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Twenty miles, a blizzard, and the chaos of an EMP stand between Nick Franklin and reuniting with his family. Nick has spent his life preparing for this very moment. Now that the time has arrived to enact his emergency plan, Nick must decide how much of his humanity he will sacrifice to save his family.

In late-twenty-first-century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside an immersive, consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile, their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments. Across the city, in the abandoned real world, Tao-Yi's mother remains stubbornly offline, dwindling away between hospital visits and memories of her earlier life in Malaysia.

In a shocking betrayal, Captain Rolo has vaporized the supercarrier Immortal with a nuclear warhead, all but wiping out the Vanguard army. Little does he know that King Xavier and the surviving Hell Diver and Cazador teams from Brisbane were not aboard. In Panama, Outpost Gateway has suffered a very different disaster: attack by carnivorous vines. Director Rodger Mintel sent out a desperate SOS as the voracious coils ripped into the bunker.

Josiah is facing the ultimate showdown against his powerful enemy, but the stakes have never been higher. If he fails, he'll lose not only Alex but also his freedom. As he finally solves Elliot Dacre's murder, he also uncovers the devastating secret Alex has hidden from everyone. An explosive showdown forces them to confront the truth about each other, but will it shatter their bond beyond repair?

What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day becomes night and night becomes day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on an 11-year-old girl grappling with emotional changes in her own life? One morning, Julia and her parents wake up to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth is noticeably slowing....

Selected for the QI Book of the Year Award, 2016 'Gripping and utterly believable' IAN RANKIN, Guardian Books of the Year ‘A story about the strength and fragility of human nature. Rob Ewing's writing is powerful, compassionate and brilliant. I absolutely loved it’ JOANNA CANNON, the author...

Professor Savannah Selbourne lives on The Raft. The isolated country that was once Great Britain has been free of germs for decades. The plagues are over, the vermin that caused them are extinct. Every billboard brandishes the government's slogan: with sterility comes liberty! But did the poison ever really go away? Savannah's new job gives her the opportunity to discover the truth, yet revealing that truth could put her on the wrong side of those in power. How deep will she bury the lies for the sake of her wife and the child they yearn for? One thing she is sure of: the poison is toxic.

The world has been plunged into the chaos of war, fear and violence after a brilliant madman destroyed an American city, killed thousands and unleashed four entities into the world possessing supernatural powers. Some believe these abilities were bestowed by science, others believe these four are the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, given their powers by divine prophecy.

Washington is gone. One strike erased the political center of the world. After that, everything began to fall apart. Communications failed. Satellites went silent. Fuel, medicine, and supply chains stopped moving. Electricity survives only in scattered places where small grids and generators still work. Cities struggle to function. Hospitals run out of supplies. Millions begin moving, searching for water, medicine, and safety. But the explosions were only the beginning. Disease spreads in crowded shelters. People with injuries receive no treatment.

When Technology Is Hard To Come By, It Helps If Yours Is Built In. Saddle up for a wild ride through the alien world of Blanken 9 in this electrifying fusion of Sci-Fi and Western! Zestrum Doniphon is a good man with a bad reputation. A job offer from Claude Etcheverry, a wealthy rancher who has amassed a private army of cyborgs to monopolize Copperbank’s water supply, pulls Doniphon into a budding range war.

When fugitives crash-land on a frozen world, they discover a vast domed paradise hiding impossible technology—and a tyrant who soon seizes control of a Quantum Drive. Jax, a charming rogue; Elka, a brilliant but chaotic scientist; Drahn, a living weapon; Mossback, a stone-skinned pirate; and Ziv, a sentient spark of living electricity must survive a city where nothing is natural, everyone is watched, and freedom is paid for in blood.

It is the third century of the atomic era. Most people are genetically altered to eliminate racial features, but not Amber or her new husband Jerry. Religion has also been outlawed, and the young couple have just escaped religious persecution. What will the sanctuary they have arrived at be like?

They were built in darkness. Raised for war. Trained to obey. The A.N.G.E.Ls—Advanced Next Generation Engineered Legends—were never meant to survive their creators. But when the kill-switch fails and the lies collapse, five engineered sisters escape the black-ops program that made them and turn their firepower on the ones who betrayed them. Led by Roxanne, the team carves a bloody path through traffickers, scientists, and corporate warlords, uncovering the horrifying reach of the Project. But the deeper they dig, the more they realize they’re not alone.

The Alog plunges listeners into a futuristic Los Angeles where society is governed by the enigmatic Veritas Corporation. Justin Larkin, a solitary figure tethered to the flow of digital streams, discovers a hidden truth that threatens to upend the controlled reality crafted by the Alog—a powerful, omnipresent system managing life in Sector One.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destruction in a surprising new mold. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN OUR CULTURE...

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society’s most powerful, medically-enhanced elites. “Cross-genre brilliance from the superbly talented Nick Harkaway.” —William Gibson...

The first English translation of celebrated Swiss-German novelist Sibylle Berg, Grime is a manifesto for fury, escape, and individual...

In his New York Times bestselling The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga to tell a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain in his early days. The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be...

“A must-read—a gorgeous literary novel that asks us to imagine all the possible versions of ourselves that might exist.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an...

***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*** From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory. A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village...