+ Asher, Neal : Line War
(Skyhorse/Night Shade Books 978-1597805285, $15.99, 576pp, trade paperback, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Nov 2014
• Cormac #5

First US edition (UK: Tor UK, April 2008)

SF novel, fifth in a series that began with Gridlinked in 2001. In this book agent Ian Cormac investigates seemingly indiscriminate attacks by an AI entity on Polity worlds.
• The author’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.

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+ Jones, Stephen, ed. : The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 25
(Skyhorse/Night Shade 978- 1-62873-818-6, $15.95, 592pp, trade paperback, November 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Nov 2014
• UK edition: 978-1472118707 (Thu 16 Oct 2014)

Anthology of 21 horror stories first published in 2013.
• Authors include Michael Marshall Smith, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Joel Lane, Lavie Tidhar, and Clive Barker.
• The book includes a 90-page introduction, “Horror in 2013”, and a 73-page necrology.
• The UK edition appeared in October; Amazon’s UK page has a “Look Inside” function providing previews, including the table of contents.
• The Publishers Weekly review observes that “Jones’s acclaimed contemporary horror series celebrates its quarter-century with 21 stories from newcomers and veterans—primarily British and North American—who can find equal unease in a sunny holiday, a burnt-out lot, and the floodwaters at the end of the world.”
• Stefan Dziemianowicz reviewed it in the September issue of Locus Magazine; the review is posted here.

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* King, Stephen : Revival
(Simon & Schuster/Scribner 978-1-4767-7038-3, $30, 416pp, hardcover, November 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Nov 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781476770406
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781442372764
• UK edition: Hodder & Stoughton 978-1444789171 (Tue 11 Nov 2014)


Supernatural fantasy novel about a small town minister who loses his faith following the deaths of his wife and child, and develops an obsession with harnesing the power of electricity.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with a Google preview.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “King is a master at invoking the supernatural through the powerful emotions of his characters, and his depiction of Jacobs as a man unhinged by grief but driven by insatiable scientific curiosity is as believable as it is frightening. The novel’s ending—one of King’s best—stuns like lightning.”
• Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews it in the November issue of Locus Magazine, noting King’s many influences (which are acknowledged in the book): “But the writer whom King pays direct homage to is Arthur Machen, ‘whose short novel ‘The Great God Pan’,’ King writes on the dedication page, ‘has haunted me all my life.’ Machen’s tale, for those not familiar with it, is about a scientific experiment to lift ‘‘the veil’’ of perceived reality and get a glimpse of the real world behind it.”

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* Leake, Jessica : Arcana
(Skyhorse/Talos 978-1-940456-14-0, $24.99, 272pp, hardcover, November 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Nov 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B00NS42GSO

Romantic historical fantasy novel, the author’s first novel, set in Edwardian London.
• The author’s site has this page for the book with a link to the first chapter.

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* Liu, Cixin, translated by Ken Liu : The Three-Body Problem
(Tor 978-0-7653-7706-7, $25.99, 336pp, hardcover, November 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Nov 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466853447
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427251992
• Three-Body Problem #1

SF novel by “China’s most beloved science fiction author”, about a military project to contact aliens, who in turn plan to invade Earth. It’s the first volume of a trilogy.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review says “Fans of hard SF will revel in this intricate and imaginative novel by one of China’s most celebrated genre writers.” The review concludes, “Liu impressively succeeds in integrating complex topics—such as the field of frontier science, which attempts to define the limits of science’s ability to know nature—without slowing down the action or sacrificing characterization. His smooth handling of the disparate plot elements cleverly sets up the second volume of the trilogy.”
• Tor.com has a review by Niall Alexander: “If you can look past The Three-Body Problem’s uninspiring protagonist—’a man named ‘humanity,’’ per the postscript, and perhaps that’s the problem—you’ll find an almost phenomenal first contact novel with riffs on any number of other important issues. Particularly in the prologue, and latterly in the last act, The Three-Body Problem’s setting is tremendous; its science startling; and its fiction, finally, fascinating.”

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* Sherman, Delia : Young Woman in a Garden
(Small Beer Press 978-1-61873-091-6, $16, 312pp, trade paperback, November 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Nov 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781618730923

Collection of 14 stories, first published from 1987 to 2011. It’s the author’s first story collection.
• Small Beer’s site has this description with the table of contents and quotes from reviews.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “Readers who enjoy sophisticated modern fantasy fiction, both light and dark, will greatly admire Sherman’s skill with a variety of narrative forms and the gentle touch of her magic wand.”
• And PW includes the book on its list of Best SF/Fantasy/Horror of 2014.

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* Wilce, Ysabeau S. : Prophecies, Libels, and Dreams
(Small Beer Press 978-1-61873-089-3, $16, 241pp, trade paperback, November 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Nov 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781618730909

Collection of 7 interconnected stories, subtitled “Stories of Califa”. Two of the stories are original to this book.
• Small Beer’s site has this description with the table of contents, reviews, and blurbs from Elizabeth Hand, Paul Park, and others.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Magic and mundane mix and crash like a party falling in with a bar fight; sigils might be dug out of a mine alongside gold nuggets, and settlers die by daemon attack as often as by high-noon showdown or an Apache knife. Historical fantasy fans will want to saddle up with Wilce’s boisterous and skewed chronicle.”

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