New Books, 15 March 2016
* Brown, Eric : Jani and the Great Pursuit
(Solaris 978-1781083789, $7.99, 384pp, mass market paperback, March 2016, cover art Dominic Harman)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 23 Feb 2016
• Jani #2
Steampunk adventure novel set in 1910, second in a series following Jani and the Greater Game (2014), about a young woman who possesses a device that will open the door to other worlds.
• Solaris’ site has this description.
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* Evenson, Brian : A Collapse of Horses
(Coffee House Press 978-1-56689-413-5, $16.95, 240pp, trade paperback, March 2016, cover illustration Sarah Evenson)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Feb 2016
Collection of 17 stories.
• The publisher’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews, including the table of contents.
• The Publishers Weekly review begins, “Admirers of Evenson applaud the edge he maintains between the unexplained and the intimate. This latest collection continues to explore that line, and for how much is left obscured, an eerie emotional echo remains.”
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+ Joshi, S. T., ed. : Black Wings of Cthulhu, Volume Four
(Titan US 978-1783295739, $14.95, 400pp, trade paperback, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 15 Mar 2016
First US edition (UK: PS Publishing, February 2015)
Anthology, subtitled “Seventeen New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror”, fourth in a series of such volumes.
• Authors include Fred Chappell, Cody Goodfellow, Caitlin R. Kiernan, W.H. Pugmire, and Darrell Schweitzer.
• The book was published by PS Publishing as Black Wings IV; PS’ website has this description with the table of contents.
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* Lebbon, Tim : Pieces of Hate
(Tor.Com 978-0765388445, $12.99, 148pp, trade paperback, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 15 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765384492
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427275608
• Assassins #1
Collection of two stories, “Dead Man’s Hand” (2004) and “Pieces of Hate” (2005), about a man cursed with a life long enough to hunt down the demon who killed his family.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
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* Selby, Adrian : Snakewood
(Orbit 978-0316302302, $26, 432pp, hardcover, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 15 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316302326
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478960935
• UK edition: 9780356505527 (Thu 17 Mar 2016)
Fantasy novel, the author’s first novel, about a group of mercenaries who are being hunted down and murdered.
• Orbit’s site has this interview with the author.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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* Staveley, Brian : The Last Mortal Bond
(Tor 978-0765336422, 656pp, hardcover, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 15 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466828452
• Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne #3
Fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following The Emperor’s Blades (2014) and The Providence of Fire (2015), about the daughter and two sons of a slain emperor.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Staveley does spend time exploring the outer squares of his chessboard world, but after some welcome misdirection, he finally pushes all the pieces into the center to resolve matters in a grand battle, checking all the epic fantasy boxes.”
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+ Tidhar, Lavie : A Man Lies Dreaming
(Melville House 978-1-61219-504-9, $25.95, 320pp, hardcover, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 15 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B011G4DNLQ
First US edition (UK: Hodder & Stoughton, October 2014)
Alternate history SF novel in which Adolf Hitler works as a London private-eye in 1939.
• The publisher’s site has this description
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• The book was a finalist for the British Fantasy Award in 2015.
• Gary K. Wolfe’s review of the first edition in 2014 is posted here; “What really haunts the novel is not the ghost of Hitler, but that dreaming figure, borrowed more closely from our own history than from Tidhar’s fake one, and the disarming shadow of an anti-Semitic fascist regime emerging in England itself in 1939.”
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