Release Week: The Secret of Ji, The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination, The Siren Depths, and Domino Falls

Release Week: The Secret of Ji, The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination, The Siren Depths, and Domino Falls

Posted on 2013-02-20 at 14:33 by Sam

The middle of February brings a bestselling French fantasy to both English and audio, as well as welcoming back Austin Grossman to the ranks of Mad Scientist storyteller, the conclusion of Martha Wells’ Books of the Raksura, and a new novel from frequent collaborators Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes. (And, of course, John Scalzi’s The Human Division continues with Back Channel: The Human Division, Episode 6.  Doesn’t that go without saying by now?)

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Six Heirs (The Secret of Ji, Book One) by Pierre Grimbert, translated by Matthew Ross and Eric Lamb, read by Michael Page for Brilliance Audio, out concurrent with the US print/ebook release from AmazonCrossing. Long a bestselling epic fantasy sensation in France, the first of fourteen books (so far) in the series: “The Known World is a sprawling region ruled by mortals, protected by gods, and plied by magicians and warriors, merchants and beggars, royals and scoundrels. Here, those with the gift of the Erjak share a psychic bond with animals; a far-reaching fraternity unites criminals of every persuasion in a vast army of villainy; and upon the mighty river Alt, the dead will one day sail seeking vengeance on the enemies of their descendants. But for all the Known World’s wonders, splendors, and terrors, what has endured most powerfully is the strange legacy of Ji. Emissaries from every nation—the grand Goranese Empire; desolate, frozen Arkary; cosmopolitan Lorelia; and beyond—followed an enigmatic summons into the unknown. Some never returned; others were never the same. Each successive generation has guarded the profound truth and held sacred the legendary event. But now, the very last of them—and the wisdom they possess—are threatened. The time has come to fight for ultimate enlightenment…or fall to infinite darkness.”

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius edited by John Joseph Adams, read by Stefan Rudnicki, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Justine Eyre for Brilliance Audio. Concurrent with the print/ebook publication by Tor, with stories from Diana Gabaldon, Daniel Wilson, Austin Grossman, Naomi Novik, and Seanan McGuire (among 22 in all): "Everybody loves villains. They’re bad; they always stir the pot; they’re much more fun than the good guys, even if we want to see the good guys win. Their fiendish schemes, maniacal laughter, and limitless ambition are legendary, but what lies behind those crazy eyes and wicked grins? How—and why—do they commit these nefarious deeds? And why are they so set on taking over the world? If you’ve ever asked yourself any of these questions, you’re in luck: It’s finally time for the madmen’s side of the story."

Domino Falls by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, narrated By Emily Bauer for Audible Frontiers, concurrent with print/ebook from Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books: “It began on Freak Day - that day no one could explain, when strangers and family members alike went crazy and started biting one another. Some thought the outbreak was caused by a flu shot, others that it was a diet drug gone terribly wrong. All anyone knew is that once you were bitten and went to sleep, you woke up a freak.”

[Note: Due to their continued use of DRM-only formats, my new content here on The AudioBookaneers will no longer where possible include links to Audible.com. -Sam]

ALSO OUT THIS WEEK:

HACHETTE AUDIO: Fuse (Book Two of the Pure Trilogy) by Julianna Baggott, read by Khristine Hvam, Kevin T. Collins, Pierce Cravens, and Casey Holloway [Downpour]

HARPER AUDIO: Star Corps and Battlespace (Books One and Two of The Legacy Trilogy) by Ian Douglas, narrated By David Drummond for Harper Audio

AUDIOGO: Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire by Dean P. Turnbloom, narrated By Ric Jerrom

RECORDED BOOKS: Blood’s Pride by Evie Manieri, narrated By Bianca Amato; and Out of the Shadows (Shadows Trilogy, Book 1) by Kay Hooper, narrated By C. J. Critt

BRILLIANCE AUDIO: Extinction Point (Extinction Point, Book 1) by Paul Antony Jones, narrated By Emily Beresford

AUDIBLE FRONTIERS: Neverwinter (Legend of Drizzt: Neverwinter Saga, Book 2) by R. A. Salvatore, narrated By Victor Bevine; The Black Queen (Black Throne, Book 1) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, narrated By Peter Ganim; The Traitor’s Daughter (Veiled Isles, Book 1) by Paula Brandon, narrated By J. Michael McCullough; and The Ranger Boys in Space by Hal Clement, narrated By Maxwell Glick; along with books by Charles Sheffield, Jack Williamson, Dave Duncan, Fred Saberhagen, and L. Sprague de Camp, among others

AUDIBLE INC: The Savage Gentleman by Philip Wylie (1923), narrated By Jason Watt

CARINA PRESS: Drynn (Last of the Shardyn, Book One) by Steve Vera, narrated By Alison Edwards; Dark Secrets by Shona Husk, narrated By Jack LeFleur; The Magic Mirror and the Seventh Dwarf (Accidental Enchantments, Book Two) by Tia Nevitt, narrated By Angela Park; and Vacant Graves (The Magnocracy Series, Book 2) by Christopher Beats, narrated By Steve Coulter

TROUT LAKE MEDIA: The Horror at Red Hook by H. P. Lovecraft, narrated By Jim Donaldson (short)

SEEN BUT NOT HEARD:

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• Tallest Stories by Rhys Hughes (Eibonvale Press, Feb 1, 2013) -- "If every tale told in a tavern is a tall story, then what happens when the entire universe becomes a tavern? It means that every story ever told is tall and therefore untrue, and this includes the true tales. They are all lies."
• FISH edited by Carrie Cuinn and KV Taylor (Dagan Press, Feb 5) -- with stories by Claude Lalumière, Cate Gardner, Cat Rambo, Ken Liu, M. Bennardo, and Camille Alexa among others
• Low Down Death Right Easy by J. David Osborne (Swallowdown Press, Feb 13, 2013) -- from the author of By the Time We Leave Here, We’ll Be Friends – excerpt available -- "It's about meth, fishing, trash American culture and young adult despair. Imagine a Raymond Carver or Jim Thompson for the text message age and that would only begin to get it."--KRIS SAKNUSSEMM, author of Reverend America
• The Emperor of all Things by Paul Witcover (Bantam UK, 14 Feb 2013)
• The Inner City by Karen Heuler (ChiZine, February 19) — “Heuler continues to delight with her thoughtful brand of modern surrealism/magic realism—a criminally underrated writer. –Jeff VanderMeer”
• Trinity Rising by Elspeth Cooper (Tor, Feb 19) -- first US release for the second book in Cooper's UK-published series after Songs of the Earth -- both books are out in audio in the UK but no US release yet
• Firebrand (Rebel Angels, #1) by Gillian Philip (Tor, Feb 19) -- new US hardcover edition of this 2010 Strident (UK) novel of 16th century angels
• Encounters with Enoch Coffin by W.H. Pugmire and Jeffrey Thomas (Dark Regions, Feb 19) -- "Enoch Coffin is a proud inhabitant of Massachusetts, an artist following in the footsteps of local legend Richard Upton Pickman. Coffin is an artist with a singular quest: to capture in paint, or ink, or clay -- however he might -- sights that no mortal has ever portrayed in art before...and lived to exhibit. His quest will take him throughout actual New England locations, and that other New England of H. P. Lovecraft, where his models will be doomed souls, ravening ghouls, and entities from beyond the veil."
• Elsewhens by Melanie Rawn (Tor, Feb 19)
• The Demi-Monde: The Shadow Wars by Rod Rees (HarperCollins/Morrow, Feb 19) -- SF thriller, second in a series after The Demi-Monde
• Son of Destruction by Kit Reed (Feb 1, Severn House) -- "A spellbinding American Southern Gothic thriller with a supernatural twist"
• Anthology: 2013 Campbellian Pre-Reading Anthology edited by M. David Blake (Rampant Loon/Stupefying Stories, Feb 8) -- free e-anthology "Containing 80 complete short stories by 43 different authors, as well as additional information about another 58 potential candidates" for this year's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
• Anthology: Superheroes, edited by Rich Horton (Prime Books, Feb 19)
• Anthology: Encounters of Sherlock Holmes edited by George Mann (Titan, Feb 19) — “a new collection of adventures from Titan Books include stories from horror and steampunk authors like James Lovegrove, Paul Magrs, Guy Adams, George Mann and Mark Hodder” (via an interview with editor Mann)
• Anthology: Shards and Ashes edited by Melissa Marr and Kelly Armstrong (HarperCollins, Feb 19) -- YA dystopian anthology

• The Office of Mercy: A Novel by Ariel Djanikian (Viking Adult, Feb 21, 2013) — “Weaving philosophy and science together into a riveting, dystopian story of love and adventure, The Office of Mercy illuminates an all-too-real future imagined by a phenomenal new voice in fiction. Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley lives in America-Five—a high-tech, underground, utopian settlement where hunger and money do not exist, everyone has a job, and all basic needs are met. But when her mentor and colleague, Jeffrey, selects her to join a special team to venture Outside for the first time, Natasha’s allegiances to home, society, and above all to Jeffrey are tested. She is forced to make a choice that may put the people she loves most in grave danger and change the world as she knows it.” -- Coming to audio from Tantor (March 25) read by Emily Woo Zeller -- great blurbs from (among others) Charles Yu, definitely one to pick up
• The Different Girl by Gordon Dahlquist (Dutton Juvenile, Feb 21, 2013)
• Imager’s Battalion: Book 6 in the Imager Portfolio by L.E. Modesitt, Jr., read by William Dufris (Tantor Audio, February 25) — hardcover from Tor was Jan 22
• The Dog King: The Human Division, Episode 7 By John Scalzi, Narrated By William Dufris for Audible Frontiers -- Series: The Human Division, Book 7 -- Length: 58 mins -- Scheduled Release Date: 02-26-13
• Star Trek: The Original Series: Devil’s Bargain by Tony Daniel (Pocket Books/Star Trek, Feb 26)
• Fade to Black By Francis Knight, Narrated By To Be Announced for Hachette Audio — Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins — Scheduled Release Date: 02-26-13 — excerpt available
• Dreams and Shadows: A Novel by C. Robert Cargill (Harper Voyager and Harper Audio, Feb 26, 2013)
• The Teleportation Accident: A Novel by Ned Beauman (Bloomsbury, Feb 26, 2013)
• Mongoliad, The: Book Three (The Foreworld Saga) by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo and Nicole Galland (Feb 26, 2013)
• Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond by John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen — Brilliance Audio Exclusive | Simultaneous Release with the Trade Paperback (February 26)
• Hell to Pay by Matthew Hughes (Angry Robot:26 February)
• Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman | Brilliance Audio Exclusive | Simultaneous Release with the Trade Paperback — “In this intelligently-written urban fantasy novel, listeners will sink into Emma Newman’s mirror world, hidden somwhere amid the streets of Bath, England.” (February 26)
• Fragments: Partials, Book 2 By Dan Wells, Narrated By Julia Whelan — Length: 16 hrs — Scheduled Release Date: 02-26-13
• Seer: The Third Prequel to the Mongoliad: The Foreworld Saga By Mark Teppo, Narrated By Luke Daniels — Series: Mongoliad — Length: 1 hr and 55 mins — Scheduled Release Date: 02-26-13
• Six-Gun Snow White  by Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean, Feb 28) — “From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes a brilliant reinvention of one the best known fairy tales of all time. In the novella Six-Gun Snow White, Valente transports the title s heroine to a masterfully evoked Old West where Coyote is just as likely to be found as the seven dwarves.”
• The Night of the Swarm (Book 4 in the Chathrand Voyage series) By Robert V. S. Redick, Read By Michael Page for Tantor Audio — Scheduled Release Date: 02-25-13
• The Savage Boy by Nick Cole (HarperCollins, Feb 26, 2013) — sequel to The Old Man and the Wasteland

• THE VEILED WEB by Catherine Asaro, read by Caroline Shaffer (Blackstone Audio, 1 March)
• CHAOSBOUND by David Farland,read by Ray Porter (Blackstone Audio, 1 March)
• STARFIRE by Charles Sheffield, read by Gary Dikeos (Blackstone Audio, 1 March)
• The Human Front (Outspoken Authors) by Ken Macleod (PM Press, Mar 1, 2013)
• The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Mar 1, 2013)
• The Accursed By Joyce Carol Oates, Narrated By Grover Gardner for Harper Audio — Length: 23 hrs — Scheduled Release Date: 03-05-13 — “A major historical novel from “one of the great artistic forces of our time” (The Nation) – an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-20th-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned.”
• No Return by Zachary Jernigan (Night Shade Books, Mar 5, 2013)
• Empty Space by M. John Harrison (Mar 5, 2013) — US release for this very well-received conclusion after Light and Nova Swing
• The Demonologist: A Novel by Andrew Pyper (Simon & Schuster and S&S Audio, Mar 5, 2013)
• Pathfinder Tales: Liar's Blade by Tim Pratt (Paizo, Mar 5, 2013)
• Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson, read by Ralph Lister for Brilliance Audio (March 5) — book two in Malazan Book of the Fallen
• Teen: Requiem: Delirium Trilogy, Book 3 By Lauren Oliver, Narrated By Sarah Drew – Length: 10 hrs — Scheduled Release Date: 03-05-13
• Teen: Earth Girl by Janet Edwards (Pyr, Mar 5, 2013)
• Teen: When We Wake by Karen Healey (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Mar 5, 2013) — audiobook coming from Hachette Audio — “My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my first lifetime, I was so, so happy. Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027–she’s happiest when playing the guitar, she’s falling in love for the first time, and she’s joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice.”
• Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and Revolution edited by Victoria Blake (Underland Press, March 12)
• Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson (Mar 12, 2013)
• Mirage by Jenn Reese (Candlewick, March 12) -- second book in middle grade series after Above World
• The Lords of Salem by Rob Zombie and B. K. Evenson (Grand Central, Mar 12, 2013)
• Bloodfire Quest: The Dark Legacy of Shannara, Book 2 By Terry Brooks, Narrated By Rosalyn Landor — Series: Dark Legacy of Shannara, Book 2 — Length: 15 hrs — Scheduled Release Date: 03-12-13
• Fiction: Child of Vengeance: A Novel By David Kirk, Narrated By Mark Bramhall for Random House Audio — Length: 11 hrs — Scheduled Release Date: 03-12-13 — “A bold and vivid historical epic of feudal Japan, based on the real-life exploits of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto.”
• MILA 2.0 by Debra Driza (Mar 12, 2013) — read by Tara Sands for HarperCollins
• Mystery/Thriller: The Andalucian Friend: A Novel By Alexander Söderberg, Narrated By Gildart Jackson for Random House Audio — Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins — Scheduled Release Date: 03-12-13 — “Imagine if Quentin Tarantino directed The Godfather“
• The Rift Walker: Vampire Empire, Book 2 by Clay and Susan Griffith, read by James Marsters for Buzzy Multimedia (March 15, 2013) — print/ebook published September 2011 by Pyr -- the audiobook for book one was just nominated for an Audie
• The Curve of The Earth by Simon Morden (Orbit, Mar 19, 2013)
• Self-Reference ENGINE by Toh EnJoe (Haikasoru, Mar 19, 2013) — “This is not a novel. This is not a short story collection. This is Self-Reference ENGINE.”
• Anthology: Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor, March 19)
• Bitterwood by James Maxey, read by Dave Thompson (March 19) — first in Maxey’s “Bitterwood” (or “Dragon Age”) trilogy, published 2007 by Solaris
• The Clockwork Princess: Infernal Devices, Book 3 By Cassandra Clare, Narrated By Daniel Sharman — Length: 18 hrs — Scheduled Release Date: 03-19-13
• Shattered Pillars by Elizabeth Bear (Tor, Mar 19, 2013) — the second book of Bear’s The Eternal Sky trilogy and the sequel to Range of Ghosts
• Fiction: House of Earth: A Novel By Woody Guthrie, Narrated By Will Patton, Douglas Brinkley for Harper Audio — Length: 8 hrs — Scheduled Release Date: 03-19-13
• Shadow on the Sun (Black Hole Sun #3) by David Macinnis Gill (Greenwillow, March 26)
• Red Planet Blues by Robert J. Sawyer (Ace Hardcover, Mar 26, 2013)
• The Marching Dead by Lee Battersby (Angry Robot: 26 March)
• Black Feathers by Joseph D’Lacey (Angry Robot: 26 March)
• The Age Atomic by Adam Christopher (Angry Robot: 26 March)
• Dead Earth: Sanctuary By David Wilbanks and Mark Justice, Narrated By James Snyder for Audible Frontiers — Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins — Scheduled Release Date: 03-26-13
• Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction by Whates Ian (Solaris, Mar 26, 2013)
• Young readers: Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron by Mary Losure and Timothy Basil Ering (Candlewick on Brilliance Audio, Mar 26, 2013) — narrative nonfiction of a late 18th story
• The Best of Joe Haldeman by Joe Haldeman and Jonathan Strahan (Subterranean, Mar 31, 2013)
• Anthology: Hauntings edited by Ellen Datlow (Tachyon, March 2013) -- "This spine-tingling anthology—complied by the horror genre's most acclaimed editor—collects a chilling array of ghost stories from the past twenty-five years."
• Channel Zilch by Doug Sharp (Panverse, March/April 2013) — “Mick Oolfson trashed his astronaut career by stunt-flying a shuttle during re-entry. He’s miserable as a groundling, so when testosterone-surfing geek goddess Heloise Chin offers him an astronaut gig on Channel Zilch, a pirate orbiting reality show, Mick jumps at the chance to return to space, though it means denting his Boy Scout scruples by stealing space shuttle Enterprise from the Smithsonian. CHANNEL ZILCH is a near-future hard science fiction caper with heart and purpose, the first book of The Geek Rapture Project. Book 2, HEL’S BET, will be published by Panverse later in 2013.”

• Into the Cave by Alex Granados (April 1)
• New Taboos (Outspoken Authors) by John Shirley (PM Press, Apr 1, 2013)
• Prophet of Bones: A Novel by Ted Kosmatka (Henry Holt and Macmillan Audio, Apr 2, 2013)
• Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books, Apr 2, 2013)
• Odds Against Tomorrow: A Novel by Nathaniel Rich (FSG, Apr 2, 2013)
• Dead Roads by Robin Riopelle (Night Shade Books, Apr 2, 2013)
• Without a Summer (Shades of Milk and Honey) by Mary Robinette Kowal (Apr 2, 2013)
• Protector: Foreigner #14 by C. J. Cherryh (DAW Hardcover, Apr 2, 2013)
• River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay (Roc Hardcover, Apr 2, 2013)
• Use of Weapons By Iain M. Banks, Narrated By Peter Kenny for Hachette Audio — Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins — Scheduled Release Date: 04-02-13 — a recording available in the UK for some time now
• Blood Trade (Jane Yellowrock, #6)  by Faith Hunter (Roc, April 2)
• The Heretic (Raj Whitehall) by Tony Daniel and David Drake (Baen, April 2)
• Fearless: Mirrorworld By Cornelia Funke, Narrated By To Be Announced for Listening Library — Length: 7 hrs — Scheduled Release Date: 04-02-13
• Collection: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron (Night Shade, April 2)
• Reaper’s Legacy (Toxic City Book Two) by Tim Lebbon (Pyr, Apr 2, 2013)
• Anthology: Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations by Simon R. Green, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale and Paula Guran (Prime Books, Apr 3, 2013)
• The Far Time Incident by Neve Maslakovic and read by Mary Robinette Kowal (Apr 9, 2013)
• Teen: The Flame in the Mist By Kit Grindstaff, Narrated By Rosalyn Landor — Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins — Scheduled Release Date: 04-09-13
• Fiction: The Interestings: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer (Apr 9, 2013)
• The Machine by James Smythe (Blue Door UK, 11 Apr 2013)
• A Stranger in Olondria: a novel by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press, Apr 16, 2013) — no audio news
• YOU by Austin Grossman (Mulholland Books, 04/16/2013) — “A novel of mystery, videogames, and the people who create them, by the bestselling author of Soon I Will Be Invincible, Austin Grossman. When Russell joins Black Arts games, brainchild of two visionary designers who were once his closest friends, he reunites with an eccentric crew of nerds hacking the frontiers.” Unfortunately no audio news yet for this new novel, called “moving” by Cory Doctorow.
• London Falling by Paul Cornell (Tor, Apr 16, 2013)
• Equilateral: A Novel by Ken Kalfus (Bloomsbury, Apr 16, 2013)
• Promise of Blood (The Powder Mage Trilogy) by Brian McClellan (Orbit, Apr 16, 2013)
• The Silver Dream: An InterWorld Novel by Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves and Mallory Reaves (HarperTeen, Apr 23, 2013)
• Unnatural Creatures: Short Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman by Neil Gaiman (Harper Collins, Apr 23, 2013)
• The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (Harper, Apr. 23) – “Harper is really getting behind this debut in the vein of The Night Circus and The Discovery of Witches. The novel combines historical fiction with a magical fable about two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-20th-century New York City.” (via PW)
• Rogue Descendant (Nikki Glass, #3) by Jenna Black (Pocket Books, April 30)
• NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (William Morrow, April 30) — no audio news
• The Whispering Muse, The Blue Fox, and From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón (FSG, April 30) — new US English editions of “one of Iceland’s greatest living novelists”
• The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu (Angry Robot: 30 April)
• Collection: The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies by John Langan (Hippocampus Press, April 2013)

• The Kings and Queens of Roam: A Novel by Daniel Wallace (Touchstone, May 7)
• Shield of Sea and Space (The Chaos Knight Book Three) by Erin Hoffman (Pyr, May 7, 2013)
• Never (Lightbringer) by K. D. Mcentire (Pyr, May 7, 2013)
• Gods and Monsters: Unclean Spirits by Chuck Wendig (Abaddon, May 7, 2013)
• The Summer Man by S.D. Perry (47North and Brilliance Audio, May 7, 2013)
• Non-Fiction: Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier (Simon & Schuster, May 7, 2013) — from the author of You Are Not a Gadget: Being Human in an Age of Technology
• Red Moon by Benjamin Percy (Grand Central, May 7) - “Exploring one of the oldest themes in weird fiction—the werewolf—Percy (The Wilding) delivers a stunning alternate history epic that transcends its genre trappings to read as a provocative reflection on the contemporary zeitgeist. At a point where many other writers would flinch, Percy follows through on the direst possibilities of his premise, building to a shocking denouement and even more shock climax in the final pages.” (via PW)
• The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson (Tor Teen, May 14, 2013)
• The Tyrant’s Law (The Dagger and the Coin) by Daniel Abraham (Orbit, May 14, 2013)
• Magician’s End by Raymond E. Feist (Harper Voyager, May 14)
• The Human Division by John Scalzi (Tor, May 14, 2013) — currently being serialized in both ebook and audiobook
• Collection: Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee (Prime Books, May 21, 2013)
• Teen: THE PLANET THIEVES by Dan Krokos (Blackstone Audio, 21 May)
• The Garden of Stones (Echoes of Empire) by Mark Barnes (47North and Brilliance Audio, May 21, 2013)
• The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty (Orbit, May 28)
• RED HORSE by Alex Adams (Blackstone Audio, 28 May) — sequel to White Horse
• The Eighth Court by Mike Shevdon (Angry Robot: 28 May)
• The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig (Angry Robot: 28 May)
• Antiagon Fire (Imager Portfolio) by L. E. Modesitt (Tor, May 28, 2013)
• Anthology: Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy edited by Jonathan Strahan (Solaris, May 28)
• After Earth By Peter David, Narrated By To Be Announced for Random House Audio — Length: 10 hrs — Scheduled Release Date: 05-28-13 — novelization of the forthcoming Will Smith film
• Fiction: WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES by Karen Joy Fowler (Blackstone Audio, 31 May)
• Unfettered edited by Shawn Speakman (Grim Oak Press, May 2013) –a charity anthology with stories from Terry Brooks, Patrick Rothfuss, Tad Williams, Brandon Sanderson, R.A. Salvatore, Naomi Novik, Peter V. Brett, Lev Grossman, Daniel Abraham, Michael J. Sullivan, David Anthony Durham, Robert V.S. Redick, Kevin Hearne, Mark Lawrence, …
• The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (Mulholland Books, 6/04/2013) — “A time-traveling serial killer is impossible to trace–until one of his victims survives. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential.” No audio news.
• Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse) by James S.A. Corey (Orbit, Jun 4, 2013)
• In Thunder Forged: Iron Kingdoms Chronicles (The Fall of Llael Book One) by Ari Marmell (Jun 4, 2013)
• Gameboard of the Gods (Age of X) by Richelle Mead (Penguin Audio, Jun 4, 2013)
• Fiction: The Blood of Heaven by Kent Wascom (Grove Atlantic, Jun 4, 2013) — “an epic novel about the American frontier in the early days of the nineteenth century”
• Siege and Storm (Grisha Trilogy (Shadow and Bone)) by Leigh Bardugo (Henry Holt, Jun 4, 2013)
• After the End: Recent Apocalypses by Paolo Bacigalupi, Cory Doctorow, Margo Lanagan and Nnedi Okorafor (Jun 5, 2013)
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow and Harper Audio, Jun 18, 2013)
• The Long War by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (Harper, Jun 18, 2013) — sequel to The Long Earth
• The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn (47North and Brilliance Audio, Jun 18, 2013)
• The Adjacent by Christopher Priest (Orion UK, Jun 20, 2013) — no US release news
• Divinity and the Python by Bonnie Randall (Panverse, June 21)
• Cold Steel (The Spiritwalker Trilogy) by Kate Elliott (Orbit, Jun 25, 2013)
• Anthology: Aliens: Recent Encounters by Alex Macfarlane (Prime, Jun 25, 2013)
• Thieves’ Quarry by D.B. Jackson (Tor, July 2) — sequel to Thieftaker
• Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross (Ace, Jul 2, 2013) — “The year is AD 7000. The human species is extinct—for the fourth time—due to its fragile nature. Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from the robots that once served humanity. She’s on a journey to the water-world of Shin-Tethys to find her sister Ana. But her trip is interrupted when pirates capture her ship. Their leader, the enigmatic Count Rudi, suspects that there’s more to Krina’s search than meets the eye.”
• A Discourse in Steel by Paul S. Kemp (Angry Robot: 2 Jul 2013)
• Woken Gods by Gwenda Bond (Jul 2, 2013)
• The Thousand Names: Book One of The Shadow Campaigns by Django Wexler (Roc Hardcover, Jul 2, 2013) — “Enter an epic fantasy world that echoes with the thunder of muskets and the clang of steel—but where the real battle is against a subtle and sinister magic.”
• Anthology: Wastelands II: More Stories of the Apocalypse by John Joseph Adams (Night Shade Books, Jul 2, 2013)
• North American Lake Monsters: Stories by Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer Press, July 16)
• Beacons edited by Gregory Norminton (Oneworld Publications, Jul 16, 2013) — “Beacons throws down the gauntlet, challenging best-selling and award-winning authors to imagine where we, and out planet, might be headed and, in imagining, help us transform the way we look at our world and change things for the better. From Joanne Harris’ powerful vision of a near future where ‘outside’ has become a thing of history to Nick Hayes’ beautifully illustrated tale of the bond between man and nature, Beacons sees the coming together of dystopian satire, speculative and historical fiction, metaphorical flights of fancy, quiet tragedy, and farcical comedy in stories that are as various as our possible futures. Provocative, encouraging, and deeply moving, Beacons represents the best of short story writing — and collectively illuminates the immediacy of the ecological problems at hand. All author royalties will go to the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition, one of the largest groups of people dedicated to action on climate change and limiting its impact on the world’s poorest people.”
• Anthology: Carniepunk (Pocket Books, July 30)
• Anthology: Impossible Monsters edited by Kasey Lansdale (Subterranean Press, July 2013) -- "The Lansdale name is legendary in the horror field. Now acclaimed musician and actress Kasey Lansdale follows in her father’s footsteps, making her editing debut with this anthology of monstrously innovative stories. The twelve creatures that stalk the pages of Impossible Monsters spring from the twisted imaginations of a dozen of today’s most noted authors." This anthology includes Neil Gaiman's "Click-Clack the Rattlebag" among other tales.
• Darwen Arkwright and the School of Shadows (Darwen Arkwright #3) by AJ Hartley (Razorbill, August 1)
• The Crown Tower (The Riyria Chronicles #1) by Michael J. Sullivan (Orbit, August 3)
• The Emergence of the Digital Humanities by Steven E. Jones (Routledge, Aug 3, 2013)
• Wrath-bearing Tree (A Tournament of Shadows Book Two) by James Enge (Pyr, Aug 6, 2013)
• Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire) by Mark Lawrence (Ace, Aug 6, 2013)
• Kindred and Wings (A Shifted World Novel) by Philippa Ballantine (Pyr, Aug 6, 2013)
• Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik (Del Rey, Aug 13, 2013)
• The Time of Contempt (The Witcher) by Andrzej Sapkowski (Orbit, Aug 27, 2013)
• Billy Moon: A transcendent Novel Reimagining the Life of Christopher Robin Milne by Douglas Lain (Tor, Aug 27, 2013)
• The Swords of Good Men by Snorri Kristjansson (Jo Fletcher Books, August 2013) — a “Viking fantasy novel” by a new Icelandic author
• Super Stories of Heroes and Villains edited by Claude Lalumiere (Tachyon, August 2013) — Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola, Jonathan Lethem, Cory Doctorow, Kelly Link’s “Origin Story”, Carol Emshwiller, Gene Wolfe, GRRM, …

• The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3) by Scott Lynch (Spectra, September 3)
• Shaman: A novel of the Ice Age by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit, 3 Sep 2013) — UK release date, US date not confirmed for this historical fiction “novel set in the ice age, about the people who made the paintings in the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southern France, about 32,000 years ago”
• Constellations: A Play by Nick Payne (Faber and Faber Plays, Sep 3, 2013) -- already available in Kindle and in the UK -- via an interesting review on Tor.com
• Monsters of the Earth (Books of the Elements #3) by David Drake (Tor, September 2013)
• Three (Duskwalker Cycle #1) by Jay Posey (Angry Robot, Autumn 2013)
• Fiddlehead by Cherie Priest (Tor, Autumn 2013)
• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (Scribner and Simon & Schuster Audio, September 24) — King returns to The Shining
• Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Sep 24, 2013)
• Dead Run, The by Adam Mansbach (HarperCollins, Sep 24, 2013)
• Hero by Alethea Kontis (Harcourt Children’s Books, October 1)
• Pandemic by Scott Sigler (Crown, Oct 1, 2013)
• Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer and Jeremy Zerfoss (Abrams Image, Oct 15, 2013) — an audiobook for this doesn’t make sense and so there isn’t one and won’t be one, but definitely a project I’m looking forward to
• Copperhead by Tina Connolly (Tor, October 15, 2013) — follow-on to Ironskin – cover revealed
• The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar (Hodder UK, October 2013) -- just announced -- "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy meets Watchmen in Tidhar’s The Violent Century, the thoughtful and intensely atmospheric novel about the mystery, and the love story, that determined the course of history itself. The Violent Century is the sweeping drama of a time we know too well; a century of fear and war and hatred and death.  In a world where everyday heroes may become übermenschen, men and women with extraordinary powers, what does it mean to be a hero? To be a human? Would the last hundred years have been that much better if Superman were real? Would they even have been all that different?"
• Collection: Kabu Kabu by Nnedi Okorafor (Prime, October 2013)
• Twenty-First Century Science Fiction by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor, Nov 5, 2013)
• Maze by J.M. McDermott (Apex, January 2014)
• City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown/Broadway and Recorded Books, April 1, 2014) — “a second-world story of spies, subterfuge, and statesmanship set in a nation of dead gods.”
• The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman (Viking, Early 2014) — book three after The Magicians and The Magician King
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2014) — the first of three “Southern Reach” novels being published in 2014 — “For thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious, remote, and concealed by the government as an environmental disaster zone even though it is to all appearances pristine wilderness. For thirty years, too, the secret agency known as the Southern Reach has monitored Area X and sent in expeditions to try to discover the truth. Some expeditions have suffered terrible consequences. Others have reported nothing out of the ordinary. Now, as Area X seems to be changing and perhaps expanding, the next expedition will attempt to succeed where all others have failed. What is happening in Area X? What is the true nature of the invisible border that surrounds it?”
• Anthology: Dangerous Women edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (May 2014) -- table of contents includes Joe Abercrombie, Lev Grossman, and Pat Cadigan, among others

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