At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, f

**_Cut-Throat Dogs_ is a new Amos Walker novel from a Grand Master. "Loren D. Estleman is my hero."--Harlan Coben** "Someone is dead who shouldn't be, and the wrong man is in prison." Nearly twenty years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide, but sus

**"It reads like _Snow Crash_ had a dance-off with _Gideon the Ninth_ , in a world where language isn't a virus from outer space, it's a goddamn alien invasion." --Charles Stross ** Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an idea

Award-winning author C.S.E. Cooney indulges in luxurious, dizzying fantasy In _Desdemona and the Deep_ , the spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below. On the surface, her world is rife with industrial pollution that ruins the hea

**L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of _The Mongrel Mage,_ has a brand new gaslamp political fantasy _Isolate_. ** Industrialization. Social unrest. Underground movements. Government corruption and surveillance. Something is about to give. Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the smal

It's a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and som

**"Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality, and brings a crumbling city and an all too plausible future to vibrant life. Riveting, disturbing, and rendered in masterful detail." --Leigh Bardugo** **In his adult novel debut, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Award finalis

K. J. Parker returns to the amoral world of _Prosper's Demon_ with a wry, sardonic novella that flips the eternal, rule-governed battle between men and demons on its head. An anonymous representative of the Devil, once a high-ranking Duke of Hell and now a committed underachiever, has spent the la

**Lee Mandelo's debut _Summer Sons_ is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by hungry ghost. ** Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to sta

A new Amos Walker mystery from award-winning author Loren D. Estleman! Amos Walker is hired by one Francis X. Lawes, a private-sector mover and shaker in Detroit politics, to prove that his wife, Paula, who disappeared under sinister circumstances shortly more than six years ago, is dead, so he can

**Debut author Jennifer Giesbrecht paints a darkly compelling fantasy of revenge in _The Monster of Elendhaven_ , a dark fantasy about murder, a monster, and the magician who love both.** The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of i

_It was just another Tuesday morning when she walked into the office --young, as I suspected they all might be, another dark brunette with some assistance and enough eye black to match up to Cleopatra. And who am I? I'm Ray, the world's last robot, famed and feared in equal measure, which suits me j

**In Alex Sherman's novella of space exploration _The Tourist_ , a young academic travels to a mining outpost on a small planetoid, far from their sun** There he studies the culture and music of a small squatter population that lives in total darkness. This is the first time any student has been a

An all-new Stormlight Archive novella, "Edgedancer," will be the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, the first book of short fiction by #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. The collection will include nine works in all. The first eight are:"The Hope of Elantr