* Abercrombie, Joe : Half a War
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-8041-7845-7, $26, 352pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780804178471
• Shattered Sea #3

Fantasy novel, third book in a trilogy after Half a King (2014) and Half the World (Feb. 2015), about a second son who becomes king following the deaths of his father and brother.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Abercrombie piles on shocking betrayals and charges his characters a high price for vengeance in this powerful and fitting final volume.”

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+ Carey, Edward : Foulsham
(Overlook Press 978-1-4683-0954-6, $16.99, 336pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 23 Jul 2015
• Iremonger #2

Young adult fantasy novel, second book of a trilogy following Heap House (2014), about a London family whose grandfather can turn people into objects and form objects in the shapes of people. The book is illustrated by the author.
• Overlook’s site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gave the earlier book a starred review, calling it a “delightful variation on Mervyn Peake’s classic Gormenghast books.”

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* Dietz, William C. : Redzone
(Ace 978-0-425-27334-0, $7.99, 304pp, mass market paperback, August 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698150119
• Mutant Files #2

SF novel, second in a series following Deadeye (Feb. 2015), about an LA detective in the years following an act of bioengineered terrorism in 2038 that left part of the population with horrible mutations.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Science fiction flourishes notwithstanding, the novel tracks as a straight crime thriller. Its brisk pacing and suspenseful twists will suck in readers, who will eagerly await the revelation of the Bonebreaker’s identity in a future book.”

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* Estep, Jennifer : Spider’s Trap
(Pocket 978-1-5011-0517-3, $7.99, 400pp, mass market paperback, August 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Elemental Assassin #16

Urban fantasy novel, 16th in the Elemental Assassin series of now 13 novels and 3 novellas, about assassin Gin Blanco in the southern city of Ashland.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “As always, the central mystery and interpersonal relationships are well crafted.”

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* Griffith, Clay, & Susan Griffith : The Conquering Dark
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0345540508, $7.99, 352pp, mass market paperback, August 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Crown & Key #3

Urban fantasy novel, third of a trilogy following The Shadow Revolution (June 2, 2015) and The Undying Legion (June 30, 2015), about werewolves in Victorian-era London.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.

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* Grossman, Austin : Crooked
(Little, Brown/Mulholland Books 978-0-316-19851-6, $26, 368pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316198509
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478904113

Alternate history novel in which Richard Nixon tells the story of his life, revealing, among other things, the supernatural secret he discovered as a young man.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Grossman has done a fine job of combining history, thriller, and weird tale.”

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* Holt, Tom : The Good, the Bad, and the Smug
(Orbit 978-0-316-36881-0, $15, 384pp, trade paperback, August 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316368803
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478909170

Humorous fantasy novel, subtitled “A novel beyond good and evil”, about a goblin king investigating how the human race is getting so rich.
• Hachette’s site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review, saying the author “achieves near-perfection in his new comic fantasy” and concluding, “Holt keeps track of every thread from beginning to end and cleverly ties them all together in unexpected ways. This is a must-read for those who grew up in awe of The Phantom Tollbooth.”

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* Ishiguro, Tatsuaki : Biogenesis and Other Stories
(Vertical 978-1-934287-30-9, $14.95, 240pp, trade paperback, August 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-942993-44-5

Collection of 4 or 5 stories by the Japanese author, his first work to appear in English, about (according the Amazon description) the precariousness of species.
• Vertical’s site has this description, with blurbs from Kenzaburo Oe and others.

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* Johnson, Jean : The Terrans
(Ace 978-0425276914, $7.99, 464pp, mass market paperback, August 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698175785
• First Salik War #1

Military SF novel, first in a new series set in the world of the author’s “Theirs Not to Reason Why” series, set 200 years earlier.
• Penguin’s site has this description.

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* Kadrey, Richard : Killing Pretty
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-237310-6, $25.99, 400pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062373243
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062395344
• Sandman Slim #7

Urban fantasy thriller, seventh in a series following Sandman Slim (2009), Kill the Dead (2010), Aloha from Hell (2011), Devil Said Bang (2012), Kill City Blues (2013), and The Getaway God (2014), about James Stark, hit man from Hell.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “There’s little sense of menace or looming darkness, but plenty of over-the-top entertainment.”

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* Milán, Victor : The Dinosaur Lords
(Tor 978-0-7653-3296-7, $26.99, 448pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429966115

Fantasy novel about a world that mirrors 14th century Europe in which knights battle on dinosaurs rather than horses. This is the author’s first non tie-in novel in some 20 years.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Milán skillfully crafts his characters, giving each one vivid individuality. He has also given significant thought to just how knights might use dinosaurs as mounts in combat, suggesting novel techniques such as hadrosaurs that make sonic attacks. Readers who pick this up for the gimmick will relish it for the able storytelling.”

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* Molles, D. J. : The Remaining: Extinction
(Orbit 978-0-316-26164-7, $10, 480pp, mass market paperback, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316261661
• The Remaining #6

Post-apocalypse zombie novel, sixth in a series following The Remaining: Allegiance (Feb. 2015).
• Hachette’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “The series wraps up on a literally explosive but hopeful note that speaks to the resilience and bravery of humans in the face of utter devastation.”

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* Nassise, Joseph, & Del Howison, eds. : Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed
(Tor 978-0-7653-3542-5, $24.99, 304pp, hardcover, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466823624

Anthology of 22 original stories based on Clive Barker’s novella “Cabal” and the film Nightbreed.
• Authors include Seanan McGuire, Amber Benson, Nancy Holder, and David J. Schow.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “References to characters and plot points from Barker’s original may puzzle those not familiar with it, but the juxtapositions of monstrous humans and humanized monsters will register with fans of thought-provoking horror.”

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* Ochse, Weston : Grunt Traitor
(Rebellion/Solaris 978-1781083581, $7.99, 432pp, mass market paperback, July 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Jul 2015
• Task Force Ombra #2

Military SF novel, second of a series following Grunt Life (2014), about a military man fighting an alien invasion of Earth.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description.

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