New UK Books, April 2016
* de Castell, Sebastien : Saint’s Blood
(UK: Quercus/Jo Fletcher 978-1782066804, £18.99, 576pp, hardcover, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 7 Apr 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781784299644
• The Greatcoats #3
Fantasy novel, third in a series following Traitor’s Blade (2014) and Knight’s Shadow (2015), about a troupe of travelling Magisters reviled for having failed to prevent the overthrow of their king.
• Quercus’ site has this description.
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* Gonzales, Tony : The Tabit Genesis
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-0575093232, £8.99, 416pp, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 28 Apr 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780575093249
Far future SF novel about the survivors of a space that fled Earth now destroyed by hostile aliens.
• Orion’s site has this description, which blurbs it as “GAME OF THRONES meets BATTLESTAR GALACTICA”.
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* Guran, Paula, ed. : The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction
(UK: Robinson 978-1472120038, $10.99, 496pp, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 14 Apr 2016
Anthology of 25 original stories based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
• Authors include Laird Barron, John Langan, Yoon Ha Lee, Michael Shea, John Shirley, and Sandra McDonald.
• The US edition is due May 24th from Running Press, whose site has this description.
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* McAuley, Paul : Into Everywhere
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-1473203983, $16.99, 432pp, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 21 Apr 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781473204003
SF novel, sequel to Something Coming Through (2015), about aliens, the Jackaroo, who have provided humanity with technology to access other worlds.
• Gollancz’ site has this description.
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* Peek, Ben : Leviathan’s Blood
(UK: Macmillan/Tor UK 978-1447251316, £18.99, 704pp, hardcover, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 7 Apr 2016
• Children #2
Epic fantasy novel, second in a series following The Godless (2014), set 15,000 years after warring Gods have left their bodies across the world.
• Pan Macmillan’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The US edition is due May 31st from St. Martin’s. The Publishers Weekly review calls it “innovative in concept but long-winded in execution.”
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