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Thursday 4 January 2007

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen in December include a compilation of Cordwainer Smith from Baen Books, new editions from Warner Books of novels by Octavia E. Butler, and other books by Neal Asher, Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, Dan Simmons, Bruce Sterling, Patrick Süskind, Vernor Vinge, Martha Wells, and Walter Jon Williams.

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions seen in December include Octavia E. Butler's novel Fledgling, a "remix" edition of Jeff VanderMeer's collection Secret Life, and others by Catherine Asaro, Kage Baker, Judith Berman, Jim Butcher, Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Holly Lisle, Larry Niven, Mel Odom, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, and Michael A. Stackpole.

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, John Shirley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Matthew Hughes, John Clute, Jack Dann, Bruce Holland Rogers, Suzette Haden Elgin, and others are featured in new issues of Asimov's SF, Crimewave, Dark Wisdom, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Postscripts, Realms of Fantasy, and Star*Line.

•   Monitor: New Books, late December

New books seen in late December include M. John Harrison's Nova Swing, Stephen Baxter's Resplendent, Alan Campbell's Scar Night, collections by Elizabeth Hand, Rudy Rucker, and Wendy Walker, novels by E.E. Knight, Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Constance O'Day-Flannery, Robert Rankin, and Justina Robson, and anthologies from Algis Budrys, Mort Castle, and Karen Joy Fowler (et al).

Friday 29 December 2006

•   Monitor: New Books, mid-December

New books seen in mid-December include John Ringo's Unto the Breach, Elizabeth Bear's Carnival, maritime fantasies by Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald and Paul Kearney, a debut fantasy novel by college sophomore Drew Bowling, and others by Jay Caselberg, Sam Enthoven, James A. Hetley, Heidi Lampietti, Denise Little, Joel Rosenberg, Laura J. Underwood, and Martha Wells.

Tuesday 26 December 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Laurell K. Hamilton, J.K. Rowling

Tuesday 19 December 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Thomas Harris, Michael Crichton

Monday 11 December 2006

•   Monitor: New Books, early December

New books seen in early December include Orson Scott Card's Empire, Rudy Rucker's Mathematicians in Love, Eric Flint's 1824: The Arkansas War, Jim Grimsley's The Last Green Tree, and other titles by Chris Bunch, Jim Butcher, Alan Dean Foster, Howard V. Hendrix, Katherine Kurtz, Mike Resnick, Al Sarrantonio, and James C. Ward.

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, Troy Denning, Robert Jordan

Sunday 10 December 2006

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen in November include A.E. van Vogt's Transgalactic, Avram Davidson's Adventures in Unhistory, and titles by Steven Brust, Orson Scott Card, Glen Cook, and Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, plus an anthology of time-travel stories from Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois.

Tuesday 5 December 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

John W. Campbell, Christopher Priest, Terry Pratchett, Drew Morse, Theodora Goss, Brian Stableford, Sarah Monette, John Scalzi, and others feature in new issues of The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Interzone, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Mythic Delirium, Neo-Opsis, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Paradox, and Shimmer.

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Thomas Pynchon, Stephen King, Thomas Harris

Saturday 2 December 2006

•   Monitor: New Books, late November

New books seen in late November include M. Rickert's Map of Dreams, Will Self's The Book of Dave, Charles Stross' The Jennifer Morgue, presumed bestsellers by Michael Crichton and Dean Koontz, young adult novels by John Connolly, Helen Dunmore, and Diana Wynne Jones, a Robert E. Howard biography by Mark Finn, and other titles by Matthew Hughes, Faith Hunter, Mary Rosenblum, Stephen Woodworth, and John C. Wright.

•   Monitor: New Books

New books seen in mid-November include Cathy & Arnie Fenner's Spectrum 13, Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day, L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Soarer's Choice, M.T. Anderson's The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, and other titles by Ben Bova, James Clemens, Peter Crowther, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, David Farland, Sarah J. Hoyt, Alexander C. Irvine, Juliet Marillier, T.M. Moore, Joshua Palmatier, Mike Shepherd, S.M. Stirling, and Sean Williams.

Tuesday 28 November 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, Thomas Pynchon

Sunday 26 November 2006

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include Patricia A. McKillip's collection Harrowing the Dragon, plus titles by Ben Bova, Sara Douglass, David Gemmell, James Herbert, James A. Hetley, Ed McBain, Jack McDevitt, John Ringo, and John C. Wright.

Wednesday 22 November 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Fiction by Bruce Sterling, Nancy Kress, Charles Stross, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert J. Sawyer, Hal Duncan, Lavie Tidhar, Carol Emshwiller, David Gerrold, Robert Reed, Orson Scott Card, John Shirley; poetry by Tom Disch, Greg Beatty, Bruce Boston, Robert Frazier, Jon Hansen, David C. Kopaska-Merkel; interviews with Hal Duncan, Alan Moore, and John Shirley; articles, essays, and reviews by Richard A. Lovett, Elizabeth Bear, Nick Mamatas, Gwenda Bond, John Kessel, Lucius Shepard; and others, are in new issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways, Asimov's, Dreams and Nightmares, Fantasy, Flytrap, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, F&SF, Star*Line, Subterranean, and Weird Tales.

Tuesday 21 November 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Michael Crichton

Saturday 18 November 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New books seen in early November include Gene Wolfe's Soldier of Sidon, Edward Gorey's Amphigorey Again, and other novels by Piers Anthony, C.J. Cherryh, Elaine Isaak, Tamara Siler Jones, Ellen Klages, Graham Masterton, Jack McDevitt, Andre Norton & Jean Rabe, John Scalzi, Delia Sherman, Alexandra Sokoloff, Catherynne M. Valente, and David Weber & Linda Evans.

Tuesday 14 November 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Stephen King, Eric S. Nylund

Saturday 11 November 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New small press and self-published books seen in October and November include titles by Richard Bowes, Richard Calder, John Clute, David Herter, Garry Kilworth, Jay Lake, Alastair Reynolds, Brian Stableford, Howard Waldrop, Ian Watson, Liz Williams, and others, plus anthologies from Scott A. Cupp & Joe R. Lansdale, Paula Guran, and Sean Wallace.

Thursday 9 November 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New books seen the end of October include Stephen King's Lisey's Story and other novels by T.A. Barron, Barbara Hambly, Charlaine Harris, Martin Millar, Moira J. Moore, Tamora Pierce, Jenn Reese, Philip Reeve, Jeri Smith-Ready, Karen Traviss, and Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevemer.

Tuesday 7 November 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Stephen King, Tamora Pierce, R.A. Salvatore

Tuesday 31 October 2006

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen in recent weeks include a movie tie-in edition of Christopher Priest's The Prestige, two new editions of Robert A. Heinlein juveniles, omnibus editions of Ellen Kushner and M.A. Foster, and other books by Pamela Dean, Neil Gaiman, George R.R. Martin, and Andre Norton.

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Ray Bradbury, Susanna Clarke, Richard Powers

Saturday 28 October 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Fiction by Michael Swanwick, Gene Wolfe, K.W. Jeter, Brian Lumley, Chris Beckett, Carrie Vaughn, and Sonya Taaffe; interviews with Tim Powers, Syn DeVil, James Patterson, Thomas Ligotti, and Peter Straub; reviews and essays by Jason Sizemore, Ian McDowell, John Clute, Niall Harrison, Terri Windling; and others, are in new issues of Apex, City Slab, H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, Interzone, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Postscripts, and Realms of Fantasy.

Wednesday 25 October 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New books seen the 3rd week of October include Ray Bradbury's Farewell Summer (sequel to Dandelion Wine), Susanna Clarke's collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories, Michael Flynn's Eifelheim, and other novels by Francesca Lia Block, S.C. Butler, Paul Di Filippo, Kate Elliott, Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis, Alan Dean Foster, Melanie Rawn, Kristopher Reisz, David Bryan Russell, Al Sarrantonio, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

Tuesday 24 October 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Lois McMaster Bujold, Max Brooks

Sunday 22 October 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Small press and self-published books seen in recent weeks include new anthologies from Mike Allen, Richard Labonte & Lawrence Schimel, and Mark Leslie, collections from Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Edward M. Lerner, and Don Webb, and novellas and novels from Jonathan P. Davis, Sharon Lee, Vera Nazarian, and Lawrence M. Schoen.

Wednesday 18 October 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New titles seen the 2nd week of October include Peter Watts' Blindsight, Richard Powers' The Echo Maker, Lois McMaster Bujold's Beguilement, Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan in Scarlet, Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns, and other novels by Catherine Asaro, Amber Benson & Christopher Golden, William C. Dietz, Alice Hoffman, Brian Jacques, Steven L. Kent, Mercedes Lackey, Dennis L. McKiernan, Kat Richardson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, C.J. Ryan, and Sharon Shinn; plus anthologies from Jean Rabe & Brian M. Thomsen and Mike Resnick, and a special reprint of Christopher Paolini.

Tuesday 17 October 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Debuts by Laurell K. Hamilton, Mercedes Lackey, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Kostova, Geraldine McCaughrean, George R.R. Martin, Frank Beddor

Saturday 14 October 2006

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys and other award-winners by Diana Gabaldon, Elizabeth Kostova, and Ken MacLeod; plus titles by Piers Anthony, William C. Dietz, Bret Easton Ellis, Jennifer Fallon, James P. Hogan (twice), David Lubar, Ian R. MacLeod, George R.R. Martin, Ed McBain, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Christopher Pike, Edward Willett, and Timothy Zahn.

Tuesday 10 October 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New titles seen late September to early October include Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Terry Pratchett's Wintersmith, other YA novels by Frank Beddor, Alison Croggon, PJ Haarsma, and David Klass, plus titles by Marc D. Giller, Laurell K. Hamilton, Sarah Langan, Michael Reaves & Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, and Maria V. Snyder.

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Neil Gaiman, Cormac McCarthy, Drew Karpyshyn, George R.R. Martin, Gregory Maguire

Saturday 7 October 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

New issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways, Asimov's, Cemetery Dance, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Science Fiction Chronicle, and Talebones.

Tuesday 3 October 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New titles seen late September include Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best Fantasy 6, a new biography of G.K. Chesterton, 1st US editions of novels by John Meaney and Justina Robson, and other books by Rachel Caine, Douglas Clegg, Jennifer Fallon, Lian Hearn, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Naomi Kritzer, S.M. Stirling, and Harry Turtledove.

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

Wednesday 27 September 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New titles seen mid-September include Robert A. Heinlein & Spider Robinson's Variable Star, Haruki Murakami's Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, anthologies from Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois and Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, and other books by Kage Baker, John Benson, Jane M.H. Bigelow, Robin Hobb, Liam Jackson, David Wellington, and Scott Westerfeld -- plus an audiobook by Orson Scott Card.

Tuesday 26 September 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Mark Z. Danielewski, S.M. Stirling

Sunday 24 September 2006

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners, Joe R. Lansdale's Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories, and other titles by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Robin Hobb, Stephen King, Michael Moorcock, Terry Pratchett, Spider Robinson, David Weber & John Ringo, Liz Williams, Tad Williams, and Gene Wolfe.

Tuesday 19 September 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Pratchett

Monday 18 September 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New titles seen early September include J.G. Ballard's Kingdom Come, Jon Courtenay Grimwood's End of the World Blues, David Louis Edelman's Infoquake, Ursula K. Le Guin's Voices, US editions of Tony Ballantyne's Recursion and Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Stamping Butterflies, plus novels by Lynn Abbey, Nick DiChario, David Drake, P.R. Frost, Julianne Lee, Matthew Skelton, Kate Wilhelm, and an anthology from Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren.

Thursday 14 September 2006

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen since August include a print edition of Jim Theis' infamous 'classic' The Eye of Argon, plus books by Christopher Anvil, Ray Bradbury, Sara Douglass, David Drake, Harry Harrison, Jane Lindskold, Spider & Jeanne Robinson, John Shirley, William Sleator, and F. Paul Wilson.

Tuesday 12 September 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Brooks, Haruki Murakami, Matthew Skelton, Karen Traviss

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Fiction by Michael Bishop, Barry B. Longyear, Robert Reed, Michael F. Flynn, Ian Watson, Jack Dann, Zoran Zivkovic, interviews with Stephen Baxter, Bruce Holland Rogers, and Howard Waldrop, articles and reviews by Norman Spinrad, C.E. Petit, Mike Resnick & Barry Malzberg, Jeffery D. Kooistra and others, are in new issues of Aberrant Dreams, Analog, Asimov's, the SFWA Bulletin, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Postscripts. Plus-- The Lonely Cry, and a John Scalzi guest-edited issue of Subterranean focusing on SF clichés, with John Joseph Adams, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Jo Walton, Elizabeth Bear, and many more.

Thursday 7 September 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

More new titles seen the end of August include Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Hunters of Dune, Paul Di Filippo's Plumage from Pegasus, Mike Resnick's LAconIV anthology Space Cadets, Takayuki Tatsumi's Full Metal Apache, and other books by Sara Douglass, Heather Hayashi, Vera Nazarian, Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy G. Byrne, Catherynne M. Valente, Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple, and Timothy Zahn.

Tuesday 5 September 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Monday 4 September 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New titles seen the end of August include Science Fiction and Fantasy Best-of-the-Year anthologies edited by Rich Horton, Terry Brooks' Armageddon's Children, collections by Kage Baker, Eric Brown, Alan DeNiro, Greg van Eekhout, and Gene Wolfe, anthologies from Eric T. Reynolds and Sean Wallace, and vintage futuristic car designs from Hampton C. Wayt.

Tuesday 29 August 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New titles seen the third week of August include Jo Walton's Farthing, Datlow, Link, & Grant's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Kit Whitfield's Benighted, first US editions of novels by Steven Erikson, Glenda Larke, and Joel Shepherd, and other books by Peter S. Beagle, Gordon Dahlquist, David & Leigh Eddings, Denise Little, A. Lee Martinez, Julian May, and John Ringo & Travis Taylor.

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Raymond E. Feist, David Gemmell

Wednesday 23 August 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Steven Brust; Jasper Fforde

Saturday 19 August 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Fiction by Robert J. Sawyer, Peter S. Beagle, John Kessel, Geoff Ryman, Kathe Koja, Ben Bova, Rudy Rucker, Jay Lake, and others, an interview with Kevin J. Anderson & Rebecca Moesta, and articles and reviews by Richard A. Lovett, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Elizabeth Hand, Hal Duncan, and others, are in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Full Unit Hookup, the 57th anniversary issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Shimmer, and Star*Line.

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in a mass market edition, plus books by Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter, Ray Bradbury, Terry Brooks, Jeffrey A. Carver, Sara Douglass, Steven Erikson, Joe Haldeman, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Dan Simmons, Harry Turtledove, John Twelve Hawks, Martha Wells, F. Paul Wilson, and Paul Witcover.

Thursday 17 August 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New titles seen the second week of August include Julie Phillips' biography James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Tim Powers' novel Three Days to Never, the US edition of Jeff VanderMeer's Shriek: An Afterword, Jonathan Strahan's two best of the year anthologies, and books by James Ambuehl, Steven Brust, David Drake, Jasper Fforde, Margo Lanagan, and Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.

Wednesday 16 August 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Sunday 13 August 2006

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions in July include a new translation of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, and editions of George Alec Effinger's The Exile Kiss, Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood, and Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides.

Thursday 10 August 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New titles seen the first week of August include Joe Haldeman's collection A Separate War and Other Stories, Mark Budz's novel Idolon, Jennifer Egan's novel The Keep, an anthology of essays about Lost edited by Orson Scott Card, and novels by Jack Campbell, Dawn Cook, Janine Cross, Bentley Little, Michelle Sagara, and Sherwood Smith.

Wednesday 9 August 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Goodkind, Harry Turtledove, Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory

Saturday 5 August 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Fiction by Edward M. Lerner, Anna Tambour, Rudy Rucker & Terry Bisson, Brian Stableford, interviews with Peter S. Beagle, Steve Erickson, Steven Erikson, and Paul Di Filippo, and articles and essays by Kyle Kirkland, Kevin J. Maroney, and Darrell Schweitzer are in new issues of Analog, Fantasy Magazine, Interzone, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Weird Tales.

Thursday 3 August 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

New titles seen the last week of July include Scott Smith's The Ruins, Ellen Kushner's The Privilege of the Sword, Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch, and other books by Robert Asprin & Peter J. Heck, Josh Conviser, Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory, Drew Morse, Brandon Sanderson, and Eldon Thompson.

Tuesday 1 August 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Goodkind, Scott Smith, Trudi Canavan, Eoin Colfer

Wednesday 26 July 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the third week of July include Terry Goodkind's Phantom, Theodora Goss' In the Forest of Forgetting, Greg Keyes' The Blood Knight, Steven Barnes' Great Sky Woman, and other titles by Linda Buckley-Archer, Karen Chance, Allan Cole & Nick Perumov, Marianne De Pierres, Lynn Flewelling, Brian Lumley, Rebecca Maines, Harry Turtledove, and Jeanette Winterson.

Tuesday 25 July 2006

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include Locus Awards winners by Charles Stross and Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple, plus others by Jacqueline Carey, Juliet Marillier, Todd McCaffrey, Sarah Monette, Paul Park, Karl Schroeder, Harry Turtledove (aka Dan Chernenko), and John C. Wright.

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Anne & Todd McCaffrey; Harry Turtledove; J.K. Rowling

Thursday 20 July 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Fiction by Brian Stableford, Harlan Ellison, Bruce McAllister, Theodora Goss, Michael Kandel, Michael Swanwick, Ken Scholes, interviews and articles from Peter F. Hamilton, Robert Silverberg, James Patrick Kelly, and Theodora Goss, art by John Picacio, and letters between Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree, Jr., are in new issues of Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Cinefantastique, Neo-Opsis, and the second issue of Fantasy Magazine.

Wednesday 19 July 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the second week of July include Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer's The Space Opera Renaissance, Paul Park's The Tourmaline, and others by Kevin J. Anderson, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson, Bruce Boston, David Brin & Matthew Woodring Stover, Suspan Cooper, Design Studio Press, Katharine Kerr, and Anne & Todd McCaffrey.

Tuesday 18 July 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Goodkind

Wednesday 12 July 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the first week of July include Charles Stross' Glasshouse, Scott Lynch's debut The Lies of Locke Lamora, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel's slipstream anthology Feeling Very Strange, sequels by Sarah Monette and Chris Moriarity, both a novel and a collection by Elizabeth Bear, and others by Stan Beeler & Lisa Dickson, Paul Chafe, Alan Dean Foster, Laura Anne Gilman, Bill Henry, Chris Humphreys, Violette Malan, and John Ringo.

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Laurell K. Hamilton, Kim Harrison

Monday 10 July 2006

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions in June include a collection of stories by Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore, a new collection of Vintage PKD, and novels by Greg Bear, Sylvia Louise Engdahl, Robert A. Heinlein, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Robert Sheckley, and John Shirley

Friday 7 July 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

New issues of Alchemy, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Flytrap, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, F&SF, Weird Tales and others feature fiction by Ben Bova, Christopher Rowe, David Ira Cleary, Sarah Micklem, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Terry Bisson, Tanith Lee, and others, plus interviews and articles from Connie Willis, Darrell Schweitzer, Lucius Shepard, Gwenda Bond, Kage Baker, Sean Williams, Simon Brown, and Shane Dix

Wednesday 5 July 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Goodkind

Tuesday 4 July 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the last week of June include Adam Roberts' Gradisil, Geoff Ryman's The King's Last Song, other novels by Catherine Asaro, Neal Asher, L.A. Banks, Arlene Golds, Nick Sagan, Frank Schatzing, and Tricia Sullivan, plus anthologies from John Gregory Betancourt & Sean Wallace, Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, and Brian Youmans.

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the third week of June include Jonathan Strahan's Best Short Novels: 2006, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best SF 11, Marvin Kaye's Forbidden Planets, and Rusty Morrison & Ken Keegan's Paraspheres; plus novels by David Angsten, M. Scott Byrnes, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Jessica Inclan, T.M. Moore, Alyn Rockwood, and Vandana Singh, an omnibus of Naomi Novik novels, a new Rabid Transit anthology, and an anthology from Cecilia Tan.

Tuesday 27 June 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Jacqueline Carey, MaryJanice Davidson, Anne & Todd McCaffrey

Sunday 25 June 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen mid-June include collections by Neal Asher, Kim Newman, Jenn Reese, Mike Resnick, and Charles Stross, an anthology from Mike Ashley, and novels by Patricia Bray, Keith Donohue, L. Timmel Duchamp, Dave Duncan, Tanya Huff, E.E. Knight, Morgan Llywelyn, Paul Malmont, Syne Mitchell, Lilith Saintcrow, Al Sarrantonio, and David Zindell.

Friday 23 June 2006

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include titles by Lois McMaster Bujold, Cory Doctorow, Walter H. Hunt, Stephen King, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Jane Lindskold, Patricia A. McKillip, Alastair Reynolds, Brandon Sanderson, and John Varley

Tuesday 20 June 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

MaryJanice Davidson, Laurell K. Hamilton

Friday 16 June 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen in early June include Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Scion, George Saunders' In Persuasion Nation, and others by Bruce Boston, Steve Cash, Peter David, James Gunn, Amanda Hemingway, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kit Reed, Robert Reginald, Alastair Reynolds, and William H. Trotter.

Tuesday 13 June 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Aaron Allston

Saturday 10 June 2006

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions in May include Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz with cover art by John Picacio, a movie tie-in edition of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, and other books by Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton & Jean Rabe, and Jules Verne (introduced by Kim Stanley Robinson).

Wednesday 7 June 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

New issues of Interzone, Analog, Asimov's, Albedo One, and Shimmer feature fiction by Ian McDonald, Julian West, Edward M. Lerner, Tim Pratt, Elizabeth Hopkinson, Aliette de Bodard, and others, plus interviews and articles from Charles Stross, Therese Littleton, and John Picacio. Also: Star*Line, True Review, and the final issue of Morbid Curiosity.

Tuesday 6 June 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

James Patterson, Keith Donohue

Monday 5 June 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the last week of May include Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island, Chris Roberson's Paragaea, Steve Savile & Alethea Kontis' benefit anthology Elemental, other novels by Paul L. Bates, D.M. Cornish, R. Garcia y Robertson, Kfir Luzzatto, Sophie Masson, James Patterson, Nikki Persley, and Charles Stross, plus an anthology from Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, and nonfiction about shockumentary films and Stephen King.

Tuesday 30 May 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Monday 29 May 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the 3rd week of May include the first US edition of Greg Bear's Quantico, other novels by Charles de Lint, Sara Douglass, Kai Meyer, Naomi Novik, Mike Resnick, Carolyn See, Harry Turtledove, Steve Voake, and Scott Westerfeld, plus a collection by Lucy Sussex and an omnibus by Karen Traviss.

Thursday 25 May 2006

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days, plus books by Kage Baker, Jim Butcher, Sara Douglass, David Drake, Eric Flint & James Baen, Nancy Farmer, Larry Niven & Brenda Cooper, Charles Stross, Jack Williamson, and Gene Wolfe

Tuesday 23 May 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

George Saunders, Sherrilyn Kenyon, James Patterson

Sunday 21 May 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the 2nd week of May include Lisa Tuttle's The Silver Bough, other novels by Kelley Armstrong, Dale Bailey & Jack Slay, Jr., Chaz Brenchley, Trudi Canavan, Julie E. Czerneda, Jeanne DuPrau, Diana Pharaoh Francis, Frances Hardinge, Tony Hendra, Lois Lowry, and Fred Saberhagen, plus a collection by Barry Hoffman and an anthology from Eric Flint & Virginia Kosmatka.

Thursday 18 May 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Science Fiction Chronicle -- incorporating Absolute Magnitude -- returns, along with new issues of F&SF, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Dark Wisdom, Postscripts, Realms of Fantasy, and others, featuring fiction by Lee Battersby, Scott Nicholson, Steven Popkes, Terry Bisson, Matthew Hughes, Rhys Hughes, Zoran Zivkovic, Stephen Baxter, Ruth Nestvold & Jay Lake, and others, plus reviews, interviews, and criticism.

Wednesday 17 May 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher

Monday 15 May 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen in early May include Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End, a definitive biography of Jules Verne, a book about insurgent robots, the first US edition of Hal Duncan's Vellum, and titles by Jim Butcher, Nicole R. Murphy, Naomi Novik, Jenna Rhodes, John Ringo, and Duane Simolke with Toni Davis.

Tuesday 9 May 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Kelley Armstrong, David & Leigh Eddings, Terry Pratchett, Naomi Novik

Thursday 4 May 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen late-April include a new story collection by Paul Di Filippo, Young-adult novels by Jane Johnson, William Nicholson, and Angie Sage, and novels by James S. David, Steven Harper, Susan R. Matthews, John Moore, C.E. Murphy, Martin Sketchley, Wen Spencer, and Sean Williams

Tuesday 2 May 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher

Saturday 29 April 2006

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions this month includes the fifth volume of Jack Williamson's Collected Stories, anthologies of stories from David G. Hartwell and Brian Thomsen, and novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Patricia A. McKillip, Andre Norton, Charles Saunders, and John Varley.

Tuesday 25 April 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Raymond E. Feist, Kelley Armstrong, David Mitchell

Saturday 22 April 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen mid-April include short story collections by Robert Silverberg and George Zebrowski, anthologies from Sharyn November and Mike Allen, YA novels by Elizabeth Knox, Justine Larbalestier, and Scott Westerfeld, and novels by David Drake, Simon R. Green, and David Mitchell.

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Cemetery Dance, F&SF, Weird Tales, and others feature fiction by James Patrick Kelly, Eric Brown, Charles L. Harness, Laird Barron, Gardner Dozois, Charles Coleman Finlay, and many others, plus two interviews with Neil Gaiman, poetry, reviews, and essays.

Thursday 20 April 2006

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include Margo Lanagan's Black Juice, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Neal Stephenson's Odalisque, Peter Straub's Stoker Award-winning In the Night Room, and other titles by Neal Asher, Cat Bordhi, Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter, Jane Jensen, Ursula K. Le Guin, Julian May, Robert A. Metzger, Holly Phillips, John Ringo, Al Sarrantonio, and Sam Weller

Tuesday 18 April 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Dates from Hell

Saturday 15 April 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen so far in April include John Picacio's art showcase Cover Story, first novels from Mario Acevedo, David D. Friedman, David Keck, and Steven L. Kent, new novels by Ben Bova, Simon Brown, Raymond E. Feist, Kate Forsyth, Tracy & Laura Hickman, Jane Lindskold, L.E. Modesitt Jr., and Jennifer Roberson, books from L. Timmel Duchamp, Kim Harrison et al, and Peter Wludyka, and the first US edition of Ian McDonald's River of Gods.

Wednesday 12 April 2006

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints

New editions of works by Orson Scott Card, Arthur C. Clarke, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Lucius Shepard, George R. Stewart, Jeff VanderMeer, and Vernor Vinge, plus an anthology from Brian Thomsen.

Tuesday 11 April 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Elizabeth Moon

Wednesday 5 April 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the end of March include Naomi Novik's His Majesty's Dragon, John Varley's Red Lightning, Jeffrey Ford's collection The Empire of Ice Cream, and other books by Barth Anderson, John Barnes, Danny Birt, David Forbes, Simon R. Green, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Dennis L. McKiernan, Elizabeth Moon, Christopher Moore, Justina Robson, David Weber, David Wellington, and Susan Wright.

Tuesday 4 April 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Christopher Moore, David Weber, MaryJanice Davidson, Angie Sage

Tuesday 28 March 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Kazuo Ishiguro, Angie Sage, Christopher Moore

Saturday 25 March 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the 3rd week of March include James Morrow's The Last Witchfinder, Daniel Abraham's debut novel A Shadow in Summer, and other titles from Roger MacBride Allen, Robin Wayne Bailey, Chris Bunch, Eric Flint & Ryk E. Spoor, Eric Flint, Mercedes Lackey, John Meaney, Garth Nix, John Ringo, Victoria Strauss, Dayton Ward, and Lawrence Watt-Evans.

Thursday 23 March 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines


Mid-March new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Bulletin of the SFWA, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy.

Tuesday 21 March 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Laurell K. Hamilton, Orson Scott Card

Monday 20 March 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the 2nd week of March include Keith Brooke's new novel Genetopia, Gardner Dozois' anthology Nebula Awards Showcase 2006, other novels by Anne Bishop, Patricia Briggs, C.J. Cherryh, Dawn Cook, Ian Douglas, Steven Erikson, Jody Lynn Nye, Sharon Shinn, Michael A. Stackpole, Rob Thurman, and Kelpie Wilson, and collections and anthologies from Martin H. Greenberg & Russell Davis, Douglas Lain, Joel Lane, and Denise Little.

Thursday 16 March 2006

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include Neal Stephenson's King of the Vagabonds, plus titles by Anne Bishop, Ben Bova, Orson Scott Card, David Drake, Andreas Eschbach, Madeline Howard, Diana Marcellas, Richard K. Morgan, John Ringo & Julie Cochrane, Michael A. Stackpole, and Caroline Stevermer

Tuesday 14 March 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Laurell K. Hamilton, Stephen King, Peter F. Hamilton, Mercedes Lackey

Monday 13 March 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen in late February and early March include Jeff VanderMeer's new novel Shriek: An Afterword, Bruce Sterling's collection Visionary in Residence, other novels and short novels by Neal Asher, Kevin Brockmeier, Jeffrey Ford, Simon Haynes, Kathryn Sullivan, and T.M. Wright, plus books by Robert Borski, Kim Harrison, Ted Thompson, and Sean Williams & Shane Dix

Saturday 11 March 2006

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints


New editions of books by Poul Anderson, George Alec Effinger, Philip Jose Farmer, Fred Patten, Fred Saberhagen, Robert Silverberg, John Varley, and George Zebrowski

Wednesday 8 March 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines


New issues seen from late February through early March include Interzone, Neo-Opsis, True Review, and two issues of The New York Review of Science Fiction.

Tuesday 7 March 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Stephen King, Garth Nix, Philip Reeve, Manda Scott

Saturday 4 March 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the last half of February include novels by Damien Broderick, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Kate Elliott, Andrea Hairston, Peter F. Hamilton, P.B. Kerr, Paul Levinson, Sean McMullen, John Scalzi, Manda Scott, Martin Scott, Steph Swainston, and Jules Watson

Tuesday 28 February 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Stephen King

Thursday 23 February 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

New issues seen the 1st half of February include the 20th anniversary issue of small-press poetry magazine Dreams and Nightmares, plus issues of Aberrant Dreams, Analog, Asimov's, Dark Wisdom, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Weird Tales.

Tuesday 21 February 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Stephen King, Timothy Zahn, Steven Erikson, Garth Nix

Sunday 19 February 2006

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions this month are by Gregory Benford, C.J. Cherryh, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Sara Douglass, Kate Elliott, Steven Erikson, Jasper Fforde, Howard V. Hendrix, Stephen King, Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory, Fiona McIntosh, Neal Stephenson, Jonathan Strahan, F. Paul Wilson, and Robert Charles Wilson

Friday 17 February 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the second week of February include the conclusion of R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy, Tim Lebbon's Dusk, Patricia A. McKillip's Solstice Wood, and other books by Mike Allen, Giles Carwyn & Todd Fahnestock, J. Rye Erixon, Michael Parziale, Diana L. Paxson, Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell, Mary Patterson Thornburg, and Sean Williams & Shane Dix

Tuesday 14 February 2006

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints


New editions of books by Kage Baker, Arthur C. Clarke, Charles de Lint, Harlan Ellison, Robert A. Heinlein, Terry Pratchett, Robert Silverberg, and Lisa Tuttle

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Stephen King, Timothy Zahn

Sunday 12 February 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Notable titles seen the first week of February include The History of Science Fiction by Adam Roberts, Tobias S. Buckell's first novel Crystal Rain, and others by Keri Arthur, L.A. Banks, Elaine Cunningham, Sherry Decker, Troy Denning, Eric Flint & David Drake, Christopher Golden, Katherine Langrish, and Megan Whalen Turner.

Tuesday 7 February 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Stephen King's Cell is #1

Sunday 5 February 2006

•   Monitor: New Books


Notable titles seen the end of January include Stephen King's Cell, Tom De Haven's It's Superman!, and other books by Adèle Geras, Larry Niven, David Sherman & Dan Cragg, Steve White, and Steven H. Wilson

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

New issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Apex, Asimov's, Black Gate, Cinefantastique, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Shimmer appear in January.

Tuesday 31 January 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Thursday 26 January 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

3rd week January titles include Gardner Dozois' anthology One Million A.D., novels by Douglas Clegg, David B. Coe, Sara Douglass, Jennifer Fallon, Doris Lessing, Andre Norton & Jean Rabe, and John Ringo, plus a collection by Richard A. Lupoff

•   Monitor: New Books

2nd week January titles include Lou Anders' anthology Futureshocks, the US edition of Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Felaheen, novels by Tracy Falbe, John G. Hemry, L.A. Kelly, Rebecca Lickiss, Kai Meyer, Joshua Palmatier, Linnea Sinclair, and Alan F. Troop, plus a nonfiction anthology from Mercedes Lackey and a George R.R. Martin art book from Brian Wood

Tuesday 24 January 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Stephen King

Tuesday 17 January 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Stephen King

Sunday 15 January 2006

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions this month are by Catherine Asaro, Greg Bear, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, & Dave Freer, R.M. Meluch, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Alastair Reynolds, Robert J. Sawyer, John Scalzi, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Lucius Shepard, Charles Stross, Harry Turtledove, and Lisa Tuttle

Thursday 12 January 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

January titles include novels by Trudi Canavan, Barb & J.C. Hendee, Charlie Huston, Tim Lebbon, McCaffrey & Scarborough, R.M. Meluch, Walter Mosley, Robert Newcomb, Steve Perry, John Ridley, Jonathan Stroud, Harry Turtledove, S.L. Viehl, and Kim Wilkins; plus a holiday anthology from Bill Fawcett

Tuesday 10 January 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Troy Denning

Thursday 5 January 2006

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Shimmer, a new quarterly from Salt Lake City, debuts, and new issues of Cemetery Dance, Leading Edge, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Paradox, and Star*Line appear.

Wednesday 4 January 2006

•   Monitor: New Books

Did H.P. Lovecraft inspire Erich von Däniken? New books seen the end of December include Jason Colavito's The Cult of Alien Gods, the first three of Canongate's "Myths" books by Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, and Jeanette Winterson, book club compilations by Kage Baker and MaryJanice Davidson, Audrey Niffenegger's graphic novel, YA novels by Adam Gopnik, John Marsden, and Rick Yancey, a collection by Lisa Silverthorne, a writers' manual by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, and a year's best in graphic novels from Byron Preiss & Howard Zimmerman

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints

Douglas A. Anderson collects H.P. Lovecraft's favorite weird tales; Bison Books revives post-apocalypse series by Robert Silverberg and Paul O. Williams; Tor reprints the Christopher Priest source for Christopher Nolan's next film; and Aqueduct Press issues a Rebecca Ore novella.

Tuesday 3 January 2006

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

C.S. Lewis, George R.R. Martin, J.K. Rowling

 

2005 Monitor Archive