New Books: 4 January 2022
Blake, Kendare: In Every Generation 
(Disney/Hyperion 978-1368075022, $15.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 4, 2022)
Tie-in novel, the start of a next-generation series set in the world of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer.
Brandt, Gerald: Threader War 
(DAW 978-0-7564-1642-3, $11.99, 384pp, formats: ebook, audio, January 4, 2022)
SF novel, second in the Quantum Empirica series, set in an alternate earth where quantum Threads can alter reality.
Chan, Jessamine: The School for Good Mothers 
(Simon & Schuster 978-1-982156-12-1, $27, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 4, 2022)
Dystopian SF novel about a mother flagged by a government surveillance program for neglecting her child.
Dow, Alechia: The Kindred 
(Harlequin/Inkyard Press 978-1-335-41861-6, $18.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 4, 2022)
Young-adult science fiction novel. Kindred mind-pairings ensure that nobody is left outside society, but when the royal family is assassinated, the poor girl paired with the surviving heir is in danger too. They steal a spacecraft to flee, and crash land on the backwards planet called Earth.
Gray, Claudia: Star Wars: The Fallen Star 
(Penguin Random House/Del Rey 978-0-593-35539-8, $28.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 2, 2022)
Star Wars tie-in novel, third in the Star Wars: The High Republic series. The Nihil raiders plan an attack on the Starlight Beacon, an ancient monument to the Jedi, and the last refuge of the High Republic.
Hawley, Noah: Anthem 
(Grand Central 978-1-5387-1151-4, $29, 448pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 1, 2022)
Near-future thriller/horror novel. A plague of teen suicides spreads around the world, in the middle of a climate crisis.
Hedlund, Jody: Never Leave Me 
(Baker Publishing Group/Revell 978-0-8007-3844-0, $15.99, 352pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, audio, January 4, 2022)
Christian fantasy time-travel novel, the second in the Waters of Time series. Ellen Creighton wants nothing to do with the ancient holy water her father and sister were investigating when they disappeared.
Lavie, Asiel R.: The Crossing Gate 
(Absolute Author Publishing House 978-1-649532640, $15, 416pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, January 3, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel, the first in the Waltz of Sin and Fire series. Lenora is determined to pass through the Crossing Gate to become an adult, but things go so wrong she’s accused of trying to start a revolution.
McGuire, Seanan: Where the Drowned Girls Go 
(Tordotcom 978-1-250-21362-4, $19.99, 160pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 4, 2022)
Fantasy novel related to the Wayward Children series. The Whitethorn Institute is an alternate to the Home for Wayward Children, but it’s less safe and welcoming.
Mersault, Michael: The Deep Man 
(Baen 978-1-9821-2584-4, $16, 352pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, January 4, 2022)
Saef Sinclair-Maru commands an old frigate in the Imperial Fleet, trying to restore his Family’s status, when he uncovers a plot meant to exterminate humanity.
Percy, Benjamin: The Unfamiliar Garden 
(HarperCollins/Mariner 978-1-328544889, $26, 224pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, audio, January 4, 2022)
Near-future SF novel, the second in the Comet Cycle series. A couple looks into a fungal infection for clues to their daughter’s disappearance five years before, while the military tries to turn the sentient fungi into a mind-control serum.
Powers, Tim: Stolen Skies 
(Baen 978-1-9821-2583-7, $26, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 4, 2022)
Fantasy novel, sequel to Alternate Routes. After learning secrets about UFOs, Vickery and Castine are on the run from both the US government and Russian agents.
Raman, Akshaya: The Ivory Key 
(HarperCollins/Clarion 978-0-358-46833-2, $18.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 4, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel, the first in a duology. Estranged royal siblings try to find new sources of their country’s major export: magic.
Rhodes, Morgan: Echoes and Empires 
(Penguin Random House/Razorbill 978-0-593-35165-9, $18.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 4, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel, first in the eponymous duology. A teen teams up with a criminal to cure herself of forbidden magic.
Rollins, James: The Starless Crown 
(Tor 978-1-250-81677-1, $28.99, 560pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 4, 2022)
Epic fantasy novel, first in the Moon Fall series set on an earth that no longer turns. A young woman must flee after foretelling a new apocalypse.
Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro: Longing and Other Stories 
(Columbia University Press 9780231202152, $20, 160pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, January 4, 2022)
Collection of three early stories by Tanizaki about sons and mothers, two with fantastic elements, in translations by Anthony H. Chambers & Paul McCarthy, who provide an afterword.
Wheeler, Jeff: Fate’s Ransom 
(Amazon/47North 978-1542027427, $14.95, 455pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, January 4, 2022)
Medieval fantasy novel, the fourth and final book in the First Argentines series.
