New Books: 29 March 2022
Bastianelli, Gregory: Shadow Flicker 
(Flame Tree Press US 9781787586765, $26.95, 304pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, March 28, 2022)
Horror novel. An investigator travels to an island off the coast of Maine to document the negative effects of shadow flicker from wind turbines, but something much worse appears to be affecting the local animals and people.
Broaddus, Maurice: Sweep of Stars 
(Tor 978-1-250-26493-0, $27.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 29, 2022)
Afrofuturist space opera SF novel, the first in the Sweep of Stars/Astra Black trilogy. The Muungano empire split away from old earth to form a coalition of city-states stretching from Earth and Mars to Titan, but plots threaten to destroy them.
DeYoung, Andrew: The Temps 
(Keylight , $27.99, 264pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 29, 2022)
Satirical apocalyptic SF novel of young office workers trapped in a huge corporate complex as global disaster strikes outside, leading the temps to uncover the truth about the apocalypse and the company they work for.
Emmett, S.C.: The Bloody Throne 
(Orbit US 978-0-316-45343-1, $17.99, 640pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, March 29, 2022)
Fantasy novel, third in the Hostage of Empire series inspired by Asian history. This is a pen name for Lilith Saintcrow.
Folk, Kate: Out There 
(Penguin Random House/Random House 978-0593231463, $27.00, 256pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 29, 2022)
Collection of 15 stories, otherworldly and absurd, two new, the rest all revised to some extent.
Kurtness, J.D.: Aquariums 
(Dundurn/Rare Machines 9781459747760, $18.99, 168pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, March 29, 2022)
Near-future SF novel about an isolated expedition studying the effect of climate change on the Arctic oceans, when a deadly pandemic breaks out. Translated by Pablo Straus from the French Aquariums (L’instant même 2019).
Lin, Judy I.: A Magic Steeped in Poison 
(Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends 978-1-250-76708-0, $18.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 29, 2022)
Fantasy novel, the first in the Book of Tea duology inspired by Chinese history and mythology. After unintentionally brewing a poison tea that killed her mother and threatens to kill her sister, Ning travels to the imperial city to enter a tea-making competition, where the prize might save her sister’s life.
Maguire, Gregory: Cress Watercress 
(Candlewick Press 978-1-53611009, $19.99, 224pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 29, 2022)
Middle-grade talking animal fantasy novel about a young girl rabbit whose father doesn’t come home one night. Her mother moves the family to a dead tree apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, and annoying neighbors. Illustrated by David Litchfield.
Maresca, Marshall Ryan: The Assassins of Consequence 
(DAW 978-0-7564-1762-8, $18.00, 392pp, formats: ebook, March 29, 2022)
Fantasy novel, part of the Maradaine universe. Veranix Calbert is in his fourth year of magic studies at the University of Maradine, while still maintaining his identity as The Thorn, a street vigilante at war with a drug kingpin.
Neuvel, Sylvain: Until the Last of Me 
(Tordotcom 978-1-250-26211-0, $26.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 29, 2022)
SF/secret history novel, the second in the Take Them to the Stars series about a family working for over 99 identical generations to get mankind to the stars. In 1968, Mia can’t quite accomplish the goal.
Olson, Jessica S.: A Forgery of Roses 
(Harlequin/Inkyard Press 978-1335418661, $19.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 28, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel about an artist whose portraits actually change the subjects.
Scherm, Rebecca: A House Between Earth and the Moon 
(Penguin Random House/Viking 9781101980101, $27.00, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 29, 2022)
Near-future SF novel. Tess agrees to becomes a beta tenant on Parallaxis, a luxury space station for billionaires still under construction by an unhappy crew, watched by the program Tess is working on, which was designed to predict human behavior.
Schwabauer, Daniel: Maxine Justice: Galactic Attorney 
(Third Day Books/Enclave 978-1-62184-222-4, $24.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 29, 2022)
Near-future dystopian SF novel. Maxine Justice is desperate for cash when aliens hire her to represent them before the UN.
Wuehle, Candice: MONARCH 
(Soft Skull Press 978-1593767075, $26.00, 256pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 29, 2022)
Offbeat spy thriller about a former child pageant star who discovers she was part of a deep state government program called MONARCH.
