Spring is here, spring is here. Spring is skittles, spring is beer.

But Spring is also an issue of the SFBC's magazine (which old-timers like me will remember used to be called "Things to Come," but goes without a magazine-style title these days), and that has new books in it. That Spring magazine started mailing yesterday, and the new books in it are...

Selections:

• Alien Crimes edited by Mike Resnick, another great SFBC original, with six new novellas that you won't find anywhere else
• Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson, fifth in the gargantuanly entertaining "Malazan Book of the Fallen" epic fantasy series

Alternates:

• Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle, a great but little-talked-about novel of strange magics and cities that we're bringing back as part of our 50th Anniversary Collection
• Star Trek: Vulcan's Soul by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, an omnibus collecting a trilogy about Vulcan's mysterious past...and uncertain future
• The Silver Ship and the Sea by Brenda Cooper, the first solo SF novel by the co-author (with Larry Niven) of Building Harlequin's Moon
• Jack Knife by Virginia Baker, a time-travel serial-killer novel
• Into a Dark Realm by Raymond E. Feist, the newest tale from Midkemia
• You Suck by Christopher Moore, a humorous novel about vampires that's a sequel to Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends
• The Magic of Reason by Justine Larbalestier, collecting all three acclaimed, wonderful "Reason Cansino" novels into one handy volume

Other Places:

• Kissing Sin, Tempting Evil, and Dangerous Games by Keri Arthur; three books in a contemporary fantasy-romance series with supernatural creatures
• Hollow Earth by David Standish, a heavily illustrated guide to one of mankind's weirdest ideas, in all of its manifestations
• Space Invaders by Michel Van Pelt and Distant Worlds by Peter Bond; two books about robot space probes

And I hope you can find something of interest amongst all of that stuff.