New Titles - w/e 13th October
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
Transreal Fiction
Transreal Fiction is a shop dedicated to selling science fiction, fantasy & related books, together with a limited selection of other merchandise.But really, it’s about books. Transreal Fiction opened in April 1997. The owner, Mike Calder, first sold sf & f books many years ago and has worked in the business either part- or full-time since. For years he also had a respectable job as well, but that’s another story…
The shop is named after the term coined by Rudy Rucker to describe his fiction and I thought it an apt name for a shop specialising in speculative fiction. And, in case you’re wondering, yes, Rudy Rucker was happy to allow me to use of the term as a name for my shop.
This year’s Fringe Art Exhibition was called Alien Surfaces. There’s a link to more info at the top…