* Brom : Lost Gods
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-209568-8, $27.99, 496pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062095701
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062564894

Illustrated fantasy novel about a man who descends into Purgatory to save the souls of his wife and unborn child.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review says, “Fantasy artist and author Brom creates a fascinating vision of the underworld in this sprawling dark novel…”

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* Cameron, Miles : The Plague of Swords
(Orbit 978-0-316-30242-5, $16.99, 512pp, trade paperback, November 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316302418
• Traitor Son #4

Historical fantasy novel, fourth in a series following The Red Knight (2013), The Fell Sword (2014), and The Dread Wyrm (2015), about a tournament between knights.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review begins, “The dense fourth novel in the Traitor Son Cycle isn’t an easy jumping-on point for newcomers, but it serves as a very solid continuation of the tale for readers who have been following the adventures of Gabriel in Cameron’s sprawling alternate historical Europe.”

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* Douglas, Ian : Altered Starscape
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-237919-1, $7.99, 384pp, mass market paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062379214
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062448743
• Andromedan Dark #1

Military SF novel about a human expedition to the galactic core that is sucked into a black hole and emerges four billion years in the future, when the Andromeda Galaxy is drifting into the Milky Way.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample.

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* Fahnestock, Todd : The Wishing World
(Tor/Starscape 978-0765385888, $17.99, 224pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765385901

Young adult fantasy novel about a girl searching for her family, who have disappeared into a magical world.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Gustainis, Justin : The Devil Will Come
(Hades/Edge Science Fiction And Fantasy 978-1770530898, $12.95, 200pp, trade paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016

Collection of 21 stories about evil.
• The publisher’s site has this description with previews.

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* McCormack, Una : The Star of the Sea
(Solaris 978-1781084830, $7.99, 304pp, mass market paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016
• Weird Space #f

SF novel, fourth in a series begun by Eric Brown with Weird Space: The Devil’s Nebula (2012), with the third volume, Weird Space: The Baba Yaga (2015), by McCormack and Brown. McCormack is otherwise known for novels in the Star Trek and Doctor Who franchises.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description.

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* McIntosh, Will : Faller
(Tor 978-0-7653-8355-6, $25.99, 352pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466892460

SF novel in which Earth becomes fragmented into islands of rock in an endless sky, and no one can remember who they are or how to read.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “…this is an overall sound piece of work.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the October issue of Locus Magazine: “It’s a bit overpacked, to be sure, but when McIntosh starts gathering the threads, he does make a case for unity in his novel, even as those threads, like the lines in Faller’s parachute, get pretty strained from all the buffeting.”

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* Melanson, Trevor : Terminal City
(Hades/Edge Science Fiction And Fantasy 978-1770530836, $12.95, 200pp, trade paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016
• Terminal City Saga #1

Fantasy novel about man debating between becoming a student at the city’s top university, or following in his necromancer father’s footsteps.
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* Moreno-Garcia, Silvia : Certain Dark Things
(St. Martin’s/Dunne 978-1-250-09908-2, $25.99, 336pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250099099
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427285027

Vampire novel set in Mexico City.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review begins, “Moreno-Garcia’s action-packed second standalone novel (after Signal to Noise) brings myths from multiple cultures into focus as different, coexisting types of vampires get tangled up in the drug wars of near-future Mexico, setting the stage for a bloody and engrossing story of rival families.”

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* Shepherd, Mike : Kris Longknife: Bold
(Ace 978-0425277386, $7.99, 400pp, mass market paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698180666
• Kris Longknife #14

Military SF adventure novel, fourteenth in the series following Mutineer, Deserter (both 2004), Defiant (2005), Resolute (2006), Audacious (2007), Intrepid (2008), Undaunted (2009), Redoubtable (2010), Daring (2011), Furious (2012), Defender (2013), Tenacious (2014), and Unrelenting (2015) about a Prime Minister’s daughter who joins the space navy.
• Mike Shepherd is a pseudonym for Mike Moscoe.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a “Look Inside” link.

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* Weeks, Brent : The Blood Mirror
(Orbit 978-0-316-25133-4, $28, 704pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316251310
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478978367
• UK edition: 978-0356504605 (Thu 27 Oct 2016)
• Lightbringer #4

Fantasy novel, fourth in a series following The Black Prism (2010), The Blinding Knife (2012), and The Broken Eye (2014).
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Weeks deftly moves the pieces around his chessboard, snapping them with assured feeling onto their new squares in preparation for a climactic confrontation. Readers will need to pay careful attention to catch all the political and social machinations.”

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* Wilson, Kai Ashante : A Taste of Honey
(Tor.com 978-0-7653-9004-2, $14.99, 160pp, trade paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765390059

Fantasy short novel, set in the world of the author’s The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, about a royal family member’s gay romance with a handsome soldier.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Setting the rewards of duty against loyalty to self, Wilson displays his talent for tugging the reader’s heartstrings and underplaying hard emotion, and he delivers a poignant and satisfying conclusion.”

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* Wise, A. C. : The Kissing Booth Girl and other stories
(Lethe 978-1-59021-633-0, $18, 254pp, trade paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2016

Collection of 14 stories, four of them original to this book.
• Lethe’s site has this description with the table of contents.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Wise’s inventive sense of weirdness and wonder comes to the forefront in this intense, graceful collection of stories in which plot plays second fiddle to quietly immersive world-building, longing and obsession are the forces of beauty, and grimness leads not to depressive dystopia but to desperately hopeful and brave, if still unsettling, solutions.”

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