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Happy Monday!

There are 6 debuts this week:

Senlin Ascends (Books of Babel 1) by Josiah Bancroft;

Sleep Over: An Oral History of the Apocalypse by H. G. Bells;

A Conspiracy of Whispers by Ada Harper;

Palaces by Simon Jacobs;

Heartland by Ana Simo;

and

The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Apart in the Dark: Novellas by Ania Ahlborn;

Nightwise (Nightwise 1) by R.S. Belcher is out in a new Trade Paperback edition;

Iron Gold (Red Rising 4) by Pierce Brown;

Danger's Cure (Holly Danger 4) by Amanda Carlson;

and

Indelible by Adelia Saunders in out in Trade Paperback.

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

January 15, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Danger's Cure (e)	Amanda Carlson	Dys/PA - Holly Danger 4
A Conspiracy of Whispers (D)(e)	Ada Harper	SFR
Ornaments in Jade (ri)	Arthur Machen	H/Sup - Prose Poems

January 16, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Apart in the Dark: Novellas	Ania Ahlborn	H - Collection
The House of Rumour (ri)	Jake Arnott	LF/Hist/Occ
Senlin Ascends (D)	Josiah Bancroft	F - Books of Babel 1
Nightwise (h2tp)	R. S. Belcher	UF - Nightwise 1
Sleep Over: An Oral History of the Apocalypse (D)	H. G. Bells	SF/AP/PA
The World of The Orville	Jeff Bond	TV/SF
Iron Gold	Pierce Brown	SF - Red Rising 4
HALO: Smoke and Shadow	Kelly Gay	SF - HALO
Palaces (D)	Simon Jacobs	LF/H
Black Wings of Cthulhu 5	S. T. Joshi (Ed)	H - Black Wings of Cthulhu 5 - Anthology
Dreamcatcher (ri)	Stephen King	SF/AC
Iron Will (Ke)	James Maxwell	SF - The Shifting Tides 4
The Last Days of New Paris (h2tp)	China Miéville	F
The Night Market	Jonathan Moore	PsyTh
Binti: The Night Masquerade	Nnedi Okorafor	SF - Binti 3
Beauty	Sarah Pinborough	DF - Fairy Tales 3
The Complete Ack-Ack Macaque Trilogy	Gareth L. Powell	SF - Ack-Ack Macaque Omnibus
City of Endless Night	Douglas Preston Lincoln Child	Th/Occ - Agent Pendergast 17
A Treacherous Curse	Deanna Raybourn	HistM - A Veronica Speedwell Mystery 3
Indelible (h2tp)	Adelia Saunders	LF/MR
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text	Mary Shelley	Gothic/SF - Penguin Classics
Heartland (D)	Ana Simo	Dys
NightSun	Dan Vining	Dys
Blue Plague: Rage	Thomas A. Watson	SF/AP/PA - Blue Plague 4
The Beauty (D - US)	Aliya Whiteley	H
The Infinite Future	Tim Wirkus	LF
The Swan Book (h2tp)	Alexis Wright	LF
Red Clocks	Leni Zumas	CW/Dys

January 17, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Ghoul Goes West: A Tor.com Original (e)	Dale Bailey	F
Power Struggles (e)	E. C. Myers	SFTh - ReMade Season 2 #9

January 18, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (e)	Douglas Adams James Goss	SF

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



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FiaryT - Fairy Tales
Fict - Fiction
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
GB - Genre Bender
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
GothicR - Gothic Romance
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistM - Historical Mystery
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM -  Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
Meta - Metaphysical
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Myth - Mythology
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PopCul - Popular Culture
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
Ref - Reference
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SFTh - Science Fiction Thriller
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SocSci - Social Science
SP - SteamPunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
UFR - Urban Fantasy Romance

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

Ania Ahlborn (2012)

Apart in the Dark: Novellas
Gallery Books, January 16, 2018
Trade Paperback and eBook, 384 pages

Now available for the first time in a print edition—two terrifying novellas from bestselling author Ania Ahlborn, “a great storyteller who spins an atmosphere of dread literally from the first page” (Jeff Somers).

THE PRETTY ONES
New York, 1977. The sweltering height of the Summer of Sam. The entire city is gripped with fear, but all Nell Sullivan worries about is whether or not she’ll ever make a friend. The self-proclaimed “Plain Jane” does her best to fit in with the girls at work, but Nell’s brother, Barrett, assures her that she’ll never be like them. When Nell manages to finally garner some much-yearned-for attention, the unthinkable happens to her newfound friend. The office pool blames Son of Sam, but Nell knows the awful truth…because doing the devil’s work is easy when there’s already a serial killer on the loose.

I CALL UPON THEE
Maggie Olsen had a pretty ordinary childhood—swimming and sleepovers, movie nights and dad jokes. And then there were the other things…the darker things…the shadow that followed her home from the cemetery and settled into the corners of her home, refusing to let her grow up in peace. Now, after three years away from the place she's convinced she inadvertently haunted, and after yet another family tragedy strikes, Maggie is forced to return to the sweltering heat of a Savannah summer to come to terms with her past. All along, she's been telling herself, it was just in your head, and she nearly convinces herself that she'd imagined it all. But the moment Maggie steps into the foyer of her family home, she knows. The darkness is still here. And it's been waiting for Maggie's return….

Adam Burch (2017)

Roar of the Storm
The Fracture Worlds 2
47North, January 23, 2018
Trade Paperback and Kindle eBook, 412 pages

When he rebelled against his father, Edmon Leontes lost everything, but a lot has happened in the twelve years since he left his remote home planet of Tao. He has made a new life for himself as the medic aboard a starship, earning his keep traversing the galaxy with a misfit crew. Edmon thinks he has left his tumultuous past behind him, yet all that changes when his father dies.

Phaestion, the man he once called brother, has inherited Edmon’s birthright. But Phaestion’s ambitions of domination are not limited to Tao, and he is not inclined to let a rival—even one in exile—continue living. Phaestion’s pursuit of power spans the universe, running afoul of powers no one is fit to be meddling with. Edmon will need to confront his past as he and his crew race across worlds to uncover the origins of the Fracture…and save the universe from complete destruction.

Bill Schutt and J.R. Finch (2016)

The Himalayan Codex
An R. J. MacCready Novel 2
William Morrow, January 30, 2018
Mass Market Paperback, 480 pages
Hardcover and eBook, June 6, 2017

“Bill Schutt and J. R. Finch are two of the best adventure writers to hit the scene in a long time!” —Clive Cussler, #1 New York Times bestselling author

It is 1946, and the world is rebuilding itself from the war’s devastating ashes. R. J. MacCready is headed for the Himalayas to examine some recently discovered mammoth bones—a mission that may help him put the loss of his friend and colleague Bob Thorne behind him.

Arriving in Asia with the bright and fearless Yanni Thorne, his friend’s widow and now his invaluable assistant, Mac learns the bones are only a cover story. He’s actually been sent there to investigate an ancient codex allegedly written by Pliny the Elder, a fascinating text filled with revelatory secrets. The Roman naturalist claimed to have discovered a new race of humans, a divergent species that inspired the myths of the Yeti and is rumored to have the ability to accelerate the process of evolution. If Pliny’s assertions are true, this seemingly supernatural ability holds unlimited potential benefits—and unlimited potential for destruction.

Charged with uncovering more about this miracle species, Mac sets off into the remote mountain valleys of Tibet, known to the locals as the Labyrinth, using the codex as his guide. As he plunges deeper into the unknown, the more certain it appears that Mac and the associates who join his odyssey may not make it out alive.

Bill Schutt (2016)

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Algonquin Books, January 30, 2018
Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Hardcover and eBook, February 14, 2017

“Surprising. Impressive.  Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.” —Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review

For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature was dismissed as a desperate response to starvation or other life-threatening circumstances, and few spent time studying it. A taboo subject in our culture, the behavior was portrayed mostly through horror movies or tabloids sensationalizing the crimes of real-life flesh-eaters. But the true nature of cannibalism--the role it plays in evolution as well as human history--is even more intriguing (and more normal) than the misconceptions we’ve come to accept as fact.

In Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History,zoologist Bill Schutt sets the record straight, debunking common myths and investigating our new understanding of cannibalism’s role in biology, anthropology, and history in the most fascinating account yet written on this complex topic. Schutt takes readers from Arizona’s Chiricahua Mountains, where he wades through ponds full of tadpoles devouring their siblings, to the Sierra Nevadas, where he joins researchers who are shedding new light on what happened to the Donner Party--the most infamous episode of cannibalism in American history. He even meets with an expert on the preparation and consumption of human placenta (and, yes, it goes well with Chianti).

Bringing together the latest cutting-edge science, Schutt answers questions such as why some amphibians consume their mother’s skin; why certain insects bite the heads off their partners after sex; why, up until the end of the twentieth century, Europeans regularly ate human body parts as medical curatives; and how cannibalism might be linked to the extinction of the Neanderthals. He takes us into the future as well, investigating whether, as climate change causes famine, disease, and overcrowding, we may see more outbreaks of cannibalism in many more species--including our own.

Cannibalism places a perfectly natural occurrence into a vital new context and invites us to explore why it both enthralls and repels us.

Ania Ahlborn (2012)

I Call Upon Thee
Pocket Star, August 7, 2017
eBook, 256 pages

A terrifying e-novella from the bestselling author of The Devil Crept In, Brother, and Within These Walls.

Maggie Olsen had a pretty ordinary childhood—swimming and sleepovers, movie nights and dad jokes. And then there were the other things…the darker things…the shadow that followed her home from the cemetery and settled into the corners of her home, refusing to let her grow up in peace.

Now, after three years away from the place she's convinced she inadvertently haunted, and after yet another family tragedy strikes, Maggie is forced to return to the sweltering heat of a Savannah summer to come to terms with her past. All along, she's been telling herself, it was just in your head, and she nearly convinces herself that she'd imagined it all. But the moment Maggie steps into the foyer of her family home, she knows. The darkness is still here. And it's been waiting for Maggie's return….

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2016)

Of the Divine
Mancer Trilogy 2
Harper Voyager Impulse, August 15, 2017
eBook, 400 pages

The second novel in Amelia Atwater-Rhodes's dazzling Mancer trilogy, Of the Divine takes place seventy-one years before the events of Of the Abyss, in a world where sorcery is still practiced freely—but at what cost?

Henna’s runes tell her that the future of Kavet is balanced on the edge of the knife. One of the most powerful sorcerers in the Order of Napthol, she is well-respected for her second sight. But the fragments she sees this time—blood, darkness, destruction—leave her unsure how to set the country and her lover, Verte, prince of Kavet, on the correct course.

Meanwhile, the treaties between Kavet and the dragon-like race known as the Osei have become intolerable. The time has come for the royal house to wield their unique magic to challenge Osei dominion, with Prince Verte serving as the nexus for the powerful but dangerous spell, and Naples, an untested young sorcerer from the Order of Napthol, a volatile but critical support to its creation.

Amid these plans, Dahlia Indathrone’s arrival in the city shouldn’t matter. She has no magic and no royal lineage, and yet, Henna immediately knows the young woman is important. She just can’t see why. And no vision could prepare her for the role Dahlia will come to play.

In Of the Divine, the lives of Henna, Verte, Naples, and Dahlia become irrevocably linked, setting them, and all Kavet, on a perilous path. As they struggle to survive, they learn that they are but pawns in a larger game, one played by the forces of the Abyss and of the Numen—the infernal and the divine. A game no mortal can ever hope to win.

Deborah Blake (2014)

Veiled Menace
Veiled Magic 2
InterMix, April 18, 2017
eBook, 285 pages

From the author of Veiled Magic and the Baba Yaga novels comes an exciting new paranormal romance…

Since Witches came out of the broom closet in the early twenty-first century, they have worked alongside humans as police officers, healers, stock traders, and more. But they aren’t the only paranormal entities in our world…

Witch and police officer Donata Santori is no stranger to magical mayhem, but lately her life has been unexpectedly charmed. Her job as a Ghost Yanker now includes the occasional paranormal investigation, and she’s advancing her magical abilities with the help of an ancestor’s treasured spell book. And while both of her former love interests—reclusive half-Dragon art forger Peter Casaventi and disgraced Shapechanger Magnus Torvald—are nowhere to be found, she’s not averse to being wined and dined by wealthy businessman Anton Eastman.

But Eastman isn’t what he seems, and what he wants from Donata is far more than she’s willing to give. When a mysterious relic, the Pentacle Pentimento, resurfaces, along with Peter’s Dragon father and a shocking Santori family secret, Donata must fight to save herself, her friends, and just maybe the fate of the world from a magic as old as it is dangerous…

Includes an exclusive preview of the next Broken Rider novel, Dangerously Divine

Wickedly Spirited
A Baba Yaga Novella
InterMix, September 19, 2017
eBook, 55 pages

Jazz, the powerfully magical teen first introduced in Wickedly Powerful, is now being trained as a Baba Yaga—and she’s determined to free the Broken Riders herself.

Jazz had a rough life before meeting her guardian, and she knows she’s lucky that Bella is training her to be a Baba Yaga. But the gifted young witch is frustrated by the slow pace of her lessons. Jazz knows she’s capable of even greater magic, and she wants nothing more than to find a spell that will give the Riders back the immortality they lost.

With the reluctant assistance of Bella’s dragon-turned-cat Koshka, Jazz travels to the Otherworld to get the necessary ingredients to perform the spell. A willful young witch, dangerous magic, and one powerful wish—what could possibly go wrong?

Dangerously Divine
A Broken Rider Novel 2
Berkley, November 28, 2017
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 304 pages

The author of the “wonderful” (Tamora Pierce) Baba Yaga novels and Dangerously Charming is back with a magically mesmerizing new tale about the dashing and daring Broken Riders…

The Riders: Three immortal brothers who kept the Baba Yagas safe, now stripped of their summons to protect. But fate is not finished with them—and their new callings are even more powerful…

Though his physical wounds have healed, Gregori Sun, the eldest of the Riders, remains in spiritual turmoil. His search for his mother, the one person able to heal his soul and save his life, is failing—until he crosses paths with a beautiful and fascinating librarian who might be the key to his salvation…

Ciera Evans’s bookish ways are just a guise. The product of a difficult past, she has dedicated her life to saving lost teens—by any means necessary. She works alone, but when a dark, brooding stranger proposes they team up to solve both their problems, she is tempted—in more ways than one…

After Ciera and Sun’s plans are derailed by dangerous enemies, they find themselves entangled in an ungodly affair—one that will force them to either find new strength together or be forever haunted by their pasts alone.

Happy first Monday in February!

There are 6 debuts this week:

Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly;

Dr. Potter's Medicine Show by Eric Scott Fischl;

Nightwalker by Sebastian Fitzek;

The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgia De Maria;

All Our Wrongs Today by Elan Mastai;

and

Zodiac by Sam Wilson.



And from formerly featured DAC Authors:

The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn;

With Blood Upon the Sand (Song of Shattered Sands 2) ny Bradley P. Beaulieu;

Hungry Ghosts (Eric Carter 3) by Stephen Blackmoore;

Magic of Blood and Sea: The Assassin's Curse; The Pirate's Wish by Cassandra Rose Clarke;

The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley;

Midnight Curse (Disrupted Magic 1) by Melissa F. Olson;

and

The Damned (The Darkest Hand Trilogy 1) by Tarn Richardson is out in Trade Paperback.

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


February 7, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Devil Crept In	Ania Ahlborn	H
Elisha Mancer	E.C. Ambrose	HistF/DF/F - Dark Apostle Series 4
With Blood Upon the Sand	Bradley P. Beaulieu	F/DF/SF - Song of Shattered Sands 2
Marked In Flesh (h2mm)	Anne Bishop	DF/CF/R/FR -A Novel of the Others 4
Hungry Ghosts	Stephen Blackmoore	UF/DF/P - Eric Carter 3
Crown of Doom and Light (e)	Jayde Brooks	CF - Daughter of Gods and Shadows 3
The Clairvoyants	Karen Brown	Gothic/Th/SupTh/Psy/LF
The Stolen Child	Lisa Carey	LF
Lucidity	David Carnoy	Th/Cr
Imprudence (h2tp)	Gail Carriger	SP - Custard Protocol 2
Magic of Blood and Sea: The Assassin's Curse; The Pirate's Wish	Cassandra Rose Clarke	F - Omnibus
Space Wolves	Ben Counter Rob Sanders Steve Lyons C L Werner	SF - Legends of the Dark Millennium 5
The Familiar, Volume 4: Hades	Mark Z. Danielewski	LF/SF/F/UF - Familiar 4
Universal Harvester	John Darnielle	LF/H
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology	Ellen Datlow	GB - Anthology
Super City Cops - Secret Identities (e)	Keith R. A. DeCandido	F/SH - S.C.P.D. 3
The Seer Collection: The Choosing / The Calling / The Returning (e)	Rachelle Dekker	Dys/SFR - Seer
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969	Samuel R. Delany Kenneth R. James (Ed)	L - The Journals of Samuel R. Delany
Amberlough (D)	Lara Elena Donnelly	HistF
The Pilgrims (tp2mm)	Will Elliott	CF - The Pendulum Trilogy 1
Sudden Death (h2tp)	Alvaro Enrigue Natasha Wimmer	LF/Hist/AH
Retribution	Shana Figueroa	PNR - Valentine Shepherd 2
Dr. Potter's Medicine Show (D)	Eric Scott Fischl	F/HistF/SF/SP
The Nightwalker (D- America)	Sebastian Fitzek	PsyTh
Norse Mythology	Neil Gaiman	FairyT/FolkT/LM
Caine's Mutiny	Charles E. Gannon	SF - Caine Riordan 4
The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death	Kim Harrison	UF - The Hollows Prequel
Revisionary (h2mm)	Jim C. Hines	UF/P/HU - Magic Ex Libris 4
The Stars Are Legion	Kameron Hurley	SF/SO
Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction	Nathaniel Isaacson	LC/SF/F - Early Classics of Science Fiction Series
Infernal Devices (ri)	K.W. Jeter	SP
The Perdition Score (h2tp)	Richard Kadrey	UF - Sandman Slim 8
Calgar's Siege	Paul Kearney	SF - Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Battles
Born of Vengeance	Sherrilyn Kenyon	SFR/F/CF/SF - The League: Nemesis Rising 10
Born of Legend (h2mm)	Sherrilyn Kenyon	SFR/F/CF/SF - The League: Nemesis Rising 9
The Macharian Crusade Omnibus	William King	SF - The Macharian Crusade
King of the Grey	Richard A. Knaak	SF/AP/PA - City of Shadows 1
Twilight Crossing	Susan Krinard	PNR - Nightsiders 7
The Execution Channel	Ken MacLeod	SF/AP/PA/Th
The Twenty Days of Turin (D - English Language)	Giorgio De Maria Ramon Glazov (Tr)	LF
The Burning World	Isaac Marion	LF/Z - Warm Bodies 2
All Our Wrong Todays (D)	Elan Mastai	SF/TT/LF/FL
Fleet Renegade	Susan R. Matthews	SF - Under Jurisdiction 2
Rebecca (ri)	Daphne Du Maurier	LF/Gothic/R - Everyman's Library
The Lonely Hearts Hotel	Heather O'Neill	HistF/MR/LF
Midnight Curse	Melissa F. Olson	UF - Disrupted Magic 1
The Damned (h2tp)	Tarn Richardson	DF - The Darkest Hand Trilogy 1
Grave	Michelle Sagara	UF/DF/P - Queen of the Dead 3
Archmage (h2mm)	R. A. Salvatore	F - Legend of Drizzt: Homecoming 1
Saturn Run (h2mm)	John Sandford Ctein	SF/Sus/Th
A Perfect Machine	Brett Savory	SF
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	SF - Macmillan Collector's Library 115
The One Inside (D)	Sam Shepard	LF/VisMeta
Autumn	Ali Smith	LF.VisMeta/CW
The Beauty of Destruction	Gavin G. Smith	SF
Desperation Road	Michael Farris Smith	Gothic
Lotus Blue (e)	Cat Sparks	SF/AP/PA/GenEng
The Black Wolves of Boston	Wen Spencer	CF
The People's Police	Norman Spinrad	CF/Occ/Sup
Winter Be My Shield	Jo Spurrier	F - Children of the Black Sun 1
Kill Before Dying	Travis S. Taylor	SF - Tau Ceti Agenda 5
NK3	Michael Tolkin	LF.SF/AP/PA/Satire
Infinite Chaos (e)	William Vitka	Occ/Sup/M - Madness Reports 2
Idle Ingredients	Matt Wallace	UF/HU - A Sin du Jour Affair 4
Hard to Handle: A Beauty and Beast Novel	Christine Warren	PNR/P/Gothic - Gargoyles Series 5
The Great Martian War: Breakthrough	Scott Washburn	SP - Great Martian Invasion 2
Zodiac (D)	Sam Wilson	Th

February 8, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Old Dispensation: A Tor.com Original	Lavie Tidhar	SF/SO

February 9, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Bear and the Serpent (e)	Adrian Tchaikovsky	F - Echoes of the Fall 2

February 10, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Fire.	Elizabeth Hand	Outspoken Authors - Collection

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
Ke - Kindly only eBook
mm - Mass Market Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GB - Genre Bender
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghosts
GN - Graphic Novel
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
Meta - Metaphysical
MR - Magical Realism
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SH - Superheroes
SO - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
UFR - Urban Fantasy Romance
Vis - Visionary


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

Ben Aaronovitch (2011)

Rivers of London: Volume 2 - Night Witch
    Ben Aaronovitch (Author), Andrew Cartmel (Author), Lee Sullivan (Illustrator)
Titan Comics, November 1, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBook, 128 pages

CSI meets Harry Potter in this fantastic new graphic novel conjured forth from the bestselling series of supernatural police procedural crime novels!

Press-ganged into helping a Russian oligarch hunt his missing daughter, PC Peter Grant and his boss, Thomas Nightingale, London's only wizarding cops, find themselves caught up in a battle between Russian gunmen, a monstrous forest creature - and their nemesis: The Faceless Man. But as Grant and Nightingale close in on the missing girl, they discover that nothing about this case is what it seems!

When the young daughter of a wealthy Russian ogliarch is seemingly kidnapped by mythical monster the Leshy, Peter and Nightingale must delve further into the supernatural than ever before to find the truth, before it's too late for the girl. But there is something off about this case. For one, Leshies don't exist. Two, if they did, they certainly wouldn't be found in Kent, England! The magical special unit must enlist the help of Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina, Night Witch by name and nature! But will they uncover something even more sinister along the way?

The Hanging Tree
Rivers of London 6
DAW, January 31, 2017
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 336 pages

Ania Ahlborn (2012)

The Devil Crept In
Gallery Books, February 7, 2017
Trade Paperback and eBook, 384 pages

An unforgettable horror novel from bestselling sensation Ania Ahlborn—hailed as a writer of “some of the most promising horror I’ve encountered in years” (New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire)—in which a small-town boy investigates the mysterious disappearance of his cousin and uncovers a terrifying secret kept hidden for years.

Young Jude Brighton has been missing for three days, and while the search for him is in full swing in the small town of Deer Valley, Oregon, the locals are starting to lose hope. They’re well aware that the first forty-eight hours are critical and after that, the odds usually point to a worst-case scenario. And despite Stevie Clark’s youth, he knows that, too; he’s seen the cop shows. He knows what each ticking moment may mean for Jude, his cousin and best friend.

That, and there was that boy, Max Larsen...the one from years ago, found dead after also disappearing under mysterious circumstances. And then there were the animals: pets gone missing out of yards. For years, the residents of Deer Valley have murmured about these unsolved crimes…and that a killer may still be lurking around their quiet town. Now, fear is reborn—and for Stevie, who is determined to find out what really happened to Jude, the awful truth may be too horrifying to imagine.

Nina Allan (2016)

The Art of Space Travel
    A Tor.Com Original
Tor Books, July 27, 2016
eBook, 32 pages

"The Art of Space Travel" by Nina Allan is a science fiction novelette. In 2047, a first manned mission to Mars ended in tragedy. Thirty years later, a second expedition is preparing to launch. As housekeeper of the hotel where two of the astronauts will give their final press statements, Emily finds the mission intruding upon her thoughts more and more. Emily's mother, Moolie, has a message to give her, but Moolie's memories are fading. As the astronauts' visit draws closer, the unearthing of a more personal history is about to alter Emily's world forever.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Five Stories High
    By K. J. Parker, Sarah Lotz, Robert Shearman, Tade Thompson and Nina Allan
    Edited by: Jonathan Oliver
Solaris, December 6, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBook, 320 pages

One house, five hauntings, five chilling stories.

Five Stories High is a collection of five novellas each set in the same house – Irongrove Lodge. This five storey Georgian mansion, once a grand detached property, has now been split into five apartments.  This is a building with history, the very bricks and grounds imbued with the pasts of those who have walked these corridors, lived in these rooms.

Five extraordinary writers open the doors, revealing ghosts both past and present in a collection that promises to be as intriguing as it is terrifying.

Featuring novellas by Sarah Lotz, JK Parker, Nina Allan, Robert Shearman and Tade Thompson.

Nina Allan (2016)
Charlie Jane Anders (2016)
Ken Liu (2015)

Drowned Worlds
    Edited by Jonathan Strahan
Solaris, July 12, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBook, 336 pages

The brand new anthology from multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan, featuring stories set in futures wracked by the deluge, from some the best writers in SF, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Charlie Jane Anders, Lavie Tidhar, Jeffrey Ford, and James Morrow.

We stand at the beginning of one of the greatest ecological disasters in the time on Man. The world is warming and seas are rising.  We may deny it, but we can’t hide when the water comes. Already the streets of Miami flood regularly and Mick Jones looks more and more prescient when he sang that “London is drowning and I, I live by the river!” all those years ago.

And yet water is life. It brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises in its place.  There has always been romance and adventure in the streets of a drowned London or on gorgeous sailing cities spanning a submerged world, sleek ships exploring as land gets ever rarer.

Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise, good or bad.  Here you’ll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard’s The Drowned World, Sterling’s Islands in the Net, and Ryman’s The Child Garden.  Stories that allow that things may get worse, but remembers that such times also bring out the best in us all.

G.T. Almasi (2012)

Talon of Scorpio
A Novel of the Shadowstorm 3
Hydra, March 21, 2017
eBook, 352 pages

Superagent Alix Nico returns in a new Shadowstorm thriller from the author of Blades of Winter, which was hailed as “a hell-bent-for-leather mash-up of spy novel and science fiction” by Jason Bourne novelist Eric Van Lustbader.

Alix Nico, code-named Scarlet, is a one-woman demolition derby. As a top American Level, she’s a cybernetically and biologically enhanced operative fighting a Cold War among the forces of freedom, a Soviet Union that never fell, a China hungry for power, and a Germany that emerged from World War II more powerful than ever.

There’s a mole within ExOps, the covert agency responsible for the security of the United States, who has been working to decapitate the organization’s leadership. And when treason strikes, Scarlet and her partner, Darwin, find themselves matched against a rogue Level known as Talon, a merciless killing machine whose augmentations place her in a league of her own. But behind Talon lurks the real enemy, a traitor whose thirst for control threatens to upset the fragile balance of mutually assured destruction that has kept the four Great Powers from breaking into open warfare—until now.

Charlie Jane Anders (2016)

All the Birds in the Sky
Tor Books, April 11, 2017
Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Hardcover and eBook, January 26, 2016

Charlie Jane Anders (2016)
Ken Liu (2015)

Bridging Infinity
    Edited by Jonathan Strahan
Infinity Project 5
Solaris, November 8, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBook, 336 pages

BUILDING TOWARDS TOMORROW

Sense of wonder is the lifeblood of science fiction. When we encounter something on a truly staggering scale - metal spheres wrapped around stars, planets rebuilt and repurposed, landscapes re-engineered, starships bigger than worlds - the only response we have is reverence, admiration, and possibly fear at something that is grand, sublime, and extremely powerful.

Bridging Infinity puts humanity at the heart of that experience, as builder, as engineer, as adventurer, reimagining and rebuilding the world, the solar system, the galaxy and possibly the entire universe in some of the best science fiction stories you will experience.

Bridging Infinity continues the award-winning Infinity Project series of anthologies with new stories from Alastair Reynolds, Pat Cadigan, Stephen Baxter, Charlie Jane Anders, Tobias S.Buckell, Karen Lord, Karin Lowachee, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Gregory Benford, Larry Liven, Robert Reed, Pamela Sargent, Allen Steele, Pat Murphy, Paul Doherty, An Owomoyela, Thoraiya Dyer and Ken Liu.

Part 1 here.

Part 2 here.

Part 3 here.

Part 4 here.

Part 5 here.

Part 6 here.

Part 7 here.

Ania Ahlborn (2012)

The Pretty Ones
Pocket Star, July 6, 2015
eBook, 100 pages

A terrifying new e-novella from the bestselling author of Within These Walls and The Bird Eater!

New York, 1977. The sweltering height of the Summer of Sam. The entire city is gripped with fear, but all Nell Sullivan worries about is whether or not she’ll ever make a friend. The self-proclaimed “Plain Jane” does her best to fit in with the girls at work, but Nell’s brother, Barrett, assures her that she’ll never be like them. When Nell manages to finally garner some much-yearned-for attention, the unthinkable happens to her newfound friend. The office pool blames Son of Sam, but Nell knows the awful truth…because doing the devil’s work is easy when there’s already a serial killer on the loose.

G. T. Almasi (2012)

Talon of Scorpio
A Novel of the Shadowstorm 3
Hydra, May 17, 2016
eBook, 352 Pages

Madeline Ashby (2012)

reV
The Third Machine Dynasty
Trade Paperback (US/Canada) and eBook, April 5, 2016
Medium (B-Format) Paperback (UK), April 7, 2016

In the third and final installment of the Machine Dynasty, the rapture for which the self-replicating humanoid vN were engineered finally comes to pass. Now that the failsafe that once kept vN from harming humans has been hacked, all vN are discovering the promise – and the peril – of free will.

Her consciousness unleashed across computer systems all across the world, the vicious vN Portia stands poised to finally achieve her lifelong dream of bringing humanity to its knees. The old battle between her and her grand-daughter Amy comes to its epic conclusion in the war for the very systems that keep the planet running.

Can Amy get her family to the stars before Portia destroys every opportunity for escape and freedom?

File Under: Science Fiction

vN and iD, previously published in Trade Paperback, will be published in Mass Market Paperback on February 2, 2016 and March 1, 2016 respectively. More on the Machine Dynasty series as it becomes available.

Steve Bein (2012)

Disciple of the Wind
Fated Blades 3
Roc, March 1, 2016
Mass Market Paperback, 528 Pages
Trade Paperback and eBook, April 7, 2015

Tokyo’s only female detective fights to keep her city safe in the third novel in the fantasy series that “combines the best parts of police procedurals, buddy-cop films, historical fantasy, and intrigue-laden adventure.”*

After a deadly terrorist attack in Tokyo, Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro urges her commanding officers to arrest an insane zealot who was just released from police custody. When her pleas fall on deaf ears, she loses her temper and then her badge.

Armed with only her cunning and her famed Inazuma blade, Mariko must work outside the system to stop the terrorist. But going rogue draws the attention of the Wind—an underground syndicate that has controlled Japanese politics for centuries, using mystical relics to achieve their nefarious ends.

Now, Mariko is left with a perilous choice: join an illicit insurgency to thwart a deadly villain, or remain true to the law. Either way, she cannot escape her sword’s curse. As sure as the blade will bring her to victory, it also promises to destroy her…

Christopher L. Bennett (2012)

Hub Space
Crossroad Press & Mytiqaue Press, March 15, 2015
eBook, 110 pages

The Hub is the most important place in the galaxy -- the single point through which all interstellar travel must pass. Yet no one in the galaxy understands how it works. David LaMacchia, an unimportant man from an unimportant planet called Earth, is determined to change that. He's got no qualifications and no skills. His only friends are a cynical, sharp-tongued space pilot named Nashira Wing and a smugly philanthropic alien named Rynyan, and they both think he's crazy. On top of that, the powers that profit from the Hub might just be trying to kill him. Still... that won't stop David from trying to prove that humanity can make a difference to the greater galaxy.

Now the tales of the Hub from the pages of Analog are collected for the first time in one volume, newly revised and expanded! Includes "The Hub of the Matter," "Home is Where the Hub Is," and "Make Hub, Not War," plus exclusive bonus material!

Kristen Callihan (2012)

The Game Plan
Game On 3
November 1, 2015
Trade Paperback and eBook, 323 pages

A beard-related dare and one hot-as-hell kiss changes everything.

NFL center Ethan Dexter’s focus has always been on playing football and little else. Except when it comes to one particular woman. The lovely Fiona Mackenzie might not care about his fame, but she’s also never looked at him as anything more than one of her brother-in-law’s best friends. That ends now.

Fi doesn’t know what to make of Dex. The bearded, tattooed, mountain of man-muscle looks more like a biker than a football player. Rumor has it he’s a virgin, but she finds that hard to believe. Because from the moment he decides to turn his quiet intensity on her she’s left weak at the knees and aching to see his famous control fully unleashed.

Fi ought to guard her heart and walk away; they live vastly different lives in separate cities. And Dex is looking for a forever girl. But Dex has upped his game and is using all his considerable charm to convince Fi he's her forever man.

Happy Monday!

There are 4 Debuts out this week:

Residue (Project Sentinel 1) by Steve Diamond;

Desert Rising (Desert Rising 1) by Kelley Grant;

The Vagrant by Peter Newman;

and

The Miracle Girl by Andrew Roe.


From formerly featured Debut Author Challenge Authors:

Within These Walls by Ania Ahlborn;

The Machine Awakes (Spider War 2) by Adam Christopher;

Pirate's Alley (Sentinels of New Orleans 4) by Suzanne Johnson;

and

Angles of Attack (Frontlines 3) by Marko Kloos.

April 20, 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Residue (D)(e)	Steve Diamond	DF - Project Sentinel 1

April 21, 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Within These Walls	Ania Ahlborn	H
Letters from the Dead (e)(ri)	Campbell Armstrong	H/Sus
The Wanting (e)(ri)	Campbell Armstrong	H/Sus
The Silver Witch	Paula Brackston	Hist/F
The Machine Awakes	Adam Christopher	SF - Spider War 2
Dark Skye (h2mm)	Kresley Cole	PNR - Immortals After Dark 15
Sealed in Sin	Juliette Cross	PNR - Vessel Trilogy 2
Temporary Human (e)	Craig Shaw Gardner	UF - Temporary Magic 3
When We Were Animals	Joshua Gaylord	F/CoA
Desert Rising (D)(e)	Kelley Grant	F - Desert Rising 1
Pirate's Alley	Suzanne Johnson	UF - Sentinels of New Orleans 4
Damocles	Phil Kelly Guy Haley Ben Counter Josh Reynolds	SF - Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Battles
Angles of Attack	Marko Kloos	SF - Frontlines 3
After Midnight (Ke)	Allan Leverone	H
War of Shadows	Gail Z. Martin	F - The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga 3
The Night Mayor (ri)	Kim Newman	SF
The Miracle Girl (D)	Andrew Roe	F/Psy
Dark Bride	Jonathan Ryan	H -  3 Gates of the Dead 2
Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas	Kazuki Sakuraba	F
The Blondes	Emily Schultz	Satire/Ap
The Edge of Reason	Melinda Snodgrass	CF - Edge 1
Emergence (e)	William Vitka	H - The Hroza Connection 2
Positive	David Wellington	H
Poisonwell	Jeff Wheeler	F - Whispers from Mirrowen 3
The Affinities	Robert Charles Wilson	SF
The Architect of Aeons	John C. Wright	SF - Count to a Trillion 3

April 22, 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn: A Tor.Com Original (e)	Usman T. Malik	F

April 23, 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Last Quarrel (e)	Duncan Lay	F
Melancholy: Episode 2 (e)	Charlotte McConaghy	PNR - Melancholy
The Vagrant (D)	Peter Newman	F

April 24, 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Scripture From the Past	C. J. Gleave	F - Alkoryn Chronicles 1
The Bones Would Do	Lee Morgan	Su - Christopher Penrose 2
After: Dying Light (Ke)	Scott Nicholson	PA/Th - After 6

D - Debut
e - eBook
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
Ke - Kindle eBook only
ri - reissue or reprint


Ap - Apocalyptic
CF  - Contemporary Fiction
CoA - Coming of Age
DF - Dark Fantasy
F - Fantasy
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PNR -Paranormal Romance
Psy - Psychological
SF - Science Fiction
Su - Supernatural
Sus - Suspense
Th - Thirller
UF- Urban Fantasy

See Part 1 here

See Part 1.5 here

See Part 2 here

See Part 3 here

See Part 5 here

See Part 6 here

Ania Ahlborn

Within These Walls
Gallery Books, April 21, 2015
Trade Paperback and eBook, 448 pages

From indie horror author and bestselling sensation Ania Ahlborn, this brand-new supernatural thriller questions: how far would you go for success, and what would you be capable of if the promise of forever was real?

With his marriage on the rocks and his life in shambles, washed up crime writer Lucas Graham is desperate for a comeback. So when he’s promised exclusive access to notorious cult leader and death row inmate Jeffrey Halcomb, the opportunity is too good to pass up. Lucas leaves New York for the scene of the crime—a split-level farmhouse on the gray-sanded beach of Washington State—a house whose foundation is steeped in the blood of Halcomb’s diviners; runaways who, thirty years prior, were drawn to his message of family, unity, and unconditional love. Lucas wants to tell the real story of Halcomb’s faithful departed, but when Halcomb goes back on his promise of granting Lucas exclusive information on the case, he’s left to put the story together on his own. Except he is not alone. For Jeffrey Halcomb promised his devout eternal life…and within these walls, they’re far from dead.



In addition, The Pretty Ones (digital) will be published in July by Pocket Star and Brother will be published by Gallery Books in September 2015.  More on these when the covers are available.

Steve Bein

Disciple of the Wind
The Fated Blades 3
Roc Trade,  April 7, 2015
Trade Paperback and eBook, 528 pages

LETHAL JUSTICE

When Tokyo falls victim to a deadly terrorist attack, Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro knows who is responsible, even if she doesn’t have proof. She urges her commanding officers to arrest the perpetrator—an insane zealot who was just released from police custody. When her pleas fall on deaf ears, she loses her temper and then her badge, as well as her best chance of fighting back.

Left on her own, and armed with only her cunning and her famed Inazuma blade, Mariko must work outside the system to stop a terrorist mastermind. But going rogue draws the attention of an underground syndicate known as the Wind. For centuries, they have controlled Japanese politics from the shadows, using mystical relics to achieve their nefarious ends—relics like Mariko’s own sword and the iron demon mask whose evil curse is bound to the blade. Now the Wind is set on acquiring Mariko.

Mariko is left with a perilous choice: Join an illicit insurgency to thwart a deadly villain, or remain true to the law. Either way, she cannot escape her sword’s curse. As sure as the blade will bring her to victory, it also promises to destroy her….

Christopher L. Bennett

Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic
Star Trek: Enterprise Series
Pocket Books/Star Trek, March 24, 2015
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 400 pages |

An original novel continuing the saga of the TV series Star Trek: Enterprise—featuring Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Enterprise!

Years ago, Jonathan Archer and T’Pol helped unearth the true writings of Vulcan’s great philosopher Surak, bringing forth a new era of peaceful reform on Vulcan. But when their discovery is seemingly proven to be a fraud, the scandal threatens to undo a decade of progress and return power to the old, warlike regime. Admiral Archer, Captain T’Pol, and the crew of the U.S.S. Endeavour investigate with help from their Vulcan allies, but none of them suspect the identity of the real mastermind behind the conspiracy to reconquer Vulcan—or the price they will have to pay to discover the truth.

Meanwhile, when a long-forgotten technological threat re-emerges beyond the Federation’s borders, Captain Malcolm Reed of the U.S.S. Pioneer attempts to track down its origins with help from his old friend “Trip” Tucker. But they discover that other civilizations are eager to exploit this dangerous power for their own benefit, even if the Federation must pay the price!

™, ®, & © 2015 CBS Studios, Inc. STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Kristen Callihan

Soulbound
Darkest London 6
Forever, February 24, 2015
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 384 pages

Once two souls are joined . . .
When Adam's soul mate rejected him, there was more at stake than his heart. After seven hundred years of searching, his true match would have ended the curse that keeps his spirit in chains. But beautiful, stubborn Eliza May fled-and now Adam is doomed to an eternity of anguish, his only hope for salvation gone . . .

Their hearts will beat together forever
No matter how devilishly irresistible Adam was, Eliza couldn't stand the thought of relinquishing her freedom forever. So she escaped. But she soon discovers she is being hunted-by someone far more dangerous. The only man who can help is the one man she vowed never to see again. Now Adam's kindness is an unexpected refuge, and Eliza finds that some vows are made to be broken . . .

Amanda Carlson

Pure Blooded
Jessica McClain 5
Orbit, June 16, 2015
Trade Paperback and eBook, 320 pages

The fifth Jessica McClain novel -- a fast-paced and irresistibly sexy urban fantasy series reminiscent of Kelley Armstrong.

Jessica arrives back from the Underworld to find her father embroiled in a battle against the Made wolves. She and her crew drop everything to join them.

Once she arrives, the threat is after her. Jessica is lured into danger when her adversary takes something precious from her. With help from an unlikely source, Jessica goes up against her creator in a battle that will decide the path of everyone involved. She must war against a new set of foes, ones who could not only steal her power, but could take her soul as well.