Britain, Kristen : Blackveil
(DAW 978-0-7564-0708-7, $16, 672pp, trade paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 7 Feb 2012
• Green Rider #4

(First edition: DAW, February 2011)

Fantasy novel, fourth in the series that began with The Green Rider (1998) and continued with First Rider’s Call (2003) and The High King’s Tomb (2007), about an elite group of messengers for the king who now face a threat from dark magicians.
• The author’s website has this description and a PDF sample chapter.

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Deas, Stephen : The King of the Crags
(Roc 978-0-451-46400-2, $7.99, 416pp, mass market paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 7 Feb 2012
• Memory of Flames #2

(First edition: UK: Gollancz, April 2010)

Fantasy novel, second in the series following the author’s first novel The Adamantine Palace (2010), set in a land where dragons are violent creatures subdued into servitude by human masters.
• The author’s website has this page for the book with quotes from reviews and links to a map and an alternate prologue.
• The third book in the series, The Order of the Scales, has just appeared in hardcover.

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Englehart, Steve : The Plain Man
(Tor 978-0-7653-6427-2, $7.99, 432pp, mass market paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Jan 2012
• Max August #3

(First edition: Tor, June 2011)

Fantasy novel, third in a series following The Point Man (1981) and The Long Man (2010).
• In this book Max August fights a right-wing conspiracy called the FRC.
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Flint, Eric, & K.D. Wentworth : The Crucible of Empire
(Baen 978-1451638042, $7.99, 624pp, mass market paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Jan 2012
• Empire #2

(First edition: Baen, March 2010)

SF novel, sequel to the same authors’ The Course of the Empire (2003), about humans, the Jao, their alien conquerors, and the Ekhat, a race that threatens both.
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Frost, P. R. : Forest Moon Rising
(DAW 978-0-7564-0710-0, $7.99, 400pp, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 7 Feb 2012
• Tess Noncoire #4

(First edition: DAW, February 2011)

Supernatural romance/mystery novel, fourth in a series following Hounding the Moon (2006), Moon in the Mirror (2007), and Faery Moon (2009), about a fantasy writer who fights demons.
• The author’s webpage has excerpts from both her first and second books.

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Kittredge, Caitlin : The Iron Thorn
(Random House/Ember 978-0385738309, $10.99, 512pp, trade paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Feb 2012
• Iron Codex #1

(First edition: Delacorte, February 2011)

Young adult steampunk novel set in an alternate 1950s America about the only girl at the School of Engines of Lovecraft Academy.
• The publisher’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The second book in the series, The Nightmare Garden, has just appeared in hardcover.

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Lee, Sharon : Carousel Tides
(Baen 978-1451638059, $7.99, 432pp, mass market paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Jan 2012

(First edition: Baen, November 2010)

Urban fantasy novel about a woman who returns to a small town in Maine and becomes involved in a faerie war.
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Martinez, A. Lee : Chasing the Moon
(Orbit Us 978-0-316-09356-9, $7.99, 336pp, mass market paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 1 Feb 2012

(First edition: Orbit US, June 2011)

Comic fantasy novel about a woman who finds the perfect apartment – except that it’s inhabited by monsters.
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Matheson, Richard : Other Kingdoms
(Tor 978-0-7653-2769-7, $14.99, 320pp, trade paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Feb 2012

(First edition: Tor, March 2011)

Fantasy novel set in 1918 about an American soldier who settles in a small English village, where he is torn between two powerful women, a witch and a faerie.
• Tor’s site has this description.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviewed it last year in Locus Magazine, remarking that “What’s most impressive is Matheson’s young/old narrative voice. We’re never allowed to forget that this is an 82-year-old man recalling his 18-year-old self, and that the intervening decades saw yet a third iteration of Alex — the successful writer of sensational horror novels…”

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Miéville, China : Embassytown
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-345-52450-8, $16, 368pp, trade paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Jan 2012

(First edition: Ballantine Del Rey, 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.
• The publisher’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Gary K. Wolfe’s review from the May 2011 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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Moon, Elizabeth : Kings of the North
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-345-52417-1, $7.99, 512pp, mass market paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Jan 2012
• Legend of Paksenarrion #7

(First edition: Ballantine Del Rey, March 2011)

Fantasy novel in the author’s “Legend of Paksenarrion” following Oath of Fealty (2010).
• Del Rey’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The next book in the series, Echoes of Betrayal, will be published February 21st.

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Orullian, Peter : The Unremembered
(Tor 978-0-7653-6469-2, $7.99, 944pp, mass market paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Jan 2012
• The Vault of Heaven #1

(First edition: Tor, April 2011)

Fantasy novel, first book of a series, and the author’s first novel, about three orphans who embark on a quest.
• The publisher’s site has this description with a video trailer and several blurbs.
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Rajaniemi, Hannu : The Quantum Thief
(Tor 978-0-7653-6766-2, $7.99, 384pp, mass market paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Jan 2012

(First edition: UK: Gollancz, September 2010)

Hard science fiction novel, the author’s first novel, about Jean le Flambeur, a post-human thief in the Heterarchy, the culture of the far future solar system.
• Tor’s site has this description.
• Gary K. Wolfe’s review the September 2010 Locus Magazine is posted here; “It’s clear that Rajaniemi feels he has to get a lot done with this widely anticipated first novel, and for the most part he succeeds brilliantly. … [H]e’s spectacularly delivered on the promise that this is likely the most important debut SF novel we’ll see this year.”
• The next book, The Fractal Prince, is due in September 2012.

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Sniegoski, Thomas E. : A Hundred Words for Hate
(Penguin/Roc 978-0-451-46412-5, $7.99, 304pp, mass market paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 7 Feb 2012
• Remy Chandler #4

(First edition: Roc, March 2011)

Urban fantasy novel, fourth in a series about Remy Chandler, a private investigator who’s an angel on Earth in human form, following A Kiss Before the Apocalypse (2008), Dancing on the Head of a Pin (2009), and Where Angels Fear to Tread (2010).
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Valente, Catherynne M. : Deathless
(Tor 978-0-7653-2631-7, $14.99, 352pp, trade paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Feb 2012

(First edition: Tor, April 2011)

Fantasy novel based on Russian folklore, about villain Koschei the Deathless and a young woman who becomes his bride.
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Vaughn, Carrie : After the Golden Age
(Tor 978-0-7653-6460-9, $7.99, 352pp, mass market paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Feb 2012

(First edition: Tor, April 2011)

Superhero novel about the accountant daughter of two Commerce City superheroes who’s forced to testify in a trial of the evil Destructor.
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Weber, David : Worlds of Honor #5: In Fire Forged
(Baen 978-1451638035, $7.99, 496pp, mass market paperback, February 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Jan 2012
• Worlds of Honor #5

(First edition: Baen, February 2011)

Anthology of four original stories set in Weber’s ‘‘Honor Harrington” universe, the fifth such anthology, following The Service of the Sword in 2003.
• Authors are Jane Lindskold, Timothy Zahn, David Weber, and Andy Presby.
• Baen’s site has this description with a link to Lindskold’s story.

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