Showing posts with label June 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label June 2012. Show all posts

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Books Received June 2012

I was pretty ruthless about not accepting new review requests this month (as I've a pile of books I'd love to get to this summer). So I've only a few to showcase here. Plot synopses are from the Indigo website with the exception of Fat Girl in a Strange World, which is from the Crossed Genres Publications site..


Seven Wonders by Adam Christopher

Tony Prosdocimi lives in the bustling Metropolis of San Ventura - a city gripped in fear, a city under siege by the hooded supervillain, The Cowl.

When Tony develops super-powers and acts to take down The Cowl, however, he finds that the local superhero team Seven Wonders aren''t as grateful as he assumed they''d be...






The Hammer and the Blade by Paul S. Kemp

Egil and Nix, adventurers and swords for hire, are pulled into the dark schemes of a decadent family with a diabolical secret. A fast paced adventure redolent with the best of classic sword and sorcery tales.

vN by Madeline Ashby

Amy Peterson is a self-replicating humanoid robot known as a VonNeumann.

For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother''s past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.

Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she''s learning impossible things about her clade''s history - like the fact that she alone can kill humans without failsafing...



Fat Girl in a Strange Land edited by Kay T. Holt and Bart R. Leib

For every supermodel, there are thousands of women who have heard “Why don’t you just eat less?” far too often. Except as comic relief or the unattractive single BFF, those women’s stories are never told.

Crossed Genres Publications presents Fat Girl in a Strange Land, an anthology of fourteen stories of fat women protagonists traveling distant and undiscovered realms.

From Guatemala, where a woman dreams of becoming La Gorda, the first female luchador, before discovering a greater calling in “La Gorda and the City of Silver”; to the big city in the US, where superhero Flux refuses to don spandex in order to join her new team in “Nemesis”; to the remote planet Sidquiel in “Survivor”, where student Wen survives a crash landing, only to face death from the rising sun. Fat Girl in a Strange Land takes its characters – and its readers – places they’ve never been.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Coming in June, 2012

As usual, this list reflects Canadian release dates as posted on the Indigo website.


Hardcover:

Existence – David Brin
The Abolition of Species – Dietmar Dath
1636: The Kremlin Games – Eric Flint
Cuttlefish – Dave Freer
Live and Let Drood – Simon Green
Kop Killer – Warren Hammond
Home From the Sea – Mercedes Lackey
Elfhunter – C. S. Marks
Sky Dragons – Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey
The Broken Universe – Paul Melko
The Long Earth – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
Terminal Point – K. M. Ruiz
Stranger in Olondria – Sofia Samatar
Redshirts – John Scalzi
Prepare to Die! – Paul Tobin
Amped – Daniel Wilson
Judgment at Proteus – Timothy Zahn

Trade Paperback:

Spell Bound – Kelley Armstrong
Mother of Storms – John Barnes
Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire – Lawrence Block
Caliban's War – James S. A. Corey
Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet – Gerry Davis
Obsidian and Blood – Aliette de Bodard (omnibus)
Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks – Terrance Dicks (reissue)
Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster – Terrance Dicks(reissue)
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors – Terrance Dicks (reissue)
The Devil Delivered and Other Tales – Steven Erikson
The Sword and Sorcery Anthology – David Hartwell & Jacob Weisman, Ed.
Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors – Brian Hayles
Silver – Rhiannon Held
The Last Four Things – Paul Hoffman
Alexander Outland: Space Pirate – G. J. Koch
Doctor Who and the Ark in Space – Ian Marter
The Girl Who Heard Dragons – Anne McCaffrey (reissue)
The Taken – Vicki Pattersson
Captain Pixel – Maciej Prozalski
Unconquered Countries: Four Novellas – Geoff Ryman
Flashback – Dan Simmons
The Craving – Jason Starr
The Big Switch – Harry Turtledove
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk – Sean Wallace
Worldsoul – Liz Williams
Land of Hope and Glory – Geoffrey Wilson

Mass Market Paperback:

The Key to Creation – Kevin Anderson
Suited – Jo Anderton
Spellcrossed – Barbara Ashford
The Tempering of Men – Elizabeth Bear
Valkia the Bloody – Sarah Cawkwell
Besieged – Rowena Cory Daniells
Star Trek: Python Pact: Raise the Dawn – David George III
7th Sigma – Steven Gould
Heaven's Shadow – David Goyer
For Heaven's Eyes Only – Simon Green
Bury Elminster Deep – Ed Greenwood
Steel Hands – Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett
Chasing Magic – Stacia Kane
Mass Effect: Dissimulation – Drew Karpyshyn
The Hammer and the Blade – Paul Kemp
Unnatural Issue – Mercedes Lackey
Blackhearted Betrayal – Kasey MacKenzie
Wild Cards I – George R. R. Martin, Ed.
Hush: The Dragon Apocalypse – James Maxey
Bared Blade – Kelley McCullough
Changeling – Kelley Meding
Tempest's Fury – Nicole Peeler
Disappearing Nightly – Laura Resnick
Exiled: Clan of the Claw – John Ringo
Blood Kin – M. J. Scott
Bioshock: Rapture – John Shirley
Rule 34 – Charles Stross
The Wild Side – Mark L. Van Name
Midsummer Night – Freda Warrington
Rogue – Michael Williamson
Star Wars: Choices of One – Timothy Zahn

Ebooks (Carina Press):

Pyro Canyon – Robert Appleton
Undercover Alliance – Lilly Cain
The Pirate's Lady – Julia Knight
Supercritical – Shawn Kupfer
Asher's Invention – Coleen Kwan
Timeless Innocents – Janis Susan May
Dance of Flames – Janni Nell
Kilts & Kraken – Cindy Spencer Pape