User:ErsatzCulture/DelayedBooks2021

Winter/Spring 2021 edition

aka Lockdown 2 (or is it 3? I've lost track...)

This is an informally maintained list of (mostly/entirely UK) books that have either been officially pushed back, or which are showing out-of-stock at multiple vendors on their release dates (strongly implying they haven't come out as planned).

Pub Date	Author	Title	Format(s)	Publisher	ISBN(s)	Last checked	Comments
2021-02-04	M. John Harrison	The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again	tp	Gollancz	9780575096363	2021-01-24	Now showing as 2021-04-21
2021-02-xx	Christopher Priest	The Separation (SF Masterworks)	tp	Gollancz	9781473233058	2021-01-23	Waterstones and publisher now showing 2021-05-13
2021-02-04	Lavie Tidhar	By Light Alone	tp	Head of Zeus (Ad Astra imprint probably)	9781838931292	2021-01-24	Waterstones now showing 4th March - submitted 2021-02-21
2021-02-04	Jonathan Strahan (editor)	The Book of Dragons	tp	Harper Voyager	9780008331535	2021-01-24	Amazon UK now showing 2021-04-01, as is Blackwells (the original source of the Feb date)
2021-02-04	Emily M. Danforth	Plain Bad Heroines	hc	The Borough Press	9780008346928	2021-01-24	Amazon now showing 2021-03-04 (same for ebook, although that hadn't been submitted to the database). Pub updated
2021-01-28 etc	Kobo Abe, Olaf Stapledon, etc	Ark Sakura, Star Maker etc	pb, ebook	Penguin	various	2021-01-24ish	Several pubs scheduled for Jan 2021 moved to June 2021. Delays possibly unrelated to lockdown
2021-02-04	Tarun K. Saint	New Horizons: Gollancz Asian SF	tp, ebook	Gollancz	i	2021-02-25	Pubs have been updated to new date known as of 2021-01-24 (April IIRC). Update 2021-02-25: Gollancz.co.uk is now listing 3rd June?!?
2021-02-04	Sarah Pinsker	A Song for a New Day	tp	Ad Astra / Head of Zeus	9781800243859	2021-01-23	Pub record updated to reflect new pub date of 2021-03-04
2021-02-18	Justin Call	Master Artificer	hc	Gollancz	9781473222908	2021-02-05	Per Blackwells as of Nov 23rd, although now they (and other sources) are showing May 6th. Blackwells also had a tp 9781473222915 with same date - export ed?
2021-03-18	Christopher Ruocchio	Demon in White	tp	Gollancz	9781473218338	2021-02-23	Was showing mid March as of 2021-02-14, but some time in the past week or so pushed back a fortnight to April 1st. (Blackwells still has the earlier date, but I'm assuming they haven't updated yet)
2021-xx-xx	a	t	f	p	i	2021-xx-xx	c
2021-xx-xx	a	t	f	p	i	2021-xx-xx	c
2021-xx-xx	a	t	f	p	i	2021-xx-xx	c

Still showing as previously scheduled, not yet submitted:

• Matt Haig - The Midnight Library (tp) - source: Waterstones, looks like it might have been pushed back 2 weeks from Feb 4th to Feb 18th at some point between Oct and Jan
• Jay Posey - Every Sky a Grave (tp) - source: Amazon
• Bradley Beaulieu - When Jackals Storm the Walls (tp) - source Amazon, Waterstones, publisher
• books scheduled for the second half of Feb 2021 or later do not seem to have been rescheduled as of 2021-01-24

Submitted:

• Adam Roberts - Mount Purgatory (hc)
• Everina Maxwell - Winter's Orbit (tp/ebook) - source Amazon, publisher