Beyond Reality discussion

Hi everyone,

Here's the list of major forthcoming SF&F books for May. Please let us know if you're planning to read any of them!

Abe, Shana: The Time Weaver (#5 Drakon)
Allred, Katherine: Close Contact (#2 Alien Affairs) (pbo)
Anderson, Kevin J: The Edge of the World (#1 Terra Incognita trilogy) (pap)
Anthony, Piers: Climate of Change
Archer, Alex: Rogue Angel #24: The Bone Conjurer (pbo)
Asimov, Isaac: Pebble in the Sky (Reissue) (tp)
Bacon-Smith, Camille: A Legacy of Daemons (#3) (pbo)
Baxter, Stephen: Flood (pap)
Baxter, Stephen: Ark
Beckett, Bernard: Genesis (tp)
Beukes, Lauren: Zoo City (pbo)
Bova, Ben: Saturn (Reissue) (pap)
Canavan, Trudi: The Ambassador’s Mission (#1 Traitor Spy trilogy)
Chan, Kylie: Red Phoenix (#2 Dark Heavens trilogy) (pbo)
Cherryh, C J: Conspirator (#10 Foreigner) (pap)
Cherryh, C J: Deceiver (#11 Foreigner)
Drake, David: The Legions of Fire
Duncan, Dave: Speak to the Devil
Estep, Jennifer: Web of Lies (#2 Elemental Assassin) (pbo)
Fallon, Jennifer: The Gods of Amyrantha (#2 Tide Lords Quartet) (pap)
Flewelling, Lynn: The White Road (#5 Nightrunner) (pbo)
Forbeck, Matt: Amortals (pbo)
Graham, Jo: Stealing Fire (tpo)
Grant, Mira: Feed (#1 Newsflesh trilogy) (pbo)
Greanias, Thomas: The Atlantis Revelation (#3 Atlantis) (pap)
Harvey, Colin: Damage Time (pbo)
Hobb, Robin: Dragon Haven (#2 Rain Wilds Chronicles)
Hogan, James P: Migration
Johnson, Alaya: Moonshine (tp)
Jordan, Robert: New Spring: The Graphic Novel (tp)
Kane, Stacia: Unholy Ghosts (#1 Downside Ghosts) (pbo)
Kollin, Dani & Eytan: The Unincorporated War (#2 Unincorporated)
Kollin, Dani & Eytan: The Unincorporated Man (#1 Unincorporated) (tp)
Kyogoku, Natsuhiko: Loups-Garous (tpo)
Lackey / Flint / Freer: Much Fall of Blood
Lindskold, Jane: Five Odd Honors (#3 Thirteen Orphans)
Mann, George: The Affinity Bridge (#1 Newbury & Hobbes Investigation) (tp)
Miller, Tom: The Wave (tpo)
Modesitt, L E, Jr: Haze (pap)
Monk, Devon: Magic on the Storm (#4 Allie Beckstrom) (pbo)
Murphy, C E: Demon Hunts (#5 Walker Papers) (tpo)
Neumeier, Rachel: Lord of the Changing Winds (#1 Griffin Mage) (pbo)
Niven / Barnes: Dream Park (Reissue) (tp)
Norton, Andre: The Game of Stars and Comets (Omnibus) (pap)
Nylund, Eric: All That Lives Must Die (tpo)
Ogawa, Issui: The Next Continent (tpo)
Pitts, J A: Black Blade Blues (#1 Sarah Beauhall)
Preston / Child: Fever Dream (Special Agent Pendergast)
Remic, Andy: Soul Stealers (#2) (pbo)
Ringo, John: Eye of the Storm (Posleen War) (pap)
Rollins, James: Subterranean (reissue) (pap)
Rollins, James: Excavation (reissue) (pap)
Rollins, James: Deep Fathom (reissue) (pap)
Rollins, James: Amazonia (reissue) (pap)
Rollins, James: Ice Hunt (reissue) (pap)
Rollins, James: The Doomsday Key (pap)
Sawyer, Robert J: Rollback (Reissue) (pap)
Shevdon, Mike: Sixty-One Nails (pbo)
Sinclair, Alison: Darkborn (pap)
Stirling, S M: The Sky People (tp)
Stirling, S M: A Taint in the Blood (#1 Shadowspawn)
Tolkien, J R R: The Children of Hurin (pap)
Van Name, Mark L: Overthrowing Heaven (#3 Jon & Lovo) (pap)
Wilkins, Kim: The Veil of Gold (pap)
Williams, Alayna: Dark Oracle (pbo)
Williams, David J: The Machinery of Light (#3 Autumn Rain) (tpo)
Eds. Hartwell / Cramer: Year’s Best SF 15 (pap)
Eds. Mak / Choi: The Dragon and the Stars (pbo)
Eds. Watson / Whates: The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories (tpo)

Stefan

I've got Deceiver by C. J. Cherryh on preorder.

The Affinity Bridge by George Mann looks pretty interesting, and I'll probably be picking that up at some point.

The one book I'm really looking forward to for May isn't on this list since it's YA, but it's The Siege of Macindaw: Book Six by John Flanagan.

I'll be getting The White Road by Lynn Flewelling. I'll eventually get around to reading it, but I still have the one before it sitting there on my bookshelf waiting for me. One of these days, I hope...

I am with Leighann, The White Road for me too. I havent read a flewelling in a while.

The Lackey/Flint/Freer book may be on my to buy list.

I'd quite like to read Flood sometime, but I have no idea when I'll get to it.

C.J. Cherryh's new Foreigner book for sure, sooner or later; Jo Graham's new book, Stealing Fire definitely. The Lackey/Flint/Freer book caught my eye, inasmuch as I just got done reading Lackey's series of historical fantasies written with Roberta Gellis, which I enjoyed thoroughly; don't know if I'm ready to dive into another just yet, though!

My own list: I'll definitely get the CJ Cherryh books. I've read the first 6 in the series, and have 7, 8 and 9 unread on the shelf. I'm still planning to re-read the first 6 at some point before tackling that third trilogy, and by that time, the fourth one will probably be done and out in paperback.

I am planning to read the Dave Duncan novel, and definitely will read the Robin Hobb one at some point. I read Haze when it first came out in hardcover and loved it (and I think the next Imager book is due out later this year). I also read Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer when it first came out.

I just realize that Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi is missing from the list. It's a YA SF novel, due out in early May.

I'll be buying the C.J. Cherryh, but it'll be for my parents' library, not my own -- I've only read the first in that series, and while I'll get to the rest someday it'll be a while. ;)

Other than that, nothing from that list. . . I guess the early summer releases I've been looking forward to are June releases. :(

I was quite interested to see on this list, on my second look-through, the first having been quite disappointing, a new book by Alison Sinclair, whose science fiction novels of the mid-90s I quite liked. But on following up I found that not only is this the first of a trilogy, but that the gist is paranormal Regency romance. To quote Snoopy again, "Bleah."

Trudy Canavan, Robin Hobb and Lynn Flewelling are definitely going on my "planning to read" list. With Robin Hobb though I still have to finish "Liveship traders" before starting this new trilogy.

I have an just currently started reading:
Lord of the Changing Winds by Rachel Neumeier.

That is a large list of amazing books! Some of them I still have to get to the first book yet. :) Thanks!

Flood and The Unincorporated Man are both on my to-read list.