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
SF 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.
SF 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
SF 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.
SF 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.