Titles newly in paperback this month include China Miéville’s The Last Days of New Paris, John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire, and others by Neal Asher, Steven Brust & Skyler White, Jacqueline Carey, C.J. Cherryh, Robin Hobb, Veronica Roth, and Tad Williams.

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Asher, Neal : Infinity Engine
(Night Shade Books 978-1597809108, $15.99, 488pp, trade paperback, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018
• Transformation #3

(First edition: Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, March 2017)

SF novel, third in a trilogy following Dark Intelligence (2015) and War Factory (2016), set in the author’s Polity universe.
• Night Shade’s site has this description with quotes from reviews.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.

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Brust, Steven, & Skyler White : The Skill of Our Hands
(Tor 978-0765382894, $16.99, 352pp, trade paperback, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Jan 2018
• The Incrementalists #2

(First edition: Tor, January 2017)

Urban fantasy novel, second in a series following The Incrementalists (2013), about a secret society whose members have worked for 40,000 years to make the world better.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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Carey, Jacqueline : Miranda and Caliban
(Tor 978-0765386816, $15.99, 368pp, trade paperback, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 23 Jan 2018

(First edition: Tor, February 2017)

Fantasy retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Faren Miller reviewed it last year in Locus Magazine: “””This version of The Tempest explores new territory on Prospero’s isle, since most of it occurs before the play begins.””

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Cherryh, C. J. : Convergence
(DAW 978-0756412418, $7.99, 368pp, mass market paperback, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Jan 2018
• Foreigner #18

(First edition: DAW, April 2017)

SF novel, 18th volume in Cherryh’s long-running Foreigner series about humans and the alien atevi, following Deceiver (2010), Betrayer (2011), Intruder (2012), Protector (2013), Peacemaker (2014), Tracker (2015), and Visitor (2016).
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.

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Hobb, Robin : Assassin’s Fate
(Del Rey 978-0553392968, $9.99, 960pp, mass market paperback, December 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Dec 2017
• Fitz and the Fool #3

(First edition: Ballantine Del Rey, May 2017)

Fantasy novel, third book in a trilogy following Fool’s Assassin (2014) and Fool’s Quest (2015), about two characters from her earlier novels, FitzChivalry Farseer and the Fool.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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Miéville, China : The Last Days of New Paris
(Del Rey 978-1524797485, $15, 224pp, trade paperback, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jan 2018

(First edition: Ballantine Del Rey, August 2016)

Fantasy novel set in a 1950 surrealist Paris where Nazis and the Resistance continue to fight.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviewed the book last year in Locus Magazine: “There are moments when one gets the sense that The Last Days of New Paris tries to pack in all the detailed study of Surrealism that Miéville has been saving up for years, but its vision of, as one photographer character puts it, ‘a city where art hunts,’ is as vivid a portrayal of the disruptive and revolutionary nature of art as I’ve seen in quite a while.”

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Roth, Veronica : Carve the Mark
(HarperCollins/Tegen Books 978-0062348647, $12.99, 512pp, trade paperback, December 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Dec 2017
• Carve the Mark #1

(First edition: HarperCollins/Tegen Books, January 2017)

SF/fantasy novel, first in a new series set on a planet where everyone develops unique gifts, about two people whose gifts make them vulnerable to others.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample.
• The second book, The Fates Divide, will be out in April.

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Scalzi, John : The Collapsing Empire
(Tor 978-0765388902, $9.99, 384pp, mass market paperback, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Jan 2018

(First edition: Tor, March 2017)

SF novel, first in a new series, about the discovering of The Flow, an extradimensional field that gives humanity access to the planets around other stars.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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Williams, Tad : The Heart of What Was Lost
(DAW 978-0756413835, $15, 224pp, trade paperback, January 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Jan 2018
• Osten Ard #1

(First edition: DAW, January 2017)

Fantasy novel, first in a new series following the author’s Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy (1988-1993).
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.

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