* Buchanan, Col : The Black Dream
(UK: Macmillan/Tor UK 978-1447211181, £8.99, 400pp, trade paperback, March 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 12 Mar 2015
• Heart of the World #3

Fantasy novel, third of a series following Farlander (UK 2010, US Jan. 2011) and Stands a Shadow (2011), set in a religious empire where a single island nation remains free.
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* Carriger, Gail : Prudence
(Orbit 978-0-316-21224-3, $20, 368pp, hardcover, March 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 17 Mar 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316212236
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478930143
• UK edition: 978-0356501796 (Thu 19 Mar 2015)
• The Custard Protocol #1

Steampunk fantasy novel set in the Victorian London world of the author’s Parasol Protectorate series (Soulless (2009), etc.), about Alexia Maccon’s daughter Prudence, who sails a dirigible to India.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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• The author’s website has a book signing tour schedule.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Carriger maintains a droll, tongue-in-cheek tone, and her protagonists are as concerned with witty banter and fashionable hats as they are with fighting for their lives. Series fans will enjoy this mischievous romp, which revisits old favorites while raising a new crop of charming characters.”

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* Deas, Stephen : The Splintered Gods
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-0575100589, £7.99, 544pp, mass market paperback, March 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 12 Mar 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780575100596
• Memory of Flames #6

Fantasy novel, sixth in a series following The Adamantine Palace (2009), The King of the Crags (2010), The Order of the Scales (2011), The Black Mausoleum (2012), and Dragon Queen (2013), set in a land where dragons are violent creatures subdued into servitude by human masters.
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* Evans, Leigh : The Danger of Destiny
(St. Martin’s Paperbacks 978-1250035110, $7.99, 432pp, mass market paperback, February 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 12 Mar 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466829183
• Mystwalker #4

Fantasy novel, fourth in a series following The Trouble with Fate (2012), The Thing About Weres (2013), and The Problem With Promises (2014), about a half-Were, leader of her pack, who struggles with her half-Fae side.
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+ Liney, Peter : Into the Fire
(Quercus/Jo Fletcher 978-1623654450, $26.99, 368pp, hardcover, February 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 17 Mar 2015
• Detainee #2

First US edition (UK: Quercus/Jo Fletcher, July 2014)

Dystopian SF novel, second in a series following The Detainee (2013), in which the old, sick, and poor are exiled to a remote island watched over by punishment satellites.
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+ Pratchett, Terry : A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction
(Random House/Doubleday 978-0-385-53832-9, $26.95, 286pp, hardcover, March 2015, jacket illustration Justin Gerard)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 17 Mar 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-385-53831-2
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 978-0-8041-9359-7

First US edition (UK: Transworld/Doubleday UK, October 2012)

Collection of 33 stories and other pieces, first published from 1963 to 2009, with a foreword by A.S. Byatt. It’s the author’s first short fiction collection since 2004 NESFA volume Once More with Footnotes.
• There are color interior illustrations by Josh Kirby.
• Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Though the stories here aren’t his absolute best writing, there is plenty to entertain curious fans.”

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* Smale, Alan : Clash of Eagles
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-8041-7722-1, $27, hardcover, March 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 17 Mar 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-8041-7723-8
• Clash of Eagles #1

Alternate history novel, first of a trilogy and the author’s first novel, in which the Roman Empire has not fallen as the North American continent is discovered in 1218 A.D.
• Random House’s site has this description with blurbs from Stephen Baxter, Harry Turtledove, and others, and an excerpt.

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* Teppo, Mark, ed. : Thirteen: Stories of Transformation
(Resurrection House/Underland Press 978-1630230067, $17, 352pp, trade paperback, March 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 10 Mar 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B00TYVVJ4M

Anthology of 28 original fantasy stories about what transformation and rebirth as symbolized by the thirteenth Tarot card.
• Authors include Richard Bowes, Daryl Gregory, Gra Linnaea, Cat Rambo, and Christie Yant.
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