A Bestiary of Authors

Well, we spent most of Sunday afternoon hanging the photos and prints of Madeleine’s exhibition – it grew a bit in the creation!

So, it’s now on show during regular shop hours – all 52 pieces! A complete deck of authors! Might have thought of a different name if we had known…

A specific website for it should be up in a couple of days or so, with an example or two at least, I’m sure.

New Titles w/e 4th August 2007

In hardback:

William Gibson – Spook Country sequel to Pattern Recognition
Peter F. Hamilton – The Dreaming Void part 1 of his new Void Trilogy
Christopher Brookmeyer – Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks more weird Scottish crime!
China Mieville – Un Lun Dun the UK edition; my initial order was cancelled for some unknown reason and I only recently realised it had actually appeared in this country…
Joe Haldeman – The Accidental Time Machine
Eric Flint & Dave Freer – Pyramid Power the sequel to Pyramid Scheme; more zany adventures!
Austin Grossman – Soon I Will Be Invincible this looks fun! Both UK & US editions in stock
Warren Ellis – Crooked Little Vein

The SFWA European Hall of Fame 17 top writers from the rest of Europe have work translated specially for this anthology. Edited by James & Kathryn Morrow

in large format:

Matt Ruff – Bad Monkeys the UK softcover; I think I prefer the yellow plastic covered US edition
Christopher Anvil – The Trouble With Humans
Kat Richardson – Poltergeist the sequel to Greywalker
Michelle Sagara – Cast in Secret the 3rd Chronicles of Elantra book

in ‘B’ format:

Brian Ruckley – Winterbirth the first of a trilogy; I really liked it… probably the best new fantasy I read last year (when it was in hardback)
David Farland – Sons of the Oak the fifth in his Runelords series
Greg Bear – Blood Music classic re-issue
Paul McAuley – Fairyland sf re-issue
Christopher Moore – Lamb subtitled The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
Naomi Novik – Temeraire & Throne of Jade. Black Powder War should follow v.soon

Infinity Plus excellent anthology edited by Keith Brooke & Nick Gevers

Warhammer 40,000 – The Saint omnibus edition of 4 of the Gaunt’s Ghosts novels…

in paperback:

Patricia Bray – The Sea Change sequel to The First Betrayal, which I enjoyed last year
K. J. Parker – Evil for Evil the second in his Enginerr trilogy…
Rachel Caine – Thin Air Weather Warden #6
Sherwood Smith – Inda big new fantasy series from DAW
Julian May – Sorcerer’s Moon
Violette Malan – The Mirror Prince new fantasy
Terry Brooks – Armageddon’s Children book 1 of Genesis of Shannara, which links his Word and Void series to the Shannara sets… that’ll make a 20 book run, if this becomes a trilogy!
Caitlan R Keirnan – Low Red Moon
Bentley Little – The Vanishing
David Bishop – Fiends of the Rising Sun the war in the Pacific, now with zombies! A companion book to Fiends of the Eastern Front
Charlaine Harris – A Secret Rage the sequel to Sweet and Deadly
Resident Evil – Extinction
Beth Massie – Homeplace
Gary A. Braunbeck – Mr. Hands includes the novella Kiss of the Mudman!

Julie Kenner, Johanna Edwards & Serena Robar – Fendi, Ferragamo & Fangs 3 novellas; the strap line says ‘the nights belong to the new girls in town’…
Pandora’s Closet – original anthology

audio:

Doctor Who – Valhalla #96 in the Big Finish series of adventures…

2008 calendars:

Tolkien The Children of Hurin with, I think, new illustrations by Alan Lee

The Dodo Wall Pad

New Titles w/e 28th July 2007

in hardback:

Harry Turtledove – In at the Death the 4th of his Settling Accounts series
Ursula K. LeGuin – Powers the 3rd book in The Annals of the Western Shore, following on from Gifts and Voices

Scarlet Thomas – The End of Mr. Y this looks good; weird Victoriana, reminiscent of The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters from a few months ago

in large format:

Matt Ruff – Bad Monkeys curious looking thriller; the beginning’s great; his books are usually interesting…
Robyn Young – Brethern an epic adventure of the Knights Templar (and the Holy Grail, of course)
Alesis Glynn Latner – Hurricane Moon this looks good; about a new settlement but years of cold sleep may have affected people’s bodies…

in paperback:

Sarah Monette – The Virtu
Allan Cole – When the Gods Slept part one of the Timuras Trilogy
Morgan Howell – King’s Property book one of Queen of the Orcs
Eric Brown – Helix the UK edition. It’s very good
Al Ewing – El Sumbria the second Pax Britannica book. The first one was Jonathan Green’s Unnatural History. Alternate history steampunk adventure where Queen Victoria has ruled for 160 years and the Empire never ended… and now the Luftwaffe have attacked Mexico with their steam planes…
Jennifer Armintrout – Ashes to Ashes part 3 of Blood Ties
Susan Sizemore – Deceptions Laws of the Blood volume 4
Brian Keane – Dead Sea they thought they were safe from the zombies when they put to sea…
Scott Smith – The Ruins lost in the jungles of Mexico…
Ted Bell – Spy the 4th Alexander Hawke adventure

magazines, etc:

Locus – the July issue
Juxtapoz – the August issue
Illustration – #19

pulp facsimiles:

The Shadow – Who is Lingo? + Partners of Peril
Doc Savage #7 – The Lost Oasis + The Sargasso Ogre

art & comic strip

Winsor McCay – Little Nemo in Slumberland the complete strip in a large hardcover
Suzanne Lee – Fashioning the Future; Tomorrow’s Wardrobe just what it says! Some great imagery…

New Titles w/e 21st July

in hardback:

J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows It has arrived, but I can’t sell it until Saturday morning. I’ll be open at 10.00 as usual…

Emma Bull – Territory a new fantasy novel…
Theodore Sturgeon – The Nail and the Oracle volume XI of his Complete Stories from North Atlantic Books

in large format:

Michael Stackpole – The New World the 3rd in his Age of Discovery series…

Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Year’s Best Science Fiction – 24th annual collection Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan (editors) – The New Space Opera excellent collection by current authors

in ‘B’ format (more or less)

Julie Kerner- The Good Ghoul’s Guide to Getting Even from the author of Carpe Demon, about a teenage vampire at high school!

in paperback:

Fiona McIntosh - Odalisque book one of her new series, Percheron…
Julie Kerner – California Demon the sequel to Carpe Demon

Alex Archer – Rogue Angel: God of Thunder the 7th in the series…

Aliens – Cauldron a new novel by Diane Carey

art:

Luis Royo – Dome new work based on a commission he got to paint an entire home…

magazines:

Interzone issue 211; lots of Michael Moorcock in it

calendars:

Deep Space Mysteries (wall)
Pop-Up Dinosaur (wall) from the Smithsonian

also in are several new plush animals:

Wallaby

Highland Cow

Snowy Owl (slightly larger the one I used to stock)

and also a set of figures from The Wind in the Willows

Mole

Ratty

Badger

Toad

in full costume!

Who goes back to Transreal!?

New Titles – w/e 14th July

Harry Potter bags – just need the books, now!

in hardback:

Trudi Canavan – Voice of the Gods third in the Age of the Five set
Doctor Who – Short Trips (#20) : Destination Prague

in large format:

Chris Woodring – The Braided Path an omnibus of The Weavers of Saramyr, The Skien of Lament & The Ascendancy Veil

in ‘B’ format:

Jasper Fforde – The Fourth Bear a sequel to The Big Over Easy
Terry Brooks – Armageddon’s Children book one of the Genesis of Shannara. This continues on from the Word and the Void series…

in paperback:

John C. Wright – Fugitives of Chaos five orphans attend a boarding school – all is not as it seems!
Harry Turtledove – The Disunited States of America the 4th, I think, in his Crosstime Traffic series
Cecelia Dart-Thornton – Weather Witch 3rd in the Crowthistle Chronicles
L. A. Banks – The Forsaken seventh in the series
Robert E. Howard – Shadow Kingdoms volume 1 of his complete Weird Works 23 short stories

Battlestar Galactica – Sagitarius is Bleeding

art, etc:

Camille Rose Garcia – Tragic Kingdom beautiful, large book of her art. Her previous book was The Saddest Place on Earth
The Art of Yasushi Suzuki overview of this Japanese artist
Limited Edition – Art and Design of GAMA-GO this looks great!
Stefan Varner & James Muscarello – The Enigmatic ABC’s a goth style alphabet book, with rhymes to match! For instance:
“N is for the Nails that rotted with rust,
embedded in a coffin covered with dust.”

magazines:

Juxtapoz July issue
Submarine Stories reprint of the March 1930 issue; exciting subsurface adventures!

calendars (2008 ):

H. R. Giger – Calendar of the Fantastique (wall)
Domu pictures of Domu in various poses and costumes (wall)

Fred Saberhagen

It wasn’t too much of a shock to find out that another of the old guard has passed on – I had the impression he’s been ill or frail for some time…
The first book of his I remember reading was The Golden People, which was half of an old Ace Double back in the 60s and, I see now, was his first novel! I re-read it several times back then. The other early highlight for me was the trilogy of The Empire of the East; I borrowed them to read as they came out in paperback and bought the big omnibus when it came out years later.
I read a few other stories by him over the years but the only one I still have is The Veils of Azlaroc, which was pretty strange! I have to admit I didn’t really take to much of his work – Berserkers, Swords or Dracula spin-offs – but his single novels appealed more…

I see that his final novel is listed as an Empire of the East book, rather than a Swords or Lost Swords book, so I may try that – or I’ll pull Azlaroc off the shelf at home and read that…

edited to add:

Actually, rather than re-read anything, I noticed that he has a story (co-written with Jane Lindskold and quite possibly his last) in an anthology I had just received – Man vs Machine edited by John Helfers and Martin Greenberg.
It’s called Servant of Death and is a coda, I suppose, to Berserker Man and is about Vivian Travers (whom I assume was in Berserker Man).

I don’t want to spoil the story for anyone, but it did seem an appropriate end to his career.
May he rest in peace.

New titles – w/e 7th July 2007

in hardback:

Jasper Fforde – First Among Sequels the return of Thursday Next!
John Ringo – A Deeper Blue the 5th in his Ghost sequence
Chris Dolley – Shift science fiction. His previous Resonance was good…
Wm. Mark Simmons – Dead Easy the 4th in the series
James Rollins – The Judas Strain the 4th SIGMA Force novel, I think
Clark Ashton Smith – The Door to Saturn the 2nd in the set collecting his work
Lois McMaster Bujold -Legacy the 2nd in The Sharing Knife series; the sequel to Beguilement

in large format:

Scott Lynch – Red Seas Under Red Skies the sequel to The Lies of Locke Lamora
Elizabeth Bear – Whiskey and Water the sequel to the 1st Promethean Age book, Blood and Iron

in ‘B’ format:

Julia Kenner – Demons are Forever the 3rd in this ‘demon hunting soccer mom’ series…
Cormac McCarthy – The Road mainstream post-apocalyptic novel

Star Trek – Corps of Engineers – Grand Designs an omnibus of six short novels

in paperback:

Robin Hobb – Forest Mage the second in the trilogy…
Steve Perry and Dal Perry – The Gangster Conspiracy A Star Risk, Ltd novel continuing the late Chris Bunch’s quartet
Jenna Rhodes – The Four Forges first in The Elvan Ways series
Margaret Weis – Master of Dragons the final part of her Dragonvarld trilogy
Camille Bacon-Smith – Daemon Eyes omnibus volume comprising Eye of the Daemon and Eyes of the Empress
Kenneth Oppel – Skybreaker the sequel to Airborn, the movie of which is due to be released next year… Exciting fantasy adventure with airships, secret islands and pirates!
Deborah LeBlanc – Morbid Curiosity horror
Rich Horton (editor) – Fantasy – The Best of the Year; 2007 edition

art books:

Kazu Kiburishi – Flight 4 latest volume of this annual series