Locus Online: New in Paperback: April 2005

Bova, Ben : Tales of the Grand Tour
(Tor 0-765-31044-9, $15.95, 382pp, trade paperback, April 2005, cover art John Harris)
(First edition: Tor, January 2004)

Collection of hard SF stories set in the context of Bova's "Grand Tour" novels -- Mars, Saturn, The Rock Rats, etc. -- about the expansion of humanity into the solar system. (The next is Mercury, due from Tor in May 2005.)
• Amazon has the Publishers Weekly review: "his stories offer glimpses of the human side of space, the heroic grins and tragic grimaces alike."
• The author's website has this section about the 'Grand Tour' books, with descriptions and a chronology.

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Bradbury, Ray : Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
(HarperCollins/Perennial 0-06-054488-0, $17.95, 15+893pp, trade paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: HarperCollins/Morrow, August 2003)

Collection of 100 stories from throughout Bradbury's career, with, remarkably, no overlap between this book and the earlier The Stories of Ray Bradbury (Knopf, 1980), which also contained 100 stories.
• Amazon has a Booklist review by Ray Olson: "He acknowledges in the introduction here that he is in love with writing, and it is obvious there and in every story that, what's more, he is in love with life, so that even his eeriest, most mordant stories leave one feeling wonder, not bleakness..."

(Thu 14 Apr 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon

Daniel, Tony : Superluminal
(HarperCollins/Eos 0-06-102026-5, $7.99, 533pp, mass market paperback, March 2005)
(First edition: Eos, May 2004)

SF novel subtitled "A novel of interplanetary civil war", sequel to Metaplanetary (2001). Includes 60 pages of appendices.
• The HarperCollins site has this description and an excerpt.
• Gary K. Wolfe's review in the April 2004 Locus concluded the book "offers sufficient surprises and eccentricities to make it one of the year's more intriguing novels so far."

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Doctorow, Cory : Eastern Standard Tribe
(Tor 0-765-31045-7, $12.95, 223pp, trade paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: Tor, March 2004)

Near-future SF novel set in 2012 when some people pay their allegiance to members of time-zone based 'tribes'--people they know via e-mail and the web--over people they're living with or working for; the protagonist is a misfit inventor and management consultant who's victim of a conspiracy among friends who don't see things quite the same way.
• The author's webpage for the book offers free downloads of the entire text in various formats.
• The novel is included on Locus Magazine's 2004 Recommended Reading List.

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Emshwiller, Carol : The Mount
(Penguin/Firebird 0-142-40302-4, $6.99, 232pp, mass market paperback, March 2005, cover illustration Tony Sahara)
(First edition: Small Beer Press, August 2002)

SF novel set several generations after invading alien 'Hoots' have turned most of humanity into 'mounts'.
• The book first appeared as a trade paperback -- and won the 2003 Philip K. Dick Award; this is the first mass market edition, and is now packaged as a YA book.
• John Clute's review is online at SF Weekly. The author's webpage has a biographical essay.

(Thu 24 Mar 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon

Feist, Raymond E. : King of Foxes
(HarperTorch 0-380-80326-7, $7.99, 383pp, mass market paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: HarperCollins/Eos, April 2004)

Fantasy novel, Book Two of "Conclave of Shadows" following Talon of the Silver Hawk. The third volume, Exile's Return, has just appeared in hardcover (description).
• The author's website, www.raymondfeistbooks.com, has a page about the setting, Midkemia, with a map, plus this description of the book with an excerpt.
• The Amazon page has the PW review: "The novel's relentless pace and explosive climactic battle will ensure another crowd-pleaser for Feist to add to his already impressive resume."

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Huff, Tanya : Smoke and Shadows
(DAW 0-7564-0263-8, $6.99, 396pp, mass market paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: DAW, April 2004)

Supernatural fantasy novel, first of a spinoff trilogy to the author's series about vampire Henry Fitzroy, concerning a murder on the set of a TV vampire detective show. The next volume, Smoke and Mirrors, is due in June in hardcover.
• Amazon has the PW review, which calls it "light on substance and heavy with fang-in-cheek fun".
• Reviewed by Carolyn Cushman in the March '04 issue of Locus: "a fun dark-fantasy adventure".

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Kay, Guy Gavriel : The Last Light of the Sun
(Penguin/Roc 0-451-45985-7, $16, 499pp, trade paperback, April 2005, cover art Larry Rostant)
(First edition: Canada: Viking Canada, March 2004)

Historical fantasy novel set in an alternate Britain.
• The author's website, brightweavings.com, has this description.
• Publishers Weekly's Feb. 9th starred review, reprinted on the Amazon page, comments "Solid research, filtered through vibrant prose, serves to convey a sense of how people really lived and died in Viking and Anglo-Saxon times and how they might have interacted with the realm of magic on a daily basis."
• The book was named on several best-of-year lists, including Locus Magazine's 2004 Recommended Reading List.

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King, Stephen : The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
(Scribner 0-743-25455-4, $16.95, 413pp, trade paperback, April 2005, cover illustration Steve Stone)
(First edition: Donald M. Grant/Scriber, June 2004)

Fantasy novel, sixth volume in the Dark Tower sequence, which concluded later in 2004 with final volume The Dark Tower.
• The author's official site has this excerpt (also as pdf).
• Faren Miller's review Locus Magazine concluded "Self-deprecating, scatological, at times wickedly funny, as familiar with Godzilla movies and the guy behind the Wizard of Oz as he is with the sagas of gods, King turns a potential recipe for literary meltdown into what just might be a masterpiece."
• The novel is included on Locus Magazine's 2004 Recommended Reading List.

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McAuley, Paul : White Devils
(Tor 0-765-34679-6, $7.99, 537pp, mass market paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: UK: Simon & Schuster UK, January 2004)

Near-future SF biotech thriller, involving apelike creatures, genetic engineering, and an official cover-up in the Congo.
• McAuley's untitled webpage includes extracts.
• Gary K. Wolfe's review in the December '03 Locus commented "It is almost irrationally violent, over-the-top, exploitative, paranoid, and tasteless, and I liked it."
• Locus interviewed McAuley in June 2002.
• The book was included on several best-of-2004 lists, including Locus Magazine's 2004 Recommended Reading List, and Claude Lalumière's Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2004.

(Thu 7 Apr 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon

Niven, Larry : Ringworld's Children
(Tor 0-765-34102-6, $7.99, 284pp, mass market paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: Tor, June 2004)

SF novel in Niven's "Ringworld" series, that began with Hugo and Nebula winning Ringworld (1970) and continued with The Ringworld Engineers (1980) and The Ringworld Throne (1996). The book includes a preface, a list of Ringworld parameters, a cast of characters, and a glossary.
• Online January magazine has posted this excerpt
• Amazon has a review by Cynthia Ward, and the PW review.

(Thu 14 Apr 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon

Turtledove, Harry : Out of the Darkness
(Tor 0-765-34362-2, $7.99, 655pp, mass market paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: Tor, April 2004)

Alternate history fantasy novel, sixth and final volume in the "World at War" series that began with Into the Darkness (1999).
• Amazon has the review from Publishers Weekly: "Leaping between vignette-sized glimpses told through each of 16 "viewpoint characters" from different races and kingdoms, this final installment of the Derlavaian world war begins with climactic battles on several fronts, examines the bitter fruit of the Algarvians' genocidal policies against the Kaunians, traces the development and first use of uncanny new magical weapons of mass destruction and sows the seeds for a new conflict between Unkerlant and its former allies..."

(Tue 29 Mar 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon

VanderMeer, Jeff, & Mark Roberts, eds. : The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
(Bantam Spectra 0-553-38339-6, $14, 22+297pp, trade paperback, May 2005)
(First edition: Night Shade Books, October 2003)

A mock-encyclopedia of fictitious diseases, an anthology of entries by over 60 contributors, including Michael Moorcock, Cory Doctorow, Gahan Wilson, Shelley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Jeffrey Thomas, etc.
• Website http://www.lambsheadguide.com/ is devoted to the book, while original publisher Night Shade Books has this page with a full contributors list. Bantam's site has this description, with an excerpt.
• Note the copyright page says, in error, 'July 2005'
• The book was nominated for the British Fantasy, Hugo, International Horror Guild, and World Fantasy awards.

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Wolfe, Gene : Innocents Aboard
(Tor 0-765-30791-X, $14.95, 304pp, trade paperback, March 2005)
(First edition: Tor, June 2004)

Collection of 22 fantasy and horror (no SF or mainstream) stories from 1989 to 2003; none previously collected.
• Nick Gevers review for Locus Magazine concluded that the stories "are Gene Wolfe at his most captivating and probing, entertainer and inquisitor at once."
• The book is included on Locus Magazine's 2004 Recommended Reading List.

(Tue 29 Mar 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon

	MONITOR March Steven Brust Clarke & Baxter Isabel Glass Andrew Sean Greer Ken MacLeod Reaves & Pelan Harry Turtledove Scott Westerfeld Carol Ruiz Zafon February Kage Baker James P. Blaylock Ben Bova William Gibson Simon R. Green Peter F. Hamilton Marvin Kaye Stephen King McCaffrey & McCaffrey Patricia A. McKillip Sean McMullen Rudy Rucker Scott Westerfeld 2005 Archive Advertisement KEY This page lists books newly available in mass-market or trade paperback editions, previously available only in more expensive editions. These lists are compiled independently of Locus Magazine's Books Received listings; publishers may send review copies to the Locus Online address on this page. Date with publisher info is official publication month; Date in parentheses at paragraph end is date seen or received. LINKS Links Portal Bookseller Links Your purchase of books through Amazon.com and Amazon UK links (click on titles or covers) helps support Locus Online Publisher Links E-mail Locus Online		Books seen April 2005 posted 21 April 2005 Bova, Ben : Tales of the Grand Tour (Tor 0-765-31044-9, $15.95, 382pp, trade paperback, April 2005, cover art John Harris) (First edition: Tor, January 2004) Collection of hard SF stories set in the context of Bova's "Grand Tour" novels -- Mars, Saturn, The Rock Rats, etc. -- about the expansion of humanity into the solar system. (The next is Mercury, due from Tor in May 2005.) • Amazon has the Publishers Weekly review: "his stories offer glimpses of the human side of space, the heroic grins and tragic grimaces alike." • The author's website has this section about the 'Grand Tour' books, with descriptions and a chronology. (Thu 14 Apr 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| Bradbury, Ray : Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (HarperCollins/Perennial 0-06-054488-0, $17.95, 15+893pp, trade paperback, April 2005) (First edition: HarperCollins/Morrow, August 2003) Collection of 100 stories from throughout Bradbury's career, with, remarkably, no overlap between this book and the earlier The Stories of Ray Bradbury (Knopf, 1980), which also contained 100 stories. • Amazon has a Booklist review by Ray Olson: "He acknowledges in the introduction here that he is in love with writing, and it is obvious there and in every story that, what's more, he is in love with life, so that even his eeriest, most mordant stories leave one feeling wonder, not bleakness..." (Thu 14 Apr 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| Daniel, Tony : Superluminal (HarperCollins/Eos 0-06-102026-5, $7.99, 533pp, mass market paperback, March 2005) (First edition: Eos, May 2004) SF novel subtitled "A novel of interplanetary civil war", sequel to Metaplanetary (2001). Includes 60 pages of appendices. • The HarperCollins site has this description and an excerpt. • Gary K. Wolfe's review in the April 2004 Locus concluded the book "offers sufficient surprises and eccentricities to make it one of the year's more intriguing novels so far." (Tue 29 Mar 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| Doctorow, Cory : Eastern Standard Tribe (Tor 0-765-31045-7, $12.95, 223pp, trade paperback, April 2005) (First edition: Tor, March 2004) Near-future SF novel set in 2012 when some people pay their allegiance to members of time-zone based 'tribes'--people they know via e-mail and the web--over people they're living with or working for; the protagonist is a misfit inventor and management consultant who's victim of a conspiracy among friends who don't see things quite the same way. • The author's webpage for the book offers free downloads of the entire text in various formats. • The novel is included on Locus Magazine's 2004 Recommended Reading List. (Thu 14 Apr 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| Emshwiller, Carol : The Mount (Penguin/Firebird 0-142-40302-4, $6.99, 232pp, mass market paperback, March 2005, cover illustration Tony Sahara) (First edition: Small Beer Press, August 2002) SF novel set several generations after invading alien 'Hoots' have turned most of humanity into 'mounts'. • The book first appeared as a trade paperback -- and won the 2003 Philip K. Dick Award; this is the first mass market edition, and is now packaged as a YA book. • John Clute's review is online at SF Weekly. The author's webpage has a biographical essay. (Thu 24 Mar 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| Feist, Raymond E. : King of Foxes (HarperTorch 0-380-80326-7, $7.99, 383pp, mass market paperback, April 2005) (First edition: HarperCollins/Eos, April 2004) Fantasy novel, Book Two of "Conclave of Shadows" following Talon of the Silver Hawk. The third volume, Exile's Return, has just appeared in hardcover (description). • The author's website, www.raymondfeistbooks.com, has a page about the setting, Midkemia, with a map, plus this description of the book with an excerpt. • The Amazon page has the PW review: "The novel's relentless pace and explosive climactic battle will ensure another crowd-pleaser for Feist to add to his already impressive resume." (Wed 20 Apr 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| Huff, Tanya : Smoke and Shadows (DAW 0-7564-0263-8, $6.99, 396pp, mass market paperback, April 2005) (First edition: DAW, April 2004) Supernatural fantasy novel, first of a spinoff trilogy to the author's series about vampire Henry Fitzroy, concerning a murder on the set of a TV vampire detective show. The next volume, Smoke and Mirrors, is due in June in hardcover. • Amazon has the PW review, which calls it "light on substance and heavy with fang-in-cheek fun". • Reviewed by Carolyn Cushman in the March '04 issue of Locus: "a fun dark-fantasy adventure". (Tue 29 Mar 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| Kay, Guy Gavriel : The Last Light of the Sun (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45985-7, $16, 499pp, trade paperback, April 2005, cover art Larry Rostant) (First edition: Canada: Viking Canada, March 2004) Historical fantasy novel set in an alternate Britain. • The author's website, brightweavings.com, has this description. • Publishers Weekly's Feb. 9th starred review, reprinted on the Amazon page, comments "Solid research, filtered through vibrant prose, serves to convey a sense of how people really lived and died in Viking and Anglo-Saxon times and how they might have interacted with the realm of magic on a daily basis." • The book was named on several best-of-year lists, including Locus Magazine's 2004 Recommended Reading List. (Thu 14 Apr 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| King, Stephen : The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (Scribner 0-743-25455-4, $16.95, 413pp, trade paperback, April 2005, cover illustration Steve Stone) (First edition: Donald M. Grant/Scriber, June 2004) Fantasy novel, sixth volume in the Dark Tower sequence, which concluded later in 2004 with final volume The Dark Tower. • The author's official site has this excerpt (also as pdf). • Faren Miller's review Locus Magazine concluded "Self-deprecating, scatological, at times wickedly funny, as familiar with Godzilla movies and the guy behind the Wizard of Oz as he is with the sagas of gods, King turns a potential recipe for literary meltdown into what just might be a masterpiece." • The novel is included on Locus Magazine's 2004 Recommended Reading List. (Thu 14 Apr 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| McAuley, Paul : White Devils (Tor 0-765-34679-6, $7.99, 537pp, mass market paperback, April 2005) (First edition: UK: Simon & Schuster UK, January 2004) Near-future SF biotech thriller, involving apelike creatures, genetic engineering, and an official cover-up in the Congo. • McAuley's untitled webpage includes extracts. • Gary K. Wolfe's review in the December '03 Locus commented "It is almost irrationally violent, over-the-top, exploitative, paranoid, and tasteless, and I liked it." • Locus interviewed McAuley in June 2002. • The book was included on several best-of-2004 lists, including Locus Magazine's 2004 Recommended Reading List, and Claude Lalumière's Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2004. (Thu 7 Apr 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| Niven, Larry : Ringworld's Children (Tor 0-765-34102-6, $7.99, 284pp, mass market paperback, April 2005) (First edition: Tor, June 2004) SF novel in Niven's "Ringworld" series, that began with Hugo and Nebula winning Ringworld (1970) and continued with The Ringworld Engineers (1980) and The Ringworld Throne (1996). The book includes a preface, a list of Ringworld parameters, a cast of characters, and a glossary. • Online January magazine has posted this excerpt • Amazon has a review by Cynthia Ward, and the PW review. (Thu 14 Apr 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| Turtledove, Harry : Out of the Darkness (Tor 0-765-34362-2, $7.99, 655pp, mass market paperback, April 2005) (First edition: Tor, April 2004) Alternate history fantasy novel, sixth and final volume in the "World at War" series that began with Into the Darkness (1999). • Amazon has the review from Publishers Weekly: "Leaping between vignette-sized glimpses told through each of 16 "viewpoint characters" from different races and kingdoms, this final installment of the Derlavaian world war begins with climactic battles on several fronts, examines the bitter fruit of the Algarvians' genocidal policies against the Kaunians, traces the development and first use of uncanny new magical weapons of mass destruction and sows the seeds for a new conflict between Unkerlant and its former allies..." (Tue 29 Mar 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| VanderMeer, Jeff, & Mark Roberts, eds. : The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (Bantam Spectra 0-553-38339-6, $14, 22+297pp, trade paperback, May 2005) (First edition: Night Shade Books, October 2003) A mock-encyclopedia of fictitious diseases, an anthology of entries by over 60 contributors, including Michael Moorcock, Cory Doctorow, Gahan Wilson, Shelley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Jeffrey Thomas, etc. • Website http://www.lambsheadguide.com/ is devoted to the book, while original publisher Night Shade Books has this page with a full contributors list. Bantam's site has this description, with an excerpt. • Note the copyright page says, in error, 'July 2005' • The book was nominated for the British Fantasy, Hugo, International Horror Guild, and World Fantasy awards. (Thu 14 Apr 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| Wolfe, Gene : Innocents Aboard (Tor 0-765-30791-X, $14.95, 304pp, trade paperback, March 2005) (First edition: Tor, June 2004) Collection of 22 fantasy and horror (no SF or mainstream) stories from 1989 to 2003; none previously collected. • Nick Gevers review for Locus Magazine concluded that the stories "are Gene Wolfe at his most captivating and probing, entertainer and inquisitor at once." • The book is included on Locus Magazine's 2004 Recommended Reading List. (Tue 29 Mar 2005) • Purchase this book from Amazon \| Previous New In Paperback: March
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