And I’m still in the shop!
Not for long, though - soon I’ll disappear until Thursday morning, when I might get more new titles, or, more likely they’ll arrive on Friday 4th January. Also, probably 1/2 price calendars when I re-open!
Happy New Year to anyone reading…
in hardback:
Robert McCammon - The Queen of Bedlam a sequel to Speaks the Nightbird. also in l/f
Charles deLint - Promises to Keep a fairly short novel from Subterranean Press featuring his character, Jilly
Connie Willis - All Seated on the Ground a short christmas sf novel from Subterranean Press
in large format:
Robert McCammon - The Queen of Bedlam a sequel to Speaks the Nightbird. also in hardback
David Wellington - 99 Coffins historical vampire novel with it’s roots in the American Civil War…
P. N. Elrod (editor) - My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding 9 horror honeymoon stories from the likes of Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Jim Butcher…
in paperback:
Patricia Briggs - Iron Kissed the 3rd in the series featuring Mercy Thompson that began with Moon Called
Hilari Bell - Forging the Sword the final part of The Farsala Trilogy
John Ringo - East of the Sun, West of the Moon the 4th in the set that began with There Will Be Dragons…
Simon Clark - This Rage of Echoes horror, with doppelgangers!
Star Trek - Excelsior - Forged in Fire set about 1/2 way in time between Star Trek movies V & VI…
Spider-Man - Drowned in Thunder
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer - One Thing or Another
Charmed - Trickery Treat
Daniel H. Wilson, Ph.D. - How to Build A Robot Army tips on defending the Earth from aliens, zombies, etc!
art, etc:
Frank Kozic - Plasticland a book of his art and pictures of his pvc models and figures
Amano: the collected art of Vampire Hunter D hefty paperback collection of Yoshitaka Amano’s art in a slipcase
magazines:
Locus the December issue
Juxtapoz the January issue
New Type January
toys, etc:
Roman Dirge - Lenore pvc set 3 figures (Lenore, Mr.Gash and Pooty & Ragamuffin) in a presentation box…
It’s gone 4 in the afternoon on Christmas Eve and once the existing customers filter away, I’ll be gone, too! Unless other people come in, of course!
I hoped I’d get a delivery today, but no luck, so I expect I’ll get books in on Thursday when I re-open…
Enjoy the holiday,
Mike
I wouldn’t count on the shop being open after about 16.00 on Monday, Christmas Eve, although if there are still customers about, I will stay open… It’s usually a busy day up until late afternoon then trade slackens off considerably…
The shop will be shut for 2 days and re-open at 11.00 on Thursday the 27th.
I’ll be shut on Sunday the 30th, close early (as for Christmas) on the 31st and re-open at 11.00 on Thursday 3rd January 2008…
in hardback:
Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey - Dragon Harper the latest Pern novel…
Aury Wallington - Heroes - Saving Charlie an untold story of Hiro and Charlie from the hit tv series…
Marie Phillips - Gods Behaving Badly somewhat similar to Nightlife of the Gods by Thorne Smith I imagine…
in large format:
Dan Simmons - The Terror US edition of his Arctic historical thriller
Caitlin R. Kiernan - Daughter of Hounds
in ‘B’ format:
Ladislav Klima - The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch it’s ‘a grotesque tale of horror’ written in Czech in the 1920s…
paperbacks:
Jack Campbell - Courageous part 3 of The Lost Fleet. Black Jack Geary continues to try to steer the fleet home…
Elizabeth Bear - Dust intrigue on an ancient, failing space habitat
John Birmingham - Final Impact the 3rd book in his Axis of Time series, in which a future naval fleet is switched back in time to WW2…
Toby Bishop - Airs and Graces fantasy
Robert Newcomb - A March into Darkness book 2 of The Destinies of Blood and Stone
Stan Gallon - Darkest Days terrorists attempt to make Yellowstone erupt as Airforce One crashes with the President on board…
Lilith Saintcrow - To Hell and Back the 5th Dante Valentine adventure…
Carrie Vaughn - Kitty and the Silver Bullet the 4th in the series…
Marvin Kaye (editor) - The Fair Folk 450 pages and only 6 stories! Good line-up of contributors; Tanith Lee, Megan Lindholm, Kim Newman, Patricia McKillip, Craig Shaw Gardner, Jane Yolen & Mydori Snyder
Peter G. Tsouras (editor) - Third Reich Victorious ‘10 dynamic scenarios in which Hitler wins the war’ - counter-factual essays
Star Wars Allegiance by Timothy Zahn
Doctor Who etc:
Short Trips #22 - The Ghosts of Christmas hardback
The Girl Who Never Was Big Finish audio adventure #103
Bernice Summerfield - Nobody’s Children and Missing Adventures 2 new hardbacks…
art, etc:
Richard Kelly & Ruth Weldele (art) - Southland Tales: the Prequel Saga the backstory for the recent film; now I’ll find out what it was all about! 
Andy Runton - Owly - A Time to be Brave the 4th book about a very cute little owl…
Terry’s just announced that he’s been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html
That’s bad news.
Here’s hoping he was diagnosed early enough that the drugs stave it off for a good long while…
in hardback:
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - the 20th? Count Saint-Germain novel, set in post-Napoleonic France, it seems…
Robert Reed - The Dragons of Springplace a collection from Golden Gryphon books
M. Rickert - Map of Dreams a collection from Golden Gryphon
in ‘B’ format:
Mark Chadbourn - Jack of Ravens pat 1 of Kingdom of the Serpent
James Barclay - Shout for the Dead part 2 of The Ascendants of Estorea
Gene Wolfe - The Wizard second half of the Wizard Knight pair
in paperback:
Elizabeth Hand - The Bride of Frankenstein a Universal Monsters novel
Sherrilyn Kenyon - Upon the Midnight Clear the latest Dream Hunter novel…
Katie McAllister - A Girl’s Guide to Vampires
Dale Peck - Drift House - The First Voyage YA fantasy - looks fun!
Cora Taylor - The Matthew Ghost Voyages II, about Jeremy, the Stamp Traveller helping Cabot reach America…
Stargate Atlantis #8 - Blood Ties
art, etc:
Dougal Dixon - If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today hardback about how dinos would interact with other animals in the present day!
Dougal Dixon - Prehistoric World #5 - The Age of Mammals a look at some of the earliest mammals
Bryan Baugh - Swords & Sorcery subtitled ‘how to draw fantastic fantasy adventure comics’
Michael Farr - Tintin & Co. the background to the Tintin strip, including the source of the main characters. Looks very good (if you’re a fan!)
Victoria Frances - Favole 1 - Stone Tears and also Favole 2 - Set Me Free panels of text alongside her art, telling the story of Favole. Very goth!
Chris Ortega - Forgotten similar to Favole
Corbeyran & Moreno - The Regulator graphic novel, first serialised in Heavy Metal
P. Craig Russell - The Art of PCR large retrospective
Bryan Talbot - The Art of BT softcover retrospective
Frank Cho - Modern Masters vol 14 b&w retrospective
Zdzislaw Beksinski - The Fantastic Art of Beksinski not had this in stock for ages…
Tracy Mark Lee - Tiki, T-Dog & Whatnot full colour sketches and drawings
The Vadeboncoeur Collection - Images #9 ‘glamour issue’
Jef Czekaj - Grampa and Julie : Shark Hunters cute graphic story
Aaron Renier - Spiral Bound : Top Secret Summer fun b&w strip
Hi-Horse Omnibus vol #1 - looks interesting, a bit more maturely themed than the 2 above!
media & tv:
Jo Storm - Frak You! an unauthorised guide to Battlestar Galactica heavy on the text
magazines:
Black Static issue 2 a bit quicker to press than issue 1 was!
toys, etc:
Star Wars Clone Warrior Deformed Plush They look like cute stormtroopers to me! Squeezy!
Gama-Go - Deathbot very nice (well, a bit angry-looking, actually) little poseable robot with ‘kill’ on his chest!
The hardback of Winterbirth is now out of print and I am out of stock, so the only edition I can now supply is the ‘b’ format paperback.
in hardback:
Kristen Britain - The High King’s Tomb the 3rd in her Green Rider sequence
Michael Z. Williamson - Better to Beg Forgiveness… sequel to Freehold; marines in space!
R. M. Meluch - The Sagittarius Command the third book about the space cruiser U.S.S. Merrimack and it’s missions against the neo-Roman Palatine Empire…
in large format:
K. J. Parker - The Escapement the final part of The Engineer Trilogy
Debbie Gallacher - The Spider’s Bride horror; the blurb makes me think of Kim Wilkins for some reason…
Star Trek - Corps of Engineers - Creative Couplings 6 novellas set on the U.S.S. da Vinci
in ‘B’ format:
Kate Elliott - Spirit Gate part 1 of Crossroads the UK edition
Glenda Larke - The Shadow of Tyr book 2 of The Mirage Makers
Roderick Gordon & Brian Williams - Tunnels YA novel about a mysterious tunnel system the 14 year old hero’s father disappeared into…
in paperback:
Tim Powers - Three Days to Never present-day weird thriller - well, it is Tim Powers, after all!
Juliet Marillier - Wildwood Dancing fantasy
Chris Bunch - Stormforce & also Stormfall books 3 & 4 of The last Legion quartet
Jennifer Rardin - Another One Bites the Dust the sequel to Once Bitten, Twice Shy
The Solaris Book of New Fantasy edited by George Mann original anthology; good line-up of contributors…
Predator - Flesh and Blood
art, etc:
Companion Tales to the Mabinogi - Legend and Landscape of Wales a new translation by John K. Bollard of 4 stories connected to the Mabinogion, with photographs by Anthony Griffiths of relevant Welsh locations… interesting idea and it looks good.
The shop will be open on the next few Sunday afternoons in the run up to Christmas
Hours - 12.00 - 17.00
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.
