* Cameron, Miles : The Dread Wyrm
(Orbit Us 978-0316212304, $16.99, 608pp, trade paperback, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Oct 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316212311
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478959809
• Traitor Son #3

Historical fantasy novel, third in a series following The Red Knight (2013) and The Fell Sword (2014), about a tournament between knights.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an OpenBook excerpt.

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* Card, Orson Scott : Gatefather
(Tor 978-0765326591, $25.99, 384pp, hardcover, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Oct 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429952088
• Mither Mages #3

YA fantasy novel, third book in the “Mither Mages” series following The Lost Gate (2011) and The Gate Thief (2013), about Danny North, member of rural family with magical powers.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Danvers, Dennis : Bad Angels
(Metaphysical Circus 978-0989977241, $16.99, 502pp, trade paperback, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 15 Oct 2015

Fantasy novel about a fallen angel who prefers living among humans.
• The publisher’s site has this description with quotes from reviews.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Danvers’s sweetly romantic fantasy is both charming and optimistic as love and free will inspire Shannon, George, Peter, and their misfit friends to take a stand against the forces of heaven.”

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* Howard, Jonathan L. : Carter & Lovecraft
(St. Martin’s/Dunne 978-1-250-06089-1, $25.99, 320pp, hardcover, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Oct 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466866652
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427264275
• Carter & Lovecraft #1

Fantasy novel about a private investigator who inherits a bookstore in Providence whose bookseller is Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H.P. Lovecraft.
• Macmillan’s search page calls this “The start of a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century, optioned by Warner Bros TV.” The site has this description of the book with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Howard sometimes makes explicit ideas that Lovecraft more effectively suggested, but his novel shows a thorough understanding of Lovecraft’s conceptual horrors and features an ending that cleverly bears out those concepts.”

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* Joshi, S. T., ed. : The Madness of Cthulhu, Volume 2
(Titan Us 978-1781165485, $15.95, 304pp, trade paperback, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Oct 2015

Anthology of 16 original stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness”.
• Authors include Kevin J. Anderson, Laird Barron, Karen Haber, William F. Nolan, and Brian Stableford.
• Titan’s site has this description.

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* Karpyshyn, Drew : Chaos Unleashed
(Del Rey 978-0-345-54937-2, $16, 416pp, trade paperback, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 15 Oct 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780804179539
• The Chaos Born #3

Epic fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following Children of Fire (2013) and The Scorched Earth (2014).
• Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review says the book “reintroduces its array of archetypal characters and multiple narrative threads for new readers, but as a consequence, the plot moves glacially slowly for those not already invested.”

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* Kaufman, Amie, & Jay Kristoff : Illuminae
(Knopf 978-0-553-49911-7, $18.99, 599pp, hardcover, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Oct 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780553499117
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780553499117
• Illuminae Files #1

Young adult SF novel, first book in a trilogy, about a young couple who break up just as their planet is invaded. The story is told through a variety of documents and diagrams.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: “What starts off as a spacefaring action-romance evolves into a nerve-wracking horror story as the true scope of the situation becomes clear.”

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* Lovett, Charlie : The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge
(Viking 978-0525429104, $19.95, 128pp, hardcover, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Oct 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698195745

Fantasy novel, a sequel to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, about Ebenezer Scrooge 20 years on.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview.

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* Mamatas, Nick, & Masumi Washington, eds. : Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan
(Haikasoru 978-1421580258, $15.99, 300pp, trade paperback, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Oct 2015

Anthology of 16 original stories.
• Authors include Brian Evenson, Jeff Somers, Genevieve Valentine, and Carrie Vaughn.
• Haikasoru’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Karen Burnham reviews it in the October issue of Locus Magazine: “All of which is to say that Haikasoru has put out another winner of an anthology…”

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* Newman, Kim : The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
(Titan 978-1781165720, $14.95, 400pp, trade paperback, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Oct 2015

Fantasy novel about a boarding school for the daughters of criminals, outlaw scientists, and magicians.
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* Riddle, A. G. : Departure
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-243166-0, $21.99, 320pp, hardcover, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Oct 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062431677

SF novel about survivors of a crash-landed flight from London to New York who realize the world they’ve crashed in is not their own.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review notes that this is a “light revision of a self-published bestseller”, and concludes, “But the scale of those marvels—thousand-foot dams across Gibraltar, orbital habitats, immortality, Stonehenge under glass—is what will draw the reader’s attention most strongly, particularly when the character interaction falls into well-worn paths.”

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* Valente, Catherynne M. : Radiance
(Tor 978-0-7653-3529-6, $24.99, 432pp, hardcover, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Oct 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466821484

Alternate history SF novel (the author’s first SF novel) set in a solar system derived from classic science fiction, concerning a documentary filmmaker in Hollywood when talking movies are still rare.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “a masterpiece of storytelling, seductive in prose and ambitious in scope.”

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* Wallace, Matt : Envy of Angels
(Tor.com 978-0-7653-8528-4, $12.99, 240pp, trade paperback, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Oct 2015
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466892828
• A Sin du Jour Affair #1

Fantasy novel, first of a series, about a New York catering firm for the supernatural community.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “The fast pace and quirky characters make for a zippy read, and there’s a clever twist at the end that will leave readers grinning and hoping for more stories featuring the Sin du Jour gang.”

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* Wolfe, Gene : A Borrowed Man
(Tor 978-0-7653-8114-9, $25.99, 304pp, hardcover, October 2015)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Oct 2015

SF novel in which clones of deceased writers live as personality uploads on library shelves.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Wolfe builds this SF noir into a strange, unsettling story, deceptively simple and old-fashioned in style and plot, but full of disturbing details that are intensified by the deadpan humor and matter-of-fact flatness of Smithe’s narrative voice.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews the book in the October issue of Locus Magazine: “None of this background turns out to be arbitrary, of course, and the eventual solution to the mystery depends entirely on a rather bold SF concept which it would not be prudent to reveal here. I will say that it has something to do with one of those doors…”

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