FICTION/SCIENCE
FICTION & FANTASY
ACE
Dead to the World (May, $23.95) by Charlaine Harris. Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse returns with her supernatural gift.
BANTAM SPECTRA
A Feast for Crows (May, $28) by George R.R. Martin. With the death of a monstrous king, the human crows gather to form new plots as the Song of Ice and Fire saga continues. 200,000 first printing. Ad/promo. SFBC, BOMC selections. Author publicity.
Prisoner of the Iron Tower: Book Two of the Tears of Artamon (Aug., $23) by Sarah Ash. Gavril Nagarian is slowly being driven mad, and Eugene annexes his kingdom. 30,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
BL PUBLISHING (vrospond@comcast.net)
Ravenor (Mar., $19.99) by Dan Abnett introduces a series based on the character fromthe Eisenhorn trilogy.
DAW
Alta: Book Two of the Joust Series (Mar., $24.95) by Mercedes Lackey. Dragonrider Vetch escapes to Alta, the subjugated land of his birth, hoping to raise and train dragons.
Smoke and Shadows (Apr., $23.95) by Tanya Huff. The producer of a TV series about a vampire detective finds the lines between fantasy and reality becoming blurred.
The Wilding (July, $24.95) by C.S. Friedman is the sequel to In the Conquest Born, a tale of interstellar conflict.
DEL REY
Pandora's Star (Mar., $26.95) by Peter F. Hamilton is the first half of an epic taking place in the 24th century. Advertising. Author publicity.
The Swords of Night and Day (Apr., $24.95) by David Gemmell brings back Skilgannon the Damned, the hero of White Wolf. Advertising. Author publicity.
Settling Accounts: Return Engagement (May, $26.95) by Harry Turtledove. The creator of alternate history launches a new trilogy.
The Iron Council (July, $26.95) by China Miéville is the third Bas-Lag novel. Advertising.Author publicity.
The Charnel Prince (Aug., $23.95) by Greg Keyes is the sequel to The Briar King and Book Two of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. Advertising.Author publicity.
DEL REY/LUCAS BOOKS
Star Wars: The Cestus Deception (June, $25.95) by Steven Barnes is a new novel of the Clone Wars. Advertising.Author publicity.
EOS
Acorna's Triumph (Mar., $24.95) by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough concludes the series featuring the Unicorn Girl.
King of Foxes (Apr., $24.95) by Raymond Feist is the second installment in the multivolume epic, Conclave of Shadows.
Forge of Heaven (June, $24.95) by C.J. Cherryh follows Hammerfall, the second novel of the Gene Wars.
The Ships of Air (July, $24.95) by Martha Wells. The second entry in the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy concerns the quest to save a country from invading sorcerers.
GOLDEN GRYPHON PRESS
Bumper Crop (Apr., $24.95) by Joe R. Lansdale collects horror short stories.
Breathmoss and Other Exhalations (June, $24.95) by Ian R. MacLeod is a new story collection.
POCKET BOOKS
Vulcan's Soul Trilogy Book One (Apr., $25) by Josepha Sherman continues the series that began with Vulcan's Forge and Vulcan's Heart.
RIVERHEAD
Brilliance of the Moon: Tales of the Otori Book Three (June, $24.95) by Lian Hearn completes the trilogy set in an imagined medieval Japan. Ad/promo.
ROC
The Last Night of the Sun (Mar., $24.95) by Guy Gavriel Kay evokes tales from the Celtic and Norse cultures of the ninth and 10th centuries.
Dies the Fire (Aug., $23.95) by S.M. Stirling. After all electrical devices cease to function, some people band together while others build armies for conquest.
TOR
The Dragon Quintet (Apr., $24.95), edited by Marvin Kaye, contains novellas by Orson Scott Card, Mercedes Lackey, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Moon and Michael Swanwick. Ad/promo.
Wellspring of Chaos (Apr., $27.95) by L.E. Modesitt Jr. Kharl rescues a neighbor's daughter in the latest in the Saga of Recluce.
Elegy for a Lost Star (May, $27.95) by Elizabeth Haydon. In Book Five of the Symphony of Ages, the potential for war looms. Ad/promo.Author tour.
Ringworld's Children (June, $24.95) by Larry Niven. Stability of the Ringworld is at risk in the first new series book in 10 years. Ad/promo.
Gardens of the Moon (June, $24.95) by Steven Erikson. Empress Laseen wants to add Darujhistan to her empire as a new fantasy series begins. Ad/promo.
The Dragon's Son (July, $25.95) by Margaret Weis. The offspring of a high priestess and a dragon hold the key to humanity's future in the trilogy's second entry. Ad/promo. 10-city author tour.
Dune: The Battle of Corrin (Aug., $27.95) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. The war that has lasted many lifetimes reaches an apocalyptic moment. $250,000 ad/promo. Author tour.
VIKING
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon: A Novel of Atlantis and the Ancient British Isles (June, $25.95) by Diana L. Paxson. Two powerful women shape the fates of their physical and spiritual descendants. Ad/promo.Author tour.
WARNER ASPECT
Beyond Infinity (Mar., $23.95) by Gregory Benford. More than a billion years from now, voyagers cross a living universe where mysterious forces are in play. Ad/promo.
Mystic Warrior: Book One of the Bronze Canticles (Apr., $24.95) by Tracy and Laura Hickman chronicles monumental changes brought on by the joining of the human, goblin and faery worlds. Ad/promo.
Horizon Storms: The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 3 (July, $24.95) by Kevin J. Anderson. The war between the Hydrogues and Faeros continues to rage, extinguishing suns and destroying planets. Ad/promo.
