A new year brings new books -- not as many in some months, since January is always a time to catch up on all the work that didn't get done over the Christmas break, but, still, a fair number of new books. These are mostly the books for the May club magazine, but not always.

• Year's Best SF 12, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, is the latest in the annual series collecting the best short stories of the previous year -- if you want a hardcover, you'll have to get it from us.
• The Superhero Book and The Supervillain Book by Gina Misiroglu are for the Altiverse program, and they're encyclopedic looks at costumed (and some non-costumed) super-powered people from all media.
• Godlike Machines is the working title of a new original anthology that Jonathan Strahan will be editing for the SFBC; he's not turning it in until sometime in 2008, so we won't publish it for quite a while. But it will have six original novellas, and Alastair Reynolds, John Scalzi, and Charles Stross have already signed up, so I expect it will be wicked cool. (That's a technical publishing term, you understand.)
• No Humans Involved is the new "Women of the Otherworld" novel from Kelley Armstrong.
• The Last Colony, from John Scalzi, concludes the loose trilogy including Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades.
• Spindrift, by Allen Steele, is a new SF novel loosely linked to his "Coyote" trilogy.
• Breakaway by Joel Shepherd is the second adventure of Cassandra Kresnov, after the critically-acclaimed Crossover.
• And, last but not least, is Long-Time Listener, First-Time Werewolf, an omnibus of the first three "Kitty" novels by Carrie Vaughn.

And here are some of the book that our sister clubs have recently bought, which we'll also be offering members around that time:

• Deadly Game by Christine Feehan, a paranormal romance about genetic engineering, related to her earlier novel Conspiracy Game.
• Physik by Angie Sage, the third book in the Septimus Heap series for younger readers.
• Soul Eater by Michelle Paver, the third book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, also published for younger readers (though, as you know, Bob, adults can and do read YA novels with great enjoyment -- I seem to remember some kid wizard who has a couple of adults reading about his exploits).
• Whoosh Boom Splat is a book by William Gustelle, subtitled "the Garage Warrior's Guide to Building Projectile Shooters," and that pretty much sums it up. If you ever wanted to build your own ballista, this is the book for you.
• Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson is a collection of essays about astronomical topics by the director of the Hayden Planetarium.
• And we have another "Supernatural Romance" Flyer, which means four books I have trouble keeping straight in my head: Bite Me If You Can by Lynsay Sands, Dead Sexy by Amanda Ashley, Bled Dry by Erin McCarthy, and Night Lost by S.L. Viehl.

And that's it for this month; look for another round-up at the beginning of March.