New Books: 8 March 2022

Akers, W.M.: Westside Lights

(Harper Voyager US 978-0-06-304395-4, $27.99, 288pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Historical fantasy novel, third in the Gilda Carr series set in a NYC split between the upscale Eastside and the dangerous Westside hostile to modern technology. Gilda wakes to find eight people massacred on her boat, with Gilda the prime suspect.

 

Barnhill, Kelly: The Ogress and the Orphans

(Workman/Algonquin Young Readers 978-1-64375-074-3, $19.95, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Middle-grade fantasy novel. The Mayor of a small town beset by calamities, turns the people against the Ogress who runs the Orphan House, but the Orphans know better.

 

Bishop, Anne: Crowbones

(Ace 978-0-593-33733-2, $28.00, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Fantasy novel, the third book in the World of the Others. An inn owner and her friends must find a killer before it’s too late.

 

Bova, Ben: Sam Gunn Jr.

(Blackstone Publishing 978-109400893, $29.99, 362pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

SF adventure novel, Bova’s final completed novel, picking up with the son of interplanetary entrepreneur Sam Gunn, attempting to follow in his father’s enterprising footsteps.

 

Bulawayo, NoViolet: Glory

(Penguin Random House/Viking 978-0525561132, $27.00, 413pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Animal fantasy novel about the fall of an oppressive regime, and the new nation of animals that grows from the wreckage.

 

Chen, Yu, Wang, Regina Kanyu, eds.: The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

(Tordotcom 978-1-250-76891-9, $26.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

A collection of Chinese science fiction and fantasy stories in translation, by women and non-binary authors.

 

de la Cruz, Melissa: Cinder & Glass

(Penguin Random House/Putnam 978-0593326657, $18.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Young-adult historical fantasy romance novel based on the story of Cinderella, set in the 1682 French court at Versailles.

 

Falaye, Deborah: Blood Scion

(HarperTeen 978-0-06-295404-6, $18.99, 432pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Young-adult epic fantasy, inspired by Yoruba culture from Nigeria. Sloane, a descendant of the Orisha gods, fights the colonialist regime that controls her people, hiding her identity and suppressing her forbidden magic when she is drafted into the army at 15.

 

Gladstone, Max: Last Exit

(Tor 978-0-7653-3573-9, $18.99, 400pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Fantasy novel. A broken-up band of adventurers with the ability to travel to alternate realities reunite ten years later when they get evidence their lost comrade is still alive.

 

Glenn, Joshua, ed.: Voices from the Radium Age

(MIT Press 978-0-262-54337-8, $19.95, 224pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, March 8, 2022)

Anthology of seven proto-SF stories from the early 20th century. Arthur Conan Doyle, E.M. Forster, Neil R. Jones, Jack London, William Hope Hodgson, W.E.B. DuBois, and Rokeya Sakhawal Hossein.

 

Hetherington, Victoria: Autonomy

(Dundurn/Rare Machines 978-1-459748477, $19.99, 263pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Near-future SF novel. Julian, a synthetic consciousness, meets a therapist in virtual space and decides to stay with her while a mysterious plague threatens to cause social collapse.

 

Holmberg, Charlie N.: Star Father

(Amazon/47North 978-1542034289, $14.95, 319pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Celestial fantasy novel, a standalone second in the Star Mother series. The sun vanishes from the sky, as a glowing golden man appears beside a river, unconscious.

 

Kamins, Heather: The Moth Girl

(Penguin Random House/Putnam 978-0593109366, $17.99, 272pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Fantasy novel about a teen diagnosed with lepidopsy, a rare disease that causes symptoms reminiscent of moths including floating and attraction to light.

 

Landweber, Michael: The Damage Done

(The Quick Brown Fox/Crooked Lane 978-1-64385-947-7, $26.99, 352pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Near future novel. Various people grapple with a new reality where humans suddenly can no longer hurt each other: guns can still fire, but bullets aimed at humans will just hang in the air, fists don’t hit, and bombs don’t destroy.

 

McLemore, Anna-Marie: Lakelore

(Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends 978-1-250-62414-7, $18.99, 291pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Young-adult fantasy novel. Two trans, nonbinary, neurodivergeant 16-year-old Mexican-American friends reunited after seven years and become involved in the mystical underwater world in Lakelore — but then the underwater world begins to rise.

 

Podos, Rebecca: From Dust, A Flame

(HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray 978-0-06-269906-0, $17.99, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Young-adult fantasy novel. Hannah starts to transform strangely on her 17th birthday, and her search for answers leads to a family she never knew, and Jewish mysticism.

 

Riley, Brett: Freaks

(Imbrifex 978-1-94550153-1, $18.99, 288pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 3, 2022)

Young-adult horror novel, the first in a series. Four bullied high-school friends accidentally open a portal to another dimension, allowing terrifying creatures to invade their small Arkansas town, discover they now have strange superpowers, and dub themselves “Freaks.”

Saft, Allison: A Far Wilder Magic

(St. Martin’s/Wednesday Books 978-1-250-62365-2, $18.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

Young-adult fantasy romance novel about two people competing in a hunt for the last mythical beast.

 

Wong, Khan: The Circus Infinite

(Angry Robot US 978-0-85766-968-1, $14.99, 408pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, March 8, 2022)

SF novel. A circus on a pleasure moon comes into conflict with a local crime boss.