* Edison, David : The Waking Engine
(Tor 978-0-7653-3486-2, $25.99, 396pp, hardcover, February 2014, jacket art Stephan Martiniere)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Feb 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1466816770

Fantasy novel, the author’s first novel, about the City Unspoken, the last in a series of world where gods and mortals are reborn and then die again.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The author’s site also has an excerpt and page of blurbs and review excerpts.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Edison’s rambling secondary-world science fantasy tale, firmly anchored in the more amoral end of the New Weird, plays out in lavish prose, meandering through squalid slums and grand palaces, more interested in tourism than plot.”

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* Forstchen, William R. : Pillar to the Sky
(Tor 978-0-7653-3438-1, $25.99, 400pp, hardcover, February 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Feb 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466810778

Near-future SF novel about the construction of a space elevator.
• This is the first novel in a partnership between Tor/Forge and NASA, NASA Inspired Workd of Fiction, to promote science and technology.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “The plot follows a fairly predictable arc with few surprises.”

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* Foyle, Naomi : Astra
(UK: Quercus/Jo Fletcher 978-1780876344, £14.99, 464pp, trade paperback, February 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 6 Feb 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781780876351
• The Gaia Chronicles #1

Young adult SF novel, first of a series, about a girl in Is-Land who learns the truth about her home and the Non-Land “infiltrators” she’s been taught threaten it.
• Quercus’ site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.

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* Simmons, Kristen : Three
(Tor Teen 978-0-7653-2960-8, $17.99, 384pp, hardcover, February 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Feb 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429948036
• Article 5 #3

Young adult dystopian SF novel, third in a trilogy following Article 5 (2012) and Breaking Point (2013), set in a future America in which the government has been replaced by soldiers enforcing Moral Statutes.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly said of the first book, “Simmons’s story includes a fair amount of believable action, a few mildly horrific events, and some not quite R-rated romance…”

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* Waters, M. D. : Archetype
(Dutton 978-0-525-95423-1, $26.95, 384pp, hardcover, February 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 6 Feb 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698148550

SF thriller, first of a two-part series, about a woman who wakes in a hospital with no memories, and whose dreams contradict what she is told about her new life.
• Penguin’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review says, “The novel follows a familiar emotional pattern—a woman’s initial need for safety and love, recognition of betrayal, and painful declaration of independence—but it works better than it should because of debut author Waters’s commitment to Emma’s struggle.”
• Adrienne Martini reviewed it in the December 2013 issue of Locus Magazine: “What Archetype most resembles is Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale. Similar themes are at play, even if the DNA of Waters’s story resembles romance more than science fiction.”

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* Weir, Andy : The Martian
(Crown 978-0-8041-3902-1, $24, 384pp, hardcover, February 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Feb 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-8041-3903-8

SF novel, the author’s first novel, about an astronaut stranded on Mars when his landing crew is forced to abandon him and return to Earth.
• Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Amazon has over 1600 reader reviews, 1200 of them rating it five stars.
• Entertainment Weekly gave it a full-page review with a grade of B.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Weir laces the technical details with enough keen wit to satisfy hard science fiction fan and general reader alike. Deftly avoiding the problem of the Robinson Crusoe tale that bogs down in repetitious behavior, Weir uses Watney’s proactive nature and determination to survive to keep the story escalating to a riveting conclusion.”

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* Wright, John C. : The Judge of Ages
(Tor 978-0-7653-2929-5, $26.99, 384pp, hardcover, February 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Feb 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429947121
• Count to a Trillion #3

SF novel, third in a series following Count to a Trillion (2011) and The Hermetic Millennia (2012), about rival efforts to counter an alien menace that will arrive at Earth in another 4000 years.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Paul Di Filippo reviewed the previous book for Barnes & Noble, describing it as a mix of Olaf Stapledon, Jack Vance, Philip José Farmer, and Jared Diamond: “It’s a heady brew that achieves an ever-oscillating balance between pulp action and philosophical gravitas.”

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