INCOMING

• Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason, Ill Wind.  SF.
• "Victor Appleton II" (house name), Four books in the Tom Swift Jr. series:  Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober (#20), Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway (#22), Tom Swift and His Polart-Ray Dynasphere (#25), and Tom Swift and His Subocean Geotron (#27).  All four of these were written by Jim Lawrence, who wrote 24 of the 33 books in  the series.
• Marion Zimmer Bradley, City of Sorcery.  Fantasy, a Darkover novel.  Bradley adds a note that this novel was inspired by Talbot Mundy's 1926 book The Devil's Guard
• Don Coldsmith, The Traveler.  Western in the Spanish Bit series.
• "Paula Fairman," River of Passion.  Historic romance.  Despite the similarity in names, this is not a pseudonym for SF/mystery author Paul W. Fairman; rather, this was written by Robert Vaughan (not the actor) under one of his 35 pseudonyms.
• Steven Gould, Jumper:  Griffin's Story.  YA SF movie tie-in novel.  Gould wrote this to be consistent with the movie made from his novels Jumper and Reflex.
• William W. Johnstone, The Last of the Dog Team.  Men's Adventure.
• Tanith Lee, Red Unicorn.  YA fantasy, sequel to Black Unicorn and Gold Unicorn.
• Gregory McGuire, Seven Spiders Spinning.  Juvenile fantasy.  I  don't like spiders.  Hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em.  Stomp those suckers flat, I say.
• "Jack McKinney" (joint pseudonym of Brian Daley and James Lucerno), Robotech First Generation #1:  Genesis.  Gaming tie-in novel.
• James A. Moore, Writ in Blood.  Horror.
• David Morrell, The Spy Who Came for Christmas.  Thriller.
• Barbara Neely, Blanche Among the Talented Tenth.  Mystery.
• Jack Olsen, Night Watch.  Thriller.
• John Shirley, Constantine.  Movie tie-in novel.  Based on characters in the Hellblazer graphjic novels.
• Joan Slonczewski, A Door Into Ocean.  SF.
• Wen Spencer, A Brother's Price.  SF.
• Bruse Sterling, Holy Fire.  SF.
• Patricia Telep, editor, The Mammoth Book of Special Ops Romance.  Don't know why the hell I picked this one up.  Twenty stories.
• Harry Turtledove, Darkness Descending.  Alternate World War II fantasy novel.
• Gore Vidal, The American Presidency, Dreaming War:  Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, and Perpetua; War for Perpetual peace:  How We Got To Be So Hated.  Essays.  When Vidal died recently, I realized it had been years since I had read anything by him so I picked these essays that were designed to be provocative.
• Gerald Walker, Cruising.  Thriller.
• Pamela West, Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper.  Historical mystery, but not by Robert Bloch.
• Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse on the Moon.  The Duchy of Grand Fenwick!