Fantasy & science fiction

George R.R. Martin drew on Tolkien, who was inspired by Medieval epics and Norse mythology. This collection of epic fantasy tales explores the themes of good vs evil, the low-born hero, and the arrogant overlord, and laces them with a taste of sorcery that reaches back to the early sources, and stirs them in with the brand new storytellers of today

Disease and a new race of supernatural beings have nearly wiped out mankind, and two survivors are on the hunt for an oasis called Tomato Heaven.

Iroha's setting into her new life after moving to Mikazuki Manor. Some suspicious mail arrives for her, offering to save the girl captured by the ¿depths of loneliness¿?!

Two months have passed since the nefarious events surrounding the latest Nine School Competition, and its cerebral counterpart, the Thesis Competition, is fast approaching. Helping out First High with the event, Tatsuya will surely have his work cut out for him even if everything goes according to plan. Of course, nothing ever does, which might explain the letter from Maya Yotsuba containing a curious request: to assist in the capture of Gongjin Zhou, one of the masterminds behind the recent Parasidoll incident. Tatsuya and Miyuki depart for Kyoto, where they'll have to keep their wits about them to safely navigate the hidden schemes and shadowy conflicts that lurk just beneath the surface of the ancient capital!

One man's journey for vengeance-and the battle that will determine the fate of the empire-comes to a close!As the final battle between the Imperial Army and Glenn,s forces intensifies, Köinzell and Ichfeis take advantage of the chaos to approach the floating fortress where Glenn awaits. The pair of past and present Blatt Meisters is prepared to cut down any who stand in their way, starting with Dragongrave Ischüdien! At last, Köinzell will confront his betrayer, the "hero" who has achieved prominence and power at others, expense. Will Glenn win the day-and the Empire-or will Köinzell have his ultimate revenge?An epic fantasy on the grandest of scales!

Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky's Made Things is dark fantasy tale of how the most unlikely characters may become the most heroic. Making friends has never been so important.Welcome to Fountains Parish--a cesspit of trade and crime, where ambition curls up to die and desperation grows on its cobbled streets like mold on week-old bread. Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist. But she has something other thieves don't... tiny puppet-like companions: some made of wood, some of metal. They don't entirely trust her, and she doesn't entirely understand them, but their partnership mostly works.After a surprising discovery shakes their world to the core, Coppelia and her friends must re-examine everything they thought they knew about their world, while attempting to save their city from a seemingly impossible new threat.

This apocalyptic tale by the author of Frankenstein envisions a future world devastated by plague. Misunderstood by contemporary readers, Mary Shelley's 1826 precursor to the science fiction novel has reemerged to critical acclaim.

July 2096. A new year means a new summer, anda new summer means another Nine-School Competition. Just to spice things up, theparticipants were informed only weeks before the event that there are somemassive rule changes! While everyone''s running around trying to figure out whatthey should do, Tatsuya hears rumors that another plot might be brewing aroundthis year''s competition. As the shadows rise for the second year in a row...letthe games begin!

A grudge match kicks off between GoblinSlayer and the Goblin Champion, hungry for revenge. But without the aid of fire,water, or poison, what kind of secret weapon will Goblin Slayer use against hismortal foes this time? Will the great mystery of the ruins beneath Water Town besolved once and for all...?

He does not let anyone roll thedice.Sword Maiden requests GoblinSlayer and his party to escort her to the royal capital as rumor has it thatpacks of wolf-mounted goblins inhabit the route there. However, there arewhispers of an ill omen within the capital; then, whether by fate or by chance,the party arrives at a massive, eerie abyss known as the Dungeon of theDead...

From the author of To Kill a Kingdom comes the first in a spectacular fantasy duology, in a world thriving with black magic.

Sid wants to be a shadowbrokerÐthose who control everything from behind the scenesÐmore than anything! He trains in secret every single night, preparing for his eventual rise to power-only to denied his destiny by a run-of-the-mill, yet deadly, traffic accident. But when he wakes up in a another world and suddenly finds himself at the head of an actual secret organization doing battle with evil in the shadows, he'll finally get a chance to act out all of his delusional fantasies!fantasies!

In the blasted, radiation-scorched, wastelands of the Earth's surface, towering mecha do battle, defending the interests of one of the few remaining arcology governments, providing security for wilderness outposts, or seeking out loot and supplies as a mercenary company. With detailed rules for designing and customizing your mecha, from size and propulsion type to payload and pilot skills, and a campaign system that allows pilots to gain experience and skills as they patrol the shattered Earth, Gamma Wolves is a fast-playing game of post-apocalyptic mecha warfare.

Ginnungagap, the Gaping Abyss, was once what separated the realms of Ice and Fire, keeping them in balance and sparing the other realms from their ravages. With the Nine Realms shattered, however, Ginnungagap has been left unguarded and unspeakable horrors now await those who wish to cross it. Ragnarok: The Abyss includes new scenarios for Ragnarok as well as new monsters to vanquish in glorious battle. New mechanics introduce something once barely recognised by war clans - Fear - and present entirely new challenges for them to overcome in the telling of their sagas.

What happens when the internet comes alive? An SF thriller of terrifying possibilities.

"Author's note: The events in this novel take place between the Firefly TV series and the movie Serenity."

Evil and hope clash and burn in the epic and shocking conclusion to the Shadow of the Fox trilogy. 'One of my all-time favourite fantasy novels!' Ellen Oh, author of the Prophecy and Spirit Hunters series, on Shadow of the Fox

Stuck on the 27th floor with no way out, Lilly and the rest of the party are forced to endure an "adventure" that has been thrust upon them in the sudden absence of their leader. Meanwhile, Bell and Lyu have found themselves on the 37th floor after becoming separated from the others. Alone, without support, and unsure of what to do, will they be able to make it out alive of the deepest floor Bell has ever set foot in?

Levy explores the visions of the writers, futurists and far-sighted inventors of science fiction - and how their visions became reality.

Imagine Mark Zuckerburg created his own army of tech obsessed teens and directed them to take on the government? Well, welcome to the world of THUMBS! Adrian Camus is a rock star tech designer who's recruited kids like THUMBS to turn their experience playing his video games into real life warfare. Opposing them, is the Power, a group of politicians and advocates wanting to take tech away from the people and return to simpler times. Heartfelt, action packed and forward thinking it is the next hit from the team that brought you the smash hit THE FEW. Collects THUMBS issues 1 through 5.

Having seen Gozuki's true colors, Akame defects from the Empire and tries to convince Tsukushi to do the same, but things don't go quite as planned. New companions and new missions await. The name of the division is Night Raid. A legendary assassin is born.

The new gut-wrenching epic from the New York Times bestselling author of Sky in the Deep.

An astonishing, provocative, beautifully written and startlingly visionary novel of first contact from a key genre writer

Anne Rice is the author of more than thirty internationally bestselling books including the Mayfair Witches sequence, Songs of the Seraphim and the Wolf Gift Chronicles. The phenomenon that became the Vampire Chronicles began with Interview with the Vampire in 1976, later made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and culminated with Blood Canticle in 2003. Prince Lestat, published in 2014, and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, published in 2016, were the first new Vampire Chronicle novels for over a decade. Anne Rice lives in California.

Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv, then part of Poland. He is probably the most original and influential European science-fiction writer since H.G. Wells. Best known in the West for Tarkovsky's film of his novel Solaris, Lem wrote novels and stories that have been published all over the world. He is credited with anticipating in his writing artificial reality, e-books and nano-technology. His most famous works include The Cyberiad, Mortal Engines, The Star Diaries, The Futurological Congress, Tales of Pirx the Pilot and Solaris.

Newly-minted Demon LordSlime Rimuru has received word of a special assembly of all the demon lords,known as the Walpurgis Council. It just so happens that the topic of this year''smeeting is how best to punish Rimuru for assuming his new demonictitle...Will this hotshot slime goand crash this council himself?!

When the Alliance Fleet mounts a major campaign against a deadly warlord, tyrant Ysanne Isard has taken control of Thyferra, intending to use its supply of medicinal bacta to destabilize and destroy the New Republic. Undermanned, deprived of Alliance support, Rogue Squadron must oppose Isard's plans, defeat her Star Destroyer fleet, and free Thyferra from her rule in a winner-take-all battle against a seemingly superior force.