* Bova, Ben : Apes and Angels
(Tor 978-0-7653-7952-8, $25.99, 416pp, hardcover, November 2016)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Nov 2016
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466868755
Star Quest #2

Hard SF novel, second in a trilogy following Death Wave (2015), about a wave of radiation expanding from the galactic core.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Brooks, Mike : The Machine Society: Rich or Poor, They Want You to Be a Prisoner
(Cosmic Egg 978-1-78535-252-2, $16.95, 224pp, trade paperback, November 2016)
Nominal Publication Date: Fri 28 Oct 2016
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-78535-253-9

SF novel, the author’s first novel, set in a dystopian future in which a man is cast out of the Perimeter of New Londond.
• The publisher’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review begins, “Brooks’s dystopia combines echoes of Orwell and Huxley with present-day concerns about capitalism and technology, but never quite pulls its various components together.”

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* Chabon, Michael : Moonglow
(Harper 978-0-06-222555-9, $28.99, 448pp, hardcover, November 2016)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Nov 2016
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062225573
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062225597

Associational novel consisting of the deathbed confession of the narrator’s grandfather, about, among many other things, model rocketry and the space program.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “What seduces the reader is Chabon’s language, which reinvents the world, joyously, on almost every page. Listening to his grandfather’s often-harrowing stories, Mike thinks to himself, “What I knew about shame… would fit into half a pistachio shell.””

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* Dalglish, David : Fireborn
(Orbit 978-0-316-30273-9, $16.99, 496pp, trade paperback, November 2016)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Nov 2016
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316302722
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478964407
UK edition: 978-0356506517 (Thu 24 Nov 2016)
Seraphim #2

Fantasy novel, second in a series following Skyborn, in which the remnants of humanity live on six islands floating above an endless ocean.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “There’s a heavy focus on action-packed aerial combat, and the chaos and conflict escalate with every page, but this fantastical futuristic epic doesn’t skimp on plot development and character moments.”

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* Gernsback, Hugo, edited by Grant Wythoff : The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction
(University of Minnesota Press 978-1517900854, $35, 444pp, trade paperback, November 2016)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Nov 2016

Collection of editorials, essays, and stories by the the founder of Amazing Stories in 1926 and of the genre of science fiction.
• The publisher’s site has this description with the table of contents and blurb from Bruce Sterling.
• There is also a hardcover edition (978-1-5179-0085-4) for $122.50.

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+ Harrison, Kim : The Operator
(Pocket 978-1501149917, $7.99, 496pp, mass market paperback, November 2016)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Nov 2016
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781501149924
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781508224198
Peri Reed Chronicles #2

Urban fantasy novel, second in a series following The Drafter (2015), about a woman who can adjust and rewrite time.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description.
• There’s also a Library Edition hardcover (978-1501164620) for $28.99.

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* Morris, Kelsi, & Kaitlin Tremblay, eds. : Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories
(Exile Editions 978-1-55096-589-6, $17.95, 304pp, trade paperback, November 2016)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 1 Nov 2016

Anthology of 18 original stories.
• Authors include Helen Marshall, Andrew F. Sullivan, Dominik Parisien, and Stephen Michell.
• The Canadian publisher’s site has this description.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “This all-Canadian anthology of fantastical stories, featuring emerging writers alongside award-winning novelists, poets, and playwrights, is original, elegant, often poetic, sometimes funny, always thought-provoking, and a must for lovers of short fiction.”

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* Sanderson, Brandon : Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
(Tor 978-0-7653-9116-2, $27.99, 672pp, hardcover, November 2016)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Nov 2016
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765391179
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427280626

Collection of nine stories, including Hugo Award-winning novella “The Emperor’s Soul” and a new Stormlight Archive novella, “Edgedancer”.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with the table of contents.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “This collection is required reading for Sanderson fans, offering plenty for new readers who are undeterred by learning too much.”

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* Wright, John C. : The Vindication of Man
(Tor 978-0765381590, $32.5, 352pp, hardcover, November 2016)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Nov 2016
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466882805
The Eschaton Sequence #5

SF novel, fifth in a series following Count to a Trillion (2011), The Hermetic Millennia (2012), The Judge of Ages (2014), and The Architect of Aeons (2015) about rival efforts to counter an alien menace that will arrive at Earth in another 4000 years.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
Publishers Weekly gave the previous book a starred review, calling it a “galaxy-spanning extravaganza with nods to the Odyssey, Shakespeare, and Japanese legend, as well as classic visionary and military SF.”

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