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ABERCROMBIE, JOE

  Half a King, Ballantine Del Rey, Jul 2014 (eb, hc)

  ABRAHAM, DANIEL

  The Widow’s House, Orbit US, Aug 2014 (tp)

  ADAMS, JOHN JOSEPH, ed.

  Wastelands II: More Stories of the Apocalypse, Titan US, Feb 2015 (eb)

  ANDERS, LOU

  Frostborn, Random House/Crown, Aug 2014 (ya, hc)

  ANDERSON, KEVIN J.

  The Dark Between the Stars, Tor, Jun 2014 (eb, hc)

  Slimy Underbelly, Kensington, Aug 2014 (h, tp)

  ANDERSON, POUL

  The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, Volume 6: A Bicycle Built for Brew, NESFA Press, Jul 2014 (c, hc)

  ARMSTRONG, KELLEY

  Visions, Penguin/Dutton, Aug 2014 (eb, hc)

  ASARO, CATHERINE

  Undercity, Baen, Dec 2014 (eb, tp)

  ASHBY, MADELINE

  Company Town, Angry Robot US, Oct 2014 (eb, tp)

  ASHER, NEAL

  Hilldiggers, Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, Aug 2014 (1st US, tp)

  BACIGALUPI, PAOLO

  The Doubt Factory, Little, Brown, Oct 2014 (ya, eb, hc)

  BARNETT, DAVID

  Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon, Tor, Sep 2014 (eb, tp)

  BARRON, LAIRD, ed.

  The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, ChiZine Publications/Undertow, Aug 2014 (eb, tp)

  BAXTER, STEPHEN

  Proxima, Penguin/Roc, Nov 2014 (1st US, eb, hc)

  BEAR, ELIZABETH

  Karen Memory, Tor, Mar 2015 (eb, hc)

  One-Eyed Jack, Prime Books, Aug 2014 (eb, tp)

  BEAR, GREG

  War Dogs, Orbit US, Oct 2014 (hc)

  BERG, CAROL

  Dust and Light, Penguin/Roc, Aug 2014 (eb, tp)

  BERNHEIMER, KATE

  How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales, Coffee House Press, Aug 2014 (c, eb,tp)

  BERNOBICH, BETH

  The Time Roads, Tor, Oct 2014 (tp)

  BLAKE, E.C.

  Shadows, DAW, Aug 2014 (eb, hc)

  BLAYLOCK, JAMES P.

  The Adventure of the Ring of Stones, Subterranean Press, Jun 2014 (hc)

  BOVA, BEN

  New Frontiers, Tor, Jul 2014 (c, eb, hc)

  Rescue Mode (with Les Johnson), Baen, Jun 2014 (eb, hc)

  BOVA, BEN, ed.

  Carbide Tipped Pens (with Eric Choi), Tor, Dec 2014 (hc)

  BRENCHLEY, CHAZ

  Being Small, Per Aspera Press, Aug 2014 (h, tp, eb, hc)

  BRENNAN, MARIE

  The Voyage of the Basilisk, Tor, Mar 2015 (eb, hc)BRETT, PETER V.

  The Skull Throne, Ballantine Del Rey, Mar 2015 (eb, hc)

  BRIGGS, PATRICIA

  Shifting Shadows, Ace, Sep 2014 (c, eb, hc)

  BROOKS, TERRY

  The High Druid’s Blade, Ballantine Del Rey, Jul 2014 (eb, hc)

  BROWN, ERIC

  Jani and the Greater Game, Rebellion/Solaris US, Jul 2014 (pb, eb)

  BRUST, STEVEN

  Hawk, Tor, Oct 2014 (hc)

  BUCKELL, TOBIAS S.

  Hurricane Fever, Tor, Jul 2014 (eb, hc)

  BUEHLMAN, CHRISTOPHER

  The Lesser Dead, Berkley, Oct 2014 (h, hc)

  BUTCHER, JIM

  Skin Game, Penguin/Roc, Jun 2014 (eb, hc)

  CARD, ORSON SCOTT

  Earth Awakens (with Aaron Johnston), Tor, Jun 2014 (eb, hc)

  Ruins, Simon Pulse, Sep 2014 (ya, eb, hc)

  CAREY, JACQUELINE

  Poison Fruit, Penguin/Roc, Oct 2014 (eb, hc)

  CAREY, M.R.

  The Girl with all the Gifts, Orbit US, Jun 2014 (eb, hc)

  CAREY, MIKE

  The House of War and Witness (with Linda Carey & Louise Carey), ChiZine Publications, Nov 2014 (1st US, h, eb, tp)

  CARRIGER, GAIL

  Prudence, Orbit US, Mar 2015 (eb)

  Waistcoats & Weaponry, Little, Brown, Nov 2014 (ya, eb, hc)

  CHU, WESLEY

  The Rebirths of Tao, Angry Robot US, Jan 2015 (pb, eb)

  CLARE, CASSANDRA

  The Mortal Instruments: City of Heavenly Fire, Simon & Schuster/McElderry, Jun 2014 (ya, tp, eb, hc)

  COREY, JAMES S.A.

  Cibola Burn, Orbit US, Jun 2014 (eb, hc)

  CZERNEDA, JULIE E.

  A Play of Shadow, DAW, Nov 2014 (eb, tp)

  DANIEL, TONY

  The Savior (with David Drake), Baen, Sep 2014 (eb, hc)

  DATLOW, ELLEN, ed.

  The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six, Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, Jun 2014 (tp)

  The Cutting Room, Tachyon Publications, Oct 2014 (eb, tp)

  DIETZ, WILLIAM C.

  Andromeda’s War, Ace, Dec 2014 (eb, hc)

  DOUGLAS, IAN

  Dark Matter, Harper Voyager US, Jun 2014 (pb, eb)

  DOZOIS, GARDNER, ed.

  The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thiry-first Annual Collection, St. Martin’s Griffin, Jul 2014 (hc)

  EGAN, GREG

  The Arrows of Time, Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, Aug 2014 (1st US, eb, hc)

  ELLIOTT, KATE

  The Black Wolves, Orbit US, Feb 2015 (eb, tp) The Very Best of Kate Elliott, Tachyon Publications, Feb 2015 (c, eb, tp)

  ELLIOTT, WILL

  Shadow, Tor, Mar 2015 (1st US, eb, hc)

  ENGE, JAMES

  The Wide World’s End, Prometheus/Pyr, Feb 2015 (eb, tp)

  ERIKSON, STEVEN

  Willful Child, Tor, Nov 2014 (1st US, eb, hc)

  The Wurms of Blearmouth, Tor, Jul 2014 (1st US, tp, eb, hc)

  ESSLEMONT, IAN C.

  Assail, Tor, Aug 2014 (1st US, tp, eb, hc)

  FFORDE, JASPER

  The Eye of Zoltar, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct 2014 (1st US, ya, eb, hc)

  FILES, GEMMA

  We Will All Go Down Together, ChiZine Publications, Aug 2014 (h, eb, tp)

  FOWLER, CHRISTOPHER

  Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart, Bantam, Dec 2014 (1st US, h, hc)

  Nyctophobia, Rebellion/Solaris US, Oct 2014 (h, eb, tp)

  FOX, ANDREW

  The Bad Luck Spirits’ Social Aid and Pleasure Club, MonstraCity Press, Nov 2014 (h, eb, tp)

  Hellfire and Damnation, MonstraCity Press, Aug 2014 (h, eb, tp)

  FRIEDMAN, C.S.

  Dreamseeker, DAW, Mar 2015 (eb, hc)

  GABALDON, DIANA

  Written in My Own Heart’s Blood, Random House/Delacorte, Jun 2014 (tp, eb, hc)

  GAIMAN, NEIL

  Hansel & Gretel (with Lorenzo Mattotti), Candlewick Press/Toon Books, Oct 2014 (graphic novel, ya, hc)

  GIBSON, WILLIAM

  The Peripheral, Penguin/Putnam, Oct 2014 (hc)

  GOODKIND, TERRY

  Severed Souls, Tor, Aug 2014 (tp, eb, hc)

  GOULD, STEVEN

  Exo, Tor, Sep 2014 (hc)

  GRANT, MIRA

  Symbiont, Orbit US, Nov 2014 (hc)

  GREGORY, DARYL

  Harrison Squared, Tor, Mar 2015 (eb, hc)

  We Are All Completely Fine, Tachyon Publications, Aug 2014 (na, eb, tp)

  GURAN, PAULA, ed.

  The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition, Prime Books, Jul 2014 (eb, tp)

  HAMILTON, LAURELL K.

  A Shiver of Light, Berkley, Jun 2014 (eb, hc)

  HAMILTON, PETER F.

  The Abyss Beyond Dreams, Ballantine Del Rey, Oct 2014 (eb, hc)

  HARKNESS, DEBORAH

  The Book of Life, Penguin/Viking, Jul 2014 (hc)

  HARRISON, HARRY

  Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!, Tor, Nov 2014 (nf, eb, hc)

  HARRISON, KIM

  The Witch With No Name, Harper Voyager US, Sep 2014 (eb, hc)

  HEADLEY, MARIA DAHVANA

  The End of the Sentence (with Kat Howard), Subterranean Press, Sep 2014 (hc)

  HERBERT, BRIAN

  The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma, Tor, Jul 2014 (hc)HERBERT, FRANK

  Frank Herbert: Collected Stories, Tor, Nov 2014 (c, eb, hc)

  HOBB, ROBIN

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p; Fool’s Assassin, Ballantine Del Rey, Aug 2014 (eb, hc)

  HODGELL, P.C.

  Sea of Time, Baen, Jun 2014 (eb, tp)

  HORTON, RICH, ed.

  The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014, Prime Books, Jun 2014 (eb, tp)

  HUFF, TANYA

  The Future Falls, DAW, Nov 2014 (eb, hc)

  JEMISIN, N.K.

  The Inheritance Trilogy, Orbit US, Dec 2014 (omnibus, tp)

  JONES, STEPHEN, ed.

  Fearie Tales, Quercus/Jo Fletcher US, Sep 2014 (1st US, eb, hc)

  JOYCE, GRAHAM

  The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit, Random House/Doubleday, Aug 2014 (1st US, hc)

  KADREY, RICHARD

  The Getaway God, Harper Voyager US, Aug 2014 (hc)

  KASTURI, SANDRA, ed.

  Imaginarium 2014: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (with Helen Marshall), ChiZine Publications, Jul 2014 (eb, tp)

  KING, STEPHEN

  Mr. Mercedes, Simon & Schuster/Scribner, Jun 2014 (h, eb, hc)

  Revival, Simon & Schuster/Scribner, Nov 2014 (h, eb, hc)

  KLIMA, JOHN, ed.

  The Best of Electric Velocipede, Fairwood Press, Nov 2014 (eb, tp)

  KOONTZ, DEAN

  The City, Bantam, Jul 2014 (eb, hc)

  Saint Odd, Bantam, Dec 2014 (h, eb, hc)

  KRESS, NANCY

  Yesterday’s Kin, Tachyon Publications, Sep 2014 (na, eb, tp)

  KURTZ, KATHERINE

  The King’s Deryni, Ace, Dec 2014 (eb, hc)

  LACKEY, MERCEDES

  Blood Red, DAW, Jun 2014 (eb, hc)

  Closer to Home, DAW, Oct 2014 (eb, hc)

  LAKE, JAY

  Last Plane to Heaven, Tor, Sep 2014 (c, hc)

  LAWRENCE, MARK

  Prince of Fools, Ace, Jun 2014 (eb, hc)

  LECKIE, ANN

  Ancillary Sword, Orbit US, Oct 2014 (tp)

  LIGOTTI, THOMAS

  The Spectral Link, Subterranean Press, Jun 2014 (c, hc)

  LINK, KELLY, ed.

  Monstrous Affections (with Gavin J. Grant), Candlewick Press, Sep 2014 (ya, hc)

  LORD, KAREN

  The Galaxy Game, Ballantine Del Rey, Jan 2015 (1st US, eb, tp)

  LOVEGROVE, JAMES

  World of Fire, Rebellion/Solaris US, Aug 2014 (pb, eb)

  MAMATAS, NICK, ed.

  Phantasm Japan: Fantasies Light and Dark, From and About Japan (with Masumi Washington), VizMedia/Haikasoru, Sep 2014 (eb, tp)

  MARILLIER, JULIET

  Dreamer’s Pool, Penguin/Roc, Nov 2014 (eb, hc)

  MARTIN, GEORGE R.R.

  The World of Ice and Fire (with Elio Garcia & Linda Antonssen), Bantam, Nov 2014 (nf, eb, hc)MARTIN, GEORGE R.R., ed.

  Old Venus (with Gardner Dozois), Bantam, Mar 2015 (eb, hc)

  Rogues (with Gardner Dozois), Bantam, Jun 2014 (eb, hc)

  Wild Cards: Lowball, Tor, Nov 2014 (eb, hc)

  McDEVITT, JACK

  Coming Home, Ace, Nov 2014 (eb, hc)

  McGUIRE, SEANAN

  Pocket Apocalypse, DAW, Mar 2015 (pb, eb)

  The Winter Long, DAW, Sep 2014 (pb, eb)

  MEYNARD, YVES

  Angels & Exiles, ChiZine Publications, Nov 2014 (c, eb, tp)

  MODESITT, L.E., JR.

  Heritage of Cyador, Tor, Nov 2014 (eb, hc)

  Madness in Solidar, Tor, Mar 2015 (eb, hc)

  MOORCOCK, MICHAEL

  The Whispering Swarm, Tor, Nov 2014 (eb, hc)

  MORGAN, RICHARD K.

  The Dark Defiles, Ballantine Del Rey, Oct 2014 (1st US, eb, tp)

  MORROW, JAMES

  The Madonna and the Starship, Tachyon Publications, Jun 2014 (na; eb, tp)

  NAAM, RAMEZ

  Apex, Angry Robot US, Nov 2014 (eb, tp)

  NIX, GARTH

  Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen, HarperCollins, Oct 2014 (ya, hc)

  NOVIK, NAOMI

  Uprooted, Ballantine Del Rey, Feb 2015 (eb, hc)

  OLIVER, JONATHAN, ed.

  Dangerous Games, Rebellion/Solaris US, Dec 2014 (eb, tp)

  PAGE, SHANNON

  Our Lady of the Islands (with Jay Lake), Per Aspera Press, Jun 2014 (tp, eb, hc)

  PARK, PAUL

  All Those Vanished Engines, Tor, Jul 2014 (hc)

  PARKER, K.J.

  Academic Exercises, Subterranean Press, Jul 2014 (c, hc)

  PARKS, RICHARD

  To Break the Gate, Prime Books, Dec 2014 (1st US, eb, tp)

  PATTERSON, WILLIAM H., JR.

  Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume II: The Man Who Learned Better, Tor, Jun 2014 (nf, eb, hc)

  POWERS, TIM

  Nobody’s Home, Subterranean Press, Dec 2014 (na, hc)

  PRATCHETT, TERRY

  The Long Mars (with Stephen Baxter), Harper, Jun 2014 (hc)

  A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction, Random House/Doubleday, Sep 2014 (nf, eb, hc)

  PRIEST, CHERIE

  Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches, Penguin/Roc, Sep 2014 (eb, tp)

  RAJANIEMI, HANNU

  The Causal Angel, Tor, Jul 2014 (eb, hc)

  RESNICK, MIKE

  The Fortress in Orion, Prometheus/Pyr, Dec 2014 (eb, tp)

  REYNOLDS, ALASTAIR

  On the Steel Breeze, Ace, Jun 2014 (1st US, eb, hc)

  RICE, ANNE

  Prince Lestat, Random House/Knopf, Oct 2014 (h, hc)

  ROTHFUSS, PATRICK

  The Slow Regard of Silent Things, DAW, Nov 2014 (eb, na, hc)

  SANDERSON, BRANDON

  Firefight, Random House/Delacorte, Jan 2015 (ya, hc)

  SCALZI, JOHN

  Lock In, Tor, Aug 2014 (eb, hc)

  SHEPARD, LUCIUS

  Beautiful Blood, Subterranean Press, Jun 2014 (hc)

  SHINN, SHARON

  The Turning Season, Ace, Nov 2014 (eb, hc)

  SILVERBERG, ROBERT

  The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express, Subterranean Press, Aug 2014 (c, hc)

  SNYDER, LUCY

  Soft Apocalypses, Raw Dog Screaming, Aug 2014 (c, tp)

  SPENCER, WEN

  Wood Sprites, Baen, Sep 2014 (eb, hc)

  STEPHENSON, NEAL, ed.

  Heiroglyph (with Ed Finn & Kathryn Cramer), HarperCollins/Morrow, Sep 2014 (eb, hc)

  STRAHAN, JONATHAN, ed.

  Fearsome Magics: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy, Rebellion/Solaris US, Oct 2014 (eb, tp)

  STROSS, CHARLES

  Equoid, Subterranean Press, Jul 2014 (hc)

  The Rhesus Chart, Ace, Jul 2014 (eb, hc)

  TEM, MELANIE

  The Yellow Wood, ChiZine Publications, Nov 2014 (h, ya, eb, tp)

  TEPPER, SHERI S.

  Fish Tails, Harper Voyager US, Aug 2014 (eb, hc)

  TREGILLIS, IAN

  The Mechanical, Tor, Nov 2014 (eb, tp)

  TURTLEDOVE, HARRY

  Last Orders, Ballantine Del Rey, Jul 2014 (eb, hc)

  VAN EEKHOUT, GREG

  California Bones, Tor, Jun 2014 (eb, hc)

  VAN GELDER, GORDON, ed.

  The Very Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Volume Two, Tachyon Publications, Jul 2014 (eb, tp)

  VANDERMEER, ANN, ed.

  Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (with Jeff VanderMeer), PM Press, Feb 2015 (tp)

  VANDERMEER, JEFF

  Acceptance, Farrar Straus Giroux/FSG Originals, Sep 2014 (eb, tp)

  The Steampunk User’s Manual (with Desirina Boskovich), Abrams Image, Oct 2014 (hc)

  VARLEY, JOHN

  Dark Lightning, Ace, Aug 2014 (eb, hc)

  WALTON, JO

  The Just City, Tor, Jan 2015 (eb, hc)

  WATTS, PETER

  Echopraxia, Tor, Aug 2014 (eb, hc)

  WEEKS, BRENT

  The Broken Eye, Orbit US, Aug 2014 (eb, hc)

  WHATES, IAN, ed.

  Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, Rebellion/Solaris US, Aug 2014 (pb, eb)

  WILCE, YSABEAU S.


  Prophecies, Libels, and Dreams, Small Beer Press, Oct 2014 (c, eb, tp)

  WILLIAMS, SEAN

  Crashland, HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, Nov 2014 (hc)

  WILLIAMS, TAD

  Sleeping Late on Judgement Day, DAW, Sep 2014 (eb, hc)

  WILSON, ROBERT CHARLES

  The Affinities, Tor, Mar 2015 (hc)

  ZETTEL, SARAH

  Dangerous Deceptions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nov 2014 (a, ya, eb, hc)

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  Oct ’14: The Steampunk User’s Manual by Jeff VanderMeer & Desirina Boskovich (art, hc).

  ABRAMS/AMULET

  May ’14: The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier (h, eb, ya, hc).

  Jun ’14: Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (eb, ya, hc).

  ACE

  Apr ’14: Dawn’s Early Light by Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris; Games Creatures Play ed. by Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner (1st US, eb, hc).

  May ’14: Silver Mirrors by A.A. Aguirre; Dragons Luck by Robert Asprin (r); Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice by Stephen Baxter (r, x, tp); The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Guardian by Jack Campbell (r); The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Steadfast by Jack Campbell (eb, hc); Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris (eb, hc).

  Jun ’14: White Heart of Justice by Jill Archer (pb, eb); The Last President by John Barnes (r); All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (r); Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence (r); Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence (eb, hc); On the Steel Breeze by Alastair Reynolds (1st US, eb, hc).

  Jul ’14: Dragons Deal by Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye (r); Blood Song by Anthony Ryan (r); Tower Lord by Anthony Ryan (eb, hc); Vicky Peterwald: Target by Mike Shepherd (pb, eb); Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross (r); The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross (eb, hc).

  Aug ’14: Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews (eb, hc); Path of Smoke by Bailey Cunningham (pb, eb); Heaven’s Fall by David S. Goyer & Michael Cassutt (r); An Apple for the Creature ed. by Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner (r, tp); Hardship by Jean Johnson (pb, eb); Free Agent by J.C. Nelson (pb, eb); Dark Lightning by John Varley (eb, hc).

  Sep ’14: Havoc by Ann Aguirre (pb, eb); Shifting Shadows by Patricia Briggs (c, eb, hc); The Last Dark by Stephen R. Donaldson (r, eb, tp); The City by Stella Gemmell (r, tp); Voices From Beyond by Simon R. Green (pb, eb); The Midnight Queen by Sylvia Izzo Hunter (eb, tp); Hidden by Benedict Jacka (pb, eb); Royal Airs by Sharon Shinn (r).

  Oct ’14: The Lost Stars: Imperfect Sword by Jack Campbell (eb, hc); The Lost Stars: Perilous Shield by Jack Campbell (r); Summer Moon by Jan DeLima (pb, eb); The Bloodbound by Erin Lindsey; Incarnate by Anton Strout (pb, eb).

  Nov ’14: Black Spring by Christina Henry (pb, eb); Drawn Blades by Kelly McCullough (pb, eb); Coming Home by Jack McDevitt (eb, hc); Starhawk by Jack McDevitt (r); Kris Longknife: Tenacious by Mike Shepherd (pb, eb); The Turning Season by Sharon Shinn (eb, hc).