Neil Gaiman signing!
No, not here, I’m afraid, but at the Churchhill Theatre up in Morningside.
The event’s on the 28 October and you can get details here, on Fidra Bookshop’s blog.
Transreal Fiction isn’t invovled at all, except for putting up a poster, but it seems like a good idea to promote ‘name’ authors doing events outwith the big chains…
New Titles – w/e 30th August
in hardback:
S. M. Stirling – The Scourge of God the sequel to The Sunrise Lands, the 5th in the Change sequence overall…
Liz Williams – Winterstrike part one of a new sf trilogy, set on Mars in the same background as Banner of Souls.
Terry Brooks – The Gypsy Morph UK edition of the latest Shannara book
Peter V. Brett – The Painted Man new fantasy
Michael Slade – Crucified ancient artifact horror!
Brian Greene - Icarus at the Edge of Time a brief updating of the Icarus myth, illustrated by photos from the Hubble telescope
in large format:
Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson – Paul of Dune 1st part of a new trilogy set between Dune and Dune Messiah
Raymond Feist – Wrath of a Mad God the 5th in the Darkwar series, I think; part of the Riftwar Cycle
Chris Evans – A Darkness Forged in Fire part 1 of the Iron Elves trilogy. Big new fantasy series…
Simon Green – Daemons are Forever the sequel to The Man with the Golden Torc
in ‘B’ format:
Graham Joyce – The Tooth Fairy Sam continues to receive visits from the tooth fairy, who isn’t as nice as you would think…
Toby Frost – God-Emperor of Didcot sequel to Space Captain Smith, and not entirely serious! The British Space Empire depends on the Didcot system for it’s supply of tea…
Philip K. Dick – Counter-Clock World originally published in 1967
in paperback:
K. J. Parker - The Escapement part 3 of the Engineer Trilogy
David Anthony Durham - The War with the Mein big new fantasy novel, part one of Acacia. (Which is in much bigger type on the cover so people will assume the novel is called Acacia, not the series… )
Chris Roberson – Set the Seas on Fire exploring the Pacific in 1808, the Fortitude runs aground on an uncharted island… not all is as peaceful as it seems and a French warship, and worse, is nearby! I enjoyed the hardback last year.
Graham Sharp Paul – The Battle of the Hammer Worlds volume 2 of Helfort’s War. I quite enjoyed The Battle at the Moons of Hell last year…
Jennifer Fallon – Warlord volume 3 of the Wolfblade trilogy…
John Scalzi – The Last Colony UK edition
Simon Green – Haunting the Nightside the 2nd omnibus collecting his Nightside series…
Keith Laumer – The Long Twilight and other stories includes the title novel and also Night of Delusions and 4 short stories
Star Wars Coruscant Nights II – Street of Shadows by Michael Reaves
Warhammer’s Time of Legends Nagash the Sorcerer part one of the Nagash Trilogy by Mike Lee
The Afterblight Chronicles – Arrowhead by Paul Kane
art, etc:
Hayao Miyazaki – The Art of Miyazaki’s Spirited Away art book of the top anime film… great-looking stuff!
Augustin – Sketchbook
Bellamy – Sketchbook
magazines:
Locus August cover date
Juxtapoz September cover date
Planet Stories – Summer 1949 facsimile edition, with stories by Leigh Brackett and Charles Harness among others
Anime Insider #60
calendars 2009:
Olivia wall calendar
New Titles – w/e 23rd August
in hardback:
John Scalzi – Zoe’s Tale the latest in his Old Man’s War sequence…
Terry Brooks – The Gypsy Morph the 3rd of the Genesis of Shannara trilogy. I make that a 20 book cycle, so far!
Tobias S. Buckell – Sly Mongoose this seems to be more of a companion than a sequel to his books Crystal Rain & Ragamuffin
Walter Jon Williams – Implied Spaces new novel; I’m a little late getting it…
Joseph Smith – The Wolf small hardback told from the point of view of a wolf…
Lucius Shepard – The Best of Lucius Shepard very nice edition of his best short work; 620 pages or so
in large format:
Elizabeth Bear – Ink and Steel part one of The Stratford Man
Elizabeth Bear – Hell and Earth part two of The Stratford Man… which is itself a novel of the Promethean Age
Gregory Daryl – Pandemonium curious new fantasy; one of the characters is a VALIS-possessed PKDick!
Martin Millar – Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me set in Glasgow in 1972 as Zeppelin are due to play…
William Jones – The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson interconnected short stories centred around the Cthulhu Mythos…
Hardboiled Cthulhu an anthology of Cthulhu-related stories edited by James Ambuehl
Jonathan Maberry – Zombie CSU subtitled ‘forensics of the living dead’
in ‘B’ format:
Ian McDonald – Brasyl sf novel set in Brasil, past, present & future
Brian Aldiss – HARM a man tries to cope with interrogation and being held a prisoner
in paperback:
Karen Miller – Riven Kingdom volume 2 of the Godspeaker Trilogy; the sequel to Empress
John Ringo & Tom Kratman – Yellow Eyes the latest (9th) Posleen book
William C. Dietz – When All Seems Lost a Legion of the Damned adventure
Ann Aquirre – Wanderlust the sequel to Grimspace
Paul Kearney – The Ten Thousand new fantasy; whatever happened to the 3rd in his Ran trilogy
H. G. Wells – The War of the Worlds new edition, with extensive glossary
Neal Asher - The Engineer Reconditioned short story collection
Dark Delicacies II – Fear a second collection named after a horror book shop…
Lilith Saintcrow – Hunter’s Prayer the 2nd Jill Kismet novel…
Jeanne C. Stein – Legacy dark fantasy, an Anna Strong, Vampire novel…
Jeff Long – Deeper the sequel the The Descent…
Mel Odom – Hellgate London – Covenant the 3rd in the trilogy…
Star Trek Enterprise – Kobayashi Maru by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels not the novel of the same name set in the time of the original series…
Wolverine – Election Day by Peter David
The New Destroyer – Killer Ratings the 3rd of the relaunched series, by Warren Murphy & James Mullaney
Outlanders – Pantheon of Vengeance the 37th in the series by James Axler
Warhammer Online – Empire in Chaos part one of The Age of Reckoning by Anthony Reynolds
magazines:
Black Static #6
New Titles – w/e 16th August
in hardback:
Christopher Brookmyre – A Snowball in Hell
Philip K. Dick – UBIK the Screenplay a screenplay he wrote at some time (the intros, etc. don’t appear to say just when) of one of his best novels…
in large format:
Star Trek Myriad Universes – Echoes and Refractions 3 novels in alternate ST universes. The Chimes at Midnight by Geoff Trowbridge, A Gutted World by Keith R. A. Candido and Brave New World by Chris Roberson…
in ‘B’ format:
Simon R. Green – The Man With the Golden Torc UK edition of the 1st in his new series… Secret Histories #1
Brian Aldiss – Hothouse classic re-print
art, etc:
Juxtapoz – Illustration hardback book edited by the Juxtapoz magazine team…
J. Allen St. John – Grand Master of Fantasy: the paintings of J. Allen St. John. Written and edited by Stephen D. Korshak. Great looking stuff!
Film Posters Science Fiction put together by Tony Nourmand & Graham Marsh It doesn’t come right up to date, but it’s full of wondeful poster art!
Gary Tonge – Bold Visions: the Digital Painting Bible excellent-looking overview of techniques, etc.
Jujimi Mook – Tattoo Design Book featuring Japanese tattoos of dragons and animals
Robert Valley – Massive Swerve # 1 first volume of a stylish new graphic anthology…
Meathous – S.O.S. another comic anthology, along the lines of the Flight series…
Kevin Eastman & Simon Bisley – Bodycount graphic novel
Larry Moss – Balloon Architecture just what it says! Build the Eiffel Tower, the London Eye or any of 8 other landmark structures from balloons! Pump supplied! Balloons included!
magazines, etc:
Heavy Metal September cover date
Neo #49
Otaku USA July/August issue
Gothic & Lolita Bible #28
Gothic Beauty magazine #26
Fall of Cthulhu: Godwar #1
Fall of Cthulhu Cover Gallery
Cthulhu Tales #14
Cthulhu Tales graphic novel #1
film tie-in:
The Art and Making of Star Wars – The Force Unleashed heavily illustrated softcover book about the making of the new animated Star Wars… Lots of detail
audio:
Doctor Who – The Boy That Time Forgot latest Big Finish adventure; #110
games:
Lord of the Rings – The War of the Ring big new boardgame, illustrated by John Howe
Battlestar Galactica - So Say We All black mugs, with red crest and motto
Cthulhu shot glasses
New Titles – w/e 9th August
in hardback:
Ken MacLeod – Night Sessions sf set in a future Edinburgh…
John Ringo – The Last Centurian
Joe Haldeman – Marsbound
Ben Bova – Mars Life
Sean McMillan – The Time Engine the 4th in his Moonworlds Saga
Jay Lake – Escarpment another novel in the same world as Main Spring…
in large format:
Diana L. Paxson – Ravens of Avalon another in the Avalon sequence, created by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Robert A. Heinlein – Requiem a retrospective, by and about Heinlein… also reissued is Between Planets, one of his classic juveniles
Orson Scott Card & Edmund R. Schubert (editors) – Intergalactic Medicine Show an anthology culled from the eponymous magazine; it also includes a new Ender story
Star Wars: The Clone Wars the junior novelisation of the new animated movie… includes colour insert
in ‘B’ format:
Karen Russell – St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves great title; intriguing looking stories…
in paperback:
John Scalzi – The Last Colony
S. L. Viehl – Omega Games the 9th (I think) Space Doc novel…
Rachel Caine – Gale Force the 7th Weather Warden novel
Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston – Invasive Procedures
David Farland – Worldbinder volume 6 of the Runelords…
Peter David – Darkness of the Light the 1st of the Hidden Earth Chronicles…
Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Anne Scarborough – Third Watch an Acorna’s Children novel
Ray Bradbury – Now and Forever 2 novellas, Somewhere a Band is Playing and Leviathan ‘99
Jose Carlos Somoza – Zig Zag big physics inadvertantly meddles with the past…
Jenna Maclaine – Wages of Sin
Violette Malen - The Sleeping God featuring Dhulyn & Parno
Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear – A Companion to Wolves
Jennifer Roberson – Deepwood the 2nd Karavans book
Janine Cross – Forged by Fire the 3rd in the Dragon Temple Saga
Jocelynn Drake – Nightwalker
Robert Doherty – Lost Girls the 2nd novel featuring the secretive Cellar operatives
Natasha Rhodes – The Last Angel a Kayla Steel novel, the sequel to Dante’s Girl
Charlaine Harris - Dead Over Heels the 5th Aurora Teagarden mystery…
Tim Lebbon - The Everlasting good new horror novel…
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Greater than the Sum by Christopher L. Bennett
Dragonlance – Death March the 2nd volume of The Stonetellers by Jean Rabe
Eberron – The Doom of Kings the 1st of the Legacy of Dhakaan by Don Bassingthwaite
The X Files: I Want to Believe the novelisation of the new film, by Max Allan Collins
Enchantment Place an original antholgy, edited by Denise Little
