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Gollancz website says March 2011.

http://www.orionbook...s-fear-hardback

The Amazon date for the book changed just last week from March to August 2011, so I assumed it was on the basis of information received by Amazon from Gollancz. I'll follow this up next week.

Lynch isn't in quite as tight a situation as no date other than 'Spring 2011' was ever announced, which gives them a few extra months of leeway.

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Interesting. Clearly the inflexible deadline we were told about was not that inflexible after all, since his last comment from a couple of days back on his blog was that he was still editing and had indeed just written a short new chapter for the book.

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Never Knew Another is a forthcoming novel from J.M. McDermott, author of Last Dragon. It is scheduled for publication in February 2011.

J. M. McDermott delivers the stunning new fantasy novel, Never Knew Another -- a sweeping fantasy novel that revels in the small details of life.

Fugitive Rachel Nolander is a newcomer the city of Dogsland, where the rich throw parties and the poor just do whatever they can to scrape by. Supported by her brother Djoss, she hides out in their squalid apartment, living in fear that someday, someone will find out that she is the child of a demon. Corporal Jona Lord Joni is a demon's child too, but instead of living in fear, he keeps his secret and goes about his life as a cocky, self-assured man of the law. Never Knew Another is the story of how these two outcasts meet.

Never Knew Another is the first book in the Dogsland Trilogy.

http://www.nightshadebooks.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=186

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Bradley P. Beaulieu's debut novel The Winds of Khalakovo will be released in April 2011 by Night Shade. It's the first book in The Lays of Anuskaya series. Here's a plot synopsis:

Among inhospitable and unforgiving seas stands Khalakovo, a mountainous archipelago of seven islands, its prominent eyrie stretching a thousand feet into the sky. Serviced by windships bearing goods and dignitaries, Khalakovo's eyrie stands at the crossroads of world trade. But all is not well in Khalakovo. Conflict has erupted between the ruling Landed, the indigenous Aramahn, and the fanatical Maharraht, and a wasting disease has grown rampant over the past decade. Now, Khalakovo is to play host to the Nine Dukes, a meeting which will weigh heavily upon Khalakovo's future.

When an elemental spirit attacks an incoming windship, murdering the Grand Duke and his retinue, Prince Nikandr, heir to the scepter of Khalakovo, is tasked with finding the child prodigy believed to be behind the summoning. However, Nikandr discovers that the boy is an autistic savant who may hold the key to lifting the blight that has been sweeping the islands. Can the Dukes, thirsty for revenge, be held at bay? Can Khalakovo be saved? The elusive answer drifts upon the Winds of Khalakovo...

N.K. Jemisin's The Kingdom of Gods, third book of The Inheritance Trilogy, is out in October 2011.

http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Title/9781841498195

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Night Shade Books are also publishing Martha Wells' new novel, The Cloud Roads.

The new novel from the author of The Death of the Necromancer

Moon has spent his life hiding what he is--a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. An orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success. Just as Moon is once again discovered and cast out by his adopted tribe, he discovers a shape-shifter like himself... someone who seems to know exactly what he is, who promises that Moon will be welcomed into his community.

What this stranger doesn't tell Moon is that his presence will tip the balance of power... that his extraordinary lineage is crucial to the colony's survival... and that his people face extinction at the hands of the dreaded Fell.

Moon must overcome a lifetime of conditioning in order to save and himself... and his newfound kin.

http://nightshadebooks.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=188

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This should do it. Just copy it to the OP.

No doubt this list will be added to and expanded by others. But my first rough estimates for 2011 releases goes thusly:

January

The Crippled God (Malazan Book of the Fallen #10) by Steven Erikson

The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

The Hammer by K.J. Parker

The Fallen Blade by Jim Courtney Greenwood (Assassini Trilogy #1)

Home Fires by Gene Wolfe

February

Surface Detail (a Culture novel) by Iain M. Banks

Deep State (This is Not a Game #2) by Walter Jon Williams

The Deserter (Bone World Trilogy #2) by Peadar Ó Guilín

The Omen Machine (Sword of Truth universe #14) by Terry Goodkind

March

The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicle #2) by Patrick Rothfuss

The Neon Court (Matthew Swift #3) by Kate Griffin

The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington

Sleight of Hand (short story collection) by Peter Beagle

Best American Fantasy 4 (anthology), edited by Larry 'Squirrelfriend' Nolen

Secret Journeys of Jack London by Tim Lebbon and Christopher Golden (with Greg Ruth)

Son of Heaven (Chung Kuo #1) by David Wingrove

'Spring'

The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard #3) by Scott Lynch

Book 1 of the 11K Trilogy by Alastair Reynolds

A Kingdom Besieged (Chaoswar Saga #1/Riftwar Cycle #27) by Raymond E. Feist

Triumff: A Double Falsehood (Triumff #2) by Dan Abnett

The Sea Watch (Shadows of the Apt #6) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Beggars Banquet by Adam Roberts

April

The Inheritance (short story collection) by Robin Hobb

The Cold Commands (A Land Fit for Heroes #2) by Richard Morgan

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages by Tom Holt

The White-Luck Warrior (The Aspect-Emperor #2) by R. Scott Bakker

Legacy of Kings (Magister Trilogy #3) by Celia Friedman

Sea of Ghosts by Alan Campbell

May

Embassytown by China Mieville

Time of Contempt (Witcher Quintet #2) by Andrzej Sapkowski (English translation)

The Order of Scales (Memory of Flames #3) by Stephen Deas

Fenrir (Wolfsangel #2) by M.D. Lachlan

Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1) by James S.A. Corey (pseudonym for Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck)

Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi

'Summer'

Manhattan in Reverse (short story collection) by Peter F. Hamilton

Book 2 of Northland by Stephen Baxter

The Iron Jackal (Tales of the Ketty Jay #3) by Chris Wooding

His Father's Fist (Acts of Caine #4) by Matt Stover

Requiem (Psalms of Isaak #4) by Ken Scholes

The Departure (Owner Trilogy #1) by Neal Asher

The Diviner (Golden Key #2) by Melanie Rawn

The Night Eternal (Strain Trilogy #3) by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

Black Halo (Undergates #2) by Sam Sykes

June

The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin #1) by Daniel Abraham

The Book of Transformations (Legends of the Red Sun #3) by Mark Charan Newton

Fort Freak (Wild Cards #21) edited by George R.R. Martin

The Diviner (The Golden Key #2) by Melanie Rawn

July

The Kings of Morning (The Macht #3) by Paul Kearney

Spellbound (Spellwright #2) by Blake Charlton

August

Book 2 of the Legends of Shannara duology by Terry Brooks

Pearlant (Light Series #3) by M. John Harrison

'Fall'

The Magician King (Magicians #2) by Lev Grossman

September

Bitterblue (Graceling #3) by Kristin Cashore

October

The Islanders by Christopher Priest

Rumoured/Undated

Tor Books are publishing the first Wild Cards reprint in November 2010, so I'm assuming the reprint of at least Aces High, if not Jokers Wild as well, will follow in 2011.

Several more Chung Kuo books are due in 2011 as well, if the first books comes out on schedule in Spring 2011. There are 20 books in this series and will be published between 2011 and 2015 in an ambitious schedule by Corvus Atlantic.

Adam Roberts apparently has a YA novel as his next book in 2011, which is interesting news.

Book 2 of the Shadow Saga by Jon Sprunk and Book 2 of The Heart of the World by Col Buchanan will be 2011 releases, I imagine.

Terry Pratchett's next adult Discworld novel will be released in 2011 and will be a new Vimes/City Watch novel, entitled Snuff. It was expected to be the concluding volume in the Lipwig trilogy, Raising Taxes, but that appears to have been moved back.

Brandon Sanderson reports that A Memory of Light, the final Wheel of Time novel, is not now expected to hit the shelves until March 2012.

Kim Stanley Robinson has returned to writing a more overt SF project, a space-set project exploring the wider colonisation of the Solar system. It is not clear if this is expected in late 2011 or maybe in 2012.

Neal Stephenson's REAMDE (not a typo) may be a 2011 release.

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The one I am most looking forward to is probably Michelle West's House Name, which should come out in January. That's what it says on her site anyway. Other than that there are several in the OP list that I am interested in, Lynch's The Republic of Thieves probably heads that list.

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