Fiction: SF, Fantasy & Horror
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Day Shift by Charlaine Harris (May 5,
hardcover, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-425-
26319-8) continues the mysterious saga of
Midnight, Tex., a small town full of strange
events and even stranger people. When
psychic Manfred Bernardo is accused of
murder, he turns to the enigmatic Olivia
Charity for help.
AMAZON/47NORTH
The Einstein Prophecy by Robert
Masello (June 23, paper, $14.95, ISBN
978-1-4778-2940-0). Raiders of the Lost
Ark meets The Monument Men in a new
novel from acclaimed author Masello (Blood
and Ice).
ATRIA
The Last Dragon: Twilight of the
Celts, Book 1 by M.K. Hume (Feb. 17,
e-book, $16, ISBN 978-1-4767-1525-4).
Hume, author of the Arthur and Merlin
trilogies, explores the lives of the Celts
after the death of King Artor, when two
childhood friends have claims to the vacant
throne.
BAEN
A Long Time Until Now by Michael
Z. Williamson (May 5, hardcover, $25,
ISBN 978-1-4767-8033-7). Ten soldiers
on convoy in Afghanistan are transported
back to Paleolithic Asia, with no idea how
they arrived or how to get back. Then two
more time travelers arrive from a future far
beyond the present.
BERKLEY
Dead Ice by Laurell K. Hamilton (June
2, hardcover, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-425-
25571-1). Vampire hunter Anita Blake is
a U.S. Marshal, a trained killer, and a master vampire’s fiancée. In this installment
she battles unclean magic that’s trapping
living souls in rotting zombie bodies.
BIRD STREET
Devil’s Daughter: Lucinda’s Pawn-
shop, Book 1 by Hope Schenk-De Michele
and Paul Marquez (July 14, paper, $14.99,
ISBN 978-1-939457-36-3). Lucinda, the
daughter of Eve and Lucifer, is as old as
humanity itself, yet perpetually young and
beautiful. She tries to be true to her moth-
er’s love by subverting her father’s schemes.
When she falls in love with a mortal man,
their romance could derail Lucifer’s plans
to trigger Armageddon.
CROWN
The Fold by Peter Clines (June 2, hardcover, $25, ISBN 978-0-553-41829-3). A
team of DARPA scientists has invented a
device that could make teleportation a
reality. But something is very wrong with
the project. The personalities of the scientists who work on it are changing. People
are dying. And reality itself seems to be
warping.
The Library at Mount Char by Scott
Hawkins (June 16, hardcover, $26, ISBN
978-0-553-41860-6). Father could do
strange things: call light from darkness,
raise the dead. Carolyn and her siblings
have studied his books and learned some of
his secrets. Now, Father is missing, and the
children battle for control of his library.
DAW
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (May 5, mass market, $7.99, ISBN 978-
0-7564-1079-7). Phoenix was grown and
raised in New York’s Tower 7. She is an
“accelerated woman”—only two years old
but with the body and mind of an adult,
and superhuman abilities. When her
beloved commits suicide, she realizes that
the tower is her prison and decides to
escape.
Nova by Margaret Fortune (June 2,
hardcover, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-7564-
1081-0). Lia Johansen, a genetically engineered human bomb, was supposed to slip
onto the strategically placed New Sol Space
Station and explode. But her clock malfunctions, giving her some precious extra
; The Book of Phoenix
Nnedi Okorafor. DAW, May 5
; City of Savages
Lee Kelly. S&S/Saga, Feb. 3
; A Darker Shade of Magic
V.E. Schwab. Tor, Feb. 24
; The Diabolical Miss Hyde
Viola Carr. Harper Voyager, Feb. 10
; The Dinosaur Lords
Victor Milán. Tor, July 28
; Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction
Hannu Rajaniemi. Tachyon, May 12
; Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Judd Trichter. St. Martin’s/Dunne, Feb. 3
; The Mechanical
Ian Tregillis. Orbit, Mar. 10
; Uprooted
Naomi Novik. Del Rey, May 19
; The Very Best of Kate Elliott
Kate Elliott. Tachyon, Feb. 10
PW’S TOP 10:
SF, FANTASY & HORROR
