Gardner Dozois’ anthology The Book of Magic, Steven Erikson’s Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart, John Scalzi’s The Consuming Fire, and titles by Lila Bowen, Paula Guran, S.T. Joshi, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Mercedes Lackey, Tim Major, and R.E. Stearns. ...Read More
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Several titles debut this week, beginning with Anne Rice’s Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (Knopf), ranking #5 on two lists, and David Weber’s Uncompromising Honor (Baen), ranking on three lists as high as #7.
Other debuts, as shown in the table below, are by David Levithan, Ransom Riggs, Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman, Laini Taylor, and Martha Wells. ...Read More
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s last book of poems, So Far So Good: Poems 2014–2018, and other titles by Dale Bailey, Ben Bova, Amy S. Foster, Vic James, Gary Kemble, Marie O’Regan, Ransom Riggs, K. Arsenault Rivera, and K.B. ...Read More
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V.E. Schwab’s Vengeful (Tor) debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #7 on the New York Times list. ...Read More Read more
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Apex, Clarkesworld, The Dark,GigaNotoSaurus, Kaleidotrope, Lightspeed, and Nightmare ...Read More
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N.K. Jemisin & John Joseph Adams’ The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, Ellen Datlow’s The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction, Derek Künsken’s debut novel The Quantum Magician, Rich Larson’s debut collection Tomorrow Factory, and titles by Charlie Jane Anders, Terry Brooks, Catherine Cerveny, Julie E. Czerneda, N.S. Dolkart, Brendan DuBois, Dave Duncan, Jennifer Estep, ...Read More
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Deborah Harkness’ Time’s Convert (Viking), a new book set in the world of her All Soul’s trilogy, debuts strongly, ranking #3 on both the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists. ...Read More Read more
September issues and posts at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com. ...Read More
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Shaun Tan’s Tales from the Inner City, Alice Hoffman & Lisa Hoffman’s Faerie Knitting: 14 Tales of Love and Magic, Sheldon Teitelbaum & Emmanuel Lottem’s Zion’s Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature, and titles by Katherine Arden, Grace Draven, Cherie Priest, Iain Reid, Beth Revis, Rena Rossner, V.E. Schwab, and Tom Seigel ...Read More
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A new thriller by Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door (Bantam), debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #5 on two of them.
Note that an error today on the Publishers Weekly website replaces the Children’s Frontlist Fiction list with a repeat of the Children’s Picture Books list; thus none of the YA titles that ranked on the PW list last week show up this week. ...Read More
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Annalee Newitz’ Autonomous, Paolo Bacigalupi’s Tool of War, Stephen King & Owen King’s Sleeping Beauties, and titles by Cassandra Clare, Julie E. Czerneda, Stephen R. Donaldson, Gene Doucette, Seanan McGuire, Patrick Ness, and Robin Sloan ...Read More
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B. Catling, The Cloven (Vintage 7/18) The final volume in the dark historical fantasy Vorrh trilogy (after The Vorrh and The Erstwhile) brings this ambitious and unpredictable series to a moving conclusion. Afrikaner socialite Cyrena Lohr mourns the death of her cyclops lover Ishmael and has a dalliance with naturalist Eugène Marais, who gives her a gift that allows her visions of another world… while Nicholas the Erstwhile senses looming ...Read More
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The US edition of Philip Pullman’s Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling, plus titles by Myke Cole, Claire G. Coleman, Sebastien de Castell, Deborah Harkness, Tanya Huff, George Mann, Mark Morris, Catherine Reef, Brandon Sanderson, Peter Tieryas, Harry Turtledove, and Edward Willett. ...Read More
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Several titles debut on lists this week, most prominently a new Forgotten Realms novel by R.A. Salvatore, Timeless (Harper Voyager), ranking as high as #11 on the Publishers Weekly list.
Also: Flight or Fright, an anthology edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent and published by Cemetery Dance — the second title from that publishers ever compiled on these pages, after Gwendy’s Button Box by King and Richard ...Read More
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Christopher Priest’s An American Story, Sjón’s CoDex 1962, and titles by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare, Glen Cook, Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law, Sara Hanover, Dean Koontz, Malka Older, Parker Peevyhouse, Angus Watson, and Scott Westerfeld ...Read More
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Gondolin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) debuts strongly on print lists this week, as do two other titles: Ilona Andrews’ Magic Triumphs (Ace) and Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Stygian (Tor). ...Read More Read more
New issues of Apex, Aphelion, Aurealis, Clarkesworld, The Dark, Galaxy’s Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, Shimmer, and Uncanny ...Read More
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Ten years of Tor.com short fiction in Irene Gallo’s anthology Worlds Seen in Passing, J.R.R. Tolkien’s unfinished The Fall of Gondolin, Stephen King & Ben Vincent’s anthology Flight or Fright, and new titles by Stephen Aryan, Larry Correia, Jaine Fenn, Sean Grigsby, Peter F. Hamilton, Nick Mamatas, Michael J. Martinez, Jack McDevitt, Seanan McGuire, Patrick Ness & Rovina Cai, Tim Pratt, Justina Robson, Greg van Eekhout, Steve ...Read More
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A new J.R.R. Tolkien book, The Fall of Gondolin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), is selling well on all three Amazon lists today; look for it on the print bestseller lists in a week or two. ...Read More Read more
August issues and posts at Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com. ...Read More
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The Locus Selected Books by Author list has been updated on our Forthcoming Books page, with information from the September 2018 issue covering upcoming titles from genre houses slated through June 2019. Find out about your favorite authors upcoming books!
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The latest return of Amazing Stories, and new issues of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ...Read More
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John Varley’s Irontown Blues, Jeffrey Ford’s Ahab’s Return: or, The Last Voyage, Adam Roberts’ By the Pricking of Her Thumb, and titles by Ilona Andrews, Seb Doubinsky, Nicholas Eames, Richard Kadrey, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Rhonda Mason, Brian McClellan, and Victoria Schwab ...Read More
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Classic works in new editions include a new translation of Arkady & Boris Strugatsky’s The Snail on the Slope, a novel by Tim Powers, and collections and omnibuses by Poul Anderson, Tanith Lee, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Pamela Sargent, and Connie Willis. ...Read More
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Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Fated Sky, Robert Jackson Bennett’s Foundryside, and titles by Tim Akers, P. Djéli Clark, Jason Hrivnak, Ed McDonald, David Mealing, Lilith Saintcrow, Steven Savile, Yoshiki Tanaka, and Drew Williams ...Read More
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Laurell K. Hamilton’s Serpentine (Berkley) debuts strongly, ranking #3 on two print lists. ...Read More Read more
Rachel Armstrong, Origamy (NewCon Press 4/18) Science taken to extremes – with a hint of Italo Calvino – infuses this fascinating and thoroughly unconventional tale of Mobius, an adolescent being forced by an accident to re-learn the art of weaving spacetime, during which she uncovers something that threatens the fabric of the universe. “Origamy is larded thickly with real science – albeit speculatively extended along semi-gonzo vectors – it’s delivered ...Read More
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Cixin Liu’s Ball Lightening, collections by Michael Bishop and F. Brett Cox, Karl Schroeder’s The Million, and other titles by Cathy Clamp, S.K. Dunstall, Catherine Egan, Alan Dean Foster, Jon Hollins, Marina J. Lostetter, Ling Ma, Abbey Mei Otis, Jason Ridler, Lawrence M. Schoen, and Francesco Verso ...Read More
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Stephen King’s The Outsider remains in the top 10 on the three print lists compiled here. ...Read More Read more
