New Books : 29 November 2016
* Beukes, Lauren : Slipping: Stories, Essays & Other Writing
(Tachyon Publications 978-1-61696-240-1, $15.95, 288pp, trade paperback, November 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Nov 2016
Collection of 21 stories, five nonfiction pieces, and a glossary.
• Tachyon’s site has this description.
• Paul Di Filippo reviewed the book for Locus Online: “Beukes writes with passion and a hot immediacy, employing demotic prose that often attains a gritty poetry. She favors capturing the explosive instant rather than the multi-linked chain of circumstances that constitute most stories. This trait lends her work intensity and impact…”
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* Dunstall, S. K. : Confluence
(Ace 978-0425279540, $7.99, 400pp, mass market paperback, November 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Nov 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698187689
• Linesman #3
SF novel, third in a series following Linesman (2015) and Alliance (2016), about the discovery of a mysterious alien ship in a galaxy where linesmen enable space travel.
• Penguin’s site has this description with a preview function.
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* Johansen, Erika : The Fate of the Tearling
(Harper 978-0-06-229042-7, $25.99, 496pp, hardcover, November 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Nov 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062290434
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062471826
• Queen of the Tearling #3
Fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following The Queen of the Tearling (2014) and The Invasion of the Tearling (2015), about a young princess who has reclaimed her dead mother’s throne.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “The historical scenes carry more weight and significance than the chaos of the present, though Johansen adeptly describes the destruction and despair. This is a solid, if not entirely satisfying, end to the series.”
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* Johnson, Jean : The Blockade
(Ace 978-0425276945, $7.99, 352pp, mass market paperback, November 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Nov 2016
Military SF novel, first in a new series set in the same world as the earlier five-book “Theirs Not to Reason Why” series.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
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+ MacLeod, Ken : The Corporation Wars: Dissidence
(Orbit 9780316363655, $9.99, 384pp, mass market paperback, November 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Nov 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316363662
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478913726
• The Corporation Wars #1
First US edition (UK: Little, Brown UK/Orbit, May 2016)
SF novel, first in a series, about a reincarnated soldier and mining robot that has gained sentience fighting in a far-future A.I. war.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The second book, The Corporation Wars: Dissidence, is due in December in both the US and UK.
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* Rice, Anne : Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
(Knopf 978-0-385-35379-3, $28.95, 451pp, hardcover, December 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Nov 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780385353809
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780735205932
• The Vampire Chronicles #14
Vampire novel, second book in a new Vampire Chronicles series following Prince Lestat (2014), and 14th book in the overall series.
• The book includes appendices describing the characters and the earlier books.
• Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “…Rice exhibits tremendous skill in making the impossible seem not only possible but logical. She sets up a nail-biting dilemma involving the continued existence of vampires, and the second half of the book roars satisfyingly past.”
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