New Books : 23 April 2019
Go on a post-apocalyptic road trip in THE BOOK OF FLORA, A BOY AND HIS DOG AT THE END OF THE WORLD, and STORM OF LOCUSTS. Seven new SFF books!
New titles published April 23rd are by Meg Elison, C.A. Fletcher, Christopher Golden, Ian McEwan, Gareth L. Powell, Rebecca Roanhorse, and M.G. Wheaton.
* Elison, Meg : The Book of Flora
(Amazon/47North 978-1-54204-209-3, $14.95, 332pp, trade paperback, April 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 23 Apr 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B07G12QFP2
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: B07PXKW7YL
• Road to Nowhere #3
Post-apocalypse novel, third in a trilogy following Philip K. Dick award winner The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (2014) and The Book of Etta (2017), set in a society in which females have become a precious, endangered commodity.
• Amazon’s page has a description and “Look Inside” previews.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “This slow novel builds into an urgent, ferociously readable warning about the power of belief to maim—or heal. Readers will find this a powerful conclusion to a fascinating series.”
• Ian Mond reviews it in the April issue of Locus Magazine: “What impressed me the most, though, is how The Book of Flora marks Elison’s growth as an author…”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Fletcher, C. A. : A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
(Orbit 978-0316449458, $26, 384pp, hardcover, April 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 23 Apr 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316449472
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781549171482
Post-apocalyptic SF novel about a boy who leaves his family’s remote island to pursue his stolen dog.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Amazon page has quotes from reviews from Kirkus, Lightspeed, and others.
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Golden, Christopher : The Pandora Room
(St. Martin’s 978-1250192103, $27.99, 320pp, hardcover, April 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 23 Apr 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250192110
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781250203083
• Ararat #2
Supernatural thriller, sequel to Ararat (2017), about an archaeological expedition that uncovers evidence of the Pandora myth with two jars, one containing blessings, the other curses.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Golden makes the oppressive atmosphere inside Derveyî palpable. Preston and Child fans will clamor for more of Walker.”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* McEwan, Ian : Machines Like Me
(Doubleday/Nan A. Talese 978-0-385-54511-2, $26.95, 352pp, hardcover, April 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 23 Apr 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780735278202
SF novel set in alternate 1980s London, about a love traingle involving a synthetic human.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The UK edition appeared April 18th.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Though the reader may wish for a tighter story, this is nonetheless an intriguing novel about humans, machines, and what constitutes a self.”
• The book has gotten some pushback from SF readers, e.g. Laura Miller in Slate: Ian McEwan Should Read Some Science Fiction, subtitled “He thinks his literary novel about A.I. is superior to a genre that surpassed him long ago.”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Powell, Gareth L. : Ragged Alice
(Tor.com 978-1250220189, $14.99, 202pp, trade paperback, April 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 23 Apr 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250220172
Short fantasy novel about a detective in a small Welsh town who can see the evil in people’s souls.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Roanhorse, Rebecca : Storm of Locusts
(Saga Press 978-1-5344-1353-5, $27.99, hardcover, April 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 23 Apr 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781534413542
• The Sixth World #2
Fantasy novel, second in a series following Trail of Lightning (2018), about the emergence of Navajo gods and monsters in a world of climate apocalypse.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with an excerpt. There’s a simultaneous trade paperback (9781534413535).
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “The depiction of North America in ruins is a dark treat, including vivid scenes of women saving enslaved women and supernatural locust swarms descending. Readers who enjoyed Roanhorse’s first book will eagerly blaze through her second.”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Wheaton, M. G. : Emily Eternal
(Grand Central 978-1-5387-3039-3, $27, 304pp, hardcover, April 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 23 Apr 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781538730416
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781549115400
SF novel about an artificial intelligence that offers a potential answer to the fate of humanity as the sun begins to die.
• Hachette’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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