New Books: 29 December 2015
* Chude-Sokei, Louis : The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
(Wesleyan University Press 978-0-8195-7576-0, $85, 280pp, hardcover, December 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Dec 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-8195-7578-4
Nonfiction study of the histories of race and technology, covering topics including Victorian SF, cybertheory, and artificial intelligence.
• Wesleyan’s site has this description with a preview function.
• There’s also a trade paperback edition (978-0-8195-7577-7) for $27.95.
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* Le Guin, Ursula K. : Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014
(PM Press/Outspoken Authors 978-1-62963-122-6, $18.95, 112pp, hardcover, December 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 18 Dec 2015
Collection of poems and two short essays.
• PM Press’ site has this description with a preview function.
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* Martin, Gail Z. : Vendetta
(Solaris 978-1781084038, $7.99, 464pp, mass market paperback, January 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Dec 2015
• Deadly Curiosities #2
Fantasy novel, second in a series following Deadly Curiosities (2014), about a magical antique shop in Charleston, South Carolina.
• Solaris’ site has these posts about the book.
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* Schoen, Lawrence M. : Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard
(Tor 978-0-7653-7702-9, $25.99, 384pp, hardcover, December 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Dec 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466853393
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427265159
Far-future SF novel about a race of uplifted anthropomorphic elephants who have developed a drug to speak to the recently dead.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The author has a Big Idea post on John Scalzi’s blog today.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “Schoen’s vivid writing makes the Fant and the other species intensely relatable, elevating familiar themes of predetermination, prophecy, and the power of memory. Even as the Fant face genocide, their bravery and spirit makes this a hopeful and very human tale in a posthuman world.”
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