November 12-14 Book Porn

Seven books this time, all of them review copies, with six from the Putnam/Penguin/DAW group and the final one from Overlook Press.

Top-Left: Mercedes Lackey (ed.), Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar (this is a festschrift of sorts, with 14 authors, including Judith Tarr and Tanya Huff among others, joining Lackey in writing 15 stories set in her Valemar universe); Laura E. Reeve, Peacekeeper (woman packing heat...err...stereotypical cover?).

Bottom-Left: Martin H. Greenberg and Janet Deaver-Pack (eds.), Catopolis (17 themed stories about the "city of cats", apparently some sort of a hidden history connection between these feline tales); John Zakour, The Flaxen Femme Fatale (okay, so that cover...wha?).



Left: Harry Turtledove, The United States of Atlantis (alt-history second volume involving what if Britain had colonized a "rediscovered" Atlantis instead of North America? Would the colonists still have rebelled?); E.E. Knight, Dragon Strike (fourth volume in a series that apparently involves quite a few dragons in it).


R. Scott Bakker, The Judging Eye (I'm going to finish reading this in a few hours, but so far, it is at least the equal to the Prince of Nothing trilogy and in some ways outstrips it in terms of characterization. Will say more closer to its January 2009 release date, as this is a book that demands more thought about its themes than what I've seen indicated in the first few advance reviews posted online recently).