Title Author Publication
Date
THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE Hajdu, David 3/1/2008
A short history of that dreaded art form, the comic book. IIRC,
includes a section where William Gaines demonstrates how not to defend
one's work.
THE RAW SHARK TEXTS Hall, Steven 4/1/2007
A man is forced to do battle with a rather peculiar predator.
I've said it before: if I am going after a conceptual shark,
I am not doing it in the boat from JAWS.
THE DREAMING VOID Hamilton, Peter F. 4/1/2008
A long novel with mutiple view point character in which we learn
there's a menace at the core of the galaxy. Presumably the plot will be
showing up in book two.
ALL TOGETHER DEAD Harris, Charlaine 5/1/2007
Sookie is recruited to help out with a vampire summit in shattered
New Orleans. Vampire/vampire conflict and vampire/human conflicts ensure
that things do not go entirely well.
The problem with the brutish prejudice plot is that most of the
non-humans belong to a social network as lovable as the Mafia, if
the Mafie were cannibals.
NOVA SWING Harrison, M. John 9/25/2007
An interesting space/time phenomena unleashes a New Wave SF
novel on the world.
THE OUTLAW DEMON WAILS Harrison, Kim 3/1/2008
The sixth in the Rachel Morgan series. I think she has a demon
from hell stalking her in this one.
YEAR'S BEST SF 12 Hartwell,David G. 6/1/2007
Cramer, Kathryn
Hartwell and Cramer offer 26 SF stories as their choice for the
best of 2006.
Not as downbeat as the Gardner.
HEAVEN'S NET IS WIDE Hearn, Lian 9/1/2007
This is a prequel to the Tales of the Otori trilogy and tells
****garu's backstory.
SANDWORMS OF DUNE Herbert, Brian 8/7/2007
Anderson, Kevin J.
The DUNE sequels are attacked by the DUNE prequels! Who will
win? Not the readers.
This is supposedly the final volume in the DUNE series but I
wouldn't be surprised if it turned out Brian and Kev squeezed out a
few more.
THE WHITE PLAGUE Herbert, Frank 10/1/2007
When the Irish murder his wife and child, as the Irish do,
a brilliant scientist unleashes a terrible plague on the world, as
brilliant scientists do.
Remind me again why Herbert was so highly regarded back then?
FRANKENSTEIN: A CULTURAL HISTORY Hitchcock, Susan Tyler 10/1/2007
Self-descriptive. I was tempted to send my ARC to Thomas Disch.
CRIMSON SHADOWS Howard, Robert E. 8/21/2007
GRIM LANDS Howard, Robert E.
The Best of Robert E. Howard, volumes one and two. Not my
favourite collections of his stuff but a good place for people new
to Howard to start.
KING'S PROPERTY Howell, Morgan 7/3/2007
CLAN DAUGHTER Howell, Morgan 7/3/2007
ROYAL DESTINY Howell, Morgan 9/25/2007
Books one through three of the QUEEN OF THE ORCS trilogy. A
young woman is enslaved to serve loathsome Orc mercenaries, only to
discover the Orcs are more honorable and easier to get along with than
the predatory men in her culture (Although there are moments of "Just
because you are on their side doesn't mean they are on your").
HEART OF LIGHT Hoyt, Sarah 2/26/2008
Part one in a series where brave English folk and natives
struggle to collect the plot tokens that will save the world.
This would like to be the Victorian answer to the Temeraire
series. It isn't.
HALF THE BLOOD OF BROOKLYN Huston, Charlie
This is a hard-boiled vampire story about an independent vampire
named Joe Pitt.
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