* Adams, John Joseph, ed. : Brave New Worlds
(Night Shade Books 978-1-59780-221-5, $15.99, 481pp, trade paperback, January 2011, cover art and design Cody Tilson)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Jan 2011

Anthology of 33 stories, first published from 1948 to 2010, about dystopian worlds.
• Authors include Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kate Wilhelm, J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Orson Scott Card.
• The editor's site for the book has the table of contents with links on titles to the editor's introduction for each story. Several stories are available for free in their entirety.
• Amazon's "Look Inside" function provides a preview.
• Amazon has the starred Publishers Weekly review, which calls out titles by Joseph Paul Haines, Sarah Langan, Matt Williamson, and Adam-Troy Castro. "Most of the stories are bleak, many are hopeless, and all serve as powerful warnings of what we may let ourselves become."

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Eskridge, Kelley : Solitaire
(Small Beer Press 978-193152010-2, $16, 341pp, trade paperback, January 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 18 Jan 2011
(First edition: HarperCollins/Eos, September 2002)

SF novel, the author's debut novel, about a woman framed for murder and forced to undergo a harsh punishment in a battered, near-future Earth.
• Small Beer's site has this description, with links to reviews, John Scalzi's Big Idea post about it, and the first chapter.
• Amazon has reviews of the original first edition from Publishers Weekly and its own Jeremy Pugh, who writes "Author Kelley Eskridge's first novel is an intense and powerful tale of self-discovery set in a convincingly articulated future."
• The book was a Nebula Award finalist in 2003, and was nominated for the Endeavour and Spectrum awards as well.

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Harrison, Harry : A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
(Tor 978-0-7653-2786-4, $14.99, 237pp, trade paperback, January 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 4 Jan 2011

Alternate history novel about a British attempt to construct a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean to its colonies in North America.
• The novel was serialized in Analog magazine in 1972, then published in book form in the UK, under this title, though the first US edition was retitled Tunnel Through the Deeps.
• Tor's site has this description, with an excerpt.
• Wikipedia has this page about the book.

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* Lansdale, Joe R. : Flaming Zeppelins: The Adventures of Ned the Seal
(Tachyon Publications 978-1616960025, $14.95, 285pp, trade paperback, November 2010)
• Nominal Publication Date: Mon 25 Oct 2010

Omnibus of two short novels, Zeppelins West (2001) and Flaming London (2006), about wild west adventures involving Buffalo Bill Cody, Frankenstein, Captain Nemo, Doctor Moreau, and many others.
• Tachyon's site has this description with quotes from some of the original reviews.

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McAllister, Bruce : Dream Baby
(CreateSpace 978-1453880937, $16.5, 434pp, trade paperback, December 2010)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Dec 2010
(First edition: Tor, October 1989)

SF novel about an army nurse with psychic powers in the Vietnam War, and the CIA's attempt to use her and others' gifts in warfare.
• The webpage for the book has quotes from reviews and a video teaser.
• Amazon has the Publishers Weekly review of the original first edition, which calls it a "stunning tour de force", and which concludes, "Masterful interior monologues that yield eerie, tingling tension make this terrifying novel one of the most memorable chronicles of the Vietnam war."
• The novel is based on a 1987 novelette of the same name, which was a Hugo and Nebula finalist.

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