Article: Mirror Sight by Kristen Britain is a fantasy novel from 2014, the fifth book in the Green Rider series.
Plot summary
...The scything Moon is held captive in the prison of forgotten days,
Seek it in the den of the three-headed reptile,
for you are the blade of the shadow cast.
Beware the longer you linger the faster we spin apart...
Karigan G'ladheon is a Green Rider--a seasoned member of the elite messenger corps of King Zachary of Sacoridia. This corps of messengers, each gifted with a brooch of office that imparts a unique magical ability to its wearer, was founded over a thousand years ago during the terrible time of the Long War.
During that spell-fueled war, Sacoridia was besieged by the sorcerous armies of the Arcosian Empire, led by Mornhavon the Black. When Sacoridia finally triumphed, Mornhavon resorted to dark magic that rendered his twisted spirit immortal. Determined to keep the realm safe from this terrifying enemy, multitudes of Sacoridian magicians sacrificed their lives to build the immense D'Yer Wall, imprisoning the dangerous spirit of Mornhavon in Blackveil Forest, which uncontrolled magic had mutated into a perilous and unnatural place.
For over a thousand years, the magic of the D'Yer Wall protected the people of Sacoridia, but as the centuries passed, memory of how the wall had been built was lost as a traumatized nation turned its back on magic. And when a malicious entity cracked the massive wall, there were none left who knew how to repair it. Desperate to regain the knowledge and repair the ever-expanding breach in the wall, agents of the king scoured the kingdom for magical relics and information. Finally, in a last-ditch attempt to gain time, Karigan, whose Rider brooch enabled her to "fade"--sometimes traversing the layers of time and space--was able to catapult the spirit of Mornhavon into the future. But how far into the future was anyone's guess.
Realizing that this might be their only chance to enter Blackveil and examine the tainted peninsula, King Zachary sends Karigan and a contingent of Sacoridians beyond the wall, along with an equal number of Eletians--the immortal race that eons ago lived in what is now Blackveil Forest. But in addition to the unnatural dangers of the forest itself, Karigan and her small delegation have been followed by a secret rebel sect--descendants of the original Arcosian invaders, and during a showdown between these two groups, Mornhavon suddenly reappears.
In the magical confrontation that follows, Karigan is jolted out of Blackveil and wakes in a darkness blacker than night. She's lying on smooth, cold stone, but as she reaches out, she realizes that the stone is not just beneath her, but above and around her as well. She's landed in a sealed stone sarcophagus, some unknown tomb, and the air is becoming thin.
Is this to be her end? If she escapes, where will she find herself? Is she still in the world she remembers, or has the magical explosion transported her somewhere completely different? To find out, she must first win free of her prison--before it becomes her grave. And should she succeed, will she be walking straight into a trap created by Mornhavon himself?
Characters
Karigan G'ladheon - aliased as Kari Goodgrave
Cade Harlowe - an archeology student of Professor Josse. He was the one who rescued Karigan from the Dregs upon her arrival in the future, as per tasked by the Professor. Aside from studying archeology, he also secretly studies the art of being a Weapon / Order of the Blacks under the guidance of the Professor and later, of Karigan. He and Karigan inevitably fall inlove with each other.
Professor Josse - the uncle of "Kari Goodgrave". He is an archeologist who is much fascinated with the ruins of the Old City, otherwise known as, Sarcoridia. He leads a secret opposition of the Serpentine Emperial. He burned all his hidden relics and died with it when the Inspectors had found his relation with the uprising.
Dr. Silk - another archeologist
Lhean - an Eletian who was part of the Blackveil Expedition. He was also dragged to the future with Karigan
Sea King
Lord Amberhill } the Emperor of the Future
Mornhavon
Yolandhe - witch of the Sea. Beloved of the Sea King. She was--is--one of the sea godesses.
Luke Miriam Lorine
Arhys - King Zachary and Queen Estora's grandchild
Fastion - the Emperial Guardian. He was the Weapon of King Zachary and Queen Estora and was kept by Amberhill as an immortal guardian
Yates Cardell
Chelsa - Chief of the Takers of the Tomb (future). She is a descendant of Thursgad.
Webster Silk
Somial - leader of the tiendan
Ervin - an Eletian who is fascinated with human traditions
King Zachary Lady Estora Captain Mapstone |
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Books Received: March 2014
[[[Half a King]]]
by Joe Abercrombie. Del Rey, $26.00, 278pp, hc, 9780804178327. Fantasy. On-sale date: 8 July 2014.
“I swore an oath to avenge the death of my father. I may be half a man, but I swore a whole oath.”
Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. But first he must survive cruelty, chains, and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea. And he must do it all with only one good hand.
The deceived will become the deceiver.
Born a weakling in the eyes of his father, Yarvi is alone in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule. He cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge.
The betrayed will become the betrayer.
Gathering a strange fellowship of the outcast and the lost, he finds they can do more to help him become the man he needs to be than any court of nobles could.
Will the usurped become the usurper?
But even with loyal friends at his side, Yarvi finds his path may end as it began—in twists, and traps, and tragedy.
[[[Dawn’s Early Light]]]
by Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris. (a Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences novel), Ace, $7.99, 374pp, pb, 9780425267318. Fantasy.
Working for the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, one sees innumerable technological wonders. But even veteran agents Braun and Books are unprepared for what the electrifying future holds…
After being ignominiously shipped out of England following their participation in the Janus Affair, Braun and Books are ready to prove their worth as agents. but what starts as a simple mission in the States—intended to keep them out of trouble—suddenly turns into a scandalous and convoluted case that has connections reaching as far as Her Majesty the Queen.
Even with the help of two American agents from the Office of the Supernatural and Metaphysical, Braun and Books have their work cut out for them as their chief suspect in a rash of nautical and aerial disasters is none other than Thomas Edison. Between the fantastic electric machines of Edison, the eccentricities of Ministry consultant Nikola Tesla, and the mysterious machinations of a new threat known only as the Maestro, they may find themselves in far worse danger than they’ve ever been in before…
[[[Lexicon]]]
by Max Barry. Penguin, $16.00, 400pp, tp, 9780143125426. Fiction.
Max Barry’s Lexicon
is a dazzling inventive novel that is at turns thrilling, horrifying, and hilarious.
At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, VA, students aren’t taught history, geography or mathematics—at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science. Students learn that every person can be classified by an extremely specific personality type, his mind segmented and ultimately controlled by the skillful and sometimes magical application of words. The very best will become part of a secretive organization of “poets”—elite manipulators of language who can wield words as weapons and bend others to their will.
Whip-smart orphan Emily Ruff is running a three-card Monte game on the streets of San Francisco when she attracts the attention of the organization’s recruiters. She is flown across the country to sit for the school’s rigorous and mysterious entrance exams. Once admitted, she learns the fundamentals of word persuasion by Bronte, Eliot, and Lowell—master teachers who have adopted the names of famous authors to conceal their true identities. Emily soon becomes the school’s most talented prodigy until she makes a catastrophic mistake: she falls in love.
Meanwhile, a seemingly innocent man named Wil is brutally ambushed by two strange men in an airport bathroom. Although he has no recollection of anything they claim he’s done, it turns out that Wil is the key to a secret war between rival factions of poets and he’s quickly caught in an increasingly deadly cross country chase. Eventually led all the way to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, Wil realizes that everything he thinks he knows about his past could be wrong, and that he may in fact be the key to understanding what blew Broken Hill off the map.
As these two narratives converge, the shocking work of the Poets is fully revealed, the body count rises, and the most destructive weapon the world has ever seen appears to be in just the wrong hands. Max Barry’s most ambitious novel yet,
Lexicon
connects very modern questions of privacy, identity, and the rising obsession of data collection to centuries-old ideas about the power of language and coercion.
[[[Steles of the Sky]]]
by Elizabeth Bear. Tor, $26.99, 430pp, hc, 9780765327567. Fantasy.
Elizabeth Bear was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005 and has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction along with a Sturgeon Award and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Now she returns with
Steles of the Sky
, the compelling conclusion to her Eternal Sky trilogy that began with
Range of Ghosts and Shattered Pillars .
In the first volume,
Range of Ghosts
, Temur, heir to the Great Khagan, was forced into exile, pursued by the sorcerous allies of his uncle Qori Buqua ,who usurped his grandfather’s throne.
Shattered Pillars
finds Temur and Wizard Samarkar, a former princess, in the home of Temur’s powerful grandfather, plotting to attack the fortress of Rhazeen and rescue Edene, his lover, from Mukhtar ai-Idoj, al-Sepehr of the Nameless sect.
In the final act of this epic saga,
Steles of the Sky
, Temur has declared war against his usurping uncle. With his companions, Samarkar, the Cho-tse Hrahima, and the silent monk Brother Hsiung, Temur must make his way to Dragon Lake to gather his army of followers. But his enemies have not been idle; the leader of the Nameless Assassins has struck at Temur’s uncle already while to the east, the great city of Asmaracanda has burned. All the world seems to be on fire, and who knows if even the beloved son of the Eternal Sky can save it? The conclusion of this remarkable trilogy cements Elizabeth Bear as one of the best fantasy writers of today, and fans of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series will find much to enjoy.
[[[Shipstar]]]
by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven. Tor, $27.99, 400pp, hc, 9780765328700. Science fiction.
Shipstar
by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven is the continuing saga of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is planning to colonize.
Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure’s alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—while the mystery of the Shipstar’s origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that transform their understanding of their place in the universe.
[[[Covenant: The Books of Raziel]]]
by Sabrina Benulis. Harper Voyager, $14.99, 390pp, tp, 9780062069412. Paranormal fantasy.
On April 1, 2014, Sabrina Benulis returns tothe captivating universe she introduced readers to in
Archon
, with the release of her follow-up novel,
Covenant
. Sabrina Benulis is challenging the norms of modern paranormal fantasy with her truly unique take on the mythology of angels and demons. Easily one of the most classic epic face-offs in fantasy, the never-ending battle between the creatures of Heaven and the denizens of Hell, this trope has gone sadly overlooked in recent times—but the vivid imagery and gothic, atmospheric quality of Benulis’ writing are what truly set her apart. This installment of her “Books of Raziel” series is replete with an entrancing cast of characters: sinners, saints, and those who fall somewhere in the middle. Simply put, like Nalini Singh before her, Sabrina Benulis is making angels and demons “cool” again.
Angela Mathers, a talented artist with a tortured soul, continues her education at the eerie Westwood Academy. It is here that she encountered the angels who haunted her dreams—and here that she came face-to-face with the dark truth about herself: she is the Archon, a being of supreme power who will determine the fate of the universe.
But as the old adage goes, with great power comes great responsibility—and even greater danger. The forces of Heaven and Hell are converging, and Angels is caught in the middle, bound and determined to save herself, her friends, and the world from the evil that they wreak. After a scheming demon kidnaps the Book of Raziel, Angela must find her way through a nightmarish game and enter the Door to Hell to rescue her only friend before it is too late—but the way is perilous, and once through the dark door to Hell there is no turning back…
The fate of both Heaven and Hell rests on her success.
[[[The Hole Behind Midnight: A Story of the 25th Hour]]]
by Clinton J. Boomer. Broken Eye Books, $19.99, 440pp, tp, 9781940372068.
Royden Poole is having a very bad day
Strong-armed into investigating a break-in, a bizarre theft, two missing persons, and a shooting with no body, all he wants to do is go back to pretending he’s dead. And that’s just a warm up.
There’s an infinity of time and space just after midnight where the rules of reality don’t necessarily apply. Most people don’t know anything about it. And of those that do, most want nothing to do with it. But a heart’s desire is there for the finding for those brave enough—or stupid enough—to look.
Join Royden on a foul-mouthed, darkly comic, hardboiled romp through the twisted underbelly of the world you think you know.
[[[Mirror Sight]]]
by Kristen Britain. (Sequel to
Blackveil
), DAW, $27.95, 784pp, hc, 9780756408794. Fantasy. On-sale date: 6 May 2014.
Karigan G’ladheon is a Green Rider—a seasoned member of the elite messenger corps of King Zachary of Sacoridia. This corps of messengers, each gifted with a brooch of office that imparts a unique magical ability to its wearer, was founded over a thousand years ago during the terrible time of the Long War.
During that spell-fueled war, Sacoridia was besieged by the sorcerous armies of the Arcosian Empire, led by Mornhavon the Black. When Sacoridia finally triumphed, Mornhaveon resorted to dark magic that rendered his twisted spirit immortal. Determined to keep the realm safe from this terrifying enemy, multitudes of Sacoridian magicians sacrificed their lives to build the immense D’Yer Wall, imprisoning the dangerous spirit of Mornhavon in Blackveil Forest, which uncontrolled magic has mutated into a perilous and unnatural place.
For over a thousand years, the magic of the D’Yer Wall protected the people of Sacoridia, but as the centuries passed, memory of how the wall had been uilt was lost as a traumatized nation turned its back on magic. And when a malicious entity cracked the massive wall, there were none left who knew how to repair it. Desperate to regain the knowledge and repair the ever-expanding breach in the wall, agents of the king scoured the kingdom for magical relics and information. Finally, in a last-ditch attempt to gain time, Karigan, whose Rider brooch enabled her to “fade”—sometimes traversing the layers of time and space—was able to catapult the spirit of Mornhavon into the future. But how far into the future was anyone’s guess.
Realizing that this might be their only chance to enter Blackveil and examine the tainted peninsula, King Zachary sends Karigan and a contingent of Sacoridians beyond the wall, along with an equal number of Eletians—the immortal race that eons ago lived in what is now Blackveil Forest. But in addition to the unnatural dangers of the forest itself, Karigan and her small delegation have been followed by a secret rebel sect—descendants of the original Arcosian invaders. And during a showdown between these two groups, Mornhavon suddenly reappears.
In the magical confrontation that follows, Karigan is jolted out of Blackveil and wakes in a darkness blacker than night. She’s lying on smooth, cold stone, but as she reaches out, she realizes that the stone is not just beneath her, but above and around her as well. She’s landed in a sealed stone sarcophagus, some unknown tomb, and the air is becoming thin.
Is this to be her end? If she escapes, where will she find herself? Is she still in the world she remembers, or has the magical explosion transported her somewhere completely different? To find out,, she must first win free of her prison—before it becomes her grave. And should she succeed, will she be walking straight into a trap created by Mornhavon himself?
[[[Balance Point]]]
by Robert Buettner. Baen, $15.00, 290pp, tp, 9781476736440. Science fiction.
On the brink of peace—or war?
When the balance point of interplanetary Cold War II between Earth and the monolithic planet Yavet tips unexpectedly toward peace, covert ops Captain Jazen Parker and his sharp-shooting lover Kit Born slide from world-saving hazardous duty to escorting a telepathic alien monster home from Earth to mate. And the two of them are forced to seriously consider a quiet domestic future together.
But when old enemies’ thirst for power and revenge, Jazen’s problematic past—and his former girlfriend—combine to upset his and Kit’s personal balance point, the two cold warriors find their relationship, and their very survival, tested as never before.
Lost in space, and from one another, they must each penetrate Yavet, the unvierse’s most insular and repressive world, then foil a plot that could turn Cold War II hot and nuclear—or die trying.
[[[Queen of the Dark Things]]]
by C. Robert Cargill. Harper Voyager, $26.99, 448pp, hc, 9780062190451. Fantasy. On-sale date: 13 May 2014.
Screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill continues the story begun in his acclaimed debut
Dreams and Shadows
in this bold and brilliantly crafted tale involving fairies and humans, magic and monsters—a vivid phantasamagoria that combines the imaginative wonders of Neil Gaiman, the visual inventiveness of Guillermo Del Toro, and the shocking miasma of William S. Burroughs.
Six months have passed since the wizard Colby lost his best friend to an army of fairies from the Limestone Kingdom, a realm of mystery and darkness beyond our own. But in vanquishing these creatures and banning them from Austin, Colby sacrificed the anonymity that protected him. Now, word of his deeds has spread, and powerful enemies from the past—including one Colby considered a friend—have resurfaced to exact their revenge.
As darkness gathers around the city, Colby sifts through his memories desperate to find answers that might save him. With time running out, and few of his old allies and enemies willing to help, he is forced to turn for aid to forces even darker than those he once battled.
Following such masters as Lev Grossman, Erin Morgenstern, Richard Kadrey, and Kim Harrison, C. Robert Cargill takes us deeper into an extraordinary universe of darkness and wonder, despair and hope to reveal the magic and monsters around us… and inside us.
[[[Upon a Sea of Stars]]]
by A. Bertram Chandler. (The John Grimes Saga V), Baen, $14.00, 630pp, tp, 9781476736365. Science fiction.
John Grimes in action—batten down the hatches
The legendary—and notorious—John Grimes is back, knocking about on the rim of the galaxy, where both the laws of human governments and the laws of physics don’t always apply, and strange things can happen to even the most seasoned space traveler. Gathered together in one volume are four book-length chronicles of John Grimes’ adventures, exploits, and narrow escapes:
Into the Alternate Universe
Contraband from Otherspace The Rim Gods
The Commodore at Sea
The John Grimes saga continues, in a generous volume of space adventure with a dash of humor, and a likeable hero who always manages to gamely muddle through.
[[[Monster Hunter: Nemesis]]]
by Larry Correia. (Monster Hunter #5), Baen, $25.00, 384pp, hc, 9781476736556. Fantasy. On-sale date: July 2014.
Agent Franks of the U.S. Monster Control Bureau is a man of many parts—parts from other people, that is. Franks is nearly seven feet tall and all muscle. He’s nearly indestructible. Plus he’s animated by a powerful alchemical substance and inhabited by a super-intelligent spirit more ancient than humanity itself.
Good thing he’s on our side. More or less.
Sworn to serve and protect the United States of America from all monsters by one of the country’s founding fathers, Franks has only one condition to the agreement: no matter what the government learns of him, no matter what is discovered concerning his odd physiology or the alchemy behind the elixir that made him, the government is never, ever allowed to try and make more like him. Such is absolutely forbidden and should the powers-that-be do so, then the agreement is null and void.
Project Nemesis: in a secret location, using sophisticated technology and advanced genetic engineering, the director of the very agency Franks works for is making more like him. And the director is not content with making one. Nope, he’s making thirteen.
Now all bets are off, and Hell hath no fury like a monster betrayed. Particularly if that monster happens to be an undying killing machine capable of taking out vampires and werewolves with one hand tied behind his back.
[[[The Heretic]]]
by Tony Daniel and David Drake. Baen, $7.99, 417pp, pb, 9781476736372. Science fiction.
We don’t need another hero
The collapse of the galactic republic plunged Duisberg into an uneasy balance between mudbrick civilization and blood-thirsty barbarism. Duisberg’s god is Zentrum, an ancient supercomputer which maintains stasis by the Blood Winds, barbarians sweeping in from the desert to smother all progress in slaughter.
The Blood Winds are about to blow again.
But this time Abel Dashian, a soldier’s son, has received into his mind the downloaded electronic personalities of General Raj Whitehall and of the supercomputer Center. His people don’t need another hero to fight and die pointlessly in the Blood Winds. Instead, with the help of Raj and Center, Abel Dashian must become:
The Heretic [[[The Pilgrims]]]
by Will Elliott. Tor, $26.99, 448pp, hc, 9780765331885.
Will Elliott’s debut novel,
The Pilo Family Circus
, co-won the Aurealis Award for best horror, the Golden Aurealis for best novel, and the Australian Shadows Award. Now Elliott turns his brilliantly subversive imagination to
The Pilgrims
, his first title in The Pendulum Trilogy, where he twists the conventions of the fantasy and horror genres to provide an experience readers will not soon forget.
Eric Albright is a twenty-six-year-old lazy would-be journalist living in London. But this luckless slacker isn’t all bad—he has a soft spot for his sometimes friend Stuart “Case” Casey, the homeless old drunk who lives under the railway bridge near his flat. Eric is willing to let his life just pass him by until the day a small red door appears on the graffiti-covered wall of the bridge, and a gang of strange-looking people—including a giant—dash out of the door and rob the nearby newsagent. From that day on, Eric and Case haunt the arch, waiting for the door to reappear.
When it does, both Eric and Case choose to go through, and they find themselves in the land of Levaal, a place where a mountain-sized dragon with the powers of a god lies sleeping beneath a great white castle. In the castle the sinister Lord Vous rules with an iron fist, and his Project, designed to effect his transformation into an immortal spirit, nears completion. But Vous’s growing madness along with his fear of an imaginary being named Shadow is close to consuming him, and soon Eric may lend substance to that fear. Additionally, an impossibly vast wall divides Levaal, and no one has ever seen what lies beyond. Eric and Casey are called Pilgrims, and may have powers that no one in either world yet understands, and soon the wall may be broken. But what will enter from the other side?
[[[Horrorscope]]]
by Brian Evans, Helen Marie Bousquet, and Mark Andrew Biltz. H Infinity Books, $21.95, 318pp, hc, 9781619277892. Horror.
The table that the great Michel de Nostredame, usually Latinised as Nostradamus, once wrote his astonishing predictions on had suddenly found it’s way to Naugatuck, Connecticut and into the home of Helen Wilson, a local psychic who for $25 would tell you your fortune. Her predictions had an accuracy that brought those to her door daily as they sought hope and the fulfillment of their own dreams.
Unfortunately for Helen, the attention her abilities would bring were not always by the most honorable of seekers, and when her gifts came upon the radar of the notorious Nicolo crime family, it would no longer be her decision to provide predictions, but her duty… if she wanted her and her loved ones to live..
There would be consequences for interfering with the cosmic realm, and when the mafia decided it had enough of Helen, the Nicolo family believed they could rid themselves of the problem.
What they didn’t know was that Helen Wilson, the psychic who lived in Naugatuck, had a few friends of her own.
But they didn’t use guns.
[[[By Faerie Light]]]
edited by Scott Gable, Caroline Dombrowski, and Dora Wang. Broken Eye Books, $19.99, 236pp, tp, 9781940372044. Fantasy Anthology.
Many fae are utterly alien to us, escaping our definitions and ideals. We are insignificant in the face of their uncaring, alien intelligence. Until we catch their eye.
Eighteen dark, intense fantasy tales of the fae filled with equal measures of fright and fancy. To be clear, these are not “fairy tales.” But they will mess with your mind…
Stories from Dave Gross, Elaine Cunningham, Erin Hoffman, Shanna Germain, Cat Rambo, Jennifer Brozek, James L. Sutter, Minerva Zimmerman, Jeffrey Scott Petersen, Christie Yant, Lillian Cohen-Moore, Torah Cottrill, Erik Scott de Bie, Andrew Penn Romine, Ed Greenwood, Amber E. Scott, Jaym Gates, Nathan Crowder, and Julia B. Ellingboe.
[[[Irenicon]]]
by Aidan Harte. (The Wave Trilogy, Book 1), Jo Fletcher Books/Quercus, $26.99, 482pp, hc, 9781623650391. Fantasy.
Aidan Harte has gone from sculpting characters out of metal in his art, to sculpting characters out of words in his debut novel,
Irenicon
, the first book in The Wave Trilogy.
The river Irenicon is a feat of ancient Concordian engineering. Blasted through the middle of Rasenna in 1347 using Wave technology, it divided the only city strong enough to defeat the Concordian Empire. But no one could have predicted the river would become sentient after the attack—and hostile. Sofia Scaligeri, the soon-to-be Contessa of Rasenna, has inherited a city tearing itself apart from the inside. Try as she might, she can see no way of stopping the culture of vendetta that has the city in its grasp. But when an engineer arrives to build a bridge over the Irenicon to aid Concordia’s armies, the feuding factions of Rasenna must decide whether to continue their animosities or to unite against their shared enemy. And they will need to stand together—for Concord is about to unleash the Wave again.
[[[Shattered]]]
by Kevin Hearne. (The Iron Druid Chronicles), Del Rey, $26.00, 352pp, hc, 9780345548481. Fantasy. On-sale date: 17 June 2014.
Acclaimed author Kevin Hearne makes his hardcover debut with
Shattered
, the seventh installment in his urban fantasy series starring the druid Atticus O’Sullivan. Kevin Hearne began his Iron Druid Chronicles back in 2011 with the paperback original,
Hounded
. Since then, the author has attracted legions of fans, and the books have become
New York Times
bestsellers. Now, Kevin Hearne is poised to make his next leap forward with the first hardcover title of his career.
For nearly two thousand years, only one Druid has walked the Earth—Atticus O’Sullivan, the Iron Druid, whose sharp wit and sharp sword have kept him alive as he’s been pursed by a pantheon of hostile deities. Now he’s got company. Atticus’s apprentice Granuaile is at last a full Druid herself. What’s more, Atticus has defrosted an archdruid long ago frozen in time, a father figure (of sorts), who now goes by the modern equivalent of his old Irish name: Owen Kennedy.
Owen has some catching up to do. Atticus takes pleasure in the role reversal, as the student is now the teacher. Between busting Atticus’s chops and trying to fathom a cell phone, Owen must also learn English. For Atticus, the jury’s still out on whether the wily old coot will be an asset in the epic battle with Norse god Loki—or merely a pain in the arse. But Atticus isn’t the only one with daddy issues. Granuaile faces a great challenge: to exorcise a sorcerer’s spirit that is possessing her father in India. Even with the help of the witch Laksha, Granuaile may be facing a crushing defeat. As the trio of Druids deals with pestilence-spreading demons, bacon-loving yeti, fierce flying foxes, and frenzied Fae, they’re hoping that this time, three’s a charm.
[[[Waldo & Magic, Inc.]]]
by Robert A. Heinlein. Baen, $14.00, 198pp, tp, 9781476736358. Science fiction.
Don’t count out the underdog…
Two classic short novels by Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction’s Grandmaster.
Waldo
: North Power Air is in trouble. Their aircraft are crashing at an alarming rate and no one can figure out the cause. Desperate for an answer, they turn to Waldo, a crippled misanthropic genius who lives in a home in orbit around Earth, where the absence of gravity means that his feeble muscle strength does not confine him helplessly in a wheelchair. But Waldo has little reason to want to help the rest of humanity—until he learns that the solution to Earth’s problems also holds the key to his own.
Magic, Inc.
: In a world where almost everything is done by magic spells, Magic, Inc., under the guise of an agency for magicians, is systematically squeezing the small independent magicians out of business. Then one businessman stood firm. And with the help of an Oxford-educatedAfrican shaman and a little old lady adept at black magic, he was willing to take on all the demons of Hell to resolve the problem—once and for all.
[[[Mentats of Dune]]]
by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.Tor, $27.99, 445pp, hc, 9780765322746. Science fiction.
Join bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson in the latest installment of the epic
Dune series: Mentats of Dune
. Herbert and Anderson keep the original author’s vision alive and invite new readers to join returning fans in this rich, desert saga.
Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and his Swordmaster Anari Idaho. Mother Superior Raquella attempts to rebuild her Sisterhood School on Wallach IX, with her most talented and ambitious student, Valya Harkonnen, who also has another goal—to exact revenge on Vorian Atreides, the legendary hero of the Jihad, who she blames for her family’s downfall.
Meanwhile, Josef Venport conducts his own war against the Butlerians. VenHold Spacing Fleet controls nearly all commerce thanks to the superior mutated Navigators that Venport has created, and he places a ruthless embargo on any planet that accepts Manford Torondo’s anti-technology pledge, hoping to starve them into submission. But fantasties rarely surrender easily…
The Mentats, the Navigators, and the Sisterhood all strive to improve the human race, but each group knows that as Butlerian fanaticism grows stronger, the battle will be to choose the path of humanity’s future—whether to embrace civilization, or to plunge into an endless dark age.
[[[Unwept]]]
by Tracy Hickman & Laura Hickman. (Book One of the Nightbirds), Tor, $22.99, 272pp, tp, 9780765332035. Fantasy. On-sale date: 1 July 2014.
Unwept: Book One of the Nightbirds
is a haunting story of a young girl, lost memories, and a web of secrets. Gamin, Maine, is a remote seaside town where everyone seems to know Ellis Harkington better than she knows herself—but she doesn’t remember any of them.
Unknown events have robbed Ellis of her memory. Concerned individuals, who claim to be friends and loved ones, insist that she simply needs to recuperate, and that her memories may return in time. But, for her own sake—so they claim—they refuse to divulge what has brought her to this state.
Ellis finds herself adrift in a town of ominous mysteries, cryptic hints, and disturbingly familiar strangers. The Nightbirds, a clique of fashionable young men and women, claim her as one of their own, but who can she truly trust? And what of the phantom suitor who visits her in her dreams? Is he a memory, a figment of her imagination, or a living nightmare beyond rational explanation?
Only her lost past holds the answers she seeks—if she can uncover its secrets before she falls prey to an unearthly killer.
[[[The Mark of the Dragonfly]]]
by Jaleigh Johnson. Random House Children’s, $16.99, 400pp, hc, 9780385376150. Fantasy.
Jaleigh Johnson’s first book for middle-grade readers is the story of a mysterious girl, a magical world, a dangerous journey, and the true meaning of friendship and family.
Fantasy continues to reign supreme in the children’s literary world, and debut author Jaleigh Johnson brings the genre to life for tween readers with
The Mark of the Dargonfly
, a thrilling adventure story with the feel of a timeless classic.
In the scrap towns, a day’s pay depends on what you find in the meteor Fields. Storms rain down objects from other lands, and ever since Piper’s father died, scavenging is the only way for her to survive. Until the day she strikes gold. Unconscious, lying in the fields amid the rubble, is a girl. She’s beautiful and well-dressed… and has a dragonfly tattooed on her wrist. The mark of the dragonfly means the girl is from the Dragonfly Territories. If Piper can get her back there, she might get a reward and be able to start a new life.
The 401 train is the safest way to get to the Dragonfly Territories, but Piper will have to sneak aboard, and convincing the girl to join her seems unlikely—until there’s a knock on Piper’s door and she learns that the girl is more valuable than she could ever have imagined. There are people who want her back, and they won’t stop until they have her. Piper wants a new life, but running for it isn’t how she thought she’d get there. And the race to the Dragonfly Territories looks like it might be impossible to finish alive.
With a cast of characters who stand up and walk off the page,
The Mark of the Dragonfly
has an action-packed plot, a page-turning pace, and a vivid, unique setting that will charm girls and boys who want to escape into another world.
[[[Children of the Gates]]]
by Andre Norton. Baen, $7.99, 488pp, pb, 9781476736389. Science fiction.
Through the gates and into adventure
Here Abide Monsters
: On a world where parallel and alternate universe intersect, Celtic faery folk, modern humans, and inhabitants of a distant future share the planet’s surface, along with aliens in saucer-shaped ships who are capturing and enslaving new arrivals who fall through the gates from our Earth. One group of new arrivals meets a man who calls himself the Herald. He promises safety—but the price he requires may be too high to pay.
Yurth Burden
: Two warring races share Zacar—the plains-dwelling Raski and the mountain-dwelling Yurth, who have mental powers which make them feared and hated by the Raski. When a young Yurth woman goes on her coming of age vision quest, she is stalked by a young Raski warrior. The two blood enemies will reluctantly find they need each other to survive—and together they discover a secret that may change Zacar forever.
Two popular Andre Norton science fiction adventure novels in one omnibus volume.
[[[All Those Vanished Engines]]]
Paul Park. Tor, $25.99, 304pp, hc, 9780765375407. Science fiction. On-sale date: 1 July 2014.
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. In
All Those Vanished Engines
, 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 gorgeously imaginative 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, taking place 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 United States, 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
, and fans of David Mitchell’s
Cloud Atlas
will not be disappointed.
[[[Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot]]]
by Dav Pilkey, illustrated by Dan Santat. Scholastic, $15.99, 112pp, hc, 978054561068. Children’s action/adventure.
Dav Pilkey was inspired to write the Ricky Ricotta books (originally published in 2000) by his childhood desire to have a gigantic robot as a best friend. A chapter book series intended for younger readers than his bestselling Captain Underpants series, the Ricky Ricotta series will soon be available with all-new full-color illustrations throughout by acclaimed and bestselling artist Dan Santat—and featuring never-before-published mini-comics within the books.
“The way that Dan Santat has brought these charcaters to life has exceeded my childhood imagination,” praises Dav Pilkey. “His full-color illustrations have given the series a completely new dimension.”
“I’m so honored and thrilled to be a part of this exciting project, and to have the opportunity to work with one of my favorite authors,” said Dan Santat. “I have been a fan of Dav Pilkey for so many years. I hope that readers of all ages will fall in love with the series like I have.”
Ricky Ricotta lives in Squeakyville with his mom and dad. Ricky has a hard time making friends at school, and the neighborhood bullies are always picking on him. If only Ricky could find someone to be his best buddy and keep those creepy bullies away! When a giant, flying robot enters Ricky’s life, an unlikely friendship is born. Together, Ricky and his Robot must save the planet from a galaxy bursting with bad guys!
[[[Raising Steam]]]
by Terry Pratchett. (A Discworld Novel), Doubleday, $26.95, 370pp, hc, 9780385538268. Fantasy.
Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man with a flat cap and a sliding rule, the lead of the latest installment in Terry Pratchett’s global bestselling Discworld series,
Raising Steam: A Discworld Novel
. Mister Simnel has produced a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements—earth, air, fire, and water—and it’s soon drawing astonished crowds.
To the consternation of Ankh-Morpork’s formidable Patrician, Lord Vetinari, no one is in charge of this new invention. This needs to be rectified, and who better than the man he has already appointed master of the Post Office, the Mint, and the Royal Bank: Moist von Lipwig. Moist is not a man who enjoys hard work—unless it is dependent on words, which are not very heavy and don’t always need greasing. He does enjoy being alive, however, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse.
Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs, and some very angry dwarfs if he’s going to stop it all from going off the rails…
Raising Steam
is the 40th book in the bestselling Discworld series with more than 75 million copies worldwide. Outstandingly enjoyable both a standalone and a fortiethquel,
Raising Steam
is as delightfully irreverent and pointedly satirical as ever.
[[[The Folklore of Discworld: Legends, Myths, and Customs from the Discworld with Helpful Hints from Planet Earth]]]
by Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson. Anchor, $15.95, 528pp, tp, 9780804169035. Non-fiction.
Insights into all 40 Discworld novels
Legends, myths, fairytales, superstitions. Our world is full of the stories we have told ourselves about where we came from and how we got here. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings such as vampires, trolls, golems, witches and, possibly, gods, which on Earth are creatures of the imagination, are real, alive, and in some cases kicking on the Disc.
The Folklore of Discworld
, coauthored by Terry Pratchett and leading British folklorist Jacqueline Simpson, is an invaluable reference for long-time Discworld fans and newcomers alike. An irreverent yet illuminating look at the living myths and folklore that are reflected, celebrated, and affectionately libeled in the uniquely imaginative universe of Discworld.
Find out:
* Why cheeses roll down hill
* The hazards of treacle mining
* What’s so uncanny about the humble hare
* The origins of orcs (which are not the same as goblins!)
* Why witches come in threes
[[[Red Planet Blues]]]
by Robert J. Sawyer. Ace, $7.99, 340pp, pb, 9780425256411. Science fiction.
The name’s Lomax—Alex Lomax. I’m the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O’Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.
I’m trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, tracking down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, the corrupt cops, and a growing population of
transfers
—lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when I uncover clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and O’Reilly, along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils, God only knows what I’ll dig up…
[[[Lockstep]]]
by Karl Schroeder. Tor, $26.99, 352pp, hc, 9780765337269. Science fiction.
As one of the most influential Canadian writers of science fiction and fantasy, Karl Schroeder brings hard science fiction to a whole new level, drawing from his career as a professional futurist to create an incredible amount of detail in his world-building while at the same time providing the non-stop action that readers of Larry Niven’s Ringworld series are sure to enjoy.
Lockstep
is Schroeder’s latest stand-alone novel that explores a unique far future society and the technology that drives it.
When seventeen-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, separated from his family, he expects his next drift into cold sleep to be his last. After all, the planet he’s orbiting is frozen and sunless, and the cities are dead. But when Toby wakes again, he’s surprised to discover a thriving planet, a strange and prosperous galaxy, and something stranger still—that he’s been asleep for 14,000 years.
Welcome to the Lockstep Empire, where civilization is kept alive by careful hibernation. Here citizens survive for millennia, traveling in slumber for decades on the long voyages between worlds, awakened for mere weeks at a time. Not only is Lockstep the new center of the galaxy, but Toby is shocked to learn that the Empire is still ruled by its founding family: his own.
Toby’s brother Peter has become a terrible tyrant. Suspicious of the return of his long-lost brother, and protective of the McGonigal DNA that controlsthe Lockstep hibernation cycles, Peter sees Toby as a threat to his regime. Now, with the help of a Lockstep girl named Corva, Toby must survive the forces of this new Empire, outwit his siblings, and save human civilization.
[[[Operation Shield]]]
by Joel Shepherd. Pyr, $16.95, 461pp, tp, 9781616148959. Science fiction.
Cassandra “Sandy” Kresnov, a synthetic GI, has uncovered the terrible truth about the technology that created her. That technology, misused in her former home, now threatens all humanity with catastrophe. After losing fellow GIs in a disastrous battle, Sandy learns of evidence on Droze—the world almost nuked in the fight—that points to serious techno-social instabilities within the League. The League’s refusal to negotiate with the Federation on these issues, which include whether to emancipate synthetic citizens and ban the use of GIs as guinea pigs, will most likely lead to war if not resolved. But there are those who will go to any lengths to avoid a new conflict, even threatening the removal by force of Sandy’s own branch of the Federal Security Agency.
Even more frightening for Sandy is the potential threat to the three young street kids she brought back from the crime-ridden world of Droze to her home on Callay. Caring for these children, Sandy discovers maternal feelings she had not known she possessed. Can she reconcile the dangers of her duties as a soldier and her responsibilities as a combat tactician with the safety of her new family—the thing that means more to her than any cause she’s ever believed in or battle she’s ever fought?
[[[Pathfinder Tales: The Redemption Engine]]]
by James L. Sutter. Paizo, $9.99, 520pp, pb, 9781601256188. Fantasy.
Get Out of Hell Free
When murdered sinners fail to show up in Hell, it’s up to Salim Ghadafar, an atheist soldier conscripted by the goddess of death, to track down the missing souls. In order to do so, Salim will need to descend into the anarchic city of Kaer Maga, following a trail that ranges from Hell’s iron cities to the gleaming gates of Heaven itself. Along the way, he’ll be aided by a menagerie of otherworldly creatures, a streetwise teenager, and two warriors of the mysterious Iridian Fold. But when the missing souls are the scum of the earth, and the victims devils themselves, can anyone really be trusted?
From James L. Sutter, critically acclaimed author of
Death’s Heretic
, comes a new adventure of magic, monsters, and metaphysics, set in the award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
[[[The Time Traveler’s Almanac]]]
edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer. Tor, $25.99, 960pp, tp, 9780765374240. Science fiction anthology.
This March, Tor Books is proud to publish
The Time Traveler’s Almanac
, the most extensive collection of time travel stories ever assembled, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Featuring both classic tales and contemporary fiction, world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer have culled more than a century’s worth of time-spanning literary travels to produce this definitive tome. Including over 70 stories with relevant essays and background information scattered throughout,
The Time Traveler’s Almanac
will serve as a time machine of its very own: the ultimate treasury of time travel stories, spanning the distance from the beginning of time to its very end.
[Contributors: Geoffrey Landis, Richard Matheson, Robert Silverberg, Alice Sola Kim, Eric Schaller, C.J. Cherryh, Michael Swanwick, Steve Bein, Ursula K. Le Guin, Cordwainer Smith, H.G. Wells, Michael Moorcock, Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore, John Chu, Harry Turtledove, David Langford, Connie Willis, George R.R. Martin, Kage Baker, Steven Utley, Ellen Klages, Isaac Asimov, Garry Kilworth, Rosaleen Love, Elizabeth Bear, George-Oliver Chateaureynaud, Max Beerbohn, Edward Page Mitchell, Theodore Sturgeon, Kim Newman, Douglas Adams, Joe Lansdale, Peter Crowther, Karin Tidbeck, Barrington J. Bayley, Greg Egan, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gene Wolfe, Langdon Jones, David I. Masson, Vandana Singh, Tony Pi, Dean Francis Alfar, Norman Spinrad, Eric Frank Russell, Ray Bradbury, Genevieve Valentine, Jason Heller, Stan Love, Tanith Lee, Karen Haber, Bob Leman, Tamsyn Muir, Carrie Vaughn, Richard Bowes, Nalo Hopkinson, Adam Roberts, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Rjurik Davidson, E.F. Benson, Molly Brown, Pamela Sargent, William Gibson, and Charles Stross.]
[[[Pathfinder Tales: Skinwalkers]]]
by Wendy N. Wagner. Paizo, $9.99, 385pp, pb, 9781601256164. Fantasy.
The Longships Are Coming!
As a young woman, Jendara left the cold northern isles of the Ironbound Archipelago for fame and fortune on a pirate ship, only to return home to find her family slain by raiders. Now, many years later, she’s forsaken her buccaneer ways and sails the islands in search of a simpler life, hoping to raise her young son in peace. When a strange clan of shapeshifters begins pillaging the islands, however, the past comes crashing back, and there’s no choice for Jendara but to take up her axe and help the islanders defend all that they hold dear…
From fan-favorite author Wendy N. Wagner comes a new adventure of vikings, cannibals, and the ties of family, set in the award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
[[[Cauldron of Ghosts]]]
by David Weber & Eric Flint. Baen, $25.00, 582pp, hc, 9781476736334. Science fiction.
The cauldron boils over
The Mesan Alignment: a centuries-old cabal that seeks to impose its vision of a society dominated by genetic rank onto the human race. Now the conspiracy stands exposed by spies Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat—one an agent of Honor Harrington’s Star Kingdom of Manticore, the other Haven’s best secret operative. The outing of the Alignment has turned the galaxy’s political framework topsy-turvy. Old coalitions have disintegrated and new alliances have been born.
For starters, the long and hard-fought war between the Republic of Haven and the Star Empire of Manticore is not only over, but these bitter enemies have formed a new pact. Their common foe is the Mesan Alignment.
But more information is needed to bring the Alignment out of the shadows. Now, defying the odds and relying on genetic wizardry themselves for a disguise, Zilwicki and Cachat return to Mesa—only to discover that even they have underestimated the Alignment’s ruthlessness and savagery.
Soon they are on the run in Mesa’s underworld, not only hunted by the Alignment but threatened by the exploding conflict on the planet between Mesa’s overlords and the brutalized slaves and descendants of slaves who have suffered under their rule for so long. But if Zilwicki and Cachat succeed in rooting out the ancient conspiracy, a great evil may finally be removed from the galaxy—and on a long-oppressed planet, freedom may dawn at last.
[[[Robot Uprisings]]]
edited by Daniel H. Wilson and John Joseph Adams. Vintage, $15.95, 496pp, tp, 9780345803634. Science fiction anthology.
Humans Beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry?
From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives. With contributions from a mix of bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming writers, and including a rare story by “the father of artificial intelligence,” Dr. John McCarthy,
Robot Uprisings
meticulously describes the exhilarating and terrifying near-future in which humans can only survive by being cleverer than the rebellious machines they have created.
[Contributors: Scott Sigler, Charles Yu, Anna North, Genevieve Valentine, Hugh Howey, Ernest Cline, Cory Doctorow, Jeff Abbott, Julianna Baggott, Alastair Reynolds, Alan Dean Foster, Ian McDonald, Robin Wasserman, John McCarthy, Seanan McGuire, Nnedi Okorafor, and Daniel H. Wilson.]
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