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.