The View From Monday - June 3, 2019

Happy first Monday in June!

There are 3 debuts this week:

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey;

The Ragged Blade by Christopher Ruz;

and

Oval by Elvia Wilk.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

 From formerly featured DAC Authors:

The Soul of Power (The Waking Land 3) by Callie Bates;

Abigale Hall by Lauren A. Forry is out in Trade Paperback;

Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller is out in Trade Paperback;

An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim is out in Trade Paperback;

The Robots of Gotham by Todd McAulty is out in Trade Paperback;

Fray (Unraveled Kingdom 2) by Rowenna Miller

The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen 1) by Signe Pike is out in Trade Paperback;


Empire of Silence (Sun Eater 1) by Christopher Ruocchio is out in Mass Market Paperback.

and

The Fire Opal Mechanism (Jewel 2) by Fran Wilde.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

June 3, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Give Up the Ghost (e)	Jenn Burke	PM - Not Dead Yet 2
Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture	Claudia Schwabe	FairyT/FolkT/LM/ MTI/LF - Fairy-Tale Studies

June 4, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Wastelands: The New Apocalypse	John Joseph Adams (Ed)	SF/AP/PA - Anthology
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF, Vol. 5	David Afsharirad (Ed)	SF - Year's Best Military & Adventure Science 5
Spine of the Dragon	Kevin J. Anderson	F - Wake the Dragon 1
The Soul of Power	Callie Bates	F - The Waking Land 3
The Sound of Echoes	Eric Bernt	TechTh/Th/SF - Speed of Sound Thrillers 2
The Plague Stones	James Brodgen	H/SupTh/Occ/Sup
My Enemy's Enemy	Robert Buettner	SF
Brief Cases (h2tp)	Jim Butcher	UF - Dresden Files Collection
Sunspot Jungle: Volume Two: The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction (e)	Bill Campbell (Ed)	SF/F/H - Anthology
This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us (h2tp)	Edgar Cantero	Cr/Satire/BH
To Clear Away the Shadows	David Drake	SF/SO - RCN 13
Abigale Hall (h2tp)	Lauren A. Forry	PsyTh
Magic for Liars (D)	Sarah Gailey	CF/M/Sus
Just One Bite	Jack Heath	Cr/H/PI
Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded (h2tp)	Jason Heller	PopCul/LC/SF/F
Zero Sum Game (h2tp)	S. L. Huang	SF/TechTh - Cas Russell 1
Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales	Stephen King (Ed) Bev Vincent (Ed)	Sus/H - Anthology
The Outsider (h2tp)	Stephen King	Sus
The Hills Have Spies (h2mm)	Mercedes Lackey	F/FR - Valdemar: Family Spies 1
Liaden Universe Constellation IV	Sharon Lee Steve Miller	SF/SO - Liaden Universe collection
An Ocean of Minutes (h2tp)	Thea Lim	LF
Unraveling	Karen Lord	F/FairyT/FolkT/LM
The Robots of Gotham (h2tp)	Todd McAulty	SF
Fray	Rowenna Miller	F/HistF - Unraveled Kingdom 2
The Beyond	Chloe Neill	UF/P/PNR - Devil's Isle 4
Burning Sky (tp2mm)	Weston Ochse	SF/H
From Distant Stars	Sam Peters	SF/M/Noir/SFR/AC - From Darkest Skies 2
The Lost Queen (h2tp)	Signe Pike	Hist - Lost Queen 1
By the Pricking of Her Thumb	Adam Roberts	SF/M/Cr
The Great Eastern	Howard Rodman	HistF
Empire of Silence (h2mm)	Christopher Ruocchio	SF/SO/AC - Sun Eater 1
The Ragged Blade (D)	Christopher Ruz	F - Century of Sand 1
Wolf Rain	Nalini Singh	PNR/SFR/P - Psy-Changeling Trinity 3
War Criminals	Gavin G. Smith	SF/Th/HSF/CyP/AC - Bastard Legion 3
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell	Neal Stephenson	TechTh
At All Costs (Limited Leatherbound Collector's Edition)	David Weber	SF - Honor Harrington 11
The Fire Opal Mechanism	Fran Wilde	F - Jewel 2
Oval (D)	Elvia Wilk	LF/BH/TechTh/Dys/SF/Satire
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine: A Decade of Hugo & Nebula Award Winning Stories, 2005-2015	Sheila Williams (Ed)	SF - Anthology

June 7, 2019

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness	Therí Alyce Pickens	LC/SocSci/SF/F

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
mm - Mass Market Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade Paperback to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternative History
AP - Apocalyptic
BH - Black Humor
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
Cr - Crime
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humorous
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PolTh - Political Thriller
PopCul - Popular Culture
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
SE - Space Exploration
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SocSci - Social Science
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
UF - Urban Fantasy

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.