* Arthur, Keri : Darkness Rising
(Dell 978-0440245735, $7.99, 368pp, mass market paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Dark Angels #2

Urban fantasy novel, second in a new series set in the world of the Guardians, following Darkness Unbound (September 27, 2011).
• The author’s site runs the Publishers Weekly review: “Arthur ratchets up the intrigue while rounding out characters’ personalities in this powerful sequel…”

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* Broaddus, Maurice : King’s War
(Angry Robot 978-0857661302, $7.99, 400pp, mass market paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Knights of Breton Court #3

Urban fantasy novel, third in a series following King Maker (2010) and King’s Justice (March 2011), in which Indianapolis drug gangs replay the myth of King Arthur.
• Angry Robot’s site has this description with a link to a sample chapter.
• The UK edition (978 0 85766 129 6) is simultaneous.

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* Cast, P. C., & Kristin Cast : Destined
(St. Martin’s Griffin 978-0-312-650254, $18.99, 336pp, trade paperback, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• House of Night #9

Young adult vampire novel, ninth in the House of Night series following Awakened.
• Parent publisher Macmillan’s site has this description with an audio excerpt.

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+ Chan, Kylie : Blue Dragon
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-199413-5, $7.99, 592pp, mass market paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Dark Heavens #3
First US edition (Australia: HarperCollins/Voyager Australia, August 2007)

Fantasy novel, third of a series following White Tiger (Australia 2006, US Sept. 2011) and Red Phoenix (Australia 2007, US Oct. 2011), about an Australian woman thrown into a world of Chinese mythology and martial arts.
• The author’s site has this description of the original edition.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides an excerpt.

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* de Bodard, Aliette : Master of the House of Darts
(Angry Robot 978-0-85766-160-9, $7.99, 448pp, mass market paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Obsidian and Blood #3

Historical fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following Servant of the Underworld (2010) and Harbinger of the Storm (2011), set in the Aztec Empire in the 15th century.
• Angry Robot’s site has this description with quotes from reviews.
• The UK edition (978-0-85766-159-3) will appear November 3rd.

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* del Toro, Guillermo, & Chuck Hogan : The Night Eternal
(Morrow 978-0-06-155826-9, $26.99, 384pp, hardcover, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• The Strain #3

Vampire novel, third in a trilogy following The Strain (2009) and The Fall (2010), in which a vampiric virus infects New York City.
• The publisher’s site has this description, with a “browse inside” function.
• Publishers Weekly says the book “continues the decline already evident” in the second book.
• But Amazon has a guest review by Stephen King: “[T]his is one devilishly good read full of satisfying scares.”

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* Ford, Richard : Kultus
(Solaris 978-1907992285, $9.99, 288pp, mass market paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Thaddeus Blaklok #1

Steampunk fantasy novel, first of a series, about a demonic mercenary pursued by enemies who want possession of a mysterious key.
• Solaris’ site has this description.
• The author has previously written a couple Warhammer novels.

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* Harrison, Kim : The Hollows Insider
(Harper Voyager US 978-0-06-197433-5, $25.99, 301pp, hardcover, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011

Mostly nonfiction compenium of “fiction, facts, maps, murders, and more” in the world of Rachel Morgan, protagonist of the “Hollows” series, most recently Pale Demon (March 2011).
• Harper’s site has this description.

(Sun 16 Oct 2011)
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* Jordan, Michaele : Mirror Maze
(Pyr 978-1-61614-529-3, $16, 368pp, trade paperback, October 2011, cover illustration Cynthia Sheppard)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011

Fantasy novel, the author’s first novel, about demonic possession in Victorian England.
• Pyr’s site has this description, with an enthusiastic blurb from Mike Resnick.
• The Publishers Weekly review calls it “an exciting and well-conceived story of demon possession, generations of betrayal and intrigue, and magical worlds.”

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+ Kent, Jasper : The Third Section
(Pyr 978-1-61614-531-6, $16, 480pp, trade paperback, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• The Danilov Quintet #3

Historical vampire novel, third in a projected quintet following Twelve (2010) and Thirteen Years Later (Feb. 2011) that will span Russian history from 1812 to 1917, as Russian agent Aleksei Danilov battles creatures called the voordalak.
• Pyr’s website has this description with quotes from reviews of the earlier books.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.

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* Kent, Steven L. : The Clone Redemption
(Ace 978-1937007027, $7.99, 368pp, mass market paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Clone #7

Military SF novel, seventh in the series following The Clone Republic, Rogue Clone (both 2006), The Clone Alliance (2007), The Clone Elite (2008), The Clone Betrayal (2009), and The Clone Empire (2010) set in a 26th century galaxy ruled by an Earth-based military of clones.

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+ Lachlan, M. D. : Fenrir
(Pyr 978-1-61614-527-9, $16, 448pp, trade paperback, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Wolfsangel #2
First US edition (UK: Gollancz, July 2011)

Historical fantasy novel, second in a series following Wolfsangel (March 2011), about twin boys captured by Viking raiders, one raised as the king’s heir, the other by a witch.
• Pyr’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes “Lachlan’s rousing tale is enlivened by surprising plot twists and populated with earthy, well-developed characters, making this one of the most entertaining historical fantasy sagas of recent years.”

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* Meding, Kelly : Trance
(Pocket Books 978-1-4516-2092-4, $7.99, 418pp, mass market paperback, November 2011, cover illustration Don Sipley)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Trance #1

Urban fantasy novel, first of a new series, about a member of the Ranger Corps whose lost telepathic powers mysteriously return as she heads to Los Angeles to find other survivors of the corps.
• The Publishers Weekly review says the author “captures the action-packed pace of superhero team comics—particularly The New Teen Titans, which she cites as an influence—with her group of colorful young adventurers.”

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* Murakami, Haruki : 1Q84
(Random House/Knopf 978-0307593313, $30.5, 944pp, hardcover, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011

Fantasy novel set in Tokyo in 1984, as a young woman discovers a parallel existence she dubs 1Q84, and an aspiring novelist takes on a mysterious ghost-writing assignment.
• The book was published in three parts in Japan in 2009 and 2010, and in two volumes in the UK, Books 1 and 2 on October 18th, Book 3 today, each volume with a separate translator (Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel), whose work is combined in the single US volume.
• The publisher’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Amazon rates it a Best Book of October, with a review by Jason Kirk: “1Q84 was a runaway bestseller in its native Japan, but more importantly, it’s easily the grandest work of world literature since Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and represents a monstrous literary event. Now would somebody please award Murakami his Nobel Prize?”
• The starred Publishers Weekly review concludes, “1Q84 goes further than any Murakami novel so far, and perhaps further than any novel before it, toward exposing the delicacy of the membranes that separate love from chance encounters, the kind from the wicked, and reality from what people living in the pent-up modern world dream about when they go to sleep under an alien moon.”

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+ Painter, Kristen : Flesh and Blood
(Orbit 978-0-316-08476-5, $7.99, 432pp, mass market paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• House of Comarre #2
First US edition (UK: Orbit, October 2011)

Gothic urban fantasy novel, second of a trilogy following Blood Rites (published last month) about a special race of humans bred to feed vampires.
• The third book, Bad Blood, will appear November 22nd.
• The author’s site has these descriptions of the three books.

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* Pelegrimas, Marcus : Skinners: Extinction Agenda
(Harper Voyager Us 978-0-06-198638-3, $7.99, 416pp, mass market paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Skinners #5

Urban fantasy novel, fifth in the “Skinners” series following Blood Blade, Howling Legion, Teeth of Beasts, and Vampire Uprising, about a video game designer who joins a secret society to fight monsters of the night.
• The publisher’s site has this description with with a preview function.

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* Pierce, Tamora : Mastiff
(Random House 978-0-375-81470-9, $18.99, 608pp, hardcover, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Beka Cooper #3

Young-adult fantasy novel, third in the Beka Cooper series following Terrior (2006) and Bloodhound (2009), about a young woman law enforcer.
• The publisher’s site has this description.

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* Rutkoski, Marie : The Jewel of the Kalderash
(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 978-0374336783, $16.99, 336pp, hardcover, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Kronos Chronicles #3

Young adult fantasy novel, third in a series following The Cabinet of Wonders</b. (2008) and The Celestial Globe (2010), about a young girl, Petra Kronos, who travels to Prague to save her father’s eyes.
• Parent publisher Macmillan’s site has this description.
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* Saintcrow, Lilith : Angel Town
(Orbit Us 978-0-316-07416-2, $7.99, 352pp, mass market paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Jill Kismet #6

Urban fantasy novel, sixth and final book in the series about Jill Kismet, a Hunter who tracks down hellbreeds, following Flesh Circus (2009) and Heaven’s Spite (2010).
• The author’s site has brief descriptions of the books.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.
• Publishers Weekly said about the previous book: “It’s difficult to see why this series is sometimes classified as urban fantasy or paranormal romance: a more appropriate categorization would be Christian horror. … The focus is on the demon hellbreed, and both Jill and the plot put everything else aside to wallow in the bloody imminence of damnation.”

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* Shepherd, Mike : Kris Longknife: Daring
(Ace 978-1937007034, $7.99, 368pp, mass market paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• Kris Longknife #9

Military SF adventure novel, ninth the series following Mutineer, Deserter (both 2004), Defiant (2005), Resolute (2006), Audacious (2007), Intrepid (2008), Undaunted (2009), and Redoubtable (2010), about a Prime Minister’s daughter who joins the space navy.
• Mike Shepherd is a pseudonym for Mike Moscoe.

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* Whates, Ian, ed. : Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction
(Solaris 978-1907992094, $7.99, 448pp, mass market paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011

Anthology of 19 original stories, follow-up to three volumes of The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction edited by George Mann from 2007 to 2009.
• Authors include Ian McDonald, Paul Di Filippo, Stephen Baxter, Adam Roberts, Pat Cadigan, Alastairy Reynolds, and Peter F. Hamilton.
• The Solaris editors’ blog has the complete table of contents.

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* Williams, Sandy : The Shadow Reader
(Ace 978-1937007010, $7.99, 320pp, mass market paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
• fae #1

Urban fantasy novel, first of a new series and the author’s first novel, about a Houston college student who tracks fae for the fae King and who’s in love with the King’s sword-master.
• The author’s site has this page for the book, with a Chapter One excerpt.

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