+ Amish : The Immortals of Melhua
(Quercus/Jo Fletcher 978-1-62365-143-5, $26.99, 448pp, hardcover, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Shiva Trilogy #1

First US edition (UK: Quercus/Jo Fletcher, January 2013)

Fantasy novel, first of a trilogy, set in ancient India. The second and third books, The Secret of the Nagas and The Oath of the Vayuputras, have already appeared from Quercus in the UK.
• Series site Shiva Trilogy has this page for the book, with a video trailer and author profile.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.
• The Publishers Weekly review says, “Amish’s debut, the first of a trilogy, made him a bestselling literary star in India. In translation, this fictionalized history of the Hindu deity Shiva’s journey to godhood is conceptually clever, but it’s sadly lackluster in execution.”

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* Arthur, Keri : Darkness Falls
(Signet 978-0451419606, $7.99, 400pp, mass market paperback, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781101621943
• Dark Angels #7

Urban fantasy novel, seventh and final book in a series that began with Darkness Unbound (Oct 2011) and included most recently Darkness Splintered (2013).
• Penguin’s site has this description with a preview function.

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* Asaro, Catherine : Undercity
(Baen 978-1-4767-3692-1, $15, 304pp, trade paperback, December 2014, cover art Alan Pollack)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-62579-334-8
• Skolian Saga #15

SF novel, 15th (or 19th depending on which volumes and shorter works are counted) in the author’s long-running Skolian Saga.
• Baen’s site’ has this description, with links to several chapters.

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* Bova, Ben, & Eric Choi, eds. : Carbide Tipped Pens
(Tor 978-0-7653-3430-5, $27.99, 400pp, hardcover, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466810198

Anthology of 17 original hard SF stories.
• Authors include Gregory Benford, Howard Hendrix, Liu Cixin (translated by Ken Liu), Jack McDevitt, and Robert Reed.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt and a video trailer.
• The Publishers Weekly review says the editors “successfully recapture the feel of classic hard SF, presenting 17 stories in which science and technology are truly essential to the plot.”
• Lois Tilton reviewed the book for Locus Online, recommending the Gregory Benford story.

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* Dietz, William C. : Andromeda’s War
(Ace 978-0425256268, $25.95, 368pp, hardcover, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698146525
• Legion of the Damned #12

Military SF novel, twelfth book “Legion of the Damned” series following A Fighting Chance (2011), Andromeda’s Fall (2012), and Andromeda’s Choice (2013), about the Legion’s early days.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
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+ Fowler, Christopher : Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart
(Bantam 978-0-345-54765-1, $26, 400pp, hardcover, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-345-54766-8
• Bryant & May #11

First US edition (UK: Transworld/Doubleday UK, March 2014)

Supernatural crime novel, eleventh in a series about detectives Bryant and May that began with Full Dark House (2004).
• Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review calls the book “solid” but concludes, “Fowler has delivered more imaginative resolutions in previous entries.”

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* Hughes, Alex : Vacant
(Roc 978-0451466945, $7.99, 352pp, mass market paperback, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698138216
• Mindspace Investigations #4

SF novel, fourth in a series after the author’s first novel Clean (2012) and then Sharp (2013) and Marked (Apr 2014), about an ex-Telepath’s Guild member who helps police solve crimes.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review of the previous book concluded, “Powered by incisive writing, conflicted characters, and strong plotting, this effort solidifies Hughes’s place on the urban fantasy shelves.”

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* Koch, Gini : Universal Alien
(DAW 978-0756409302, $7.99, 544pp, nvl, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698182172
• Alien #10

SF novel, tenth a series following Touched by an Alien (April 2010), Alien Tango (Dec 2010), Alien in the Family (April 2011), Alien Proliferation (2011), Alien Diplomacy (Apr 2012), Alien vs. Alien (Nov. 2012), Alien in the House (May 2013), Alien Research (Dec. 2013), and Alien Collective (May 2014), about alien invaders from Alpha Centauri turning humans into monsters.
• Penguin’s site has this description.

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* Kurtz, Katherine : The King’s Deryni
(Ace 978-0425276686, $26.95, 560pp, hardcover, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698171992
• Childe Morgan Trilogy #3

Fantasy novel, conclusion of a trilogy in the author’s long-running “Deryni” series, following In the King’s Service (2003) and Childe Morgan (2008).
• Penguin’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Wikipedia has a detailed page for Deryni novels, with chronologies of all five trilogies and related works.

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* Lackey, Mercedes, Cody Martin, Dennis Lee & Veronica Giguere : Collision
(Baen 978-1-4767-3691-4, $25, 576pp, hardcover, December 2014, cover art Larry Dixon)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-62579-333-1
• Secret World Chronicle #4

Alternate history thriller, fourth in a series following Invasion (2011), World Divided (2012), and Revolution (Jan. 2014), about ‘meta-heroes’ during World War II.
• Baen’s site has this description with links to several chapters.

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* Lackey, Mercedes, ed. : No True Way
(DAW 978-0756407698, $7.99, 352pp, mass market paperback, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781101635735

Anthology of 16 original stories, subtitled “All-New Tales of Valdemar”.
• Penguin’s site has this description.

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* Lukyanenko, Sergei : The Genome
(Open Road 978-1497643963, $16.99, 496pp, trade paperback, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B00NX8U3J4

SF thriller about a genetically-modified spaceship pilot assigned to ferry alien diplomats to human worlds.
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+ MacFarlane, Alex Dally, ed. : The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women
(Running Press 978-0762454709, $14.95, 512pp, trade paperback, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014

First US edition (UK: Robinson, October 2014)

Anthology of 33 previously published stories, first published over the past 20 years.
• Authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler, Nnedi Okorafor, Nalo Hopkinson, Nancy Kress, Sofia Samatar, Karin Tidbeck, and Catherynne M. Valente.
• Running Press’ site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews, including the table of contents.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “Representing nearly a dozen countries and twice as many ethnicities, this book’s contents offer something for every fan of well-written SF.”

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* Nassise, Joseph : On Her Majesty’s Behalf
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-204878-3, $14.99, 336pp, trade paperback, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062048806
• The Great Undead War #2

Military zombie novel, second in a series following The Great Undead War (2012), about an alternate World War I in which Germany employs a new chemical weapons that revives the dead.
• Harper’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review calls it “another competent horror thriller set in a fantastical version of WWI.”

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* Oliver, Jonathan, ed. : Dangerous Games
(Solaris 978-1781082683, $9.99, 320pp, trade paperback, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• UK edition: 978-1781082652 (Thu 4 Dec 2014)

Anthology of original stories about games.
• Authors include Lavie Tidhar, Pat Cadigan, Robert Shearman, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Melanie Tem, and Chuck Wendig.

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* Painter, Kristen : City of Eternal Night
(Orbit 978-0-316-27833-1, $16, 400pp, trade paperback, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Crescent City #2

Fantasy novel, second in a series involving a character from the author’s “House of Comarré” novels, following House of the Rising Sun (May 2014), about a new-future New Orleans that has become a refuge for vampires.
• Orbit’s site has this post about the book with a link to an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Painter takes this romp to unexpected places, with many, but not all, of Harlow’s family secrets revealed.”

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* Resnick, Mike : The Fortress in Orion
(Prometheus/Pyr 978-1-61614-990-1, $18, 300pp, trade paperback, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Dead Enders #1

Military SF novel, first book of a new series, about a human plan to replace an alien general with a specially trained clone.
• Pyr’s site has this description with blurbs from Robert J. Sawyer, Nancy Kress, and others.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments that Resnick’s “take on the military caper novel in space is entertaining, but it lacks the verve of his earlier space westerns.”

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* Spoor, Ryk E. : Paradigms Lost
(Baen 978-1-4767-3693-8, $15, 544pp, trade paperback, December 2014, cover art Stephen Hickman)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-62579-335-5

SF novel, a revision and expansion of the author’s first novel Digital Knight (2003), about an information specialist who confronts the supernatural.
• Baen’s site has the description with links to several chapters.

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* Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn : Sustenance
(Tor 978-0765334015, $29.99, 480pp, hardcover, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Dec 2014
• Sant-Germain #27

Vampire novel, 27th novel in the long-running Saint-Germain series that began with Hotel Transylvania (1978) and most recently included Night Pilgrims (2013).
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review says the book is a “detailed period piece that’s heavy on history but light on speculative elements.”

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