Beyond Reality discussion

Hi everyone,

Here's the list of major forthcoming SF&F novels for July. Please let us know if you're planning to read any of these!

Baker, Kage: The Bird of The River (#3)
Bear, Greg: Slant (Reissue) (tp)
Brooks, Terry: A Princess of Landover (pap)
Butcher, Jim: Blood Rites (#6 Dresden Files) (1st Hardcover)
Chadbourn, Mark: The Hounds of Avalon (#3 Dark Age) (tpo)
Chan, Kylie: Blue Dragon (#3 Dark Heavens trilogy) (pbo)
Currie, Jr, Ron: Everything Matters! (tp)
Czerneda, Julie E: Rift in The Sky (#3 Stratification) (pap)
Dehart, Terry: The Unit (tpo)
Del Franco, Mark: Face Off (#2 Laura Blackstone) (pbo)
Doyle / MacDonald: Lincoln’s Sword (pbo)
Drake, David: In the Stormy Red Sky (Captain Daniel Leary) (pap)
Forbeck, Matt: Vegas Knights (pbo)
Gibson, Ian: Stuff of Legends (pbo)
Glass, Seressia: Shadow Chase (#2 Shadowchaser) (pbo)
Golden / Lebbon: The Chamber of Ten (Hidden Cities) (pbo)
Golemon, David L: Primeval (Event Group)
Gonzales, Laurence: Lucy
Hannah, Darci: The Exile of Sara Stevenson (tpo)
Hartley, A J: Act of Will (#1 Will) (pap)
Heinlein, Robert A: The Puppet Masters (Reissue) (pap)
Hickman, Tracy and Laura: Song of the Dragon (#1 Annals of Drakis)
Hines, Jim C: Red Hood’s Revenge (pbo)
Howard, Jonathan L: Johannes Cabal, The Detective
Itoh, Project: Harmony (tpo)
Kane, Stacia: City of Ghosts (#3 Downside Ghosts) (pbo)
Keating, Mark: The Pirate Devlin
Kiernan, Celine: The Crowded Shadows (#2 Moorehawke trilogy) (tpo)
King, J Robert: Death’s Disciples (pbo)
Knight, E E: March in Country (#9 Vampire Earth)
Knight, E E: Winter Duty (#8 Vampire Earth) (pap)
Lamplighter, L Jagi: Prospero Lost (pap)
Le Guin, Ursula K: The Word for World Is Forest (Reissue) (tp)
McCaffrey, Todd J: Dragongirl (Dragonriders of Pern)
McDonald, Ian: The Dervish House
Meding, Kelly: As Lie the Dead (pbo)
Miller, Karen: The Reluctant Mage (#2 Fisherman’s Children)
Mills, K E: Wizard Squared (#3 Rogue Agent) (pbo)
Modesitt, Jr, L E: Imager’s Intrigue (#3 Imager Portfolio)
Moody, Rick: The Four Fingers of Death
Moore, Moira J: Heroes Return (#5) (pbo)
Niffenegger, Audrey: Her Fearful Symmetry (tp)
Novik, Naomi: Tongues of Serpents (Temeraire)
O’Neal, James: The Human Disguise (pap)
Parrish, Leslie: Cold Sight (#1 Extrasensory Agents) (pbo)
Preston / Child: Reliquary (#2 FBI Special Agent Pendergast) (Reissue) (pap)
Reeve, Laura E: Pathfinder (#3 Major Ariane Kedros) (pbo)
Roberson, Chris: Book of Secrets (pbo)
Rogan, Jack: The Ocean Dark (pbo)
Rothfuss, Patrick: The Adventure of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle
Sagara, Michelle: Cast in Chaos (#6 Chronicles of Elantra) (tpo)
Salvatore, R A: The Dame (Saga of The First King) (pap)
Sawyer, Robert J: Humans (#2 Neanderthal Parallax) (Reissue) (tp)
Schroeder, Karl: Cities of The Air (#5 Virga) (tp)
Shetterly, Will: The Gospel of The Knife (tp)
Smith-Ready, Jeri: Bring on the Night (#3 Ciara Griffin) (pap)
Somers, Jeff: The Eternal Prison (#3 Avery Cates) (pap)
Stewart, K A: A Devil in The Details (#2 Jesse James Dawson) (pbo)
Stross, Charles: The Fuller Memorandum (#3 Laundry Agent Bob Howard)
Swann, S A: Wolf’s Cross (tpo)
Theroux, Marcel: Far North (tp)
Thorpe, Gav: The Crown of the Blood (#1) (pbo)
Turtledove, Harry: The War that Came Early: West and East
Van Name, Mark L: Jump Gate Twist (1st Two Jon Moore & Lobo) (tp)
Vandermeer, Jeff: The Third Bear (tpo)
Vaughn, Carrie: Discord’s Apple
Waggoner, Tim: Nekropolis (#1 Matt Richter, Zombie Private Eye) (pbo)
Whyte, Jack: Order in Chaos (#3 Templar) (pap)
Ed. Anders: Masks (With Great Power...) (tpo)
Ed. Ashley: Steampunk Prime: A Vintage Steampunk Reader (tpo)
Ed. Dozois: The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
Eds. Easton / Klein-Dial: Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions That Came True (tpo)
Ed. Flint: Grantville Gazette IV (pap)
Ed. Greenberg: The End of The World: Stories of The Apocalypse (tpo)
Ed. Hull: Gateways
Ed. Serling: More Stories From The Twilight Zone (Trd & tpo)
Eds. Strahan / Anders: Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery (tpo)

Stefan

Looking forward to Whyte, Jack: Order in Chaos

Red Hood's Revenge. Some of the others sound interesting, but I would want to check to them out in store first.

I pre-ordered The Dervish House by Ian McDonald and got it last week!!! I was shocked because it still shows a release date in July.

I'm panting in anticipation of The Bird of the River, by Kage Baker (so sad we lost her last January!) but other than that nothing piques my interest.

Nothing is jumping out at me - which is a good thing, because the book budget is pretty low at the moment and I've got a big pile that I still haven't gotten to yet!

Just waiting for my copy of The Adventure of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle to arrive!

I'll probably track down a copy of The Reluctant Mage by Karen Miller. I read the book before it last year, and I'd like to continue.

I have The Crowded Shadows on order. The first book in the series, The Poison Throne is on the TBR but isn't read yet, so I hope I end up liking them both.

I'd eventually like to read the new Julie Czerneda, but I'm several books behind at the moment. The same with the new Naomi Novik, where I'm a book behind.

Are we sensing a theme here?

Dozois: The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection is on my radar screen for this year.

I will read the Drake. I'm not sure of anything else. I need to pick them up and look at them to see....

There are a lot of things on this list that jump out at me, some which are reissues of books I have but haven't read, others that are by authors I tend to like but I don't know much about the books themselves.
Baker, Kage: The Bird of The River (#3)
Butcher, Jim: Blood Rites (#6 Dresden Files) (1st Hardcover)
Chadbourn, Mark: The Hounds of Avalon (#3 Dark Age) (tpo)
Czerneda, Julie E: Rift in The Sky (#3 Stratification) (pap)
Hickman, Tracy and Laura: Song of the Dragon (#1 Annals of Drakis)
McCaffrey, Todd J: Dragongirl (Dragonriders of Pern)
Novik, Naomi: Tongues of Serpents (Temeraire)
Preston / Child: Reliquary (#2 FBI Special Agent Pendergast) (Reissue) (pap)
Sawyer, Robert J: Humans (#2 Neanderthal Parallax) (Reissue) (tp)
Whyte, Jack: Order in Chaos (#3 Templar) (pap)

'The Adventure of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle' by Patrick Rothfuss looks like it could be fun. Nothing else jumps at me.