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New arrivals this past month have included the latest from Sara Douglass, Jennifer Fallon, Peter F. Hamilton, forthcoming works from Jeffrey Ford, Barth Anderson, Lisa Tuttle, and new editions of some old classics from Brian Lumley, Robert Silverberg, and Orson Scott Card

As for me, I've been reading some new editions of some older stuff, including a couple of PKDs:

  • The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick (Gollancz, trade, 143 pages, January 2006, UK, first published in 1957)
        Ted Barton returns to his hometown after many years away. He's surprised to recognize absolutely nothing. In fact, the buildings and streets he remembers are gone, and those that are there now have obviously been there for much longer than he's been away. Checking through the archives at the local paper, Ted discovers that his parents moved away after he died of scarlet fever when he was still just a kid. At this point, Ted decides maybe it's time to leave town. Except he can't. And then things start to get strange. Ah, I do love a Philip K. Dick novel. Unfortunately, in this one the ending is a little too contrived and now seems (to put it politely) somewhat dated. Still, it's a fun read.
  • Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick (Gollancz, trade, 177 pages, December 2005, UK, first published in 1969)
        This one brings to the forefront Dick's recurring theme of bizarrely psychotic paranoia. Joe Fernwright is a pot-healer, which means he heals ceramic wares. He doesn't fix them; he makes them not broken anymore -- which, as you see, is not quite the same thing. Anyhow, he's very good at it. But business is slow, and Joe has bills to pay. When he gets an illegal offer that seems too good to be true, the authorities are aware of it far more quickly than they should be and they warn him off it. But he takes the job anyhow, since it's out of Earth police jurisdiction, on some distant alien world. When he gets there, Joe discovers there's this prophetic book that comes out in new editions all the time and everything written in it comes true, kind of like a newspaper from the future. Anyhow, Joe reads that the job he's been hired for will result in him killing his boss, who may be some kind of divine being, so it could spell the end of the world. When Joe meets his undead self under the sea, he beings to wonder just what it is he's gotten himself into. Bizarre. Psychotic. Paranoid. And a real blast.

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

New Arrivals & Forthcoming Books: Mid-February 2006
The Blade Itself: The First Law, Book 1 by Joe Abercrombie
Gollancz (hc & trade, 560 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 18 May 2006, UK

BSI Starside: The Cause of Death by Roger MacBride Allen
Bantam Spectra (mm, 496 pages)
Publication date: 28 February 2006, USA & Canada

The Patron Saint of Plagues by Barth Anderson
Bantam Spectra (trade, 384 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 4 April 2006, USA & Canada

Broken by Kelley Armstrong
Bantam Spectra (mm, 464 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 2 May 2006, USA & Canada

Heart of the Healer: Corsican Valentines, Book 1 by Jason Blake
Forgotten Act (trade, 464 pages)
Publication date: 14 February 2006, USA

The True Nature of Mars by Christiane Blasius
AuthorHouse (trade, 266 pages)
Publication date: October 2005, USA

The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Pantheon (hc, 255 pages)
Publication date: 14 February 2006, USA & Canada

Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell
Tor (hc, 352 pages)
Publication date: 7 February 2006, USA & Canada

Treason by Orson Scott Card
Orb, Tom Doherty Associates (trade, 276 pages)
Publication date: 2 February 2006, USA & Canada
    First published in 1979.

Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey A. Carver
Tor (trade, 319 pages)
Publication date: 22 December 2005, USA & Canada

Cybernetica by Michael J. Cavallaro
Arcanum Books (trade, 468 pages)
Publication date: February 2006, USA

Shadows in the Starlight by Elaine Cunningham
Tor (hc, 286 pages)
Publication date: 10 February 2006, USA & Canada

Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology by Daniel Dinello
University of Texas Press (trade, 329 pages)
Publication date: 2005, USA

The Crippled Angel: The Crucible Series, Book 3 by Sara Douglass
Tor (hc, 365 pages)
Publication date: 19 January 2006, USA & Canada

Vellum by Hal Duncan
Del Rey, Ballantine (trade, 466 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 2 May 2006, USA & Canada

Wolfblade: The Wolfblade Trilogy, Book 1 by Jennifer Fallon
Tor (hc, 512 pages)
Publication date: 20 January 2006, USA & Canada

Memoirs of a Virus Programmer by Pete Flies
StoneGarden (trade, 236 pages)
Publication date: April 2005, USA

The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford
Golden Gryphon (hc, 319 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): April 2006, USA
    Ford's second collection of short fiction.

Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
Del Rey, Ballantine (hc, 827 pages)
Publication date: 7 March 2006, USA & Canada
    Conclusion to the Commonwealth Saga.

The Greenstone Grail: The Sangreal Trilogy, Book 1 by Amanda Hemingway
Del Rey, Ballantine (trade, 360 pages)
Publication date: January 2006, USA & Canada
    First published in 2004.

The Sword of Straw: The Sangreal Trilogy, Book 2 by Amanda Hemingway
Del Rey, Ballantine (trade, 336 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 28 March 2006, USA & Canada

Parallel Attraction by Deidre Knight
Signet Eclipse (mm, 296 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 4 April 2006, USA

The Blackburn & Scarletti Mysteries, Volume 1 by Karen Koehler
Black Death Books (trade, 300 pages)
Publication date: 2005, USA

The City of Bast by Karen Koehler
An Amazon Short, Amazon.com Inc.
Publication date: March 2006, USA

Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
Victor Gollancz (hc, 230 pages)
Publication date: 16 February 2006, UK

Retro Pulp Tales edited by Joe R. Lansdale
Subterranean Press (hc, 235 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): May April 2006, USA
    Original stories by James Reasoner, Chet Williamson, F. Paul Wilson, Alex Irvine, Melissa Mia Hall, Tim Lebbon, Bill Crider, Al Sarrantonio, Stephen Gallagher, Kim Newman, Gary Phillips, and Norman Partridge.

Brian Lumley's Necroscope by Brian Lumley
Subterranean Press (hc, 400 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): May 2006, USA
    The definitive 20th anniversary edition, signed and with a new introduction by the author, with illustrations by Bob Eggleton.

Resolution: The Nulapeiron Sequence, Book 3 by John Meaney
Pyr, Prometheus Books (hc, 407 pages)
Publication date: March 2006, USA
reviewSF Site Review of Book 1, Paradox

Engaging the Enemy by Elizabeth Moon
Del Rey, Ballantine (hc, 416 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 28 March 2006, USA & Canada

Dreams of the Compass Rose by Vera Nazarian
ibooks (trade, 320 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): April 2006, USA & Canada
    First published in 2004.

The Draco Tavern by Larry Niven
Tor (hc, 304 pages)
Publication date: 18 January 2006, USA & Canada
    First collection of these 26 tales involving Niven's fabled interplanetary drinking establishment.

Return to Quag Keep by Andre Norton & Jean Rabe
Tor (hc, 304 pages)
Publication date: 19 January 2006, USA & Canada

Headstone City by Tom Piccirilli
Bantam Spectra (mm, 303 pages)
Publication date: 7 March 2006, USA & Canada

The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
Del Rey, Ballantine (trade, 233 pages)
Publication date: 7 February 2006, USA & Canada
    First published in 1972, soon to be translated to film, and an excellent book.
reviewSF Site Review

The Destiny Mask: The Structure Series, Book 2 by Martin Sketchley
Pyr, Prometheus Books (trade, 380 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): April 2006, USA

Cartomancy by Michael A. Stackpole
Bantam Spectra (trade, 431 pages)
Publication date: 7 March 2006, US & Canada

Ptolemy's Gate: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3 by Jonathan Stroud
Miramax Books, Hyperion (hc, 503 pages)
Publication date: 1 January 2006, USA & Canada
    For readers aged 10 and up.

No Present Like Time by Steph Swainston
Eos, HarperCollins (trade, 399 pages)
Publication date: 31 January 2006, USA
reviewSF Site Review

Punktown: Shades of Grey by Jeffrey Thomas & Scott Thomas
Bedlam Press (hc, 225 pages)
Publication date: December 2005, USA

The Silver Bough by Lisa Tuttle
Bantam Spectra (hc, 336 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 2 May 2006, USA & Canada

City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
Bantam Spectra (trade, 400 pages)
Publication date: 7 March 2006, USA & Canada
    Creepy, clever, funny, experimental, vibrant, fresh. What do you want? You like to read, read this; it's brilliant.
reviewSF Site Review

The Crooked Letter: Books of the Cataclysm, Book 1 by Sean Williams
Pyr, Prometheus Books (hc, 550 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): April 2006, USA

Black Jade by David Zindell
Voyager, HarperCollins (mm, 791 pages)
Publication date: 3 January 2006, UK

Magazines

Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2006, USA
Contributors to this issue include: Terry Bisson, Gary W. Shockley, John Morressy, David Gerrold, Madeleine E. Robins, James L. Cambias.

Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2006, USA
Contributors to this issue include: Daryl Gregory, Donald Mead, Claudia O'Keefe, Robert Reed, Bruce McAllister.

Interzone, February 2006, UK
Contributors to this issue include: F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Richard Calder, Gareth Lyn Powell, Jack Mangan, Carlos Hernandez, and an interview with Terry Pratchett.

Shimmer, No. 2, Winter 2006, USA
Contributors to this issue include: Gerald Costlow, Ian Creasey, Samantha Henderson, Jay Lake, Jason A.D. MacDonald, Erynn Miles, Edo Mor, Tom Pendergrass, Ken Scholes, plus an interview with Ellen Datlow.

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