Walton Simons News Today

Looking back at a long and fortunate career in game development.

July is here, and it’s brought with it an almost overwhelming array of new sci-fi, horror, and fantasy books. Whether you’re in the mood for magic, monsters, or mysteries—or some combination of all three—io9's monthly list of new releases has you covered.

Feel the need to read? Feed that need with the help of this list highlighting 63 upcoming releases.

Deuces Down is both the 16th and 30th book in the Wild Cards series. The anthology was first published in 2002; this new version is refreshed with added stories by Carrie Vaughn, Mary Anne Mohanraj, and Caroline Spector. Although re­ferred to on the title page as a mosaic novel, it remains – despite the linking story by Vaughn – an anthology of stories related only by the theme: deuces, folk with minor superpowers in the alter­nate superhero Wild Cards universe. If you are unaware of what...