* Brown, Eric : Famadihana on Fomalhaut IV
(UK: PS Publishing 978-1-848637-61-0, £12, 79pp, hardcover, April 2014, cover art Tomislav Tikulin)
• Telemass #1

SF novella about a man searching for his kidnapped daughter on Avoeli, Fomalhaut IV, inhabited by a race of aliens whose rituals claim to bring the dead back to life.
• It’s the first of four planned novellas in this series.
• PS Publishing’s site has this description and order page.

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* Hardinge, Frances : Cuckoo Song
(UK: Macmillan Children’s Books UK 978-0330519731, £7.99, 416pp, trade paperback, May 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 8 May 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B00IXLVUFW

Young adult fantasy novel about a girl, Triss, who wakes after an accident and comes to realize she is literally not herself.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
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* Heitz, Markus : Righteous Fury
(UK: Quercus/Jo Fletcher 978-1782065883, £9.99, 512pp, trade paperback, May 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 1 May 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781782065890
• Legends of the Älfar #1

Fantasy novel, first in a series, about the älfar, a race of warriors planning to attack the elves, dwarves, and humans.
• The book was first published in German in 2009 as Die Legenden der Albae 1: Gerechter Zorn, set in the same universe as the earlier “Dwarves” novels.
• Quercus’ site has this description.
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* Mamatas, Nick : The Last Weekend
(UK: PS Publishing 978-1-848637-21-4, 224pp, hardcover, February 2014, cover art Pedro Marques)

Horror novel about a failed Bay area sci-fi writer following an American zombie apocalypose.
• PS Publishing’s site has this description, along with a blurb: “The Last Weekend takes a high-powered drill to the lurching, groaning conventions of zombie dystopias and conspiracy thrillers, sparing no cliché about tortured artists, alcoholic ‘genius’, noir action heroes, survivalist dogma, or starry-eyed California dreaming.”

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* Okorafor, Nnedi : Lagoon
(UK: Hodder & Stoughton 978-1-4447-6275-4, $13.99, 400pp, trade paperback, April 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 10 Apr 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781444762785

SF novel about aliens who land in Lagos, Nigeria.
• Hodder’s site has this description.
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• Gary K. Wolfe reviews the book in the May issue of Locus Magazine: “…throughout there is a sense that Okorafor is having a good deal of fun picking up her Lego bricks from SF, horror, comics, superhero tales, folklore, horror, and even animal fables, and constructing something a good deal more architectural and less ungainly than it seems it ought to be.”

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* Pinborough, Sarah : Murder
(UK: Quercus/Jo Fletcher 9781780872346, £16.99, 336pp, hardcover, May 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 1 May 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781780872353
• Mayhem #2

Horror novel, sequel to Mayhem (2013), about dead children found in the Thames in the years after Jack the Ripper.
• The publisher’s site has this description.
• The US edition is due in January, 2015.
• Tor.com posted this review by Niall Alexander: “Murder makes good on much of the unresolved promise of its predecessor, but I dare say it doesn’t feel like a fully-fledged sequel to Mayhem so much as a prolonged postscript, or a last act artificially protracted. It’s well worth reading if you fell for the first book of the duology, as I indubitably did, but if you didn’t, the second certainly isn’t going to convince you.”

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* Watson, Ian : The Best of Ian Watson
(UK: PS Publishing 978-1-848637-xx-x, £25, hardcover, April 2014)

Collection of 24 stories, edited by Nick Gevers.
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