Beyond Reality discussion

Hi everyone,

Here's the list of major forthcoming SFF books for February (I just realized that I forgot to post the one for January - sorry). Please let us know if you're planning to read any of these!

Aaronovitch, Ben: Moon Over Soho (#2) (pbo)
Alpert, Mark: The Omega Theory (Signed)
Anderson, Taylor: Rising Tides (#5 Destroyermen)
Anderson, Taylor: Distant Thunders (#4 Destroyermen) (pap)
Barnes, John: Directive 51 (pap)
Benson, Amber: Serpent’s Storm (pbo)
Bova, Ben: Mercury (#4 Grand Tour) (Reissue) (pap)
Bova, Ben: Leviathans of Jupiter
Britain, Kristen: Blackveil (#4 Green Rider)
Brust, Steven: Iorich (tp)
Caine, Rachel: Unseen (#3 Outcast Season) (pbo)
Cash, Steve: The Remembering (#3 Meq) (tpo)
Crane, Sophie: Aftertime (tpo)
Davys, Tim: Tourquai
Deas, Stephen: The King of the Crags (#2 Memory of Flames)
Deas, Stephen: The Adamantine Palace (#1 Memory of Flames) (pap)
Erikson, Steven: The Crippled God (trade and tpo)
Farmer, Philip Jose: Gods of Riverworld (tp)
Flynn, Michael: Up Jim River (Sequel to The January Dancer) (pap)
Frost, P R: Forest Moon Rising (#4 Tess Noncoire Adventures) (tpo)
Gee, Emily: The Sentinel Mage (pbo)
Goodkind, Terry: The Omen Machine
Greatshell, Walter: Xombies: Apocalypso (pbo)
Griffin, Kate: The Midnight Mayor (#2 Matthew Swift) (pap)
Harkness, Deborah: A Discovery of Witches
Hodgell, P C: Bound in Blood (#5 Kencyr) (pap)
Hogan, James P: Moon Flower (pap)
Holt, Tom: Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Sausages (tpo)
Jones, Howard: The Desert of Souls
Kent, Jasper: Thirteen Years Later (tp)
Kerr, Katharine: License to Ensorcell (#1 Nola O’Grady) (pbo)
Kratman, Tom: Countdown: The Liberators (pbo)
Lackey / Flint / Freer: Much Fall of Blood (#3 Heirs of Alexandria) (pap)
Lake, Jay: Green (tp)
Martin, Gail Z: The Sworn (#1 Fallen Kings Cycle) (pbo)
Martin, George R R: A Game of Thrones (#1 Song of Fire & Ice) (Movie Tie-In) (Reissue)
(tp)
Palmer, Dexter: Dream of Perpetual Motion (tp)
Pehov, Alexey: Shadow Prowler (pap)
Phoenix, Adrian: Etched In Bone (#4 Maker’s Song) (pbo)
Preston / Child: Gideon’s Sword (#1 Gideon Crew)
Rendahl, Eileen: Dead On Delivery (#2 Messenger Melina Markowitz) (tpo)
Robinson, Jeremy: Instinct (#2 Jack Sigler Chess Team) (pap)
Russell, Karen: Swamplandia!
Saberhagen and Others: Golden Reflections
Scott, Melissa: Trouble and Her Friends (Reissue) (tp)
Sniegoski, Thomas E: Where Angels Fear to Tread (#3 Remy Chandler) (pap)
Steele, Alan: Coyote Destiny (pap)
Swann, S Andrew: Messiah (#3 Apotheosis) (pbo)
Taylor, K.J.: The Griffin’s War (pbo)
Trussoni, Danielle: Angelology (tp)
Weber, David: In Fire Forged: Worlds of Honor 5
Weis / Hickman: Secret of the Dragon (#2 Dragonships) (pap)
West, Michelle: House Name (#3 House War)
Williams, Alayna: Rogue Oracle (#2 Tara Sheridan) (pbo)
Williams, Walter Jon: Deep State (tpo)
Ed. Lansdale: Crucified Dreams (tp)
Davies / Balchin / Hamer: Fantasy Art in Watercolour (tp)

Stefan

PS I get this list from a local bookstore - there may be omissions or mistakes. Feel free to add missing books in the comments!

I'll buy the Michelle West at one point. I want to try the Jasper Kent, but I'll start with the first one.

I'm definitely going to be picking up The Sworn by Gail Z. Martin, as I've enjoyed the rest of the series (or, I guess, the old series) so far.

Hey I am reading the Michelle West one right now. Pretty good.

I'm looking forward to two books. . . neither of which is on your list. ;)

The Sea Thy Mistress
Grail

Both by Elizabeth Bear, both wrapping up series that I love.

Nothing on the list catches my eye. . .

Hey, I don't see The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch on that list. Now, that's a shocker.

Pale Demon by Kim Harrison is due out next month too.

Iorich! Been waiting for the pb. I *love* the Vlad Taltos books.

I'm planning on buying The Republic of Thieves and The Heroes.

Can't wait!

Erikson, Flynn, Holt, Bear.

Phoenixfalls wrote: "I'm looking forward to two books. . . neither of which is on your list. ;)

The Sea Thy Mistress
Grail

Both by Elizabeth Bear, both wrapping up series that I love.
"

Stefan wrote: "Lackey / Flint / Freer: Much Fall of Blood (#3 Heirs of Alexandria) (pap)
Erikson, Steven: The Crippled God (trade and tpo)"

These are on my list.

I'll probably try The Adamantine Palace and The Heroes. They're on the never-ending list.

I have Swamplandia! by Karen Russell on my list, but I doubt I'll pick it up for a few months. Beyond that, it's a slow release month for me.

I won a copy of A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. I saw this video and now I can't wait to read it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naIUAT...

Candiss wrote: "I have Swamplandia! by Karen Russell on my list, but I doubt I'll pick it up for a few months. Beyond that, it's a slow release month for me."

sounds like it's an expansion of the first story in Karen Russell's excellent collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. I'm like you, though, I probably won't pick it up for a few months.