New Books : 11 August 2020
Epic fantasy gets a new take in Lavie Tidhar’s BY FORCE ALONE and Gene Wolfe’s THE WIZARD KNIGHT, plus continuing series in A CHORUS OF FIRE, THE LAST UNCHARTED SKY, and SORCERY OF A QUEEN.
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New Titles & Bestsellers
Weekly Bestsellers, 10 August 2020
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic returns to three lists after dropping off a couple weeks ago.
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New Books : 4 August 2020
Terrorists in space! Resistance fighters in space! Space pirates! Lesbian necromancers in space! This week’s new books!
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Weekly Bestsellers, 3 August 2020
Lindsay Ellis’ debut novel Axiom’s End (St. Martin’s) debuts solidly on three lists.
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Periodicals, July 2020
New issues and posts at Abyss & Apex, Aphelion, Aurealis, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, The Dark, Galaxy’s Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Uncanny
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New & Notable Books, July 2020
Neal Asher, The Human (Night Shade 5/20; Macmillan UK 4/20) The master of weird SF returns to the Polity universe in this concluding volume of his Rise of the Jain trilogy, “full of outsize heroes and monsters, gigantic spacecraft, godlike artificial intelligences, and horrific large-scale and close-up combat sequences…. I declare myself satisfied and entertained and impressed.” [Russell Letson]
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New Books : 28 July 2020
What happens after? After a pandemic, after an industrial accident, after a supernova? Find out in these new books!
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Weekly Bestsellers, 27 July 2020
Jim Butcher’s Peace Talks (Ace) debuts strongly on four lists; David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue (Random House) also debuts.
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Locus Bestsellers, July 2020
The Locus Bestsellers for July include top titles The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin, Dune by Frank Herbert, This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, and Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn.
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New Books : 21 July 2020
Fantasy overwhelms this week’s list of new books, with NINE titles ranging from witches to historical, horror to pirate queens, and from utopia to Alabama.
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New Books : 14 July 2020
Two books about unicorns are on this list: UNICORN MOUNTAIN by Michael Bishop and ROAD SEVEN by Keith Rosson, as well as a supernatural elk in THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 13 July 2020
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (Del Rey) debuts strongly on four lists.
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Print Periodicals, May-June 2020
Latest issues of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Black Gate, Interzone, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
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New Books : 7 July 2020
A Book of Dragons, a History of Fantasy Illustration, and two very different princesses on this week’s list of new books!
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Weekly Bestsellers, 6 July 2020
Stephen King’s four-novella collection If It Bleeds remains prominent on a couple lists after two months.
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Electronic Periodicals, June 2020
New issues and posts at Aphelion, Aurealis, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, The Dark, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
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New Books : 30 June 2020
New books this week are by Max Brooks, Brian Castleberry, S.A. Chakraborty, Ian Douglas, Jay Krisotff, Sophie Mackintosh, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Tim Powers, Seabuy Quinn, and Gene Wolfe.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 29 June 2020
Max Brooks’ Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre (Del Rey) debuts strongly on four lists.
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New & Notable Books, June 2020
Afia Atakora, Conjure Women (Random House 4/20) This ambitious historical fantasy novel is set before, during, and after the Civil War in the American South, with a focus on folk healer Miss May Belle, her daughter Rue, and Varina, their master’s daughter. This impressive debut is already widely acclaimed and has drawn comparisons to the work of Toni Morrison.
James Blaylock, The Gobblin’ Society (Subterranean 3/20) Blaylock returns to ...Read More
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New Books : 23 June 2020
From mystical artifacts and war-torn empires to vampire-ridden 1880s London, explore the boundless potential of fantasy in this week’s new books!
New books this week are by Katherine Addison, Zen Cho, W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O’Neal Gear, Devin Madson, James S. Murray & Darren Wearmouth, H.G. Parry, and Jeff Wheeler. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 22 June 2020
Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes remains high on two print lists, and prominent on all three Amazon sites.
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Locus Bestsellers, June 2020
The Locus Bestsellers for June include top titles Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs, Imaginary Numbers by Seanan McGuire, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, and Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack.
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New Books : 16 June 2020
A circus-themed short story collection and a satirical near-future debut add humor to this week’s new books!
New books this week are by Gregory Benford & Larry Niven, Doug Engstrom, David Gerrold, Kim Harrison, and E. Catherine Tobler. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 15 June 2020
While Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes remains high on two print lists, a new Star Wars novel by E.K. Johnston, Queen’s Peril (Disney Lucasfilm) debuts on two lists.
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New Books : 9 June 2020
Three remarkably resilient young women and one time-traveling battleship feature in this week’s new books!
New books this week are by Taylor Anderson, Grace Draven, Laurie Forest, Mercedes Lackey, Adam McOmber, Kelly McWilliams, Ursula Pflug, Luanne G. Smith, and Carrie Vaughn. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 8 June 2020
Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes remains at #1 on two print lists.
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New Books : 2 June 2020
Well-known historical figures find themselves in unlikely situations this week: check out THUNDER RUN, THE OPPENHEIMER ALTERNATIVE, and CALLER OF LIGHTNING!
New books this week are by Ann Dávila Cardinal, Melissa Caruso, Ellen Datlow, Bethany C. Morrow, Patrick Ness, Daniel José Older, Jerry Pournelle (with David Weber and Phillip Pournelle), Robert J. Sawyer, Peter J. Wacks & Eytan Kollin, and Christopher Woods & Toni Weisskopf. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 1 June 2020
Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic) debuts at #1 on two print lists. (New York Times won’t list it individually; The Hunger Games is #1 this week on its Children’s Series list.)
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Periodicals, May 2020
New issues and posts at Aphelion, Aurealis, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, The Dark, Galaxy’s Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Uncanny
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New & Notable Books, May 2020
Max Barry, Providence (Putnam 3/20) Barry mingles classic SF ideas, touches of satire, and deeply drawn characters in this entertaining SF thriller of war with aliens, a four-man mission sent to fight them, and the realization that their ship – and the people who sent them – are unreliable.
Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean 1/20) Bear’s wide-ranging skill is displayed in this collection of 27 stories, ...Read More
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New Books : 26 May 2020
What do a haunted small-town librarian, genetically modified organisms, and police robots have in common? They’re on our New Books for the week ending May 26!
New books this week are by Trudi Canavan, Mark Clifton, Meg Elison, Jeffrey Ford, Nancy Kress, Emily B. Martin, P.W. Singer & August Cole, and Sheree Renée Thomas. ...Read More
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