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New Arrivals
compiled by Neil Walsh
This time our new arrivals include the latest from Kim Stanley Robinson, Jeff VanderMeer, Jacqueline Carey, David Anthony Durham, F. Paul Wilson, Kristin Cashore, Harry Turtledove, some classic Douglas Adams, and much more besides!

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

New & Forthcoming Books - November 2009

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Pan (trade, 196 pages) Publication date: September 2009, UK & Canada & Australia First published in 1979. This edition has DIY cover stickers! The 5-volume trilogy is being re-released in anticipation of And Another Thing..., the 6th book, written by Eoin Colfer, which should be available before Xmas. SF Site Review	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 2 by Douglas Adams Pan (trade, 210 pages) Publication date: September 2009, UK & Canada & Australia
Life, the Universe and Everything: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 3 by Douglas Adams Pan (trade, 212 pages) Publication date: September 2009, UK & Canada & Australia	So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 4 by Douglas Adams Pan (trade, 178 pages) Publication date: September 2009, UK & Canada & Australia
Mostly Harmless: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 5 by Douglas Adams Pan (trade, 244 pages) Publication date: September 2009, UK & Canada & Australia	The Wizard Knight Companion: A Lexicon for Gene Wolfe's The Knight and The Wizard by Michael Andre-Driussi Sirius Fiction (hc & trade & e-book, 132 pages) Publication date: 1 September 2009, USA With a foreword by Gene Wolfe.
Bound to Shadows by Keri Arthur Dell (mm, 400 pages) Publication date: 27 October 2009, USA & Canada	Noonshade: Chronicles of the Raven, Book 3 by James Barclay Pyr, Prometheus Books (trade, 421 pages) Publication date: 6 October 2009, USA SF Site Review
The Heretic: A Mystical Parable by David Barker Langdon Street Press (trade, 217 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 1 January 2010, USA	Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle by Peter S. Beagle, edited by Jonathan Strahan Subterranean Press (hc, 456 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 28 February 2010, USA
Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction edited by Mark Bould and China Miéville Wesleyan University Press (hc & trade, 304 pages) Publication date: 8 September 2009, USA & UK	Envy by Sandra Brown Grand Central Publishing (mm, 570 pages) Publication date: 1 October 2009, USA & Canada
Triangulation: Dark Glass edited by Pete Butler Parsec Ink (trade & pdf download, 156 pages) Publication date: July 2009, USA	Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey Gollancz (trade, 645 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 21 January 2010, UK
Fire by Kristin Cashore Gollancz (trade, 334 pages) Publication date: 8 October 2009, UK	The Prisoner by Carlos J. Cortes Spectra, Ballantine (mm, 416 pages) Publication date: 27 October 2009, USA & Canada
The Other Lands: The Acacia Trilogy, Book 2 by David Anthony Durham Doubleday (trade, 465 pages) Publication date: 29 October 2009, UK	This Crooked Way by James Enge Pyr, Prometheus Books (trade, 414 pages) Publication date: 6 October 2009, USA
Druids by Barbara Galler-Smith & Josh Langston Edge (trade, 352 pages) Publication date: October 2009, Canada & USA	Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton Bantam Books (mm, 528 pages) Publication date: 5 November 2009, UK
Superheroes and Beyond: How to Draw the Leading & Supporting Characters of Today's Comics by Christopher Hart Watson-Guptill (illustrated trade, 160 pages) Publication date: November 2009, UK	FVZA: Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency, Book 1 by David Hine, illustrated by Roy Allan Martinez Radical Comics (perfect bound full-colour comic, 64 pages) Publication date: October 2009, USA 1 of 3.
Candle in the Storm: The Shadowed Path, Book 2 by Morgan Howell Del Rey, Ballantine (mm, 384 pages) Publication date: 27 October 2009, USA & Canada	Lucy's Uncommon Companion by Zuzana Karasovà Choice Publishing (mm, 178 pages) Publication date: August 2009, Ireland & Europe
Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil by Drew Karpyshyn Lucas Books, Del Rey (hc, 320 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 1 December 2009, USA & Canada	The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel by Greg Keyes Del Rey (trade, 304 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 1 December 2009, USA & Canada
Night Pleasures: The First Dark-Hunter Novel by Sherrilyn Kenyon St. Martin's Press (hc, 309 pages) Publication date: September 2009, USA & Canada	Breaking Point by John Macken Corgi Books (trade, 512 pages) Publication date: 29 October 2009, UK
Dragonheart by Todd McCaffrey Del Rey, Ballantine (mm, 544 pages) Publication date: 27 October 2009, USA & Canada	Black Blood by John Meaney Spectra, Ballantine (trade, 384 pages) Publication date: 27 October 2009, USA & Canada
Elric in the Dream Realms: Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné, Volume 5 by Michael Moorcock Del Rey, Ballantine (trade, 421 pages) Publication date: 27 October 2009, USA & Canada	Sky Whales and Other Wonders edited by Vera Nazarian Norilana Books (trade, 208 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 1 December 2009, USA & UK Featuring stories by Tanith Lee, Anna Tambour, Erzebet YellowBoy, Linda J. Dunn, Sonya Taaffe, Lisa Silverthorne, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Mary A. Turzillo, Mike Allen, John Grand, Robert Brandt.
Army of Shadows: Orcs, Bad Blood II by Stan Nicholls Gollancz (trade, 263 pages) Publication date: 22 October 2009, UK	In His Majesty's Service by Naomi Novik Del Rey, Ballantine (hc, 821 pages) Publication date: 27 October 2009, USA & Canada Omnibus edition of the first three Temeraire novels, plus an original Temeraire short story. SF Site Review of Book 1, His Majesty's Dragon SF Site Review of Books 2 & 3, Throne of Jade and Black Powder War
The War After Armageddon by Ralph Peters Forge, Tom Doherty Associates (hc, 382 pages) Publication date: September 2009, USA & Canada	The Rats and the Ruling Sea by Robert V.S. Redick Gollancz (trade, 582 pages) Publication date: 29 October 2009, UK Sequel to The Red Wolf Conspiracy. SF Site Review of The Red Wolf Conspiracy
Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson Spectra (hc, 544 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 29 December 2009, USA & Canada	Southcrop Forest by Lorne Rothman iUniverse (trade, 170 pages) Publication date: 2008, USA The author calls it a "blend of ecology, history, environmentalism, and fantasy" aimed at a reading audience of late-primary school and up.
The Dame: Saga of the First King, Book 3 by R.A. Salvatore Tor (hc, 400 pages) Publication date: 18 August 2009, USA & Canada Sequel to The Highwayman and The Ancient.	FlashForward by Robert J. Sawyer Gollancz (mm, 320 pages) Publication date: 13 October 2009, UK First published in 1999.
Canticle: The Pslams of Isaak, Book 2 by Ken Scholes Tor (hc, 384 pages) Publication date: 13 October 2009, USA & Canada	Incarnate, No. 2 of 3 by Nick Simmons, Nam Kim, et al. Radical Comics (perfect bound full-colour comic, 56 pages) Publication date: October 2009, USA
Legacy by Thomas E. Sniegoski Delacorte Press (hc, 224 pages) Publication date: 13 October 2009, USA & Canada For readers 12 and up.	Star Wars: An Imperial Commando Novel: 501st by Karen Traviss Lucas Books, Del Rey, Ballantine (mm, 464 pages) Publication date: 27 October 2009, USA & Canada
The Golden Shrine by Harry Turtledove Tor (hc, 336 pages) Publication date: October 2009, USA & Canada	Finch by Jeff VanderMeer Underland Press (trade, 336 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): November 2009, USA "A startling hybrid of fantasy and noir, thriller and spy novel" in the world of Ambergris.
Enduring Prophesy by Joe Vojt Outskirts Press (trade, 238 pages) Publication date: 30 April 2009, USA	In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield Del Rey, Ballantine (trade, 403 pages) Publication date: 3 November 2009, USA & Canada SF Site Review
Ground Zero by F. Paul Wilson Tor (hc, 368 pages) Publication date: September 2009, USA & Canada	Inner Peace: Lyft Faetels Trilogy, Book 2 by Jeffrey Wood iUniverse (hc, 433 pages) Publication date: August 2009, USA
Malice by Chris Wooding, illustrated by Dan Chernett Scholastic Press (hc, 384 pages) Publication date: October 2009, USA & Canada For readers 12 and up.
Magazines Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2009, USA, edited by Gordon Van Gelder Contributors to this issue include: Alex Irvine, Matthew Hughes, Tim Sullivan, Richard Bowes, Alexandra Duncan, Terry Bisson, Brendan DuBois, Kit Reed, Sarah Thomas, Nancy Springer, Harvey Jacobs.	Jupiter, No. 26: Isonoe, UK, edited by Ian Redman Contributors to this issue include: Edward Rodosek, David Conyers, Rosie Oliver, Will Styler, G.O. Clark.

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