From National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree Jenny Tinghui Zhang, a novel about a pop idol and his superfan, whose stories shockingly collide. Freshman Minnie is adrift at college in Austin, Texas, when she discovers a boy band called HOURglass and the online forums that worship them. She especially loves Halo, whose sharp edges feel somehow familiar. After a brief romance goes painfully awry, Minnie pours everything into her new fandom, clinging to each livestream and bonding with other fans online. But when a scandal threatens to expose Halo to harm, Minnie decides that she is the only one who can save him. Except Halo’s secret is darker than anything the tabloids could imagine. Before he was a superstar heartthrob, he was Eason: a high school dropout haunted by a tragic accident. When he is recruited for HOURglass, it feels like a chance to become someone else. And when he is on stage in front of his fans, he can almost forget the horrors of his past–until one of those very fans threatens to destroy everything. Dazzling, entrancing, and deeply heartfelt, Superfan is about fandom in all its magic and its terror, and the extreme lengths to which we go to rid ourselves of loneliness.

Experience this dark cyberpunk romance that follows two enemies just fighting for a survival in a world that will strip you of everything good just to turn a profit. In the future city of Neo Stellaris, everything has a price. Experience a spicy cat and mouse game, witty banter, and a mystery that reveals much more than anyone expected. Neo Stellaris is a city of neon lights and dark secrets, and despite the city’s clean energy, its soul is filthy. Corporations own everything, gangs take what’s left, and the people in between that are born with strange Flux powers? They survive however they can. But it’s never enough.Eon Ibarra has spent her life in the impoverished Magenta District, evading corporate control while supporting her hospitalized mother in whatever way she can, whether that’s sex work or stealing corporate secrets as a cyberrunner. Her rare electromagnetic Flux abilities make her valuable to rebels and corporations alike. When financial desperation drives her back to the underground, she accepts a mission that will either secure her freedom or cost her everything.Cy Hoshina, a black operations agent for POM Enterprises with matching Flux abilities, has spent a decade enforcing corporate will, making their problems disappear. Permanently. His carefully managed existence is shattered during a chance encounter with Eon—their electromagnetic fields synchronizing in a way neither can explain, or forget..The mysterious death of a high-ranking POM executive forces them into an uneasy alliance, and Eon and Cy must navigate a city where nothing is what it seems. As they hunt the truth through warring gangs, encrypted data, and a fanatical cult promising salvation through destruction, the power they share ignites something even more dangerous. In a city where power is everything and technology blurs the line between reality and transcendence, they will have to decide what’s more deadly— the conspiracy they are unraveling, or the magnetism between them they can’t escape. In Neo Stellaris, genuine connection comes at a deadly price, and some data was never meant to be found.Perfect for fans of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and Sarah J, Mass’s Crescent City. If you love captivated by the complex dynamics, enemies-to-lovers tension, and hate capitalism, Neon Flux is your next cyberpunk obsession!This novel contains mature themes and is intended for adults. Reader guidance can be found at the beginning of the book.

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous… you'll recognize it immediately.

He’ll die without touch. As a necromancer, Shae loses a little more of himself every time he uses his magic. Always cold, always touch-starved, the only thing that helps is human contact. But that’s hard to come by when those same dark powers scare everyone away from him. Nobody likes a necromancer. Especially a paladin of the Radiant Order. Arthur’s still bitter and broken after his last lover stabbed him in the back, and the last thing he needs is another brush with evil. When he agrees to escort the wandering necromancer north, he’s just doing a public service. But he never expected Shae to be so clingy. Or distractingly attractive. Shae has never felt an aura as warm and safe as Arthur’s. He craves the man’s touch—and more. But everyone he’s ever known has left him, and it’s just a matter of time before Arthur leaves him too. Assuming the soul-stealing monsters don’t kill them first. The Necromancer’s Light is a gay fantasy romance, with magic, hurt/comfort, and bed sharing for Reasons. First in a series but can be read alone. 56,000 words, HEA guaranteed.

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

In this lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds.October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the no animals will come near it, the bedroom window isn't always a window, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls.October, 1877: Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father’s face, but Sen would do anything to please him, even turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible a young foreign man who appears outside her window.One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie.Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

Camille, Montréalaise récemment expatriée à Rome, navigue dans les eaux houleuses de ses relations fragiles et de ses réflexions qui filent à cent milles à l’heure. Le cœur presque léger, elle explore l’ailleurs pour voir si elle y est et tente de se défaire du bagage compliqué qu’elle a traîné avec elle jusque dans la chaleur italienne.