New Books, 16 September
* Barnett, David : Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon
(Tor 978-0-7653-3425-1, $15.99, 336pp, trade paperback, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Sep 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466809093
• Gideon Smith #2
Alternate history steampunk novel, second in a series following Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl (2013), set in London after a failed American revolution.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Barnett’s characters are drawn with broad strokes, and the many subplots make for a bumpy pace, but there’s plenty to enjoy in this gleeful mix of brass goggles, sword-wielding swashbucklers, Darwin, and dinosaurs.”
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* Cato, Beth : The Clockwork Dagger
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-231384-3, $14.99, 368pp, trade paperback, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Sep 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062313850
Steampunk fantasy novel, the author’s first novel, about a healer on an airship voyage.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a link to a sample.
• The Publishers Weekly review begins, “This rousing tale of airborne intrigue and romance keeps itself grounded with a story as disarming and forthright as its appealingly capable heroine.”
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* Hoover, P. J. : Tut: The Story of My Immortal Life
(Tor/Starscape 978-0-7653-3468-8, $15.99, 320pp, hardcover, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Sep 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466814752
• King Tut #1
Middle-grade fantasy novel, first of a series, about King Tut, living as an eighth-grader in modern-day Washington DC.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “The entertaining premise and fast pace keep this adventure on track, while the way Hoover reimagines the Egyptian pantheon—Isis owning a chain of funeral parlors, for instance—is pleasantly reminiscent of Rick Riordan’s work.”
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* Lake, Jay : Last Plane to Heaven
(Tor 978-0-7653-7798-2, $27.99, 320pp, hardcover, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Sep 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466858473
Collection of 32 stories, subtitled “The Last Collection”, with a foreword by Gene Wolfe.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews, including the table of contents.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Lake’s command of language is strong and sincere, and his stories of everyday heartaches, filled with secret fears and self-delusion, whisk readers from inner geographies of mind to limitless gulfs of space.”
• Paul Di Filippo will have a review for Locus Online later this month.
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* Mamatas, Nick, & Masumi Washington, eds. : Phantasm Japan: Fantasies Light and Dark, From and About Japan
(Haikasoru 978-1421571744, $14.99, 300pp, trade paperback, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Sep 2014
Anthology of 17 stories about Japan, including both fantasy and SF, by Japanese and non-Japanese writers.
• Author include Project Itoh, Tim Pratt, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, and Gary A. Braunbeck.
• Haikasoru’s site has this description with contributor biographies.
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* Marr, Melissa : Made for You
(HarperCollins 978-0-06-201119-0, $17.99, 368pp, hardcover, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Sep 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062309983
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062329417
Young adult romantic fantasy novel about a woman who wakes in the hospital after an attempt on her life, who discovers she has the ability to foresee people’s deaths when they touch her.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a link to a sample.
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* Pagliassotti, Dru : Clockwork Secrets: Heavy Fire
(Hades/Edge Science Fiction And Fantasy 978-1770530546, $15.95, 320pp, trade paperback, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Mon 15 Sep 2014
• Clockwork Trilogy #3
Steampunk fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following Clockwork Heart (2013) and Clockwork Lies (March 2014).
• Edge’s website has this description with a link to a PDF sample.
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* Prineas, Sarah : The Magic Thief: Home
(HarperCollins 978-0-06-220954-2, $17.99, 416pp, hardcover, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Sep 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062209573
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062345660
• The Magic Thief #4
Middle-grade fantasy novel, fourth in a series following The Magic Thief (2008), The Magic Thief: Lost (2009), and The Magic Thief: Found (2010), about a young thief and wizard’s apprentice.
• Illustrations are by Antonio Javier Caparo.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a link to a sample.
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* Shearman, Robert : They Do the Same Things Different There
(ChiZine Publications 978-1771483001, $16.99, 384pp, trade paperback, September 2014, cover art Erik Mohr)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Sep 2014
Collection of 24 stories.
• ChiZine’s site has this description with links to samples in various electronic formats.
• The author has won several awards for previous collections of short fiction.
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* Stroud, Jonathan : Lockwood & Co. : The Whispering Skull
(Disney/Hyperion 978-1-4231-6492-0, $17.99, 448pp, hardcover, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Sep 2014
• UK edition: 978-0857532657 (Wed 24 Sep 2014)
• Lockwood & Co. #2
Middle-grade fantasy novel, second in a series after Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase (2013), about three teenagers who team up to hunt ghostly visitors that are plaguing the British Isles.
• Series site Lockwood & Co. has this PDF excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly said about the first book: “Stroud plays with ghost story conventions along the way, while laying intriguing groundwork that suggests that the Problem isn’t the only problem these young agents will face in books to come—the living can be dangerous, too.”
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* Yancey, Rick : The Infinite Sea
(Putnam 978-0-399-16242-8, $18.99, 320pp, hardcover, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Sep 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781101599013
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781611762990
• The 5th Wave #2
Young adult science fiction novel, second in a series following The 5th Wave (2013), about the survivors of an alien invasion.
• Penguin’s site has this description with a link to an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gives it (as it did the previous book) a starred review: “From an explosive start that reveals the boundless malevolence of Yancey’s conquering alien Others, this gut-wrenching sequel to The 5th Wave careens on a violent course of nonstop action.”
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* Zhang, Kat : Echoes of Us
(HarperCollins 978-0062114938, $17.99, 368pp, hardcover, September 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Sep 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062114952
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062329394
• Hybrid Chronicles #3
Young adult fantasy novel, third in a series following What’s Left of Me (2012) and Once We Were (2013), about two souls, Eva and Addie, who share the same body.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a link to a sample.
• Publishers Weekly gave the first book in the series a starred review: “Addressing issues of identity, ethics, and choice, Zhang’s concept is original and provocative; the deep bond between Eva and Addie (the shifts between I, we, and she in Eva’s narration are especially haunting) and the mystery about why their society is so desperate to “fix” hybrids are riveting.”
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