Back Science Fiction & Fantasy | March Newsletter

Simple News Pro
  Science Fiction & Fantasy  
When the English Fall: A Novel

David Williams - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

A riveting and unexpected novel that questions whether a peaceful and non- violent community can survive when civilization falls apart.Again, all are asleep, but I am not. I need sleep, but though I read and I pray, I feel too awake. My mind paces the floor. There are shots now and again,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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....
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Remnants of Trust: A Central Corps Novel

Elizabeth Bonesteel - Harper Voyager
Format: Print book

In this follow-up to the acclaimed military science fiction thriller The Cold Between, a young soldier finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a deadly conspiracy in deep space. Six weeks ago, Commander Elena Shaw and Captain Greg Foster were court-martialed for their role in an event...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

George Saunders - Random House
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe "devastatingly moving" (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Archangel

Margaret Fortune - DAW
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Borne: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer - MCD
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Book Riot, Chicago Reader, The Week, and Publishers Weekly."Am I a person?" Borne asked me."Yes, you are a person,"...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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!
Read More check catalog
 
 
Wolf's Empire: Gladiator: A Novel

CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN - Tor Books
Format: Paperback

In the Galactic Roman Empire, eight noble houses fight for power. One gladiator fights for justice. This is Wolf's Empire: Gladiator, by Claudia Christian and Morgan Grant Buchanan.When her mother and brother are murdered, young noblewoman Accala Viridius cries out for vengeance. But the empire...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Empire Games

Charles Stross - Tom Doherty Associates
Format: Print book

Charles Stross builds a new series with "Empire Games. " Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travellers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Alien Morning

Rick Wilber - Tor
Format: Print book

"Rick Wilber has written the best "first contact" story I've seen in decades: deeply human, eerily alien, and altogether an exciting, moving and thought-provoking novel." --Ben BovaThe fate of two civilizations depends on one troubled family in Rick Wilber's science-fiction...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Confluence

S K Dunstall - Ace Books
Format: Print book

From the national bestselling author of Alliance, linesman Ean Lambert finds himself caught in a dangerous fight for political power... The lines. Mysterious yet familiar: the key to controlling every ship in the galaxy. Once they were thought of as tools, but since linesman Ean Lambert...
Read More check catalog
 
 
All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel

Elan Mastai - Dutton
Format: Print book

"There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have ... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Beachhead

Christopher Mari - 47North
Format: Paperback

After Earth is decimated, the entire remaining human population is marooned on an unfamiliar beach. The enigmatic winged Orangemen leave the survivors with instructions to remake their society, basic tools and weapons, and a few thousand books, including Bibles in many languages. As two generations...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Alexander Inheritance

Eric Flint - Baen
Format: Hardcover

NEW TIME TRAVEL ALT. HISTORY FROM A MASTER: Flint's Ring of Fire and Boundary series have proved him to be a master of time travel alternate history. Here then, a new tale of persons displaced in time, fighting for their lives.Twice before, mysterious cosmic catastrophes have sent portions...
Read More check catalog
 
 
NK3: A Novel

Michael Tolkin - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

With The Player and The Return of the Player, Michael Tolkin established himself as the master novelist of modern Hollywood. In his new novel, NK3, the H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Recruits

Thomas Locke - Flemming H Revell
Format: Print book

For more than a decade, twins Sean and Dillon Kirrell have felt pulled toward another world--a place they have sketched out in detail and posted on the walls of their bedroom. They are certain it is out there. Soon after their seventeenth birthday, they are approached by a clandestine scout....
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Long Mirage

David R. George III - Pocket Books/Star Trek
Format: Print book

Continuing the post-television Deep Space Nine saga comes this thrilling original novel from New York Times bestselling author David R. George III!More than two years have passed since the destruction of the original Deep Space 9. In that time, a brand new, state-of-the-art starbase has replaced...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Thrawn

Timothy Zahn - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

In this definitive novel, readers will follow Thrawn's rise to power - uncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history. One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn is also one of the most...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Apes and Angels

Ben Bova - Tor
Format: Print book

Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system. Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Into the Guns

William C Dietz - Ace Books
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Legion of the Damned Novels and The Mutant Files comes the first novel in a post-apocalyptic military science fiction series about America rising from the ashes of a global catastrophe...On May Day, 2018, sixty meteors entered Earth's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Ballantine. - Del Rey
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Go beyond the film with a novelization featuring new scenes and expanded material. As the shadows of the Empire loom ever larger across the galaxy, so do deeply troubling rumors. The Rebellion has learned of a sinister Imperial plot to bring entire...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Martians Abroad

Carrie Vaughn - Tor
Format: Print book

Well known for her Kitty Norville bestselling series, Carrie Vaughn has written Martians Abroad, a novel with great crossover appeal. Polly Newton has one single-minded dream, to be a starship pilot and travel the galaxy. Her mother, the Director of the Mars Colony, derails Polly's plans...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Monster Hunter Siege

LARRY CORREIA - Baen
Format: Hardcover

#6 in multiple New York Times bestseller Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series.GO BIG OR GO HOME When Monster Hunter International's top hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, was given a tip about some hunters who had gone missing in action, he didn't realize their rescue mission would snowball...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Star Trek: The Hall of Heroes

John Jackson Miller - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

Continuing the milestone 50th anniversary celebration of Star Trek - an epic new trilogy that stretches from the events of The Original Series movie The Search for Spock to The Next Generation!The Klingon Empire stands on the precipice. In the wake of violence from the cult known as the Unsung,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Ken Liu - Tor
Format: Print book

Award-winning translator and author Ken Liu presents a collection of short speculative fiction from China. Some stories have won awards (including Hao Jingfang's Hugo-winning novella, Folding Beijing) ; some have been included in various 'Year's Best' anthologies; some have been...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Extracted

RR Haywood - 47north
Format: Print book

In 2061, a young scientist invents a time machine to fix a tragedy in his past. But his good intentions turn catastrophic when an early test reveals something unexpected: the end of the world.A desperate plan is formed. Recruit three heroes, ordinary humans capable of extraordinary things,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Shadow of Victory

David Weber - Simon & Schuster
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Phasma

DELILAH S DAWSON - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

Discover Captain Phasma's mysterious history in this "Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi" novel.
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Jekyll Revelation

Robert Masello - 47North
Format: Paperback

A spellbinding thriller from the bestselling author of The Einstein Prophecy.A chilling curse is transported from 1880s London to present-day California, awakening a long-dormant fiend.While on routine patrol in the tinder-dry Topanga Canyon, environmental scientist Rafael Salazar...
Read More check catalog