The View From Monday - February 26, 2019

Happy last Monday in February.

There are no debuts this week. From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Death & Honey by Kevin Hearne, Lila Bowen, and Chuck Wendig;

Kill the Farm Boy (The Tales of Pell 1) by Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson is out in Trade Paperback;

Sedona Sin (Sedona Pack 1) by Lisa Kessler;

Grey Sister (Book of the Ancestor 2) by Mark Lawrence is out in Mass Market Paperback;

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie;

Lost Souls (Soul Charmer 3) by Chelsea Mueller;

Final Exam (A Witch City Mystery 8) by Carol J. Perry;

and

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

February 25, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Sedona Sin (e)	Lisa Kessler	PNR - Sedona Pack 1
Lost Souls	Chelsea Mueller	UF - Soul Charmer 3

February 26, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Beast Arises: Volume 1	Dan Abnett Rob Sanders	SF - Warhammer 40,000
Phoenix Falling	Laura Bickle	CF - Wildlands 5
The Skaar Invasion	Terry Brooks	F - The Fall of Shannara 2
Mike Hammer - The Goliath Bone	Max Allan Collins Mickey Spillane	PI/H
The Librarians and the Pot of Gold (h2mm)	Greg Cox	CF/MTI - The Librarians 3
The Dark Powers of Tolkien	David Day	F/DF
One of Us (h2tp)	Craig DiLouie	CF/F/LF/MR
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction	Gardner Dozois (Ed)	SF - Anthology
The Blackest Heart	Brian Lee Durfee	F - The Five Warrior Angels 2
1636: The Vatican Sanction	Eric Flint Charles E. Gannon	SF - Ring of Fire 24
Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #2: A Selection of Novellas (e)	Lee Harris (Ed)	SF/F - Anthology
Broken Sun, Broken Moon	Brent Hayward	F/DF/SF - Collection
Kill the Farm Boy (h2tp)	Kevin Hearne Delilah S. Dawson	F/HU/FairyT/FolkT/LM - The Tales of Pell 1
The Darkest Lord (e)	Jack Heckel	F/HU/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Mysterium 3
Miss Violet and the Great War	Leanna Renee Hieber	HistF/SP - Strangely Beautiful 3
Skidding Into Oblivion	Brian Hodge	Occ/Sup/H/SS - Collection
Circle of the Moon	Faith Hunter	UF/CF/P - Soulwood 4
Mission to Methone (tp2mm)	Les Johnson	SF/HSF
Hole in the World	Brian Keene	DF - Lost Level Prequel
In the Land of the Everliving	Stephen R. Lawhead	F/HistF - Eirlandia 2
Grey Sister (h2mm)	Mark Lawrence	F - Book of the Ancestor 2
The Folded Land (tp2mm)	Tim Lebbon	DF/CF/H - Relics 2
The Raven Tower	Ann Leckie	F/LF
No Way	S. J. Morden	SF/HSF/SE - One Way 2
Awakened (h2mm)	James S. Murray Darren Wearmouth	H - Awakened 1
Final Exam	Carol J. Perry	PCM - A Witch City Mystery 8
The Homecoming	Andrew Pyper	LF/PsyTh
Chaos, A Fable	Rodrigo Rey Rosa Jeffrey Gray (Tr)	LF
Contact (ri)	Carl Sagan	SF/AC
The Priory of the Orange Tree	Samantha Shannon	F/CoA/FairyT/FolkT/LM
Captain Marvel: Liberation Run Prose Novel	Tess Sharpe	SH
You Had Me at Jaguar	Terry Spear	PNR - Heart of the Shifter 1
The Witchwood Crown (tp2mm)	Tad Williams	F/DF - Last King of Osten Ard 1
The Praxis (ri)	Walter Jon Williams	SF - Dread Empire's Fall 1
Thrawn: Alliances (h2mm)	Timothy Zahn	SF/SO - Star Wars: Thrawn 2
Cobra Traitor (tp2mm)	Timothy Zahn	SF - Cobra 10

February 28, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The American Superhero: Encyclopedia of Caped Crusaders in History	Richard A. Hall	HC
Death & Honey	Kevin Hearne Lila Bowen Chuck Wendig	F/Sup/UF
More Walls Broken	Tim Powers	F/SF

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade Paperback to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AC - Alien Contact
AP - Apocalyptic
Bio - Biographical
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GH - Ghost(s)
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
Hu - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
NF - Near Future
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Parnormal Cozy Mystery
PI - Private Investigators
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PP - Police Procedural
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
RF - Romantic Fantasy
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
VisM - Visionary and Metaphysical

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

The View From Monday - July 9, 2018

Happy Monday!

There are 3 debuts this week:

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living by Rachel Heng;

An Ocean of Minutes by Theodora Lim;

and

Game of the Gods by Jay Schiffman.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

From formerly featured DAC Authors:

I Only Killed Him Once (Ray Electromatic Mysteries 3) by Adam Christopher;

William Shakespeare's Jedi the Last: Star Wars Part the Eighth by Ian Doescher;

Awaken the Darkness (Immortal Guardians 8) by Dianne Duvall;

Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy 2) by Ruthanna Emrys;

Provenance by Ann Leckie is out in Trade Paperback;

The Truants by Lee Markham is out in Trade Paperback;

Rogue Souls (Soul Charmer 2) by Chelsea Mueller;

and

Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore is out in Trade Paperback;

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

July 9, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Rogue Souls (e)	Chelsea Mueller	UF - Soul Charmer 2

July 10, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
River of Bones	Taylor Anderson	AH/SF - Destroyermen 13
Paternus: Wrath of Gods	Dyrk Ashton	F - The Paternus Trilogy 2
Heart of Granite	James Barclay	SF/F - Blood & Fire 1
A Grand Tour Collection: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Tales of the Grand Tour, Powersat, Mercury, Titan, Mars Life, Leviathans of Jupiter, Farside, New Earth (e)	Ben Bova	SF/SO - Grand Tour Series
The Naming of the Beasts	Mike Carey	SupTh/Occ/Sup/UF/GH - Felix Castor 5
I Only Killed Him Once	Adam Christopher	SF/PI/Noir - Ray Electromatic Mysteries 3
Crusade	Andy Clark	SF - Black Library Summer Reading
The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact	Neil Clarke (Ed)	SF - Anthology
The Rat Catchers' Olympics (h2tp)	Colin Cotterill	M/Cr/Hist/MR - A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery 12
Black Legion (h2tp)	Aaron Dembski-Bowden	SF - Black Legion 2
William Shakespeare's Jedi the Last: Star Wars Part the Eighth	Ian Doescher	SF/SO - William Shakespeare's Star Wars 8
Awaken the Darkness	Dianne Duvall	PNR - Immortal Guardians Series 8
Deep Roots	Ruthanna Emrys	SF/HistF - The Innsmouth Legacy 2
Resurrection (h2tp)	John French	SF - The Horusian Wars 1
The Lost Country	William Gay	Southern Gothic
Graveyard Mind	Chadwick Ginther	H/DF/GH/CF
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman	Theodora Goss	F - The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club 2
Suicide Club: A Novel About Living (D)	Rachel Heng	LF/Dys/FL
City of Secrets	Nick Horth	F - Black Library Summer Reading
Assault on Black Reach	Nick Kyme	SF - Black Library Summer Reading
Provenance (h2tp)	Ann Leckie	SF/HSF/SO
An Ocean of Minutes (D)	Thea Lim	LF
Ulrika the Vampire	Nathan Long	F - Warhammer Chronicles 7
The Truants (h2tp)	Lee Markham	H
A Wild Cards Collection: The Fort Freak Triad: Fort Freak, Lowball, High Stakes (e)	George R. R. Martin	SF/SH - Wild Cards
Metamorphica: Fiction	Zachary Mason	LF/LM
It's Not the End and Other Lies	Matt Moore	SF - Collection
Spinning Silver	Naomi Novik	F/FairyT
Reincarnation Blues (h2tp)	Michael Poore	CF/LF/FR
Hammerhal	Josh Reynolds	F - Black Library Summer Reading
Soul Wars	Josh Reynolds	F - Soul Wars 1
The Life and Adventures of Joaquí­n Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit	John Rollin Ridge	Hispanic & Latino Fiction/FolkT/LM
Game of the Gods (D)	Jay Schiffman	SF/Dys
Infinity's End	Jonathan Strahan (Ed)	SF - Anthology
Death Of A Clone	Alex Thomson	SF
Sin of Damnation	Gav Thorpe	SF - Black Library Summer Reading
The Spin Saga Trilogy (e)	Robert Charles Wilson	SF/HSF/PA - Spin
Schisms	James Wolanyk	SF - Scribe Cycle 1
Wolf King	Chris Wraight	SF - Black Library Summer Reading
Halcyon	Rio Yours	SupTh

July 11, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Nothing Really Matters in Life More Than Love	Agustí­n Fernández Paz Pablo Auladell (Tr)	F - Anthology - Small Stations Fiction 14

July 12, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Steam Pump Jump (e)	Jodi Taylor	SF/TT - The Chronicles of St. Mary's

July 13, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Promise of Air/The Garden of Survival	Algernon Blackwood	LF/F

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade Paperback to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Woman
CyP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
Fict - Fiction
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humor
HuF - Humorous Fantasy
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
MU - Mash Up
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PI - Private Investigator
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
RF - Romantic Fantasy
RS - Romantic Suspense
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SS - Short Stories
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

2018 Audie Award Finalists

The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2018 Audie Award® finalists in 26 categories. Winners will be revealed at the Audies® Gala on May 31, 2018, at the New-York Historical Society in New York City.

Finalists for Audiobook of the Year will be announced at a later date. Finalists for Excellence in Design, Excellence in Marketing, Excellence in Production will be announced on March 19th.


AUDIO DRAMA

• Brother Francis: The Barefoot Saint of Assisi by Paul McCusker, narrated by over 30 actors including Joseph Timms, Owen Teale, and Geoffrey Palmer, published by Augustine Institute
• Cicero by David Llewellyn, narrated by Samuel Barnett and George Naylor, published by Big Finish Productions
• The Mean, written and narrated by John Arthur Long, published by Blackstone Audio
• Treasure Island: An Audible Original Drama by Robert Louis Stevenson and Marty Ross, narrated by Philip Glenister, Daniel Mays, Catherine Tate, Owen Teale, and Gerran Howell, published by Audible Studios
• The Tug of War by David Rambo, narrated by Matthew Arkin, Hugo Armstrong, Seamus Dever, Matthew Floyd Miller, James Morrison, David Selby, Rich Sommer, Josh Stamberg, Nick Toren, John Vickery, and Jules Willcox, published by LA Theatre Works

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

• Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, written and narrated by Al Franken, published by Hachette Audio
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, written and narrated by Trevor Noah, published by Audible Studios
• Born to Run, written and narrated by Bruce Springsteen, published by Simon & Schuster Audio
• Nevertheless, written and narrated by Alec Baldwin, published by HarperAudio
• We're Going to Need More Wine, written and narrated by Gabrielle Union, published by HarperAudio
• What Happened, written and narrated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, published by Simon & Schuster Audio

The View From Monday - September 25, 2017

Happy Last Monday in September!

There are 2 debuts this week:

The Visitors by Catherine Burns;

and

Leech Girl Lives by Rick Claypool.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

From formerly featured DAC Authors:

War and Craft (America Craft 3) by Tom Doyle;

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard;

Provenance by Ann Leckie;

Of Flame and Fate (A Weird Girls Novel 8) by Cecy Robson;

The Eternity War: Pariah (The Eternity War 1) by Jamie Sawyer;

Everfair by Nisi Shawl is out in Trade Paperback;

and

Horizon (Bone Universe 3) by Fran Wilde.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

September 25, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Warlord Wants Forever (e)(ri)	Kresley Cole	PNR - Immortals after Dark
Forsaken by Night (e)	Larissa Ione	PNR - Moonbound Clan Vampires 3
Lazy Son	Eve Langlais	PNR - Hell's Son 1
Dark Swan (e)	Gena Showalter	PNR - Alien Huntress 3

September 26, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Sound of Seas (h2tp)	Gillian Anderson Jeff Rovin	SF - The EarthEnd Saga 3
Lost Gods (h2tp)	Brom	DF
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (ri)	Lois McMaster Bujold	SF - Vorkosigan Saga 17
The Visitors (D)	Catherine Burns	PsyTh
Ender's Game Gift Edition	Orson Scott Card	SF - The Ender Quintet
Leech Girl Lives (D)	Rick Claypool	SF/HU
Paradox Bound	Peter Clines	SF/H/TT
Wolf Unbound (ri)	Lauren Dane	PNR - Cascadia Wolves 4
Blade Runner (ri)	Philip K. Dick	MTI/SF
War and Craft	Tom Doyle	CF/SF - American Craft 3
Planet of the Apes Omnibus 3	George Alec Effinger	MTI/SF - Planet of the Apes
Castaway Odyssey (h2mm)	Eric Flint Ryk E. Spoor	SF/SO - Boundary 5
Alien: Covenant Origins - The Official Prequel to the Blockbuster Film	Alan Dean Foster	MTI/SF - Alien
Kane (e)(ri)	Jacquelyn Frank	PNR - Nightwalkers 1.5
Neverwhere Illustrated Edition	Neil Gaiman	SF
Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse	James Goss	TV/SF
An Angel's Touch (h2mm)	Heather Graham	R/F/FR
Slayers & Vampires: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Buffy & Angel	Edward Gross Mark A. Altman	TV/HC
The Cocktail Guide to the Galaxy: A Universe of Unique Cocktails from the Celebrated Doctor Who Bar	Andy Heidel	Beverages/SF
An Unkindness of Magicians	Kat Howard	DF
Original Sin	David R. George III	SF - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Sleeping Beauties	Stephen King Owen King	Th/Sus
Provenance	Ann Leckie	SF
Star Trek: Discovery: Desperate Hours	David Mack	SF - Star Trek: Discovery 1
The Corporation Wars: Emergence	Ken MacLeod	SF/SO - Second Law Trilogy 3
When the Floods Came	Clare Morrall	LF
The Hunt	Chloe Neill	UF/PA - A Devil's Isle Novel 3
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School (tp2mm)	Kim Newman	F/P/H/AH
The Two of Swords: Part Nineteen (e)	K. J. Parker	F - Two of Swords
Death (e)	Madhuri Pavamani	FR - Keeper Series 3
Of Flame and Fate (e)	Cecy Robson	PNR - A Weird Girls Novel 8
Immortally Yours	Lynsay Sands	PNR - An Argeneau Novel 23
Savage Woods	Mary SanGiovanni	H
The Eternity War: Pariah	Jamie Sawyer	SF - The Eternity War 1
Everfair (h2tp)	Nisi Shawl	SP/HistF/AH
Archangel's Viper	Nalini Singh	PNR - Guild Hunter 10
Oceans: The Anthology (e)	David Smith (Ed)	SpecFic - Anthology
Extinction End	Nicholas Sansbury Smith	SF/PA/AP - The Extinction Cycle 5
Ghost in the Shell: The Official Movie Novelization	James Swallow	MTI/SF
The Lilitu, Primordial, The Cain Prophecy	Toby Tate	SF - The Lilitu Trilogy
Your Brother's Blood (h2tp)	David Towsey	SF - The Walkin' Trilogy 1
The Chosen (h2mm)	J.R. Ward	PNR - Black Dagger Brotherhood 15
Horizon	Fran Wilde	F - Bone Universe 3
The Emperor's Legion	Chris Wraight	SF - Watchers of the Throne 1
The Black Tides of Heaven	JY Yang	F - The Tensorate Series Novella
The Red Threads of Fortune	JY Yang	F - The Tensorate Series Novella

September 27, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Crossing Over (e)	Margaret Dunlap	UF/M - Bookburners Season 3 #11

September 28, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Belador Cosaint (e)	Dianna Love	PNR - Belador 9
The Wind	Jay Caselberg	Sus/H - NewCon Press Novellas Set 2 4

September 29, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Visionary Tongue	Storm Constatine (Ed)	SpecFic - Anthology

September 30, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
River's Edge	James P. Blaylock	SupTh
University	Bentley Little	H
The Collection	Bentley Little	H
The Policy	Bentley Little	H
The Summoning	Bentley Little	H
The Emperor and the Maula	Robert Silverberg	SF/AC

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
Illus - Illustrator
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CB - Coloring Book
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
CulH - Cultural Heritage
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PI - Private Investigator
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PopCul - Popular Culture
PRS - Paranormal Romantic Suspense
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
RSus - Romantic Suspense
Satire - Satire
Sc - Science
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
UFR - Urban Fantasy Romance
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

Covers Revealed - Recent and Upcoming Works by DAC Authors

Here are some of the recently released and upcoming works by formerly featured DAC Authors! The year in parentheses is the year the author was featured in the DAC.

Ann Leckie (2013)

Provenance
Orbit, September 26, 2017
Hardcover and eBook, 448 pages

Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright.

A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned.

Ingray and her charge will return to her home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family, and her world, before they are lost to her for good.

Amazon : Barnes and Noble : Book Depository : Books-A-Million : IndieBound

Google Play : iBooks : Kobo

The Imperial Radch Boxed Trilogy: Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, and Ancillary Mercy
Orbit, September 19, 2017
Trade Paperback, 1248 pages

About Ancillary Justice

The only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards and the first book in Ann Leckie’s New York Times bestselling trilogy.

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.

Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.

Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.


About Ancillary Sword

The sequel to Ancillary Justice, the only novel to ever win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards and the second book in Ann Leckie’s New York Times bestselling series.

Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.

With a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only place in the galaxy she would agree to go: to Athoek Station to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew - a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood


About Ancillary Mercy

Ancillary Mercy is the stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy and winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station’s slums turns up someone who shouldn’t exist, and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq’s enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai - ruler of an empire at war with itself.

Breq refuses to flee with her ship and crew, because that would leave the people of Athoek in terrible danger. The odds aren’t good, but that’s never stopped her before.

[Note: the publisher does not provide a description for the boxed set. Description are the publisher's for each volume.]

Amazon : Barnes and Noble : Book Depository : Books-A-Million : IndieBound

Cecy Robson (2012)

Of Flame And Light
Weird Girls Flame 1
Cecy Robson, October 18, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBooks, 346 pages

Taran Wird holds the unique ability to conjure fire and lightning. She is mated to Gemini, Second in Command to the Squaw Valley Pack of the Lake Tahoe Region, and the sole werewolf to possess the ability to split into two wolves. And although they are mates, Taran’s insecurities have driven them apart.

Devastated by an injury that left her with a zombie-like limb, Taran struggles to regain command over her magic. But when her arm and her power turn against her, lashing out on those she most loves, she knows she can no longer carry this burden alone. Not that she likes the alternative.

The only way to regain control of her magic is to align and learn from the local coven of witches―the very ones who sought to banish her when she and her three unique sisters first moved to the mystical region. But although Taran is trying, the teachings don’t come easy, and the tasks leave her weak and emotionally shattered.

Yet Taran must learn and learn fast. Time is running out. The fire she once mastered so easily has become her greatest adversary and is now slowly burning her alive . . .

Amazon : Barnes and Noble : Book Depository : Books-A-Million : IndieBound

Google Play : iBooks : Kobo

Jamie Sawyer (2016)

The Eternity War: Pariah
The Eternity War 1
Orbit, September 26, 2017
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 480 pages

The first novel in a brand-new series from rising SF star Jamie Sawyer, The Eternity War: Pariah is an action-packed adventure set in the same universe as his acclaimed Lazarus War novels.

The soldiers of the Simulant Operations Programme are mankind’s elite warriors. Veterans of a thousand battles across a hundred worlds, they undertake suicidal missions to protect humanity from the insidious Krell Empire and the mysterious machine race known as the Shard.

Lieutenant Keira Jenkins is an experienced simulant operative and leader of the Jackals, a team of raw recruits keen to taste battle. They soon get their chance when the Black Spiral terrorist network seizes control of a space station.

Yet no amount of training could have prepared the Jackals for the deadly conspiracy they soon find themselves drawn into - a conspiracy that is set to spark a furious new war across the galaxy.

Amazon : Barnes and Noble : Book Depository : Books-A-Million : IndieBound

Google Play : iBooks : Kobo

The View From Monday - September 18, 2017

Happy Monday!

There is one debut this week -

Autonomous by Annalee Newitz.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Of Sand and Malice Made (A Shattered Sands Novel) by Bradley P. Beaulieu is out in Trade Paperback;

Wickedly Spirited (A Baba Yaga Novella ) by Deborah Blake

Danger's Halo (Holly Danger 1) by Amanda Carlson

Blade of Darkness (Immortal Guardians 7) by Dianne Duvall

Demon Hunting with a Sexy Ex (Demon Hunter 5) by Lexi George

Light of the the Spirit (Muse Chronicles 4) by Lisa Kessler

The Imperial Radch Boxed Trilogy: Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, and Ancillary Mercy by Anne Leckie;

Null States (The Centenal Cycle 2) by Malka Older

Into the Woods (Bookburners Season 3 #10) by Andrea Phillips;

The Exiled King (Bone Magic 4) by Sarah Remy

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

September 18, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Danger's Halo (e)	Amanda Carlson	SF/AP/PA - Holly Danger 1
An Orchard in the Street (e)	Reginald Gibbons	LF/VM/SS - American Readers Series
Witches Brew: Stories for the Season	Paula Guran (Ed)	F - Anthology
Light of the Spirit (e)	Lisa Kessler	FR - Muse Chronicles 4
An Unkindness of Ghosts (e)	Rivers Solomon	SF/SO/LF/AP/PA

September 19, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Of Sand and Malice Made (h2tp)	Bradley P. Beaulieu	F/DF - A Shattered Sands Novel
Wickedly Spirited (e)	Deborah Blake	PNR - A Baba Yaga Novella
Successor's Promise	Trudi Canavan	F - Millennium's Rule 3
House on the Forgotten Coast	Ruth Coe Chambers	M/PNR/RSus
Wicked Abyss (h2mm)	Kresley Cole	PNR - Immortals After Dark 17
Trinity (ri)(e)	Lauren Dane	PNR - de La Vega Cats 1
Blade of Darkness	Dianne Duvall	PNR - Immortal Guardians 7
Whispers of Warning	Jessica Estevao	Hist/M - A Change of Fortune Mystery 2
Kung Fu High School (ri)	Ryan Gattis	Cr/Dys
Demon Hunting with a Sexy Ex	Lexi George	PNR - Demon Hunter 5
Wicked Deeds	Heather Graham	SupTh - Krewe of Hunters 23
Grave Danger	S.K. Gregory	PNR - Aurelia Graves
A Dream Given Form: The Unofficial Guide to the Universe of Babylon 5	Ensley F. Guffey K. Dale Koontz	LC/SF
Dark Debts (h2tp)	Karen Hall	Th
The Wicked (e)	Thea Harrison	PNR - Elder Races Novella
Strangers of the Night and Witch's Hunger	Megan Hart Deborah LeBlanc	PNR
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction	Grady Hendrix	LC/H/Sup
Blood of Sanguinius	Darius Hinks	SF - Mephiston 1
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017 Edition	Rich Horton (Ed)	SF - Anthology
The Legion Prophecy	Mark A. Latham	UF - Lazarus Gate 3
The Imperial Radch Boxed Trilogy: Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, and Ancillary Mercy	Ann Leckie	SF - Imperial Radch
Stranger of Tempest	Tom Lloyd	F - God Fragments 1
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld	Patricia A. McKillip	F/MR/HistF/FR
New Fears - New horror stories by masters of the genre	Mark Morris (Ed)	H - Anthology
Autonomous (D)	Annalee Newitz	SF
Null States	Malka Older	SF/CyP/TechTh/Pol - The Centenal Cycle 2
The Two of Swords: Part Eighteen (e)	K. J. Parker	F - Two of Swords
Poison	Sarah Pinborough	DF - Fairy Tales 1
The Exiled King (e)	Sarah Remy	F - Bone Magic 4
A Small Charred Face	Kazuki Sakuraba	Gothic
Words of Radiance (ri)	Brandon Sanderson	F - Stormlight Archive 2
Zero-G: Green Space	William Shatner Jeff Rovin	SF - Samuel Lord 2
Sisters of Battle: The Omnibus	James Swallow	SF - Sisters of Battle
Desert Wolf and Protector Wolf	Linda Thomas-Sundstrom Linda O. Johnston	PNR

September 20, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Into the Woods (e)	Andrea Phillips	UF/M - Bookburners Season 3 #10

September 22, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Runabout (e)	Kristine Kathryn Rusch	SF - Diving 6

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
Illus - Illustrator
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



Absurdist - Absurdist
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CB - Coloring Book
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
CulH - Cultural Heritage
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PI - Private Investigator
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PopCul - Popular Culture
PRS - Paranormal Romantic Suspense
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
RSus - Romantic Suspense
Satire - Satire
Sc - Science
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
UFR - Urban Fantasy Romance
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

Orbit 10th Anniversary eBook Sale

Through next Monday, July 31st, Orbit is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary with $2.99 e-book deals on 10 of its most popular titles. Happy Anniversary, Orbit!

2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Orbit, May 22, 2012
eBook, 576 pages

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best SF Novel of the Year

The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.

The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.

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Ancillary Justice
Imperial Radch 1
by Ann Leckie
Orbit, October 1, 2013
eBook, 432 pages

The only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards and the first book in Ann Leckie's New York Times bestselling trilogy.

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.

Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.

Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.

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Blood of Elves
Witcher 1
by Andrzej Sapkowski
Orbit, May 1, 2009
eBook, 416 pages

The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher.

For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf.

Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as The Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world - for good, or for evil.

As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is hunted for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt's responsibility to protect them all - and the Witcher never accepts defeat.

Blood of Elves is the first full-length Witcher novel, and the perfect follow up if you've read The Last Wish collection.

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Feed
Newsflesh 1
by Mira Grant
Orbit, May 1, 2010
eBook, 608 pages

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.

Now, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them.

FEED is the electrifying and critically acclaimed novel of a world a half-step from our own---a novel of geeks, zombies, politics and social media.

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The Fifth Season
Broken Earth 1
by N. K. Jemisin
Orbit, August 4, 2015
eBook, 512

"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015)

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2016

This is the way the world ends...for the last time.

A season of endings has begun.

It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun.

It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter.

It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.

This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

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The Girl With All the Gifts
by M. R. Carey
Orbit, June 10, 2014
eBook, 416 pages

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius."

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.

The Girl With All the Gifts is a groundbreaking thriller, emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end.

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Leviathan Wakes
Expanse 1
by James S. A. Corey
Orbit, June 15, 2011
eBook, 592 pages

The first book in the landmark Expanse series, now a major television series from Syfy!

Leviathan Wakes is James S. A. Corey's first novel in the epic, New York Times bestselling series the Expanse, a modern masterwork of science fiction where humanity has colonized the solar system.

Two hundred years after migrating into space, mankind is in turmoil. When a reluctant ship's captain and washed-up detective find themselves involved in the case of a missing girl, what they discover brings our solar system to the brink of civil war, and exposes the greatest conspiracy in human history.

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Red Country
by Joe Abercrombie
Orbit, November 13, 2012
eBook, 480 pages

A New York Times bestseller!

They burned her home.
They stole her brother and sister.
But vengeance is following.

Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried.

Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into an alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust . . .

RED COUNTRY takes place in the same world as the First Law trilogy, Best Served Cold, and The Heroes. This novel also represents the return of Logen Ninefingers, one of Abercrombie's most beloved characters.

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Soulless
Parasol Protectorate 1
by Gail Carriger
Orbit, October 1, 2009
eBook, 416 pages

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.

Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.

With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?

SOULLESS is the first book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.

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The Way of Shadows
Night Angel Trilogy 1
by Brent Weeks
Orbit, October 1, 2008
eBook, 688

From New York Times bestselling author Brent Weeks...

For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist.

For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.

But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.

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