It's that time of year - the period between about October and January (though it seems to be drifting toward Feb this year) when all the big fantasy and sci-fi releases start hitting the shelves! What's on your list?
Right Now- Ark (Stephen Baxter): the sequel to last year's Flood, which imagined a global, exponential flood first imagined to be climate change but later found to be something else. I'd completely forgotten that a sequel was coming 'til I started flicking through Baxter's collaborative work with Clarke this week (terrible thing to do during exams, but hey); I'm going to have to grab this when I get paid next week. Baxter is a master of the speculative, philosophical SF that Clarke is (was) famous for.
- Five Greatest Warriors (Matthew Reilly): not strictly fantasy/SF (and not even out in the UK or US 'til January), but I get sucked into Reilly's books. They're not deep in the slightest, but they're fantastic popcorn books, and the last one ended on a terrific cliffhanger
Coming Up- The Sending - Obernewtyn Chronicles, Book Six (Isobelle Carmody): I grew up with this series as a kid in school, but after the fourth book Carmody moved away from it - for ten years. The fifth was written last year (my jaw dropped when I saw it on the shelf), and now I'm hanging on for the last, which comes out in Feb, I believe. It looks at a medieval world set after 'The Great White': post-apocalyptic fantasy.
- The Fate of the Children (Ian Irvine): my favourite adult fantasy author, the one I've grown up with since Year 8 (my English teacher pushed me onto his first book when she saw that I wasn't being challenged by kids' books) - this sequence has gone through eleven books over two quartets and a trilogy, and The Fate of the Children promises to be the final trilogy. First book is supposed to be hitting Aud around Jan.
Man, so much to buy... and some great games this season too!
Fantasy/SF Season is Starting!
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