* Alexander, William : Nomad
(Simon & Schuster/McElderry 978-1442497672, $16.99, 272pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781442497696
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781442395602
• Ambassador #2

Middle-grade SF novel, sequel to Ambassador (2014), about the child ambassador from Terra facing an alien threat.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with a Google preview.
• The Publishers Weekly review says the book is “Filled with a Heinleinesque sense of wonder”.

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* Aryan, Stephen : Battlemage
(Orbit 978-0-316-29827-8, $15.99, 512pp, trade paperback, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316298285
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478959793
• Age of Darkness #1

Epic fantasy novel, first of a series and the author’s first novel, about a battlemage, a soldier, and a princess.
• Hachette’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “With over-the-top psychopathic villainy and graphic battle scenes where “gouts of blood and chunks of flesh rained down… as limbs and pieces of men were sliced away,” this is epic fantasy for readers who appreciate extra helpings of carnage with their backstabbing.”

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* Blake, Kendare : Ungodly
(Tor Teen 978-0-7653-3445-9, $17.99, 368pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466812239
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427276148
• The Goddess War #3

Young adult fantasy novel, third and concluding book in a series following Antigoddess (2013) and Mortal Gods (2014), about the ancient Greek gods living out the last days in modern times.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gave the first book a starred review: “Blake presents a gory, thrilling vision of the twilight of the gods, in all their pettiness and power, while letting readers draw their own messages and conclusions.”

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* Carson, Rae : Walk on Earth a Stranger
(HarperCollins/Greenwillow 978-0062242914, $17.99, 448pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062242938
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062395764
• Gold Seer #1

Young adult fantasy novel, first book of a trilogy, about a girl with magical powers in 1849 California.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description.
• The book was just long-listed for this year’s National Book Awards.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Carson’s story is simply terrific—tense and exciting, while gently and honestly addressing the brutal hardships of the westward migration.”

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* Duncan, Alexandra : Sound
(HarperCollins/Greenwillow 978-0-06-222017-2, $17.99, 496pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062220196
• Salvage #2

Young adult SF novel, a stand-alone companion to the author’s debut novel Salvage (2014), about a teen scientist on her first space voyage.
• Salvage won the Compton Crook Award earlier this year, and was an Andre Norton Award finalist.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly called the earlier book “a powerfully immersive story that uses its far-future SF premise to thoughtfully explore gender politics.”

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+ Gaiman, Neil, illustrated by Chris Riddell : The Sleeper and the Spindle
(HarperCollins 978-0-06-239824-6, $19.99, 64pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062398260
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062435132

Illustrated children’s fantasy reimagination of the Sleeping Beauty story.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Always a superb spinner of tales, Gaiman presents a filigreed elaboration of Sleeping Beauty that, before long, reveals itself as something more.”

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* Gischler, Victor : Gestapo Mars
(Titan 978-1783297351, $14.95, 304pp, trade paperback, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Carter Sloan #1

SF novel, first of a series, about an assassin who’s woken from cryogenic sleep after 250 years, to discover the Third Reich in control of the solar system.
• The Publishers Weekly review begins “Sci-fi yarns don’t get much wackier than the latest from Gischler”, and concludes, “The body count is predictably high, and Gischler tosses in a fun Star Wars shout-out. Fans of darkly humorous space operas will be pleased by this foray.”

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* Grant, Michael : The Tattooed Heart
(HarperCollins/Tegen Books 978-0-06-220743-2, $17.99, 400pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062207456
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062395825
• Messenger of Fear #2

Young adult fantasy/horror novel, second in a series following Messenger of Fear (2014), about a girl who becomes an apprentice to a magical boy who dispenses justice to the world.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly called the first book an “uneven paranormal story [that]transcends time and space to address the consequences of bullying, violence, and moral cowardice.”

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+ Hogan, Mitchell : A Crucible of Souls
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-240724-5, $17.99, 512pp, trade paperback, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062407269
• Sorcery Ascendant #1

First US edition (Australia: self-published, 2013)

Fantasy novel, first of a series and the author’s first novel, about a boy raised by monks who seeks the truth about who his parents were and why they were killed.
• The book was originall self-published and won an Aurealis Award in 2014.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review calls it “a multiple-narrator tale of sorcery and madness that draws upon grimdark and adventure-quest epics in equal parts—but not in the best ways.”

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* Jama-Everett, Ayize : The Entropy of Bones
(Small Beer 978-1-61873-103-6, $16, 228pp, trade paperback, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781618731043

Fantasy novel sharing a setting with The Liminal People (2012) and The Liminal War (June 2015), about a mute girl with mental powers who takes up martial arts.
• Small Beer’s site has this description with quotes from reviews and a link to an excerpt on Tor.com
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Rooted in Chabi’s voice, the story is spare, fierce, and rich, and readers will care just as much about the delicate, damaged relationship between Chabi and her mother as the threat of world destruction.”

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* Lee, Tanith : Dancing Through the Fire
(Fantastic Books 978-1627556453, $24.99, 224pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Sat 19 Sep 2015

Collection of 16 stories, 4 of them original to this book.
• Fantastic Books’ site has this description. There’s a simultaneous trade-paperback edition (978-1627556460).

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* Maberry, Jonathan : Bits & Pieces
(Simon & Schuster 978-1481444194, $19.99, 592pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781481444200
• Rot & Ruin #5

Young adult zombie novel set in a post-apocalypse America, fifth in a series following Rot & Ruin (2010), Dust & Decay (2011), Flesh & Bone (2012), and Fire & Ash (2013).
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with a preview function.

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* McDonald, Ian : Luna: New Moon
(Tor 978-0-7653-7551-3, $27.99, 432pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466847637

SF novel, first in a series, about a lunar settlement run by rival corporations called the Five Dragons.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “McDonald creates a complex and fascinating civilization featuring believable technology, and the characters are fully developed, with individually gripping stories. Watch for this brilliantly constructed family saga on next year’s award ballots.”
• Gary K. Wolfe’s review from the September issue of Locus Magazine is posted here; “Luna: New Moon is the best moon novel I’ve seen in many years, but it’s also something of a piece with the recent movement on the part of Paul McAuley, Kim Stanley Robinson, and oth­ers to confine novels to the solar system, out of a realistic assessment that this is likely all we’ll have to work with — but McDonald takes this a step further.”

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* Okorafor, Nnedi : Binti
(Tor.com 978-0765385253, $9.99, 106pp, trade paperback, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-7653-8446-1
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427269454

SF novella about a woman who gives up her family and culture to attend Oomza University, the finest in the galaxy.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review is mixed; “Okorafor draws from her rich knowledge of cultural warfare to craft nuanced commentary on how we mock “alien” peoples at our own peril; however, the plotting and characterization suffer from lack of authorial attention.”

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* Toner, Tom : The Promise of the Child
(Skyhorse/Night Shade 978-1-59780-845-3, $26.99, 460pp, hardcover, September 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Sep 2015
• Amaranthine Spectrum #1

SF novel, first in a series and the author’s first novel, set among post-human worlds in the 147th century.
• Night Shade’s site has this description with quotes from reviews and blurbs from Karl Schroeder, Adam Roberts, and others.
• The Publishers Weekly review calls it “a thoughtful, languid space opera”, and concludes, “The pace picks up as the tale moves toward its end, but this is the kind of book that will most appeal to cerebral readers who can appreciate its characters’ many verbal interactions even when they delay the plot.”
• Paul Di Filippo’s review for Locus Online will be posted shortly.

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