Sunday, May 25, 2008

New releases for the week of May 27th

Spotlight:
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

Synopsis:
A tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital, a tale about a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, and her impossible journey to the far-off city of Florence.

The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power.

Hardcover:
> The Twisted Citadel, Sara Douglass
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> Incandescence, Greg Egan
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> Blood Noir, Laurell Hamilton
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> Well Witched, Frances Hardinge
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> Nano Comes to Clifford Falls, Nancy Kress
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> The Shadow Pavilion, Liz Williams
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

Paperback:
> Shadow of the Scorpion, Neal Asher
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> Ginger Star, Leigh Brackett
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> Swordbearer, Glen Cook (Reissue)
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> Fortress on the Sun, Paul Cook
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> She, H. Rider Haggard
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> Year’s Best SF 13, David G. Hartwell
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> The Hounds of Ash, Greg Keyes
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> Goddess, Fiona McIntosh
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> Galactic North, Alastair Reynolds
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> A Deeper Blue, John Ringo
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

> Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

Europe:
> Machine, Peter Adolphsen
(Amazon.co.uk, Book Depository)

The Shadow Pavilion, Liz Williams

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