Showing posts with label July 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label July 2012. Show all posts

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Books Received in July

I'm purposely keeping my book requests down for the summer, so I have time to read classics and books coming out by people I know, and perhaps whittle down my ever growing TBR pile.  But I'm very grateful to the publishers who send me books to review, even when I don't have as much time to read them.  Synopses are from the Indigo website (as are the links at the bottom).

The Eye of the World: Graphic Novel Vol 2 - Robert Jordon, adapted by Chuck Dixon, illustrated by Andie Tong


Rand al'Thor, Egwene al'Vere, and their friends flee their home village in the company of Moiraine and her Warder, Lan Mandragoran. Pursued by their enemies, the group seeks sanctuary in Baerlon. Rand's nightmares grow darker. Moiraine takes Egwene under her wing. Lan warns them to trust no one, but should that distrust extend to Lan and Moiraine as well? 

The Eye of the World: the Graphic Novel, Volume Two, collects six issues of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the Worldcomic book published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book will feature bonus material that gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a graphic novel.









Kop Killer - Warren Hammond


This is book 3 of the series, so you might want to skip this synopsis if you haven't read the previous books.

Juno Mozambe once had a life. That was when he was a dirty cop, married to a woman who suffered such profound abuse that she murdered her vile, drug kingpin father. Juno loved his wife and did his best to help her survive her guilt, her drug habit, and her desire to end her life on the dead-end planet of Lagarto.

When she died, however, Juno's life went downhill. And then his first partner, the corrupt chief of the Koba Office of Police, was murdered. The man responsible, Emil Mota, is using the KOP for his personal gain. Juno has been laying low, but now he's ready to do whatever it takes to take down the bastard.

Rather than working from inside the system, he's decided that the only way to take down the KOP is to create an independent base of power. So he gets involved with a team of dirty cops and starts working as a rent-a-thug for a whorehouse that needs protection.

Juno's last partner knows that his risky plan has a purpose, but she's that rarest of creatures on the hothouse planet of Lagarto: an honest cop. She can't help him.

When Juno discovers a series of profoundly twisted murders, he faces a bleak possibility: in his desperate quest for vengeance against the man who targeted him for death, Juno may have placed himself beyond any hope of redemption....



Energized - Edward M. Lerner

No one expected the oil to last forever. How right they were….

A geopolitical miscalculation tainted the world's major oil fields with radioactivity and plunged the Middle East into chaos. Any oil that remains usable is more prized than ever. No one can build solar farms, wind farms, and electric cars quickly enough to cope. The few countries still able to export oil and natural gas-Russia chief among them-have a stranglehold on the world economy.

And then, from the darkness of space, came Phoebe. Rather than divert the onrushing asteroid, America captured it in Earth orbit.

Solar power satellites-cheaply mass-produced in orbit with resources mined from the new moon to beam vast amounts of power to the ground-offer America its last, best hope of avoiding servitude and economic ruin.

As though building miles-across structures in space isn't challenging enough, special interests, from technophobes to eco-extremists to radio astronomers, want to stop the project. And the remaining petro powers will do anything to protect their newfound dominance of world affairs.

NASA engineer Marcus Judson is determined to make the powersat demonstration project a success. And he will-even though nothing in his job description mentions combating an international cabal, or going into space to do it.




American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-56 

This is the first of two volumes of American science fiction that will be coming out in a handsome hardcover this September.

This volume includes:
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson

Friday, 1 June 2012

Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Coming in July 2012

As usual, this list is compiled from the Indigo website.  The Carina ebooks are the only ones I mention, as their site has release dates (I'm keeping track of some other sites, which mention upcoming books but not dates as of yet).  My apologies for any books missing (there's always something).  Mention them in comments if you know any that were left off this list.  And please remember that this list reflects Canadian release dates.


Hardcover:

Iron Gray Sea – Taylor Anderson
Thirteen – Kelley Armstrong
Myth-Fortunes – Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye
Queen's Hunt – Beth Bernobich
Orion and King Arthur – Ben Bove
Earth Unaware – Orson Scott Card
The Strangers Magic – Max Frei
The Thousand Emperors – Gary Gibson
Heaven's War – David Goyer
Blood of the Emperor – Tracy Hickman
Thieftaker – D. B. Jackson
Energized – Edward Lerner
Lovecraft Library Vol 2: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Mythos Tales – H. P. Lovecraft
Reaper – K. D. McEntire
The World of Poo – Terry Pratchett
Elfhome – Wen Spencer
The Apocalypse Codex – Charles Stross
Advent – James Treadwell
The Coldest War – Ian Tregillis
Coup D'Etat – Harry Turtledove
War Maid's Choice – David Weber

Trade Paperback:

Other Worlds Than These – John Joseph Adams. Ed.
Werewolves – Kelley Armstrong (omnibus edition includes Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings)
Adamtine – Hannah Berry
Wake of the Bloody Angel – Alex Bledsoe
The Wanderers – Paula Brandon
The Hollow Earth: At the Earth's Core & Pellucidar – Edgar Rice Burroughs (reprint)
Flow My Tears, The Police Man Said – Philip K. Dick (reprint)
Gather Yourselves Together – Philip K. Dick (reprint)
The Cosmic Puppets – Philip K. Dick (reprint)
Poison Belt – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Circle – Sara Elfgren
A Guile of Dragons – James Enge
Lord Tyger – Philip Jose Farmer
The Stranger's Woes – Max Frei
Final Days – Gary Gibson
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2012 – Paula Guran, Ed.
Glimmering – Elizabeth Hand
Secrets of the Wolves – Dorothy Hearst
Assignment in Eternity – Robert Heinlein (reprint)
The Legend of Jig Dragonslayer – Jim Hines (omnibus edition)
Report From Planet Midnight – Nalo Hopkinson
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2012 – Rich Horton, Ed.
The Dragon Reborn – Robert Jordan (reprint)
Aloha From Hell – Richard Kadrey
Aleron – Kane
The Unincorporated Woman – Dani Kollin & Eytan Kollin
Technomancer – B. V. Larson
Tempting the Gods: Selected Stories of Tanith Lee – Tanith Lee
The Immortality Engine – George Mann
Darksiders: The Abomination Vault – Ari Marmell
The Time Engine – Sean McMullen
The Legend of Sigmar – Graham McNeill (omnibus edition)
Star Wars: Lost Tribes of the Sith – John Jackson Miller (collected ebook stories)
Tin Swift: The Age of Steal – Devon Monk
House of Shadows – Rachel Neumeier
Spin the Sky – Katy Stauber
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities – Ann & Jeff Vandermeer
The Soul Consortium – Simon West-Bulford
The Emperor's Knife – Mazarkis Williams
Daylight On Iron Mountain – David Wingrove

Mass Market Paperback:

Gunmetal Magic – Ilona Andrews
vN – Madeline Ashby
The Measure of the Magic – Terry Brooks
Stands a Shadow – Col Buchanan
Wings of Creation – Brenda Cooper
Exile – Rowena Cory Daniells
Shadows Before the Sun – Kelly Gay
Burden of Proof – John Hemry (aka Jack Campbell)
Citadels of the Lost – Tracy Hickman
Darklands – Nancy Holzner
Fighting Fantasy: Curse of the Mummy – Steve Jackson
Carry the Flame – James Jaros
An Officer's Duty – Jean Johnson
Dragon Rule – E. E. Knight
Imperium – Keith Laumer
Prince of Thorns – Mark Lawrence
Ghost Ship – Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Star Trek: Titan: Falling Gods – Michael Martin
Chimera – T. C. McCarthy
Sin's Dark Caress – Tracey O'Hara
Snuff – Terry Pratchett
Grave Memory – Kalayna Price
Downpour – Kat Richardson
Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues – Diana Rowland
Forgotten Realms: Neverwinter – R. A. Salvatore
The Gilded Rune – Lisa Smedman
The Crown of the Usurper – Gav Thorpe
Blood and Silver – James Tuck
Kitty Steals the Show – Carrie Vaughn
How Firm a Foundation – David Weber

Carina E-books:

Eliza's Awakening – Zaide Bishop
Liar's Game – Kait Gamble
The Ravenous Dead – Natasha Hoar
Rogue's Pawn – Jeffe Kennedy
Monster in my Closet – R. L. Naquin

YA Fiction:

Mayhem – Artist Arthur
Texas Gothic – Rosemary Clement-Moore
Wolfsbane – Andrea Cremer
Original Sin – Lisa Desrochers
Relic Master: The Hidden Coronet – Catherine Fisher
Alex Van Helsing: Triumph of Death – Jason Henderson
Wildfire – Karsten Knight
Conspiracies – Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill
Exile – Rebecca Lim
Luminous – Dawn Metcalf
The Eternal Ones – Kirsten Miller
Undercurrent – Tricia Rayburn
Fat Vampire – Adam Rex
Eternal – Gillian Shields
Forever – Maggie Stiefvater