Title: The Darkness
Author: Banks, L.A.
ISBN: 9780312949143
Notes: The latest in Banks's wildly popular vampire huntress series.

Title: Lion's Blood
Author: Barnes, Steven
ISBN: 0446526681
Call Number: Fiction
Notes: In Barnes’s alternate America, white European slaves labor on plantations run by African imperial governors. This novel of political suspense and adventure keeps surprising readers until the end.

Title: Lilith's Brood
Author: Butler, Octavia E.
ISBN: 0446676101
Call Number: Fiction
Notes: This volume collects Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, which explores what happens when powerful aliens take a destroyed Earth for themselves, and offer humanity its only chance for survival: to become aliens themselves.

Title: Babel-17 ; Empire Star
Author: Delany, Samuel R.
ISBN: 0375706690
Call Number: Fiction
Notes: Babel-17 follows a female starship captain (and her crew of genetic misfits) whose remarkable linguistic discoveries are the only defense against a strange and powerful weapon that may destroy them all.

Title: The Good House
Author: Due, Tananarive
ISBN: 0743449002
Notes: This reinvention of the classic ghost story follows a family—and its spirits—from New Orleans to Washington State, where the latest generation must contend with the sins of their ancestor, who abused her vodou powers

Title: The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad
Author: Minister, Faust
ISBN: 0345466357
Call Number: Fiction
Notes: In this comic sci fi novel, two oafish roommates in a future Canada cast about until a mysterious (and maybe not-quite human) woman shows up and brings with her a whole mess of trouble.

Title: Futureland
Author: Mosley, Walter
ISBN: 0446529540
Call Number: Fiction
Notes: In this departure from his Easy Rawlins books, Mosley presents a series of interlocking narratives in a grim, technologically advanced future where streetwise misfits and crafty outcasts explore the bounds of their world.

Title: Skin Folk
Author: Nalo, Hopkinson
ISBN: 0446678031
Call Number: Fiction
Notes: Hopkinson takes familiar Caribbean folklore to new and surprising places, including an alien planet, a futuristic Canada, a speculative Jamaica, and a distant dystopia, in this collection of stories that blend fable, fantasy, science fiction and folk tales.

Title: Stigmata
Author: Perry, Phyllis Alesia
ISBN: 0786864087
Call Number: Fiction
Notes: A young woman with a bright future is plagued by visions of her long-dead grandmother. Are they indications that she is mentally ill or is she traveling back in time to experience what her grandmother did?

Title: The Darker Mask
Author: Phillips, Gary and Christopher Chambers
ISBN: 9780765318510
Call Number: Fiction
Notes: Recent superhero and other speculative hero adventures from today's best known African American authors.