Nick wrote: "I hope this re-release begins a re-release of all his early output. "

Me too, Nick. I let all my older McDonald books go and I really wish I had them back because they're out of print now.

Sandi wrote: "Oh my gosh! Desolation Road is being re-released. I need a copy for my bookshelf."

I read "Desolation Road" years ago, and though I wasn't fascinated by it, it started me on the Road of reading McDonald's first five books as they came out. When I got to "The Broken Land" I realized that McDonald was consistently using the human caravan as a way of telling an encyclopedic story; then "Desolation Road" became all that much more clear and important in his output. I love the way he works in qualities of the Celtic mythos without overpowering the story with them -- except possibly in "King of Morning, Queen of Day" where such overpowering is appropriate. I hope this re-release begins a re-release of all his early output.

I will also be reading Strange Brew and I hope to get to Linkskold's Thirteen Orphans soon.

I'm looking forward to the Czerneda books, but won't be buying them now...

A wave back at Bill, and Jon, your uncle's spot on.

My upcoming must-haves would be Julie E. Czerneda's Rift in the Sky, for the extraordinary world building and the unusual angle of co-operation between the characters, and also, Treason's Shore Book Four of Inda, by Sherwood Smith just to see if she finally takes the storyline into the broad-scale promise that shimmered with such amazing depth in book two, but was kept static by the storyline of book three.

Asher and Stross for me, and I think maybe I've just been talked into the Abercrombie.

Oh my gosh! Desolation Road is being re-released. I need a copy for my bookshelf.

I'm almost finished by Abercrombie, and am very much enjoying it. I'm hoping to get to next.

Janny wrote: "Abercrombie is startling, unpredictable, but you'd better relish the cynical slant."

Or as my uncle says, the nihilism is palpable. :)

Wow! Janny said it better. Great to see you here. Janny is great too!

Abercrombie is great. Highly recommended.

Abercrombie is startling, unpredictable, but you'd better relish the cynical slant.

Only thing I see here is Brooks Gypsy Moth.

I'll get the Michelle West book and Strange Brew eventually. I have Hunt's first book in the series, so if I like it, I'll get the others. Is Joe Abercrombie any good?

Hi everyone,

Here's the list of SF&F books due to be released in July. Please let us know if you're planning to buy/read any of these!

Abercrombie, Joe: Best Served Cold
Abraham, Daniel: The Price of Spring (#4 Long Price Quartet)
Abraham, Daniel: An Autumn War (#3 Long Price Quartet) (pap)
Anderson, C L: Bitter Angels (pbo)
Archer, Alex: Rogue Angel #19: Seeker’s Curse (pbo)
Asher, Neal: Shadow of the Scorpion (pap)
Banks, Iain M: Against a Dark Background (tpo)
Bilsborough, David: A Fire in the North (tp)
Bledsoe, Alex: The Sword-Edged Blonde (pap)
Bova, Ben: Mercury (#4 Grand Tour) (Reissue) (pap)
Bova, Ben: Mars Life (Grand Tour) (pap)
Braziel, James: Snakeskin Road (tpo)
Briggs, Patricia: Mercy Thompson: Homecoming (Graphic Novel)
Britain, Kristen: First Rider’s Call: Green Rider #2 (Reissue) (tp)
Brooks, Terry: The Gypsy Morph (#3 Genesis of Shannara) (pap)
Brust, Steven: Jhegaala (Vlad Taltos) (pap)
Burrett, Alex: My Goat Ate Its Own Legs: Tales for Adults (tpo)
Butcher, Jim: Summer Knight (#4 Dresden Files) (1st hardcover)
Carey, Mike: Dead Men’s Boots (#3 Felix Castor)
Carey, Mike: Vicious Circle (#2 Felix Castor) (pap)
Chadbourn, Mark: Always Forever (#3 Age of Misrule) (tp)
Cole, Allan: The Warrior Returns (pbo)
Cook, Glen: Darkwar
Correia, Larry: Monster Hunter International (pap)
Currie, Ron Jr.: Everything Matters
Czerneda, Julie E: Riders of the Storm (#2 Stratification) (pap)
Czerneda, Julie E: Rift in the Sky (#3 Stratification)
Dick, Philip K: Philip K. Dick: VALIS and Later Novels
Dorst, Doug: Alive in Necropolis (tp)
Due, Tananarive: Blood Colony (tp)
Englehart, Steve: The Long Man (#2 Max August)
Evans, Chris: The Light of Burning Shadows (#2 Iron Elves)
Fallon, Jennifer: The Gods of Amyrantha (#2 Tide Lords)
Fox, Caleb: Zadayi Red
Gunn, David: Death’s Head #3: Day of the Damned
Heitz, Markus: The Dwarves (tpo)
Hodgell, P C: Seeker’s Bane (Seeker’s Mask & To Ride a Rathorn) (tp)
Howard, Jonathan L: Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Hunt, Gabriel: Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear (#2 Gabriel Hunt) (pbo)
Hunt, Stephen: The Kingdom Beyond the Waves
Hunter, Faith: Skinwalker (#1 Jane Yellowrock) (pbo)
Jensen, Liz: The Rapture
Jones / Bennett: Shadow Magic (Sequel to Havemercy)
Jones / Bennett: Havemercy (pap)
Knight, E E: Fall with Honor (#7 Vampire Earth) (pap)
Knight, E E: Winter Duty (#8 Vampire Earth)
Lackey, Mercedes: And Less Than Kind (pap)
Lindskold, Jane: Thirteen Orphans (pap)
Mann, George: The Affinity Bridge
Marmell, Ari: Shades of Grey (tpo)
Maxey, James: Dragonseed (pbo)
McDonald, Ian: Desolation Road (tp)
McDonald, Sandra: The Stars Blue Yonder (#3 Commander Jodenny Scott)
McDonald, Sandra: The Stars Down Under (#2 Lieutenant Commander Jodenny Scott) (pap)
Micklem, Sarah: Wildfire
Mills, K E: Witches Incorporated (#2 Rogue Agent) (pbo)
Ogawa, Issui: The Lord of the Sands of Time (tp)
Page, Norvell W: The Spider: City of Doom (pap)
Parker, K J: Purple and Black
Richardson, Kat: Poltergeist (#2 Greywalker) (pap)
Ringo, John: Eye of the Storm (Posleen War)
Roberts, Keith: Kiteworld (pap)
Sagara, Michelle: Cast In Silence (#5 Chronicles of Elantra) (tpo)
Sakurazaka, Hiroshi: All You Need Is Kill (tp)
Shepherd, Joel: Killswitch (Cassandra Kresnov) (pap)
Smith, Sherwood: King’s Shield (#3 Inda) (pap)
Stross, Charles: Wireless
Turtledove, Harry: Hitler’s War
Watt-Evans, Lawrence: The Vondish Ambassador (pap)
Weber, David: By Heresies Distressed (#3 Safehold)
Wellman, Manly Wade: Who Fears the Devil (Silver John stories) (tp)
Winfield, Jess: My Name Is Will (tp)
Ed. Bova: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two (tp)
Ed. Dozois: The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Edition (trd & tpo)
Eds. Dozois / Strahan: The New Space Opera 2 (tp)
Ed. Elrod: Strange Brew (tpo)
Eds. Greenberg / Hughes: Gamer Fantastic (pbo)
Ed. Scalzi, John: Metatropolis

Stefan