Here's the best books released in March for science fiction titles.
This mesmerizing collection features Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards)
Nameless by Grant MorrisonNameless is an occult hustler who is recruited by a consortium of billionaire futurists as part of a desperate mission to save the world. A massive asteroid named Xibalba is on collision course with Earth and it has an enormous magical symbol carved into its side. Not only that, it is revealed to be a fragment of our solar system's lost fifth planet, Marduk, destroyed 65 million years ago at the end the war between the inhabitants of Marduk and immensely-powerful, life-hating, extra-dimensional "gods". One of those beings is imprisoned on Xibalba, dreaming of its ultimate revenge. When Nameless and his team inadvertently unleash it, the stage is set for a nightmarish, nihilistic journey to the outer reaches of human terror.
While Spartans get all the glory, no soldier―not even legendary Master Chief―wins a war on their own. Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck and his team played a major role in saving the Earth at the end of the Covenant War. Now, after many Spartans have been killed and the Master Chief is MIA, the UNSC decides to create a new generation of Spartans to defend humanity from threats both outside and within. When they come to Buck with an proposition, he is forced to make a life-altering decision. With the Covenant War finally over, is it time for him to retire to the sidelines for a life he could only dream about…or is he prepared to step up and become part of the military’s new blood?
“The Golden Brat” Reinhard von Lohengramm, a military prodigy and admiral of the Galactic Empire, has ambitions beyond protecting the borders or even defeating the Empire’s enemies. He seeks to overthrow the old order and become a truly absolute—yet benevolent—dictator. His rival, the humble Yang Wen-li of the Free Planets Alliance, wishes to preserve democracy even if he must sacrifice his political ideals to defeat the Empire.
Captain Jason Burke is a man apart, and not just because he's the only of his kind for thousands of lightyears in any direction. The changes to his body and genetic code have made him faster, stronger, more able to survive ... but they've also ensured that he'll never truly fit in with others of his species. He always assumed he would live and die with his crew and never lay eyes on another human again, but he was wrong. Burke learns through back channel information that Earth may be in danger and, worse, that he may have been a contributing factor. He now has the choose to ignore the problem and allow his own species to fight their own battles, or return to help and risk making the situation worse.
With 99.7% of the Earth's population dead and gone, the few who remain struggle to survive in an empty world. There's Mitch, a father infected with the zombie virus. With 24 hours until he turns, Mitch struggles to find redemption for his bad parenting skills. Travis is a wimp who ran after witnessing his parent's murders, chasing drugs to drown the images. Erin is 16, but care-taker to an 8 year old orphan and crushed by the sudden responsibility. And then there's Teddy, Baghead and Delfino, Rex and Ray and Lorraine. All of them utterly lost and looking for meaning in humanity's fading glow.
James Patterson is a gay accountant living in Keyes, Oklahoma—deep in the Bible Belt—the religious heartland of America. He’s also the first person to make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence seeking to understand our world, and that makes him the most important person on the planet.
