* Baldwin, Kathleen : A School for Unusual Girls
(Tor Teen 978-0765376008, $17.99, 352pp, hardcover, May 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 19 May 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466849273
• Stranje House #1

Young adult fantasy novel, first in a series, about a school for girls in Regency England.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Barker, Clive : The Scarlet Gospels
(St. Martin’s 978-1-250-05580-4, $26.99, 368pp, hardcover, May 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 19 May 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466859555
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427261571
• UK edition: Macmillan 978-1447266983 (Thu 21 May 2015)


Horror novel involving two of Barker’s most famous characters: detective Harry D’Amour and the priest of hell Pinhead.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “The visceral horrors that clot nearly every page of this novel are not for the squeamish, but the reader who stomachs them to the end will be impressed by the audacity of the author’s ambitions.”
• Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews it in the May issue of Locus Magazine: “Where the machinations of Barker’s Hell are somewhat ordinary and something of a disappointment, its architecture and layout are something else. Barker’s vision of Hell is Dantesque in scale and scope, and he employs the same powers of description that he uses to fix unsettling images of carnage in the minds of readers to convey the awesome otherworldliness of its environs.”

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* Elrod, P. N. : The Hanged Man
(Tor 978-0-7653-2971-4, $24.99, 333pp, hardcover, May 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 19 May 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429946643
• Her Majesty’s Psychic Service #1

Fantasy novel, first book in a series, about a murder in 1879 London investigated by the psychic goddaughter of Queen Victoria.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “This well-constructed novel will please fans of alternate history, fantasy, and mystery.”
• Carolyn Cushman reviewed it in the April issue of Locus Magazine: “Alex is a damaged but determined protagonist, and her search makes a great adventure, with a steampunk background that supports the plot without overwhelming it.”

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* Fenner, Cathy, ed. : Women of Wonder: Celebrating Women Creators of Fantastic Art
(Underwood Books 978-1599290720, $24.95, 128pp, trade paperback, May 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 19 May 2015

Art book compiling works by women creators of fantastic art.
• The Spectrum Fantastic Art Live site has this description of the project’s launch.
• Tor.com has this excerpt with Lauren Panepinito’s introduction and samples of artwork.

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* Gaiman, Neil, Michael Reaves & Mallory Reaves : Eternity’s Wheel
(HarperTeen 978-0-06-206799-9, $17.99, 288pp, hardcover, May 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 19 May 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062068019
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062365736
• InterWorld #3

Young adult novel, third in a trilogy following Interworld (2007) and The Silver Dream (2013), about a boy who learns to walk between other dimensions.
• The byline on the cover is: “Story by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves; Written by Michael Reaves and Mallory Reaves”.
• HarperCollins’s site has this description with a preview function.

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* Higgins, Peter : Radiant State
(Orbit 978-0316219662, $26, 288pp, hardcover, May 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 19 May 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316219648
• Wolfhound Century #3

Alternate history novel, third in a series following Wolfhound Century (2012) and Truth and Fear (2014), set in an alternate Stalinist Russia.
• Hachette’s site has this description.

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* Kilpatrick, Nancy, ed. : Expiration Date
(Edge 978-1-77053-062-1, $15.95, 288pp, trade paperback, May 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 15 May 2015

Anthology of 25 original horror stories.
• Authors include Kelley Armstrong, Steven Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem, Kathryn Ptacek, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
• Edge’s site has this description with the table of contents.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “These stories work best in small doses, but they offer a variety of compelling visions of deaths and other endings.”

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* McLachlan, J. A. : The Occasional Diamond Thief
(Edge 978-1770530751, $14.95, 250pp, trade paperback, May 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 15 May 2015

Young adult SF novel about a 16-year-old girl in training to be a universal translator.
• Edge’s site has this description.
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* Novik, Naomi : Uprooted
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-8041-7903-4, $25, 448pp, hardcover, May 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 19 May 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780804179041
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780553410082

Fantansy novel about a wizard who protects a town from the malevolent power of the nearby woods, in exchange for a new female from the town every 10 years.
• The Penguin Random House site has this description with an excerpt and blurbs from Ursula K. Le Guin, Lev Grossman, and others.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Novik’s use of language is supremely skillful as she weaves a tale that is both elegantly grand and earthily humble, familiar as a Grimm fairy tale yet fresh, original, and totally irresistible. This will be a must-read for fantasy fans for years to come.”
• Carolyn Cushman reviews it in the May issue of Locus Magazine: “Novik goes from alternate history dragons to full-on fairy tale in this nicely warped ‘Beauty and the Beast’.”
• John Scalzi’s blog has this Big Idea post today by Novik.

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* Rajaniemi, Hannu : Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction
(Tachyon Publications 978-1-61696-192-3, $25.95, 256pp, hardcover, May 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 19 May 2015

Collection of 19 stories (all the author’s short fiction to date).
• Tachyon’s site has this description with the table of contents.
• The Publishers Weekly review begins, “Technology features strongly in this solid speculative fiction collection by Rajaniemi. His work is unabashedly in love with its genre, mixing complex technical jargon with classic, pulp-style plots along with a clear appreciation for speculative fiction.”

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* Stephenson, Neal : Seveneves
(Morrow 978-0-06-219037-6, $35, 880pp, hardcover, May 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 19 May 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062190413

SF novel about a handful of survivors who escape the annihilation of Earth, and their progeny 5000 years later who return.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “Stephenson’s remarkable novel is deceptively complex, a disaster story and transhumanism tale that serves as the delivery mechanism for a series of technical and sociological visions.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the May issue of Locus Magazine, concluding that by the end “mostly we get some surprising plot developments back on the slowly reviving Earth. Those are surprises that might lie just on the sharp edge of credibility, like that question of whether he can bring humanity back from its radically underpopulated brink, but it’s an edge that Stephenson has been treading throughout the novel, and which in the end lends it a genuinely moving, tragic, and epic scope.”

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