The Stone Gods by Jeannette Winterson - part meta-fiction, part sci-fi (April 2008)

The Softwire: Betrayal on Orbis 2 by PJ Haarsma - On Orbis 2, Johnny Turnbull has a new home and a new job, one that pushes his softwire abilities to painful limits. JT is the only one who can communicate with the Samirans, large aquatic aliens who have cooled the crystals on Orbis for nearly two thousand rotations. But as the Samirans’ work rule ostensibly comes to a close, they have grown dangerously agitated, and JT must find out why. (March 2008)

Truancy by Isamu Fukui - In an alternate world, in a nameless totalitarian city, the autocratic Mayor rules the school system with an iron fist, with the help of his Educators. Fighting against the Mayor and his repressive Educators is a group of former students called the Truancy, whose goal is to take down the system by any means possible—at any cost. (March 2008)

Earthly Pleasures by Karen Neches - When Skye Sebring, a hospitality greeter inside the pearly gates of Heaven, meets lawyer Ryan Blaine during his brush with death after a motorcycle accident, she falls so deeply in love that she follows him back to Earth, a world with strange customs she knows nothing about -- until she discovers that all of life's lessons can be learned from the lyrics of five Beatles songs. (February 2008)

Blue Moon by Cindy Lynn Speer - What really happens once in a blue moon? Libby Halstead is about to find out. Centuries ago, Merlin realized that magic and technology could not co-exist, and so he created the Merlin Stone and cast one last great spell, sundering the two worlds. For us, the only reminders of the world that once was is a handful of tales. In our time, Libby is the protector of the stone, keeps herself locked away to protect it and herself. When the stone is stolen, she must find a way to retrieve it before it is used to reunite the worlds. (January 2008)

Shadowbridge by Gregory Frost - Sprung from a timeless dream, Shadowbridge is a world of linked spans arching high above glittering seas. It is a world of parading ghosts, inscrutable gods, and dangerous magic. Most of all, it is a world of stories. No one knows those stories better than Leodora, a young shadow-puppeteer who travels Shadowbridge collecting the intertwining tales and myths of each place she passes through, then retells them in performances whose genius has begun to attract fame . . . and less welcome attention. For Leodora is fleeing a violent past, as are her two companions. Now, as the strands of a destiny she did not choose begin to tighten around her, Leodora is about to cross the most perilous bridge of all–the one leading from the past to the future. Book 1 in a 2 book series. (January 2008)

Duma Key by Stephen King - A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. His marriage suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. (January 2008)

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips - The Greek gods are alive, sharing a London house and wreaking inadvertent havoc on mortals in this hilarious debut. The 12 gods of Olympus are alive and well in the 21st century, but they are crammed together in a London townhouse -- and none too happy about it. And they've had to get day jobs. Even more disturbing, their powers are waning.(December 2007)

The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg - Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johan Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in return for his help safeguarding a group of children with mystical abilities—abilities that Krone also shares. When one of the children goes missing, Krone sets off to find the young girl and bring her back. (Nov 2007)

Godspeed by Will Christopher Baer - Set alternately in modern day California and the gothic underworld of the Presidio, Godspeed is equal parts dark fantasy and sinister noir, a Paradise Lost for a new generation. (November 2007)

Postsingular by Rudy Rucker - Postsingular takes on the question of what will happen after the Singularity, that is, what will happen after computers become as smart as humans and nanotechnology takes on the power of magic? Nature will come alive. (October 2007)

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill - A collection of award-winning creepy stories. (October 2007)

The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock - Seaton Begg and his constant companion, pathologist Dr "Taffy" Sinclair, both head the secret British Home Office section of the Metatemporal Investigation Department--an organization whose function is understood only by the most high-ranking government people around the world--and a number of powerful criminals. Begg's cases cover a multitude of crimes in dozens of alternate worlds, generally where transport is run by electricity, where the internal combustion engine is unknown, and where giant airships are the chief form of international carrier. (October 2007)

Servant: The Awakening by L.L. Foster - Urban paranormal fantasy featuring Gabrielle Cody:Servant. Slayer. Seducer. (October 2007)

Lord of the Fading Lands by C.L. Wilson - Once he had scorched the world. Once he had driven back overwhelming darkness. Once he had loved with such passion, his name was legend... Tairne Soul. Now, a thousand years later, a new threat calls him from the Fading Lands, back into the world that had cost him so dearly. Now an ancient, familiar evil is regaining its strength, and a new voice bekons him. (October 2007)

The Adventures of Amir Hamza by Ghalib Lakhnavi - This Islamic saga dates back hundreds of years, perhaps to as early as the seventh century, when oral narratives of the deeds of the prophet Muhammad’s uncle Amir Hamza spread through Arabia, Persia, and the Indian subcontinent, expanding into a marvelous chronicle of warriors, kings, tricksters, fairies, courtesans, and magical creatures. The definitive one-volume Urdu text by Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami appeared toward the end of the nineteenth century, but English translations of this text have always been censored and abridged–until now. (October 2007)

Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin -The third book in the Annals of the Western Shore series is an epic story of survival and self-discovery that speaks to the power of new beginnings, and most importantly, of hope.  (September 2007)

Making Money by Terry Pratchet - confidence trickster Moist von Lipwig, who reorganized the Ankh-Morpork Post Office in 2004's Going Postal, turns his attention to the Royal Mint in this new Discworld adventure. (September 2007)

Little (Grrl) Lost by Charles De Lint - When fourteen-year-old TJ and her family are forced to move from their farm to the suburbs, she has to give up her beloved horse, Red—but she makes a surprising new friend. Elizabeth is a “Little,” a six-inch-high punked-out teen with an attitude, who has run away from home to make her way in the world. (September 2007)

Alex and the Ironic Gentleman by Adrienne Kress - A smart, funny mixture of fantasy and high adventure, Alex and the Ironic Gentleman tells the story of Alex Morningside, an inquisitive ten-and-a-half-year-old girl who lives with her uncle above a doorknob shop. A student at the prestigious Wigpowder-Steele Academy, Alex is often mistaken for a boy because of her bowl haircut, but that’s okay -- she has an excellent sense of humor. (September 2007)

Our American King by David Lozell Martin - When America fell, she fell hard. Now chaos and calamity fill the vacuum left by a collapsing federal government. (September 2007)

Spook County by William Gibson - Perfect followup to Pattern Recognition... (August 2007)

Devil May Cry by Sherrilyn Kenyon - The newest Dark-Hunter® novel tells the tale of an ex-god in search of revenge, a servant of Atermis out to stop him, deadly enemies at every turn, a plot that may very well end the world. (August 2007)

Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor - Alyss of Wonderland’s rule has only just begun and already those who prefer chaos to peace are threatening to destroy everything worth imagining. Trailed by newly appointed Royal Bodyguard Homburg Molly, Alyss does her best to keep pace with the spiraling, non-stop demands of being Queen while attempting to evade Molly for a few private moments with Dodge. Alyss’s life is already a challenging mix of duty, love and imagining when a series of phantom sightings set fire to an urban myth of her Imperial Viciousness’s return and have everyone…Seeing Redd. (August 2007)

The Aftermath by Ben Bova - Book Four in the Asteroid Wars - (August 2007)

Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning - (August 2007)

The Devil You Know by Mike Carey - Felix Castor used to cast out demons for a living, and London was his stamping ground. But in a time when the supernatural realm is in upheaval and spilling over in the mundane world of the living, his skills are in renewed demand. With old debts to pay, Castor is left with no choice but to accept one final, well-paying assignment; a seemingly simple exorcism. Trouble is, the more he discovers about the ghost in the archive, the more things refuse to add up. (July 2007)

The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks - This next book in The Traveler series opens in New York City with a stunning piece of news. Gabriel’s father, who has been missing for nearly twenty years, may still be alive and trapped somewhere in Europe. (July 2007)

The Sons of Heaven by Kage Baker - This is the Kage Baker novel everyone has been waiting for: the conclusion to the story of Mendoza and The Company. (July 2007)

All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris - Book # 7 in th Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries series.

Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey - Fifth book in her Kushiel's Legacy series, volume two of her Imriel fantasy trilogy (June 2006)

Acacia: Book One: The War With the Mein by David Anthony Durham - Leodan Akaran, ruler of the Known World, has inherited generations of apparent peace and prosperity, won ages ago by his ancestors. A widower of high intelligence, he presides over an empire called Acacia, after the idyllic island from which he rules. He dotes on his four children and hides from them the dark realities of traffic in drugs and human lives on which their prosperity depends. He hopes that he might change this, but powerful forces stand in his way. And then a deadly assassin sent from a race called the Mein, strikes at Leodan in the heart of Acacia while they unleash surprise attacks across the empire. (June 2007)

The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi - In a dazzling follow-up to The Icarus Girl, Helen Oyeyemi explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women and their search for the truth about faith and identity.
(June 2007)

Rant: The Oral Historyof Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk - Mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and the pedal-to-the-metal horrorfest Haunted. It takes the form of an oral history of one Buster “Rant” Casey, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.
(May 2007)

School's Out by Christophe Dufosse - Winner of France’s most prestigious prize for a first novel, School’s Out is a gripping re- imagining of Lord of the Flies¸ at once scarier and funnier than its prototype. (May 2007)

The Pesthouse by Jim Crace - Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States is now a lawless, scantly populated wasteland. The machines have stopped. The government has collapsed. Farmlands lie fallow and the soil is contaminated by toxins. Across the country, families have packed up their belongings to travel eastward toward the one hope left: passage on a ship to Europe. A man and a woman trek across a devastated and dangerous landscape, finding strength in each other and an unexpected love. (May 2007)

The Society of S by Susan Hubbard - An ingenious twist on a beloved genre, this satisfying and beautifully constructed novel blends humor and horror to show that vampires are not just blood-sucking creatures of the night – they can be gentle, vegetarian and wise. (May 2007)

In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan - Sam Dance is a young enlisted soldier in 1941 when his older brother Keenan is killed at Pearl Harbor. Afterwards, Sam promises that he will do anything he can to stop the war. Sam is seduced by a mysterious female physicist that is teaching one of his courses, and given her plans for a device that will end the war, perhaps even end the human predilection for war forever. But the device does something less, and more, than that. (May 2007)

The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien - (April 2007)

You Don't Scare Me by John Farris - A young woman's tussle with a malignant predator from beyond the grave drives this bold new supernatural thriller. (April 2007)

Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert -Gabriel Blackstone is a hacker, information thief, and skilled “remote viewer.” Asked by a former lover to investigate the disappearance of her stepson, Gabriel’s suspicions fall on Minnaloushe and Morrighan Monk, two beautiful sisters who live in a rambling Victorian house in London. Independently wealthy, the sisters spend their time dabbling in alchemy and the ancient Art of Memory. (April 2007)