Episode 204: Books we’re looking forward to, or the shopping list episode

This week Gary and Jonathan, aware that the Festive Season and more are in front of us all, sit down with the most recent 'Forthcoming Books' issue of Locus and do their best to assemble a quick, on-the-fly list of books we're looking forward to from October through to May next year. As Gary and Jonathan both say on the podcast, the list has been quickly assembled and certainly misses many worthwhile books. Still, it's a start. 

Here's the list. These are books we'll be reading, discussing and possibly recommending in coming months.  

October 2014

• Bacigalupi, Paolo, The Doubt Factory, (Little, Brown, nvl-ya, hc)
• Bear, Greg, War Dogs, (Orbit US, hc)
• Carroll, Jonathan, Bathing the Lion, (St. Martin's, hc)
• Gibson, William, The Peripheral, (Penguin/Putnam, hc)
• Leckie, Ann, Ancillary Sword, (Orbit US, tp)
• Newman, Kim, The English Ghost Story, (Titan, tp)
• Nix, Garth, Clariel, (Hot Key Books, nvl-ya, hc)

November 2014

• Baxter, Stephen, Ultima, (Orion/Gollancz, hc)
• Herbert, Frank, Frank Herbert: Collected Stories, (Tor, cln, hc)
• Sherman, Delia, Young Woman in a Garden, (Small Beer Press, cln, tp)
• Williams, Sean, Crashland, (HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, hc) 

December 2014

• Ellison, Harlan, The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison, (Subterranean Press/Edgeworks Abbey, hc) January 2015
• Morrow, James Galapagos Regained (St Martins, hc)
• Walton, Jo, The Just City, (Tor, hc) 

February 2015

• Abercrombie, Joe, Half the World, (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
• Gaiman, Neil, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Discoveries •(HarperCollins/Morrow, cln, tp)
• Link, Kelly, Get in Trouble, (Random House, cln, hc)
• McAuley, Paul, Something Coming Through, (Orion/Gollancz, hc)
• Park, Paul, Other Stories, (PS Publishing, cln, hc)

March 2015

• Robson, Justina, The Glorious Angels, (Orion/Gollancz, tp)
• Wilson, Robert Charles, The Affinities, (Tor, hc) 

 

April 2015

• Bacigalupi, Paolo, The Water Knife, (Little, Brown UK/Orbit, hc)
• Baxter, Stephen, Remembrance: A Xeelee Collection, (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
• Bray, Libba, Lair of Dreams, (Little, Brown UK/Atom, hc)
• Liu, Ken, The Grace of Kings (Dandelion Dynasty) (Saga, hc)
• McDonald, Ian, Mars Stories, (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
• McDonald, Ian, Only the Best of Ian McDonald, (PS Publishing, cln, hc)

May 2015

• Ashby, Madeline, Company Town, (Angry Robot US, tp)
• Blaylock, James P., Beneath London, (Titan, tp)
• Okorafor, Nnedi, The Book of Phoenix, (DAW, hc)
• Rajaniemi, Hannu, Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction, (Tachyon Publications, cln, hc)
• Robinson, Kim Stanley, Aurora, (Little, Brown UK/Orbit, hc)

Invitation:  As Gary and Jonathan mention on the episode, please feel free to add your own recommendations in comments here or at jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp.