As for me, here's what I've been reading:

• Cities edited by Peter Crowther (Victor Gollancz, hc, 292 pages, published April 2003, UK)
      The fourth "foursight" anthology from Peter Crowther features four complete novellas: A Year in the Linear City by Paul di Filippo is an excellent story and a very cool city. The Tain by China Miéville is likewise a great story, also a bit sedate and not quite what you might have expected. The city here is London, post invasion (from an entirely unexpected quarter). Firing the Cathedral, A Jerry Cornelius Story by Michael Moorcock went right past me. I have no idea what this story was about. Maybe I haven't read enough previous Jerry Cornelius material. The highlight of the collection is V.A.O. by Geoff Ryman. It's a story about some really old folks in a home, trying to assert their independence while at the same time trying to hide it, not to mention solving a sort of mystery. V.A.O., by the way, stands for both Victim-Activated Ordnance, and Very Ancient Offenders.

• A Circle of Cats by Charles de Lint, illustrated by Charles Vess (Viking, hc, 45 pages, published 2003, USA & Canada)
      This is a picture book with a target audience of readers aged 8 and older. As with all the best children's books, the story is direct but not at all condescending. As with all the best picture books, the artwork complements the story without at all distracting from it. And, as with all the best of de Lint's work, the story itself is charming and magical. It's also a prequel to last year's Seven Wild Sisters (also illustrated by Vess), so fans will no doubt want to know some of the early history of Aunt Lillian.

(Books are listed alphabetically by author. Only books received are noted.)

Lantern Road: 8 By Argo stories by John Argo
Clocktower Books (trade, 164 pages)
Publication date: 2002, USA

Prince of Ayodhya: The Ramayana, Book 1 by Ashok K. Banker
Warner Aspect (hc, 392 pages)
Publication date: August 2003, USA & Canada

Elfsorrow: Legends of the Raven, Book 1 by James Barclay
Gollancz (mm, 483 pages)
Publication date: 10 July 2003, UK & Canada
SF Site Review

Shadowheart: Legends of the Raven, Book 2 by James Barclay
Victor Gollancz (trade, 421 pages)
Publication date: 17 July 2003, UK

Hell on the Installment Plan edited by Jennifer C. Barnes
Dream People Publications (chapbook, 30 pages)
Publication date: 2003, USA
   Stories by Abel Diaz & John Lawson, Susanne Brydenbaugh, and Tim Curran.

Unknown Pleasures: Dark Erotica by Jeffrey Thomas & Mark Howard Jones, edited by Jennifer C. Barnes
Dream People Publications (chapbook, 44 pages)
Publication date: 2003, USA

The Raven Warrior by Alice Borchardt
Del Rey, Ballantine (hc, 471 pages)
Publication date: 8 July 2003, USA & Canada

The Secret of the Sword: The Sword of Shannara, Part 3 by Terry Brooks
Del Rey, Ballantine (trade, 232 pages)
Publication date: 8 July 2003, USA & Canada

Daughter of the Wind by Michael Cadnum
Orchard Books, Scholastic Inc. (hc, 266 pages)
Publication date: August 2003, USA & Canada

First Meetings in the Enderverse by Orson Scott Card
Tor (hc, 208 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): September 2003, USA & Canada

Lucifer's Crown by Lillian Stewart Carl
Five Star (hc, 450 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): September 2003, USA

The Astral Grail: A Novel Approach to Astral Projection, Tarot, and Qabbalah by D. Jason Cooper
Spilled Candy Books (trade, 200 pages)
Publication date: December 2002, USA

Beyond the Gloesmur: The Gloesmur Scrolls, Book1 by Kathleen E. Deisher
Lamp Post Publishing (trade, 270 pages)
Publication date: June 2003, USA
   Young adult fantasy, illustrated by the author.

Jimmy the Hand: Legends of the Riftwar, Book 3 by Raymond E. Feist & Steve Stirling
Voyager, HarperCollins (hc, 369 pages)
Publication date: 7 July 2003, UK

Wild Magic: Fool's Gold, Book 2 by Jude Fisher
Earthlight, Simon & Schuster (trade, 565 pages)
Publication date: 4 August 2003, UK

Hidden Warrior by Lynn Flewelling
Bantam Spectra (mm, 553 pages)
Publication date: 8 July 2003, USA & Canada

Eternal Damnation edited by Marc Gascoigne, Christian Dunn & Andy Jones
The Black Library (trade graphic novel, 98 pages)
Publication date: 2003, USA & Canada
   Second volume of collected comics from Inferno! and Warhammer Monthly, featuring strips by Dan Abnett, Gordon Rennie and Colin MacNeil.

Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire that Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
Small Beer Press (trade, 246 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 15 August 2003, USA

Trickster: A Novel of the Silent Empire by Steven Harper
Roc (mm, 368 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 4 November 2003, USA & Canada

Grass for His Pillow: Tales of the Otori, Book 2 by Lian Hearn
Riverhead Books (trade, 287 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): August 2003, USA & Canada
SF Site Review of Across the Nightingale Floor, Book 1

Dune: The Machine Crusade by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Tor (hc, 701 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): September 2003, USA & Canada

The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 1 by William Hope Hodgson, edited by Jeremy Lassen
Night Shade Books (hc, 513 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 1 September August 2003, USA

The Iron Grail: The Merlin Codex, Book 2 by Robert Holdstock
Earthlight, Simon & Schuster (mm, 418 pages)
Publication date: 4 August 2003, UK

13 Horrors edited by Brian A. Hopkins
KaCSFFS Press (trade, 256 pages)
Publication date: 17 April 2003, USA
   First World Horror Convention anthology, featuring stories from Michael Bishop, Edward Bryant, Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Graham Masterton, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, John Shirley, Michael Slade, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gene Wolf, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and featuring a foreword by Joe R. Lansdale.

Demon Witch: The Ravenscliff Series, Book 2 by Geoffrey Huntington
ReganBooks, HarperCollins (hc, 277 pages)
Publication date: 24 June 2003, USA & Canada
SF Site Review of Sorcerers of the Nightwing, Book 1

Legends of Nale by Joseph Olabiyi Johnson
Authors OnLine (trade, 166 pages)
Publication date: February 2003, UK

Out of the Ashes: The Maiden, Book 1 by Karen Koehler
Black Death Books (trade, 246 pages)
Publication date: July 2003, USA

Up Through an Empty House of Stars: Reviews and Essays 1980-2002 by David Langford
Cosmos Books, Wildside Press (hc, 310 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): November 2003, USA

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius, Stories of the Comic Apocalypse by Michael Moorcock
Four Walls Eight Windows (trade, 288 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 24 October 2003, USA

The Gates of Dawn: The Chronicles of Blood and Stone, Book 2 by Robert Newcomb
Del Rey, Ballantine (hc, 467 pages)
Publication date: July 2003, USA & Canada
SF Site Review of The Fifth Sorceress, Book 1

East by Edith Pattou
Harcourt (trade, 480 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): September 2003, USA & Canada

The She by Carol Plum-Ucci
Harcourt (trade, 288 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): September 2003, USA & Canada

The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl & Cyril M. Kornbluth
SF Masterworks #54, Gollancz (trade, 186 pages)
Publication date: 10 July 2003, UK

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
HarperCollins (hc, 368 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 30 September 2003, USA

Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth by Stephen Rauch
Wildside Press (trade & hc, 150 pages)
Publication date: June 2003, USA

Niamh and the Hermit: A Fairy Tale by Emily C.A. Snyder
ARX Publishing (trade, 280 pages)
Publication date: June 2003, USA & Canada

The Afterlife by Gary Soto
Harcourt (trade, 168 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): September 2003, USA & Canada

Deus X and Other Stories by Norman Spinrad
Five Star (hc, 231 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): September 2003, USA

House of War by Judith Tarr
Roc (trade, 384 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 7 October 2003, USA & Canada

A Yuletide Universe edited by Brian M. Thomsen
Warner Aspect (trade, 257 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): November 2003, USA & Canada
   Yuletide tales from Clive Barker, L. Frank Baum, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Brett Harte, Richard C. Matheson, Anne McCaffrey, Donald E. Westlake, Connie Willis, and more.

In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Harry Turtledove
New American Library (hc, 464 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 4 November 2003, USA & Canada

The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases edited by Dr. Jeff VanderMeer & Dr. Mark Roberts
Night Shade Books (hc, 286 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): October 2003, USA
   Includes entries from Drs. Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, Steve Aylett, Kage Baker, Michael Bishop, Cory Doctorow, Jeffrey Ford, Rachel Pollack, Gahan Wilson, and many other eminent medical professionals.

Mockymen by Ian Watson
Golden Gryphon (hc, 324 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): October 2003, USA

Reunion: Star Wars, The New Jedi Order, Force Heretic #3 by Sean Williams & Shane Dix
Lucas Books, Del Rey, Ballantine (mm, 390 pages)
Publication date: 8 July 2003, USA & Canada

Midnight Harvest by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Warner Aspect (hc, 434 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 24 September 2003, USA & Canada

Magazines

Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction, #31, Australia
Contributors to this issue include: Anthony Fordham, Patricia O'Neill, Greg Guerin, Robert Hood, Steve de Beer, Adam Browne.

Challenging Destiny #16, June 2003, Canada
Contributors to this issue include: Vincent W. Sakowski, Uncle River, A.R. Morlan, Ken Rand, Michael R. Martin, David M. Switzer, and featuring an interview with Alison Baird.

Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2003, USA & Canada
Contributors to this issue include: Pat Murphy, John Langan, M. Rickert, Harvey Jacobs, Scott Bradfield, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Robin Aurelian.

Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2003, USA & Canada
Contributors to this issue include: Alex Irvine, Bret Bertholf, Richard Paul Russo, Esther M. Friesner, Eugene Mirabelli, Elaine Stirling.

Interzone, #189, May/June 2003, UK
Contributors to this issue include: Dominic Green, Tony Ballantyne, Jay Caselberg, Darrell Schweitzer, John Shirley, Vaughan Stanger.

Paradox: The MAgazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction, #2, Summer 2003, USA & Canada
Contributors to this issue include: James Van Pelt, Jeff Crook, Gregg Beatty, Douglas W. Clark, Kevin James Kage, Drew Karphyshyn, Edison McDaniels II, and featuring an interview with Stanley C. Sargent.

The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2003, USA
Contributors to this issue include: Lucy Cohen Schmeidler, John Grey, Laurel Winter, Bruce Boston, Holly Day, Kathryn Rantala, Sandra Lindow, Ruth Berman, Roger Dutcher, Kendall Evans, Lee Clark Zumpe, Ray DiZazzo, Anastasia Anderson, Christine Butterworth, Timons Esaias, Charles M. Saplak, Jamie Wasserman, Terry A. Garey, David Lunde, Wendy Rathbone.

Talebones: A Magazine of Science Fiction & Dark Fantasy, #26, Summer 2003, USA & Canada
Contributors to this issue include: James Van Pelt, Mark Rich, Jennifer Rachel Baumer, William Mingin, Patricia Russo, Adam Browne, Kameron Hurley, Roger Dutcher, K.S. Hardy, Holly Phillips, and featuring an interview with Joe Haldeman.

Warhammer Monthly, #69, June 2003, UK & USA
Contributors to this issue include: Jim Alexander, Dan Lapham, Graham Stoddart; Dan Abnett, Anthony Williams; Mitchel Scanlon, The Sharp Brothers, Jon Haward.