Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Baer, Marianna: Wolfwood (Abrams/Amulet 9781419733710, $19.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 3/28/2023)
In this young-adult horror novel, a teen whose mother was a famous painter before her breakdown secretly forges paintings by her mother and gets drawn into a dangerous magical world. This is an international edition with US, Canadian, and UK prices.
Carey, M.R.: Infinity Gate (Orbit UK 9780-356-51801-5, $18.99, 544pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 3/28/2023)
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Dahlia Adler, ed., At Midnight (Flatiron 11/22) Familiar fairy tales get diverse and globally inclusive retellings in this young-adult original anthology of 14 tales, reimagined by noted YA authors including Tracy Deonn, H.E. Edgmon, Hafsah Faizal, Darcie Little Badger, Malinda Lo, and Rory Power. For comparison, this includes the original versions of the tales, most from notably male authors Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, and Charles Perrault.
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Ballingrud, Nathan: The Strange (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 9781534449954, $27.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 3/21/2023) An intriguing alternate timeline SF novel. 1931, New Galveston, Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the Strange to find Silas Mundt’s gang who have stolen her mother’s voice, destroyed her father, and left her solely with a need for vengeance.
Chong, Jinwoo: Flux (Melville House 9781685890346, $28.99, 352pp, formats: ...Read More
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Ashton, Edward: Antimatter Blues (St. Martin’s 978-1-250-27505-9, $26.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 3/14/2023)
Bakewell, Catherine: Flowerheart (HarperTeen 978-0-06-321459-0, ...Read More
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Afifi, Nadia: The Transcendent (Flame Tree Press UK 978-1-78758-673-4, $26.95, 352pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, 3/7/2023)
Quasi-SF thriller/horror novel, third in the Cosmic trilogy begun in The Sentient. After a fateful confrontation with her former ally, Tony Barlow, Amira Valdez is on the run, pregnant with her own clone and desperate. The fundamentalist Trinity Compound has grown in strength and numbers, and with the help of the powerful mind-controlling ...Read More
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Barnhill, Kelly The Crane Husband (Tordotcom 978-1-250-85097-3, $19.99, 128pp, hardcover, ebook)
This is a feminist fantasy novella doing a contemporary retelling of “The Crane Wife” by the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon: one fiercely pragmatic teen forced to grow up faster than was fair will do whatever it takes to protect her family.
Brown, Diane Marie Black Candle Women (Harlequin/Graydon House 978-1-5258-9991-1, $28.99, 368pp, ...Read More
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Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate (Grand Central 12/22) Critics applaud this near-future novel, which despite a stormy backdrop manages to be hopeful as it follows a girl with special gifts growing up in an apocalyptic future Florida suffering from extreme weather and ever-worse flooding.
A.R. Capetta & Roush Wade, eds., Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions (MiTeen 10/22) This young-adult anthology of ten all-new ...Read More
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Armstrong, Kelley: Murder at Haven’s Rock
(St. Martin’s Minotaur 978-1-250-86541-0, $27.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)
Associational mystery novel from the NY Times bestselling author, the first in the Haven’s Rock series, a spinoff from the Rockton series.
Feehan, Brian: Harmony of Lies
(Penguin Random House/Jove 978-0-593-44055-1, $8.99, 336pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)
This paranormal romance novel is the second in the ...Read More
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brown, adrienne maree: Maroons
(AK Press 978-1-84935-480-6, $17.00, 216pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, February 14, 2023)
SF novel, sequel to Grievers, set in a plague-ravaged Detroit. Ebook also available. AK Press, 370 Ryan Avenue #100, Chico CA 95973; <www.akpress.org>.
Chokshi, Roshani: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
(HarperCollins/Morrow 978-0063206502, $30.00, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 14, 2023)
Gothic novel about a marriage threatened dark secrets, ...Read More
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And Annalee Newitz’s novel The Terraformers (Tor) ranks #8 this week on the Los Angeles Times fiction hardcover list.
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Cover Reveal!
We are so pleased to have a first look at this thrilling cover for They Split the Party by Elijah Menchaca, out this June from CamCat Books.
Praise for the Series:
“A fast-paced and diverting narrative . . .” —Booklist on They Met in a Tavern
“Moody and entertaining” —Publishers Weekly on They Met in a Tavern
About the Book:
It sucks being someone’s unfinished ...Read More
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Balstrup, Sarah K.: The Way of Unity
(Burning Mirror Press 9780645474701, $17.99, 450pp, formats: trade paperback, February 6, 2023)
Fantasy novel. Velspar’s rulers move against the Intercessors, a psychic priesthood, but some people rebel at having to live in an alienated world without psychic soothing.
Blackwood, Lauren: Wildblood
(St. Martin’s/Wednesday Books 978-1-250-78713-2, $18.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 7, 2023)
Young-adult dark fantasy novel about a teen Wildblood, ...Read More
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Here’s a highlight from our 2022 Recommended Reading list: the anthology Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology, edited by Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, H.D. Hunter & LP Kindred, out from Android Press.
From the Voodoonauts Afrofuturist collective for Black science fiction and fantasy writers:
When a desperately mundane woman borrows clothing from her mother, a soucouyant goes searching for her skin. A Nigerian parent climbs mountains to heaven to ...Read More
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Anthony, Piers: Apoca Lips
(Open Road 978-1-5040-6693-8, $16.99, 200pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, January 31, 2023)
Fantasy novel, #47 in the Xanth series. As Prince Nolan goes on a quest to find his ideal bride, a “pundemic” spreads through Xanth.
Chen, Mike: Vampire Weekend
(Harlequin/Mira 978-0-7783-8696-4, $17.99, 368pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, audio, January 31, 2023)
Urban fantasy novel. Lonely punk vampire Louise Chao, living on blood ...Read More
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want (One World 7/22) A stellar collection getting plenty of critical praise, Chang’s latest explores the lives and myths of Asian American women in 16 stories, many with supernatural elements – including ghosts, goddesses, and women out of fairy tales – a powerful mix of darkness, humor, the strange, and the everyday.
N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Orbit US & UK 11/22) ...Read More
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Ali, Bachtyar: The Last Pomegranate Tree
(Archipelago Books 978-1-953861-40-5, $24.00, 321pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, January 24, 2023)
Fantasy novel/parable about a man freed from prison after 21 years, searching for the son he’s never known, and finding myths and legends instead. Translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman.
Burges, Audrey: The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
(Penguin Random House/Berkley 978-0-593-54647-5, $16.99, 352pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, ...Read More
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Albo, Mike: Another Dimension of Us
(Penguin Random House/Penguin Workshop 978-0593223765, $18.99, 320pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 17, 2023)
Young-adult gay fantasy romance novel of alternate dimensions and time travel. Teens accidentally swap minds and bodies across the astral plane, between 1986 and 2044, and one needs to be rescued from a demon.
Boey, Brandon Ying Kit: Karma of the Sun
(CamCat Books 978-0-7443-0760-3, $25.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ...Read More
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