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Happy Tuesday! There are two debuts this week: The Memory Collectors by Kim Neville; and Body of Stars by Laura Maylene Walter. From formerly featured DAC Authors: Tales from the Folly by Ben Aaronovitch; What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch; and A Pale Light in the Black by K. B. Wagers is out in Trade Paperback.

 

 

 

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green. March 16, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Wild Sign	Patricia Briggs	RF/PNR/UF - Alpha and Omega 6
The Fiends of Nightmaria	Steven Erikson	F - Malazan Book of the Fallen
American Gods (ri)	Neil Gaiman	CF
Lakewood (h2tp)	Megan Giddings	African American/CW
Bubblegum (h2tp)	Adam Levin	LF/Dys/SF
Firefly - Life Signs	James Lovegrove	MTI/SF
Witness X	SE Moorhead	SF/Cr
The Memory Collectors (D)	Kim Neville	LF
Fabius Bile: Manflayer	Josh Reynolds	SF/GenEng - Fabius Bile 3
88 Names (h2tp)	Matt Ruff	Sus
This Town Sleeps (h2tp)	Dennis E. Staples	MR/LF
Docile (h2tp)	K.M. Szpara	SF/HSF
Blue Mar	Francesca G. Varela	SF/AP/PA/SFR/SE/Disaster/CoA
A Pale Light in the Black (h2tp)	K. B. Wagers	SF - NeoG 1
Body of Stars (D)	Laura Maylene Walter	LF/Feminist/Dys
Skyward Inn	Aliya Whiteley	SF
Creatures of Passage	Morowa Yejidé	LF/MR

March 18, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
What Abigail Did That Summer	Ben Aaronovitch	UF - Rivers of London Novella
Tales from the Folly	Ben Aaronovitch	UF/SS - Rivers of London

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.

Happy Last Monday in January! There are 3 debuts this week: Dead Money by Srinath Adiga; Faye, Faraway by Helen Fisher; and Gutter Child by Jael Richardson.

From formerly featured DAC Authors: False Value (Rivers of London 8) by Ben Aaronovitch is out in Mass Market Paperback; We Could be Heroes by Mike Chen; The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez is out in Trade Paperback; The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu is out in Trade Paperback; A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry is out in Trade Paperback; Brother Red by Adrian Selby; The Mask Falling (Bone Season 4) by Samantha Shannon; and Shades of Allegiance (Anomaly 3) by Sandy Williams.

 

 

 

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green. January 26, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
False Value (h2mm)	Ben Aaronovitch	UF - Rivers of London  8
Dead Money (D)	Srinath Adiga	Dys/Th
Stake (h2tp)	Kevin J. Anderson	H
Dealbreaker	L. X. Beckett	SF/AC/CyP - The Bounceback 2
The Queen's Bargain (h2mm)	Anne Bishop	DF/RF - Black Jewels 10
Straight Outta Dodge City (tp2mm)	David Boop (Ed)	DF - Anthology
The Science of Doctor Who: The Scientific Facts Behind the Time Warps and Space Travels of the Doctor	Mark Brake	Science - The Science of
Penric's Progress (h2mm)	Lois McMaster Bujold	F
One Poison Pie	Lynn Cahoon	CM - Kitchen Witch Mysteries 1
The Swallowed Man	Edward Carey	FairyT/FolkT/LM/MR/Hist
We Could Be Heroes	Mike Chen	SH/SF/HU
Faye, Faraway (D)	Helen Fisher	CW/TT
The Spear of Malice	R.S. Ford	F/DF - War of the Archons 3
Empire City	Matt Gallagher	LF
Agency (h2tp)	William Gibson	TechTh/SF/LF - The Jackpot Trilogy 2
The New Improved Sorceress (tp2mm)	Sara Hanover	F - Wayward Mages 2
Pawn's Gambit (Ke)	Rob J. Hayes	F - Mortal Techniques  2
The Vanished Birds (h2tp)	Simon Jimenez	SF/SO/LF
The Only Good Indians (h2tp)	Stephen Graham Jones	H
Breaking Silence (h2mm)	Mercedes Lackey Cody Martin	CF - Serrated Edge 10
The Unspoken Name (h2tp)	A. K. Larkwood	F - Serpent Gates 1
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (h2tp)	Ken Liu	SF - Collection
The One (h2mm)	John Marrs	LF/GenEng/Dys
Doctor Who: All Flesh is Grass: Time Lord Victorious	Una McCormack	SF - Doctor Who
A Tapestry of Treason	Anne O'Brien	His/LF/CW/AH
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (h2tp)	H. G. Parry	HistF/Occ/Sup/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Shadow Histories 1
The Mistress of Illusions (h2mm)	Mike Resnick	F/DF - Dreamscape Trilogy 2
Gutter Child (D)	Jael Richardson	LF
Brother Red	Adrian Selby	DF
The Mask Falling	Samantha Shannon	Dys/CF/UF - Bone Season 4
A Cat on the Case	Clea Simon	PCM - Witch Cats of Cambridge 3
The Expert System's Champion	Adrian Tchaikovsky	SF/GenEng - The Expert System's Brother 2
Mazes of Power (h2tp)	Juliette Wade	SF/AP/PA - The Broken Trust 1
Knight's Ransom	Jeff Wheeler	F/HistF - First Argentines 1
Shades of Allegiance	Sandy Williams	SF/SO - Anomaly 3

January 27, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Shards: A Tor.com Original (e)	Ian Rogers	H

January 28, 2021

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise	Miles Booy	HC/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.

 

Happy Monday! There are 3 debuts this week: Nophek Gloss (The Graven 1) by Essa Hansen; Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi; and Eartheater by Dolores Reyes. From formerly featured DAC Authors: Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection by Ben Aaronovtich; and The Burning God (The Poppy War 3) by R. F. Kuang.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green. November 16, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Supernatural and Fantastic in Short Detective Fiction: A Survey, 1841-2000	Laird R. Blackwell	M/SF/F
Sacred Evil (e)(ri)	Heather Graham	GH/Th - Krewe of Hunters 3
Night Study (e)(ri)	Maria V. Snyder	F - The Chronicles of Ixia

November 17, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection	Ben Aaronovitch	F/SS - Rivers of London
They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears (h2tp)	Johannes Anyuru Saskia Vogel (Tr)	LF/SF/TT/Th/Terrorism/Dys
The Human (h2tp)	Neal Asher	SF/SO - Rise of the Jain 3
Foundation and Earth (ri)	Isaac Asimov	SF/HSF/Classics/SO - Foundation 5
Foundation's Edge	Isaac Asimov	SF/HSF/Classics/SO - Foundation 4
I Don't Seem So Bright in a Well-Lit Room	Sean Browning	SF/HU
Lost Acre	Andrew Caldecott	HistF/P - Rotherweird 3
The Water Dancer (ri)	Ta-Nehisi Coates	HistF/MR
The Complete Lychford (e)	Paul Cornell	CF/UF - Lychford
The Andromeda Evolution (mm2tp)	Michael Crichton Daniel H. Wilson	SF
Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash	Yahtzee Croshaw	Satire/SF/SO - Jacques McKeown 2
Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology	Jeffrey Deaver et al.	M/SupTh - Anthology
The Children of Red Peak	Craig DiLouie	H/PsyTh/SupTh
Madrenga (e)	Alan Dean Foster	F - Madrenga 1
Smoke & Ashes	Alexis Hall	UF - Kate Kane Paranormal Investigator 4
The Saints of Salvation	Peter F. Hamilton	SF/SO/SE - Salvation Sequence 3
Nophek Gloss (D)	Essa Hansen	SF/AC/GenEng/SE - The Graven 1
Stillicide	Cynan Jones	Dys/LF/Climate
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (D - English)	Toshikazu Kawaguchi	MR/F/SF
Daughter of the Serpentine	E.E. Knight	F - A Dragoneer Academy Novel 2
The Burning God	R. F Kuang	HistF - The Poppy War 3
The Silver Shooter	Erin Lindsey	M/GH/P - A Rose Gallagher Mystery 3
Ink	Jonathan Maberry	SupTh/H
Child of the Prophecy (ri)	Juliet Marillier	HistF/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Sevenwaters Trilogy 3
Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children, Volumes 1-3: Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Beneath the Sugar Sky	Seanan McGuire	CF/DF/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Wayward Children
The Bright and Breaking Sea	Chloe Neill	F/HistF/RF - A Captain Kit Brightling Novel 1
Home Front (e)	Rick Partlwo	SF - Drop Trooper 5
Eartheater (D)	Dolores Reyes Julia Sanchez (Tr)	LF
Barnabas Collins and Quentin's Demon	Marylin Ross	Gothic/Occ - Dark Shadows the Complete Paperback Library Reprint Book 14
Rhythm of War	Brandon Sanderson	F - Stormlight Archive 4
The Round-dance of Water	Kuznetsov Sergey Valeriya Yermishova (Tr)	LF/MR/MU - Russian Literature Series
Age of Death	Michael J. Sullivan	F/HistF - Legends of the First Empire 5
Salamis	Harry Turtledove	AH/HistF/TT - Hellenic 5
Strange Lands Short Stories: Thrilling Tales	Various	SF - Anthology
Spin (ri)	Robert Charles Wilson	SF/AP/PA/AC/TT - Spin 1
Rubicon	Gareth Worthington	SF/AH - Children of the Fifth Sun 3

November 18, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera: A Tor.com Original (e)	Elizabeth Bear	DF

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.

 

 

 

 

 

Ben Aaronovitch (2011) Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection
JABberwocky Literary Agency, November 17, 2020
Trade Paperback, 238 pages
eBook, July 31, 2020

Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time.

 

Each tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the reader a deeper exploration into this absorbing fictional world. This is a must read for any Rivers of London fan.

 

Join Peter, Nightingale, Abigail, Agent Reynolds and Tobias Winter for a series of perfectly portioned tales. Discover what’s haunting a lonely motorway service station, who still wanders the shelves of a popular London bookshop, and what exactly happened to the River Lugg…

 

With an introduction from internationally bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris.

 

This collection includes:
The Home Crowd Advantage
The Domestic
The Cockpit
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Granny
King of The Rats
A Rare Book of Cunning Device
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Favourite Uncle
Vanessa Sommer’s Other Christmas List
Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby
Moments One-Three

 

Praise for the Rivers of London series:
‘Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being there more than the real London’ –Nick Frost ‘As brilliant and funny as ever’ –The Sun
‘Charming, witty, exciting’ –The Independent
‘An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups’ –The Times

 

Discover why this incredible series has sold over two million copies around the world. If you’re a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams―don't panic―you will love Ben Aaronovitch.

Amazon : Barnes and Noble : Bookshop : Books-A-Million : IndieBound
Google Play : iBooks : Kobo

 

 

 

 

 

RJ Barker (2017) Call of the Bone Ships
The Tide Child Trilogy 2
Orbit, November 24, 2020
Trade Paperback and eBook, 528 pages

A brilliantly imagined epic fantasy of honor, glory, and warfare, Call of the Bone Ships is the action-packed sequel to David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker's The Bone Ships.

 

Dragons have returned to the Hundred Isles. But their return heralds only war and destruction.

 

When a horde of dying slaves are discovered in the bowels of a ship, Shipwife Meas and the crew of the Tide Child find themselves drawn into a vicious plot that will leave them questioning their loyalities and fighting for their lives.

 

The Tide Child Trilogy
The Bone Ships
Call of the Bone Ships

 

For more from RJ Barker, check out:

 

The Wounded Kingdom
Age of Assassins
Blood of Assassins
King of Assassins

Amazon : Barnes and Noble : Bookshop : Books-A-Million : IndieBound
Google Play : iBooks : Kobo

 

 

 

 

 

R. F. Kuang (2018) The Burning God
The Poppy War 3
Harper Voyager, November 17, 2020
Hardcover and eBook, 640 pages

The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.

 

After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead.

 

Despite her losses, Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much—the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges—and unexpected opportunities. While her new allies in the Southern Coalition leadership are sly and untrustworthy, Rin quickly realizes that the real power in Nikan lies with the millions of common people who thirst for vengeance and revere her as a goddess of salvation.

 

Backed by the masses and her Southern Army, Rin will use every weapon to defeat the Dragon Republic, the colonizing Hesperians, and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners. As her power and influence grows, though, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenix’s intoxicating voice urging her to burn the world and everything in it?

Amazon : Barnes and Noble : Bookshop : Books-A-Million : IndieBound
Google Play : iBooks : Kobo

 

 

 

 

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green. November 1, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Dungeon Party	John Webster Gastil	CF/SupTh
The Haunting of Brynn Wilder	Wendy Webb	Gothic/CW/MR

November 3, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020	John Joseph Adams (Ed) Diana Gabaldon (Ed)	SF/F - Anthology
The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Box Set	Margaret Atwood	Dys
Serpent Daughter	D.J. Butler	HistF - Witchy War 4
1637: No Peace Beyond the Line	Eric Flint Charles E. Gannon	SF/TT - Ring of Fire 29
This Virtual Night	C. S. Friedman	SF/SO/SE/GenEng - The Outworlds 2
The Alpha Enigma	W. Michael Gear	SF/Cr/M - Team Psi 1
The Harpy	Megan Hunter	FL/LF/AB/MR
Boneset & Feathers	Gwendolyn Kiste	H/DF
Firefly: Generations	Tim Lebbon	MTI/SF/SO
Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon (h2tp)	James Lovegrove	Occ/Sup/HistM
A Storm of Swords: The Illustrated Edition	George R. R. Martin	F - A Song of Ice and Fire Illustrated Edition 3
Agent of the Imperium	Marc Miller	SF
Debt of War	Christopher G. Nuttall	SF/SO - Embers of War 3
A Sword in the Sun (e)	Shannon Page	CF - Nightcraft Quartet 2
The Fractured Void	Tim Pratt	SF/SO - Twilight Imperium
The Phantom and Barnabas Collins (ri)	Marylin Ross	Gothic/Occ - Dark Shadows the Complete Paperback Library Reprint Book 10
The Foe of Barnabas Collins (ri)	Marylin Ross	Gothic/Occ - Dark Shadows the Complete Paperback Library Reprint Book 9
Busted Synapses	Erica L. Satifka	SF/CyP
The Novels of Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, The Last Man, and Mathilda (e)	Mary Shelley	Gothic/SF/AP/F
The Last Ritual	S. A. Sidor	DF - Arkham Horror
An Unprivate War	TS Snow	SF - Star Smuggler 5
The God Game (h2tp)	Danny Tobey	TechTh/SF/CyP/CoA
Almost Dark (ri)	Letitia Trent	Th/GH
Legacy of Steel	Matthew Ward	F - Legacy Trilogy 2
The Shattered Realm of Ardor Benn	Tyler Whitesides	F - Kingdom of Grit 2
The Preserve	Ariel S. Winter	PP/NF
The Women of Weird Tales: Stories by Everil Worrell, Eli Colter, Mary Elizabeth Counselman and Greye La Spina	Everil Worrell Eli Colter Mary Elizabeth Counselman Greye La Spina	H - Monster, She Wrote 2

November 4, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Blood of the Sun	Dan Rabarts Lee Murray	M/H - Path of Ra 3

November 5, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Aurora	Jo M. Thomas	AH

November 6, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Mr. Cables	Ronald Malfi	H

November 10, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Followers (h2tp)	Megan Angelo	LF/CW/Dys
Refuge	JJ Blacklocke	SF/SO - Tradepoint Sage 1
Second Chances	P.D. Cacek	SupTh - Fiction Without Frontiers
Night Call (D)	Brenden Carlson	SF/Cr/M/TechTh/AH - Walking Shadows 1
Judge Fear's Big Day Out and Other Stories	Michael Carroll (Ed)	SF/AP/AP - Anthology
Star Trek: The Wisdom of Picard	Chip Carter	PerfA/SF - Star Trek
One Night Two Souls Went Walking	Ellen Cooney	LF/CW/Med/VisM
A Contest of Principles	Greg Cox	SF - Star Trek: The Original Series
The Book of Malachi (D - US)	T.C. Farren	SF/GenEng/H
Leopard's Rage	Christine Feehan	PNR - Leopard 13
Spectrum 27: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	John Fleskes (Ed)	Art
Toy Soldiers: The Complete Series (Ke)	Devon C. Ford	SF/Dys - Toy Soldiers
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction	Neil Gaiman	SS
Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery (h2tp)	Christopher Golden (Ed) Rachel Autumn Deering (Ed)	F/DF/P/H - Anthology
Sudden Traveler: Stories (h2tp)	Sarah Hall	SS
A Longer Fall (h2tp)	Charlaine Harris	F/P - Gunnie Rose 2
Refraction	Christopher Hinz	SF/GenEng
XX (D)	Rian Hughes	SF/AC/SE/Typography
Reconstruction: Stories	Alaya Dawn Johnson	F/SS
Warrior of the Altaii	Robert Jordan	F
The Arrest	Jonathan Lethem	SF/AP/PA
The Men Who Take Eyes	Justin Little	AH/Dys
Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons	James Lovegrove	HistM/Occ/Sup
Kraft	Jonas Lüscher Tess Lewis (Tr)	LF/Satire/Dys
Factory Witches of Lowell	C. S. Malerich	HistF/DF
The Dark Library	Cyrille Martinez Joseph Patrick Stancil (Tr)	AB/MR/LF
Harmada	João Gilberto Noll Edgar Garbelotto (Tr)	LF/Psy/AB
Queen of the North	Anne O'Brien	Hist/HistR/CoA/AH
At the Lucky Hand: aka The Sixty-Nine Drawers	Goran Petrović Peter Agnone (Tr)	MR/LF
Bloodquest	Gordon Rennie	SF/AC - Warhammer 40,000
The Auctioneer (ri)	Joan Samson	H
The Chimera Code (D)	Wayne Santos	SF
Secret Santa	Andrew Shaffer	H/HU/SupTh
The Darkest King: William's Story	Gena Showalter	PNR - Lords of the Underworld 15
On the Beach (ri)	Nevil Shute	AH/Hist
Living Forever and Other Terrible Ideas	Emily C Skaftun	SF/HU/SS
The Troll Guide	Anders Skoglind	F/HU/FairyT/FolkT/LM
The Rush's Edge (D)	Ginger Smith	SF/SO
Familiar Spirit	Lisa Tuttle	H - Paperbacks from Hell
From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back	Various	MTI/SF/SO - Star Wars
From a Certain Point of View: Star Wars (h2tp)	Various	MTI/SF/SO - Star Wars
The Fires of Vengeance	Evan Winter	F - The Burning 2
The Green and the Gray (e)(ri)	Timothy Zahn	SF
Manta's Gift (e)(ri)	Timothy Zahn	SF

November 11, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law: A Tor.com Original (e)	Lavie Tidhar	DF

November 13, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Bite of the Jackal (Ke)	Paolo Di Orazio	H
Nucleation (D)	Kimberly Unger	SF/HSF/AC

November 16, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Supernatural and Fantastic in Short Detective Fiction: A Survey, 1841-2000	Laird R. Blackwell	M/SF/F
Sacred Evil (e)(ri)	Heather Graham	GH/Th - Krewe of Hunters 3
Night Study (e)(ri)	Maria V. Snyder	F - The Chronicles of Ixia

November 17, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection	Ben Aaronovitch	F/SS - Rivers of London
They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears (h2tp)	Johannes Anyuru Saskia Vogel (Tr)	LF/SF/TT/Th/Terrorism/Dys
The Human (h2tp)	Neal Asher	SF/SO - Rise of the Jain 3
Foundation and Earth (ri)	Isaac Asimov	SF/HSF/Classics/SO - Foundation 5
Foundation's Edge	Isaac Asimov	SF/HSF/Classics/SO - Foundation 4
I Don't Seem So Bright in a Well-Lit Room	Sean Browning	SF/HU
Lost Acre	Andrew Caldecott	HistF/P - Rotherweird 3
The Water Dancer (ri)	Ta-Nehisi Coates	HistF/MR
The Complete Lychford (e)	Paul Cornell	CF/UF - Lychford
The Andromeda Evolution (mm2tp)	Michael Crichton Daniel H. Wilson	SF
Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash	Yahtzee Croshaw	Satire/SF/SO - Jacques McKeown 2
Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology	Jeffrey Deaver et al.	M/SupTh - Anthology
The Children of Red Peak	Craig DiLouie	H/PsyTh/SupTh
Madrenga (e)	Alan Dean Foster	F - Madrenga 1
Smoke & Ashes	Alexis Hall	UF - Kate Kane Paranormal Investigator 4
The Saints of Salvation	Peter F. Hamilton	SF/SO/SE - Salvation Sequence 3
Nophek Gloss (D)	Essa Hansen	SF/AC/GenEng/SE - The Graven 1
Stillicide	Cynan Jones	Dys/LF/Climate
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (D - English)	Toshikazu Kawaguchi	MR/F/SF
Daughter of the Serpentine	E.E. Knight	F - A Dragoneer Academy Novel 2
The Burning God	R. F Kuang	HistF - The Poppy War 3
The Silver Shooter	Erin Lindsey	M/GH/P - A Rose Gallagher Mystery 3
Ink	Jonathan Maberry	SupTh/H
Child of the Prophecy (ri)	Juliet Marillier	HistF/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Sevenwaters Trilogy 3
Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children, Volumes 1-3: Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Beneath the Sugar Sky	Seanan McGuire	CF/DF/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Wayward Children
The Bright and Breaking Sea	Chloe Neill	F/HistF/RF - A Captain Kit Brightling Novel 1
Home Front (e)	Rick Partlwo	SF - Drop Trooper 5
Eartheater (D)	Dolores Reyes Julia Sanchez (Tr)	LF
Barnabas Collins and Quentin's Demon	Marylin Ross	Gothic/Occ - Dark Shadows the Complete Paperback Library Reprint Book 14
Rhythm of War	Brandon Sanderson	F - Stormlight Archive 4
The Round-dance of Water	Kuznetsov Sergey Valeriya Yermishova (Tr)	LF/MR/MU - Russian Literature Series
Age of Death	Michael J. Sullivan	F/HistF - Legends of the First Empire 5
Salamis	Harry Turtledove	AH/HistF/TT - Hellenic 5
Strange Lands Short Stories: Thrilling Tales	Various	SF - Anthology
Spin (ri)	Robert Charles Wilson	SF/AP/PA/AC/TT - Spin 1
Rubicon	Gareth Worthington	SF/AH - Children of the Fifth Sun 3

November 18, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera: A Tor.com Original (e)	Elizabeth Bear	DF

November 23, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Exo-Hunter	Jeremy Robinson	AC/SF/PA

November 24, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Princess Knight	G.A. Aiken	HistF - The Scarred Earth Saga 2
Walk the Wild With Me (tp2mm)	Rachel Atwood	HistF//FairyT/FolkT/LM
Pious	Mark Barber	F - Kings of War
Call of the Bone Ships	RJ Barker	F - Tide Child Trilogy 2
1636: Flight of the Nightingale (tp2mm)	David Carrico	SF/TT - Ring of Fire 28
A Beginning at the End (h2tp)	Mike Chen	SF/AP/PA
Alliance Rising (tp2mm)	C. J. Cherryh Jane S. Fancher	SF/HSF/SO - The Hinder Stars 1
Ready Player Two	Ernest Cline	SF/Dys/Th - Ready Player One 2
The Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire	Glen Cook	F/DF - Collection
Last Stand in Lychford	Paul Cornell	CF/UF - Witches of Lychford 5
War Lord	Bernard Cornwell	Hist - Saxon Tales 13
Monster Hunter Guardian (h2mm)	Larry Correia Sarah A. Hoyt	F - Monster Hunter 8
Infernal	Mark de Jager	F - Stratus 1
The Science Fiction Puzzle Book: Inspired by the Works of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke, Robert A Heinlein and Ursula K Le Guin	Tim Dedopulos	Puzzles/SF
Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology	S.B. Divya (Ed) Mur Lafferty (Ed)	SF - Anthology
The Poison Prince	S. C. Emmett	F/HistF - Hostage of Empire 2
The Solar War	John French	SF/SO - The Horus Heresy
Forged	Benedict Jacka	UF/CF - Alex Versus 11
The Broken Girls (tp2mm)	Simone St. James	SupTh/H/CW
Impolitic Corpses (h2tp)	Paul Johnston	M/Dys - Quint Dalrymple Mystery 8
Council	Snorri Kristjansson	Hist/HistF/HistTh - Helga Finnsdottir Mysteries 2
Passages	Mercedes Lackey (Ed)	F - Valdemar Anthology
Beyond Kuiper	Matthew Medney John Connelly	HSF/SF - The Galactic Star Alliance
Rasputin's Bastards (ri)	David Nickle	Th/HSF
The 'Geisters (ri)	David Nickle	H/GH
Monstrous Affections: Stories (e)(ri)	David Nickle	H/SS
Knife Fight: And Other Struggles	David Nickle	H/SS
36 Righteous Men (h2tp)	Steven Pressfield	SupTh
Grave War	Kalayna Price	UF/CF/PF - Alex Craft 7
Gotrek and Felix: The Fifth Omnibus	Josh Reynolds	F - Warhammer Chronicles
The Awakening	Nora Roberts	PF/FR - The Dragon Heart Legacy 1
Star Trek Voyager: A Celebration	Ben Robinson Mark Wright	PerfArts/SF
Archangel's Sun	Nalini Singh	PNR/UF/PF - Guild Hunter13
Wolf Fever (ri)	Terry Spear	PNR/FR - Silver Town Wolf 2
Freehold: Resistance (tp2mm)	Michael Z. Williamson (Ed)	SF - Freehold Anthology

November 30, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Found in Translation: New People in Twentieth-Century Chinese Science Fiction	Jing Jiang	SF/Antholgy
Comes a Pale Rider	Caitlín R. Kiernan	H
Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories	Joe R. Lansdale	F - Anthology
Princess Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower	Tamsyn Muir	F
No Period: A Tor.com Original	Harry Turtledove	AH
Take a Look at the Five and Ten	Connie Willis	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.

 

Happy last Monday in February!

There are 4 debuts this week:

The Last Smile in Sunder City (The Fetch Phillips Archives 1) by Luke Arnold;

Master of Sorrows (Silent Gods 1) by Justin T. Call;

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore;

and

Black Leviathan by Bernd Perplies; translated by Lucy Van Cleef.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

False Value (Rivers of London 6) by Ben Aaronovitch;

If You Take My Meaning: A Tor.Com Original by Charlies Jane Anders;

Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town (An Official Stranger Things Novel) by Adam Christopher is out in Trade Paperback;

Carved From Stone and Dream (Los Nefilim 2) by T. Frohock;

Holy Sister (Book of the Ancestor 3) by Mark Lawrence is out in Mass Market Paperback;

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu;

The Fenmere Job (Streets of Maradaine) 3 by Marshall Ryan Maresca;

and

St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid: A Tor.com Original by C.L. Polk.

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

February 24, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Fire & Water (e)	Alexis Hall	UF - Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator 3

February 25, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
False Value	Ben Aaronovitch	UF/CF - Rivers of London 8
The Last Smile in Sunder City (D)	Luke Arnold	F - The Fetch Phillips Archives 1
Master of Sorrows (D)	Justin Travis Call	F - Silent Gods 1
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy	Anne Carson	Poetry
Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town (h2tp)	Adam Christopher	SupTh - Stranger Things
Finna	Nino Cipri	SF
Tor.com Publishing 2020 Debut Sampler (e)	Nino Cipri Kathleen Jennings K. M. Sparza Nghi Vo	F/SF
House of Assassins (h2mm)	Larry Correia	F - Saga of the Forgotten Warrior 2
Blood Ink (tp2mm)	Dana Fredsti	DF - Lilith 2
Carved from Stone and Dream	T. Frohock	HistF - Los Nefilim 2
Wheel of Time Premium Boxed Set III	Robert Jordan	F - Wheel of Time
Winter's Heart (ri)	Robert Jordan	F - Wheel of Time 9
The Path of Daggers (ri)	Robert Jordan	F - Wheel of Time 8
A Crown of Swords (ri)	Robert Jordan	F - Wheel of Time 7
Holy Sister (h2mm)	Mark Lawrence	F - Book of the Ancestor 3
The Edge (tp2mm)	Tim Lebbon	DF - Relics 3
Jade War (h2tp)	Fonda Lee	F - The Green Bone Saga 2
Carpe Diem (ri)	Sharon Lee Steve Miller	SF/SO - Liaden Universe 10
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories	Ken Liu	SF - Collection
Surrender	Ray Loriga Carolina De Robertis (Tr)	Dys
The Fenmere Job	Marshall Ryan Maresca	F/UF - Streets of Maradaine 3
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (ri)	George R. R. Martin	SS - A Song of Ice and Fire
A Memory Called Empire (h2tp)	Arkady Martine	SF/SO - Teixcalaan 1
Imaginary Numbers	Seanan McGuire	UF - InCryptid 9
Oona Out of Order (D)	Margarita Montimore	CW
The Brink (h2mm)	James S Murray Darren Wearmouth	SupTh - Awakened 2
Man-Kzin Wars XV (tp2mm)	Larry Niven (Creator)	SF - Man-Kzin Wars Anthology
Black Leviathan (D - English)	Bernd Perplies Lucy Van Cleef (Tr)	F
Aliens: Phalanx	Scott Sigler	SF/MTI
Wolf Rain (h2mm)	Nalini Singh	PNR - Psy-Changling Trinity 3
How to Love Your Elf	Kerrelyn Sparks	FR - Embraced by Magic 1
Soot	Dan Vyleta	HistF - Smoke 2
Blood Truth (h2mm)	J.R. Ward	PNR - Black Dagger Legacy 4
Firstborn (h2mm)	Michelle West	F - House War 7
Knight (h2tp)	Timothy Zahn	SF/SO - Sibyl's War 2

February 26, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
If You Take My Meaning: A Tor.com Original (e)	Charlies Jane Anders	SF
St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid: A Tor.com Original (e)	C. L. Polk	F

February 27, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Death Unleashed	Steve McHugh	UF - The Rebellion Chronicles 2

February 29, 2020

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Knife Children	Lois McMaster Bujold	F - Sharing Knife 5
Science Fiction and Psychology	Gavin Miller	LC - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies LUP 62

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



AC - Alien Contact
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FR- Fantasy Romance
GothicM - Gothic Mystery
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistM - Historical Mystery
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
UF - Urban Fantasy
W - Western
WW - Weird Western

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

Ben Aaronovitch (2011)

False Value
Rivers of London 8
DAW, February 25, 2020
Hardcover and eBook, 304 pages

Now in hardcover, the eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.

Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner’s brand new London start up—the Serious Cybernetics Company.

Drawn into the orbit of Old Street’s famous ‘silicon roundabout’, Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. Compared to his last job, Peter thinks it should be a doddle. But magic is not finished with Mama Grant’s favourite son.

Because Terrence Skinner has a secret hidden in the bowels of the SCC. A technology that stretches back to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, and forward to the future of artificial intelligence. A secret that is just as magical as it technological—and just as dangerous.

Book 1	Book 2
Book 3	Book 4
Book 5	Novella
Book 6	Book 7

Novella

Kristi Charish (2015)

Voodoo Shangai
A Kincaid Strange Novel 3
Vintage Canada,  February 18, 2020
Trade Paperback and eBook, 432 pages

The third and final installment in Kristi Charish's thrilling urban fantasy series finds beloved heroine and voodoo practitioner Kincaid Strange shanghaied away from Seattle and pursuing the ghost of a serial killer in Portland.

Just when Kincaid Strange thinks her life is back on track and she's finally put her time as a paranormal practitioner with the Seattle PD to rest, her ex (and Seattle cop) Aaron asks her for help with yet another strange and ominous case. Martin Dane, the White Picket Fence Serial Killer who terrorized West Coast families living the suburban American dream, appears to be back at it with a fresh murder in Portland. There's only one problem: Dane has been dead for three weeks.

Kincaid can't resist a paranormal mystery. Despite her misgivings, she agrees to examine the Portland crime scene. What she discovers is a place of supernatural power unlike anywhere she's ever been--and the reason Aaron had been so tight-lipped about the case details. There's already a voodoo practitioner on the scene: Liam Sinclair, a TV celebrity of questionable talent and dubious intent.

Kincaid wants nothing more than to finish the job and retreat to Seattle, but the deeper she looks, the less the murder adds up. When she uncovers a much more sinister mystery--missing ghosts, scores of them, whom no one is looking for--there's no turning back.

Book 1

Book 2

R. E. Stearns (2017)

Gravity of a Distant Sun
Shieldrunnder Pirates 3
Gallery / Saga Press, February 18, 2020
Trade Paperback and eBook, 432 pages

Adda and Iridian have survived the murderous AI that tried to kill them in Barbary Station and an evil megacorporation in Mutiny at Vesta but now they’ll need all of their ingenuity to make it to the end of this epic trilogy.

Adda Karpe and Iridian Nassir are on the run—both from the authorities who want to imprison them and the artificial intelligence that want to control their minds. Trapped on a desolate black-market space station on the edge of Jupiter, they’re nearly out of allies—and out of luck.

Now, they have one last shot to find a safe haven where they can live together in peace—across the interstellar bridge to another galaxy. Getting onto that mission will take everything they’ve got and more. But on the other side of that bridge lies the life they’ve always dreamed of...if they can survive long enough to reach it.

Book 1

Book 2

Happy Monday!

There are no debuts this week.


From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London 7) by Ben Aaronovitch is out in Mass Market Paperback;

The Queen of Swords (Golgotha 3) by R. S. Belcher is out in Mass Market Paperback;

Arabella and the Battle of Venus (The Adventures of Arabella Ashby 2) by David D. Levine is out in Mass Market Paperback;

The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons 2) by Jenn Lyons;

Shield of the People (Maradaine Elite 2) by Marshall Ryan Maresca;

and

Carpe Glitter by Cat Rambo.

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

October 29, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Lies Sleeping (h2mm)	Ben Aaronovitch	UF/CF - Rivers of London 7
When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets, Dreadful Orbits, and the Origins of the Night Sky	Erik Asphaug	Science/Space Science
The Queen of Swords (tp2mm)	R. S. Belcher	HistF/SF/SP - Golgotha 3
Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set	Octavia Butler	SF/LF
The Friend of the Desert	Pablo D'Ors David Shook (tr)	MR/Zen/LF
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants (h2tp)	Mathias Énard Chalotte Mandell (Tr)	LF
Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart (h2tp)	Steven Erikson	SF/AC
Fever	Donna Grant	PNR - Dark Kings 16
Inferno! Volume 4	Guy Haley George Mann et al.	F - Inferno! Series 4
Salvation Lost	Peter F. Hamilton	SF/SP/SE - The Salvation Sequence 2
Ghosts	William Huggins	SF
Shattered Bonds	Faith Hunter	UF/CF/P - Jane Yellowrock 13
Wheel of Time Premium Boxed Set I: Books 1-3 (The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn)	Robert Jordan	F - Wheel of Time
The Dragon Reborn (ri)	Robert Jordan	F - Wheel of Time 3
The Great Hunt (ri)	Robert Jordan	F - Wheel of Time 2
The Eye of the World (ri)	Robert Jordan	F - Wheel of Time 1
Conflict of Honors (ri)	Sharon Lee Steve Miller	SF/SO - Liaden Universe 6
Arabella and the Battle of Venus (h2mm)	David D. Levine	SF/SP - The Adventures of Arabella Ashby 2
The Name of All Things	Jenn Lyons	F - A Chorus of Dragons 2
Shield of the People	Marshall Ryan Maresca	UF/F - Maradaine Elite 2
The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek	Rhett McLaughlin Link Neal	HU/SF
The Death House	Sarah Pinborough	Dys/FC
Carpe Glitter	Cat Rambo	UF
Sisters of the Vast Black	Lina Rather	SF/SO
Of Blood and Bone (h2tp)	Nora Roberts	P/PNR/SupTh/SF/AP/PA - Chronicles of The One 2
The Well of Ascension (ri)	Brandon Sanderson	F - Mistborn 2
Captain Marvel: Liberation Run Prose Novel (h2mm)	Tess Sharpe	SH - Marvel Novels
Alien Archives: Eighteen Stories of Extraterrestrial Encounters	Robert Silverberg	SF/AC/HU/SS
The Red Feast	Gav Thorpe	F - Warhammer: Age of Sigmar 1
Odsburg	Matt Tompkins	AB/SF/HU/LF
Alien: Prototype	Tim Waggoner	MTI/SF/AC

October 31, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Best of Greg Egan	Greg Egan	SF - Collection
Laughter at the Academy	Seanan McGuire	F/H - Collection
Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction	Glyn Morgan (Ed) Charul Palmer-Patel (Ed)	LC - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies LUP

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



AB - Absurdist
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternative History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Women
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M&D - Mystery & Detective
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
RF - Romantic Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy

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

Apologies reader for my tardiness posting my August month in review. I had it all planned. I was going to have my post written so that it was ready to go up last weekend. Work however, interrupted my carefully laid plan and here we are partway into September and I haven't yet told you about all the great books I read in August.

I have to say that I ended the summer with a couple of excellent books. One has even made it onto my fave books of all time! Pssst....and it's a debut! So what did I read?


I will start with books I listened to. First up is Ben Aaranovitch's The October Man which is a novella in the Rivers of London series but not starring my favourite member of magic police Peter Grant. Instead, Aaronovitch stages the story in Germany with Tobias Winter investigating a recent grizzly murder by magic. Set in Trier, a former Roman city and famous for its wine, Tobias needs to find out why a man was found dead covered in a fungal rot. Not just any fungus but one used in the making of a special vintage of wine. Tobias is joined by a local cop,Vanessa Sommer, and together they need to find out who is killing these men and why. Little do they know that the city's bloody history forms the backdrop for the murders. Unlike a well-aged wine time is not on their side.

I thoroughly enjoyed The October Man and am really glad I chose to listen to the audio version rather than read it as my sister read the book a week before me and said that she struggled with all the German names. The narrator Sam Peter Jackson really brought Tobias Winter to life and it was much easier to listen to the story with a 'easy to listen to' German accent than trying to read the English translation of German words. I thought the plot was engaging and really drew you in from the very start. For a novella it seemed much longer and I think that was down to the well developed plot. If you like this series then definitely give The October Man a go.


My second audiobook was The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden. As this was the last book of the trilogy and because I loved it soo much I wrote a full review. Check it out here.


Another series I finished was Michael McClung's Amra Thetys series with The Thief Who Went to War. In this final instalment Amra and Holgren are determined to destroy the final blade of the Blades of the Eightfold Goddess. Amra was left with a not so little reminder after her last encounter with one of the blades and is now an avatar for a goddess. Determined to find a way to destroy the final knife Amra returns to Lucernis for a showdown to end all showdowns...and possibly her life!

I only discovered this series by participating as a judge in the SPFBO two years ago and book 1, The Thief that Pulled on Trouble's Braids, had been the winner the year before. It has been 4 years between the final and penultimate books in the series so fans who were there from the start had quite a long wait to see how McClung would finish the series. While I liked this instalment it wasn't the best of the series and I think I might have been a tiny bit disappointed if I had waited 4 years to find out whether Amra and Holgren would make it. Amra has one too many lucky escapes for my liking and it was action, action, action from very early on in the book until the end. There wasn't as much character development as there had been in previous books. However, it's still a good series.


The final book I have to tell you about is Half Way Home by Hugh Howey. Set in the future where ships are sent out to colonise new planets with 500 vat grown humans on board. On the way to their eventual new home they are educated and trained in a specialism as they sleep. Midway through their development cycle the AI controlling their ship decides to start the abort sequence and only 60 teenagers manage to escape. Alone, scared and without all the skills they need to survive they have to rely on each other and the AI that almost killed them to survive. It's not long before they realise it's not just the inhospitable planet that they have landed on that is the biggest threat to their survival.

I loved Howey's Wool series so, in my opinion, it was going to be hard to follow those books. I didn't realise that when I requested Half Way Home from the publisher on NetGalley that it was originally released in 2010. It's a good book but it's not a great book and I found it quite predictable in parts. It is, however, quite short so a quick read if you are looking for some half decent science fiction.


Well that is it for me for August. I do have one more August book to share with you but I am planning on writing a full review so keep your eyes peeled to find out what book has made it onto my top reads ever. Sorry for being a tease! Happy Reading!

The October Man
A Rivers of London Novella
Subterranean Press, May 31, 2019
Hardcover and eBook, 169 pages

With this long new novella, bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch has crafted yet another wickedly funny and surprisingly affecting chapter in his beloved Rivers of London series.

If you thought magic was confined to one country—think again.

Trier: famous for wine, Romans and being Germany’s oldest city.

When a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth. But fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.

Enter Tobias Winter, an investigator for the Abteilung KDA, the branch of the German Federal Criminal Police which handles the supernatural. His aim is to get in, deal with the problem, and get out with the minimum of fuss, personal danger and paperwork.

Together with frighteningly enthusiastic local cop, Vanessa Sommer, he quickly links the first victim to a group of ordinary middle aged men whose novel approach to their mid-life crisis may have reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century.

As the rot spreads, literally, and the suspect list extends to people born before Frederick the Great, Tobias and Vanessa will need to find allies in some unexpected places.

And to solve the case they’ll have to unearth the secret magical history of a city that goes back two thousand years.

Presuming that history doesn’t kill them first.

Winter of the Witch
Winternight Trilogy 3
Del Rey, October 1, 2019
Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Hardcover, Audiobook, and eBook, January 8, 2019

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias, the seen and the unseen.

“A tale both intimate and epic, featuring a heroine whose harrowing and wondrous journey culminates in an emotionally resonant finale.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Vasilisa Petrovna is an unforgettable heroine determined to forge her own path. Her gifts and her courage have drawn the attention of Morozko, the winter-king, but it is too soon to know if this connection will prove a blessing or a curse.

Now Moscow has been struck by disaster. Its people are searching for answers—and for someone to blame. Vasya finds herself alone, beset on all sides. The Grand Prince is in a rage, choosing allies that will lead him on a path to war and ruin. A wicked demon returns, determined to spread chaos. Caught at the center of the conflict is Vasya, who finds the fate of two worlds resting on her shoulders. Her destiny uncertain, Vasya will uncover surprising truths about herself as she desperately tries to save Russia, Morozko, and the magical world she treasures. But she may not be able to save them all.

The Thief Who Went to War
Amra Thetys 5
eBook, August 10, 2019
Trade Paperback, July 30, 2019

After barely surviving the attentions of the Knife That Parts the Night, Amra and Holgren are determined to end the threat posed by the remaining sentient, powerful Blades of the Eightfold Goddess. They are willing to risk everything to win their secret war, but can they succeed when their adversaries are cunning, powerful beyond measure, and utterly ruthless? And even if they can, what will it cost them?

Half Way Home
Mariner Books, October 1, 2019
Hardcover, Trade Paperback and eBook, 240 pages

From the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of Wool and the Molly Fyde saga comes a story of teenage colonists marooned on a distant planet

WE WOKE IN FIRE

Five hundred colonists have been sent across the stars to settle an alien planet. Vat-grown in a dream-like state, they are educated through simulations by an artificial intelligence and should awaken at thirty years old, fully-trained, and ready to tame the new world.

But fifteen years in, an explosion on their vessel kills most of the homesteaders and destroys the majority of their supplies. Worse yet, the sixty that awaken and escape the flames are only half-taught and possess the skills least useful for survival.

Naked and terrified, the teens stumble from their fiery baptism ill-prepared for the unfamiliar and harsh alien world around them. Though they attempt to work with the colony A.I. to build a home, tension and misery are rampant, escalating into battles for dominance.

Soon they find that their worst enemy isn’t the hostile environment, the A.I., or the blast that nearly killed them. Their greatest danger is each other.

Happy Tuesday! Wishing everyone who is celebrating a Happy Thanksgiving!


There is one debut this week:

City of Broken Magic (Chronicles of Amicae 1) by Mirah Bolender.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London 7) by Ben Aaronovitch;

and

Dragonshadow (Heartstone 2) by Elle Katharine White.

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

November 20, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Lies Sleeping	Ben Aaronovitch	UF/CF/PP - Rivers of London 7
Cursed	Keri Arthur	F - A Kingdoms of Earth & Air Novel 2
The Tangled Lands (h2tp)	Paolo Bacigalupi Tobias S. Buckell	F
Doctor Who: Official Annual 2019	BBC	SF - Doctor Who
City of Broken Magic (D)	Mirah Bolender	F - Chronicles of Amicae 1
Alita: Battle Angel - Iron City	Pat Cadigan	MTI/SF/CyP
Doctor Who:The Women Who Lived True Tales of: Brilliant Women from across Time & Space	Christel Dee Simon Guerrier	SF - Doctor Who
The Plague Diaries (h2tp)	Ronlyn Domingue	F - The Keeper of Tales Trilogy 3
The Search for Spark	Steven Erikson	SF/SO/Satire - Willful Child 3
Firefly - Big Damn Hero	Nancy Holder	MTS/SF/SO - Firefly
The Grave Thief (ri)	Tom Lloyd	F - Twilight Reign 3
Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History)	George R. R. Martin	F - A Song of Ice and Fire 1
Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up To No Good	Joanne Merriam (Ed)	F/W
Gunsmoke & Glamour	Hillary Monahan	MTI/SF/CyP
V for Vendetta 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition	Alan Moore	GN/Dys/SF
Dragonshadow	Elle Katharine White	F - Heartstone 2

November 22, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Doctor Who: Combat Magicks (e)	Steve Cole	SF - Doctor Who

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



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Woman
CyP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
GN - Graphic Novel
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
Hu - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Parnormal Cozy Mystery
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PolTh - Political Thriller
PopCul - Popular Culture
Sc - Science
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SocHist - Social History
SocSc - Social Science
SP - Steampunk
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
W - Western


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