Transreal Fiction

in hardback:

Michael Chabon - Gentlemen of the Raod swashbuckling adventures in the Caucauses in the 10th Century… Looks good fun
Tom Kratman - Carnifex the sequel to A Desert Called Peace, which was out recently
Timothy Zahn - The Third Lynx the sequel to Night Train to Rigel
Naomi Novik - Empire of Ivory the UK hardback; 4th in the series.

Kevin J. Anderson - The Last Days of Krypton a prequel to Superman… why was Krypton about to be destroyed?

Clive Cussler - The Chase detective novel with a new hero…

in large format:

Adam Roberts - The History of Science Fiction part of the Palgrave Histories of Literture series. A serious look at SF from it’s earliest roots.
Tanith Lee - The Secret Books of Paradys an omnibus edition of the 4 book sequence
Justina Robson - Selling Out the 2nd in the Quantum Gravity series
Josh Conviser - Empyre the sequel to Echelon
Catherynne M. Valente - In the Night Garden the first of The Orphan’s Tales books; #2 came in last week
Janny Wurts - Stormed Fortress part 5 of the Alliance of Light series, which is also the 8th in The Wars of Light and Shadow set
Tim Powers - Earthquake Weather a new edition from Orb

Andy Remic - War Machine a Kombat-K novel. Military sf

Neil Gaiman & Rogery Avary - Beowulf - the Script Book the complete script for the new movie… some b&w illustrations

in ‘B’ format:

Richard Morgan - Black Man published as Thirteen or Th1rte3n in the US

in paperback:

John Ringo - Choosers of the Slain the 3rd in the Ghost series
Wen Spencer - Wolf Who Rules the sequel to Tinker. Sadly, nothing to do with ‘Tinker, the Hole Eating Duck’! (It’s an obscure book by the artist Patrick Woodroffe I’d like! )
Steven Brust - Dzur the 10th Vlad Taltos book
L. E. Modesitt, jr. - Soarer’s Choice the 5th Corean Chronicle
John Scalzi - The Android’s Dream a sequel to Old Man’s War
Alan Dean Foster - Trouble Magnet the 11th Pip & Flinx adventure
Joshua Palmetier - The Cracked Throne the sequel to The Skewed Throne
Diana Pharaoh Francis - The Cipher the first in her Crosspointe series
Mary Rosenblum - Horizons sf set on gigantic, habitats orbiting the Earth
Marc D. Giller - Prodigal the sequel to Hammerjack
Ben Bova - The Green Trap thriller
Andre Norton - Star Born sf originally published in 1957…
Tanya Huff - The Quarters Novels #2;omnibus edition containing No Quarter and The Quartered Sea
James Clemens - Hinterland the US edition; part 2 of The Godslayer Chronicles
Robert E. Howard - People of the Dark volume 2 of his Weird Works

Eric Flint (editor) - Grantville Gazette II new volume of stories & articles about his 1632 series
Martin H. Greenberg & Loren L. Coleman (editors) - Wizards, Inc. anthology of new stories

Laurell K. Hamilton - Mistral’s Kiss the 5th of the Princess Meredith series…
Dean R. Koontz - Brother Odd the 3rd Thomas Odd book
Katie MacAlister - Holy Smokes the 4th of the Aisling Grey, Guardian stories…

Wolverine - Violent Tendencies

The New Destroyer - Choke Hold the 2nd of the relaunched Destroyer series

Warhammer 40,000 - Only in Death a Gaunt’s Ghosts novel by Dan Abnett in hardback
Warhammer 40,000 - The Armour of Contempt a paperback Gaunt’s Ghosts novel
Warhammer - Hour of the Daemon volume 3 of the Daemon Gates Trilogy

art, etc:

Cathy & Arnie Fenner (editors) - Spectrum 14 the annual collection highlighting f&sf art…
Martin McKenna Fantasy Art Now top fantasy art
Luis Ortiz - Arts Unknown: The Life and Art of Lee Brown Coye a matching volume to his recent book on the artist Emsh.

Edgar Allan Poe - Nevermore b&w graphic adaptations of several of his most famous short stories

On the Trail of Britain’s Fairy Folk published by VisitBritain! Illustrated guide to a dozen fey locations around the UK. Maps, photos, illustrations, etc.

audio:

Doctor Who - Absolution Big Finish adventure #101

Our favourite local writers group have their spooky halloween event on Wednesday!

Usual place, the cellar bar of the Cannon’s Gait in the High Street at 20.00

Please note that I won’t be in on Saturday 27th, although the shop will be open as usual…

Weather permitting, I’ll be doing something exciting, instead!

in hardback:

J. V. Jones - A Sword From Red Ice the long-awaited third part of her Sword of Shadows series… it’s been five years!
Mercedes Lackey - Reserved for the Cat the 5th Elemental Masters book
Laurell K. Hamilton - A Lick of Frost the 5th Meredith Gentry book
Karl Schroeder - Queen of Candesce the 2nd book of Virga should have had this a couple of months ago…
Alan Dean Foster - Patrimony the 13th Pip & Flinx adventure
Orson Scott Card - A War of Gifts brief Ender novella for the Christmas market…
Clive Barker - Mister B. Gone a new, short horror novel

in large format:

Cathyrenne M. Volente - In the Cities of Coin and Spice with b&w illustrations by Mike Kaluta a sequel to In the Night Garden, the first volume of her Orphan’s Tales

in ‘B’ format:

Stephen Jones (editor) - The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18 the annual collection

in paperback:

James A. Hetley - Dragon’s Teeth fantasy
Steven L. Kent - The Clone Alliance the 3rd in the series…
John Levitt - Dog Days dark urban fantasy
Karl Schroeder - Sun of Suns book 1 of Virga set in a habitable zone of space filled with organic space stations, etc. - sounds intriguing and a little like Niven’s Integral Trees…
Mike Shepherd - Kris Longknife: Audacious the 5th in the series
Jack McDevitt - Odyssey guess what? It’s the 5th in this series too! (The Academy novels)

Lilith Saintcrow - Saint City Sinners the 4th Dante Valentine novel…

Stargate S.G. 1 - Relativity

Forgotten Realms - The Dungeons #3 - Stardeep
Forgotten Realms - Sembia; Gateway to the Realms #6 - Sands of the Soul

Eberron - Heirs of Ash #3 - Rise of the Seventh Moon

Mechwarrior - Pandora’s Gambit

art. etc:

Winsor McCay - Dream of the Rarebit Fiend - the Saturdays wonderful stuff!
Basil Wolverton - The Original Art of Basil Wolverton not one of my favourite artists, but this looks to be a pretty comprehensive collection…
J. Vasquez & J. Goldberg - Jellyfist curious little graphic novel
Rod Espinosa - DinoWars #1 ‘Jurassic War of the Worlds’!

Malcolm Cruickshank - 82/07 Twenty five years in Edinburgh artist’s book which ties in with his exhibit in this current exhibition a few minutes away: Scissors Paper Stone

magazines:

Locus October 2007 All the Hugo winners…
Juxtzpoz November issue

Fall of Cthulhu comic issue #7. Variant covers.

in hardback:

Charles Stross - The Merchant’s War the 4th volume…
Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner - Fleet of Worlds a new Known Space novel, set 200 years before the Ringworld is discovered
Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory - The Phoenix Unchained book one of The Enduring Flame series, which follows on from their Obsidian trilogy
Jo Walton - Ha’Penny the sequel to Farthing
Piers Anthony - Air Apparent the 31st Xanth book!
Stephen Donaldson - Fatal Revenant the UK edition of the 2nd part of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant quartet

in large format:

George R. R. Martin - Dreamsongs large, comprehensive short story collection spanning his career
Gene Wolfe - Severian of the Guild the 4 titles of the Book of the New Sun in one volume for the first time in the UK! (excluding book club editions)
Chris Woodring - The Fade part one of a new series; looks interesting and I see that the chapters seem to be (deliberately) numbered out of order… hmmm…
David Marusek - Counting Heads near-future sf
Chris Adrian - The Children’s Hospital in the future the Earth is flooded and a hospital floats alone on the ocean…

Robert Holdstock - The Mythago Cycle volume two contains The Hollowing and Gateof Ivory, Gate of Horn. His afterward finishes with a hint of more to come…

Star Trek: TNG - The Sky’s the Limit new anthology to celebrate 20 years of the Next Generation

Kevin L. Donihe (editor) - Bare Bone #10 anthology
Kevin L. Donihe:
Grape City a demon ends up in a dead-end job…
The Greatest F ucking Moment in Sports bizarre pro-cycling story about Oscar Legbo and the Tour se Saucisse-Dommages
Ocean of Lard an adult/horror choose-your-own-adventure romp, with pirates!
Not had any of these in before; they look curious, to say the least!

in ‘B’ format:

Stephen Hunt - The Court of the Air Dickensian-sounding fantasy; looks interesting
Lynda Hilburn - The Vampire Shrink
Tom Piccirilli - Welcome to Hell subtitled ‘A Working Guide for the Beginning Writer’

in paperback:

Erin Samiloglu - Gossamer Hall horror
Stargate SG.1 - Relativity
Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler - Treasure of Khan the 19th Dirk Pitt novel!

William C. Dietz - Hitman #1 Enemy Within the first novel based on the game…

art. etc:

Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell - Imaginistix not all new art, but there’s a fair amount of it I don’t recognise…

Nigel Suckling - Faeries of the Celtic Lands serious, text-heavy look at fairies in the Celtic fringe of Europe
Jim Henson’s Return to Labyrinth #2 second volume of the manga sequel to Labyrinth
Dee Stotts (text) & Ed Hicks (art) - Through A Faery Stone the UK release

Robert Mash - Extreme Dinosaurs big children’s book with fold-out pages listing the biggest, longest, smallest, oldest, dumbest(!), etc… Lots of pictures.

audio:

Doctor Who - Son of the Dragon Big Finish cd #99

calendars:

The Golden Compass - Official Movie Calendar great cover!

in hardback:

Stephen Donaldson - Fatal Revenant the second in The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant quartet. Without the large ‘catch up’ sections in the first book, this one feels longer…
Patricia McKillip - Dragonhaven set in a nature reserve for the few surviving dragons in the world
Gary Gibson - Stealing Light science fiction

William Shatner with Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens - Collision Course a Star Trek Academy novel

in large format:

Simon Clark - London Under Midnight should have had this sooner…

Grahame Harper - Calling the Shots behind the scenes of the recent Doctor Who series, by one of the directors

in ‘B’ format:

Jennifer Rardin - Once Bitten, Twice Shy romantic vampire novel, featuring Jaz Parks

in paperback:

Kim Stanley Robinson - Sixty Days and Counting after a slightly disappointing first volume, this series get better and better. The final part of his Science in the Capital series - the one about the weather!

S. C. Butler - Reiffen’s Choice book 1 of The Stoneways Trilogy new fantasy. Wizards kidnap the exiled heir to two thrones…
R. J. Pineiro - Spyware near furure thriller with nanotech and computers
Laurell Hamilton - Micah and Strange Candy a combined edition of a short Anita Blake novel (Micah) and her collection of short stories. They appeared separately in the US.
Battlestar Galactica - Unity

art, etc:

John Howe (art) & Nicky Raven (text) - Beowulf illustrated, prose retelling of the Norse legend; soon to be a major motion picture! The book looks very nice.
Michael Dobrzycki - The Art of Drawing Dragons, Mythological Beasts and Fantasy Creatures starting with the basics
Luis Ortz - Emshwiller; Infinity x 2 - the art and life of Ed and Carol Emshwiller heavily illustrated biography of this pair of artists - as ‘Emsh’ Ed did loads of some of the most interesting pulp/digest magazine covers
Martin Salisbury - Play Pen - New Children’s Book Illustration interesting stuff; not that I know most of the artists in it…

Sven A. Kirsten - Tiki Modern large, fascinating book about the tiki art movement

magazines, etc:

Doc Savage #10 includes the stories Dust of Death and The Stone Man
Juxtapoz October issue; I was short supplied and should get the rest of my order by the end of the month
Niger #2 by Leilu Marzocchi dark-looking fantasy featuring cute woodland animals. I enjoyed issue #1
Tony Millionaire - Sock Monkey - The “Inches” Incident Sock Monkey & co go to sea and meet up with a giant anteater!

Hello, Please subtitled Very Helpful Kawaii Characters from Japan heavily illustrated little book mainly in Japanese

calendars:

The Universe - 366 days I guess it’s a leap-year next year! A full-colour page a day desk calendar

audio:

Doctor Who - 100 the, um, one hundredth Big Finish adventure, featuring Colin Baker

In hardback:

Charles Stross - Halting State set in Edinburgh in the near future…
Rudy Rucker - Postsingular neat cover; the first few pages are good!
Dennis McKiernan - Once Upon a Dreadful Time fantasy; the 5th in the series
Tim Powers - A Soul in a Bottle hardback novella - Deluxe Hardcover Edition, but not signed or numbered

McSweeney’s issue 24 another zany edition! Glad to see they’re weathering their crisis. (A wholesaler went bust owing them a fair bit of money)

in large format:

Daniel Abraham - The Long Price omnibus edition containg both A Shadow in Summer and A Betrayal in Winter
David Gerrold - Alternate Gerrolds short story collection

in ‘B’ format:

Charles DeLint - The Ivory and the Horn short stories
Cherie Priest - Not Flesh nor Feathers
P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast - Betrayed the 2nd House of Night novel
Douglas Ferguson - The Forgotten Ones the Great God Convention is meeting in Vancouver…

A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels, & Other Subversive Spirits mainly text, with some line drawings

Robert Silverberg - Scientists and Scoundrels a look at some of the great hoaxes thoughout history

in paperback:

Naomi Novik - Empire of Ivory the 4th Temeraire book
Graham Sharp Paul - The Battle at the Moons of Hell military sf; Helfort’s War #1
S. M. Sterling - The Sky People alternate history, where dinosaurs roam Venus…
Kate Elliott - Spirit Gate part one of her new Crossroads series
Morgan Howell - Royal Destiny the final part of the Queen of the Orcs trilogy
Dennis McKiernan - Once Upon a Spring Morn the 4th in the series
David Forbes - The Words of Making sequel the The Amber Wizard, part 2 of the Osserian Saga
Stan Nicholls - The Diamond Isle 3rd part of The Dreamtime
Piers Anthony - Stork Naked Xanth #30!
Anne McCaffrey - If Wishes Were Horses slim fantasy

Gregory Maguire - Wicked the story behind the Wicked Witch of the West. Dorothy had it all wrong!
Barbara Hambly - Renfield - Slave of Dracula the story from Renfield’s point of view…
Rachel Caine - Midnight Alley the 3rd Morganville Vampires book

Ann Benson - The Physician’s Tale her books all seem to have two main threads - a dystopian near future, and a medieval plague setting! I still enjoy them, though!
Scott Smith - A Simple Plan Thriller. Two men find a wrecked plane with 4 million dollars aboard!

Rising Sun Victorious subtitled An Alternate History of the Pacific War, edited by Peter G. Tsouras. Ten historians write about what might have happened. With footnotes!

art, etc:

John Howe - Fantasy Art Workshop
Jane Ann Wynn - Altered Curiosities asemblage techniques and projects
Michael de Meng - Secrets of Rusty Things transforming found objects into art

calendars:

Fractal Cosmos art by Alice Kelley

magazines:

Black Static #1 “transmissions from beyond” It’s been a long time coming! It used to be known as TTA, or The Third Alternative

One Magazine new, free magazine. I have an advert in it, which is why I’m a stockist! That, and I know several contributors and at least one editor!