New Books : 16 July 2019

New titles this week are by Baoshu, Ben Bova, Neil Clarke, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, Scott Gable & C. Dombrowski, Molly Gloss, Kerstin Hall, Carrie Jones & Steven E. Wedel, Christopher Ruocchio, Rudolfo A. Serna, Yoshiki Tanaka, Heather Webber, and Evan Winter.

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* Baoshu, translated by Ken Liu : The Redemption of Time
(Tor 978-1-250-30602-9, $26.99, 272pp, hardcover, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250306012
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781250227881
• Remembrance of Earth’s Past #4

SF novel set in the universe of Cixin Liu’s Three-Body Problem trilogy.
• It was published in China in 2011, and the English translation is copyright 2016.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Readers will need to be deeply immersed in Liu Cixin’s original trilogy to get anything out of this overambitious homage.”

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* Bova, Ben : Earth
(Tor 978-0-7653-9719-5, $29.99, 352pp, hardcover, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765397218
• Grand Tour #25

Hard SF novel, latest in the Grand Tour sequence [Wikipedia] that began with Privateers in 1985 and most recently included New Earth (2013) and the trilogy Death Wave (2015), Apes and Angels (2016), and Survival (2017).
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Clarke, Neil, ed. : The Eagle Has Landed: 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction
(Night Shade 978-1597809993, $19.99, 600pp, hardcover, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B07S5D115X

Anthology of 24 reprint stories about the moon and lunar colonization.
• Authors include Carter Scholz, John Varley, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Kessel, Gregory Benford, Ian McDonald, and Rich Larson.
• Night Shade’s site has this description with the table of contents. A hardcover edition (9781949102093) is also available.
• The Publishers Weekly review calls out stories by Indrapramit Das and Rich Larson as standouts.

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* El-Mohtar, Amal, & Max Gladstone : This Is How You Lose the Time War
(Saga Press 978-1-5344-3100-3, $19.99, 208pp, hardcover, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781534431010
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781508287056

SF novel about two time travelers from opposing factions who begin to correspond and then fall in love.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: the authors “pack their narrative full of fanciful ideas and poignant moments, weaving a tapestry stretching across the millennia and through multiple realities that’s anchored with raw emotion and a genuine sense of wonder. This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities.”

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* Gable, Scott, & C. Dombrowski, eds. : Welcome to Miskatonic University
(Broken Eye Books 978-1940372235, $19.99, 258pp, trade paperback, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019

Anthology of original stories, subtitled “Fantastically Weird Tales of Campus Life.”
• Authors include Kristi DeMeester, Joseph S. Pulver Sr., Marcus Chan, and Liz Schriftsteller.
• The publisher’s site has this description.

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* Gloss, Molly : Unforeseen: Stories
(Saga 978-1-4814-9850-0, $24.99, 352pp, hardcover, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781481498524

Collection of 17 stories, the author’s first collection.
• Titles include Sturgeon Award winner “The Girnnell Method” and Hugo and Nebula nominee “Lambing Season.”
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description with an excerpt. The publisher has also recently reissued the author’s three novels The Dazzle of Day (in March 2019), Wild Life (Feb. 2019), and Outside the Gates (Jan. 2019).
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Gloss specializes in subtle literary fiction, more concerned with deep human perspective than suspense or action; even when stories are set in the distant past or the nebulous technological future, most have one foot firmly planted in the natural world…”

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* Hall, Kerstin : The Border Keeper
(Tor.com 978-1-250-20941-2, $14.99, 240pp, trade paperback, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250209429

Fantasy novel, the author’s first novel, set in the nine hundred and ninety-nine realms of Mkalis, where gods and demons wage endless war.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “…the tangle of love, loss, grief, and regret that is gradually exposed as the book’s emotional core feels tender and profound. Readers more interested in the journey than the destination will savor this venture into the underworld.”

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* Jones, Carrie, & Steven E. Wedel : In the Woods
(Tor Teen 978-0765336552, $17.99, 352pp, hardcover, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466828476

Young adult fantasy novel about two teens searching for something hiding in the woods.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Ruocchio, Christopher : Howling Dark
(DAW 978-0756413033, $27, 688pp, hardcover, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780756413057
• Sun Eater #2

Space opera/epic fantasy novel, second in a series following Empire of Silence (2018), about a man searching for the lost planet of Vorgossos in order to end 400 years of war.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Serna, Rudolfo A. : Snow Over Utopia
(Apex Publications 978-1-937009-75-5, $14.95, 176pp, trade paperback, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019

Apocalyptic, psychedelic SF novel about a girl who escapes her slave masters and pursues a quest to restore her blue eyes.
• Apex’ site has this description and order page.

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Tanaka, Yoshiki : Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Volume 9: Upheaval.
(Haikasoru 978-1-4215-8502-4, $15.99, 224pp, trade paperback, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes #9

Military SF novel, ninth in a series published in the 1980s and the basis of numerous manga and anime works. The new edition here is translated by Matt Treyvaud.
• Wikipedia has this entry about the seires.
• Haikasoru’s site has this description of the book with an excerpt.

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Webber, Heather : Midnight at the Blackbird Café
(Forge 978-1250198594, $24.99, 356pp, hardcover, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250198600
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781250222466

Fantasy novel about a woman who comes to a small Alabama town to settle her grandmother’s estate.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Winter, Evan : The Rage of Dragons
(Orbit 978-0-316-48976-8, $26, 544pp, hardcover, July 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 16 Jul 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316489744
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781549120657
• The Burning #1

Fantasy novel, the author’s first novel and first in a series, about a young man who plots revenge after the murder of his father.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Winter’s stunning debut fantasy epic is rich in complex characters and a well-wrought world with both European and African influences. … This impressive series launch holds tremendous promise.”

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