New Titles – w/e 29th September
in hardback:
Eric Flint & Victoria DeMarce – 1634 : The Bavarian the latest in his 1632 series…
Travis S. Taylor – One day on Mars revolution on Mars!
Matthew Hughes – The Spiral Labyrinth a Hengist Hapthorn tale. Set an aeon or two before Jack Vance’s Dying Earth and reminiscent of his work
Robret E. Howard – Beyond the Black River the 7th volume collecting The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard
Charlaine Harris – Grave Surprise the UK hardback…
Neil Gaiman & Bill Baker – Neil Gaiman on his work and Career a conversation in print
Doctor Who – The Encyclopedia by Gary Russell the definitive guide to time and space! Loads of colour pictures illustrating the entries.
Spiderwick The Nixie part 1 of a new series, set in Florida this time… UK edition
in large format:
Patrick Rothfuss – The Name of the Wind subtitled the ‘Kingkiller Chronicle Day One’ Big new fantasy
in ‘B’ format:
Nick Smith – Undead On Arrival
John Crowley – The Solitudes previously published as Aegypt; soon all four of the Aegypt cycle will be available at the same time! In paperback!
Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories
in paperback:
Raymond E. Feist – Into a Dark Realm the Darkwar book 2, another Midkemia title…
Karen Miller – Awakened Mage 2nd in the series
Mercedes Lackey – Aerie 4th in the Dragon Jousters series
T. A. Pratt – Blood Engines dark fantasy set in San Francisco
Marianne de Pierres – Crash Deluxe 3th in the series featuring Parrish Plessis
F. Paul Wilson – Harbingers 11th Repairman Jack novel. All but one of the series should be in stock by the end of the week…
Chris Kuzneski – Sword of God ancient artifact thriller
David Wellington – Monster Planet 3rd in the series that started with Monster Island
Fate Fantastic anthology
magazines:
Locus September; #560
Heavy Metal November cover date
Doc Savage magazine #9 which includes The Majii and The Golden Man
Brodie’s Law – Road to Redemption
Fall of Cthulhu #6 with 2 variant covers
art, etc:
The Art of EVE large, slip-cased book of art from the game
Joe Chiodo – Artwork: Shape, Color, and Form
Blurred Vision – New Narrative Art
cds:
Blake’s 7 The Audio Adventures – vol 1: the Rebel, vol 2: Traitor & vol 3: Liberator
calendars:
Harry Potter regular, square wall calendar
Harry Potter narrow wall calendar with different images. Both of them use pictures from the films
Doctor Who with Martha Jones and assorted aliens, etc!
New Titles – 22nd September
in hardback:
Terry Pratchett – Making Money the latest Discworld episode
Terry Pratchett – The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld humour
Robert Charles Wilson – Axis sequel to Spin
Tom Kratman – A Desert Called Peace military sf from Baen
L. E. Modesitt, jr. – Natural Ordermage the 14th Recluce novel; the 1st of a pair set on the continent of Hamor
Matthew Sharpe – Jamestown odd, literary sf, set in the near future
Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston – Invasive Procedures near future sf
Ed Greenwood – Dark Warrior Rising a novel of Niflheim
F. Paul Wilson – Bloodline the latest Repairman Jack thriller
Charlaine Harris – The Ice Cold Grave 3rd in her new series…
Graham Masterton – Chaos Theory
R. A. Salvatore – The Orc King part one of his latest Forgotten Realms series, Transitions
in large format:
Paul McAuley – Cowboy Angels a thriller ranging across multiple worlds and an attempt to change history
Cordwainer Smith – When the People Fell collection of his best stories…
H. P. Lovecraft et al – The Horror in the Museum nice new edition of this anthology
Timehunter – Child of Time by George mann and David J. Howe
Jeff Somers – The Electric Church robotic monks whose mission is to convert!
in ‘B’ format:
Terry Pratchett – Wintersmith a Discworld novel featuring Tiffany Aching
Linda Dent Mitchell – Oribliss Castle and the Forbidden Tower first in a new children’s series about a Scottish boarding school where strange things happen…
Steven Hall – The Raw Shark Texts strange; customer recommendation
in paperback:
David Weber – At All Costs the latest Honor Harrington novel
John Ringo – Princess of Wands weird goings on in the Louisiana swamps…
Paul Chafe – Destiny’s Forge a Man-Kzin novel [originally created by Larry Niven]
William C. Dietz – Logos Run the sequel to Runner
Sharon Shinn – Dark Moon Defender 3rd in her Twelve Houses series
Nathalie Mallet – The Princes of the Golden Cage new fantasy
Kelly McCullough – Cybermancy sequel to WebMage
Charlaine Harris – Grave Surprise the 2nd in her new series, the Harper Connelly Mysteries
Alex Archer – Secret of the Slaves 7th in the Rogue Angel series
Allen Steele – Orbital Decay his first novel reissued
Stephen Baxter – Resplendent the 4th in his Destiny’s Children series
Patricia A. McKillip – The Changeling Sea not had this in for a long time…
Star Trek Captain’s Glory the final part of the trilogy by William Shatner with Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Star Trek: TNG Q & A
Forgotten Realms
Sembia: Gateway to the Realms #5 – Heirs of Prophecy
Dragonlance
Elven Exiles #2 – Destiny
Diablo The Sin War #3 – The Veiled Prophety
art, etc:
Brom – The Devil’s Rose heavily illustrated novel in much the same format as his previous Plucker
Aranzi Machine Gun #3
Harri Kallio – The Dodo and Mauritius Island wonderful big book about the dodo, with loads of recreated photos of them in their natual habitat…
magazines:
Interzone #212
calendars:
Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell – Fantasy
Ciruelo – Dragons 7″ square wall calendar, with different art to the large one…
Weather from Firefly
Astronomy photos by Terence Dickenson from Firefly
Fold-a-Day Paper Airplane calendar, comes in a sturdy box/stand
Robert Jordan
So, the wheel of time has ground to a stop.
Robert Jordan died yesterday, having lost his fight against amyloidosis.
Back in 1990 his UK publishers rep came in to the shop I was running to go through the new titles for the next couple of months.
One of them was a big new fantasy hardback, nice dj, map printed on the inside covers – looked very nice, but it was an almost completely unknown author. I ordered one copy! There was no mention of a sequel.
The next year the rep came in to sell me the sequel saying that it was going to be a trilogy.
The year after that he came in to sell me volume three of a series…
Around about then I started winding people up by claiming that a ‘wheel of time’ was obviously like a clock face and that therefore there would be 12 volumes – this seemed really unlikely back then and people assumed I was joking but now it seems like time really has been called an hour early.
New Titles – w/e 15th September
In hardback:
Ray Bradbury – Now and Forever two novellas, Somewhere a Band is Playing and Leviathan ‘99
John Scalzi – The Sagan Diary a novella that ties in with Old Man’s War, etc…
J. R. R. Tolkien – The Children of Hurin large print edition with 8 full colour plates
Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi – The Nixie’s Song part one of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles
in large format:
Terry Pratchett – The Last Hero a Discworld novel illustrated by Paul Kidby
in ‘B’ format:
Gardner Dozois (editor) – Best New SF 20 the UK edition of his annual collection…
Albert Sanchez Pinol – Cold Skin horror novel reminiscent of Hodgson. A relief keeper lands on a remote sub-Antarctic island and finds the lighthouse keeper seems to have gone mad. With good reason.
I enjoyed this in hardback…
Adele Hartley – Read by Dawn II horror anthology from the person behind the annual Dead by Dawn horror film festival…
in paperback:
Alan Dean Foster – The Candle of Distant Earth the final book of his Taken trilogy…
Melanie Rawn – Spellbinder dark fantasy set in New York…
The Zen of Zombie humour
magazines etc:
H.H.Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror issue 4; almost a year since issue 3!
Cthulhu Tales; Tainted issue 1; a collection of short comic stories
Parade (with fireworks) issue 1 (of 2) of a neat looking European title
Thorgal: Child of the Stars and Thorgal: The Three Eldars of Aran the first 2 in this series of adventure graphic novels set in Viking times
art:
Gama-Go – Set of 30 Postcards; 2nd edition a second set of cards
Jordan Crane – Uptight All Night set of 30 postcards bound into a neat little box
Kent Williams -Forma Femina set of 10 postcards
Jon Muth – A Thousand Wings set of 10 postcards
Dave McKean – Narcolepsy almost 4 years since I last had this title
Gallery Girls – Devil Dolls a couple of years since I had this stock…
Demons: Visions of Evil in Art historic overview of the subject
Otomo Katsuhiro – Akira Club a celebration of Akira. I may have mentioned it a couple of weeks ago as well…
David Mack – The Shy Creatures fun childrens book
Rich Cando – History Dudes – Ancient Egyptians all you want to know about the Egyptians…
calendars:
Luis Royo – Official Luis Royo Calendar different from the Heavy Metal one
Victoria Frances – Official Victoria Frances Calendar different to the Heavy Metal one
Olivia
Easy Origami Fold-a-Day Calendar. Desk calendar in a box…
diary:
Lu Tze’s Yearbook of Enlightenment 2008 from Terry Pratchett with Stephen Briggs and Paul Kidby
Bestiary Exhibition
Well, the exhibition ended a few days ago and most of the prints, etc. have been taken down. The 10 framed photos are still hung up for the moment but I guess they’ll come down when I figure where to store them! Or you could buy one! Just click through to the Bestiary site…
The 2008 calendars are now better displayed – the wall they’re usually on had been used for the solvent transfer prints…
New Titles – w/e 8th September
in hardback:
S. M. Stirling – The Sunset Lands paret one of a new trilogy, set some years after A Meeting at Corvallis
John Ringo & Travis S. Taylor – Vorpal Blade sequel to Into the Looking Glass
in large format:
Michael Swanwick – The Dog Said Bow-Wow new short story collection
Paul Magrs – Something Borrowed the sequel to Never the Bride with more strange goings on in Whitby…
in ‘B’ format:
Christopher Moore – Fluke: I know Why the Winged Whale Sings my favourite book by this author…
Maria V. Snyder – Magic Study the sequel to Poison Study
Elizabeth Moon – The Serrano Connection 2nd omnibus, containing Once a Hero & Rules of Engagement
in paperback:
Charles Stross – The Jennifer Morgue sequel to The Atrocity Archives
Charles Stross – The Clan Corporate 3rd in the series…
Jo Walton – Farthing alternate history where WW2 went differently…
C. J. Ryan – Burdens of Empire 4th in the series that started with Dexta
Morgen Howell – Clan Daughter book 2 of Queen of the Orcs
Lawrence Watt-Evans – The Spriggan Mirror an Ethshar novel
Andre Norton & Jean Rabe – A Taste of Magic
Kage Baker – The Machine’s Child a Company novel
Marion Zimmer Bradley – The Door Through Space her first novel, from 1961
Sam Barone – Dawn of Empire ancient historical novel set in Mesopotamia
Mike Carey – Dead Man’s Boots 3rd in his series
John Skipp – The Last Long Call
Mary SanGiovani – The Hollower
Star Wars – Legacy of the Force: Inferno
art:
Land Art includes pictures of art, and articles about, works by the likes of Christo and Goldsworthy
calendars:
The Women of Ken Kelly
