We've been busy as usual, reading and thinking about books, and these are the things we've finalized over the past month:

• Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman, a novel of super-heroics that Altiverse editor Jay Franco has been raving about (and that I still need to find time to read myself)
• The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, their latest anthology of great new stories based on mythic tales, for readers of all ages
• Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey, the middle book in the second seductive trilogy
• Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice by Karen Traviss, the big pivotal middle book in the "Legacy of the Force" series, where everything changes
• The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois, the 800-pound gorilla of SF, full of amazing stories (not to mention astounding and incredible ones) 
• Wizards edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, an original anthology of stories about magic, with a great line-up of writers starting with Neil Gaiman and running through Orson Scott Card
• Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan, a gritty near-future thriller of genetics and identity from the author of the Takeshi Kovacs novels
• 1634: The Baltic War by Eric Flint and David Weber, the latest novel in the Ring of Fire series
• The Beast Within: The Art of Ken Barr by Ken Barr, a collection of the art of a master of comics covers
• The Alton Gift by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross, first in a new Darkover trilogy
• Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen, collecting the critically acclaimed epic fantasy comics series...about sword-slinging mice

And there are also a number of books our sister clubs have bought that we'll be featuring to SFBC members:

• Boomsday by Christopher Buckley, a near-future satire from the author of Thank You for Smoking
• Dead Sexy by Tate Halliway, a frothy paranormal romance about a witch
• Kiss of Midnight and Kiss of Crimson by Lara Adrian, two books in another paranormal romance series
• The Hazards of Space Travel by Neil F. Comins, which is about just what it says it is
• Anti Gravity by Steve Mirsky, a collection of the popular column from Scientific American
• MacArthur's War by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson, an alternate history novel about the invasion of Japan
• Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann, translated by Anthea Bell, a mystery novel in which a flock of sheep solve the murder of their shepherd
• The Monk by Matthew Lewis, the classic Gothic novel, in a new edition with an introduction by Stephen King
• 101 Outer Space Projects for the Evil Genius by Dave Prochnow, a book of hands-on projects for the space buff
• The Arabian Nights, Volumes I and II translated by Hussain Haddawy, a large recent translation of the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night
• Blaze by Richard Bachman, a recently-discovered, very early novel by the late master of horror

Those books will be coming up in the SFBC's Summer and July mailings, mostly (with a few later than that) -- they'll start mailing in late May. Happy reading!