Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ace Trade; Reprint edition (August 6, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425258483 Official Description: The author of the “diabolically clever”* A Matter of Blood returns with another gritty supernatural thriller featuring hard-boiled homicide detective Cass Jones… A devastating terrorist attack has crippled London. To find a perpetrator who is more than human, Special Branch […]
Madeline Ashby‘s iD, the 2nd novel in her Machine Dynasty series, follows a self-replicating robot named Javier on his quest to right a horrible wrong against the woman he loves. During his bizarre journey of discovery and danger, he reflects on the nature of sexuality, free will, and his own culpability for the harm visited […]
Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Roc Trade (August 6, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451465113 Official Description: Remy Chandler, angel private investigator, is trying his damnedest to lead a normal life in a world on the verge of supernatural change. He’s found a new love—a woman his dog, Marlowe, approves of—and his best human friend is reluctantly coming to […]
Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Ace (July 30, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425256502 Official Description: Her story began in the national bestsellers A Soldier’s Duty and An Officer’s Duty. Now Ia is captain and commander at the helm of Hellfire, where she is finally free to chart the course for the fulfillment of her destiny… As […]
Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Roc (August 6, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451465156 Official Description: Already addicted to the pharmaceutical drug that keeps her body from decomposing, Bryn has to stop a secretive group of rich and powerful investors from eliminating the existing Returné addicts altogether. To ensure their plan to launch a new, military-grade strain […]
Beyond the Sun, the science fiction anthology edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, collects the stories of an eclectic group of authors. Eighteen writers contributed stories addressing the question, what lies beyond the sun? They answered that question with stories told by different species and genders, and their answers are as varied as the authors themselves. […]
Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Berkley Hardcover (August 6, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425263436 Official Description: Vampire queen Betsy “don’t call me Elizabeth” Taylor is back—and there’s going to be Hell to pay—in MaryJanice Davidson’s “one of a kind” (Darque Reviews) New York Times bestselling series… It’s no surprise to Betsy that her trip to Hell with her […]
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Ace (July 30, 2013) ISBN-10: 1937007588 Official Description: Atlanta is a city plagued by magical problems. Kate Daniels will fight to solve them—no matter the cost. Mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate, Curran, the Beast Lord, are struggling to solve a heartbreaking crisis. Unable to control their beasts, many […]
Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Ace (July 30, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425261069 Official Description: In one world, they’re ordinary university students. In another world, they are a company of heroes in a place of magic and myth called Anfractus… The Cree called the area Oscana, “pile of bones,” a fertile hunting ground where game abounded. […]
Hardcover: 592 pages Publisher: Ace Hardcover; 1 edition (July 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 042526769 Official Description: From “a new master storyteller” comes the beginning of an epic fantasy saga of blood, honor, and destiny… “The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm.” Vaelin Al Sorna was […]
Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover; 1 edition (July 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 045146513X Official Description: In Taylor Anderson’s acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds an extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II, as Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of USS Walker, cast into that alternate earth, continue to fight the […]
Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover (August 6, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451465121 Official Description: Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker, treading the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of […]
Beyond the mighty Opal mountains and the civilized worlds of the kingdoms of Koenigswald and Juddua, lies the Half-Made World, where reality is still fluid, and in the uttermost west, turns toward formlessness and lack of definition. Here, two arcane powers, the technological remorseless of The Line, and the chaotic nature of The Gun, compete […]
You may have noticed that I’ve tweaked my Functional Nerds bio because as of earlier this month, I have been “subsisting on Red Eyes and gallows humor for forty years.” That’s right. I’m a 40-year-old nerd, and I’m proud of it! You might not be able to immediately glean that from my outward appearance because […]
Hardcover: 528 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover; 1 edition (July 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451465105 Official Description: Enter an epic fantasy world that echoes with the thunder of muskets and the clang of steel—but where the real battle is against a subtle and sinister magic…. Captain Marcus d’Ivoire, commander of one of the Vordanai empire’s colonial garrisons, […]
In the humorous adventure novel, The Shambling Guide to New York City, Mur Lafferty (@mightymur) shows us that the publishing business can be murder. Zoë is an accomplished writer, fleeing a scandal in her hometown to make a new life for herself in New York City. However, when she takes a job as managing editor […]
Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Roc Trade (July 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451418603 Official Description: In steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and magic battle to claim the same scrap of earth and sky. In this madness, one man struggles to keep his humanity, his honor, and his hell-bent mission intact…. Bounty hunter and lycanthrope Cedar Hunt […]
Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Paizo Publishing, LLC. (July 9, 2013) ISBN-10: 1601255306 Official Description: In the war-torn lands of Molthune and Nirmathas, where rebels fight an endless war of secession against an oppressive military government, the constant fighting can make for strange alliances. Such is the case for the man known only as the Masked, […]
Paperback: 296 pages Publisher: Fairwood Press, Inc; 1st edition (August 1, 2013) ISBN-10: 1933846380 Official Description: Colonists take to the stars to discover new planets, new sentient beings, and build new lives for themselves and their families. Some travel years to find their destination, while others travel a year or less. Some discover a planet […]
Apologies to all for the unintentional month-long hiatus–wait, what? Two months? Wow, damn. Sorry about that. Well I’m back, so let’s dive right in! In the last article, I referenced masterless samurai. Not a new concept in film and television, but there’s a sub-class of this loner-type hero I want to look at which I’ll […]
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