What ’s new for February ? Cherie Priest tries her script at speculative - shtup bloodsuckers . There ’s also extrasensory police force , feminist drudge , and an ARG that sparkle a rotation that may overturn a whole government .
Midnight Riot , Ben Aaronovitch ( Del Rey )
This urban phantasy from Doctor Who alum Aaronovitch introduces Peter Grant , aspiring detective inspector of London ’s Metropolitan Police . His betting odds do n’t look too good , though , because his supervisor is in the procedure of assigning him to the most boring unit imaginable . But Peter has an ace in the hole : It turns out he can speak to the recently dead , an invaluable plus to the supernatural wing of the military force . Detective Chief Inspector — and wizard — Thomas Nightingale takes placard and snag Grant as an prentice to help dish out with London ’s extrasensory crimes . A crisis promptly erupts .
Bloodshot , Cherie Priest ( Del Rey )
Cherie Priest leave behind behind the steampunk Wild West for modern - day vampires with her latest release , Bloodshot . She inaugurate Raylene Pendle , AKA Chesire Red , daring nonlegal acquirer of matter , former flapper , and under - the - radar vampire . She takes a business chase down some sensitive government info for a fellow vampire who ’s been wrong by Uncle Sam and trip onto some serious military sketchiness .
God ’s War , Kameron Hurley ( Night Shade Books )
Nyx is bounty huntsman on a far - next planet ( subside long ago by Muslims spacefarers and running on worm - base tech ) bust up with a warfare that ’s raged for ages with no remainder in sight , campaign by magicians and assassins and triggerman for hire . But she ’s also a former government assassin , and her old bosses require her to tail down a powerful off - world technology that could finish the combat .
Deep State , Walter Jon Williams ( Orbit )
The last mates of weeks have made Walter Jon Williams ’s subsequence toThis Is Not A Gameeerily prescient . He brings back Dagmar Shaw , who ’s in near - future Turkey , run a massive alternate reality game and staying out of bother with the heavy - handed government . Then a admirer approaches her with a new project — an ARG meant to begin a rotation . Read Wiliams ’ essay about the bookhere .
If Nothing ’s A Game , Then Everything Is
https://gizmodo.com/how-life-is-imitating-science-fiction-in-egypt-5751156
Life , Liberty , and the Pursuit of Sausages , Tom Holt ( Orbit )
There ’s another trippy , harum-scarum Tom Holt adventure hitting the shelves this month . Life , Liberty , and the Pursuit of Sausages follows poor Polly Mayer , who might or might not be going crazy . affair like her deep brown and her ironical dry cleaner are vanishing into thin air . Maybe someone ’s gaslighting her , or maybe there ’s some sort of interdimensional craziness going on , involving a hyper - intelligent pig and a magic ring .
The World House , Guy Adams ( Angry Robot )
bugger off a taste for bizarreness ? Guy Adams offers up a strange house full of secrets , rooms containing forests and brute and objects derive to life .
Pack of Lies , Laura Anne Gilman ( LUNA )
In the sequel to Hard Magic , Bonita Torres and the squad at Private Unaffiliated Paranormal Investigations put down a tough new type that jeopardize to actuate all - out war between the humans and nonhumans . The spot requires PUPI to walk the fine political stemma , even as the team tries to get to the bottom of a brutal attempted rape .
hassle and Her Friends , Melissa Scott ( Tor )
Tor is reprint this older - school feminist work of cyberpunk , originally publish in 1994 . The novel follows ex - hackers and former buff Cherise and Trouble in the viewing of a monumental government crackdown on the Internet . Trouble quit hack 3 year ago , but someone is using her name as a cover version for their online crime . So she and Cherise purloin back up to get this little problem classify out . Among other accolades , Trouble and Her Friends win the 1995 Lambda Literary Awards .
Golden Reflections , Fred Saberhagen ( Baen )
Golden Reflections package The Mask of the Sun , one of the many scientific discipline fiction tales of Fred Saberhagen , with tributes from authors like David Weber and Walter Jon Williams . Though most famous for his Berserker stories , this finicky novel follows Mike Gabrieli as he attempt to rescue his trouble - prone brother and ascertain himself jump between times and population , thanks to some Incan plot to stop Pizarro . Grandfather paradoxes ensue .
The Iron Thorn , Caitlin Kittredge ( Delacorte Books )
This debut steampunk YA novel posits an alternate America , straight-laced in flavour and powered by an oppressive compounding of the Engine and the rigid Proctors . Our heroine is Aoife Grayson , sole distaff matriculant at the School of Engines of Lovecraft Academy . She ’s do-or-die for a remedy to the insanity that ’s already taken her mother and her brother and is scheduled to hit on her 17th natal day , so she mark out into the charming , wild wild .
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