Firește, în următoarele 6 luni o să apară un număr considerabil de cărți SF&F, un gen foarte drag publicului de limbă engleză, dar aici o să ne concentrăm doar pe ce mai publică autorii cunoscuți (și deja traduși) pe aici.
(Note: ordinea este cronologică; editurile românești precizate sunt cele identificate pe baza datelor disponibile online – nu reprezintă o istorie exhaustivă; nu toate cărțile au coperte disponibile deocamdată; descrierile nu au fost traduse pentru că, dacă sunteți interesați de acest articol despre apariții în engleză… probabil știți engleză.)
Greg Bear
(autor publicat în română la ed. Trei, Nemira, Teora)
Unfinished Land
Fantasy
Reynard, a young apprentice, seeks release from the drudgery of working for his fisherman uncle in the English village of Southwold. His rare days off lead him to strange encounters—not just with press gangs hoping to fill English ships to fight the coming Spanish Armada, but strangers who seem to know him—one of whom casts a white shadow.
The village’s ships are commandeered, and after a fierce battle at sea, Reynard finds himself the sole survivor of his uncle’s devastated hoy. For days he drifts, starving and dying of thirst, until he is rescued by a galleon, also lost—and both are propelled by a strange current to the unknown northern island of Thule. Here Reynard must meet his destiny in a violent clash between humans and gods.
Februarie 2021
Seanan McGuire
(autoare publicată în română la ed. Corint)
Calculated Risks
(cartea 10 din seria InCryptid)
Urban fantasy
Just when Sarah Zellaby, adopted Price cousin and telepathic ambush predator, thought that things couldn’t get worse, she’s had to go and prove herself wrong. After being kidnapped and manipulated by her birth family, she has undergone a transformation called an instar, reaching back to her Apocritic origins to metamorphize. While externally the same, she is internally much more powerful, and much more difficult to control. Even by herself. After years of denial, the fact that she will always be a cuckoo has become impossible to deny.
Now stranded in another dimension with a handful of allies who seem to have no idea who she is–including her cousin Annie and her maybe-boyfriend Artie, both of whom have forgotten their relationship–and a bunch of cuckoos with good reason to want her dead, Sarah must figure out not only how to contend with her situation, but with the new realities of her future. What is she now? Who is she now? Is that person someone she can live with? And when all is said and done, will she be able to get the people she loves, whether or not they’ve forgotten her, safely home?
Februarie 2021
Bruce Sterling
(autor publicat în română la ed. Nemira, Millenium)
Robot Artists and Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories
In this playful, dual-natured fantasticienza collection of science-fiction and fantasy, Bruce Sterling introduces his real-life Italian alter-ego, Bruno Argento.
Martie 2021
Terry Brooks
(autor publicat în română la ed. Minerva)
Small Magic: Short Fiction 1977-2020
Fantasy
New and fan-favorite stories from all three of his major literary worlds: Shannara, Magic Kingdom, and The Word & The Void.
Martie 2021
Ben Aaronovitch
(autor publicat în română la ed. Herg Benet)
What Abigail Did That Summer
(cartea 9 din seria Râurile din Londra)
Urban Fantasy
Ghost hunter, fox whisperer, troublemaker. It is the summer of 2013 and Abigail Kamara has been left to her own devices. This might, by those who know her, be considered a mistake. While her cousin, police constable and apprentice wizard Peter Grant, is off in the sticks chasing unicorns Abigail is chasing her own mystery. Teenagers around Hampstead Heath have been going missing but before the police can get fully engaged the teens return home—unharmed but vague about where they’ve been. Aided only by her new friend Simon, her knowledge that magic is real and a posse of talking foxes that think they’re spies, Abigail must venture into the wilds of Hampstead to discover who is luring the teenagers and more importantly—why?
Martie 2021
Arkady Martine
(autoare publicată în română la ed. Nemira)
A Desolation Called Peace
(cartea 2 of din seria Teixcalaan)
Hard sf. Space opera.
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass―still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire―face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity. Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths in an endless war. Their success might prevent Teixcalaan’s destruction―and allow the empire to continue its rapacious expansion.
Or it might create something far stranger .
Martie 2021
Becky Chambers
(autoare publicată în română la ed. Herg Benet)
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
(cartea 4 din seria Wayfarers)
Hard sf. Space opera.
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop.
At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit permits, and assorted supplies. The Five-Hop is run by an enterprising alien and her sometimes helpful child, who work hard to provide a little piece of home to everyone passing through.
When a freak technological failure halts all traffic to and from Gora, three strangers—all different species with different aims—are thrown together at the Five-Hop. Grounded, with nothing to do but wait, the trio—an exiled artist with an appointment to keep, a cargo runner at a personal crossroads, and a mysterious individual doing her best to help those on the fringes—are compelled to confront where they’ve been, where they might go, and what they are, or could be, to each other.
Aprilie 2021
Martha Wells
(autoare publicată în română la ed. Paladin)
Fugitive Telemetry
(cartea 6 din seria Murderbot Diaries)
Hard sf. Space Opera.
When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people―who knew?) Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans!
Again!
Aprilie 2021
John Scalzi
(autor publicat în română la ed. Nemira, Millenium)
Murder by Other Means
(cartea 2 din seria Dispatcher)
Hard sf.
Welcome to the new world, in which murder is all but a thing of the past. When someone kills you, 999 times out of 1,000, you instantly come back to life. In this world, there are dispatchers—licensed killers who step in when you’re at risk of a natural or unintentional death. They kill you—so you can live. Tony Valdez is used to working his job as a dispatcher within the rules of the law and the state. But times are tough, and more and more Tony finds himself riding the line between what’s legal and what will pay his bills. After one of these shady gigs, and after being a witness to a crime gone horribly wrong, Tony discovers that people around him are dying, for reasons that make no sense…and which just may implicate him. Tony is running out of time: to solve the mystery of these deaths, to keep others from dying, and to keep himself from being a victim of what looks like murder, by other means.
Aprilie 2021
Seanan McGuire
(autoare publicată în română la ed. Corint)
Angel of the Overpass
(cartea 3 din seria Ghost Roads)
Urban fantasy
Rose Marshall died when she was sixteen years old and on her way to her high school prom. She hasn’t been resting easy since then—Bobby Cross, the man who killed her, got away clean after running her off the road, and she’s not the kind of girl who can let something like that slide. She’s been looking for a way to stop him since before they put her body in the ground.
But things have changed in the twilight world where the spirits of the restless dead continue their “lives.” The crossroads have been destroyed, and Bobby’s protections are gone. For the first time, it might be possible for Rose to defeat him.
Not alone, though. She’ll need every friend she’s managed to make and every favor she’s managed to add to her account if she wants to stand a chance…and this may be her last chance to be avenged, since what is Bobby Cross without the crossroads?
Everything Rose knows is about to change.
Mai 2021
Timothy Zahn
(autor publicat în română la ed. Nemira)
Greater Good
(cartea 2 din seria Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy)
Hard sf. Space Opera.
Thrawn’s latest triumph still rests newly on his shoulders. He has led the Chiss to victory and brought glory to the House of Mitth, but the true threat to the Ascendancy has not yet been extinguished. Their foes do not send threats or ultimatums, do not mass ships on the edge of the Chaos. Their weapons come cloaked in smiles and generosity: Gifts offered freely. Services granted unconditionally.
Across the Ascendancy, seemingly inconsequential events could herald the doom of the Chiss. As Thrawn and the Expansionary Defense Fleet rally to uncover the plot, they discover a chilling truth: Rather than invade Chiss capitals or pillage resources, their enemy strikes at the very foundation of the Ascendancy, seeking to widen the rifts between the Nine Ruling Families and the Forty Great Houses below. As rivalry and suspicion sow discord among allies, each warrior must decide what matters most to them: the security of their family or the survival of the Ascendancy itself.
Mai 2021
Andy Weir
(autor publicat în română la ed. Paladin)
Project Hail Mary
Hard sf.
A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
Mai 2021
Rebecca Roanhorse
(autoare publicată în română la ed. Nemira)
Tread of Angels
Alternate history / Historical mystery.
Nu există descriere.
Mai 2021
Lois McMaster Bujold
(autoare publicată în română la ed. Tritonic, Nemira, Paladin)
Physicians of Vilnoc
(cartea 8 din seria Penric & Desdemona)
Fantasy
When a mysterious plague breaks out in the army fort guarding Vilnoc, the port capital of the duchy of Orbas, Temple sorcerer Penric and his demon Desdemona are called upon by General Arisaydia to resurrect Penric’s medical skills and solve its lethal riddle. In the grueling days that follow, Pen will find that even his magic is not enough to meet the challenges without help from dedicated new colleagues–and the god of mischance.
Iulie 2021
Becky Chambers
(autoare publicată în română la ed. Herg Benet)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
(cartea 1 din seria Monk & Robot)
Hard sf.
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.
One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of „what do people need?” is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how.
They’re going to need to ask it a lot.
Iulie 2021
Mary Robinette Kowal
(autoare publicată în română la ed. Nemira)
The Spare Man
Hard sf. / Mystery
The Spare Man is a stylish mystery by Hugo, Locus, and Nebula award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal set on an interplanetary liner between Earth and Mars.
Tessa Crain, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. But she’s traveling incognito, and someone has targeted her new husband as the perfect person to frame for murder.
Iulie 2021
George R.R. Martin (editor)
(autor publicat în română la ed. Nemira)
Joker Moon
(cartea 28 din seria Wild Cards)
Urban fantasy
Theodorus was a dreamer. As a child, he dreamt of airplanes, rockets, and outer space. When the wild card virus touched him and transformed him into a monstrous snail centaur weighing several tons, his boyhood dreams seemed out of reach, but a Witherspoon is not so easily defeated. Years and decades passed, and Theodorus grew to maturity and came into his fortune . . . but still his dream endured.
But now when he looked upward into the night sky, he saw more than just the moon . . . he saw a joker homeland, a refuge where the outcast children of the wild card could make a place of their own, safe from hate and harm. An impossible dream, some said. Others, alarmed by the prospect, brought all their power to bear to oppose him. Theodorus persisted . . .
. . . never dreaming that the Moon was already inhabited. And the Moon Maid did not want company.
Iulie 2021
Naomi Novik
(autoare publicată în română la ed. Nemira)
The Last Graduate
(cartea 2 din seria nouă Scholomance)
Fantasy.
In Wisdom, Shelter. That’s the official motto of the Scholomance. I suppose you could even argue that it’s true—only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter’s rather scant. Our beloved school does its best to devour all its students—but now that I’ve reached my senior year and have actually won myself a handful of allies, it’s suddenly developed a very particular craving for me. And even if I somehow make it through the endless waves of maleficaria that it keeps throwing at me in between grueling homework assignments, I haven’t any idea how my allies and I are going to make it through the graduation hall alive.
Unless, of course, I finally accept my foretold destiny of dark sorcery and destruction. That would certainly let me sail straight out of here. The course of wisdom, surely. But I’m not giving in—not to the mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholomance. I’m going to get myself and my friends out of this hideous place for good—even if it’s the last thing I do.
Iulie 2021
Gregory Benford
(autor publicat în română la ed. Pygmalion, Aldo Press, Nemira, Teora)
Shadows of Eternity
Hard sf./ First Contact / Space Opera
Shadows of Eternity is a novel set two centuries from now. Humanity has established a SETI library on the moon to decipher and interpret the many messages from alien societies we have discovered. The most intriguing messages are from complete artificial intelligences.
Iulie 2021
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