Note: This abbreviated listing is being posted following Locus Online‘s vacation earlier this month. Full listings will resume October 25th.

* Abbott, Carl : Imagining Urban Futures: Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them
(Wesleyan University Press 978-0819576712, $27.95, 264pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 7 Oct 2016

Nonfiction study of fictional cities in works by E.M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, and many others.
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* Aryan, Stephen : Chaosmage
(Orbit 978-0316298346, $16.99, 480pp, trade paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016
• Age of Darkness #3

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* Atwood, Margaret : Hag-Seed
(Random House/Hogarth 978-0804141291, $25, 320pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780804141307
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780735286573

A retelling of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”; one of the publisher’s series of contemporary novels by various authors based on Shakespeare’s plays.
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* Barnett, Barbara : The Apothecary’s Curse
(Prometheus/Pyr 978-1633882331, $17, 340pp, trade paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016

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* Barron, Laird : Swift to Chase
(JournalStone 978-1945373053, $18.95, 294pp, trade paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 7 Oct 2016

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* Bockhoven, Mike : FantasticLand
(Skyhorse 978-1-5107-0944-7, $24.99, 272pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016

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* Bowen, Lila : Conspiracy of Ravens
(Orbit 978-0316302272, $25, 368pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016
• The Shadow #2

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* Bradley, Darin : Totem
(Resurrection House/Underland Press 978-1630230159, $16, 234pp, trade paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016

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* Cox, Greg : The Librarians and the Lost Lamp
(Tor 978-0765384072, $27.99, 288pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016
• The Librarians #1

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* Duchamp, L. Timmel : The Waterdancer’s World
(Aqueduct Press 978-1-61976-109-4, $20, 424pp, trade paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Sun 9 Oct 2016

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* Ford, Michael Thomas : Lily
(Lethe 978-1590212684, $15, trade paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Sat 1 Oct 2016

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* Hamilton, Laurell K. : Crimson Death
(Berkley 978-1101987735, $28, 720pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016
• Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #25

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* Hickman, Tracy, & Laura Hickman : Unhonored
(Tor 978-0-7653-3204-2, $24.99, 272pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016
• Nightbirds #2

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* Khaw, Cassandra : Hammers on Bone
(Tor.com 978-0765392718, $10.99, 122pp, trade paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016
• Persons Non Grata #1

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* Lockhart, Ross E., ed. : Eternal Frankenstein
(Word Horde 978-1-939905-23-9, $30, 320pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Sun 9 Oct 2016

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* Modesitt, L. E., Jr. : Treachery’s Tools
(Tor 978-0765385406, $27.99, 512pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016
• The Imager Portfolio #10

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* Sedgwick, Helen : The Comet Seekers
(Harper 978-0-06-244876-7, $25.99, 304pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016

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* Strantzas, Simon, & Michael Kelly, eds. : Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume Three
(Undertow Publications 978-0995094918, $19.99, 382pp, trade paperback, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016

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+ Tan, Shaun : The Singing Bones
(Scholastic/Levine 978-0545946124, $24.99, 192pp, hardcover, October 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Oct 2016

Art book, with a foreword by Neil Gaiman and an introduction by Jack Zipes, of sculptures by Tan that illustrate tales by the Brothers Grimm.
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