The Winter club magazine mails today, so everything should be up on the website. Let's test that, as I try to link to all of the new books...

Selections:

• Empire by Orson Scott Card, a near-future thriller that some reviewers are already claiming isn't SF (but we know better!)
• Maelstrom by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, the sequel to Changelings and the middle book in the second Petaybee trilogy
• Scar Night by Alan Campbell, a great first fantasy novel mixing dark and epic elements into a wonderfully heady brew

(For the beady-eyed among you: yes, there are three Selections this month, instead of the usual two. We had two great SF books coming out at the same time, and didn't want to hold either of them for later, or demote either of them -- so they're both our SF Selection this month.)

Alternates:

• Heritage and Exile, another Darkover omnibus by Marion Zimmer Bradley -- this one collecting the Hugo-nominated The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile
• Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest by Troy Denning, fourth in the nine-book series
• Harmony's Way by Lora Leigh, a SFnal paranormal romance about a genetically altered huntress
• Spellbinder by Melanie Rawn -- her first novel in nearly a decade is a contemporary romantic fantasy set in New York City
• The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue, a critically acclaimed fantasy novel about a changeling
• Mistral's Kiss by Laurell K. Hamilton, the new "Merry Gentry" novel

Altiverse:

• Star Wars Omnibus: X-Wing Rogue Squadron edited by Randy Stradley, a large collection of comics
• The Surrogates, the collection of an intersting SFnal comics series by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele
• Sojourn: The Legend of Drizzt, Book II, the comics adaptation of R.A. Salvatore's third novel about his most popular character
• Will Eisner's New York, a big omnibus of some of the best stories by one of the masters of comics (and the guy who coined the term "graphic novel")

Other places:

• Chronos by Etienne Klein, a non-fictional look at time
• The Science of James Bond by Lois Gresh and Robert Weinberg, which I think is self-explanatory