2007 Releases

I realized recently that I have only read three books this year that were released this year (The Name of the Wind, Ysabel, and The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadows). To remedy this situation, I recently ordered the following:

Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (#2 in the Gentleman Bastard sequence)
The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg (#1 in The Lighthouse Duology)

Hopefully later this year I'll be able to get some more new releases. I'm looking forward to reading Acacia by David Anthony Durham and The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie and hope to get at least those two this year.

So at some point I should get more reviews of newer books up here.

I finished Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore Sunday night so I'm hoping to get a review of that up here soon (unfortunately, work usually gets in the way of that during the week). I was pleasantly surprised by it - it was better than I was expecting it to be.

While I'm waiting for my Amazon order of 2007 releases to get here, I'm reading another older novel - Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay.

What's New/Forthcoming

Here are some fantasy/scifi books that are fairly new or forthcoming this year. This is based only on what I've seen available on Amazon since I have no special insider knowledge about what is coming out, but Amazon is usually fairly reliable. Looking at this list makes me wish I were British, they get all the good books first!

New Books

Midnight Tides, #5 Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

Amazon US
Amazon Canada
Amazon UK

Note: This is new to the U.S. only, since we get these books later than everyone else. I'm hoping we'll be caught up soon, though, since I noticed we're getting the 6th book The Bonehunters in September of this year.

Flesh and Spirit, #1 The Lighthouse Duet by Carol Berg

Amazon US
Amazon Canada
Amazon UK

Brasyl by Ian McDonald

Amazon US
Amazon Canada
Amazon UK

Reaper's Gale, #7 Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

Amazon Canada (available June 26)
Amazon UK

Forthcoming

Night of Knives: A Novel of the Malazan Empire by Ian Cameron Esslemont

Amazon Canada (available July 24)
Amazon UK (available June 4)

Black Man/Thirteen (U.S. title) by Richard Morgan

Amazon US (available June 26)
Amazon Canada (available July 1)
Amazon UK (available July 21)

Red Seas Under Red Skies, #2 Gentleman Bastards by Scott Lynch

Amazon US (available July 31)
Amazon Canada (available August 1)
Amazon UK (available June 21)

The Hanging Mountains, #3 Book of the Cataclysm by Sean Williams

Amazon US (available June 5, although seems to be in stock)
Amazon Canada (available July 10)
Amazon UK (available June 5, although seems to be in stock)

Renegade's Magic, #2 Soldier Son Trilogy by Robin Hobb

Amazon UK (available July 2)

Kushiel's Justice, #5 Kushiel's Legacy by Jacqueline Carey

Amazon US (available June 14)
Amazon Canada (available June 14)
Amazon UK (available June 14)

The Well of Ascension, #2 Mistborn by Brian Sanderson

Amazon US (available August 21)
Amazon Canada (available August 21)
Amazon UK (available August 21)

The Dreaming Void, #1 Void trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton

Amazon US (available March 25, 2008)
Amazon Canada (available August 3)
Amazon UK (available August 3)

Spook Country by William Gibson

Amazon US (available August 7)
Amazon Canada (available August 7)
Amazon UK (available August 2)

Making Money, Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Amazon US (available October 1)
Amazon Canada (available October 2)
Amazon UK (available September 24)

Empire of Ivory, #4 Temeraire by Naomi Novik

Amazon US (available September 25)
Amazon Canada (available September 25)
Amazon UK (available November 25)

A Sword from Red Ice, #3 Sword of Shadows by J.V. Jones

Amazon UK (available October)

The Bonehunters, #6 Malazan Book of the Fallen

Amazon US (available September 18)
Amazon Canada
Amazon UK

Scarlet, #2 King Raven trilogy by Stephen Lawhead

Amazon US (available September 4)
Amazon Canada (available September 4)
Amazon UK (available August 23)

Confessor, Chainfire Trilogy Part 3, #11 Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind

Amazon US (available November 13)
Amazon Canada (available November 13)
Amazon UK (available November 19)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, #7 Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Amazon US (available July 21)
Amazon Canada (available July 21)
Amazon UK (available July 21)