From Publishers Weekly Benford (The Martian Race), a physics professor at UC-Irvine and a Nebula winner for his novel Timescape, is one of the leading exponents of hard SFAwhich, n...
From Publishers WeeklyRagged armies and gods old and new collide in the dizzyingly complex penultimate tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (following 2008's Toll the Hounds
From Publishers WeeklyIn Berg's understated and promising fiction debut, a 12-year-old "army brat" comes to epitomize the quality that her father prizes: emotional durability. Narr...
From Publishers WeeklyCelebrated African author and activist Thiong'o tells no ordinary coming-of-age tale. The fifth child of his father's third wife—one of an extended family who...
From Publishers WeeklyThis gleeful, clever sequel to 2006's Disappearing Nightly teams up actress and singing waitress Esther Diamond with the magic-savvy but utterly unworld...
From Publishers WeeklyFormer pro wrestler and Minnesota governor Ventura (_Do I Stand Alone?_) has been awakened out of semiretirement by his outrage over the grievous state of the...
From Publishers WeeklyThe title of this collection of humorous essays could also serve as a warning label for its readers. They'll want to stay on guard as _GQ writer-at-large Rako...
From Publishers WeeklyRebuilding after the ship-shattering climax of 2009's Maelstrom, Capt. Matt Reddy and the crew of the dimensionally misplaced USS Walker continue pu...
From Publishers WeeklyIn this clear-eyed and compassionate study, Robinson (Coal to Cream), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for the Washington Post, marshals persuasive evidence ...
From Publishers WeeklyMontgomery (_King of Fish_), a geomorphologist who studies how landscapes change through time, argues persuasively that soil is humanity's most essential natu...