of his Poseidon's Children saga, the Akinya family receives an invitation from...
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A Plunder of Souls

D. B. Jackson · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Boston, 1769: Ethan Kaille, a Boston thieftaker who uses his conjuring to catch criminals, has snared villains and defeated magic that would have daunted a lesser man. What starts out as a mysterious phenomenon that has local ministers confused becomes something far more serious. A ruthless,...
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A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World

Rachel Cantor · Melville House
Pages: 249
Format: Paperback

"Cosmic and comic, full of philosophy, mysticism and celestial whimsy. Both profoundly wild and wildly profound." - Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional UniverseIn the not-too-distant future, competing giant fast food factions rule the world. Leonard...
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War Dogs

Greg Bear · Orbit Us
Pages: 291
Format: Print book

AN EPIC INTERSTELLAR TALE OF WAR FROM A MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION.
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I Shot the Buddha

Colin Cotterill · Soho Crime
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders - and the ungodly motives behind themLaos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result, they share their small...
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Son of No One

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In Son of No One, next in the blockbuster The Dark-Hunters series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, it's not easy being life's own personal joke, but Josette Landry has made an unstable peace with the beast. Completely down on her luck, Josette takes a job with a local paranormal group as a photographer...
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The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel

Norman Lock · Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Paperback

“Make[s] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone.” —SCOTT SIMON, NPR Weekend Edition“Brilliant. . . . The Boy in His Winter is a glorious meditation on justice, truth, loyalty, story, and the alchemical effects of love, a reminder of our capacity...
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The Forgotten Room: A Novel

Lincoln Child · Doubleday Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A LONG-LOST EXPERIMENT OF UNGUESSABLE INTENT A SECRET ROOM, INGENIOUSLY HIDDEN INSIDE A VAST SEACOAST MANSION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LINCOLN CHILD AT HIS RIVETING BESTProfessor Jeremy Logan (the quirky and charismatic "enigmalogist" who specializes in solving problems...
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Broken Homes: A Rivers of London Novel

Ben Aaronovitch · DAW Books, Inc.
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback

My name is Peter Grant, and I am a keeper of the secret flame -- whatever that is.Truth be told, there's a lot I still don't know. My superior Nightingale, previously the last of England's wizardly governmental force, is trying to teach me proper schooling for a magician's...
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Souljacker: A Lily Bound Novel

Yasmine Galenorn · Diversion Publishing
Pages: 268
Format: Print book

"Yasmine Galenorn is a powerhouse author; a master of the craft who is taking the industry by storm, and for good reason!" -- Maggie Shayne, New York Times bestselling author Lily O'Connell, a succubus, owns Lily Bound, an elite sex salon in the Blood Night District of Seattle....
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Archangel

Margaret Fortune · DAW
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Archangel is the second installment of the explosive, pulse-pounding Spectre War science fiction series.An enemy you can't kill. A soldier who can't fight. An interstellar war that can't be won - until now.As a soldier of the Celestial Expanse, Guardian First Class Michael Sorenson...
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The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma

Brian Herbert · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A revolution has taken over the government of the United States and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. Its a bright, green new world. But this new world comes with a great cost. The United States is ruled by a dictatorship and the corporations are fighting...
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Invasion

Luke Rhinehart · Titan Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Luke Rhinehart is the acclaimed author of eight works of fiction, of which the best known is The Dice Man, a comic novel about a psychiatrist's discovery that the secret of human fulfilment and happiness is to turn over decision-making to chance in the form of listing options and casting...
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