The Bee-Loud Glade by Steve Himmer

Meet Finch, a corporate drone and blogger who invents words and imaginary lives, but none as surreal as the life he's about to lead as a decorative hermit. Meet Mr. Crane, an eccentric billionaire whose whims and moods change as often as the landscape outside his employee's cave. Join them both as they search for naturalistic serenity in a land of postmodern complexity. Like Mr. Crane, who possesses the resources to build his own river, shape...

The Emperor's Knife by Mazarkis Williams

There is a cancer at the heart of the mighty Cerani Empire: a plague that attacks young and old, rich and poor alike, marking each victim with a fragment of a greater pattern. Anyone showing the marks is put to death. That is Emperor Beyon's law . . . But now the pattern is reaching closer to the palace than ever before. In a hidden room, a forgotten prince has grown from child to man, and as the empire sickens, Sarmin, the emperor’s only surviving...

New Scifi & Fantasy Releases: Week of November 20

It looks like it's another slow week in SFF publishing, which is fine by me since I'm still trying to catch up with the piles of books by my bed and in my Nook. There are a couple of books here that are sequels to books that I have been intending to read, such as In the Forests of the Night (sequel to Tyger, Tyger) and Hearts of Smoke & Steam (Sequel to The Falling Machine, which I actually have but haven't yet read). This is also the big week...