New Books, February Supplemental
* Chizmar, Richard, ed. : Turn Down the Lights
(Cemetery Dance 978-1-58767-437-2, 176pp, hardcover, December 2013)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Dec 2013
Anthology of 10 original horror stories, compiled to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first issue of Cemetery Dance magazine.
• Authors include Stephen King, Peter Straub, Cliver Barker, Ed Gorman, and Steve Rasnic Tem.
• CD’s site has this description with the table of contents. There’s also an artist edition and a lettered edition, with artworks for each story.
• The Publishers Weekly review says, “New stories by Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Clive Barker would be enough to make this one of the notable horror collections of the year, and all of those are indeed solid (particularly King’s “Summer Thunder,” a heartbreaking tale of two men and a dog awaiting certain death after nuclear war).”
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* Holloway, Emma Jane : A Study in Ashes
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-345-53720-1, $7.99, 672pp, mass market paperback, January 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 13 Dec 2013
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-345-54567-1
• The Baskerville Affair #3
Steampunk novel set in Victorian London about Evelina Cooper, the niece of Sherlock Holmes, third in a series following A Study in Silks (Sept 2013) and A Study in Darkness (Nov. 2013).
• Random House’s site has this synopsis with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly said of the first book, “Holloway stuffs her adventure with an abundance of characters and ideas and fills her heroine with talents and graces, all within a fun, brisk narrative.”
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* Joss, Sharon : Brothers of the Fang
(Aja Publishing 978-0-9897828-0-7, $17.99, 340pp, trade paperback, December 2013)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 29 Nov 2013
Urban fantasy novel about an ex-cop who’s a shape-shifter.
• The publisher’s site has this description.
• Carolyn Cushman reviewed the book in the January 2014 issue of Locus Magazine: “It’s a little over the top, but a lot of fun, with an absorbing mystery that unspools nicely at the heart of the plot.”
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* Lacey, Lauren J. : The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come: Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present
(McFarland 978-0-7864-7826-2, $40, 208pp, trade paperback, January 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 5 Dec 2013
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1476614304
Nonfiction study about fantastic fiction by women since 1960.
• Authors considered include Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler, Angela Carter, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Jeanette Winterson.
• McFarland’s site has this description with a link to the table of contents.
• This is part of the publisher’s “Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy” series edited by Donald E. Palumbo and C.W. Sullivan III.
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+ Lloyd, Tom : The God Tattoo: Untold Tales from the Twilight Reign
(Pyr 978-1-61614-859-1, $18, 272pp, trade paperback, November 2013, cover art Larry Rostant)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 5 Nov 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B00CQZ5LH4
First US edition (UK: Gollancz, April 2013)
US edition of a collection of 11 stories set in the author’s Twilight Reign series of five novels from The Stormcaller (2006) to The Dusk Watchman (2012).
• Pyr’s site has this description
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
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* Moloney, Susie : Things Withered
(ChiZine Publications 9781771481618, $16.95, 280pp, trade paperback, December 2013, cover art Erik Mohr)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Dec 2013
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B00CO4DGCO
Collection of 13 horror stories, with an introduction by Kaaron Warren.
• ChiZine’s site has this description with quotes from reviews.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• The New York Times ran this review by Dana Jennings in December: “The best of these stories are a likable mash-up of ‘Desperate Housewives’ and ‘The Twilight Zone,’ featuring refreshingly strong and rounded female characters.”
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* Rew, Juliana : Redshifted: Martian Stories
(Third Flatiron 978-0615926186, $8.99, 134pp, trade paperback, November 2013)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 20 Nov 2013
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781311741530
Anthology of thirteen stories about Mars.
• Authors include Maureen Bowden, Lela E. Buis, Martin Clark, Jaimie M. Engle, Jeff Hewitt, Neil James Hudson, Jason Lairamore, Vince Liberato, Michael McGlade, Kara Race-Moore, Ian Rose, Chuck Rothman, and Robina Williams, with the theme of “Mars.”
• Third Flatiron’s site has this description with the table of contents.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews
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* Rowe, Michael : Wild Fell (A Ghost Story)
(ChiZine Publications 978-1-77148-159-5, $16.95, 300pp, trade paperback, January 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Dec 2013
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781771481601
Fantasy novel about a man who buys a crumbling summer house on a desolate island.
• ChiZine’s site has this description, with a blurb from Clive Barker and quotes from reviews.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• The Publishers Weekly review says the book “replaces the isolated heroines of such tales with an equally isolated, socially estranged man and adds such unsavory details as modern audiences might find diverting. From the young boy whose gender identity appears fluid to the adult who finds every secure foundation eroded away from under him, the novel is artfully constructed, a tale as deliberate and inexorable as a glacier.”
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* Walker, Rysa : Timebound
(Amazon/Skyscape 978-1-4778-4815-9, $14.95, 362pp, trade paperback, January 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 1 Jan 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B00CQC9O16
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 978-1480558625
• The Chronos Files #-
Young adult SF novel, apparently first of a series, about a 16-year-old girl who discovers a time travel plot that threatens to destroy her family.
• The novel won Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award in 2013.
• Amazon has a description and “Look Inside” previews.
• The Publishers Weekly review calls it a “solid, leisurely paced tale that mixes romance with temporal intrigue”.
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