Notable new SF, Fantasy, and Horror books seen : Posted 26 June 2004

YA novel about a board game that draws two boys into a real life quest.
• Amazon (click on title or cover image) has the starred Booklist review by Jennifer Mattson: "Deliciously scary, often funny, and crowned by a pair of deeply satisfying surprises, this tour de force leaves one marveling at Anderson's ability to slip between genres as fluidly as his middle-grade heroes straddle worlds."
• Anderson is the author of Feed (2002), which was a National Book Award finalist and a Golden Duck Award winner.
(Fri 25 Jun 2004) • Purchase this book from Amazon | BookSense

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Collection of 15 stories, 11 of them previously published from 1992 to 2003 in magazines Tomorrow Speculative Fiction and The Third Alternative, anthologies In Dreams and Superheroes, and other sources.
• The author provides a foreword, an afterword, and introductions to each story.
• There are cover blurbs from Piers Anthony, Ben Bova, and others; several reader reviews on Amazon; and several reviews on various SF/F website. The publisher's site doesn't have a listing.
(Mon 21 Jun 2004) • Purchase this book from Amazon | BookSense

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Novella in the SF/F/mystery "Time Hunter" series, featuring the adventures in time of Honor‚ Lechasseur, and written in the spirit of Doctor Who, according to the description on the publisher's site.
• The publisher has this description, with information about the deluxe hardcover edition.
• It's the first book by journalist Bott.
(Mon 21 Jun 2004) • Purchase this book from Amazon

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Celtic fantasy novel concerning a young Irish artist who hears music when she paints.
• The author previous wrote Swim the Moon (2001). His website, www.paulbrandon.com, has news and details about his writing and musical interests.
• The Amazon page has the description from the book's cover. (Note: though originally scheduled to appear in hardcover, it has apparently been released only as a trade paperback.)
• A review by Faren Miller is scheduled for the August issue of Locus Magazine.
(Fri 25 Jun 2004) • Purchase this book from Amazon | BookSense

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Urban horror novella about strange goings-on at SymaxCorp, where office workers are being transformed into zombies.
• The publisher's site has this description, along with an advisory from the author that "If you're at all familiar with my writing, the following novella is not what you'd expect from me..."
(Mon 21 Jun 2004) • Purchase this book from Amazon

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Fantasy novel, fifth and final volume in the "Glasswrights" series that began with The Glasswright's Apprentice in 2000.
• The author's website has this description and excerpt.
(Sun 20 Jun 2004) • Purchase this book from Amazon | BookSense

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Collection of 7 SF and fantasy stories, including World Fantasy Award and Sidewise Award winner "The Summer Isles", World Fantasy Award winner "The Chop Girl", and Asimov's Reader Award winner "Breathmoss"; other stories are "Verglas", "The Noonday Pool", "New Light on the Drake Equation", and "Isabel of the Fall".
• MacLeod provides an introduction, "Big Lies". The author's website has news of future projects. Amazon reproduces the review from Publishers Weekly.
• The publisher's site has this description, and a link to a reprint of Nick Gevers' review from the June issue of Locus Magazine. Gevers concludes that "MacLeod's fancy roams gloriously free in these stories, and its synergy with his command of the textures of ordinary life makes Breathmoss a brilliant book, the schisms in its creative heart luminously reconciled." Faren Miller will have a review in the July Locus.
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Anthology of 29 SF and fantasy stories, 10 of them previously published, the others original to this book. Authors include Nick Aires and Loren W. Cooper (each with several stories), Kenneth E. Baker, Linda Bleser, Elaine Corvidae, etc.
• The publisher's site has this description, with a complete table of contents.
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YA fantasy novel, first in "The Edge Chronicles", concerning a boy raised by a family of woodtrolls who sets off to discover his true identify.
• This and the title listed below are the first two in a series of 10, this volume first published in Britain in 1998, with US editions packaged without dustjackets in a manner resembling the Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events titles. The third book in the series will be published in the US in September.
• The Amazon page has a review from Paul Hughes. The series' official US site is www.edgechronicles.com, with a creature guide, a set of maps, and news of a contest in which readers submit a description of their own invented character, deadline October 15, 2004; the prize is a trip to the Grand Canyon (the steepest "Edge" in America).
(Sat 19 Jun 2004) • Purchase this book from Amazon | BookSense

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Second volume in the YA fantasy series beginning with Beyond the Deepwoods, listed above.
• The Amazon page has a review by Paul Hughes.
• See www.edgechronicles.com for background and a contest from the publisher.
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Anthology of 15 horror/dark fantasy stories, the work of a Yahoo! Writers group whose purpose is to provide guidance to new writers. Fourteen of the stories are original, and are based on Del Stone Jr.'s 1996 title story, reprinted here.
• Authors include Richard A. Bamberg, Garrett Peck, David Bain, Paul Grant, etc.
• The publisher's site has this description.
(Thu 24 Jun 2004) • Purchase this book from Amazon | BookSense

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Young adult SF novel, second in the "Dragonback" series following last year's Dragon and Thief.
• Amazon has the book description, and a reader review.
• The Dragon Page radio talk show has this interview with Zahn.
(Fri 25 Jun 2004) • Purchase this book from Amazon | BookSense

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