The new release lists in May, June and July are always my favorite, because that is where I generally stock my summer sci-fi and fantasy reading pile. I might sneak a non-fiction book or two in as well, but they don’t often make The Short List

The Short List





Adrift by Rob Boffard – June 5

Imagine that you are vacationing at a a luxury hotel way out in deep space. As part of your stay you get a site seeing tour of a “nearby” nebula. When you return, however, you find that your hotel and everyone on it has been destroyed. You have only the small site seeing ship. There are no weapons, no food, no medicine, and the ship that destroyed your hotel is still out there, looking for you. How do you survive?

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Book of M: A Novel by Peng Shepherd – June 5

A “plague” is sweeping the land. It causes those afflicted to lose their shadow and all of their memories. Husband and wife, Ory and Max, try to avoid the condition by hiding out, but one day Max’s shadow disappears. Max runs away, and Ory chases after her. In this near future thriller that features a dangerous world full of bandits and cultists who worship those without shadows, can Max and Ory find a cure before her memories are totally gone?

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Brief Cases by Jim Butcher – June 5

A couple of years ago, Andrew Garvey, a contributor at The Geekiverse gave me Storm Front, the first in Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series. I loved it. Dresden is a wizard, and he hires himself out like a PI would. In Brief Cases, Butcher presents a collection of 12 Dresden short stories, including “Zoo Day” a brand new novella that has never been published before. Harry Dresden is a great character in the urban fantasy genre and this collection will be great fun for long-time fans or anyone who wants to jump into the life of a professional wizard.

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The Freeze Frame Revolution by Peter Watts – June 12

This story has such an innovative “what if.” In this case, how do you investigate a disappearance when you are only awake one day every million years? How do you stage a mutiny under the same circumstances. The crew of the Eriophora builds wormhole gates, and they spend a million years in suspended animation to wake up for a day to do their job. Something is sketchy and Sunday Ahzmundin is determined to get to the bottom of it, although the conditions she is working under offer some SERIOUS challenges.

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The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French – June 19

This sounds like great fun. The Grey Bastards are a roving band of raunchy and foul-mouthed , hog riding half orcs who keep the civilized citizens of the world safe from harm. The description on Amazon says that it has some healthy winks to Sons of Anarchy. It’s got orcs, centaurs and loads of other fantasy elements, and it sounds like it’s a bit of a dark and adult tale.

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This is my best bet for the month. It sounds totally innovative and like great fun.





The Skaar Invasion by Terry Brooks – June 19

I’ve been waiting for this book for a year, or since I finished and reviewed book one of The Fall of Shannara series, the four book series that brings Terry Brooks’ decades long work to a close. I stumbled on The Black Elfstone in a previous Short List and I loved being back in the Four Lands, even knowing that is coming to an end. Brooks ended his last book on a bit of cliffhanger, and I can’t wait to see how it ends, with a new set of characters bringing his life work to a close. I’ve been reading Brooks since the late 1970s and I am champing at the bit to get to this one and see what happens with our lead characters former High Druid Driskar Arc, warrior Dar Leah, and Tarsha Kaynin, a young and powerful magic user.

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Awakened by James S. Murray and Darren Wearmouth – June 26

In this collaboration between veteran thriller author Darren Wearmouth and veteran knucklehead James S. Murray of Impractical Jokers (just kidding, Murr, we love Impractical Jokers), New York is showcasing the newest subway spur that connects the city to the burbs, with a spectacular hub station under the river. Except all is not well. The construction has woken something ancient, and evil, and extremely angry.

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A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White – June 26

This is the beginning of a new series by Alex White. In installment number one, a crew of misfits gathers to go find a long lost space warship. A racer is framed for murder and, of course, she goes after the killer, who is also on the trail of a has-been treasure hunter who is also on the hunt for the old warship. There is mystery and action and the book’s editor called this “Fast and Furious meets Firefly“. I love misfits. I love treasure hunts. I love Fast and Furious and I certainly love Firefly. Looking forward to adding this to my summer reading list.

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Gate Crashers by Patrick S. Tomlinson – June 26

What happens when humankind’s first interstellar explorers appropriate an alien artifact and bring it back to Earth? Well the aliens get pissed….duh. Apparently the aliens liked their thingy, and the humans were typical humans, just taking what they want. There’s an alien mega structure and there’s a 5,000 km space-based particle accelerator. That’s big. Both the title and the blurbs make this book sound a little funny. I hope it is.

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