Science fiction
St Martin's Press The Relentless Moon
Book SynopsisFinalist 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novel!Finalist 2021 Hugo Award for Best Series!A 2021 Locus Award Finalist!Mary Robinette Kowal continues her Hugo and Nebula award-winning Lady Astronaut series, following The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon. The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program. The IAC's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes uninhabitable is being threatened. Elma York is on her way to Mars, but the Moon colony is still being established. Her friend and fellow Lady Astronaut Nicole Wargin is thrilled to be one of those pioneer settlers, using her considerable flight and political skills to keep the program on track. But she is less happy that her husband, t
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Tor Books China Mountain Zhang
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Tor Publishing Group ThreeBody Problem Boxed Set
Book SynopsisThe inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVELOver 1 million copies sold in North AmericaA mind-bending epic.The New York Times War of the Worlds for the 21st century.The Wall Street Journal Fascinating.TIME Extraordinary.The New Yorker Wildly imaginative.Barack Obama Provocative.Slate A breakthrough book.George R. R. Martin Impossible to put down.GQ Absolutely mind-unfolding.NPR You should be reading Liu Cixin.The Washington PostThe Three-Body Problem Boxed Set contains all three volumes of the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning seriesThe Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death''s Endby China''s most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.A secret military group sends signals into spac
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Tor Publishing Group Vortex Spin 3
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St. Martin's Griffin Ancients An Event Group Thriller 3 Event Group Thrillers 3
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Tor Publishing Group Anthropocene Rag
Book SynopsisAnthropocene Rag is a rare distillation of nanotech, apocalypse, and mythic Americana into a heady psychedelic brew.Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning author Jeffrey FordIn the future United States, our own history has faded into myth and traveling across the country means navigating wastelands and ever-changing landscapes.The country teems with monsters and artificial intelligences try to unpack their own becoming by recreating myths and legends of their human creators. Prospector Ed, an emergent AI who wants to understand the people who made him, assembles a ragtag team to reach the mythical Monument City.In this nanotech Western, Alex Irvine infuses American mythmaking with terrifying questions about the future and who we will become.
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Tor Publishing Group Service Model
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Tor Publishing Group Pluto
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Tor Books Broken Stars
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Tor Publishing Group Permafrost
Book SynopsisA post-apocalyptic time-travel adventure from master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds.
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Tor Books To Hold Up the Sky
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu comes a short story collection of captivating visions of the future and incredible re-imaginings of the past. In To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physics to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology will either save lives or unleash a fire that will burn for centuries; to a time very much like our own, when superstring computers predict our every move; to 10,000 years in the future, when humanity is finally able to begin anew; to the very collapse of the universe itself.Written between 1999 and 2017 and never before published in English, these stories came into being during decades of major change in China and will take you across time and space through the eyes of one of science fiction''s most visionary writers. Experience the limitless and pure joy of Cixi
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Tor Books Three Californias
Book SynopsisFrom the internationally bestselling author of the Mars Trilogy and New York 2140 Before Kim Stanley Robinson terraformed Mars, he wrote three science fiction novels set in Orange County, California, where he grew up. These alternate futuresone a post-apocalypse, one an if-this-goes-on future reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, and one an ecological utopiaform a whole that illuminates, enchants, and inspires--collected here as Three Californias.What if... there was a limited nuclear war that left the United States blockaded, fragmented, the few survivors living in the ruins of a once-great nation?What if... this goes on, and technology continues to accelerate, and power continues to be consolidated into corporate culture, a developer's dream world gone mad: an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls, and designer drugs?What if... a revolution happens, and the US addresses climate change in a responsible way. Is a future gr
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Tor Publishing Group Unlocked
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St. Martins Press-3PL The Test
Book SynopsisWe are our choices. Who are you willing to be?
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St Martin's Press Antimatter Blues
Book SynopsisEdward Ashton''s Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation.Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alivethat last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony's creeper neighbors are holding an antimatter bomb, and that Mickey is the only one who's keeping them from using it. Mickey's just another colonist now. Instead of cleaning out the reactor core, he spends his time these days cleaning out the rabbit hutches. It's not a bad life.It's not going to last.It may be sunny now, but winter is coming. The antimatter that fuels the colony is running low, and Marshall wants his bomb back. If Mickey agrees to retrieve it, he'll be giving up the only thing that's kept his head off of the chopping block. If he
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Tor Publishing Group Like a Mighty Army
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Tor Publishing Group Midst Toil and Tribulation
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St Martin's Press When the Moon Hits Your Eye
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St Martin's Press The Forest on the Edge of Time
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Flatiron Books Saltcrop
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Tor Nightfire Crawlspace
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St Martin's Press RoseHouse
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St. Martins Press-3PL Pillar to the Sky
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Tor Publishing Group Lost Ark Dreaming
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Tor Publishing Group The Past Is Red
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Tor Publishing Group Company Town
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St. Martins Press-3PL How Firm a Foundation
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Tor Publishing Group Burning Paradise
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St. Martins Press-3PL Unnatural Life
Book SynopsisAn A.I. battles through a tense legal drama in this interplanetary tale of identity and responsibility.
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Tor Books To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Book SynopsisNow a New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Winner of Best Science Fiction in the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards!To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds.Now she''s awakened a nightmare.During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she''s delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn''t at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity''s
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Tor Publishing Group The Expert Systems Champion
Book SynopsisIn Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Expert System's Champion, sometimes the ones you hate are the only ones that can save you.
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St Martin's Press Wild Massive
Book SynopsisScotto Moore''s Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty.Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world. Carissa loves her elevator. Up and Down she goes, content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits out, as long as it means she doesn't have to speak to another living person.But when a mysterious shapeshifter from an ambiguous world lands on top of her elevator, intent on stopping a plot to annihilate hundreds of floors, Carissa finds herself stepping out of her comfort zone. She is forced to flee into the Wild Massive network of theme parks in the Building, where technology, sorcery, and elaborate media tie-ins combine to form impossible ride experiences, where every guest is a VIP, the
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Tor Nightfire Overgrowth
Book SynopsisInvasion of the Body Snatchers meets Day of the Triffids in this full-on body horror/alien invasion apocalypse. This is just a story. It can''t hurt you anymore. Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she''s an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she was three years old, no one has believed her. Now, with an alien signal from the stars being broadcast around the world, humanity is finally starting to realize that it''s already been warned, and it may be too late. The invasion is coming, Stasia''s biological family is on the way to bring her home, and very few family reunions are willing to cross the gulf of space for just one misplaced child. What happens when you know what?s coming, and just refuse to listen?
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Tor Books Sword Citadel
Book SynopsisA major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping. The New York Times on The Book of the New SunThis new Tor Essentials edition of Sword & Citadel contains a new introduction by historian and novelist Ada Palmer, author of the award-winning Too Like the Lightning.Gene Wolfe has been called the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced by the Washington Post.THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis by Publishers Weekly and one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century by the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe''s
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St Martin's Press Sisters of the Forsaken Stars
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St Martin's Press Hard Reboot
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St. Martins Press-3PL In the Watchful City
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Tor Publishing Group Exo
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Tor Books The Wandering Earth
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix.These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu''s fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined.With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu''s stories show humanity''s attempts to reason, navigate, and above all, survive in a desolate cosmos.
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St Martin's Press Axioms End
Book SynopsisTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe alternate history first contact adventure Axiom''s End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis. Truth is a human right.It's fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father. Even though Cora hasn't spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the governmentand with him in hiding, that attention is on her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father's leaks are a hoax, and wants nothing to do with himuntil she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades. Realizing the extent to which both she and
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St Martin's Press Will Do Magic for Small Change
Book Synopsis[A] beautifully multifaceted story... Highly recommended. The New York TimesAndrea Hairston''s historical fantasy Will Do Magic for Small Change presents a tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other.Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But she's always been theatrically challenged. That won't necessarily stop her! But her family life is a tangle of mysteries and secrets, and nobody is telling her the whole truth.Before her brother died, he gave Cinnamon The Chronicles of the Great Wanderera tale of a Dahomean warrior woman and an alien from another dimension who perform at the 1893 Chicago World''s Fair. They are a story of magic or alien science, but the connection to Cinnamon''s past is unmistakable.When an act of violence wounds her family, Cinnamon and her theatre squad determine to sol
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St. Martins Press-3PL Stealing Worlds
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Tor Books Shadow Claw
Book SynopsisA major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping. The New York Times on The Book of the New SunThis new Tor Essentials edition of Sword & Citadel contains a new introduction by historian and novelist Ada Palmer, author of the award-winning Too Like the Lightning.Gene Wolfe has been called the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced by the Washington Post.THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis by Publishers Weekly and one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century by the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe''s
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St Martin's Press The World of Robert Jordans The Wheel of Time
Book SynopsisThe Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The World of Robert Jordan''s The Wheel of Time is bursting with full-color art, legends, and stories from the iconic series.In this series companion book, over eighty full color paintings include maps of the world, portraits of the central characters, landscapes, objects of Power, and national flags. The reader will learn about the exotic beasts used by the Seanchan, witness the rise and fall of Artur Hawking, peruse the deeper story of the War of the Shadow, and discover the tale of the founding of the White Tower, and the creation of the Ajahs.The inner workings of the closed country, Shara, are revealed, as is the existence of a hitherto unknown continent called The Land of th
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Tor Publishing Group Rakesfall
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St Martin's Press Nothing but the Rain
Book SynopsisA sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman''s debut novella, Nothing but the Rain. The rain in Aloisville is never-ending, and no one can remember when it started. There's not much they can remember. With every drop that hits their skin, a bit of memory is washed away. Stay too long in the wet, and you'll lose everything you used to be.By the time Laverne begins keeping a journal, the small town she calls home has been irreparably changed. Every drop of water is dangerous, from leaky faucets to the near-constant rainfall, and a careless trip outside can mean a life down the drain. With mysterious forces preventing escape, calls for rebellion seem to be on every resident's lips. But Laverne has no interest in fighting. She has no interest in rebellion. She just wants to survive.
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St. Martins Press-3PL Tyrannosaur Canyon
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Picador USA Civilizations
Book SynopsisAn ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestseller HHhH, Laurent Binet's Civilizations is nothing less than a strangely believable counterfactual history of the modern world, fizzing with ideas about colonization, empire building, and the eternal human quest for domination. It is an electrifying novel by one of Europe's most exciting writers.C. 1000 CE: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland1492: Columbus does not discover America1531: The Incas invade EuropeFreydis is the leader of a band of Viking warriors who get as far as Panama. Nobody knows what became of them . . .Five hundred years later, Christopher Columbus is sailing for the Americas, dreaming of gold and conquest. Even after he is captured by the Taínos, his faith in his superiority and his mission is unshaken.Thirty-nine years after that, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrives
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