Last Week’s Best-Selling Genre Books
- Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion
- The Shack
- Twilight
- Breaking Dawn (Twilight 4)
- Brisingr (Inheritance 3)
- Eclipse (Twilight 3)
- New Moon (Twilight 2)
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard
- The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide
- Living Dead in Dallas (Southern Vampire 2)
New Releases
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The following books will be released this week:
Caine Black Knife by Matthew Stover
Del Rey. (ISBN: 978-0-345-45587-1) Length: 343pp
The third book in a fantasy series that follows a warrior in a far-future reality show. In this book Caine returns, after 30 years, to the site of his victory over the Black Knives tribe. Publishers Weekly review concludes that “Stover has a gift for brutal, detailed action sequences, and Caine is at his most enthralling when he’s fighting or discussing tactics, but the high levels of (occasionally creative) profanity and the cliffhanger ending may put off some readers.”
City of Jade by Dennis L. McKiernan
Roc. (ISBN: 978-0-451-46231-2) Hardcover. Length: 353pp
A fantasy novel in the Mithgar series, in which Aravan, captain of the Elven ship Eroean, embarks on an expedition to find the mythical lost city of jade.
Fast Forward 2 by Lou Anders
Pyr. (ISBN: 978-1-59102-692-1) Trade paperback. Length: 360pp
An anthology of fourteen stories, from authors including Paul Cornell, Kay Kenyon, Nancy Kress, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Cory Doctorow, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, and Paolo Bacigalupi.
The House of the Stag by Kage Baker
Tor. (ISBN: 978-0-7653-1745-2) Hardcover. Length: 350pp
A second novel set in the universe of the The Anvil of the World (2003). The book follows a half-demon Gard whose rebellion against the enslaving Riders leads to exile from his own people. Publishers Weekly says the books is “shaped in movements like a verbal symphony.”
Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
Scholastic/Chicken House. (ISBN: 978-0-439-86628-6) Hardcover. Length: 683pp
The third novel in the fantasy trilogy that completes the story begun in Inkheart (2003) about a girl named Meggie whose father has the power to bring storybook characters to life.
Leaving Fortusa by John Grant
Norilana. (ISBN: 978-1-934648-72-8) Hardcover. Length: 327pp
A science fiction anthology of ten inter-linked stories set in a declining American empire.
Midnight Call and Other Stories by Jonathan Thomas
Hippocampus Press. (ISBN: 978-0-9793806-9-3) Trade paperback. Length: 258pp
A collection of 25 horror stories. Publishers Weekly noted “Readers with a taste for intelligent horror will welcome this collection from the versatile Thomas… Thomas distinguishes himself with subtlety and careful plotting in a genre in which gore and shock are often the norm.”
Out of the Shadows by Sarah Singleton
Clarion Books. (ISBN: 978-0618927227) Hardcover. Length: 256pp
This fantasy novel, which is deeply in twined with questions of faith, follows a woodland child who emerges from a long slumber following the execution of her mother as heretic. Now she plays cat and mouse with the church that persecuted her mother in a new age of suspicions. Kirkus Reviews says, “This beautifully written historical fantasy explores malignant religious persecution, an alternate realm, and fierce devotion to loved ones.”
Player’s Handbook – Deluxe Edition: A 4th Edition Core Rulebook
Wizards of the Coast. (ISBN: 978-0786950430) Hardcover. Length: 320pp
More rules, more tables, more illustrations, and more choices. The next level of gaming for hardcore D&D fans.
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
Viking. (ISBN: 978-0-670-01090-5) Hardcover. Length: 389pp
An anthology of nine stories Publishers Weekly described as having a “quirky, fairytale style evocative of Neil Gaiman, the author mingles the grotesque and the ethereal to make magic on the page.”
Slow Train to Arcturus by Eric Flint & Dave Freer
Baen. (ISBN: 978-1-4165-5585-8) Hardcover. Length: 314pp
A science fiction novel about aliens who investigate a passing human starship filled with various misfit populations outcast from Earth.
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Knopf. (ISBN: 978-0-375-84811-7) Hardcover. Length: 436pp
A fantasy novel from the author of the acclaimed “Black Juice,” “Red Spikes,” and “White Time,” that follows the story of a teenaged girl, Liga, a magical heaven she create as an escape, and what happens when an opening allows characters to pass between the two worlds.
The Third Craft by James T. Harris
BPS Books. (ISBN: 978-0-9809231-2-4) Trade paperback. Length: 294pp
A science fiction novel about two teenage brothers who find pieces of an alien spacecraft buried near their home in northern Ontario.
Two to the Fifth by Piers Anthony
Tor. (ISBN: 978-0-7653-1935-7) Length: 302pp Hardcover.
The thirty-second novel in the humorous “Xanth” fantasy series.
Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre
Ace. (ISBN: 978-0-441-01627-3) Mass market paperback. Length: 312pp
The sequel to the science fiction novel Grimspace (2008) that follows a woman with the ability to jump ships through grimspace.
When Duty Calls by William C. Dietz
Ace. (ISBN: 978-0-441-01632-7) Hardcover. Length: 356pp
The eighth novel in the “Legion of the Damned” science fiction series. It follows Captain Antonio Santana in the war with the Ramanthian, and his love, diplomat Christine Vanderveen, who confronts the president of the Clone Republic.
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John Grant said
am October 21 2008 @ 8:47 am
Hey, thanks for the mention of my book Leaving Fortusa! However, it’s not an anthology — I wrote it all myself, honest. It’s in fact a mosaic novel, deliberately written as such. If you wanted you could call it a collection of linked stories, although that’d be missing the point a bit (as with calling Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt a story collection) — but an anthology? Assuredly not!
All my best — and again thanks for the mention! — JG