Transreal Fiction

in hardback:

Iain M. Banks - Matter big new sf novel

J. G. Ballard - Miracles of Life an autobiography! Some of this may seem familiar as background for Empire of the Sun, The Kindness of Women and a long Foundation article in their series called ‘The Profession of Science Fiction‘ but this appears to be freshly written…
Jack Whyte - Standard of Honor 2nd in his Templar Trilogy, a sequel to Knights of the Black and White
John Ringo & Travis S. Taylor - Manxome Foe the sequel to Into the Looking Glass and The Vorpal Blade

Mark L. Van Name & T. K. F. Weiskopf (editors) - Transhuman original anthology

in large format:

Lois McMaster Bujold - Miles in Love omnibus containing Komarr, A Civil Campaign and a 60 page story called Winterfair Gifts
Keith Laumer - Earthblood and other stories full-length novel co written with Rosel George Brown together with more short stories - 3 related to Earthblood by Laumer and 6 others by Brown…
John Crowley - Love & Sleep the 2nd in his now complete Aegypt quartet
John Marks - Fangland fun-souding vampire novel…
Justin Gustainis - Black Magic Woman a Quincy Morris Supernatural Investigation

Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories interesting -looking anthology with more well known names than you’d think!

in paperback:

Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye - Myth-Gotten Gains the 18th in the series!
Eric Flint & Ryk E. Spoor - Boundary fast-moving sf; I enjoyed the hardback…
Fiona McIntosh - Emissary 2nd book in her Percheron series… sequel to Odalesque
Katherine Kurtz - Childe Morgan a stand-alone Dernyi novel, set before the original series
Christopher Golden The Borderland 2nd in The Veil series; I enjoyed this in a larger edition last year and I’m looking forward to the next one in late March
Gail Z. Martinez - The Blood King part 2 of the Chronicles of the Necromancer,the sequel to The Summoner
David Drake - Some Golden Harbor the 5th Lt. Leary adventure
C. S. Friedman - Feast of Souls book 1 of the Magister Trilogy
Edward Willett - Marseguro sf set on a forgotten colony world populated by true humans and selkies…
S. M. Peters - Whitechapel Gods Victorian steampunk/horror novel - looks intriguing
Brian Herbert - Sidney’s Comet light-hearted sf; first published in 1990, well before his Dune-related collaborations with Kevin Anderson
Mark del Franco - Unquiet Dreams dark fantasy featuring Celtic fairies vs. Teutonic elves. Reminds me of The Blue and the Grey by Timothy Zahn!
Brian Keene - Dark Hollow horror
Thomas Tessier - The Nightwalker horror

Philip Jose Farmer - Strange Relations omnibus also containing Flesh and The Lovers

Charlaine Harris - A Bone to Pick the 2nd Aurora Teagarden mystery

Denise Little (editor) - Mystery Date fantasy dates

Star Trek Klingon Empire - A Burning House by Keith R. A. DeCandido another adventure of the I.K.S. Gorkon, as they return home…

Mechwarrior: Dark Age - To Ride the Chimera by Kevin Killiany

Forgotten Realms - Sembia: Gateway to the Realms #7 - Lord of Stormweather by Dave Gross

Eberron - Blade of the Flame #3 - Sea of Death by Tim Waggoner

Warhammer - Oathbreaker by Nick Kyme featuring a bank of dwarves…
Warhammer 40,000 - Hammer of Daemons by Ben Counter featuring the Grey Knights & also
Scourge the Heretic by Sandy Mitchell

art. etc:

Eva-Lena Rehnmark - Neither God Nor Devil excellent book about our perception of wolves through the ages - I’ve not been able to get hold of it for months…

The Art of Pixar a box of 100 different postcards to celebrate 20 years of Pixar films
Ron Goulart - Good Girl Art an overview of the depiction of women in comics
Greg Broadmore - Doctor Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory great-looking retro art; sort of steampunk, from Weta
Jordi Bernet - Bernet a retrospective of this European artist edited by Manuel Aued. Best known, maybe, for his hard-boiled detective strip, Torpedo, some of which is included here…
Modern Masters volume fifteen - Mark Schultz
Dan de Carlo vol 2 more risque cartoons from the 50s & 60s
The Best of Draw! drawing tips culled from the magazine…
Fastner & Larson - Tricks & Treats their latest colour collection from SQP
Mermaid Song #1 - Desires of the Deep new from SQP in colour
Devil Dolls volume 2 from SQP
Fairy Tails 2 from SQP

magazines, etc:

Juxtapoz February cover date
Weird Tales #347 Nov/Dec cover date; I guess they’re running a little late…
Illustration issues 20 & 21
Mome issue 10; cover date Winter/Spring
Jason - The Last Musketeer quirky graphic novel…
audio:

Doctor Who - Dead London full cast drama with Paul McGann from Big Finish

another slack week, I expect…

in large format:

Carol Berg - Breath and Bone the sequel to Flesh and Spirit, which came out in paperback recently…

in paperback:

Richard Bachman - Blaze a ‘new’ Stephen King novel from 1973, written just before Carrie. Slightly revised and updated
Steve Berry - The Alexandria Link ancient artifact adventure - in this case the fabled Library at Alexandria, thought destroyed centuries ago…

art:

Frank Frazetta - Rough Work edited by Arnie & Cathy Fenner, who also edit the annual Spectrum compendium of modern sf&f art…
Stuart Littlejohn - Celtic Fantasy in Watercolour a guide to painting
Christopher Hart - Manga Mania; Occult and Horror subtitled ‘how to draw the elegant and seductive characters of the dark’

In hardback:

Michael Swanwick - The Dragons of Babel the sequel to the award-winning The Iron Dragon’s Daughter, which came out 15 years ago! I just re-read a few pages of it, and it’s excellent…
Jack Vance - The Kragen a reprint of the novella that was later expaned into The Blue World. Signed & numbered edition from Subterranean Press - looks great! And did you know that The Blue World was short-listed for the Hugo Award in 1966? It lost, partly because a different Vance book won!

large format:

David Wellington - 13 Bullets horror; a companion to 99 Coffins, which came in recently…

in ‘B’ format:

Stephen Baxter - Navigator the 3rd in his Time’s Tapestry series; the action moves to the 11th Century or so…

in paperback:

Harry Turtledove - In at the Death the latest in his Settling Accounts series…
Jim Butcher - White Night the latest in the Dresden Files…

Mark Benyon - The Devil’s Plague A Tomes of the Dead book; it’s a new imprint issuing Zombie novels! In this one Oliver Cromwell and his demon army tackle zombie hordes…

film tie-in:

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem - Inside the Monster Shop glossy look behind the scenes of the new film…

magazines:

Interzone #214 - with an interview with Iain Banks about his forthcoming SF novel and a novella by Jason Stoddard, together with the usual features…

My phone line is acting up and affecting my internet conectivity, so updates may be a little slow until it’s fixed…

Catherine Asaro - The Ruby Dice the latest novel in the Skolian Empirte series…
Eric Flint (editor) - Ring of Fire II latest anthology in the 1632 series
Barb & J. C. Hemdee - Child of a Dead God the 6th book in The Noble Dead sequence
Douglas Preston - Blasphemy sf novel featuring the world’s biggest super-collider…

Clark Ashton Smith - A Vintage From Atlantis the 3rd volume of his collected short stories from Night Shade Books
Steven Erikson - Bauchelain and Korbal Broach an omnibus of threee novellas featuring these characters from his Malazan Book of the Fallen epic series. The introduction by James Barclay is actually from the book listed below and has just been re-used for this book.
Steven Erikson - The Lees of Laughter’s End the second book of the above trilogy, issued on it’s own - the other two have already had PS Publishing editions

in large format:

Philip Palmer - Debatable Space
Richard Kadrey - Butcher Bird weird fantasy; I’ve not seen much from this author for a long time; Metrophage was excellent, but that was 20 years ago!

in ‘B’ format:

G. W. Dahlquist - The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters I really enjoyed the h/c - weird, historical fantasy set in an alternate British Empire. There’s a sequel in hardback fairly soon…
Dan Simmons - The Terror historical, arctic horror based on the Franklin expedition

in paperback:

Carol Berg - Flesh and Spirit part one of her latest fantasy series…
C. J. Cherryh - Deliverer part 3 of the 3rd Foreigner series - book 9 overall
David B. Coe - Weavers of War the 5th Winds of the Forelands book
Glen Cook - Lord of the Silent Kingdom part one of The Instrumentalities of the Night
James F. David = Thunder of Time belated sequel to Footprints of Thunder, where great swathes of the Earth in the present day were switched with their equivalent areas from the distant past. Now, the phenomenon is starting to happen again. I enjoyed the hardback last year…
William Dietrich - Napoleon’s Pyramid historical novel set during Napoloen’s Egyptian adventure… the sequel is due in a couple of months in hardback. I enjoyed this one when it was first in hardback.
Jane Lindskold - Wolf’s Blood the 6th and final book of the series that began with Through Wolf’s Eyes
Andre Norton - Return to Quag Keep sequel to the fantasy Quag Keep
Linnea Sinclair - The Down Home Zombie Blues can the two mis-matched heroes save the world from biomechanical organisms?
David Weber - Off Armageddon Reef a lost human colony has reverted to a strict Theocratic feudalism but times are changing…

Alan Cole - Wolves of the Gods the 2nd book of his Timuras Trilogy

Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Misenchanted Sword the first of his Ethshar books
Irene Radford - The Dragon Nimbus novels #3 containing The Renegade Dragon and The Wizard’s Treasure. The final 2 in this 7 book series…

Alex Archer - Serpent’s Kiss the 10th Rogue Angel book

Mario Acevedo - The Nymphos of Rocky Flats Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier; he came back a vampire… fast-moving horror
Yasmine Galenorn - Darkling the 3rd of the Otherworld series
J. F. Gonzalez - Shapeshifter werewolf novel
Lee Hunt - The Vampire of New York a present-day archeologist finds evidence of vampiric killings during the time of the American Civil War…

Fellowship Fantastic original anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes

Dragonlance - The Lost Chronicles #2 - Dragons of the Highlord Skies
Forgotten Realms - Realms of War a Twilight War anthology

magazines:

Heavy Metal - March 2008 cover date
Fall of Cthulhu issue 9
Neo - February cover date
Doc Savage #12 - includes The Squeaking Goblin and The Evil Gnome

art, etc:

Gallegos - Dreaming in Black and White reminds be a bit of Virgil Finlay or some Hannes Bok
Marc-Antoine Mathieu - The Museum Vaults graphic novel set in the Lourve
Frederik Peeters - Blue Pills h/c mainstream graphic novel (b&w)
Ray Thomas - The Savage Sword of Conan volume one of the collected strips…

portfolio:

Luis Royo - Tattoos back in stock; 6 colour plates with 6 lightweight b&w sketches separating them in the folder

audio:

Arthur C. Clarke - A Fall of Moondust a 2-cd dramatisation

Sorry, despite ordering in what I thought was adequate time to receive books this week, I won’t be getting most of my expected deliveries until Monday.

Blame longer delays than in previous years both by the supplier shipping it and in the extended New Year seize-up in the UK freight industry… But I did get:

in hardback:

Matthew Reilly - The Six Sacred Stones a high-speed sequel to Seven Ancient Wonders
William Ashbless - Pilot Light very small hardback by Tim Powers & James P. Blaylock. Unsigned.

in large format:

Brian Stableford - The Tree of Life a collection of 8 stories about how biotech might affect the future…

in ‘B’ format:

Sweeney Todd; the Demon Barber of Fleet Street the novel the new Johnny Depp film is based on. Apparently when it was first published as a serial in 1846, it was known as The String of Pearls: A Romance. Doesn’t give quite the same tone to the story! It’s authorship still remains in doubt…

in paperback:

David Zindell - The Diamond Warriors the 4th and final volume of the Ea Cycle