New Releases - Late 2006
December 23rd 2006 08:39
Another day, another round of new releases. I've collected together some of the big name releases that have just come out, one or two of them might be yet to hit Australian shores...
Stephen King's latest novel comes hot on the heels of 'The Cell', his previous novel from last year. Both are his first non-'Dark Tower' related mainstream novels for a good five years or so. From what I gather, 'Lisey's Story' isn't really a typical King horror novel and is one of his most ambitious singular works in a while. It's been selling fairly well over the Christmas period.
This is one of the ones where I'm not sure whether it's available in Australia yet or not. Orson Scott Card turns his considerable science-fiction talents towards alternate history/what if...? fiction. This novel posits a not-too-far into the future scenario that would see America's legions of the Right Wing and the Left Wing clash against one another in an all-out civil war, utilising the latest in technology and amplifying the ire of the apolitical and previously-silent majority. If done right, this book sounds like it could be quite interesting.
Dean Koontz's latest continues the 'adventures' of his newest continuing protagonist, Odd Thomas (previously seen in 'Odd Thomas' and 'Forever Odd'). I haven't read any Koontz but the guy is pretty damn prolific, and he has his fans.
S.M. Stirling is a Canadian science-fiction and fantasy author who has collaborated with a bunch of big name speculative fiction writers (including Anne McCaffrey and Jerry Pournelle) and written a whole bunch of interesting books over the last two decades. This book is the first in a two-book sequence that explores what it might be like had Venus and Mars been populated with different species of humans and terraformed long, long ago. 'The Sky People' is set on Venus, and the second book 'In The Halls of the Crimson Kings' will be set on Mars.
The Action-Sci-Fi blockbuster king, Michael Crichton, returns with another on-the-pulse tome. This one shows us a world where genetic engineering and gene-ownership has run rampant.
Two years ago, Audrey Niffenegger had a surprise hit with her inventive and imaginative book 'The Time Traveller's Wife'. Strangely, she followed this up with a rather slim and arty adult-aimed storybook, 'The Three Incestuous Sisters'. Does she have writer's block? This latest limited release is more of the same... a 'novel in pictures'.
John Le Carre continues on his upwards swing with another solid offering of espionage and Africa. With the recent-ish success of 'The Constant Gardner', who knows - maybe this could be next in line for a film adaptation!
Stephen King's latest novel comes hot on the heels of 'The Cell', his previous novel from last year. Both are his first non-'Dark Tower' related mainstream novels for a good five years or so. From what I gather, 'Lisey's Story' isn't really a typical King horror novel and is one of his most ambitious singular works in a while. It's been selling fairly well over the Christmas period.
This is one of the ones where I'm not sure whether it's available in Australia yet or not. Orson Scott Card turns his considerable science-fiction talents towards alternate history/what if...? fiction. This novel posits a not-too-far into the future scenario that would see America's legions of the Right Wing and the Left Wing clash against one another in an all-out civil war, utilising the latest in technology and amplifying the ire of the apolitical and previously-silent majority. If done right, this book sounds like it could be quite interesting.
S.M. Stirling is a Canadian science-fiction and fantasy author who has collaborated with a bunch of big name speculative fiction writers (including Anne McCaffrey and Jerry Pournelle) and written a whole bunch of interesting books over the last two decades. This book is the first in a two-book sequence that explores what it might be like had Venus and Mars been populated with different species of humans and terraformed long, long ago. 'The Sky People' is set on Venus, and the second book 'In The Halls of the Crimson Kings' will be set on Mars.
The Action-Sci-Fi blockbuster king, Michael Crichton, returns with another on-the-pulse tome. This one shows us a world where genetic engineering and gene-ownership has run rampant.
Two years ago, Audrey Niffenegger had a surprise hit with her inventive and imaginative book 'The Time Traveller's Wife'. Strangely, she followed this up with a rather slim and arty adult-aimed storybook, 'The Three Incestuous Sisters'. Does she have writer's block? This latest limited release is more of the same... a 'novel in pictures'.
John Le Carre continues on his upwards swing with another solid offering of espionage and Africa. With the recent-ish success of 'The Constant Gardner', who knows - maybe this could be next in line for a film adaptation!
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