* Brown, Eric : Starship Winter
(UK: PS Publishing 978-1-848633-14-8, £11.99, hardcover, February 2012, cover art Tomislav Tikulin)
Starship Seasons #3

SF novella, third in a sequence following Starship Summer (2007) and Starship Fall (2009), concerning the “quiet adventures” of David Conway on the backwater colony planet Addenbrooke, Delta Pavonis IV.
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* Dalton, A. J. : Empire of the Saviours
(UK: Gollancz 978-0575123120, £20, 448pp, hardcover, May 2012, cover art Andreas Rocha)
Nominal Publication Date: Thu 17 May 2012
Chronicles of a Cosmic Warlord #1

Fantasy novel, first book of a trilogy, concerning a young boy in a fortified town who is driven out after unleashing pagan magicks.
• The author’s site has this description, as well as this page about the series with links about the two following titles.
• Gollancz’ site also has a description.
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* Duncan, Andy : The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories
(UK: PS Publishing 978-1-848633-09-4, £19.99, 325pp, hardcover, February 2012, cover art Chris Roberts)

Collection of twelve stories, the author’s second collection following World Fantasy Award-winning Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000).
• This volume includes the World Fantasy Award winning title story, Theodore Sturgeon winner “The Chief Designer”, and one original story, “Close Encounters”.
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* Irvine, Alex : Mare Ultima
(UK: PS Publishing 978-1-848632-94-3, £11.99, hardcover, February 2012, cover art Ben Baldwin)

Fantasy novella set in The Fells, the greatest city on the continent of Borea.
• An April author’s blog post indicates it’s related to earlier stories “Wizard’s Six” and “Dragon’s Teeth” that appeared in F&SF.
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* Nevill, Adam L. G. : Last Days
(UK: Macmillan 978-0230757769, £12.99, 356pp, trade paperback, May 2012)
Nominal Publication Date: Thu 24 May 2012

Horror novel about an indie filmmaker commissioned to make a documentary about an Arizona cult that self-destructed in 1975.
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* Watson, Ian, & Ian Whates, eds. : The Mammoth Book of SF Wars
(UK: Robinson 978-1780330402, £7.99, 512pp, trade paperback, May 2012)
Nominal Publication Date: Thu 17 May 2012

Anthology of 24 military SF stories.
• Authors include Fredric Brown, Algis Budrys, Joe Haldeman, Cordwainer Smith, David Drake, Paul McAuley, Allen Steele, and Walter Jon Williams. Three stories, by Catherine Asaro, Simon R Green, and Mike Resnick & Brad Torgerson, are originals.
• Whates’ blog posts the complete table of contents.
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• The US edition is due in August.

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