New Books, 18 March
+ Elliott, Will : The Pilgrims
(Tor 978-0-7653-3188-5, $26.99, 448pp, hardcover, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 18 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429944939
• Pendulum Trilogy #1
Alternate world fantasy novel, first of a trilogy, about a London journalist and a homeless drunk who discover a magical door to the land of Levaal.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• This is the first US edition; it was published in Australia in January 2010, and the UK in November 2011.
• Faren Miller reviews it in the March issue of Locus Magazine: “Despite that premise, the maps, and a Dramatis Personae where humans coexist with gods and monsters, this first volume of the Pendulum trilogy shows its rebellious streak as early as page one.”
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* Larke, Glenda : The Lascar’s Dagger
(Orbit 978-0-316-39966-1, $15, 512pp, trade paperback, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 18 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316399647
• UK edition: 9780356502724 (Tue 18 Mar 2014)
• The Forsaken Lands #1
Fantasy novel, first in a new series, about a religious conspiracy that implicates the king’s spiritual adviser.
• Orbit’s site has this post by the author providing some background.
• Hachette’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “As the slow-burning plot unfolds, Larke’s attention to detail and worldbuilding come into their own, and a complex web of political machinations is gradually revealed. Densely plotted without being convoluted, this is an absorbing political fantasy that bodes well for the rest of the series.”
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+ Pratchett, Terry : Raising Steam
(Random House/Doubleday 978-0-385-53826-8, $26.95, 384pp, hardcover, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 18 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-385-53829-9
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 978-0-8041-6453-5
• Discworld #40
First US edition (UK: Transworld/Doubleday UK, October 2013)
Fantasy novel, latest in the author’s popular Discworld series following Snuff (2011), about an inventor’s steam engine that triggers a railroad industry in Discworld.
• Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “As always, Pratchett’s unforgettable characters and lively story mirror the best, the worst, and the oddest bits of our own world, entertaining readers while skewering social and political foibles in a melting pot of humanity, dwarfs, trolls, goblins, vampires, and a werewolf or two.”
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