Springing Forward 2007: Fiction/Science Fiction & Fantasy
Edited by Dick Donahue and Lauren Joyce -- Publishers Weekly, 1/22/2007
ACE
All Together Dead (May, $24.95) by Charlaine Harris. The seventh Sookie Stackhouse mystery features a mind reader who befriends vampires and werewolves.
Galactic North (June, $24.95) by Alastair Reynolds collects eight novellas and short stories set in the turbulent Revelation Space universe.
BERKLEY
Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy (May, $25), edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, compiles previously unpublished stories by Neil Gaiman, Eoin Colfer, Garth Nix et al.
BL PUBLISHING (dist. by S&S)
Brothers of the Snake (July, $19.99) by Dan Abnett follows the exploits of 41st-century Iron Snake Space Marines as they battle enemies of man.
DAW
Shadowplay: Shadowmarch, Vol. II (Mar., $26.95) by Tad Williams continues the epic fantasy trilogy after a 10-year lapse.
The Name of the Wind (Apr., $24.95) by Patrick Rothfuss centers around a young man who becomes the most notorious magician known to his world.
DEL REY
Un Lun Dun (Mar., $17.95) by China Miéville. A 12-year-old London girl finds her way into an alternate funhouse version of her home city. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Death's Head (May, $24.95) by David Gunn. Sven Tveskoeg finds himself in the midst of a military disaster when he is sent to a bleak, faraway planet. Ad/promo.
Star Wars: Legacy of the Force—Sacrifice (May, $25.95) by Karen Traviss is the fifth and pivotal novel of the nine-book Legacy of the Force series.Ad/promo.
EOS
For a Few Demons More (Mar., $21.95) by Kim Harrison. Sexy Cincinnati, Ohio, witch Rachel Morgan returns in the author's hardcover debut. 150,000 first printing.
The Serpent Bride (May, $26.95) by Sara Douglass inaugurates the epic fantasy Darkglass Mountain trilogy. 50,000 first printing.
GOLDEN GRYPHON
(dist. by IPG)
Harvest of Changeling (May, $24.95) by Warren Rochelle spins a fantasy about people who are different—physically, mentally and in their choice of lifestyle.
A Thousand Deaths (June, $24.95) by George Alec Effinger collects SF thrillers starring the semiautobiographical character Sandor Courane.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
The Children of Hurin (Apr., $26) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, illustrated by Alan Lee. The first complete Tolkien book in three decades reunites fans of Middle-earth with Elves and Men, Dragons and Dwarves, Eagles and Orcs.
LUNA
Fortune's Fool (Mar., $24.95) by Mercedes Lackey. The daughter of the King of the Sea is sent on a spy mission since she is the only family member who can walk on land.
NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS
The Nail and the Oracle, Vol. XI: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (July, $35) contains stories written between 1960 and 1969.
ORBIT UK (dist. by Trafalgar Sq./IPG)
Barking (May, $22.95) by Tom Holt is a comic fantasy featuring lawyers, zombies and snow-white unicorns.
PYR
Bright of the Sky: Book One of the Entire and the Rose (Apr., $25) by Kay Kenyon features a former star pilot who returns to the Entire, a parallel universe, in search of his wife and daughter.
ROC
White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files (Apr., $23.95) by Jim Butcher is the latest installment of the detective-fantasy series starring Harry Dresden.
Valentine's Resolve: A Novel of the Vampire Earth (July, $23.95) by E.E. Knight. In this saga's sixth installment, David Valentine returns to battle after three years of exile from the war against the Kurians.
TOR
The Last Colony (May, $23.95) by John Scalzi concludes the trilogy that began with Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades and features John Perry in a human colony on distant Huckleberry. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Slan Hunter (July, $24.95) by Kevin J. Anderson and A.E. von Vogt. In this sequel to Slan, the eponymous race of superior mutants becomes involved in a new war. Ad/promo.
Sandworms of Dune (Aug., $27.95) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. The conclusion to the Dune series is based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline. 250,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
VIKING
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon (Aug., $25.95) by Diana Paxson expands Bradley's classic Avalon series with this prequel to The Forest House.
WESLEYAN UNIV. PRESS
The Kip Brothers (Mar., $29.95) by Jules Verne, trans. by Stanford L. Luce, edited by Arthur B. Evans. Karl and Pieter Kip, castaways on a barren South Sea island, are rescued by a passing ship and implicated in a murder.
WIZARDS OF THE COAST
Dragons of the Highlord Skies: The Lost Chronicles Vol. II (July, $29.95) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman mines the authors' Dragonlance series for a fresh look at the original heroes and villains.
