* Andrews, Ilona : Magic Binds
(Ace 978-0425270691, $26, 336pp, hardcover, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Sep 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698136786
• Kate Daniels #9

Urban fantasy novel, ninth in the “Kate Daniels” series following Magic Bites, Magic Burns, Magic Strikes, Magic Bleeds (2010), Magic Slays (2011), Magic Rises (2012), Magic Breaks (2014), and Magic Shifts (2015), about a female mercenary in a magical Atlanta.
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* Cluess, Jessica : A Shadow Bright and Burning
(Random House 978-0-553-53590-7, $17.99, 407pp, hardcover, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Sep 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780553535921
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780399569142
• Kingdom on Fire #1

Young adult fantasy novel, first in a series, about a female sorcerer in Victorian London.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Cluess gamely turns the chosen-one trope upside down in this smashing dark fantasy.”

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* Durst, Sarah Beth : The Queen of Blood
(Voyager 978-0-06-241334-5, $19.99, 368pp, hardcover, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Sep 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062413369
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062563941
• The Queens of Renthia #1

Epic fantasy novel, first in a series, about spirits in the land of Renthia who want to rid their world of humans.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Durst delivers some fascinating worldbuilding, and the spirits are malevolent, cunning, wild, and mysterious antagonists.”

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* Evenson, Brian : The Warren
(Tor.com 978-0-7653-9315-9, $11.99, 74pp, ebk, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Sep 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-7653-9314-2

SF novella about a character named X who perceives another outside his Warren.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review begins, “Evenson’s almost surreal novella puts identity front and center in a dead world, seeking to define what is human as the main character grapples with having multiple and sometimes overlapping personalities.”

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* Latham, Mark A. : The Iscariot Sanction
(Titan 978-1783296828, $14.95, 320pp, trade paperback, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Sep 2016
• The Apollonian Casefiles #2

Alternate history fantasy novel set in 1879 London, second in a series following The Lazarus Gate (2015) about a gentleman’s club battling a supernatural threat to the British Empire.
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* Liu, Cixin : Death’s End
(Tor 978-0-7653-7710-4, $26.99, 608pp, hardcover, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Sep 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466853454
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427279187
• UK edition: 978-1784971632 (Tue 20 Sep 2016)
• Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3

SF novel, third in a trilogy following Hugo winner The Three-Body Problem (2014) and The Dark Forest (2015), about humanity dealing with Trisolarian invaders.
• The translator is Ken Liu.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “The time scale is an obstacle to emotional engagement, but there are emotionally moving moments that ground the intriguing speculations about science and human nature.”

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* Porter, Sarah : Vassa in the Night
(Tor Teen 978-0-7653-8054-8, $17.99, 304pp, hardcover, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Sep 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765386229

Young adult fantasy novel that retells the Russian folktale “Vassilissa the Beautiful”, set in modern Brooklyn.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “It may take a little effort for some readers to ground themselves in the near-hallucinatory strangeness of Porter’s setting, but those who do will be rewarded with a feverishly imagined and deliciously surreal adventure.”

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* Priest, Cherie : The Family Plot
(Tor 978-0-7653-7824-8, $25.99, 368pp, hardcover, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Sep 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466860650

Fantasy novel about a salvage crew tasked with demolishing a haunted house.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Priest has written an excellent modern house story from start to finish.”

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* Simmons, Kristen : Metaltown
(Tor Teen 978-0765336620, $17.99, 384pp, hardcover, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Sep 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466828797

Young adult SF novel set in a factory town in a dystopian future.
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* Szpara, K. M., ed. : Transcendent: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction
(Lethe 978-1-59021-617-0, $20, trade paperback, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Sat 17 Sep 2016

Anthology of 15 stories with transgender characters.
• Authors include Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, E. Catherine Tobler, A. Merc Rustad, and Molly Tanzer.
• Lethe’s site has this description with the table of contents.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “First-time editor Szpara shoots the death-obsessed conventions of transgender narratives into space with this splendid collection of 15 speculative works by trans authors, starring trans characters, and/or featuring themes of transformation, placing gender’s many permutations under a warm and welcoming spotlight.”

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* Turner, Marc : Red Tide
(Tor 978-0765337146, $32.5, 544pp, hardcover, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Sep 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466831223
• The Chronicle of the Exile #3

Fantasy novel, third in a series following When the Heavens Fall (2015) and Dragon Hunters (Feb. 2016), about Storm Lords fighting a sea dragon.
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