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Just looked at Locus' list of upcoming books up to September 2015 which got me wondering what everyone was excited about in 2015 and possibly beyond.



For me I am probably looking forward to the new Kelly Link collection Get into Trouble and Caitlin Kiernan's best of volume 2 the most. Beyond that there is a new Vandermeer anthology which I expect to get and love although there are many great anthologies I am very slowly making my way through so I probably wont be reading it any time soon.

There are new collections due out by Ken Liu and Jeffrey Ford that I am quite excited by, the restraint is just that with so much quality short fiction, including some by these authors available free online that I could already read a chunk of what will be in these collections but have not got round to it yet. There is also Ken's first novel out next year which might be interesting too.

Beyond that there is the second Yamada novel by Richard Parks and the next installment in Rusch's Anniversary day series that I will probably get to

What is everyone else looking forward to?

Castaway Planet
Eric Flint
Ryk Spoor

Cobra Outlaw
Timothy Zahn

Hope Reformed
David Drake
Eric Flint
S. M. Stirling

(Already out but haven't got it yet)

So Far.....

China Miéville And anything by this guy!!

Leviathan's Blood: Book Two of the Children Trilogy and this one!!

The Water Knife would totally be on my list too Kathy were it not that I have The Doubt Factory and not read it yet and think I will probably want a few months break between it and the Water Knife so whilst I hope I will get to it in 2014 it might be 2016/7

I am a bit prejudiced against time travel stories - I have actually enjoyed many I have read (Love Vintage Season and Replay) but its bad handling in multiple TV series' has left me a bit charry so probably wont get to the Harekaiian.

Didnt know about a new Mieville - I have really enjoyed some of his so would like to read a new one. Only problem I have with him is that there are several of his already out that I havent read yet so a new book by him would excite me less than some other authors.

There are probably more I'm not aware of yet, but so far on my list for 2015 I have:

Trail of Evil
Strands of Sorrow
An Artificial Night
The End of All Things
Dead Heat
Peace Talks

I'm freaking out about looking forward to Fool's Quest. I'm an unapologetic fangirl about Robin Hobb's books.

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Have you read anything she wrote as Megan Lindholm Aleah? Wizard of the Pigeons is very memorable although I have not yet dipped into any others she wrote under that name - quite different from the Hobb I read but that is one book to one book so not a fair comparison.

Ben wrote: " Wizard of the Pigeons is very memorable ..."

Agreed. The reader is never quite clear how much of the magic is real and how much exists only in the slightly damaged mind of the lead character - and it is fascinating either way. And the other characters are . . . interesting!

Ben wrote: "The Water Knife would totally be on my list too Kathy were it not that I have The Doubt Factory and not read it yet and think I will probably want a few months break between it and the Water Knife ..."

What we need is more time to read. Every year I proclaim "I will read what I own" *Sigh* At least I just add books to my to read list and not buy them all.
OK, that last bit was a lie, but didn't it sound reasonable and responsible?

Living in hope that George R.R. Martin will actually release Winds of Winter in 2015... preferably early!

I really doubt that the new Game of Thrones will be out on time :(
But personally I'm looking forward to The Golden Son by Pierce Brown

Ben wrote: "Have you read anything she wrote as Megan Lindholm Aleah? Wizard of the Pigeons is very memorable although I have not yet dipped into any others she wrote under that name - quite dif..."

I knew that Hobb wrote under Lindholm, but I've yet to read any of it. I was told that those who like one series won't like the other and I think I'm half afraid that'll be true. But that's really quite silly of me and I ought to give Lindholm a shot. I'll add Wizard of the Pigeons to my TBR pile! The synopsis actually sounds like something I'd really enjoy. Thanks!

It took me awhile to figure out if there were any books I was rapturously enthusiastic about in the upcoming year. Failing that, here are some books I'll probably read fairly quickly after their release:

Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings will be his first novel, and after half a dozen years of incredible short stories, I'm not sure if switching to 600-page novels is a great idea for him, but I intend to find out firsthand.

Everything else on my list is a sequel:

Staveley's The Providence of Fire will continue his sword and sorcery trilogy begun in 2014's The Emperor's Blades.

Corey's Nemesis Games continues his Expanse series, and I'm still on board.

Volume 2 of Wiebe & Upchurch's Rat Queens: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth, because the first volume of this sword & sorcery graphic novel was really funny.

Gladstone next Craft book, Last First Snow.

Scalzi The End of All Things continues his Old Man's War universe, and specifically the experiment in serialization, The Human Division, from 2013. I was a bit disappointed in that, especially since it was his first OMW story with a cliffhanger ending.

Next volume of Vaughan & Staples's Saga (Vol 4 was just out last week), because this space-opera fantasy is loads of fun.

I didn't care for the post-trilogy Mistborn as much as the original, but I will probably still read Sanderson's Shadows of Self & Bands of Mourning (two Mistborn novels in one year.)

I think I'm pretty much over Campbell's Lost Fleet & Andrews' Kate Daniels series, both of which have pretty much burned out, though I won't rule out reading them anyway. It's hard to get rid of a comfort food habit, even after it's gotten stale. Depends on what else pops up on the radar.


Addendum (Feb 5): A couple of as yet unnamed titles I'll look for, Sullivan plans a new Untitled Riyria Chronicles novel, and I assume there will be a sequel to The Goblin Emperor, though none is announced.

Also, I'll add the next Lazarus, Vol. 3: Conclave graphic novel (TPB compilation of the comic) to my list of GNs to get.

I'm really enjoying Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy. Book three, Ancillary Mercy, is due out next October. So I'll add that to my squee pile for the coming year.

This is a dangerous thread....
2015 is looking to be a good year for me book wise.

Based on some recent reading, I'v added a few more items to my original list:

A couple of as yet unnamed titles I'll be looking for:

Sullivan plans a new Untitled Riyria Chronicles novel,

and I assume there will be a sequel to The Goblin Emperor, though none is announced.

Also, I'll add the next Lazarus, Vol. 3: Conclave graphic novel (TPB compilation of the comic) to my list of GNs to get.

I don't know why I'm in the minority, but I'm really looking forward to the next in John C. Wright's "Count to the Eschaton" series, The Architect of Aeons. Hermetic Millennia was disappointing, but the Judge of Ages was crazy, but so good!