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Normal by Warren Ellis
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (November 4, 2014)

Synopsis:
A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller straight out of the very near future—by an iconic visionary writer
Some people call it “abyss gaze.” Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you.
There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about geo-engineering and smart cities and ways to evade Our Coming Doom; strategic forecasters are spook futurists, who think about geopolitical upheaval and drone warfare and ways to prepare clients for Our Coming Doom. The former are paid by nonprofits and charities, the latter by global security groups and corporate think tanks.
For both types, if you’re good at it, and you spend your days and nights doing it, then it’s something you can’t do for long. Depression sets in. Mental illness festers. And if the “abyss gaze” takes hold there’s only one place to recover: Normal Head, in the wilds of Oregon, within the secure perimeter of an experimental forest.
When Adam Dearden, a foresight strategist, arrives at Normal Head, he is desperate to unplug and be immersed in sylvan silence. But then a patient goes missing from his locked bedroom, leaving nothing but a pile of insects in his wake. A staff investigation ensues; surveillance becomes total. As the mystery of the disappeared man unravels in Warren Ellis’s Normal, Dearden uncovers a conspiracy that calls into question the core principles of how and why we think about the future—and the past, and the now.

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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

Publisher: (Orbit Books) (8 April 2014)

Turns out that Claire North is actually Catherine Webb, aka Kate Griffin :o

http://www.orbitbooks.net/2014/04/25/first-fifteen-lives-harry-august-radio-2/

http://www.kategriffin.net/2014/04/22/the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august/

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Newly Discovered Octavia Butler Stories to be Published in June :





Two never-before-published stories from the archives of one of science fiction’s all-time masters



The novella “A Necessary Being” showcases Octavia E. Butler’s ability to create alien yet fully believable “others.” Tahneh’s father was a Hao, one of a dwindling race whose leadership abilities render them so valuable that their members are captured and forced to govern. When her father dies, Tahneh steps into his place, both chief and prisoner, and for twenty years has ruled without ever meeting another of her kind. She bears her loneliness privately until the day that a Hao youth is spotted wandering into her territory. As her warriors sharpen their weapons, Tahneh must choose between imprisoning the newcomer—and living the rest of her life alone.


The second story in this volume, “Childminder,” was commissioned by Harlan Ellison for his legendary (and never-published) anthology The Last Dangerous Visions™. A disaffected telepath connects with a young girl in a desperate attempt to help her harness her growing powers. But in the richly evocative fiction of Octavia E. Butler, mentorship is a rocky path, and every lesson comes at a price.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K04NWG0/


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Fall of Light (Kharkanas Trilogy #2) by Steven Erikson

Amazon UK is now listing publishing date as February 19, 2015

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fall-Light-Second-Kharkanas-Trilogy/dp/0593062191/

Wasn't this supposed to come out this year ?

It was. I think Steve had some trouble with a storyline in the series that he had to think about if he will make it an own series. And, iirc, he had need of some down-time as well...he was kind of burnt out.

It's too bad as i really wanted to read this book asap...oh well, i guess you can't complain with him. If ever there was an author who can keep his regular pub-schedule, it is him.

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He had announced the book wouldn't be out this year some months ago, the Jaghut war storyline got too big and now he has to decide how to fix that problem, and he's been working on Willful Child, which I think will come out in October.


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The Slow Regard of Silent Things: A Kingkiller Chronicle Novella by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)

Publication Date: October 28, 2014

A companion novella to Patrick Rothfuss’ bestselling Kingkiller Chronicle novels, The Slow Regard of Silent Things shares an enchanting new perspective on the Four Corners realm.

Renowned as a bastion of knowledge, the University draws the brightest minds to unravel the mysteries of enlightened sciences, such as artificing and alchemy. Yet deep below its bustling halls lies a complex web of abandoned rooms and ancient passageways. In the heart of this cavernous maze is a young woman named Auri, who calls this Underthing her home.

Formerly a student at the University, Auri now spends her days tending to the world around her. She knows that some mysteries are better settled and safe. No longer fooled by the sharp rationality so trusted by those above her, Auri sees beyond the surface of things, into subtle dangers and hidden names.

At once joyous and haunting, The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a richly atmospheric and lyrical tale, featuring one of the most beloved characters from Rothfuss’ acclaimed fantasy series.

New blurb from Amazon.com:

Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place.

Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a brief, bittersweet glimpse of Auri’s life, a small adventure all her own. At once joyous and haunting, this story offers a chance to see the world through Auri’s eyes. And it gives the reader a chance to learn things that only Auri knows....

In this book, Patrick Rothfuss brings us into the world of one of The Kingkiller Chronicle’s most enigmatic characters. Full of secrets and mysteries, The Slow Regard of Silent Things is the story of a broken girl trying to live in a broken world.

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The Deadlands by Benjamin Percy (Hodder & Stoughton)

October 9, 2014


A post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga






A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar (Hodder & Stoughton)

October 23, 2014


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The Age of Magic by Ben Okri
Publisher: Head of Zeus (6 Nov 2014)

Head of Zeus have acquired a new novel from Booker prize winning author Ben Okri titled The Age of Magic.The Age of Magic is about a group of travellers in an enchanted Swiss town on the shores of a luminous lake, who find themselves involved in a mystery that disturbs, enlightens, and transforms them, one by one, and in different ways.
This novel takes us on a journey, a magical, and a literal one. A tightly knit group of filmmakers travel from Paris together to make a documentary. Unknown to themselves they carry a lot of unwanted baggage - fear, anger, jealousy, love.
When they arrive in an idyllic Swiss village ringed by mountains and reflected in a lake, they discover a haunted world that will compel them to confront the demons they have been trying to escape.
A mind-blowingly beautiful book, full of unexpected, poetic and metaphysical revelations.

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So it will be at least 7 years between the latest David Keck book and "A King in Cobwebs".

He actually released an update in March:

I thought it might be worth saying, I managed to get through an end-to-end draft of A King in Cobwebs (Dave’s Third Book).

There are a couple of seriously rocky bits in the middle where my fits-and-starts writing schedule has produced some strange incongruities, but the book has a beginning, middle and an end.

During New York’s Febuary Mid-Winter Break, I actually managed to iron out a number of big problems in the opening. It felt good.

I do wish I could afford to steal a few months to hammer it all out. Still, it’s been good to have an ending on paper.

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Has anyone mentioned the new J.K Rowling mystery: The Silkworm?





When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before . . . A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott.


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Quantum Mythology by Gavin G. Smith
Publisher: Gollancz (18 Dec 2014)

A fast-moving SF thriller set in a uniquely dark future from a new voice in the tradition of Peter F. Hamilton and Richard Morgan.
Praised by Stephen Baxter and Adam Roberts, reviewed ecstatically by SFX magazine, Gavin Smith is one of the brightest stars of space opera.
In the far future, many years after the loss of earth, humanity has changed. Strength is the only way to survive. And the most vicious man alive has a new con in mind...
Here and now, a man with unnatural powers hunts down a killer with impossible abilities. Infused with a barely-understood alien technology, the two are merely pawns in a bigger game...
A long time ago, the last tribes of Northern Britain face an unimaginable enemy. Demons risen from the sea, absorbing and twisting everything they touch. But there are some among the tribes who have power, who will fight...
And all of these times are connected...
Gavin Smith's new epic space opera is a wide-ranging exploration of the past, present and future of mankind.

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The Genome by Sergei Lukyanenko
Publisher: Open Road Media (December 2, 2014)

The Genome is a new science fiction thriller by the author of the bestselling Night Watch series.
In the far-future world of Alexander Romanov, humankind is divided into “naturals” and “speshes”—those who have been genetically modified to serve a specific purpose. Alex is a master pilot capable of maneuvering the dangerous realm of space by communicating directly with his ship. He is about to take on the most mysterious and challenging mission of his life when he happens upon Kim, a teenage girl with a desperate secret. Out of a sense of friendship, he agrees to help her, but this decision will end in conflict and tragedy for dozens of worlds.

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The Royalist (William Falkland #1) by S.J. Deas (Stephen Deas)
Publisher: Headline (25 Sep 2014)

Synopsis
William Falkland is a dead man. A Royalist dragoon fighting against Parliament, for three months he has been languishing in the cells at Newgate prison, awaiting execution. On the day it arrives, he has made his peace with his end. England is fractured, his thirst for life is gone, and it has been many years since he last saw his wife and two children. Whether they still live, or have fallen prey to the same wars that have corrupted his soul, he will never know.
Yet, when the executioners come and lead him from Newgate with a sack over his head, it is not the gallows to which they take him, but the Houses of Parliament instead. There, in the shadowy chambers at the heart of the Kingdom, Falkland is faced with none other than Oliver Cromwell.
For Cromwell has heard of Falkland’s reputation as an investigator inside the King’s army, a man who once went against the King’s word and had a rapist hung because his conscience would not allow him to do otherwise. These are dark times in war-torn England and, above all else, Cromwell needs a man of conscience. His monstrous fighting force, the New Model Army, is wintering in the little town of Crediton in Devon. But mysterious deaths are sweeping the encampment – whether suicides or murders, accidents or executions, Cromwell cannot say. In return for his freedom, Falkland is dispatched to Crediton to uncover the truth – and quickly finds himself embroiled in a mystery in which Parliamentary politics, the Catholic/Protestant divide, and the witch craze spreading across England have all become entwined.

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