* Anders, Lou : Nightborn
(Random House/Crown 978-0385390361, $16.99, 368pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780385390385
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781101916025
• Thrones and Bones #2

Middle-grade fantasy novel, second in a series following Frostborn (2014), about a farmboy obsessed with the board game Thrones and Bones on a search to rescue his best friend.
• Random House’s site has this description.
• Series site thronesandbones.com/ has excerpts, maps, and rules for games.

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* Cline, Ernest : Armada
(Crown 978-0-8041-3725-6, $26, 368pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780804137263
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780804149112

SF novel, the author’s second novel following Ready Player One, about a teenaged gamer who encounters a flying saucer straight out of one of his favorite videogames.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review says, “What if the X-Files were a ‘fictional alien cover-up created to conceal [a] real one’? Cline makes this kind of paranoia intriguing in an SF novel whose strong opening compensates for a less gripping ending.”

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* Gilman, Carolyn Ives : Dark Orbit
(Tor 978-0-7653-3629-3, $25.99, 303pp, hardcover, July 2015, jacket art Thom Tenery)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466827691

SF novel about the exploration of a planet inhabited by a blind, sentient species.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review compliments “the charming portrayal of a civilization of the blind, which showcases Gilman’s talent for description and character.”
• Karen Burnham reviews it in the July issue of Locus Magazine: “In many ways this feels like a very old-fashioned kind of SF story. … Gilman is sophisticated in her development of both the sociological and physical implications and complications raised by the contact between the research team and the planet’s humans…”

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* Gladstone, Max : Last First Snow
(Tor 978-0-7653-7940-5, $26.99, 384pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466868403
• Craft Sequence #4

Fantasy novel, fourth in a series following Three Parts Dead (2012), Two Serpents Rise (2013), and Full Fathom Five (2014), about a magical Craftswoman in the city of Alt Coulumb.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gives this, as it did the first three books, a starred review: “Gladstone’s gift for vivid storytelling, his deep empathy for his characters, his sly satire of current socioeconomic issues, and the rich, diverse world of his novels have become reliable pleasures, always enthralling and somehow consistently improving with every book.”

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* Hand, Elizabeth : Wylding Hall
(Open Road 978-1-5040-0718-4, $4.99, 94pp, ebk, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015

Horror novella about a folk band whose recording session at a country house results in the mysterious disappearance of the lead guitarist.
• A hardcover edition is forthcoming from PS Publishing.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Hand’s formidable language rarely emerges in the expository interviews, so the icy sensations, secret passageways, and taciturn locals provide Gothic trappings without even momentary uneasiness.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the July issue of Locus Magazine: “…the novella gains a strange power apart from its rather restrained supernatural manifestations, a power driven by the sense of lost dreams that has always driven Hand’s best fiction.”

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* Jennings, J. Dalton : Solomon’s Arrow
(Skyhorse/Talos Press 978-1940456225, $15.99, 504pp, trade paperback, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015

SF novel, the author’s first novel, about the construction of a starship to carry 6000 people to a planet in the Epsilon Eridani system.
• Talos Press’ site has this description.

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* Leicht, Stina : Cold Iron
(Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 978-1-4814-4255-8, $27.99, 640pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781481427791
• The Malorum Gates #1

Fantasy novel, first book in a series, about two fraternal twins who leave their royal family to fight military invaders.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with a preview.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “With the subterranean Old Ones also threatening, Nels and Suvi apparently have a long road ahead, and the book’s bloodthirsty violence may make it feel even longer.”

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* Mason, Rhonda : Empress Game
(Titan Us 978-1783295241, $14.95, 352pp, trade paperback, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015
• Empress Game #1

SF space opera novel, first in a trilogy and the author’s first novel, about a seat on the intergalactic ruling council that is won through ritualized combat.
• Titan’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Mason’s deft plotting packs an emotional punch and leads to a solid cliffhanger that could spark a fascinating new series.”

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* Pulley, Natasha : The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
(Bloomsbury 978-1-62040-833-9, $26, 320pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015

Fantasy novel, the author’s first novel, set in 1883, about a magical pocket watch and a London man’s search for its maker.
• Bloomsbury’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Pulley’s electrifying debut is a triumph of speculative fiction.”
• Faren Miller reviews it in the July issue of Locus Magazine: “Somehow, Natasha Pulley turns this wild mix into a tale as elegant as one of the master watchmaker’s creations, for a debut that’s fast-paced, suspenseful, and curiously convincing.”

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* Sigler, Scott : Alive
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-055339310, $18, 368pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780553393118
• Generations Trilogy #1

Young adult SF novel, first in a trilogy, about a group of teenagers awake in a strange place with no knowledge of how they got there.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Sigler shifts gears into science fiction, a jarring move that leaves many unanswered questions, such as why only certain individuals have the power to open rooms, in addition to confusing glimpses of the crisis that led to the teens’ entombment.”

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* Swendson, Shanna : Rebel Mechanics
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Ferguson 978-0374300098, $17.99, 320pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780374300173

Young adult novel, subtitled “All Is Fair in Love and Revolution”, about a governess in 1888 New York where magisters rule and rebels work on non-magical sources of power via steam engines.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Turtledove, Harry : Bombs Away
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-553-39070-4, $28, 448pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780553390711
• The Hot War #1

Alternate history novel, first in a new series, set in the aftermath of World War II.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “The novel leapfrogs from combat scene to strategy session to military briefing and ends on an abrupt note, obviously paving the way for a sequel.”

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+ Wallace, Sean, ed. : The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk
(Running Press 978-0-7624-5616-1, 512pp, trade paperback, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Jul 2015

Anthology of 21 stories, 13 of them original, set in the mid-20th century.
• Authors include Jay Lake, Carrie Vaughn, Jeremiah Tolbert, and E. Catherine Tobler. The introduction is by Tobias S. Buckell.
• The publisher’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review begins, “As demonstrated in this diverse collection of 21 alternate histories, dieselpunk updates the fashions of steampunk, replacing Victorian crinolines with the flapper’s short skirt, but maintaining all of the subversion of pulp fiction conventions (including airships).”

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