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Sunday 13 January 2008

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, late December

Fiction by Joe Haldeman, Howard V. Hendrix, Michael Swanwick, John Kessel, Lisa Tuttle & Steven Utley, James L. Cambias, and others, and nonfiction and interviews with Geoff Ryman, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Hand, D.G. Compton, and others are featured in new issues of Albedo One, Analog, Asimov's, Black Static, Leading Edge, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Neo-Opsis, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Star*Line.

Friday 28 December 2007

•   Monitor: New in Paperback: December

Notable books in new paperback editions in December include Gene Wolfe's World Fantasy Award winner Soldier of Sidon, Dan Simmons' The Terror, and other titles by Barth Anderson, Catherine Asaro, Ben Bova, Jim Butcher, Alan Campbell, Orson Scott Card, Eric Flint & Virginia DeMarce, Eric Flint, Elizabeth Haydon, Robert A. Heinlein & Spider Robinson, Robin Hobb, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Paul Park, Tim Powers, Martin Scott, and James M. Ward.

Tuesday 25 December 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Philip Pullman, Orson Scott Card

Tuesday 18 December 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Jim Butcher, Ann McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey

Sunday 16 December 2007

•   Monitor: New Books: first half December

Early December SF/F/H books include Spectrum 14: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Henry Gee's Futures from Nature, K.J. Parker's The Escapement, and other titles by Kevin J. Anderson, Mark L. Brake & Neil Hook, C Card, Debbie Gallagher, Martin H. Greenberg & Rebecca Lickiss, Medeline Howard, William F. Nolan, John Ringo & Julie Cochrane, Joel Shepherd, Linnea Sinclair, Harry Turtledove, and Mary A. Turzillo.

Tuesday 11 December 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Aaron Allston, Philip Pullman

Monday 10 December 2007

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, early December

Literary 'zine Tin House publishes a special "Fantastic Women" issue -- one of Amazon's Best SF/F books of the year; this plus new issues of City Slab, Interzone, Murky Depths, and Weird Tales feature fiction by Ted Kosmatka, Chris Roberson, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Jason Sizemore, Shelley Jackson, Kelly Link, Tanith Lee, Barth Anderson, and others; plus nonfiction and interviews by Gary Gibson, John Clute, Rick Moody, and Mike Carey.

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, November

Black Static -- follow-up to The Third Alternative -- debuts; this and new issues of Analog, Apex Digest, Asimov's, Dreams and Nightmares, Electric Velocipede, Flytrap, Foundation, H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Shimmer feature fiction by Joe Haldeman, Geoffrey A. Landis, Gary A. Braunbeck, Allen M. Steele, Mike Resnick, Christopher Fowler, Claude Lalumière, Greg van Eekhout, David Marusek, Greg Egan, Ron Goulart, Matthew Cheney, John Kessel, Alex Irvine, and others, plus nonfiction and interviews by James Patrick Kelly, Nick Mamatas, Laurell K. Hamilton, Paul Di Filippo, David Langford (on Harry Potter), David Brin, and Bobby Henderson.

Tuesday 4 December 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Richard Matheson, Terry Goodkind, Michael Chabon

Sunday 2 December 2007

•   Monitor: New Books: last half November

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the last half of November include Jane Frank's Paint or Pixel: The Digital Divide in Illustration Art, Kathleen Duey's YA Skin Hunger, Terry Goodkind's bestseller Confessor, K.J. Parker's Evil for Evil, Ekaterina Sedia's The Secret History of Moscow, Michael Swanwick's collection The Dog Said Bow-Wow, and others by Kristen Britain, S.C. Butler, Orson Scott Card, Peter Hoeg, Brian Jacques, R.M. Meluch, Michael Moorcock, C.E. Murphy, Justina Robson, Sharon Shinn, Patricia Waddell, and Michael Z. Williamson.

Tuesday 27 November 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Goodkind, Michael Crichton, Shaun Tan

Saturday 24 November 2007

•   Monitor: New in Paperback: November

Notable books in new paperback editions in November include Ray Bradbury's Farewell Summer, Steven Brust's Dzur, Kim Stanley Robinson's Sixty Days and Counting, and other titles by James Clemens, Michael Crichton, David Farland, Michael Flynn, Alan Dean Foster, James A. Hetley, Brian Lumley, Juliet Marillier, Jack McDevitt, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Joshua Palmatier, Melanie Rawn, John Ringo, Mary Rosenblum, John Scalzi, Wen Spencer, and F. Paul Wilson.

Tuesday 20 November 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Kristen Britain, Richard Matheson

Sunday 18 November 2007

•   Monitor: New Books: 2nd week November

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the 2nd week of November include the first volume of Jonathan Strahan's new original anthology series Eclipse, career retrospective collections by George R.R. Martin, Bruce Sterling, and Connie Willis, Gene Wolfe's new novel Pirate Freedom, and other books by Michael Dirda, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Charlee Jacob, Alan Lightman, Rae Lindley, George Mann, Kathy Porter, Andy Remic, and Vandana Singh.

Saturday 17 November 2007

•   Monitor: New Books: early November

Notable new SF/F/H books seen in early November include Clive Barker's Mister B. Gone, Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road, Margo Lanagan's Red Spikes, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu's The Shadow Speaker, Catherynne M. Valente's The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice, and others by Orson Scott Card, Josh Conviser, Winston Engle, Neil Gaiman & Roger Avary, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, Mercedes Lackey, Jack McDevitt, Ekaterina Sedia, Kristine Smith, S.M. Stirling, and Michael Swanwick.

Tuesday 13 November 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Clive Barker, Michael Chabon, Dean Koontz, Richard Matheson

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, October

Fiction by Connie Willis, Allen M. Steele, David Marusek, David Moles, Richard Parks, C.W. Johnson, and others, and nonfiction and interviews by Tom Easton, Christopher Priest, Charles Stross, Lucius Shepard, Stephen Baxter, Virginia Borges, Jo Fletcher, and others, are featured in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, The Bulletin of the SFWA, Focus, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Matrix, Paradox, Realms of Fantasy, and Vector.

Thursday 8 November 2007

•   Monitor: New Books: late October

Notable new SF/F/H books seen in late October include the first US editions of Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts and K.J. Parker's Devices and Desires, and other titles by Kevin J. Anderson, Gail Dayton, Carol Nelson Douglas, Alan Dean Foster, Steven L. Kent, Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory, Fiona McIntosh, Elizabeth Moon, Cat Rambo & Jeff VanderMeer, Jennifer Rardin, Mike Shepherd, and William Shunn.

Tuesday 6 November 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Laurell K. Hamilton, Joe Hill

Wednesday 31 October 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Michael Reaves & Steve Perry, Terry Goodkind, Joseph Staten

Friday 26 October 2007

•   Monitor: New in Paperback: October

Notable books in new paperback editions in October include David Marusek's Counting Heads, Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things, Susanna Clarke's The Ladies of Grace Adieu, and other titles by Piers Anthony, S.C. Butler, Paul Chafe, William C. Dietz, Kate Elliott, Ian R. MacLeod, John Ringo, and S.M. Stirling.

Tuesday 23 October 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Stephen R. Donaldson, Junot Diaz, Laurell K. Hamilton

Sunday 21 October 2007

•   Monitor: New Books: mid-October

Notable new SF/F/H books seen in mid-October include Stephen Donaldson's Fatal Revenant, Wayne Barlowe's first novel God's Demon, the first US edition of Jon Courtenay Grimwood's End of the World Blues, a collection of reviews and essays by Joanna Russ, and other titles by William C. Dietz, J.V. Jones, Karen Miller, Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear, Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner, Al Sarrantonio, Charles Stross, Travis S. Taylor, David Wellington, and F. Paul Wilson.

•   Monitor: New Books: Recent YA and Art

New Young Adult and Art books seen in recent weeks include Scott Westerfeld's Extras, a collection of art by Frank Frazetta, a serial novel by 10 authors, and titles by Rafael Abalos, Frank Beddor, Brom, Alison Croggon, Charles de Lint, Nancy Farmer, Suzanne Harper, Lian Hearn, Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden, Matthew R. Milson, and Kenneth Oppel.

Tuesday 16 October 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Pratchett, R.A. Salvatore, Flint & DeMarce, Scott Westerfeld, Stephen King

Saturday 13 October 2007

•   Monitor: New Books: recent UK books

New SF/F/H books published in the UK in recent months include Stephen Baxter's The H-Bomb Girl, Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels and Players, Alastair Reynolds' The Prefect, Adam Roberts' Land of the Headless, and titles since published in the US by Ken MacLeod and Richard Morgan.

•   Monitor: New Books, early October

New SF/F/H books in early October include Charles Stross' Halting State, Rudy Rucker's Postsingular, Jo Walton's Ha'Penny, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, first US editions of Philip K. Dick's Humpty Dumpty in Oakland and M. John Harrison's Nova Swing, and other titles by Sylvia Louise Engdahl, Eric Flint & Virginia De Marce, Morgan Howell, Naomi Novik, Graham Sharp Paul, Terry Pratchett & Stephen Briggs, and T.A. Pratt.

Tuesday 9 October 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

R.A. Salvatore, Naomi Novik, Terry Pratchett

Monday 8 October 2007

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, September

Fiction by Barry B. Longyear, Greg Egan, Lisa Goldstein, Maria V. Snyder, Jeffrey Ford, Lucius Shepard, M. Rickert, Jack Skillingstead, and others, and nonfiction and interviews by Jeffery D. Kooistra, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Silverberg, James Patrick Kelly, Norman Spinrad, Rich Horton, Tom Purdom, and Zoran Zivkovic, are featured in new issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Asimov's, Black Gate, Leading Edge, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Subterranean, and Talebones.

Friday 5 October 2007

•   Monitor: New in Paperback: September

Notable books in new paperback editions in September include Norman Partridge's World Fantasy Award nominee Dark Harvest, Jo Walton's Farthing, Ian McDonald's River of Gods, and other books by Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye, Kage Baker, Douglas Clegg, Steven Erikson, Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, Larry Niven, Andre Norton & Jean Rabe, Kit Reed, and S.M. Stirling.

Tuesday 2 October 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Pratchett, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Charles Stross

•   Monitor: New Books, late September

New SF/F/H books in late September include Terry Pratchett's Making Money, Gregory Benford & Elisabeth Malartre's Beyond Human, Junot Díaz' The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and other titles by George Beahm, Algis Budrys, Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston, P.C. Cast, L. Timmel Duchamp, Martin H. Greenberg & Jim C. Hines, Ed Greenwood, David Memmott, C.J. Ryan, and Kate Wilhelm.

•   Monitor: New Books, mid September

New SF/F/H books in mid September include Robert Charles Wilson's Axis, Steven Erikson's The Bonehunters, Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys, Whitley Strieber's 2012, and other titles by Joe Abercrombie, L.A. Banks, Jack Cavanaugh, Bernadette Gabay Dyer, David Farland, Karen Miller, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gregory L. Reece, Michelle Sagara, Jeff Somers, and S.M. Stirling.

Tuesday 25 September 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Pratchett, J.K. Rowling, Madeleine L'Engle

Tuesday 18 September 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Brooks, J.K. Rowling, S.M. Stirling

Sunday 16 September 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, early September

New SF/F/H books in early September include Ray Bradbury's Now and Forever and titles by Christopher Barzak, Douglas Clegg, P.R. Frost, Mary Gentle, William Jones, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, Bruce McAllister, Chris Roberson, Adam Roberts, and Brian Ruckley.

Tuesday 11 September 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Brooks, Troy Denning

Monday 10 September 2007

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints, July - August

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen the past two months includes A.E. van Vogt's Slan, Mike Resnick's Ivory, Harlan Ellison's Shatterday, other titles by Christopher Anvil, Peter S. Beagle, Keith Brooke & Nick Gevers, Larry Niven, H. Beam Piper, and movie tie-in editions of Neil Gaiman's Stardust and David Gerrold's The Martian Child.

Wednesday 5 September 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Frank Beddor, Nancy Farmer, J.K. Rowling

Tuesday 4 September 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, late August

New SF/F/H books seen in late August include Terry Brooks' The Elves of Cintra, Gary Westfahl's Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction, Daniel Abraham's A Betrayal in Winter, plus titles by Peter Butler, David Conyers & John Sunseri, Julie E. Czerneda, David Lynn Golemon, Matthew Jarpe, Richard Kadrey, Tom Kratman, Doris Lessing, Nathalie Mallet, Stephenie Meyer, John Ringo & Travis S. Taylor, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and others.

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, August

Fiction by Michael Moorcock, Robert Silverberg, Paul Park, John Shirley, Jay Lake, Fred Chappell, Michael Swanwick, and others, and nonfiction and interviews by Michael Moorcock, Jack Ketchum, Richard Morgan, Hal Duncan, Robert J. Sawyer, and Lisa Tuttle, are featured in new issues of Dark Wisdom, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Matrix, Neo-Opsis, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, and Vector. Plus: debut of graphic speculative fiction Murky Depths.

•   Monitor: New in Paperback: August

Notable books in new paperback editions in August include Stephen King's Lisey's Story and other titles by Daniel Abraham, C.J. Cherryh, Peter David, Jennifer Fallon, Alan Dean Foster, R. Garcia y Robertson, Joe Haldeman, Elaine Isaak, Violette Malan, Julian May, Sarah Monette, Brandon Sanderson, Karl Schroeder, Martin Scott, Sherwood Smith, David Weber, Margaret Weis, Steve White, and John C. Wright.

Tuesday 28 August 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Terry Brooks, Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling

Thursday 23 August 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, mid-August

New SF/F/H books seen in mid-August include Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling's anthology The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Ted Chiang's The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, Karl Schroeder's Queen of Candesce, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's anthology Best American Fantasy, and other titles from Justin Allen, Keri Arthur, Rachel Caine, Jeff Carlson, Jennifer Fallon, Mark J. Ferrari, Steven Gould, Paula Guran, Lilith Saintcrow, and Brandon Sanderson.

Tuesday 21 August 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Sherrilyn Kenyon, William Gibson, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, J.K. Rowling

Tuesday 14 August 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Harry Turtledove, J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer

Saturday 11 August 2007

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, July

Fiction by Ted Chiang, Daniel Hatch, Cherie Priest, Robert Reed, Nancy Kress, Bruce McAllister, Alexander Jablokov, Alan Smale, Tim Pratt, and nonfiction and interviews by Michael Swanwick, William F. Nolan, Robert Silverberg, Lisa Snellings-Clark, Lucius Shepard, and Terri Windling, are featured in new issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways, Apex, Asimov's, Fantasy Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, and Yog's Notebook.

Friday 10 August 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, first week August

New SF/F/H books from the first week of August include William Gibson's Spook Country, Joe Haldeman's The Accidental Time Machine, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Sandworms of Dune, and other titles by Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Ben Bova, Patricia Bray, Mark Budz, Eric Flint & Dave Freer, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Scott Lynch, Diana L. Paxson, Kat Richardson, and Brian Francis Slattery.

Tuesday 7 August 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

J.K. Rowling, Jasper Fforde

Monday 6 August 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, end of July

New SF/F/H books seen the end of July include Will Shetterly's The Gospel of the Knife, Sheila Finch's The Guild of Xenolinguists, Steph Swainston's Dangerous Offspring, and other titles by Catherine Asaro, Jasper Fforde, Eric Flint, Violette Malan, Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Anne Scarborough, Sarah Monette, Jean Rabe & Martin H. Greenberg, Sherwood Smith, and Michael A. Stackpole.

Tuesday 31 July 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

J.K. Rowling

Wednesday 25 July 2007

•   Monitor: New in Paperback: June

Notable books in new paperback editions in July include Julie Phillips' James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Ellen Kushner's Locus Award-winner The Privilege of the Sword, Chris Moriarty's Philip K. Dick Award winner Spin Control, plus Jeff VanderMeer's Shriek: An Afterword, Charles Stross' Glasshouse, and other titles by Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Eric Flint & David Drake, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Scott Lynch, and Harry Turtledove (twice).

Tuesday 24 July 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

J.K. Rowling, John Twelve Hawks, William Gibson, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Saturday 21 July 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, third week July

New SF/F/H books seen the third week of July include J.K. Rowling's final Harry Potter novel, Gardner Dozois' latest Year's Best Science Fiction anthology, Ursula K. Le Guin's Powers, the 11th volume in the Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, a book of Gene Wolfe nonfiction edited by Peter Wright, and others by John Helfers & Martin H. Greenberg, Kristin Landon, Steve Perry & Dal Perry, Mary Jo Putney, Harry Turtledove, and Larriane Wills.

Friday 20 July 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, second week July

New SF/F/H books seen the second week of July include Emma Bull's Territory, Kage Baker's final "Company" novel The Sons of Heaven, Kevin J. Anderson's van Vogt sequel Slan Hunter, Sheila Williams' Asimov's 30th Anniversary Anthology, and other titles by David Bilsborough, Paul Cornell, Chris Dolley, Mary Gentle, Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon, Alexis Glynn Latner, Richard Taylor, Scott Thomas, John Twelve Hawks, Laura J. Underwood, and David Wellington.

Tuesday 17 July 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

J.K. Rowling

Sunday 15 July 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, early July

New SF/F/H books seen in early July include Richard K. Morgan's Thirteen, Lois McMaster Bujold's The Sharing Knife: Legacy, Year's Best Fantasy anthologies from David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer and from Rich Horton, two books by Neil Gaiman, and other titles by C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp, Elizabeth Bear, Mike Carey, David Drake, Kelley Eskridge, Warren Hammond, E.E. Knight, John Ringo, and Jennifer Roberson.

Thursday 12 July 2007

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints, May - June

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen the past two months include George Alec Effinger's A Thousand Deaths and other titles by Damien Broderick, Steven Brust & Emma Bull, Lois McMaster Bujold, Philip José Farmer, Michael Moorcock, Mervyn Peake, and Rudy Rucker.

Tuesday 10 July 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

J.K. Rowling, John Twelve Hawks

•   Monitor: New in Paperback: June

Notable books in new paperback editions in June include Terry Goodkind's Phantom and other titles by Tobias S. Buckell, Chris Dolley, Keith Donohue, William H. Keith Jr., Paul Malmont, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Richard K. Morgan, Alastair Reynolds, John Ringo, Greg Rucka, and Whitley Strieber

Friday 6 July 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, late June

New SF/F/H books seen mid- to late-June include Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan's anthology The New Space Opera, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow's anthology The SFWA European Hall of Fame, and other titles by Richard Bachman, Cathy Park Hong, Debra A. Kemp, Sergei Lukyanenko, Melissa Marr, James Maxey, Michael Scott, David Sherman & Dan Cragg, Wm. Mark Simmons, Sean Wallace & Paul Tremblay, and Phaedra Weldon.

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, June

Fiction by Uncle River, Howard V. Hendrix, Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling, Ray Vukcevich, Karen Joy Fowler, Albert E. Cowdrey, Paul E. Martens, and nonfiction and interviews by Edward M. Lerner, James Patrick Kelly, Bud Webster, Nick Mamatas, Gwenda Bond, Geoff Ryman, and George R.R. Martin, are featured in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, The Bulletin of the SFWA, Flytrap, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, F&SF, The New York Review of SF, and Weird Tales. Plus this month: new issues of four poetry 'zines.

Tuesday 3 July 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Richard Bachman, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling

Tuesday 26 June 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Richard Bachman, J.K. Rowling

Sunday 24 June 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, mid-June

New SF/F/H books seen in mid-June include Ken MacLeod's The Execution Channel, Susan Palwick's Shelter, Alastair Reynolds' Galactic North; young adult titles Epic by Conor Kostic and A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve; and others by Tobias S. Buckell, Peter David, Simon R. Green, Laurell K. Hamilton, Katharine Kerr, Michael Lawrence, Jody Lynn Nye, James Patterson, Heather Shaw, Carrie Vaughn, and Martha Wells.

Tuesday 19 June 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Laurell K. Hamilton, MaryJanice Davidson, Jacqueline Carey, J.K. Rowling

Tuesday 12 June 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, early June

New SF/F/H books seen in early June include David Anthony Durham's Acacia, David Marusek's collection Getting to Know You, SF best-of-the-year anthologies from David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer and Rich Horton, Jay Lake's Mainspring, and other titles by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Deborah J. Ross, Eric Brown, Jacqueline Carey, Giles Carwyn & Todd Fahnestock, Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren, Scott Mackay, and Lane Robins.

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Karen Traviss, Richard Bachman, J.K. Rowling

Thursday 7 June 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, late-May to early-June

New SF/F/H books seen from late May to early June include Sheri S. Tepper's The Margarets, Brian W. Aldiss' HARM, Jonathan Strahan's Best Short Novels: 2007, Samuel R. Delany's Dark Reflections, and other titles by Roger MacBride Allen, Jim Butcher, Sara Douglass, Jennifer Estep, Laura Anne Gilman, Austin Grossman, Talia Gryphon, Robert Holdstock, Neil Hollands, Tanya Huff, John Marco & John Helfers, Graham Masterton, Tim Scott, Lisa Shearin, Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz, Thomas Tessier, Harry Turtledove, and Mark L. Van Name.

Wednesday 6 June 2007

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, May

Fiction by Michael F. Flynn, Nancy Kress, Michael Swanwick, Charlee Jacob, Lucius Shepard, Theodora Goss, and Joe R. Lansdale, and nonfiction and interviews by Michael F. Flynn, Harlan Ellison, Steph Swainston, Stephen Baxter, James Morrow, and Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, are featured in new issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways, Asimov's, Cemetery Dance, Interzone, F&SF, The New York Review of SF, Realms of Fantasy, and Weird Tales.

Tuesday 5 June 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Laurell K. Hamilton, J.K. Rowling

Saturday 2 June 2007

•   Monitor: New Small Press Books, late May

Small press books seen recently include Lucius Shepard's Softspoken, John Crowley's Endless Things, Elizabeth Hand's Generation Loss, a tribute volume to Jack Williamson, and other books from Forrest Aguirre, Steve Beard, Bruce Boston, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, David Drake, Nancy O. Greene, Philip Haldeman, Leslie Ann Moore, Lawrence Schimel, Lawrence M. Schoen & Michael Livingston, Jeremy C. Shipp, Marge Simon, and D. Harlan Wilson.

Tuesday 29 May 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, James Patterson, Karen Traviss, Michael Chabon, Cormac McCarthy, J.K. Rowling

•   Monitor: New in Paperback: May

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include a movie tie-in edition of Stephen King's collection Everything's Eventual and other books by Iain M. Banks, Chaz Brenchley, Sara Douglass, Ray Garton, M. John Harrison, Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory, Tim Lebbon, Ray Manzarek, Alastair Reynolds, Richard Paul Russo, John Scalzi, Martin Scott, Victoria Strauss, John Varley, Liz Williams, and David Zindell

Friday 25 May 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, third week May

New books seen at the third week of May include Kathleen Ann Goonan's In War Times, Haruki Murakami's After Dark, and other novels by Tim Curran, Dave Duncan, Steven Erikson, Kate Forsyth, Charlaine Harris, Rae Lindley, Juliet Marillier, John Moore, C.E. Murphy, D.L. Snell, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and David Zindell.

Tuesday 22 May 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Haruki Murakami, Chuck Palahniuk, J.K. Rowling

Thursday 17 May 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, second week May

New books seen at the second week of May include Ian McDonald's novel Brasyl, story collections by Ellen Klages and Tim Pratt, original anthologies from Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, John Klima, and Mike Resnick, and other books by Tony Ballantyne, Carol Berg, Bruce Boston & Marge Simon, Tracy Falbe, Jim C. Hines, Faith Hunter, John Lambshead, Greg Park, and Sean Williams.

Tuesday 15 May 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Michael Chabon, Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, Cormac McCarthy, J.K. Rowling

Saturday 12 May 2007

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints, April - May

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen in recent weeks include the Library of America's volume Four Novels of the 1960s by Philip K. Dick, Peter S. Beagle's A Fine and Private Place, Greg Bear's Moving Mars, and other works by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mary Gentle, Frank Herbert, and Brian Lumley.

Thursday 10 May 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, first week May

New books seen at the first week of May include Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Jim Crace's The Pesthouse, Holly Black's Ironside, David Gunn's Death's Head, other novels by Kelley Armstrong, Keri Arthur, Patrick Carman, Erin Hunter, Derek Landy, A. Lee Martinez, Cameron Rogers, and Brian Selznick, plus a collection by John Shirley and an omnibus by Carrie Vaughn.

Tuesday 8 May 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Erin Hunter, Holly Black, J.K. Rowling

Thursday 3 May 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, last week April

New books seen at the last week of April include Cassandra Clare's City of Bones, David Weber & Eric Flint's 1634: The Baltic War, Daniel H. Wilson's Where's My Jetpack?, and titles by Ilona Andrews, Hilari Bell, Martin H. Greenberg & Russell Davis, Gail Z. Martin, Sarah Pinborough, Warren Rochelle, John Scalzi, and Jose Carlos Somoza.

Tuesday 1 May 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

J.R.R. Tolkien, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Chabon, Kelley Armstrong, Charlaine Harris, J.K. Rowling

Monday 30 April 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, third week April

New books seen at the third week of April include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin, Jim Butcher's White Night, Kay Kenyon's Bright of the Sky, and titles by Greg Bear, Simon Brown, Louise Marley, Sandra McDonald, Natasha Mostert, Vicki Pettersson, Joel Shepherd, and John C. Wright.

Sunday 29 April 2007

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, late April

New issues of Albedo One, Black Gate, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Star*Line, and Sybil's Garage feature fiction and poetry by Brian Stableford, Judith Berman, Bruce Boston, and Steve Rasnic Tem, interviews with Christopher Priest and Jeffrey Ford, and two articles about SF magazines of the 1970s

Tuesday 24 April 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Kurt Vonnegut, J.K. Rowling

Sunday 22 April 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, second week April

New books seen at the second week of April include Jeff Prucher's Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Luis Ortiz' Emshwiller: Infinity X Two, Matt Haig's novel The Dead Fathers Club, and other titles by Alma Alexander, Janine Cross, Camille Gabor, Justine Larbalestier, Scott Nicholson, Robin D. Owens, Eva Swan, and Saskie Walker.

•   Monitor: New in Paperback: April

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End, and other titles by John Barnes, Jacqueline Carey, David Drake, Raymond E. Feist, Peter F. Hamilton, Brian Lumley, A. Lee Martinez, Terry McGarry, Sean McMullen, John Ringo, Jennifer Roberson, Nick Sagan, Eldon Thompson, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Michael Z. Williamson.

Tuesday 17 April 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Jim Butcher, J.R.R. Tolkien, Cormac McCarthy, Kurt Vonnegut, J.K. Rowling

Saturday 14 April 2007

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, early April

Interzone celebrates its 25th anniversary with new fiction by Hal Duncan, Gwyneth Jones, M. John Harrison, and others; also this week, new issues of Apex SF & Horror Digest, Dreams and Nightmares, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Shimmer.

•   Monitor: New Books, first week April

New books seen at the first week of April include Robert J. Sawyer's novel Rollback, Barry N. Malzberg's essay collection Breakfast in the Ruins, Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss' interstitial anthology Interfictions, and other titles by Keri Arthur, Iain Banks, Karen Chance, Leslie Conron, Emily Gee, Roby James, Maria Lima, Darrell Schweitzer, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, and Charles Stross.

Tuesday 10 April 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, end of March

New books seen at the end of March include Patrick Rothfuss' debut fantasy novel The Name of the Wind, other novels that begin or continue series by Chaz Brenchley, Raymond E. Feist, Christopher Golden, Amanda Hemingway, Tim Lebbon, Julianne Lee, David Lubar, Fiona McIntosh, John Ringo & Tom Kratman, Angie Sage, Allen Steele, and Karen Traviss, and stand-alone novels by Stoney Compton and Bryan Smith.

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Cormac McCarthy, Keri Arthur, Laurell K. Hamilton, James Patterson, J.K. Rowling

Monday 9 April 2007

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints, March

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen in March include Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, The Jack Vance Treasury, and other titles by Poul Anderson, Ben Bova, Glen Cook, Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Charles de Lint, Patricia A. McKillip, Tim Powers, Robert Silverberg, and Joan D. Vinge.

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, March-April

New fiction magazine All Possible Worlds debuts; new issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Asimov's, and Neo-Opsis feature Karl Schroeder, Robert A. Heinlein, Trudi Canavan, Neal Asher, James Patrick Kelly, and Spider Robinson; a new Bulletin of the SFWA and current issues of BSFA magazines Focus, Matrix, and Vector feature Edward McKeown, Christopher Priest, Richard K. Morgan, Brian Cox, Stephen Baxter, Graham Sleight, and many others.

Thursday 5 April 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, late March

New books seen mid- to late-March include Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, David Langford's The End of Harry Potter?, Justine Larbalestier's Magic's Child, first US editions of novels by Adam Roberts and Justina Robson, and other titles by A.A. Attanasio, R.W. Day, Neal Drinnan, W. Michael & Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Geoff Geautere, David Gemmell, Alicia E. Goranson, Lesley A. Hall, Sue Lange, Jonathan Lethem, Jane Lindskold, Michael McBride, Mel Odom, Kimberly Todd Wade, and Patrick Welch.

Tuesday 3 April 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Kim Harrison, Cormac McCarthy, J.K. Rowling

Friday 30 March 2007

•   Monitor: New in Paperback: March

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include James Morrow's The Last Witchfinder and other titles by Anne Bishop, Ben Bova, Douglas Clegg, Julie E. Czerneda, Steven Erikson, Craig Shaw Gardner, Robert A. Heinlein, David Keck, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Paul Levinson, Juliet Marillier, Susan Palwick, Sharon Shinn, and Harry Turtledove.

Wednesday 28 March 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling

Sunday 25 March 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, mid-March

New books seen mid- March include Nalo Hopkinson's novel The New Moon's Arms, Farah Mendlesohn's anthology Glorifying Terrorism, Mike Resnick's anthology Nebula Awards Showcase 2007, and others by Brenda Cooper, Gordon R. Dickson & David W. Wixon, Joe Haldeman & Martin H. Greenberg, Kim Harrison, Michael Kirchhoff, Sergei Lukyanenko, Felice Picano, Jean Marie Ward & Teri Smith, and David Weber & Linda Evans.

Thursday 22 March 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Kim Harrison, J.K. Rowling

Tuesday 13 March 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Aaron Allston, Keri Arthur, J.K. Rowling

•   Monitor: New Books, first week March

New books seen the first week of March include Jeffrey Thomas' Deadstock, Jon Armstrong's debut novel Grey, Susan Palwick's collection The Fate of Mice, Carol Emshwiller's The Secret City, other novels from Anne Bishop, N.M. Browne, Kathleen Bryan, Dave Duncan, Diana Wynne Jones, Dale Peck, Natasha Rhodes, Linnea Sinclair, Rob Thurman, and Tad Williams, plus art by Charles Vess and a Star Trek compendium by Jeff Ayers.

Thursday 8 March 2007

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen in January and February include Henry Kuttner's The Last Mimzy (originally The Best of Henry Kuttner), Jack Dann's The Man Who Melted, Gardner Dozois' The Best of the Best, Volume 2, and other titles by Herbie Brennan, Harlan Ellison, Diana Wynne Jones, Keith Laumer, Jonathan Lethem, George R.R. Martin, Andre Norton, and Mary Rosenblum.

Tuesday 6 March 2007

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, February-March

Asimov's SF celebrates its 30th anniversary with a double-sized issue featuring Allen M. Steele, Lucius Shepard, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Mike Resnick, and past and present editors; plus, new issues of Analog, Fantasy Magazine, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and The New York Review of Science Fiction feature Lee Goodloe, Erzebet YellowBoy, Jason Stoddard, Elizabeth Hand, Neil Gaiman, Ian R. MacLeod, Paolo Bacigalupi, Michael Bishop, and David Drake.

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Joe Hill, J.K. Rowling

Sunday 4 March 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, last week February

New books seen the last week of February include Kim Stanley Robinson's Sixty Days and Counting, Hal Duncan's Ink, Howard Waldrop's Things Will Never Be the Same, Garth Nix's Lady Friday, Elizabeth Moon's Command Decision, and titles by Mario Acevedo, L.A. Banks, Kevin Brooks, Eliot Fintushel, Mercedes Lackey, Juliet Marillier, and others.

Wednesday 28 February 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, third week February

New books seen the third week of February include Shaun Tan's The Arrival, Gabriel McKee's The Gospel According to Science Fiction, L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s The Elysium Commission, and other titles by JC Capote, David B. Coe, Glen Cook, Rebecca Ore, Michael Palmer, Jean Rabe & Martin H. Greenberg, Lorelei Shannon, Harry Turtledove, and Mark London Williams.

Tuesday 27 February 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Joe Hill, Aaron Allston, J.K. Rowling

Thursday 22 February 2007

•   Monitor: New in Paperback: February

Notable books in new paperback editions this month include Marvin Kaye's World Fantasy Award winning anthology The Fair Folk and titles by Jim Butcher, C.J. Cherryh, David B. Coe, Sara Douglass, Dave Duncan, Robert A. Heinlein, Edward M. Lerner, Elizabeth Moon, Diana L. Paxson, Frederik Pohl, Robert Reed, Harry Turtledove, Jack Vance, and Susan Wright.

Tuesday 20 February 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Garth Nix, Joe Hill, J.K. Rowling

Friday 16 February 2007

•   2006 Book Editors Directory

Locus Online has compiled a directory of 2006 books arranged by book editor, as a source of information for Hugo Awards nominators in this first year of the new "Editor - Long Form" category. Deadline for Hugo nominations is March 3, 2007.

•   Monitor: New Books, second week February

New books seen the second week of February include China Miéville's Un Lun Dun, Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box, new original anthologies from Lou Anders and George Mann, and other titles by Keri Arthur, Toby Bishop, Louisa Burton, Trudi Canavan, Ian Douglas, Minister Faust, Mercedes Lackey & Roberta Gellis, Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell, and Susan Wright.

Tuesday 13 February 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Timothy Zahn, Patricia Briggs, Keri Arthur, Katherine Paterson, J.K. Rowling

Monday 12 February 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, first week February

New books seen the first week of February include Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel, collections by Kage Baker, G.O. Clark, and Corrine De Winter, nonfiction by Heather Urbanski, other novels by James Bhumi, Patricia Briggs, Jack Campbell, C.J. Cherryh, Mark Del Franco, James P. Hogan, Frewin Jones, Deborah Pratt, Jonathan Raban, and Kate Thompson, an anthology from Julie E. Czerneda & Jane Paniccia, and the audiobook of David Weber's latest.

Sunday 11 February 2007

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, early February

Gene Wolfe is subject of a special issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; Shane Tourtellotte, Jennifer Fallon, M.P. Shiel, Alan DeNiro, and others are featured in new issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Star*Line, and Talebones.

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, January

Karl Schroeder, M.M. Buckner, Brian Stableford, Jim Grimsley, Glen Hirshberg, Fred Chappell, Richard Parks, and others are featured in new issues, seen in January, of Analog, Apex SF/Horror Digest, Asimov's SF, Cemetery Dance, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy.

Wednesday 7 February 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, late January

New books seen late January include art books by Stephan Martiniere, Jon Foster, and John Jude Palencar; new novels by Neal Asher, John Birmingham, Thomas A. Day, Philip K. Dick, L. Timmel Duchamp, Christopher Moore, Robert Newcomb, Paul Park, E.A. Rappaport, and Nancy Yi Fan; and nonfiction by Jennifer Ouellette about The Physics of the Buffyverse.

Tuesday 6 February 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

J.K. Rowling, Patricia Briggs

Tuesday 30 January 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Christopher Moore, Nancy Yi Fan, J.K. Rowling

Thursday 25 January 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, mid January

New books seen mid January include Dan Simmons' The Terror, David Weber's Off Armageddon Reef, Cory Doctorow's Overclocked, Ysabeau Wilce's Flora Segunda, and others by Herbie Brennan, Eric Flint, Simon R. Green, P.B. Kerr, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and Kai Meyer.

Wednesday 24 January 2007

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions this month are titles by Christopher Anvil, John Birmingham, Kevin Brockmeier, Jonathan Carroll, Kate Elliott, Barb & J.C. Hendee, Doris Lessing, Patricia A. McKillip, R.M. Meluch, Walter Mosley, John Scalzi, Allen Steele, and Lisa Tuttle

Tuesday 23 January 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Dan Simmons, David Weber, Guy Gavriel Kay, J.K. Rowling

Tuesday 16 January 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Dan Simmons, Christopher Moore, Guy Gavriel Kay, J.K. Rowling

Thursday 11 January 2007

•   Monitor: New Books, early January

New books seen in early January include Stephen Baxter's Emperor, Elizabeth Haydon's The Assassin King, Charlie Huston's No Dominion, and other titles by Tony Ballantyne, C.S. Friedman, Laurell K. Hamilton, Elizabeth Hand, Barb & J.C. Hendee, Stan Nicholls, S.L. Viehl, Steve White & Shirley Meier, and John Zakour.

Tuesday 9 January 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Kay, Gaiman & Pratchett, Westerfeld, Rowling

Thursday 4 January 2007

•   Monitor: Classic Reprints

Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen in December include a compilation of Cordwainer Smith from Baen Books, new editions from Warner Books of novels by Octavia E. Butler, and other books by Neal Asher, Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, Dan Simmons, Bruce Sterling, Patrick Süskind, Vernor Vinge, Martha Wells, and Walter Jon Williams.

•   Monitor: New in Paperback

Notable books in new paperback editions seen in December include Octavia E. Butler's novel Fledgling, a "remix" edition of Jeff VanderMeer's collection Secret Life, and others by Catherine Asaro, Kage Baker, Judith Berman, Jim Butcher, Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Holly Lisle, Larry Niven, Mel Odom, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, and Michael A. Stackpole.

•   Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, John Shirley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Matthew Hughes, John Clute, Jack Dann, Bruce Holland Rogers, Suzette Haden Elgin, and others are featured in new issues of Asimov's SF, Crimewave, Dark Wisdom, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Postscripts, Realms of Fantasy, and Star*Line.

•   Monitor: New Books, late December

New books seen in late December include M. John Harrison's Nova Swing, Stephen Baxter's Resplendent, Alan Campbell's Scar Night, collections by Elizabeth Hand, Rudy Rucker, and Wendy Walker, novels by E.E. Knight, Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Constance O'Day-Flannery, Robert Rankin, and Justina Robson, and anthologies from Algis Budrys, Mort Castle, and Karen Joy Fowler (et al).

Tuesday 2 January 2007

•   Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers

Crichton, Harris, Koontz, Rowling

 

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