147 Forthcoming SF/F/H Books for June 2011
Here’s a huge sampling of forthcoming U.S. book releases for June 2011.
- 13 Curses by Michelle Harrison (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Afterblight Chronicles Omnibus by Simon Spurrier (Abaddon Books)
- Alien Invasion: The Ultimate Survival Guide for the Ultimate Attack by Travis S. Taylor & Bob Boan (Baen)
- Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari (Scholastic Press)
- Bad Girls Don’t Die: From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender (Hyperion Book CH)
- Battle of the Fang by Chris Wraight
- Between the Sea and Sky by Jaclyn Dolamore (Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books)
- Blood Red Road by Moira Young (Doubleday Canada)
- Blood Ties by Sharon Sala (Mira)
- Bloodforged (Ulrika the Vampire 2) by Nathan Long (Warhammer)
- Bullet (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter) by Laurell K. Hamilton (Jove)
- Changeling Moon by Dani Harper (Brava)
- Chasing the Moon by A. Lee Martinez (Orbit)
- Chicks Kick Butt by Rachel Caine & Kerrie L. Hughes (Tor Books)
- City of Ice (City Trilogy) by Laurence Yep (Starscape)
- City of the Snakes by Darren Shan (Grand Central Publishing)
- Concrete Savior (Dark Redemption, Book 2) by Yvonne Navarro (Pocket)
- Crusade by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguié (Simon Pulse)
- Damned Busters: To Hell and Back, Book 1 (Hell to Pay) by Matthew Hughes (Angry Robot)
- Dangerous Ways by Jack Vance (Subterranean)
- Dead of Veridon (Burn Cycle) by Tim Akers (Solaris)
- Dead on the Delta by Stacey Jay (Pocket)
- Deadline (Newsflesh, Book 2) by Mira Grant (Orbit)
- Deadly Dreams by Andre Norton (Baen)
- Degrees of Freedom (Samuil Petrovitch) by Simon Morden (Orbit)
- Desdaemona by Ben Macallan (Solaris)
- Dragon Castle by Joseph Bruchac (Dial)
- Dragon Soul by Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett (Spectra)
- Dwarfs (Warhammer) by Nick Kyme (Black Library)
- Elixir by Hilary Duff (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
- Empire of Gut and Bone (Game of Sunken Places) by M.T. Anderson (Scholastic Press)
- Ever Smaller by Albert Bleunard (Hollywood Comics)
- Everdark: The Dark Ink Chronicles by Elle Jasper (Signet)
- Everlasting (Immortals) by Alyson Noël (St. Martin’s Griffin)
- Fairy Bad Day by Amanda Ashby (Speak)
- Flood And Fire (Raiders’ Ransom) by Emily Diamand (The Chicken House)
- Fly Trap by Frances Hardinge (HarperCollins)
- Flying Blind: The Dragon Diaries by Deborah Cooke (NAL Trade)
- For Heaven’s Eyes Only: A Secret Histories Novel by Simon R. Green (Roc Hardcover)
- Forgotten by Cat Patrick (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Fort Freak (Wild Cards) by George R.R. Martin & Wild Cards Trust (Tor Books)
- Frostbound: The Dark Forgotten by Sharon Ashwood (Signet)
- Graveminder by Melissa Marr (William Morrow)
- Greed (Stories from the Golden Age) by L. Ron Hubbard (Galaxy Press)
- Happily Ever After by Gregory Maguire & Bill Willingham & Susanna Clarke & Neil Gaiman (Night Shade Books)
- Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey (Walker Childrens)
- Heart of the Highland Wolf by Terry Spear (Sourcebooks Casablanca)
- Hereafter by Tara Hudson (HarperTeen)
- Hex by Allen Steele (Ace Hardcover)
- Hexed by Ilona Andrews & Yasmine Galenorn & Allyson James & Jeanne C. Stein (Berkley)
- Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne (Del Rey)
- Hexes and Hemlines: A Witchcraft Mystery by Juliet Blackwell (Signet)
- Hit List (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 20) by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley Hardcover)
- Hot and Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance by (DAW)
- Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel by Karen Chance (Signet Select)
- Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma (Dutton Juvenile)
- Jim and the Flims by Rudy Rucker (Night Shade Books)
- Kiss of Snow (Psy-Changeling) by Nalini Singh (Berkley Hardcover)
- Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse) by James S.A. Corey (Orbit)
- Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, Book 5) by Ilona Andrews (Ace)
- Mind Games by Taylor Keating (Tor Paranormal Romance)
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books)
- My Dangerous Pleasure by Carolyn Jewel (Forever)
- Naamah’s Blessing (Kushiel’s Legacy) by Jacqueline Carey (Grand Central Publishing)
- Nightfall (A Dark Age Dawning Novel) by Ellen Connor (Berkley Trade)
- Nights of Villjamur (Legends of the Red Sun) by Mark Charan Newton (Spectra)
- Nightspell by Leah Cypess (Greenwillow Books)
- Passion (Fallen) by Lauren Kate (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
- Peake’s Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake by Mervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore (Overlook Hardcover)
- Pinion (Clockwork Earth Trilogy 3) by Jay Lake (Tor Books)
- Planet Stories: The Planet Killers by Robert Silverberg (Paizo Publishing, LLC.)
- Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George (Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books)
- Queen of the Dead (A Ghost and the Goth Novel) by Stacey Kade (Hyperion Book CH)
- Robopocalypse: A Novel by Daniel H. Wilson (Doubleday)
- Septimus Heap, Book Six: Darke by Angie Sage (Katherine Tegen Books)
- Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor Books)
- Shadow Walker (Berkley Sensation) by Allyson James (Berkley)
- Shadow’s Lure by Jon Sprunk (Pyr)
- Shadowborn (Darkborn Trilogy) by Alison Sinclair (Roc Trade)
- Shadowcry by Jenna Burtenshaw (Harper Collins, Inc.)
- Shannach – The Last: Farewell to Mars by Leigh Brackett (Haffner Press)
- Sinful Magic: A Wing Slayer Novel by Jennifer Lyon (Ballantine Books)
- Something Deadly This Way Comes (Madison Avery) by Kim Harrison (HarperCollins)
- Sourland: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
- Star Trek: Voyager: Children of the Storm by Kirsten Beyer (Star Trek)
- Star Wars – the Old Republic by Sean Williams (Titan)
- Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Conviction by Aaron Allston (LucasBooks)
- Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini (HarperTeen)
- Stargazer (Land of Elyon) by Patrick Carman (Scholastic Paperbacks)
- Storm Kissed: A Novel of the Nightkeepers (FINAL PROPHECY) by Jessica Andersen (Signet)
- Supernatural Noir by (Dark Horse)
- Sword of Fire and Sea: The Chaos Knight, Book One by Erin Hoffman (Pyr)
- The Ascension: A Super Human Clash by Michael Carroll (Philomel)
- The Best Horror of the Year Volume 2 by Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books)
- The Book of Dzur by Steven Brust (Tor Books)
- The Boy at the End of the World by Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books)
- The Breaking (Skinners) by Marcus Pelegrimas (Harper Voyager)
- The Circus of Dr. Lao, Second Edition (Bison Frontiers of Imagination) by Charles G. Finney (Bison Books)
- The Darkest Heart by Thea Devine (Gallery)
- The Darkness Beyond: A Paladin Novel by Alexis Morgan (Pocket Star)
- The Dead: An Enemy Novel by Charlie Higson (Hyperion Book CH)
- The Deadliest Bite (Jaz Parks) by Jennifer Rardin (Orbit)
- The Demon’s Surrender (Demon’s Lexicon) by Sarah Rees Brennan (Margaret K. McElderry)
- The Devil Colony: A Sigma Force Novel by James Rollins (William Morrow)
- The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June by Robin Benway (Razorbill)
- The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles) by Kady Cross (Harlequin)
- The Glass Demon: A Novel by Helen Grant (Bantam)
- The Hittite by Ben Bova (Forge Books)
- The Lost Heiress #2 (Relic Master) by Catherine Fisher (Dial)
- The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- The Morganville Vampires, Volume 4 by Rachel Caine (NAL Trade)
- The Mysterious Fluid by Paul Vibert (Hollywood Comics)
- The Neon Graveyard (Sign of the Zodiac, Book 6) by Vicki Pettersson (Harper Voyager)
- The Pack by Jason Starr (Ace Hardcover)
- The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore (Harper Collins, Inc.)
- The Quicksilver Faire: The Scions of Shadow Trilogy, Book 2 (The Faire Folk Saga) by Gillian Summers (Flux)
- The Revenant by Sonia Gensler (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
- The Ridge by Michael Koryta (Little, Brown and Company)
- The Seamstress and the Wind by César Aira (New Directions)
- The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert (Tor Books)
- The Sorceress of Karres by Eric Flint & Dave Freer (Baen)
- The Spectral Blaze: A Forgotten Realms Novel by Richard Lee Byers (Wizards of the Coast)
- The Stranger’s Woes: The Labyrinths of Echo, Book Two by Max Frei (Overlook Hardcover)
- The Uncertain Places by Lisa Goldstein (Tachyon Publications)
- The Vampire Narcise (Books of the Regency Draculia) by Colleen Gleason (Mira)
- The Vampire Stalker by Allison Van Diepen (Point)
- The Vengeance of the Oval Portrait by Gabriel de Lautrec (Hollywood Comics)
- The Waking: Spirits of the Noh (Waking – Trilogy) by Thomas Randall (Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books)
- The Warlock (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel) by Michael Scott (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
- The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011 Edition by Neil Gaiman & Elizabeth Hand & RJ Parker & Robert Reed & Gene Wolfe & Charles Yu (Prime Books)
- Thistle Down by Irene Radford (DAW)
- Timecaster by Joe Kimball (Ace)
- Titus Awakes: A Novel by Mervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore (Overlook Hardcover)
- Tongues of Serpents: A Novel of Temeraire by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
- Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon by Peter David (Titan)
- Tunnel Vision by Gary Braver (Forge Books)
- Under the Crimson Sun: Dark Sun: The Abyssal Plague by Keith R.A. DeCandido (Wizards of the Coast)
- Unnatural Issue: An Elemental Masters Novel by Mercedes Lackey (DAW Hardcover)
- Untold Adventures: A Dungeons & Dragons Anthology by John Shirley & Alan Dean Foster & Lisa Smedman & Mark Sehestedt & Mike Resnick (Wizards of the Coast)
- V Is for Vampire: An Illustrated Alphabet of the Undead by Adam-troy Castro (Harper Voyager)
- Vampire Warlords: The Clockwork Vampire Chronicles, Book 3 by Andy Remic (Angry Robot)
- Welcome to Bordertown by (Random House Books for Young Readers)
- What Distant Deeps (Rcn: Daniel Leary) by David Drake (Baen)
- Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family) by Melissa De La Cruz (Hyperion)
- World of Warcraft: The Shattering: Book One of Cataclysm by Christie Golden (Pocket Star)
- Year’s Best SF 16 by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Harper Voyager)
- Zombies Sold Separately: A Night Tracker Novel by Cheyenne McCray (St. Martin’s Paperbacks)
(Note: This was sourced from the March 2011 issue of Locus magazine, minus (most) reprints. Publication dates are subject to change, a fact more evident as the source information gets older.)
Anyone else notice how many of these look the same. And by “same” I mean “not particularly appealing”?
Hi John,
Absolutely love this feature. Please continue. As for appealing covers, I found enough that I liked. And the covers of the adaptations by Brian Stableford, Wow! Whi is the illustrator? Or is that illustrators. I do not know who Brian hired but I would like to know.
This is a great feature!
Two requests, though:
Will Hilary Duff be on the next podcast?
@SJL: Not easily, and these posts already take a fair chunk of time.
@Tam: 🙂