BEYOND REALITY

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall - Eric Sanderson wakes up one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to call a Dr. Randle, who informs him that he is undergoing yet another episode of memory loss and that for the last two years—since the tragic death of his great love, Clio, while vacationing in Greece—he’s been suffering from an acute disassociative disorder. But there may be more to the story, or it may be a different story altogether. (February 2008)

Echoes of an Alien Sky by James P. Hogan - (February 2008)

Surveillance by Jonathan Raban -In the not-too-distant future, national identity cards are mandatory, and America has become obsessed with intelligence-gathering. The government’s scrutiny is omnipresent, civilians freely indulge their curiosity on the Internet, journalists pursue their investigations with relentless determination, and children both snoop on their parents and manipulate new technologies. (February 2008)

Fangland by John Marks - A grand reinvention and reinterpretation of the original Dracula, which tells the story of a TV producer who tracks a story to the wilds of Transylvania. While there, the subject reveals his true nature, and a struggle begins between a woman who knows too much and a monster who wants too much. A genuinely frightening vampire novel in the grand tradition and a biting commentary on the way we live and work now. (January 2008)

Blaze by Richard Bachman - Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., was always a small-time delinquent. None too bright either, thanks to the beatings he got as a kid. Then Blaze met George Rackley, a seasoned pro with a hundred cons and one big idea. The kidnapping should go off without a hitch, with George as the brains behind their dangerous scheme. But there's only one problem: by the time the deal goes down, Blaze's partner in crime is dead. Or is he? (January 2008)

The Terror by Dan Simmons - Horror novel based on an ill-fated 19th-century polar expedition. (January 2008)

Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster - An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. Determining that he is locked in, the man—identified only as Mr. Blank—begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world the man doesn’t recognize. (December 2007)

Voices from the Street by Philip K. Dick - One of the earliest books that Dick ever wrote, and the only novel of his that has never been published. (November 2007)

Next by Michael Crichton - Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. (November 2007)

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman (October 2007)

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks - (October 2007)

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz - (October 2007)

River of Gods by Ian McDonald - This ambitious portrait of a future India was a 2005 Hugo nomination. (September 2007)

The Echo Maker by Richard Powers - A 27-year-old meatpacker named Mark Schluter, is in a coma following a mysterious automobile accident. When he awakes, he does not recognize his sister. It appears that Mark is the victim of Capgras Syndrome (a real complaint), in which patients refuse to believe that those closest to them are who they claim to be. (August 2007)

Darkfever by Karen Moning - (August 2007)

The Fourth Bear: A Nusery Crime by Jasper Fforde - Jack Spratt and Mary Mary take on their most dangerous case so far as a murderous cookie stalks the streets of Reading. (August 2007)

The Worthy: A Ghost's Story by Will Clarke - The narrator, Conrad Avery Sutton III, had it all, including a bid to join Louisiana State's most desirable fraternity. Then a hazing prank went horribly wrong, and Conrad was killed. Now he's a ghost with only one thing on his mind: revenge against the fraternity chapter president who's responsible for his death. (July 2007)

The Candle of Distant Earth By Alan Dean Foster - Assumed to be the final book in The Taken triology. (July 2007)

Lisey's Story by Stephen King - The widow of a bestselling novelist reveals that the wellspring for his ideas is a very dark place, indeed. Kirkus Reviews says, "One of King's finest works." (June 2007)

Turing's Delirium by Edmund Paz Soldan - A hybrid of cyberpunk and political thriller... set against the backdrop of a globalization crisis in near future Bolivia, with a corrupt government, a greedy multinational corporation, a secret code-breaking organization called the Black Chamber, and a group of young computer hackers who are staging a revolution, which, despite being electronic, is far from bloodless. (June 2007)

Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey - (May 2007)

Rainbow End by Vernor Vinge (April 2007)