* Ballantine, Pip, & Tee Morris : Dawn’s Early Light
(Ace 978-0425267318, $7.99, 384pp, mass market paperback, April 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781101621455
• Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences #3

Steampunk fantasy novel, third of a series following Phoenix Rising (2011) and The Janus Affair (2012), about two agents in a clandestine organization in Victorian London.
• Penguin’s site has this description with a link to an excerpt.

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* Boatman, Michael : Last God Standing
(Angry Robot 978-0857663955, $7.99, 400pp, mass market paperback, April 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780857663962
• UK edition: 9780857663948 (Thu 3 Apr 2014)
• God #1

Fantasy novel, first in a series, in which God quits his job and becomes a member of the human race.
• Angry Robot’s site has this description. A second title, Who Wants To Be the Prince of Darkness?, is scheduled for 2015.
• The author is an actor and screenwriter, with a short story collection and one previous novel already published.

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* Carr, Scott Christian, & Andrew Conry-Murray : Wasteland Blues
(Raw Dog Screaming 978-1935738596, $14.95, 220pp, trade paperback, April 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 20 Mar 2014

Post-apocalyptic SF novel, first of a trilogy, about trek across a United States devastated by nuclear and biological war to find a rumored haven.
• The publisher’s site has this description.
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* Christopher, Adam : The Burning Dark
(Tor 978-0-7653-3508-1, $25.99, 336pp, hardcover, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466820869
• Spider War #1

SF novel, first book in a trilogy, about a veteran of a space war against machine intelligences, now trapped on a remote space station, who detects mysterious messages from Earth’s past.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The author has a Big Idea post about the book on John Scalzi’s blog today.
• The Tor/Forge blog posts the starred review of the book from Library Journal: “This dark and chilling novel from the versatile Christopher builds tension expertly. Claustrophobic in mood but with the scope of great space opera, this is sf you will want to read with the light on.”

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* Dalglish, David, & Robert J. Duperre : Wrath of Lions
(Amazon/47north 9781477817957, $14.95, trade paperback, April 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B00F3MKEEW
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 978-1480581609
• The Breaking World #2

Fantasy novel, second in a series following Dawn of Swords (Jan. 2014), about two brother gods who recreate mankind on the young world of Dezrel.
• Amazon has a description, and its “Look Inside” function provides previews.

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* Higgins, Peter : Truth and Fear
(Orbit 9780316219723, $26, 368pp, hardcover, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316219730
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478979463
• Wolfhound Century #2

Alternate history novel, second in a series following Wolfhound Century (2012), set in an alternate Stalinist Russia.
• Hachette’s site has this description with a preview function, and blurbs and quotes from reviews of the books.
• Publishers Weekly gave the first book a starred review: “Sentient water, censored artists, mechanical constructs, old-fashioned detective work, and the secret police are all woven together in this rich and fascinating tapestry.”

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* Maberry, Jonathan : Code Zero
(St. Martin’s Griffin 9781250033437, $15.99, 480pp, trade paperback, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250033420
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427241290
• Joe Ledger #6

Horror thriller, sixth in a series following following Patient Zero (2009), The Dragon Factory (2010), The King of Plagues (2011), Assassin’s Code (2012), and Extinction Machine (2013), about a Baltimore detective recruited by the US Department of Military Sciences to fight various terrorist threats.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt, and a note that this book is a direct sequel to the first in the series, Patient Zero.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, ” Maberry’s shout-outs to popular culture’s depictions of zombies lessens the tension and feeling of doom, albeit just slightly.”

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* Nix, Garth, & Sean Williams : Blood Ties
(Scholastic 9780545522458, $12.99, 192pp, hardcover, April 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Mar 2014
• Spirit Animals #3

Children’s fantasy novel, third in a “multiplatform” series, about a world where humans and animals are linked by a spirit bond.
• The first two books in the series were written by Brandon Mull and Maggie Stiefvater.
• Scholastic’s site has this description with an excerpt and a link to a Spirit Animals game. Several more volumes are planned.

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+ Pratchett, Terry, & Jacqueline Simpson : The Folklore of Discworld
(Anchor Books 978-0-8041-6903-5, $15.95, 518pp, trade paperback, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-8041-6901-1
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 978-0-8041-9343-6

First US edition (us: Transworld/Doubleday UK, 2008)

Nonfiction book subtitled “Legends, Myths, and Customs from the Discworld with Helpful Hints from Planet Earth”. This is an updated version of the book first published in the UK in 2008.
• Random House’s site has this description, with a “Look Inside” function.
• Wikipedia has this page for the 2008 UK edition, listing the 16 sections of the book.

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* Robertson, Freya : Sunstone
(Angry Robot 978-0857663894, $14.99, 496pp, trade paperback, April 2014, cover art Alejandro Colucci)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780857663900
• UK edition: 9780857663887 (Thu 3 Apr 2014)
• The Elemental Wars #2

Fantasy novel, second book in a series following Heartwood (2013).
• Angry Robot’s site has this description with a link to an extract and quotes from reviews.

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* Russell, Karen : Sleep Donation
(Atavist Books B00HRGXNQS, $3.99, ebk, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Mar 2014

E-book novella, by the author of 2011 novel Swamplandia! and 2013 collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove, about an epidemic that leaves hundreds of thousands of Americans without the ability to sleep.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• The Los Angeles Times has this profile and review; Slate has a review by Katy Waldman titled Yes, Karen Russell Is a Genius; and this Entertainment Weekly review by Stephan Lee gives it an A-: “The combination of Russell’s dazzling imagination and virtuosic prose adds up to pleasurable sensory overload.”

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* Schroeder, Karl : Lockstep
(Tor 978-0-7653-3726-9, $26.99, 352pp, hardcover, March 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466833364

Young-adult hard SF novel about an interstellar civilization whose members live for millennia by alternating long periods of hibernation with shorter periods of wakefulness.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Schroeder depicts the corrosive effects of power and fame on family and self, but larger themes falter in the face of obedient, incongruously adorable bots, cuddly intelligent pets, and the inevitable but flimsy romance between Toby and Corva.”
• Russell Letson reviews the book in the March issue of Locus Magazine: “Lockstep tells a dense and textured story: a family-history mystery, a revolutionary adventure, and glimpses of Stapledonian panoramas, all studded with marvels and vistas and appealing science-fictional ideas and devices (my favorites: the genetically engineered cat-otter pets called denners and the AI/simulation-game-based/statistically representative government called a demarchy).”

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* Sylvan, Dianne : Shadowbound
(Ace 978-0-425-25984-9, $7.99, 336pp, mass market paperback, April 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Mar 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698143289
• The Shadow World #5

Urban fantasy novel, fifth in a series about a woman able to manipulate people with her music who comes into contact with a society of vampires, following Queen of Shadows (2010), ShadowFlame (2011), Shadow’s Fall (2012), and Of Shadow Born (2013).
• Penguin’s site has this description.

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