New in Paperback : March 2018
Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140, Victor LaValle’s The Changeling, David Brin & Stephen R. Potts’ anthology Chasing Shadows, and titles by Kristen Britain, Jack Campbell, Steven Erikson, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Maberry, Sylvain Neuvel, V.E. Schwab, Catherynne M. Valente, and Michael Z. Williamson.
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Brin, David, & Stephen W. Potts, eds. : Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World
(Tor 978-0765382597, $17.99, 336pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 13 Mar 2018
(First edition: Tor, January 2017)
Anthology of new and reprint stories keying off the theme of Brin’s 1998 book The Transparent Society.
• Authors with new stories include Bruce Sterling, Karl Schroeder, and Cat Rambo; reprints are by Robert Silverberg, James Morrow, William Gibson, Damon Knight, and others.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt. Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews including the table of contents.
• Paul Di Filippo reviewed it last year for Locus Online: “This anthology satisfies on many levels. It offers dramatic storytelling, grand ideas, and mutually divergent speculations which hew to no particular ideological party line.”
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Britain, Kristen : Firebrand
(DAW 978-0756414078, $18, 816pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 Mar 2018
(First edition: DAW, March 2017)
Fantasy novel, sixth in the series that began with The Green Rider (1998) and continued with First Rider’s Call (2003), The High King’s Tomb (2007), Blackveil (2011), and Mirror Sight (2014), about an elite group of messengers for the king who now face a threat from dark magicians.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
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Campbell, Jack : Vanguard
(Ace 978-1101988367, $7.99, 352pp, mass market paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Mar 2018
(First edition: Ace, May 2017)
Military SF novel, first in a new series related to his “Lost Fleet” series, about the founding of the Alliance.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview.
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Erikson, Steven : Fall of Light
(Tor 978-0765323644, $19.99, 864pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Mar 2018
(First edition: Tor, April 2016)
Fantasy novel, second in a trilogy following Forge of Darkness (2012), set millennia before the author’s 10-volume Malazan Book of the Fallen.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
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Gaiman, Neil : Norse Mythology
(Norton 978-0393356182, $15.95, 304pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 Mar 2018
(First edition: Norton, February 2017)
Retelling of the Norse myths, from Odin, Thor, and Loki, to the twilight of the gods in Ragnorak.
• Norton’s site has this description.
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Lavalle, Victor : The Changeling
(Spiegel & Grau 978-0812985870, $18, 448pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 Mar 2018
(First edition: Spiegel & Grau, June 2017)
Fantasy novel about a man whose father disappeared, now facing the disappearance of his wife and infant boy.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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Maberry, Jonathan : Mars One
(Simon & Schuster 978-1481461627, $11.99, 448pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Mar 2018
(First edition: Simon & Schuster, April 2017)
Young adult SF novel about a teen and his family chosen to colonize Mars.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with a Google preview.
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Neuvel, Sylvain : Waking Gods
(Del Rey 978-1101886748, $16, 352pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 13 Mar 2018
(First edition: Del Rey, April 2017)
SF novel, second in a a series following Sleeping Giants (2016), about giant robots invading Earth.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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Robinson, Kim Stanley : New York 2140
(Orbit 978-0316262316, $17.99, 656pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 Mar 2018
(First edition: Orbit, March 2017)
SF novel about the effects of rising sea levels on New York City in the year 2140.
• Hachette’s site has this description.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviewed it last year in Locus Magazine: “””…the novel at times becomes such a tribute to the resilience and ingenuity of New Yorkers that the drowned Manhattan seems more intriguing than frightening, and a pretty attractive place to explore… [T]here have been more than a few environmental catastrophe tales set in a future New York, but possibly none of them have been this interesting.””
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Schwab, V. E. : A Conjuring of Light
(Tor 978-0765387479, $16.99, 640pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 13 Mar 2018
(First edition: Tor, February 2017)
Fantasy novel, third in a series following A Darker Shade of Magic (2015) and A Gathering of Shadows (2016), about a magical Traveler who can move among a series of alternate Londons.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
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Valente, Catherynne M. : The Refrigerator Monologues
(Saga Press 978-1481459358, $14.99, 160pp, trade paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 Mar 2018
(First edition: Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, June 2017)
Collection of linked fantasy stories about the girlfriends and wives of superheroes, with illustrations by Annie Wu.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with a Google preview.
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Williamson, Michael Z. : Angeleyes
(Baen 978-1481482950, $7.99, 512pp, mass market paperback, March 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Feb 2018
• Freehold #8
(First edition: Baen, November 2016)
Military SF novel, eighth in the “Freehold” series following Freehold (2004), The Weapon (2005), Better to Beg Forgiveness (2007), Contact with Chaos (2009), and Do Unto Others (2010), Rogue (2011), and When Diplomacy Fails… (2012)
• Baen’s site has this description with links to several chapter excerpts.
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