* Carroll, Jonathan : Bathing the Lion
(St. Martin’s 978-1-250-04826-4, $25.99, 288pp, hardcover, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 21 Oct 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466848917

Contemporary fantasy novel in which five people in a New England town all dream the same dream.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “This lyrical and thematically rich novel is not to be underestimated.”
• Gary K. Wolfe’s review from the October issue of Locus Magazine is posted here: “Carroll’s familiar themes of love, regret, memory, and – well – dogs, are as fully realized here as in any of his novels, and even when his wisdom sounds disarmingly simple or even sentimental, he seems to genuinely wish well for his characters and for us.”

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* Hamilton, Peter F. : The Abyss Beyond Dreams
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-345-54719-4, $3, 640pp, hardcover, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 21 Oct 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-345-54720-0
• UK edition: Macmillan 978-0230769465 (Thu 9 Oct 2014)
• Chronicle of the Failers #1


Far future SF novel, part of the author’s Commonwealth saga and first in a new duology, set before the Void Trilogy.
• Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Wikipedia has this entry for the book.
• Paul Di Filippo reviewed this for Locus Online: “Peter Hamilton’s new novel stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the Culture books of Iain Banks and the Kefahuchi Tract saga of M. John Harrison, but rotated through the looking glass of a totally different, resolutely non-postmodern worldview, to produce a book that is paradoxically both old-school and totally au courant: the best of two worlds.”

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* Stiefvater, Maggie : Blue Lily, Lily Blue
(Scholastic 978-0545424967, $18.99, hardcover, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 21 Oct 2014
• Raven Cycle #3

Young adult fantasy novel, third in a series following The Raven Boys (2012) and The Dream Thieves (2013).
• Publishers Weekly gives this, as it did the two previous books, a starred review: “As in the previous books, Stiefvater’s razor-sharp characterizations, drily witty dialogue, and knack for unexpected metaphors and turns of phrase make for sumptuous, thrilling reading.”

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* Tepper, Sheri S. : Fish Tails
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-230458-2, $32, 512pp, hardcover, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 21 Oct 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062304605

SF novels that brings together storylines and characters from several earlier novels, from King’s Blood Four (1983) to The Waters Rising (2010).
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review cautions: “While longtime Tepper fans may welcome old friends and familiar themes, new readers will balk at the gleeful embrace of troublesome elements… Adequately written but profoundly misanthropic, the novel cannot be recommended to any but the most steadfast Tepper fan.”

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