* Bacigalupi, Paolo : The Doubt Factory
(Little, Brown 978-0-316-22075-0, $18, 496pp, hardcover, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Oct 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316220743

Young adult contemporary thriller about a young woman, Alix, who discovers her father is involved in covering up wrongdoings by unscupulous corporations.
• Hachette’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “This openly didactic novel asks challenging questions about the immorality of the profit motive and capitalism, but does so within the context of a highly believable plot (backed up with references to actual front groups, lawsuits, warning labels, and literature on the subject, which will send readers to their search engines) and well-developed, multifaceted characters. Fans of Cory Doctorow’s work should love this book.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the October issue of Locus Magazine: “… Alix herself emerges as a likeable, smart, and thoughtful protagonist, and an excellent vehicle for the important con- cerns that Bacigalupi successfully raises in this novel, which manages to be as unnerving as his post-apocalyptic dystopias, precisely because the future it depicts is already here.”

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* Bear, Greg : War Dogs
(Orbit 978-0-316-07283-0, $25, 304pp, hardcover, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Oct 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316335768
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478982760
• War Dogs #1

Near-future SF novel, first in a series, about an interstellar war whose alien protagonists have come to Earth and Mars.
• Orbit’s site has this post with a description.
• Hachette’s site has a description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review says the book is “Stuffed with adrenaline-pumping action and mystifying ambiguity”; the review concludes, “…a dead-stop ending leaves Venn and Bear’s readers to impatiently await word of what it was all about.”

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* Bernobich, Beth : The Time Roads
(Tor 978-0-7653-3125-0, $15.99, 304pp, trade paperback, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Oct 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429952095

Alternate history steampunk novel set in early 20th century Ireland.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “A plethora of explosions fails to inject emotional suspense, although the plotting and counterplotting between nations provide some satisfaction.”

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* Datlow, Ellen, ed. : The Cutting Room
(Tachyon Publications 978-1616961671, $16.95, 17+366pp, trade paperback, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Oct 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B00NIYJIEY

Anthology of 22 horror stories, subtitled “Dark Reflections of the Silver Screen”. One story, by Stephen Graham Jones, is original to this book.
• Authors include Peter Straub, Edward Bryant, Kim Newman, Laird Barron, Ian Watson, and Robert Shearman.
• Genevieve Valentine provides an introduction.
• Tachyon’s site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “Superstar editor Datlow makes no missteps in this reprint collection of dark tales involving movies and moviemaking.”

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* Doctorow, Cory, & Jen Wang : In Real Life
(Macmillan/Roaring Brook/First Second 978-1596436589, $17.99, 192pp, trade paperback, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Oct 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466858619

Associational young adult graphic novel about a girl’s involvement with a massively-multiplayer role game called Coarsegold Online. (It’s apparently based on Doctorow’s 2004 story “Anda’s Game”.)
• Macmillan’s site has this description with sample pages.
• The Publishers Weekly review calls it “a heartfelt and of-the-moment story”, and concludes, “Characters come to life through Wang’s (Koko Be Good) fluid forms and emotive faces, and her adroit shift in colors as the story moves between the physical and gaming worlds is subtle and effective.”

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* Durst, Sarah Beth : Chasing Power
(Bloomsbury/Walker 978-0802737557, $17.99, 376pp, hardcover, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Oct 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780802737564

Young adult fantasy novel about a girl who can move things with her mind who teams up with a boy who can teleport on a quest to rescue his kidnapped mother.
• Bloomsbury’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Think The Mummy (temples, tombs, and all) with Veronica Mars calling the shots, and a dash of romance in the mix.”

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* Guran, Paula, ed. : Time Travel: Recent Trips
(Prime Books 978-1607014348, $16.95, 384pp, trade paperback, October 2014, cover art Julie Dillon)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 10 Oct 2014

Anthology of 18 stories about time travel, written in the 21st century.
• Authors include Charlie Jane Anders, Howard Waldrop, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Eileen Gunn, and Michael Moorcock.
• Prime’s site has this description with a list of included stories.

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* Krokos, Dan : The Black Stars
(Tor/Starscape 978-0765334299, $17.99, 304pp, hardcover, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Oct 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466809994
• Planet Thieves #2

Middle grade SF novel, second of a series following The Planet Thieves (2013), about Space Command cadets.
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* Nix, Garth : Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
(HarperCollins 978-0-06-156155-9, $18.99, 400pp, hardcover, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Oct 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062216809

Young adult fantasy novel, prequel to the author’s Old Kingdom trilogy (Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen).
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Between striking characters—from the heroic if not entirely competent young Abhorsen-in-Waiting, Belatiel, to the enigmatic, catlike Mogget—and Nix’s brilliantly complex magic system, this superb tale is exactly the book fans of the series have been awaiting.”

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* Ruckley, Brian : The Free
(Orbit 978-0-316-23349-1, $15, 480pp, trade paperback, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Oct 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316233514
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478952930

Epic fantasy novel about a band of mercenaries called the Free.
• Hachette’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “Ruckley’s tightly focused return to epic fantasy, wherein history and mythology gradually emerge with logical precision, is mesmerizing, magical, and human.”

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+ Warrington, Freda : The Dark Blood of Poppies
(Titan 978-1781167076, $14.95, 400pp, trade paperback, October 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Oct 2014
• Blood Wine #3

First US edition (UK: Macmillan UK, 1995)

First US edition of a novel from 1995 and published by Titan in the UK in May 2014. It’s third in a series following A Taste of Blood Wine (1992) and A Dance in Blood Velvet (1994), about a ballerina who becomes a vampire.
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