Speculative Fiction Stars 2012
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror stars
January
- City of the Lost
Author: Blackmoore, Stephen
$ 15 ISBN: 9780756407025 Date: 2012
Kirkus
Joe Sunday has been a Los Angeles low-life for years, but his life gets a whole lot lower when he is killed by the rival of his crime boss-only to return as a zombie. His only hope is to find and steal a talisman that he learns can grant immortality. But, unfortunately for Joe, every other undead thug and crime boss in Los Angeles is looking for the same thing.
Updated 1.14.12
- The Demon Lover
Author: Dark, Juliet
$ 15 ISBN: 9780345510082 Date: 2012
Booklist
Callie has a demon lover--an incubus--and he will seduce her, pleasure her, and eventually suck the very life from her. Then she makes another startling discovery. As the tenured witches of the college and the resident fairies in the surrounding woods prepare to cast out the incubus, Callie must accomplish something infinitely more difficult--banishing this demon lover from her heart.
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- In the Lion's Mouth
Author: Flynn, Michael
$ 25.99 ISBN: 9780765322852 Date: 2012
PW
The third volume of the sprawling space opera series that began with The January Dancer and Up Jim River
Updated 11.21.11
- Seven Princes
Author: Fultz, John R.
$ 15.99 ISBN: 9780316187862 Date: 2012
LJ
An ancient sorcerer threatens the balance of the Five Kingdoms. He arrives, unannounced, to slaughter the court of the King of Yaskatha. Only Prince D'zan and his bodyguard survive the horrors as the dead walk and the blood runs. Now, D'zan must call upon his father's allies to reclaim his throne.
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- Sisterhood of Dune
Author: Herbert, Brian
$ 27.99 ISBN: 9780765322739 Date: 2012
LJ
The latest chapter in the New York Times-bestselling series. It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took the name of Corrino and established himself as the first Emperor of a new imperium. Great changes are brewing that will shape and twist all of humankind.
Updated 1.14.12 - Expeditions to the Mountains of the Moon
Author: Hodder, Mark
$ 16 ISBN: 9781616145354 Date: 2012
Kirkus
Burton and Swinburne's third adventure is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and bizarre events completing the trilogy begun in the Philip K. Dick Award-nominated novel, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack.
Updated 1.14.12 - Somewhere Beneath the Waves
Author: Monette, Sarah
$ 14.95 ISBN: 9781607013051 Date: 2012
PW
The first non-themed collection of critically acclaimed author Sarah Monette''s best short fiction. To paraphrase Hugo-award winner Elizabeth Bear's introduction: "Monette's prose is lapidary, her ideas are fantastical and chilling. She has studied the craft of fantastic fiction from the pens of masters and mistresses of the genre. She is a poet of the awkward and the uncertain, exalter of the outcast, the outre, and the downright weird. There is nothing else quite like Sarah Monette's fiction."
Updated 11.8.11
- The Rook
Author: O'Malley, Daniel
$ 26 ISBN: 9780316098793 Date: 2012
LJ
PW
"The body you are wearing used to be mine." So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track down the agents who want to destroy her.
Updated 11.4.11 - The Demi-Monde: Winter
Author: Rees, Rod
$27 ISBN: 9780062070340 Date: 2011
LJ
The Demi-Monde: Winter is the first installment in a gripping, brilliantly imagined series about a virtual world dominated by history's most terrifying villains, and the one young woman who will risk everything to stop them.
Updated 11.4.11
February
- Throne of the Crescent Moon
Author:Ahmed, Saladin
$ 24.95 ISBN: 9780756407117 Date: 2012
Kirkus
LJ
PW
The Crescent Moon Kingdoms are populated by Djenn and Ghuls, opulent wealth and grinding poverty. In this world, three heroes are drawn together by a series of brutal supernatural massacres. The companions soon learn that the magical murders and political upheaval are connected.
Updated 1.14.12
- The Scar
Author: Dyanchenko, Sergey
$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780765329936 Date: 2012
Kirkus
Reaching far beyond sword and sorcery, "The Scar "is a story of two people torn by disaster, their descent into despair, and their reemergence through love and courage. Sergey and Marina Dyachenko mix dramatic scenes with romance, action and wit, in a style both direct and lyrical. Written with a sure artistic hand, "The Scar "is the story of a man driven by his own feverish demons to find redemption and the woman who just might save him.
Egert is a brash, confident member of the elite guards and an egotistical philanderer. But after he kills an innocent student in a duel, a mysterious man known as "The Wanderer" challenges Egert and slashes his face with his sword, leaving Egert with a scar that comes to symbolize his cowardice. Unable to end his suffering by his own hand, Egert embarks on an odyssey to undo the curse and the horrible damage he has caused, which can only be repaired by a painful journey down a long and harrowing path.
- Publisher Maeketing
Updated 1.14.12
- Nice Girls Don't Bite
Author: Harper, Molly
$ 7.99 ISBN: 9781451641813 Date: 2012
PW
The fourth book in the sexy, "hilariously fun" (Romantic Times Top Pick) romantic comedy series about a children's librarian turned vampire--perfect for fans of Katie Macalister and MaryJanice Davidson.
Updated 1.14.12 - The Man from Primrose Lane
Author: Rennern, James
$ 26 ISBN: 9780374200954 Date: 2012
PW
With a deft and singular blend of suspense, literature, and horror, The Man from Primrose Lane boasts as many twists and turns as a roller coaster. It's a spellbinding journey of redemption and a reflection on the roles of fate, destiny, and obsession when it comes to matters of the heart.
Updated 1.14.12
March
- Jane Vows Vengeance
Author: Ford, Michael Thomas
$ 15 ISBN: 9780345513670 Date: 2012
PW
How will Jane Austen break the news to her fianc that she's not only undead, but also a 200-plus-year-old literary icon? In sleepy upstate New York, Jane's wedding preparations have taken on a bloodsucking intensity. So when Walter suggests they combine their marriage and honeymoon with a house tour of Europe, Jane jumps at the chance. But to Jane's chagrin, more than one secret from her past is about to resurface.
Updated 1.16.12
- The Drowning Girl
Author: Kiernan, Caitlin R.
$ 16 ISBN: 9780451464163 Date: 2012
PW
India Morgan Phelps-Imp to her friends-is schizophrenic. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about her encounters with creatures out of myth-or from something far, far stranger...
Updated 1.16.12 - The Games
Author: Kosmatka, Ted
$ 25 ISBN: 9780345526618 Date: 2012
PW
This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than readers think.
Updated 1.16.12
- The Company of the Dead
Author: Kowalski, David
$ 15.95 ISBN: 9780857686664 Date: 2012
LJ
A mysterious man appears aboard the Titanic on its doomed voyage. His mission? To save the ship. The result? A world where the United States never entered World War I, thus launching the secret history of the 20th century.
Updated 1.14.12
- Crucible of Gold
Author: Novik, Naomi
$25 ISBN: 9780345522863 Date: 2012
PW
Novik's beloved series returns, with Capt. Will Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire once again taking to the air against the broadsides of Napoleon's forces and the friendly--and sometimes not-so-friendly--fire of British soldiers and politicians who continue to suspect them of divided loyalties, if not outright treason.
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