June-July 2004

Anthology of 18 original stories set in alternate history, non-cybernetic futures. Stories by Paul Di Filippo, John Meaney, Charles Stross, and Michael Swanwick were on Locus Magazine's 2003 Recommended Reading List; other authors include Mike Resnick, Adam Roberts, David Brin, Rudy Rucker, Stephen Baxter. Afterword by Pat Cadigan.
• Amazon has the Publishers Weekly review.
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SF novel, second in the "Saga of Seven Suns" series after Hidden Empire (2002).
• The starred review from Publishers Weekly is reproduced on the Amazon page (click title).
• Volume three, Horizon Storms, is due out in hardcover on July 29th.
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Fantasy novel, book one of the "Tears of Artamon" series.
• Amazon has a review from Jeremy Pugh, plus the starred Publishers Weekly review.
• The author's homepage includes this excerpt.
• The second book in the series, Prisoner of the Iron Tower, is due August 3rd in hardcover.
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SF novel, sequel to Nebula Award-winning Darwin's Radio (1999); about the generation of genetically-enhanced children born as the result of the SHEVA retrovirus discovered in the first book.
• Gary K. Wolfe's review in the February 2003 Locus contrasted Bear's novel and SF in general with the Crichton-style thriller--SF is about understanding; thrillers are about containment.
• Amazon.com has a review from Therese Littleton, while Del Rey's site has this excerpt.
• The book was shortlisted for this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award.
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Fantasy novel about a glassworker slave on a world dominated by a mathematics-based religion. First published by HarperCollins Australia in 1997.
• The Amazon page has reviews from PW and Booklist.
• The author's website has this page about the book, on which the author says it "is my favourite among all my books", and provides this excerpt.
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Fantasy novel, second in the "Fool's Gold" trilogy following Sorcery Rising (2002).
• Amazon has the PW and Booklist reviews.
• The author's website has news about the forthcoming sequel, and this extract.
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Biography, by the son of the author of Dune, with sources, bibliography, index, and 16 unpaginated pages of black and white photos.
• Amazon has Publishers Weekly's starred review
• The Official Dune Website has this description and excerpt.
• The book is a Hugo Award nominee in the Best Related Book category.
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Fantasy novel, about a Southern California family whose members achieve magical powers during their adolescent 'transition'.
• Amazon has the Publishers Weekly review that says "Hoffman attains a new level of maturity and complexity with this coming-of-age contemporary fantasy" and compares the book to Bradbury.
• The novel was nominated for the 2003 Mythopoeic Awards in the Adult Literature cateogory.
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SF mystery novel, the third featuring forensic detective Phil D'Amato following The Silk Code (1999) and The Consciousness Plague (2002).
• Amazon has the PW review. Levinson's webpage has details and quotes about the book.
• Note that the copyright page for this trade paperback reprint erroneously reproduces the page from the 2003 hardcover edition.
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SF/fantasy novel, follow-up to the author's acclaimed Perdido Street Station, in turn followed up by this year's Iron Council, due from Del Rey in hardcover on July 27th.
• Jonathan Strahan's review in Locus Magazine called it a "richer, headier experience" than the earlier book. Amazon has its own review by Jeremy Pugh, plus the PW review.
• This is the first mass market paperback edition; there was an earlier trade paperback edition.
• The novel won the British Fantasy Award and Locus Award (for best fantasy novel), and was a nominee for the British SF, Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo, Philip K. Dick, and World Fantasy Awards.
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Fantasy novel, subtitled "The Albino in America", sequel to The Dreamthief's Daughter (2001), latest in Moorcock's career-spanning Elric series. This one takes Elric, his daughter Oona, and her husband Ulrich on separate journeys to a pre-Columbian New World.
• The publisher's site has this excerpt.
• Moorcock's interview in the March 2003 Locus Magazine discussed how this book resulted from his decision to write an Elric book with mythic sense of America to it, and the literary model he used to do so.
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Collection of stories, novels excerpts, essays, and comments -- as the title suggests, something of a kitchen-sink book. Stories and excerpts include collaborations with Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes, and Brenda Cooper; solo stories include "The Woman in Del Rey Crater", "Procrustes", and "Smut Talk"; essays include nonfiction pieces for Space.com and pieces on autograph etiquette, collaboration, Hugo Award anecdotes, and an epilogue "What I Tell Librarians".
• The description of the book on Niven's Known Space site suggests a follow-up volume is due soon.
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SF novel, latest in Robinson's long-running series of stories and novels about a Key West bar called Callahan's Place
• Robinson's official website, http://www.spiderrobinson.com/, has this description and this excerpt.
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Sf novel, the author's first, described by Publishers Weekly (on the Amazon page) as "an energetic and sometimes satiric mix of cutting-edge nanotechnology, old-fashioned space opera and leftist political commentary reminiscent of Ken MacLeod".
• Stross runs a popular blog, Charlie's Diary.
• This book is currently a Hugo Award nominee for Best Novel.
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SF novel about scientists using a new technology to observe lobsterlike aliens on another planet, who are abruptly isolated by a military cordon.
• The Amazon page has the PW review, which calls it "a superior SF thriller notable for credible characters and a well-crafted plot".
• This book is currently a Hugo Award nominee for Best Novel.
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Far-future SF adventure novel, third in "The Golden Age" trilogy following The Golden Age and The Phoenix Exultant.
• Amazon has reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist.
• The author's webpage has background on this and the previous books.
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