Sarah Pelletier

Jun 15, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Scott Taylor |Sarah Pelletier |Keith Rosson |Paul G Tremblay

Christopher Rowe. Tordotcom, $18.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-250-80450-1Rowe (These Prisoning Hills) builds a breathtaking world in this resonant tale of anthropomorphized animals. In a surviving Roman empire that has colonized the Western Hemisphere and magically altered certain animals to have reason and language, fox navigator Quintus Shu’al is the only one of his kind.

Jun 13, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Scott Taylor |Sarah Pelletier |Keith Rosson |Paul G Tremblay

Carissa Orlando. Berkley, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-54861-5If P.G. Wodehouse had written The Amityville Horror, the result might have approximated Orlando’s equally charming and spooky debut. Middle-aged, matter-of-fact, and stubborn, narrator Margaret Hartman has no intention of abandoning her Victorian dream home, even if her stolid housekeeper was in fact axe-murdered more than 100 years ago and the walls drip blood every September. (“It was going to be a long month.

Jun 12, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Scott Taylor |Sarah Pelletier |Keith Rosson |Paul G Tremblay

David Barr Kirtley. Geek’s Guide, $16.99 trade paper (362p) ISBN 979-8-9857496-1-8Geeks Guide to the Galaxy podcaster Kirtley debuts with an entertaining collection of 20 jam-packed stories, loosely arranged by genre (the title story “is arguably science fiction,” Kirtley writes, “but I decided to put it in the fantasy section”). A handful of folktale retellings (“Beauty,” “Seed-for-Brains,” and “Seven Brothers, Cruel”) will satisfy true fantasy seekers.

Jun 5, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Scott Taylor |Sarah Pelletier |Keith Rosson |Paul G Tremblay

Lavie Tidhar. Tachyon, $17.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-61696-362-0World Fantasy Award winner Tidhar (Neom) wows with a mind-bending existential adventure that seeks to answer the age-old question of why humanity exists. In 2001 London, four characters converge around the lost science fiction book Lode Stars, written decades earlier by Eugene Charles Hartley.