Forthcoming books for April 2011!

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

Hi everyone,

Here's the list of major forthcoming SFF books for the month of April. Please let us know if you're planning to read any of these!

Anderson, Poul: Flandry’s Legacy (#7 Technic Civilization Saga) (tp)
Asimov, Isaac: The End of Eternity (tp)
Bakker, R Scott: The White Luck Warrior (#2 Aspect-Emperor)
Beaulieu, Bradley P: The Winds of Khalakovo (tp)
Black, Jenna: Dark Descendant (#1 Nikki Glass) (pbo)
Bledsoe, Alex: Dark Jenny (tpo)
Bova, Ben: Able One (pap)
Brust, Steven: Tiassa
Canavan, Trudi: The Ambassador’s Mission (pap)
Chafe, Paul: Exodus: The Ark (Sequel to Genesis) (pap)
Cherryh, C J: Betrayer (#12 Foreigner)
Cook, Glen: A Matter of Time (tp)
Creasy, Sara: Children of Scarabaeus (pbo)
Estep, Jennifer: Tangled Threads (#4 Elemental Assassin) (pbo)
Flint, Eric: 1636: The Saxon Uprising
Greenwood, Ed: Falconfar (#3 Falconfar Trilogy) (pbo)
Harlan, Thomas: Land of the Dead (pap)
Jones, J V: Watcher of the Dead (#4 Sword of Shadows) (pap)
Kratman, Tom: The Amazon Legion
Lee / Miller: Longeye (Sequel to Duainfey) (pap)
Martinez, A. Lee: Divine Misfortune (pap)
Mcintosh, Will: Soft Apocalypse (tp)
Moon, Elizabeth: Kings of the North
Morden, Simon: Equations of Life (pbo)
Nye, Jody Lynn: The View from the Imperium (pbo)
Orullian, Peter: The Unremembered
Patton, Fiona: The Shining City (#3 Warriors of Estavia) (tpo)
Pehov, Alexey: Shadow Chaser
Pitts, J A: Black Blade Blues (pap)
Pohl, Frederik: All the Lives He Led
Preston / Child: Fever Dream (pap)
Redick, Robert V S: The River of Shadows (#3)
Robinson, Jeremy: Threshold (#3 Jack Sigler Chess Team)
Sawyer, Robert J: WWW: Wonder (#3)
Silverberg, Robert: Times Three (Hawksbill Station, Up the Line, Project Pendulum)
Spinrad, Norman: He Walked Among Us (tp)
Stauber, Katy: Revolution World (tp)
Strieber, Whitley: Hybrids
Valente, Catherynne M.: Deathless
Vaughn, Carrie: After the Golden Age
Wells, Martha: The Cloud Roads (tp)
Whates, Ian: The Noise Revealed (pbo)
Yolen / Snyder: Except the Queen (tp)
Eds. Martin / Dozois: Warriors Vol. 1 (pap)
Ed. Strahan: The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume 5 (tp)

Stefan

PS I get this list for a local bookstore - there may mistakes or omissions. Please feel free to add any missing books in the comments!

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

Nada for me this month.

One thing of interest was when I saw 'Except the Queen' by Yolen/Snyder it seemed really familiar, so I read the blurb and I remembered that I read a short story version of it in The Fair Folk anthology. I guess they made a full-length version of it, though since I wasn't all that impressed with the short story version, I think I'll pass.

Pity, since I have a thing for the Fae.

[Phoenixfalls]

Deathless!!!!!!

Though at least on her blog Valente was celebrating yesterday as its release date. . . ;)

And at some point I'll get to Betrayer, but I'm only on book #4 at the moment (what is Betrayer, #12?) so it will wait.

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

Phoenixfalls - apparently March 29th release dates are counted as April. Why I don't know, but that's how it is. The Steven Brust novel came out yesterday too. Maybe they look at the first weekend after the official date or something.

[Phoenixfalls]

Huh! Fascinating. . .

[Candiss]

I am definitely buying and reading Deathless, but I will personally continue to think of it as a March book. ;)

I would pick up the Brust if I were even close to caught up with the series. I love the Vlad Taltos series, but I'm sadly behind.

Here's one that's missing from the list:
Eona: The Last Dragoneye by Alison Goodman (2nd book in the young adult alt-Asia fantasy series, US hardcover release April 19, 2011)

[Nick]

Okay, Frederick Pohl is over 90 years young -- and he has a new novel out? -- -- Wow!

[Jim]

I might go for The Noise Revealed but I haven't read The Noise Within yet.

[Jea0126]

If I can find it in the used bookstore, I'll look to pick up Jones, J V: (pap)
Watcher of the Dead: Book Four of Sword of Shadows. Cavern of Black Ice and Fortress of Gray Ice were both good. I have Sword of Ice on TBR shelf and am looking forward to adding Watcher.

[Laurel]

I'm excited about The Cold Commands by Richard Morgan. Really enjoyed the characters in The Steel Remains and have eagerly anticipated the sequel!

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

Is that coming in April already? I thought I saw he just finished it. I'm excited about that one too, but depending on my schedule I may skip it and wait until the third book's out, then re-read the first book and the two new ones back to back.

[Laurel]

Goodreads has it as mid-April... Off to amazon to double check!

[Laurel]

Amazon says December 7th 2011 :(

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

Yep, that makes sense. Shame though. I don't know if you were in the group back when Richard joined - this is back when we were on Yahoo Groups. He participated in our discussion of Thirteen, which ended up one of the best book discussions we ever had.

[Laurel]

No, I found you all after you made the move to goodreads. Too bad, though!

[Snail in Danger (Sid)]

I intend to read Tiassa, plus Uncertain Allies and Teeth: Vampire Tales.

Also, for what it's worth, I read Except the Queen (when it was in HC, I guess, though via the library) and thought it was a pretty good read. Much better than a lot of the YA-ish faerie stuff that's out there.

I think Brust's book is counted as an April release for sales purposes. I read on Laura Anne Gilman's blog that the sales in the first month have some kind of significance, for purposes of counting sales. Determining whether or not something is a bestseller, maybe? I don't know/remember.

[Shel, Moderator]

Definitely will be reading Tiassa someday, but Brust doesn't *quite* make my authors I'll pay hardcover prices for list. So I'll be waiting for the pb.

(I'll be very disappointed if Khaavren doesn't make an appearance!)

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Tiassa, Kings of the North, and Fever Dream are on my list to watch for, but I *almost never* buy new books anymore. It just means I watch for a deal or wait for them to show up at the used book store.

I have some JV Jones & Fiona Patton books unread on my shelves. I probably will wait to see how I like those before buying more. And I'v heard some good things about Trudi Canavan but have never bought or read anything by her. She's on my "maybe I should check her out" list.

[Snail in Danger (Sid)]

Agreed, Kathi - I hardly ever buy new hardcover books. I will buy new mass market books, and sometimes a new trade paperback book. I get new-in-hardcover releases from the library instead.

[Candiss]

2 more additions:

April 14 - Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (young adult fantasy by the author of Who Fears Death)

April 15 - The Door to Lost Pages by Claude Lalumière

[Ken]

Looking forward to
Brust, Steven: Tiassa
Sawyer, Robert J.: Wonder

I am 2 Vlad books behind plus this one. I tend to hold off on reading favorite books till the last minute. I tend to wait till I need a good book once in a while and reach for a good book. One of the reach for books is Brust's Taltos series