The books coming out in 2014

[Calibandar]

Orbit has put up a listing for Jim Butcher's "Cinder Spires" , his new Steampunk series.

It shows August 2014, but since the Skin Game listing is up as well, it remains to be seen how reliable this is.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cinder-Spires-1-Jim-Butcher/dp/0356503658/ref=sr_1_17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379711541&sr=1-17

[Bearbert Dondarrion]

Orbit has put up a listing for Jim Butcher's "Cinder Spires" , his new Steampunk series.

It shows August 2014, but since the Skin Game listing is up as well, it remains to be seen how reliable this is.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cinder-Spires-1-Jim-Butcher/dp/0356503658/ref=sr_1_17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379711541&sr=1-17

Well, this is interesting. Looking forward to it

[AncalagonTheBlack]

The Fire Prince (The Cursed Kingdoms Saga #2) by Emily Gee will be published in the UK, Ireland, and North America in September 2014 (Solaris Books).

Synopsis:

The Seven Kingdoms are in the grip of an ancient and terrible blood curse. Thousands have died. Thousands more will die. Only one man can end the curse. The fugitive Osgaardan prince, Harkeld, is that man—whether he likes it or not. But the bounty on Harkeld’s head is high. He has outrun his father’s soldiers, but he can’t outrun the assassins who seek him—Fithians, trained in the art of killing. Even the Sentinel mages who guide and guard him are no match for Fithian steel. Faced with the ever-present threat of death, Harkeld must learn to use his fire magic. Or die. Meanwhile, dark plots are unfolding in Osgaard’s gold-tiled palace, snaring Princess Brigitta and those she loves. And in the eastern kingdoms, young orphan Jaumé journeys with a band of mysterious and dangerous fighters, heading north for a purpose he does not understand.

http://solaris-edito...ew-zealand.html

[AncalagonTheBlack]

Veil of the Deserters (Bloodsounder's Arc #2) by Jeff Salyards (Night Shade Books)

Publication date : June 3, 2014

History, Family and Memory:… these are the seeds of destruction.

Bloodsounder's Arc continues as Captain Braylar Killcoin and his retinue continue to sow chaos amongst the political elite of Alespell. Braylar is still poisoned by the memories of those slain by his unholy flail Bloodsounder, and attempts to counter this sickness have proven ineffectual.

The Syldoonian Emperor Cynead has solidified his power base in unprecedented ways, and demands loyalty from all operatives. Braylar and company are recalled to the capital to swear fealty. Braylar must decide if he can trust his sister, Soffjian, with the secret that is killing him. She has powerful memory magics that might be able to save him from Bloodsounder’s effects, but she has political allegiances that are not his own. Arki and others in the company try to get Soffjian and Braylar to trust one another, but politics in the capital prove to be far more complicated and dangerous than even Killcoin could predict.

Deposed emperor Thumarr plots to remove the repressive Cynead, and Braylar and his sister Soffjian lie at the heart of his plans. The distance between "favored shadow agent of the emperor" and "exiled traitor" is an unsurprisingly short road. But it is a road filled with blind twists and unexpected turns. Before the journey is over, Arki will chronicle the true intentions of Emperor Cynead and Soffjian. And old enemies in Alespell may prove to be surprising allies in a conflict no one could have foreseen.

http://www.amazon.co...s/dp/1597804908

http://fantasticalim...in-2014-part-2/

The Enceladus Crisis (Daedalus #2) by Michael J. Martinez (Night Shade Books)

Publication date : April 1, 2014

Two dimensions collided on the rust-red deserts of Mars—and are destined to become entangled once more in this sequel to the critically acclaimed The Daedalus Incident.

Lieutenant Commander Shaila Jain has been given the assignment of her dreams: the first manned mission to Saturn. But there’s competition and complications when she arrives aboard the survey ship Armstrong. The Chinese are vying for control of the critical moon Titan, and the moon Enceladus may harbor secrets deep under its icy crust. And back on Earth, Project DAEDALUS now seeks to defend against other dimensional incursions. But there are other players interested in opening the door between worlds . . . and they’re getting impatient.

For Thomas Weatherby, it’s been nineteen years since he was second lieutenant aboard HMS Daedalus. Now captain of the seventy-four-gun Fortitude, Weatherby helps destroy the French fleet at the Nile and must chase an escaped French ship from Egypt to Saturn, home of the enigmatic and increasingly unstable aliens who call themselves the Xan. Meanwhile, in Egypt, alchemist Andrew Finch has ingratiated himself with Napoleon’s forces . . . and finds the true, horrible reason why the French invaded Egypt in the first place.

The thrilling follow-up to The Daedalus Incident, The Enceladus Crisis continues Martinez’s Daedalus series with a combination of mystery, intrigue, and high adventure spanning two amazing dimensions.

http://www.amazon.co.../dp/1597805041/

Deadroads by Robin Riopelle (Night Shade Books)

Publication date : April 1, 2014

Lutie always wanted a pet ghost—but the devil’s in the details.

The Sarrazins have always stood apart from the rest of their Bayou-born neighbors. Almost as far as they prefer to stand from each other. Blessed—or cursed—with the uncanny ability to see beyond the spectral plane, Aurie has raised his children, Sol, Baz, and Lutie, in the tradition of the traiteur, finding wayward spirits and using his special gift to release them along Deadroads into the afterworld. The family, however, fractured by their clashing egos, drifted apart, scattered high and low across the continent.

But tragedy serves to bring them together. When Aurie, while investigating a series of ghastly (and ghostly) murders, is himself killed by a devil, Sol, EMT by day and traiteur by night, Baz, a traveling musician with a truly spiritual voice, and Lutie, combating her eerie visions with antipsychotics, are thrown headlong into a world of gory sprites, brilliant angels, and nefarious demons—small potatoes compared to reconciling their familial differences.

From the Louisiana swamps to the snowfields of the north and everywhere in between, Deadroads summons you onto a mysterious trail of paranormal proportions.

http://www.amazon.co.../dp/1597805130/

Cataveiro (The Osiris Project #2) by E.J. Swift (Night Shade Books)

Publication date : July 1, 2014

A boat is shipwrecked on Patagonian shores, and rumors abound that it has come from ‘the lost city’ Osiris, believed to have been destroyed over 50 years ago. The implications are wide-reaching and acutely political, for in the eyes of the world Osiris is only a collection of fables.

Pilot and cartographer Ramona, recently returned to the island of Tierra del Fuego, has a broken plane, and the only person who can fix it for her is the Antarctican, Taeo, a political exile desperate to find a way back home.

Glimpsing an opportunity for redemption, Taeo discovers there is one survivor of the shipwreck: the sole proof that Osiris exists. He and Ramona find themselves caught up in a perilous conflict of interests over the secret of the sea city, a secret which will have severe repercussions on their lives, their homes, and their loved ones.

http://www.amazon.co.../dp/1597804975/

[Jussi]

Upcoming summer 2014 novels from Tor:

MAY

Cyador's Heirs by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

The seventeenth novel in the New York Times bestselling Saga of Recluce.

Decades after the fall of Cyador, its survivors have re-established themselves in Cigoerne, a fertile country coveted by its hostile neighbors in less hospitable lands. Young Lerial, the second son of Duke Kiedron, lives in the shadow of his older brother Lephi, the heir to their father's realm. Lerial's future seemes preordained: he will oneday command his brother's forces in defense of Cigoerne, serving at his older sibling's pleasure, and no more.

But when Lerial is sent abroad to be fostered by Major Altyrn to learn the skills and wisdom he will need to fulfill his future duties, he begins a journey into a much larger world that brings out his true potential. For Lerial has talents few, as yet, suspect: he is one of those rare few who can harness both Order and Chaos, the competing natural forces that shape the world and define the magic that exists within it. And as war finally engulfs the fringes of Cigoerne, Lerial's growing mastery of Order and Chaos is tested to its limits, and his own.

My Real Children by Jo Walton

The new novel from the author of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Among Others: a powerful tale of one woman with two lives

It’s 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. “Confused today,” read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know—what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963, and she remembers Kennedy in 1964, declining to run again after the nuclear exchange that took out Miami and Kiev.

Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the Second World War—those were solid things. But after that, did she marry Mark or not? Did her friends all call her Trish, or Pat? Had she been a housewife who escaped a terrible marriage after her children were grown, or a successful travel writer with homes in Britain and Italy? And the moon outside her window: does it host a benign research station, or a command post bristling with nuclear missiles?

Two lives, two worlds, two versions of modern history; each with their loves and losses, their sorrows and triumphs. My Real Children is the tale of both of Patricia Cowan’s lives...and of how every life means the entire world.

JUNE

The Merchant Emperor by Elizabeth Haydon

Acclaimed author Elizabeth Haydon returns with the long-awaited Book 7 of the USA Today Bestselling Symphony of Ages

The war that they had feared is now upon them. Ashe and Rhapsody, rulers of the alliance that protects the Middle Continent, are gathering their allies to combat the machinations of the merchant Talquist, who will soon be the crowned emperor of F’Dor. Gwydion of Navarne remains by Ashe’s side as the Lord Cymrian seeks to anticipate the moves of their enemy. Seeking to shore up their perimeter defenses, Lord Marshall Anborn has taken to the field. And Rhapsody has been forced into hiding to protect the life of her infant son, who is being targeted by Talquist.

The Cymrian Alliance is badly outnumbered, and they are surrounded by enemy nations. The Merchant Emperor of F’dor has allied himself with a demon ensconced within a stone titan, and has begun targeting the dragons that remain on the Middle Continent. His thirst for power is insatiable, and Talquist will stop at nothing until the Cymrians are wiped out and the entire continent is under his rule.

Assailed by danger from all sides, surrounded by lies and intrigue, Rhapsody is left with one undeniable truth: if their forces are to prevail, she must join the war herself, wielding the Daystar Clarion, an ancient weapon whose power is nearly unparalleled. As she struggles to reconcile her duties as a mother and ruler, a danger more devastating than Talquist is stirring beneath the surface of the land itself.

In The Merchant Emperor, beloved characters are forced to make soul shattering sacrifices. Bestselling author Elizabeth Haydon has delivered a breathtaking seventh installment to The Symphony of Ages.

Chasers of the Wind by Alexey Pehov

The first book in a new series from an international bestselling author.

Centuries after the disastrous War of the Necromancers, the Nabatorians, aligned with the evil necromancers of Sdis, mount an invasion of the Empire. Luk, a soldier, and Ga-Nor, a Northern barbarian are thrown together as they attempt to escape the Nabatorian hordes and find their way back to their comrades.

Gray and Layan are a married couple, and master thieves who are hiding out and trying to escape their former gang. They hope to evade the bounty hunters that hound them and retire to a faraway land in peace.

Tia is a powerful dark sorceress and one of The Damned—a group trying to take over the world and using the Nabatorian invasion as a diversion.

Unfortunately, for Gray and Layan, they unwittingly hold the key to a powerful magical weapon that could bring The Damned back to power.

Hounded by the killers on their trail, and the fearsome creatures sent by The Damned, Gray and Layan are aided by Luk and Ga-Nor—and Harold, the hero of The Chronicles of Siala. Realizing what’s at stake they decide that, against all odds, they must stop The Damned.

Flight of the Golden Harpy by Susan Klaus

An imaginative and romantic fantasy novel that questions what it means to be human

Kari, a young woman, returns to the jungle planet of Dora after ten years in Earth’s schools determined to unravel the mysteries surrounding the harpies, a feral species of half-bird, half-humans.

The human colonists believe harpies are dangerous animals, known to steal women. The creatures are hunted like wild game, their wings considered rare trophies. But Kari distrusts these rumors. When she was attacked by a monster in the jungle as a child, a male harpy with rare golden coloring rescued her.

Constant hunting by men has driven the harpies to the brink of extinction. Is Kari’s savior, the elegant golden harpy, is still alive? If so, how long can he and his flock survive mankind?

[Jussi]

...continued

JULY

All Those Vanished Engines by Paul Park

Literary science fiction at its finest, a novel of three alternate histories, from the Civil War to the future

Paul Park returns to science fiction after a decade spent on the impressive four-volume A Princess of Roumania fantasy, with an extraordinary, intense, compressed SF novel in three parts, each set in its own alternate history universe. The sections are all rooted in Virginia and the Battle of the Crater, and are also grounded in the real history of the Park family, from differing points of view. They are all georgeously imaginitive and carefully constructed, and reverberate richly with one another.

The first section is set in the aftermath of the Civil War, in a world in which the Queen of the North has negotiated a two-nation settlement. The second, in northwestern Massachusetts, investigates a secret project during World War II, in a time somewhat like the present. The third is set in the near future US, with aliens from history.

The cumulative effect is awesome. There hasn't been a three part novel this ambitious in science fiction since Gene Wolfe's classic, The Fifth Head of Cerberus.

AUGUST

Lock In by John Scalzi

A novel of our near future, from one of the most popular authors in modern SF

Fifteen years from now, a new virus sweeps the globe. 95% of those afflicted experience nothing worse than fever and headaches. Four per cent suffer acute meningitis, creating the largest medical crisis in history. And one percent find themselvs "locked in" -- fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus.

One per cent doesn't seem like a lot. But in the United States, that's 1.7 million people "locked in" ... including the President's wife and daughter.

Spurred by grief and the sheer magnitude of the suffering, America undertakes a massive scientific initiative. Nothing can restore to the "locked in" the ability to control their own bodies. But two new technologies emerge. One is a virtual-reality environment, "The Agora," in which the locked-in can interact with other humans, both locked-in and not. The other is the discovery that a few rare individuals have brains that are receptive to being controlled by others, meaning that from time to time, those who are locked in can "ride" these people and use their bodies as if they were their own.

This skill is quickly regulated, licensed, bonded, and controlled. Nothing can go wrong. Certainly nobody would be tempted to misuse it, for murder, for political power, or worse...

Echopraxia by Peter Watts

Prepare for a different kind of singularity in this follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel, Blindsight

It's the eve of the 22nd century: a world where the dearly-departed send postcards back from Heaven, and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically-engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline Humans, and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. And its all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself.

Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a catspaw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out.

Now he's trapped in a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call "The Angels of the Asteroids."

Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.

[Calibandar]

Do you have the link to the whole catalog by any chance?

[Jussi]

No. I used the ISBN numbers from Amazon.ca. Here is an example:

Unwept: Book One of The Nightbirds by Tracy & Laura Hickman

ISBN-10: 0765332035

Edelweiss adress:

http://edelweiss.abo...?sku=0765332035

[AncalagonTheBlack]

The Knight: A Tale from the High Kingdom by Pierre Pevel (Gollancz)

Publication date: September 18, 2014

Pierre Pevel has written a fantasy Dumas novel, and now he's bringing all the skills of a historical fantasy writer to an epic stage.

In the wake of Martin and Gemmell, his new project charts a dynastic power struggle between three brothers. When the King dies his will, to everyone's surprise, leaves the throne to the second of his three sons. It's a surprising choice, and a worrying one as it coincides with a prophecy: that the succession will lead to war, chaos and the undoing of the entire nation.

It's something his eldest son can't allow to happen ...so he challenges his brother's right to rule - as does the youngest son, with the full support of the Church behind him. But while the prophecy itself is clear, it's not so clear which prince it's referring to. Lorn knows which side he's on: his King chose a sucessor, and Lorn is going to fight to the last to place him on the throne. Honouring that last wish is the right thing to do; Lorn is also fighting for his best friend and the man he believes should be king.

But belief is one thing, victory in politics and war is another and the odds are against them. Worse: with every passing day the prophecies grow darker, and a land already torn by civil war is easy pickings for an invasion ...

http://www.amazon.co.../dp/0575107979/

[banjax451]

The Scalzi is interesting. The single decent thing I found in "Redshirts" were the codas, where the "snarky protagonist" that has featured in just about every Scalzi novel disappeared. I've grown very tired of that crutch of his. If this is an attempt to "get serious" I'll be interested to see if he can carry an entire novel without that crutch.

[YetiStomper]

The Scalzi is interesting. The single decent thing I found in "Redshirts" were the codas, where the "snarky protagonist" that has featured in just about every Scalzi novel disappeared. I've grown very tired of that crutch of his. If this is an attempt to "get serious" I'll be interested to see if he can carry an entire novel without that crutch.

I agree. My biggest problem with Redshirts wasn't that it was bad (it wasn't) as much as it was just tired. It would be like giving Adam Sandler an Oscar for his work in the Waterboy. He writes the same character book after book.

[AncalagonTheBlack]

Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (HarperCollins)

Publication date : May 8, 2014

In the city that’s become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. A terrifying new thriller from Lauren Beukes, award-winning author of The Shining Girls.

Detective Gabriella Versado is used to dealing with ugly murders. This is Detroit, after all. But the corpses turning up in abandoned buildings are unlike any she’s seen before: queasy mash-ups of animals and humans, like some DIY taxidermied freak show.

After her teen daughter Layla finds photographs of the bodies on her computer and leaks them to a blogger friend and thus the whole of the Internet, Gabi finds herself fighting to stay on the case she’s compromised – and to save her relationship with her daughter.

But as the murders seize the imagination of the populace with copycat killings and disturbing ‘art installations’ appearing overnight, Detective Versado has to hunt down and confront a killer who has let loose the seething subconscious of the city.

http://www.harpercol...s-9780007464593

[AncalagonTheBlack]

It looks like China Miéville's next book is a collection of short stories. The release date is June 2014.

http://www.amazon.co.../dp/0230770185/

The link no longer works and the book has been removed from amazon.

Book list in the 1st post has been updated today :

http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/94600-the-books-coming-out-in-2014/#entry4817510

[Jussi]

Peter Grant #5 by Ben Aaronovitch - mid-2014.

The book is titled Foxglove Summer and will be published in July 2014.

[Jussi]

From Steven Brust:

The next Vlad novel, Hawk is tentatively scheduled for fall of 2014. And, yes, he's in Adrilankha for this one.

[Jussi]

New Orion/Gollancz catalogue (January 2014 to July 2014):

http://www.exacteditions.com/read/orionnewtitlesjanjul2014/orion-new-titles-catalogue-january-july-2014-36823/1/2?dps=on

[Jussi]

Catherynne M. Valente's Radiance will be published by Tor in August 2014.

The first adult novel in more than three years from the bestselling author of the Fairyland books

Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood—and solar system—very different from our own, from the phenomenonal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.

Severin Unck’s father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father’s films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune or the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn from classic science fiction in which all the planets are inhabited and we travel through space on beautiful rockets. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe.

But her latest film, which investigates the disappearance of a diving colony on a watery Venus populated by island-sized alien creatures, will be her last. Though her crew limps home to earth and her story is preserved by the colony’s last survivor, Severin will never return.

Aesthetically recalling A Trip to the Moon and House of Leaves, and told using techniques from reality TV, classic film, gossip magazines, and meta-fictional narrative, Radiance is a solar system-spanning story of love, exploration, family, loss, quantum physics, and silent film.

http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sku=0765335298

Ann Leckie's Ancillary Sword is due out in October 2014.

[Jussi]

"And when will the GRRMarillion come out? I don't know," he says. "I'm not working on it anymore; I've put all that aside while I try to finish Winds of Winter."

The Winds of Winter is due - as of now - to come out next year. There's supposed to be at least one more book after that.

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/07/227772024/george-r-r-martin-author-and-movie-theater-guy

[Samalander]

But that's not GRRM saying it, just the guy who wrote the piece. And what does he know?

[Werthead]

The Winds of Winter is due - as of now - to come out next year.

Not going to happen.

Well, it might, and I'd be the most pleased out of everyone. But it just seems impossible right now.