New Releases
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The following books will be released this week:
The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction by Gene Wolfe
Tor Books. (ISBN: 978-0765321350) Hardcover. Length: 480pp
In these 31 self-selected stories, Wolfe mixes pulp adventure, ghost stories and noir with self-reference, meta-fiction, unreliable narrators and puns. His protagonists faces threats both modern (political correctness in “Petting Zoo,” corporate capitalism in “Hour of Trust”) and eternal (sexual temptation in “Bed and Breakfast”) and learn to trust fantasy over fact (”The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories,” “And When They Appear”). The result is a highly flattering career retrospective of a postmodern fabulist disguised as a mild-mannered SF writer. March 17
Imager: The First Book of the Imager Portfolio by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
Tor Books. (ISBN: 978-0765320346) Hardcover. Length: 432pp
Apprentice portraitist Rhennthyl finds out the hard way that he has the magical ability called Imaging: an explosion kills his master right after Rhenn wishes for just such an event. Rhenn’s ability, which allows him to form objects from thin air and slay with a glance, appears to be quite strong, and he begins training as a covert operative. Just when he starts to relax into his new career, an unknown assassin tries to kill him. March 17
The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint
Tor Books. (ISBN: 978-0765317568) Hardcover. Length: 272pp
Altagracia – her friends call her Grace – works at Sanchez Motorworks, customizing hot rods. Finding the line in a classic car is her calling. Now Grace has to find the line in her own life. A few blocks around the Alverson Arms is all her world — from the little grocery store where she buys beans, tamales, and cigarettes (“cigarettes can kill you,” they tell her, but she smokes them anyway) to the record shop, to the library where Henry, a black man confined to a wheelchair, researches the mystery of life in death – but she’s got unfinished business keeping her close to home. March 17
One Second After by William R. Forstchen
Forge Books. (ISBN: 978-0765317582) Hardcover. Length: 352pp
one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages…A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies. March 17
Player’s Handbook 2: A 4th Edition D&D Core Rulebook
Wizards of the Coast. (ISBN: 978-0786950164) Hardcover. Length: 224pp
New classes, races, and other options for your D&D game. This book builds on the array of classes and races presented in the first Player’s Handbook, adding both old favorites and new, never-before-seen options to the game. March 17
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