* Aryan, Stephen : Mageborn
(Orbit 978-0-316-55478-7, $16.99, 432pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316554794
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478923183
• Age of Dread #1

Fantasy novel, first in a new series set in the aftermath of the author’s “Age of Darkness” trilogy, about a minority population with magical abilities in a society trying to eradicate magic.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Working on an intimate and personal scale, Aryan devotes considerable attention to developing his characters, showing how they’re affected by the events that have made the mages’ families and countrymen so afraid of them. He also enlivens his tale with abundant politics, intrigues, double-crossings, and plot twists…”

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* Bedford, Jacey : Nimbus
(DAW 978-0756411893, $7.99, 544pp, mass market paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780756411909
• Psi-Tech #3

SF novel, third in a series following Empire of Dust (2014) and Crossways (2015), about agents working for interplanetary mega corporations who are implanted with telepath technology.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly said of the first book, “Readers who crave high adventure and tense plots will enjoy this voyage into the future.”

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* Bray, Libba : Before the Devil Breaks You
(Little, Brown 978-0316126069, $19.99, 560pp, hardcover, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316356510
• The Diviners #3

Young adult fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following The Diviners (2012) and Lair of Dreams (2015), about a young woman exiled from her hometime in Ohio to live with her uncle in 1920s New York.
• Hachette’s site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gave the previous book a starred review: “Bray illuminates the dark side of the American Dream in her long-awaited sequel to The Diviners (2012), weaving xenophobia, industrial progress, Jazz Age debauchery, government secrets, religious fervor, and supernatural horror into a sprawling and always entertaining narrative.”

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+ Brett, Peter V. : The Core
(Del Rey 978-0345531506, $30, 800pp, hardcover, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780425285794
• The Demon Cycle #5

Fantasy novel, fifth in a series following The Warded Man (2009) (aka The Painted Man in the UK), The Desert Spear (2010), The Daylight War (2013), and The Skull Throne (2015), about desert tribes preyed upon by night demons.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Chadwick, Frank : Chain of Command
(Baen 978-1-4814-8297-4, $16, 384pp, trade paperback, October 2017, cover art Kurt Miller)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-62579-613-4

Military SF novel about a US Naval Reserve lieutenant who’s in command of a starship as it faces an alien enemy.
• Baen’s site has this description with links to several chapters.

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* Correia, Larry, & Bryan Thomas Schmidt, eds. : The Monster Hunter Files
(Baen 978-1-4814-8275-2, $25, 336pp, hardcover, October 2017, cover art Alan Pollack)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-62579-612-7

Anthology of 17 original stories set in the Monster Hunter International series.
• Author’s include Jim Butcher, John C. Wright, Brad R. Torgerson, Alex Shvartsman, John Ringo, and Jonathan Maberry.
• Baen’s site has this description with links to several excerpts.

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* Datlow, Ellen, & Lisa Morton, eds. : Haunted Nights
(Penguin Random House/Blumhouse Books/Anchor 978-1-101-97383-7, $16.95, 352pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781101973844

Anthology of 16 original horror stories.
• Authors include Seanan McGuire, Garth Nix, Pat Cadigan, Jeffrey Ford, Jonathan Maberry, and John Langan.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Editors Datlow and Morton have filled this book with an assortment of Halloween treats whose horrors transcend their holiday setting.”

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* Fischl, Eric Scott : The Trials of Solomon Parker
(Angry Robot 978-0857666413, $7.99, 384pp, mass market paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780857666420
• UK edition: 9780857666406 (Thu 5 Oct 2017)

Historical fantasy novel set in 1916 Butte, Montana; a follow-up to Dr. Potter’s Medicine Show (Feb. 2017).
• Angry Robot’s site has this description.

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* Howey, Hugh : Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/John Joseph Adams 978-1-328-76753-0, $28, 352pp, hardcover, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B01MQVT2RA
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: B07625SC2T

Collection of 21 stories, including three set in the world of the author’s Wool novels, two of these original to this book.
• Houghton Mifflin’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• There’s also a simultaneous paperback edition (9781328767523).
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Howey’s writing is taut and immersive, and his characters’ perspectives will fascinate, no matter how inhuman they are.”

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* Khan, Ausma Zehanat : The Bloodprint
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-245919-0, $16.99, 448pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062459213
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062791009
• The Khorasan Archives #1

Fantasy novel, first in a series, about a group of female warriors battling a superstitious patriarchy that suppresses knowledge and subjugates women.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “It denounces harsh religion-based restrictions, deplores a growing disregard for the written word, and tangentially memorializes historical real-world massacres. A deep discussion of whether one sacred word can mean both “peace” and “submission” encapsulates the confusion of both Khan’s heroine and her sympathetic, occasionally perplexed readers.”

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* Maresca, Marshall Ryan : The Imposters of Aventil
(DAW 978-0-7564-1262-3, $7.99, 400pp, mass market paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780756412630
• Maradaine #3

Fantasy novel, third in a series following The Thorn of Dentonhill (2015) and The Alchemy of Chaos (2016), about a university magic student who leads a double life. (There are also related “Maradaine Contabulary” and “Streets of Maradaine” novels.)
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview.

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+ McDonald, Ed : Blackwing
(Ace 978-0399587795, $16, 368pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780399587801
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780525498445
• Raven’s Mark #1

First US edition (UK: Gollancz, July 2017)

Fantasy novel, the author’s first novel and first in a series, about a bounty hunter in a post-apocalyptic landscape called the Misery.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Milford, Kate : Ghosts of Greenglass House
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Clarion 978-0544991460, $17.99, 464pp, hardcover, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781328828927

Middle grade fantasy novel, follow-up to Greenglass House (2014), about 13-year-old Milo spending winter holidays in a house full of strange guests.
• Illustrations are by Jaime Zollars.
• Houghton Mifflin’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Ng, Jeannette : Under the Pendulum Sun
(Angry Robot 978-0857667274, $9.99, 416pp, mass market paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780857667281
• UK edition: 9780857667267 (Thu 5 Oct 2017)

Fantasy novel, apparently the author’s first novel, about two Victorian missionaries who explore a newly discovered land of Fae.
• Angry Robot’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.

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* Rivera, K. Arsenault : The Tiger’s Daughter
(Tor 978-0-7653-9253-4, $15.99, 528pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765392541
• Their Bright Ascendancy #1

Epic fantasy novel, the author’s first novel and first in a series, about two young warriors traying to save their world from encroaching demons.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Rivera’s immense imagination and finely detailed worldbuilding have produced a series introduction of mammoth scope.”

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* Thompson, Tade : The Murders of Molly Southbourne
(Tor.com 978-0-7653-9713-3, $11.99, 128pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765397126

Horror novella about a woman who, whenever she bleeds, causes a duplicate of herself to be born.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “This bloody exploration of identity and self in a changed world will stay with readers long after they finish the last page.”

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* Walton, David : The Genius Plague
(Pyr 978-1-63388-343-7, $14.95, 384pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781633883444

SF novel about two brothers and their involvement with a global pandemic that could trigger the next stage of human evolution.
• Pyr’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “This original and frightening ecological response to human activity dances tantalizingly on the edge of believability. Adding to questions of species survival are chewy concepts that touch on individual choice and free will…”

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* Williams, Walter Jon : Quillifer
(Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 978-1-4814-8997-3, $27.99, 544pp, hardcover, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781481489997
• Quillifer #1

Epic fantasy novel, first in a series, about a young man forced to seek his fortune with a gang of bandits.
• Simon and Schuster’s site has this description with a Google preview.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “The setting often feels more like a thinly disguised version of medieval Europe than a truly original world, but Williams excels at setting up conflicts and other entanglements, skillfully maneuvering Quillifer across the landscape and into increasingly engrossing situations.”

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* Yang, JY : The Black Tides of Heaven
(Tor.com 978-0-7653-9541-2, $15.99, 240pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Sep 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765395405
• The Tensorate Series #1

One of two simultaneously-published standalone SF/fantasy short novels, this one about twin children in a society where youth are ungendered until choosing for themselves.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Yang captures an epic sweep in compact, precise prose. The only complaint readers will have is the brevity of their time in this evocative new world.”

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* Yang, JY : The Red Threads of Fortune
(Tor 978-0-7653-9539-9, $15.99, 224pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Sep 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-7653-9538-2
• The Tensorate Series #2

One of two simultaneously-published standalone SF/fantasy short novels, set four years after the first, as the twins, now sister and brother, hunt dangerous creatures that threaten the Protectorate.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Though not as gripping as its predecessor, the novella authentically depicts trauma and lays promising groundwork for future books in the series.”,

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* Yu, Charles, & John Joseph Adams, eds. : The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner 978-0-544-97398-5, $15.99, 384pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780544980679

Anthology of 20 stories first published in 2016.
• Authors include Leigh Bardugo, E. Lily Yu, Nisi Shawl, Jeremiah Tolbert, A. Merc Rustad, N.K. Jemisin, and Joseph Allen Hill.
• Houghton Mifflin’s site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “This mostly dystopic, sometimes darkly humorous collection of 20 hard-hitting stories feels timely, confronting contemporary cultural crises such as racism, xenophobia, police brutality, barriers to health care access, and the social misuses of technology.”

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