New Books : 9 January 2018
Published today, the US edition of Nick Harkaway’s Gnomon, anthology Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, Charles Stross’ Dark State, and titles by Genevieve Cogman, Terry Goodkind, Michelle Hauck, Ian Donald Keeling, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Tarkoff, and Django Wexler.
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+ Cogman, Genevieve : The Lost Plot
(Ace 978-0-399-58742-9, $15, 384pp, trade paperback, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780399587436
• The Invisible Library #4
Alternate history fantasy novel, fourth book of a series after The Invisible Library (June 2016), The Masked City (Sep. 2016), and The Burning Page (US 2017), about a mysterious Library that collects books from different realities.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Cogman nicely balances the political intrigue and action with the complex relationship between Irene and Kai.”
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* Goodkind, Terry : Shroud of Eternity
(Tor 978-0-7653-8824-7, $29.99, 528pp, hardcover, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765388261
• The Nicci Chronicles #2
Fantasy novel, second in a series following Death’s Mistress (2017) that centers on one character from the Sword of Truth series.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review says the book “the intriguing mythologies and the excitement of the final, all-consuming melee will resonate with fans of classic fantasy.”
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+ Harkaway, Nick : Gnomon
(Knopf 978-1-5247-3208-0, $28.95, 688pp, hardcover, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781524732097
SF novel about a near-future surveillance state in which all actions and words are recorded in the name of providing the safest society in history.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The UK edition appeared in November 2017.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Harkaway’s inventive, mind-bending, and mesmerizing novel interweaves a detective story set in the future with disparate tales of a Carthaginian alchemist, a Greek investment banker, and an Ethiopian painter….”
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* Hauck, Michelle : Steadfast
(Harper Voyager Impulse 978-0062447210, $7.99, 560pp, mass market paperback, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062447203
• Birth of Saints #3
Fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following Grudging (2015) and Faithful (2016), about a battle against a bloodthirsty god.
• The ebook edition of this book appeared 5 December 2017.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample.
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* Keeling, Ian Donald : Thread War
(ChiZine Publications/ChiTeen 978-1771484329, $13.99, 300pp, trade paperback, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781771484336
• Skidsphere #2
Young adult sf novel, second in a series following The Skids (2016), about a battle between the Skidsphere and the Thread.
• ChiZine’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
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* McGuire, Seanan : Beneath the Sugar Sky
(Tor.com 978-0-7653-9358-6, $17.99, 176pp, hardcover, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765393579
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427293794
• Wayward Children #3
Short fantasy novel, third in a series following Every Heart a Doorway (2016) and Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017).
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Readers will be thrilled to see old friends and meet new ones in this scrumptious tale that emphasizes acceptance, kindness, and the enduring value of friendship.”
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* Parisien, Dominik, & Navah Wolfe, eds. : Robots vs. Fairies
(Saga Press 978-1-4814-6236-5, $27.99, 384pp, hardcover, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781481462372
Anthology of 18 original stories.
• Authors include Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Jeffrey Ford, Lavie Tidhar, John Scalzi, and Catherynne M. Valente.
• There’s a simultaneous trade paperback edition (9781481462358).
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with a preview.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Editors Parisien and Wolfe (The Starlit Wood) have cannily chosen a variety of stories that offer individual, distinctive insights into both living machines and magical creatures, along with glimpses of how humans might react to their face-off.”
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* Stross, Charles : Dark State
(Tor 978-0-7653-3757-3, $25.99, 352pp, hardcover, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466835177
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427288806
• Empire Games #2
SF novel, second in series expanding the world of the Family Trade novels, following Empire Games (2017).
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Stross writes with passion and ease about both human and technological spycraft, and his characters remain intriguing and sympathetic.”
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* Tarkoff, Sarah : Sinless
(Harper Voyager 978-0062456380, $15.99, 304pp, trade paperback, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062456397
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062660633
• Eye of the Beholder #1
Dystopian SF novel, the author’s first novel and first in a series, set in a society in which right and wrong are manifested by beauty and ugliness.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample.
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* Wexler, Django : The Infernal Battalion
(Ace 978-0451477347, $28, 512pp, hardcover, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698409477
• The Shadow Campaigns #5
Military fantasy novel, fifth in a series following The Thousand Names (2013), The Shadow Throne (2014), The Price of Valor (2015), and The Guns of Empire (2016), about a colonial garrison trying to survive a rebellion.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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