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Release Week(s): Carbide Tipped Pens, The Godless, The Strange Library, Winterswim, The Martian Race, The Winter King, Ari Marmell's "Hot Lead, Cold Iron", and Cory Doctorow's "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free"

Posted on 2014-12-18 at 3:15 by Sam

NOVEMBER 26-DECEMBER 9, 2014: A fantastic and wide-ranging fortnight of releases for you to start December, including epic fantasy, hard sf, Arthurian legend, a whimsy from Murakami, a GraphicAudio magical noir, non-fiction, and more. Do check out some of the “also out” listings as well such as Kazuaki Takano’s A Genocide of One, Richard Parks’ Yamada Monogotari, and Felicia Hajra-Lee’s The Niantic Project: Ingress for Google’s Niantic Labs, and plenty of mysteries and thrillers besides, including Moriarty, MacDonald, and Raymond Chandler, and! a free Larry Correia “Grimnoir Chronicles” short read by Bronson Pinchot. Unfortunately there’s some absolutely fantastic books in the “seen but not heard” listings as well, including Jenn Brissett’s Elysium, Chris Bucholz’ Severance, Shannon Page and Jay Lake’s Our Lady of the Islands, N.K. Jemisin’s The Awakened Kingdom, Jim C. Hines’ Rise of the Spider Goddess, and the PW-year’s-best-lsited anthology The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women. Early December also brings the Audible availability of Jeff VanderMeer’s Area X omnibus of his Southern Reach trilogy. And I’ve added another absolutely huge round of “added” titles for 2015 in the “coming soon” listings, though quite a few have large variability for measurements of “soon”. Enjoy!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Carbide Tipped Pens by Ben Bova, Eric Choi The Godless: A Novel | [Ben Peek]

Carbide Tipped Pens edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi (Tor, December 2, 2014) is a an original hard sf anthology with stories from Gregory Benford, Nancy Fulda, Aliette de Bodard, Liu Cixin (translated by Ken Liu), Daniel H. Wilson, Robert Reed, and more, narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, J. Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Alex Hyde-White, and Judy Young for Blackstone Audio. “Over a dozen of today’s most creative imaginations explore these frontiers, carrying on the grand tradition of such legendary masters as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and John W. Campbell, while bringing hard science fiction into the 21st century by extrapolating from the latest scientific developments and discoveries. Ranging from ancient China to the outer reaches of the solar system, this outstanding collection of original stories, written by an international roster of authors, finds wonder, terror, and gripping human drama in topics as diverse as space exploration, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate change, alternate history, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, interplanetary war, and even the future of baseball. From tattoos that treat allergies to hazardous missions to Mars and beyond, from the end of the world to the farthest limits of human invention,Carbide Tipped Pens turns startling new ideas into state-of-the-art science fiction.” The preface by Eric Choi, read by Rudnicki, is an interesting background to the anthology and the title’s meaning; I’d also like to single out the background science given in the introductions to the stories. While any anthology will provide hit-or-miss stories for its readers and listeners, there’s quite a lot here to savor and ponder over. Taking this anthology along with Neal Stephenson’s Hieroglyph project anthology, the state of near-future extrapolative hard sf is bright. Get: [Downpour | Audible | Overdrive]

The Godless: A Novel by Ben Peek, narrated by Chris Sorensen for Audible (Dec 2) was originally published in print/ebook back in August by Tor UK and (in the US) Thomas Dune Books. It’s also the first novel since 2007 (Black Sheep) for this Australian writer of whom Jeff VanderMeer wrote “a writer I fully expect to blunder out into the scene like a run-away brontosaurus” on the strength of his previous short work. Here, Peek begins a new epic fantasy series: “The Gods are dying. Fifteen thousand years after the end of their war, their bodies can still be found across the world. They kneel in forests, lie beneath mountains, and rest at the bottom of the world’s ocean.” Sorensen isn’t one of my favorite narrators, though here some of that is no real fault of his own. His work on John Shirley’s “A Song Called Youth” seems more well-cast to me, as for good or ill when I’m reading UK or Australian-authored epic fantasy the text seems to want a non-American accent. Here he’s clear, if a bit too deliberate, but the strength of the text makes it still an audiobook worth investigating.

The Strange Library | [Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen (translator)] Winterswim | [Ryan W. Bradley]

The next two picks are widely divergent novellas of about two hours each, starting with The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, translated by Ted Goossen (Knopf and Random House Audio, Dec 2, 2014) — an illustrated short novel of “A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the nightmarish library of internationally acclaimed, best-selling Haruki Murakami’s wild imagination.” Narrated very well by Kirby Heyborne for Random House Audio, it’s got quite a lot of Murakami’s themes in there: libraries, strange inexplicable things, but dialed down a bit for the younger audience. (But only a bit.) Get: [Downpour | Audible | Overdrive]

Winterswim by Ryan W. Bradley, read by Paul Michael Garcia for Blackstone Audio (Dec 8) “weaves religiosity and mythology into a tale of drugs, sex, and murder set against the frozen backdrop of blue-collar Alaska.” This one’s pretty dark and explicit and disturbing, very much in the vein of Katherine Faw Morris’ Young God and sharing with that title a blurry edge between “poverty drug sex porn” and a worthwhile literary examination of humanity’s darker corners. While the themes and events are themselves problematic, it is the Pahlaniukian (or evocative of Bret Easton Ellis, for that matter) use of the abuser/perpetrator’s POV in several chapters which causes the most flinching when I attempt to wrestle with this work. Many may have no interest (or be repulsed, or offended, or even hurt) in inhabiting the point of view of a disturbed drug-using pastor whose religious delusions cause him to prey upon vulnerable young girls in the worst ways possible. (This is not a spoiler — this is drawn from the prologue.) This is a novella of power, delusions, and it is not for everyone. It is however very well narrated by Paul Michael Garcia, written very well by Bradley, author of a short story collection, a novel, and three poetry collections including this year’s The Memory of Planets, and evokes more of the better forms of this genre than of the lurid, self-indulgent strains. Through the chapters from more sympathetic characters, we get a better picture of the wrongness here, though the overall affect is one more of emptiness and confusion than of any sort of redemption. Get: [Downpour | Audible]

The Martian Race | [Gregory Benford] The Winter King | [Bernard Cornwell]

The Martian Race by Gregory Benford, read by Gabrielle de Cuir for Skyboat Media (Dec 9) is Benford’s 2000 Locus Award and Prometheus Award nominee, set in a somewhat similar vein to Lewis Shiner’s 1984 novel Fontera, on which de Cuir narrates and which also just recently was released in audio. “From the Nebula Award–winning author of Timescape and Foundation’s Fear comes a hard-science thriller about the race to Mars. When an explosion of the rocket launching the Mars Transit Vehicle kills four crewmen, the US decides to redirect its energies to near-Earth projects, killing the manned mission to Mars. But tycoon John Axelrod assembles a consortium to fund the project, and he expects to net billions. But a European-Asian airbus will make a similar expedition. Now, the race is on to get to the Red Planet first.” Get: [Downpour | Audible]

The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell, narrated by Jonathan Keeble for Harper Audio (Dec 2) finally brings Cornwell’s mythology-infused historical fantasy to unabridged audio: “The tale begins in Dark Age Britain, a land where Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, where a child-king sits unprotected on the throne, where religion vies with magic for the souls of the people. It is to this desperate land that Arthur returns, a man at once utterly human and truly heroic: a man of honor, loyalty, and amazing valor; a man who loves Guinevere more passionately than he should; a man whose life is at once tragic and triumphant.” Get: [Downpour | Audible]

A Mick Oberon Job 1: Hot Lead, Cold Iron Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free by Cory Doctorow

Hot Lead, Cold Iron by Ari Marmell (GraphicAudio, Dec 1) — out in print/ebook earlier this year, book one of Marmell’s new 1932 supernatural Chicago-set “Mick Oberon Job” series, adapted for full cast audioplay. For those not familiar with GraphicAudio, this isn’t a weird abridgment/radioplay adaptation kind of thing. It’s the text including descriptions of the novel, minus some dialog tags (“he said” and “she said” and “Mick yelled” — the appropriate actors simply perform these lines as they should be performed) and a few aural events (doors slamming, guns firing, etc. — we hear the appropriate sound effect instead) and plus a soundtrack, atmospheric/immersive sound effects, and more. The always-creative Marmell’s Chicago prohibition setting and colorful characters are a perfect fit for this format. (And if you like this kind of thing, stay tuned, GraphicAudio has a pile of fantastic titles coming up in the next months. And! The next Baen Audio Drama, due out in time for Christmas, has a very similar feel.)

Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age by Cory Doctorow, with forewords by Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer, read by Wil Wheaton for Blackstone Audio (Dec 2) was originally published by McSweeney’s on Nov 18. “In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This is a book about the pitfalls and the opportunities that creative industries (and individuals) are confronting today — about how the old models have failed or found new footing, and about what might soon replace them.” Wheaton narrating this is a perfect fit, so for those looking for some creative non-fiction listening this month, this is where it’s at.

ALSO OUT THIS WEEK:

Genocide of One: A Thriller | [Kazuaki Takano, Philip Gabriel (translator)] Yamada Monogatari: To Break the Demon Gate | [Richard Parks] The Niantic Project: Ingress | [Felicia Hajra-Lee]

  • Radiant: A Novel By Karina Sumner-Smith, Narrated By Jeena Yi for Audible (Nov 26) -- "When a rich City man comes to her with a young woman's ghost tethered to his chest, Xhea has no idea that this ghost will change everything."
  • Dead Aware: A Horror Tale Told in Screenplay By Terry M. West, Narrated By Gene Blake for Crossroad Press (Nov 26) -- "As a young man, Dunlavey had a hunger for forbidden knowledge. He sought out occult practices and dark, archaic rituals all over the world. Dunlavey's thirst for arcane wisdom sent him to New Orleans."
  • Teen anthology: Grim By Ellen Hopkins, Julie Kagawa, Amanda Hocking, Christine Johnson (editor), Narrated By Christine Johnson (Nov 26) — out in ebook in March 2014
  • Short-short: The Egg By Andy Weir, Narrated By R.C. Bray (Nov 26) -- a short-short reuniting author and narrator from breakout indie hit The Martian
  • Short: Tokyo Raider: A Tale of the Grimnoir Chronicles By Larry Correia, Narrated By Bronson Pinchot (Dec 1) and! free: Murder on the Orient Elite: A Tale of the Grimnoir Chronicles (also read by Pinchot)
  • Genocide of One: A Thriller By Kazuaki Takano, Philip Gabriel (translator), Narrated By Joe Knezevich for Hachette Audio (Dec 2) -- "The internationally best-selling, award-winning Japanese thriller about a child who may be the future of the human race - or the cause of its extinction. During a briefing in Washington D.C., the President is informed of a threat to national security: a three-year-old boy named Akili, who is already the smartest being on the planet. Representing the next step in human evolution, Akili can perceive patterns and predict future events better than most supercomputers, and is capable of manipulating grand-scale events like pieces on a chess board."
  • The Fortress in Orion by Mike Resnick (Pyr, Dec 2) — the first book in a new military space opera series: “The Democracy is at war with the alien Traanskei Coalition. War hero Colonel Nathan Pretorius has a record of success on dangerous behind-enemy-lines missions, missions that usually leave him in the hospital. Now he’s recruited for a near-impossible assignment that may well leave him dead.” — narrated By Christian Rummel for Audible
  • An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham, read by Neil Shah for Tantor Audio (Dec 2) — book 3 of The Long Price Quartet, first published a decade ago
  • The King’s Deryni (The Childe Morgan #3)—Katherine Kurtz (December 2, Ace) — Narrated By Nick Sullivan -- "New York Times bestselling author Katherine Kurtz’s novels of the Deryni have been hailed by Anne McCaffrey as “an incredible historical tapestry of a world that never was and of immensely vital people who ought to be.” Now Kurtz weaves a thrilling conclusion to the epic Childe Morgan trilogy, in which bonds of both magic and loyalty will be put to the ultimate test…."
  • James Bond: Zero minus Ten by Raymond Benson, read by Simon Vance (Dec 2) -- "The clock is ticking for Hong Kong. The British Crown Colony will soon be handed over to the People’s Republic of China. But hopes for a peaceful transition are shattered when a series of terrorist acts threaten the fragile relationship between Britain and China. James Bond is dispatched to Hong Kong to investigate the nefarious Chinese underworld Triad, but the truth he finds is buried even deeper. Now Bond has only ten days to unravel a fiendish plot of revenge with roots that reach back more than a century and a half."
  • Thriller: Full Force and Effect: A Jack Ryan Novel By Mark Greaney, Narrated By Scott Brick (Dec 2) Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series, Book 17
  • Thriller: Murderer’s Row by Donald Hamilton, read by Stefan Rudnicki for Skyboat (Dec 2) — The Matt Helm Series, book 5 about a professional assassin; out atAudible a bit earlier
  • Kids: Scorpion Mountain: Brotherband Chronicles, Book 5 By John A. Flanagan, Narrated By John Keating for Penguin Audio (Dec 2) -- the latest in Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice follow-on series
  • Yamada Monogatari: To Break the Demon Gate By Richard Parks, Narrated By Brian Nishii for Audible (Dec 3) -- Book 2 in a series after Demon Hunter: "Yamada no Goji is a minor nobleman of ancient Japan who has lost everything - except a single purpose: keep a promise to the woman he loved. In order to fulfill his vow, all he has to do is fight a horde of demons and monsters, bargain with a few ghosts, outwit the sinister schemers of the emperor's court, find a way to defeat an assassin who cannot be seen, heard, or touched - and change the course of history."
  • Fiction: The Devil's Arithmetic By Jane Yolen, Narrated By Barbara Rosenblat for Recorded Books (Dec 4) -- "Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and an American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists", The Devil's Arithmetic plunges the listener into the terrible realities of the Nazi concentration camps. Chaya's tale is a celebration of the strength of the human spirit and a dramatic introduction to the darkest period of modern history."
  • The Niantic Project: Ingress By Felicia Hajra-Lee, read by Laura Bailey (unconfirmed) for Niantic Labs at Google (Dec 9) -- Google's Niantic Project is a multi-media universe, with fiction, wikis, and MMORPG narratives (including Ingress) all combining into a fascinating near-future world. The narrator credit on the title listing is the in-story AI character "ADA" who is also voiced by Bailey, and based on some dual listening I'm pretty confident, though my direct Twitter query on the subject hasn't been answered. Here: "When she first agreed to lead the research team of the Niantic Project, Dr. Devra Bogdanovich knew she was headed into the unknown. What she never could have imagined is where her dangerous, and potentially world-changing, exploration of Exotic Matter would lead her."
  • Gathering Darkness (Falling Kingdoms #3)—Morgan Rhodes (December 9, Razorbill and Penguin Audio) -- "Love, vengeance, and greed spark a deadly quest for magic in the third book of the Falling Kingdoms series. Prince Magnus has just witnessed torture, death, and miracles during the bloody confrontation that decimated the rebel forces. Now he must choose between family and justice as his father, the cruel King Gaius, sets out to conquer all of Mytica." [Downpour]
  • Wild Rover No More: Being the Last Recorded Account of the Life & Times of Jacky Faber by L.A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren for Listen & Live Audio, Inc. (December 9) -- "A Bloody Jack Adventure" subtitled "Being the Last Recorded Account of the Life & Times of Jacky Faber (Bloody Jack Adventures)" and being the concluding 12th book in this series
  • Collection: Big World by Mary Miller, read by Andi Arndt, Mary Miller, Mary Gauthier, Louise Mosrie, Janis Ian, Telisha Williams, and Amy Speace for Blackstone Audio (Dec 9) -- "A short story collection full of powerful prose and remarkably genuine characters from the author of The Last Days of California. The collection of stories, produced by Andi Arndt, is performed by the author along with a stunning cast of Nashville stars, including Janis Ian, Mary Gauthier, Telisha Williams, Amy Speace, and Louise Mosrie. The characters in Mary Miller’s debut short story collection, Big World, are at once autonomous and lonesome, possessing both a longing to connect with those around them and a cynicism regarding their ability to do so." [Soundcloud]
  • Mystery: The Brass Cupcake: A Novel By John D. MacDonald, Narrated By Richard Ferrone (Dec 9) -- also Cape Fear (aka The Executioners), Slam the Big Door: A Novel, and Dead Low Tide: A Novel read by Stephen Hoye, and A Flash of Green: A Novel and A Key to the Suite: A Novel read by Ferrone
  • Mystery: Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt and Derek Jacobi (Dec 9, 2014) -- "The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from the bestselling author of The House of Silk, sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty tumbled to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls."
  • Mystery: The Big Sleep, The High Window, ,Playback, The Long Goodbye, Farewell My Lovely, The Little Sister, and The Lady in the Lake By Raymond Chandler, Narrated By Ray Porter (Dec 9) -- new unabridged recordings of Chandler's classic novels
ALSO ALSO OUT THIS WEEK:

The Dragons of Dorcastle: The Pillars of Reality, Book 1 | Jack Campbell Freehold: Freehold, Book 1 | Michael Z. Williamson The Beating of His Wings | Paul Hoffman

SEEN BUT NOT HEARD:

 

  • Ultima by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz, Nov 27) — “On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered—hatches that allowed humans to step across light-years of space as if they were stepping into another room. But this newfound freedom has consequences….” — US release is set for August 2015 from Roc
  • Non-Fiction: The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Guide to Publishing and Beyondby Alex J. Cavanaugh, J. L. Campbell, Susan Gourley and Joylene Nowell Butler (Nov 28, 2014)
  • The Last Changeling by Jane Yolen (Viking Children’s, Nov 28) -- "In The Hostage Prince, Prince Aspen and midwife’s apprentice Snail tried to prevent the Seelie War by making a perilous journey to Aspen’s father’s kingdom. Their journey started the war instead. Chased by two armies, Aspen and Snail find refuge with the actors of Professor Odds’ traveling troupe, dodging soldiers, Border Lord berserkers, a hungry troll, and assorted dwarfs, drows, lycants, boggles, and a cloaked spy. Will they make it out? Is any place safe for the two of them? And who, exactly, is the mysterious Professor Odds, who seems to have his own hidden powers and agenda? Fast-paced and funny,The Last Changeling, the second book of the Seelie Wars trilogy, is the perfect way to introduce newly fledged readers to fantasy."
  • Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett (Aqueduct Press, Nov 30, 2014) — “A computer program etched into the atmosphere has a story to tell. It’s the story of two people … of a city lost to chaos … of survival and love … but the data has been corrupted.” -- Among the long and lengthening list of good reviews is Paul Di Filippo for Locus Online and Charlie Jane Anders for io9
  • Messenger’s Legacy by Peter V. Brett (Subterranean, Nov 30) -- "Short fantasy novel about demons who threaten humanity’s existence." (via Locus Online)
  • Anthology: Letters to Lovecraft edited by Jesse Bullington (Stone Skin Press, Dec 1) — stories in direct response to quotes selected from Lovecraft’s essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature.”
  • Anthology: The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women edited by Alex Dally MacFarlane (Running, Dec 1) — via PW’s best books of 2014: “Written in the form of letters, travelogues, encyclopedia entries, and galactic gazetteers as well as conventional narratives, and embracing approaches that include folktales (Nalo Hopkinson’s “Tan-Tan and Dry Bone”), Lovecraftian horror (Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette’s “Boojum”), steampunk (Tori Truslow’s “Tomorrow Is Saint Valentine’s Day”), and hard SF (Nisi Shawl’s “Good Boy”), the 33 stories that MacFarlane (Aliens: Recent Encounters) has gathered for this volume dazzle with the virtuosity of their contributors’ talents.”
  • Anthology: Letters to Lovecraft: Eighteen Whispers to the Darkness edited by Jesse Bullington (Stone Skin Press, Dec 1) -- "Anthology of 18 original stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s famous essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature”. Authors include Brian Evenson, Tim Lebbon, Jeffrey Ford, Gemma Files, Robin D. Laws, and Nick Mamatas." (via Locus Online)
  • The Atomic Sea: Volume One by Jack Conner (Dec 1) -- "A thousand years ago, the sea began to change, and the change spread. Now the boiling, toxic, lightning-wreathed Atomic Sea has encompassed every ocean on the planet, and the creatures that live in it have become mutated and unnatural. The sea's taint can infect any human who comes in contact with it or with unprocessed seafood, killing them . . . or altering them. No one knows why the sea has become this way or what it portends, only that it's irrevocably changed the world."
  • Anthology: The Best of Electric Velocipede edited by John Klima (Fairwood Press, Dec 1)
  • Humor: Dear Yankee: Letters from a Southern Lady by Lady Soliloque (World Castle Publishing, Dec 1) -- "And so, my dear Yankee, it is with open arms that I begin this correspondence with you. As a bonafide Southern Lady, born and bred, I can understand how confusing and bewildering my culture is to anyone who was not born and raised here. I know several of you who have been in residence for quite a spell and are still completely baffled by all but the most surface aspects of being Southern and all that being Southern entails. I have high hopes that our forthright communication will lead to a new understanding which can only deepen our respect for one another."
  • Rise of the Spider Goddess: An Annotated Novel by Jim C. Hines (Dec 2, 2014) — “In 2006, DAW Books published Jim C. Hines’ debut novel Goblin Quest. But before Jig the goblin, before fairy tale princesses and magic librarians and spunky fire-spiders, there was Nakor the Purple, an elf who wanted nothing more than to stand around watching lovingly overdescribed sunrises with his pet owl Flame, who might actually be a falcon, depending on which chapter you’re reading. This is Nakor’s story, written in 1995 and never before shared with the world. (For reasons that will soon be painfully clear.) Together with an angsty vampire, a pair of pixies, and a feisty young thief, Nakor must find a way to stop an Ancient Evil before she destroys the world. (Though, considering the rel-atively shallow worldbuilding, it’s not like there’s much to destroy…) With more than 5000 words of bonus annotation and smart-ass commentary, this is a book that proves every author had to start somewhere, and most of the time, that place wasn’t very pretty.”
  • The Genome by Sergei Lukyanenko (Open Road Media, Dec 2) -- first English translation of a science fiction thriller by the author of Night Watch, a Russian urban fantasy series that inspired two major motion pictures: "Five months after the horrific accident that left him near death and worried that he’d never fly again, master-pilot Alex Romanov lands a new job: captaining the sleek passenger vessel Mirror. Alex is a spesh—a human who has been genetically modified to perform particular tasks. As a captain and pilot, Alex has a genetic imperative to care for passengers and crew—no matter what the cost. His first mission aboard Mirror is to ferry two representatives of the alien race Zzygou on a tour of human worlds. His task will not be an easy one, for aboard the craft are several speshes who have reason to hate the Others. Dark pasts, deadly secrets, and a stolen gel-crystal worth more than Alex’s entire ship combine to challenge him at every turn. And as the tension escalates, it becomes apparent that greater forces are at work to bring the captain’s world crashing down."
  • Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart by Christopher Fowler (Bantam, Dec 2) -- US release for this eleventh novel in Fowler's supernatural crime series -- Narrated By Tim Goodman
  • Darkness Falls by Keri Arthur (Signet, Dec 2) -- concluding seventh novel in her urban fantasy series -- audio coming Dec 12 from Recorded Books
  • Undercity by Catherine Asaro (Baen, Dec 2) -- latest in Asaro's long-running "Skolian Saga" and subject of a feature-length review by Paul Di Filippo for Locus Online
  • Universal Alien by Gini Koch (DAW, Dec 2) -- 10th novel in Koch's sf series which began with 2010's Touched by an Alien about alien invaders from Alpha Centauri
  • Collision by Mercedes Lackey,  Cody Martin, Dennis Lee, and Veronica Giguere (Baen, Dec 2) -- 4th novel in the "Invasion" alternate history thriller series
  • Skylight by José Saramago (HMH, Dec 2) — “This is Saramago’s so-called “lost work,” which was written in the 1950s, but rediscovered after the Nobel laureate’s death in 2010. The novel features the interconnected stories of the residents of an apartment building in Lisbon in the 1940s.” (via The Millions)
  • Sustenance: A Saint-Germain novel by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro  (Dec 2) -- "The vampire Count Saint-Germain protects Americans fleeing persecution—and becomes trapped in a web of betrayal, deceit, and murder in post-WWII Europe. The powerful House Un-American Activities Committee hunted communists both at home and abroad.  In the late 1940s, the vampire Count Saint-Germain is caught up in intrigue surrounding a group of Americans who have fled to postwar Paris. Some speak out against HUAC and battle the authorities. Saint-Germain swears to do his best to protect his friends, but even his skills may not be able to stand against agents of the OSS and the brand-new CIA.  And he has an unexpected weakness: his lover, Charis, who has returned to Paris under mysterious circumstances."
  • Stonehill Downs—Sarah Remy (December 2, Harper Voyager)
  • On Her Majesty’s Behalf by Joseph Nassise (Harper Voyager, Dec 2) -- second in a military zombie series
  • No True Way: All-New Tales of Valdemar (Tales of Valdemar #8)—edited by Mercedes Lackey (December 2, DAW)
  • Anthology: Dangerous Games edited by Jonathan Oliver (Solaris, Dec 4) — “In a world of chances, one decision can bring down the house, one roll of the dice could bring untold wealth, or the end of everything. In this anthology of all new short stories the players gather, their stories often dark, and always compelling.”
  • Short: Hisses and Wings: a Story of the Tufa and Los Nefilim by Alex Bledsoe and T. Frohock (Dec 4) — “Janet, a young woman whose forebearers were a race of banished faeries, learns of a song that might allow the Tufa to return to their ancestral home. But the song is guarded by Diago, one of the Nefilim, a race descended from angels. Diago knows only too well that the song’s power may be misused. Can Janet convince him to give up the song, and if so, does she have the wisdom to use it?”
  • Severance by Chris Bucholz (Apex Books, Dec 9) — a dark SF novel from Cracked.com columnist Bucholz — “After 240 years traveling toward Tau Prius and a new planet to colonize, the inhabitants of the generation ship Argos are bored and aimless. They join groups such as the Markers and the Breeders, have costumed orgies, and test the limits of drugs, alcohol, and pain just to pass the time. To Laura Stein, they’re morons and, other than a small handful of friends, she’d rather spend time with her meat plant than with any of her fellow passengers. But when one of her subordinates is murdered while out on a job, Laura takes it as her responsibility to find out what happened. She expects to find a personal grudge or a drug deal gone wrong, but instead stumbles upon a conspiracy that could tear the ship in two.”
  • Our Lady of the Islands by Shannon Page and Jay Lake (Per Aspera, Dec 9) — via PW‘s best books of 2014: “A fantasy set in the archipelago world of Alizar, Our Lady of the Islandsfeatures the reluctant adventures of Domina Sian Katte — a middle-aged business woman who is wrenched away from her comfortable, quiet life when she is unwillingly chosen by the Priest of the Butchered God and endowed with an unwanted power. Book One of The Butchered God.” Also see Page's Big Idea piece for Scalzi's Whatever blog.
  • The Lady (Marakand) by K.V. Johansen (Pyr, Dec 9) -- "Fantasy novel, second volume in a two-book set, about an assassin eager to die in order to free himself of a curse, following The Leopard (June 2014)." (description via Locus Online)
  • Beautiful Curse by Jen McConnel (Swoon Romance, Dec 9, 2014) — “a contemporary retelling of the myth of Psyche and Cupid.”
  • Finders, Inc. by Michael Jasper (UnWrecked Press, Dec 9) — book one in a new supernatural mystery series set in Boone, NC
  • One Step Ahead - The Wolf Within Book 7 by Amy Lee Burgess (Crossroad Press, Dec 9)
  • Omnibus: The Inheritance Trilogy Omnibus—N.K. Jemisin (December 9, Orbit) -- the omnibus also includes a new novella which is also available standalone: The Awakened Kingdom (Inheritance), "where a godling must struggle to grow in the shadow of her parents."
  • Fantasy for Good: A Charitable Anthology—edited by Jordan Ellinger and Richard Salter (December 9, Nightscape)
COMING SOON:

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The Galaxy Game Take An Exclusive Peek At The Most Anticipated Scifi Imprint In Years

  • Fiddlehead by Cherie Priest (GraphicAudio, Jan 1) — Priest’s 2013 novel in her Clockwork Century series, first audio edition/adaptation: “Young ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but the job is less glamorous than one might think, especially since the assassination attempts started. Worse yet, they’re trying to destroy his greatest achievement: a calculating engine called Fiddlehead, which provides undeniable proof of something awful enough to destroy the world. Both man and machine are at risk from forces conspiring to keep the Civil War going and the money flowing.”
  • Control Point by Myke Cole (GraphicAudio, Jan 1) — a standard audiobook exists for this first book in Cole’s “Shadow Ops” series, now coming to GraphicAudio’s “movie in your mind” format
  • ADDED: Future Crime By Ben Bova, Read by Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Stefan Rudnicki for Blackstone Audio (Jan 1) -- "An exciting collection of SF stories by Hugo Award–winning author Ben Bova."
  • ADDED: The Last Passenger By Manel Loureiro, Andres Alfaro (translator), Narrated By Angela Dawe for Brilliance Audio (Jan 1)
  • Marked: Servants of Fate, Book 1 By Sarah Fine, Narrated By Emily Foster for Brilliance Audio (Jan 1)
  • The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord (Del Rey, Jan 6, 2015) — a follow-on to 2013′s The Best of All Possible Worlds: “For years, Rafi Delarua saw his family suffer under his father’s unethical use of psionic power. Now the government has Rafi under close watch, but, hating their crude attempts to analyse his brain, he escapes to the planet Punartam, where his abilities are the norm, not the exception. Punartam is also the centre for his favourite sport, wallrunning – and thanks to his best friend, he has found a way to train with the elite. But Rafi soon realises he’s playing quite a different game, for the galaxy is changing; unrest is spreading and the Zhinuvian cartels are plotting, making the stars a far more dangerous place to aim. There may yet be one solution – involving interstellar travel, galactic power and the love of a beautiful game.”
  • Firefight (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson (Tor, Jan 6, 2015) — follow-on to best-selling Steelheart
  • Spell-Blind (Casebooks of Justis Fearsson) by David B. Coe (Baen, Jan 6, 2015)
  • ADDED: Unbound (Magic Ex Libris #3)  by Jim C. Hines (DAW, Jan 6)
  • ADDED: Tales from the Nightside By Simon R. Green, Narrated By Marc Vietor (Jan 6)
  • ADDED: Half-Resurrection Blues: Bone Street Rumba, Book 1 By Daniel José Older, Narrated By Daniel José Older (Jan 6)
  • ADDED: Lycan Fallout 2: Fall of Man By Mark Tufo, Narrated By Sean Runnette (Jan 6)
  • ADDED: Carousel Seas: Archer's Beach, Book 3 By Sharon Lee, Narrated By Elisabeth Rodgers (Jan 6)
  • Strands of Sorrow (Black Tide Rising) by John Ringo (Jan 6, 2015)
  • ADDED: The Witches of Echo Park By Amber Benson, Narrated By Amber Benson (Jan 6)
  • ADDED: Iron Axe: The Books of Blood and Iron, Book 1 By Steven Harper, Narrated By P. J. Ochlan (Jan 6)
  • Zombie Rules by David Achord, read by Graham Halstead for Tantor (Jan 6)
  • Related non-fiction: The Deep Zoo by Rikki Ducornet (Coffee House Press, Jan 6) — “a record of Rikki Ducornet’s reading of the world, a gathering of alchemies where the unknown has become visible through the medium of art, be they Borges’s tigers and Cortazar’s lions, desire, mystery, or the grotesque.”
  • Short: Payoff and Rabbit Trick By Alex Hughes, Narrated By Daniel Thomas May (Jan 6)
  • Kids: Dragonbreath #10: Knight-napped! by Ursula Vernon (Jan 6, 2015)
  • ADDED: Teen: Frostfire (Kanin Chronicles, #1)  by Amanda Hocking (St. Martin's Griffin, Jan 6)
  • ADDED: Blood Will Follow  by Snorri Kristjansson (Jo Fletcher, January 6)
  • ADDED: Short: Glitch by Hugh Howey, read by Gabra Zackman for Audible (Jan 6) -- Howey's 2014 short story: "When a robot defies his programming, is he broken? Or is he something else?"
  • Reishi Adept: Sovereign of the Seven Isles, Book 7 By David A. Wells, Narrated By Derek Perkins for Podium (Jan 9)
  • The Providence of Fire (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne) by Brian Staveley (Tor, Jan 13, 2015) — “Brian Staveley’s Providence of Fire, the second novel in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, a gripping new epic fantasy series in the tradition of Brandon Sanderson and George R. R. Martin. The conspiracy to destroy the ruling family of the Annurian Empire is far from over.”
  • ADDED: The Just City by Jo Walton -- Thessaly #1 (Tor, Jan 13, 2015)
  • The Whispering Swarm: Book One of The Sanctuary of the White Friars by Michael Moorcock (Tor, Jan 13)
  • Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link (Random House, Jan 13, 2015)
  • ADDED: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea By Adam Roberts, Narrated By Simon Vance (Jan 13) -- yes!
  • ADDED: The Silent History By Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, and Kevin Moffett, , Narrated By Gabra Zackman and LJ Ganser (Jan 13) -- yes!
  • The Dagger’s Path by Glenda Larke (Orbit, Jan 13, 2015) — sequel to The Lascar’s Dagger
  • Golden Son: Book II of the Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown (Jan 13, 2015)
  • ADDED: The Last American Vampire By Seth Grahame-Smith, Narrated By MacLeod Andrews (Jan 13) -- follow-on to Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
  • Fiction: Binary Star by Sarah Gerard (Two Dollar Radio, Jan 13) — “Sara Gerard’s star is rising. The NYC-based bookseller slash art-mag-employee slash writer drew attention last fall with “Things I Told My Mother,” an essayistic inquiry into women’s representation in society, spawned by a topless walk the author took through Times Square. This kind of intensity and boldness guide all of Gerard’s work — whether concerning other writers, or her own bout with anorexia, addiction, and a stint jumping freight trains, and now in her first novel Binary Star. Binary Star interweaves astronomical research with a story about an unnamed anorexic who burns through her intensely dysfunctional life like a star burns fuel, never to be replenished.” (via The Millions)
  • Glow by Ned Beauman (Knopf, Jan 20) — “Beauman’s previous novels, The Boxer Beetle and The Teleportation Accident — the one a fanciful look at eugenics and fascism, the other a genre-bending wonder about an avant-garde set designer in 1930s Berlin — each displayed a learned, diabolical imagination at work. His latest appears just as unhinged. Enrolled in a “continuous amateur neurochemistry seminar” and suffering from a sleep disorder, its hero experiments with the designer drug, “glow,” which opens up a gateway into a Pynchonian universe: a disappeared friend, pirate radio stations, and a nefarious Burmese mining company.” (via The Millions)
  • ADDED: A Murder of Clones: Anniversary Day Saga, Book 3 (Retrieval Artist Universe) By Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Narrated By Jay Snyder (Jan 20)
  • ADDED: Exile: Star Force, Book 11 By B.V. Larson and David VanDyke, Narrated By Mark Boyett (Jan 20)
  • ADDED: Polaris (Avalon, #2)  by Mindee Arnett (Balzer+Bray, Jan 20)
  • The Mime Order: The Bone Season (The Remnant Chronicles) by Samantha Shannon (Jan 25, 2015) — sequel to The Bone Season – “Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the fugitives are still missing and she is the most wanted person in London.”
  • ADDED: Inside a Silver Box  by Walter Mosley (Tor, Jan 25)
  • The Dragon Conspiracy (SPI Files) by Lisa Shearin (Ace, Jan 27, 2015)
  • ADDED: Gemini Cell  by Myke Cole (Ace, Jan 27)
  • ADDED: Woven  by Michael Jensen (Scholastic, Jan 27) -- "Two unlikely allies must journey across a kingdom in the hopes of thwarting death itself."
  • Pacific Fire by Greg van Eekhout (Tor, Jan 27) — could this be a follow-on to California Bones? Signs point to maybe…
  • ADDED: Deadeye: The Mutant Files, Book 1 By William C. Dietz, Narrated By Christina Delaine (Jan 27)
  • Teen: A Cold Legacy (Madman’s Daughter Book 3) by Megan Shepherd(Jan 27, 2015)
  • Teen: Fairest by Melissa Meyer (Macmillan, Jan 27) — a prequel to Cinderin her The Lunar Chronicles series
  • Teen: A Cold Legacy by Megan Shepherd (Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins, January 27, 2015) – the final book in the Madman’s Daughter series
  • Dark Intelligence: Transformation: Book One by Neal Asher (29 Jan 2015)
  • ADDED: The Boy Who Wept Blood (Erebus Sequence, #2)  by Den Patrick (Gollancz, Jan 29)
  • After #5: Red Scare by Scott Nicholson (Jan 30) — fifth in Nicholson’s post-apocalyptic series, available for preorder on Kindle,Kindle UK, Kobo, and Apple
  • Forsaken (Otherworld) by Kelley Armstrong (Subterranean Press, Jan 31) — deluxe illustrated hardcover
  • Related non-fiction: The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Gerry Canavan and Eric Link (Jan 31, 2015)
  • Horror: This is Filth by Nathan Ballingrud (This is Horror Press, January 2015) — “Ballingrud is a master at writing about the darkness inside us. And as terrifying as it might be to see, you can’t look away or close your eyes against it thanks to his beautifully precise and evocative prose. There’s a dark heart to The Visible Filth and Ballingrud uses its blood for ink to tell a story that really gets under your skin, or rather calls to something that might already be there. Fantastic work, highly recommended.” –Ray Cluley
  • ADDED: The Boatmaker by John Benditt (Tin House, January 2015) -- "A fierce and complicated man wakes from a fever dream compelled to build a boat and sail away from the isolated island where he was born. Encountering the wider world for the first time, the reluctant hero falls into a destructive love affair, is swept up into a fanatical religious movement, and finds himself a witness to racial hatred unlike anything he’s ever known. The boatmaker is tempted, beaten, and betrayed: his journey marked by chilling episodes of violence and horror while he struggles to summon the strength to make his own way.The Boatmaker is a fable for our times, a passionate love story, and an odyssey of self-discovery."
  • Anthology: Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (PM Press, Feb 1, 2015)
  • ADDED: Anthology: As Time Goes By  edited by Hank Davis (Baen, Feb 1) -- "Timetravel tales of love and the future, alternate realities, and the worlds of fantasy."
  • Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (Tor, Feb 3) — “Hugo-Award winning author Elizabeth Bear offers something new in Karen Memory, an absolutely entrancing steampunk novel set in Seattle in the late 19th century—an era when the town was called Rapid City, when the parts we now call Seattle Underground were the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes bringing would-be miners heading up to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront. Karen is a “soiled dove,” a young woman on her own who is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable’s high-quality bordello. Through Karen’s eyes we get to know the other girls in the house—a resourceful group—and the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts into her world one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, seeking sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, who has a machine that can take over anyone’s mind and control their actions. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heap—a streetwalker who has been brutally murdered. Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper-type story of the old west with the light touch of Karen’s own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science.” — cover by Cynthia Sheppard
  • Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: A Novel  by Judd Trichter (Thomas Dunne, Feb 3) -- "Set in a near-future LA, a man falls in love with a beautiful android—but when she is kidnapped and sold piecemeal on the black market, he must track down her parts to put her back together."
  • Impulse: Lightship Chronicles, Book 1 by Dave Bara (DAW, Feb 3)
  • Collection: Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman (Feb 3)
  • City of Savages by Lee Kelly (Simon & Schuster/SAGA, Feb 3, 2015)
  • Bayonets, Balloons, and Ironclads: Britain and France Take Sides with the South by Peter G. Tsouras (Skyhorse, Feb 3)
  • ADDED: Covenant's End (Widdershins Adventures, #4)  by Ari Marmell (Pyr, Feb 3)
  • ADDED: The Eterna Files  by (Tor, Feb 3) -- "London, 1882: Queen Victoria appoints Harold Spire of the Metropolitan Police to Special Branch Division Omega. Omega is to secretly investigate paranormal and supernatural events and persons. Spire, a skeptic driven to protect the helpless and see justice done, is the perfect man to lead the department, which employs scholars and scientists, assassins and con men, and a traveling circus. Spire's chief researcher is Rose Everhart, who believes fervently that there is more to the world than can be seen by mortal eyes."
  • ADDED: Shutter  by Courtney Alameda (Feiwel and Friends, Feb 3) -- "Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat—a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual: the corporeal undead go down by the bullet, the spiritual undead by the lens."
  • ADDED: The Thorn of Dentonhill: A Novel of Maradaine by Marshall Ryan Maresca (DAW, Feb 3)
  • Cities & Thrones by Carrie Patel (Feb 5, 2015) — follow-up to The Buried Life
  • The Thousand and One: Book II of The Crescent Moon Kingdoms by Saladin Ahmed (February 2015) -- this doesn't look to be the actual release date, but it's the last one I saw
  • ADDED: The Synchronicity War, Part 1 By Dietmar Wehr, Narrated By Luke Daniels (Feb 6)
  • The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan (Orbit, Feb 10, 2015)
  • Dendera by Yuya Sato and translated by Edwin Hawkes (Haikasoru, Feb 10, 2015)
  • The Spirit War by Rachel Aaron, read by Luke Daniels for Tantor (Feb 10) — Book 4 in the Eli Monpress series
  • ADDED: An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 Book 3) by Scott Meyer, read by Luke Daniels for Brilliance Audio (47North, Feb 10)
  • ADDED: Search & Recovery: Anniversary Day Saga, Book 4 (Retrieval Artist Universe) By Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Narrated By Jay Snyder (Feb 10)
  • ADDED: The Hidden Masters of Marandur: The Pillars of Reality, Book 2 By Jack Campbell, Narrated By Macleod Andrews (Feb 10)
  • The Damned: A Novel by Andrew Pyper (Feb 10)
  • Crazy Love You: A Novel by Lisa Unger (Touchstone, Feb 10)
  • ADDED: Teen: The Shadow Cabinet (Shades of London, #3)  by Maureen Johnson (Putnam Juvenile, Feb 10)
  • Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard (Feb 10, HarperTeen)
  • ADDED: Teen: Rebellion (Extraction, #2)  by Stephanie Diaz (St. Martin's Griffin, Feb 10)
  • ADDED: Cannonbridge  by Jonathan Barnes (Solaris, Feb 10)
  • ADDED: Deathblade: A Tale of Malus Darkblade  by C.L. Werner (Games Workshop, Feb 10)
  • ADDED: Monstrous  by MarcyKate Connolly (Harper Children's, Feb 10)
  • ADDED: Guns of the Dawn  by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK, Feb 12)
  • ADDED: Second Life  by S.J. Watson (Doubleday, Feb 12)
  • ADDED: Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2)  by Joe Abercrombie (Feb 12)
  • Find Me by Laura van den Berg (FSG, Feb 17) — “Laura van den Berg’s fictions often unfurl just beyond the real, with their madcap mix of zany and dreamlike set-ups. Case in point, van den Berg’s recent story collection, The Isle of Youth, was peopled by yacht thieves, a mother-daughter magician team, and newlyweds who survive a plane crash. Her first novel, Find Me, continues this surreal, at times catastrophic streak, as it follows Joy, a grocery clerk, cough-syrup addict who’s immune to an ongoing plague of memory illness. Joy’s resulting hospital stay and cross-country journey plotline sounds like a surreal mash-up of Stephen King’s The Stand and Grace Krilanovich’s The Orange Eats Creeps.”
  • ADDED: Semper Fi: The Empire's Corps, Book 4 By Christopher G. Nuttall, Narrated By Jeffrey Kafer (Feb 17)
  • Related Non-Fiction: They Live (Cultographies) by D. Harlan Wilson (Wallflower press, Feb 17, 2015) — “Born out of the cultural flamboyance and anxiety of the 1980s,They Live (1988) is a hallmark of John Carpenter’s singular canon, combining the aesthetics of multiple genres and leveling an attack against the politics of Reaganism and the Cold War. The decision to cast the professional wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper as his protagonist gave Carpenter the additional means to comment on the hypermasculine attitudes and codes indicative of the era. This study traces the development of They Live from its comic book roots to its legacy as a cult masterpiece while evaluating the film in light of the paranoid/postmodern theory that matured in the decidedly ‘Big 80s.’”
  • ADDED: Something Coming Through  by Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz, Feb 19)
  • Star Trek: The Original Series: Savage Trade by Tony Daniel (Feb 24, 2015)
  • ADDED: A Darker Shade of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic, #1)  by V.E. Schwab (Tor, Feb 24)
  • ADDED: Collection: Lucky Alan: And Other Stories  by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday, Feb 24)
  • ADDED: Unremembered By Jessica Brody, Narrated By Julia Whelan (Feb 24)
  • ADDED: The Remaining: Allegiance By D.J. Molles, Narrated By Christian Rummel (Feb 24)
  • The Death House by Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz, Feb 26, 2015) — “The Death House is a home where, in a world where people are safe against illness, children and teenagers who are susceptible to terminal conditions are sent to die. Their fates are certain. Their lives are in their hands. The question is: what will they choose to do with them?”
  • Those Above by Daniel Polansky (Hodder & Stoughton, Feb 26, 2015) — “You’ve seen him do crime – low fantasy by way of HBO’s The Wire. You knew it as Low Town, the crime-ridden city where only death is certain. But you’ve never seen him do epic fantasy. Until now. From the acclaimed author of THE STRAIGHT RAZOR CURE comes this spectacular new series – epic fantasy, as only Daniel Polansky can imagine it.”
  • Prisoner 489 by Joe R. Lansdale (Dark Regions, February 2014) — a new novella — “On an island with a prison for the most evil and powerful criminals in the world, a new prisoner is strapped to the electric chair for execution. After multiple surges of electricity and nearly knocking out power to the entire island, the prisoner is finally dead. The staff buries him in the prison graveyard with a simple marker baring three numbers: 489.” — hardcover pre-orders will be emailed an ebook well ahead of the release date
  • Anthology: Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams (Titan Books, February 2015) – “the star-studded follow-up to the 2008 bestselling anthology Wastelands.”
  • Teen: The Burning Depths by James P. Smythe (Hodder, February 2015) — “Centuries ago, the Australia left a dying Earth in search of an inhabitable planet its colonists could call home. But no such planet was ever discovered. Law and order gave way to rioting and chaos as gangs began battling for control of the ship and its dwindling resources, and the Australia was left to drift, directionless, through the emptiness of space. Seventeen-year-old Chan, fiercely independent and self-sufficient, keeps her head down and lives quietly, careful not to draw attention to herself amidst the violence and disorder. Until the day she makes an extraordinary discovery – a way to return the Australia to Earth. But doing so would bring her to the attention of the fanatics and the murderers who control life aboard the ship, putting her and everyone she loves in terrible danger. And a safe return to Earth is by no means certain.”
  • ADDED: A Man's Word (The King's Hounds Book 3) by Martin Jensen (March 1)
  • Pocket Apocalypse: InCryptid, Book Four by Seanan McGuire (Mar 3, 2015)
  • Company Town by Madeline Ashby (Angry Robot, Mar 3, 2015)
  • Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf (Companions Codex) by R. A. Salvatore (March 3)
  • Anthology: Old Venus by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (Mar 3, 2015)
  • The Devil’s Detective: A Novel by Simon Kurt Unsworth (Doubleday, Mar 3)
  • ADDED: The Storyspinner (The Keepers' Chronicles, #1)  by Becky Wallace (Margaret McElderry, Mar 3)
  • Edge of Dark (The Glittering Edge) by Brenda Cooper (Pyr, Mar 3, 2015) — “What if a society banished its worst nightmare to the far edge of the solar system, destined to sip only dregs of light and struggle for the barest living.  And yet, that life thrived?  It grew and learned and became far more than you ever expected, and it wanted to return to the sun.  What if it didn’t share your moral compass in any way? The Glittering duology describes the clash of forces when an advanced society that has filled a solar system with flesh and blood life meets the near-AI’s that it banished long ago.  This is a story of love for the wild and natural life on a colony planet, complex adventure set in powerful space stations, and the desire to live completely whether you are made of flesh and bone or silicon and carbon fiber.  In Edge of Dark, meet ranger Charlie Windar and his adopted wild predator, and explore their home on a planet that has been raped and restored more than once.  Meet Nona Hall, child of power and privilege from the greatest station in the system, the Diamond Deep.  Meet Nona’s best friend, a young woman named Chrystal who awakens in a robotic body….”
  • Into the Maelstrom (Citizen) by David Drake and John Lambshead (Baen, Mar 3, 2015) — book two after Into the Hinterlands
  • ADDED: Heir to the Jedi (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #3)  by Kevin Hearne (LucasBooks, Mar 3)
  • Vision In Silver: A Novel of the Others by Anne Bishop (Roc, Mar 3)
  • Madness in Solidar: The Ninth Book of the Imager Portfolio by L. E. Modesitt (Tor, Mar 3)
  • ADDED: Flex by Ferrett Steinmetz (Angry Robot, Mar 3)
  • ADDED: Kids: The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4)  by Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends, March 3, 2015)
  • ADDED: Death Marked (Death Sworn, #2) by Leah Cypess (Greenwillow, March 3)
  • ADDED: The Orphan Queen (The Orphan Queen, #1) by Jodi Meadows (Katherine Tegen, March 10)
  • ADDED: Shadow Scale (Seraphina, #2)  by Rachel Hartman (Random House Children's, March 10)
  • Spirit’s End by Rachel Aaron, read by Luke Daniels for Tantor (Mar 10) — Book 5 in the Eli Monpress series
  • Persona by Genevieve Valentine (Simon & Schuster/SAGA, 3/10/15) — “When Suyana, Face of the United Amazonia Rainforest Confederation, secretly meets Ethan of the United States for a date that can solidify a relationship for the struggling UARC, the last thing she expects is an assassination attempt. Daniel, a teen runaway-turned-paparazzi out for his big break, witnesses the first shot hit Suyana, and before he can think about it, he jumps into the fray, telling himself it’s not altruism, it’s the scoop. Just like that, Suyana and Daniel are now in the game of Faces. And if they lose, they’ll die.”
  • Ancestral Machines: A Humanity’s Fire novel by Michael Cobley (Orbit, Mar 10, 2015)
  • The Mechanical (The Alchemy Wars) by Ian Tregillis (Orbit, March 10, 2015)
  • Teen: The Infinite (Gates of Thread and Stone Book 2) by Lori M. Lee (Skyscape, March 10)
  • ADDED: Vanishing Girls  by Lauren Oliver (HarperCollins, Mar 10)
  • ADDED: The Black Dream (Heart of the World #3) by Col Buchanan (March 12)
  • The Last Days of Video: A Novel by Jeremy Hawkins (Soft Skull Press, Mar 17, 2015) — “The video stores are dying. But most of you don’t care. You’ve got your Netflix and your Redbox and your DVR, so why deal with VHS tapes or scratched DVDs? Why deal with the grumpy guy at the worn-down independent video store?
  • Clash of Eagles by Alan Smale (Del Rey, Mar 17, 2015) — “His novella of a Roman invasion of ancient America, “A Clash of Eagles” in the Panverse Two anthology (edited by Dario Ciriello), won the 2010 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and he has recently sold a trilogy of novels set in the same universe. The first book, CLASH OF EAGLES, will appear from Del Rey.”
  •  The Darkside War by Zachary Brown (Simon & Schuster/SAGA, 3/17/15) — “People used to wonder if we were alone in the universe. Well, we’re not. Not by a long shot. Aliens come in all shapes and sizes, and even the good guys are likely to haunt your nightmares. And oh, you’ll have nightmares, even after you leave the service. If you leave the service.”
  • ADDED: The Glorious Angels  by Justina Robson (Gollancz, March 19)
  • In the Time of Dragon Moon by Janet Lee Carey (Penguin/Kathy Dawson, Mar 24, 2015)
  • ADDED: Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory (Tor, March 24)
  • ADDED: Fall of Light (The Kharkanas Trilogy, #2)  by Steven Erikson (Bantam, March 24)
  • ADDED: Half Wild (The Half Bad Trilogy, #2)  by Sally Green (Viking Juvenile, Mar 24, 2015)
  • ADDED: The Voyage of the Basilisk (Memoir by Lady Trent, #3)  by Marie Brennan (Tor, Mar 31)
  • Anthology: The Doll Collection edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor, March 2015) — all-original dark tales including: “Heroes and Villains” by Stephen Gallagher; “The Doll-Master” by Joyce Carol Oates; “Gaze” by Gemma Files; “In Case of Zebras” by Pat Cadigan; “Miss Sibyl-Cassandra” by Lucy Sussex; “Skin and Bone” by Tim Lebbon; “There Is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold” by Seanan McGuire; “Goodness and Kindness” by Carrie Vaughn; “Daniel’s Theory of Dolls” by Stephen Graham Jones; “After and Back Before” by Miranda Siemienowicz; “Doctor Faustus” by Mary Robinette Kowal; “Doll Court” by Richard Bowes; “Visit Lovely Cornwall on the Western Railway Line” by Genevieve Valentine; “Ambitious Boys Like You” by Richard Kadrey; “The Permanent Collection” by Veronica Schanoes; “Homemade Monsters” by John Langan; “Word Doll” by Jeffrey Ford
  • Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant (Subterranean Press, March 2015) — “When the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship Atargatis, they expected what they had always received before: an assortment of eyewitness reports that proved nothing, some footage that proved even less, and the kind of ratings that only came from peddling imaginary creatures to the masses.”
  • ADDED: Fiction: Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller (Tin House, March 2015) -- "Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed."
  • Stiletto (The Checquy Files 2) by Daniel O’Malley (Head of Zeus, 1 Apr 2015) — UK release for the sequel to The Rook
  • ADDED: Victory of the Hawk (Rebels of Adalonia) by Angela Highland (Carina Press, April 6)
  • The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu (Simon & Schuster/SAGA, 4/7/15) — “Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, soaring battle kites, conspiring goddesses, underwater boats, magical books, as a streetfighter-cum-general who takes her place as the greatest tactitian of the age. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, they each find themselves the leader of separate factions—two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice.”
  • Disciple of the Wind: A Novel of the Fated Blades by Steve Bein (Roc, Apr 7, 2015) —  concluding book in a trilogy (Daughter of the Sword and Year of the Demon)
  • Superposition by David Walton (Pyr, Apr 7)
  • Tracker: A Foreigner Novel by C. J. Cherryh (DAW, Apr 7)
  • Joe Steele by Harry Turtledove (Roc, Apr 7)
  • King of Ashes: Book One of The War of Five Crowns by Raymond E. Feist (April 7, 2015)
  • Dark Heir: A Jane Yellowrock Novel by Faith Hunter (Apr 7, 2015)
  • The Rebirths of Tao by Wesley Chu (Angry Robot, Apr 7)
  • ADDED: Empire of Night (Age of Legends, #2)  by Kelley Armstrong (HaperCollins, April 7)
  • ADDED: Collection: Stories of the Raksura: Volume Two: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below  by Martha Wells (Night Shade Books, April 7)
  • ADDED: Dragon of the Stars  by Alex J. Cavanaugh (Dancing Lemur, April 7) -- "The future is set for Lt. Commander Aden Pendar, son of a Hyrathian Duke. He’s poised to secure his own command and marriage to the queen’s daughter. He’ll stop at nothing to achieve his goals."
  • ADDED: Atlanta Burns by Chuck Wendig, read by Kate Reinders for Brilliance Audio (April 7) -- "You don’t mess with Atlanta Burns. Everyone knows that. And that’s kinda how she likes it—until the day Atlanta is drawn into a battle against two groups of bullies and saves a pair of new, unexpected friends. But actions have consequences, and when another teen turns up dead—by an apparent suicide—Atlanta knows foul play is involved. And worse: she knows it’s her fault. You go poking rattlesnakes, maybe you get bit. Previously published as two volumes, Shotgun Gravy and Bait Dog, this combined edition includes editorial revisions."
  • ADDED: Teen: Zeroboxer  by Fonda Lee (Flux, April 8) -- "Rocky meets Gattaca"
  • Clash of Iron by Angus Watson (Orbit, Apr 14, 2015) — “Battle-hardened warriors and bloodthirsty druids clash in the second volume of this action-packed historical fantasy trilogy that will appeal to fans of Joe Abercrombie and HBO’s Game of Thrones.”
  • Sympathy For The Devil by Terrence McCauley (April 14)
  • The Winter Family: A Novel by Clifford Jackman (Apr 14) — a “hyperkinetic western noir”
  • A Crown for Cold Silver by Alex Marshall (Orbit, April 14) — “It was all going so nicely, right up until the massacre.”
  • Lair of Dreams: A Diviners Novel by Bray, Libba (Apr 14, 2015)
  • ADDED: The Dead Lands: A Novel  by Benjamin Percy (Grand Central, April 14)
  • ADDED: Valkyrie's Song (The Wolfsangel Cycle #4)  by M.D. Lachlan (Gollancz, April 16)
  • ADDED: Poseidon's Wake by Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz, April 16, 2015) -- Book #3 of Poseidon's Children after Blue Remembered Earth and On a Steel Breeze
  • Kids: Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon (Dial, Apr 21, 2015) — “From the creator of Dragonbreath comes a tale of witches, minions, and one fantastic castle, just right for fans of Roald Dahl and Tom Angleberger. When Molly shows up on Castle Hangnail’s doorstep to fill the vacancy for a wicked witch, the castle’s minions are understandably dubious. After all, she is twelve years old, barely five feet tall, and quite polite.”
  • Garden of Lies by Amanda Quick (Putnam, Apr 21)
  • Positive: A Novel by David Wellington (Harper Voyager, April 21) — “In the bestselling vein of Guillermo Del Toro and Justin Cronin, the acclaimed author of Chimera and The Hydra Protocol delivers his spectacular breakout novel—an entertaining page-turning zombie epic that is sure to become a classic.”
  • War of Shadows by Gail Z. Martin (Orbit, April 21, 2015) — book 3 in the Ascendant Kingdoms saga which began with Ice Forged
  • ADDED: The Affinities  by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor, April 21)
  • ADDED: Dave vs. The Monsters: Emergence (David Hooper 1) by John Birmingham (Titan Books, April 24)
  • ADDED: Teen: Rogue (Talon, #2)  by Julie Kagawa (Harper Teen, April 28)
  • ADDED: Lords of the Sith  by Paul S. Kemp (Del Rey, April 28)
  • Of Noble Family by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor, Apr 28, 2015) — coming simultaneously in audio from Audible, read by the author; RT has the scoop on the cover reveal for this latest in Kowal's Regency fantasy Glamourist Histories series
  • Teen: Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley (Harper Collins, Apr 28, 2015) — “a fiercely intelligent, multilayered fantasy where Neil Gaiman’s Stardust meets John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars in a story about a girl caught between two worlds . . . two races . . . and two destinies.”
  • The Philosopher’s Zombie by Robert J. Sawyer (April 2015)
  • The Ninth Wind by Moses Siregar III (April 2015) — Follow-on to The Black God’s War in Siregar’s epic fantasy “Splendor and Ruin” trilogy: “I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on an early copy of The Ninth Wind by Moses Siregar, a terrific Indy writer who I think is going to blow up big when this comes out. A top tier epic fantasy from him, and hopefully it will be out soon.” –Jonathan Wood, author of NO HERO
  • ADDED: Going Through the Change by Samantha Bryant (Curiosity Quills Press, April 2015) -- "Going through "the change" isn't easy on any woman. Mood swings, hot flashes, hormonal imbalances, and itchy skin are par for the course. But for these four seemingly unrelated women, menopause brought changes none of them had ever anticipated--super-heroic changes. Helen discovers a spark within that reignites her fire. Jessica finds that her mood is lighter, and so is her body. Patricia always had a tough hide, but now even bullets bounce off her. Linda doesn't have trouble opening the pickle jar anymore…now that she's a man. When events throw the women together, they find out that they have more in common than they knew--one person has touched all their lives. The hunt for answers is on."
  • ADDED: Fiction: Adult Onset by Ann-Marie MacDonald (Tin House, April 2015) -- "Mary Rose MacKinnon is a successful author of YA fiction doing a tour of duty as stay-at-home mom while her partner, Hilary, takes a turn focusing on her career. She tries valiantly to balance the (mostly) solo parenting of two young children with the relentless needs of her aging parents. But amid the hilarities of full-on domesticity arises a sense of dread. Do other people notice the dents in the expensive refrigerator? How long will it take Mary Rose to realize that the car alarm that has been going off all morning is hers, and how on earth did the sharpest pair of scissors in the house wind up in her toddler’s hands?"
  • ADDED: The Book of Phoenix  by Nnedi Okorafor (DAW Hardcover, May 5) -- a prequel to Who Fears Death in Okorafor's magical futurism mode!
  • A Long Time Until Now by Michael Z Williamson (Baen, May 5, 2015)
  • ADDED: Sword of the North (The Grim Company, #2)  by Luke Skull (Roc Hardcover, Hay 5)
  • Midnight’s Kiss (A Novel of the Elder Races) by Thea Harrison (Berkeley, May 5)
  • Teen: Girl at the Bottom of the Sea by Michelle Tea (McSweeney’s McMullen’s, May 5, 2015) — “the follow-up to Michelle Tea’s beloved Mermaid in Chelsea Creek, “a refreshing breath of air in the world of YA, equal parts eerie, heartbreaking, and fantastical.””
  • Straits of Hell: Destroyermen, Book 10 by Taylor Anderson (Roc, May 5)
  • 1882: Custer in Chains by Robert Conroy (Baen, May 5)
  • The Waterborne Blade by Susan Murray (Angry Robot, May 5, 2015)
  • A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (May 5, 2015)
  • ADDED: Until the Beginning (After the End, #2)  by Amy Plum (May 5)
  • ADDED: Apex (Nexus, #3)  by Ramez Naam (Angry Robot, May 5)
  • ADDED: Teen: A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)  by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Children's, May 5, 2015)
  • ADDED: Corsair  by James L. Cambias (Tor, May 5)
  • ADDED: Beneath London  by James P. Blaylock (Titan, May 5)
  • ADDED: Fiction: The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (Graywolf Press, May 5) -- "a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson’s account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making."
  • ADDED: Lord of Ashes (Steelhaven, #3)  by Richard Ford (Headline, May 7)
  • ADDED: Hallow Point (Mick Oberon, #2)  by Ari Marmell (Titan, May 12)
  • ADDED: Teen: End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days, #3)  by Susan Ee (Skyscape, May 12)
  • ADDED: Where  by Kit Reed (Tor, May 12) -- unsettling speculative fiction set in Carolina's Outer Banks
  • ADDED: The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)  by Renee Ahdieh (Putnam Juvenile, May 12)
  • ADDED: Dreams of Shreds and Tatters  by Amanda Downum (Solaris, May 12)
  • Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow, May 19, 2015) — I know nothing yet about this book, other than that I will be reading and/or listening to it on April 14, and that Upcoming4Me has posted a synopsis
  • Eternity’s Wheel (InterWorld Trilogy) by Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves and Mallory Reaves (May 19, 2015)
  • Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit, May 19, 2015) — “A new work that takes us on an interstellar journey in search of a new home planet from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson.”
  • The Familiar: One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski (Pantheon, May 19, 2015)
  • ADDED: The Shadow of Elysium  by Django Wexler (InterMix, May 19) -- a novella in The Shadow Campaigns
  • The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (May 19)
  • ADDED: Illusionarium  by Heather Dixon (Greenwillow, May 19)
  • The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (Knopf, May 26, 2015) — “Knopf has acquired a new novel by Paolo Bacigalupi, the science fiction writer whose 2009 book “The Windup Girl” sold 200,000 copies and was considered one of the top novels of the year. The new book, “The Water Knife,” is set in a lawless, water-starved American Southwest in the not-too-distant future.”
  • Odin: The Viking Allfather (Myths and Legends) by Steven Long and Maria Moreno(Osprey, May 26, 2015)
  • ADDED: The Paradox (Oversight Trilogy, #2)  by Charlie Fletcher (Orbit, May 26)
  • ADDED: Long Black Curl: A Novel of the Tufa  by Alex Bledsoe (Tor, May 26)
  • Dance of Chaos by David Dalglish (Orbit, May 2015)
  • Fiction: Minnow by James McTeer (Hub City, May 2015) — winner of the South Carolina First Novel Prize — “Minnow is a gorgeous fever-dream of a novel,” said competition judge Ben Fountain. “McTeer’s story of a young boy’s quest achieves a narrative drive and depth that are rare in any novel, much less a debut effort. Minnow picked me up by the scruff of the neck and carried me along as powerfully as a novel by Pat Conroy or Toni Morrison. Yeah, McTeer is that good. I look forward to many more novels by this excellent young writer.”
  • ADDED: Fiction: Trompe l'Oeil by Nancy Reisman (Tin House, May 2015) -- "During a vacation in Rome, the Murphy family experiences a life-altering tragedy. In the immediate aftermath, James, Nora, and their children find solace in their Massachusetts coast home, but as the years pass the weight of the loss disintegrates the increasingly fragile marriage and leaves its mark on each family member."
  • Rhune (The First Empire #1) by Michael J. Sullivan (Spring, 2015) -- "Before the Dark Ages, there was the age of Myth and Legend. Before kings and castles, there were mystics and heroes. Before two thieves, there was an empire. And before there was an empire, there was Nyphron."
  • Fiction: Hashtag by Eryk Pruitt (280 Steps, Spring 2015) — “from the author ofDirtbags, a twisted and sinister crime story.”
  • Anthology: Aickman’s Heirs edited by Simon Strantzas (Undertown Books, Spring 2015) — “an anthology of strange, weird tales by modern masters of weird fiction, in the milieu of Robert Aickman, the master of strange and ambiguous stories.”
  • Shower of Stones by Zachary Jernigan (Night Shade Books, Spring 2015) — “Conclusion to the visceral, inventive narrative begun in No Return, ‘the most daring debut novel of 2013,’ Shower of Stones pits men against gods, swords against world-destroying magic, offering readers another glimpse into the fascinatingly harsh world of Jeroun.”
  • The Shadow Revolution (Crown & Key) by Clay and Susan Griffith (Jun 2, 2015) — “In the 1820s, a powerful but inexperienced magician is trapped in a struggle between ancient necromancers and elementals. To save innocents from the growing darkness, he gathers a group of alchemists, arcane engineers, and monster hunters to fight with him. Think of it as Charlotte Bronte’s Avengers.”
  • A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel by Paul G. Tremblay (William Morrow, June 2)
  • The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth (Change Series) by S. M. Stirling (Roc, June 2)
  • The Fold: A Novel by Peter Clines (Crown, June 2)
  • Finders Keepers: A Novel by Stephen King (June 2)
  • Shards of Hope (Psy/Changeling) by Nalini Singh (June 2)
  • Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas (Jun 2, 2015) — first novel from 2010 Clarion Workshop graduate
  • Dead Ice (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter) by Laurell K. Hamilton (June 2)
  • Dragon in Exile (Liaden Universe) by Sharon Lee (Baen, June 2)
  • ADDED: The Liar's Key (The Red Queen's War #2)  by Mark Lawrence (Ace, June 2)
  • ADDED: Hungry Ghosts (Eric Carter, #3)  by Stephen Blackmoore (DAW, June 2)
  • Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente (Tor, June 2, 2015) — synopsis and cover available at SFSignal
  • Spellstorm by Ed Greenwood (Wizards of the Coast, June 2)
  • ADDED: Knight's Shadow  by Sebastien de Castell (Jo Fletcher, June 2)
  • ADDED: Storm and Steel  by Jon Sprunk (Pyr, June 2)
  • ADDED: The Clockwork Crown (Clockwork Dagger Duology, #2)  by Beth Cato (Harper Voyager, June 9)
  • ADDED: The Long Utopia  by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (Harper, June 9)
  • The Invasion of the Tearling: A Novel (Queen of the Tearling) by Erika Johansen (June 9)
  • The Iron Assassin by Ed Greenwood (Tor, Jun 9)
  • Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon, June 9)
  • ADDED: The Liminal War  by Ayize Jama-Everett (Small Beer Press, June 9, 2015) -- YES! A follow-on to The Liminal People is a thing which is happening and now I want to virtual high-five Gavin Grant and the rest of the Small Beer Press team but they are too busy doing awesome things...
  • ADDED: The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly  by Stephanie Oakes (Dial, June 9)
  • ADDED: Slow Bullets  by Alistair Reynolds (Tachyon, June 9) -- "From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilization itself."
  • ADDED: The Devil's Only Friend (John Cleaver, #4)  by Dan Wells (Tor, June 16)
  • The War Against the Assholes by Sam Munson (Simon & Schuster / Saga Press, June 16,  2015) — “set in a Manhattan “shrouded in mystery” and follows a 17-year-old Catholic high school student who begins to acquire supernatural powers after being introduced to a book called The Calendar of Sleights by a strange classmate. The protagonist is then pulled into a long-running war among rival factions of magicians.” (via PW)
  • ADDED: Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusion #1) by Michael R. Fletcher (Harper Voyager, June 16)
  • ADDED: Ruin (The Faithful and the Fallen #3)  by John Gwynne (Tor UK, June 18)
  • ADDED: The Undying Legion (Crown & Key, #2)  by Clay and Susan Griffith (June 30)
  • The Hollow Queen (The Symphony of Ages) by Elizabeth Haydon (June 30)
  • Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey (Orbit, June 2015) — “The fifth novel in James S.A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling Expanse series–now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel!”
  • Uprooted by Naomi Novik (Del Rey, June 2015) — “Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire novels, is taking us to a new world with Uprooted! The story is a dark fairy tale, where a grim wizard defends villagers from the horrors of an enchanted Wood. In return? He demands ten years of service from a young girl of his choosing. Now the choosing is approaching, and a young woman named Agnieszka fears that her best friend, the lovely Kasia, will be taken. But what if the wizard makes a different choice?” (via Tor.com)
  • Anthology: The End has Come: The Apocalypse Triptych #3 edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (June 2015) — via io9
  • ADDED: The Philosopher Kings  by Jo Walton -- Thessaly #2 (Tor, June 30)
  • ADDED: Old Man's Ghosts (The Empire of a Hundred Houses, #2)  by Tom Lloyd (Gollancz, July 1)
  • ADDED: The Annihilation Score (Laundry Files, #6)  by Charles Stross (July 2)
  • ADDED: The Immortal Throne  by Stella Gemmell (Bantam, July 2)
  • ADDED: The Price of Valour (The Shadow Campaigns, #3)  by Django Wexler (Roc, July 7)
  • ADDED: The Darkling Child (The Defenders of Shannara #2) by Terry Brooks (Del Rey, July 7)
  • ADDED: The Chart of Tomorrows (Gaunt and Bone, #3)  by Chris Willrich (Pyr, July 7)
  • Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed by Clive Barker (Tor, July 7)
  • The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Jul 7, 2015) — cover reveal on Tor.com for this second book in “The 3-Body Problem” translated by Ken Liu
  • The Unnoticeables by Robert Brockway (Tor, July 7, 2015) — “Tor said the books are “hilarious urban fantasy novels” set in a world that pulls from New York’s punk scene in the 1970s as well as the modern-day Los Angeles entertainment industry.” (via PW)
  • Time Salvager by Wesley Chu (Tor, July 7)
  • ADDED: Queen of Fire (Raven's Shadow, #3)  by Anthony Ryan (July 7)
  • Last First Snow (Craft Sequence) by Max Gladstone (Tor, Jul 14, 2015) — Gladstone writes about writing this novel (in the universe which includes Three Parts Dead) at Tor.com
  • Kids: Nightborn (Thrones and Bones, Book 2) by Lou Anders (Crown Books for Young Readers, Jul 14, 2014) — follow-on to Frostborn, a fantastic Viking-infused middle grade fantasy of board games, dragons, frost giants, and more
  • ADDED: Teen: Deceptive (Illusive, #2)  by Emily Lloyd-Jones (Little Brown Books for Young Readers, July 14)
  • Alive by Scott Sigler (Del Rey, Jul 14, 2015) — “For fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising comes a gripping sci-fi adventure in which a group of teenagers wake up in a mysterious corridor with no knowledge of who they are or how they got trapped. Their only hope lies with an indomitable young woman who must lead them not only to answers but to survival.”
  • Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Tor, July 14)
  • Bombs Away: The Hot War by Harry Turtledove (Del Rey, July 14)
  • Chaos Unleashed by Drew Karpyshyn (Del Rey, July 14)
  • ADDED: The Master Magician (The Paper Magician Trilogy, #3)  by Charlie N. Holmberg (47North, July 21)
  • ADDED: Return to the Dark House (Dark House, #2) by Laurie Faria Stolarz (Disney Hyperion, July 21)
  • ADDED: Leviathan's Blood: Book Two of the Children Trilogy  by Ben Peek (Thomas Dunne, July 28)
  • Armada by Ernest Cline (Crown, July 28, 2015) — “Cline wowed the world with Ready Player One in 2011, a brilliant debut that was pure geek gold: a glorious fusion of near future science fiction, epic fantasy quest, and unlikely love story, that above all else is an homage to the 1980s. Millions of readers worldwide have been anxiously awaiting his second novel, which evidently chronicles the adventures of a video game geek named Zack, who is conscripted into a top-secret government program and must save the world from an alien invasion.” (via Paul Goat Allen’s “The Most Anticipated Sci-fi and Fantasy Releases of 2014″ for Barnes & Noble)
  • ADDED: The Conquering Dark (Crown & Key, #3)  by Clay and Susan Griffith (July 28)
  • The Fall: A Novel by R. J. Pineiro (Thomas Dunne, Jul 28) — “A sci-fi thriller in which a man jumps from the upper-most reaches of the atmosphere and vanishes, ending up on an alternate Earth where he died five years earlier.”
  • ADDED: The Dinosaur Lords  by Victor Milan (July 2015)
  • The Cage by Megan Shepherd (Balzer+Bray, Summer 2015) — first in a new “YA sci-fi trilogy about six teenagers trapped in an elaborate “human zoo” by an otherworldly race known as the Kindred.”
  • John Claude Bemis is set to launch a new Steampunk/alchemist series for young readers, to be published by Disney/Hyperion starting in summer 2015
  • ADDED: The Casualties: A Novel  by Nick Holdstock (Thomas Dunne, Aug 4)
  • ADDED: The Way of Sorrows (The Angelus Trilogy, #3)  by Jon Steele (Blue Rider, Aug 4)
  • The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth) by Jemisin, N. K. (Orbit, August 4, 2015) — “This is the way the world ends. Again.”
  • Magic Shifts (Kate Daniels) by Ilona Andrews (Ace, Aug 4)
  • Dragonbane (Dark-Hunter Novels) by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin’s, Aug 4)
  • Nightwise by R. S. Belcher (Tor, Aug 4)
  • Edge of Dawn by Melinda Snodgrass (Aug 4)
  • Kitty Saves the World (Kitty Norville) by Carrie Vaughn (Aug 4)
  • The Veil: A Devil’s Isle Novel by Chloe Neill (Aug 4)
  • The Bestiary by Ann VanderMeer (Centipede Press, Aug 4) — “A modern bestiary of made-up fantastical creatures organized from A to Z, along with an ampersand and an invisible letter, featuring some of the best and most respected fantasists from around the world, including Karen Lord, Dexter Palmer, Brian Evenson, China Mieville, Felix Gilman, Catherynne M. Valente, Rikki Ducornet, and Karin Lowachee.”
  • ADDED: Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell (Clarion, Aug 4)
  • ADDED: Black Heart  by Mark Smylie (Pyr, Aug 5)
  • ADDED: Fool's Quest (The Fitz and The Fool, #2)  by Robin Hobb (Del Rey, Aug 11)
  • The End of All Things (The Human Division, Book 2) by John Scalzi (Tor, Aug 11, 2015)
  • Chasing the Phoenix by Michael Swanwick (Aug 11) — “Apparently a date has been set for Chasing the Phoenix, my second Darger and Surplus novel, and it is… drum roll, please!… August 11, 2015.  That’s the cover up above.  The big fella would have to be Vicious Brute.  And the little one?  Maybe Little Spider, possibly even Surplus.  Though that would make Vicious Brute very large indeed. You can read an anticipatory review (based on the publicity material rather than the text, which is not available yet) over at Bibliosanctum by clicking here.”
  • Power Surge by Ben Bova (Tor Books, Aug 11)
  • ADDED: Related non-fiction: You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir by Felicia Day (Aug 11, 2015) -- "From online entertainment mogul, actress, and “queen of the geeks” Felicia Day comes a funny, quirky, and inspiring memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to Internet-stardom, and embracing her individuality to find success in Hollywood." [See the book announcement video!]
  • ADDED: The Fire Sermon  by Francesca Haig (Harper Voyager, Aug 14)
  • Deceptions: A Cainsville Novel by Kelley Armstrong (Aug 18)
  • ADDED: Teen: Court of Fives  by Kate Elliott (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Aug 18) -- "A teenage girl secretly competes in her city's prestigious athletic competitions in this high-fantasy adventure that can be pitched as Game of Thrones meets The Hunger Games meets Little Women."
  • ADDED: The House of Shattered Wings  by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz, Aug 20) -- "It is the beginning of the 21st Century, and Paris is a city of witches and alchemists; of warlocks and Fallen angels; where the colonies still feed an irrepressible appetite for novelty and distractions. The Great Magicians’ War has come and gone, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. The Grand Magasins are haunted ruins; Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine has turned black with ashes and rubble and the remnants of the spells that tore the city apart."
  • Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore (William Morrow, Aug 25)
  • World of Water by James Lovegrove (Solaris, August 25, 2015) — follow-on to World of Fire — “Dev Harmer has landed in a new body on a new planet. He has gills and fins and a chronic malfunction in his genes. With only 72 hours to bring the settlers and natives of a colonised world to peace before his temporary body expires, murder and corruption are the least of his worries.”
  • ADDED: The Trials  by Linda Nagata (Saga, Aug 25)
  • ADDED: Twelve Kings in Sharakhai (The Song of the Shattered Sands, #1)  by Bradley P. Beaulieu (DAW, August 2015)
  • The Spider’s War by Daniel Abraham (Orbit, August 2015) — “The epic conclusion to The Dagger and The Coin series, perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin.”
  • ADDED: The Wolf in the Attic  by Paul Kearney (Solaris, Sep 15)
  • ADDED: The Vanishing Throne (The Falconer, #2)  by Elizabeth May (Sep 17)
  • ADDED: Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices, #1) by Cassandra Clare (September 2015)
  • ADDED: The Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley (Oct 6, 2015) -- sequel to The Mirror Empire
  • ADDED: The Black Wolves (The Black Wolves Trilogy, #1)  by Kate Elliott (Orbit, Oct 6)
  • ADDED: Teen: The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)  by Rich Riordan (Disney Hyperion, Oct 6)
  • ADDED: The Dread Wyrm (The Traitor Son Cycle, #3)  by Miles Cameron (Gollancz, Oct 15)
  • The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3) by Justin Cronin (Orion, Oct 22)
  • ADDED: Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3) by Ann Leckie (Orbit, October 2015)
  • The Lost Country by William Gay (Dzanc Books, October 2015) — “Dzanc Books has acquired world, performance, and audio rights for William Gay’s long-awaited novel,The Lost Country (tentatively scheduled for October 2015), as well as another book entitled Little Sister Death and paperback reprint rights for Gay’s debut novel, The Long Home.”
  • Fake Fruit Factory by Patrick Wensink (Curbside Splendor, Fall 2015) — “Thrilled to announce that we’ll publish best-selling author Patrick Wensink’s next novel FAKE FRUIT FACTORY in Fall 2015. Part screwball comedy, part sociological autopsy of small town America, and part love story FAKE FRUIT FACTORY is like Karen Russell by way of E.L. Doctorow.”
  • Truthwitch by Susan Dennard (Tor, Fall 2015) — “The series is set in a world where three empires rule and every member of the population is born with a magical skill set, known as a “witchery.” Tor elaborated: “Now, as the Twenty Year Truce in a centuries-long war is about to end, the balance of power will fall on the shoulders of two young women, who must accept their fate, and themselves, to survive.”” (via PW)
  • ADDED: Related non-fiction: Luke Skywalker Can't Read by Ryan Britt (Plume, Fall 2015) -- essay collection from the former Tor.com staff writer and creator of the "genre in the mainstream" column
  • Shadows of Self (Mistborn, #5) by Brandon Sanderson (Tor, Fall 2015)
  • Illuminae by Annie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Knopf, Fall 2015) — “Told through a dossier of hacked documents – including emails, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, graphics, and more – for what’s billed as a found footage-style mashup of Battlestar Galactica and Ten Things I Hate About You, Illuminae is the story of of a young hacker and her fighter pilot ex-boyfriend who must uncover the truth about the deadly plague ravaging their fleet, the AI that should be protecting them, and the powers that be who may or may not be lying about everything.”
  • ADDED: King of Shards by Matthew Kressel (Resurrection Press/Arche Press, Fall 2015) -- "Across the ineffable expanse of the Great Deep float billions of failed creations, shattered universes known as the Shards. Populated with wrathful demons and struggling humans, the Shards depend on Earth for their existence as plants depend on the sun for life. Earth itself is sustained by thirty-six righteous people, thirty-six anonymous saints known as the Lamed Vav. Kill but a few of the Lamed Vav and Earth shatters, and the Shards that depend on Earth for life will die in a horrible, eons-long cataclysm."
  • Normal: A Novel by Warren Ellis (FSG Originals, Nov 3, 2015) — “A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller straight out of the very near future—by an iconic visionary writer. Some people call it “abyss gaze.” Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you.”
  • ADDED: A Red Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)  by Seanan McGuire (Corsair, Nov 5)
  • ADDED: Teen: Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)  by Marissa Meyer (Feiwel and Friends, Nov 24)
  • ADDED: Chains of the Heretic (Bloodsounder's Arc, #3)  by Jeff Salyards (Night Shade Books, November 2015)
  • ADDED: Teen: Manners & Mutiny (Finishing School, #4)  by Gail Carriger (November 2015)
  • The Thorn of Emberlain (Gentleman Bastard #4) by Scott Lynch (2015)
  • ADDED: Breakout (Dred Chronicles, #3)  by Ann Aguirre (Ace, 2015)
  • ADDED: Chimera (Parasitology, #3)  by Mira Grant (Orbit, 2015)
  • ADDED: The Blood Curse (Cursed Kingdoms, #3)  by Emily Gee (2015)
  • ADDED: The Labyrinth of Flame (Shattered Sigil, #3)  by Courtney Shafer (2015) -- "I will be running a kickstarter in mid-February (2015) to fund production for The Labyrinth of Flame. This will include production of both a limited-edition trade paperback and an ebook."
  • ADDED: A Pitiless Rain (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #10)  by Glen Cook (2015?)
  • ADDED: The Dragon House (The Wild Hunt, #4)  by Elspeth Cooper (2015?)
  • ADDED: Matryoshka (Deathless, #2)  by Catherynne M. Valente (Tor, 2015?)
  • ADDED: The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld, #41) (Tiffany Aching, #5)  by Terry Pratchett (2015?)
  • The Skull Throne (Demon Cycle, #4) by Peter V. Brett (2015?)
  • The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) — “Originally planned as a collection of short stories, the project changed to focus on Harry D’Amour going up against Pinhead. The novel has been in works for more than a decade and we’ll be able to read it in 2015, courtesy of St. Martin’s Press: ‘Clive is delighted to announce that St Martin’s Press has acquired world English rights to publish The Scarlet Gospels, his upcoming novel featuring Pinhead and Harry D’Amour. St Martin’s anticipates a winter 2015 publication date.’”
  • The Uninvited by Cat Winters (William Morrow, 2015) — via PW Book Deals: “Lucia Macro at HarperCollins’s William Morrow imprint acquired world English rights to Cat Winters’s novel, The Uninvited. The book, which Morrow compares to The Night Circus and The Thirteenth Tale, is a paranormal work set during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Winters, who was represented by Barbara Poelle at the Irene Goodman Literary Agency, was a finalist for the YALSA’s 2014 Morris Award, for her novel In the Shadow of Blackbirds.”
  • How to Invent a Language by David Peterson (Penguin, 2015) — via PW Book Deals: “For Penguin Press, Elda Rotor took world rights to David Peterson’s How to Invent a Language. Peterson has created languages for shows like HBO’s Game of Thrones and Syfy’s Defiance, and the book will be a guide for anyone looking to craft a new tongue. Agent Joanna Volpe at New Leaf Literary & Media represented Peterson.”
  • Anthology: Neverland’s Shadow edited by Shawn Speakman and Roger Bellini (Grim Oak Press, 2015) — from the editor/publisher of Unfettered comes an original short fiction anthology focusing on the antagonist, with contributors including Ken Liu, Ann Aguire, R. Scott Bakker, Mark Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Scott Lynch, and Michael J. Sullivan (among others)
  • Anthology: Exigencies edited by Richard Thomas (Dark House Press, 2015) — a 22-story original neo-noir fiction anthology
  • Anthology: The Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction edited by David Afsharirad (Baen, 2015) — first installment in a new anthology series
  • YA: Seriously Wicked by Tina Connolly (Tor Teen, 2015) — “a YA about a girl who’s being raised by a seriously wicked witch. It contains: 1 sweet boy-band boy, 1 dragon who lives in an RV garage, 1 demon who occasionally imitates Elvis, 1 hidden phoenix that’s going to explode on Halloween, 1 witch who just wants to run the whole city, sheesh, is that too much to ask? and 1 girl named Cam trying to fix it all”
  • The Lost Level by Brian Keene (Apex Books, 2015)
  • Tell the Wind and Fire by Sarah Rees Brennan (HarperCollins, 2015?) — “A modern retelling of A Tale of Two Cities. With magic!”
  • Six of Crows: The Dregs, Book 1 by Leigh Bardugo (Henry Holt, 2015?) — “The project, described as a blend of Ocean’s 11 and Game of Thrones, is set in Kerch, a small island nation in the “Grishaverse” (meaning the same universe as her Shadow and Bone books) with tremendous economic power, the hub of all international trade and a country rich in art and culture … but also home to one of the most dangerous criminal underworlds. A crew of dangerous felonious misfits face impossible odds when they are pulled together to break into one of the most guarded places in the world.”
  • The Witchwood Crown by Tad Williams (DAW, 2015) — Williams returns to the world of his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn epic fantasy trilogy
  • ADDED: Crime: Eddie & Sunny by Stacey Cochran (Amazon Kindle Scout, 2015) -- "Eddie and Sunny have never had much in life, save for each other’s love. For months they’ve lived out of a car with their young son. A tragedy on the road one night turns the couple into fugitives of the law, separates them, and eventually leads each to believe that the other has died and all hope is lost. A passionate, triumphant conclusion follows as the very essence of love, hope, and the American Dream unite in a novel of beautiful simplicity."
  • ADDED: Joe Ledger: Wet Works by Jonathan Maberry (JournalStone, 2015)
  • ADDED: Angel of Storms (Millenium’s Rule, #2)  by Trudi Canavan (Orbit, 2015)
  • ADDED: Updraft by Fran Wilde (Tor, 2015) -- first novel
  • ADDED: Teen: The Dead House  by Dawn Kurtagich (Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2015)
  • ADDED: Teen: The Forgotten Crown (The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten, #3)  by Julie Kagawa (Harlequin Teen, 2015)
  • ADDED: The Song of the Orphans (Silvers, #2)  by Daniel Price (2015?)
  • ADDED: League of Dragons (Temeraire, #9)  by Naomi Novik (2015?)
  • ADDED: The Tower of Bann (Blackthorn and Grim, #2)  by Juliet Mariller (2015?)
  • All the Worlds Against Us (Jon and Lobo) by Mark L. Van Name (Baen, 2015?) — Audible Frontiers has produced the previous books in the series, under fantastic narrations by Tom Stechschulte
  • ADDED: Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3)  by Joe Abercrombie (2015?)
  • ADDED: Welcome to Night Vale (Harper Perennial, 2015?)
  • ADDED: City of Blades by Robert Jackston Bennett (Crown, 2015?) -- sequel to City of Stairs
  • ADDED: The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1)  by Jim Butcher (2015?) -- "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Sherlock meets Hornblower"
  • ADDED: Peace Talks (The Dresden Files, #16)  by Jim Butcher (2015?)
  • ADDED: Thunderbird (Miriam Black, Book 4) by Chuck Wendig (Saga Press, 2015?)
  • Tsarina by J. Nelle Patrick (2015?)
  • Ebon (Pegasus, #2) by Robin McKinley (2015?)
  • ADDED: The Unholy Consult (Aspect-Emperor, #3)  by R. Scott Bakker (2015?)
  • The Doors of Stone (Kingkiller Chronicle #3) by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW, 2015?)
  • The Winds of Winter (A Song of Ice and Fire, #6) by George R.R. Martin (2015?)
  • Graphic novel: The Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland (First Second, 2015?) — “Nobody’s ever really explained the Spill. Was it an angelic visitation? A nanotech accident? A porthole opening from another world? Whatever it was, no one’s allowed in the Spill Zone these days except government scientists and hazmat teams. But a few intrepid explorers know how to sneak through the patrols and steer clear of the dangers inside the Zone. Addison Merrick is one such explorer, dedicated to finding out what happened that night, and to unraveling the events that took her parents and left her little sister mute and disconnected from the world.”
  • Collection: Blood: Stories by Matthew Cheney (Black Lawrence Press, January 2016) — “We are very pleased to announce that we have chosen a winner for the 2014 Hudson Prize. Congratulations to Matthew Cheney! His manuscript Blood: Stories will be published by Black Lawrence Press in January, 2016. We offer this excerpt of the title story for your reading pleasure. “Blood” was originally published in One Story,along with an interview with Matthew in which he discusses violence in art, how playwriting informs his fiction, and the best writing advice he has ever received.”
  • ADDED: The Revenant Express (Newbury and Hobbes, #5)  by George Mann (Tor, Feb 1 2016)
  • Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (Mulholland, Spring 2016) — “an ‘epic contemporary detective story,’ according to the publisher, set in alternate world in which the Civil War never happened and slavery still exists in the American South. The novel follows an undercover agent trying to capture an escaped slave. Winters, who has written titles for adults and children, won both the Edgar and the Philip K. Dick Award for books in the Last Policeman series.” (via PW)
  • ADDED: The Medusa Chronicles by Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter (Gollancz, May 19, 2016) -- "A sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's Nebula Award winning A Meeting with Medusa, written by two of the greatest science fiction writers of our time. Following an accident that almost cost him his life, Howard Falcon was not so much saved as he was converted, through the use of prosthetics, into something faster, stronger and smarter . . . but also slightly less human and more machine than he was. And with this change came an opportunity - that of piloting a mission into Jupiter's atmosphere, and ultimately of making first contact with the life forms he discovers there."
  • ADDED: Once Broken Faith (October Daye, #10)  by Seanan McGuire (September 2016)
  • Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear (Gollanzc, late 2016) — first in a two-book space opera which “imagines the invention of The White Drive: an easy, nonrelativistic means of travel across unimaginable distances. The gripping story follows salvage operators, Haimey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz, as they pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human – and alien – vessels.”
  • ADDED: The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley (Saga Press, 2016) -- "a standalone space opera for fans of Ann Leckie and China Mieville; set within a system of decaying world-ships travelling through deep space, it follows the feud between the matriarchal families of two of the world-ships, whose feud will grow into a war to wrest control of the fading hopes of the legion of worlds."
  • Jerusalem by Alan Moore (2016?) -- "Comics legend Alan Moore has finished the first draft of his second novel, Jerusalem – and it runs to more than 1m words."
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