* Asher, Neal : Zero Point
(UK: Macmillan/Tor UK 978-0230750708, £17.99, 576pp, hardcover, August 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 2 Aug 2012
• Owner trilogy #2

SF novel, second in a trilogy following The Departure (2011), about Alan Saul and the Argus Station as it hurls toward Mars.
• The PanMacmillan site has this description.
• The Amazon UK page has a “Look Inside” function with a preview.
• Russell Letson reviewed the earlier book last year in Locus Magazine: “I hold that we return to writers hoping for More Of The Same, Only Different. (I do, anyway.) In Asher’s case, The Same would include vivid, graphic violence; widescreen special-effects sequences; ruthless, damaged, more-than- or not-exactly-human heroes and villains; a main setting that is a dire, unforgiving generator of danger, misery, and oppression, up to and including torture and mass murder; and a high-stakes conflict that ends (relatively) well for the damaged, etc., (relatively) good guys, though they wind up standing among smoking ruins.”

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* Baxter, Stephen : Iron Winter
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-0575089266, £20, 480pp, hardcover, August 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 16 Aug 2012
• Northland Saga #3

Alternate history novel, third of a trilogy following Stone Spring (2010) and Bronze Summer (2011).
• This book is set in 1315, as the nation of Northland, rescued centuries before from the ocean by a great Wall, faces a cooling world climate.
• Amazon’s page has a longer description, and its “Look Inside” function provides a preview.

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* Deas, Stephen : The Black Mausoleum
(UK: Gollancz 978-0575100480, £20, 368pp, hardcover, August 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 16 Aug 2012
• Memory of Flames #4

Fantasy novel, fourth in a series following The Adamantine Palace (2009), The King of the Crags (2010), and The Order of the Scales (2011), 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 a links to the first two chapters.

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* Doubinsky, Sebastien : Absinth & The Song of Synth
(UK: PS Publishing 978-1-848634-54-1, £19.99, hardcover, May 2012, cover art Chris Roberts)

Collection of two novellas or short novels published dos-à-dos (in the manner of the old Ace doubles).
• PS Publishing’s site has this description, with excerpts from the introductions by Lucius Shepard and Paul Witcover.

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* Erikson, Steven : Forge of Darkness
(UK: Transworld/Bantam UK 978-0593062173, £20, 688pp, hardcover, August 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Jul 2012
• Kharkanas trilogy #1

Fantasy novel, first of a trilogy, set millennia before the author’s 10-volume Malazan Book of the Fallen.
• The author’s site has this description with an excerpt.

• The series’ website, www.malazanempire.com, has background on the author and the books. Wikipedia has this detailed entry about Malazan Book of the Fallen.
• Amazon has a “Look Inside” function providing an excerpt, and a dozen 5-star reader reviews.

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* Goonan, Kathleen Ann : Angels and You Dogs
(UK: PS Publishing 978-1-848633-31-5, £19.99, hardcover, May 2012)

Collection of stories; the author’s first collection.
• PS Publishing has this order page with a description of the value of short stories, but nothing specific about this book, or a table of contents.
• The author’s site also has a couple posts about the book, but no details.

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* Resnick, Mike : Master of the Galaxy
(UK: PS Publishing 978-1-848634-81-7, £19.99, hardcover, July 2012, cover by Arnold Richter)

Collection of five novellas, one original to this book, featuring Jake Masters, a far future detective living half a galaxy away.
• PS Publishing’s site has this description and order page. (It’s not listed on Amazon.)
• Resnick’s site has this post about the book.

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* Tchaikovsky, Adrian : The Air War
(UK: Macmillan/Tor UK 978-0230757004, £12.99, 672pp, trade paperback, August 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 2 Aug 2012
• Shadows of the Apt #8

Fantasy novel, eight in the “Shadows of the Apt” series after Empire in Black and Gold, Dragonfly Falling, and Blood of the Mantis, Salute the Dark, The Scarab Path (2010), The Sea Watch (2011), and Heirs of the Blade (2011), about a peaceful Lowlands threatened by the hungry Wasp Empire.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides an excerpt.

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