Marcus Broaddus, Angry Robot (www.angryrobotbooks.com), $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-0-85766-082-4
King Arthur and his court are reimagined as a motley but courageous group of young men and women trying to make the Breton Court housing project a better place to live in this refreshing urban fantasy, the sequel to 2010's King Maker. King James...
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Maurice Broaddus. Rosarium, $16.95 trade paper (220p) ISBN 978-0-9967692-5-9
This evocative and moving collection from Broaddus (the Knights of Breton Court series) spans the extremes of African and diasporic experiences, from hunting villages and slaver ships to interstellar religious warfare in the near future. The...
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Maurice Broaddus. HarperCollins/Tegen, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-279631-8
Broaddus’s middle grade debut, a dramatic exploration of middle school from the perspective of its most “troublemaking” students, brings his personal experience volunteering in special education classrooms to bear. Thelonius Mitchell, an African-Amer
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Maurice Broaddus. Tor, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-26493-0
Broaddus (Buffalo Soldier) opens his Astra Black trilogy with this powerful, sweeping Afrofuturist space opera that introduces Muungano, a cooperative society of pan-African people stretching through the solar system and founded after seceding from...
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Maurice Broaddus. HarperCollins/Tegen, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-279634-9
Broaddus’s (The Usual Suspects) endearing novel is a testament to personal empowerment, community, and art. Thirteen-year-old mixed-race (Black and white) Isabella Fades is a graffiti artist known as Unfadeable. Previous familial incidents have made
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Edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon. Alliteration Ink (alliterationink.com), $14.99 trade paper (377p) ISBN 978-1-939840-21-9
Too few of the 21 entries in this urban fantasy anthology hit the mark. The high point is Seanan McGuire's "Best Served Cold," which opens with a classic PI first sentence: "The temperature dropped six degrees when she walked into the office, going...
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Edited by Addie J. King and Alana Joli Abbott. Outland, $19.95 Trade Paper (318p) ISBN 978-1-954255-47-0
These 19 clever stories reimagine the Chosen One trope, giving the mantle to older, more experienced heroes. Among the strongest pieces are “The M.A.M.I. Incident” by Guadalupe García McCall, in which bioengineered M.A.M.I.s oversee childbearing in...
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Edited by Jonathan Maberry. Outland Entertainment, $19.95 trade paper (350p) ISBN 978-1-954255-68-5
Bestseller Maberry (Kagen the Damned) brings together 16 unsettling and often brutal tales exploring the darkest, weirdest aspects of the Old West. While some stories focus on man’s own inhumanity and cruelty, many also bring in supernatural...
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