Forthcoming for March 2008

March appears to be a pretty good month for fantasy and science fiction releases (in the U.S. anyway since several of these are already out in the UK and Canada). I'm especially looking forward to the conclusion to Greg Keyes's The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series, The Born Queen. The series is fairly standard fantasy, but it is entertaining.

All books listed below are forthcoming in the United States. If there is no date with the UK or Canadian link, it means this book is already out on that country's Amazon. The date right beside the title and author is the US release date.

Note: Before They Are Hanged is already available on Amazon U.S. even though it is not March yet. It says they are in stock, but they do seem to be experiencing a delay since I have ordered mine but it has not shipped yet. It still should arrive well before it is scheduled to be released in the U.S., however.

Fire Study (Study, Book 3) by Maria V. Snyder (March 1)
UK (March 1)
CA (March 1)

Tangled Webs: A Black Jewels Novel (Black Jewels Trilogy) by Anne Bishop (March 4)
UK (March 4)
CA

The Ancient by R.A. Salvatore (March 4)
UK
CA (March 4)

The Hidden City: The House Wars: Book One by Michelle West (March 4)
UK (March 6)
CA (March 4)

Reaper's Gale: Book Seven of The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson (March 4)
UK
CA

Before They Are Hanged (The First Law: Book Two) by Joe Abercrombie (March 25)
UK
CA

The Born Queen (Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Book 4) by Greg Keyes (March 25)
UK (March 25)
CA (March 25)

The Dreaming Void by Peter Hamilton (March 25)
UK
CA

Judge by Karen Traviss (March 25)
UK (April 3)
CA (March 12)

A World Too Near: Book Two of The Entire and The Rose (The Entire and The Rose 2) by Kay Kenyon (March 25)
UK (March 12)
CA (April 15)

A Dance with Dragons Cover

Random House has released the cover art for the U.S. edition of the fifth book in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. A large version of the cover can be viewed on the Random House website here.

Bantam Dell's website lists this book with their forthcoming fall releases as available in October 2008. It is also now available for preorder on Amazon with a release date of September 30. Both of those dates are purely speculation since Martin has said many times on his Not a Blog not to believe the news about a release date until he has posted the announcement on his website after being pestered by hordes of angry fans who did believe the release dates.

It sounds as though there is at least hope that this book will be out by the end of the year, although I don't dare hope too much since the cover for A Feast for Crows was on Amazon for quite a while before the book actually came out (and when it finally did, it had a completely different cover). Usually I prefer the more generic covers to cover art with the characters because it usually looks as though the cover artist never actually read the book, but in this case, I miss the old covers depicting characters and scenes from the book. I loved the old cover on A Clash of Kings in particular.

New and Forthcoming for February

Below are some new releases or books coming out later this month that I have been hearing a lot about or have been looking forward to reading. The book is already out according to Amazon US, Canada, and UK unless it says otherwise. (Bright of the Sky isn't actually supposed to be out until later this month in the US, but it says it is in stock anyway. The Red Wolf Conspiracy is supposed to be out, but it seems to be hard to get a hold of.)


The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick (April 1 in Canada)

The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes

A Magic of Twilight: Book One of the Nessantico Cycle (Magnificent Fantasy: the Nessantico Cycle) by S.L. Farrell

Bright of the Sky: Book One of The Entire and The Rose by Kay Kenyon

Myth-Chief by Robert Asprin

Matterby Iain M. Banks (Feb 27 US and Canada - out in the UK)

Biting the Bullet (Jaz Parks, Book 3) by Jennifer Rardin (Feb 11 in the US and CA, Feb 7 in the UK)

In a Time of Treason by David Keck (Feb 19 in US, Canada, and the UK)