New Titles – w/e 4th October
in hardback:
Fiona McIntosh – Royal Exile book 1 of her new Valisar Trilogy. The Kingdom of Penraven now stands alone against the barbarians…
Ted Dekker – The Circle Trilogy contains the books Black, Red & White. The hero alternates between two worlds, shifting every time he wakes up!
Andre Norton & Sasha Miller – The Knight of the Red Beard the final volume in their Cycle of Oak, Yew, Ash & Rowan
Karl Schroeder – Pirate Sun the sequel to Sun of Suns, book 3 of Virga
Eric Flint & Dave Freer – Slow Train to Arcturus a generation starship from Earth arrives in an alien system…
Jonathan Carroll – The Ghost in Love looks intriguing!
Max Brooks – Zombie Survival Notes a small notbook which includes useful tips for combating zombies…
in ‘B’ format:
Joe R. Lansdale & Don Coscarelli – Bubba Ho-Tep contains both the story and the screenplay together with introductions by both authors…
Angela Carter – The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault slim edition of classic fairy stories…
in paperback:
John Ringo & Travis S. Taylor – The Vorpal Blade the 2nd in the Into the Looking Glass series
Alan Dean Foster – Patrimony the 13th Pip & Flinx adventure…
Felix Gilman – Thunderer new fantasy set in a gigantic city. I enjoyed the hardback earlier this year
Eric Brown – Necropath the 1st in the Bengal Station trilogy. His previous big-scale out-of-system sf novel Helix was excellent!
Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey – Dragon Harper I think this is the 20th Pern book!
Andy Remic – War Machine a Combat-K novel, set in a future war-ravaged galaxy
Eric Flint & Dave Freer – Pyramid Power the sequel to Pyramid Scheme, with parrallel worlds and time travel…
Charles Stross – The Merchant’s War the 4th in his Merchant Princes series
Mercedes Lackey – Reserved for the Cat the 4th in her Elemental Masters series
Terry Goodkind – Confessor the final volume of The Sword of Truth!
Harry Turtledove – The Gladiator the 4th in his Crosstime Traffic series
Piers Anthony – Hair Apparent the 31st Xanth book!
Matt Forbeck – The Mutant Chronicles the novelisation of the new film…
Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III by William B. Scott, Michael J. Coumatos & William J. Birnes
Keith Laumer – The Universe Twister an omnibus edition containing the 3 Lafayette O’Leary adventures, The Time Bender, The World Shuffler & The Shape Changer…
David Gribbins – The Lost Tomb ancient artifact thriller
S. L. Linnea – Treasure of Eden the 3rd in the series; ancient artifact adventure…
Michael Curtis Ford - The Fall of Rome a novel set in the years 453 – 475, as the Western Roman Empire finally succumbs…
Kelley Armstrong – Personal Demon the latest book in her Women of the Otherworld series…
Dean R. Koontz – The Darkest Evening of the Year set against the background of an abused dog rescue operation…
F. Paul Wilson – Bloodline the latest Repairman Jack paperback; Conspiracies is also newly re-printed in a matching cover to the rest of the set…
L. A. Banks – Bite the Bullet the 2nd Crimson Moon novel…
Tony Richards – Dark Rain an ancient god awakens; appears to be a bit like Bentley Little
R. Patrick Gates – Nowhere to Hide
Deborah LeBlanc – Water Witch
Bentley Little – The Academy
Katie McAlister – Up in Smoke the 1st in the Silver Dragons series
Mary Sangiovanni – Found You
Ambrose Bierce – The Spook House a collection of short horror stories; 37 tales in 234 pages!
Rich Horton (editor) – Fantasy; the Best of the Year, 2008 edition
Nick Gevers (editor) – Extraordinary Engines new steampunk anthology
Star Trek – Gods of Night Destiny #1 Captains Picard, Dax & Riker get involved in repercusions from the Dominion War, and an early, long lost Earth starship is discovered…
Dragonlance – The Heir of Kayolin Dwarf Home #2
Forgotten Realms – Blackstaff Tower & Mistshore the first two books in a new Waterdeep set
Eberron – When Night Falls the 2nd Lanternlight book
calendars:
Origami page-a-day
356 Tiny Paper Airplanes page-a-day
New Titles – w/e 27th September
in hardback:
Peter F. Hamilton – The Temporal Void the sequel to The Dreaming Void…
Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner – Juggler of Worlds the sequel to Fleet of Worlds, set in Known Space
Gene Wolfe – An Evil Guest Lovecraftian horror!
Neil Gaiman – The Graveyard Book a young adult ghost story with b&w illustrations by Dave McKean. Checking my delivery notes, I see that this title has an on-sale date of 30th September, or next Tuesday.
Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory – The Phoenix Endangered the 2nd volume of The Enduring Flame series; the sequel to The Phoenix Unchained
Ian Mortimer – The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England subtitled ‘a handbook for visitors to the fourteenth century’; everyday life explained from an outsider’s perspective
in large format:
K. J. Parker – Company new fantasy about the aftermath of war, as some veterans try to settle down…
Jay Amory – The Clouded World a large omnibus edition containg Darkening for a Fall & Empire of Chaos. The Groundlings war with the Airborn in their sky cities…
Terry J. Erdman & Paula M. Block – Star Trek 101 a guide to the whole Star Trek franchise…
John Joseph Adams (editor) – The Living Dead big anthology of zombie fiction with many top names…
J. K. Rowling – The Complete Harry Potter Collection the 7 paperbacks in a lidded box; the lid lifts and the spines of the books are in a row facing up inside the box
in ‘B’ format
Clive Barker – Mister B. Gone historical horror novel
David Farland – World Binder The Runelords volume 6
Stephen Hunt – The Kingdom Beyond the Waves the sequel to The Court of the Air…
The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories edited by Ian Alexander Martin
in paperback:
Brent Weeks - The Way of Shadows part 1 of the Night Angel trilogy, a big new fantasy series. Looks very readable.
Sharon Shinn – Reader and Raelynx the 4th book of the Twelve Houses
Talia Gryphon – Key to Redemption a healer caught up in an inter-necine vampire war…
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough – Carol for Another Christmas an update of Dickens, set in Seattle; the h/c came out 12 years ago…
Robert E. Howard – The Hour of the Dragon the Weird Works of REH #4
Karen Dionne - Freezing Point Antarctic thriller, set in the near future…
Gary Gibson – Stealing Light large-scale sf
Jeanne Cavelos (editor) – The many Faces of Van Helsing anthology which includes stories by the likes of Tanith Lee, Kristine Katherine Rusch & Chris Roberson
Warhammer – Elfsyayer another Gotrek & Felix adventure…
Warhammer 40,000 – Only in Death another Gaunt’s Ghosts novel by Dan Abnett
art, etc:
Brian Froud – The Secret Sketchbooks of Brian Froud now at a reduced price
Wendy Froud – The Art of Wendy Froud
J. Corsentino – Time of the Faeries
Kinuko Craft – Drawings & Paintings of Kinuko Craft
Jim Woodring – The Portable Frank 14 short b&w strips featuring Frank and his adventures
Alan Baker – William’s Dinosaurs big, illustrated childrens book about a boy’s adventures with some dinosaurs
Dougal Dixon – The Complete Book of Dinosaurs excellent guide to all the dinos, at an equally excellent £9.99!
Film Posters – Horror companion volume to the Science Fiction volume that came in recently…
magazines:
Interzone #218 October cover date
Locus # 572, September cover date
Heavy Metal Novemebr cover date
Juxtapoz October cover date
Cthulhu Tales #5
Fall of Cthulhu: Godwar #2
Zombie Tales graphic collection
Flash Gordon: The Mercy Wars #1 based of Alex Raymond’s character – it’s changed a bit!
calendars:
Giger 2009 wall calendar
Emily the Strange wall calendar
Graeme Base – Dragons
Star Trek (original series)
Star Trek – Ships of the Line
Plato and a Platypus desk calendar, subtitled ‘understanding philosophy through jokes’
Other merchandise:
My Little Cthulhu a vinyl figure from Dork Tower
New Titles – w/e 20th September
It’s a really slow week for new titles, I’m afraid.
in paperback:
Linnea Sinclair – Shades of Dark the sequel to Gabriel’s Ghost
Alex Archer – The Golden Elephant the 14th Rogue Angel adventure
art, etc:
Tove Jansson – Moomin: the complete Tove Jansson comic strip volume 3
Ken Adams & Christopher Frayling – Ken Adams Designs the Movies: James Bond and beyond excellent, heavily illustrated hardback about his set design, especially his work for the James Bond movies
audio:
Doctor Who – Kingdom of Silver Big Finish adventure #112
calendars:
Tolkien 2009 wall calendar with art by Ted Naismith based on the Silmarillion
New Titles – w/e 13th September
In hardback:
Neal Stephenson – Anathem impressive looking tome set in a ’sanctuary’ for mathematicians and philosophers; then they have to go outside!
Ian C. Esslemont – Return of the Crimson Guard his 2nd novel of The Malazan Empire
John Crowley – Conversation Hearts small press novella; looks good.
in large format:
Tad Williams – Rite a short story collection
Justina Robson – Going Under the 3rd in her Quantum Gravity series…
Stan Nicholls – Orcs an omnibus edition containing Bodyguard of Lightning, Legion of Thunder & Warriors of the Tempest…
in ‘B’ format:
Jeffrey Overstreet – Cyndere’s Midnight the sequel to Aurelia’s Colors
Suzanne McLeod – The Sweet Scent of Blood the 1st Spellcrackers.com novel
in paperback:
Charles Stross – Halting State set in a future Edinburgh…
Joel Rosenberg – Knight Moves Paladins II, the 2nd book set in the alternate fantasy series, where Arthur lost to Mordred hundreds of years before…
Kevin J. Anderson – The Last Son of Krypton the events leading up to the destruction of Superman’s home planet…
Warhammer 40,000 – Planetkill short story anthology
Mike Wild – The Clockwork King of Orl the latest Twilight of Kerberos novel. This one features Kali Hooper…
Doctor Who:
Short Trips – How the Doctor Changed My Life the latest hardback anthology
The Doomwood Curse Big Finish adventure #111 on cd
Sapphire & Steel – Wall of Darkness episode 3.4 from Big Finish on cd
art, atc:
Kenneth Hite & Andy Hopp (illustrator) – Where the Deep Ones Are heavily illustrated Lovecraftian children’s book!
Peter Webb – Death, Desire & the Doll; the life and art of Hans Bellmer an illustrated biography of the surrealist
The Vadeboncouer Collection of Images #10 popular art from the late 19th C onwards.
Necronomicon #1 first comic in a Lovecraft inspired mini-series from Boom! Studios
Challenger Deep #1 first in a deep sea exploration mini-series from Boom! Studios
Rogue Angel – Teller of Tall Tales a collection of the 1st five issues of the comic
Neo #50
SFX - October cover date
film:
Zombie Movies – The Ultimate Guide just what it says! Written by Glenn Kay
New Titles – w/e 8th September
in hardback:
Terry Pratchett – Nation his latest book, but not a Discworld one…
Poul Anderson – The Van Rijn Method first of 5 volumes collecting his Technic Civilization stories in order. This volume contains 11 stories featuring the eponymous Free Trader…
Arturo Perez-Reverte – The King’s Gold the latest Captain Alatriste novel…
Doctor Who - Shining Darkness, The Doctor Trap & Ghosts of India the latest 3 compact hardbacks of his adventures with Donna…
in large format:
Michael Flynn – Eifelheim very late arrival. Aliens land in medieaval Germany…
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle – Inferno back in print; a science fiction author visit’s Dante’s Hell…
A. Lee Martinez – Too Many Curses the sequel to A Nameless Witch, newly out in paperback…
John Griesemer – No One Remembers Greenland I enjoyed this when it first came out in 2001. Reminiscent of Catch-22 set on a secret base in Greenland…
in ‘B’ format:
Justina Robson – Selling Out the latest in her Quantum Gravity series
George Mann – The Affinity Bridge the 1st Newbury& Hobbes Investigation appears to be a steampunk crime novel…
Jacqueline Carey – Kushiel’s Justice UK edition of the 2nd of the 2nd trilogy…
Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Mammoth Book of Best New Sf #21 the UK edition of his latest annual anthology
Umberto Eco – Turning back the Clock his latest collection of essays, etc.
in paperback:
Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner – Fleet of Worlds a new Known Space novel, set 200 years before Ringworld
Julie E. Czerneda – Reap the Wild Wind part 1 of the Stratification trilogy, set before the Trade Pact Universe set, both series being part of the larger Clan Chronicles.
S. M. Stirling – The Sunrise Lands the 5th Change novel, following on from The Scourge of God
Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory – The Phoenix Unchanged part 1 of the Enduring Flame Trilogy
A. Lee Martinez – A Nameless Witch tongue-in-cheek horror
Jennifer Rardin – Bitten to Death the 4th Jaz Parks adventure…
Sam Barone – Empire Rising the sequel to the Bronze Age adventure, Dawn of Empire
Craig Dirgo – Tremor thriller involving Tesla’s secret inventions…
Bill Napier – Revelation reprint involving something buried in the Arctic ice…
Samantha Henderson – Heaven’s Bones horror
Edward Lee – Brides of the Impaler
John Everson – Covenant
Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan – The New Space Opera big collection from the top names in the field…
John Marco & Martin H. Greenberg – Imaginary Friends new fantasy anthology…
art:
Julie Watts – The Art of Graeme Base heavily illustrated showing all stages of a picture’s development together with a lot of text as well. Looks very nice
