New Books, 30 December
* Adams, Guy : For a Few Souls More
(Rebellion/Solaris 978-1781082881, $7.99, 320pp, mass market paperback, January 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 30 Dec 2014
• UK edition: 978-1781082874 (Thu 15 Jan 2015)
• Heaven’s Gate Trilogy #3
Fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following The Good the Bad and the Infernal (2013) and Once Upon a Time in Hell (2014), about a town that appears one day every hundred years, and is a doorway to Heaven.
• Solaris’ site has this description for the previous book, but nothing yet for this book.
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* Arnason, Eleanor : Hidden Folk: Icelandic Fantasies
(Many Worlds Press 978-0-9903934-0-5, $24, 192pp, hardcover, December 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Sat 27 Dec 2014
Collection of five stories about magical Icelandic beings.
• The publisher’s site has this description with blurbs by Terry Bisson, Pat Murphy, and Nisi Shawl.
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* Perry, Steve : The Tejano Conflict
(Ace 978-0425273494, $7.99, 304pp, mass market paperback, January 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 30 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698150713
• Cutter’s Wars #3
Military SF novel, third in a series following The Ramal Extraction (2013) and The Vastalimi Gambit (2014), about a mercenary group in the 24th century.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
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* Powell, Gareth L. : Macaque Attack!
(Rebellion/Solaris 978-1781082867, $7.99, 432pp, mass market paperback, January 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 30 Dec 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B00P6UEU9G
• UK edition: 978-1781082850 (Thu 15 Jan 2015)
• Ack-Ack Macaque #3
Alternate history novel, conclusion of a trilogy that began with Ack-Ack Macaque (2012) and Hive Monkey (2014) , about a cigar-chomping monkey now working as a pilot on a nuclear-powered Zeppelin.
• Solaris’s site does not yet have a page for this book.
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+ Taylor, K. J. : The Shadow’s Heart
(Ace 978-0425258255, $7.99, 464pp, mass market paperback, January 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 30 Dec 2014
• The Risen Sun #3
Fantasy novel, third in a series following The Shadow’s Heir (2013) and The Shadowed Throne (2014), about a woman born a half-breed of the Northern kingdom and the Southern people.
• The Australian edition from Dymocks was published a year ago.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
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* Vaughn, Carrie : Low Midnight
(Tor 978-0-7653-6869-0, $7.99, 320pp, mass market paperback, January 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 30 Dec 2014
• Kitty Norville #13
Fantasy novel, thirteenth book in the series following Kitty Steals the Show (2012), Kitty Rocks the House (Apr. 2013), and Kitty in the Underworld (Aug. 2013) about werewolf radio talk show host Kitty Norville.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review calls it “rowsing” and concludes, “Vaughn keeps the twists and turns coming in this fast-paced, delightful paranormal mystery.”
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