It ’s December , when the days get shorter and colder . But there ’s no frigate like a book , and this calendar month your ship ’s come in : The calendar month ’s new books admit switch off - pharynx tailors , steampunk Wyatt Earp , and zombie Star Wars .
Yarn , Jon Armstrong ( Night Shade Books )
It ’s been all too clear since high-pitched school : Our nigh - future dystopic overlords wo n’t be totalitarian double - talker or far - right demagogues . Nope , it ’s the excruciatingly coxa and fashionable . Or so fix Yarn , Jon Armstrong ’s stand - alone prequel to his well - received first appearance Grey . “ Saleswarriors ” fight it out for customers in places like Seattlehama , while the unwashed bulk , on the other hand , grind in agricultural slum area . And fashion designer Tane Cedar is forced to grapple with this stark divide when his ex-husband stumbles back into his life , solicit him to ease her bother with a coat made from an illegal psychedelic narration .
The Mammoth Book of the Zombie Apocalypse , ed . Stephen Jones ( Running Press )
Looking to fill the corpse - sized hole in your life left by The Walking Dead ’s truncated season ? Well , attend no further . Twenty writers contributed to this anthology , but it ’s not a disparate stave - up of stories . alternatively , it ’s structured as a appeal of real documents , providing multiple perspectives on the end of the world .
Blue and Gold , K.J. Parker ( Subterranean Press )
Philosopher , alchemist , charmer , and known prevaricator Saloninus opens his own chronicle by denote he ’s discovered how to transmute metal into amber and murdered his wife and supporter ’s sis , Eudoxia . He proceed to colligate his tarradiddle of a life disburden by ethics or chastity , detailing his attempt to elude the practice of law and the ire of his patron , Prince Phocas of Paraprosdocia .
The Bluntline Special , by Mike Resnick ( Pyr )
If Geronimo had only been armed with magic , the United States never would have made it past the Mississippi . That ’s the assumption of five - clock time Hugo - victor Mike Resnick ’s late . The Union governance sends Thomas Edison west to figure out how to press legerdemain , and because they ca n’t post a wizard into the wild unprotected , they allot Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday as his mechanically skillful - armour - bust escort . ( No Scripture on what Tesla ’s up to . Hopefully in this universe , he ’s father a better lawyer . ) But as it turns out , Geronimo has hired the Clanton mob , and you know what that means : steampunk gunplay at the OK Corral .
multitude of the Book , eds . Rachel Swirsky and Sean Wallace ( Prime Books )
Back in March , arguing erupted online ( as it has been sleep together to do ) aboutthis clause , which leaps to the end Judaism is n’t a religion predispose to phantasy . This anthology respond that poorly - rede claim with ten years ’ worth of Judaic scifi and fantasy . Included are large names Michael Chabon , Neil Gaiman , Peter Beagle , and Jane Yolen .
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The White City , Elizabeth Bear ( Subterranean Press )
In the latest addition to her New Amsterdam series , Elizabeth Bear sends her immortal tec Don Sebastien de Ulloa to Moscow , accompanied by Lady Abigail Irene and Phoebe Smith . Theirs is an alternative timeline , one where the battle between Britain and the Colonies come about a hundred behind agenda and the fantastical is everyday . Sebastien is tired and grieving and just wants to convalesce — but the White City does n’t cooperate .
Star warfare : Red Harvest , Joe Schreiber ( LucasBooks )
What are you gon na do on New Year ’s Day when all you need to do is die , thanks to a monstrous katzenjammer and embarrassment over that poorly - notify midnight make - out ? You could attempt to face the Modern year . Or you could stay in bottom reading zombie Star Wars . Duh . Death Troopers generator Joe Schreiber returns to the Star Wars universe with another novel featuring the undead – and this time , they ’re Sith .
catacomb , Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ( Del Rey )
Anne McCaffrey and big cat go together like dragons and telepathy . So naturally , she ’s teamed up with longsighted - clock time collaborator Elizabeth Ann Scarborough to give rise another novel about her barque cats ( which the cognoscente may recognise from The Rowen ) . The shady - but - magnetic Pshaw - Ra game to wrest control of the cosmos from humanity and let the cats rule , and his only opposition seems to be the feline Chester and the human Jubal .
Right Hand Magic , Nancy A Collins ( Roc )
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It ’s no enigma that New York City is n’t tawdry , which incline to leave creative New Yorkers scrambling to devote the rent . This reality drives would - be artist Tate into the case of neighbourhood your momma warned you about : Golgotham , well known as Manhattan ’s nursing home for the children of the night . Her new neighbor are lycanthrope and Valkyrie and the similar , and her landlord is a sorcerer defying his own female parent by cuss off the vaguely villainous left - hand magic . ( Hopefully , there are lots of jokes about Tumblr . )
song of the Dying Earth , ed . George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois ( Tor )
This calendar month , superintendent - anthologizers George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois honour Jack Vance . But rather than merely serving up tarradiddle in his style or reach on his favorite themes , 23 contributor have written stories place in Vance ’s “ Dying Earth . ” include are pieces by Martin , Neil Gaiman , Dan Simmons , Tad Williams , and Kage Baker , plus an innovation by Dean Koontz .
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