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Spend less time searching for new genre fiction and more time reading it as I watch for newly-released genre fiction in the Kindle Store so you don't have to. Outstanding new releases in fantasy and science fiction include:

Science Fiction

The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski. Tor Books, 2011. Print Length: 448 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $17.27. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"One of the most respected writers of hard SF, it has been more than ten years since Joan Slonczewski's last novel. Now she returns with a spectacular tour de force of the college of the future, in orbit. Jennifer Ramos Kennedy, a girl from a rich and politically influential family (a distant relation descended from the famous Kennedy clan), whose twin brother has died in an accident and left her bereft, is about to enter her freshman year at Frontera College. Frontera is an exciting school built with media money, and a bit from tribal casinos too, dedicated to educating the best and brightest of this future world. We accompany Jenny as she proceeds through her early days at school, encountering surprises and wonders and some unpleasant problems. The Earth is altered by global warming, and an invasive alien species called ultraphytes threatens the surviving ecosystem. Jenny is being raised for great things, but while she's in school she just wants to do her homework, go on a few dates, and get by. The world that Jenny is living in is one of the most fascinating and creative in contemporary SF, and the problems Jenny faces will involve every reader, young and old." - Publisher.

How Firm a Foundation by David Weber. Tor Books, 2011. Print Length: 608 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $14.99; Hardcover $15.04. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. This is book five in Weber's Safehold series which began with Off Armageddon Reef

"The Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don’t know even now, however, is how much more it’s fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know. And because they do, they know the penalty if they lose will be far worse than their own deaths and the destruction of all they know and love... Religious terrorists have been dispatched to wreak havoc against the Empire’s subjects. Assassins stalk the Emperor and Empress, their allies and advisers, and an innocent young boy, not yet eleven years old, whose father has already been murdered. And Merlin Athrawes, the cybernetic avatar of a young woman a thousand years dead, has finally learned what sleeps beneath the far-off Temple in the Church of God Awaiting’s city of Zion. The men and women fighting for human freedom and tolerance have built a foundation for their struggle in the Empire of Charis with their own blood, but will that foundation be firm enough to survive?" - Publisher.

Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson. Tor Books, 2011. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (19 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $17.15. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Vortex is a sequel to the author's Spin and Axis.

"Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called 'the Hypotheticals.' In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined. Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled. The prophecy is only partly true, however, and Turk must unravel the truth about the nature and purpose of the Hypotheticals before they carry him on a journey through warped time to the end of the universe itself." - Publisher.

Reamde by Neal Stephenson. William Morrow, 2011. Print Length: 1056 p. Amazon customer rating: None yet. Scheduled for publication on September 20, 2011. Kindle edition $16.99; Hardcover $18.81. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"In 1972, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, fled to the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft. A skilled hunting guide, he eventually amassed a fortune by smuggling marijuana across the border between Canada and Idaho. As the years passed, Richard went straight and returned to the States after the U.S. government granted amnesty to draft dodgers. He parlayed his wealth into an empire and developed a remote resort in which he lives. He also created T’Rain, a multibillion-dollar, massively multiplayer online role-playing game with millions of fans around the world. But T’Rain’s success has also made it a target. Hackers have struck gold by unleashing REAMDE, a virus that encrypts all of a player’s electronic files and holds them for ransom. They have also unwittingly triggered a deadly war beyond the boundaries of the game’s virtual universe - and Richard is at ground zero. Filled with unexpected twists and turns in which unforgettable villains and unlikely heroes face off in a battle for surviva... a brilliant refraction of the twenty-first century, from the global war on terror to social media, computer hackers to mobsters, entrepreneurs to religious fundamentalists..." - Publisher.

Aftermath by Ann Aguirre. Ace, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (11 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99; Paperback $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"During the war against murderous, flesh-eating aliens, grimspace 'jumper' Sirantha Jax decided to go it alone. The cost of her actions: the destruction of modern interstellar travel - and the lives of six hundred Conglomerate soldiers. Now she's on trial fro dereliction of duty, desertion, mass murder, high treason...and her life." - Publisher.

Fantasy

The Twelfth Enchantment by David Liss. Random House, 2011. Print Length: 416 p. Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (22 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $13.00. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. After the death of her beloved father, she is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as the unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle, fending off marriage to a local mill owner. But just as she is on the cusp of accepting a life of misery, events take a stunning turn when a handsome stranger - the poet and notorious rake Lord Byron - arrives at her house, stricken by what seems to be a curse, and with a cryptic message for Lucy. With the world undergoing an industrial transformation, and with England on the cusp of revolution, Lucy is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy in which her life, and her country’s future, are in the balance. Inexplicably finding herself at the center of cataclysmic events, Lucy is awakened to a world once unknown to her: where magic and mortals collide, and the forces of ancient nature and modern progress are at war for the soul of England...and the world. The key to victory may be connected to a cryptic volume whose powers of enchantment are unbounded..." - Publisher.

Archangel's Blade by Nalini Singh. Berkley, 2011. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (53 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99; Paperback $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. This is book four in the author's Guild Hunter series which began with Angels' Blood.

"In the intensely dark, violent, and romantic fourth Guild Hunter novel (after Archangel's Consort), Singh focuses on the 1,000-year-old vampire Dmitri, lieutenant to the archangel Raphael, and Guild Hunter Honor, still recovering after a rogue vampire kidnapped and tortured her for two months. Assigned by the Guild to work with Dmitri toward solving the strange murder of a young vampire, Honor must confront the conflicting emotions he inspires...a heart-pounding and strongly emotional read." - Publishers Weekly.

One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire. Daw, 2011. Print Length: 368 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (18 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99; Paperback $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. This is book five in McGuire's October Daye series which began with Rosemary and Rue.

"October 'Toby' Daye is settling into her new role as Countess of Goldengreen. She's actually dating again, and she's taken on Quentin as her squire. So, of course, it's time for things to take a turn for the worse. Someone has kidnapped the sons of the regent of the Undersea Duchy of Saltmist. To prevent a war between land and sea, Toby must find the missing boys and prove the Queen of the Mists was not behind their abduction. Toby's search will take her from the streets of San Francisco to the lands beneath the waves, and her deadline is firm: she must find the boys in three days' time, or all of the Mists will pay the price. But someone is determined to stop her-and whoever it is isn't playing by Oberon's Laws..." - Publisher.

Blood Bound by Rachel Vincent. Mira, 2011. Print Length: 400 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (15 reviews). Kindle edition $5.59; Paperback $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Liv Warren is special - a paranormal tracker who follows the scent of blood. Liv makes her own rules, and the most important one is trust no one. But when her friend's daughter goes missing, Liv has no choice but to find the girl. Thanks to a childhood oath, Liv can't rest until the child is home safe. But that means trusting Cam Caballero, the former lover forbidden to her. Bound by oath and lost in desire for a man she cannot have, Liv is racing to save the child from a dark criminal underworld where secrets, lies, trauma and danger lurk around every corner...every touch...every kiss. And more blood will be spilled before it's over..." - Publisher.
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