SF/Fantasy/Horror Notes
Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 6/16/2003
July PublicationsJ. Adrian Lee fans will welcome Sword of King James, the third entry in the author's time-travel series set in 18th-century Scotland (after 2002's Outlaw Sword). Dylan Matheson, the everyman pulled into the past by faerie magic, must contend with not only hostile English troops but with Morrighan, the Celtic goddess of war, in this romance-heavy fantasy. (Ace, $14 paper 336p ISBN 0-441-01059-8)
The Steerswoman's Road, by Rosemary Kirstein, combines The Steerswoman (1989) and The Outskirter's Secret (1992), two beloved fantasy novels featuring steerswoman Rowan and swordswoman Bel. A sequel, The Lost Steersman, is due in September. (Del Rey, $15.95 paper 624p ISBN 0-345-36885-1)
Fantasist Gary A. Braunbeck (This Flesh Unknown) has prepared definitive texts for his Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories, Volume 1, whose contents chronicle the supernatural doings in a seemingly ordinary Ohio town. Deena Holland provides the wraparound jacket art as well as more than two dozen interior illustrations. (Earthling [www.earthlingpub.com], $40 400p ISBN 0-9721518-2-6)
