* Brodsky, Jordanna Max : The Immortals
(Orbit 978-0316347181, $25, 464pp, hardcover, February 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Feb 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316385879
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478907992
• Olympus Bound #1

Fantasy novel, the author’s first novel and first in a series, about the Greek gods living in contemporary New York City.
• Orbit’s site has this post about the book with a link to book site OlympusBound.com with a video and an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Brodsky injects a melancholy air into this thoughtful thriller, taking her inspiration from the bloody, often contradictory, and frequently tragic Greek myths. … This intelligent, provocative fantasy breathes exciting new life into old, familiar tales.”

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* Henderson, Randy : Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free
(Tor 978-0765378101, $25.99, 432pp, hardcover, February 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Feb 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466859142
• The Arcana Familia #2

Fantasy novel, second in a series following Finn Fancy Necromancy (2015), about a man returning to the real world about 25 years imprisonment in the Fey otherworld.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* LaValle, Victor : The Ballad of Black Tom
(Tor.com 978-0-7653-8786-8, $12.99, 152pp, trade paperback, February 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Feb 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765386618
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427273802

Short fantasy novel about a street musician in 1920s New York.
• Macmillan’s site has this description
• The Publishers Weekly review notes that the author “cleverly retcons H.P. Lovecraft’s infamous story ‘The Horror at Red Hook,’ retelling it with a new protagonist (the titular Charles Thomas Tester, a splendidly Lovecraftian name) and a literary veneer that recalls Chester Himes.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the February issue of Locus Magazine: “In a clever twist, LaValle narrates the second half of the novella from the point of view of the cop Malone, which has the rather graceful recursive effect of arcing the narrative back toward Lovecraft’s original point of view. It’s not necessary to have read ‘‘The Horror at Red Hook’’ to enjoy LaValle’s re-imagining, but it certainly adds a mordant irony to the tale.”

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* Rossi, Veronica : Riders
(Tor/Starscape 978-0765382542, $17.99, 368pp, hardcover, February 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Feb 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466887794
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427275516
• Four Horsemen #1

Young adult fantasy novel, first in a series, about a young Army Ranger who survives death and becomes one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Rossi has a solid handle on Gideon’s voice, who recounts the story as a flashback while being interrogated by members of the intelligence community, though this framing device tends to impede momentum and undermine the more exciting moments.”

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* Ruff, Matt : Lovecraft Country
(Harper 978-0-06-229206-3, $26.99, 384pp, hardcover, February 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Feb 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062292087

Fantasy novel about a young army vet in 1954 who tracks his missing father to the New England estate of the family that once owned the vet’s ancestors.
• Harper’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review says, “This timely rumination on racism in America refracts an African-American family’s brush with supernatural horrors through the prism of life in the Jim Crow years of the mid-20th century.”
• Stefan Dziemianowicz reviewed it in the January issue of Locus Magazine: “Ruff shows with great cleverness how it’s possible for a group of victims to appropriate the very methods used to victimize them, master those methods, and bend them to serve their own purposes. There’s poetic justice in his novel’s ending…”

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* Salyards, Jeff : Chains of the Heretic
(Skyhorse/Night Shade Books 978-1597808132, $25.99, 524pp, hardcover, February 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Feb 2016
• Bloodsounder’s Arc #3

Military fantasy novel, third in a series following Scourge of the Betrayer (2012) and Veil of the Deserters (2014), about a young scribe hired to chronicle the exploits of a band or warriors.
• Night Shade’s site has this description.

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* Sanderson, Brandon : Calamity
(Random House/Delacorte 978-0385743600, $18.99, 432pp, hardcover, February 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Feb 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780449818411
• The Reckoners #3

Young adult novel, third in a series following Steelheart (2013) and Firefight (2015), about a group of corrupt superbeings called Epics, and the ordinary human Reckoners who fight them.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly called the first book “an absolute page-turner.”

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* Straub, Peter : Interior Darkness: Selected Stories
(Doubleday 978-0-385-54105-3, $28.95, 496pp, hardcover, February 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Feb 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780385541060
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780451481894

Collection of 16 stories drawn from three earlier collections with three stories previously uncollected.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “This outstanding collection of 16 reprints highlights what makes Straub such a master of genre-bending horror and suspense, and it’s an effective introduction for readers new to his considerable body of work.”

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* Wells, Dan : Bluescreen
(HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray 978-0062347879, $17.99, 352pp, hardcover, February 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Feb 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062347893
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062447333

Young adult SF novel, first in a series, set in 2050 Los Angeles where everyone can be online 24 hours a day via a device, a djinni, implanted in their head.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “The ethnically diverse cast features several strong, resourceful women, while Marisa’s struggles with her artificial arm add another layer to the story, helping it stand out as more than a typical SF adventure. It’s an engaging start to Wells’s Mirador series.”

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