New Books : 28 January 2020
New titles this week are by Brian D. Anderson, Eoin Colfer, K.J. Parker, Michelle Sagara, R.A. Salvatore, and David Sosnowski. ...Read More
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New Titles & Bestsellers
Weekly Bestsellers, 27 January 2020
Titles by Ilona Andrews, Charlaine Harris, and Ransom Riggs debut this week, Andrews’ novella Sweep with Me (NYLA) ranking #3 on the USA Today list.
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New & Notable Books, January 2020
Julie C. Dao, Song of the Crimson Flower (Philomel 11/19) Dao returns to her acclaimed, Asian-inspired world of the Rise of the Empress series for this new young-adult tale of a noble girl who rejects a poor apprentice, then regrets it – and finds his flute with his soul trapped inside it, and decides to break the curse. A beautifully woven story of magic, adventure, and the power of true ...Read More
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New Books : 21 January 2020
Augmented and alternate realities are available in THE SEEP by Chana Porter, WOLVES by Simon Ing, and William Gibson’s much-anticipated AGENCY.
New titles this week are by S.K. Dunstall, William Gibson, Terry Goodkind, Charlie N. Holmberg, Simon Ings, Sarah Kozloff, Tochi Onyebuchi, Chana Porter, Alexander Weinstein, and F.C. Yee. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 20 January 2020
C.J. Cherryh’s Resurgence (DAW), the 20th title in her long-running Foreigner series, makes it onto this week’s USA Today list. This is the first Cherryh title to appear on any list compiled on these pages since they began in 2003.
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Locus Bestsellers, January 2020
The Locus Bestsellers for January include top titles A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US); Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow); and Forgotten Realms: Boundless by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).
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New Books : 14 January 2020
BIRDS! Check out the cover of Rebecca Roanhorse’s latest, plus new titles THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS by Ransom Riggs and THE VANISHED BIRDS by Simon Jimenez.
New titles this week are by Mike Chen, Rod Duncan, Sara Hanover, Charlaine Harris, S.A. Hunt, Simon Jimenez, Joanna Kavenna, Parker Peevyhouse, Ransom Riggs, and Rebecca Roanhorse. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 13 January 2020
Little changes this week, but notable is that the trade paperback of Richard Powers’ The Overstory has been on lists 40 weeks in a row since the novel won the Pulitzer Prize in April 2019.
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Periodicals, early January 2020
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Aphelion, Clarkesworld, The Dark, Galaxy’s Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Kaleidotrope, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Uncanny
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New Books : 7 January 2020
Explore solarpunk winters, an algorithmically perfect country, and rival NASA and Soviet missions to the Kuiper Belt in these new books!
New titles this week are by Sean Adams, Lois McMaster Bujold, Andrew Caldecott, C.J. Cherryh, Patrick Chiles, Genevieve Cogman, Tessa Gratton, Gareth Hanrahan, Marc-Uwe Kling, Seanan McGuire, Daniel José Older, John Ringo, Kacey Ezell & Christopher L. Smith, Sarena Ulibarri, and Django Wexler. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 6 January 2020
Most genre titles slip on lists this week, though several titles by Andrzej Sapkowski, especially The Last Wish (Orbit), still dominate several lists.
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Periodicals, late December 2019
New issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Strange Horizons, plus December posts at Daily Science Fiction and Tor.com
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New Books : 31 December 2019
This list of new titles includes short stories from Ilona Andrews and THE BEST OF UNCANNY, a weaponized dominatrix clone, and jumping through parallel worlds with H.G. Wells.
New titles this week are by Ilona Andrews, Deborah Teramis Christian, Joe R. Lansdale, and Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 30 December 2019
Seven different individual titles and sets of fantasy novels by Andrzej Sapkowski rank on Amazon lists today, with The Witcher Boxed Set: Blood of Elves, The Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire (Orbit) ranking #1 this morning at Amazon.ca.
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New & Notable Books, December 2019
Nina Allan, The Dollmaker (Other 10/19) Allan’s Gothic and experimental novel concerns a man who falls in love with an institutionalized woman he knows only through her letters and contains multiple nested short stories by a (fictional) writer and dollmaker named Ewa Chapman, which tend more overtly toward fantasy, horror, and even dystopian SF – “disturbing non-fairy tales that occupy a territory somewhere between Angela Carter and the more mordant ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 23 December 2019
Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Virtue and Vengeance still ranks #1 on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list.
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Print Periodicals, December 2019
New issues of Analog Science Fiction and Fact (celebrating its 90th anniversary!), Asimov’s Science Fiction, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
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Locus Bestsellers, December 2019
The Locus Bestsellers for December include top titles Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing); Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson (Tor); To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US); and Forgotten Realms: Boundless by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).
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New Books : 17 December 2019
Tarot-based noblemen on a modern-day Atlantis, intrigue in an underwater city off the coast of Florida, and Weird Is Other People!
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Weekly Bestsellers, 16 December 2019
Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Henry Holt), second in her Legacy of Orisha series, debuts strongly, ranking #1 on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 9 December 2019
Nora Roberts’ The Rise of Magicks (St. Martin’s), third in her Chronicles of the One, and Brandon Sanderson’s Starsight (Delacorte), second in his YA Skyward series, both debut strongly.
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Forthcoming Books Through September 2020
The Locus Selected Books by Author list has been updated on our Forthcoming Books page, with information from the December 2019 issue covering upcoming titles from genre houses slated through September 2020. Find out about your favorite authors’ upcoming books!
For the complete list of books by publisher, subscribe to our print magazine or purchase the December issue in print or digital editions, available December 1, 2019.
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New Books : 3 December 2019
Find a West African-inspired magical world, Tales of Alternative Beatles, and DEAD ASTRONAUTS on this long list of new books!
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Weekly Bestsellers, 2 December 2019
Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea reaches #1 on the Los Angeles Times hardcover fiction list.
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New & Notable Books, November 2019
Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred (Orbit US 9/19) Abercrombie makes a welcome return to the grimdark world of the First Law trilogy, giving it fresh flavor as he picks up with a new generation in this first book in the Age of Madness trilogy. Industrial revolution has dawned, with accompanying social change and unrest, leaving young people to find new ways to prove themselves – but trouble always remains.
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New Books : 26 November 2019
New titles this week, some released earlier in the month, are by Gwyneth Jones (on Joanna Russ), Mercedes Lackey, James Lovegrove, Robert Markley (on Kim Stanley Robinson), Marissa Meyer, Natasha Ngan, Malka Older, Brandon Sanderson, Jamie Sawyer, Maggie Stiefvater, and Kurt Vonnegut & Suzanne McConnell.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 25 November 2019
The new novel by Daniel H. Wilson, apparently correctly titled Michael Crichton: The Andromeda Evolution (Harper), debuts on three lists, as high as #10 on the Publishers Weekly fiction hardcover list.
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Locus Bestsellers, November 2019
The Locus Bestsellers for November include top titles Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson (Morrow), Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow), and Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn (Del Rey).
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New Books : 19 November 2019
New titles this week are by Andrew Bannister, Holly Black, Richard Chizmar, Paul Cornell, John Fleskes, Duncan M. Hamilton, Howard Andrew Jones, Naomi Kritzer, Nick Mamatas, Hannu Rajaniemi & Jacob Weisman, and Yoshiki Tanaka.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 18 November 2019
Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea (Doubleday) debuts strongly on three print lists; other debuts include a Star Wars novel by Rebecca Roanhorse, and YA titles by Marissa Meyer, Neal Shusterman, and Maggie Stiefvater.
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New Books : 12 November 2019
New titles this week are by Kacen Callender, Myke Cole, Glen Cook, K.A. Doore, Greg Egan, W.L. Goodwater, Christopher Hinz, Julia Keller, Margo Lanagan, Ian McDonald, Seanan McGuire, Claire North, Weston Ochse, Susan Palwick, Tasha Suri, Kaaron Warren, Peter Watts, Daniel H. Wilson, and Kevin Wilson.
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