New Books : 25 June 2019
A 17-year-old girl who discovers she’s a synthetic person by Jay Kristoff; new Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee; teenage survivors of an attempted alien invasion, by Pittacus Lore; and a half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon by Michael Swanwick!
* Kristoff, Jay : DEV1AT3
(Knopf 978-1524713966, $18.99, 448pp, hardcover, June 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Jun 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781524713980
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781524780937
• LIFEL1K3 #2
Young adult SF novel, second in a series following LIFEL1K3 (2018), about a 17-year-old girl who has discovered she is a synthetic person.
•Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
•Publishers Weekly said of the first book, “the stylized language and futuristic slang give the narrative voice extra zing.”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Lee, Yoon Ha : Hexarchate Stories
(Solaris 978-1-78108-564-6, 400pp, trade paperback, June 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Jun 2019
• Machineries of Empire #4
Collection of stories set in the author’s Machineries of Empire universe.
•Simon & Schuster’s site has this description.
•Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
•The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Lee provides enough context within stories for new readers to navigate and may be drawn to try out the novels, but the nuances are best appreciated by fans of the Hexarchate universe. Given that Lee is also a game creator, these stories might be thought of as Easter eggs for the Hexarchate series: they enhance understanding of some of the characters and cultural nuances and explain some authorial intent, but they’re not required reading.”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Lore, Pittacus : Return to Zero
(Harper 978-0062493804, $18.99, 464pp, hardcover, June 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Jun 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062493842
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062911940
• Lorien Legacies Reborn #3
Young adult SF novel, third in a series following Generation One (2017) and Fugitive Six (2018), about teenagers who survived the attempted alien invasion and developed power from the alien energy left behind.
•HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample.
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Swanwick, Michael : The Iron Dragon’s Mother
(Tor 978-1-250-19825-9, $26.99, 368pp, hardcover, June 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Jun 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250198266
Fantasy novel set in the post-industrial faerie world of earlier novels The Iron Dragon’s Daughter (1993) and The Dragons of Babel (2008), about a half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon who is framed for murder.
•Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
•The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “This epic is full of carefully crafted lands, characters, and creatures, and readers will savor each page.”
•Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the June issue of Locus Magazine: “…the irresistible appeal of Swanwick’s version of Faerie, along with his usual skill at drawing vividly complex and conflicted characters trying to solve a mystery whose stakes keep spiraling outward, lend the novel a density and texture that seems a bit surprising, considering all the fun we’re having along the way.”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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