* Black, Jenna : Resistance
(Tor Teen 978-0-7653-3372-8, $9.99, 368pp, trade paperback, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466804906
• Replica #2

Young adult SF novel, second in a trilogy following Replica (2013), about a human replicant trying to solve the murder of his original self.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Briggs, Patricia : Night Broken
(Ace 978-0-425-25674-9, $26.95, 352pp, hardcover, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1101619650
• UK edition: Little, Brown/Orbit 978-0356501543 (Tue 11 Mar 2014)
• Mercy Thompson #8


Fantasy novel, eighth in a series about Mercy Thompson, a coyote shapeshifter who’s also a car mechanic, following Moon Called (2006), Blood Bound (2007), Iron Kissed (2008), Bone Crossed (2009), Silver Borne (2010), River Marked (2011), and Frost Burned (2013).
• Penguin’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Briggs continues to surprise and intrigue readers with Mercy’s inventiveness and intuition under duress.”

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* Cameron, Miles : The Fell Sword
(Orbit 978-0-316-21233-5, $17, 640pp, trade paperback, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316212342
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478979432
• UK edition: Gollancz 978-1407247199 (Thu 30 Jan 2014)
• Traitor Son #2


Historical fantasy novel, second in a series following The Red Knight (2013), about a mercenaries hired to protect a group of nuns from a rogue sorcerer.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an OpenBook excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Cameron makes it easy for new readers to use this complex volume as a starting point for the series.”

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* Cook, Glen : Working God’s Mischief
(Tor 978-0-7653-3420-6, $27.99, 432pp, hardcover, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466809079
• Instrumentalities of the Night #4

Fantasy novel, fourth volume of the “Instrumentalities of the Night” following The Tyranny of the Night (2005), Lord of the Silent Kingdom (2007), and Surrender to the Will of the Night (2010), concerning political and religious turmoil in a world surrounded by walls of ice.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes that this series “feels like a reexamination of Cook’s Dread Empire series: both use secondary worlds greatly influenced by Europe and Asia, both concern themselves with the catalytic role of determined mortals in global affairs, and both present grand histories with a certain air of absurdity. Cook’s decades of experience and expanded modern page counts allow him to weave a complex plot, but the result is comfortingly familiar to his longtime fans.”

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+ Cooper, Elspeth : The Raven’s Shadow
(Tor 978-0-7653-3167-0, $27.99, 567pp, hardcover, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429997270
• The Wild Hunt #3

First US edition (UK: Gollancz, August 2013)

Fantasy novel, third in a series following the author’s first novel Songs of the Earth (2011) and Trinity Rising (2012), about a novice knight with the ability to hear magical music in a society where Church Knights execute as witches anyone who hears the ‘song of the Earth’.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.
• The Publishers Weekly review says that “Cooper ratchets up the stakes and the tension”, and it concludes, “While the plot feels a bit familiar, the strong writing and deft characterization make this book well worth reading.”

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* de Castell, Sebastien : Traitor’s Blade
(UK: Quercus/Jo Fletcher 978-1848663794, £12.99, 384pp, hardcover, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 6 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1782066767
• The Greatcoats #1

Fantasy novel, the author’s first novel and first of a series, about a troupe of travelling Magisters now reviled for having failed to prevent the overthrow of their king.
• Quercus’ site has this description.
• Tor.com has an excerpt and a review by Niall Alexander: “With a tip of his hat at Alexandre Dumas, Sebastien de Castell make a fine first impression in this entertaining debut. Excepting the regrettable digression at its centre—and even then it’s easy reading—Traitor’s Blade is a bunch of fun from one cover to the other. Recommended especially to readers who’ve had it up to here with unhappy heroes.”

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* Gunn, Eileen : Questionable Practices
(Small Beer Press 978-1-61873-075-6, $16, 276pp, trade paperback, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B00F4DL81S

Collection of 17 stories, first published from 2005 to present, with two stories original to this book.
• Stories include four co-written with Michael Swanwick, and one co-written with Rudy Rucker.
• Small Beer Press’s site has this description with blurbs and quotes from reviews and the table of contents, with links to stories online.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “Though Gunn first saw print in the 1970s, this short collection contains a surprisingly large portion of her stories; her rate of publication has recently been increasing, giving fans reason to hope for many more delights to come.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews the book in the March issue of Locus Magazine: “But back to that ‘writer’s writer’ question. There is at least one sense in which it’s valid: Gunn writes, comfortably and knowledgeably, from within the headspace of SF as fully as any writer I can think of.”

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* Herbert, Brian, & Kevin J. Anderson : Mentats of Dune
(Tor 978-0-7653-2274-6, $27.99, 448pp, hardcover, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429949767
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427236333
• Dune #12

SF novel, the twelfth collaboration by Brian Herbert, son of original Dune author Frank Herbert, and Kevin J. Anderson.
• This book is second in a new trilogy following Sisterhood of Dune (2012).
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* MacLeod, Ken : Descent
(UK: Orbit 978-1841499413, £19.99, 416pp, hardcover, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 6 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0748131143

Near-future SF novel about a young man in an independent Scotland investigating what seems to be a cover-up of a UFO encounter he had as a boy.
• Little, Brown’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• Orbit’s site has the description along with summaries of famous reported alien encountes.
• Tor.com has this review by Niall Alexander: “In both senses—as a skiffy conspiracy thriller and an approachable coming-of-age confessional—Descent is a success in large part thanks to its fittingly conflicted central character. … It’s a reasonably sweet story about a boy becoming a man—and all the realisations that transition requires—which doubles as exploration of a subject that contemporary science fiction seems to have lost interest in.”

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+ Pass, Emma : ACID
(Delacorte 978-0-385-74387-7, $17.99, 382pp, hardcover, March 2014, jacket art Larry Rostant)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-385-37241-1

Young adult dystopian SF novel, apparently the author’s first novel, about a young woman imprisoned by ACID, a brutal police force, for a crime she doesn’t remember.
• Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The UK edition was published in April 2013 by Corgi Childrens.

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* Reed, Robert : The Memory of Sky: A Great Ship Trilogy
(Prime Books 978-1-60701-426-3, $19.95, 624pp, trade paperback, March 2014, cover art Benoit Penaud)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 5 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-60701-429-4

SF novel set in the author’s extended “Great Ship” universe, written as three separate novels but published here together. The first section, “Diamond”, is about one day in the life of a 12-year-old boy in a mysterious environment.
• Prime’s site has this description.
• The author’s website has an essay (scroll down) about the genesis and development of this book.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• The Publishers Weekly review says, “Reed’s three-part story is rich in strangeness, spectacle, grand battles, and breakneck action, but there are few complex characters, and the plot is unusually cursory for a work of this length.”

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* Sprunk, Jon : Blood and Iron
(Pyr 978-1-61614-893-5, $18, 427pp, trade paperback, March 2014, cover illustration Jason Chan)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-61614-894-2
• The Book of the Black Earth #1

Sword and sorcery fantasy novel, first of a series, about a soldier shipwrecked among the people he was sent to kill.
• Pyr’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Sprunk’s world is fascinating and original, reminiscent of ancient Sumeria and Babylon…”

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