The flowers are blooming, the birds are singing sweetly in the trees, and so it's time to spend a few months sitting indoors, reading good books. To help you do that, a new SFBC magazine is hitting the mails today, and nearly all of the the new books from it are now up on the website.

For those of you who like lists, those books are:

Selections:

1. Temeraire: In the Service of the King, a 3-in-1 by Naomi Novik
2. Outward Bound, a 3-in-1 of classic juvenile novels by Robert A. Heinlein

Other New Books in the Magazine:

1. Masks of the Outcasts, two classic novels in one volume by Andre Norton
2. Year's Best SF 11, edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
3. The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Vol. 1, collecting all of the short fiction in that series by David Drake
4. The Lies of Locke Lamora, a fantasy caper first novel by Scott Lynch that I personally loved
5. Smoke and Ashes, third in the contemporary fantasy series by Tanya Huff
6. Dark Need, third in a paranormal romance series by Lynn Viehl (who also writes SF as S.L. Viehl)
7. If Angels Burn and Private Demon, the first two books in Lynn Viehl's series, available as a paperback set
8. The Mirror Prince by Violette Malan, another interesting first fantasy novel

In the Altiverse Catalog:

1. The Art of Superman Returns by Daniel Wallace
2. The Goon: Nuthin' But Misery and The Goon: My Murderous Childhood by Eric Powell, a two-volume set of the two-fisted comics anti-hero
3. DC Universe: Last Sons by Alan Grant, a new novel about Superman, Lobo and the Martian Manhunter

Tucked Into Other Nooks and Crannies:

1. Programming the Universe by Seth Lloyd
2. The Reign of Chivalry by Richard Barber
3. The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee by Thomas Fleming
4. Luftwaffe Victorious by Mike Spick

With that many choices, I have to believe everyone can find something they'll enjoy at the beach -- or to enjoy instead of the beach.