Raven ​Stratagem

John Scalzi - Szellemhadtest
Az ​emberiséget soha nem látott veszély fenyegeti, űrbéli gyarmatai ellen három intelligens faj szövetkezik. Három faj és egyetlen ember. Az emberiség egyetlen reménye az, hogy az áruló tudós a dezertálása során hátrahagyta az elméjéről készült biztonsági másolatot. De senki nem tudja, hogyan lehetne azt felhasználni. A Gyarmati Véderő Szellemhadteste soha nem az erkölcsi aggályairól volt híres, így megpróbálja egy klónkatonájába ültetni a lemásolt lelket... elvégre a háborút nekik kell megakadályozni, és ezért a célért mindenre hajlandóak. Scalzi ott folytatja a sodró lendületű katonai sci-fit, ahol a "Vének háborúja" véget ért, még lebilincselőbb történettel és emelve a téteket. Megfiatalított vének és gyorsan öregedő fiatalok vívják a különleges háborút, ami pontosan olyan, mint az összes háború a történelemben: végtelenül mocskos. Az egyetlen menedék, ha valaki megtalálja magában az erkölcsi iránytűt, ahogyan az Scalzi kalandos sorsú főhősének is sikerült. De elég lesz-e most is ennyi, ebben a mindent elsöprő háborúban?

James S. A. Corey - Tiamat's ​Wrath
Thirteen ​hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay. At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortázar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father the emperor doesn't guess. And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule -- and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose - seems more and more certain. Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough...

Ann Leckie - Ancillary ​Justice
On ​a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren--a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. An act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile human body. And only one purpose--to revenge herself on Anaander Mianaai, many-bodied, near-immortal Lord of the Radch. From debut author Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice is a stunning space opera that asks what it means to be human in a universe guided by artificial intelligence.

Robert Silverberg - Valentine ​Pontifex
The ​extraordinary story continues in this magnificent new installment of the bestselling Majipoor Chronicles, begun with Lord Valentine's Castle. Dark dreams disturb Lord Valentine's sleep, a forewarning of the danger that threatens the peace of Majipoor. The Shapeshifters have set in motion a terrifying plan to regain their stolen world and their allies, the ancient gods rising from their eons-long slumber beneath the oceans of the great planet. Suddenly, Valentine faces the greatest crisis of his reign. Either he must plunge Majipoor into a bloody nightmare of war, plague, and chaos, or surrender his life to the mercy of the vengeful Shapeshifters.

Hannu Rajaniemi - The ​Quantum Thief
Jean ​le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist and trickster. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy - from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to steal their thoughts, to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of the Moving Cities of Mars. Except that Jean made one mistake. Now he is condemned to play endless variations of a game-theoretic riddle in the vast virtual jail of the Axelrod Archons - the Dilemma Prison - against countless copies of himself. Jean's routine of death, defection and cooperation is upset by the arrival of Mieli and her spidership, Perhonen. She offers him a chance to win back his freedom and the powers of his old self - in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed . . . The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the far future - a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans but powered by very human motives of betrayal, revenge and jealousy. It is a stunning debut.

Pierce Brown - Red ​Rising
Darrow ​is a miner and a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he digs all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of the planet livable for future generations. Darrow has never seen the sky. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better future for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow and Reds like him are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow joins a resistance group in order to infiltrate the ruling class and destroy society from within. He will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.

Veronica Roth - Allegiant
The ​faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and of herself—while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love. Told from a riveting dual perspective, Allegiant, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the Divergent series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent.

V. E. Schwab - Vicious
A ​masterful, twisted tale of ambition, jealousy, betrayal, and superpowers, set in a near-future world. Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?

Orson Scott Card - Speaker ​for the Dead
The ​thrilling sequel to Ender’s Game and winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards—this full cast unabridged recording includes an original postscript written and recorded by the author. Three thousand years have passed since Ender Wiggin won humanity’s war with the Buggers by totally destroying them. Ender remains young, traveling the stars at the speed of relativity, but a hundred years or more might pass on Earth while he experiences a month-long voyage. In three thousand years, Ender’s books The Hive Queen and The Hegemon, written under a pseudonym, have become holy writ, while the name of Ender itself has become anathema: he is the Xenocide, the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings, killed the only other sapient race humankind had found in all the galaxy. The only ones, that is, until the planet called Lusitania was discovered and colonized. The discovery was seen as a gift to humanity, a chance to redeem the destruction of the Buggers. This time, the Starways Congress vowed, there would be no tragic misunderstanding leading to war. But once again men die, killed by the aliens in a rite no one understands. Ender, now known only as the Speaker for the Dead, comes to Lusitania to speak for those who have died and discovers that in order to tell the truth about them, he must unravel the secrets of Lusitania.

John Scalzi - Zoë ​története
Képzeld ​el... Képzeld el, hogy tizenöt éves vagy, a rég halott biológiai apád az emberiség legnagyobb árulója, a nevelőszüleid ellenben hős exkatonák és egy új gyarmat kormányzói. Képzeld el, hogy minden lépésedet két félelmetes földönkívüli testőr kíséri, és egy komplett idegen faj tanulja tőled egy csillagközi valóságshow keretében, hogy miként kell öntudattal rendelkező intelligens lényként élni. Képzeld el, hogy örökre el kell hagynod szülővárosod és szülőbolygód egy világvégi új gyarmat kedvéért, ahol új barátokat kell szerezned vadidegen telepesek között, hogy örömeidet és gondjaidat megoszthasd valakivel. Mert az új világ mindkettőt bő kézzel méri. Te mit tennél ebben a helyzetben? John Scalzi nem osztott meg velünk minden részletet a Roanoke történetéből Az utolsó gyarmat című könyvében, ezért olvasóira hallgatva még egy utolsó, különleges utazásra hív minket a Vének háborúja-univerzumba és a Roanoke-ra, hogy újra átéljük a gyarmat kalandos létrejöttét.

John Scalzi - Zoe's ​Tale
Zoe's ​Tale is a retelling of Scalzi's third Old Man's War novel, The Last Colony, written as a first-person narrative from the viewpoint of Zoë Boutin Perry. Zoë is the 17-year old adopted daughter of John Perry and Jane Sagan, two former-soldiers-turned-colonists who were the subjects of Scalzi's first book, Old Man's War. Her biological father, Charles Boutin, created a device capable of giving a race of creatures, called the Obin, consciousness. The Obin worshipped him, but he was killed for being a traitor to mankind and wanting to overthrow the Colonial Union, and so his daughter, Zoë, became a demigod to them.

James S. A. Corey - Kalibán ​háborúja
Többé ​már nem vagyunk egyedül. Az idegen protomolekula felfedezése egyértelműen bizonyítja egy emberi ésszel felfoghatatlan intelligencia létezését. Miután a Vénuszra került, titokzatos módosításokat hajt végre az égitesten, és azzal fenyeget, hogy tovaterjed az egész naprendszerben. Bár a Föld és a Mars békét kötött, a külső bolygók és az Öv még nem lehetnek biztosak újonnan szerzett autonómiájukban. A külső bolygók éléskamrájaként emlegetett Ganymedesen egy marsi tengerészgyalogos nő az egyedüli túlélője egy ismeretlen eredetű és sebezhetetlennek tűnő szuperkatona támadásának, aki lemészárolja az ott állomásozó marsi és földi egységeket. A Földön egy magas beosztású politikusnő igyekszik megakadályozni az incidens nyomán kirobbanó újabb bolygóközi háborút, miközben minden és mindenki ellene dolgozik. James Holden és a Rocinante legénysége a Külső Bolygók Szövetségének megbízásából a harcoktól sebzett Ganymedesre érkezik, ahol egy kétségbeesett tudós segítségére sietnek az eltűnt gyermeke utáni kutatásban. A látszólag egymástól független események gyújtópontjába ismét Holdenék kerülnek…

Roger Zelazny - The ​Guns of Avalon
Seeking ​vengeance against his usurping brother, Eric, Corwin, the rightful heir to the throne, ventures into the dark world of Shadow in order to gather ammunition, and is distracted by a beautiful and mysterious woman. Reissue.

Alastair Reynolds - Revelation ​Space
Nine ​hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship _Nostalgia for Infinity._ But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason - and if that reason is uncovered, the universe - and reality itself - could be irrevocably altered...

J. L. Armentrout - Oblivion ​- Feledés
Amikor ​Katy Swartz a szomszédomba költözött, rögtön tudtam, hogy baj lesz. Nagy baj. Bajra pedig igazán nincsen szükségem, hiszen nem vagyok idevalósi. A társaimmal a Luxról érkeztem a földre, egy tizenhárommilliárd fényévre lévő bolygóról. Ráadásul ha valamiben biztos vagyok, az az, hogy az emberekben nem lehet megbízni. Félnek tőlünk. Olyasmikre vagyunk képesek, amikről ők csak álmodnak, és pokolian gyengének tűnnek mellettünk -- mert azok is. Kat azonban olyan közel kerül hozzám, mint még senki más. Akaratlanul is vágyok rá -- és szeretném felhasználni a képességeimet, hogy megóvjam. Meggyengít engem, pedig én vagyok a legerősebb luxen, és az én feladatom, hogy védjem a többieket. Ez a hétköznapi lány tehát mindannyiunk végzete lehet. Hiszen a luxeneknek van egy hatalmasabb ellensége is -- az arumok -- akikkel szembe kell szállnom. Ha beleszeretek Katyba -- egy emberbe -- nem csupán őt sodrom veszélybe. Talán mindannyiunk pusztulását okozom... de azt nem hagyhatom.

B. N. Toler - Where ​One Goes
What ​happens when the very thing ruining your life ends up saving it? I was never one to believe in spirits—until six years ago, when a bone-chilling accident changed my life…forever. My name is Charlotte, but most people call me Char…and I have a special gift. I talk to the dead. Make no mistake, I can’t summon them. I’m only able to see and speak to the spirits that linger when they’re unable to crossover. They’re somehow weighted to the world with unfinished affairs. And for the last six years, I’ve relentlessly used my gift to help their lost souls. But it’s come at a price. My life is dark. Feeling despondent, I’ve begun to give up. And in helping the dead, I’ve realized I haven’t allowed myself to live. With no money, no place to go, and most importantly… no hope, I’ve decided there is only one option—to end it all. But fate is a funny thing. One minute, I’m about to leap to my death, and the next, I’m saved by Ike McDermott. The strong, striking soldier stopped me from putting an end to my despair. He’s the kind of man that smiles and brightens an entire room. Sweet and gentle. He is my savior. And he’s dead. We’ve made an agreement. He’ll help me find a place to stay and a new job if I’ll help him with his unfinished business so that he may crossover. Ike’s unfinished matter involves his twin brother, George. George has been falling apart since Ike’s death and Ike has not been able to compel himself to crossover in peace until he knows George will be okay. When I agreed to help, little did I know that I’d fall in love with the charming folks of Bath County, and…Ike and George McDermott. Now, as both brothers own equal parts of my heart, I am faced with a cruel and unfair predicament. In saving George, I must let go of Ike. But how does one let go of half of their heart?

W. Bruce Cameron - A ​Dog's Way Home
From ​W. Bruce Cameron, the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture! Lucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment he shares with his mother, a disabled veteran, doesn’t allow dogs, Lucas can’t resist taking Bella home. Bella is inexplicably drawn to Lucas, even if she doesn’t understand the necessity of games like No Barks. As it becomes more difficult to hide her from the neighbors, Lucas begins to sneak Bella into the VA where he works. There, Bella brings joy and comfort where it is needed most. After Bella is picked up by Animal Control because pit bulls are banned in Denver, Lucas has no choice but to send her to a foster home until he can figure out what to do. But Bella, distraught at the separation, doesn’t plan to wait. With four hundred miles of dangerous Colorado wilderness between her and her person, Bella sets off on a seemingly impossible and completely unforgettable adventure home. A classic story of unwavering loyalty and incredible devotion, A Dog’s Way Home is a beautifully told, charming tale that explores the unbreakable bond between us and our pets. This fantastic and exhilarating journey of the heart is in the same tradition as the beloved bestseller, A Dog’s Purpose.

John Scalzi - Pusztító ​tűz
A ​megsemmisülés szélén táncoló univerzumban játszódó eposzi űropera nem ért véget: a _Pusztító tűz_ John Scalzi lebilincselő folytatás _Az összeomló birodalom_hoz. Az emberiség csillagközi birodalmaként ismert Egyesülés az összeomlás küszöbén áll. Az Ár, a csillagközi utazást lehetővé tevő dimenziók közötti átjáró eltűnőfélben van, egész naprendszereket szakítva el egymástól. Az emberi civilizáció végveszélybe kerül, milliárdok élete forog kockán. II. Grayland emperátor, az Egyesülés államfője az egyetlen, aki megoldást találhat a problémára és megmentheti az emberiséget. A helyzete azonban nem egyszerű. Rengetegen vannak ugyanis, akik szerint az Ár összeroskadása szóbeszéd csupán – vagy legalábbis lehetőség arra, hogy ők maguk hatalomra kerüljenek. Miközben Grayland katasztrófára készül, addig a többiek polgárháborúra. Méghozzá olyanra, amelyet egyszerre vívnak majd a hatalom termeiben, a kereskedelem központjaiban, az áhítat oltárainál és a jéghideg világűrben. Az emperátor és a szövetségesei eszesek és találékonyak, de ugyanez igaz az ellenségeikre is. A _Pusztító tűz_ megjelenését követően azonnal New York Times Bestseller és USA Today Bestseller lett, így John Scalzi ismételten bizonyítja, hogy ő korunk egyik legnagyobb élő sci-fi írója, aki a _Vének háborújá_n kívül is képes maradandót alkotni.

Victor Milan - The ​Dinosaur Knights
Paradise ​is a sprawling, diverse, often cruel world. There are humans on Paradise but dinosaurs predominate: wildlife, monsters, beasts of burden, and of war. Armored knights ride dinosaurs to battle legions of war-trained Triceratops and their upstart peasant crews. Karyl Bogomirsky is one such knight who has chosen to rally those who seek a way from the path of war and madness. The fact that the Empire has announced a religious crusade against this peaceful kingdom, the people who just wish to live in peace anathema, and they all are to be converted or destroyed doesn't help him one bit. Things really turn to mud when the dreaded Grey Angels, fabled ancient weapons of the Gods who created Paradise in the first place come on the scene after almost a millennia. Everyone thought that they were fables used to scare children. They are very much real. And they have come to rid the world of sin...including all the humans who manifest those vices. THE DINOSAUR KNIGHTS is the second in Victor Milan's lush, exotic tale about knights. Knights riding dinosaurs.

Dmitry Glukhovsky - Metro ​2034 (angol)
It's ​the year 2034. After a devastating war much of the world lies in ruins. Moscow is a ghost town. A few survivors retreated into the depths of the underground network to build a new civilization. They found only darkness... At the Sevastopol station, cut off from the Metro, a man appears. Colonel Hunter. He fights a lonely war against the dark, journeying deep into the monster haunted depths of the tunnels. At his side is Homer, an old man who knows the legends of the Metro like no other and will write its history. When the two meet the 17-year-old Sasha, Homer believes he has found the perfect pair for his epic poem. But will the live to write the tale?