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The Brink: An Awakened Novel

James S Murray - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

The sequel to the international bestseller (including #1 Sunday Times bestseller) Awakened, by one of the stars of TruTV's Impractical Jokers and a bestselling science fiction author.Former NYC Mayor Tom Cafferty has been haunted by the horror of a single day....
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Winds of Marque

Bennett R. Coles - Harper Voyager
Format: Paperback

The first novel in an exciting science fiction series - Master and Commander in space - a swashbuckling space adventure in which a crew of misfit individuals in the king's navy are sent to dismantle a dangerous ring of pirate raiders. In a dense star cluster, the solar winds blow fiercely....
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Children of Ruin

Adrian Tchaikovsky - Orbit
Format: Paperback

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their...
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The Luminous Dead: A Novel

Caitlin Starling - Harper Voyager
Format: Paperback

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival.When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition,...
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Polaris Rising: A Novel

Jessie Mihalik - Harper Voyager
Format: Paperback

A space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure - the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy.In the far distant future, the universe is officially ruled by the Royal Consortium, but the High Councillors,...
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Pass of Fire

Taylor Anderson - Ace
Format: Hardcover

After being transported to a strange alternate Earth, Matt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker have learned desperate times call for desperate measures, in the return to the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.Time is running out for the Grand Human and Lemurian...
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The Municipalists: A Novel

Seth Fried - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders--one human, one AI--on an adventure to save the great American city of Metropolis written by "one of the most exciting new voices in fiction" (Charles Yu) *Named one of the best books of the month by Library Journal...
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Theater of Spies (A Novel of an Alternate World War Book 2)

S M Stirling - Ace
Format: Hardcover

The second novel in an alternate history series where Teddy Roosevelt is president once more right before WWI breaks out, and on his side is the Black Chamber, a secret spy network watching Americas back. After foiling a German plot to devastate Americas coastal cities from Boston to Galveston,...
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Tiamat's Wrath

JAMES S A COREY - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

The eighth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Tiamat's Wrath finds the crew of the Rocinante fighting an underground war against a nearly invulnerable authoritarian empire, with James Holden a prisoner of the enemy. Now a Prime Original series.Thirteen hundred...
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Thrawn: Alliances (Star Wars)

Timothy Zahn - Random House Audio
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Number-one New York Times Best SellerGrand Admiral Thrawn and Darth Vader team up against a threat to the Empire in this thrilling novel from best-selling author Timothy Zahn. "I have sensed a disturbance in the Force." Ominous words under any circumstances, but all the more so when...
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A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

Victor LaValle - One World
Format: Paperback

A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America - from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more. In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many...
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Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert - Ace
Format: Paperback

Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles - the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All TimeDune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known - and feared - as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever...
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Triumphant

Jack Campbell - Ace
Format: Hardcover

A young fleet officer and a Marine must stand together to defend their neighbors and their colony in this return to the powerful and action-packed Genesis Fleet saga from New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell. The recently colonized world of Glenlyon has learned that they're...
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Atlas Alone

Emma Newman - Ace
Format: Paperback

Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about vengeance and the lengths to which one will go to save the future of humanity.Six months after she left, Dee is struggling to manage her rage toward the people who ordered the nuclear strike...
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If, Then: A Novel

Kate Hope Day - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the family-driven suspense of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere with the inventive storytelling of The Immortalists. In the quiet haven of Clearing,...
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The City in the Middle of the Night

Charlie Anders - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Entertainment Weekly's 27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right Now All the Birds in the Sky -- Winner of the 2017 Nebula Award for Best NovelAll the Birds in the Sky -- Finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel"If you control our sleep,...
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Last Tango in Cyberspace

Steven Kotler - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler crafts a near-future thriller about the evolution of empathy. Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn is the first of his kind -- an empathy tracker, an emotional...
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The Hive

Orson Scott Card - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic...
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Night Fall

Simon R Green - Ace
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Moonbreaker comes the epic final Secret Histories adventure, where the Droods will take on the most unexpected of enemies: the inhabitants of the Nightside.The Droods are all about control, making people do what they're told for the greater...
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Luna: Moon Rising

Ian McDonald - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

The continuing saga of the Five Dragons, Ian McDonald's fast-paced, intricately plotted space opera pitched as Game of Thrones meets The ExpanseA hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons -- five families that control the Moon's leading industrial companies....
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The Gordian Protocol

David Weber - Baen
Format: Hardcover

NEW STANDALONE NOVEL FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE HONOR HARRINGTON SERIES, DAVID WEBERA Man of Two Worlds Doctor Benjamin Schroder was far from a man of action. In fact, he was a history teacher - Chairman of the Castle Rock University history department...
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Reentry

Peter Cawdron - John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

After almost dying on Mars, astronaut Liz Anderson returns to Earth, but not to a hero's welcome. America is in turmoil. The war is over, but the insurgency has just begun. So while life on Mars may have been deadly, at least up there she knew who the enemy was. Along with her, Liz has brought...
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By Fire Above: A Signal Airship Novel

ROBYN BENNIS - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

By Fire Above is the rip-roaring new adventure in Robyn Bennis's Signal Airship military fantasy series that Patricia Briggs hails as "full of sass and terrific characters.""All's fair in love and war," according to airship captain Josette Dupre, until her hometown...
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Endgames (The Imager Portfolio Book 12)

L. E. Modesitt Jr. - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Endgames is the stunning final volume in L. E. Modesitt, Jrs, New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series the Imager Portfolio, and the fourth book in the story arc that began with Madness in Solidar through Treacherys Tools and Assassins Price.. Solidar is in chaos.. Charyn, the young...
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A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

"A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it." -- Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary JusticeAmbassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system...
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To Clear Away the Shadows

David Drake - Baen
Format: Hardcover

NEW ENTRY IN DAVID DRAKE'S LANDMARK RCN SERIESADVENTURES BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE The truce between Cinnabar and the Alliance is holding, and the Republic of Cinnabar Navy is able to explore regions of the galaxy without the explorers being swept up in great power conflict....
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Medusa Uploaded: A Novel

Emily Devenport - Tor Books
Format: Paperback

Medusa Uploaded by Emily Devenport offers readers a fast-paced science fiction thriller on the limits of power and control, and the knife-edge between killing for revenge or a greater good.Vulture -- 10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2018io9 -- 28 New Scifi and Fantasy...
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HALO: Renegades

Kelly Gay - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback

An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!Find. Claim. Profit. In a post-Covenant War galaxy littered with scrap, it's the salvager's motto - and Rion Forge certainly made her mark on the trade. All she wanted...
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The Wall: A Novel

John Lanchester - W. W. Norton & Company
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, has one task:...
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Where the Forest Meets the Stars

Glendy Vanderah - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

An Amazon Charts bestseller.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined...
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Space Opera

Catherynne M Valente - Saga Press
Format: Hardcover

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Eurovision in an over-the-top science fiction spectacle from bestselling author Catherynne Valente has galaxies competing for glory in a universe-wide musical contest--where the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth. A century ago, the Sentience...
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The Chaos Function

Jack Skillingstead - John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

For readers of the bestselling novels Sleeping Giants and Dark Matter, an intense, highstakes thriller with a sciencefiction twist that asks: If technology enabled you to save the life of someone you love, would you do so even if it might doom millions Olivia Nikitas, a hardened...
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The Warship: Rise of the Jain, Book Two

Neal Asher - Night Shade
Format: Hardcover

The dangers of ancient technology loom over the Polity in the sequel to The Soldier, Neal Asher's latest action-packed space opera series. The haiman Orlandine, charged with safeguarding lethal Jain tech swirling inside an accretion disc located in the distant reaches of space, has weaponized...
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Liaden Universe Constellation IV

Sharon Lee - Baen
Format: Paperback

BOOK 4 in the multivolume Liaden Universe short fiction collection. Tales of the Liaden Universe brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans.For more than thirty years, the Liaden Universe novels by Sharon...
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Fleet of Knives: An Embers of War novel

Gareth L. Powell - Titan Books
Format: Paperback

From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell, the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series.The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's Ghost....
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The Light Brigade

Kameron Hurley - Saga Press
Format: Hardcover

From the Hugo Award-winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars.They said the war would turn us into light. I wanted...
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Year of the Orphan: A Novel

Daniel Findlay - Arcade
Format: Hardcover

The Road meets Mad Max in this stunning debut - also for fans of Station 11, The Passage, and Riddley Walker.In a post-apocalyptic future where survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian Outback for spoils from a buried civilization, a girl races across the desert, holding her treasures...
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Alphabet Squadron (Star Wars)

Alexander Freed - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

The first novel in a new trilogy starring veteran New Republic pilots! On the verge of victory in a brutal war, five New Republic pilots transform from hunted to hunters in this epic Star Wars adventure. Set after Return of the Jedi, Alphabet Squadron follows a unique team, each flying...
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Doctor Who Meets Scratchman

Tom Baker - Penguin Group UK
Format: Hardcover

In his first-ever Doctor Who novel, Tom Baker's incredible imagination is given free rein. A story so epic it was originally intended for the big screen, Scratchman is a gripping, white-knuckle thriller almost forty years in the making. The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane Smith arrive...
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Dark Imperium Plague War

Guy Haley - Games Workshop
Format: Paperback

Intent on rebuilding Ultramar, the returned primarch Roboute Guilliman wages war on the treacherous Death Guard - but the intervention of a greater power threatens all he works for.In the void and upon the worlds of Greater Ultramar, the battle for the Imperium continues. Intent on rebuilding...
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Why We Love Star Wars: The Great Moments That Built A Galaxy Far, Far Away

Ken Napzok - Mango
Format: Paperback

#1 Amazon Best Seller! Rediscover All the Reasons Why You Love Star WarsCelebrate the greatest saga ever told: All of us who are deeply influenced by the epic saga of Star Wars have our favorite moments. Each time the screen goes black and you see those words -- "A Long Time Ago,...
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The Heads of Cerberus

Francis Stevens - ‎Modern Library; First Edition
Format: Paperback

A rediscovered classic of science fiction, set in a dystopian twenty-second-century society where the winner takes all, a precursor to The Hunger Games by...
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Available Light

Dayton Ward - Pocket Books/Star Trek
Format: Paperback

The past comes back to haunt Captain Jean-Luc Picard in this brand new thriller set in the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation.Section 31, the covert organization which has operated without accountability in the shadows for more than two centuries, has been exposed. Throughout the Federation,...
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Voices of the Fall

John Ringo - ‎Baen
Format: Hardcover

STORIES SET IN JOHN RINGOS BEST-SELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES. The zombie apocalypse is here in these all-new stories from John Ringo, Sarah A. Hoyt, Michael Z. Williamson, Jody Lynn Nye, Travis S. Taylor,...
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization

Greg Keyes - Titan Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The official novelization of the summer blockbuster Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the latest film in the MonsterVerseTM franchise, starring Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, with Ken Watanabe and Ziyi Zhang.Godzilla: King of the Monsters follows the heroic...
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Ancestral Night

Elizabeth Bear - Saga Press
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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