* Anderson, Kevin J., & John McFetridge, eds. : 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush.
(ECW Press 978-1770412927, $16.95, 400pp, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Apr 2016

Anthology 18 stories, mostly original, inspired by the music of Rush.
• One of the reprints is Fritz Leiber’s “Gonna Roll the Bones”, which inspired the song “Roll the Bones.”
• Other contributors include David Niall Wilson, Mercedes Lackey, Gregn Van Eekhout, Michael Z. Williamson, and Larry Dixon.
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* Aryan, Stephen : Bloodmage
(Orbit 978-0316298315, $16.99, 528pp, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Apr 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780316298308
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781478964100
• Age of Darkness #2

Epic fantasy novel, second in a series following Battlemage (2015), about survivors of a battlemage war.
• Hachette’s site has this description with a preview function.

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* Boyczuk, Robert : The Book of David
(ChiZine Publications 978-1771483513, $16.99, 320pp, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Apr 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781771483520

SF novel about an artificial world of concentric spheres created and settled by the Catholic Church to escape persecution.
• ChiZine’s site has this description, with a blurb by Laird Barron.

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* Brin, David : Insistence of Vision
(The Story Plant 978-1-61188-221-6, $13.95, 374pp, trade paperback, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 22 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-943486-82-3

Collection of 22 stories and essays, first published from 1989 to 2015.
• The publisher’s site has this description with an excerpt from story “Stones of Significance”.
• Brin’s site has this description with the table of contents and links to several stories.

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* Burgis, Stephanie : Masks and Shadows
(Pyr 978-1-63388-132-7, $17, 300pp, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Apr 2016

Historical fantasy novel about a plot to assassinate the Habsburg Emperor in a society where everyone wears masks.
• Pyr’s site has this description.
• Faren Miller reviews it in the April issue of Locus Magazine: “Key scenes take place during a masquerade – no less wild and licentious for its courtly setting – and Burgis explores the nature of shadows, over the course of interwoven plotlines with shifting (and complex) viewpoint characters.”

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* Chappell, Fred : A Shadow All of Light
(Tor 978-0-7653-7912-2, $27.99, 384pp, hardcover, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Apr 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466866133

Fantasy novel about a young man from the country who becomes apprentice to a master thief in the port city of Tardocco.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The author is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “Chappell has a deft touch for comedy and for capers, and his witty, elegant prose shows a poet’s deep love for words…”
• Faren Miller reviews it in the April issue of Locus Magazine: “Such passages, exploring the secret nature of light, shadow, and self, lead to the ultimate paradox that gives the book its name. When we finally see this ‘Shadow All of Light’, the miracle is potent beyond any attempt to define it.”

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* Guran, Paula, ed. : Street Magicks
(Prime Books 978-1607014690, $15.95, 384pp, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Apr 2016

Anthology of 20 fantasy stories about roads, walkways, and other paths.
• Authors include Neil Gaiman, Jeffrey Ford, R.A. Lafferty, Charles de Lint, Jay Lake, and John Shirley.
• Prime’s site has this description with the table of contents and the introduction.

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* Morris, Mark : Wrapped in Skin
(ChiZine Publications 978-1771483575, $16.99, 300pp, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Apr 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781771483582

Collection of stories.
• ChiZine’s site has this description.
• Cemetery Dance Online has this review by Blu Gilliand.

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* Parker, K. J. : Downfall of the Gods
(Subterranean Press 978-1-59606-755-4, $40, 112pp, hardcover, March 2016, jacket art Vincent Chong)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 31 Mar 2016

Fantasy novella about a Goddess who is obliged to forgive a man who killed her favorite musician.
• Subterranean’s site has this description.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Though it clocks in at just more than 100 pages, this novella packs the punch of a full-length work.”
• Gary K. Wolfe reviewed it in the March issue of Locus Magazine, calling it “easily the funniest of his recent string of novellas from Subterranean, and the one most directly suggestive of Parker’s alter ego Tom Holt…”

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* Roman, Peter : The Apocalypse Ark
(ChiZine Publications 978-1-77148-377-3, $16.99, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Apr 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781771483780
• The Book of Cross #3

Urban fantasy novel, third in a series following The Mona Lisa Sacrifice (2013) and The Dead Hamlets (2015), about an immortal angel killer who seeks out Noah.
• ChiZine’s site has this description.
• The Publishers Weekly review comments, “The Cross series is a spiritual relative to Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim and Lavie Tidhar’s Bookman series, meaning that anyone (and anything) in the literary universe is fair game. …”

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* Schneider, Susan, ed. : Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence, Second Edition
(Wiley Blackwell 978-1-118-92261-3, $21.95, 422pp, trade paperback, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Mon 7 Mar 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-118-92260-6

Nonfiction anthology of essays, the second edition of a book first published in 2009.
• Contributors include Plato, David J. Chalmers, Ray Kurzweil, Isaac Asimov, and Daniel C. Dennett.
• Wiley’s site has this description with the complete table of contents and blurbs from David Brin and Martin Rees.

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* Schow, David J. : DJSturbia
(Subterranean Press 978-1596067721, $40, 320pp, hardcover, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 31 Mar 2016

Collection of 26 horror stories.
• Subterranean’s site has this description with the table of contents.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Great writing, boundless creativity, and remarkable career recollections make this a truly wonderful compilation.”

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* Sederholm, Carl H., & Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, eds. : The Age of Lovecraft
(University Of Minnesota Press 978-0816699254, $24.95, 296pp, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 25 Mar 2016

Nonfiction anthology of essays about H.P. Lovecraft “in relation to twenty-first-century critical theory and culture”.
• There a foreword by Ramsey Campbell and an interview with China Miéville.
• The publisher’s site has this description with the complete table of contents.

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* Stanton, Steve : Freenet
(ECW Press 978-1770412293, $14.95, 264pp, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 1 Apr 2016

SF novel set in a far future dominated by a near-omniscient data matrix, about a woman who crash-lands on desert planet with a cave-dwelling culture.
• ECW’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.

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* Trent, Letitia : Almost Dark
(ChiZine Publications 978-1771483360, $16.99, 300pp, trade paperback, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Apr 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781771483377

Horror novel about a librarian who received visitations from her twin brother, who died in an accident 15 years earlier.
• ChiZine’s site has this description.

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* Wexler, Django : The Palace of Glass
(Penguin/Dawson 978-0803739789, $16.99, 368pp, hardcover, April 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Apr 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781101604298
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9780147525512

Middle grade fantasy novel, third in a series following The Forbidden Library (2014) and The Mad Apprentice (2015), about a girl and her uncle’s magical library.
• Penguin’s site has this description.

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* Williamson, Chet : Psycho: Sanitarium
(St. Martin’s 978-1-250-06105-8, $24.99, 288pp, hardcover, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Apr 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466866775
• Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781427281531

Horror novel, sequel to Robert Block’s 1959 Psycho, concerning the two decades between that book and Bloch’s own Psycho II.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “The novel shines when he focuses on Norman and both his internal struggles with his ‘Mother’ personality and his awkwardness around his newfound sibling. Whenever Norman gets the spotlight, the novel feels like a lost Bloch work.”

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