Magazines Received, January 2021
Mark Kelly’s regular Periodicals posts have been discontinued. We will list online and print magazines seen by Locus each month.
New Titles & Bestsellers
New & Notable Books, January 2021
Aliette de Bodard, Seven of Infinities (Subterranean 10/20) A scholar investigates murder in a house designed by an architect fond of puzzles in this engaging far-future SF mystery novella set in the Xuya universe. “It’s a tightly written jewel of a story, intense and full of feeling, and I recommend it highly.” [Liz Bourke]
Scott Edelman, Things that Never Happened (Cemetery Dance 9/20) Edelman’s latest collection offers 13 eerie ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 25 January 2021
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library is the highest ranking adult novel this week, at #3 on the Los Angeles Times list.
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Locus Bestsellers, January 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for January include top titles Battle Ground by Jim Butcher, Dune by Frank Herbert, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 18 January 2021
A new Star Wars novel by Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi (Del Rey), debuts on three print lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 11 January 2021
V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue ascends into the top 10 on three print lists, while the #1 selling title on Amazon.com this morning is George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 4 January 2021
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two still ranks #2 on two lists. Note there is no Publishers Weekly issue this week.
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Magazines Received, December 2020
Mark Kelly’s regular Periodicals posts have been discontinued. We will list online and print magazines seen by Locus each month.
New Books : 29 December 2020
New books this week are by Genevieve Cogman, Cass Morris, and Michael Marshall Smith.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 28 December 2020
V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue returns to several lists this week.
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New & Notable Books, December 2020
A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (Tor.com Publishing 10/20) Baker is an open pseudonym for Seanan McGuire, and Over the Woodward Wall began as a book-within-a-book, a middle-grade fantasy discussed in McGuire’s 2019 novel Middlegame. The full-length version is a deliberately classic children’s fantasy and begins the Up-and-Under series. “Delectable, a ripe treat for lifelong readers…. It’s filled with adventure and wisdom, and navigates well-worn ideas with fresh ...Read More
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Locus Bestsellers, December 2020
The Locus Bestsellers for December include top titles Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, Dune by Frank Herbert, A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn.
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New Books : 15 December 2020
New books this week are by Simon Ings, Caitlin R. Kiernan, S.J. Morden, and Justina Robson.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 14 December 2020
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two remains #1 on two print lists, and in the top 10 on two others.
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New Books : 8 December 2020
BLACK MOON, RED HANDS, a world of horror, and tigers! Check out this week’s list of new books.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 7 December 2020
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two (Ballantine) debuts very impressively, ranking #1 on three print lists compiled here, and #2 on the fourth (behind Barack Obama).
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Forthcoming Books Through September 2021
The Locus Selected Books by Author list has been updated on our Forthcoming Books page, with information from the December 2020 issue covering upcoming titles from genre houses slated through September 2021. Find out about your favorite authors’ upcoming books!
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New Books : 1 December 2020
Six fantasy, two horror, and two science fiction books make up this week’s list of new titles!
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Periodicals, October – November 2020
New issues and posts at Analog, Aphelion, Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, The Dark, Galaxy’s Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Interzone, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Lightspeed, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Uncanny
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Weekly Bestsellers, 30 November 2020
Brandon Sanderson’s Rhythm of War (Tor) debuts impressively, ranking #1 or #2 on the four print lists compiled here.
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Note that J.K. Rowling’s The Ickabog is ranked by NYT on its Middle Grade Hardcover list, rather than its Young Adult Hardcover list, which is usually the only NYT children’s list compiled here.
New & Notable Books, November 2020
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi (Bloomsbury US 9/20) This much-anticipated new novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell departs from Clarke’s magical 19th century to follow the ingenuous title character for whom the massive House is the entire world, with halls and rooms that go on forever, an ocean in the lower floors, and only a mysterious Other and corpses for company. “The elegant and ingenious structure of the ...Read More
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New Books : 24 November 2020
New books this week are by R.J. Barker, Holly Black, Ernest Cline, Paul Cornell, Mark De Jager, S.C. Emmett, Benedict Jacka, Mercedes Lackey, Mur Lafferty & S.B. Divya, Kalayna Price, and Nora Roberts.
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Locus Bestsellers, November 2020
The Locus Bestsellers for November include top titles Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor), and Forgotten Realms: Relentless by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).
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New Books : 17 November 2020
Religious fanaticism threatens humanity in THE SAINTS OF SALVATION, THE CHILDREN OF RED PEAK, and THE BURNING GOD.
New books this week are by Andrew Caldecott, Craig Dilouie, John Fleskes, Peter F. Hamilton, Essa Hansen, E.E. Knight, R.F. Kuang, Jonathan Maberry, Chloe Neill, J.K. Rowling, Brandon Sanderson, Harry Turtledove, and Kimberly Unger.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 16 November 2020
Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Grand Central) reaches #1 on the L.A. Times fiction paperback list. Meanwhile, V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue again ranks on all four print lists this week.
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New Books : 27 Oct to 3 Nov 2020
Unannotated listing of new books published from 27 Oct to 3 Nov 2020. ...Read More
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New Books : 10 November 2020
Human modification is on the rise with organ farming in THE BOOK OF MALACHI, psychic children in REFRACTION, cyborgs in THE CHIMERA CODE, and genetically engineered soldiers in THE RUSH’S EDGE!
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Weekly Bestsellers, 9 November 2020
V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue remains in the top 10 on two lists this week.
Note: The USA Today list found last week on the 5th turns out to be this week’s list, not last week’s; thus all its rankings on this page are equal to the previous page’s. ...Read More
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Weekly Bestsellers, 5 November 2020
Terry Brooks’ The Last Druid (Del Rey) and Don DeLillo’s The Silence (Scribner) debut on two lists each, as does a special “MinaLima” edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Note: this is the page that would have been posted last Monday, 2 November, except that Amazon rankings here are today’s. Change indicators (+/-) are incomplete since no list was posted on 26 October, and data is unable ...Read More
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