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You Have Arrived at Your Destination [June 21, 2024]
Amor Towles
Forward [4]: Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future by the New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow.When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-firs...
The Lincoln Highway [June 21, 2024]
Amor Towles
The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s AmericaIn June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebr...
Rules of Civility [June 21, 2024]
Amor Towles
A sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year- o...
A Gentleman in Moscow [June 21, 2024]
Amor Towles
A beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metro...
Creation Node [June 10, 2024]
Stephen Baxter
In the year 2255, of all the sentient beings in her universe, it was a woman named Salma, twenty years old, who was the first fully to see the object called Planet Nine. See with her own eyes, albeit moderated by her ship's instruments. If not to rec...
Beyond the Light Horizon [May 22, 2024]
Ken MacLeod
Lightspeed [3]: The Fermi have departed from the rocky worlds, but they still haunt the gas giants. Their long-term intentions remain unknown. Hurled into the past by a time-slip, John Grant and his onboard AI navigate the long way back. They return ...
When Demons Die [May 13, 2024]
Justina Robson
Quantum Gravity [2.50]: A Quantum Gravity NovellaThe human world got split up into eight loosely connected realities when something went awry in a supercollider. This accident created a new universe of split realities. The split affected not only the...
Alien Clay [May 13, 2024]
Adrian Tchaikovsky
The GuardianThey travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind...On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they...
Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction [April 28, 2024]
Ann Leckie
Journey across the stars of the Imperial Radch universe. Listen to the words of the Old Gods that ruled the Raven Tower. Learn the secrets of the mysterious Lake of Souls. And so much more, in this masterfully wide-ranging and immersive short fiction...
Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art [March 26, 2024]
Steve McConnell
Often referred to as the “black art” because of its complexity and uncertainty, software estimation is not as difficult or puzzling as people think. In fact, generating accurate estimates is straightforward — once you understand the art of creating t...