Alright, it is time for Books I’m Eyeing. This week I have a few that are yet-to-be-published (but have me all sorts of excited) and a few that have already been published (and also have me all sorts of excited).
What books are YOU eyeing?
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Flintlock Fantasy – Stina Leicht
Discovery blamed on: Skiffy and Fanty & Stina Leicht
About the book(s)
“The future for the ancient Kingdom of Eledore is grim. A small pox epidemic is sweeping through the land. A decadent aristocracy employs immense magical powers to quibble with one another, and dominate the populace, the Regnum of Acrasia has declared a holy war against magic, and an ancient evil living beneath Eledore threatens to break free. Can Princess Suvi navigate her family’s deadly politics, create justice for her people, unify the survivors, and hold back a demon horde at the same time? Disowned and cast off, can her twin brother Nels successfully fight a war that no one is willing to acknowledge against a nation whose technology is far superior?” The first book in the new series is titled Cold Iron and the second one has the working title: Blackthorne.”
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Defenders – Will McIntosh
Discovery blamed on: SF Signal
About the book
When Earth is invaded by telepathic aliens, humanity responds by creating the defenders. They are the perfect warriors–seventeen feet tall, knowing and loving nothing but war, their minds closed to the aliens. The question is, what do you do with millions of genetically-engineered warriors once the war is won?
A novel of power, alliances, violence, redemption, sacrifice, and yearning for connection, DEFENDERS presents a revolutionary story of invasion, occupation, and resistance.
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The Rook – Daniel O’Malley
Discovery blamed on: The Ranting Dragon
The body you are wearing used to be mine.” So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track down the agents who want to destroy her.
She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Chequy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain. She also discovers that she possesses a rare, potentially deadly supernatural ability of her own.
In her quest to uncover which member of the Chequy betrayed her and why, Myfanwy encounters a person with four bodies, an aristocratic woman who can enter her dreams, a secret training facility where children are transformed into deadly fighters, and a conspiracy more vast than she ever could have imagined.
Filled with characters both fascinating and fantastical, THE ROOK is a richly inventive, suspenseful, and often wry thriller that marks an ambitious debut from a promising young writer.
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Crossover – Joel Shepherd
Discovery blamed on: The Completist
About the book
Crossover is the first novel in a series which follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation. Cassandra is an experimental design — more intelligent, more creative, and far more dangerous than any that have preceded her. But with her intellect come questions, and a moral awakening. She deserts the League and heads incognito into the space of her former enemy, the Federation, in search of a new life.
Her chosen world is Callay, and its enormous, decadent capital metropolis of Tanusha, where the concerns of the war are literally and figuratively so many light years away. But the war between the League and the Federation was ideological as much as political, with much of that ideological dispute regarding the very existence of artificial sentience and the rules that govern its creation. Cassandra discovers that even in Tanusha, the powerful entities of this bloody conflict have wound their tentacles. Many in the League and the Federation have cause to want her dead, and Cassandra’s history, inevitably, catches up with her.
Cassandra finds herself at the mercy of a society whose values preclude her own right even to exist. But her presence in Tanusha reveals other fault lines, and when Federal agents attempt to assassinate the Callayan president, she finds herself thrust into the service of her former enemies, using her lethal skills to attempt to protect her former enemies from forces beyond their ability to control. As she struggles for her place and survival in a new world, Cassandra must forge new friendships with old enemies, while attempting to confront the most disturbing and deadly realities of her own existence
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The Whitechapel Demon – Joshua Reynolds
Discovery blamed on: The Founding Fields
About the Book
Formed during the reign of Elizabeth I, the post of the Royal Occultist was created to safeguard the British Empire against threats occult, otherworldly, infernal and divine.
It is now 1920, and the title and offices have fallen to Charles St. Cyprian. Accompanied by his apprentice Ebe Gallowglass, they defend the battered empire from the forces of darkness.
In the wake of a séance gone wrong, a monstrous killer is summoned from the depths of nightmare by a deadly murder-cult. The entity hunts its prey with inhuman tenacity even as its worshippers stop at nothing to bring the entity into its full power… It’s up to St. Cyprian and Gallowglass to stop the bloodthirsty horror before another notch is added to its gory tally, but will they become the next victims of the horror guised as London’s most famous killer?
In the tradition of William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Josh Reynolds presents the Adventures of the Royal Occultist. Join Charles St. Cyprian and Ebe Gallowglass as they race to halt the workings of a sinister secret society and put an end to the monstrous manifestation in THE WHITECHAPEL DEMON!
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The Holders – Julianna Scott
Discovery blamed on: A Fantastical Librarian
About the Book
17-year-old Becca spent her whole life protecting her brother from, well, everything. The abandonment of their father, the so called ‘experts’ who insist that voices in his head are unnatural and must be dealt with, and the constant threat of being taken away to some hospital and studied like an animal. When two representatives appear claiming to have the answers to Ryland’s perceived problem, Becca doesn’t buy it for one second. That is until they seem to know things about Ryland and about Becca and Ryland’s family, that forces Becca to concede that there may be more to these people than meets the eye. Though still highly skeptical, Becca agrees to do what’s best for Ryland.
What they find at St. Brigid’s is a world beyond their imagination. Little by little they piece together the information of their family’s heritage, their estranged Father, and the legend of the Holder race that decrees Ryland is the one they’ve been waiting for. However, they are all–especially Becca–in for a surprise that will change what they thought they knew about themselves and their kind.
She meets Alex, a Holder who is fiercely loyal to their race, and for some reason, Becca and Ryland. There’s an attraction between Becca and Alex that can’t be denied, but her true nature seems destined to keep them apart. However, certain destinies may not be as clear cut as everyone has always believed them to be.
Becca is lost, but found at the same time. Can she bring herself to leave Ryland now that he’s settled and can clearly see his future? Will she be able to put the the feelings she has for Alex aside and head back to the US? And can Becca and Ryland ever forgive their father for what he’s done?
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The Mirror Empire – Kameron Hurley
Discovery blamed on: Angry Robot Books
About the Book
On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past… while a world goes to war with itself.
In the frozen kingdom of Saiduan, invaders from another realm are decimating whole cities, leaving behind nothing but ash and ruin.
As the dark star of the cataclysm rises, an illegitimate ruler is tasked with holding together a country fractured by civil war, a precocious young fighter is asked to betray his family and a half-Dhai general must choose between the eradication of her father’s people or loyalty to her alien Empress.
Through tense alliances and devastating betrayal, the Dhai and their allies attempt to hold against a seemingly unstoppable force as enemy nations prepare for a coming together of worlds as old as the universe itself.
In the end, one world will rise – and many will perish.
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Silver on the Road – Laura Anne Gilman
Discovery blamed on Laura Anne Gilman
About the Book
Laura Anne Gilman’s SILVER ON THE ROAD, launching The Devil’s West series, the story of a sixteen-year-old growing up in the Devil’s Territory, west of the newly-formed United States, who makes a fateful decision when she signs a contract with the Master of the Territory, and is sent, unprepared, with only a stranger as her companion, into a land where natives and newcomers have an uneasy truce, demons and magicians battle in the crossroads, and only the most desperate settlers try to make a home, to Joe Monti at Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, in a three-book deal, for publication in Fall 2015, by Barry Goldblatt at Barry Goldblatt Literary(World English).
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And congratulations to Pierce Brown for getting his book, Red Rising, turned into a movie…. and SO SOON after publication. Congratulations! I’m so happy for you!
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9 Responses
Oh man… I just finished God’s War the other day and I’m waiting impatiently to get the other two books of the trilogy in the mail. Seeing Hurley’s new book has me even more giddy.
I’ve worked at a bookstore the past 5 or so years, and I know that I can get general advanced copies if I sign up with some publishers that are partners with my company. I’ve seen others in the comments here talk about getting AC’s here, does anyone know how to go about getting them for books like these? Do you have to do work with them, or do you just sign up with them like my store does?
You can probably get them through your work. I get them because of this website, so people come to me and offer them. If you run a website, I’d contact the publisher, or check out netgalley. You can probably get a Netgalley account due to your working in a bookstore. I am going to offer Kameron Hurley and whoever else I need to talk to, my soul, right arm, left knee cap, and some hair for an ARC of her new one, though.
I hear you. I mean I don’t need ALL of my limbs and organs to enjoy reading a book now do I?
For Angry robot, you can go to Angryrobotbooks.com and sign up for the Angry Robot Army, which is the best way to get information about our upcoming books and notices of when they go up on NetGalley and when we have extra ARCs available (not often).
Best,
Mike
So do I need to offer my arm, kneecap, and hair to YOU to make sure I get an ARC?
Generally I just check out Angry Robot’s books through Netgalley. I get so much email that the Robot Army email just gets lost in the shuffle.
Cold Iron is a new one to me, looks good.
And yes, Hurley’s new series is a must read, no matter what.
Really looking forward to Will McIntosh’s new novel, after having such a strong positive reaction to Love Minus Eighty.
I have the three Cassandra Kresnov novels but have never gotten around to actually reading them. They do have such fantastic Stephen Martiniere covers.
I’ve read the Cassandra Kresnov books and found them awesome. The Rook was interesting and i’m glad I read it, but I did find some of it over the top and am not sure if I want a sequel or not.
As for books i’m eyeing, that would be far too many to list here. As I have very little money to spend on such I’ve been compiling lists (many lists!) and mostly buying ebooks, especially ones that are five dollars or less
Oh, definitely looking forward to a new Will McIntosh book!
I have a copy of The Holders but haven’t read it yet. You reminded me of it, actually, and now I feel guilty that it’s been sitting around for so long without me actually doing anything about it.