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Too Like the Lightning

Ada Palmer - Tor
Format: Print book

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also...
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New York 2140

Kim Stanley Robinson - Orbit
Format: Print book

A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always...
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The Handmaid's Tale

MARGARET ATWOOD - Anchor
Format: Paperback

From the author of Alias Grace and the Maddaddam trilogy: here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction, now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes a new introduction by the author.Offred...
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Ringer

LAUREN OLIVER - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Like its ambitious companion novel, Replica, this far-reaching novel by the powerhouse author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy digs deep into questions of how to be a human being in a world where humanity cannot be taken for granted. In the world outside of the Haven Institute,...
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The Boy on the Bridge

M. R. Carey - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

From the author of USA Today bestseller The Girl With All the Gifts, a terrifying new novel set in the same post-apocalyptic world.Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their...
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Three Years with the Rat: A Novel

Jay Hosking - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

"Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in recent memory." -- Blake Crouch, author of Dark MatterAfter several years of drifting...
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The Dying Game: A Novel

Asa Avdic - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state - for fans of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Dave Eggers' The Circle, and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games Do you live to play? Or play to live?The year is 2037. The Soviet Union never...
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Reincarnation Blues: A Novel

MICHAEL POORE - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself."Tales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaiman's Sandman as penned by a kindred spirit of Douglas Adams." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)...
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Red Sister

Mark Lawrence - Ace
Format: Hardcover

The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show,...
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Six Wakes

Mur Lafferty - Orbit
Format: eBook

Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2018Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel 2018 In this Hugo nominated science fiction thriller by Mur Lafferty, a crew of clones awakens aboard a space ship to find they're being hunted-and any one of them could be the killer.Maria Arena...
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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel

Neal Stephenson - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.When...
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Darkness Falling: Andromedan Dark: Book Two

Ian Douglas - Harper Voyager
Format: Mass Market Paperback

From New York Times Bestselling Author Ian Douglas comes the next chapter in his grand space odyssey, Andromedan Dark, Darkness Falling.Lord Commander Grayson St. Clair has guided the Tellus Ad Astra to a part of the universe no human - and possibly no race known to Man - has ever seen....
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Halo: First Strike (Halo (Tor Paperback))

Eric Nylund - Tor Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Reach fell, and when hope seemed lost, humanity stood face-to-face with the possible extinction of all life in the galaxy and lived to tell the tale. But that was just one epic battle, and the war rages on . . . The Covenant shows no mercy as they continue to assault every human world they...
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The Collapsing Empire

John Scalzi - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

*2018 LOCUS AWARD WINNER OF BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL**2018 HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL*"John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today." -- Joe Hill, author of The FiremanThe first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new...
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Planetfall

Emma Newman - Roc
Format: Print book

From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity's future might be its undoing ... Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal...
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Provenance

Ann Leckie - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

Ann Leckie returns to the world of her record-breaking Imperial Radch trilogy, which won the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards, with an enthralling novel of power, privilege, and birthright.NOMINATED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2018NOMINATED FOR THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE...
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Catalyst

Ballantine. - Del Rey Books
Format: Print book

The must-have prequel novel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - the upcoming film, set before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, that reveals the untold story of the rebel effort to steal the plans to the Death Star!
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The Ship

Antonia Honeywell - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

London is burning and Lalla has one hope for survival, a ship--a new Noah's Ark--that can only save 500 people, in this "Powerful, haunting, and beautiful" (M. R. Carey) debut novel.London burned for three weeks. And then it got worse...Young, naive Lalla has grown up in near-isolation...
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Empire's End: Aftermath

Chuck Wendig - Del Rey
Format: Print book

Following Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Life Debt, Chuck Wendig delivers the exhilarating conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy set in the years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING.As the final...
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Feversong: A Fever Novel

Karen Marie Moning - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MacKayla Lane and Jericho Barrons return in the epic conclusion to the pulse-pounding Fever series, where a world thrown into chaos grows more treacherous at every turn.As Mac, Barrons, Ryodan, and Jada struggle to restore control, enemies become allies, right...
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Tarnished City

VIC JAMES - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

MAGIC COMPELS. WE BLEED. The captivating dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage continues. In a modern Britain where magic users control wealth, politics - and you - an uprising has been crushed. In its aftermath, two families will determine the country's fate. The ruthless...
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The Massacre of Mankind: Sequel to The War of the Worlds

STEPHEN BAXTER - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen BaxterIt has been fourteen years since the Martian invasion. Humanity has moved on, always watching the skies but confident that we know how to defeat the alien...
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Extinction War

Nicholas Sansbury Smith - Orbit
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The seventh and never-before-published book in USA Today bestselling Nicholas Sansbury Smith's propulsive post-apocalyptic series about one man's mission to save the world. An army advances...In Europe, Master Sergeant Joe Fitzpatrick and Team Ghost return from a mission deep into...
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Cormorant Run

Lilith Saintcrow - Orbit
Format: Paperback

Aliens meets Under the Dome in this new post-apocalyptic novel from New York Times bestseller Lilith Saintcrow.
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In Calabria

Peter S Beagle - Tachyon Pubns
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of The Last Unicorn comes a new, exquisitely-told unicorn fable for the modern age. Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy's scenic Calabria. Set in his ways and suspicious of outsiders, Claudio has always resisted change,...
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The Alchemists of Loom

Elise Kova - Keymaster Pr
Format: Print book

A new, young adult, high-fantasy series from the author of AIR AWAKENS, Elise Kova. Full synopsis and cover reveal coming soon.
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The Salt Line

Holly Goddard Jones - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian genre with this gripping story of survival and humanity about a group of adrenaline junkies who jump "the Salt Line." How far will...
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Sip

Brian Allen Carr - Soho Press
Format: Hardcover

A lyrical, apocalyptic debut novel about addiction, friendship, and the struggle for survivalIt started with a single child and quickly spread: you could get high by drinking your own shadow. At night, lights were destroyed so that addicts could sip shadow in the pure light of the moon.Gangs...
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Terminal Alliance

JIM C HINES - DAW
Format: Hardcover

In his hilarious new sci-fi series, Jim C. Hines introduces the unlikely heroes that may just save the galaxy: a crew of space janitors.The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. However, they happened to arrive after a mutated plague wiped...
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The Space Between the Stars

Anne Corlett - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe - and in her own heart - when a devastating virus reduces most of humanity to dust and memories. All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn't forced...
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Beren and Lthien

J R R TOLKIEN - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The tale of Beren and Lthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following...
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Paradox Bound: A Novel

Peter Clines - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Nothing ever changes in Sanders. The town's still got a video store, for god's sake. So why doesn't Eli Teague want to leave Not that he'd ever admit it, but maybe he's been waiting - waiting for the traveler to come back. The one who's roared into his life twice before, pausing just...
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Spymaster

Margaret Weis - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

The start of a swashbuckling adventure from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Weis and Robert KrammesCaptain Kate Fitzmaurice was born to sail. She has made a life of her own as a privateer and smuggler. Hired by the notorious Henry Wallace, spymaster for the queen of Freya,...
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Assault at Selonia

Roger MacBride Allen - Bantam Books
Format: Paperback

Imprisoned on the planet Corellia, Han Solo finds himself at the mercy of his evil cousin, Thracken Sal-Solo. Thracken plans to restore the Imperial system and seize total power -- no matter what the cost. Han has one chance to stop him. But to do so he must turn his back on his human...
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Acadie

DAVE HUTCHINSON - Tor.com
Format: Paperback

The first humans still hunt their children across the stars. Dave Hutchinson brings far future science fiction on a grand scale in Acadie.The Colony left Earth to find their utopia--a home on a new planet where their leader could fully explore the colonists' genetic potential, unfettered...
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The Prey of Gods

NICKY DRAYDEN - Harper Voyager
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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Escape Velocity: A Dire Earth Novel

JASON M HOUGH - Del Rey
Format: Paperback

Part two of a thrilling action-adventure sci-fi duology featuring indomitable characters, incredible worlds, and plenty of rip-roaring action and thrills!Search, destroy, survive! Captains Skyler Luiken and Gloria Tsandi (and their respective crews) have smashed through the deadly...
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Valiant Dust

RICHARD BAKER - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

In a stylish, smart, new military science fiction series, Richard Baker begins the adventures of Sikander North in an era of great interstellar colonial powers. Valiant Dust combines the intrigues of interstellar colonial diplomacy with explosive military action."New and extraordinary...
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The Guns Above

ROBYN BENNIS - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Robyn Bennis's THE GUNS ABOVE is an adventurous military fantasy debut about a nation's first female airship captain.They say it's not the fall that kills you. For Josette Dupre, the Corps' first female airship captain, it might just be a bullet in the back. On top of patrolling the front...
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The Dragon's Legacy: The Dragon's Legacy Book 1

Deborah A Wolf - Titan Books
Format: Hardcover

Epic fantasy in the tradition of Guy Gavriel Kay and Jacqueline Carey. "A world of large-scale epic fantasy... This is a rare find and not to be missed." New York Times bestselling author Barb Hendee.In the heart of the singing desert, the people are fading from the world....
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The Librarians and The Lost Lamp

Greg Cox - Tor Books
Format: Paperback

For millennia, the Librarians have secretly protected the world by keeping watch over dangerous magical relics. Cataloging and safeguarding everything from Excalibur to Pandora's Box, they stand between humanity and those who would use the relics for evil.Ten years ago, only Flynn Carsen,...
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The Final Day

William R Forstchen - Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Audiobook

From New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen comes the third installment in the smash hit One Second After series.Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. This...
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The Wanderers

Meg Howrey - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them - and their families - changed forever. "A transcendent, cross-cultural,...
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Miranda and Caliban

Jacqueline Carey - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Miranda and Caliban is bestselling fantasy author Jacqueline Carey's gorgeous retelling of The Tempest. With hypnotic prose and a wild imagination, Carey explores the themes of twisted love and unchecked power that lie at the heart of Shakespeare's masterpiece, while serving...
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Hell's Foundations Quiver

David Weber - Tor
Format: Print book

Hell's Foundations Quiver: David Weber's New York Times-bestselling Safehold series begun with Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed, A Mighty Fortress and Like a Mighty Army.TURNING OF THE TIDECenturies ago, the human race fought its first great war against...
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Autonomous: A Novel

Annalee Newitz - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

From award winning tech-journalist and io9 founder Annalee Newitz comes a highly anticipated science fiction debut! Autonomous will pull listeners into a dark and dirty world that feels, at times, a bit too familiar. Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing...
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Death's Mistress

Terry Goodkind - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller, Death's Mistress: Sister of Darkness begins The Nicci Chronicles, Terry Goodkind's series with a cast of characters centered on one of his best-loved characters in the now-concluded Sword of Truth.One-time lieutenant of the evil Emperor Jagang,...
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Fever

DEON MEYER - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa -- and the world, as far as they know -- to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country. Their world turned upside down,...
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At the Sign of Triumph

David Weber - Tor
Format: Print book

At the Sign of Triumph: David Weber's New York Times-bestselling Safehold series begun with Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed, A Mighty Fortress and How Firm a Foundation.The Church of God Awaiting's triumph over...
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The Wrong Stars (The Axiom Book 1)

Tim Pratt - Angry Robot
Format: Paperback

Philip K. Dick Award Finalist. A "ridiculously fun" series debut "with a well-thought-out space opera setting and lots of fancy reveals" - from a Hugo Award winner (Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky) . A ragtag space crew discovers alien technology...
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Shattered Minds: A Pacifica Novel

LAURA LAM - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Johnny Mnemonic meets a female Dexter in Laura Lam's new speculative thriller, set in the near-future SF world of False HeartsCarina used to be one of the best biohackers in Pacifica. But when she worked for Sudice and saw what the company's experiments on brain recording were doing...
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

Theodora Goss - Saga Press
Format: Hardcover

Based on some of literature's horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders - and the bigger mystery of their own origins.Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents'...
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Null States: A Novel

MALKA OLDER - Tor.com
Format: Hardcover

"Kinetic and gripping" -- NPR on InfomocracyNull States continues Campbell Award finalist Malka Older's Centenal Cycle, the trilogy beginning with Infomocracy* A Locus Award Finalist for Best First Novel* The book The Huffington Post called...
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The Witch Who Came in from the Cold

Lindsay Smith - Saga Press
Format: Hardcover

Spies and sorcerers face off during the Cold War, with the fate of the world in balance in this print edition of a hugely popular serial novel from five award-winning and critically acclaimed authors.The Cold War rages in back rooms and dark alleys of 1970s Prague as spies and sorcerers...
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The Uploaded

Ferrett Steinmetz - Angry Robot
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Life sucks and then you die... a cyberpunk family drama from the ingenious author of Flex. In the near future, the elderly have moved online and now live within the computer network. But that doesn't stop them interfering in the lives of the living, whose sole real purpose now is to maintain...
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Strange Music: A Pip & Flinx Adventure (Adventures of Pip & Flinx)

Alan Dean Foster - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

Unlikely duo Pip and Flinx return to right another wrong in this all-new sci-fi adventure from one of the genres 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 Commonwealth...
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Treachery's Tools

L E Jr Modesitt - Tor Books
Format: Print book

Treachery's Tools is L. E. Modesitt's tenth novel in the New York Times bestselling Imager Portfolio fantasy series and begins thirteen years after the events of Madness in Solidar, Alastar has settled into his role as the Maitre of the Collegium. Now married with a daughter,...
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Retrograde

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

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Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

RUTH EMMIE LANG - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Exquisite and adventurous" -- Bustle, "11 New Fiction Books You Need""Told with brains and heart" -- Michelle Gable, New York Times bestselling author of A Paris Apartment"Bristles with charm and curiosity" -- Winston Groom,...
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Red Vengeance

BRENDAN DUBOIS - Baen
Format: Paperback

From two-time Shamus Award winner Brendan DuBois comes the sequel to Dark Victory. A terrifying and original tale of teens who are fighting to save their lives . . . and the future of planet Earth.U.S Army Sergeant Randy Knox is sixteen, and already a seasoned veteran. He is an alien killing...
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What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror

DAVID WONG - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

It's the story "They" don't want you to read. Though, to be fair, "They" are probably right about this one. To quote the Bible, "Learning the truth can be like loosening a necktie, only to realize it was the only thing keeping your head attached." No, don't...
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The Spark

David Drake - Baen
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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The Day After Gettysburg

ROBERT CONROY - Baen
Format: Hardcover

New Alternate History from a Master of the Form: Robert Conroy was an unalloyed master of alternate history. Now, J.R. Dunn completes one of his final novels.LEE STRIKES BACK! After a terrible setback at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee does not retreat across the Potomac and his ultimate...
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Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

HUGH HOWEY - John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first...
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The End of the World Running Club

ADRIAN J WALKER - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

The #1 International Bestseller!A Science Fiction & Fantasy Book to Keep on Your Radar by io9 and GizmodoA powerful post-apocalyptic thriller, perfect for fans of The Martian. When the sky begins to fall, one man finds himself separated from his family, his best hope is to run -- or risk...
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The Dispatcher

John Scalzi - Subterranean Press
Format: Print book

One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life. Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher - a licensed, bonded professional whose...
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Infinite Stars

Bryan Thomas Schmidt - Titan Books
Format: Hardcover

24 space opera stories in bestselling universes, including brand new stories by Orson Scott Card, David Weber, Jack Campbell, Elizabeth Moon, Catherine Asaro, William Deitz, David Drake, and more.
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Phasma

DELILAH S DAWSON - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

Discover Captain Phasma's mysterious history in this "Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi" novel.
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Perfect Gravity

Vivien Jackson - Sourcebooks Casablanca
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"Raw. Smart. Quick-witted. Mouthwatering. Just a few adjectives that describe this exquisite tale. Do not let this unforgettable story, or its incredible cast of characters, slip by you." -- DARYNDA JONES, New York Times bestselling authorKellen Hockley usually keeps quiet about...
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