Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Coming in December 2014

As usual, this list was compiled from Amazon Canada's listings for the month.  I'd like to point out that Jim C. Hines has published in ebook format an annotated version of the first novel he ever wrote, Rise of the Spider Goddess.  There aren't that many reprints this month compared to the last few, but again we're seeing a rise in trade paperback and ebook formats and a real lessening in the number of mass market books coming out.

Hardcover:

Books of the Dead – Annmarie Banks

Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction – Ben Bova & Eric Choi

Elite: Wanted – Gavin Deas

Andromeda’s War – William Dietz

Star Trek: Ships of the Line – Doug Drexler & Margaret Clark

The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison – Harlan Ellison

Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman – Christopher Golden, Hank Wagner & Stephen Bissette

The Magician’s Land – Lev Grossman

Return of the Plumed Serpent – Graham Hancock

Spirit of the Wolves – Dorothy Hearst

The King’s Deryni – Katherine Kurtz

Collision – Mercedes Lackey, Dennis Lee, Veronica Giguere & Cody Martin

A Timely Dream – Fleur Lind & Lloyd Hopkins

Emissary – Thomas Locke

The Strange Library – Haruki Murakami

Beauty – Sarah Pinborough

Charm – Sarah Pinborough

Nobody’s Home – Tim Powers

Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel

The Immortals of Meluha – Amish Tripathi

Sustenance – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Trade Paperback:

Time Bomb – Scott Andrews

Undercity – Catherine Asaro

Proxima – Stephen Baxter

Gods and Monsters: Mythbreaker – Stephen Blackmoore

Elysium – Jennifer Marie Brissett

Phoenix Island – John Dixon

The Observers – Chuck Downing

Tony Macaroni – Mark Elliot

Warhammer 40K: Ahriman: Sorcerer – John French

Blackthorn – Simon Hawk

Legacy of a Warrior Queen – Maria Herring

The Future is Ours – Edward Hoch

The Beating of His Wings – Paul Hoffman

Worlds in Chaos – James Hogan

Atlas 2 – Isaac Hooke

The Awakened Kingdom – N. K. Jemisin

The Inheritance Trilogy Omnibus – N. K. Jemisin

The Lady – K. V. Johnsen

21st Century Robot: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories – Brian David Johnson 

Imaginarium 2014: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing – Sandra Kasturi & Helen Marshall

The Stag Lord – Darby Kaye

The Twelve Kingdoms – Jeffe Kennedy

Warhammer: Bane of Malekith – William King

The Maggot People – Henning Koch

Moth and Spark – Anne Leonard

Moon’s Artifice – Tom Lloyd

The James Lovegrove Collection vol 1 – James Lovegrove

The Genome – Sergei Lukyanenko

The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women – Alex Daily MacFarlane

The Vault – Emily McKay

The Occasional Diamond Thief – J. A. McLachlan

Phoenix in Obsidian – Michael Moorcock

On Her Majesty’s Behalf – Joseph Nassise

Retribution – Mark Charon Newton

The Wanderer’s Children – L. G. O’Connor

Dangerous Games – Jonathan Oliver

The Rose Cord – J. D. Oswald

City of Eternal Night – Kristen Painter

Myth and Magic: Queer Fairy Tales – Radclyffe & Stacia Seaman, Ed.

The Fortress in Orion – Mike Resnick

Into the Night – Suzanne Rigdon

The Wild West Exodus Anthology – Brandon Rospond, Ed.

Incident in Mona Passage – Douglas Savage

The Glass Lady – Douglas Savage

Infection and Containment: Alaskan Undead Apocalypse Books 1 & 2 – Sean Shubert

The Beautiful and the Wicked – Liv Spector

Paradigms Lost – Ryk Spoor

The Heads of Cerberus – Francis Stevens

A Man Lies Dreaming – Lavie Tidhar

Something More Than Night – Ian Tregillis

Prototype – M. D. Walters

Chaos Quarter – David Welch

Crystal Venum – Steve Wheeler

Journey Through the Mirror – T. R. Williams

Agony of the Gods – Tom Wolosz

Mass Market Paperback:

For a Few Souls More – Guy Adams

Darkness Fall – Keri Arthur

Working God’s Mischief – Glen Cook

The Queen’s Necklace – Teresa Edgerton

The Tess Noncoire Chronicles – P. R. Frost

Hot BLooded – Donna Grant

Forgotten Realms: The Herald – Ed Greenwood

Work Done for Hire – Joe Haldeman

Jason – Laurell Hamilton

Vacant – Alex Hughes

Revenant – Larissa Ione

Pathfinder Tales: Pirate’s Promise – Chris Jackson

Universal Alien – Gini Koch

No True Way – Mercedes Lackey

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Missing – Una McCormack

Reg Regis – L. E. Modesitt, Jr

Macaque Attack! – Gareth Powell

The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs – Mike Resnick & Robert Garcia, Ed.

Spheres of Influence – Ryk Spoor

V-S Day – Allen Steele

The Shadow’s Heart – K. J. Taylor

Halo: Mortal Dictata – Karen Traviss

Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart – Harry Turtledove

Low Midnight – Carrie Vaughn

Hunter of Sherwood – Toby Venables

Like a Mighty Army – David Weber

ebook:

The Fall – Jay Allan

Alacrity – Alivia Anders

Star Chasers: Torn, Turn, Shattered – Emily Asimov

Under Different Stars – Amy Bartol

Rage of the Diamond’s Eye – Shawn Becker

Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: The Collectors – Christopher Bennett

The War of Alien Aggression – A. D. Bloom

Will – S. F. Burgess

eMOTION: False Positive – C. Ryan Bymaster

eMOTION: Hard Wired – C. Ryan Bymaster

Hard Vacuum 2 – Simon Cantan

Anamore – Jason Cooke & Tracey Cooke

Hellsbane Hereafter – Paige Cuccaro

Gateway to Prophecy – Duane D’Vein

Empathy for Andrew – W. J. Davies

Heroes Wanted – Allen Donnelly

Spellbound Souvenir – Beth Durkee

The Complete Zimiamvia – E. R. Eddison & Douglas Winter

Blades of Sorcery – Terah Edun

Fantasy For Good: A Charitable Anthology – Jordan Ellinger & Richard Salter, Ed.

Naero’s Trial – Mason Elliott

The Creator’s Eye – R. N. Feldman

Eradicate – Corrie Garrett

Dilesios – Thomas Greanias

Dungeon Breakers – James Ivan Greco

Journey of Thieves – C. Greenwood

The ABACUS Protocol – Thea Gregory

Azimuth: Arc of Visibility – Elayne Griffith

Portals of Water and Wine – R. L. Haas

Tides of Maritinia – Warren Hammond

A Girl Called Random – Valentina Hepburn

Rise of the Spider Goddess: An Annotated Novel – Jim Hines

Living in Illusions – John Hope

The Lamtin Star – Larry Itejere

Mention My Name in Atlantis – John Jakes

The Lost Word of Khymera – Theresa James

Talon – C. J. Johnson

The Embers of Hope – Nick Jones

The City of the Moon – Walter Junior

Defect – Autumn Kalquist

Lady Macbeth: Daughter of Ravens – Melanie Karsak

The Fey Man – James Kelly

Slay Ride – Simon Kewin

Court of Nightfall – Karpov Kinrade

3000 Years After New Earth – Petar Kostadinov

Artificial Evolution – Joseph Lallo

The Gifted – Tamra Lassiter

Outskirts of Vision – Nir Levie

The Darkness Shines – Kieran Lowley

The Thief Who Knocked on Sorrow’s Gate – Michael McClung

The Last Prince – Kristy McCluskey

Solaris Seethes – Janet McNulty

Away Your Forfeit Life – A. K. Meek

Frend – Jonathan Miller

Erawan – Laura Montgomery

The Hades Contract – Ken Mooney

The Third Word – J. C. Nathans

The Sacrifice – A. J. Nuest

The Wanderer’s Children – L. G. O’Connor

Caretaker – John O’Riley 

Stonehill Downs – Sarah Remy

Mind the Gap – Tim Richards

The Adventures of Tarin Kowt – D. Ethan Richards

Emissary – Chris Rogers

A Land Overflowing – Peter Schnake

Soulwoven: Exile – Jeff Seymour

Latent Magic – Kate Shaw

Scrapplings – Amelia Smith

Tingermage – Kenny Soward

The Ghost of Sephera – J. D. Tew

A Passage to Asteria – Charles Underwood

Compile: Quest – Ronel van Tonder

List of the Dead – R. Curtis Venture

Frotwoot’s Faerie Tales – Charlie Ward

Heart of the South – C. J. Watterson

Mariposa – Kim Wells

Thunderlight – Adrienne Woods

Los Angeles: A. D. 2017 – Philip Wylie

The Murderer Invisible – Philip Wylie

Between Worlds Right Now – Chryse Wymer