New Books : 12 December 2017
New books this week are Ellen Datlow’s anthology Mad Hatters and March Hares, Paula Guran’s The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition, and K.J. Parker’s The Two of Swords: Volume Three.
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* Datlow, Ellen, ed. : Mad Hatters and March Hares
(Tor 978-0-7653-9106-3, $29.99, 336pp, hardcover, December 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Dec 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765391087
Anthology of 18 original stories, subtitled “All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.”
• Authors include Seanan McGuire, Jeffrey Ford, Andy Duncan, Richard Bowes, Jane Yolen, and Matthew Kressel.
• Macmillan’s site has this description. There’s a simultaneous trade paperback edition (ISBN 9780765391070).
• The Publishers Weekly review singles out the stories by Ysabeau S. Wilce and Richard Bowes.
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
• (Directory Entry)
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* Guran, Paula, ed. : The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
(Prime Books 978-1607014935, $19.95, 528pp, trade paperback, December 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Dec 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-160701-494-2
Anthology of 37 dark fantasy and horror stories first published in 2016.
• Authors include Aliette de Bodard, Ama El-Mohtar, N.K. Jemisin, Victor LaValle, Naomi Novik, John Shirley, and Fran Wilde.
• Prime’s site has this description with the table of contents by author.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• Despite Prime’s indication of publication in July 2017, and Amzon’s date of July 2018, the book just became available (on Amazon) this past week.
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
• (Directory Entry)
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* Parker, K. J. : The Two of Swords: Volume Three
(Orbit 978-0316270908, $15.99, 416pp, trade paperback, December 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Dec 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316270878
• UK edition: 978-1841499307 (Thu 14 Dec 2017)
• The Two of Swords #3
Fantasy novel, third of a trilogy (with first and second volumes published in October and November), about two brothers fighting on opposite sides of an endless war between East and West.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gave the first book a starred review: “Parker’s plot is a delight, full of successive revelations; his characters earn sympathy even at their most pragmatically ruthless, and his sparkling prose and sardonic humor help build the dazzling shape of a game larger than two empires.”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
• (Directory Entry)
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