* Card, Orson Scott Shadow of the Hegemon
(Tor 0-312-87651-3, $25.95, 365pp, hc, January 2001, jacket art Lisa Flakenstern)
(Tue 2 Jan 2001)

+ Dann, Jack, & Janeen Webb, eds Dreaming Down-Under
(Tor 0-312-87811-7, $27.95, 10+550pp, hc, January 2001, jacket art Nick Stathopoulos)
First US edition (Australia: HarperCollins November 1998). (Tue 30 Jan 2001)

* Dann, Jack, & Gardner Dozois, eds Genometry
(Ace 0-441-00797-x, $5.99, 10+272pp, pb, January 2001, jacket art Walter Velez)
(Tue 2 Jan 2001)

* Ford, Jeffrey The Beyond
(Eos 0-380-97897-0, $24, 290pp, hc, January 2001, jacket art Phil Singer, jacket design Nadine Badalaty)
(Fri 26 Jan 2001)

* Hopkinson, Nalo, ed Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction
(Invisible Cities Press 0-9679683-2-1, $14.95, 13+318pp, tpb, October 2000, jacket art Michel Ange Altidort, jacket design Tim Jones)
(Fri 26 Jan 2001)

* McAuley, Paul J. The Secret of Life
(UK: HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-225904-4, £16.99, 391pp, hc, January 2001)
(Wed 17 Jan 2001)

Powers, Tim Declare
(Morrow 0-380-97652-8, $25, 517pp, hc, January 2001, jacket art David Stevenson, jacket design Stevenson, David)
Reprint (Subterranean Press June 2000). (Fri 12 Jan 2001)

+ Russell, Sean The One Kingdom
(Eos 0-380-97489-4, $25, 463pp, hc, February 2001, jacket art Stephen Hickman, jacket design Amy Halperin)
First US edition (UK: Little Brown/Orbit January 2001). (Thu 25 Jan 2001)

* Russo, Richard Paul Ship of Fools
(Ace 0-441-00798-8, $12.95, 370pp, tpb, January 2001, jacket art Bruce Jensen)
(Fri 12 Jan 2001)

* Schmitz, James H., & Eric Flint, ed2 Trigger & Friends
(Baen 0-671-31966-3, $6.99, 474pp, pb, January 2001, jacket art Bob Eggleton)
(Fri 26 Jan 2001)

* Turtledove, Harry Colonization: Aftershocks
(Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-43021-2, $26, 488pp, hc, February 2001, jacket art Viktor Koen, jacket design David Stevenson & Min Choi)
(Thu 25 Jan 2001)

* Brosterman, Norman Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future
(Abrams 0-8109-2939-2, $19.95, 96pp, tpb, November 2000, jacket art Robert Gibson Jones)
(Fri 26 Jan 2001)

* Sis, Peter Madlenka
(Farrar Straus Giroux 0-374-39969-7, $17, unppp, hc, 2000)
(Mon 22 Jan 2001)

* Spiegelman, Art, & Francois Mouly, eds Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies
(HarperCollins 0-06-028624-5, $19.95, 64pp, hc, 2000, jacket art Art Spiegelman)
(Mon 22 Jan 2001)

* Theroux, Alexander The Strange Case of Edward Gorey
(Fantagraphics 1-56097-385-4, $7.95, 68pp, tpb, September 2000)
(Fri 26 Jan 2001)

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