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Emily St. John Mandel

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

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

Matt Dinniman

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...

Travis Deverell

***PRE-ORDER THE SECOND BOOK IN SHIRTALOON'S MAGICAL AND MONSTROUS LITRPG SERIES*** The path from retail middle management to interdimensional wizard adventurer wasn't easy, but Jason Asano is settling into his new life. Now, a contest draws young elites to the city of Greenstone, competing for a grand prize. Jason must gather a band of companions if he is to stand a chance a...

Matt Dinniman

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...

Cecile Pin

'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

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

*PRE-ORDER THE SEVENTH BOOK IN THE EXPLOSIVE DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL SERIES* "Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome" #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson *** Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, betrayal . . . It all makes for great fun and even greater television. The ninth floor. Faction Wars. Nine armies enter, led by rich and powerful aliens from across th...

Matt Dinniman

*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

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

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...

Virginia Feito

'Jane Eyre meets American Psycho. Gloriously outrageous, sensationally unhinged' SUNDAY TIMES 'Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny' CATRIONA WARD 'Weird and wonderful' LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIAN Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She'll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stor...

Matt Dinniman

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

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

*** 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...

Andy Weir

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

"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

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...

Dani Francis

'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

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

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

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...

Isaac Asimov

Twenty of the finest science fiction short stories from one of the genre's greatest writers, Isaac Asimov. Isaac Asimov was the Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, the founder of robot ethics, and one of the world's most prolific authors of fiction and non-fiction. Asimov's short fiction has been enjoyed by millions for more than half a century. Many of th...

Cory Doctorow

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

'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

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 ...

Adrian Tchaikovsky

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...

Arthur C. Clarke

The year is 2110. Humankind is entering a new golden age. But when an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky, he sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization. While a few fanatics welcome the apocalyptic destruction as a sign from God, the greatest scientific minds of Earth desperately searc...

Úrsula K. Le Guin

Rebel Voices: Disruptive Stories from Trailblazing Women - a new Puffin Classics collection, celebrating International Women's Day 2023 'One of the literary greats of the 20th century' - Margaret AtwoodEarthsea: The First Four Books is a collection of one of the most beloved and influential fantasy works of all time. The series follows two main characters: Ged, who grows from a...

Arthur C. Clarke

Colonists from the entire solar system converge on the mother planet for the 2276 celebrations. Among the influx of humanity is Duncan Makenzie, scientist-administrator from the underground colony of Titan, one of the outer moons of Saturn. Makenzie is not just on Earth for the celebrations, though; he has a delicate mission to perform - for his world, his family and himself ....