* Bernheimer, Kate : How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales
(Coffee House Press 978-1566893473, $15.95, 158pp, trade paperback, August 2014)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Aug 2014

Collection of eight stories, by the author who won a World Fantasy Award for anthology My Mother, She Killed Me, My Father, He Ate Me.
• The publisher’s site has this description.
Slate‘s Kady Waldman posted an essay/review, The Cabinet of Marvels, about the book.

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* Cole, Nick : Soda Pop Soldier
(Harper Voyager 978-0-06-221022-7, $14.99, 360pp, trade paperback, August 2014)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Aug 2014
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062210234

Near future SF novel about a gamer who fights for his corporation’s share of advertising space in an online combat sport arena.
• Harper’s site has this description with an excerpt.
Publishers Weekly gives this a starred review: ” In all situations, he manages to be a tough, snarky warrior battling his corrupt society’s worst excesses. This is a cheeky and enjoyable effort from an author to watch.”

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* Gregory, Daryl : We Are All Completely Fine
(Tachyon Publications 978-1-61696-171-8, $14.95, 182pp, trade paperback, August 2014)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Aug 2014

Fantasy novel about a therapy group for victims of horror stories.
• Tachyon’s site has this description and order page.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “This complex novel—scathingly funny, horrific yet oddly inspiring—constructs a seductive puzzle from torn identities, focusing on both the value and peril of fear.”
• Gary K. Wolfe’s review from the August issue of Locus Magazine is posted here; he concludes, “Gregory is interested more in empathy than revulsion, more in accommodation than heroics, and more in the victim than the monster. The result is his most tightly constructed and compulsively readable novel to date, and a small gem of what we might call post-horror horror.”

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+ Hager, Mandy : Resurrection
(Pyr 978-1-61614-909-3, $17.99, 361pp, hardcover, August 2014, cover illustration Jackie Cooke)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Aug 2014
Blood of the Lamb #3

Dystopian YA novel, third in a series following The Crossing (2013) and Into the Wilderness (Jan. 2014), about a girl and her friends who escape a Pacific island domanated by religious apostles for an unsettled island.
• Pyr’s site has this description.
• The book was first published in New Zealand in 2011. The author’s site has this page about the trilogy.

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* Herbert, Brian, & Kevin J. Anderson : Hellhole Inferno
(Tor 978-0-7653-2271-5, $27.99, hardcover, August 2014)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Aug 2014
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429948227
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427235435
Hellhole #3

Military SF novel, third book in a trilogy following Hellhole (2011) and Hellhole Awakening (2013), about desperate colonists on a ravaged planet.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
Booklist gave the first book a starred review, calling it a “militaristic sf story of galactic proportions”.

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* Hobb, Robin : Fool’s Assassin
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-553-39242-5, $28, 688pp, hardcover, August 2014)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Aug 2014
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0-553-39243-2
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 978-0-553-54635-4
The Fitz and the Fool #1

Fantasy novel, first book in a new trilogy, about two characters from her earlier novels, FitzChivalry Farseer and the Fool.
• Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Though a leisurely beginning slows the plot slightly, the fully realized characters and vivid prose show that Hobb remains a supremely talented author of epic fantasy.”
• Faren Miller reviews it in the August issue of Locus Magazine: “Where some fantasists specialize in ponderous trilogies with immense casts of characters, elaborately unimaginative world-building, and an overall aura of the ‘medievalesque,’ Hobb distills similar materials into a far more potent brew. However paradoxical it seems, her epics manage to feel intimate.”

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* Krinard, Susan : Black Ice
(Tor 978-0-7653-3209-7, $14.99, 384pp, trade paperback, August 2014)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Aug 2014
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781429955959
Midgard #2

Urban fantasy novel, second in a series after Mist (2013), about a San Francisco woman who discovers her boyfriend is Loki and that she’s a Valkyrie.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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* Ringo, John : Islands of Rage & Hope
(Baen 978-1-4767-3662-4, $25, 416pp, hardcover, August 2014, cover art Kurt Miller)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Aug 2014
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-62579-303-4
Black Tide Rising #3

SF/horror novel, third in a series following Under a Graveyard Sky (2013) and To Sail a Darkling Sea (2014), about a zombie apocalypse brought about by an airborne plague.
• Baen’s site has this description with links to several chapters.

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* Swenson, Patrick : The Ultra Thin Man
(Tor 978-0-7653-3694-1, $25.99, 304pp, hardcover, August 2014)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Aug 2014
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466829299

SF novel, the first novel by the editor of Talebones magazine, about intelligence operatives in a 22nd interstellar culture pursuing terrorists who crashed the moon Coral into its home planet Ribon.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Pig Latin, an exotic drug, a comic strip, and a retractable penis add colorful detail to a showdown that puts love and sacrifice at the heart of the self.”

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* Wells, Jaye : Cursed Moon
(Orbit 978-0316228466, $15, 400pp, trade paperback, August 2014)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Aug 2014
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316228459
Prospero’s War #2

Urban fantasy novel, second of a series after Dirty Magic (Jan. 2014), about a Magical Enforcement Agency.
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+ Wooding, Chris : The Ace of Skulls
(Titan 978-1781168004, $14.95, 495pp, trade paperback, August 2014)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Aug 2014
Tales of the Ketty Jay #4

First US edition (UK: Gollancz, September 2013)

Fantasy steampunk novel, fourth in a series following Retribution Falls (UK 2009, US 2011), The Black Lung Captain (UK 2010, US 2011), and The Iron Jackal (UK 2011; US 2012), about sky pirates.
• The author’s site has this description and commentary about the book.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews of the UK Gollancz edition.

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