* Baker, S. Spencer : Slabscape: Reset
(UK: Blip 978-0-956-73870-7, £8.99, 309pp, mass market paperback, November 2010)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 12 Nov 2010

SF novel about a wealthy man who places himself in cryonic suspension in order to survive long enough to be a passenger on the first interstellar spaceship.
• The publisher's site -- this book seems to be its only publication -- has a description, and a blog.
• The author has also established a wiki page for the book, Slabscapedia.

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* Bisson, Terry : TVA Baby and Other Stories
(PM Press 978-1-60486-405-2, $14.95, 170pp, trade paperback, April 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 1 Apr 2011

Collection of 13 stories, with an afterword by the author.
• The publisher's site has an order page with a description and the table of contents.
• Amazon's "Look Inside" function provides a preview of the first few pages of the title story (which Bisson read at this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts).

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* Caldwell, Patrice, & Stephen Haffner, eds. : Thirty-Five Years of the Jack Williamson Lectureship
(Haffner Press 978-1-893887-55-8, $19, 370pp, trade paperback, March 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 10 Mar 2011

Nonfiction anthology of speeches and lectures given at the annual Jack Williamson Lectureship in New Mexico.
• Contributors include James Gunn, Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Stephen R. Donaldson, Joe Haldeman, C.J. Cherry and Tim Powers, Connie Willis, Walter Jon Williamson, and Nalo Hopkinson.
• There's also a section reprinting coverage of the Lectureship by Charles N. Brown in Locus Magazine, including sections of Brown's editorials; a 2004 story by Williamson; and a gallery of Lectureship posters.
• The publisher's site has this description and order page, with the complete table of contents.
• Amazon's "Look Inside" function also has the table of contents, and excerpts from Williamson's own 1979 lecture.

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* Canavan, Trudi : The Rogue
(Orbit 978-0-316-03786-0, $25.99, 485pp, hardcover, May 2011, jacket illustration Steve Stone)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 11 May 2011
• Traitor Spy #2

Fantasy novel, second in the "Traitor Spy" trilogy following The Ambassador's Mission (2010).
• The author's site has this description plus an excerpt.
• Amazon also has an excerpt, and several reader reviews.

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* Gresh, Lois, edited by William Jones : Eldritch Evolutions
(Chaosium 978-1568823492, $15.95, 343pp, trade paperback, March 2011, cover art Paul Carrick)
• Nominal Publication Date: Mon 21 Mar 2011

Collection of 26 SF, dark fantasy, and horror stories. Nine stories are original to this volume; the others were first published from 1993 to 2011.
• The publisher's site has this description with blurbs from Robert Weinberg, Catherine Asaro, and Scott Edelman.
• Amazon has a couple 5-star reader reviews.

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* Hairston, Andrea : Redwood and Wildfire
(Aqueduct Press 978-1-933500-52-2, $20, 439pp, trade paperback, February 2011, cover illustration Nic Ularu)
• Nominal Publication Date: Mon 28 Feb 2011

Historical fantasy novel about an African American woman and an Seminole Irish man who travel from Georgia to Chicago at the beginning of the 20th century, as minstrel shows give way to vaudeville and then moving pictures.
• The publisher's site has this order page with a description, quotes and links to reviews, and a video clip from the author.
• Amazon reprints the Village Voice review; "Music is rightly described as yet another magic power; a way of changing peoples' moods and even a person s destiny. Using their mutual genius for period blues and bluegrass, Aidan and Redwood follow their dreams of self-reinvention along the same hazardous Blues Highway survived by Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith then transcended by Florence Mills and Josephine Baker."

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* Hearne, Kevin : Hounded
(Del Rey 978-0-345-52247-4, $7.99, 292pp, mass market paperback, May 2011, cover illustration Gene Mollica)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 May 2011
• Iron Druid Chronicles #1

Urban fantasy novel, first of a three-book series, about a 2000-year-old Druid living in Arizona.
• It will be followed at monthly intervals by Hexed and Hammered.
• The publisher's site has this description with an excerpt.
• Amazon has Publishers Weekly's starred review, which says "Hearne, a self-professed comic-book nerd, has turned his love of awesome dudes whacking mightily at evil villains into a superb urban fantasy debut."
• Faren Miller reviews the book in the May issue of Locus Magazine: "There's fun here, with a mystery that baffles the local detective, and enough attitude + danger to delight an audience of twenty-somethings without altogether turning off their elders."

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* Lalumière, Claude : The Door to Lost Pages
(ChiZine Publications 978-1-926851-12-9, $11.95, 200pp, trade paperback, May 2011, cover art Erik Mohr)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 May 2011

Novel composed of five linked stories about a used bookstore called Lost Pages.
• Paul Di Filippo provides an introduction.
• The publisher's site has this description, with a preview of the Kindle edition and quotes from several reviews.
• Amazon also provides an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly calls it "insanely imaginative"; its review concludes, "Lalumière's talents are on full display in this cerebral, erotic, and hypnotically compelling tale of bibliophilic wonder."

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* Miéville, China : Embassytown
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-345-52449-2, $26, 345pp, hardcover, May 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 17 May 2011

SF novel about human colonists on a planet where the native race, the Hosts, speak a complex language which only a few humans can speak, concerning Avice Benner Cho, a colonist who returns to the planet after an absence, having become a figure of speech in the Ariekei tongue.
• The publisher's site has this description with an excerpt.
• Amazon also provides an excerpt, and has quotes from numerous reviews, plus somewhat mixed reader reviews.
• Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, concluding, "Miéville's brilliant storytelling shines most when Avice works through problems and solutions that develop from the Hosts' unique and convoluted linguistic evolution, and many of the most intriguing characters are the Hosts themselves. The result is a world masterfully wrecked and rebuilt."
• Gary K. Wolfe's review from the May issue of Locus Magazine is posted here; he writes, "Miéville is far less interested in the exoticism of his setting and characters, or in their science fictional ingenuity, than in their capacity to express some rather complex themes, among which are issues of colonialism, betrayal, and perhaps most of all language and reality."

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* Nye, Jody Lynn : View from the Imperium
(Baen 978-1-4391-3430-6, $7.99, 566pp, mass market paperback, April 2011, cover art David Mattingly)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Mar 2011

Military SF novel about a new Acadamy graduate of aristocratic background given his first command.
• Baen's site has this description, which calls it "P. G. Wodehouse meets space opera", and links to several chapters.
• Amazon has a couple 5-star reader reviews.

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* Swanwick, Michael : Dancing With Bears
(Night Shade Books 978-1-59780-235-2, $24.99, 268pp, hardcover, May 2011, jacket art Bruno Werneck)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 17 May 2011

Post-apocalyptic SF novel about con artists Darger and Surplus, subjects of several short stories over the past decade, including Hugo Award winner "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" (2001).
• Night Shade's site has this description.
• Amazon's "Look Inside" function provides an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes: "Swanwick doesn't stint the whimsy while touching on the sadness and joy at the core of a story about losing the past to gain the future."
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews the book in the May issue of Locus Magazine, noting that the lead characters "are modern SF's most direct descendants of Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, but Swanwick is acutely aware of something that nostalgic readers often overlook -- underlying the rollicking sword-and-sorcery surface of Leiber's tales was a distinctly dark undercurrent, and some of their adventures are virtually horror stories."

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+ Tidhar, Lavie : Camera Obscura
(Angry Robot US 978-0857660947, $7.99, 412pp, mass market paperback, May 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Apr 2011
• Bookman Histories #2

Steampunk novel set in the same alternate London has the author's previous novel The Bookman.
• In this book the mysterious Milady De Winter investigates a locked room murder mystery in the Rue Morgue.
• Angry Robot's website has this description with a link to sample chapters.
• The author's site has this description.

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* Vanderhooft, JoSelle, & Catherine Lundoff, eds. : Hellebore & Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic
(Lethe Press 978-1-59021-377-3, $15, 227pp, trade paperback, May 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Sun 1 May 2011

Anthology of 12 original stories.
• Contributors include Ruth Sorrell, Jean Marie Ward, Steve Berman, and Rachel Green.
• The publisher's site has this description.
• Amazon's "Look Inside" function has the table of the contents and the first few pages of Ruth Sorrell's story.

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