My own reading in recent weeks has been rather diverse. Here are a couple of highlights I can recommend:

• Cheap Complex Devices edited by John Compton Sundman (Rosalita Associates, trade, 180 pages, August 2002, USA)
      This fascinating little book is a fiction in 3 parts: the first two, the "Forward" by Sundman and "Notes on the Source Code" by the Hofstader Competition Committee, set the stage for what follows, by establishing the fiction of the competition for machine-generated prose fiction. "Bees, or the Floating Point Error" is alleged to be the only surviving entry, as explained in the previous sections. The whole work hangs together surprisingly well, and "Bees" is actually an exceedingly clever story, written by a colony of bees that sometimes believes itself to be a human being. Or maybe it was written by a computer. Or a man. All the same thing, really.
  SF Site Review

• Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut (Delta, trade, 336 pages, January 1999; first published in 1985)
      This is another classic Vonnegut end-of-humanity story, this time told from the perspective of a million-year-old ghost. Like any good Vonnegut novel, it is compellingly written, with a witty blend of sparkling humour and caustic satire. None of the characters in this novel are particularly likeable, but they're all so utterly human that you can't help but want to follow their stories through to the bitter end.

Story Time by Edward Bloor
Harcourt (hc, 424 pages)
Publication date: March 2004, USA & Canada

Seven Threads by Susan J. Boulton & Dan Bieger
Equilibrium Books (trade, 209 pages)
Publication date: 2004, Australia

The One True Prince by Thomas Brennan
Five Star (hc, 290 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): May 2004, USA

Hell Cop by David C. Burton
Silver Lake Publishing (trade, 282 pages)
Publication date: January 2004, USA

An Open Book by Orson Scott Card
Subterranean Press (hc, 94 pages)
Publication date: 2003, USA
   Card's first collection of poems.

The Devil in Green: The Dark Age, Book 1 by Mark Chadbourn
Gollancz (mm, 455 pages)
Publication date: 25 March 2004, UK

The Queen of Sinister: The Dark Age, Book 2 by Mark Chadbourn
Gollancz (hc & trade, 175 pages)
Publication date: 25 March 2004, UK

Counterfeit Kings by Adam Connell
Phobos Books (trade, 380 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): May 2004, USA

Songs of Leaving by Peter Crowther
Subterranean Press (hc, 240 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 26 July 2004, USA

Odyssey: Tales from the Wonder Zone, Vol. 4 edited by Julie E. Czerneda
Trifolium Books (trade, 132 pages)
Publication date: March 2004, Canada
   Original SF stories for young adult readers from Douglas Smith, M.T. O'Shaughnessy, Sarah Jane Elliott, Francine P. Lewis, Laura Anne Gilman, Annette Griessman, Peter Watts, with an introduction by Greg Bear.

Scarab by Don D'Ammassa
Five Star (hc, 268 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): April 2004, USA

Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
Tor (hc, 224 pages)
Publication date: March 2004, USA & Canada

King of Foxes: Conclave of Shadows, Book 2 by Raymond E. Feist
Eos, HarperCollins (hc, 381 pages)
Publication date: 30 March 2004, USA & Canada

The Portrain to Mrs Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford
Tor (mm, 328 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 23 April 2004, UK
   This was one of my favourite books from last year. An artist is commissioned to paint the portrait of a woman he is never allowed to see, only to interview from behind a screen. An excellent story; highly recommended.
SF Site Review

Faces of Mist and Flame by Jon George
Tor (trade, 390 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 21 May 2004, UK

Angel Stations by Gary Gibson
Tor (trade, 392 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 6 August 2004, UK

The Piaculum by Richard Gray
iUniverse (trade, 212 pages)
Publication date: 2003 (POD), USA & Canada & UK

Magestorm by Jonathan Green
Black Library, Warhammer (mm, 253 pages)
Publication date: March 2004, USA & Canada

Felaheen: The Third Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Pocket Books (trade, 357 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 4 May 2004, UK
   Good book in an exceptional series.
SF Site Review

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre novelization by Stephen Hand
Black Flame (mm, 415 pages)
Publication date: March 2004, USA & Canada
   Based on the screenplay by Scott Kosar.
SF Site Review of the film

A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Viking, Penguin (hc, 213 pages)
Publication date: 2003, USA & Canada

The Iron Grail: The Merlin Codex, Book 2 by Robert Holdstock
Tor (hc, 303 pages)
Publication date: 24 March 2004, USA & Canada
SF Site Review

The Dragon Quintet edited by Marvin Kaye
Tor (hc, 304 pages)
Publication date: April 2004, USA & Canada
   Original short stories by Orson Scott Card, Mercedes Lackey, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Moon, and Michael Swanwick.

Fire of God by J.M. Kelly
iUniverse (trade, 298 pages)
Publication date: March 2004, USA & Canada & UK

Ragnar's Claw: Space Wolf, Book 2 by William King
Black Library, Warhammer 40,000 (mm, 283 pages)
Publication date: March 2004, USA & Canada

Grey Hunter: Space Wolf, Book 3 by William King
Black Library, Warhammer 40,000 (mm, 283 pages)
Publication date: March 2004, USA & Canada

Bumper Crop by Joe R. Lansdale
Golden Gryphon (hc, 200 pages)
Publication date: April 2004, USA & Canada

A Call to Repentance by Clark LaPointe
Trafford Publishing (trade, 160 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): April 2004, Canada

Earth Logic: Elemental Logic Saga, Book 2 by Laurie J. Marks
Tor (hc, 400 pages)
Publication date: 10 March 2004, USA & Canada
SF Site Review of Fire Logic

Ursun's Teeth by Graham McNeill
Black Library, Warhammer (mm, 253 pages)
Publication date: March 2004, USA & Canada

NightScape by David Morrell
Subterranean Press (hc, 240 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 7 June 2004, USA

Zohra: The Planet of Truth and Knowledge by Joseph Palazzo
1st Books (trade, 441 pages)
Publication date: October 2003, USA

Fisher of Devils by Steve Redwood
House of Dominion (trade, 278 pages)
Publication date: 2003, USA
   With an introduction by Rhys Hughes.

Black Rush by Frederick Louis Richardson
DreaMerchant (trade, 278 pages)
Publication date: 2003, USA

Natural History by Justina Robson
Pan, Macmillan (mm, 393 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 23 April 2004, UK

Iterations by Robert J. Sawyer
Red Deer Press (trade, 303 pages)
Publication date: 23 February 2004, Canada & USA
SF Site Review

Hellbrandt Grimm: Some Swift and Brutal Hand by Mitchel Scanlon, illustrated by The Sharp Brothers
Black Library, Warhammer (trade graphic novel)
Publication date: February 2004, USA & Canada

Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades by Robert Silverberg
Subterranean Press (hc, 630 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 7 June 2004, USA

The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
Golden Gryphon (hc, 273 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): May 2004, USA

The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston
Victor Gollancz (hc, 290 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): 15 April 2004, UK
SF Site Review

Annihilation Squad by Gav Thorpe
Black Library, Warhammer 40,000 (mm, 413 pages)
Publication date: March 2004, USA & Canada

City of Saints & Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
Tor (trade)
Publication date: April 2004, UK
   Stunningly brilliant collection of Ambergris, a fictional place that VanderMeer makes more real than some actual cities I've visited. 
SF Site Review

The Cage of Nine Banestones: The Pearl Saga, Book 3 by Eric Van Lustbader
Voyager, HarperCollins (mm, 632 pages)
Publication date: 2 February 2004, UK

Intersect: A Love Story by Harold Torger Vedeler
iUniverse (trade, 155 pages)
Publication date: 7 December 2003, USA & Canada & UK

Necropolis by Tim Waggoner
Five Star (hc, 236 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): April 2004, USA

Witch Hunter by C.L. Werner
Black Library, Warhammer (mm, 412 pages)
Publication date: February 2004, USA & Canada

Deep Blue by David Niall Wilson
Five Star (hc, 322 pages)
Publication date (forthcoming): May 2004, USA

Two Shades Darker Than the Sky by Scott T. Wilson
1st Books (trade, 507 pages)
Publication date: January 2004, USA

Slave Masters by Susan Wright
Pocket Star Books (mm, 359 pages)
Publication date: January 2004, USA & Canada

Magazines

Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2004, USA & Canada
Contributors to this issue include: Robert Reed, Sheila Finch, Peter S. Beagle, Jaye Lawrence, Melanie Faxi, John Morressy, Richard Mueller, James Patrick Kelly.