New Books

Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 12, John Scalzi’s Head On, Sam J. Miller’s Blackfish City, Jack McDevitt’s The Long Sunset, and titles by Bryan Camp, Cass Morris, Emma Newman, Jeremy C. Shipp, and AdriAnne Strickland & Michael Miller. ...Read More

Catherynne M. Valente’s Space Opera and titles by Alex Bledsoe, Aliette de Bodard, Justina Ireland, Josh Malerman, Ilana C. Myer, Sam Peters, David J. Schow, and Matt Wallace. ...Read More

Michael Benson’s Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, Neil Clarke’s The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume Three, Samuel R. Delany’s collection The Atheist in the Attic, Richard Powers’ The Overstory, and titles by R.S. Belcher, Kendare Blake, D.J. Butler, Leo Carew, David Drake, Sarah Beth Durst, Kevin Hearne, Margaret Killjoy, Mark Lawrence, Jeff Noon, Chris Roberson, and ...Read More

New titles by Josiah Bancroft, Rosalyn Eves, Tessa Gratton, Jonathan Maberry, Leander Watts, and Corey J. White, plus nonfiction anthology Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy: Outstanding Essays from the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences, which appeared in February. ...Read More

Ellen Datlow’s anthology The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Brian Stableford’s novel Spirits of the Vasty Deep, and titles by Elizabeth Bear, Bradley P. Beaulieu, Tim Lebbon, Rowenna Miller, and Dempow Torishima. ...Read More

Gordon Van Gelder’s anthology Welcome to Dystopia, Kelly Robson’s Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, and other titles by Michael David Ares, Mishell Baker, James Brogden, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, Jessica Spotswood, and Nick Clark Windo. ...Read More

Nancy Kress’s If Tomorrow Comes, Jane Yolen’s Mapping the Bones, Daniel H. Wilson’s collection Guardian Angels and Other Monsters, the first English translation of a 1974 novel by Catalan writer Manuel de Pedrolo, and titles by Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell, Anne Bishop, Patricia Briggs, Jeremy K. Brown, Steven Brust, Tony Daniel & Christopher Ruocchio, Paul Di Filippo, Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon, Sean Grigsby, Alma ...Read More

Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell’s The Tangled Lands, Gareth L. Powell’s Embers of War, and titles by Laura Bickle, Spencer Ellsworth, Rachel Hartman, and Jon Sprunk. ...Read More

Published today: Vandana Singh’s debut collection Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, collections by Kelly Barnhill and Anjali Sachdeva, and novels by Myke Cole, William C. Dietz, W. Michael Gear, John Gwynne, and Tina LeCount Myers. ...Read More

John Kessel’s Pride and Prometheus, Ned Beauman’s Madness Is Better Than Defeat, David Pedreira’s Gunpowder Moon, and titles by RJ Barker, Jordanna Max Brodsky, Rachel Caine & Ann Aguiree, Susan Dennard, Thoraiya Dyer, Tom Miller, Gavin Smith, Jo Walton, and Scott Westerfeld/Margo Lanagan/Deborah Biancotti. ...Read More

The US edition of Matt Haig’s How to Stop Time and titles by E.C. Ambrose, Sue Burke, Eric Flint et al., Jasmine Gower, S. Jae-Jones, Vic James, Les Johnson, Gini Koch, Elizabeth Moon, Tamora Pierce, Beth Plutchak, R.A. Salvatore, Thomas Sweterlitsch, E.J. Swift, Travis S. Taylor, and Alex Wells. ...Read More

K.J. Parker’s The Father of Lies and other January titles from Tor.com, S.T. Joshi, David Mack, Michael Moreci, and Michelle Sagara. ...Read More

New this week: Alastair Reynolds’ Elysium Fire and titles by Brooke Bolander, Rati Mehrotra, Keith Rosson, Ahmed Saadawi, Neal Shusterman, Na’amen Gobert Tilahun, and Chuck Wendig. ...Read More

New this week: Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti: The Night Masquerade, Pierce Brown’s Iron Gold, and titles by Josiah Bancroft, H.G. Bells, Denis Johnson, Stephen Michell, Jonathan Moore, Tim Wirkus, and C.V. Wyk. ...Read More

Published today, the US edition of Nick Harkaway’s Gnomon, anthology Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, Charles Stross’ Dark State, and titles by Genevieve Cogman, Terry Goodkind, Michelle Hauck, Ian Donald Keeling, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Tarkoff, and Django Wexler. ...Read More

New titles by Holly Black, C.J. Cherryh, Olivia A. Cole, Rod Duncan, Tyrell Johnson, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Dave McKean & William Schafer, James A. Moore, Damien Lincoln Ober, Sidney Perkowitz & Eddy von Mueller, John Scalzi, Alex Shvartsman, F. Paul Wilson, and Timothy Zahn. ...Read More

Published today: four novels (all by Tor) by Ben Bova, Robert Brockway, C. Courtney Joyner, and John C. Wright. ...Read More

Published today: Ada Palmer’s The Will to Battle. Also listed: titles from recent weeks by Steve Berman, Hassan Blasim, St. Sukie de la Croix, Junot Díaz, Hal Duncan, John Fleskes, Megan Hunter, Jeff Mann, Anne Rice & Christopher Rice, Nora Roberts, and Bogi Takács. ...Read More

New books this week are Ellen Datlow’s anthology Mad Hatters and March Hares, Paula Guran’s The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition, and K.J. Parker’s The Two of Swords: Volume Three. ...Read More

New books published today include Katherine Arden’s The Girl in the Tower , James S.A. Corey’s Persepolis Rising, Ursula K. Le Guin’s No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, Ken Scholes’ Hymn, and other titles by Catherine Cerveny, Eric Flint & Charles E. Gannon, Christopher Fowler, Francesca Haig, Faith Hunter, Mercedes Lackey, Alex Marshall, George R.R. Martin, Susan R. Matthews, Ryk E. Spoor, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, and Sam ...Read More

New titles published today are by Michelle Belanger, Ian Douglas, Spencer Ellsworth, Kari Maaren, G.D. Penman, and Jon Skovron. ...Read More

New books listed today include novels by Damien Broderick (updating John Brunner), S.A. Chakraborty, W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O’Neal Gear, Robert Guffey, Dean Koontz, Rachel Neumeier, and Yoshiki Tanaka; plus an anthology by Paula Guran, a collection by Charlaine Harris, and nonfiction by D. Harlan Wilson about J.G. Ballard. ...Read More

New books published today include Andy Weir’s Artemis, Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God, Brandon Sanderson’s Oathbringer, Molly Tanzer’s Creatures of Will and Temper, collections by Peter S. Beagle and Jane Yolen, and other titles by Gerald Brandt, Mike Brooks, Tina Connolly, Stephen R. Donaldson, Ian C. Esslemont, Alan Dean Foster, Mira Grant, Leanna Renee Hieber, Jonathan L. Howard, K.J. Parker, Jodi Taylor, Tracy ...Read More

New books published today include Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers, Neil Clarke’s anthology More Human Than Human, Tim Pratt’s novel The Wrong Stars, and titles by K.C. Alexander, Richard Baker, Levi Black, Chris Brookmyre, Beth Cato, David Dalglish, Matthew de Abaitua, David Drake, James Alan Gardner, Jim C. Hines, Cat Jordan, William Ledbetter, Fonda Lee, Leena Likitalo, Michael Livingston, Irene Radford, ...Read More

New books listed today include James Gunn’s Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction, Joe Hill’s Strange Weather: Four Short Novels, Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Warrior, a debut novel by Tochi Onyebuchi, and titles by Lila Bowen, Miles Cameron, Myke Cole, Mark Z. Daniewlewski, Amy S. Foster, Julia Keller, Joe R. Lansdale, Gregory Maguire, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Garth Nix & Sean Williams, Tamora Pierce, Brandon Sanderson, Lewis Shiner, ...Read More

This week’s new books include a new novel by John Crowley, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, Rich Horton’s latest volume of The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, an illustrated novel by Gregory Manchess, and other titles by Darin Bradley, Melissa Caruso, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory, Silva Moreno-Garcia, Kim Newman, and Melissa F. Olson. ...Read More

This week’s new books include the simultaneous US/UK release of The Book of Dust, Volume One: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman, first volume in a highly-anticipated follow-up trilogy to the author’s His Dark Materials trilogy; a climate change novel by Paul McAuley; first volume of a new fantasy trilogy by K.J. Parker; an anthology of classic and new space opera by Bryan Thomas Schmidt; and other ...Read More

+ Alderman, Naomi : The Power
(Little, Brown 978-0-316-54761-1, $26, 400pp, hardcover, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 10 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316547659
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478999904

SF novel in which teenage girls develop the power to cause others agonizing pain and death, triggering an upturning of worldwide order.
• The book was first published in the UK in ...Read More

* Aryan, Stephen : Mageborn
(Orbit 978-0-316-55478-7, $16.99, 432pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316554794
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478923183
• Age of Dread #1

Fantasy novel, first in a new series set in the aftermath of the author’s “Age of Darkness” trilogy, about a minority population with magical abilities in a society ...Read More

+ Delaney, Joseph : The Dark Assassin
(HarperCollins/Greenwillow 978-0062334596, $17.99, 352pp, hardcover, September 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Sep 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062334619
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780062688279
• Starblade Chronicles #3

Young adult fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following A New Darkness (2014) and The Dark Army (2016), about a 17-year-old spook and his female apprentice battling evil ...Read More

* Canavan, Trudi : Successor’s Promise
(Orbit 978-0316209281, $27, 576pp, hardcover, September 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 19 Sep 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316324960
• UK edition: 978-0356501161 (Thu 21 Sep 2017)
• Millennium’s Rule #3

Fantasy novel, third in a series following Thief’s Magic (2014) and Angel of Storms (2015), about a sentient book in a world where magic powers an industrial ...Read More