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21 April 2005
Bova, Ben :
Tales of the Grand Tour
(Tor 0-765-31044-9, $15.95, 382pp, trade paperback, April 2005, cover art John Harris)
(First edition: Tor, January 2004)
Collection of hard SF stories set in the context of Bova's "Grand Tour" novels -- Mars, Saturn, The Rock Rats, etc. -- about the expansion of humanity into the solar system. (The next is Mercury, due from Tor in May 2005.)
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Bradbury, Ray :
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
(HarperCollins/Perennial 0-06-054488-0, $17.95, 15+893pp, trade paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: HarperCollins/Morrow, August 2003)
Collection of 100 stories from throughout Bradbury's career, with, remarkably, no overlap between this book and the earlier The Stories of Ray Bradbury (Knopf, 1980), which also contained 100 stories.
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Daniel, Tony :
Superluminal
(HarperCollins/Eos 0-06-102026-5, $7.99, 533pp, mass market paperback, March 2005)
(First edition: Eos, May 2004)
SF novel subtitled "A novel of interplanetary civil war", sequel to Metaplanetary (2001). Includes 60 pages of appendices.
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Doctorow, Cory :
Eastern Standard Tribe
(Tor 0-765-31045-7, $12.95, 223pp, trade paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: Tor, March 2004)
Near-future SF novel set in 2012 when some people pay their allegiance to members of time-zone based 'tribes'--people they know via e-mail and the web--over people they're living with or working for; the protagonist is a misfit inventor and management consultant who's victim of a conspiracy among friends who don't see things quite the same way.
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Emshwiller, Carol :
The Mount
(Penguin/Firebird 0-142-40302-4, $6.99, 232pp, mass market paperback, March 2005, cover illustration Tony Sahara)
(First edition: Small Beer Press, August 2002)
SF novel set several generations after invading alien 'Hoots' have turned most of humanity into 'mounts'.
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Feist, Raymond E. :
King of Foxes
(HarperTorch 0-380-80326-7, $7.99, 383pp, mass market paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: HarperCollins/Eos, April 2004)
Fantasy novel, Book Two of "Conclave of Shadows" following Talon of the Silver Hawk. The third volume, Exile's Return, has just appeared in hardcover (description).
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Huff, Tanya :
Smoke and Shadows
(DAW 0-7564-0263-8, $6.99, 396pp, mass market paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: DAW, April 2004)
Supernatural fantasy novel, first of a spinoff trilogy to the author's series about vampire Henry Fitzroy, concerning a murder on the set of a TV vampire detective show. The next volume, Smoke and Mirrors, is due in June in hardcover.
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Kay, Guy Gavriel :
The Last Light of the Sun
(Penguin/Roc 0-451-45985-7, $16, 499pp, trade paperback, April 2005, cover art Larry Rostant)
(First edition: Canada: Viking Canada, March 2004)
Historical fantasy novel set in an alternate Britain.
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King, Stephen :
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
(Scribner 0-743-25455-4, $16.95, 413pp, trade paperback, April 2005, cover illustration Steve Stone)
(First edition: Donald M. Grant/Scriber, June 2004)
Fantasy novel, sixth volume in the Dark Tower sequence, which concluded later in 2004 with final volume The Dark Tower.
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McAuley, Paul :
White Devils
(Tor 0-765-34679-6, $7.99, 537pp, mass market paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: UK: Simon & Schuster UK, January 2004)
Near-future SF biotech thriller, involving apelike creatures, genetic engineering, and an official cover-up in the Congo.
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Niven, Larry :
Ringworld's Children
(Tor 0-765-34102-6, $7.99, 284pp, mass market paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: Tor, June 2004)
SF novel in Niven's "Ringworld" series, that began with Hugo and Nebula winning Ringworld (1970) and continued with The Ringworld Engineers (1980) and The Ringworld Throne (1996). The book includes a preface, a list of Ringworld parameters, a cast of characters, and a glossary.
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Turtledove, Harry :
Out of the Darkness
(Tor 0-765-34362-2, $7.99, 655pp, mass market paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: Tor, April 2004)
Alternate history fantasy novel, sixth and final volume in the "World at War" series that began with Into the Darkness (1999).
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VanderMeer, Jeff, & Mark Roberts, eds. :
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
(Bantam Spectra 0-553-38339-6, $14, 22+297pp, trade paperback, May 2005)
(First edition: Night Shade Books, October 2003)
A mock-encyclopedia of fictitious diseases, an anthology of entries by over 60 contributors, including Michael Moorcock, Cory Doctorow, Gahan Wilson, Shelley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Jeffrey Thomas, etc.
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Wolfe, Gene :
Innocents Aboard
(Tor 0-765-30791-X, $14.95, 304pp, trade paperback, March 2005)
(First edition: Tor, June 2004)
Collection of 22 fantasy and horror (no SF or mainstream) stories from 1989 to 2003; none previously collected.
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