It's Monday once again, as it is every seven days, and so it's time for this weekly post again. In case you haven't seen the disclaimer before: these are things that showed up in my mailbox last week, sent by the nice publicists of the publishing business, and are all brand-new or still-upcoming books. I haven't read any of them yet, but, for the past few years, I haven't let
that stop me from describing them in what I hope is a usually positive way to whoever is out there reading this.
I'll start with the book with the best title of the week: Nancy Kress's new short novel
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vrx5l_aAiZnO4ipNPe0gzIibHQdv_NeJ46W2hvwZs_tp6zM2jj899_jSykdY8FfnllWJCDXyqpeTrn5luFzzawOC6WGVQ-et1pvFcpbp20YD94L-Z_zkWrnkpk5GHvlD8SNV3OqMg7bOVnU50S=s0-d)
, which is being published by Tachyon in trade paperback in April. It's a post-apocalypse story in which aliens arrived in 2014, destroyed the Earth's environment, and killed all but about two dozen humans. That could have been a rounding error, but they were deliberately saved, stuck in an enclosure called the Shell, and allowed to have children -- the main story begins in 2035, when their six gene-damaged teenage children are beginning to operate a time machine to kidnap genetically strong children from just before the attack. I'm usually violently against novels that kill me and my family -- and I do intend to be alive in 2014, thank you very much -- but maybe, just maybe, I'd give Kress the benefit of the doubt.
Also from Tachyon is a new novel from Charles de Lint,
Eyes Like Leaves![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vLnAkgVf8sGWWIcRa3XL5OQtX1pZ8aJxnF1Z4OTjIFU3wLUiTWoc_gFdDzqYIVXwi4qpd_6u38AHqf2Ql2H_M8HnLq2VZg39DoFtFfnlcwO9XdEIkgyOEnkw-gYQfyIhJIr1Pyi4DkTRcCmAvr=s0-d)
. Unusually for him, it's an epic fantasy set in a world inspired by Celtic and Norse mythologies, centering on the conflict between two gods, the Summerlord and the Icelord. This one's coming as a trade paperback in February.
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My first sequel this week is A.M. Dellamonica's
Blue Magic![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vdXCyrBviF4aE-jehpVhdBLPAkZ8NuK22u5jtsS-1_PwQVbOcjXFVi-HkRI89qfMhCNxE5j3WFB7o1SlZOtDQtjaq_3D28IF2LrbdfvwHukosibuIX7ZiQPduthvDivB6mPY3OBfk0fTYlgEjK=s0-d)
, which follows last year's contemporary fantasy
Indigo Springs![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tTO7Y60weTZnnN0gc08R2zKq1TyDD1v2Ywkica9QVJGXKmdnE_5eT0_htcYezEgTWF4PV89KZXVkfUlN6HNqxj4bKSlW77POBfDKZC9Zud6pkwZjjlMnAN1ecv-lP5FgMEXZjcQJPwHWD0iZc=s0-d)
and continues the story of the underground river of pure magic (Vithagua) and the two people who found it: one of whom wants to rule the world, the other to heal it. This one is a trade paperback from Tor in April.
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Also from Tor and also a sequel -- but published last week in hardcover -- is the latest Enderverse novel from Orson Scott Card,
Shadows in Flight![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_t6aA64HSSlm4qw_sf8phYcfZCjHFNoMlbU9fGftRvQvLptKFF1atkk5OcOq-Bl7MwjWmtOeYH-U70n8SbLh2N2hlkWEQi5jk_0Oi3pU98nn_ss72sG98ZYkgk9bhAhEnfjLNr_gRou41q0mIMQ=s0-d)
. I believe this is the fifth in the side-series following Bean, who was once Ender's right-hand
man boy but is now a fourteen-foot twenty-two-year-old, traveling the stars with his super-genius six-year-old triplets, but I will admit that I'm not a huge reader of this series, to put it mildly.
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch's
Boneyards![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vdTFH3YKVTzSmgif0QNuXjEkDGQJxszyp44fCHc0Xt-bC2l_IIPbqp4KQ6nT34fZFuEeXlFhh8CdSR9slamgubmlimlMwL_zQHCT7DT_i-MRdLziiPh9qVS9ByyiTBB2gqYHvJjykjOKWrH6s=s0-d)
is also a sequel: it's the third in the space-archeology series that includes
Diving into the Wreck![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_v0B2DpUoB9jHWhRnbihskPv4jmm97u4gM_zYBtKAE6WZ4yeKtb7xhvoz5kUssB_bIJGfTEzJoFWVYJJfTfZvygbxd1aMLZshg5omZba0OR1G-OMUPW_fqYyuID9onlPXEgK1IBGFkHtC28lOA=s0-d)
and
City of Ruins![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_v--86PtDPGs3be6LqnUwMelHc4x3ECb6XNdjmf8A09lyjFgHQl3ZR8FHhB3HsZmKKUQtJqdg0c3-CrhmQK4B3ukHdqk3W45xbXc92dvWHlufreLRa3ryxdpSGlz8QW37X6-YAeuphKE4JwyqeW=s0-d)
. This time, series hero Boss is in a new sector of space facing new dangers, and her old friend Squishy (
Squishy?) is in danger in the Enterran Empire and in desperate need of being saved. This one is a trade paperback from Pyr, and officially hit stores last week.
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And last this time is another third book in a series from Pyr: Mark Hodder's
Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tAqGbHnXDuZ_ukdDuPgMfihh2UxbiRb95380cI5QMidmfMrPuHlI_YD-nRxxluD3fi-K-IDzh0J55bexXzy481ryuGdHa7XD1QJX9dhueeCYj7yOKD2Ndm7s1EB_KNZWWvEh8U7cybA84HAy7T=s0-d)
, another adventure of Sir Richard Francis Burton and Algernon Charles Swinburne, secret agents for the British Crown in a steampunky altered 1860s, as they race to find the third of the fabled Eyes of Naga so that Lord Palmerston can manipulate time to avoid a world war. This declares itself to be the finale of the trilogy, so if you've been hoarding
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vlRcyvafwTcp9IkLVS8k8-TmxRm93v8oCPW0L89FI40lmeBMBOy9p-7o2yuv-WMESREHRQaQzYqNzV3DwltTqZjhnxXwC0gxKHng4aAPtVyHsT__7MQwSx30C1lumqZRcIGt249e_d5nbxDLQ=s0-d)
and
The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vcNvht6l-s0OQWdGNYZ3L0nmGKWB0_AyuXodnzC-e0K7aRbVSW62ut2HYvsX_eHHrFeIJ8cGMY9nYwiAZsChRj-q6Z4-bi4sCuqG6jMo6_S0bcxLVzCyCeFMODlLswJ8ru78b4iwDNeeHxygkI=s0-d)
, now is the time to start reading. This one hit stores on January 10th, so many of you might already have it.
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