Because books are all about need, right? Heh. Descriptions are via Amazon.com unless otherwise stated.
There is a dragon, and it is pissed off. Or is that just the way they show affection, the whole burning up the world thing. I like this cover. Releases August 31, 2010. Visit the author’s site.
Science is King, but Magic is Queen . . .
The Royal Society of London plays home to the greatest minds of England. In the century since its founding in 1660, it has revolutionized philosophy and scientific knowledge. Its fellows map out the laws of the natural world, disproving ancient superstition and ushering in an age of enlightenment.
To the fae of the Onyx Court, living in a secret city below London, these scientific developments are less than welcome. Magic is losing its place in the world — and science threatens to expose the court to hostile eyes.
In 1666, a Great Fire burned four-fifths of London to the ground. The calamity was caused by a great Dragon — an elemental beast of flame. Incapable of destroying something so powerful, the fae of London banished it to a comet moments before the comet’s light disappeared from the sky. Now the calculations of Sir Edmond Halley have predicted its return.
So begins their race against time. Soon the Dragon’s gaze will fall upon London and it will return to the city it ravaged once before. The fae will have to answer the question that defeated them a century before: How can they kill a being more powerful than all their magic combined? It will take both magic and science to save London–but reconciling the two carries its own danger . . .
I’ve just loved the covers for this series so far. Chris McGrath, UF illustrator power house, rawks. Now I just need to catch up with this one, as I loved the first. It’ll be book three in the Black London series. See author’s site for more deets. Do be careful with the blurb below as it seems spoilerish for the past books. Releases November 30, 2010.
Pete Caldecott is trying to survive in Black London without Jack Winter, her teacher and closest friend. After Jack was turned into a demon, he went to live far out of reach…in hell. But for Pete, surviving is no easy matter. The Black is rife with turf wars between mages and necromancers, the witch-hunting Order of the Malleus has resurfaced, and the gods themselves seem to be at each other’s throats. Then Jack reappears, as the head of hell’s army, and Pete has to choose between Jack, and her duties as a Weir–which demand she kill him to save the world from certain destruction…
I finally put a couple of this author’s books in my digital TBR pile, but have yet to read them. This one sounds really…weird. Releases November 16, 2010.
Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into a dilapidated house in the dunes… and discovers that one of her new roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair, there’s a psychic energy baby living in the telephone wires, and her dead Zimbabwean grandmother is doing dishes in the kitchen. When the house gets lost at sea and creatures of African urban legends all but take it over, Vimbai turns to horseshoe crabs in the ocean to ask for their help in getting home to New Jersey.
I like this cover for its stark simplicity. Also, what’s the person running away from? Yeah, I think deep thoughts. The books are already released, but this will obviously be an edition involving all of them. Releases December 2, 2010. Visit the author’s site for more details.
A thousand years ago, the Eleven Domains were invaded and the original inhabitants were driven onto the road as Travelers, belonging nowhere, welcomed by no one.
Now the Domains are governed with an iron fist by the Warlords, but there are wilder elements in the landscape that cannot be controlled and that may prove the Warlords’ undoing. Some are spirits of place – of water and air and fire and earth. Some are greater than these. And some are human.
Bramble: A village girl whom no one living can tame, forced to flee her home for a crime she did not commit.
Ash: A safeguarder’s apprentice who must kill for an employer he cannot escape.
Saker: An enchanter who will not rest until the land is returned to his people.
As their three stories unfold, along with the stories of those whose lives they touch, it becomes clear that they are bound together in ways that not even a stonecaster could have foreseen – by their past, their future, and their blood.
This omnibus edition includes all three novels – Blood Ties, Deep Water, and Full Circle – together for the first time.
Man and monster are in his blood. . .His name is Jeremiah Fall. A soldier of fortune, he has been fighting his own war for 150 years–ever since the beast in him was born.
Desperate to restore his lost humanity, Fall crosses the sands of Egypt, discovers a lost city off the coast of France, and finally arrives at the birthplace of all mankind. Shunning daylight and feeding only when he must, he battles the monster who transformed him forever. He can share his deepest secret with no one . . . not even the beautiful woman he starts to love, the only human who grasps the mysteries of an ebony stone as old as creation itself.
Across the world, across time, Fall seeks the stone’s secret. But has he found a cure for himself or unleashed a final curse on all mankind?
I wasn’t crazy about this cover when looking at the front alone, but as a whole, the design’s not bad. Releases September 1, 2010. Visit the author’s site for more details (where I found zee blurb).
As LA plunges into an occult gang war, mob sorceress Domino Riley must unravel a conspiracy that reaches beyond the magic-soaked mean streets into a world of myth and legend.
Domino investigates the ritual execution of a mob associate, a graffiti magician named Jamal. The kid isn’t just dead, he’s been squeezed — the killer stole his magical power or “juice.” Domino summons Jamal’s shade, and the ghost points to Adan Rashan as his killer. This is tricky, because Adan is the favored son of Domino’s boss, Shanar Rashan, a six-thousand-year-old Sumerian wizard. It’s even trickier because only a mobbed-up sorcerer could have squeezed Jamal and Adan isn’t a sorcerer.
As the corpses pile up, Domino must confront the killer and unmask an otherworldly kingpin with designs on her gang’s magic-rich turf.
Mob Rules is an urban fantasy novel of murder and magic, betrayal and redemption set in the arcane underworld of Los Angeles.
Releases October 26, 2010. This will also be be published in the UK via Orbit as Echo City Falls, summer 2011, and the blurb is from that edition. You can visit the author’s site here. This American edition will release October 26, 2010.
It hides below Echo City, a threat that has been growing over generations deep beneath the streets. The corrupt wheels of commerce, the murky cycles of political rise and fall and the rivalries of religious and military sects have intersected efficiently over the ages, filling specialised niches in a rigidly organised society. But this is about to change. As darkness stirs in the depths, a stranger arrives from across the desert that isolates Echo City from the rest of the world. Watchers have long whispered of the destruction of their city and search for something that will keep them from it. Madmen and spirits of the dead have foretold disaster and looked for a saviour. But no one expected either in this lifetime.
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“I like this cover for its stark simplicity. Also, what’s the person running away from?”
HAH! You, my friend, are a closet pessimist! I, on the other hand, am an eternal optimist and therefore my curiosity was piqued wondering “What are they running TO? ;-p
Also, THE HOUSE OF DISCARDED DREAMS sounds like the end result of more than a few ingestions of illegal chemical substances. Please read it and report back to us. kthxbai.
Weellll, I suppose that DOES sound pessimistic lol, but it’s been my experience in fantasy reading that someone is usually running away from something EVOL at some point. ;)
If I take on the Sedia book I shall do my best to sound coherent in my review lol!
Thanks so much for the kind mention!
No problem! Thanks for writing and putting your book out there. :)
Oh, thank you KMonth! I like the sound of The Castings Trilogy!
It looks mighty tempting, doesn’t it?