New Titles – w/e 31st May
in hardback:
Sebastian Faulks (writing as Ian Fleming) – Devil May Care the new James Bond novel, set in the mid-60s and writen in Fleming’s style
Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter – Firstborn the final part of A Time Odyssey and presumably Clarke’s final novel…
Arturo Perez-Reverte – The King’s Gold the latest novel featuring Captain Alatriste
F. Paul Wilson – Jack: Secret Histories Repairman Jack as a teenager!
Laurell K. Hamilton – Blood Noir the UK edition
Eberron – Dragon Forge the 2nd part of the Draconic Prophecies…
in large format:
William Gibson – Spook Country the follow-up to Pattern Recognition
Lou Anders (editor) – Sideways in Crime alternate history crime anthology!. Some big name contributors…
in ‘B’ format:
Tim Lebbon – Fallen exploring beyond the Great Divide on the continent of Noreela…
George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois & Daniel Abraham – Hunter’s Run nothing at all to do with any of these authors’ other projects…
Adam L. G. Nevill – Banquet for the Damned horror set in St. Andrews…
Ian Fleming – Quantum of Solace a collection of 9 short stories; some of the titles seem very familiar, including the one the next movie is based on!
Warhammer 40,000 – The Blood Angels Omnibus by James Swallow contains Deus Encarmine, the short story (37 pages) Blood Debt, and Deus Sanguinius
The Incredible Hulk – Movie Novelization by J. E. Bright. Aimed at a younger audience, but includes a 6 page colour insert…
in paperback:
Kevin J. Anderson – Metal Swarm book 6 of The Saga of the Seven Suns
Jes Battis – Night Child the first OSI novel; featuring occult forensics investigator Tess Corday…
Kelly McCullough – CodeSpell the sequel to Webmage and Cybermancy…
Fiona McIntosh – Goddess part 3 of Percheron
Patricia Briggs – Moon Called Mercy Thompson is a shapeshifter, and a mechanic. Her neighbour’s a werewolf and she’s working on a van belonging to a vampire…
Gary A. Braunbeck – Coffin County
Jack Ketchum – Old Flames
Batman – Gotham Knight a novelisation of the animated prequel to this summer’s The Dark Knight film…
Forgotten Realms – Ascendancy of the Last the 3rd book of The Lady Penitent
Warhammer – Runefang by C. L. Werner
The Afterblight Chronicles – Dawn Over Doomsday
art, etc:
Out of Picture volume 2 excellent collection along the lines of the Flight series…
Sparth – Structura; the art of Sparth nice-looking stuff from a top games artist
Terry Pratchett – The Discworld Graphic Novels the first two books of the Discworld series; The Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic, both illustrated by Steven Ross
Christine Haden – Creepy Cute Crochet how to crochet cute little figures – devils, ninjas, cthulhu…
Master Merlin – A Guide to the Wizards of the World from the creators of the Wizardology books…
Joshua W. Cotter – Skyscrapers of the Midwest mainly b&w h/c graphic novel which seems to be about growing up in the Mid-west
magazines, etc:
Locus – May cover date
Juxtapoz – June cover date
Heavy Metal – July cover date
Savage Sword of Conan – #3 continuing the series of re-issues of the b&w comic
Anime Insider – #57
Neo – #46
Piq – #3
Gothic & Lolita Bible – #27
Cthulhu Tales – #2
Fall of Cthulhu – #12
Richard Morgan
Richard Morgan has just dropped by; he was very chuffed to see his photo on the wall as I haven’t actually taken down all of last year’s Fringe Exhibition ( A Bestiary of Authors). Anyway, I now have a limited number of the ‘B’ format paperback of Black Man (Gollancz £7.99) available…
Robert Asprin
Sadly, Robert Asprin passed away due to natural causes a couple of days ago.
My favourites of his many books were probably the Phule’s Company series…
And, at the risk of being irreverent, may I say he will be mythed.
More detail from a thread on the SDMB -
From a reliable source (his ride to the airport yesterday – he was heading out to be Guest of Honor at Marcon in Columbus, OH), I have the following details:
When she spoke to Robert at 2pm to arrange to pick him up at 5pm, he was fine. When she arrived at a little before 5pm, he was not waiting for her so she called him with no answer. She went inside to check on him, and found him on his bed. He had been reading (maybe getting ready for a nap) and had passed away.
EMS were called, with no positive response.
New Titles – w/e 24th May
in hardback:
Laurell K. Hamilton – Blood Noir the 15th (I think) Anita Blake novel…
Lois McMaster Bujold – Miles, Mutants and Microbes omnibus edition of Falling Free, Diplomatic Immunity & the 80 page Labyrinth
Dragonlance – Amber and Blood the 3rd volume of The dark Disciple trilogy by Margaret Weis
Forgotten Realms – Swordmage part one of the Blades of the Moonsea set by Richard Baker
in large format:
David J Williams – Mirrored Heavens military cyberpunk…
Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon – adventure starting beneath the London Underground…
Olive Jeanfreau Alexander – Dmitri fable concerning a small dragon and the history (and future) of Russia…
Ann & Jeff Vandermeer (editors) – Steampunk top reprint anthology
In ‘B’ format:
Toby Frost – Space Captain Smith gung-ho space opera set in the 25th Century British Space Empire…
Tate Hallaway – Tall, Dark and Dead & Dead Sexy the 1st 2 in the series; #3 came in last week…
D. A. Nelson – Darkisle YA fantasy about a girl who runs away from home and ends up helping some strange companions she meets… puts me in mind of Shoebox Zoo… (children’s tv series)
in paperback:
John Ringo – Deeper Blue the 5th in his Ghost sequence
Mark L. Van Name – One Jump Ahead fast-moving military sf…
Alex Archer – The Soul Stealer the 12th Rogue Angel adventure…
David Devereux – Hunter’s Moon a magician working for a black ops (UK) government agency…
James Axler – Ghostwalk the 35th(?) Outlanders novel
Eric Flint (editor) – The Best of Jim Baen’s Universe vol 1 anthology culled from the Baen website
Star Trek – Terek Nor – Dawn of the Ghosts 2360 – 2369 the 3rd in the set set before the events of DS9
audio:
Doctor Who – Grand Theft Cosmos latest Paul McGann full cast drama… Big Finish 2.5
Related to the 1632 series…
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.
New Titles – w/e 17th May
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…
New Titles – w/e 10th May
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…
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!
Alan Campbell & Hal Duncan
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
