Books You're Looking Forward To in 2014...

[[deleted user]]

What upcoming SF&F books are people in this group eagerly anticipating this year? Books you either pre-ordered or are going to rush right out and buy as soon as they hit the bookstore shelves?

Last year at this time I was already devouring A Memory of Light, which I've been eagerly anticipating for 23 years. :)

This year, nothing really stands out at the same level of urgency.

I'm assuming/hoping for new books in several series I'm following: a new Lost Fleet book from Jack Campbell (I haven't seen title), a new Expanse book from James SA Cory (Cibola Burn), a new Diving book from Kristine Kathryn Rucsh (no title), a new Stormlight from Brandon Sanderson (Words of Radiance), a new Kate Daniels from Ilona Andrews (Magic Breaks), a new novel (non-series) from John Scalzi (Lock In).


So, what are you eagerly awaiting?

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i have lots on my list, but they are already out...just waiting for me to get the cash...i have a list as long as my arm of stuff from NESFA Press for example...

[Donna]

Looking forward to reading Brent Weeks "The Broken Eye" Michael J Sullivan's "Rhune: First Empire" "Doors Of Stone" when Patrick Rothfuss finishes it and "Words of Radiance" by Brandon Sanderson.

[Jonathan , Reader of the fantastic]

Donna wrote: "Looking forward to reading Brent Weeks "The Broken Eye" Michael J Sullivan's "Rhune: First Empire" "Doors Of Stone" when Patrick Rothfuss finishes it and "Words of Radiance" by Brandon Sanderson."

I'm looking forward to all of these as well!

[infael]

The 2nd Powder Mage book!! Hopefully the 3rd Storm Raiders and 3rd Elspeth Cooper book.

And as a pure fantasy...Wolves of Winter

[Jim]

I'm looking forward to (dreading) Centipede Press' new releases & sales. Their books are fantastic, but pricey limited editions.
http://www.centipedepress.com/

I'm lusting after a Poe book & have been, but shaking $195 loose from the budget just isn't happening right now. (I bought a router table instead.) Still, this is a fantastic volume & there's only 1 left.
http://www.centipedepress.com/antholo...

[Darren]

Looking forward to Doors of Stone. Does anyone know if it definitely being released this year. Info about this seems vague

[Donna]

We could stalk Patrick as he's on this site... :)

[Darren]

Good idea. Has he mentioned if the book will be published this year?

[[deleted user]]

Darren wrote: "Looking forward to Doors of Stone. Does anyone know if it definitely being released this year. Info about this seems vague"

Rothfuss did an AMA on Reddit today and concerning Doors of Stone he said:

I've got a few things that will be happening before doors of stone:

* A novella (about 22,000 words) that centers around Bast. It's coming out in the Rouges anthology later this year.

* I'm also working on another novella centering around Auri. I meant for it to be a short story, but it became a lot more than that, and right now it's creeping up on 25,000 words.

* A short novel (short for me) set in Modeg. It tells the origin stories of one of the other legendary figures in my world: Laniel young-again. (That's probably going to be about 100-120 thousand words or so.)

So, still vague....

[Darren]

Thanks for the info. I would obviously love to read these two short stories. It would be fantastic to find out more about these characters . If you hear when they are published
please inform the group as I'm sure loads of fans here would be pleased
Cheers
Darren

[V.W.]

David Drake has a new RCN novel "Sea Without A Shore" coming out this year, and there's a new (2013) Timothy Zahn "Cobra" novel that I haven't read yet.

[Karen]

Without a doubt, I will rush right out and get the sequel to Daniel O'Malley's The Rook, which was my favorite book of 2013.

[V.W.]

Karen wrote: "Without a doubt, I will rush right out and get the sequel to Daniel O'Malley's The Rook, which was my favorite book of 2013."

For a second I thought you said the sequel was out. I had to break out the smelling salts and lavender scented hanky, I was so excited.

[Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽]

V.W. wrote: For a second I thought you said the sequel was out. I had to break out the smelling salts and lavender scented hanky, I was so excited."

Thanks for my first laugh-out-loud moment of the day. I needed that on a Monday morning. :)

[Karen]

V.W. wrote: "Karen wrote: "Without a doubt, I will rush right out and get the sequel to Daniel O'Malley's The Rook, which was my favorite book of 2013."

For a second I thought you said the sequ..."

Oh how I wish that were the case!

I do however love that description of your reaction. As Tadiana said, it provoked a much needed Monday morning laugh

[Dave]

New Releases I'm looking forward to areWords of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson, The Widow's House by Daniel Abraham, and series with new books but I haven't got to the new book yet, such as Breach Zone by Myke Cole.

[[deleted user]]

Next week:

The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Steadfast by Jack Campbell

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G33z3r wrote: "Next week: The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Steadfast by Jack Campbell"

Well, that didn't turn out so great. In fact, 2014's been pretty disappointing in what books I've read so far. (2013 was so good, starting with A Memory of Light right in week 2 and running strong from there.) Maybe I've missed the good stuff.

[Em Lost In Books]

Tower Lord & Skin Game are my two most awaited books for this year.

[V.W.]

Cauldron of Ghosts
by David Weber & Eric Flint
Cauldron of Ghosts

Monster Hunter: Nemesis by Larry Correia
Monster Hunter Nemesis

[Omar]

I was looking forward to Words of Radiance, and just finished it. I would highly recommend it, Sanderson did a good job of answering questions and raising more to be answered in the next book, which I've been told focuses on another great character!:)

[Ben]

Mary Rickert's The Memory Garden and Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy are on my radar. And the 2nd Alabaster in Graphic Novels.

In short fiction there are quite a few collections that are either recently out or soon to be out that I hope to pick up including Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History.

There is a new William Gibson that might be interesting too.

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I just realized from just reading his previous books that I'm really looking forward to Max Gladstone's Full Fathom Five when it comes out next week.

Gladstone has created a really unique alternate world in which his magical Craft users a more like accountants and lawyers than mages, where Gods and Deathless Kings contend for power. His universe is so unusual it's hard to pin down the subgenre, which sometimes seems Urban Fantasy (or Gaslight Fantasy, the craft-based technology is so different it's hard to make a direct comparison to any real historical era) and sometimes seems Epic Fantasy. His first two books were entirely independent of each other. The first, Three Parts Dead, takes place in a God-worshiping city, and the second, Two Serpents Rise, entirely across the great ocean in a city of a Deathless King with an Aztec-flavored culture. (It also offered the first interesting rationale I've ever heard for human sacrifices to gods.)

I am definitely up for more Gladstone.


And speaking of authors I'm up for more from, Kameron Hurley begins a new series with The Mirror Empire next month. Looking forward to it, too. (It comes out on the same day as Scalzi's Lock In, so I'm probably going to read it second.) I enjoyed her God's War


Also, the latest Kate Daniels urban fantasy, Magic Breaks, comes out the end of this month.

[Hillary]

I've been intrigued by Gladstone's covers but haven't tried anything yet. I really enjoyed Kameron Hurley's Bel Dame Apocrypha books, but because of my series-reading preferences I probably won't check out Mirror Empire until its sequels are released. I'm interested in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy but will probably wait to tackle it until September, when the third book comes out.

Of summer release books that look like they straddle the spec fic/lit fic borders, I'm excited about Nick Harkaway's Tigerman: A novel, Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, and David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks (and all seem to be stand-alones to boot)! In fact, I'm so tempted (esp. by the Harkaway) that I'm considering breaking my self-imposed paperbacks-only purchasing rule -- a rule that for the moment is keeping me from diving into Elizabeth Bear's Eternal Sky trilogy.

[infael]

Words of Radiance, The High Druid, The Broken Eye, The Crimson Campaign, The Winds of Winter (pure fantasy. Ha!)

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Hillary wrote: "I've been intrigued by Gladstone's covers but haven't tried anything yet...."

I recommend them. He's imagned an incredible alternate world that makes it hard to slip the story into any familiar fantasy archetype. He's populated it with some terrific characters, and he writes really well.

Hillary wrote: " I'm considering breaking my self-imposed paperbacks-only purchasing rule..."

I used to have that rule, but these days it's more of a guideline :). (I've broken it twice this year so far, for the latest Lost Fleet and Expanse books. Four times, if you count non-fiction.) Besides, I think I owe Gladstone a purchase, since I read his first two books for free from the Hugo packet. :)


By the way, you mentioned intriguing covers. That cover for Tigerman seemed a real turnoff to me, in the "what were they thinking?" category. I hope the interior is better.

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infael wrote: "The Winds of Winter"

I think you'll be able to reuse that one in the "Books you're looking forward to in 2015" topic. :)