New titles this week are by Henri Bosco, Rae Carson, Hank Davis & Christopher Ruocchio, John Gwynne, Laurell K. Hamilton & William McCaskey, Tim Lebbon, Corry L. Lee, Louisa Morgan, Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle/Steven Bares, Veronica Roth, Emily Strutskie, Caroline Stevermer, Dan Stout, and Danielle Trussoni. ...Read More
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New titles this week are by Max Barry, James P. Blaylock, Theodora Goss, Alex Irvine, Julie Kagawa, Sarah Tarkoff, and Menna van Praag. ...Read More
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Forced Perspectives, Tim Powers (Baen 978-1-9821-2440-3, 384pp, hardcover) March 2020
When I reviewed the first book in this series, Alternate Routes, for Asimov’s, I said the novel “continues Powers’s invigorating investigations into spirits from the vasty deep, employing an approach and tone he has not previously offered. As is to be expected, after such a long and vital congress with specters, Powers brings his A-game to the page.” ...Read More
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New titles this week are by David Dalglish, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, Rachel Harrison, Robert A. Heinlein, N.K. Jemisin, Zack Jordan, Sarah Kozloff, Paul McAuley, Ilana C. Myer, and Nghi Vo. ...Read More
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Rambunctious, Rick Wilber (WordFire Press 978-1-68057-068-7, hardcover) March 2020
Hewing to the high standards of probity that all reviewers should follow, I solemnly promise not to employ any easy baseball similes, metaphors, or analogies during this review of Rick Wilber’s new story collection, despite the fact that he is most famous, perhaps, for his alternate-history stories involving Moe Berg, Major League Baseball catcher and spy. And despite the fact ...Read More
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New books this week include an anthology Chinese SF and titles by Patricia Briggs, Jennifer Estep, TJ Klune, Eddie Robson, Matt Ruff, Jonathan Strahan, and Carrie Vaughn. ...Read More
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Providence, Max Barry (Putnam’s 978-0593085172, $27, 320pp, hardcover) March 2020
I tend to create whimsical schools of writers in my own mind, where none necessarily exists in real life. Thus, I place Max Barry in a class with such folks as Ned Beauman, Karen Russell, Nick Harkaway, Matt Ruff, Reif Larsen and others: a clade of “Pop Culture-Savvy, Slipstreamy, High Concept, Maximalist, Always Pioneering New Territory Weirdos.” As silly, ...Read More
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New titles this week are by Luke Arnold, Anne Bishop, Patrice Caldwell, Myke Cole, T. Frohock, Kathleen O’Neal Gear, Duncan M. Hamilton, Julian K. Jarboe, Alma Katsu, Marshall Ryan Maresca, Tina LeCount Myers, Mary South, and S.M. Stirling. ...Read More
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New titles this week are by Matt Bechtel, Frank Chadwick, Cassandra Clare, Eric Flint & Ryk E. Spoor, Katie M. Flynn, Sarah Gailey, Michael Kelly, Chris Kluwe, Jean LeBlanc, Sarah J. Maas, Premee Mohamad, J.T. Nicholas, Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane, Tim Powers, K.M. Szpara, Peter Tieryas, K.B. Wagers, Cynthia Ward, ...Read More
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New titles this week are by Ben Aaronovitch, Nino Cipri, Daniel Kraus, Ken Liu, Seanan McGuire, Margarita Montimore, Bernd Perplies, and Maria Turtschaninoff. ...Read More
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Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories, edited by Mike Ashley (Talos 978-1945863523, $29.99, 624pp, hardcover) January 2020
It is a simple and undeniable fact that the past will in many ways always overpower and outweigh the present. It’s a matter involving sheer numbers and mass. The present is a tiny moving window of some quantum of time in which our consciousness lives. To be generous, let’s denominate “the present” ...Read More
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New titles this week are by Anne Charnock, Anna Kavan, Katherine Kerr, Sarah Kozloff, Stanislaw Lem, Scott Oden, Gareth L. Powell, Natasha Pulley, R.E. Stearns, and Marian Womack. ...Read More
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The Initiate, James L. Cambias (Baen 978-1-98212-435-9, $25, 288pp, hardcover) February 2020
Producing four superior novels in six years, starting with A Darkling Sea in 2014 and extending to the current one in 2020, James Cambias seems to have hit his stride, but not his peak. We can only anticipate many more fine books to follow.
Indicative of his desire always to be expanding his range, Cambias’s newest is ...Read More
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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, by Ken Liu (Saga 978-1982134037, $26, 432pp, hardcover) February 2020
Ken Liu is the kind of prodigious talent who makes mere mortals melt in despair at ever matching his accomplishments. He could have been content to remain a software engineer and lawyer, but instead he added to his CV the vocations of editor, translator, and fiction writer. If he had done any of ...Read More
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New titles this week are by Clare Beams, Eric Brown, Andy Davidson, Sergey & Marina Dyachenko, Joanna Hathaway, Andrew Krivak, A.K. Larkwood, C.L. Polk, Constance Sayers, and Jodie Lynn Zdrok. ...Read More
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» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Anne Charnock, Marc-Uwe Kling, AJ Hackwith, Andrew Hunter Murray, Menna van Praag ...Read More
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New titles this week are by David Boop, Libba Bray, James L. Cambias, Melissa de la Cruz, Sarah Gailey, Cate Glass, Adalyn Grace, Kevin Hearne, Gish Jen, Eyal Kless, Mercedes Lackey & Cody Martin, Ben Okri, Juliette Wade, and Drew Williams. ...Read More
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