Random House New Releases - Science Fiction - Fantasy - Between November 27, 2008 and December 27, 2009.

Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K. Hamilton

2009-12-08T00:30:00-05:00

Divine Misdemeanors A Novel
Written by Laurell K. Hamilton

You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kin’s treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heir—all for the right to claim the throne. But I turned my back on court and crown, choosing exile in the human world—and in the arms of my beloved Frost and Darkness.

While I may have rejected the monarchy, I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. My kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. I must get to the bottom of these horrendous murders, even if that means going up against Gilda, the Fairy Godmother, my rival for fey loyalties in Los Angeles.

But even stranger things are happening. Mortals I once healed with magic are suddenly performing miracles, a shocking phenomenon wreaking havoc on human/faerie relations. Though I am innocent, dark suspicions of banned magical activities swirl around me.

I thought I’d left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. I had dreamed of an idyllic life in sunny L.A. with my beloved ones beside me. But it becomes time to wake up and realize that evil knows no borders, and that nobody lives forever—even if they’re magical.

Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K. Hamilton

2009-12-08T00:30:00-05:00

Divine Misdemeanors A Novel
Written by Laurell K. Hamilton

Divine Misdemeanors by Laural Merlington

2009-12-08T00:30:00-05:00

Divine Misdemeanors A Novel
Written by Laurell K. Hamilton
Read by Laural Merlington

Divine Misdemeanors by Laural Merlington

2009-12-08T00:30:00-05:00

Divine Misdemeanors
Written by Laurell K. Hamilton
Read by Laural Merlington

Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil by Drew Karpyshyn

2009-12-08T00:30:00-05:00

Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil A Novel of the Old Republic
Written by Drew Karpyshyn

Twenty years have passed since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, demolished the ancient order devoted to the dark side and reinvented it as a circle of two: one Master to wield the power and pass on the wisdom, and one apprentice to learn, challenge, and ultimately usurp the Dark Lord in a duel to the death. But Bane’s acolyte, Zannah, has yet to engage her Master in mortal combat and prove herself a worthy successor. Determined that the Sith dream of galactic domination will not die with him, Bane vows to learn the secret of a forgotten Dark Lord that will assure the Sith’s immortality–and his own.

A perfect opportunity arises when a Jedi emissary is assassinated on the troubled mining planet Doan, giving Bane an excuse to dispatch his apprentice on a fact-finding mission–while he himself sets out in secret to capture the ancient holocron of Darth Andeddu and its precious knowledge. But Zannah is no fool. She knows that her ruthless Master has begun to doubt her, and she senses that he is hiding something crucial to her future. If she is going to claim the power she craves, she must take action now.

While Bane storms the remote stronghold of a fanatical Sith cult, Zannah prepares for her Master’s downfall by choosing an apprentice of her own: a rogue Jedi cunning and cold-blooded enough to embrace the Sith way and to stand beside her when she at last wrests from Bane the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith.

But Zannah is not the only one with the desire and power to destroy Darth Bane. Princess Serra of the Doan royal family is haunted by memories of the monstrous Sith soldier who murdered her father and tortured her when she was a child. Bent on retribution, she hires a merciless assassin to find her tormentor–and bring him back alive to taste her wrath.

Only a Sith who has taken down her own Master can become Dark Lord of the Sith. So when Bane suddenly vanishes, Zannah must find him–possibly even rescue him–before she can kill him. And so she pursues her quarry from the grim depths of a ravaged world on the brink of catastrophe to the barren reaches of a desert outpost, where the future of the dark side’s most powerful disciples will be decided, once and for all, by the final, fatal stroke of a lightsaber.

We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick

2009-11-25T00:30:00-05:00

We Can Build You
Written by Philip K. Dick

Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's the added complication that someone--or something--like Abraham Lincoln may not want to be sold.

Is an electronic Lincoln any less alive than his creators? Is a machine that cares and suffers inferior to the woman Louis loves--a borderline psychopath who does neither? With irresistible momentum, intelligence, and wit, Philip K. Dick creates an arresting techno-thriller that suggests a marriage of Bladerunner and Barbarians at the Gate.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Devil's Alphabet by Daryl Gregory

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

The Devil's Alphabet
Written by Daryl Gregory

From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy.

Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease–dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)–vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies.

Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn’t change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside.

Having fled shortly after the pandemic, Pax now returns to Switchcreek fifteen years later, following the suicide of Jo Lynn. What he finds is a town seething with secrets, among which murder may well be numbered. But there are even darker–and far weirder–mysteries hiding below the surface that will threaten not only Pax’s future but the future of the whole human race.

The Devil's Alphabet by Daryl Gregory

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

The Devil's Alphabet
Written by Daryl Gregory

Helfort's War Book 3: The Battle of Devastation Reef by Graham Sharp Paul

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

Helfort's War Book 3: The Battle of Devastation Reef
Written by Graham Sharp Paul

If he survives, hell just may freeze over.

The savage Hammer Worlds are not only near invincible but almost certain to win their war to crush the Federated Worlds and control humanspace–unless the Feds can find and destroy their secret antimatter warhead facility.

Only dreadnoughts, the lone Federated ships able to withstand antimatter missile attacks, can do the job, and only Lieutenant Michael Helfort has the skill to lead them. But skill may not be enough, because Helfort is more than the newly appointed captain: He’s a hero, and this means that his own senior officers want him to fail–and that the enemy’s kingpin wants him dead.

Helfort’s early victories merely intensify everyone’s determination. No action is too low, no price too high, to bring him down–with treachery, or betrayal, or an offer he can’t refuse, even if it means selling out his own side.

From the Paperback edition.

Helfort's War Book 3: The Battle of Devastation Reef by Graham Sharp Paul

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

Helfort's War Book 3: The Battle of Devastation Reef
Written by Graham Sharp Paul

The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel by Greg Keyes

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel
Written by Greg Keyes

Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil. It is Umbriel, a floating city that casts a terrifying shadow–for wherever it falls, people die and rise again.

And it is in Umbriel’s shadow that a great adventure begins, and a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary prince with a secret. A spy on the trail of a vast conspiracy. A mage obsessed with his desire for revenge. And Annaig, a young girl in whose hands the fate of Tamriel may rest . . . .

Based on the award-winning The Elder Scrolls, The Infernal City is the first of two exhilarating novels following events that continue the story from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, named 2006 Game of the Year.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel by Greg Keyes

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel
Written by Greg Keyes

The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

The Magicians and Mrs. Quent
Written by Galen Beckett

Galen Beckett weaves a dazzling spell of adventure and suspense in an evocative world of high magick and genteel society–a world where one young woman discovers that her modest life is far more extraordinary than she ever imagined.

Of the three Lockwell sisters–romantic Lily, prophetic Rose, and studious, book-loving Ivy–it’s Ivy, the eldest, who’s held the family together after their father’s silent retreat to the library upstairs. Everyone blames Mr. Lockwell’s malady on his magickal studies, but Ivy still believes–both in magick and in its power to bring her father back.

Yet it is not until Ivy takes a job with the reclusive Mr. Quent that she discovers the fate she shares with a secret society of highwaymen, revolutionaries, illusionists, and spies who populate the island nation of Altania. It’s a fate that will determine whether Altania faces a new dawn–or an everlasting night.

Metal Gear Solid 2: The Novel by Raymond Benson

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

Metal Gear Solid 2: The Novel Sons of Liberty
Written by Raymond Benson

METAL GEAR SOLID: THE BEAST IS BACK.
WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?

In a torrential downpour, former FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake stands on the George Washington Bridge–ready to launch himself onto the deck of the U.S.S. Discovery as it passes below. Inside Discovery is a new generation of Metal Gear. But in the next hour, Snake’s world explodes.

Two years later, a young, unproven agent code-named Raiden must penetrate the mystery of what went so insanely wrong that night.

In a labyrinthine superstructure in New York Harbor known as the Big Shell, enemies, allies, secret agents, and double-dealers converge: Russian commandos, a cyber Vamp, a long-legged, leather-clad, rifle-bearing beauty named Fortune, a deformed, finely manicured bomber called Fatman, and a mysterious Mister X. Somewhere in the maze, as well, is the president himself–his biometrics coded to a bomb that can take out Manhattan, his loyalties unknown. Now the rookie Raiden is fighting his way to one discovery after another, including the rebirth of Solid Snake himself and a nightmare organization with a history, a plan, and a terrifying superweapon hidden in plain sight.

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon by James Luceno

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon
Written by James Luceno

Climb aboard, buckle up, and prepare to jump to hyperspace for a dazzling adventure aboard the ship that launched a thousand fates.

Two years have passed since the death of the brutal Sith Lord Darth Caedus–once known as Jacen Solo. The galaxy is slowly healing from civil war, while Jacen’s family and friends are left to mourn his loss alone. For Han and Leia, still grieving for their son, the only bright spot is Jacen’s daughter, Allana, who has been given into their care. Now Allana introduces new adventure into her grandparents’ lives when she discovers a strange device hidden aboard the Millennium Falcon–a discovery that sparks a fact-finding expedition to retrace the people, places, and events in the checkered history of the famous spaceship. But the Solos are not alone in their quest: Crime lords, galactic pirates, rogue politicians, and fortune hunters alike will race to a final standoff for a prize some will risk everything to find–and pay any cost to possess.

Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

Swallowing Darkness A Novel
Written by Laurell K. Hamilton

I am Meredith, princess of faerie, and at long last, I am with child–twins, fathered by my royal guard. Now I must stay alive to see my children born, as conspirators from every court plot against me and mine. They seek to strip my guards, my lovers, from me by poisoned word or cold steel. But I still have supporters, and even friends, among the goblins and the sluagh who will stand by me. Those who would defy and destroy me are destined to pay a terrible price. To protect what is mine, I will sacrifice anything–even if it means waging a battle against my darkest enemies and making the most momentous decision ever made as princess of faerie.

Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

Three Days to Dead
Written by Kelly Meding

They’ll never see her coming. . . .

When Evangeline Stone wakes up naked and bruised on a cold slab at the morgue—in a stranger’s body, with no memory of who she is and how she got there—her troubles are only just beginning. Before that night she and the two other members of her Triad were the city’s star bounty hunters, mercilessly cleansing the city of the murderous creatures living in the shadows, from vampires to shape-shifters to trolls. Then something terrible happened that not only cost all three of them their lives but also convinced the city’s other Hunters that Evy was a traitor—and she can’t even remember what it was.

Now she’s a fugitive, piecing together her memory, trying to deal some serious justice—and discovering that she has only three days to solve her own murder before the reincarnation spell wears off. Because in three days Evy will die again—but this time there’s no second chance. . . .

Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding

2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00

Three Days to Dead
Written by Kelly Meding

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

2009-11-18T00:30:00-05:00

To Say Nothing of the Dog
Written by Connie Willis

Glory Season by David Brin

2009-10-28T00:30:00-05:00

Glory Season
Written by David Brin

Random House New Releases - Science Fiction - Fantasy - Between November 27, 2008 and December 27, 2009.

Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K. Hamilton

Divine Misdemeanors A NovelWritten by Laurell K. Hamilton

Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K. Hamilton

Divine Misdemeanors A NovelWritten by Laurell K. Hamilton

Divine Misdemeanors by Laural Merlington

Divine Misdemeanors A NovelWritten by Laurell K. Hamilton Read by Laural Merlington

Divine Misdemeanors by Laural Merlington

Divine Misdemeanors Written by Laurell K. Hamilton Read by Laural Merlington

Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil by Drew Karpyshyn

Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil A Novel of the Old RepublicWritten by Drew Karpyshyn

We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick

We Can Build You Written by Philip K. Dick

The Devil's Alphabet by Daryl Gregory

The Devil's Alphabet Written by Daryl Gregory

The Devil's Alphabet by Daryl Gregory

The Devil's Alphabet Written by Daryl Gregory

Helfort's War Book 3: The Battle of Devastation Reef by Graham Sharp Paul

Helfort's War Book 3: The Battle of Devastation Reef Written by Graham Sharp Paul

Helfort's War Book 3: The Battle of Devastation Reef by Graham Sharp Paul

Helfort's War Book 3: The Battle of Devastation Reef Written by Graham Sharp Paul

The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel by Greg Keyes

The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel Written by Greg Keyes

The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel by Greg Keyes

The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel Written by Greg Keyes

The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett

The Magicians and Mrs. Quent Written by Galen Beckett

Metal Gear Solid 2: The Novel by Raymond Benson

Metal Gear Solid 2: The Novel Sons of LibertyWritten by Raymond Benson

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon by James Luceno

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon Written by James Luceno

Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton

Swallowing Darkness A NovelWritten by Laurell K. Hamilton

Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding

Three Days to Dead Written by Kelly Meding

Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding

Three Days to Dead Written by Kelly Meding

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

To Say Nothing of the Dog Written by Connie Willis

Glory Season by David Brin

Glory Season Written by David Brin

Divine Misdemeanors A Novel
Written by Laurell K. Hamilton

Divine Misdemeanors A Novel
Written by Laurell K. Hamilton

Divine Misdemeanors A Novel
Written by Laurell K. Hamilton
Read by Laural Merlington

Divine Misdemeanors
Written by Laurell K. Hamilton
Read by Laural Merlington

Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil A Novel of the Old Republic
Written by Drew Karpyshyn

We Can Build You
Written by Philip K. Dick

The Devil's Alphabet
Written by Daryl Gregory

The Devil's Alphabet
Written by Daryl Gregory

Helfort's War Book 3: The Battle of Devastation Reef
Written by Graham Sharp Paul

Helfort's War Book 3: The Battle of Devastation Reef
Written by Graham Sharp Paul

The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel
Written by Greg Keyes

The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel
Written by Greg Keyes

The Magicians and Mrs. Quent
Written by Galen Beckett

Metal Gear Solid 2: The Novel Sons of Liberty
Written by Raymond Benson

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon
Written by James Luceno

Swallowing Darkness A Novel
Written by Laurell K. Hamilton

Three Days to Dead
Written by Kelly Meding

Three Days to Dead
Written by Kelly Meding

To Say Nothing of the Dog
Written by Connie Willis

Glory Season
Written by David Brin