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New Books : late DecemberSunday 3 January 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Barbara Roden's Northwest Passages, Charles de Lint's Muse and Reveries, A Working Writer's Daily Planner from Small Beer Press, and titles by Aronovitz, Barclay, Card, Clore, Harvey, Hayes, Light, Taylor, and Williams
Other Magazines: DecemberThursday 31 December 2009 | Monitor; Directories
Weird Tales celebrates Edgar Allan Poe, Vector celebrates J.G. Ballard, and Analog, Asimov's, and Black Static publish new fiction by Shane Tourtellotte, Stephen Baxter, Damien Broderick, Christopher Fowler, and others.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 29 December 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Stephen King's Under the Dome ranks highest of genre books on general lists this week.
New Books : mid DecemberSunday 27 December 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger, Jesse Bullington's The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, Laurell K. Hamilton's Divine Misdemeanors, and other titles by Chadbourn, Fitzmon, Jones, Kirkpatrick, Mitchell, Paul, Pelegrimas, Summers, Takami, Turtledove, and Wright.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 22 December 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Laurell K. Hamilton's Divine Misdemeanors and Drew Karpyshyn's Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil debut.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 15 December 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Sherrilyn Kenyon's Born of Ice debuts at #1 on mass market paperback lists.
New Books : early DecemberSunday 13 December 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Daryl Gregory's The Devil's Alphabet, Alan DeNiro's Total Oblivion, More of Less, Caitlin R. Kiernan's The Red Tree, Jo Walton's Lifelode, and other titles by Carlson, Douglas, Fell & Duddlebug, Gay, Harihareswara & Richardson, Kenner, Levitt, Teglia, and Valente.
Other Magazines: November-DecemberThursday 10 December 2009 | Monitor; Directories
Canadian 'zine Talebones publishes its final issue; Realms of Fantasy publishes Harlan Ellison; Albedo One interviews Greg Egan; F&SF has new stories by Paul Park, Kate Wilhelm, and others; and The New York Review of Science Fiction examines Big Dumb Objects and John D. MacDonald.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 8 December 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Stephen King's Under the Dome remains highest ranking genre book on general bestseller lists, while Jim Butcher's First Lord's Fury makes an impressive debut, ranking in the top 10 on three lists.
New Books : 4th week NovemberSunday 6 December 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Jeff VanderMeer's Booklife, David Weber & Eric Flint's Torch of Freedom, Gwyneth Jones' Imagination/Space, The Authorized Ender Companion, and other titles by Akers, Anthony, Bisson, Butcher, Kent, Little, Rardin, Robinson, and Shepherd.
New Books : 3rd week NovemberSunday 6 December 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year and Lovecraft Unbound, Jay Lake's Madness of Flowers, Alex Bledsoe's Burn Me Deadly, and other titles by Arthur, Bakker, Boston, Boyett, Cortes, Kenner, Kerr, Marillier, Monk, Palmer, and Peeler.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 1 December 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Stephen King's Under the Dome remains at the top of lists; Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm remains on three top 10 lists; David Weber & Eric Flint's Torch of Freedom debuts.
Classic Reprints: NovemberSaturday 28 November 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Classic SF and fantasy in new editions this month include Peter Straub's two-volume American Fantastic Tales, Henry Kuttner's Robots Have No Tails, and titles by Isaac Asimov, Leigh Brackett, Damien Broderick, Thomas M. Disch, Judith Moffett, and Clark Ashton Smith.
Classic Reprints: OctoberSaturday 28 November 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen in September and October include anthologies The Secret History of Science Fiction and The Very Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction, plus titles by Steven R. Boyett, Emma Bull, Philip K. Dick, Philip José Farmer, Howard L. Myers, Jerry Pournelle, and Robert J. Sawyer.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 24 November 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Stephen King's Under the Dome is #1; Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm remains in the top 10.
New Books : 2nd week NovemberMonday 23 November 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Greg Bear's Mariposa, Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner's Destroyer of Worlds, and other titles by Adams, Dann & Dozois, Dantec, Dellamonica, Hutchins, Richards, Roberts, Rusch, Shepherd, and Whitfield.
New in Paperback: NovemberSaturday 21 November 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Gene Wolfe's An Evil Guest, James P. Blaylock's The Knights of the Cornerstone, Jack McDevitt's The Devil's Eye, and titles by Anderson, Marillier, Meluch, Modesitt, Somers, Turtledove, and Zahn.
New in Paperback: OctoberSaturday 21 November 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Stephen King's Just After Sunset, Richard Matheson's The Box, and titles by Anthony, Card, Cooper, Dietz, Drake, Drinkard, Engdahl, Farland, Hendee, Lackey, Lima, McKiernan, and Remic.
Other Magazines: early NovemberThursday 19 November 2009 | Monitor; Directories
Canadian 'zine On Spec celebrates its 20th anniversary; January issues of Analog and Asimov's have stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Michael F. Flynn, Allen M. Steele, Geoffrey A. Landis, Robert Reed, and others; and new issues of Murky Depths, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Star*Line feature a report on a Haiku conference, a graphic novel by Richard Calder, and Brian Aldiss's explanation for why he hasn't been writing SF all these years.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 17 November 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Anne Rice's Angel Time ranks; Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm remains in the top 10; Sherrilyn Kenyon paperback reprints rank high.
New Books : early NovemberSunday 15 November 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Stephen King's Under the Dome, Jeff VanderMeer's Finch, Cory Doctorow's Makers, Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm, and other titles by Brite, Brown, Connolly, Farland, Gunn/Barr/Candelaria, Kilpatrick & Morrell, Lima, McDevitt, Rich, Scholes, and Sherman & Barzak.
Other Magazines: OctoberWednesday 11 November 2009 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Hugo Award-winning 'zines Electric Velocipede and Weird Tales, plus Analog, Andromeda Spaceways, Asimov's, Black Static, Jupiter, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 10 November 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm is this week's #1 New York Times fiction hardcover bestseller; Stephen King still tops Amazon.com.
New Books : late OctoberSunday 8 November 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Jonathan Strahan's Eclipse Three, Cherie Priest's Boneshaker, Jack Vance's This Is Me, Jack Vance!, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's Last Drink Bird Head, plus titles by Armstrong, Connolly, Dietz, Fletcher, Francis, Gavin, Gilman, Hendee, McGachey, Modesitt, Reeve, Ringo & Kratman, Shinn, and Thomas.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 3 November 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Joe Schreiber's Star Wars novel Death Troopers debuts this week on the extended New York Times list. Meanwhile, Niffenegger, McCarthy, Collins, Gaiman, Meyer, and Harris are still going strong.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 27 October 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Modest debuts this week for Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing..., Dacre Stoker & Ian Holt's Dracula The Un-Dead, Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City, and Joe Schreiber's Star Wars: Death Troopers, with Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm, on sale today, high on Amazon lists.
New Books : mid OctoberSunday 25 October 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Paul McAuley's Gardens of the Sun, Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City, Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing..., Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James' A Short History of Fantasy, plus Japanese SF and horror, 100 Must-Read Fantasy Novels, and titles by Enge, Fukui, Harris, Harrison, Hines, Huston, Lackey, Lloyd, Mead, and North.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 20 October 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Charlaine Harris' A Touch of Dead debuts at #2 (under Dan Brown); Amazon.com's price war with Walmart puts Stephen King at #1; other significant debuts this week are by Terry Pratchett, R.A. Salvatore, Kristin Cashore, Scott Westerfeld, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Lynn Viehl.
New Books : early OctoberWednesday 14 October 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Stephen Baxter's Ark, Justine Larbalestier's Liar, Richard Powers' Generosity, Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals, Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan, and other titles by Andre-Driussi, Andrews, Carriger, Chambers, Engdahl, Friesner, Gaiman, Melton, and Moning.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 13 October 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry debuts on print lists; also, Kelley Armstrong, Eoin Colfer.
New in Paperback: SeptemberFriday 9 October 2009 | Monitor, Directories
K.J. Parker's The Company, Ken Scholes' Lamentation, Clarke & Pohl's The Last Theorem, and other titles by Bear, Foster, Gunn, Kaye, Lerner, Malan, Ringo, Robinson, Shinn, and Stirling
Other Magazines: SeptemberWednesday 7 October 2009 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways, Asimov's, the SFWA Bulletin, Dreams and Nightmares, Focus, Interzone, The New York Review of Science Fiction, On Spec, Star*Line, and Vector
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 6 October 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood debuts, as does a new Neil Gaiman and a paperback Stephen King.
New Books : late SeptemberSunday 4 October 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood, Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry, the first US edition of Paul McAuley's The Quiet War, and other titles by Anderson & Sebanc, Briggs, Erikson, Lackey & Mallory, Lee & Miller, McGuire, Robson, Stirling, Taylor, Tobin, von Schleggel, and Wilson
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 29 September 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry debuts, as do new titles by Jane Austen (with Ben H. Winters), Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory, and F. Paul Wilson.
New Books : mid SeptemberSunday 27 September 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Kathleen Duey's Sacred Scars, Jack Skillingstead's first novel Harbinger, a new novel by Daniel Keyes, and other titles by Anderson, Currier, Downum, Malan, Niswander, Pulver, Reichert, Serling, Thurman, and Van Pelt.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 22 September 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Suzanne Collins's Catching Fire still ranks high; Jordan & Sanderson's The Gathering Storm sells pre-publication; John Twelve Hawks debuts.
New Books : early SeptemberMonday 21 September 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl, The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, Iain M. Banks' Transition, Suzanne Collins' Catching Fire, Patrick Ness' The Ask and the Answer, two nonfiction books edited by Mark Bould and others, and titles by Adams, Banks, Barclay, Brom, Del Franco, Durham, Salvatore, Skillingstead, Swann, and Twelve Hawks
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 15 September 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Suzanne Collins's Catching Fire, sequel to The Hunger Games, debuts at #1 on USA Today and New York Times lists.
Classic Reprints: SeptemberSaturday 12 September 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Classic SF and fantasy in new editions in recent months include three volumes of stories by Edmond Hamilton, a new Library of America volume of Philip K. Dick novels, and other books by Poul Anderson, Iain M. Banks, Robert Bloch, James Gunn, Robert A. Heinlein, Ken MacLeod, Ian McDonald, Michael Moorcock, Adam Niswander, and Robert Silverberg.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 8 September 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Patricia Briggs debuts twice this week, with Hunting Ground and Mercy Thompson: Homecoming; titles by Richelle Mead and S.M. Stirling also debut.
New Books : late AugustSunday 6 September 2009 | Monitor, Directories
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XXV, James Braziel's Snakeskin Road, Terry Brooks A Princess of Landover, two books by Damien Broderick, and other titles by Ashley, Chadbourn, Correia, Flint, Golemon, Hunter, King, Mead, Miller, Resnick, Shirley, Somers, and Warrington
Other Magazines: AugustFriday 4 September 2009 | Monitor; Directories
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction publishes its 60th anniversary issue; plus, new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Black Static, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Murky Depths, Neo-Opsis, and The New York Review of Science Fiction.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 1 September 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Debuts this week are Karen Marie Moning's Dreamfever, Troy Denning's Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss, Terry Goodkind's The Law of Nines, and Terry Brooks' A Princess of Landover.
New in Paperback: AugustSaturday 29 August 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Neal Stephenson's Anathem, Greg Egan's Incandescence, Joe Haldeman's Marsbound, and other titles by Baxter, Bentley, Brooks, Buckner, Erikson, Flynn, Herbert & Anderson, Jones & Bennett, Lackey & Mallory, Richardson, Thompson, and Wilson
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 25 August 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Lev Grossman's The Magicians debuts strongly; titles by Patricia Briggs, Audrey Niffenegger, Alice Sebold, and Charlaine Harris also rank prominently.
New Books : mid AugustSunday 23 August 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Kim Stanley Robinson's Galileo's Dream, Terry Goodkind's The Law of Nines, Lev Grossman's The Magicians, Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim, Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, and other titles by Caine, Erikson, Gunn, Herbert & Anderson, Lamplighter, Lovegrove, Resnick, Romanko, Rubens, Turtledove, and Viehl
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 18 August 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Sherrilyn Kenyon's Bad Moon Rising debuts strongly, as does Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice; Herbert & Anderson's The Winds of Dune ranks on print lists.
New Books : early AugustWednesday 12 August 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Kage Baker's The Hotel Under the Sand, Karl Schroeder's The Sunless Countries, Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Three, and other titles by Bova, Carey, Cooper, Evans, Finlay, Gonzales, Greenberg & Hughes, Jones & Bennett, Pettersson, Richardson, and Smith
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 11 August 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Dean Koontz' Frankenstein: Dead and Alive debuts strongly on paperback lists; Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife dominates in trade paperback
Other Magazines: JulyFriday 7 August 2009 | Monitor; Directories
Realms of Fantasy reappears; plus, new issues of Albedo One, the SFWA Bulletin, Jupiter, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Leading Edge, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Star*Line.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 4 August 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife dominates lists; Thomas Pynchon and Sherrilyn Kenyon debut.
New Books : late week JulyMonday 3 August 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold, Daniel Abraham's The Price of Spring, the first two titles in VIZ Media's series of translated Japanese SF, and other titles by Booker & Thomas, Dunwoody, Fallon, Gunn, Hunt, Kane, McDonald, Ringo, Shufeldt, and Williams & Beale
New in Paperback: JulySaturday 1 August 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Charles Stross' Saturn's Children, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and other titles by Abraham, Asher, Berman, Bledsoe, Bova, Brust, Czerneda, Feist & Stirling, Flint & De Marce, Green, Gunn, Knight, Lindskold, McDonald, Shepherd, Smith, and Williams
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 28 July 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife is back on lists, in anticipation of the forthcoming film.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 21 July 2009 | Monitor, Directories
David Weber's By Heresies Distressed debuts on three print lists; the paperback of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows also debuts.
New Books : second week JulyWednesday 15 July 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Charles Stross' collection Wireless, Liz Williams' The Shadow Pavilion, David Weber's By Heresies Distressed, Michael Swanwick on Hope Mirrlees, Philip Martin on fantasy literature, and other titles by Battis, Chadbourn, Clark, Czerneda, Day, Elrod, and Knight
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 14 July 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Angel's Game, follow-up to The Shadow of the Wind, remains solidly on hardcover fiction lists.
New Books : late June to early JulyWednesday 8 July 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan's The New Space Opera 2, Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan's The Strain, Alice Hoffman's The Story Sisters, David Langford's Starcombing, Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Angel's Game, and other titles by Davidson, Douglas, Heitz, Hutchins & Weisman, Kessler & Kittredge, Maxey, Mills, Robertson, and Sniegoski.
Other Magazines: JuneTuesday 7 July 2009 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways, Asimov's, Black Static, Dreams and Nightmares, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Review of SF, Star*Line, Sybil's Garage, and Talebones.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 7 July 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Christie Golden's Star Wars novel Fate of the Jedi, Book 2: Omen debuts this week, as do the trade paperback of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and new hardcovers by David Weber and Jacqueline Carey.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 30 June 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Angel's Game, follow-up to The Shadow of the Wind, debuts strongly on fiction hardcover lists this week.
New Books : third week JuneWednesday 24 June 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-sixth Annual Collection, Robert Charles Wilson's Julian Comstock, and titles by Bell, Carey, Friesner, Huff, Little, Modesitt, Morse, and Stone.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 23 June 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Dean Koontz's Relentless is #1 on fiction hardcover lists at New York Times and Publishers Weekly; Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker also debuts on the extended NYT list.
New Books : early/mid JuneThursday 18 June 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker, Robert Silverberg's autobiographical Other Spaces, Other Times, James O'Neal's The Human Disguise, Dean Koontz's Relentless, the US edition of Alastair Reynolds's House of Suns, and other titles by Alan, Anderson, Bauer, Chadbourn, Day, Frost, Green, Harris, Hill, Lebbon, Morton, Neill, Van Name, and Weldon.
New in Paperback: JuneWednesday 17 June 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Titles by Elizabeth Bear, Jacqueline Carey, Charles de Lint, Chris Evans, Jennifer Fallon, Simon R. Green, Tanya Huff, Holly Lisle, Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner, Naomi Novik, Alastair Reynolds, Jenna Rhodes, Kat Richardson, Joel Shepherd, Dan Simmons, Melinda Snodgrass, David Weber, Phaedra Weldon, and John C. Wright
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 16 June 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Laurell K. Hamilton's Skin Trade debuts at #1; Del Toro & Hogan's The Strain and MaryJanice Davidson's Undead and Unwelcome also debut significantly on print lists.
New Books : late May to early JuneWednesday 10 June 2009 | Monitor, Directories
John Crowley's Four Freedoms, Jay Lake's Green, Rudy Rucker's Hylozoic, Javier Calvo's Wonderful World, Marie Brennan's In Ashes Lie, YA titles by Grant, Haarsma, Marco, Marr, McMann, and Yolen, and others.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 9 June 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Books debuting on print and Amazon bestseller lists this week are by Kim Harrison, China Miéville, Dean Koontz, and Laurell K. Hamilton.
New Books : late MayWednesday 3 June 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Notable new SF/F/H books in late May include China Miéville's The City & The City, Greer Gilman's Cloud & Ashes, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best SF 14, two nonfiction collections by Paul T. Riddell, and other titles by Barnes, Carey, Foster, Francis, Hoffman, Kasai, Peters, Pierce, Rabe & Greenberg, Shearin, and Smith-Ready.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 2 June 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Horror novel The Strain, by film director Guillermo Del Toro and co-writer Chuck Hogan, debuts on all three Amazon lists today.
Other Magazines: MaySunday 31 May 2009 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Black Static, The Bulletin of the SFWA, Murky Depths, The New York Review of SF, On Spec, and the last issue of Paradox.
New in Paperback: MayWednesday 27 May 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Hugo and Locus Award finalists Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi, The Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick, and Singularity's Ring by Paul Melko, plus titles by Alten, Anderson, Chafe, Douglass, Keck, Kerr, Sanderson, Shepherd, Taylor, and Van Name.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 26 May 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek debuts; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies still ranks among the top 10 after eleven weeks.
New Books : mid MayFriday 22 May 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Notable new SF/F/H books seen mid-May include short story collections from Tobias S. Buckell and Rebecca Ore, and novels by Anderson, Baker, Benedict, Brown, Campbell, S.J. Day, Thomas A. Day, Drake, Esslemont, Finlay, Gee, Gilman, Lee & Miller, Millar, Monette, Monk, Ruckley, and Sapkowski.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 19 May 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Charlaine Harris' Dead and Gone is #1 on lists from New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly; Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun debuts on print lists as high as #6.
Classic Reprints: MayFriday 15 May 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Classic SF and fantasy in new editions in recent months include Robert Silverberg's A Time of Changes, John Wyndham's The Chrysalids, Mark Geston's The Book of the Wars, and works by Anderson, Anvil, Asimov, Hamilton, Merritt, Pohl, Pournelle, Silverberg & Garrett, Smith, and VanderMeer.
New Books : early MayTuesday 12 May 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Notable new SF/F/H books seen in early May include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, US editions of Stephen Baxter's Flood, Robert V.S. Redick's The Red Wolf Conspiracy, and Mark Chadbourn's World's End, and other titles by Butler, Cherryh, Drake, Murphy, Robins, Sinclair, and Snyder.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 12 May 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Debuts this week are Kelley Armstrong's The Awakening, Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet: Relentless, and the reprint edition of Dean Koontz' Odd Hours.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 5 May 2009 | Monitor, Directories
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún debuts modestly on Amazon lists, while Terry Pratchett's The Unseen Academicals ranks on Amazon UK five months prior to publication. And Stephenie Meyer still rules.
New Books : 2nd half AprilSunday 3 May 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Notable new SF/F/H books seen the second half of April include Charles Stross' The Revolution Business, Ursula K. Le Guin's Cheek by Jowl, Farah Mendlesohn's On Joanna Russ, Adam Roberts' Yellow Blue Tibia, anthologies from John Joseph Adams and Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, and others.
New in Paperback: AprilFriday 1 May 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Jeffrey Ford's The Empire of Ice Cream and The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, Ian McDonald's novel Brasyl, Philip K. Dick's In Milton Lumky Territory, and titles by Baxter, Drake, Hobb, Modesitt, Turtledove, and others.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 28 April 2009 | Monitor/Bestsellers, Directories
Tamora Pierce's Bloodhound is #1 on the New York Times children's list this week; Jim Butcher still ranks high; Jack Campbell debuts; Stephenie Meyer rules.
Other Magazines: mid-AprilFriday 24 April 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Asimov's publishes the 25th annual June issue story by James Patrick Kelly; Mythic Delirium publishes its 10th anniversary issue, with a poem by Neil Gaiman; and new issues of Analog and Jupiter.
New Books : 2nd week AprilTuesday 21 April 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Notable new SF/F/H books seen the second week of April include Robert J. Sawyer's Wake, Bernard Beckett's Genesis, Nick Gevers & Jay Lake's anthology Other Earth, Alexander C. Irvine's Buyout, and other titles by Abé, Bradbury, Bryan, Campbell, Duncan, Frei, Rawn, Rich, White, and Williamson.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 21 April 2009 | Monitor/Bestsellers, Directories
Jim Butcher's Turn Coat ranks #1 on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly fiction hardcover lists; Karen Chance's Curse the Dawn debuts in paperback.
Other Magazines: first half AprilTuesday 14 April 2009 | Monitor, Directories
What's in new issues of Black Gate, F&SF, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Shimmer, and Weird Tales.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 14 April 2009 | Monitor/Bestsellers, Directories
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies debuts strongly on print lists this week; also new are titles by Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Ilona Andrews, and Raymond E. Feist.
New in Paperback: MarchMonday 13 April 2009 | Monitor, Directories
William Gibson's Spook Country, Iain M. Banks' Matter, David Marusek's Getting to Know You, Paul Park's The Hidden World, and titles by Crowley, Hamilton, Kenyon, and others.
New Books : 1st week AprilSunday 12 April 2009 | Monitor Listing
Notable new SF/F/H books seen or available the first week of April include Ellen Datlow's Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, Steve Holland et al's Sci-Fi Art: A Graphic History, Jedediah Berry's The Manual of Detection, Peter F. Hamilton's The Temporal Void, and other titles by Allred, Austen & Grahame-Smith, Beckett, Chance, D'Amato, Griffin, Kollin & Kollin, McKenna, Nagle, Pinkwater, Strout, Wells, and Zebrowski.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 7 April 2009 | Monitor/Bestsellers, Directories
Aaron Allston's Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, Book 1: Outcast debuts at #3 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list; William R. Fortschen's One Second After is #21 on the same list; a new Keri Arthur also debuts this week.
New Books : late MarchSaturday 4 April 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Allen Steele's Coyote Horizon, Lois McMaster Bujold's The Sharing Knife: Horizon, Eric Flint's Worlds, Jo Graham's Hand of Isis, Catherynne M. Valente's Palimpsest, and others
For earlier 2009 posts, see 2009 Monitor Archive page |
2009 Index and Archive
 
Locus Online's Monitor pages list selected newly published science fiction, fantasy, and horror books and magazines seen or received by the website. (Locus Online does not have access to materials sent to Locus Magazine). We also compile a weekly table of genre books on general bestseller lists, and gather references to all listings, reviews, and bestseller citations in annual Directory pages, divided by type of book.
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