New Titles – w/e 28th June
In hardback:
Steven Erikson – Toll the Hounds the 8th volume of The Mazalan Book of the Fallen
James Rollins – The Last Oracle the 4th Sigma Force adventure
Holly Lisle – Hawkspar another novel set in Korre, the same world Talyn was set in…
Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett – Havemercy interesting-looking new fantasy
in large format:
Stephen Donaldson – Fatal Revenant the 2nd book of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Tony Gonzales – EVE: The Empyrean Age a novel based on the interactive computer game EVE…
in ‘B’ format:
Mike Ashley (editor) The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy A kind-of Dangerous Visions of fantasy!
John Seymour – Retrieved from the Future a novel set after the energy crunch…
in paperback:
David Weber & Linda Evans – Hell Hath No Fury the sequel to Hell’s Gate
Jack Campbell – Valiant the 4th Lost Fleet book…
Charles Stross – Halting State near future crime novel set in Edinburgh
Michael Stackpole – The New World the final part of The Age of Discovery trilogy
Lynn Flewelling – Shadows Return the long-awaited 4th Nightrunner book
James Maxey – Dragonforge the second novel of The Dragon Age and the sequel to Bitterwood
Patrice Sarath – Gordath Wood a woman inadvertantly rides through a portal to a mediaeval world…
David Louis Edelman – Infoquake part 1 of the Jump 225 trilogy. Hi-tech sf…
Greg Cox – The Vesuvius Prophecy a novel of The 4400, which is the number of abductees ‘taken’ and later returned with special powers…
Paul Christopher – The Aztec Heresy 4th book featuring Finn Ryan. The 3rd, Rembrandt’s Ghost, was great fun!
Lilith Saintcrow – Night Shift first in a new horror series…
Julie Kenner – Demons are Forever the strapline reads ‘confessions of a demon-hunting soccer mom’. I enjoyed the first one… It’s as if Buffy has grown up and settled down, but is recruited back into her old ways
Marjorie M. Liu – The Iron Hunt first in a new series; another present day demon-hunting demon! Sounds a little different, though!
Brandon Massey – Don’t Ever Tell horror
Al Ewing – I, Zombie a Tomes of the Dead novel… the autobiography of a zombie!
The Dimension Next Door original anthology of stories featuring parallel worlds or alternate dimensions… edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Fearful Symmetry two back-to-back stories with the same title with one of them, I assume, set in the Mirror Universe
Star Wars: Coruscant Nights #1 – Jedi Twilight
Eberron – The Darkwood Mask fourth in the Inquisitives series…
art, etc:
Yoshitaka Amano – Mateki’s Magic Flute concepy illustrations for a Japanese production of The Magic Flute
Gary Gianni – The Prince Valiant Page heavily illustrated (mainly in b&w) book about the author’s spell producing the famous strip…
audio:
Doctor Who – The Zygon Who Fell To Earth an Eighth Doctor audio drama; Big Finish #2.6
magazines:
Locus – June cover date
Heavy Metal – Summer issue
Juxtapoz – July cover date
Illustration - #1 re-issue
Piq – #4
Neo – #47
Anime Insider – #58
New Titles – w/e 21st June
in hardback:
James Howard Kunstler – World Made by Hand literary, post-breakdown novel; looks interesting
Gideon Defoe – The Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon 4th in the series… Good fun!
:in large format:
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine – These Haunted Seas large omnibus edition containing Twilight by David R. George III and This Gray Spirit by Heather Jarman
in ‘B’ format:
Christopher Brookmyre – Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
Ben Elton – Blind Faith
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull the novelisation by James Luceno
The Adventures of Indiana Jones omnibus edition of the novelisations of the first 3 films…
in paperback:
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child – The Wheel of Darkness the latest Pendergast novel, the 12th in that background, although he’s not in all of them…
Terry Pratchett – Making Money latest Discworld novel… a few copies actually came in earlier…
Kristin Landon – The Cold Minds the sequel to the The Hidden Worlds
John Twelve Hawks – The Dark River sequel to The Traveller
audio:
Doctor Who – Black Orchid latest BBC cd
Doctro Who – Assassin in the Limelight Big Finish #108
Sapphire & Steel – Remember Me Big Finish volume 3.2
magazines:
Black Static #5
New Titles – w/e 14th June
in hardback:
Jacqueline Carey – Kushiel’s Mercy the 3rd in the Kushiel’s Legacy set
Lewis Shiner – Black & White mainstream novel about racial tension and conflict in the fairly recent past of the USA. He’s an excellent writer.
Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi – The Monster of Florence a true crime book, looking at a notorious murder next door to Preston’s villa in Florence…
in large format:
Glen Cook – The Books of the South; Tales of the Black Company omnibus containing Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel and The Silver Spike
Spider: City of Doom an omnibus of 3 reprint adventure novels from the 1930s by Norvell Page. It contains The City Destroyer, The Faceless One and The Council of Evil
H. P. Lovecraft – Necronomicon large softcover of some of Lovecraft’s best stories… also available in hardback
Captain Future featuring the novel The Comet Kings by Edmond Hamilton, along with other stories and articles…
Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer – The Cryptopedia an encyclopaedia of weirdness!
in ‘B’ format:
Paul McAuley – Cowboy Angels convoluted parallel worlds story, with added black ops/CIA interference across the different versions of 20th C America. I liked the hardback last year…
Keith Donohue – The Stolen Child a young boy and his fairy changeling grow up with strange memories of their childhoods…
Patrick Rothfuss – The Name of the Wind part 1 of a big new fantasy series; I enjoyed reading the hardback…
in paperback:
Robert Charles Wilson – Axis the sequel to Spin
Tobias S. Bucknell – Ragamuffin sequel to Crystal World. Rastas vs Mayans on a forgotten colony planet! 
I liked the first book
Mel Odom – Boneslicer the first book in The Quest for the Trilogy. Three books hold the key…
Martin Millar – The Good Faries of New York good humoured novel about some Scottish fairies adrift in New York…
Brandon Sanderson – Mistborn budget reprint from the author chosen to finish writing the late Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time cycle
Brandon Sanderson – The Well of Ascension sequel to Mistborn; part 2 of a trilogy
L. A. Banks – The Cursed the 9th(?) in the set
Jonathan Maberry – Dead Man’s Song horror
art, etc:
Serenity Blueprint Reference Pack set of blueprints from the film/tv series
The Art of Claudio Aboy the latest SQP volume…
The Art of Walter Girotto
Leong Wan Kok & Puyuh – Astro-Cityzen brilliantly weird art!
Jim Woodring – The Frank Book back in stock. Mainly b&w stories with Frank, Pupshaw and Pushpaw
C’est Bon Anthology #5 b&w graphic collection
Buddy Scalera – Women and Girls the latest in his Comic Artist’s Photo Reference series…
Hellboy – The Companion guide to the comic series
Hellboy II – The Art of the Movie includes the shooting script, together with photos, sketches, storyboards, etc.
Algis Budrys
Algis Budrys, the man with one of the oddest names in sf! (It’s Lithuanian, btw!)
Sadly he died yesterday, aged 77. I didn’t read very much of his work but he was much admired in the sf field.
His book Who? is possibly his best known – not least because it was filmed and shows up on tv every so often. Once seen, you don’t forget the man in the steel mask! Rogue Moon was also memorable, and I also enjoyed The Iron Thorn.
He was nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula award 7 times, but sadly never won either award.
Another of the names I grew up with gone.
Alton Kelly
I just discovered that Alton Kelly (of Mouse & Kelly) the 60s West Coast psychedelia artist has died.
His art wasn’t really fantasy art, but it was fantastical!
New Titles – w/e 7th June
In hardback:
Brian Ruckley – Bloodheir the sequel to Winterbirth; part 2 of The Goddless World trilogy. Signed copies will be available – see the Brian Ruckley page…
Simon R. Green – Daemons are Forever the sequel to The Man With the Golden Torc. 2nd book featuring Shaman Bond!
Tanya Huff – Valor’s Trial the 4th Confederation novel
Eric Flint (editor/creator) – Grantville Gazette IV the latest collection about the world of the Ring of Fire, or 1632
Spider Robinson – Very Hard Choices the sequel to Very Bad Deaths, again featuring a very pungent telepath!
Travis S. Taylor – The Tau Ceti Agenda the sequel to One Day on Mars…
Mark Alpert – Final Theory Einstein’s final secret is about to be revealed…
Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul – Plague Ship volume 5 of the Oregon Files
Star Wars – Invincible the final part of Legacy of the Force by Troy Denning
in large format:
A. K. Dewdney – The Planiverse an up-to-date version of Flatland!
J. P. Telotte – A Distant Technology a study of SF film anf the Machine Age. The early days of sf film…
in ‘B’ format:
Lian Hearn – Heaven’s Net is Wide the final book of the cycle that began with Across the Nightingale Floor
Austin Grossman - Soon I Will Be Invincible off-beat super-hero novel
Michael Bollen – Earth, Inc. alternate world parody of the present day…
Scarlett Thomas – The End of Mr. Y I really enjoyed the hardback, but it’s difficult to describe. It’s about an extremely rare book…
Marie Brennan – Midnight Never Comes Faerie politics and scheming beneath the streets of London
in paperback:
Simon R. Green – The Man With the Golden Torc first in his new series featuring Shaman Bond!
Tanya Huff – The Heart of Valor the 3rd Confederation novel
Marion Zimmer Bradley & Deborah J. Ross – The Alton Gift a Darkover novel; the sequel to Traitor’s Son
Elizabeth Bear – Blood and Iron the first novel of the Promethean Age
Sean Williams – Saturn Returns the first book of the Astropolis duo. Large scale, far-future sf
James Rollins – The Judas Strain the latest Sigma Force paperback…
Vicki Pettersson – The Touch of Twilight the 3rd Sign of the Zodiac…
Rachel Caine – Feast of Fools the 4th Morganville Vampires book, set in and around an isolated small college in the mid-West…
Carrie Vaughn – Kitty Takes a Holiday UK edition
David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (editors) – Year’s Best SF 13 the first of the annual anthologies to appear…
John Helfers & Martin H. Greenberg (editors) – Future Americas original anthology…
Robert B. Parker – Spare Change
Charlaine Harris – The Julius House the 4th Aurora Teagarden mystery…
Lee Goldberg – Mr. Monk in Outer Space Monk the investigator has to solve a murder at an SF Convention…
Mark Billingham – Buried
Weddings From Hell 4 novellas by Maggie Shayne, Jeaniene Frost, Terri Garey & Kathryn Smith
Ravenloft – Vampire of the Mists reprint from Christie Golden
Susan Wright – A Pound of Flesh
art, etc:
The Art of Ray Harryhousen excellent retrospective; back in just in time for his appeaance at the Film Festival. (Moved to June now; it’s no longer going to be in August with all the other Festivals… )
audio:
Doctor Who – The Haunting of Thomas Brewster Big Finish #107
Sapphire & Steel – Second Sight volume 3.1
