+ Amish : The Oath of the Vayuputras
(Quercus/Jo Fletcher 978-1681445021, $14.99, 320pp, trade paperback, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Shiva Trilogy #3

First US edition (UK: Quercus/Jo Fletcher, June 2014)

Fantasy novel, third of a trilogy following The Immortals of Melhua (Jan. 2013) and The Secret of the Nagas (Oct. 2013), set in ancient India.
• Quercus’ site has this description for the 2014 UK edition.
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* Bond, Gwenda : Girl in the Shadows
(Amazon/Skyscape 978-1503953932, $9.99, 380pp, trade paperback, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B014R7CBZI
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 978-1511362603
• Girl #2

Young adult fantasy novel, sequel to Girl on a Wire (2014), about an 18-year-old girl who pursues her dream of being a magician despite her magician father’s disapproval.
• Amazon’s page has a description with a “Look Inside” preview.

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* Caine, Rachel : Paper and Fire
(Penguin/NAL 978-0451472403, $17.99, 368pp, hardcover, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698180826
• UK edition: Allison & Busby 978-0749017323 (Tue 5 Jul 2016)
• The Great Library #2


Fantasy novel, second in a series following Ink and Bone (2015), in which the Great Library of Alexandria has survived, the knowledge from its books distributed to the masses via alchemy.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gave the first book a starred review: “Caine’s elegantly detailed descriptions bring Jess’s world to vivid life in a fast-paced, action-oriented plot that will leave readers breathlessly anticipating not just the next page but the next book in the Great Library series.”

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* Daniel, Tony : The Dragon Hammer
(Baen 978-1-4767-8155-6, $11.99, 512pp, trade paperback, July 2016, cover art Daniel Dos Santos)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-62579-509-0
• Wulf’s Saga #1

Fantasy novel, first in a new series, about an alternate Viking-like America invaded by a vampire-based Roman empire.
• Baen’s site has this description with links to several chapters.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Given how thoroughly Daniel transforms the cultural and geographic elements from our world, it’s a story that scarcely wants to be set on Earth in the first place.”

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* Dozois, Gardner, ed. : The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-third Annual Collection
(St. Martin’s Griffin 978-1-250-08084-4, $22.99, 720pp, hardcover, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Year’s Best SF #33

Anthology of 36 stories first published in 2015, with a long “Summation: 2014”, and several pages of ‘honorable mentions’ at the end.
• Authors include Ian McDonald, Ann Leckie, Carter Scholz, Sam J. Miller, Paolo Bacigalupi, Nancy Kress, Paul J. McAuley, Geoff Ryman, Kelly Robson, and Kelly Link.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews, including the table of contents.
• A hardcover edition (978-1250080837, $40) is also available.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Dozois is always reliable, and his latest annual is a particularly excellent and illuminating examination of the depth and breadth of current science fiction.”

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* Helms, Alyc : The Conclave of Shadow
(Angry Robot 978-0857665188, $7.99, 336pp, mass market paperback, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780857665195
• UK edition: 9780857665171 (Thu 7 Jul 2016)
• Dragons of Heaven #2

Fantasy novel, second in a series following The Dragons of Heaven (2015), about a street musician who inherits her father’s pulp hero persona.
• Angry Robot’s site has this description.
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* Kuhn, Sarah : Heroine Complex
(DAW 978-0-7564-1084-1, $15, 368pp, trade paperback, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698197718
• Heroine Complex #1

Fantasy novel, first in a series about Asian American superheroines, set in San Francisco beset by demons.
• Penguin’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Kuhn starts of the novel with vivacity and a tongue-in-cheek narration; the initial setup is imaginative. …”

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* Lee, Sharon, & Steve Miller : Alliance of Equals
(Baen 978-1-4767-8148-8, $26, 448pp, hardcover, July 2016, cover art David Mattingly)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-62579-507-6
• Liaden #19

SF novel in the authors’ long-running Liaden Universe series, following Dragon in Exile (2015), in which Clan Korval struggles to reestablish its trading supremacy from their new homeworld of Surebleak.
• Baen’s site has a description with links to several chapters.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “…this space opera continues to delight with genteel interactions between mild-spoken characters who are capable of great passions and swift actions, and its immense scope encompasses a well-realized and comfortable universe.”

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* Martinez, A. Lee : The Last Adventure of Constance Verity
(S&S/Saga 978-1-4814-4351-7, $24.99, 384pp, hardcover, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016

Fantasy novel about a super-heroine who is tired of saving the world and looking forward to becoming ordinary.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with a Google preview.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “…unlike Pratchett, who lampooned well-worn genre conventions to make sociopolitical observations, Martinez seems to be in it just for the laughs. Thankfully, those come at a rapid pace, and brilliant gags shine through the overall glib tone. Readers who enjoy a nicely shattered fourth wall will appreciate this novel.”

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* Milán, Victor : The Dinosaur Knights
(Tor 978-0-7653-3297-4, $26.99, 448pp, hardcover, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429966122
• The Dinosaur Lords #2

Fantasy novel, second in a series following The Dinosaur Lords (June 2016), about a world that mirrors 14th century Europe in which knights battle on dinosaurs rather than horses.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Milán continues writing terrific battle scenes that make full use of the knights’ saurian mounts. Those waiting for George R.R. Martin’s next book may find a new favorite in this explosive saga of brutal warfare and mythology come to life.”

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* Orwin, Paige : The Interminables
(Angry Robot 978-0857665911, $7.99, 416pp, mass market paperback, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780857665928
• UK edition: 9780857665904 (Thu 7 Jul 2016)

Fantasy novel, the author’s first novel, about a wizard’s cabal that runs the east coast of the US in 2020.
• Angry Robot’s site has this description.
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* Palmatier, Joshua : Threading the Needle
(DAW 978-0756411756, $27, 464pp, hardcover, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780756411763
• Ley #2

Fantasy novel, second in a series following Shattering the Ley (2014), about the magical city of Erenthrall, hub of a ley line system that links it to the rest of the world.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review of the first book said, “This initial installment feels like buildup for the rest of the story, but still delivers a compelling adventure.”

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* Powers, Tim : Down and Out in Purgatory
(Subterranean Press 978-1-59606-781-3, $30, 120pp, hardcover, June 2016, jacket illustration Dave McKean)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 30 Jun 2016
• SF Encyclopedia: Tim Powers

Fantasy novella about a man deteremined to take revenge on a murderer who has already died.
• Subterranean’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Powers crafts intimately defined characters who prevent this march through the Inferno from becoming too absurd.”
• Paul Di Filippo reviewed the book for Locus Online: “There are plot twists galore, and incidental characters you will never forget, including Hubcap Pete, whose peregrinations keep Purgatory spinning.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviewed it in the June issue of Locus Magazine: “Down and Out in Purgatory is something else entirely – a posthumous revenge fantasy with minimal backstory, single-minded characters, and a setting somewhere between that of a medieval dream-vision and a Chuck Jones cartoon (which may not be all that far apart, when you think of it).”

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* Ryan, Anthony : The Waking Fire
(Ace 978-1-101-98785-8, $28, 592pp, hardcover, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781101987865
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780735206687
• UK edition: 978-0356506395 (Thu 7 Jul 2016)
• The Draconis Memoria #1

Fantasy novel, first in a new series, about a trading syndicate that deals in the blood of drakes, a species now weakening.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Ryan handily juggles draconic fantasy, espionage, and steampunk naval fiction with realism and effortless skill.”

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* Schwab, Victoria : This Savage Song
(HarperCollins/Greenwillow 978-0-06-238085-2, $17.99, 464pp, hardcover, June 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062380876
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062468116
• Monsters of Verity #1

Dark fantasy novel, first of two books, about two young people in a city overrun with monsters.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Schwab has built an strange, captivating alternate America filled with offbeat, fascinating characters.”

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* Snodgrass, Melinda : The High Ground
(Titan 978-1-78329-582-1, $14.95, 432pp, trade paperback, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Imperials Saga #1

Military SF novel, first of a series, about an emperor’s daughter who’s admitted to an elite training academy.
• Titan’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Snodgrass’s worldbuilding has several creative touches: intriguing alien races, English and Spanish as the common languages of the Solar League, and the origin of the upper echelons of the nobility, known pointedly as the Fortune Five Hundred.”

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* Verne St. John, Julia : The Transference Engine
(DAW 978-0-7564-0953-1, $7.99, 320pp, mass market paperback, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781101637463

Fantasy steampunk novel, the author’s first novel, in set an alternate 1830s London, about Lord Byron’s machine to transfer his soul into a more perfect body.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Verne St. John does not tread much new ground, but this is an enjoyable read nevertheless.”

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* Williams, Jen : The Copper Promise
(Angry Robot 978-0857665768, $14.99, 448pp, trade paperback, July 2016, cover art Gene Mollica)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780857665775
• Copper Cat #1

Heroic fantasy novel, first in a series, about explorers into the magical caverns beneath the Citadel.
• Angry Robot’s site has this description. The second book, The Iron Ghost, is due January 2017.

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* Wilson, F. Paul : Panacea
(Tor 978-0-7653-8516-1, $25.99, 384pp, hardcover, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765385185
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427273505

SF novel about a medical examiner who discovers evidence of a supposed panacea, a substance that cures all ills, and a religious group opposing its existence based on the belief that God intends for humanity to suffer.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “At times Wilson tries too hard to educate the reader instead of moving the story forward, but for fans of mysterious ancient sects and miraculous possibilities, it’s an entertaining tale, underlined by a clear battle between good and evil.”

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* Winters, Ben H. : Underground Airlines
(Little, Brown/Mulholland Books 978-0-316-26124-1, $26, 336pp, hardcover, July 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jul 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316261234
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478909187

Alternate history novel in which the US Civil War never happened, concerning a young black man working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service.
• Hachette’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “The novel’s closing section contains several breathtaking reversals, a genuinely disturbing revelation, and an exhilarating final course of action for Victor.”
• Today’s New York Times has this profile of Winters concerning the new book.

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