New Books : 10 December 2019
Four fantasy books and one SF art book on this short list of new titles!
New titles this week are by Miles Cameron, Sebastien de Castell, Paul Di Filippo, Ed Emshwiller & Jesse Pires, and James Islington.
* Cameron, Miles : Bright Steel
(Orbit 978-0316399395, $17.99, 464pp, trade paperback, December 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 10 Dec 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316399371
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781549182792
• Masters and Mages #3
Epic fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following Cold Iron (2018) and Dark Forge (Sep. 2019), about a young mage-in-training.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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+ de Castell, Sebastien : Crownbreaker
(Orbit 978-0316525954, $16.99, 544pp, trade paperback, December 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 10 Dec 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316525930
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781549183874
• Spellslinger #6
Fantasy novel, sixth and final book in a series following Spellslinger (July 2018), Shadowblack (Aug. 2018), Charmcaster (Sep. 2018), Soulbinder (Dec. 2018), and Queenslayer (May 2019), about a magician whose talents are fading.
• The UK hardcover edition appeared in October.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Di Filippo, Paul : Plumage from Pegasus: The All-new Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Collection
(WordFire Press 978-1-68057-000-7, $14.99, 196pp, trade paperback, December 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 4 Dec 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-61475-999-7
Collection of 30 stories, one original to this book, the others reprinted mostly from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 2010 to 2019, all in the author’s long-running “Plumage from Pegasus” series of humorous vignettes.
• This is a sequel to the 2006 collection Plumage from Pegasus.
• Baen’s site has this description with the table of contents including links to six sample stories.
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Emshwiller, Ed, edited by Jesse Pires : Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller
(Anthology Editions 978-1-944860-29-5, $30, 176pp, hardcover, December 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 10 Dec 2019
Art book collecting 453 images by 20th century SF artist Ed Emshwiller.
• The publisher links to this order page. The book is a “a catalog released in conjunction with the artist’s first major monographic exhibition at Lightbox Film Center and the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in Philadelphia,” from a career that “spanned abstract expressionist painting, commercial illustration, film, video and computer art, and collaborations with dancers, choreographers, and composers.”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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* Islington, James : The Light of All That Falls
(Orbit 978-0-316-27418-0, $29, 864pp, hardcover, December 2019)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 10 Dec 2019
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316274173
• Licanius Trilogy #3
Epic fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following The Shadow of What Was Lost (2016) and An Echo of Things to Come (2017).
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Devoted fans will be glad to see loose ends tied up but exhausted by the long trudge to the series’ ending.”
• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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