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New Arrivals
compiled by Neil Walsh
This month we're looking at the latest from Kelley Armstrong, Terry Brooks, Justin Cronin, Steven Erikson, M. John Harrison, Terry Pratchett, Allen Steele, and many others.

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

New & Forthcoming Books - mid-August 2012

Blades of Winter by G.T. Almasi Del Rey, Ballantine (mm, 356 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 28 August 2012, USA & Canada	13 by Kelley Armstrong Random House Canada (hc, 449 pages) Publication date: 31 July 2012, Canada
Nell Gwynne's On Land and At Sea by Kage Baker & Kathleen Bartholomew Subterranean Press (hc, 176 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 31 December 2012, USA	The Scorpions of Zahir by Christine Brodien-Jones Delacorte Press (hc, 256 pages) Publication date: 10 July 2012, USA & Canada
The Dark Legacy of Shannara: Wards of Faerie by Terry Brooks Del Rey, Ballantine (hc, 375 pages) Publication date: 21 August 2012, USA & Canada	Earth Unaware: The Formic Wars, Book 1 by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston Tor (hc, 368 pages) Publication date: 17 July 2012, USA & Canada SF Site review of the audio book
The Reality of the Virtual by Betsy Cheung Pebbles Publications (trade, 363 pages) Publication date: July 2012, USA	The Twelve by Justin Cronin Ballantine Books (hc, 570 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 16 October 2012, USA Sequel to The Passage. SF Site review of The Passage
The Fallen Boys by Aaron Dries Samhain Publishing (trade, 304 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 2 October 2012, USA	Forge of Darkness: The Kharkanas Trilogy, Book 1 by Steven Erikson Bantam Press (hc, 663 pages) Publication date: 31 July 2012, UK & Canada
The President's Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth Hodder (trade, 337 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 30 August 2012, UK	Captive Dreams by Michael Flynn Phoenix Pick, Arc Manor (trade, 264 pages) Publication date: 2012, USA
Cuttlefish by Dave Freer Pyr (hc, 299 pages) Publication date: 17 July 2012, USA For readers 12 and up.	Fable: Edge of the World by Christie Golden Del Rey, Ballantine (trade, 247 pages) Publication date: 21 August 2012, USA & Canada
Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel Del Rey, Ballantine (trade, 487 pages) Publication date: 14 August 2012, USA & Canada	Empty Space by M. John Harrison Gollancz (trade, 303 pages) Publication date: 19 July 2012, UK
Approaching the Hunger Games Trilogy: A Literary and Cultural Analysis by Tom Henthorne McFarland (trade, 206 pages) Publication date: July 2012, USA	The Broken Ones by Stephen M. Irwin Doubleday (hc, 356 pages) Publication date: 7 August 2012, USA & Canada
Thieftaker by D.B. Jackson Tor (hc, 333 pages) Publication date: 3 July 2012, USA & Canada SF Site review	Sacrifice by Russell James Samhain Publishing (trade, 280 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 6 November 2012, USA
Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce Doubleday (hc, 310 pages) Publication date: 10 July 2012, USA	Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing edited by Sandra Kasturi & Halli Villegas ChiZine Publications (trade, 375 pages) Publication date: 31 July 2012, USA & Canada
Wreckers Gate: The Devastation Wars, Book 1 by Eric T. Knight Eric T. Knight (trade, 296 pages) Publication date: May 2012, USA	Stormdancer: The Lotus War, Book 1 by Jay Kristoff Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press (hc, 336 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 18 September 2012, USA & Canada
A Fantasy Medley 2 edited by Yanni Kuznia Subterranean Press (hc, 160 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 30 November 2012, USA Original stories by Tanya Huff, Amanda Downum, Jasper Kent, and Seanan McGuire.	Crimson Rain by Tex Leiko World Castle Publishing (trade, 283 pages) Publication date: 1 July 2012, USA
The Toadhouse Trilogy, Book One by Jess Lourey Toadhouse Books (trade, 300 pages) Publication date: 1 August 2012, USA	Unforgettable by Paul McComas Walkabout Publishing (trade, 474 pages) Publication date: June 2011, USA
Quantum Coin by E.C. Myers Pyr (hc, 325 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): October 2012, USA	Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy edited by Mary M. Pharr & Leisa A. Clark McFarland (trade, 266 pages) Publication date: July 2012, USA
The Rings of Time: The Early Years Revised by M.C. Pollack Inline Team Press (trade, 267 pages) Publication date: July 2012, USA	The Ursa Major Awards Anthology: A Tenth Anniversary Celebration edited by Fred Patten FurPlanet Publications (trade, 352 pages) Publication date: 15 July 2012, USA
Tomorrow the Killing by Daniel Polansky Hodder & Stoughton (hc, 360 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 11 October 2012, UK	Miss Felicity Beedle's The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett Doubleday (illustrated hc, 118 pages) Publication date: 2012, UK & Canada
Bogfoke by Michael Nicholas Richard Michael Nicholas Richard (trade, 293 pages) Publication date: June 2012, USA	Jack Glass by Adam Roberts Gollancz (hc, 373 pages) Publication date: 27 July 2012, UK
The Epiphanist by William Rosencrans William Rosencrans (trade, 356 pages) Publication date: June 2012, USA	Malevolent by David Searls Samhain Publishing (trade, 296 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 6 November 2012, USA
The Best of Robert Silverberg: Stories of Six Decades by Robert Silverberg Subterranean Press (hc, 728 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 30 November 2012, USA	When the Blue Shift Comes by Robert Silverberg & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Stellar Guild Series, Phoenix Pick (trade, 190 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 15 November 2012, USA
The Eighth Witch by Maynard Sims Samhain Publishing (trade, 304 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 6 November 2012, USA	The Chocolatier's Wife by Cindy Lynn Speer Dragonwell Publishing (trade, 265 pages) Publication date: 2012, USA
Apollo's Outcasts by Allen Steele Pyr, Prometheus Books (hc, 312 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): November 2012, USA	Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing by Neal Stephenson William Morrow (hc, 326 pages) Publication date: 2012, USA
Magazines Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August 2012, USA, edited by Gordon Van Gelder Contributors to this issue include: Kate Wilhelm, Matthew Hughes, Matthew Johnson, Rachel Pollack, Albert E. Cowdrey, Eleanor Arnason, Jeffrey Ford, Michaele Jordan, Ken Liu.	Interzone, #241, July-August 2012, UK, edited by Andy Cox, et al. Contributors to this issue include: Sean McMullen, Aliette de Bodard, David Ira Cleary, Gareth L. Powell, C.J. Paget, plus an interview with Juliet E. McKenna.
Science Fiction Trails, #8, 2012, USA, edited by David B. Riley Contributors to this issue include: Lou Antonelli, William R.D. Wood, Sam Kepfield, Raymond Broadbeard, Matthew Baugh, James Wymore, Henrik Ramsager, C.J. Killmer, David B. Riley.

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