Weekly Bestsellers, 16 January 2023
A new YA novel by Holly Black, The Stolen Heir (Little, Brown), debuts at #1 on two lists.
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The USA Today bestseller list remains on hiatus.
New Titles & Bestsellers
New Books: 10 January 2023
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Arnett, Mindee: Riven
(HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray 978-0-06-305783-8, $19.99, 448pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 10, 2023)
Young-adult fantasy novel inspired by Iceland. Adepts accidentally created Ice, a toxic magical substance that anyone can use, giving the wealthy full control of magic, as long as they suppress the adepts.
Baggott, Julianna: The Wick
(Underland Press 978-1-63023-068-5, $13.99, 86pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, January 10, ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 9 January 2023
R.F. Kuang’s Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution rises even higher on a couple lists, now ranking #2 at New York Times.
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The USA Today bestseller list remains on hiatus.
New Books: 3 January 2023
Adams, Sean: The Thing in the Snow
(HarperCollins/Morrow 978-0063257757, $27.99, 288pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 3, 2023)
Satirical psychological horror novel about an isolated, largely abandoned, research station, where a mysterious object found in the snow has a strange effect on people’s minds.
Berg, Sibylle: Grime
(St. Martin’s Griffin 978-1-250-79651-6, $22.00, 448pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, December 27, 2022)
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Weekly Bestsellers, 2 January 2023
R.F. Kuang’s Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, which reappeared on a couple lists last week, jumps a few notches further up those lists this week.
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The USA Today bestseller list remains on hiatus.
Magazines Received – December
This list covers new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals (including regularly updated websites) seen by Locus magazine, focusing on those that publish fiction or reviews and criticism. To submit titles for listing on these pages, please send to Locus Publications, 655 13th St. #100, Oakland CA 94612 or email locus@locusmag.com.
Alien Dimensions
- Neil A. Hogan, ed.
- Issue #23, November 2022, $12.95 print/$4.99 digital; irregular, 108pp, 15 x 23 cm.
Weekly Bestsellers, 26 December 2022
A couple of titles, notably R.F. Kuang’s Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution (Harper Voyager), reappear on bestseller lists, presumably in response to their inclusion of various best-of-year lists.
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The USA Today bestseller list remains on hiatus.
New & Notable Books, December
Brian Attebery, Fantasy: How it Works (Oxford UP 7/22) One of our most erudite scholars delivers a wide-ranging critical exploration of the fantasy genre, “the lie that speaks truth.” “There are enough good ideas here to set off a whole con’s worth of panel discussions… his most trenchant observations open up the field to us rather than closing it off with totalizing pronouncements.” [Gary K. Wolfe]
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New Books: 20 December 2022
Colby, Scott: Vengeance Squad
(Outland Entertainment 978-1-954255-41-9, $17.95, 300pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, December 20, 2022)
Urban fantasy novel, fifth in the Deviant Magic series. The Talisker tower in Detroit has exploded, and a ragtag team of losers team up to find the demonic evil behind the disaster.
Datlow, Ellen, ed.: The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
(Skyhorse/Night Shade Books 978-1-949102-67-3, $15.99, 432pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, ...Read More
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Locus Bestsellers, December 2022
The Locus Bestsellers for September include top titles: Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom), Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin (Bantam), The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor), and Dragonlance Destines: Dragons of Deceit by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Del Rey).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 19 December 2022
Cormac McCarthy’s Stella Maris (Knopf), companion novel to The Passenger, noted last month as perhaps SF-adjacent, debuts on two lists.
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As noticed last week and reported here, the USA Today bestseller list is on hiatus at least through the end of the year. And Publishers Weekly has skipped updating its lists this week (as it does a couple times a year).
New Books: 13 December 2022
Andrews, Ilona: Sweep of the Heart
(NYLA Publishing 9781518741289, $20.99, 454pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, December 13, 2022)
Fantasy novel, the sixth book in the Innkeeper Chronicles. The inn is forced to host an intergalactic spouse-search for one of the Galaxy’s most powerful rulers after Sean’s werewolf mentor is kidnapped.
Dodge, Nathan B.: Hidden Enemy
(WordFire Press 978-1680573862, $25.99, 392pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, December 13, 2022)
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Weekly Bestsellers, 12 December 2022
Stephen King’s Fairy Tale remains the highest ranking genre title on general bestseller lists, still ranking #3 on two of them.
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Note that the USA Today list is not updated this week; the chart here carries over last week’s ranks.
Cover Reveal: Caged Ocean Dub by Dare Segun Falowo
Cover Reveal!
From author Dare Segun Falowo, Caged Ocean Dub boasts a beautifully vivid cover, coming out in July 2023 from Android Press.
There are dragons in Lagos and witches who wear their sons’ skins, while an alliance of otherworldly beings are collecting intelligent life forms in the depths of the universe.
Falowo’s poetically precise language and spine-tingling plot twists are reminiscent of both Poe and Kafka as they tackle ...Read More
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New Books: 6 December 2022
Baron, Melissa: Twice in a Lifetime
(The Quick Brown Fox/Alcove Press , $17.99, 325pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, December 6, 2022)
Fantasy timeslip novel of parallel realities. A woman gets messages supposedly from her husband in the future, trying to prevent her suicide.
Isla has moved away from Chicago after a breakdown; she now lives in a tiny cottage outside St. Louis, working as a graphic designer and figuring ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 5 December 2022
A new Star Wars novel by Zoraida Córdova, Convergence (Star Wars: The High Republic: Prequel Era) (Random House Worlds), debuts on the Publishers Weekly list.
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Forthcoming Books Through September 2023
The Locus Selected Books by Author list has been updated on our Forthcoming Books page, with information from the December 2022 issue covering upcoming titles from genre houses slated through September 2023. 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, 2022.
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Cover Reveal: When We Hold Each Other Up by Phoebe Wagner
Cover Reveal!
From author Phoebe Wagner comes an intriguing cover for When We Hold Each Other Up out this April from Android Press.
One rule oversees the post-apocalypse: never refuse a Harmonizer.
Storytellers claim there are two original stories. When a stranger named Eduardo, a Harmonizer with extraordinary powers, arrives with a warning, Rowan senses life is about to change. Eduardo warns that Haven City is growing and all those ...Read More
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New Books: 29 November 2022
de Bodard, Aliette: The Red Scholar’s Wake
(JAB Books 978-1-399-60138-2, $15.00, 315pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, November 24, 2022)
SF novel about a lesbian tech scavenger in a marriage of convenience with a sentient pirate spaceship.
Clare, Gwendolyn: In the City of Time
(Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends 978-1-250-23074-4, $20.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, November 29, 2022)
Young-adult time-travel novel, the first in the eponymous duology, set in the world of Ink, ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 28 November 2022
Brandon Sanderson’s The Lost Metal (Tor), seventh book in the author’s Mistborn Saga, debuts strongly on three lists.
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And a new collection by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth (Morrow), debuts on two lists.
Magazines Received – November
This list covers new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals (including regularly updated websites) seen by Locus magazine, focusing on those that publish fiction or reviews and criticism. To submit titles for listing on these pages, please send to Locus Publications, 655 13th St. #100, Oakland CA 94612 or email locus@locusmag.com.
Bourbon Penn
- Erik Secker, ed.
- Issue No. 28, November 2022, $14.95 print/$2.99 digital/free online, three times a year, 172pp,
New & Notable Books, November
Eugen Bacon, Chasing Whispers (Raw Dog Screaming 9/22) Collection of 13 stories, 11 new, of transformative Afro-irrealist Black speculative fiction by the acclaimed (and prolific) African Australian author.
Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home (Tor 7/22) Critically applauded horror novel mixing supernatural and psychological elements with mystery. A woman returns to her childhood home, where strange developments make her question the past, when her father was accused of ...Read More
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New Books: 22 November 2022
Adler, Dahlia, ed.: At Midnight
(Macmillan/Flatiron 978-1-250-80602-4, $19.99, 464pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 22, 2022)
Young-adult original anthology of 14 reimagined fairy tales, plus one new.
Anderson, Kevin J.: Double-Booked
(WordFire Press 978-1-68057-350-3, $21.99, 252pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, audio, November 22, 2022)
Humorous fantasy detective novel, eighth book in the series featuring Dan Shamble, zombie P.I., who has to deal with diabolical schemes surrounding the publication ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 21 November 2022
Travis Baldree’s cozy fantasy novel Legends & Lattes (Tor) debuts on three lists.
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Also new on one or more lists: Marissa Meyer’s Cursed (Feiwel & Friends), Neal Shusterman’s Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe (Simon & Schuster), and a new edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, illustrated by the author.
Locus Bestsellers, November 2022
The Locus Bestsellers for August include top titles: Babel by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury), and Dragonlance Destines: Dragons of Deceit by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Del Rey).
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New Books: 15 November 2022
Armentrout, Jennifer L.: A Light in the Flame
(Evil Eye Concepts/Blue Box Press 978-1-957568041, $31.99, 608pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, audio, November 15, 2022)
Fantasy romance novel, second in the Flesh and Fire series. The only person who can save Sera now is the one she’s spent her life planning to kill.
Arnold, Justin: Wicked Little Things
(Tiny Ghost 978-1739983475, $12.99, 244pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, November ...Read More
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New Books: 8 November 2022
Bradley, Marion Zimmer, Ross, Deborah J.: The Laran Gambit
(Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust 978-1-938185-72-4, $29.99, 314pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, November 8, 2022)
SF novel in Bradley’s Darkover series. A Terran woman searching for a cure for a dictator’s mind-control device crash-lands on Darkover.
Britz-Cunningham, Scott: Interface
(Turner/Keylight 978-1684428809, $17.99, 464pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, November 5, 2022)
Near-future SF novel about a neural implant that ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 7 November 2022
Olivie Blake’s new novel The Atlas Paradox (Tor) debuts on all four print lists compiled here, ranking as high as #6 on the LA Times list.
Is Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger (Knopf) science fiction? Or at least SF-adjacent? We’ll give it the benefit of the doubt; it debuts on the same four print lists, ranking in the top three on three of them.
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New Books: 1 November 2022
Anderson, Brian D.: The Sword’s Elegy
(Tor 978-1-250-21468-3, $20.99, 416pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, November 1, 2022)
Fantasy novel, the third in the Sorcerer’s Song series about a reluctant bard-turned-assassin.The doom of humankind has at last been realized. Belkar’s prison is broken and his army is on the move. The nations of Lamoria, unaware of the greater danger, look to repel the aggression of Ralmarstad.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 31 October 2022
George Saunders’ new collection Liberation Day (Random House) debuts on all four print lists compiled here, ranking as high as #2 on the LA Times list.
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Magazines Received – September
This list covers new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals (including regularly updated websites) seen by Locus magazine, focusing on those that publish fiction or reviews and criticism. To submit titles for listing on these pages, please send to Locus Publications, 655 13th St. #100, Oakland CA 94612 or email locus@locusmag.com.
Conjunctions: 78, Fear Itself
- Bradford Morrow, ed.
- Issue No. 78, Fall 2021 $20.00 individuals/$30 institutions and internationally, biannual,
