* Blaylock, James P. : Beneath London
(Titan 978-1783292608, $14.95, 432pp, trade paperback, June 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jun 2015
• Langdon St. Ives #4

Steampunk fantasy novel, fourth in a series about Langdon St. Ives following Homunculus (1986) Lord Kelvin’s Machine (1992), and The Aylesford Skull (2013).
• The publisher’s site has this description.
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* Cato, Beth : The Clockwork Crown
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-231398-0, $14.99, 384pp, trade paperback, June 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jun 2015
• Clockwork Dagger #2

Steampunk fantasy novel, second in a series following The Clockwork Dagger (2014), about a magical healer.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a link to a sample.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Cato continues to defy expectations, moving the saga toward an unexpected, heartfelt conclusion, and the revelations about Octavia’s abilities are amply rewarding.”
• Faren Miller reviews it in the June issue of Locus Magazine: “The Clockwork Crown isn’t a simplistic EcoFable encouraging parents and their children to go out and hug a tree. Its villains aren’t that obvious.”

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* Gratz, Alan : The Dragon Lantern
(Tor/Starscape 978-0765338235, $17.99, 336pp, hardcover, June 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jun 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466838512
• League of Seven #2

Middle-grade steampunk adventure novel, second in a series following The League of Seven (2014), set in an alternate 1875 America. Illustrations are by Brett Helquist.
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* Greenwood, Ed : The Iron Assassin
(Tor 978-0-7653-3846-4, $25.99, 320pp, hardcover, June 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jun 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466838895

Alternate history steampunk novel set in a non-Victorian London, about an inventor who creates a clockwork-enhanced corpse he calls the ‘Iron Assassin’.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “Greenwood’s triumphant adventure is full of both brutality and psychological nuance.”

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* Hamilton, Laurell K. : Dead Ice
(Berkley 978-0425255711, $27.95, 576pp, hardcover, June 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jun 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698140301
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781611764147
• Anita Blake #24

Erotic fantasy vampire novel, 24th in the bestselling series about Anita Blake, vampire hunter, that began with Guilty Pleasures (2002) and most recently included Kiss the Dead (2012), Affliction (2013), and Jason (2014).
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* Horton, Rich, ed. : The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 Edition
(Prime Books 978-1607014522, $19.95, 576pp, trade paperback, June 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jun 2015

Anthology of 34 science fiction and fantasy stories first published in 2014.
• Authors include James Patrick Kelly, Robert Reed, Ken Liu, Alaya Dawn Johnson (whose story just won a Nebula Award), Kelly Link, Rachel Swirsky, and Cory Doctorow.
• Prime’s site has this description with a list of the contents.
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* Johansen, Erika : The Invasion of the Tearling
(Harper 978-0-06-229039-7, $24.99, 528pp, hardcover, June 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jun 2015
• Queen of the Tearling #2

Fantasy novel, second in a trilogy following The Queen of the Tearling (2014), about a young princess who has reclaimed her dead mother’s throne.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a preview.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Readers enticed by strong female characters who seize control of their own destiny will forgive the story’s flaws.”
• Entertainment Weekly just gave it a rave review: “Existing somewhere between The Handmaid’s Tale and an episode of Black Mirror, pre-Crossing America is a chilling security state on the brink of revolt, a world you want to explore as much as escape, and it brings this fantasy series much closer to home. A“

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* Lewis, J. F. : Oathkeeper
(Prometheus/Pyr 978-1633880542, $18, 381pp, trade paperback, June 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jun 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781633880559
• Grudgebearer #2

Fantasy novel, second in a trilogy following Grudgebearer, about disputes between a race of former slaves and the race that enslaved them.
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* Nix, Garth : To Hold the Bridge
(HarperCollins 978-0-06-229252-0, $17.99, 416pp, hardcover, June 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jun 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062292544
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062398123
• UK edition: 978-1471404481 (Thu 4 Jun 2015)

Collection of 19 stories, including an Old Kingdom novella and stories set in the worlds of Shade’s Children and A Confusion of Princes.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a preview function.
• Tom Whitmore reviewed it in the May issue of Locus Magazine: “There’s more than enough good tales here to satisfy either a good youthful reader or an adult who remembers what is best about children’s literature.”

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+ Pratchett, Terry, Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart : Darwin’s Watch: The Science of Discworld III
(Anchor Books 978-0-8041-6898-4, $15.95, 346pp, trade paperback, June 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jun 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780804168991
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780804193672

First US edition (UK: Ebury Press, May 2005)

Nonfiction with fictional elements, exploring evolutionary theory in the context of wizards in Discworld who have accidently created “Roundworld”, i.e. the Earth. This is the first US edition.
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* Reynolds, Alastair : Slow Bullets
(Tachyon Publications 978-1-61696-193-0, $14.95, 192pp, trade paperback, June 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jun 2015

Short SF novel set near the end of a far future interstellar conflict, about a soldier who is captured aboard a ship who passengers are waking from hibernation too soon.
• Tachyon’s site has this description and order page.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “This is an odd tale, stylized and almost gothic in its sensibilities, reminiscent of Greg Bear’s Hull Zero Three in its willingness to mystify its audience and leave its shipboard mysteries unsolved.”
• Lois Tilton reviewed it for Locus Online: “Or it may be that their memories aren’t reliable, which is a thing we know about memories. But Scur’s story tells us that they need not limit or define a life, and at the moment she relinquished her own, she committed to what readers may recognize as an existentialist position…”

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* Rusch, Kristine Kathryn : Masterminds
(WMG 978-1-56146-625-2, $18.99, 384pp, trade paperback, June 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 3 Jun 2015
• Retrieval Artist #14

Mystery/SF novel, 14th in the ‘Retrieval Artist’ series and eighth in the sequence beginning with Anniversary Day, concerning terrorists who threaten to destroy every dome on the Moon.
• The publisher’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review calls it “deeply satisfying” and concludes, “While it’s almost essential to have read the previous installments, this is a very strong payoff for the series.”

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