New Books : 27 August 2019

This week’s eight new books are evenly split between Fantasy and Science Fiction, with five continuing series!

New titles this week are by Ilona Andrews, Katherine Arden, Cora Carmack, Kameron Hurley, Dale Lucas, Michael Mammay, Andrew Skinner, and Keith Thomas.


* Andrews, Ilona : Sapphire Flames
(Avon 978-0-06-295258-5, $26.99, 352pp, hardcover, August 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Aug 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062878335
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062878359
Hidden Legacy #4

Fantasy novel, fourth in a series following Burn For Me (2014), White Hot (May 2017), and Wildfire (July 2017), about a detective in a magical society.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample. There’s a simultaneous mass market paperback edition (978-0-06-287834-2).
• The Publishers Weekly review concudes, “Andrews’s endlessly inventive action scenes are chock full of strange magic, and Catalina and Alessandro’s sexy sparring is a delight. Fans and new readers alike will enjoy the wit and worldbuilding and be thrilled to have this exciting new heroine to root for.”

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Arden, Katherine : Dead Voices
(Putnam 978-0525515050, $16.99, 256pp, hardcover, August 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Aug 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780525515067
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780593106495
Small Spaces #2

Middle-grade fantasy novel, sequel to Small Spaces (2018), about three friends, snowed in during a ski trip, who suspect the resort is haunted.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Arden excels at creating an atmosphere of claustrophobic tension with memorably menacing details. Readers will again be invested in the ghoulish surprises in store for the resourceful, likably flawed protagonists.”

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Carmack, Cora : Rage
(Tor Teen 978-0765386366, $17.99, 384pp, hardcover, August 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Aug 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780765386373
Stormheart #2

Young adult fantasy novel, second in a series following Roar (2017), about a princess who disguises herself as a rebel in a land wracked by violent storms.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Hurley, Kameron : Meet Me in the Future
(Tachyon Publications 978-1-61696-296-8, $16.95, 288pp, trade paperback, July 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 20 Aug 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781616962975

Collection of 16 stories, with an introduction by the author.
• Tachyon’s site has this description with blurbs, quotes from reviews, and the table of contents.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “With snapshots of futures that haunt, obsess, or tantalize, this collection from Hugo-winner Hurley offers 16 hard-edged pieces that gleam like gems in a mosaic.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews it in the August issue of Locus Magazine: “The dark, visceral energy which has also been characteristic of her novels sometimes approaches the language of body horror, and if there were a parallel term for ‘body SF,’ Hurley would have a good claim as one of its leading practitioners.”

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Lucas, Dale : Good Company
(Orbit 978-0316469135, $15.99, 480pp, trade paperback, August 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Aug 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316469111
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781549148941
The Fifth Ward #3

Fantasy novel, third in a series following First Watch (2017) and Friendly Fire (2018), about a human cop in a city of elves and dwarves and mages.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Mammay, Michael : Spaceside
(Harper Voyager 978-0062694683, $7.99, 368pp, mass market paperback, August 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Aug 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062694690
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062932358
Planetside #2

Military SF novel, second in a series following Planetside (2018), about a war hero who investigates a security breach into a computer network.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample.
Publishers Weekly said of the first book, “…Mammay capably writes Butler’s gritty, old-school soldier’s voice, and the story delivers enough intrigue and action for fans of military SF.”

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Skinner, Andrew : Steel Frame
(Solaris 978-1781087046, $11.99, 700pp, trade paperback, August 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Aug 2019

SF novel, the author’s first novel, about a jockey who flies one of the huge robots who battle in the outer regions of space.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Thomas, Keith : Dahlia Black
(Atria/Leopoldo & Co. 978-1-5011-5671-7, $27, 288pp, hardcover, August 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 13 Aug 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781501156731

SF novel about an alien race that responds to the Voyager 1 probe with a Pulse that rewrites part of human DNA.
• Simon & Schuster’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Thomas structures his tale as a series of transcripts, interviews, and journal entries, all footnoted. The documentary conceit lends both an air of believability (critical in a work that is littered with conspiracy theories, past and present) and a sense of tragic but not unwelcome inevitability.”

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These listings are based on publisher schedules and availability on Amazon (rather than on confirmation of physical publication via purchase, review copies, or sightings in bookstores). Titles are listed only once they are published (with rare exception). We do not list galleys or advance reading copies. Page counts are based on publisher or Amazon listings, and typically only approximate the bibliographic page counts of finished books. * = first edition + = first US edition Date with publisher info is official publication month. ‘Nominal Publication Date’ is the day of publication, typically as indicated by Amazon.com.


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