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Here's a list of what's coming out in the US this month
in Science Fiction and Fantasy. If we missed something or you have a title
coming out in the future, email us at news@sfrevu.com
July looks to be an interesting month with lots of new
and reprinted releases of note and
we're looking forward to checking out the publishers' presentations at
Worldcon next month to see what is in the pipeline for the
future. See you in San Jose - in the meantime, enjoy!
 ACE
is scheduled to release in hardcover this month Chindi by Jack
McDevitt the sequel to last year's well received Deepsix.
Publisher's Weekly described it as a curiously old-fashioned tale
of interstellar adventure reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous
with Rama. SFRevu takes a look at it this month too -
according to Ernest, it's "about the best
mix of SF, adventure, and space opera I can remember crossing orbit with."
So be sure to read his
review
this issue.
Out in  Trade
paperback will be Outlaw Sword by J. Ardian Lee an historical
romance/fantasy sequel to last year's Son of the Sword in which a
modern-day martial arts buff finds himself in the Scottish Highlands in the time
of Bonnie Prince Charlie Our reviewer labels this a sprightly tale
of adventure and romance ideal for fantasy-lovers in this month's
review.
 New and reissued
works released in Ace mass market paperback editions in July include Never
After by Rebecca Lickiss a fracturing of several fairy tales which
features in its cast of characters several princes (one sleeping), a tomboy princess, a fairy godmother with issues, a wicked stepmother, greedy
wizards and an enchanted frog; Future Sports edited by Jack
Dann and Gardner Dozois a new anthology of short stori es
examining sports in the future as envisioned by SF authors Arthur C. Clarke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Swanwick, Howard Waldrop, Jonathan Lethem, Alastair Reynolds, Ian
McDonald and Robert Reed; and, the second book in the Spec Ops Squad
saga Deep Strike by Rick Shelley author of the DMC
series. Also included will be several reissue editions - Myth-ing Persons/Little Myth Marker
the third omnibus edition of double volumes of classics from
Robert Asprin's popular Myth series, Conflict of Honors
by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller and Robert Zubrin's Mars novel First
Landing. . 
 From
AVON/EOS in hardcover comes The Longest Way Home
by Robert Silverberg encompassing a familiar odyssey - a 15 year
old's journey towards maturity of which Publisher's Weekly
said "Fans won't find much that's new or challenging, but they should enjoy the ride."
Out in a mass paperback is a companion collection to
last month's Year's Best SF 7, in July will beYear's Best
Fantasy 2 edited by David G. Hartwell with new stories by a host
of top authors including Poul Anderson, Marion Zimmer Bradley & Dianna Paxson, Thomas M. Disch, Tanith
Lee and Ursula K. Le Guin . Also in paperback
will be a reprint of Hugo Award nomine e
Tony Daniel's complex, action filled Metaplanetary.
Scheduled to be released in hardcover under the
publisher's HarperEntertainment imprint is an action-adventure
thriller T2: Rising Storm. Author S.M. Stirling stays true to
the the basic Terminator movies story line advancing the
plotline towards the time the Skynet computer becomes sentient.
  Releases from
BAEN BOOKS in July include in hardcover a collection of 13
military alternative histories, Alternate Generals II edited by
Harry Turtledove (see next issue for a review) and the new Hammer's Slammers novel Paying
the Piper by Military SF author David Drake. In Trade
Paperback will be Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy edited
by Eric Flint and compiled by Guy Gordon, a first time collection of all t he Lord Darcy adventures - mixes of
murder, mystery and magic - originally published in the '60s and '70s. In mass
market paperback will be Cold Steel the sixth volume in the SFRevu
admired Bolos
series ( see our Bolo Strike -Sept'01
review
) created by Keith Laumer, and a fantasy from last
year which Booklist had highly recommended for the serious reader
of historical fantasy, The Veil of Years L.Warren Douglas' sequel
to The Sacred Pool.
 BANTAM
DOUBLEDAY DELL is releasing in Trade paperback editions this month The
Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The
Mammoth Hunters and The Plains of Passage the first four
volumes in Jean Auel's long running The Earth's Children
series. The 5th bo ok,
The Shelters of Stone was published by Crown in April'02.
BANTAM'
s SPECTRA imprint will be releasing in hardcover The Ocean of Years
by Roger MacBride Allen a far future, terraforming gone wrong, time travel
novel.
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  July's
releases from DAW include in hardcover the 1st US edition of
Sorcery Rising by British author Jude Fisher - recommended as
simply a great read by John Berlyne in his
review in
last month's SFRevu which also featured Iain Emsley's
interview with the author. In
mass market paperback will be a collection edited by Denise Little, Familars
- fifteen original stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jody Lynn Nye, P. N. Elrod, Andre Norton, Gary A. Braunbeck, Josepha Sherman, Michelle West and others
featuring an assortment of magical companions and a reprint of last year's
The Fall of Neskaya the first volume in The Clingfire Trilogy
the new Darkover novel completed after Marion Zimmer
Bradley's death by Deborah J. Ross.
  DEL REY
this month is releasing in hardcover a novel focusing on the special bonds
between identical twins, Regina's Song by David Eddings which Publisher's
Weekly calls a radical departure from the author's previous books and
a fast-paced psychological thriller that's part ghost story. Another
tale of brothers, in this case two computer whiz cyber-detectives whose
virtual sleuthing becomes really dangerous, Web Warriors: Memories End by
James Luceno will be published in paperback.
  Del
Rey's media tie-ins this month will focus on Star Wars with
the release at the end of June in hardcover of The Star Wars Trilogy
25th Anniversary Collectors Edition by George Lucas, James Kahn and
Donald Glut (reviewed in our last
issue) and in July with the paperback edition of Star Wars: Cloak of
Deception (May'01) by James Luceno. Also in paperback due out
July 30th will be #13 in its Star Wars tie-in series The New Jedi
Order, Traitor by Matthew Woodring.
GOLDEN
GRYPHON PRESS is accepting pre-orders (http://www.goldengryphon.com)
for the first of a new series of limited edition chapbooks that will premier at
this year's World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose in August with a signed and numbered trade softbound edition
of a 84 page novella by Alastair Reynolds. Turquoise Days is
set in the same far future, deep space universe common to his popular
novels Revelation Space and Chasm City. See SFRevu's
May '01 issue for reviews and an in-depth
interview
with the author.
 POCKET BOOKS will release several
works set in the Star Trek universes. In hardcover will
be The Last Roundup by Christie Golden which picks up right where The
Undiscovered Country left off bringing together Kirk, Scotty, Chekov
and Kirk's two nephews . In mass market Paperback will be
Books Two and Three in the Janus G  ate trilogy by L.A.
Graf. Future Imperfect is a TOS tale featuring
Hikaru Sulu and Ensign Pavel Chekov stranded by a time/space vortex and
having to fight the Gorns for their freedom. Past Prologue,
the conclusion to the trilogy finds Captain Kirk locked in the past with
the key to his survival  buried
deep in Lt. Kevin Riley's memory and only Spock can hope to find it.
Another paperback scheduled for July that has generated positive comments
from readers is The Edge of the Sword the first volume in the new Errand
of Vengeance series. Pocket will also be releasing in eBook format
Foundations Book 1 by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore the story of
the origin of the Starfleet
Corps of Engineers.
  ROC has several
books scheduled for release in July including in mass market paperback a SF/Mystery
The Disappeared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and a reprint of
Dennis McKiernan's retelling of the story of "Beauty and the
Beast", Once Upon a Winter's Night (July'01) with a theme of
true love conquering all. There will also be a Trade paperback edition of
Priestess of Avalon (May'01) the fourth and final Avalon
novel, a prequel to Bradley's Mists of Avalon ('82).
Published after her death it was coauthored by fantasy writer Diana L.
Paxson.
 Released
by ST. MARTIN'S PRESS in hardcover and trade in July will be one of the most comprehensive compilations
of top drawer SF stories published yearly, The Year's Best Science
Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by 12-time Hugo Award
winner Gardner Dozois who provides an insightful introduction to
each of the 26 best stories of 2001 included in the volume.
This annual anthology has long been one of SFRevu editor
Ernest Lilley's favorites, and he has high words of praise for this year's volume
in his
review in this issue calling it essential
reading for anyone following the field, and highly recommended for
everyone who just plain likes to read SF.
   TOR
once again has lots of variety in its July line up with works from
both new and well established authors. Released in hardcover will be A
Scattering of Jades a debut historical fantasy novel by a real life
descendant of P.T. Barnum Alexander Irvine that is creating quite a bit of
positive buzz . Look for our review in next month's issue. Out
from bestselling author L.E. Modesitt, Jr. will be a new SF novel Archform:Beauty
set in the 24th century it combines politics with a murder mystery - our
reviewer will let us know his take on it in next month's
review. The long-time editor of Analog magazine, Stanley
Schmidt's first novel in 16 years Argonaut a well written first
contact novel featuring alien invasion by nanotech bugs is also
scheduled and in his first new novel in 7 years, grand master
of horror and suspense Richard Matheson, much admired by the likes of Ray
Bradbury, Dean Koontz and Stephen King returns with Hunted Past Reason
described as a gripping tale of madness, paranoia and murder. SFRevu's
editor Ernest Lilley in his Oct 1997 review of
Orb's reissue of Matheson's classic I Am Legend (1954) noted that
the author was one of the most influential Horror writers of all time
recommending his works to students of Horror and SF alike.
 This month's SFRevu
featured US author Katya Reimann's long-awaited concluding volume in her Tielmaran
Chronicles trilogy, Prince of Fire and Ashes will also be
released by Tor. Our reviewer commends the author on her ability to
command a huge cast of characters and recommends this new novel to
lovers of political intrigue and multifaceted plots in this month's
review.
See also SFRevu editor Ernest Lilley's author
interview
elsewhere in this
issue.  
Another massive alternate history fantasy The
Oath of Empire is brought to conclusion this month with Thomas
Harlan's The Dark Lord, the fourth volume in what Publisher's
Weekly calls an exquisitely detailed, multifaceted saga of an alternative seventh-century Roman Empire
begun in 1999 with Shadow of Ararat. Accompanying this new
hardcover will be the publisher's paperback edition of The Storm of
Heaven, Book Three in the series.
 Tor
is scheduled to release another new hardcover/paperback reprint
combination from Eric  Van
Lustbader's action-filled fantasy series, The Pearl. The
Veil of a Thousand Tears returns to the world of Kundala to continue
the tale of intrigue, murder an magic initiated in The Ring of Five
Dragons out later this month in paperback, delving further into the conflict
between technology and spiritually that lies at the center of the clash
between this world's two cultures.
 Also
out in hardcover in July from Tor will be a collection of all seven of
acclaimed short story writer Ted Chiang's previously published works
winners of the Nebula, Sturgeon, Campbell, and Asimov awards plus a new story
"Liking What You See: A Documentary" written exclusively for this volume,
Stories of Your Life and Others. Accolades from many SF
luminaries praise the author whose first published story "Tower of
Babylon" won the 1990 Nebula Award.
   A
trio of Orb Trade
Paperbacks of note will be released in July from Tor. Veteran SF
storyteller and Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy awards winner JackVance's
three Alastor novels are collected in one volume; British author
Pat Cadigan's sequel to Tea from an Empty Cup (1998) , Dervish
is Digital (1st US edition Jul'01) returns to the Artificial Reality
multiverse; The Star Fraction (1st US edition Aug '01) Hugo
nominated Scottish author Ken MacLeod's debut novel (1995), the first volume in his
SF political thriller Fall Revolution series .
Mass market paperback editions of
interest out this month from Tor include L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s Octagonal
Raven (Feb '01) described by Publishers Weekly as North by Northwest meets
Logan's Run; Limit of Vision a biotech thriller from
Linda Nagata and Hope's End (Aug '01) by Stephen
Chambers.
  Finally, from Tor's YA SF & F line of
trade paperback editions STARSCAPE will be Dark Side of
Nowhere by Neal Shusterman in which a bored 14-year-old's life is turned upside down after the death of his best friend
and the discovery that his parents are aliens and, Sister
Light, Sister Day the first volume of Jane Yolen's historical fantasy trilogy
about the followers of the great goddess Alta .
  WARNER
ASPECT will be releasing in hardcover Hidden Empire, the first
volume in the Saga of Seven Suns by Kevin J.
Anderson author of several bestselling books set in Star Wars
and X-Files universes and collaborator with Brian
Herbert on the new Dune novels. Out in mass market paperback
will be Dark is the Moon by Ian Irvine the third volume in The
View from the Mirror fantasy series.
  WIZARDS OF THE COAST
will publish in
hardcover in July Dissolution: R. A. Salvatore's War of the Spider
Queen, Book I by Richard Lee Beyers the first in a new six-part series based on Salvatore's world of underground intrigue. Also out
in hardcover will
be the concluding volume in Jean Rabe's the Dhamon Saga
series Redemption tying up the story of a character introduced in the
Dragons of a New Age trilogy and fitting it neatly into the beginning of the
War of Souls.
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