* Barclay, James : Heart of Granite
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-1473202436, £16.99, 416pp, trade paperback, August 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 18 Aug 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781473202450
• Blood and Fire #1

Military SF/fantasy novel, first in a series, about a future battle fought with alien creatures in place of mechanical weapons.
• Orion’s site has this description with an extract and blurbs by Peter F. Hamilton and others.

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* Baxter, Stephen : Obelisk
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-1473212749, £20, 320pp, hardcover, August 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 18 Aug 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781473212770

Collection of 17 stories, two of them original to this book.
• Stories include several set in the worlds of the duology Ultima and Proxima.
• Orion’s site has this description. There’s also a simultaneous paperback edition.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews, including the Table of Contents.

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* Gibson, Gary : Survival Game
(UK: Macmillan/Tor UK 978-0-230-77277-9, £18.99, 352pp, hardcover, August 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 11 Aug 2016
• Apocalypse Duology #2

SF novel, second in a duology following Extinction Game (2014), about an artefact from deep space and a scientist sent to an alternate version of Earth to retrieve it.
• Pan Macmillan’s site has this description with an extract.
• Publishers Weekly gave the first book a starred review: “Gibson turns the genre on its head, taking survivors and throwing them into a variety of other apocalypses, with some unexpected enemies dogging their heels. He excels at depicting real-feeling destruction and the tenacity and weaknesses of survivors…”

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* Hamilton, Peter F. : Night Without Stars
(UK: Macmillan UK 978-0230769496, £20, 750pp, hardcover, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 22 Sep 2016
• Chronicle of the Failers #2

Far future SF novel, part of the author’s Commonwealth saga and second in a duology following The Abyss Beyond Dreams (2014).
• Pan Macmillan’s site has this description with an extract.
• The US edition, as A Night Without Stars, appeared September 27th.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “The action overwhelms character development, but pacing and exciting concepts keep the momentum fast and tensions high until a satisfying resolution.”

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* Heitz, Marcus : Dark Paths
(UK: Quercus/Jo Fletcher 978-1782065944, £9.99, 646pp, trade paperback, August 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 4 Aug 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781784299705
• Legends of the Alfar #3

Fantasy novel, third in a series following Righteous Fury (2014) and Devastating Hate (2015), about the älfar, a race of warriors planning to attack the elves, dwarves, and humans.
• Quercus’ site has this description.
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* Priest, Christopher : The Gradual
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-1473200548, £16.99, 352pp, hardcover, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 15 Sep 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781473200562

SF novel about a composer in a fascist state searching for his brother, who has been sent to war. The setting is that of the author’s several Dream Archipelago books.
• Gollancz has this description with an extract.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the September issue of Locus Magazine: “In effect, what Priest has done – and he did much the same thing in The Islanders – is to literalize not just a metaphor (as we keep hearing about in SF), but to literalize an entire narrative technique involving the management of time. … Priest literally puts his narrator through such time shifts, and the effect is both dizzying and firmly grounded, even as it leads toward a conclusion which is, if a bit more conventional than we’ve come to expect from Priest, thoroughly satisfying.”

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* Reynolds, Alastair : Revenger
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-0575090538, £18.99, 432pp, hardcover, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 15 Sep 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780575090569

Far future SF novel about about a spaceship searching for ancient relics and artifacts in the solar system.
• Orion’s site has this description with an extract.
• The US edition is due in February, 2017.
• Tor.com posted this review by Niall Alexander: “It’s exhilarating one minute, excruciating the next. There’s a beauty to it, but an ugliness, also. It argues that innocence can be corrupted and even evil can be redeemed, and it does so with wit and weight. I wouldn’t call it wonderful—it’s far too nasty for that—but it is wicked.”

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* Willis, Connie : Crosstalk
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-1473200937, $14.99, 512pp, trade paperback, September 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 15 Sep 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781473200951

Comedic SF novel about a mobile phone company’s latest product, a procedure that lets people sense each other’s feelings.
• Orion’s site has this description with an extract.
• The US edition, due October 4, will be a hardcover.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Willis’s canny incorporation of scientific lore, and a riotous cast of stock Irish-American characters who nevertheless manage to surprise the reader, make for an engaging girl-finally-finds-right-boy story that’s unveiled with tact and humor.”

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