New Books 19 December 2023
Carthage, Jo: Nuclear Sunrise
(NineStar Press 9781648907005, $6.49, 361pp, formats: ebook, 12/19/2023)
Historical SF gay romance novel set in 1951 about a US Air Force Captain from Roswell, New Mexico in charge of security at a top-secret atomic energy research facility in Idaho, against his will falling for a rebellious nuclear physicist.
Hoffmann, Ada: Resurrections
(Apex Book Company 9781955765121, $6.99, 345pp, formats: ebook, audio, 12/19/2023)
Collection of short stories and poems.
Locke, Katherine: Loki: Journey Into Mystery
(Titan Books UK 9781803362540, $25.95, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 12/19/2023)
Comics novelization, based on the Marvel comic. When Earth is plagued by an epidemic of fear, ancient prophecy says only Thor can stop the monstrous threat of the Serpent, but without help from Loki, Thor is certain to fail. Aided by a handmaiden from Hel and a demon puppy, Loki must risk everything to find redemption — or doom himself for eternity.
Maberry, Jonathan, ed.: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny: Tales of a Very Weird West
(Outland Entertainment 9781954255685, $19.95, 350pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 12/19/2023)
Original anthology of 16 stories. Authors include Maurice Broaddus, Jennifer Brody, Greg Cox, Laura Anne Gilman, and Josh Malerman.
Oden, Scott: The Doom of Odin
(St. Martin’s 9780312372965, $37, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 12/19/2023)
Norse fantasy novel, third and final in the Grimnir series begun in A Gathering of Ravens. Grimnir’s death sends him to the afterlife, where he begins to unravel a secret from the dawn of time that will make him the most powerful being in the Nine Worlds.
Price, Grant: Pacific State
(Black Rose Writing 9781685133405, $21.95, 338pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 12/21/2023)
SF novel. On the streets of Berlin all morals can be bought for a price, and Owen Resler sold his long ago. Once an underground dissenter, now a corporate drone, he spends his days reluctantly manipulating data for Big Pharma, until an assassin recruits him — willing or not — to oversee her business deals.
Roí, Tara: Hope
(Bee Books 9781735348476, $7.99, 314pp, formats: ebook, 12/21/2023)
SF romance novel of climate change, self-help, and infidelity. The third book in the Love & Disaster trilogy. Research chemist Josh races to prevent wildfire destruction and become the reliable man Celeste deserves — while she struggles with imposter syndrome and a desire to escape wildfire country.
Scott, Melissa: Fallen
(Candlemark & Gleam 9781952456206, $22.45, 320pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 12/18/2023)
SF space opera novel, the second book in the Firstborn, Lastborn series after Finders. Nic en Doroney was promised an education and an academic career in exchange for sharing the nanite burden she carries in her bloodstream. Instead, the Novilis family broke that bargain, and now Nic is captain of a small starship, competing with larger businesses by using illegal Ancestral technology to chart her way through the adjacent possible. But when Rejane Novilis re-enters her life, Nic is unable to resist the chance to work with her again, even if it means challenging the malevolent AI who have already destroyed human society once before.
