New Books : 26 February 2019

New titles this week are by Gardner Dozois, Brent Hayward, Leanna Renee Hieber, Brian Hodge, Faith Hunter, Stephen R. Lawhead, Ann Leckie, S.J. Morden, and Samantha Shannon.

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* Dozois, Gardner, ed. : The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction
(St. Martin’s Griffin 978-1-250-29619-1, $39.99, 704pp, hardcover, February 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Feb 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250296214
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781250203366

Anthology of 38 stories, first published from 2002 to 2017 and reprinted in the 20th through the 35th annual volumes of Dozois’ Year’s Best series. (The title is a misnomer, since the contents aren’t drawn from 35 years, but from 15 or so.)
• Stories are arranged chronologically. Authors include Greg Egan, Ian McDonald, Peter Watts, Nancy Kress, Lavie Tidhar, Rich Larson, and many others.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt. A simultaneous trade paperback edition is available (9781250296207).
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Dozois was one of the great editors of science fiction over the last 50 years, and this book features some of the best science fiction written in the 21st century.”

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* Hayward, Brent : Broken Sun, Broken Moon
(ChiZine Publications 978-1771484763, $17.99, 180pp, trade paperback, February 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Feb 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781771484770

Collection of 12 stories, two of them original to this book.
• ChiZine’s site has this description with quotes from reviews of the author’s earlier books.

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* Hieber, Leanna Renee : Miss Violet and the Great War
(Tor 978-0-7653-7746-3, $18.99, 320pp, trade paperback, February 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Feb 2019
• Strangely Beautiful #3

Fantasy novel, a standalone in a series following Strangely Beautiful (2016) and Perilous Prophecy (2017), about a young woman in Victorian London who can communicate with ghosts.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Hodge, Brian : Skidding Into Oblivion
(ChiZine Publications 978-1771484787, $17.99, 350pp, trade paperback, February 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Feb 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781771484794

Collection of 11 stories about the end of the world.
• ChiZine’s site has this description.

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* Hunter, Faith : Circle of the Moon
(Ace 978-0-399-58794-8, $7.99, 400pp, mass market paperback, February 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Feb 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780399587955
• Soulwood #4

Urban fantasy novel, fourth in a series following Blood of the Earth, Curse on the Land (both 2016), and Flame in the Dark (2017), set in the same world as the author’s 10 Jane Yellowrock novels.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Hunter’s tense narrative cranks up the danger to a fever pitch, and some genuinely terrifying scenes will have readers on the edges of their seats.”

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* Lawhead, Stephen R. : In the Land of the Everliving
(Tor 978-0765383464, $26.99, 320pp, hardcover, February 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Feb 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466891814
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781250210449
• Eirlandia #2

Celtic fantasy novel, second in a series following In the Region of the Southern Stars (2018), about an island ravaged by barbarians using the Fae as an ultimate weapon.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Leckie, Ann : The Raven Tower
(Orbit 978-0-316-38869-6, $26, 432pp, hardcover, February 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Feb 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316388719
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781549115790

Stand-alone fantasy novel about a kingdom protected by the god Raven, whose power is now weakening.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “This impressive piece of craftsmanship cements Leckie’s place as a powerful voice in both SF and fantasy.”
• Russell Letson reviews it in the February issue of Locus Magazine: “This is a thoughtful reimagining of a genre, a re-examination featuring the same kinds of variations, inversions, and overturned expectations that Leckie visited on the military SF/space opera formula in the Ancillary books. Everything here will repay close attention, and much will draw a smile of recognition or of plain old pleasure at smart writing and surprising reinvention.”

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* Morden, S. J. : No Way
(Orbit 978-0316522212, $15.99, 416pp, trade paperback, February 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Feb 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316522199
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781549149412
• One Way #2

SF novel, sequel to One Way (2018), about an abandoned Mars colonist trying to make his way back to Earth.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly said of the first book, “Morden makes the science accessible as he steadily ratchets up the tension and paranoia, fully utilizing the starkly beautiful but utterly deadly setting.”

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* Shannon, Samantha : The Priory of the Orange Tree
(Bloomsbury 978-1-63557-029-8, $32, 848pp, hardcover, February 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Feb 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781635570281

Epic fantasy novel about a world on the brink of war with dragons.
• Bloomsbury’s site has this description with quotes from reviews.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “…this is a very capable epic fantasy.”

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