Transreal Fiction

Everything’s a bit late, thanks to the Bank Holiday on Monday…

In hardback:

Eric Flint & Marilyn Kosmatka - Time Spike a maximum security prison somehow appears back in the age of dinosaurs!

in large format:

Alan Dean Foster - Sagramanda near-future sf set in India
Gregory Frost - Shadow Bridge first half of a new fantasy set; looks good…
Jorge Molst - The Ring subtitled ‘The Last Templar Knight’s Inheritance’ A New York lawyer receives a mysterious package…
Barth Anderson - The Magician and the Fool ancient artifact mystery centred around the history of the Tarot
Sarah Monette - The Bone Key 10 linked stories about a museum archivist sensitive to the supernatural…

Robert Heinlein - Farmer in the Sky classic reprint

James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel (editors) - Rewired top authors appear in ‘The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology’, as it calls itself…
Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois - Wizards anthology, with stories by mayor names…
Ekaterina Sedia (editor) - Paper Cities an anthology of urban fantasy

in ‘B’ format:

Neil Gaiman - M is for Magic short story collection aimed at younger readers…
Joe Hill - Heart-Shaped Box a man buys a ghost on the internet…

in paperback:

David Weber & Linda Evans - Hell’s Gate first in a new series featuring two empires controlling multiple parallel worlds at war with each other
L. E. Modesitt, jr - Natural Ordermage the 14th novel of Recluce
Lois McMaster Bujold - Legacy book 2 of The Sharing Knife, the sequel to Beguilement…
Timothy Zahn - Blackcollar: The Judas Solution inter-planetary warfare with an elite unit; previouis books are o/p
Jay Lake - Mainspring a very alternate history, where the world literally runs like clockwork! I enjoyed reading it in hardback…
Scott Mackay - Omega Sol aliens want to turn the sun into a red giant! Sounds a bit OTT, but he’s usually worth reading…
Sean Williams - Earth Ascendant the 2nd half of Astropolis; the sequel to Saturn Returns
Warren Hammond - Kop unraveling a scandal on a failing colony world…
Jennifer Fallon - Warlord the final part of her Wolfblade trilogy
Cat Bordhi - Treasure Forest two children persuade their parents to move to a house in the woods…
Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Ninth Talisman volume 2 of the Annals of the Chosen
Lisa Shearin - Armed and Magical a young ’seeker’ is caught up in magical happenings when she finds an ancient soul-eating stone…

David E. Meadows - Final Run submarine adventure
Dale Brown - Strike Force near-future thriller featuring the first military space station… Published as a Premium edition (i.e. a bit taller than most paperbacks)
Tim Willocks The Religion historical fiction about the Knights of Malta
Talia Gryphon - Key to Conspiracy the sequel to Key to Conflict, about a paramortal psychologist working for US Special Forces…
Jonathan Mayberry - Bad Moon Rising horror
Tanya Huff - Blood Bank short story collection set against the Blood Ties background…

Denise Little (editor) - Front Lines military sf anthology

Star Trek - Terok Nor Night of the Wolves (2345 - 2357) another novel set just before DS9

art, etc:

Neil Gaiman & Gris Grimbly - The Dangerous Alphabet rhyming couplets of the alphabet, with humourous illustrations…

Today’s view…

Originally uploaded by miketransreal

If anyone’s worried about problems with access due to the Grassmarket improvements, this is the view from the front door, showing the new, wider pavement, albeit with a large hole at the corner.

I’ve been assured today that progress is still being made and the hole should be looked into very soon!

These guys just dropped in to sign stock, so now I have limited signed stock of UK editions of books by:

Alan Campbell - Iron Angel (his new hardback) the sequel to Scar Night (available in ‘B’ format) - both titles available with plain signature

Hal Duncan - Ink (hardback) the sequel to Vellum (available in ‘B’ format) - both titles available with plain signature

in hardback:

Lois McMaster Bujold - Passage book 3 of The Sharing Knife
Katharine Kerr - The Shadow Isle the 6th (of 7) in her Dragon Mage series - the 14th Deverry book overall - only one more to come!
Charlaine Harris - From Dead to Worse the 8th Sookie Stackhouse book…

Jonathan Strahan (editor) - The Starry Rift high-powered anthology of ‘tales of new tomorrows’
Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland: the Movie Edition large hardback which has both the original novel and the film script (with glossy colour stills and b&w sketches). However, it’s not the film I recently sponsored at the Maths Cubed Film Fest, it’s the other one that came out last year!

large format:

Eric Brown - Kethani I really liked his previous book, Helix
Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman’s Union alternate history set against the Jewish homeland being established in Alaska, rather than Palestine…
Thomas E. Sniegoski - A Kiss Before the Apocalypse the sequel, I thinl, to Fallen, featuring Boston P.I. Remy Chandler…
Ruth Downie - Medicus 1st in a new series about a Roman doctor in Britannia.
John Baldwin & Ron Powers - Last Flag Down true story of the Confederate warship CSS Shenandoah that raided shipping in the Indian Ocean and Far East

in paperback:

Ian C. Esslemont - Night of Knives a novel of The Mazalan Empire; he and Steven Erikson created the world between them, although this novel is set way before the event’s in Erikson’s books…
David Sherman & Dab Cragg - Firestorm the 12th in their Starfist series…
Glen Cook - Cruel Zinc Melodies the 12th in the Garrett, P.I. series…
Sarah A. Hoyt - Draw One in the Dark Kyrie Smith is a young shapechanger (black panther) who discovers that one of her co-workers is also one (dragon)
Sean Murphy - The Time of New Weather Buddy can perform miracles; well, little ones like finding spare change!
J. F. Englert - A Dog Among Diplomats the sequel to A Dog About Town, which came in recently…
David Gunn - Death’s Head violent, near-future war novel.

Katie MacAlister - Playing With Fire the first novel of the Silver Dragons
Raven Hart - The Vampire’s Betrayal 4th in the series
Keri Arthur - The Darkest Kiss 6th in the Riley Jensen, Guardian series

Wolverine - Nature of the Beast by David Stern
Iron Man by Peter David the novel of the new film

Forgotten Realms - The Shield of Weeping Ghosts the 3rd in The Citadels set

Eberron - Storm Dragon the 1st in the Dragon Prophecies series

Warhammer 40,000 - Storm of Iron by Graham McNeill and also Brothers of the Snake by Dan Abnett

art, etc:

Based on the books by C. S. Lewis - Narnia Chronology - an interactive timeline heavily illustrated pop-up chronology of the Narnia series…

In hardback:

G. W. Dalquist - The Dark Volume the sequel to The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters I’ll be interested to see where he goes with this; I didn’t feel it needed a sequel… I did like the first one a lot, though!
Alan Campbell - Iron Angel the sequel to Scar Night
Tom Holt - The Better Mousetrap when is a door not a door? - when it’s a mousetrap! Who remembers the story The Rule of the Door by Lloyd Biggle jr. these days..?
Steven Hunt - The Kingdom Beyond the Waves sequel to The Court of the Air

James P. Hogan - Moon Flower strange events bring investigators to the planet Cyrene, which is being developed by big business…

Tom Kratman - Caliphate stand-alone novel set in a future world of extreme religious wars…

William Dietrich - The Rosetta Key direct sequel to Napolean’s Pyramid. Adventure with fantasy elements set during Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign - I enjoyed the first one a lot

Tim Powers - On Stranger Tides reprinted; the first edition was back in 1988! Pirates and zombies looking for the Fountain of Youth…

in large format:

Vernor Vinge - The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge recently re-issued collection in ‘B’ format

Harlan Ellison - Harlan Ellison’s Watching reprint of his columns from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Glenda Larke - Song of the Shiver Barrens it says book 2 inside the cover, but it’s really book 3 of The Mirage Makers

John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things a customer recommendation; it came out last year

Ramsey Campbell - The Grin of the Dark horror novel about a writer researching a weird music hall act rumoured to drive some of his audience mad…

Philip K. Dick - Radio Free Albemuth re-issue of one of his last novels

in paperback:

Peter F. Hamilton - The Dreaming Void part 1 of The Void Trilogy another series set in the Interstellar Commonwealth…

Rachel Caine - Ill Wind UK edition of the 1st of her Weather Wardens series…

Liz Williams - Snake Agent the 1st in her Detective Inspector Chen weird crime series… and also The Demon and the City the 2nd D/I Chen adventure…

Laurell K. Hamilton - The Harlequin the 14th (UK numbering) Anita Blake adventure

Christine Feenan - Dark Magic latest in the series…

Lilith Saintcrow - To Hell and Back latest in the series…

Mike Maddox - The Worm That Wasn’t first book of the Dreams of Inan. A young gardner dreams of more than tending the magical plants in her care…

Warhammer - Knight Errant by Anthony Reynolds

art, etc:

Mike Mignola - Hellboy volume 1 contains Seed of Destruction, Wake the Devil and also essays, sketches, etc. A very nice looking hardback.
Alfonso Azpiri - The Black Castle the final volume in his trilogy featuring Lorna. It reminds me of the Barbarella comic strip…
Dragontails #3 the latest SQP Gallery Girls volume…

magazines:

Black Static #4
Neo #045 May cover date
Anime Insider #56 May cover date

in hardback:

Orson Scott Card - Keeper of Dreams big new collection of his short stories; it doesn’t appear to overlap with the equally large Maps in a Mirror from a few years ago…

Greg Keyes - The Born Queen the final part of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone quartet…

The Indiana Jones Handbook the complete adventure’s guide! Adventuring tips based on the films!

in large format:

Richard Mathieson - Button, Button; Uncanny Stories short story collection; the title story is apparently the basis of The Box, a new movie starring Cameron Diaz.

Andy Mangels - Iron Man - Beneath the Armor the history of Iron Man, released to tie-in with the forthcoming film… lots of pictures, but also plenty of text

in ‘B’ format:

Kit Berry - the Stonewylde trilogy, consisting of Magus of Stonewylde, Moondance of Stonewylde & Solstice of Stonewylde. They remind me of classic Alan Garner books…

in paperback:

Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel’s Justice the 5th in the series, the sequel to Kushiel’s Scion

Brian Ruckley - Winterbirth part one of The Godless World . Part 2 (Bloodheir) will be out in hardback in June - signed copies will be available…

Andpzej Sapkowski - The last Wish the novel that video game The Witcher was based on

Thomas Greanias - The Atlantis Prophecy a sequel, I assume, to Raising Atlantis

J. F. Englert - A Dog About Town a canine detective in New York…

audio:

Doctor Who - The Skill of Sobek the 24th 8th Doctor adventure from Big Finish

Sapphire & Steel - Second Sight volume 3.1

in hardback:

Alastair Reynolds - House of Suns epic, large-scale science fiction…
Ursula K. LeGuin - Lavinia mythical/historical novel based on the character in The Aenaid
Anne Bishop - Tangled Webs a new Black Jewels novel

in large format:

Mark Chadbourn - The Burning Man part 2 of the Kingdom of the Serpent; the sequel to Jack of Ravens
Alex Bell - The Ninth Circle an amnesiac comes to in Budapest… sf thriller; looks good
Pamela Freeman - Blood Ties vol 1 of the Castings trilogy; new fantasy - looks interesting…
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Roman Dusk possibly the 21st Saint-Germain novel… set in 10th century Rome
Jonathan Strachan (editor) - The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year - volume Two the first of the annual anthologies to appear…

in ‘B’ format:

Alastair Reynolds - Prefect a stand alone sf novel, set in his Revelation Space background…
Jonathan Lethem - You Don’t Love Me Yet set in the California arts & music scene

Roger Zelazny - The Chronicles of Amber another in the Ultimate Fantasies series

in paperback:

Jody Lynn Nye - An Unexpected Apprentice a young halfling runs away hoping that she can become a wizard’s apprentice…
Harry Turtledove - Beyond the Gap as the icesheet retreats, a passage opens up to new lands beyond…
Ben Bova - Aftermath book 4 of The Asteroid Wars
Sarah Zettel - Sword of the Deceiver the 4th novel of Isavalta
Harold Coyle & Barrett William - Pandora’s Legion book 1 of Harry Coyle’s Strategic Solutions near future mercenarys…

Kim Harrson - Where Demons Dare
L. A. Banks - Bad Blood the 1st Crimson Moon werewolf novel…
Robert McCammon - Swan Song classic apocalyptic horror - been a long time since I had it in stock…

The New Destroyer - Dead Reckoning the 3rd in the relaunched Destroyer series by Warren Murphy & James Mullaney

art, etc:

Kazu Kiruishi (editor) - Flight Explorer #1 similar to Flight but aimed at a younger audience… the stories look great fun
Ralph Bakshi Unfiltered big book covering most of his career although his LotR work appears to be lacking… a lot of other interesting stuff, though
Matt Busch - The Worlds of Matt Busch
Simon Bisley - Paradise Lost b&w illustrations of |Milton
Aranzi Aronzo - Cute Stuff more designs and patterns…
Frank Frazetta - Legacy edited by Archie & Cathy Fenner restock
Chris Grine - Chickenhare - Fire in the Hole b&w graphic novel

magazines:

Heavy Metal May cover date
Juxtapoz April cover date
Doc Savage #15 - contains The Red Spider, Terror Wears No Shoes & Return from Cormoral
The Shadow #16 - contains City of Crime & Shadow Over Alcatraz

audio:

Doctor Who - Dark Husband latest Big Finish cd release
Doctor Who (Eighth Doctor) - Max Warp & Brave New Town the latest 2 Big Finish releases in this series…

games:

Lasceaux - Exploring Ancestral Art collect the different cave painting animals! Looks fun!

Zombie Emergency Response Operations - Zombie Outbreak Survival Kit a pack containing all you need if there’s an outbreak near you!

in hardback:

Jim Butcher - Small Favour the 10th of the Dresden Files
Mercedes Lackey & Roberta Gellis - And Less than Kind their 4th collaboration…
Alan Steele - Galaxy Blues
Cecelia Holland - Varanger Viking adventure, the sequel to The Soul Thief
Kurt Vonnegut - Armageddon in Retrospect a final collection of short stories…

Primeval - Shadow of the Jaguar budget hardback; the first spin-off novel from the tv series…

Doctor Who - Snowglobe 7, Martha in the Mirror & The Many Hands the latest 3 budget hardbacks featuring The Doctor and Martha…

in large format:

Robert Asprin - Myth-Chief (co-written with Jody Lynn Nye) the 18th Myth adventure… and also Dragon’s Wild, the start of another humourous fantasy series.
Paul Levinson - The Plot to Save Socrates convoluted time travel novel; I’ve enjoyed some of his earlier work like The Silk Code
Theodore Judson - The Martian General’s Daughter sf, set around 200 years in the future…

in ‘B’ format:

Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword re-issued with a new cover… one of the Ultimate Fantasies series… (which seem to be merely re-jacked editions of the Fantasy Masterworks series)
Jack Vance - Lyonesse another of the re-jacketed Ultimate Fantasies series - they ought really to have re-titled it Suldrun’s Garden

J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers & The Return of the King all new editions with illustrations by Alan Lee, the first paperback H/LotRs to be illustrated…

in paperback:

Steven Erikson - Reaper’s Gate the 7th in his Mazalan Book of the Fallen series…
Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind big new fantasy - I enjoyed it in large format a few months ago
Karen Traviss - Judge the 6th and final book of the Wess’har Wars, which began with City of Pearl
Ilona Andrews - Magic Burns sequel to Magic Bites
Rachel Vincent - Rogue sequel to Stray
Lori Handeland - Midnight Moon horror
Jeff Somers - The Electric Church near future fight against an evil death cult
Nora Roberts - Creation in Death the 26th in the series…

Julie E. Czerneda (editor) - Misspelled anthology of new, magical fantasy…

H. Beam Piper - Space Viking reprint
Lawrence Watt-Evans - With a Single Spell reprint of the 2nd Eshthar book
John Zakour & Lawrence Ganem - Dangerous Dames omnibus of The Plutonium Blonde & The Doomsday Brunette
Robert Bloch - Shooting Star & Spiderweb back to back edition of 2 long out of print crime novels…

Caitlin R. Kiernan - Murder of Angels
Ray Garton - Ravenous horror

Predator - Turnabout by Steve Perry

Pax Britannia Leviathan Rising by Jonathan Green

Dragonlance - The Anvil of Time #1 - The Sellsword by Cam banks
Forgotten Realms - Ed Greenwood - The Knights of Myth Drannor #2 - Swords of Dragonfire
Forgotten Realms - The Citadels #2 - Obsidian Ridge

Warhammer 40,000 - Relentless by Richard Williams

audio:

Christopher Priest - The Prestige 5 cd, 380 minute dramatised reading

Doctor Who - The Myth Makers 4 cd reading of the book based on a classic adventure…
Doctor Who - And the Creature from the Pit 4 cds, read by Tom Baker, who starred in the original…

Last night was the first film in the first Math Cubed film festival at the Filmhouse. The event is being put on by Filmhouse and ICMS and the opening film was Flatland the Movie, which has never been shown in the UK before.

Transreal Fiction was sponsoring the event by providing a copy of the book to everybody attending the screening and a bag to put it in! (Other free stuff was also provided by ICMS and Filmhouse.)

The event was sold out, and there was also a little queue of disappointed people hoping there’d be some returns or no-shows, but they were disappointed… The film seemed to go down well with the audience (although I know it’s had mixed reviews) and I appreciated it more on the big screen than I did a month or two ago when I saw the dvd on a tv screen.

Most people left after it finished but around 20% stayed for a discussion session about it, and any maths questions raised. (There was a couple of fairly high-powered mathematicians, and a couple of people who knew the film and the book as well). Sadly, this had to be slightly truncated, as the previous film had run late and we had to begin a little late…

But definitely a success!

The other films in the mini-festival are Pi, which is being screened on Tuesday, and Cube, which is on Thursday next week…

Sorry about the picture; it was pretty crowded… maybe get one or two more up shortly…

in hardback:

S. M. Stirling - In the Courts of the Crimson Kings the sequel to The Sky People. Robert Fripp does not appear.
Greg Egan - Dark Integers and other stories 5 (quite long) short stories… from Subterranean Press
Tim Lebbon - After the War - two tales of Noreela also from Subterranean Press. Signed

in large format:

Christopher Golden - The Lost Ones final part of The Veil trilogy. I’ve enjoyed the first 2 parts…
Mario Acevedo - The Undead Kama Sutra 3rd in the fast moving series that started with X-Rated Bloodsuckers!
Saje Williams - Tales from the Magitech Lounge the first book in the Infinity: Empire series
Kate Elliott - Shadow Gate sequel to Spirit Gate

in ‘B’ format:

Tara Bray Smith - Betwixt fantasy
Conrad Williams - The Unblemished horror
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Children of Hurin illustrated by Alan Lee; edited by Christopher Tolkien…

Terry Brooks - Dark Wraith of Shannara b&w graphic novel!

Warhammer - Vampire Wars the Von Carstein Trilogy by Steven Savile

Alan Weisman - The World Without Us serious book about how the world would adapt and change if humanity disappeared…

in paperback:

Trudi Canavan - Voice of the Gods part 3 of the Age of Fire
Karen Miller - Empress part 1 of the Godspeaker series…
Elizabeth Moon - Victory Conditions 5th & final part of Vatta’s War
Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis - 1635: The Cannon Law the latest novel in the Ring of Fire/1632 series…
John Ringo - Unto the Breach the 4th in his mercenary Ghost series…
David D. Friedman - Harald militaristic fantasy
H. Rider Haggard - The People of the Mist 1894 ‘lost world’ adventure…

Karen Chance - Embrace the Night the 3rd Cassie Palmer adventure

Warhammer - A Time of Legends - Heldenhammer part 1 of The Legend of Sigmur trilogy

art, etc:

Out of Picture volume 1 - subtitled art from the outside looking in an anthology of short illustrated stories; some of it looks great!
Luis Scafati - Dracula an illustrated rendition of the novel; somewhat in the style of Gerald Scarfe

magazines:

Locus the March issue, with Charlie Stross on the cover…
Hi-Fructose vol 7 of the ‘under the counter culture’ art magazine
Piq issue 1 of the new Anime magazine…

toys, etc:

Lenore pvc figure set. More Roman Dirge figures - this set includes Lenore, Taxidermy & Spam Witch …