* Aguirre, Ann : Havoc
(Ace 978-0-425-25812-5, $7.99, 320pp, mass market paperback, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Aug 2014
• The Dred Chronicles #2

SF novel, second in a series after Perdition (2013), about politics aboard a spaceship prison in orbit around an asteroid.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Some of Aguirre’s characters are simply monstrous, but most have intriguing, complex histories and motives, and she brings them together for a raucous tale of grit and gumption.”

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* Anderson, Kevin J. : Slimy Underbelly
(Kensington 978-1617731143, $15, 352pp, trade paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Aug 2014
• Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. #4

Fantasy novel about a zombie detective, fourth in a series following Death Warmed Over (2012), Unnatural Acts (2013), and Hair Raising (2013).
• Kensington’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.

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* Carson, Rae : The Girl of Fire and Thorns Stories
(HarperCollins/Greenwillow 978-0-06-233433-6, $9.99, 272pp, trade paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Aug 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062345578

Collection of three novellas set in the world of Carson’s fantasy series The Girl of Fire and Thorns (2011), The Crown of Embers (2012), and The Bitter Kingdom (2013). The novellas were originally published digitally.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a link to an excerpt.

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* Dashner, James : The Rule of Thoughts
(Delacorte 978-0-385-74141-5, $18.99, 336pp, hardcover, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Aug 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-375-98464-8
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 978-0-8041-2250-4
• Mortality Doctrine #2

Young adult SF novel, second in a series following The Eye of Minds (2013), about teenagers battling a sentient computer program whose plan is to populate the earth with human bodies populated by similar programs.
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* Duncan, Rod : The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter
(Angry Robot 978-0-85766-530-0, $7.99, 320pp, mass market paperback, September 2014, cover art Staehle)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Aug 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780857665317
• UK edition: 9780857665294 (Thu 4 Sep 2014)
• The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire #1

Alternate history fantasy novel, first of a duology, set in a divided United Kingdom.
• Angry Robot’s site has this description. The second book, Unseemly Science, is due in February 2015.
• The Publishers Weekly review says, “Steeped in illusion and grounded in an alternative history of the Luddite Rebellion, Duncan’s strong supernatural mystery serves ably as both a standalone adventure and the start to a series.”

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* Green, Simon R. : Voices from Beyond
(Ace 978-0-425-25994-8, $7.99, 304pp, mass market paperback, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Aug 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698139732
• Ghost Finders #5

Fantasy novel, fifth in a series following Ghost of a Chance (2010), Ghost of a Smile (2011), Ghost of a Dream (2012), and Spirits from Beyond (2013), about operatives of the Carnacki Institute whose mission is to do something about the ghosts.
• Penguin’s site has this description.

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* Hurley, Kameron : The Mirror Empire
(Angry Robot 978-0-85766-556-0, $14.99, 512pp, trade paperback, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Aug 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780857665577
• UK edition: 9780857665553 (Thu 4 Sep 2014)
• Worldbreaker Saga #1

Fantasy novel, first book in a series, about a world where people and civilizations are affected by changing stars.
• Angry Robot’s site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “Readers will blaze through this opening installment and eagerly await the promised sequel.”

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* Kadrey, Richard : The Getaway God
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-209461-2, $24.99, 400pp, hardcover, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Aug 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062094629
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062332363
• Sandman Slim #6

Urban fantasy thriller, sixth in a series following Sandman Slim (2009), Kill the Dead (2010), Aloha from Hell (2011), Devil Said Bang (2012), and Kill City Blues (2013), about James Stark, hit man from Hell.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “The novel is wall-to-wall action, and Stark careens from mayhem to chaos, doing battle with the recently deceased and those who can never die. His choices are anchored in the salvation of a video store, a donut shop, and a woman he can’t be sure he knows…”

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* Scalzi, John : Lock In
(Tor 978-0-7653-7586-5, 336pp, hardcover, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Aug 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466849358

Near-future SF novel, a departure from Scalzi’s space opera novels, about a virus that leaves survivors trapped within bodies they can experience but from which they cannot respond.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “This powerful novel will intrigue and entertain both fans and newcomers.”
• Scalzi’s blog has this post: “The novel is getting some of the best reviews of my career to date, include starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist. Io9 calls it one of my best novels yet; others have also been nicely positive.

You can read the first five chapters at Tor.com. You can also read the related novella “Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden’s Syndrome” at Tor.com.”

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* Watts, Peter : Echopraxia
(Tor 978-0-7653-2802-1, $24.99, 352pp, hardcover, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Aug 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429948067

SF novel, sequel to the author’s acclaimed Blindsight (2006).
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review calls it a “dense, fast-moving companion to 2006’s Blindsight set in a late-21st-century world of genetically resurrected vampires, weaponized zombies, and Nobel-winning monastic hive minds”, and its review concludes, “The novel delivers an intricately inventive and coolly deterministic lesson in the futility of trying to outthink evolution, less a critique of human transcendence than an indictment of its basic assumptions.”
• Paul Di Filippo will have a review for Locus Online in September.

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* Weeks, Brent : The Broken Eye
(Orbit 978-0-316-07992-1, $28, 816pp, hardcover, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Aug 2014
• UK edition: 978-1841499093 (Tue 26 Aug 2014)
• Lightbringer #3

Fantasy novel, third of a trilogy following The Black Prism (2010) and The Blinding Knife (2012).
• The author’s site has this post about the book.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “His characters are charming even as they are threatened with being swept off the chessboard. Fans of George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire will find the family dynamics of the Guiles quite familiar.”

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* Whates, Ian, ed. : Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction
(Solaris 978-1781082096, $7.99, 448pp, mass market paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Aug 2014

Anthology of 18 original science fiction stories.
• Solaris’ site has this description.
• Contributors include Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Ken Liu, Ian Watson, Adam Roberts, Rachel Swirsky, Aliette de Bodard.

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