Weekly Bestsellers, 19 November 2018
Brandon Sanderson’s young-adult novel Skyward (Delacorte) debuts on three lists. ...Read More Read more
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Locus Bestsellers, November 2018
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month 1) Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) 2 1 2) Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace) 3 2 3) Serpentine, Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley) 1 – 4) Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing) 1 – 5) The Fall of Gondolin, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 1 – 6) Alternate Routes, Tim Powers (Baen) 1 – *) Kill the Farm Boy, Delilah S. Dawson & Kevin ...Read More
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month 1) Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) 2 1 2) Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace) 3 2 3) Serpentine, Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley) 1 – 4) Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing) 1 – 5) The Fall of Gondolin, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 1 – 6) Alternate Routes, Tim Powers (Baen) 1 – *) Kill the Farm Boy, Delilah S. Dawson & Kevin ...Read More
New Books : 13 November 2018
Welcome, visitors to Earth! Tour our celestial arks; enigmatic schools of magic; a dangerous forest called The Circle; the Empire of Sand; and wherever it is that Jeff VanderMeer takes you, all in these 12 new books
Amazon.com’s Favorite SF/F book of 2018, Christelle Dabos’ A Winter’s Promise; the final “Novel of the Change” by S.M. Stirling, The Sky-Blue Wolves; a nonfiction study of the works of Jeff ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 12 November 2018
Stephen King’s short novel Elevation (Scribner) debuts strongly, ranking #1 at the New York Times. ...Read More Read more
Periodicals, early November 2018
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Aphelion, Aurealis, Clarkesworld, The Dark, Galaxy’s Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Shimmer, and Uncanny ...Read More
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New Books : 6 November 2018
This long list of new books lets us discover the monsters within, with surgically-reformed murderers, screaming angels, vampire mothers, a voidwitch, fractured fairy tales, garden of eldritch delights, airborne zombie plague, and Someone Like Me
Dave Hutchinson’s Europe at Dawn, Glen Hirshberg’s Nothing to Devour, Andy Duncan’s collection An Agent of Utopia, and titles by Tamara Berry, Amanda Bridgeman, M.R. Carey, James Alan Gardner, Christopher Golden, W.L. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 5 November 2018
Sarah J. Maas’ Kingdom of Ash (Bloomsbury) debuts strongly on two lists, ranking #1 on the Publishers Weekly children’s list, and #2 on the combined USA Today list.
And George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (Bantam), due November 20, is selling on all three Amazon sites this morning. ...Read More
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Electronic Periodicals, late October 2018
An issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction in tribute to Gardner Dozois, a new issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show, and October issues and posts at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com. ...Read More
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New Books : 30 October 2018
Explore the end of the world in this list of 12 new books: an uncharted sea, a border wall. Impending cataclysms, post-apocalypses, and humanity’s war with aliens.
Stephen King’s Elevation, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition illustrated by Charles Vess, Lavie Tidhar’s Unholy Land, and titles by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Shaun Barger, Seth Dickinson, Victor Godinez, Jonathan Maberry, Garth Nix & Sean ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 29 October 2018
John Scalzi’s The Consuming Fire (Tor) debuts on three lists this week, ranking as high as #15 on the list at Los Angeles Times (where Scalzi is a columnist). ...Read More Read more
Print Periodicals, October 2018
New issues of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Black Static, Interzone, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ...Read More
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New & Notable Books, October 2018
Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (Crown 8/18) Bennett’s new fantasy series, The Founders, focuses on the powerful city of Tevanne, controlled by four merchant houses using a imperfectly understood magic system. Sancia, a young thief with strange powers, steals a talking key that can open any door, and mayhem (sometime spectacular) ensues, revealing more of the fascinatingly complex magic system along the way.
Michael Bishop, The Sacerdotal Owl and Three ...Read More
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New Books : 23 October 2018
What character will you choose from this week’s new books? A Green Rider, a mage-in-training, a geomancer, a holy soldier, a teenaged assassin, an amateur magician, a boarding house full of outlaw scientists, or a storyteller accused of witchcraft?
Alec Nevala-Lee’s nonfiction Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel Red Moon, and ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 22 October 2018
Sarah J. Maas’ Kingdom of Ash (Bloomsbury), concluding volume in the Throne of Glass series and on sale tomorrow, is selling well on all three Amazon sites today. ...Read More Read more
New in Paperback : October 2018
Young protagonists rule this list of new October paperbacks, with books by Nnedi Okorafor, Garth Nix & Sean Williams, Sarah J. Maas, Susan Dennard, Rae Carson, and Orson Scott Card
Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Warrior, Sam J. Miller’s Blackfish City, James S.A. Corey’s Persepolis Rising, and titles by Pierce Brown, Orson Scott Card, Rae Carson, Susan Dennard, Mercedes Lackey, Sarah J. Maas, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Garth Nix & ...Read More
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New Books : 16 October 2018
These 10 new books are a fantastic mix of horror, space stories, and magic. Find Cthulhu, space pirates, and Elemental Master Sherlock Holmes all on this week’s list!
Gardner Dozois’ anthology The Book of Magic, Steven Erikson’s Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart, John Scalzi’s The Consuming Fire, and titles by Lila Bowen, Paula Guran, S.T. Joshi, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Mercedes Lackey, Tim Major, and R.E. Stearns. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 15 October 2018
Several titles debut this week, beginning with Anne Rice’s Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (Knopf), ranking #5 on two lists, and David Weber’s Uncompromising Honor (Baen), ranking on three lists as high as #7.
Other debuts, as shown in the table below, are by David Levithan, Ransom Riggs, Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman, Laini Taylor, and Martha Wells. ...Read More
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Locus Bestsellers, October 2018
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month 1) Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) 1 – 2) Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace) 2 1 3) The Skaar Invasion, Terry Brooks (Del Rey) 2 4 4) Outcasts of Order, L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Tor) 2 6 5) Kill the Farm Boy, Delilah S. Dawson & Kevin Hearne (Del Rey) 1 – 6) The Privilege of Peace, Tanya Huff (DAW) 2 9 7) Oathbringer, ...Read More
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month 1) Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) 1 – 2) Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace) 2 1 3) The Skaar Invasion, Terry Brooks (Del Rey) 2 4 4) Outcasts of Order, L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Tor) 2 6 5) Kill the Farm Boy, Delilah S. Dawson & Kevin Hearne (Del Rey) 1 – 6) The Privilege of Peace, Tanya Huff (DAW) 2 9 7) Oathbringer, ...Read More
New Books : 9 October 2018
10 new October books, including follow-ups to: Power Play (Ben Bova), Rift Uprising (Amy Foster), Gilded Cage (Vic James), Miss Peregrine’s Home (Ransom Riggs), and The Tiger’s Daughter (K. Arsenault Rivera)
Ursula K. Le Guin’s last book of poems, So Far So Good: Poems 2014–2018, and other titles by Dale Bailey, Ben Bova, Amy S. Foster, Vic James, Gary Kemble, Marie O’Regan, Ransom Riggs, K. Arsenault Rivera, and K.B. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 8 October 2018
V.E. Schwab’s Vengeful (Tor) debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #7 on the New York Times list. ...Read More Read more
Periodicals, early October 2018
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Apex, Clarkesworld, The Dark,GigaNotoSaurus, Kaleidotrope, Lightspeed, and Nightmare ...Read More
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New Books : 2 October 2018
N.K. Jemisin & John Joseph Adams’ The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, Ellen Datlow’s The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction, Derek Künsken’s debut novel The Quantum Magician, Rich Larson’s debut collection Tomorrow Factory, and titles by Charlie Jane Anders, Terry Brooks, Catherine Cerveny, Julie E. Czerneda, N.S. Dolkart, Brendan DuBois, Dave Duncan, Jennifer Estep, ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 1 October 2018
Deborah Harkness’ Time’s Convert (Viking), a new book set in the world of her All Soul’s trilogy, debuts strongly, ranking #3 on both the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists. ...Read More Read more
Online Periodicals, late September 2018
September issues and posts at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com. ...Read More
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New Books : 25 September 2018
Fulfill your sense of fantastical and SFnal mystery with new September books: Small Spaces, The Agony House, Sisters of the Winter Wood, The Astronaut’s Son, and Foe!
Shaun Tan’s Tales from the Inner City, Alice Hoffman & Lisa Hoffman’s Faerie Knitting: 14 Tales of Love and Magic, Sheldon Teitelbaum & Emmanuel Lottem’s Zion’s Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature, and titles by Katherine Arden, Grace Draven, ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 24 September 2018
A new thriller by Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door (Bantam), debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #5 on two of them.
Note that an error today on the Publishers Weekly website replaces the Children’s Frontlist Fiction list with a repeat of the Children’s Picture Books list; thus none of the YA titles that ranked on the PW list last week show up this week. ...Read More
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New in Paperback : September 2018
Annalee Newitz’ Autonomous, Paolo Bacigalupi’s Tool of War, Stephen King & Owen King’s Sleeping Beauties, and titles by Cassandra Clare, Julie E. Czerneda, Stephen R. Donaldson, Gene Doucette, Seanan McGuire, Patrick Ness, and Robin Sloan ...Read More
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New & Notable Books, September 2018
B. Catling, The Cloven (Vintage 7/18) The final volume in the dark historical fantasy Vorrh trilogy (after The Vorrh and The Erstwhile) brings this ambitious and unpredictable series to a moving conclusion. Afrikaner socialite Cyrena Lohr mourns the death of her cyclops lover Ishmael and has a dalliance with naturalist Eugène Marais, who gives her a gift that allows her visions of another world… while Nicholas the Erstwhile senses looming ...Read More
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New Books : 18 September 2018
13 Unearthly New Books: Demons, Vampires, Witches, Frankenstein, and Portals to Hell. This September is all about the supernatural.
The US edition of Philip Pullman’s Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling, plus titles by Myke Cole, Claire G. Coleman, Sebastien de Castell, Deborah Harkness, Tanya Huff, George Mann, Mark Morris, Catherine Reef, Brandon Sanderson, Peter Tieryas, Harry Turtledove, and Edward Willett. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 17 September 2018
Several titles debut on lists this week, most prominently a new Forgotten Realms novel by R.A. Salvatore, Timeless (Harper Voyager), ranking as high as #11 on the Publishers Weekly list.
Also: Flight or Fright, an anthology edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent and published by Cemetery Dance — the second title from that publishers ever compiled on these pages, after Gwendy’s Button Box by King and Richard ...Read More
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Locus Bestsellers, September 2018
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month 1) Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace) 1 – 2) The Hills Have Spies, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) 1 – 3) Season of Storms, Andrzej Sapkowski (Orbit US) 1 – 4) The Skaar Invasion, Terry Brooks (Del Rey) 1 – 5) Starless, Jacqueline Carey (Tor) 1 – 6) Outcasts of Order, L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Tor) 1 – 7) King of Ashes, Raymond E. Feist (Harper Voyager ...Read More
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month 1) Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace) 1 – 2) The Hills Have Spies, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) 1 – 3) Season of Storms, Andrzej Sapkowski (Orbit US) 1 – 4) The Skaar Invasion, Terry Brooks (Del Rey) 1 – 5) Starless, Jacqueline Carey (Tor) 1 – 6) Outcasts of Order, L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Tor) 1 – 7) King of Ashes, Raymond E. Feist (Harper Voyager ...Read More
New Books : 11 September 2018
From 9/11 conspiracies, to micro-democracy, to government mind-control programs, to migrations and fractured borders, September’s new books are filled with shadowy state machinations.
Christopher Priest’s An American Story, Sjón’s CoDex 1962, and titles by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare, Glen Cook, Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law, Sara Hanover, Dean Koontz, Malka Older, Parker Peevyhouse, Angus Watson, and Scott Westerfeld ...Read More
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