Titles newly in paperback this past month include the Shirley Jackson Award-winning (and finalist for three other awards) The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, edited by Dominik Parisen & Navah Wolfe; and other titles by Ben Bova, Brom, Lois McMaster Bujold, Cassandra Clare, Eric Flint & Ryk E. Spoor, Gree Hurwitz, Mercedes Lackey, Juliet Marillier, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., and Nisi Shawl.

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Bova, Ben : Apes and Angels
(Tor 978-0765379535, $8.99, 448pp, mass market paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Star Quest #2

(First edition: Tor, November 2016)

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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Brom : Lost Gods
(Harper Voyager 978-0062095695, $19.99, 496pp, trade paperback, September 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Sep 2017

(First edition: Harper Voyager, October 2016)

Illustrated fantasy novel about a man who descends into Purgatory to save the souls of his wife and unborn child.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with an excerpt.

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Bujold, Lois McMaster : Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
(Baen 978-1481482899, $7.99, 432pp, mass market paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Sep 2017
• Vorkosigan Saga #17

(First edition: Baen, February 2016)

SF novel in Bujold’s long-running Vorkosigan Saga, concerning Cordelia Vorkosigan three years after the death of her husband.
• Baen’s site has this description with links to several chapters.

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Clare, Cassandra : Lady Midnight
(Simon & Schuster/Mcelderry 978-1442468368, $14.99, 720pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• The Dark Artifices #1

(First edition: Simon & Schuster/McElderry, March 2016)

Young adult fantasy novel, first in a new series that’s a sequel to the earlier Mortal Instruments series, concerning the Shadowhunters of Los Angeles.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with a preview.

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Flint, Eric, & Ryk E. Spoor : Castaway Odyssey
(Baen 978-1481482936, $7.99, 416pp, mass market paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Sep 2017
• Boundary #5

(First edition: Baen, October 2016)

SF novel, fifth in a series following Boundary (2006), Threshold (2010), Portal (2013), and Castaway Planet (2015), about colonists on their way to a new world.
• Baen’s site has this description with links to several chapters.

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Hurwitz, Gregg : The Rains
(Tor Teen 978-0765382689, $9.99, 368pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 17 Oct 2017
• The Rains Brothers #1

(First edition: Tor Teen, October 2016)

Young adult SF novel, first in a series, about two brothers fighting an alien threat.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt with an excerpt.
• The second book in the series, Last Chance, was just released in hardcover.

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Lackey, Mercedes : Closer to the Chest
(DAW 978-0756412401, $7.99, 384pp, mass market paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Valdemar: The Herald Spy #3

(First edition: DAW, October 2016)

Fantasy novel, third in a series following Closer to Home (2014) and Closer to the Heart (2015), within Lackey’s Valdemar Saga, following the Collegium Chronicles.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview.

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Marillier, Juliet : Den of Wolves
(Ace 978-0451467041, $7.99, 448pp, mass market paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Blackthorn & Grim #3

(First edition: Roc, November 2016)

Fantasy novel, third in a series following Dreamer’s Pool (2014) and Tower of Thorns (2015), about a magical healer who has escaped prison, and her former prison mate.
• Penguin’s site has this description with a preview function.

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Modesitt, L. E., Jr. : Treachery’s Tools
(Tor 978-0765385413, $9.99, 640pp, mass market paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• The Imager Portfolio #10

(First edition: Tor, October 2016)

Fantasy novel, tenth volume in a series following Imager (March 2009), Imager’s Challenge (Oct. 2009), Imager’s Intrigue (2010), Scholar (2011), Princeps (2012), Imager’s Battalion (Jan. 2013), Antiagon Fire (2013), Rex Regis (2014), and Madness in Solidar (2016) — where some have the magical skill to visualize things and make them real.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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Parisien, Dominik, & eds. Navah Wolfe : The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
(Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 978-1481456135, $16.99, 400pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 17 Oct 2017

(First edition: Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, October 2016)

Anthology of 18 original fantasy stories.
• Authors include Charlie Jane Anders, Jeffrey Ford, Max Gladstone, Theodora Goss, Marjorie Liu, Seanan McGuire, Karin Tidbeck, Catherynne M. Valente, and Genevieve Valentine.
• Simon and Schuster’s site has this description.
• The book won a Shirley Jackson award and was a World Fantasy, Locus, and British Fantasy award finalist.

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Shawl, Nisi : Everfair
(Tor 978-0765338068, $16.99, 384pp, trade paperback, September 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Sep 2017

(First edition: Tor, September 2016)

Alternate history novel, the author’s first novel, in which British socialists and African-American missionaries purchase the Congo from its Belgian colonizers.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviewed the book last year in Locus Magazine: “…the novel unfolds with deep intellect, epic sweep, and an unsentimental historical insight that remains all too rare in the genre.

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