Eugen Bacon, Serengotti (Transit Lounge 8/23) Bacon’s distinctive style infuses surreal, poetic elements into this mostly mainstream novel about identity, community, trauma, and being African in Australia. Ch’anzu loses hir job and wife on the same day and decides to take a job in Serengotti, a migrant African community in rural Australia.
Stephen Baxter, Creation Node (Gollancz 9/23) SF novel of first contact and ...Read More
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Adams, Gillian Bronte: Of Sea and Smoke (Enclave Escape 9798886050783, $26.99, 512pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 11/21/2023)
Young-adult fantasy novel, second in The Fireborn Epic series. Rafi Tetrani reluctantly takes on his dead brother’s responsibilities as the empire’s lost heir, and vows to fight the usurper on the throne. A stolen shipload of magical horses he finds may offer just the edge he will need.
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Rebecca Yarros’s Iron Flame (Entangled: Red Tower Books), second in her series The Empyrean following Fourth Wing, debuts at #1 on all four print lists compiled here, after several months of ranking on the Amazon lists with pre-publication orders.
And Travis Baldree’s Bookshops & Bonedust (Tor), set in the world of his earlier novel Legends & Lattes, debuts on the same four print lists, ranking #1 on (the
Bruno, Rhett C. & Bakutis, T.E.: Mind Burn (Blackstone Publishing 9798200996421, $27.99, 464pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, audio, 11/14/2023)
Near-future SF techno-thriller/mystery novel. Detective Cowan Soto, a trainee with a cybernetic implant, investigates the first successful mass shooting in 12 years — while trying to hide the fact he’s illegally unbound by behavioral modification protocols himself.
Danan, Rosie: Do Your Worst (Penguin Random House/Berkley 9780593437148, $17, 352pp, formats: ...Read More
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Jennifer L. Armentrout’s A Fire in the Flesh (Blue Box Press), third in her Flesh and Fire series, debuts in the top ten on three print lists this week.
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A thrilling cover for Space Holes by B.R. Louis, coming this March from CamCat Books.
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Marcus Aimond, untrained tag-along aboard humanity’s first intergalactic exploratory commerce vessel, has a singular mission: sell off-brand misprinted merchandise.
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Alderman, Naomi: The Future (Simon & Schuster 9781668025680, $28.99, 432pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 11/07/2023)
Dystopian, near-future technothriller. Raised on an isolated compound in Oregon, Martha Einkorn becomes embroiled in the apocalyptic warnings present in a world ruled by mega-rich tech companies. Uniting with Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist in Singapore, an explosive chain of events is set in motion, as their relentless drive and insatiable curiosity resists the cataclysmic end of ...Read More
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A special “collector’s edition” of Holly Black’s The Cruel Prince (Little, Brown), with a slipcase, velvet cover, and illustrated endpapers, debuts at #18 on the USA Today list and #5 on Publishers Weekly‘s children’s frontlist fiction list.
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Armentrout, Jennifer L.: A Fire in the Flesh (Evil Eye Concepts/Blue Box Press 9781957568553, $31.99, 560pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, audio, 10/31/2023)
Fantasy romance novel, third in the Flesh and Fire series. In order to prevent the forces of the Shadowlands from invading and igniting a War of Primals, Sera must convince Kolis to relent. But nothing could have prepared her for the cruelty of Kolis’s Court and the ...Read More
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A new fantasy novel by Rachel Gillig, The Twisted Crowns (Orbit), second in The Shepherd King series, debuts on three lists, ranking #3 on both the NY Times and Publishers Weekly lists.
Sin Blaché & Helen MacDonald, Prophet (Grove 8/23) Strange items appear on a British military base, including an American diner and a dead American, leading two investigating agents to more weirdness in the US, where time starts to seem irrelevant as people’s memories are made real and weaponized by a substance called Prophet. ‘‘A surprising and unexpected blend of surreal science fiction, action thriller, and slow burn queer ...Read More
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Bacon, Eugen & Hook, Andrew: Secondhand Daylight (John Hunt/Cosmic Egg Books 9781803413549, $17.95, 224pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 10/27/2023)
SF time-travel novel, a reverse story in two timelines, following a future scientist traveling backwards in time, trying to help an ordinary man jumping uncontrollably forward in time.
Ballard, J.G. & Blacklock, Mark: Selected Nonfiction, 1963-2007 (MIT Press 9780262048323, $32.95, 424pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 10/24/2023)
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A new novel by Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher (Del Rey), first in a series, debuts on three lists, ranking as high as 4th on the New York Times fiction hardcover list.
Baker, A. Deborah: Under the Smokestrewn Sky (Tordotcom 9781250848475, $21.99, 208pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 10/17/2023)
Fantasy novel, the fourth book in the Up-and-Under series begun in Over the Woodward Wall, the book-within-a-book from Middlegame by Seanan McGuire. Since stumbling from their world into the Up and Under, Avery and Zib have walked the improbable road across forests, seas and skies, finding friends in the unlikeliest of places and ...Read More
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Three debuts this week. First, an adult novel by Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen (Little, Brown), ranking as high as #5 on three lists. Second, a new novel by Alix E. Harrow, Starling House (Tor), ranking as high as #8 on three lists. And third, an anthology edited by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror (Random House), ranking as high
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The Strange Aeon anthology series returns, bringing you tales of the weird and the wondrous, the horripilating and the humbling, in the tradition of the genre begun by authors like H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith. This year’s collection includes tales by:
Carl Hughes Bryson Richard Morgan Chalfant Gordon Linzner Damir Salkovic Matthew R. Davis Tais Teng Michael Piel Davin Ireland Christopher Pate Eve Morton ...Read More
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Adams, Seth C.: The Rift (Flame Tree Press 9781787588783, $16.95, 208pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, 10/10/2023)
Fantasy horror novel. Joe Jimenez, grieving father and estranged husband, on the eve of the anniversary of his son’s death is on the brink of complete despair when he witnesses the arrival of a strange atmospheric anomaly. The rift – a curious tear in the very air of his backyard – appears nightly, ...Read More
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A new novel by V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Tor), debuts on three lists.
Baker, Kylie Lee: The Scarlet Alchemist (Harlequin/Inkyard Press 9781335458018, $19.99, 432pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 10/03/2023)
Young-adult historical fantasy novel, the first in a duology set in an alternate Tang Dynasty China, where a poor biracial girl with the ability to raise the dead gets caught up in the dangerous political games of the royal family.
Basu, Samit: The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport (Tordotcom 9781250827517, $28.99, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, ...Read More
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Stephen King’s Holly is pushed out of first place on all four lists here, by Yarros’ Fourth Wing on two of them. Meanwhile, John Scalzi’s Starter Villain (Tor) debuts on three lists.
Anderson, Taylor: Devil’s Battle (Ace 9780593200773, $28, 480pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 09/26/2023)
Alternate-world military SF novel, third in the Artillerymen series set in the world of the Destroyermen series. After being stranded on a very different and more perilous Earth, Colonel Lewis Cayce led his small army of Americans displaced from 1847 to defeat the Dominion and its depraved Blood Priests.
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While Stephen King’s Holly now sits at #1 on all four print lists compiled here, a new novel by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath (Tor/Bramble), first book in a new fantasy romance series, debuts on three lists.
Daniel Abraham, Blade of Dream (Orbit US 7/23) The second novel in the Kithamar trilogy tells the bloody history of Garreth Left, an heir to a merchant family who falls for a mysterious woman. His search for her leads to ancient gods and dark deals, and his path could change the fate of the city itself.
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Blake, Kendare: Champion of Fate (HarperCollins/Quill Tree 9780062977205, $19.99, 480pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 09/19/2023)
Young-adult fantasy novel, first in the Heromaker series. An orphan raised by the Aristene, an order of mythical female warriors, Reed grew up surrounded by by her future sisters-in-arms and the incredible stories of their quests. She must pass one final test before initiation: shepherding her first hero to glory on the battlefield. Reed’s assigned ...Read More
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Stephen King’s Holly (Scribner) debuts at the top of the four print lists compiled here.
