New Books : 26 March 2019

Nine new books! Get your space opera fix with ONCE & FUTURE by Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy; the latest Expanse novel by James S.A. Corey; and A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE by Arkady Martine.
New titles this week are by Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy, James S.A. Corey, Katharine Duckett, Sarah Fine, Richard A. Knaak, Marshall Ryan Maresca, Helen Marshall, Arkady Martine, and Namwali Serpell.


* Capetta, Amy Rose, & Cori McCarthy : Once & Future
(Jimmy Patterson 978-0-316-44927-1, $18.99, 368pp, hardcover, March 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Mar 2019

Young adult fantasy novel in which the latest incarnation of King Arthur is a teenage girl.
• Little, Brown’s site still has pre-order offer.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “A marvelous mythology remix for teens who enjoy action-packed speculative fiction and genderqueer romance. Ages 13–up.”

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* Corey, James S. A. : Tiamat’s Wrath
(Orbit 978-0-316-33287-3, $30, 544pp, hardcover, March 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Mar 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316332866
The Expanse #8

Space opera novel, eighth book of “The Expanse” following Leviathan’s Deep (2011), Caliban’s War (2012), Abaddon’s Gate (2013), Cibola Burn (2014), Nemesis Games (2015), Babylon’s Ashes (2016), and Persepolis Rising (2017).
• James S.A. Corey is a pseudonym for authors Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review, as it did the previous volume: “Brimming with vivid characters and intrigue, this tightly plotted space thriller gives readers an electrifying future carved by alien science and human ambition.”
• Russell Letson reviews it in the March issue of Locus Magazine: “The whole series occupies a complex narrative space, some of whose borders are marked by statues of Olaf Stapledon and Doc Smith, but this volume in particular isn’t just another revolt-against-the-empire adventure, or space opera, or even cosmology opera – it has too much heart.”

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* Duckett, Katharine : Miranda in Milan
(Tor.com 978-1-250-30631-9, $14.99, 202pp, trade paperback, March 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Mar 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250306319

Fantasy novel that imagines the aftermath of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Liz Bourke reviewed it in the February issue of Locus Magazine: “Miranda in Milan is very much concerned with relationships between women: all of its primary relationships, its emotionally important relationships, centre on women – and on the failures of empathy of the men around them. It’s a very gripping story, and one I enjoyed very much.”

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* Fine, Sarah : The Warrior
(47North 978-1-5420-4351-9, 299pp, trade paperback, March 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Mar 2019
The Immortal Dealers #3

Fantasy novel, third in a series following The Serpent and The Guardian (both 2018), about a young woman fighting Immortal Dealers who change reality with magical cards.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Ernie’s not a teenager, but her parent-oriented emotional life, simplistic thinking, and inability to see the big picture make her sound like one. Still, she’s got the chops—and the friends—to battle through to the end. This outing will primarily appeal to current fans of the series.”

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* Knaak, Richard A. : Black City Dragon
(Pyr 978-1-63388-494-6, $18, 336pp, trade paperback, March 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Mar 2019
Black City #3

Urban fantasy novel, third in a series following Black City Saint (2016) and Black City Demon (2017), about a guardian of the gate between the human world and Faerie, set in Chicago 50 years after the great fire.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “The novel’s complexity may challenge newcomers, but series fans will have much to savor in this adventure through Nick’s myth-laden world.”

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* Maresca, Marshall Ryan : A Parliament of Bodies
(DAW 978-0-7564-1266-1, $7.99, 400pp, mass market paperback, March 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Mar 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780756412678
Maradaine Constabulary #3

Fantasy novel, third in a series following A Murder of Mages (2015) and An Import of Intrigue (2016), about a university magic student who leads a double life.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Maresca’s detailed worldbuilding and tightly plotted intrigue will entertain fans of suspenseful fantasy.”

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* Marshall, Helen : The Migration
(Random House Canada 978-0735272620, $18.95, 304pp, trade paperback, March 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Mar 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780735272637
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780735277656

Literary horror novel about a high school girl who flees with her mother and younger sister to England, as a mysterious immune disorder spreads around the world.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• Ian Mond reviews the book in the February issue of Locus Magazine: “What shines through though, is Marshall’s empathy for her characters, not just Sophie but also those who help and sometimes hinder her. The Migration is a captivating, intelligent, and compassionate novel that portrays the
unbreakable bond between two sisters in a world facing environmental upheaval.”

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* Martine, Arkady : A Memory Called Empire
(Tor 978-1-250-18643-0, $25.99, 464pp, hardcover, March 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Mar 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250186454
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781250318961
Teixcalaan #1

Space opera novel, the author’s first novel and first in a series, about a new ambassador to the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire who suspects that her predecessor didn’t die accidentally.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Debut novelist Martine sets a careful course in this gorgeously crafted diplomatic space opera that strands its protagonist amid imperial politics and murder.”
• Russell Letson reviews it in the March issue of Locus Magazine: “Behind the cloak-and-dagger maneuvers that drive the foreground action lies a consideration of the ways cultures maintain themselves and how individuals navigate ‘‘belonging’’ to such frameworks. It’s an absorbing and sometimes challenging blend of intrigue and anthropological imagination. (Use that Glossary.) It is also often quite funny, in a gentle and sneaky way.”

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* Serpell, Namwali : The Old Drift
(Hogarth 978-1101907146, $28, 576pp, hardcover, March 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Mar 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781101907160
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780451485137

Historical SF/fantasy novel, the first novel by the Zambian author, about three families in a colonial settlement near Victoria Falls over the course of a century.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• An essay by the author, When Science Fiction Comes True, appeared in the New York Times earlier this month.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Recalling the work of Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez as a sometimes magical, sometimes horrifically real portrait of a place, Serpell’s novel goes into the future of the 2020s, when the various plot threads come together in a startling conclusion. Intricately imagined, brilliantly constructed, and staggering in its scope, this is an astonishing novel.”

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