New Books: 29 November 2022
de Bodard, Aliette: The Red Scholar’s Wake 
(JAB Books 978-1-399-60138-2, $15.00, 315pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, November 24, 2022)
SF novel about a lesbian tech scavenger in a marriage of convenience with a sentient pirate spaceship.
Clare, Gwendolyn: In the City of Time 
(Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends 978-1-250-23074-4, $20.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, November 29, 2022)
Young-adult time-travel novel, the first in the eponymous duology, set in the world of Ink, Iron, and Glass. In 1891 a young researcher discovers a mysterious signal, while in 2034 a cataclysm has rendered Earth uninhabitable, and attempting to use a time machine to set the past right only makes things worse.
Datlow, Ellen, ed.: The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 
(Skyhorse/Night Shade Books 978-1-949102-67-3, $19.99, 552pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, November 29, 2022)
Year’s best anthology. Includes a summation of the year in horror by Datlow, and a list of honorable mentions. Authors include Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Laird Barron, and Mira Grant.
Durfee, Brian Lee: The Lonesome Crown 
(Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 978-1481465281, $24.99, 1088pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, November 29, 2022)
Genre-bending epic fantasy, third and final in the Five Warrior Angels trilogy. When an apocalyptic crusade comes to the remote border of Gul Kana, that belief that magic isn’t real is shattered, as is the tenuous peace that held the Five Isles together.
Ernshaw, Shea: A Wilderness of Stars 
(Simon & Schuster 978-1665900249, $19.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 29, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel. An illness cursing the land forces a teen girl astronomer to venture across the wilderness in search of the stars’ message that will, hopefully, save them all.
Feehan, Christine: Leopard’s Scar 
(Penguin Random House/Jove 978-0-593-43919-7, $7.99, 432pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audio, November 29, 2022)
Shapeshifter paranormal romance, 14th in the Leopard series. Meiling rescues a deadly leopard shifter, leading to a dangerous mutual attraction.
Fellman, Isaac: The Two Doctors Górski 
(Tordotcom 978-1-250-84093-6, $16.99, 176pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, November 29, 2022)
Dark fantasy novella. Annae, a grad student in psychiatric magic who can read minds, learns how one Doctor Górski, an academic magician, turned himself into two by putting his “undesirable” qualities (kindness, charm, empathy) into a homunculus.
Fessier, Michael: Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind 
(Stark House/Staccato Crime 979-8-98601-009-1, $12.99, 168pp, format: trade paperback, November 24, 2022)
Collection of the title noir crime novel with fantasy elements (Knopf 1935), plus three stories from 1953. Introduction by David Rachels.
Kaufmann, Nicholas: The Stone Serpent 
(Crossroad Press/Macabre Ink 978-1-63789-751-5, $18.99, 258pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, November 29, 2022)
Horror novel, sequel to The Hungry Earth. Medical examiner Dr. Laura Powell investigates how a man who died that day could leave a petrified corpse.
Lemberg, R.B.: Geometries of Belonging and Other Stories 
(Fairwood Press 978-1-95880-01-2, $18.99, 268pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, November 29, 2022)
Collection of 11 pieces of poetry and prose in the Birdverse series, one new.
Pang, Allison: Magpie’s Flight 
(Outland Entertainment 9781954255456, $19.95, 440pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, November 29, 2022)
Fantasy novel, third in the Ironheart Chronicles series. Maggy has reached the floating city of Meridion, where she intends to fight for the rights of other Moon Children stuck in the Pits.
Sagara, Michelle: Cast in Eternity 
(Harlequin/Mira 978-0-7783-8652-0, $16.99, 544pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, November 29, 2022)
Fantasy novel, 17th in the Chronicles of Elantra series. Kaylin becomes concerned about an elderly woman who likes to report things told to her by ghosts.
Ward, J.R.: Forever 
(Simon & Schuster/Pocket 978-1-9821-8020-1, $9.99, 480pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audio, November 29, 2022)
Paranormal romance novel, the second in the Lair of the Wolven series set in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world.
Young, Adrienne: Saint 
(St. Martin’s/Wednesday Books 978-1-250-84676-1, $19.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, November 29, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel. The young man called Saint has a reputation of piety, but his belief in the myths and legends of the sea is tested by a young woman with secrets.
Zargarpur, Deeba: House of Yesterday 
(Macmillan/Farrar, Straus, Giroux 978-0-374-38870-6, $18.99, 320pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 29, 2022)
Paranormal ghost story. Sara spots a youthful apparition of her grandmother and starts digging into her past.
