The View From Monday - May 24, 2021

Happy penultimate Monday in May! There are 3 debuts this week and we will have interview with each of these debut authors! Reset by Sarina Dahlan; The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis; and Anna by Sammy H.K. Smith.

From formerly featured DAC Authors: The Unwilling by Kelly Braffet is out in Trade Paperback; The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue 1) by Christopher Buehlman; Revelations (Netherspace 3) by Nigel Foster; Dawnrise (Chaos Queen 5) by Christopher Husberg; A Murder in Time (A Kendra Donovan Mystery 1) by Julie McElwain is out in Mass Market Paperback; See Something (A Witch City Mystery 11) by Carol J. Perry; and A Chain Across the Dawn (The Universe After 2) by Drew Williams is out in Mass Market Paperback.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green. May 25, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
MEG: Generations (tp2mm)	Steve Alten	SupTh/SF - Meg 6
From Blood and Ash	Jennifer L. Armentrout	FR/PNR - Blood and Ash 1
The Damnation Game (ri)	Clive Barker	H/SupTh/Sus
Power Challenges	Ben Bova	Power 5
The Unwilling (h2tp)	Kelly Braffet	F/HistF
The Uplift War (e)(ri)	David Brin	SF - Uplift Saga 3
Heaven's Reach (e)(ri)	David Brin	SF - Uplift Saga 6
Infinity's Shore (e)(ri)	David Brin	SF - Uplift Saga 5
Brightness Reef (e)(ri)	David Brin	SF - Uplift Saga 4
Startide Rising (e)(ri)	David Brin	SF - Uplift Saga 2
The Uplift Storm Trilogy: Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's Reach (e)(ri)	David Brin	SF - The Uplift Saga
The Last Druid (h2mm)	Terry Brooks	F - Fall of Shannara 4
The Blacktongue Thief	Christopher Buehlman	F/H/HU - Blacktongue 1
Scorpion	Christian Cantrell	SF/TT/TechTh
Reset (D)	Sarina Dahlan	SF
New Welsh Reader 126: Speculative Fiction from Wales (e)	Jo Dahn Gee Williams	SpecFic - Anthology
Chance of a Lifetime	Jude Deveraux Tara Sheets	Women/TT/MR/HistR - Providence Falls 1
The Apocalypse Seven	Gene Doucette	SF/AP/PA
Claws on the Plain	James Dunbar	F - Kings of War
How to Mars	David Ebenbach	SF/AC/MHU
Revelations	Nigel Foster	SF/AC/SO - Netherspace 3
1636: The Atlantic Encounter (h2mm)	Eric Flint Walter H. Hunt	SF/TT - Ring of Fire 25
Richards & Klein	Guy Haley	SF/CyP/PI
Honeycomb	Joanne M. Harris	DF
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (h2tp)	Grady Hendrix	H/SupTh/Southern
Chaos Queen - Dawnrise	Christopher Husberg	DF/F - Chaos Queen 5
The Lights of Prague (D)	Nicole Jarvis	F/Gaslamp/HistF/FR
The Promised Queen	Jeffe Kennedy	FR - Forgotten Empires 3
On the Origin of Species and Other Stories	Bo-Young Kim Sora Kim-Russell (Tr)	SF - Collection
The House of Styx	Derek Künsken	SF - Venus Ascendant 1
Déjà Doomed	Edward M. Lerner	SF/HSF/AC
A Murder in Time (ri)	Julie McElwain	Women/HistM - Kendra Donovan Mystery 1
Shakespeare for Squirrels (h2tp)	Christopher Moore	F/HU
Witness X	SE Moorhead	SF/Cr
The Legacy of Heorot	Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle Steven Barnes	SF - Heorot Series 1
See Something	Carol J. Perry	PCM - A Witch City Mystery 11
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (h2tp)	Natasha Pulley	HistF/Gay/MR/Hist
The Kingdoms	Natasha Pulley	F/AH/HistF/MR
Burn-In (h2tp)	P. W. Singer August Cole	TechTh - A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution
Anna (D)	Sammy H.K. Smith	Women/Dys
Battle Luna (h2tp)	Travis S. Taylor Timothy Zahn et al.
The Chalk Man (ri)	C. J. Tudor	PsyTh/Sus/H
Hard Reboot	Django Wexler	SF/SE
A Chain Across the Dawn (ri)	Drew Williams	SF/SO/HU - The Universe After 2
Version Zero	David Yoon	TechTh/Sus/SF

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
Ke - Kindle eBook
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade Paperback to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AB - Absurdist
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternative History
AP - Apocalyptic
BHU - Black Humor
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CM - Crime & Mystery
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
GothicR - Gothic Romance
GW&CC - Global Warming and Climate Change
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistM - Historical Mystery
HistR - Historical Romance
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
Med - Medical
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
MU - Mash-Up
NF - Near Future
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PF - Paranormal Fantasy
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PolTh - Political Thriller
PopCul - Popular Culture
PP - Police Porcedural
Psy - Psychological
R - Romance
RF - Romantic Fantasy
ScF - Science Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SFTh - Science Fiction Thriller
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
SS - Short Stories
STR - Small Town and Rural
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
TTR - Time Travel Romance
UF - Urban Fantasy
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical
WS - Women Sleuths

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.