New Books, 8 September 2015
* Aguirre, Ann : Breakout
(Ace 978-0425258163, $7.99, 336pp, mass market paperback, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Aug 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698187030
• The Dred Chronicles #3
SF novel, third in a series following Perdition (2013) and Havoc (2014), about politics aboard a spaceship prison in orbit around an asteroid.
• Penguin’s site has this description with a preview function.
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* Barzak, Christopher : Wonders of the Invisible World
(Knopf 978-0385392792, $17.99, 352pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780385392815
Young-adult fantasy novel about a 17-year-old boy whose eyes are opened to the spirit world.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The Kirkus review concludes, “Part ghost story, part love story, this page-turner is a captivating exploration of the power of place, family, memory, and time itself.”
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* Cornell, Paul : Witches of Lychford
(Tor.com 978-0765385239, $12.99, 144pp, trade paperback, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466891890
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427269041
• Witches of Lychford #1
Short fantasy novel, first in a series, about a small hamlet that lies on the border between two worlds.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Refreshing and suspenseful, this novella is an inventive look at the idea of magic lurking just beyond one’s reach.”
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* de Bodard, Aliette : The House of Shattered Wings
(Roc 978-0-451-47738-5, $26.95, 416pp, hardcover, August 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 18 Aug 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698409903
• UK edition: Orion/Gollancz 978-1473212558 (Thu 20 Aug 2015)
Fantasy novel about rival Great Houses in a late 20th-century Paris still devastated by the Great War.
• Penguin’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “De Bodard aptly mixes moral conflicts and the desperate need to survive in a fantastical spy thriller that reads like a hybrid of le Carré and Milton, all tinged with the melancholy of golden ages lost.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the September issue of Locus Magazine: “…it’s all the more remarkable that Aliette de Bodard’s The House of Shattered Wings reads not quite like any fantasy you’ve read before, with or without fallen angels.”
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* Dees, Cindy, & Bill Flippin : The Sleeping King
(Tor 978-0765335142, $25.99, 496pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466821286
• The Sleeping King #1
Fantasy novel, first in a series, about overlords, prophecies, and two young people on a path to save the day.
• Dees is best known as a romance author and has published over fifty novels.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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+ Edwards, Janet : Earth Flight
(Pyr 978-1-63388-092-4, $17.99, 365pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Sep 2015
• Earth Girl #3
Young adult SF novel, third in a trilogy following Earth Girl (2013) and Earth Star (2014), about an 18-year-old girl whose immune system will not allow her to leave Earth.
• Pyr’s site has this description, though the site is down at the moment pending renewal.
• The book was published in August 2014 by Harper Voyager in the UK.
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* Green, Simon R. : Forces From Beyond
(Ace 978-0425259955, $7.99, 304pp, mass market paperback, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Aug 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698187047
• Ghost Finders #6
Fantasy novel, sixth in a series following Ghost of a Chance (2010), Ghost of a Smile (2011), Ghost of a Dream (2012), Spirits from Beyond (2013), and Voices from Beyond (2014),about operatives of the Carnacki Institute whose mission is to do something about the ghosts.
• Penguin’s site has this description with a preview function.
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+ Hair, David : Unholy War
(Quercus/Jo Fletcher 978-1623656317, $26.99, 688pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Sep 2015
• Moontide Quartet #3
First US edition (UK: Quercus/Jo Fletcher, October 2014)
Fantasy novel, third in a series following Mage’s Blood and The Scarlet Tides (both 2013), about war between two continents.
• Quercus’ site has this description.
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* Lackey, Mercedes : Hunter
(Disney/Hyperion 978-1-4847-0784-5, $17.99, 384pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 1 Sep 2015
Young adult fantasy novel about the survivors of a catastrophe in which the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were broken.
• The author’s site has this description.
• Carolyn Cushman reviewed it in the July issue of Locus Magazine: “It’s a thrilling tale during the actual hunts, but it would be nice to see more suspicion on Joy’s part.”
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* Nelson, J. C. : Wish Bound
(Ace 978-0425272916, $7.99, 304pp, mass market paperback, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Aug 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698147836
• Grimm Agency #3
Fantasy novel, third in a series following Free Agent (2014) and Armageddon Rules (2015), about a young woman obliged to work for a fairy godmother.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
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* Oates, Joyce Carol : The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age
(HarperCollins/Ecco 978-0062408679, $27.99, 368pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062408693
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062416582
Memoir of the author’s childhood.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “…this memoir of her early life strings together the recollections that most deeply impressed her consciousness. They reveal an intensely shy, nervous, self-admittedly secretive child, as easily moved to terror as to wonder at the formative mysteries of childhood…”
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* Piercy, Marge : My Life, My Body
(PM Press 978-1-62963-105-9, $12, 128pp, trade paperback, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 1 Sep 2015
Collection of essays and poems, latest volume in the series of short volumes from PM Press edited by Terry Bisson.
• PM Press’ site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “This pithy collection of essays and poems condenses Piercy’s sharp wit and ruthless clarity into a crystalline set of provocations brimming with earthy good sense, social awareness, and ‘the dignity of necessary work.’ “
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* Rushdie, Salman : Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
(Random House 978-0-8129-9891-7, $28, 304pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780812998924
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781101926680
Fantasy novel about contemporary residents of New York City, descendants of the jinn, who begin exhibiting magical powers.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: Rushdie’s “magical realism celebrates the power of metaphor, while both historic accounts and fables are imbued with familiar themes of migration and separation, reason and faith, repression and freedom.”
• Paul Di Filippo will have a review of the book for Locus Online later this month.
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* Tassi, Paul : The Last Exodus
(Skyhorse/Talos 978-1-940456-37-9, $15.99, 348pp, trade paperback, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Sep 2015
• The Earthborn Trilogy #1
SF novel, first of a trilogy and the author’s first novel, about survivors of an alien invasion that has devastated the Earth.
• The book was published earlier, in 2012, according to the author’s bio.
• Talos’ site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Debut novelist Tassi gifts his characters with solid motivations and understandable responses to the postapocalyptic setting that invoke a measure of the reader’s sympathy for cannibal chieftains and alien nemeses alike.”
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