New Books : 24 July 2018
Rich Larson’s debut novel Annex, James Patrick Kelly’s collection The Promise of Space and Other Stories, and titles by Becky Chambers, Sarah Fine, and Will McIntosh.
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* Chambers, Becky : Record of a Spaceborn Few
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-285115-4, $26.99, 368pp, hardcover, July 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 24 Jul 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062699237
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062898968
• Wayfarer #3
Humorous space opera novel, third in a series following The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (2014) and A Closed and Common Orbit (2016), about a human fleet of generation ships that has joined the Galactic Commons.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample.
• There’s a simultaneous trade paperback edition (978-0-06-269922-0).
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “The characters are distinct and lovable, each shedding light on a different facet of the Fleet. Chambers uses the interconnections inevitable in such a small society to provide moments of both horrific pain and soaring grace, and to make it clear that those things are inextricably intermingled. This is a superb work from one of the genre’s rising stars.”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Fine, Sarah : The Serpent
(Amazon/47north 978-1503903043, $14.95, 316pp, trade paperback, July 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 24 Jul 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B07877M5PZ
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 978-1543697063
• The Immortal Dealers #1
Fantasy novel, first in a series, about a young woman who discovers a pack of playing cards that reveals supernatural Immortal Dealers, who shape the world’s destiny for good or evil.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Kelly, James Patrick : The Promise of Space and Other Stories
(Prime Books 978-1-607-01495-9, $15.95, 384pp, trade paperback, July 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 10 Jul 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-607-01496-6
Collection of 16 stories, first published since 2007 and including one story original to the book. Sheila Williams provides an introduction.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews, including the table of contents.
• Amazon indicates a July 10th publication date, but the book has not been available from Amazon until this week.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the July issue of Locus Magazine: “[Kelly’s] sheer consistency and competence can be both a blessing and a curse. As he also points out in his afterword, ‘I try to write as many different kinds of stories as I can,’ and this can make him maddeningly hard to pin down, especially for readers who value the comforts of familiar settings and characters.”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Larson, Rich : Annex
(Orbit 978-0-316-41654-2, $15.99, 368pp, trade paperback, July 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 24 Jul 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316416559
• The Violet Wars #1
SF novel, the author’s first novel and first in a series, about teenagers fight alien invaders.
• Orbit’s site has a YouTube video introduction.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews the book in the July issue of Locus Magazine: “In fact, Larson’s colorful cast of characters, mostly teens and younger, but aided by a spectacular shapeshifting alien ally called Gloom, is by far the strongest aspect of what is otherwise something of a magpie novel in its deployment of SF and YA materials.”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* McIntosh, Will : The Future Will Be BS Free
(Delacorte 978-0553534146, $17.99, 352pp, hardcover, July 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 24 Jul 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780553534153
Young adult SF novel set in a Putin-esque near future America, about a group of gifted teens who create an utterly reliable lie-detector.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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