SF Site New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

New Arrivals
compiled by Neil Walsh
Plenty of intriguing new titles have arrived at the SF Site lately, including the latest from Bruce Sterling, Alexander Irvine, John Meaney, Stephen Hunt, Kit Whitfield, Tom Piccirilli, and many others.

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

New & Forthcoming Books - Mid-February 2009

Made to be Broken by Kelley Armstrong Bantam (mm, 399 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 3 March 2009, USA	1942 by Robert Conroy Ballantine (trade, 368 pages) Publication date: 24 February 2009, USA & Canada Alternate history -- this time the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was rather more successful...
Crystal Nights and Other Stories by Greg Egan Subterranean Press (hc, 312 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 29 August 2009, USA	Slathbog's Gold: Adventurers Wanted, Book 1 by M.L. Forman Shadow Mountain (hc, 400 pages) Publication date: February 2009, USA Young adult fantasy, for readers 10 and up.
Arch Wizard: Falconfar, Book 2 by Ed Greenwood Solaris, BL Publishing (hc, 381 pages) Publication date: February 2009, USA & Canada Sequel to Dark Lord.	The Fires of Shalsha by John Michael Greer Starseed Publications (trade, 242 pages) Publication date: January 2009, USA
Reading Science Fiction edited by James Gunn, Marleen S. Barr & Matthew Candelaria Palgrave Macmillan (trade, 265 pages) Publication date: 2009, USA Essays by Gregory Benford, Mark Bould, Orson Scott Card, Michael Cassutt, Roberto de Sousa Causo, Jeanne Cortiel, R. Doug Davis, Jane Donawerth, Carl Freedman, H. Bruce Franklin, Brooks Landon, Joseph D. Miller, Eric S. Rabkin, Pamela Sargent, Brian Stableford, Bruce Sterling, Sherryl Vint, Lisa Yazek, and George Zebrowski.	The Rise of the Iron Moon by Stephen Hunt HarperVoyager (hc, 455 pages) Publication date: 16 February 2009, UK From the author of, and set in the same world as, The Court of the Air (2007) and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves (2008).
Buyout by Alexander C. Irvine Del Rey (trade, 336 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 31 March 2009, USA & Canada	A World Without Divide: The Night Sarah Came Home by William Joseph Sense of Wonder Press, James A. Rock & Co. (trade, 312 pages) Publication date: 2008, USA
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Three edited by George Mann Solaris, BL Publishing (mm, 416 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): March 2009, USA & Canada Featuring new stories from Jack Skillingstead, Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, John Meaney, Paul Di Philippo, Warren Hammond, Ian Whates, Scott Edelman, Paul Cornell, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Pelland, Daniel Abraham, Ian Watson, Tim Akers, and Ken MacLeod. SF Site Review of Volume 1	Dark Haven: Chronicles of the Necromancer by Gail Z. Martin Solaris, BL Publishing (mm, 607 pages) Publication date: January 2009, USA & Canada SF Site Review of Book 2, The Blood King
Blood and Ice by Robert Masello Bantam Spectra (hc, 512 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 3 March 2009, USA & Canada	Black Blood by John Meaney Bantam Spectra(hc, 374 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 3 March 2009, USA & Canada
Hater by David Moody Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press (hc, 288 pages) Publication date: 19 February 2009, USA & Canada	The Coldest Mile by Tom Piccirilli Bantam (mm, 337 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 3 March 2009, USA & Canada
Spell Games by T.A. Pratt Bantam Spectra (mm, 337 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 3 March 2009, USA & Canada	The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick Del Rey, Ballantine (hc, 455 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 28 April 2009, USA
End of the Century by Chris Roberson Pyr, Prometheus Books (trade, 485 pages) Publication date: 17 February 2009, USA	Three Unbroken by Chris Roberson Solaris, BL Publishing (mm, 415 pages) Publication date: February 2009, USA & Canada A novel of the Celestial Empire, following The Dragon's Nine Sons and Iron Jaw and Hummingbird.
Cloak of Magic: Shaihen Heritage, Book 1 by S.A. Rule Bright Pen, Authors OnLine (trade, 336 pages) Publication date: February 2006, UK	Staff of Power: Shaihen Heritage, Book 2 by S.A. Rule Vanguard Press (trade, 340 pages) Publication date: 12 January 2009, UK
Metatropolis edited by John Scalzi Subterranean Press (hc, 264 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 30 July 2009, USA Featuring original stories from Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, John Scalzi, and Karl Schroeder.	The Crystal Skull by Manda Scott Bantam (mm, 464 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 3 March 2009, USA
The Better to Hold You by Alisa Sheckley Del Rey, Ballantine (mm, 336 pages) Publication date: 24 February 2009, USA & Canada Paranormal romance.	Hope's Folly by Linnea Sinclair Bantam (mm, 448 pages) Publication date (forthcoming): 3 March 2009, USA & Canada
The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling Del Rey, Ballantine (hc, 297 pages) Publication date: 24 February 2009, USA & Canada	In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield Jonathan Cape (hc, 342 pages) Publication date: February 2009, UK
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente Bantam Spectra (trade, 384 pages) Publication date: 24 February 2009, USA & Canada
Magazines Electric Velocipede, Winter 2008, USA, edited by John Klima Contributors to this issue include: Olivia V. Ambrogio, Jayme Lynn Blaschke, Terry Bramlett, Corey Brown, Sheila Crosby, Aliette De Bodard, Catherine Edmunds, Catherine Dybiec Holm, Robert J. Howe, David G. Kopaska-Merkel, Claude Lalumière, Shira Lipkin, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Michael Neal Morris, Michelle Muenzler, Timothy Mulcahy, Patrick O'Leary, Penelope O'Shea, Rachel V. Oliver, Erin Pringle, Terrie Lee Relf, Alistair Rennie, J.C. Runolfson, Patricia Russo, Rena Sherwood, William Shunn, Darren Speegle, Rachel Swirsky, Leslie Claire Walker, Jonathan Wood.

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