New Books, 9 October
* Czerneda, Julie E., & Susan MacGregor : Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales
(Canada: Hades/Edge Science Fiction And Fantasy 978-1894063586, $15.95, 280pp, trade paperback, September 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 15 Sep 2011
Anthology of 21 young adult sf/f/h stories.
• Authors include Claude Lalumière, Ed Greenwood, Tony Pi, and Nicole Luiken.
• Amazon has a brief description. The publisher’s website has this page of submission guidelines but no description of the finished book, which just became available on Amazon.com this past week.
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* Kiernan, Caitlín R. : Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume One)
(Subterranean Press 978-1-59606-391-4, $38, 576pp, hardcover, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 31 Aug 2011
Collection of 26 stories first published from 1993 to 2004, the first of two volumes providing a retrospective of Kiernan’s career.
• Subterranean’s site has this description with the table of contents.
• Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review: “All of the selections are distinguished by Kiernan’s poetic style, which conjures a rich, enveloping atmosphere of dread and imparts a surreality to the narratives that supports their weird events.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the October issue of Locus Magazine: “This is certainly one of the major collections of the year, and it makes you wish the second volume were here now.”
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* Lackey, Mercedes : Changes
(DAW 978-0756406929, $25.95, 336pp, hardcover, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 4 Oct 2011
• Collegium Chronicles #3
SF novel, third volume in the “Collegium Chronicles” following Foundation (2008) and Intrigues (2010), set early in the history of Valdemar.
• The publisher’s site has this description.
• Amazon has numerous reader reviews.
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* Lassen, J. M., ed. : Z: Zombie Stories
(Night Shade Books 978-1-59780-312-0, $12.99, 296pp, trade paperback, October 2011, cover art David Palumbo)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Sep 2011
Young adult anthology of 11 zombie stories, first published from 1993 to 2010 with one story original to this volume.
• Authors include Kelly Link, Scott Edelman, Catherynne M. Valente, and Jonathan Maberry.
• Night Shade’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” preview includes the table of contents.
• Amazon has one reader review with story-by-story ratings.
(Mon 3 Oct 2011)
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* Matheson, Richard : Steel and Other Stories
(Tor 978-0-7653-2942-4, $14.99, 304pp, trade paperback, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 4 Oct 2011
Collection of 15 stories, including “Steel” (1956) made into a classic Twilight Zone episode and currently the basis for the just-released film Real Steel.
• There are both mass market and trade paperback editions, each with movie tie-in covers.
• Publishers Weekly noted two recently published pieces, but said it “is otherwise a repackaging of largely unremarkable speculative fiction stories originally published in the 1950s….”
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides the table of contents and a preview.
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* Nelson, Kerri : Courting Demons
(Jupiter Gardens Press 978-0-9835892-9-7, $15.95, 218pp, trade paperback, September 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 Sep 2011
Urban fantasy novel about a woman who casts a spell to turn her cheating husband into a rat.
• The publisher’s site has this description with a link to an excerpt.
(Sat 1 Oct 2011)
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* Ramsey, Jo : When Darkness Falls
(Jupiter Gardens Press 978-0-9837809-0-8, $13.95, 247pp, trade paperback, September 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 8 Sep 2011
• The Dark Lines #2
Young adult fantasy novel, second in a series following The Black Bridge (2011), about a teenaged boy and his girlfriend who use their psychic abilities to battle a dark force at a nearby bridge.
• The publisher’s site has a description with a link to an excerpt.
(Sat 1 Oct 2011)
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* Shawl, Nisi : Something More and More
(Aqueduct Press 978-1-933500-75-1, $12, 107pp, trade paperback, June 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 1 Jun 2011
Collection of two stories, three essays, and an interview with the author.
• The book was published in conjunction with Shawl’s appearance at WisCon last May, and is limited to 175 numbered copies.
• Aqueduct’s site has this description and order page.
(Fri 30 Sep 2011)
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* Shawl, Nisi, ed. : The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 5: Writing and Racial Identity
(Aqueduct Press 978-1-933500-73-7, $15, 5+225pp, trade paperback, June 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 1 Jun 2011
Nonfiction anthology of essays and stories by attendees and contributors to the annual feminist convention WisCon, held annually in Madison, Wisconsin.
• Contributors include Eileen Gunn, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Nnedi Okorafor, Greer Gilman, Vandana Singh, Terry Bisson, and Amal El-Mohtar.
• Aqueduct’s site has this order page with an overview of the contents.
(Fri 30 Sep 2011)
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* Tidhar, Lavie : Osama: A Novel
(UK: PS Publishing 978-1-848631-92-2, £19.99, 280pp, hardcover, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Sun 2 Oct 2011
Alternate history novel about a journalist trying to track the pulp author of a series of novels about a terrorist named Osama bin Laden.
• The hardcover is available from PS Publishing; both Amazon.com and Amazon UK list only the Kindle edition.
• Gary K. Wolfe’s review in the September 2011 issue of Locus Magazine is posted here: “…the result is a provocative and fast-moving tale that raises good questions not only about the heritage of Al Qaeda, but about the slippage between reality and sensational fiction that sometimes seems to define our own confused and contorted experience of the last couple of decades.”
(Sat 1 Oct 2011)
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* Vivelo, Jackie : Night Vision: Eleven Haunting Tales
(Jupiter Storm 978-0-9834199-8-3, $11.95, 116pp, trade paperback, August 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 17 Aug 2011
Collection of eleven young adult paranormal short stories.
• There are no indications of prior publications.
• The publisher’s site has this description.
(Tue 20 Sep 2011)
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• (Directory Entry)
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