New Books: 8 November 2022
Bradley, Marion Zimmer, Ross, Deborah J.: The Laran Gambit 
(Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust 978-1-938185-72-4, $29.99, 314pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
SF novel in Bradley’s Darkover series. A Terran woman searching for a cure for a dictator’s mind-control device crash-lands on Darkover.
Britz-Cunningham, Scott: Interface 
(Turner/Keylight 978-1684428809, $17.99, 464pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, November 5, 2022)
Near-future SF novel about a neural implant that gives humans total connectivity, and becomes a tool for government control, with rebellious forces developing violence viruses to show how dangerous the Interface can be.
Chima, Cinda Williams: Children of Ragnarok 
(HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray 978-0-06-301868-6, $18.99, 560pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel inspired by Norse myth, the first in the Runestone Saga series about three teens who come to a paradise fueled by magic, and it’s up to them to stop a great evil.
Chronister, Kay: Desert Creatures 
(Erewhon 978-1-64566-052-1, $26.95, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Western horror novel set in a desolate future. Teen Magdala, having survived on her own for seven years, seeks a cure for her clubfoot in the holy city of Las Vegas.
Church, Daniel: The Hollows 
(Angry Robot UK 978-1-91520-238-3, $16.99, 464pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Supernatural horror novel. Folk horror meets ancient gods in a remote snowbound Peak District town where several murders take place.
Draven, Grace: Raven Unveiled 
(Ace 978-0-451-48979-1, $16.99, 352pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Fantasy romance novel, the third book in the Fallen Empire series. A woman with the gift to speak to the dead—and the assassin pursuing her—may be the only chance a crumbling empire has of holding back true evil.
Eason, K.: Nightwatch over Windscar 
(DAW 978-0-7564-1859-5, $27.49, 480pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Space opera SF novel, sequel to Nightwatch on the Hinterlands, part of the universe of the Thorne Chronicles.
Edwards, S.L.: In the Devil’s Cradle 
(Word Horde 978-1-956252-03-3, $9.99, 237pp, format: ebook, November 8, 2022)
Horror novel. Senator William Esquival flees political persecution, taking his family to the family stronghold of Rio Rojo, where ancient hatreds, secrets, and ghosts haunt them, as the country falls apart.
Epps, Omar, Haynes, Clarence A.: Nubia: The Awakening 
(Penguin Random House/Delacorte 978-0-593-42864-1, $19.99, 349pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel, the first in the Nubia series. Three teens, the children of refugees from a fallen African utopia, who must navigate their newfound powers in a climate-ravaged New York City
Evans, Erin M.: Empire of Exiles 
(Orbit US 978-0-316-44087-5, $17.99, 432pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Fantasy novel. Apprentice scribe Quill witnesses a murder, and must team up with a mage, an archivist, and a disillusioned detective to expose a conspiracy that threatens their empire.
Fay, Shannon: External Forces 
(Amazon/47North 978-1-542032575, $14.95, 507pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Alternate history fantasy novel, the second in the Marrowbone Spells series. A conservative party leader knows Paul’s illegal magic and tries to use Paul to turn Britain fascist.
Gear, W. Michael: Reckoning 
(DAW 978-0-7564-1773-4, $28.00, pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, November 8, 2022)
SF novel, sixth in the Donovan series. On a treacherous alien planet, corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.
Graham, Heather, Land, Jon: Blood Moon 
(Tor 9780765389718, $27.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
SF novel of alien invasion, second in the series The Rising. Teens Alex and Sam fight to save humanity as their friendship blossoms into more.
Hutchinson, Dave: Cold Water 
(Rebellion/Solaris UK 978-1-786187222, $19.99, 464pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Post-apocalyptic shared-world SF novel set in the same future as the Fractured Europe Sequence series.
Khaw, Cassandra: Breakable Things 
(Undertow 9781988964379, $19.99, pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, November 8, 2022)
Collection of 23 short horror stories. The author’s first collection.
…The sea figures in several other tales as well. In the haunting “Mothers, We Dream” a sailor’s salvation is revealed to have a tragic price. Mermaids are far from Disneyfied in “And in Our Daughters, We Find a Voice”.
There are ghost stories like the aptly titled “The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires” which is set in the far future, and “some Breakable Things”, in which a father’s hungry ghost follows his estranged daughter.
—Paula Guran, Locus, November 2022
Lee, J.M.: The Nightland Express 
(Erewhon 978-1-64566-003-3, $18.95, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, November 8, 2022)
Historical fantasy novel. Two teens hiding secrets join the Pony Express and discover a special route that takes them on the border of a magical world.
Lewis, Linden A.: The Last Hero 
(Simon & Schuster/Skybound 978-1-9821-2705-3, $28.99, pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
SF space opera novel, third in the First Sister trilogy.
Livingston, Michael: Origins of the Wheel of Time 
(Tor 978-1-250-86052-1, $28.99, 256pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Non-fiction looking at legends and myths that inspired Robert Jordan’s fantasy series. Foreword by Harriet McDougal.
Maresca, Marshall Ryan: The Quarrygate Gambit 
(DAW 978-0-7564-1760-4, $9.99, 390pp, formats: ebook, November 8, 2022)
Fantasy novel, part of the Maradaine universe.
Moschovakis, Anna: Participation 
(Coffee House Press 978-1-56689-657-3, $16.95, 216pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, November 8, 2022)
Near-future SF novel of two reading groups, unofficially called Love and Anti-Love, are disrupted and meet digitally in a time of political friction and signs of environmental collapse.
Polk, C.L.: Even Though I Knew the End 
(Tordotcom 978-1-250-84945-8, $19.99, 144pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Queer magical noir novella about a lesbian detective, an exiled auger, tracking the White City Vampire, Chicago’s most notorious serial killer.
Ramirez, Sergio: No One Weeps for Me Now 
(McPherson & Company 978-1-62054-050-3, $16.00, 288pp, format: trade paperback, November 3, 2022)
Thriller with magical realism elements set in Nicaragua, second volume in the Managua trilogy begun in The Sky Weeps for Me. PI Dolores Morales investigates the disappearance of a banker’s daughter with the help of the ghost of his dead partner. Translated by Daryl R. Hague.
Robin, Emery: The Stars Undying 
(Orbit US 978-0-316-39139-9, $28.00, 528pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Space opera SF novel, inspired by Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Princess Altagracia flees her homeworld after her sister seizes power and tries to talk the commander of an interstellar empire into helping her.
Thornton, A.S.: Son of the Salt Chaser 
(CamCat Books 978-0-744306132, $27.99, 436pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 1, 2022)
Fantasy romance novel, second in the Salt Chasers duology begun in Daughter of the Salt King. After her desert-transforming wish, Emel follows Saalim to Madinat Almulihi to reclaim all she has lost.
Tilahun, Na’amen Gobert: The Fruit 
(Skyhorse/Night Shade Books 978-1-949102-00-0, $14.99, 384pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook November 8, 2022)
Urban fantasy novel, the third book in the Wrath & Athenaeum trilogy.
Tintera, Amy: The Q 
(Penguin Random House/Crown 978-0-593-48617-7, $18.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
Young-adult near-future dystopian novel. The son of a presidential candidate is kidnapped and dropped into the Q, a walled quarantine zone that used to be Austin, Texas — and has only 72 hours to escape with crucial intel, or be permanently infected, leading to disaster for inhabitants of the Q.
