Beyond Reality discussion

Hi everyone,

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

Banks, Dakota: Sacrifice (#2 Mortal Path) (pbo)
Bentley, C F: Enigma (pap)
Bickle, Laura: Sparks (#2 Anya Kalinczyk) (pbo)
Bova, Ben: The Return (#4 Voyagers) (pap)
Bova, Ben: Voyagers (Reissue) (pap)
Bova, Ben: Voyagers II (Reissue) (pap)
Bova, Ben: Voyagers III (Reissue) (pap)
Brom: The Child Thief (tp)
(Bujold) Carl / Helfers (eds) The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold (pap)
Caine, Rachel: Total Eclipse (Weather Warden) (pbo)
Carey, Mike: Dead Men’s Boots (#3 Felix Castor) (pap)
Carroll, Lee: Black Swan Rising (tpo)
Connolly, Harry: Game of Cages (#2 Twenty Palaces) (pbo)
Cook, Glen: Lord of the Silent Kingdom (#2 Instrumentalities of the Night) (tp)
Croshaw, Yahtzee: Mogworld (pap)
De Lint, Charles: Spiritwalk (Sequel to Moonheart) (Reissue) (tp)
Downum, Amanda: The Bone Palace (#2 Necromancer Chronicles) (pbo)
Duane, Diane: Omnitopia Dawn (#1 Omnitopia)
Fenn, Jaime: Consorts of Heaven (Sequel to Principles of Angels) (tpo)
Flint / Demarce: 1635: The Dreeson Incident (pap)
Gay, Kelly: The Darkest Edge of Dawn (#2 Detective Charlie Madigan) (pbo)
Golemon, David L: Leviathan (pap)
Greanias, Thomas: The Promised War (Sam Deker)
Greene, Kris: The Demon Hunt (pbo)
Haley, Cameron: Mob Rules (tpo)
Herbert / Anderson: The Winds of Dune (pap)
Hobson, M K: The Native Star (pbo)
Hodgell, P C: Seeker’s Bane (pap)
Hooper, Kay: Blood Ties (pap)
Huso, Anthony: The Last Page
Jamieson, Trent: Death Most Definite (#1 Steven De Selby) (pbo)
Kenyon, Kay: Prince of Storms (#4 Entire and the Rose) (tpo)
Kowal, Mary Robinette: Shades of Milk and Honey
Lackey / Mallory: The Phoenix Transformed (#3 Enduring Flame) (pap)
Lamplighter, L Jagi: Prospero in Hell
Larke, Glenda: Stormlord Rising (#2 Stormlord) (pbo)
Laumer, Keith (creator): Bolos: Their Finest Hour: The Best of the Bolo Stories (tpo)
Lerner, Edward M: Small Miracles (pap)
Lloyd, Tom: The Ragged Man (#4 Twilight Reign) (tpo)
Mann, George: The Osiris Ritual (#2 Newbury & Hobbes Investigation)
McConchie, Lyn: The Questing Road
Moorcock, Michael: Hawkmoon: The Sword of the Dawn (tpo)
Niven, Larry: Stars and Gods
Norman, Lisanne: Shades of Gray (#8 Sholan Alliance) (pbo)
Reed, Kit: Enclave (tp)
Reeves-Stevens, Judith & Garfield: Search: A Novel of Forbidden History
Resnick, Laura: Unsympathetic Magic (Esther Diamond) (pbo)
Richardson, Kat: Labyrinth (#5 Greywalker)
Richardson, Kat: Vanished (#4 Greywalker) (pap)
Robinson, Kim Stanley: The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson
Rubens, Michael: The Sheriff of Yrnameer (tp)
Salvatore, R A: The Bear
Sanderson, Brandon: The Way of Kings (#1 Stormlight Archive)
Sedia, Ekaterina: The Secret History of Moscow (pap)
Serviss, Garrett P: Edison’s Conquest of Mars: The Original 1898 Sequel to The War of the Worlds (pap)
Snyder, Maria V :Spy Glass (#3 Glass) (tpo)
Somers, Jeff: The Terminal State (#4 Avery Cates) (pbo)
Tatar, Maria: The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm (tpo)
Tepper, Sheri: The Waters Rising
Turgeon, Carolyn: Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale (tpo)
Valtat, Jean- Christophe: Aurorarama
Van Name, Mark L: Children No More (#4 Jon and Lobo)
Viehl, S L: Dream Called Time (#10 Stardoc) (pbo)
Weeks, Brent: The Black Prism (#1 Black Prism Trilogy)
Well, H G: The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds
Williamson, Michael Z: Do Unto Others
Ed. Beagle: The Secret History of Fantasy (tpo)
Ed. Elrod: Dark and Stormy Knights (tpo)

Stefan

Absolutely nothing for me this month, which should help my wallet out a bit. . .

The closest I come is that I will likely someday pick up The Waters Rising, by Sheri S. Tepper, because I think she's becoming one of the authors I need to read completely, but I haven't read A Plague of Angels (the first book in the series) yet and it isn't high on my list of her works to read next, so I'll be waiting at least until the new book is out in paperback. . .

I preordered a signed/numbered edition of Sanderson's new book weeks ago so that will arrive finally towards the end of the month.

Don't know how I missed Moonheart's sequel Spiritwalk when it was originally issued but now it's a must have, must read.

Nothing that I'm absolutely dying for, but a few that I'm mildly interested in - the Rachel Caine and the Lackey/Mallory. Both are series that I have liked but not loved. Actually, I did love the first few Weather Warden books but they got annoying in the later books.

I really enjoy De Lint's books, but would have to read Moonheart before I would read Spiritwalk...

Otherwise, nothing on the list for me...

There's a few things I'm waiting on, mostly books being released in paperback that are already out in hardcover, but none are on this list:

Blameless by Gail Carriger
Leviathan by Scott Westerfield
Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales edited by Ellen Datlow

I've got ARCs for the Brandon Sanderson and Anthony Huso books. Reading the initial description, I was more excited about the book by Anthony Huso, but I haven't had the chance to read either yet. I'll definitely get to both of those in the next few days.

I read The Questing Road by Lyn McConchie and thought it wasn't very good at all. My review will appear on www.fantasyliterature.com at some point next week.

I'm waiting for a copy of the Peter S. Beagle edited anthology The Secret History of Fantasy for review. Looks very interesting, and I've been on an anthology kick lately.

And there's the second Stormlord book by Glenda Larke, of course.

Those are the ones I'm definitely planning to read this month. There are a few others I'm interested in - e.g. Mark Van Name is someone I've been meaning to read more by. I read a few of his short stories in anthologies and thought they were very good.

Diane wrote: "I really enjoy De Lint's books, but would have to read Moonheart before I would read Spiritwalk...

Otherwise, nothing on the list for me..."

Diane, I think that Moonheart is my most favorite book of all DeLint's works. I have already read both that, and its sequel.

Nothing hot on the list this month for me.

Jane wrote: "My advice is not to delay reading Plague of Angels it is one of her best. It reminds me of the True Game books.
I love all her books just some more than others. My favouate or the True Game books, the Grass triliogy and the Awakeners (which is also published as two books called Northshore and Southshore) and The Visitor."

Well of those all I've read is The True Game: Kings Blood Four / Necromancer Nine / Wizard's Eleven, which I enjoyed; I've also read The Family Tree and Six Moon Dance, but was planning on hitting Beauty for my next foray into her work since (a) it fills a category for a challenge I'm participating in, and (b) I already own it. ;)

But I shall certainly take your advice and move A Plague of Angels up on the list!

Nothing jumps out at me. Of course that has never stopped me in the past. Something will jump out at me.

The Sanderson is the only one I see that I want to read. I may wait for the series to be complete though. At least Sanderson is good at follow-through.

Phoenixfalls wrote: "Absolutely nothing for me this month, which should help my wallet out a bit. . .

The closest I come is that I will likely someday pick up The Waters Rising, by [author:Sheri S. Tepp..."

One of my all time favourite writers. Only recently realised how many of her books I haven't read, so have begun to work my way through, and re-read some of the others.

I loved the name "Yahtzee Croshaw" until I looked him up and found out that his first name is really "Ben" and he's Australian, both of which cause his name to sorta make sense.