May is a good month for genre blends. I can personally recommend The Book of Phoenix, Okorafor’s marvelous follow-up to Who Fears Death. I’ll also draw your attention to Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife at the end of the month, an absolutely terrific blend of action-oacked thriller and plausible near-future SF. As usual, I have listed the genres in the order that they seem to be most prominent in the blend. What are you looking forward to?
May 5
A God in Ruins
Day Shift (Midnight, Texas)
The Dark Side of The Road: A country house murder mystery with a supernatural twist (An Ishmael Jones Mystery)
Unseemly Science (The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire, Book 2)
Midnight’s Kiss (A Novel of the Elder Races)
Alien Separation (Alien Novels, Book 11
The Venusian Gambit (Daedalus Series Book Three of)
The Book of Phoenix (Who Fears Death)
May 12
The Forgotten Room
Apex (Nexus Arc Book 3)
Born of Defiance (The League: Nemesis Rising)
May 19
Eighth Grave After Dark (Charley Davidson)
I, Ripper
May 26
Dearest Rogue (Maiden Lane)
Love in the Time of Scandal
The Water Knife