Transreal Fiction

Eric Flint & Marilyn Kosmatka - Time Spike a maximum security prison somehow appears back in the age of dinosaurs!

This is the start of a series set in parallel to Flint’s Grantsville (1632) timeslip series of books… Like S. M. Stirling’s Nantucket/Dies the Fire series, Flint has gone back to the beginning and described an event that has happened in our time while the original series remains firmly in history. Time Spike is set in the present day (therefore some years after the original 1632 book was initially set) and another Event happens. But this event leads to a more complex blending of history, as people from other eras get sucked in as well… Some scenes set in the present continue to speculate about the Time Spike events, although most of the action is way back in the past.

Anyway, if you’re a 1632 fan, this book expands on the possible reasons for the events and will, I’m sure have sequels… and it’s also quite possible to read it without having read his other work.

in hardback:

Jennifer Fallon - The Immortal Prince the first in her new series, The Tide Lords. A man who survives hanging proclaims himself to be one of the mythical , immortal Tide Lords…
Jack Dann - The Fiction Factory a collection of his collaborative work with such writers as Dozois, Swanwick & Zebrowski. It came out in 2005, but I haven’t stocked it before…

in large format:

Greg Egan - Incandescence long-awaited new novel; it’s a galaxy spanning adventure…
David Anthony Durham - Acacia book 1of The War with the Mein big new fantasy

in ‘B’ format:

Robert Holdstock - The Broken Kings the final volume of The Merlin Codex
Aury Wallington - Saving Charlie the first Heroes tv tie-in novel
Tate Holloway - Romancing the Dead sequel to Tall, Dark and Dead & Dead Sexy…
Christopher Buckley - Boomsday his latest satire ; this time about the baby boomer generation and the consequences of an aging population…
Stephen Baxter - The H-Bomb Girl Liverpool, 1962; the Beatles? Yes, and the Cuban Missile Crisis! Mysterious forces are hunting Laura, a young run-a-way…

George R. R. Martin - Dream Songs book 2 the second half of last year’s large hardback…
Tom Robbins - Wild Ducks Flying Backwards his short fiction and essays, etc.

in paperback:

Sara Douglass - The Twisted Citadel part 2 of the Darkglass Mountain trilogy…
Jeff Somers - The Digital Plague near future nanotech thriller

media:

Doctor Who - Starships and Spacestations heavily illustrated guide mainly featuring the Tennant era, but also with some older spaceships, etc.

art, etc:

Gris Grimly - Where Madness Reigns subtitled ‘the art of GG’
Jane Frank (editor) - Paint or Pixel: The Digital Divide in Illustration Art essays, articles and art from top fantasy artists
Neil Gaiman with Michael Zulli & Todd Klein - The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch epic adventure in this graphic novel of adventures which start beneath London…

Jim Munroe with Salgood Sam - Therefore Repent a b&w graphic novel, set after the Rapture. I’ve enjoyed all of Munroe’s work that I’ve read, so far…

Steve Miller - Beasts! subtitled ‘How to Draw Fantastic Predators, Creepy Crawlies, and Cryptids’

100 Suns - restock of the big hardback photography book of nuclear test explosions… £14.99

magazines:

Interzone - #216 June cover date…
Weird Tales - issue #348
Juxtapoz - cover date May, the photography issue!
Piq - issue 2 new anime magazine…

Everything’s a bit late, thanks to the Bank Holiday on Monday…

In hardback:

Eric Flint & Marilyn Kosmatka - Time Spike a maximum security prison somehow appears back in the age of dinosaurs!

in large format:

Alan Dean Foster - Sagramanda near-future sf set in India
Gregory Frost - Shadow Bridge first half of a new fantasy set; looks good…
Jorge Molst - The Ring subtitled ‘The Last Templar Knight’s Inheritance’ A New York lawyer receives a mysterious package…
Barth Anderson - The Magician and the Fool ancient artifact mystery centred around the history of the Tarot
Sarah Monette - The Bone Key 10 linked stories about a museum archivist sensitive to the supernatural…

Robert Heinlein - Farmer in the Sky classic reprint

James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel (editors) - Rewired top authors appear in ‘The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology’, as it calls itself…
Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois - Wizards anthology, with stories by mayor names…
Ekaterina Sedia (editor) - Paper Cities an anthology of urban fantasy

in ‘B’ format:

Neil Gaiman - M is for Magic short story collection aimed at younger readers…
Joe Hill - Heart-Shaped Box a man buys a ghost on the internet…

in paperback:

David Weber & Linda Evans - Hell’s Gate first in a new series featuring two empires controlling multiple parallel worlds at war with each other
L. E. Modesitt, jr - Natural Ordermage the 14th novel of Recluce
Lois McMaster Bujold - Legacy book 2 of The Sharing Knife, the sequel to Beguilement…
Timothy Zahn - Blackcollar: The Judas Solution inter-planetary warfare with an elite unit; previouis books are o/p
Jay Lake - Mainspring a very alternate history, where the world literally runs like clockwork! I enjoyed reading it in hardback…
Scott Mackay - Omega Sol aliens want to turn the sun into a red giant! Sounds a bit OTT, but he’s usually worth reading…
Sean Williams - Earth Ascendant the 2nd half of Astropolis; the sequel to Saturn Returns
Warren Hammond - Kop unraveling a scandal on a failing colony world…
Jennifer Fallon - Warlord the final part of her Wolfblade trilogy
Cat Bordhi - Treasure Forest two children persuade their parents to move to a house in the woods…
Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Ninth Talisman volume 2 of the Annals of the Chosen
Lisa Shearin - Armed and Magical a young ’seeker’ is caught up in magical happenings when she finds an ancient soul-eating stone…

David E. Meadows - Final Run submarine adventure
Dale Brown - Strike Force near-future thriller featuring the first military space station… Published as a Premium edition (i.e. a bit taller than most paperbacks)
Tim Willocks The Religion historical fiction about the Knights of Malta
Talia Gryphon - Key to Conspiracy the sequel to Key to Conflict, about a paramortal psychologist working for US Special Forces…
Jonathan Mayberry - Bad Moon Rising horror
Tanya Huff - Blood Bank short story collection set against the Blood Ties background…

Denise Little (editor) - Front Lines military sf anthology

Star Trek - Terok Nor Night of the Wolves (2345 - 2357) another novel set just before DS9

art, etc:

Neil Gaiman & Gris Grimbly - The Dangerous Alphabet rhyming couplets of the alphabet, with humourous illustrations…

Today’s view…

Originally uploaded by miketransreal

If anyone’s worried about problems with access due to the Grassmarket improvements, this is the view from the front door, showing the new, wider pavement, albeit with a large hole at the corner.

I’ve been assured today that progress is still being made and the hole should be looked into very soon!

These guys just dropped in to sign stock, so now I have limited signed stock of UK editions of books by:

Alan Campbell - Iron Angel (his new hardback) the sequel to Scar Night (available in ‘B’ format) - both titles available with plain signature

Hal Duncan - Ink (hardback) the sequel to Vellum (available in ‘B’ format) - both titles available with plain signature