Wanted Dispatch March 23rd

This week is pretty big for speculative fiction readers across the spectrum of sub genres. So in the words of the Joker from the Dark Knight here we go....

Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins

Wolfhound Century is one of the books I expect to be on many award lists next year. Comparisons to the weird fiction of China Mieville and Jeff Vandermeer are very apt; Peter Higgins novel of and alternate Stalinist Russia is dense with the weird of Slavic folklore, paranoia and intrigue. It is honestly a hard novel to pigeonhole as any one thing genre wise. The setting is the kind of thing Phillip K Dick would love, dark, moody often gloomy and raining and the range of characters too are akin to those of Dick. This is one that is worth getting in its hard cover version, don't wait a year for the trade version. Curious you can go here to see the moody book trailer and read a bit of this weird thriller police procedural.

Prior to its March 26th release check back for my full review... I got lucky enough to get an ARC to read...

The Good The Bad and The Infernal by Guy Adams

I may have posted about this book last month with all my weird western enthusiasm and it is still right up my interest alley so I'll mention it again. I've known about Guy Adams for a while since I check out what Solaris Books puts out pretty regularly but up till now I have not checked out his work, guess this is the one that has hooked me. I grew up watching The Wild Wild West and really dug the Adventures of Brisco County so when I head the title say the cover, shallow me, and read this I was on board this train. Chek out the blurb for the book and see if its something. You need too.

One day every hundred years, a town appears, its location and character different every time. The town’s name is Wormwood and it is a gateway to heaven itself.

Guy Adams has conjured up a remarkable Steampunk Wild West replete with gunslingers, soldiers of fortune, mechanical menaces and monstrous animals in his first book for Solaris. In The Good, The Bad, and the Infernal, only the brave and resourceful will survive...

Wormwood is due to appear on the 21st September 1889, somewhere in the American Midwest, and travelling preacher Obeisance Hicks and his simple messiah hope to greet Wormwood’s arrival. But so do Henry and Harmonium Jones and their freak show pack of outlaws, the Brothers of the Order of Ruth and their sponsor Lord Forset (inventor of the Forset Thunderpack and other incendiary modes of personal transport), and an aging gunslinger with a dark history.

The Marching Dead by Lee Battersby

This is the sequel to the novel The Corpse of the Rat King. It sounded pretty good in a gritty Joe Abercrombie, Richard Morgan kind of way, you know the blending of sword and sorcery sensibilities with epic fantasy world building. I do like fantasies that lean this way and I'm going to have to backtrack to the first volume sometime but as Angry Robot has the second volume just about out I just might dive in here and hope to find my water wings. Here is the cover copy....

Find the dead a King, save himself, win the love of his life, live happily ever after. No wonder Marius dos Helles is bored. But now something has stopped the dead from, well, dying.

It’s up to Marius, Gerd, and Gerd’s not-dead-enough Granny to journey across the continent and put the dead back in the afterlife where they belong.

The Extinction Machine by Jonathan Mayberry

Several years back I read a great contempory thriller that pitted Joe Ledger against a "zombie plague" version of terrorism and it was pretty excellent all told. The characters were beautifully messed up individuals and the book both made me laugh and creeped me out. Now I've missed the intervening adventures of this paramilitary group but I still like the whole idea and Jonathan Mayberry is a very cool writer so I hope to catch up with old friends with this one. Please go check Jonathn's work out at his website here and he has a piece of short fiction in the first issue of the online horror magazine Nightmare... It's cool and remiscent of IT by King in a very good way.

Solaris Rising 2 edited by Ian Whates

Solaris publishing has been publishing these original short fiction collections since they started in the book making game. The editors choose a great stable of authors to pull from and a good number of the stories either are award winners like Mary Robinette Kowal's Evil Robot Monkey or end up being in one if not more of the years best collections that grace the shelves every year. Ian Whates looks to have again chosen great writers to spotlight both recent favorites and classic among this group. Go take a peek at the great stuff coming from this small publisher, they have never failed to make me feel I got more then my money's worth....

Looking at the few authors spotlighted on the cover; with the likes of Paul Cornell, James Lovegrove, Allen Steele, and epic fantasy author Adrian Tchaikovsky I know this will be good ride.

Black Feathers by Joseph D'Lacey

This novel from Angry Robot has the endorsement of Stephen King so I'm intrigued enough to take a look and black feathers to me calls to mind crows and I like those avian scavengers. Apparently this novel promises to be an modern apocalyptic fable filled with menace and magic. If that and the use of the name King has you intrigued here is the blurb that will tell you a bit more.

It is the Black Dawn, a time of environmental apocalypse, the earth wracked and dying.

It is the Bright Day, a time long generations hence, when a peace has descended across the world.

In each era, a child shall be chosen. Their task is to find a dark messiah known only as the Crowman. But is he our saviour – or the final incarnation of evil?

The Atomic Age by Adam Christopher

Lastly this week I've got another sequel from the people at Angry Robot Books. A little over a year back Adam Christopher's pulp era hero novel Empire State came out, he tagged it with a Creative Commons license to allow people to play in his universe. Now he returns witha second volume. Ill let his blurb sell it but I will say I have a soft spot for both pulp and superhero stories....

The Empire State is dying. The Fissure connecting the pocket universe to New York has vanished, plunging the city into a deep freeze and the populace are demanding a return to Prohibition and rationing as energy supplies dwindle.

Meanwhile, in 1954 New York, the political dynamic has changed and Nimrod finds his department subsumed by a new group, Atoms For Peace, led by the mysterious Evelyn McHale.

As Rad uncovers a new threat to his city, Atoms For Peace prepare their army for a transdimensional invasion. Their goal: total conquest – or destruction – of the Empire State.

I've got some books I mind to spotlight next week... A mix of old and new... Tell me does that appeal to you or should I stick to what will be on the shelves on the Tuesday following the dispatch....

 

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Kickstarting the End....

Bradley P. Beaulieu the author of The Lays of Anuskaya series which started with the Winds of Khalakovo a couple years ago from Nigh Shade Books has made the choice to kickstart the final novel in the series Tje Flames of Shadam Khoreh. Taking the high road on the reason for the break with his publisher he is simple going it on his own and that is admirable. The final book at this point, four days into the campaign, the book is assured in all the forms he has promised - trade paper, eBook and limited edition hard covers so if you are a fan of second world epic fantasy with strong Eastern European influences and all the bells and whistles like maps, appendixes and dramatis personai should take a peek. There are plans to

Though I have a copy of the existing volumes I have yet to dive in and looking again at the reviews about the books I can't imagine anything more up my alley interest wise. People compare it to reading the work of Steven Erikson, in the way readers are plunged head first into the world, and the few that have read it all compare it favorable with GRRM's Game Of Thrones. The little I have read has very much its own feel Bradley is creating something new an totally his won and reviewers say so much that says to me that this can stand well alongside the modern classics.

Here is the link to his kickstarter for this project. You can get the eBook for the final volume pretty cheaply and the complete series for the cost of one trade paperback or a couple of mass market paperbacks these days. At higher levels you can get all the trade versions with consistent cover design or hard covers. He put together a short fiction collection earlier through Kickstarter that I wish I had gotten a chance to support. Thought I'd point your attention this way.

 

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Wanted Dispatch 16 March

Shattered Pillars by Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth easily crosses genre boundaries without using initials or pseudo names; she has done hard SF, historical fantasies of differing types and now a second world fantasy based on the Silk Road. The first novel in this series, Range of Ghosts, is one that has been on my ever growing must read list and that is based on how much I loved the series that started with the award winning Hammered.

You can go here to read and sample chapter and below is the cover copy about the book.

Set in a world drawn from our own great Asian Steppes, this saga of magic, politics and war sets Re-Temur, the exiled heir to the great Khagan and his friend Sarmarkar, a Wizard of Tsarepheth, against dark forces determined to conquer all the great Empires along the Celedon Road.

Elizabeth Bear is an astonishing writer, whose prose draws you into strange and wonderful worlds, and makes you care deeply about the people and the stories she tells. The world of The Eternal Sky is broadly and deeply created—her award-nominated novella, “Bone and Jewel Creatures” is also set there.

 

 

Curve of the Earth by Simon Morden

One of the series I had hoped to get into last year was the Metrozone trilogy starring the character Samuil Petrovitch and sadly it fell through the inevitable cracks between all the other great reads that came out. Orbit publishing has now collected that into one volume and will be adding to it next week. Here is the information about the original and a teaser about the new book Curve of the Earth.

Welcome to the Metrozone – post-apocalyptic London of the future. Whilst the rest of Britain has devolved to anarchy, the M25 cordon protects a decaying city filled with homeless refugees, street gangs, exiled yakuza, crooked cops and mad cults. And something else; something new and dangerous.

An action-packed new science fiction thriller set in the world of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning Samuil Petrovitch novels

Welcome to the Metrozone – the post-apocalyptic London of the future, complete with homeless refugees, vicious street gangs and mad cults. A dangerous city needs an equally dangerous saviour: step forward Samuil Petrovitch, a Russian émigré with a genius-level intellect, extensive cybernetic replacements, a built-in AI with god-like capabilities and a full armoury of Russian swear words. Brilliant, selfish and cocky, he’s dragged the city back from the brink more than once – and made a few enemies on the way.

So when his adopted daughter Lucy goes missing in Alaska, he has a good idea who’s responsible and why. It never occurs to him that there’s a chance he could be wrong, and looking for one woman on the dark, frozen slopes of the far north could tip the delicate balance of nuclear-armed nations.

This time it’s not a city of twenty-five million that needs rescuing: it’s the world . . .

Here is a link to the book with an extract for your reading pleasure.

Ghostland Past Dark by Chandler Klang Smith.

I don't know much about the author beyond the blurb for the book that I will post below. I like a bit of weird and horror to the fiction I read and ChiZine publishing is one of the smaller publishers that choose great stuff to put in print. Their books cover many sub genres but all have a touch of the twisted about them from the westerns of Gemma Files to the collections of genre bending short fiction. If you order the physical editions of the books directly from the most include an eBook for you while you wait for the real thing. Here is the blurb that attracted my attention to this novel.

A hostile stranger is hunting Dr. Show’s ramshackle travelling circus across 1960s America. His target: the ringmaster himself. Struggling to elude the menace, Dr. Show scraps his ambitious itinerary; ticket sales plummet, and nothing but disaster looms. The troupe’s unravelling hopes fall on their latest and most promising recruit, Webern Bell, a sixteen-year- old hunchbacked midget devoted obsessively to perfecting the surreal clown performances that come to him in his dreams. But as they travel through a landscape of abandoned amusement parks and rural ghost towns, Webern’s bizarre past starts to pursue him, as well.

Along the way, we meet Nepenthe, the seductive Lizard Girl; Brunhilde, a shell-shocked bearded lady; Marzipan, a world-weary chimp; a cabal of drunken, backstabbing clowns; Webern’s uncanny sisters, witchy dogcatchers who speak only in rhymes; and his childhood friend, Wags, who may or may not be imaginary, and whose motives are far more sinister than they seem.

Queen Victoria's Book of Spells edited by Elled Datlow and Terry Windling

I'm kind of a fool for short story collections and particularly ones that promise to be magical alternate history. This collections has the second element that draws my attention, a plethora of women writers including some my favorite short fiction authors; Catherynne M Valente, Theodra Goss, Delia Sherman and the author of another book on my wanted list Elizabeth Bear.

Tor.com has been covering the stories in this volume wetting my appetite to get a copy here is a link to one of those posts.

Next weeks dispatch looks to be quite long and one book may just get a full review this next week.....

 

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Wanted Dispatch March 9

This week I've got a little bit of this a little of that... Some if its been out a couple weeks the rest coming on the twelfth....

Zachary Jernigan's novel No Return has gotten so many good author blurbs and recommendations; I have faith that it will live up to all this praise and have hopes to love it as much as they did. It's an epic fantasy book that some people compare to Dune in the world building, see what I mean of high praise. Elizabeth Hand quoted on the cover mentions one of my favorite series of books by Gene Wolfe too, that being the Book of the New Sun; I pretty much have to buy it based on those two comparisons the only classic missing is the Amber books of Zelazney.

Here is the link to his site. The author last month ran a giveaway that I entered and for the people who did not win he got a consolation prize that was cool also - that being a e-book of Scourge of the Betrayer by Jeff Salyards which is also pretty cool (I read part of it as an ARC).

Here is the cover copy of this audacious sounding novel

On Jeroun, there is no question as to whether God exists, only what his intentions are. Under the judgment of Adrash and his ultimate weapon, a string of spinning spheres, warring factions of white and black suits prove their opposition to the orbiting god with the great fighting tournament of Danoor. From the Thirteenth Order of Black Suits comes Vedas, a master of martial arts, Churls, a warrior woman and mercenary and Berun, a constructed man made of modular spheres possessed by the foul spirit of his creator. On the other side of the world Ebn and Pol of the Royal Outbound Mages have formed a plan to appease Adrash and bring peace to the planet. Ebn and Pol each have their own clandestine agendas, which may call down the wrath of the very god they hope to woo.

The book that I am reading at the moment reminds me of reading Parcival. This is an epic fantasy novel set firmly in a medieval European history. It has all the things that do it for me when it comes to historical fantasy, references to enough hat feels real to root me in the era; Miles calls to mid the images of knights in dented tarnished armor and foul talking men at arms and archers. This novel is full of bloody battles that somehow ar at the same time gritty and grim but never descends into antihero fiction.

The red night is the story of men versus the "wild" and it is filled, as most of my favorite stories are, with broken flawed characters as much at war with themselves as they are with the "wild" that is the enemy. The Red Knight feels like Arthurian myth and after lots of second world fantasy mayshaps this is the book I needed to encounter... and though I am reading an arc I consider it among my wanted.

Here is a link to the Traitor's Son series website where there I apparently some free fiction and a lot of other cool looking content.

If I were to choose a genre for this month and stick to it it might just be Urban Fantasy. Last year I read an awesome UF novel that could have been written by James Ellroy or Jim Thompson; it was called City of the Lost by Stephen Blackmoore. In February this year another novel snuck out hat I might have missed. This novel looks to be another anti-hero pulp action romp but not with a new take on zombie that was City.

This time around his player is a necromancer bounty hunter and it reads with the same umph and power as the tale of Joe Sunday coming to terms with his new status quo. I think I forgot how much I like crime fiction. If you like a little anti with your hero you need to read either City of the Lost or Dead Things.

As always here is the link to the authors website and I know there are some free and addictive chapters available there to entice you in.

Dana Cameron's Seven Kinds of Hell is another of the UF offerings if this year and this one hits next Tuesday the 12th. I am unfamiliar with her fiction but I'm willing to give it a chance, she has a long publishing history in the short fiction market with this same UF world. Check out the cover copy to see if its something you might want to look at....

Here's the story: When archaeologist Zoe Miller's cousin is abducted by a vicious Russian "businessman," she must come to grips with a haunting secret: unknown to even her closest of friends, Zoe is not entirely human. She is a werwolf and the daughter of the "Fangborn," a secret race of werewolves, vampires, and oracles.

Here is a link to her website for you to tak a look. I have to admit the pretty cover is the hook that has got me but some times covers do not lie about how good a book is.

In terms on science fiction this last week saw the release of M John Harrison's Empty Space hat continues the story of the rich universe that he began with the amazing novel Light and continued in the equally cool Nova Swing. Harrison writes science fiction hat explores both the depths of his characters and the philosophical depths of the massive and imaginative worlds he dreams up. He is very much in my mind one of the writers who was a big influence on the crazy weird that inspired China Mieville. For me reading his fiction is like returning to my teens and encountering the mind expanding science fiction/fantasy of Gene Wolfe. Here is the copy that Night Shade has on their website for the book :

One of science fiction’s premiere stylists, M. John Harrison has received abundant praise and awards for his wildly imaginative ideas and transcendent prose. Now he returns to the richly complex universe of Light and Nova Swing with a stunning new novel that braids three glittering strands into a tapestry that spans vast reaches of time and space:

In the near future, an elderly English widow is stirred from her mundane existence by surreal omens and visitations.

Centuries later, the space freighter Nova Swing takes on an illegal alien artifact as cargo, with consequences beyond reckoning.

While on a distant planet, a nameless policewoman tries to bring order to an event zone where ordinary physics do not apply, only to find herself caught up in something even stranger and more sublime. . . .

Ill leave you with hat for the week and a tentative promise that there are reviews on the way....

 

 

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Wanted Feb. 2nd update

Caitlín R Kiernan yesterday was able to reveal that she shares the 2013 Tiptree award with Kiini Ibura Salaam for her short story collection Ancient, Ancient. Caitlín's novel The Drowned Girl with its unreliable narrator Imp has won one of the more respected awards for speculative fiction. The Tiptree is an award for writing that expands and explores gender, relationships, mores and social issues the come with come with that topic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaan is a book I read about in the summer or autumn last year and was one of the books I was thinking of finding before the corvid in my was distracted by another shiny but the cover, description and the exotic name of the writer stayed with me. Here is the blurb from the Tiptree site.

In Ancient, Ancient, Kiini Ibura Salaam’s startling stories combine science fiction, fantasy, and mythology in a sensuous exploration of what it means to live while struggling to define self and other. Salaam’s language is poetic and sensuous — a unique and original voice. The stories are ambitious and challenging, demonstrating excellent range in both storytelling style and imagery, from the mundane to the fully fantastical. Salaam is particularly interested in agency in oppressive social realities and explores how oppression works on our gendered bodies.

 

 

The rest of the list of nominees cover books I have recently mentioned and have been on my to read list here is a link to the Tiptree site.

And here is a list of the short listers: Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear, Rituals by Roz Kaveney's, Up Against It by M.J. Locke, 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson ( another Nebula Nominee) , Jagannath Stories by Karin Tidbeck, Firebrand by Ankaret Wells, and the short story "The Receptionist by Lesley Wheeler from the collection The Receptionist and Other Tales. I spent some time checking out the ones I knew nothing about last night and I'm pretty interested I reading all of them and well I have read bits of Jagannath which is excellent.

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Sunday Comics....

So just so you know I'm old enough to recall when the Sunday comics meant Blooms County and Calvin and Hobbs. I think that new comics day superhero wise was Tuesdays before it was Wednesday... Anyway old home day over on to the main show....

If you are not reading the blog The Savage Critics, never had the pleasure to know Brian Hibbs or the people at Comics Experience or Amazing Fantasy in San Francisco let me tell you about one of the best books in comics at the moment. It's. Matt Fraction's Hawkeye. I am so glad that I read columns by Brian Hibbs that broke my Marvel boycott a half dozen months ago and checked out Hawkeye.

I loved the character during the eighties and nineties having followed his mini series, the long run he had as the leader of the West Coast Avengers and well I followed him through good writers and bad. Lots of bad to be honest. This title redeems all that. This is Clint Barton when he's not an Avenger, its him training someone and being a good guy, a good neighbor and friend. I like Climt and would love to call this guy a buddy and I'd offer him a Caucasian if he dropped by for a movie or something. Here is the column by Brian that got me to check it out. Oh and it's one of those usually done in one Comice that just don't happen much these days. Oh and the art is always pretty sexy.

 

Immonen's Journey into Mystery is another reason why we need more women writing comics. The story she has been telling following Sif the old female back up character for Thor is so bloody entertaining in this new book. The very pretty art does not hurt either but the story here focusing on the very driven and very tough heroine. Journey, though set firmly in the Marvel universe, is very much a sword and sorcery comic that does not flinch at bloody minded adventures and has lots more in common with Conan comics then it does with its superhero brethren.

Journey into Mystery has all the things I want from a fantasy comic; multiple realms and realities, magical portholes, giants, berserkers, gods, seers, magic and lots and lots of swordplay and blood, not all of it red. This is a bargin for 2.99 a month and I for one hope its getting sales to warrant it a long run. Looking into the future solicits it seems a second Thor background character will be appearing soon, the one time alien who could life Thor's hammer....

 

 

These two books could not be much more different Hawkeye is about Clint Barton living his life in small ways and JiM is about Sif living loudly and with bold and reckless choices....

 

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Wanted March 2nd

Ok this seems to be the dispatch that I'm most like to get out weekly so welcome to the weekly post there at deadwood... The Wanted Column and my spotlight on the Nebula Nominees and some new books...

Due to my absolute enjoyment of the Alabaster graphic novel (reviewed here) and the fun I've had starting to read The Red Tree and the preview chapters of Blood Oranges I'm very interested in getting a copy of The Drowning Girl. Caitlín Kiernan is the kind of crossover writer somewhere between fantasy and horror that is really up my alley these days; maybe I played too much Call of Cthulhu in the day and watched too much Twilight Zone as a child.

 

Here is what Brit Mandello of Tor.com has to say about it and here is a short bit of cover copy....

India Morgan Phelps-Imp to her friends-is schizophrenic. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about her encounters with creatures out of myth-or from something far, far stranger...

Maybe its just me.... I have some existential issues but I hope to get a copy soon...

Tina Connolly is not a name I'm familiar with but I do recall the striking cover of this novel and the idea of a "Woman in the Iron Mask" novel is attractive to me so I'll likely try to get a reading copy of this at some point soon. Again now with the cover copy;

Jane Eliot wears an iron mask.

It's the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain -- the ironskin.

When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a "delicate situation" -- a child born during the Great War -- Jane is certain the child is fey-cursed, and that she can help.

Teaching the unruly Dorie suppress her curse is hard enough; she certainly didn't expect to fall for the girl's father, the enigmatic artist Edward Rochart. But her blossoming crush is stifled by her own scars, and by his parade of women. Ugly women, who enter his closed studio...and come out as beautiful as the fey.

Jane knows Rochart cannot love her, just as she knows that she must wear iron for the rest of her life. But what if neither of these things is true? Step by step Jane unlocks the secrets of her new life -- and discovers just how far she will go to become whole again.

Ever since the short story "Evil Robot Monkey" and learning that Mary worked on the puppet-centric kids show Lazy Town that I and my girlfriend watched in Belgin while house-sitting in Holland I've been a fan. Mary also is one of the four writers that works on the podcast Writing Excuses which I'm pretty much addicted to since I hope to write something worth reading someday. Glamour in Glass is her second novel and a sequel to her first novel Shades of milk and Honey which she would pitch thusly : "this is the novel Jane Austen would have written if there was magic in the world"

Theses are not my normal grin gritty noir likes, oh she can write that but its nice to read something out of my element sometimes and her research into the real early 1800 brings this alternate history a lot of realism.

 

N.K. Jemisin is an author I have known I need to read for a couple of years having heard other authors sing the praises of her first series that started with the novel "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms". I've had a copy of that novel for a while now and have yet to make the time to read it and here comes another series by her and look the first one is nominated for the Nebula. Me I'm guessing its time I read her work rather then reading her great posts and comments on Facebook. ... Here is the cover copy of it for you :

The city burned beneath the Dreaming Moon.

In the ancient city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. Upon its rooftops and amongst the shadows of its cobbled streets wait the Gatherers – the keepers of this peace. Priests of the dream-goddess, their duty is to harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to heal, soothe . . . and kill those judged corrupt.

But when a conspiracy blooms within Gujaareh’s great temple, Ehiru – the most famous of the city’s Gatherers – must question everything he knows. Someone, or something, is murdering dreamers in the goddess’ name, stalking its prey both in Gujaareh’s alleys and the realm of dreams. Ehiru must now protect the woman he was sent to kill – or watch the city be devoured by war and forbidden magic.

Though not as outrageously and fittingly pulp as the original cover here is the one I kinda hope gets the nod from the judges this year. Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon is probably my favorite read from last years stack that I got through. I really did love his mix of older seasoned retired heroes and a new generation of adventurers in this book, maybe it was growing up with my grandparents or maybe it was Saladin's obvious love of the heroic traditions he was drawing from but I have nothing to say but if you love fantasy heroic adventures and are wanting a new voice here is the one I'd suggest. It's not as sprawling and doorstopish as some but its more heart poured into it then many multi volume sagas.

Here is my review of the book from several months back, I hope I did it justice.

 

 

 

 

 

So that's all of that for the moment.... I'm going to hit the collections and YA book up for the award next week.... I will be covering some of this next weeks releases later in the week but I have to do this today...

 

The second InCryptid novel from Seanan McGuire comes out this next Tuesday and may be on store shelves already. Seanan writes so many different genres and does them all well and anyone interested in good adventure fiction pretty much can't go wrong with her books. Here is the cover copy for the first novel Discount Armageddon and this one for you to check out:

Discount Armageddon (March 6th 2012, DAW) introduces us to Verity Price, journeyman cryptozoologist, ballroom dancer, and former reality television star. She's on assignment in Manhattan, researching the local cryptid community while she pursues her dance career. It's a cushy job...at least until local cryptids start disappearing, and all signs start pointing to a man from the Covenant of St. George. But is Dominic De Luca really to blame? And if she casts her suspicions in the wrong place, is she going to survive the experience?

Midnight Blue-Light Special (March 5th 2013, DAW) takes us back to Manhattan, where Verity Price is finishing her journeyman assignment, and starting to wonder what she's going to do with the rest of her life. It's a complicated question, made harder by all the things she's trying to juggle. Does she want to be a dancer, a cryptozoologist, or something else altogether? Where does Dominic De Luca fit into her future? And what's all this about a Covenant purge? It's going to take some pretty fancy footwork to survive this dance number, much less get the winning score...

And so that was a lot but there is so much good stuff coming out this month that I hope to post more of these then just the Saturday dispatches .... Take care all...

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