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Emily St. John Mandel

Panmacmillan

2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party. Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just as a fragile new era begins. ...

K. M. Fajardo

Phoenix

A speculative romance reimagining of The Great Gatsby set in 2075 New York ...

Matt Dinniman

Collins

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Join Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, as they fight fantastical creatures and deadly mobs to make it to the next level and build the kind of fan following the dungeon masters can't ignore in the second book in the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl series—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition."Greetings, Crawlers! The t...

Matt Dinniman

Ladybird

CARL IS PLANNING SOMETHING DANGEROUS, BUT AT WHAT COST? The eighth explosive installment in Matt Dinniman''s best selling LitRPG series, and it''s off to the races ... - ''[A] comically cosmic adventure series...often laugh-out-loud funny...Grind your way to dungeon mastery alongside Carl and Princess Donut'' The Wall Street Journal ''If there''s a better LitRPG than Dungeon...

Dan Simmons

Penguin

Part three of the groundbreaking Hyperion Cantos, from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Terror, which is now a chilling TV show. Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from ...

Dan Simmons

Penguin

The conclusion to the groundbreaking Hyperion Cantos, from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Terror, which is now a chilling TV show. The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. ...

Cecile Pin

Harper

'Exquisite and deeply felt' VOGUE 'Beautifully rendered' GRAZIA 'Magnificent ... melds sharp insight with great heart' NICOLA DINAN 'Thoughtful and beautifully compelling' ALICE WINN A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love and space from the award-winning author of the Women's Prize longlisted Wandering Souls. 28 January, 1986: Moments after launch, the Challeng...

Ben Aaronovitch

Gollancz

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES 'This isn't London. The rules are different up here, and so are the allegiances.' Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he'll need one when this is over... If more's the merrier, then it's ecstatic as his partner Beverley, their young twins, his mum, dad, his da...

Matt Dinniman

Ladybird

*PRE-ORDER THE FOURTH BOOK IN THE EXPLOSIVE DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL SERIES* "Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome" #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson *** New Achievement! Total, Utter Failure. Surviving in a multilevel dungeon that also happens to be the set of the galaxy's most watched game show has taught Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, t...

Matt Dinniman

Ladybird

THEY CAN'T CATCH A BREAK, NOW THEY NEED TO CATCH A LETHAL MONSTER. The sixth explosive installment in Matt Dinniman's best selling LitRPG series where the hunted become the hunters ... while also still being hunted! "Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome" #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson *** It is bedlam on the eighth floor. Coast Guard vet Carl and h...

Matt Dinniman

Ladybird

DID WE SAY KILL, KILL, KILL? OH, WE MEANT RUN, RUN. RUUUUUUUN! The fifth explosive installment in Matt Dinniman's best selling LitRPG series - going from the most watched to the most hunted isn't fun ... What a surprise! "Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome" #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson *** Attention. The gates are down. The hunters are loose. A...

Ursula K. Le Guin

Penguin

'Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself' Zadie Smith 'Groundbreaking' Guardian 'No single work did more to upend the genre's conventions' Paris Review A lone human emissary journeys from Earth to the planet of Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can choose - and change - their gender. His goal is to secure Winter's inclusion in a growing interga...

Matt Dinniman

Ladybird

From the author of the sensational global bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series comes a brand new epic standalone . . . All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do is run the family ranch and keep his family's aging fleet of intelligent agriculture bots ticking. But when his planet's transfer gate finally opens and restores instant travel and full communication between Earth...

Arkady Martine

Panmacmillan

A taut, uncanny sci-fi thriller from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire. 'Exquisitely creepy' - Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo Award-winning author of the Children of Time series 'I'm a piece of architecture, Detective. How should I know how humans are like to die?' Architect Basit Deniau's houses were haunted to begin with. A house embedded with ...

Matt Dinniman

Ladybird

*** PRE-ORDER THE SECOND BOOK IN THE GRIPPING AND EPIC DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL SERIES *** GREETINGS, CRAWLERS! THE TRAINING LEVELS HAVE CONCLUDED. THE GAMES MAY TRULY BEGIN. Now on the third floor of the dungeon, Carl and Princess Donut must fight harder than ever. They've already proven that a Coast Guard vet and once-and-forever feline royalty are an almost unstoppable team. T...

Matt Dinniman

Ladybird

WELCOME CRAWLERS, TO THE FOURTH FLOOR OF THE DUNGEON - THE IRON TANGLE! The third explosive installment in Matt Dinniman's best selling LitRPG series, where teamwork is optional and betrayal is inevitable... 'If there's a better LitRPG than Dungeon Crawler Carl, I haven't read it' Shirtaloon, author of He Who Fights Monsters -- Carl and Donut have survived so far, but this f...

Andy Weir

Penguin

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL A BARACK OBAMA READING PICK SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RYAN GOSLING A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. 'The most enjoyable hard SF I have read in years' GUARDIAN 'Weir's finest work to date. . . This is the one book I read last year that I am certain I can recommend to anyone, no matter who...

Alex Foster

Penguin

"A brilliantly imagined literary debut of love, despair, and two people's search for belonging in a world literally spinning out of control. The acceleration of Earth's spin begins gradually. At first, days are just a few seconds shorter than normal. Awareness of the mysterious phenomenon hasn't reached Tanner, a young man preoccupied with dreams of escaping his tiny Alaskan ho...

Scott Handcock

Phoenix

What secret is the TARDIS hiding? Enlisting UNIT in their search for an enigmatic woman who appears all throughout time and space, the Doctor and Ruby uncover deeper mysteries. What is the secret of Susan Triad? What happened on the night that Ruby was born? The answers lead the Doctor and Ruby to a horrifying confrontation with the greatest evil of all... Russell T Davies' e...

Matt Dinniman

Collins

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Carl and Princess Donut journey into insanity in the wildly entertaining sixth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition!Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, have survived longer and leveled up higher than anyone ever thought they could in the galaxy's most popular rea...

Dani Francis

Del Rey

'This dystopia has BLOWN me away' @emilymiahreads 'One of my new FAVOURITE books' @abbysbooks 'In my TOP BOOKS of the year' @amymaybooks 'I'm absolutely obsessed!' ALI HAZELWOOD 'Thoroughly addictive - I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' L.K. STEVEN __________________________________________ WELCOME TO SILVER BLOCK - DISCOVER THE OBSESSION THAT IS SILVER ELITE. **PRE-O...

Anna Kavan

Penguin

This dystopian science fiction classic details the hallucinatory hunt for a white-haired girl, through a frozen, post-apocalyptic landscape"A haunting story of sexual assault and climate catastrophe, decades ahead of its time" - The New Yorker"A strange and compelling classic of dystopian and climate fiction, one that with foreboding and deep compassion maps the psyche and the ...

Kaliane Bradley

Sceptre

The instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller 'The hit of the year' Guardian 'Addictive' Independent 'Crack this book open and you'll see how time can disappear' Financial Times 'Readers, I envy you: There's a smart, witty novel in your future' Washington Post A civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering 'expats' from...

Martha Wells

St Martin's Press

The first two novellas in the New York Times bestselling Murderbot series, collected in paperback for the first time!"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."First, read the story that started the Murderbot phenomenon in All Systems Red!On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aw...

Cory Doctorow

Penguin

Thirty years from now and the effects of climate change are overwhelming the planet - but so are the global efforts to combat it. For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial, it's a fact of life. But there are still those Americans who cling to their red trucker caps, their anger, their nostalgia for the golden age of assault rifles. Their 'al...

Ted Chiang

Picador

'A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.' - The Guardian With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful debut collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably varied stories. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth to the firmament above, to a world where a...

Dan Simmons

Penguin

The book that reinvented Space Opera - from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Terror, which is now a chilling TV show. It is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer. On the eve of disaster, with the ...

Tamsyn Muir

St Martin's Press

Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth?A Finalist for the Hugo and Locus Awards!An Indie Next Pick!The Locked Tomb is a 2023 Hugo Finalist for Best Series!"You will love Nona, and Nona loves you." —Alix E. Harrow"Unlike anything I've ever read." —V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth"Deft, tense and atmospheric, comp...

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Pan

The unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin from Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Adrian Tchaikovsky. They dreamed of a new home. They woke to a nightmare. On Imir, Captain Holt founded a new colony on an empty world. In the process, he created hope and a new future for humanity. But generations later, his descendants are st...

Hugh Howey

Penguin

In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. To live, you must follow the rules. But some don't. Jules is one of these people. She may well be the last. ...