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The Copper Promise by Jen Williams (Headline Books)

Published on : February 13, 2014.

There are some far-fetched rumours about the caverns beneath the Citadel…
Some say the mages left their most dangerous secrets hidden there; others, that great riches are hidden there; even that gods have been imprisoned in its darkest depths.
For Lord Frith, the caverns hold the key to his vengeance. Against all the odds, he has survived torture and lived to see his home and his family taken from him … and now someone is going to pay. For Wydrin of Crosshaven and her faithful companion, Sir Sebastian Caverson, a quest to the Citadel looks like just another job. There’s the promise of gold and adventure. Who knows, they might even have a decent tale or two once they’re done.
But sometimes there is truth in rumour.
Soon this reckless trio will be the last line of defence against a hungry, restless terror that wants to tear the world apart. And they’re not even getting paid.

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Bête by Adam Roberts

Publisher: Gollancz (19 June 2014)

Barricade by Jon Wallace

Publisher: Gollancz (19 June 2014)

Synopsis -

A kinetic, violent and hugely intelligent SF road thriller - a desperate journey through a ruined future world.

Kenstibec was genetically engineered to build a new world, but the apocalypse forced a career change. These days he drives a taxi instead. A fast-paced, droll and disturbing novel, BARRICADE is a savage road trip across the dystopian landscape of post- apocalypse Britain; narrated by the cold-blooded yet magnetic antihero, Kenstibec.

Kenstibec is a member of the 'Ficial' race, a breed of merciless super-humans. Their war on humanity has left Britain a wasteland, where Ficials hide in barricaded cities, besieged by tribes of human survivors. Originally optimised for construction, Kenstibec earns his keep as a taxi driver, running any Ficial who will pay from one surrounded city to another. The trips are always eventful, but this will be his toughest yet. His fare is a narcissistic journalist who's touchy about her luggage. His human guide is constantly plotting to kill him. And that's just the start of his troubles. On his journey he encounters ten-foot killer rats, a mutant King with a TV fixation, a drug-crazed army, and even the creator of the Ficial race. He also finds time to uncover a terrible plot to destroy his species for good - and humanity too.

The House of War and Witness by Mike Carey, Linda Carey , Louise Carey

Publisher: Gollancz (19 Jun 2014)

A stunning historical fantasy chronicling centuries of warfare, crimes of passion, deceit and revenge, and the puppeteer who speaks to ghosts and must tell their stories to the world.

Autumn, 1739, and a regiment of the Hapsburg Empire is sent to fortify a border town against Prussian incursion. There is immediate tension - the villagers are clearly hiding something and the regimental colonel determined to discover their secret. Meanwhile, among the camp followers is Drozde, a young woman who has survived through the judicious application of many of her talents and the careful concealment of another: she can talk to ghosts. As war erupts, Drozde must choose her side: Hapsburgs or villagers? The living ... or the dead?

The Empire of Time (Roads to Moscow #1) by David Wingrove

April 3rd 2014 by Random House/Ebury/Del Rey UK

Synopsis

Christburg, 1236AD. Otto Behr, supplicant of the Teutonic Order of St. Mary’s Hospital in Jerusalem, is more than just a medieval Knight. Otto is a German agent, a time-travelling operative tasked with fighting the Russians across three millennia of history.

When his fellow Knight falls in battle, Otto returns to 2999AD and the German base, a bunker in ‘no-space’ and the last refuge in the fight against the Russians.

But the harsh realities of time travel leave their mark, as evidenced by Otto’s best friend who, supervising operation ‘Barbarossa’, attempts to change the course of World War Two and prevent the long war. But in a war across time, nothing is certain.

The First Maji (Maji Trilogy #1) by Jonathan Blake (Harper Voyager) (January 1, 2014)

Synopsis

A stunning new epic fantasy which tells of how the rapid development of magic transforms a world.

On the world of Erdu it is late in a long, dark age. Everywhere magic is woven into the fabric of society, but it is a low magic of little power. There is a growing sense, though, that all the seperate strands of magic are becoming more developed and powerful. The most learned of the wizards are whispering a word out of the mists of time: the Behel Lus. This is thought to be the single power that feeds the working of all magic. Masters of the greatest guilds begin seeking ways of understanding how the Behel Lus might accomplish such seemingly different feats as making a love charm or calling up a rain cloud. In the air hangs a sense of discovery, excitement and great possibilities. On his eighteenth birthday, the slave Nicholas Medeus overhears a trader describing a magic school where 'men are taught to fly like eagles and summon dragons' and immediately begins planning his escape. Although he manages to steal his owner's fastest horse, he has never ridden before, and his pursuers soon catch up with him.

But Nicholas has a talent he was not aware he possessed; just as he is about to be caught he transforms into a wolf. On reaching the school of magic, dirty and half-starved, Nicholas is met with ridicule. But when he manages to summon an eagle he gains the favour of three of the wizards and is admitted to the school. Now begins the growth of the most poweful wizard Erdu has ever seen. Nicholas will eventually come to a deep understanding of the Behel Lus and how it can be used to the benefit of humankind. But he will also gain bitter rivals, with very different ideas.

The Door in the Mountain by Caitlin Sweet

Publisher: ChiZine (March 18, 2014)

The Greece of The Door in the Mountain (book one of a two-part series) is a place where children are marked by gods and goddesses; a place where a manipulative, bitter princess named Ariadne devises a mountain prison for her hated half-brother, where a boy named Icarus tries, and fails, to fly, and a slave girl changes the paths of all their lives forever.

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Update from David Keck (August 2013)



A quick update: I’m working on the last few pages of King in Cobwebs as I write these words. My predictive powers have been profoundly limited these last few years, but I see considerable reworking ahead for the manuscript once the draft is complete. (Writing in fits and starts has not been good for continuity, for example). Still, if I can hammer out the ending this week, I will feel pretty good.

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Table of contents for The Very Best of Tad Williams:

  • The Old Scale Game
  • The Storm Door
  • The Strangers Hands
  • Child of an Ancient City
  • The Boy Detective of Oz: An Otherland Story
  • Three Duets for Virgin and Nosehorn
  • Diary of a Dragon
  • Not with a Whimper, Either
  • Some Thoughts Re: Dark Destroyer
  • Z is for
  • Monsieur Vergalants Canard
  • The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of
  • Fish Between Friends
  • Every Fuzzy Beast of the Earth, Every Pink Fowl of the Air
  • A Stark and Wormy Knight
  • Black Sunshine
  • And Ministers of Grace
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William Morrow (HarperVoyager US) Summer 2014 catalog:

http://www.harpercollinscatalogs.com/harper/516.htm

Blurb for Sheri Tepper's new novel Fish Tails:

In Fish Tails, two of Tepper's beloved characters - Abasio and Xulai (A Plague of Angels and The Waters Rising) - and their children travel from village to village scattered across the sparsely populated land of Tingawa. They are searching for others who might be interested in adopting their sea-dwelling lifestyle.

Along their journey they encounter strange visitors from the far-off world of Lom, characters from Tepper's nine-book "True Game" series of novels - Mavin Manyshaped, Jinian Star-eye, and Silkhands the Healer - all of whom have been gathered up by an interfering, time-traveling, rule-breaking do-gooder to do one last good dead on earth before its metamorphosis is complete. For the waters are rising and will soon engulf the entire planet, transforming it utterly and irrevocably.

Blurb for Emmi Itäranta's debut novel Memory of Water:

An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin

Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father tends, which once provided water for her whole village.

But secrets do not stay hidden forever, and after her father’s death the army starts watching their town — and Noria. And as water becomes even scarcer, Noria must choose between safety and striking out, between knowledge and kinship.

Imaginative and engaging, lyrical and poignant, Memory of Water is an indelible novel that portrays a future that is all too possible.

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1st official blurb for Prince of Fools (The Red Queen's War #1) by Mark Lawrence (Harper Voyager) (5th June 2014):

From the critically acclaimed author of THE BROKEN EMPIRE series comes a brilliant new epic fantasy series, THE RED QUEEN’S WAR.
The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire fear her as they fear no other.
Her grandson Jalan Kendeth is a coward, a cheat and a womaniser; and tenth in line to the throne. While his grandmother shapes the destiny of millions, Prince Jalan pursues his debauched pleasures. Until he gets entangled with Snorri ver Snagason, a huge Norse axe man, and dragged against his will to the icy north.
In a journey across half the Broken Empire, Jalan flees minions of the Dead King, agrees to duel an upstart prince named Jorg Ancrath, and meets the ice witch, Skilfar, all the time seeking a way to part company with Snorri before the Norseman’s quest leads them to face his enemies in the black fort on the edge of the Bitter Ice.
Experience does not lend Jalan wisdom; but here and there he unearths a corner of the truth. He discovers that they are all pieces on a board, pieces that may be being played in the long, secret war the Red Queen has waged throughout her reign, against the powers that stand behind thrones and nations, and for higher stakes than land or gold.

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Joshua Palmatier's Shattering the Ley will be published in July 2014:

A new genre-bending trilogy from the author of the Throne of Amenkor series.

Erenthrall—sprawling city of light and magic, whose streets are packed with traders from a dozen lands and whose buildings and towers are grown and shaped in the space of a day.


At the heart of the city is the Nexus, the hub of a magical ley line system that powers Erenthrall. This ley line also links the city and the Baronial plains to rest of the continent and the world beyond. The Prime Wielders control the Nexus with secrecy and lies, but it is the Baron who controls the Wielders. The Baron also controls the rest of the Baronies through a web of brutal intimidation enforced by his bloodthirsty guardsmen and unnatural assasins.

When the rebel Kormanley seek to destroy the ley system and the Baron’s chokehold, two people find themselves caught in the chaos that sweeps through Erenthrall and threatens the entire world: Kara Tremain, a young Wielder coming into her power, who discovers the forbidden truth behind the magic that powers the ley lines; and Alan Garrett, a recruit in the Baron’s guard, who learns that the city holds more mysteries and more danger than he could possibly have imagined . . . and who holds a secret within himself that could mean Erenthrall’s destruction -- or its salvation.

http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?group=related&sku=0756409195

John Varley's Dark Lightning is due out in August 2014:

Known for “superior science fiction” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), author John Varley returns to his Thunder and Lightning series with a novel of how one man’s volatile genius could alter a starship’s epic plunge into a future where human survival is just a theory…

On a voyage to New Earth, the starship Rolling Thunder is powered by an energy no one understands, except for its eccentric inventor Jubal Broussard. Like many of the ship’s inhabitants, Jubal rests in a state of suspended animation for years at a time, asleep yet never aging.

The moments when Jubal emerges from suspended animation are usually a cause for celebration for his family, including his twin daughters—Cassie and Polly—and their uncle who is captain of the Rolling Thunder. But this time, Jubal makes a shocking announcement…

The ship must stop, or everyone will die.

These words from the mission’s founder, the man responsible for the very existence of the Rolling Thunder, will send shock waves throughout the starship—and divide its passengers into those who believe and those who doubt. And it will be up to Cassie and Polly to stop a mutiny, discover the truth, and usher the ship into a new age of exploration…

http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?group=related&sku=0425274071

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Mmm hmm, what else did you see?

I saw that old man begin writing the draft for the last book, and on the screen written were the cryptic words "Winter came, and killed them all. The end."

ADOS will shock everyone.

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American Craftsmen by Tom Doyle (Tor Books)

On Sale Date: May 6, 2014

Ancient magic meets SEAL Team Six—with the fate of the United States hanging in the balance

In modern America, two soldiers will fight their way through the magical legacies of Poe and Hawthorne to destroy an undying evil—if they don’t kill each other first.

US Army Captain Dale Morton is a magician soldier—a “craftsman.” After a black-ops mission gone wrong, Dale is cursed by a Persian sorcerer and haunted by his good and evil ancestors. Major Michael Endicott, a Puritan craftsman, finds gruesome evidence that the evil Mortons, formerly led by the twins Roderick and Madeline, have returned, and that Dale might be one of them.

Dale uncovers treason in the Pentagon’s highest covert ranks. He hunts for his enemies before they can murder him and Scherie, a new friend who knows nothing of his magic.

Endicott pursues Dale, divided between his duty to capture a rogue soldier and his desire to protect Dale from his would-be assassins. They will discover that the demonic horrors that have corrupted American magic are not bound by family or even death itself.

Motherless Child by Glen Hirshberg (Tor Books)

On Sale Date: May 13, 2014

Originally published in a sold-out, limited edition, Motherless Child is an extraordinary Southern horror novel that Tor Books is proud to bring to a wider audience.

In his powerful novel, Motherless Child, Bram Stoker Award–nominee Glen Hirshberg, author of the International Horror Guild Award–winning American Morons, exposes the fallacy of the Twilight-style romantic vampire while capturing the heart of every reader.

It’s the thrill of a lifetime when Sophie and Natalie, single mothers living in a trailer park in North Carolina, meet their idol, the mysterious musician known only as “the Whistler.” Morning finds them covered with dried blood, their clothing shredded and their memories hazy. Things soon become horrifyingly clear: the Whistler is a vampire and Natalie and Sophie are his latest victims. The young women leave their babies with Natalie’s mother and hit the road, determined not to give in to their unnatural desires.

Hunger and desire make a powerful couple. So do the Whistler and his Mother, who are searching for Sophie and Natalie with the help of Twitter and the musician’s many fans. The violent, emotionally moving showdown between two who should be victims and two who should be monsters will leave readers gasping in fear and delight.

Full Fathom Five (Craft Sequence #3) by Max Gladstone (Tor Books)

On Sale Date: July 15, 2014

The third novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts Dead

On the island of Kavekana, Kai builds gods to order, then hands them to others to maintain. Her creations aren’t conscious and lack their own wills and voices, but they accept sacrifices, and protect their worshippers from other gods—perfect vehicles for Craftsmen and Craftswomen operating in the divinely controlled Old World. When Kai sees one of her creations dying and tries to save her, she’s grievously injured—then sidelined from the business entirely, her near-suicidal rescue attempt offered up as proof of her instability. But when Kai gets tired of hearing her boss, her coworkers, and her ex-boyfriend call her crazy, and starts digging into the reasons her creations die, she uncovers a conspiracy of silence and fear—which will crush her, if Kai can't stop it first.

The Wurms of Blearmouth: A Malazan Tale of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach by Steven Erikson (Tor Books)

On Sale Date: July 8, 2014

A new novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson, set in the world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen

Tyranny comes in many guises, and tyrants thrive in palaces and one-room hovels, in back alleys and playgrounds. Tyrants abound on the verges of civilization, where disorder frays the rule of civil conduct and propriety surrenders to brutal imposition. Millions are made to kneel and yet more millions die horrible deaths in a welter of suffering and misery.

But leave all that behind and plunge into escapist fantasy of the most irrelevant kind, and in the ragged wake of the tale told in Lees of Laughter’s End, those most civil adventurers, Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, along with their suitably phlegmatic manservant, Emancipor Reese, make gentle landing upon a peaceful beach, beneath a quaint village at the foot of a majestic castle. There they make acquaintance with the soft-hearted and generous folk of Spendrugle, which lies at the mouth of the Blear River and falls under the benign rule of the Lord of Wurms in his lovely keep.

Make welcome, then, to Spendrugle’s memorable residents, including the man who should have stayed dead, the woman whose prayers should never have been answered, the tax collector everyone ignores, the ex-husband town militiaman who never married, the beachcomber who lives in his own beard, and the now singular lizard cat who used to be plural, and the girl who likes to pee in your lap. And of course, hovering over all, the denizen of the castle keep, Lord—Ah, but there lies this tale.

Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica (Tor Books)

On Sale Date: June 24, 2014

A rousing tale of adventure and adversity, politics and personal trials, in the fascinating world of Stormwrack Archipelago

One minute, twenty-four-year-old Sophie Hansa is in a San Francisco alley trying to save the life of the aunt she has never known. The next, she finds herself flung into the warm and salty waters of an unfamiliar world. Glowing moths fall to the waves around her, and the sleek bodies of unseen fish glide against her submerged ankles.

The world is Stormwrack, a series of island nations with a variety of cultures and economies—and a language different from any Sophie has heard.

Sophie doesn't know it yet, but she has just stepped into the middle of a political firestorm, and a conspiracy that could destroy a world she has just discovered...her world, where everyone seems to know who she is, and where she is forbidden to stay.

But Sophie is stubborn, and smart, and refuses to be cast adrift by people who don’t know her and yet wish her gone. With the help of a sister she has never known, and a ship captain who would rather she had never arrived, she must navigate the shoals of the highly charged politics of Stormwrack, and win the right to decide for herself whether she stays in this wondrous world...or is doomed to exile.

California Bones by Greg Van Eekhout (Tor Books)

On Sale Date: June 10, 2014

A novel of magic, a heist, and the unexpected things that change your life.

When Daniel Blackland was six, he ingested his first bone fragment, a bit of kraken spine plucked out of the sand during a visit with his demanding, brilliant, and powerful magician father, Sebastian. Then, when Daniel was twelve, he watched Sebastian die at the hands of the Hierarch of Southern California, devoured for the heightened magic layered deep within his bones.

Now thirty, Daniel is a petty thief with a forged identity. Hiding amid the crowds in Los Angeles—the capital of the Kingdom of Southern California—he is trying to go straight. But his crime-boss uncle has a heist for Daniel to undertake: break into the the Hierarch's storehouse of magical artifacts and retrieve Sebastian's sword, an object of untold power.

Daniel assembles a trustworthy team of his closest friends from the criminal world. Moth, who can take a bullet and heal in mere minutes. Jo Morales, illusionist. The multitalented Cassandra, Daniel's ex. And, new to them all, the enigmatic, knowledgeable Emma, with her British accent and her own grudge against the powers-that-be. The stakes are high, and the stage is set for a showdown that might just break the magic that protects a long-corrupt regime.

Extravagant, inventive, and shot through with moments of intensity as bright as the California sun, Daniel's story is an epic adventure set in a city of canals and secrets and casual brutality—different from the world we know, and yet also familiar and true.

The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma by Brian Herbert (Tor Books)

On Sale Date: July 8, 2014

Saving the environment, through totalitarian repression…by Frank Herbert's son

A revolution has taken over the government of the United States and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. It's a bright, green new world. But this new world comes with a great cost. The United States is ruled by a dictatorship and the corporations are fighting back. Joining them are an increasing number of rebels angered by the dictatorship of Chairman Rahma. The Chairman's power is absolute and appears strong, but cracks are beginning to show as new weapons are developed by the old corporate powers, foreign alliances begin to make inroads into America's influence . . . and strange reports of mutants filter through the government's censorship.

The Ultra Thin Man by Patrick Swenson (Tor Books)

On Sale Date: August 12, 2014

A blend of Golden Age SF and pulp, The Ultra Thin Man is an SF noir thriller about two detectives standing in the way of an interstellar terrorist organization intent on manipulating, infiltrating and threatening the galaxy.

A tense and fast-paced near-future thriller where aliens, terrorists, and interplanetary conspiracies collide

In the twenty-second century, a future in which mortaline wire controls the weather on the settled planets and entire refugee camps drowse in drug-induced slumber, no one—alive or dead, human or alien—is quite what they seem. When terrorists manage to crash Coral, the moon, into its home planet of Ribon, forcing evacuation, it’s up to Dave Crowell and Alan Brindos, contract detectives for the Network Intelligence Organization, to solve a case of interplanetary consequences. Crowell’ and Brindos’s investigation plunges them neck-deep into a conspiracy much more dangerous than anything they could have imagined.

The two detectives soon find themselves separated, chasing opposite leads: Brindos has to hunt down the massive Helkunn alien Terl Plenko, shadow leader of the terrorist Movement of Worlds. Crowell, meanwhile, runs into something far more sinister—an elaborate frame job that puts our heroes on the hook for treason.

Crowell and Brindos are forced to fight through the intrigue to discover the depths of an interstellar conspiracy. And to answer the all-important question: Who, and what, is the Ultra Thin Man?

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Historical fiction from Epic Fantasy author Stephen Deas:


The Royalist is due for publication in November 2014 by Headline Books.





I have just signed a contract with Headline books to two historical fiction novels to be published in late 2014 and 2015 respectively. These will be published in parallel with my work for Gollancz (the Splintered Gods will still come out as planned next year and so forth).



The novels are set towards the end of the first English civil war and feature the former royalist William Falkland, who has been co-opted by the Parliamentarians as a sort of roving investigator. Falkland, who has seen more than his share of battles and death in the last five years, has lost any idealistic notions of King and Country he might have carried in to the start of the war and is simply trying to get home but Parliament has other ideas; yet behind the dry, bitter and cynical exterior, Falkland clings to his notions of what is right and decent and remains and man of principle and result makes him reminiscent of the cynical heroes of noir thrillers. So there it is: noir detective stories set in the English Civil War.


The novels will be entirely separate standalones centred around Falkland and a small handful of recurring secondary characters, the only ongoing storyline being Falkland himself. In the first novel (The Royalist), Falkland is sent to the winter camp of the New Model Army in Devon to poke his nose into a trio of unusual suicides that are, of course, nowhere near as simple as they first appear. In the second, the sister of John Milton (Paradise Lost) has gone missing.





Smiler's Fair (The Hollow Gods #1) by Rebecca Levene will be published in July 2014 by Hodder & Stoughton.





Hodder has acquired a four-book epic fantasy series, The Hollow Gods by Rebecca Levene.



Anne Perry signed world rights to the series in a six-figure deal with James Wills at Watson, Little.


The books are set in Ashanesland, where the wandering city of Smiler's Fair is a meeting place for a multitude of unusual characters. The first book, called Smiler's Fair, will be released in July 2014.

Levene has previously written tie-in books for series like Doctor Who, as well writing for the Zombies, Run! app.


Perry said: "Rebecca’s command of voice and character continually reinforce the all-important human element of a project that is breath-taking in scope. I have no doubt that this series is one for the ages."



Dreamwalker (The Ballad of Sir Benfro #1) by J.D. Oswald will be published in autumn 2014 by Penguin UK.





Michael Joseph has signed a five book fantasy series from crime author James Oswald.


Writing as JD Oswald, The Ballad of Sir Befro will be an epic fantasy series, following a young boy called Errol and and young dragon called Benfro, who together will shape the future of the Twin Kingdoms.


Alex Clarke, publishing director of Michael Joseph, signed world rights from Juliet Mushens at The Agency Group. He said: "James is such a versatile and creative writer – and this is some of the most compelling fantasy storytelling that I have ever had the good fortune to read."


Oswald has previously written crime, with Michael Joseph publishing Natural Causes, an Edinburgh-set novel featuring Inspector McLean. When not writing, Oswald runs a 350 acre livestock farm in north east Fife.


The first book in the series, Dreamwalker, will be published in autumn 2014.



Clariel (The Old Kingdom/Abhorsen #4) by Garth Nix (Hot Key Books)





Clariel will be published simultaneously in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the US in September 2014.



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