New Books : 13 March 2018

Gordon Van Gelder’s anthology Welcome to Dystopia, Kelly Robson’s Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, and other titles by Michael David Ares, Mishell Baker, James Brogden, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, Jessica Spotswood, and Nick Clark Windo.

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* Ares, Michael David : Dayfall
(Tor 978-1-250-06480-6, $25.99, 288pp, hardcover, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 13 Mar 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466871144
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427294326

Near-future SF novel, the author’s first novel, about cops in New York City in the years after nuclear winter has shrouded the northern hemisphere in darkness.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Baker, Mishell : Imposter Syndrome
(Saga Press 978-1-4814-8018-5, $29.99, 480pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 13 Mar 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781481451956
• The Arcadia Project #3

Urban fantasy novel, third in a series following Nebula-nominated Borderline (2016) and Phantom Pains (2017), about a Hollywood filmmaker who joins a secret organization in contact with Fairyland.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description. There’s also a trade paperback edition (978-1-4814-5194-9).
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Baker’s richly detailed worldbuilding intersects with powerful storytelling to keep readers hooked. The tear-jerking conclusion is a fitting wrap-up to the series, but readers will still hope for more Millie stories to come.”

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* Brogden, James : The Hollow Tree
(Titan 978-1785654404, $14.95, 483pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 13 Mar 2018

Fantasy novel about who lost her hand in an accident, having nightmares about a woman trapped in the trunk of a hollow tree.
• Titan’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.

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* Kaufman, Amie, & Jay Kristoff : Obsidio
(Knopf 978-0-553-49919-3, $19.99, 613pp, hardcover, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 13 Mar 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780553499216
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781101916728
• Illuminae Files #3

Young adult SF novel, third in a trilogy following Illuminae (2015) and Gemina (2016), about a young couple on a planet that’s invaded. The story is told through a variety of documents and diagrams.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gave the first book a starred review: “What starts off as a spacefaring action-romance evolves into a nerve-wracking horror story as the true scope of the situation becomes clear.”

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* Robson, Kelly : Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
(Tor.com 978-1-2501-6385-1, $14.99, 240pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 13 Mar 2018

SF novel, the author’s first novel, about a future humanity struggling to repair the planet that has a chance to escape into the past via time travel.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with blurbs from Annalee Newitz, Peter Watts, and others.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the March issue of Locus Magazine: “The sheer richness of invention in Robson’s story … is close to astonishing, and her conclusion is both surprising and dramatically appropriate. If there had been any doubt that Robson is one of the most accomplished and versatile new writers (her SF career only dates back to 2015), Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach should dispel it.”

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* Spotswood, Jessica, ed. : The Radical Element
(Candlewick Press 978-0763694258, $17.99, 320pp, hardcover, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 13 Mar 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780763699307

Young adult anthology of 12 original stories about young heroines.
• Authors include Dahlia Adler, Erin Bowman, and Dhonielle Clayton.
• Candlewick’s site has this description.

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* Van Gelder, Gordon, ed. : Welcome to Dystopia
(OR Books 978-1-68219-126-2, $22, 392pp, trade paperback, February 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Sat 20 Jan 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-682191-27-9

Anthology of 45 original stories about near-future dystopias.
• Authors include N. Lee Wood, Janis Ian, Harry Turtledove, Geoff Ryman, Michael Kandel, Robert Reed, Eileen Gunn, Yoon Ha Lee, Matthew Hughes, Ted White, Lisa Mason, Paul Witcover, Scott Bradfield, James Sallis, Richard Bowes, Barry N. Malzberg, James Morrow, David Marusek, and others.
• The publisher’s site has this description and order form, with a video. (Note that Amazon lists only the Kindle ebook, not the trade paperback.)
• The Publishers Weekly review calls out the stories by Michael Libling, Janis Ian, Robert Reed, Jane Yolen, and others, and concludes, “This is a bracing collection of short, sharp shocks, all of which stimulate and some of which stun.”

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* Windo, Nick Clark : The Feed
(Morrow 978-0-06-265185-3, $26.99, 336pp, hardcover, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 13 Mar 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062651884
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062802897

SF novel, the author’s first novel, about the aftermath of the collapse of a vast network that connects information and interactions directly to people’s brains.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Debut novelist Windo makes the loss of modern society very personal, with close portraits of how his characters are worn down by the basic work of premodern life.”

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