Kindle Genre Watch: Sci-Fi, Romance and Western Fiction (18 Aug 2010)

dream_called_time.jpg Spend less time searching for new genre fiction and more time reading it as I watch for newly-released genre fiction in the Amazon Kindle Bookstore so you don't have to. Recent genre fiction releases in sci-fi, romance and western fiction include:

SCIENCE FICTION

Dream Called Time by S. L. Viehl. Roc. Print Length: 384 p. Kindle edition $6.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Dispatched to investigate an unidentified ship that has emerged from a mysterious rift in space, Cherijo discovers technology far more advanced than anything she's ever seen. Before she can unravel the alien ship's mystery, Cherijo's own ship is sucked into the rift and transported through time. Unless she can find a way to reopen the rift, they will remain trapped in another time. And Cherijo will never see her family - which she's only just been reunited with-again..." - Amazon.
This is the tenth and final book of Viehl's StarDoc series which began with Stardoc. The main character in the series is Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil, a physician who - in the first book - takes an off-planet post in the Trauma Free Clinic on Kevarzangia Two, a planet with 200 different alien species where humans are definitely a minority. There she must quickly adapt to working with and treating patients not covered in Gray's Anatomy.

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. Harper Collins. Print Length: 448 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books - but we are real. Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. we have lived among you without you knowing. But they know. They caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya.They killed them all. I am Number Four..." - Amazon.

The Technician by Neal Asher. Publisher. Print Length: Kindle edition $0.00. Text-to-Speech: Blank.
"The Theocracy has been dead for twenty years, and the Polity rules on Masada. But the Tidy Squad consists of rebels who cannot accept the new order. Their hate for surviving theocrats is undiminished, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is at the top of their hit list. Escaping his sanatorium Tombs is pushed into painful confrontation with reality he has avoided since the rebellion. His insanity must cured, because the near mythical hooder called the Technician that attacked him all those years ago, did something to his mind even the AIs fail to understand. Tombs might possess information about the suicide of an entire alien race. The war drone Amistad, whose job it is to bring this information to light, recruits Lief Grant, an ex-rebel Commander, to protect Tombs, along with the black AI Penny Royal, who everyone thought was dead. Meanwhile, in deep space, the mechanism the Atheter used to reduce themselves to animals, stirs from slumber and begins to power-up its weapons." - www.fantasticfiction.co.uk.
This is book four in the author's Polity series which began with Prador Moon.

After America by John Birmingham. Pan Macmillan Australia. Print Length: 480 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Our world went to hell on March 14, 2003. Four years after an inexplicable wave of energy decimated the American mainland, and then just as inexplicably disappeared a year later, US President James Kipper is no closer to explaining the catastrophe to the traumatized survivors. In a decaying New York City, an assassination attempt on the President prompts the suspicion that the looters overrunning Manhattan may be more organised and sinister than previously thought. Working on a farm in Texas to earn his citizenship, Miguel Pieraro believes in the promise of the New America. That is until tragedy cuts through his family. In the English countryside, Echelon agent Caitlin Monroe must once again fight for her life, a sharp reminder that her nemesis is active again. Then out of the smoking ruin of the Middle East comes an enemy that will be Kipper's toughest challenge yet. The battle for the Wild East is just beginning, but does this New America, and its gun-shy President, have the strength of will to destroy the past in order to save the future?" - Amazon.

ROMANCE

Orchard Valley Brides by Debbie Macomber. Mira. Print Length: 400 p. Kindle edition $5.49. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Norah Bloomfield is feeling a bit unneeded these days. Her father is recovering from his heart attack, and her sisters, Valerie and Stephanie, are busy planning their weddings. But then a cantankerous Texan named Rowdy Cassidy crashes his small plane in Orchard Valley. The same Rowdy Cassidy who'd been Valerie's boss and who'd demanded she marry him. Now he's Norah's patient, and in all her nursing experience she's never encountered a more difficult man. Or a more irresistible one! Except...is he still in love with her sister? When Norah's friend Sherry Waterman leaves Orchard Valley, Oregon, for Pepper, Texas, she's definitely not in the mood for Lone Star Lovin'. But if anyone can change her mind, it's Cody Bailman - a hardworking, good-looking rancher... " - Amazon.


Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt. Grand Central Publishing. Print Length: 416 p. Kindle edition $6.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

wicked_intentions.jpg"...brings steamy sensuality to the slums of early 18th-century London...Demure widow Temperance Dews desperately needs funding for her orphanage. Lazarus Huntington, the famously debauched Lord Caire, needs to find out who murdered one of his mistresses. Lazarus offers Temperance an interesting bargain: if she will be his guide in the grimy neighborhood of St. Giles, he will pay the rent she owes and introduce her to more respectable nobility who might serve as patrons. Dire circumstances force the pair into intimate situations as they discover each other's deepest secrets, and Temperance reveals the passion hidden beneath her puritanical dress. Readers will enjoy the unusual pairing of an aristocratic man and a poor but educated widow, enhanced by earthy, richly detailed characterizations and deft historical touches." - Publishers Weekly.

Veil of Night by Linda Howard. Ballantine Books. Print Length: 256 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job—usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. But the unpleasant task at hand turns seriously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed. The problem is, most everyone—from the cake maker and the florist to the wedding-gown retailer and the bridesmaids’ dressmaker - had his or her own reason for wanting the bride dead, including Jaclyn. And while those who felt Carrie’s wrath are now smiling at her demise, Jaclyn refuses to celebrate tragedy, especially since she finds herself in the shadow of suspicion. Assigned to the case, Detective Eric Wilder finds that there’s too much evidence pointing toward too many suspects. Compounding his problems is Jaclyn, with whom he shared one deeply passionate night before Carrie’s death. Being a prime suspect means that Jaclyn is hands-off just when Eric would rather be hands-on." - Amazon.

WESTERNS

The Day the Cowboys Quit by Elmer Kelton. Forge Books. Print Length: 288 p. Kindle edition $6.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

day_the_cowboys_quit.jpg"From one of the West's greatest living storytellers, winner of numerous awards, including the Golden Spur, the Saddleman, and the Western Heritage Award, here is Elmer Kelton's rousing novel of the Canadian River cowboy strike of 1883. This was cowboy country once: a land of hardworking hands who rode for the brand come hell or high water. Now a different breed is moving in - big outfits backed by Eastern syndicates and run by power-hungry 'managers,' men who figure to make a profit, even if it means crowding a cowboy too far. Hugh Hitchcock tried to keep the peace between rancher and cowboy, but when push came to shove the wagon boss knew where his loyalties lay. And when the ranchers stole his cattle, when they lynched his friend and hired a back shooter to put him in his grave, he kept on fighting...because even is they took everything he had, they couldn't touch his pride - or his willingness to fight to the bloody end." - Publisher.

Zeke and Ned by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Simon & Schuster. Print Length: 416 p. Kindle edition $11.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
Originally published in 1997 and now available in a Kindle edition.
"McMurty and Ossana employ a technique they used successfully in Pretty Boy Floyd, in which a historical character of legendary proportions become the hero of a modern work of fiction. This work focuses on Zeke Proctor and Ned Christie, Cherokee Indians who became folk heroes in the Oklahoma Territory during the 1890s. Unforgiven wrongs that festered since the removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia in the 1830s become a moving force in the story of a casual love affair gone awry and the bloody feud and even bloodier legal actions that transpire when federal judges intervene. McMurty paints Zeke's courtship, murder trial, and marriage debacle with broad humor, and Ossana takes the story home with Ned's four-year standoff of armed federal marshals dispatched to take him dead or alive. A wonderfully readable historical novel that furthers the understanding of the Native-white disputes of the last century." - Thomas L. Kilpatrick for Library Journal.

Slaughter of Eagles by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone. (Eagles, 15). Pinnacle Books. Print Length: 352 p. Kindle edition $4.47. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In Phoenix a sheriff guns down a banker and robs him of a document. Going to the banker's aid, a witness hears the dying man's last words and takes hold of the map the sheriff was really after. By the time the crooked lawman realizes he has the wrong document, Jolene Wellington is on the run - and framed for the murder of the banker. Back east, Falcon MacCallister's famous brother and sister plead with him to find a young woman who has vanished out West. Her name is Jolene Wellington..." - Amazon.

Longarm and the Santiago Pistoleers by Tabor Evans. (Longarm, 381). Jove. Print Length: 192 p. Kindle edition $4.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Longarm's trailing a young killer, and the only badge-toter fit to help him is the sheriff's beautiful daughter - a little firecracker name Jessie Peckinpah." - Amazon.

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