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Artuso, David :
Bear Goddess
(Swimming Kangaroo Books 978-1-934041-54-3, $14.99, 233pp, trade paperback, August 2008, cover illustration Berin Uriegas)
Fantasy novel about a bear goddess determined to destroy the Earth following the death of her twin cubs.
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Publisher's site: Swimming Kangaroo Books.
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Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia :
Persistence of Memory
(Delacorte Press 978-0-385-73437-0, $15.99, 212pp, hardcover, December 2008, jacket art Viktor Koen)
Young-adult fantasy novel about a 16-year-old girl plagued by a violent alter-ego.
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The author is known for having published her first novel, In the Forests of the Night, when she was 15 years old.
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The publisher's site has this description and an excerpt.
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Burns, Robert :
The Unselfish Gene
(Swimming Kangaroo Books 978-1-934041-69-7, $14.99, 339pp, trade paperback, November 2008, cover art Richard Lee)
SF novel in which 21st-century Earth has been ravaged by a form of bird flu that has killed billions, and is threatened by a comet on collision course with Earth.
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Publisher's site: Swimming Kangaroo Books.
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Amazon's "Look Inside" feature includes an excerpt.
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Crow, Jennifer :
Signs & Wonders
(Sam's Dot Publishing none, $8, 76pp, chapbook, November 2008, cover art Marge Simon)
Collection of 41 poems, first published from 1999 to 2007, with illustrations by Marge B. Simon.
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The publisher's poetry books page has a description (scroll down) and ordering information.
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Davis, Bruce C. :
Queen Mab Courtesy
(CWG Press 978-0-9788186-6-1, $19.95, 330pp, trade paperback, November 2008, cover illustration Robin Butler)
Near-future SF novel about a birth-defect orphan and a chestnut vendor 'fixer' who stumble on a conspiracy involving illegal clones.
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The publisher's site has this description with ordering information.
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Amazon's "Look Inside" feature includes an excerpt.
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De Winter, Corrine :
Virgin of the Apocalypse
(Sam's Dot Publishing 978-0-9816365-9-7, $11, 96pp, trade paperback, September 2008, cover art Marge Simon, cover design Scott Virtes)
Collection of 56 poems, some previously published, with illustrations by Marge B. Simon.
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The author's website has a post about the book, with an excerpt.
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The publisher's poetry books page has a description (scroll down) and ordering information.
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Harvey, Colin, ed. :
Killers
(Swimming Kangaroo Books 978-1-934041-66-6, $14.99, 233pp, trade paperback, September 2008)
Anthology of 11 original 'cross-genre' stories about killers. Authors include Jonathan Maberry, Paul Meloy, Lee Thomas, and Bruce Holland Rogers.
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The publisher's site has this order page with a description.
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Amazon's "Look Inside" feature includes an excerpt.
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Lindow, Sandra J. :
Touched by the Gods
(Sam's Dot Publishing 978-0-9816365-8-0, $10, 97pp, trade paperback, October 2008, cover art Beth Peck, cover design Scott Virtes)
Collection of 56 poems, 46 of them previously published from 1997 to 2009.
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The publisher's poetry books page has a description (scroll down) and ordering information.
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The author's website also has a description.
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Oppegaard, David :
The Suicide Collectors
(St. Martin's Press 978-0-312-38110-3, $23.95, 294pp, hardcover, December 2008, jacket design Michelle Taormina)
Near-future SF novel about a plague of ennui, "The Despair", that has caused nearly 90% of humanity to commit suicide.
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It's the author's first novel.
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The publisher's site has this description with quotes from reviews.
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The author's website also has quotes from reviews, plus a bio, links to interviews, and a link to the author's blog.
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Amazon has Publishers Weekly's starred review: "Eloquent prose and haunting characters lift Oppegaar's astonishing debut..."
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Rich, Mark :
Across the Sky
(Fairwood Press 978-0-9820730-1-8, $16.99, 250pp, trade paperback, January 2009, cover illustration Mark Rich)
Collection of 19 stories, the author's first collection, of stories first published from 1994 to 2007.
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The publisher's site has this order page with a description, reviews, and cover blurbs.
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The Publishers Weekly review concludes "Readers who enjoy old-fashioned SF will appreciate these short, straightforward tales."
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Rosemoor, Patricia, & Marc Paoletti :
The Vampire Agent
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-345-50105-9, $6.99, 14+304pp, mass market paperback, January 2009, cover art Chris McGrath)
Fantasy novel, second in a series following The Last Vampire (June 2008).
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Del Rey's site has this description with an excerpt.
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Scholes, Ken :
Long Walks, Last Flights, and Other Strange Journeys
(Fairwood Press 978-0-9820730-0-1, $17.99, 265pp, trade paperback, December 2008, cover illustration Paul Swenson, cover design Patrick Swenson)
Collection of 17 stories, first published from 2001 to 2008.
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Included is the author's 2005 4th Quarter Writer of the Future winner, "Into the Blank Where Life Is Hurled".
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The publisher's site has this order page with a description, cover blurbs from Jonathan Strahan, Orson Scott Card, Harry Turtledove, and many others, and quotes from reviews, including Faren Miller's review from the November 2008 issue of Locus Magazine: "Go check out this astonishing book."
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Singh, Vandana :
Distances
(Aqueduct Press 978-1-933500-26-3, $12, 152pp, trade paperback, December 2008)
Far-future science fiction novella about mathematicians whose equations reveal a new physical reality.
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The publisher's site has a description.
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Turtledove, Harry :
The Breath of God
(Tor 978-0-7653-1711-7, $24.95, 335pp, hardcover, December 2008, jacket art Justin Sweet)
Alternate history novel, second in the series following Beyond the Gap (2007), in which the last Ice Age overlaps humanity's Bronze age.
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Tor's website has this description with quotes from reviews.
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Amazon has the Publishers Weekly review, which concludes "While the prolific Turtledove may be best known for his alternate history works, he demonstrates his versatility and considerable imagination in this fast-paced military fantasy."
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Virtes, S. C. :
Improbable Jane
(Sam's Dot Publishing 978-0-9816365-4-2, $8, 71pp, chapbook, November 2008, cover art and design Scott Virtes)
Collection of three long poems, "three odd odysseys", with illustrations by Marge B. Simon, s.c. virtes, and David L. Transue.
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The author provides End Notes discussing the origins of the three poems.
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The author's website has this description with excerpts.
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Wu, Frank, & Jay Lake, eds. :
The Exquisite Corpuscle
(Fairwood Press 978-0-9789078-8-4, $25, 208pp, trade paperback, November 2008, cover illustration Matt Taggart)
Anthology of 22 original stories, poems, and artworks, conceived as a variant of Salvador Dali's parlor game in which each contributor spins off the previous work. In this book three separate 'chains' are tied together by a final story by co-editor Jay Lake.
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Contributors include Gary W. Shockley, Tim Pratt, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Ken Brady, Heather Shaw, Bruce Holland Rogers, Alan DeNiro, and Greg van Eekhout.
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The publisher's site has this description with cover blurbs, and the Publishers Weekly review, which concludes "Fans of surrealism and innovative speculative fiction will appreciate this fascinating and ambitious exploration of the 'groupmind.' "
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