* Allen, Mike : The Spider Tapestries: Seven Strange Stories
(Mythic Delirium 978-0-9889124-6-5, $14.95, 140pp, trade paperback, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 1 Mar 2016

Collection of seven stories, one of them original to this book.
• The introduction is by Nicole Kornher-Stace.
• The publisher’s site has this description with blurbs from Helen Marshall and Scott Nicolay.
• The Publishers Weekly review says, “Elegant language and surrealistic themes defy genre and moral expectations in the weird and transgressive stories found in this collection.”

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* Barron, Laird : Man with No Name
(Journal-Stone 978-1-942712-86-2, $9.95, 104pp, trade paperback, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 18 Mar 2016

Associational thriller about a clan dispute among the Yakuza that involves the kidnapping of a famed wrestler.
• Journal-Stone’s site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Barron’s beautiful language is intentionally murky, capturing the mysterious, and at times frightening, quality of Japan’s gang underworld.”

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* Brown, Zachary : Titan’s Fall
(Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 978-1481430388, $14.99, 224pp, trade paperback, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781481430401
• The Icarus Corps #2

Military SF novel, second in a series following The Darkside War (2015), about a battle between humans and aliens on Titan.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly said of the first book, “Devlin’s adventures have the feel of a young adult coming-of-age novel, but some of the language and situations feel too strong for that audience. Perhaps future installments will find more of a groove.”

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* Clare, Cassandra : Lady Midnight
(Simon & Schuster/McElderry 978-1442468351, $24.99, 720pp, hardcover, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781442468375
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781442357105
• The Dark Artifices #1

Young adult fantasy novel, first in a new series that’s a sequel to the earlier Mortal Instruments series, concerning the Shadowhunters of Los Angeles.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with a preview.
• The Publishers Weekly review calls it an “enjoyable if drawn-out tale”.

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+ Elliott, Will : World’s End
(Tor 978-0765331908, $26.99, 432pp, hardcover, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429947756
• Pendulum Trilogy #3

First US edition (UK: Quercus/Jo Fletcher, December 2012)

Fantasy novel, third of a trilogy following Pilgrims (Nov. 2011) and Shadow (Jun. 2012).
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.

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* Gunn, James : Transgalactic
(Tor 978-0765380920, $26.99, 224pp, hardcover, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466876125
• Transcendental #2

SF novel, sequel to Transcendental (2013), about a network of machines enabling transportation across the galaxy.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Gunn has written an old-fashioned and deeply philosophical space opera. The pace of this middle book sometimes lags, and it never really comes to a satisfying conclusion, but it should nonetheless particularly appeal to fans of Arthur C. Clarke who are willing to wait and see what happens in book three.”
• Russell Letson reviews it in the March issue of Locus Magazine: “This is not character-driven fiction, but a deliberate revisiting of some of the genre’s most enduring features across a century or more: the cosmic-history vistas of Wells and Stapledon (and the non-fiction speculations of J. B. S. Haldane or J. D. Bernal); the far-future strangeness of ‘‘Don R. Stuart’’ (John W. Campbell in his quieter mode) or very early Arthur C. Clarke…”

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* Martin, Gail Z. : Shadow and Flame
(Orbit 978-0316278034, $15.99, 672pp, trade paperback, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316278058
• UK edition: 978-0356504957 (Thu 24 Mar 2016)
• Ascendant Kingdoms #4

Fantasy novel, fourth and final books in a series after Ice Forged (2013), Reign of Ash (2014), and War of Shadows (2015) about colonists in a northern wasteland who return to the kingdom that exiled them.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Oyeyemi, Helen : What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
(Penguin/Riverhead 978-1594634635, $27, 336pp, hardcover, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698407879

Collection of nine stories, four of them previously published.
• Penguin’s site has this description with quotes from numerous reviews.
• The Publishers Weekly review begins, “In her first story collection, Oyeyemi conjures present-day Europe, made enticingly strange by undercurrents of magic, and populated by ghosts, sentient puppets, and possible witches alongside middle-aged psychiatrists, tyrants, and feminist undergrads.”

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* Smale, Alan : Eagle in Exile
(Del Rey 978-0-8041-7724-5, $28, 592pp, hardcover, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780804177252
• Clash of Eagles #2

Alternate history novel, second of a trilogy following Clash of Eagles (2015), in which the Roman Empire discovers North America in 1218 A.D.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “The author has done prodigious research into Native American lore and Roman military history to produce this novel, which is filled with intelligent extrapolations of what a 13th-century Roman Imperium might be like.”

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* Tanaka, Yoshiki : Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Vol 1: Dawn
(Haikasoru 978-1-4215-8494-2, $15.99, 304pp, trade paperback, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Mar 2016

Military SF novel, first of a series published in the 1980s and the basis of numerous manga and anime works. This volume won a Seiun Award for best Japanese novel in 1988. The new edition here is translated by Daniel Huddleston.
• Wikipedia has this entry about the seires.
• Haikasoru’s site has this description of the book with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “It doesn’t help that Tanaka’s nearly 35-year-old plot has aged rather poorly; with its overwhelmingly male-dominated story and shallow female characters, it’s hard to find a place for this series among today’s more nuanced SF.”

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