SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

What books released or to be released this year are you looking forward to?

On top of my list is the penultimate Riftwar book, A Crown Imperiled, which I get next week thanks to being Australian :P

Also on my list is The Blinding Knife, The Daylight War (which may be pushed back to 2013 :( ) and hopefully a new Discworld book.

Otherwise I have no idea what else will be released this year.

Oh, well I just found The Long Earth is coming out this year so it goes on the list too.

All about Emily
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: Tales of Gaslight Fantasy
The Nightmare Garden
A Perfect Blood
A Rising Thunder
Crucible Of Gold
Black Heart
The Best of Kage Baker
Shine
Flora's Fury
Whispers Under Ground
Worldsoul
Blackout
Jack Glass
Sorry Please Thank You: Stories
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

There are things on here that will probably get added to the list of things I will at least want to take a look at, but I am too lazy to add them right now.

And from outside the SF/F genres: The Garden Intrigue, The FitzOsbornes at War, Moomin Every Day: Tove and Lars Jansson and the Creation of the Moomin Comic Strip.

I'm looking forward to the following this year:

The Wind Through the Keyhole
Dr. Sleep (if it makes it out in 2012)
A Memory of Light
The Republic of Thieves
Kitty Steals the Show
Spartacus: Morituri
The Twelve: A Novel
The Straits of Galahesh
Armored
Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

Realized I left one book off the list — The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There.

I mostly prefer SF over F, but I am definitely looking forward to The Daylight War, except it looks like it's been pushed back to February 2013. But the previous two books in that series are some of the best Fantasy I've read in a while. At some point I'll read the sequel to The Passage (The Twelve: A Novel), but I'm not sure it will be this year.

Chris wrote: "I'm looking forward to the following this year:


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Those both look cool. I'm a fan of Scalzi and I like what he did with the Fuzzies, so I'm on-board for his take on thinly-disguised Star Trek. And Armored could be good. I'm always up for some fun short stories.

Following the links to Amazon, I noticed that Man-Kzin Wars XIII is coming out May 1st. Some of the Man-Kzin books have been rather dodgy, but overall I like the series.

I enjoyed Leviathan Wakes enough that I want to see what happens next. June 26th.

It looks like the 7th "Destroyermen" novel called Iron Gray Sea will come out on July 3rd. I really did not like the 6th book much at all, but the previous 5 were a lot of fun, so I'll be getting this one.

Ah, forgot about Caliban's War, thanks for the reminder.

Looking through Tor's upcoming releases, I see that David Brin has a new book coming soon.

One that looks quite interesting to me, though, is Energized by Edward Lerner. He's been writing those "Ringworld prequels" that are well-written but utterly pointless in the same way the Star Wars movies were. However, he does seem to be a good writer, so I'll give this one a go.

I always go here to see upcoming book releases
Upcoming4.me Upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy releases

This year I want to get all the Mariner re-issues of Philip K Dick.

As for the new one, I'm definitely up for The Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear.

I've read it in serialized form and it's brilliant.

Railsea - China Miéville
The Drowned Cities - Paolo Bacigalupi (if I manage to read Ship Breaker #1 first, that is ;))
Range of Ghosts - Elizabeth Bear
The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett
Zero Point - Neal Asher
+ the second book of Fairyland by Cat Valente, of course.

I'll very likely read the new Sookie Stackhouse novel and since I'll devote a chunk of the year to re-reading WOT, I'm sure I'll pick up A Memory of Light at some point too (provided it's actually released come autumn).

The Master of Heathcrest Hall

I just found that this is coming out in a couple months ... it's the end of a trilogy I've been following, so, no reason not to.

Oh, and also the anthology Wilful Impropriety, from Ekaterina Sedia. It has an excellent lineup of contributors.

Crucible Of Gold
Blackout

Only those 2 so far for series that I actively keep up (and am completely caught up) with. I know of some books that are coming out later this year for series that I've only read the 1st in the lineup or for ones that I plan to start and haven't gotten around to yet.

So much to read, so little time...

I'm looking forward to continuing these series:

When We Were Executioners
Boneyards
The Twelve: A Novel

Has C.J. Cherryh's Intruder been listed yet? It's coming out in March - the latest in her Foreigner series.

I'm looking forward to:

Whispers Under Ground, Ben Aaronovitch
The King's Blood, Daniel Abraham
Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (reading it now and it's great)
The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi
Caliban's War, James SA Corey
KOP Killer, Warren Hammond
Rapture, Kameron Hurley
Railsea, China Mieville
The Fractal Prince, Hannu Rajaniemi

Chris wrote: "Spartacus: Morituri

I was interested in this until I heard Paul Kearney had been dropped and the book is now being written by someone called Mark Morris. No idea why this happened.

Well, that kinda sucks about Kearney.

The Seed of Salys Kon by Jay Condon
Rebel Guns of Alpha Centauri by John Bowers

I'm not looking forward to anyway. Probably over summer I'll look up what I've missed.

Fantasy/Romance book just released. The Airith Saga

‎"Love is selflessly giving your breath away to allow someone else to breathe.”

Very much looking forward to Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel by Tim Powers which is coming out March 13. It takes place in the same world as The Stress of Her Regard about 50 years after the events of that book. Though according to the author you won't have to have read Stress to read the new one.

Trike wrote: "I mostly prefer SF over F, but I am definitely looking forward to The Daylight War, except it looks like it's been pushed back to February 2013. But the previous two books in that se..."

Here's a competition to win advance copies of his new book Redshirts!

John Scalzi Redshirts Competition Upcoming4.me

The only books I ever look forward to are Dresden. Everything else i tend to just happen upon when they get released.

The Brides of Rollrock Island and Black Opera.

It seems that new Greg Egan is coming out in September!
It is the second book in Orthogonal series. First one was brilliant!

Here's the press release.

i'm interested in The Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear

I'm looking forward for and I can't explain how much I love Tris and Four in this book, I love the adventure they do together. This series is powerful and intimidating.

Apparently there's new Terry Pratchett coming!!
Hooray!

Terry Pratchett announces Dodger, novel set in Victorian era

All about Emily
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: Tales of Gaslight Fantasy
Crucible Of Gold
Black Heart
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
The Great Game
Range of Ghosts
Fair Game
Discount Armageddon
The Calling
Casket of Souls
Redshirts: A Novel with Three CodasElfhome
Devil's Wake
The Wild Road: Book Three of KaravansKitty Steals the Show
The Diviners
The books I want to read this year (that are also on GR now) from the Locus list...

Here's a list of book release dates from Orbit:


January 2012:
Heir of Novron by Michael J. Sullivan
Seven Princes by John R. Fultz
Silver-Tongued Devil by Jaye Wells
Percepliquis by Michael J. Sullivan


February 2012:
Chasing the Moon by A. Lee Martinez
The Dread by Gail Z. Martin
The Fourth Wall by Walter Jon Williams
The Troupe by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron

March 2012
Exogene by T.C. McCarthy
The Minority Council by Kate Griffin
Timeless by Gail Carriger
Kingdoms of Dust by Amanda Downum
Emperor Mollusk vs. the Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez
The Outcast Blade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

I'm only looking forward to Railsea, but something else will probably blow everyone's mind that I know, and then it will also be something to look forward to. Keep me posted, Kim. You are always a good indication of what I should read.

I'm looking forward to Sworn in Steel by Douglas Hulick - I read Among Thieves before Christmas and loved it.

Nice list - found some possibles to check on. I hope Goodreads folks keep adding. My list is short, so far:
China Miéville - Railsea
Alastair Reynolds - Blue Remembered Earth
Is there one from Peter F. Hamilton?

Yes but I'm looking for quality not quantity. There's a lot on that site but I want to know if it'll be good.

Kim wrote: "Yes but I'm looking for quality not quantity. There's a lot on that site but I want to know if it'll be good."

I suppose you can never know unless you've read it for yourself:)

Kim wrote: There's a lot on that site but I want to know if it'll be good.

Who else can determine that besides you?

Here are ones I'm interested in, either because I've read books by these authors or they look good.



. Goodreads couldn't link "Fictionauts," "Point of Hopes" and "The Humanism of Dr Who."

Now this is cool

Collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill, short story Throttle published

Ric wrote: "Nice list - found some possibles to check on. I hope Goodreads folks keep adding. My list is short, so far:
China Miéville - Railsea
Alastair Reynolds - Blue Remembered Earth
Is there one from Pe..."

Yep, here's new by Peter F Hamilton

Peter F Hamilton's Great North Road cover art and synopsis

I'm really happy about 2 new Charles Stross books

The Apocalypse Codex
Rapture of The Nerds

Manatees wrote: "Ric wrote: "Nice list - ..."

Thanks for the link. Now, I'm excited about 2012!

There's a lot of amazing books I love, release 2012. So here's the list :
Insurgent
City of Lost Souls
Michael Scott Enchantress
and much-much more

Every year I really look forward to a new Jack McDevitt book, and he's got at least one coming this year, so that'll be good.

Beyond that, there's a ton of stuff I'm looking forward to, most of which I won't even end up reading this year, but one particular "drop everything" book is Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi.

Nice list Manatees - thanks for posting.

I am eagerly awaiting this release: Caliban's War

Cool list for this week!

NEW RELEASES IN SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS (WITH COVERS!) - WEEK 28.5 - 3.6

For the fantasy part, list for the next week:
NEW RELEASES IN FANTASY BOOKS (WITH COVERS!) - WEEK 28.5 - 3.6

Too many to list, but I do want to mention a fairly new publisher that has put out some fantastic novels and looks to be publishing a lot more.
Angry Robot Books ( http://angryrobotbooks.com/ )

They publish a variety of genre and seem to have many authors I haven't heard of to date, but are VERY talented.

I enjoy all my favorite authors but I REALLY like to support the new authors as much as I can.

Stranded Angels by Ralph Joseph-Mirani. A delightful twist on an Arabian Nights story:

Ali has a going trading business with three mules to carry his goods. Okay, it’s not making him rich, but he gets along. He’s also got a good wife, a child, and a beautiful slave girl who actually gets along with his wife. Life should be good.

But there are also the thieves who raid the countryside (and trading caravans) and kill anyone who tries to resist.

Oh — and some visitors from space who have a secret cave in the mountains full of strange items … and diamonds, and a problem they want Ali to solve.
Life can be so complicated, but the reward may be tremendous — if Ali can survive.
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I read this when it first came out last week and loved it.

NEW RELEASES IN FANTASY BOOKS (WITH COVERS!) - WEEK 4.6 - 11.6
NEW RELEASES IN SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS (WITH COVERS!) - WEEK 4.6 - 11.6

Scifi/F releases for this week! Some treats here

NEW RELEASES IN FANTASY BOOKS (WITH COVERS!) - WEEK 2.7 - 9.7

NEW RELEASES IN SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS (WITH COVERS!) - WEEK 2.7 - 9.7