The sequel to Rider at the Gate continues as a seamless narrative on the unrivaled partnership forged between human colonists stranded on a planet whose only native life forms are linked by telepathy, and the native nighthorses, who fiercely guard the humans against the planet''s mind-clouding predators. The hero of this story is Danny Fisher, a young rider whose will is tested through fateful confrontations with an older rider named Guil Stewart and a miscreant horse, whose incongruous telepathic sendings drive entire villages to madness and death. 464 p

This breathtaking climax to the acclaimed saga of "The Reality Dysfunction" and "The Neutronium Alchemist" finds the Confederation on the verge of collapse, as more and more star systems fall to the Possessed. An alien god may hold the solution to the crisis—if Joshua and Syrinx can discover it in time.

BODY OF EVIDENCE Eleanor said, "I hope you'll tell me I'm making a ridiculous mistake." "If it's about where Murdoch and I have been recently, no, it's not a mistake," I said. She reached for her chair and lowered herself carefully into it, her eyes not leaving mine. "In your blood I found antibodies to viruses that have not existed for decades. Your lungs held traces of exhaust products of machines that haven't been used in a century." "Could you date these phenomena?" "I'd say about the time the Sleepers were from. Or even before. Your results overlapped with theirs." "Pretty good. Would you accept 2023?" She closed her eyes for a moment. "I don't want to. But the facts are there..." Maxine McArthur's first novel, Time Future, was the critically acclaimed winner of the George Turner Prize and a Locus Recommended Book of the Year. Now McArthur returns to her richly realized universe in a riveting new tale of cataclysmic events and temporal anarchy... WOMAN OUT OF TIME The deep space station Jocasta is awaiting the outcome of a historic neutrality vote to win freedom from the Confederacy. Then the vote's reluctant instigator, Commander Halley, vanishes when an experiment with a captured jump drive leaves her trapped in Earth's past. But as she desperately tries to find a way back to her present, Halley uncovers a conspiracy that threatens history itself and will destroy the Confederacy. Her only hope to avert disaster is to make first contact with the enigmatic aliens who invented time travel—if she can survive long enough. Because while an interstellar siege once kept Halley trapped aboard Jocasta, now far more powerful forces conspire against her ever returning to the station alive... 512 p