I’m running down my recently culled RSS feeds to see what’s been happening recently so let’s see what’s interesting.
Orbit have announced their March releases and I’m really excited to see new books by Mike Carey and Charlie Huston. Oh and Small Favours by Jim Butcher is out in February so that makes three of my favourite Urban Fantasy Series updated so soon into the New Year.
That also reminds me I need to start on the release calendar for this year as I have a feeling there are going to be quite a few books that I’m in danger of missing.
The World in the Satin Bag is playing devils advocate by releasing two opposing lists. Five Reasons Fantasy Is Better Than Science Fiction and Five Reasons Science Fiction Is Better Than Fantasy. I’m undecided. Actually it’s impossible to choose and it’s really a mute argument. Each are their own thing. Though there seems to be ten times more fantasy than sci-fi books.
The Judging Eye by R Scott Bakker seems to be an important release as I’ve be seeing it mentioned quite a lot. Not sure it’s for me.
Drood by Dan Simmons is a book like The Terror that I’m keen on reading but as usual it’s a big one and we all know how I feel about big books. They scare. But Pat has a competition to win a copy if you’re brave enough.
I’ve been watching a lot of Miss Marple (the BBC series not that strange new ITV Marple) and ITV Poirot the last couple of weeks, which has put me in the mood to get hold of the trilogy of books by Gilbert Adair, The Act of Roger Murgatroyd , A Mysterious Affair of Style and And Then There Was No One. Sounds like a good trilogy to me and one that doesn’t have an ebook out yet. So much for impulse buying.
Robert is back in the reviewing game and he has a review of The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Hutson as does Graeme. Strangely, I can’t see anything about a UK release? Anybody?
Speaking of Graeme, he’s got to The Ancient by R.A. Salvatore and it seems that it might not be the best place to start, anyone else read it? He’s also piped my interest in The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint.
And another book that I’m trying to get to this month is The Burning House by Christopher Ransom and seems like it’s well worth reading from the review on Highlander’s Book Reviews. It’s debut traditional ghost story with a modern twist it seems. Sounds fun 
Blood Engines by T. A. Pratt has a stonking cover and a great review. More Urban Fantasy to check out this time set in my favourite US city so far San Francisco.
Liz has have conquered her fear of sci-fi novels…thanks to The Lost Art by Simon Morden
The Fiction Desk is showing off some Crime Classics from Atlantic Books including:
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens
- Bulldog Drummond – H. C. McNeile
- Raffles – Ernest William Hornung
- The Collegians – Gerald Griffin
- The Man Who Was Thursday – G. K Chesterton
I keep meaning to read G. K. Chesterton. Maybe it’ll be this one.
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts has a great review by Simon A. Radiation Aliens? Woo!
And on that note that concludes our round-up.
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