INCOMING

• Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason, Ill Wind. Science fiction novel.  An untested "designer microbe" is used to break up the largest oil spill in history.  Too bad it also dissolves every piece of plastic in the world.  That can't be good.
• Christopher Fowler, Bryant and May off the Rails.  Mystery, the eighth book in the Bryanay series.  The titular heroes, members of the British Peculiar Crimes Unit, are after "Mr. Fox," an enigmatic criminal who escaped from a losked room and murdered one of their best and brightest.  Their quarry leads them deep below London into the darkest recesses of the London underground and to a nmadness that is driving a man to murder.
• David G. Hartwell, editor, Year's Best SF 6.  Twenty-seven stories culled from the year 2000.  Thirteen of the stories were from genre magazines, ten from other magazines (incuding seven from Nature!), and six from original anthologies.  The usual suspects are present.  In fact, there's only one name on the contents page I was not familiar with.
• Seymour Shubin, Witness to Myself.  An orignal novel for the Hard Case Crime imprint.  "Fifteen years ago, teenager Alan Benning jogged of a beach -- and into a nightmare.  Because what awaited him in that Cape Cod woods was an unspeakable temptation, a moment of panic, and a brutal memory that would haunt him for the rest of his life."  Shubin was a poet and the author of a dozen crime and mystery novels.  I've only read one of his books previously, the powerful, Edgar-nominated The Captain, which convinced me that Shubin can deliver the goods.