2012 Upcoming Releases-Fantasy & Horror

Found another good source for upcoming releases: This is from Sci-Fi Fan Letter - Jessica Strider does a nice job keeping her pulse on upcoming releases.

April 2012 Releases:

Hardcover:
Angels of Vengeance – John Birmingham
The Abolition of Species – Dietmar Dath
The Road of Danger – David Drake
Immobility – Brian Evenson
Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess – Phil Foglio
The Rest is Silence – Scott Fotheringham
Wicked City – Alaya Johnson
Glamour in Glass – Mary Robinette Kowal
Shadow Blizzard – Alexey Pehov
Triggers – Robert Sawyer
The Shape of Desire – Sharon Shinn
Banner of the Damned – Sherwood Smith


Trade Paperback:
The Beginning – Robert Asprin
The Straights of Galahesh – Bradley Beaulieu
Star Trek: Orion's Hounds – Christopher Bennett
Passion Play – Beth Bernobich
2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America – Albert Brooks
Montefiore's Goddaughter – Elizabeth Brooks
Tiassa – Steven Brust
Forgotten Realms: War of the Spider Queen Omnibus – Richard Lee Byers
The Burning Man – Mark Chadbourn
The Scar-Crow Men – Mark Chadbourn
Ride the Star Winds – A. Bertram Chandler
THe Not Yet – Moira Crone
A Turn of Light – Julie Czerneda
Blue Magic – A. M. Dellamonica
A Counter-Clock World – Philip Dick
Ubik – Philip Dick
Warhammer 40K: Architect of Fate – Christian Dunn
Acadia – David Anthony Durham
The Other Lands – David Anthony Durham
The Sacred Band – David Anthony Durham
Pax Omega – Al Ewing
The Messiah Game – Tom Flynn
Dog and Dragon – Dave Freer
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Planet X – Michael Jan Friedman
Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare – Jason Fry
Ison of the Isles – Carolyn Ives Gilman
Lance of Earth and Sky – Erin Hoffman
Jack Cloudie – Stephen Hunt
Vengeance – Ian Irvine
Royal Street – Suzanne Johnson
Moon Music – Faye Kellerman
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall – Nancy Kress
Fountain of Age: Stories – Nancy Kress
The Night Sessions – Ken MacLeod
Sword & Blood – Sarah Marques
Fort Freak – George R. R. Martin, Ed.
Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron – Kim Newman
Store of the Worlds – Robert Sheckley
A Song Called Youth – John Shirley
Lost Everything – Brian Francis Slattery
The Mongoliad – Neal Stephenson
Caine's Law – Matthew Stover
Star Trek: Sword of Damocles – Geoffrey Thorne
Advent – James Treadwell
Children of the Sky – Vernor Vinge
Night Angel Omnibus – Brent Weeks
Order In Chaos – Jack Whyte
Robopocalypse – Daniel Wilson
Westlake Soul – Rio Youers


Mass Market Paperback:
Devil's Punch – Ann Aguirre
The High Crusade – Poul Anderson
The Eye of the Chained God – Don Bassingthwaite
Lies and Omens – Lyn Benedict
Star Trek: Forgotten History – Christopher Bennett
Summoning the Night – Jenn Bennett
The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
Dreadnaught – Jack Campbell
The Rogue – Trudi Canavan
Hard Magic – Larry Correia
Void Stalker – Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Plague Town – Dana Fredsti
Star Wars: Scourge – Jeff Grubb
Champion of Mars – Guy Haley
The Impossible Cube – Steven Harper
The Kingdom of Gods – N. K. Jemisin
Alien Diplomacy – Gini Koch
Magic Without Mercy – Devon Monk
The Shining CIty – Fiona Patton
The Hot Gate – John Ringo
Wonder – Robert Sawyer
Pack – Jason Starr
Hex – Allen Steele
Bitter Seeds – Ian Tregillis
Pod – Stephen Wallenfels
On the Prowl – Christine Warren
Dead Winter – C. L. Werner
Extremis – Steve White
Helix War Omnibus – Edward Willett
Except the Queen – Jane Yolen


Ebooks (Carina Press)
Curel Numbers – Christopher Beats
Darkest Caress – Kaylea Cross
Desert Blade – Ella Drake
Zero Gravity Outcasts – Kay Keppler


YA
The Green Man – Michael Bedard
Black Heart – Holly Black
Zombies vs Unicorns – Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier, Ed.
Eona – Alison Goodman
The Chaos – Nalo Hopkinson
Shadows on the Moon – Zoe Marriott
Vodnik – Bryce Moore
Ripper – Amy Carol Reeves
 
In a thread elsewhere, Jussi posted this link to Orion's upcoming catalog (i.e. later this year). In it are listed the next works by Abercrombie (yes, it states it will feature Logen Ninefingers) and Lynch.

Does anyone here know if Lynch is really going to be out (at least in the UK) this year?

Also looking forward to the conclusion of Tom Lloyd's series. It is a series that I have found to be much better than most criticism has portrayed it.
 
I must be getting miserable; I want one book from that catalogue - Times of Contempt by Sapkowski.
 
PeterWilliam said:
In a thread elsewhere, Jussi posted this link to Orion's upcoming catalog (i.e. later this year). In it are listed the next works by Abercrombie (yes, it states it will feature Logen Ninefingers) and Lynch.

Does anyone here know if Lynch is really going to be out (at least in the UK) this year?

Also looking forward to the conclusion of Tom Lloyd's series. It is a series that I have found to be much better than most criticism has portrayed it.
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Lynch's website says 2012 as well, which is the first time we've see a date on there, I'm pretty sure. So hopefully it's true.
 
This has been mentioned before, but Michael Sullivan's Theft of Swords omnibus has just been released in audio format. I'm downloading it from Audible even as I type. :)
 
Contrarius said:
This has been mentioned before, but Michael Sullivan's Theft of Swords omnibus has just been released in audio format. I'm downloading it from Audible even as I type. :)
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Oh yeah - I totally forgot about mentioning that - it got released a few days ago but was still populating through the various links like Amazon and Audible. I of course downloaded it right away. All in all I'm very pleased with the way it came out.
 
And speaking of audio releases --

The most recent two books in the Felix Castor series by Mike Carey -- Thicker Than Water (#4) and The Naming of the Beasts (#5) -- have just been released in audio. I have been waiting verrrrrrrry impatiently for these, and I had no idea they were about to be released, so I'm a happy camper right now.

Support your friendly neighborhood exorcist! Okay, so he's not really friendly, and he's probably not in your neighborhood, and he doesn't really do quite what you'd expect an exorcist to do.....but support him anyway!
 
sullivan_riyria said:
Oh yeah - I totally forgot about mentioning that - it got released a few days ago but was still populating through the various links like Amazon and Audible. I of course downloaded it right away. All in all I'm very pleased with the way it came out.
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Any idea when Heir of Novron is going to be released on audible.com? I am currently about 1/3 the way through Rise of Empire on my kindle and I think it would be fun to check out the series in audio format. Thanks.
 
Khale said:
Any idea when Heir of Novron is going to be released on audible.com? I am currently about 1/3 the way through Rise of Empire on my kindle and I think it would be fun to check out the series in audio format. Thanks.
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The dates that were told to me are:

3/1/2012 - Theft of Swords
6/1/2012 - Rise of Empire
9/1/2012 - Heir of Novron

But Theft of Swords actually went live on about the 16th - whether the other ones will be similarly delayed I don't know. I do know Rise is being worked on as they asked for clarifications on pronounciation a few weeks ago.
 
sullivan_riyria said:
The dates that were told to me are:

3/1/2012 - Theft of Swords
6/1/2012 - Rise of Empire
9/1/2012 - Heir of Novron

But Theft of Swords actually went live on about the 16th - whether the other ones will be similarly delayed I don't know. I do know Rise is being worked on as they asked for clarifications on pronounciation a few weeks ago.
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Thanks for the information. No way I can wait until September to finish the series. I'll happily read it on my kindle.
 
Khale said:
Thanks for the information. No way I can wait until September to finish the series. I'll happily read it on my kindle.
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Well I'm glad to hear that you're that anxious...My wife actually uses the text-to-speech aspect of her kindle. The voice is a bit robotic but she's used to hearing things that way - all in all not a bad hacked substitute.
 
sullivan_riyria said:
The dates that were told to me are:

3/1/2012 - Theft of Swords
6/1/2012 - Rise of Empire
9/1/2012 - Heir of Novron

But Theft of Swords actually went live on about the 16th - whether the other ones will be similarly delayed I don't know. I do know Rise is being worked on as they asked for clarifications on pronounciation a few weeks ago.
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Thrilled to hear this. Will finish Theft of Swords on my Kindle (already finished first half--nice work Michael!--and will be on to book two shortly, and then pick up the sequels when they come out on Audible.
 
Re: Tor's fall catalogue: Hum. Lots of books getting bumped, yeah. Too bad. That's just the way of things, though. Disappointing though some of the absences are it's an interesting list, and I could see myself checking out a couple things on there: There's Felix Gilman, of course; I will totally get round to The Half-Made World one day. I get very good vibes off of Tina Connolly's Ironskin -- her short fiction has apparently been extremely well-received. The idea of Max Gladstone's Three Parts Dead speaks to me for some reason, though that could be simply because I'm a sucker for people-using-magic-to-get-on-with-work kinds of stories, and this sounds like it might be one of those. Tor's track record with secondary world fantasies contains some big misses but also some big hits for me, so I'll at least keep my eye on that.

And the new Erikson, which is joyous of course. I swear I will try his stuff again one day.

There's been some faint plaintive wailing from interested epic fantasy fans wanting to know what gives with John Gwynne's debut, So Deep a Malice, wailing which I will join. Given that the book's supposed to come out in December, the fallow times, but does not yet appear on amazon, and that the book's not listed in the Tor fall catalogue despite the fact Tor had world rights [this is based solely on a press release I saw like years ago, my memory of which may be faulty], my wholly uneducated guess would be that we'll be hearing the book's been pushed to 2013. If they're planning for it to be a big thing I'm sure they'll wanna make sure the editing's all tidy and it's as good as it can be. And maybe not release it in December.

Speaking of December and what's not coming out in it, Orbit posted some finished and near-finished covers for their fall / winter season on their site the other day, and Kate Eliot's Cold Steel was not among them, so we fans must wait a little longer. I shall likely console myself with Abercrombie's A Red Country. Abercrombie's particular brand of unleavened grimness and extreme cynicism is wearing a little thin for me, to be honest, but I still grin like a fool when I read the blurb for this one.

Orbit has apparently acquired that gritty epic fantasy Gollancz won't stop spamming us with blurbs for, Miles Cameron's The Red Knight. They will publish in early 2013 in the States, it's sounding like.

Appropos of Orbit, they have also just signed James S A Corey [Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck] for three more Expanse novels plus five novellas to be set in the same future history. Good space opera times ahead. Hope Abraham doesn't burn himself out writing all these books, or give himself some sort of coronary; having that much molten awesome flowing through your veins all the time has got to do something to the frail human form.

Sf and fantasy author Nalo Hopkinson, who has not had a new novel in some years, has a ya book out this month, entitled The Chaos and -- I believe -- set in Toronto. If it's half as good as her stuff from the early 2000s, specially Midnight Robber, this is a big deal.

Orion put Lynch's The Republic of Thieves in their catalogue again? As a big fan of both author and series I kind of wish they'd stop doing that. Not sure it's helpful. Lynch said this on his blog the other day [apologies if we're not meant to repost this kind of stuff, but it feels pretty directly relevant and is very to the point. Plus Lynch is always fun to listen to.]:

"Also, when I have accurate information about Republic to give out, I will give it out. It will blaze in every form of social media I use. My publishers will print publicity notices and shoot them directly into your brains with arrows. ... You will not miss it when it happens. This is really the last I'd like to say about it until it's time to say something useful."

So 2012 is not confirmed. I wish him all the good fortune in the world and look forward to times filled with wit and thievery when they come.
 
I've recently started using pinterest and I find it kind of addictive. I have a board for releases I'm looking forward to that you can find here. Definitely a work in progres but it's a good way for me to organize books that aren't relesed yet.
 
Yeah I really like the looks of John Gwynne's debut, So Deep a Malice, so hopefully it could still get squeezed in this year.
And Lynch's, Republic would be awesome to have this year. Lotsa fans dying for that one.
 
Thanks! Very glad to be wrong about the Gwynne book [though I wonder when we get it over here?] I'm still a sucker for big, sprawling epics done well, so I have to admit it warms my heart unreasonably to see an intimation that it might be loooong.

What does not warm my heart, and actually disappoints me disporportionate to its importance, is that they've changed the title. "So Deep a Malice." It's theatrical. It's grandiose. It wears its heart on its sleeve, says "what up yo I am epic". "Malice." It's almost too easy in comparison, that little one word title. Less unique, less recognizable. I think it's chicken, frankly; at least that's my immediate reaction.

The new Orbit catalogue is looking very interesting. I'm beginning to be drawn in to the idea of Cameron's The Red Knight, I admit. [Incidentally, it appears to be going for short and sharp; I think I saw a 300 page count in the catalogue. Always nice to have a range of techniques in epic fantasy.] Other highlights for me include Peter Higgins fantastical pseudo-Stalinist Russia novel Wolfhound Century, and Robert Jackson Bennett's American Elsewhere -- I've been waiting for a fantasy author to really drill down into the "American dream" for some little time now. Francis Knight's Fade to Black, about a mage whose powers feed on pain who lives in a vertical city, also sounds like it could be good fun, potentially. And Abercrombie's Red Country and Iain Banks' The Hydrogen Sonata look great of course -- there's a blurb for the Banks now; I must depart, but shall post it later if nobody else does. Oh, and if anyone checks out the Orbit catalogue and wishes to remain unspoiled on Red Country be aware that the sales copy contains one spoiler that is quite large. I think we actually have the info in this thread already, a couple pages back, though, so I guess the cat is out of the bag.

The sucker in me looks at the new Greg Bear, Serpent Moon, and is all "oooh, spaceships, horror". The cynic in me thinks it looks an awful lot like his last original sf novel, Hull Zero Three, with which I had what we might call a mixed experience.

With thanks to the Locus forthcoming list, it seems Ian McDonald's second Everness young adult novel will be coming out in September, which seems incredibly fast, and will be entitled Be My Enemy.
 
The Higgins books looks fantastic, definitly getting that as soon as it is out.

That new Bennett book does not excited me as much as his just released "The Troupe" which just arrived at my doorstep and looks very good indeed.

Agreed on the new name for John Gwynne book btw, a bit of a loss, but insignificant compared to my pleasure at finally seeing a release at all.

Otherwise, The Hydrogen Sonata may see me give a Banks Culture novel another chance after I gave Surface Detail and Matter a pass, they did not look very interesting to me from synopsis and excerpts. I really do hope this is better, I like how it seems to tie back the Culture origins. And Androids and Culture avatars are cool of course :)
 
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