 |  |  |
News, Reviews, Resources, and Perspectives of Science Fiction & Fantasy |
 |
|
New Books
August
4
3
2
1
July 5 4 3 2 1 June 4 3 2 1 May 5 4 3 2 1 April 4 3 2 1 March 3 2 1 February 2 1 January 2 1
New Magazines
New in Paperback
Classic Reprints
Weekly Bestsellers
September 02 August 26 19 12 05 July 29 22 15 08 01 June 24 17 10 03 May 27 20 13 06 April 29 22 15 08 01 March 25 18 11 04 February 26 19 12 05 January 29 22 15 08 01 |
|
Wednesday 3 September 2008NEWS : Monitor Listing : New in Paperback: August
Notable titles in new paperback editions seen in August include John Scalzi's The Last Colony, Maurice G. Dantec's Babylon Babies (basis for the current film Babylon A.D.), David Anthony Durham's Acacia, Joe Haldeman's The Accidental Time Machine, Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys, Charles Stross' Halting State, and others by Bradbury, Card & Johnston, Donaldson, Farland, Lessing, Monette & Bear, Resnick, and Zahn.
Tuesday 2 September 2008NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers
Sean Williams' Star Wars novel The Force Unleashed debuts spectacularly at #1 on New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists. Books by Stephenie Meyer rank #1 through #4 at USA Today. And Christopher Paolini's Brisingr revs up for its September 20th publication.
NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: last week August
Notable new SF/F/H books seen the last week of August include Tobias S. Buckell's Sly Mongoose, Terry Brooks' The Gypsy Morph, Cory Doctorow's essay collection Content, Rich Horton's Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2008 Edition, and other titles by Barry, Kearney, Little, Miller, Murphy, and Nevins.
Tuesday 26 August 2008NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers
Sherrilyn Kenyon's Acheron and Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn still dominate lists; Neal Stephenson's Anathem ranks at Amazon with pre-publication sales; books by Terry Brooks and John Scalzi debut on this week's lists.
Sunday 24 August 2008NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: third week August
Notable new SF/F/H books seen the third week of August include Ken MacLeod's The Night Sessions, John Scalzi's Zoe's Tale, Richard Morgan's The Steel Remains, Judith Moffett's The Bird Shaman, and other titles by Boston, Carey, Duchamp & Gunn, Golemon, Hoyt, Richardson, Schubert & Card, and Thompson.
Saturday 23 August 2008NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Magazines: August
Postscripts publishes a special Worldcon SF issue; The New York Review of Science Fiction celebrates its 20th anniversary; The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction publishes its double-sized 59th anniversary issue. Plus: new issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Bulletin of the SFWA, Flashing Swords, Full Unit Hookup, Interzone, Murky Depths, Star*Line, and Weird Tales.
Tuesday 19 August 2008NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers
Sherrilyn Kenyon's new "Dark-Hunter" novel Acheron debuts at #1 on lists at New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly this week, while formerly self-published The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry, now published by Morrow, is among the top 10 fiction hardcovers on the same three lists.
Monday 18 August 2008NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: second week August
Notable new SF/F/H books seen the second week of August include Karl Schroeder's Pirate Sun, Benjamin Rosenbaum's The Ant King and Other Stories, and other titles by Peter S. Beagle, Janet Chui & Jason Erik Lundberg, Raymond E. Feist & S.M. Stirling, Sean McMullen, Richelle Mead, Linnea Sinclair, and Timothy Zahn.
Thursday 14 August 2008• Monitor: New Books: 1st week August
Notable new SF/F/H books seen the first week of August include Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl's The Last Theorem, Joe Haldeman's Marsbound, Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn, Ekaterina Sedia's The Alchemy of Stone, the 1st US edition of Greg Bear's City at the End of Time, John Joseph Adams' anthology Seeds of Change, and other titles by Bentley, Bova, Caine, Cooper, and Kenyon.
Tuesday 12 August 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn debuts at #1 on two print lists this week, after months of pre-publication sales. Also debuting on lists this week are Patricia Briggs' Cry Wolf, Karen Traviss' Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Jocelynn Drake's Nightwalker.
Wednesday 6 August 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Notable debuts on bestseller lists this week are J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard; James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge's The Dangerous Days of Daniel X; and David Weber's By Schism Rent Asunder.
Saturday 2 August 2008• Monitor: New Books: last week July
Notable new SF/F/H books seen the last week of July include Stephen Baxter's Flood, Greg Bear's City at the End of Time, Gregory Frost's Lord Tophet, Leslie What's collection Crazy Love, the second edition of Michael Andre-Driussi's Lexicon Urthus, and other titles by Elizabeth Bear, Galen Beckett, Patricia Briggs, Jeff Carlson, Jocelynn Drake, Lynn Flewelling, Chris Howard, James Maxey, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Mike Resnick, John Ringo, Tim Scott, Harry Turtledove, and Kim Wilkins.
• Monitor: Other Magazines, second half July
Fiction by Carolyn Ives Gilman, Stephen Baxter, David R. Palmer, Steven Utley, Paolo Bacigalupi, Martha Wells, Elissa Malcohn, Jennifer Pelland, and others; reviews and interviews by Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Hand, Robert Silverberg, Damien Broderick, and Lisa Tuttle, plus tributes to Arthur C. Clarke, are in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Black Gate, Electric Velocipede, F&SF, Dreams and Nightmares, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and BSFA journals Focus and Vector.
Wednesday 30 July 2008• Monitor: New in Paperback: July
Notable titles in new paperback editions seen this month include Richard K. Morgan's Thirteen (aka Black Man, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award), Daniel Abraham's A Betrayal in Winter, David Louis Edelman's Infoquake, and other titles by Kage Baker, Brenda Cooper, George Alec Effinger, Steven Erikson, Elizabeth Haydon, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, E.E. Knight, Warren Rochelle, Rudy Rucker, Sherwood Smith, Michael A. Stackpole, Whitley Strieber, Sheri S. Tepper, John Twelve Hawks, David Weber & Linda Evans, and Steve White & Shirley Meier.
Tuesday 29 July 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Eoin Colfer's latest Artemis Fowl YA novel debuts at #4 on this week's USA Today list; other debuts this week are books by Kelley Armstrong, Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Patricia Briggs. And Watchmen trailers before The Dark Knight are selling Watchmen and lots of Batman tie-ins.
Monday 28 July 2008• Monitor: New Books: fourth week July
Notable new SF/F/H books seen the fourth week of July include Daniel Abraham's An Autumn War, the US edition of Greg Egan's Incandescence, story collections by Nisi Shawl and Robert Freeman Wexler, young adult novels by Kelley Armstrong, Eoin Colfer, Nancy A. Collins, Michael Grant, Mary Hoffman, and Garth Nix, and other titles by Henry Melton, Charlene Teglia, and S.L. Viehl.
Tuesday 22 July 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Naomi Novik debuts on New York Times' fiction hardcover list; The Dark Knight sells Watchmen; also, David Weber, Neal Stephenson, Cory Doctorow
Monday 21 July 2008• Monitor: New Books: third week July
Notable new SF/F/H books seen the third week of July include James Patrick Kelly's The Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories, David Weber's By Schism Rent Asunder, coffee-table illustrated fantasy novel The Last Realm: Book One, Dragonscarpe, and other titles by L.A. Banks, Sarah Beth Durst, Fran Friel, James C. Glass, Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes, Kristin Landon, Justine Musk, and Wendy Corsi Staub.
Tuesday 15 July 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephenie Meyers' Breaking Dawn already ranks #1; Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson and R.A. Salvatore debut in paperback; Ken Grimwood's Replay ranks with Amazon.com.
Sunday 13 July 2008• Monitor: New Books: second week July
Notable new SF/F/H books available the second week of July include Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-fifth Annual Collection, David Louis Edelman's MultiReal, new Robert A. Heinlein collection Project Moonbase and Others, Naomi Novik's Victory of Eagles, and other titles by Patricia Bray, Steven Brust, Jack Campbell, MaryJanice Davidson, Tananarive Due, Chris Evans, Victor Gischler, Holly Lisle, Marjorie Liu, Patrice Sarath, and Harry Turtledove.
• Monitor: Other Magazines, early July
What's in new issues of Analog, Black Static, and Science Fiction Studies. Tuesday 8 July 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersNew books debuting on bestseller lists this week are by Michael Reaves, Michael Scott, MaryJanice Davidson, Jack Campbell, and Marjorie M. Liu. • Monitor: New Books: first week July
Notable new SF/F/H books available the first week of July include Charles Stross' Saturn's Children, Walter Jon Williams' Implied Spaces, Stephen Baxter's Weaver, Nancy Kress' Dogs, Jeff VanderMeer's Secret Lives, and other titles by Kevin J. Anderson, Catherine Asaro, Paul L. Bates, Elizabeth Bear, Daina Chaviano, James F. David, Ed Park, and Mark L. Van Name.
Tuesday 1 July 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersStephenie Meyers' Breaking Dawn ranks #1 on Amazon, a month before publication; Eoin Colfer also ranks with advance sales; Ray Bradbury and George Orwell supply summer reading. Sunday 29 June 2008• Monitor: New Books: fourth week June
New SF/F/H books seen the fourth week of June include Thomas M. Disch's The Word of God, Jay Lake's Escapement, Damien Broderick's nonfiction anthology Year Million, and other titles by David Bilsborough, Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett, Julie Kenner, E.E. Knight, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Patricia Rosemoor & Marc Paoletti, Lilith Saintcrow, Michael Scott, Sherwood Smith, and Jennifer Stevenson.
• Monitor: Other Magazines, second half June
UK quarterly Jupiter celebrates its 5th anniversary; The New York Review of Science Fiction explores Anthony Boucher, pre-Glasnost Russia, and Milton Lesser; the August Asimov's features new stories by Ted Kosmatka, Neal Barrett, Jr., Robert Reed, Carol Emshwiller, and others.
Tuesday 24 June 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersSteven Erikson's Toll the Hounds ranks #7 at Amazon UK today, while Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Mercy and paperback reprints by William Gibson and Simon R. Green also debut this week. Monday 23 June 2008• Monitor: New Books: third week June
New SF/F/H books seen the third week of June include Lewis Shiner's novel Black & White, Paul Kincaid's essay collection What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best Fantasy 8, Lou Anders' anthology Sideways in Crime, and other titles by Peter David, Kevin Dockery & Douglas Niles, John Helfers & Martin H. Greenberg, Richard Matheson, and Drew Morse.
Wednesday 18 June 2008• Monitor: New in Paperback: June
Notable titles in new paperback editions seen this month include William Gibson's Spook Country, Robert Charles Wilson's Axis, Ken MacLeod's The Execution Channel, Elizabeth Bear's New Amsterdam, Paul Di Filippo's Harp, Pipe and Symphony, and others by Kevin J. Anderson, Tobias S. Buckell, Mike Carey, Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Sara Douglass, Austin Grossman, Tanya Huff, Elizabeth Kostova, Martin Millar, Mel Odom, Mary Jo Putney, Alastair Reynolds, Brandon Sanderson, and Mark L. Van Name.
Tuesday 17 June 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersStephenie Meyer titles dominate lists, while Laurell K. Hamilton and Dean Koontz still rank -- as do Cory Doctorow and Brian Selznick. Sunday 15 June 2008• Monitor: New Books: second week June
New SF/F/H books seen the second week of June include Farah Mendlesohn's nonfiction Rhetorics of Fantasy, David J. Schwartz' debut novel Superpowers, young-adult novels by Frances Hardinge, Diana Wynne Jones, Scott Mebus, and Simon Morden, and other titles by L. Timmel Duchamp & Maureen McHugh, Theodora Goss, Stephen Hunt, Vicki Pettersson, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Wrath James White & Maurice Broaddus.
• Monitor: Other Magazines, second week June
F&SF introduces new book reviewer Chris Moriarty; the SFWA Bulletin highlights Nebula Award nominees; Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine interviews Terry Dowling and Iain M. Banks; these and new issues of Flytrap, On Spec, and Realms of Fantasy publish new fiction and poetry by Geoffrey Maloney, M. Rickert, Catherynne M. Valente, Charles Coleman Finlay, Claude Lalumière, Carrie Vaughn, and others.
Tuesday 10 June 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersLaurell K. Hamilton's Blood Noir debuts strongly on print lists, with her book, Dean Koontz' Odd Hours, and Stephenie Meyer's The Host occupying the top three slots on lists from New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. Also notable: Salman Rushdie, Vicki Pettersson, Cory Doctorow. Sunday 8 June 2008• Monitor: New Books: first week June
New SF/F/H books seen the first week of June include Greg Egan's Incandescence, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best SF 13, Marie Brennan's Midnight Never Come, belated notices for Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth and Lee Thomas' The Dust of Wonderland, and other titles by Jacqueline Carey, Greg Keyes, Jonathan Maberry, Mary E. Pearson, Spider Robinson, and Cecilia Tan.
• Monitor: Other Magazines, first week June
Interzone publishes its "Mundane SF" special issue, guest-edited by Geoff Ryman and others, with fiction by Lavie Tidhar, Cheslea Quinn Yarbro, Billie Aul, R.R. Angell, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Anil Menon, and Geoff Ryman, and interviews with Greg Egan and Alastair Reynolds; plus, new issues of the SFWA Bulletin, Flashing Swords, and Leading Edge.
Thursday 5 June 2008• Monitor: Classic Reprints
Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen in May are Robert A. Heinlein's Requiem, Michael Moorcock's Lord of the Spiders, and Peter Watts' Starfish. Tuesday 3 June 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersDean Koontz' Odd Hours debuts at #1; Stephenie Meyers' The Host holds on to #2; Cory Doctorow's Little Brother persists at #9. Sunday 1 June 2008• Monitor: New Books: last week May
New SF/F/H books seen this past week include Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence, Laurell K. Hamilton's Blood Noir, the first US edition of Alastair Reynolds' The Prefect, and other novels by Taylor Anderson, Sara Douglass, Sam Enthoven, Simon R. Green, Tanya Huff, Mercedes Lackey, Kelly McCullough, Fiona McIntosh, William Nicholson, Jenna Rhodes, and Judith Tarr.
Wednesday 28 May 2008• Monitor: New in Paperback: May
Notable books in new paperback editions seen in May include Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Jim Crace's The Pesthouse, Lois McMaster Bujold's The Sharing Knife: Legacy, Tad Williams' Rite: Short Work, and other titles by David Bilsborough, Jacqueline Carey, Jennifer Fallon, Alan Dean Foster, Warren Hammond, Jay Lake, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Brian Ruckley, Lawrence Watt-Evans, David Weber & Linda Evans, Sean Williams, and Timothy Zahn.
Tuesday 27 May 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersTroy Denning's Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Invincible debuts strongly on print lists; Stephenie Meyer's The Host still ranks #1; Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence debuts. Monday 26 May 2008• Monitor: New Books: fourth week May
New SF/F/H books seen this past week include Nancy Kress' collection Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories, Neal Asher's Line War, Dean Koontz' Odd Hours, David J. Williams' debut novel The Mirrored Heavens, and other titles by Jes Battis, Maurice G. Dantec, Jennifer Fallon, Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon, William Jones, Brian Ruckley, and Jennifer Stevenson.
• Monitor: Other Magazines, fourth week May
Weird Tales celebrates 85 years of weird storytellers, with Tanith Lee, China Miéville, and a new Elric tale by Michael Moorcock; plus, new issues of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Mythic Delirium, and Star*Line. Friday 23 May 2008• Monitor: Classic Reprints
Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen in recent months includes tribute anthology The Worlds of Jack Williamson, Douglas A. Anderson's Tales Before Narnia, a hardcover reissue of Ben Bova's Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 2B, the first US trade edition of Philip K. Dick's In Milton Lumky Territory, and other titles by Iain M. Banks, Greg Bear, Leigh Brackett, Glen Cook, Harlan Ellison, Harry Harrison, Frank Herbert, Henry Kuttner, Michael Moorcock, C.L. Moore, Mervyn Peake, and H. Beam Piper.
Tuesday 20 May 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersStephenie Meyer's The Host and Charlaine Harris' From Dead to Worse debut strongly on fiction hardcover lists; Cory Doctorow's Little Brother cracks NYT children's list. Sunday 18 May 2008• Monitor: New Books: third week May
New SF/F/H books seen this past week include John C. Wright's sequel to A.E. van Vogt's classic Null-A novels, D.M. Cornish's YA Lamplighter, Melinda Snodgrass' The Edge of Reason, and other titles by E.D. Baker, Glen Cook, Laura Anne Gilman, Denise Little, C.E. Murphy, Andrzej Sapkowski, and Jeff Somers.
• Monitor: Other Magazines, mid May
What's in new issues of Black Static, Neo-Opsis, and The New York Review of Science Fiction. Wednesday 14 May 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersMichael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union debuts on lists in trade paperback; other debuts this week are by Keri Arthur, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen. Sunday 11 May 2008• Monitor: New Books: second week May
New SF/F/H books seen this past week include Cory Doctorow's YA novel Little Brother, original anthologies The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow and The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan, Stephenie Meyer's adult novel The Host, and other titles by Alan Campbell, David Gunn, Charlaine Harris, Tim Lebbon, Scott Mackay, Kimberly Raiser, Travis S. Taylor, Jeff VanderMeer, Matt Wallace, and Sean Williams.
• Monitor: Other Magazines, early May
Fiction by David R. Palmer, Michael F. Flynn, Gord Sellar, Brian Stableford, Michael Bishop, Michael Blumlein, Matthew Hughes, poetry by Mark Rich, Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel, and nonfiction and interviews by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Carl Frederick, James Sallis, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, are featured in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and The Magazine of Speculative Poetry.
Tuesday 6 May 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersNew books by Stephenie Meyer, Charlaine Harris, Dean Koontz Saturday 3 May 2008• Monitor: New Books: first week May
New SF/F/H books seen this past week include Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer's anthology Steampunk, Michael Chabon's essay collection Maps and Legends, Melissa Marr's YA fantasy Ink Exchange, and other titles by Eric Brown, Eric Flint & Marilyn Kosmatka, Katharine Kerr, Henry Melton, Nick Sagan, Mary Frary, & Andy Walker, and Thomas E. Sniegoski.
• Monitor: New Books: fourth week April
New SF/F/H books seen the fourth week of April include Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, Paul Park's The Hidden World, Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns, original SFBC anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois and Marvin Kaye, and other titles by Michio Kaku, Rob Rogers, Hayden Trenholm, and David Zindell.
• Monitor: Other Magazines, last half April
What's in new issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Flashing Swords, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Paradox, and Sybil's Garage.
Wednesday 30 April 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 28 April 2008• Monitor: New in Paperback: April
Notable books in new paperback editions in April include Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind, Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box, and other titles by Greg Bear, Ben Bova, Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis, David P. Friedman, Fiona McIntosh, Allen Steele, Harry Turtledove, Sarah Zettel, and David Zindell.
Saturday 26 April 2008• Monitor: New Books: third week April
New SF/F/H books seen the third week of April include Lois McMaster Bujold's The Sharing Knife: Passage, Orson Scott Card's story collection Keeper of Dreams, Kurt Vonnegut's essay collection Armageddon in Retrospect, and other titles from Ilona Andrews, Robert Asprin, Robert Buettner, Karen Chance, Julie E. Czerneda, Martin H. Greenberg & Sarah A. Hoyt, Mercedes Lackey & Robert Gellis, Jamil Nasir, and Dan Ronco.
Thursday 24 April 2008• Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, early April
Fiction and poetry by Charles L. Grant, Greg Egan, Rudy Rucker, Ted Kosmatka, Robert Reed, Tanith Lee, Paul Melko, W.H. Pugmire & M.K. Snyder, and others, with nonfiction, reviews, and interviews by Raymond E. Feist, T.E.D. Klein, Mike Carey, Charles de Lint, Lucius Shepard, Paul Witcover, Jeff VanderMeer, Melissa Marr, and others, appear in new issues of Albedo One, Cemetery Dance, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Talebones, and Weird Tales.
Tuesday 22 April 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersJim Butcher's Small Favor remains on Top 10 Fiction Hardcover lists; Junot Díaz' Pulitzer Prize winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao returns to lists. Saturday 19 April 2008• Monitor: New Books: second week April
New SF/F/H books seen the second week of April include Philip Pullman's Once Upon a Time in the North, T.A. Pratt's Poison Sleep, Theodore Judson's The Martian General's Daughter, and other novels by Barth Anderson, Cassandra Clare, Kate Elliott, Pamela Freeman, Christopher Golden, Stacia Kane, Caitlin Kittredge, Tom Kratman, Ange Sage, and Jeffrey Thomas.
Tuesday 15 April 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersJim Butcher's Small Favor is #1 at Publishers Weekly, #2 at New York Times; also debuting this week, Kurt Vonnegut's essay collection Armageddon in Retrospect. Sunday 13 April 2008• Monitor: New Books: early April
New SF/F/H books seen in early April include Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 edited by Ben Bova, John Kessel's The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories and other collections by Paul Melko and Ken Rand, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Karen Joy Fowler's Wit's End, Peter F. Hamilton's The Dreaming Void, Allen Steele's Galaxy Blues, and other novels by Jim Butcher, Raymond E. Feist, James P. Hogan, Rob Thurman, and Karen Traviss.
Saturday 12 April 2008• Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, March
Fiction and poetry by James Patrick Kelly, Ian R. MacLeod, Nancy Kress, Ben Bova, Lavie Tidhar, Mary Turzillo, Alexander Glass, Tom Piccirilli, Rachel Pollack, Robert Reed, Stan Nicholls, Delia Sherman, and others, with nonfiction and interviews by Jeff VanderMeer, Robert Silverberg, Peter Straub, Elizabeth Hand, John Clute, Tom Purdom, Paul Kincaid, Kelly Link, Jeffery D. Kooistra, and others, appear in new issues of Analog, Apex, Asimov's, Black Static, City Slab, Dreams and Nightmares, Flashing Swords, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Murky Depths, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, and Vector.
Tuesday 8 April 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersKelley Armstrong, Raymond E. Feist, Cassandra Clare Sunday 6 April 2008• Monitor: New Books: late March
New SF/F/H books in late March include Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Two, Greg Egan's Dark Integers and Other Stories, Kay Kenyon's A World Too Near, Adam Roberts' Swiftly, Arthur C. Clarke Award finalists by Matthew de Abaitua and Steven Hall, and other titles by Mario Acevedo, Kelley Armstrong, David Drake, Dave Duncan, Greg Keyes, Sandra McDonald, Moira J. Moore, C.E. Murphy, and Adam Stemple.
Tuesday 1 April 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersJames Patterson, Jim Butcher Saturday 29 March 2008• Monitor: New Books: mid-March
New SF/F/H books in mid-March include Paolo Bacigalupi's collection Pump Six and Other Stories, James Morrow's novel The Philosopher's Apprentice, Jeffrey Ford's The Shadow Year, and other titles by Joe Abercrombie, Lillian Stewart Carl, Jo Graham, Colin Harvey, Roz Kaveney, Thomas Ligotti, Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Anne Scarborough, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Dru Pagliassotti, Michael Palmer, R.A. Salvatore, Marge B. Simon, S.M. Stirling, and Cecilia Tan.
Tuesday 25 March 2008• Monitor: New in Paperback: March
Notable books in new paperback editions in March include Peter Watts' Blindsight, Key Kenyon's Bright of the Sky, and other titles by Kelley Armstrong, Anne Bishop, Gordon R. Dickson & David W. Wixon, Dave Duncan (twice), Raymond E. Feist, Christopher Golden (twice), James P. Hogan, Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Anne Scarborough, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., John Ringo & Travis Taylor, and Tad Williams.
• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersStephen King, Kim Harrison, Cormac McCarthy; Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett Tuesday 18 March 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersAnne Bishop, Jim Butcher, R.A. Salvatore, Joe Abercrombie Saturday 15 March 2008• Monitor: New Books: early March
New SF/F/H books in early March include John Varley's Rolling Thunder, Mike Brotherton's Spider Star, Steve Rasnic & Melanie Tem's The Man on the Ceiling, the 1st US publications of Steven Erikson's Reaper's Gale and John Meaney's Bone Song, and other titles by Roger MacBride Allen, Anne Bishop, Kathleen Bryan, Adam-Troy Castro, William Drinkard, Eric Flint & Mike Resnick, Jim C. Hines, Sarah A. Hoyt, David Keck, Russell Kirkpatrick, Denise Little, George Mann, Misty Massey, Elizabeth Moon, and Gary K. Wolf & John J. Myers.
Tuesday 11 March 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersKim Harrison, Karen Traviss, Lynsay Sands Saturday 8 March 2008• Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, February
Fiction by Kate Wilhelm, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, S.P. Somtow, Christopher Priest, James Stoddard, Robert Reed, Edward M. Lerner, and others, with nonfiction and interviews by John Picacio, Jeff VanderMeer, James Sallis, Lucius Shepard, Iain M. Banks, Norman Spinrad, John G. Cramer, and others, appear in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Shimmer, and Star*Line.
Tuesday 4 March 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersElizabeth Moon, Iain M. Banks, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Steven Gould Monday 3 March 2008• Monitor: New Books: late February
New SF/F/H books in late February include Iain M. Banks' Matter, Jonathan Barnes' The Somnambulist, and other titles by Ann Aguirre, Mark Del Franco, S.L. Farrell, Chris Marie Green, Margin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes, Heather Hayashi, Russell Kirkpatrick, Margaret Lucke, S.M. Peters, Lynsay Sands, Mark L. Van Name & T.K.F. Weisskopf, and Michelle West.
Tuesday 26 February 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Raymond E. Feist, Stephen King, Steven Gould
Saturday 23 February 2008• 2007 In Review: 2007 SF/F/H Books on Year's Best ListsLocus Online's compilation of SF/F/H titles on year's best books lists has been updated several times since first posted, now including titles by Rowling, McDonald, Chabon, Simmons, Rothfuss, Morgan, Bull, Durham, Kay, Kenyon, Gibson, Goonan, Hill, Palwick, Ruff, Tan, Wilson, and Díaz. • Monitor: New in Paperback: February
Notable books in new paperback editions in February include China Miéville's Un Lun Dun, two versions of Steven Gould's Jumper, Paul Park's The White Tyger, Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback, and other titles by Herbie Brennan, Kathleen Bryan, Jim Butcher, Davie Drake, Philip José Farmer, Eric Flint & Ryk E. Spoor, C.S. Friedman, Katherine Kurtz, Sandra McDonald, and Elizabeth Moon.
Tuesday 19 February 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Jim Butcher, Stephen King
Sunday 17 February 2008• Monitor: New Books: early February
New SF/F/H books in early February include J.G. Ballard's autobiography Miracles of Life, novellas by Thomas M. Disch and Connie Willis, first novels by Lynn Cesar, Brian Cullen, Justin Gustainis, J.T. McDermott, and Paul Melko, and Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's anthology The New Weird. Plus: titles by Sarah Ash, L. Timmel Duchamp, A. Lee Martinez, John Ringo & Travis Taylor, Chris Roberson, Carrie Vaughn, Edward Willett, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
Wednesday 13 February 2008• 2007 In Review: 2007 SF/F/H Books on Year's Best Lists
Locus Online's compilation of SF/F/H titles on year's best books lists includes titles by J.K. Rowling, Michael Chabon, Ian McDonald, Dan Simmons, Patrick Rothfuss, Emma Bull, Richard K. Morgan, David Anthony Durham, Kay Kenyon, Matt Ruff, Shaun Tan... and Junot Díaz.
• Updated 16 February with lists from SF Site's readers poll and Concatenation. • Updated 19 February with list from American Library Association. Tuesday 12 February 2008• 2007 In Review: 2007 Cumulative Bestsellers
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was the bestselling SF/Fantasy/Horror hardcover in 2007; Cormac McCarthy's The Road the bestselling trade paperback; and Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia the bestselling mass market paperback. Complete cumulative rankings of all books on Locus Online's weekly bestseller lists are compiled here.
• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Lynsay Sands, Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer
Tuesday 5 February 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen King, Richard Bachman, J.G. Ballard
Monday 4 February 2008• Monitor: Classic Reprints
Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen in recent months includes Leigh Brackett's Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances, a revised edition of Brian Aldiss' anthology A Science Fiction Omnibus, John Joseph Adams' anthology of apocalyptic stories Wastelands, and other books by Isaac Asimov, Glen Cook, Charles de Lint, Gary Gygax, Frank Herbert, Eileen Kernaghan, Katherine Kurtz, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, C.L. Moore, Mervyn Peake, Tim Powers, and Robert Charles Wilson.
• Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, January
Fiction by Joe Haldeman, Brian Stableford, Tom Purdom, Alexander Jablokov, Richard Paul Russo, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Elizabeth Bear, and Darrell Schweitzer, plus nonfiction and interviews by Robert Scherrer, Justine Larbalestier, James Patrick Kelly, Jerry Pournelle, Lou Anders, Stephen Baxter, James Morrow, and Edward James, are to be found in new issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Asimov's, The Bulletin of the SFWA, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Matrix, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Vector, and Weird Tales.
• Monitor: New in Paperback: January
Notable books in new paperback editions in January include C.J. Cherryh's Deliverer, Philip K. Dick's Voices from the Street, David Weber's Off Armageddon Reef, and other titles by Mario Acevedo, John Birmingham, David B. Coe, Glen Cook, James S. David, David Gemmell, Jane Lindskold, Andre Norton, John Ringo, and Liz Williams.
Sunday 3 February 2008• Monitor: New Books: second half January
New SF/F/H books in late January include Stephen King's Duma Key, Gregory Frost's Shadowbridge, Robin Hobb's Renegade's Magic, and other titles from Eric Flint, Simon R. Green, Lucy & Stephen Hawking, Michael A. Heald, Barb & J.C. Hendee, William Jones, Nicole Kimberling, Russell Kirkpatrick, Gail Z. Martin, George R.R. Martin, Symm Hawes McCord, Philip Palmer, Karen Romanko, Bruce Taylor, and Sean Williams.
Tuesday 29 January 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Kitty Vaughn, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Stephenie Meyer
Tuesday 22 January 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen King, Barb & J.C. Hendee, Robin Hobb, Christopher Paolini
Sunday 20 January 2008• Monitor: New Books: first half January
New SF/F/H books in early January include Michael Swanwick's The Dragons of Babel, Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter's Firstborn, George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, & Daniel Abraham's Hunter's Run, Stephen Baxter's Navigator, and other titles by Catherine Asaro, Elizabeth Bear, Carol Berg, Patricia Briggs, Jack Campbell, Felix Gilman, Robert Newcomb, Joshua Palmatier, and Matthew Peterson.
Tuesday 15 January 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Patricia Briggs, Brian Selznick
Sunday 13 January 2008• Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, late December
Fiction by Joe Haldeman, Howard V. Hendrix, Michael Swanwick, John Kessel, Lisa Tuttle & Steven Utley, James L. Cambias, and others, and nonfiction and interviews with Geoff Ryman, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Hand, D.G. Compton, and others are featured in new issues of Albedo One, Analog, Asimov's, Black Static, Leading Edge, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Neo-Opsis, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Star*Line.
Tuesday 8 January 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Patricia Briggs, Drew Karpyshyn, Dan Simmons, Timothy Zahn, Anne & Todd McCaffrey, Iain M. Banks
Sunday 6 January 2008• Monitor: New Books: second half December
New SF/F/H books seen in late December include Ellen Datlow's horror anthology Inferno, Sarah Hall's novel The Carhullan Army, George R.R. Martin's collection Dreamsongs: Volume II, other titles by Steve Berman, Jim Butcher, Deborah Chester, David B. Coe, Jamie Craig, Kendall Evans, David Forbes, Diana Pharaoh Francis, Martin H. Greenberg & Loren L. Coleman, Stephen Jones, Sylvia Kelso, Tom Kratman, John Levitt, Anne & Todd McCaffrey, Colette Phair, Wen Spencer, and Timothy Zahn, plus book club omnibus editions of works by Daniel Abraham and Kristine Smith.
Tuesday 1 January 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen King
|
|
|
  |