Beyond Reality discussion

Hi everyone,

Here are the SF and fantasy books due to be released next month. Please let us know if you're planning to buy and/or read any of them!

Adrian, Chris: A Better Angel (tp)
Anthony, Piers: Sos the Rope (Planet Stories) (Reissue) (tp)
Bentley, C F: Enigma
Bova, Ben: The Return (#4 Voyagers)
Bradbury, Ray: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (Graphic Novel) (trd & tpo)
Brust, Steven: Five Hundred Years After (tp)
Buckner, M M: Watermind (pap)
Butcher, Jim: The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle (Graphic Novel) (tp)
Chadbourn, Mark: Lord of Silence (pbo)
Clarke / Pohl: The Last Theorem (tp)
Drake, David: Patriots (pap)
Elliott, Kate: Traitors’ Gate (#3 Crossroads Trilogy)
Erikson, Steven: Toll the Hounds (#8 Malazan Book of the Fallen) (pap)
Flint / Drake: Belisarius III: The Flames of Sunset (Tide of Victory & Dance of Time) (trd & tpo)
Flynn, Michael: Eifelheim (pap)
Golemon, David: Leviathan (#4 Event Group)
Grossman, Lev: The Magicians
Harlan, Thomas: Land of the Dead
Heinlein, Robert A: The Puppet Masters (Reissue) (tp)
Herbert / Anderson: Winds of Dune
Herbert / Anderson: Paul of Dune (pap)
Herbert, Frank: Chapterhouse: Dune (#6 Dune Chronicles) (Reissue)
Kadrey, Richard: Sandman Slim
Kiernan, Caitlin R: The Red Tree (tpo)
Lackey / Mallory: The Phoenix Endangered (#2 Enduring Flame) (pap)
Lavalle, Victor: Big Machine
Lindskold, Jane: Nine Gates
Lovegrove, James: The Age of Ra (pbo)
Mead, Richelle: Thorn Queen (#2 Dark Swan) (pbo)
Miller, Karen: The Prodigal Mage (#1 Fisherman’s Children)
Murphy, C E: Walking Dead (#4 Joanne Walker) (tpo)
Niven / Pournelle / Barnes: Beowulf’s Children (Reissue) (tp)
Pournelle, Jerry: Exile -- And Glory (High Justice & Exiles to Glory) (pap)
Rankin, Robert: Necrophenia (tp)
Resnick, Mike: Stalking the Dragon (#3 Fable of Tonight) (tp)
Richardson, Kat: Vanished (#4 Greywalker)
Ringo, John: The Last Centurion (pap)
Robinson, Spider: Very Hard Choices (pap)
Robson, Justina: Chasing the Dragon (#4 Quantum Gravity) (tp)
Salvatore, R A: The Dame
Schroeder, Karl: The Sunless Countries (#4 Virga)
Shirley, John: Bleak History (tpo)
Smith, Sherwood: Treason’s Shore (#4 Inda)
Snyder, Maria V: Sea Glass (#2 Opal Cowan) (tpo)
Somers, Jeff: The Eternal Prison (Sequel to The Digital Plague) (tpo)
Teppo, Mark: Heartland (#2 Codex of Souls) (pap)
Twelve Hawks, John: The Dark River (#2 Fourth Realm Trilogy) (tp)
Warrington, Freda: Elfland
Watt-Evans, Lawrence: Dragon Weather (#1 Obsidian Chronicles) (Reissue) (pap)
Watt-Evans, Lawrence: The Dragon Society (#2 Obsidion Chronicles) (Reissue) (pap)
Watt-Evans, Lawrence: The Summer Palace (#3 Annals of the Chosen) (pap)
Wurts, Janny: To Ride Hell's Chasm
Whyte, Jack: Order in Chaos (#3 Templar Trilogy)
Williams, Conrad: Decay Inevitable (pbo)
Ed. Adams: By Blood We Live (tp)
Ed. Flint: Grantville Gazette V
Ed. Keegan: Paraspheres 2: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction (tp)

Oh! I'd be interested in the graphic novel of Fahrenheit 451...

I have the Elliott, Lackey/Mallory, and Herbert/Anderson new books on my list, and some credit coming at Borders, so I might be in business. However, I almost never buy hardbacks, so I might have to wait and use my credit for some other things.

I'm hesitant to pick up any of the new graphic novels based on my favorite books. I will if someone raves about it. It's just that sudenly there are so many.

I'm waiting for book 8 in Rachel's Caine's weather warden series and Patricia Brigg's book 2 in her alpha and omega series, both in August.

There are many authors on this list who I would like to try but just haven't gotten around to it.

I am looking forward to Whyte, Jack: Order in Chaos.
Unfortunatly waiting till its in paperback

I just added To Ride Hell's Chasm by Janny Wurts to the list --- it's being released in a new paperback edition in August, but somehow was missing from my list. It's also up for Book of the Month in October.

Aside from that one, there isn't a whole lot on the list I'll be reading immediately. I have Mark Chadbourn's trilogy on the shelf, so will want to read that first before getting into any new ones. I'll definitely buy the new Steven Erikson (I always wait for the paperback edition of his books because the hardcovers are just too huge to lug around). Aside from those, I'll be working on my to-be-read stacks instead.

I've been reading and enjoying the Quantum Gravity series, and have been looking forward to 'Chasing the Dragon', so I'll be picking that up. Not sure if I'll get to it in August, though, as I'm developing quite a pile at home.

Also released in August is Fables, volume 12, for those who are following this fantasy/fracture fairy tale comic series.

Stefan wrote: "...Mark Chadbourn's trilogy on the shelf, so will want to read that first before getting into any new ones.."

I have some Chadbourn books, and I liked the ones I've read, so I'll probably be adding his to my list.

Ken wrote: "I am looking forward to Whyte, Jack: Order in Chaos.
Unfortunatly waiting till its in paperback"

Didn't catch this when I looked through the list the first time, but I'll be waiting for paperback, too.

Nothing really grabbing me from the list this month - I'll be concentrating on catching up with some of the books already on my immense TBR shelf, I think. = )