Series: The Imager Portfolio (Book 8) Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Tor Books (January 7, 2014) ISBN-10: 0765336340 Official Description: The saga of the Imager Quaeryt, Commander in the forces of Lord Bhayar, reaches a new climax as the great struggle to unify the continent of Lydar enters its final phase in L.E. Modesitt’s Rex Regis, […]
Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Tor Books (March 25, 2014) ISBN-10: 0765337266 Official Description: When seventeen-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, separated from his family, he expects his next drift into cold sleep to be his last. After all, the planet he’s orbiting is frozen and sunless, and the cities are dead. But when […]
Paperback: 374 pages Publisher: Pink Narcissus Press (September 17, 2013) ISBN-10: 1939056039 Official Description: Winter is a predator, taking villages one at a time, leaving the people either dead or half mad. For thousands of years, the Elementarí-spirits of the elements- have slept peacefully under the watchful eye of the Terakhein, a guardian tribe that […]
Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Tor Books; 1 edition (September 17, 2013) ISBN-10: 0765335441 Official Description: The colony world of Stittara is no ordinary planet. For the interstellar Unity of the Ceylesian Arm, Stittara is the primary source of anagathics: drugs that have more than doubled the human life span. But the ecological balance that makes […]
In the 163rd episode of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Douglas Lain, author of the new book, Billy Moon, out from TOR. About Douglas Lain: Lain is the producer and host of the weekly podcast Diet Soap, which features insightful guests discussing a wide range of topics, including philosophy, mysticism, […]
Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (August 27, 2013) ISBN-10: 0765321726 Official Description: In Douglas Lain’s debut novel set during the turbulent year of 1968, Christopher Robin Milne, the inspiration for his father’s fictional creation, struggles to emerge from a manufactured life, in a story of hope and transcendence. Billy Moon was […]
Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover (September 3, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451417313 Official Description: 2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 2036: Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. But even as humanity contends with […]
Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover (September 3, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451417313 Official Description: Rudi Mackenzie has won the battle that expelled the enemy from the new High Kingdom of Montival. Now he must free the people who live in the state once known as Idaho from occupation by the legions of the Church Universal and […]
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Ace (August 27, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425264920 Official Description: THE NEW ALEX VERUS NOVEL I don’t publicly advertise that I’m a mage, but I don’t exactly hide it either, and one of the odd things I’ve learnt over the years is just how much you can get away with if […]
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ace (August 27, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425258114 Official Description: WELCOME TO HELL The prison ship Perdition, a floating city where the Conglomerate’s most dangerous criminals are confined for life, orbits endlessly around a barren asteroid. Life inside is even more bleak. Hailed as the Dread Queen, inmate Dresdemona “Dred” Devos […]
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Ace (August 27, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425259935 Official Description: THE NEW GHOST FINDER NOVEL from the bestselling author of the Nightside and Secret Histories series… Meet the operatives of the Carnacki Institute—JC Chance: the team leader, brave, charming, and almost unbearably arrogant; Melody Chambers: the science geek who keeps the […]
Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Paizo Publishing, LLC. (September 10, 2013) ISBN-10: 1601255586 Official Description: After a century of imprisonment, demons have broken free of the wardstones surrounding the Worldwound. As fiends flood south into civilized lands, Count Varian Jeggare and his hellspawn bodyguard Radovan must search through the ruins of a fallen nation for the […]
Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Ace Hardcover (August 6, 2013) ISBN-10: 0441020933 Official Description: Mankind’s first contact with extraterrestrial life led to an incredible revelation. Their last may lead them to extinction. Twenty years have passed since the mysterious Near-Earth Object nicknamed Keanu appeared in the night sky and transported an assortment of humans from all […]
Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ace Trade; Reprint edition (August 6, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425258483 Official Description: The author of the “diabolically clever”* A Matter of Blood returns with another gritty supernatural thriller featuring hard-boiled homicide detective Cass Jones… A devastating terrorist attack has crippled London. To find a perpetrator who is more than human, Special Branch […]
Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Roc Trade (August 6, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451465113 Official Description: Remy Chandler, angel private investigator, is trying his damnedest to lead a normal life in a world on the verge of supernatural change. He’s found a new love—a woman his dog, Marlowe, approves of—and his best human friend is reluctantly coming to […]
Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Ace (July 30, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425256502 Official Description: Her story began in the national bestsellers A Soldier’s Duty and An Officer’s Duty. Now Ia is captain and commander at the helm of Hellfire, where she is finally free to chart the course for the fulfillment of her destiny… As […]
Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Roc (August 6, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451465156 Official Description: Already addicted to the pharmaceutical drug that keeps her body from decomposing, Bryn has to stop a secretive group of rich and powerful investors from eliminating the existing Returné addicts altogether. To ensure their plan to launch a new, military-grade strain […]
Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Berkley Hardcover (August 6, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425263436 Official Description: Vampire queen Betsy “don’t call me Elizabeth” Taylor is back—and there’s going to be Hell to pay—in MaryJanice Davidson’s “one of a kind” (Darque Reviews) New York Times bestselling series… It’s no surprise to Betsy that her trip to Hell with her […]
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Ace (July 30, 2013) ISBN-10: 1937007588 Official Description: Atlanta is a city plagued by magical problems. Kate Daniels will fight to solve them—no matter the cost. Mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate, Curran, the Beast Lord, are struggling to solve a heartbreaking crisis. Unable to control their beasts, many […]
Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Ace (July 30, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425261069 Official Description: In one world, they’re ordinary university students. In another world, they are a company of heroes in a place of magic and myth called Anfractus… The Cree called the area Oscana, “pile of bones,” a fertile hunting ground where game abounded. […]
Hardcover: 592 pages Publisher: Ace Hardcover; 1 edition (July 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 042526769 Official Description: From “a new master storyteller” comes the beginning of an epic fantasy saga of blood, honor, and destiny… “The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm.” Vaelin Al Sorna was […]
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