By James Knapp
NAL, $7.99, 384 pages
Nico Wachalowski is an FBI agent who is a first-tier citizen that has gained his status by both his military service and his continued work for the government. While investigating a sex ring which involves revivors (reanimated dead, a type of zombie), Nico stumbles across a much larger conspiracy and [...]
By Chloe Neill
Signet, $6.99, 256 pages
Sixteen-year old Lily Parker has just been uprooted from her New York home and sent to a hoity-toity all-girls boarding school for the rich and over-privileged in Chicago while her professor parents go on sabbatical in Germany. Though Lily is unenthused about her new home, she quickly gets used to [...]
By Ray Bradbury
Subterranean Press, $300.00, 744 pages
The year is 1999, and humans are leaving Earth behind and headed to colonize the red planet, Mars. The ensuing journey, and drama on the planet once that journey is complete, lasts 27 years and is filled with a variety of people, events, highs, lows, and spectacular glimpses into [...]
By Mike Resnick
Golden Gryphon, $24.95, 278 pages
One of the themes Mike Resnick has often explored in his writing is the safari, both futuristic and fanciful. Dreamwish Beasts and Snarks is a collection of several of his best, in a nice dust-jacketed hardcover. The title story, “Hunting the Snark,” was nominated for both Hugo and Nebula [...]
By Peter S. Beagle
Subterranean Press, $40.00, 456 pages
Mirror Kingdoms is a career-spanning retrospective collection of eighteen stories from Peter S. Beagle. The oldest story in this anthology, Come Lady Death, was published in 1963, while the newest The Tale of Junko and Sayuri, was published in 2008.
There are some true classic stories in Mirror Kingdoms [...]
By Amber Benson
Ace, $7.99, 311 pages
Being Death’s daughter isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Calliope Reaper-Jones barely balances a hectic “regular” life with her renewed familial responsibilities. (Dealing with the supernatural is hell on new outfits.)
Strange people (and creatures) are visiting her apartment uninvited. The guy who died saving her last time might still [...]
By Karen Miller
LucasBooks, $15.00, 414 pages
The Clone Wars rage onward, threatening to engulf the entire galaxy. After a hellacious battle on the planet Kothlis, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are given a short furlough on Coruscant to recover from months of constant conflict.
But when a loyal senator uncovers a curious plot on a far-flung planet, [...]
By Lucius Shepard
Subterranean Press, $35.00, 104 pages
The Taborin Scale is a new “Dragon Griaule” novella from Lucius Shepard. The Griaule stories stretch back to 1984 and in some way feature Griaule, a dragon so large and so long immobile that a city, Teocinte, has been built around it. The Taborin Scale is set sometime after [...]
By Robert Rankin
Gollancz, $9.95, 410 pages
All Tyler wanted was to be a world famous rock star or a private eye, but neither dream seemed destined to succeed. His band, The Sumerian Kynges, was derailed by a baffling circumstance and his career imitating Lazlo Woodbine was cut short by the fact that he wasn’t Lazlo Woodbine.
And [...]
By Robert Jackson Bennett
Orbit, $19.99, 327 pages
In Mr. Shivers, Robert Jackson Bennett combines Depression-era realism and the supernatural in an unlikely mix of genres that somehow works. The plot of Mr. Shivers focuses on Marcus Connelly whose life has been torn apart because of the murder of his daughter by a serial killer dubbed Mr. [...]
By Charles de Lint
Tor, $25.99, 352 pages
Charles de Lint’s fifth collection of short stories that take place in and around his fictional American city of Newford, Muse and Reverie, succeeds in delivering the fantastical realism that de Lint is known for. Muse and Reverie’s thirteen tales are all wonderful little windows into the seemingly more [...]
By Joe Haldeman
Ace, $24.95, 292 Pages
Starbound, the second of a trilogy, is the desperate human attempt to confront a race of aliens called Other set in a distant world–the Other having nearly destroyed Earth in the first book. After a 6 ½ year trek across the cosmos, the humans return home to find that they [...]
By Stephen Deas
Roc, $24.95, 384 pages
Far from being the romantic creatures of fantasy, the dragons that inhabit Stephen Deas’s debut are implacable nightmares held barely in check by the alchemists who keep them under control. Due to the vicious scheming among the rulers of the Realms, a dragon has escaped her masters and sets out [...]
By Alan Deniro
Spectra, $15.00, 320 pages
The world has changed in the last year or so. Macy Palmer has gone from being a typical bored teenager with a dysfunctional family to a refugee in the post apocalyptic world she now inhabits. On the run with her family they search for safety and some sense of normalcy. [...]
By F. Paul Wilson
Tor, $15.99, 288 pages
In the first of the young adult trilogy, Jack: Secret Histories, Jack and Weezy discovered a very unusual secret pyramid in the Pine Barrens. And now, Repairman Jack is back in Jack: Secret Circles, where another strange structure has been discovered, once again in the Pine Barrens. But this [...]
By Steven Erikson
Tor, $17.99, 816 pages
Dust of Dreams is book nine in Erikson’s massive fantasy series, The Malazan Book of the Fallen. Huge in scope, with hundreds of characters, places, events, and ages-old back story tying it all together. Fallen is both high and low fantasy, blending gods, kings, and magic, along with foot soldiers [...]
