New Titles – w/e 31st January
in hardback:
Trudi Canavan – Magician’s Apprentice her new novel, set hundreds of years before the events of the Black Magician Trilogy…
John Birmingham – Without Warning near-future alternate history, where the West is crumbling…
M. F. W. Curran – The Hoard of Mhorrer sequel to The Secret War, which came out in ‘B’ format paperback a few weeks ago; I should have had this around then as well but my supplier somehow deleted it from my order… I enjoyed the first one when it was in hardback a couple of years ago.
Christopher Priest – Ersatz Wines early short stories from the 60s
in large format:
Poul Anderson – David Falkyn: Star Trader the 2nd in the Technic Civilization Saga uniform reprints and the 1st to appear in soft covers…
Kristin Cashore – Graceling debut fantasy novel… looks quite good
Brian Aldiss – Hothouse his classic novel reprinted…
Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (editors) – The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2008 a bit late coming in; my suppliers hid it in the catalogue!
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (editors) – The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
Ellen Datlow (editor) – The Del Ray Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy original anthology
in ‘B’ format:
IainM. Banks – Matter big new sf novel…
Naomi Novik – Victory of Eagles the 5th in her Temeraire series featuring Napoleonic War era dragons
in paperback:
Katharine Kerr – The Shadow Isle volume 6 of The Dragon Magic; number 14 overall of the Deverry series!
Adrian Tchaikovsky – Dragonfly Falling the 2nd book of the Shadows of the Apt…
Chris Roberson – Three Unbroken the 2nd novel of The Celestial Empire, a sequel to The Dragon’s Nine Sons. The Chinese and Aztec empires fight over Mars…
John Ringo & Travis S. Taylor – Manxome Foe the 3rd in the series that started with Into the Looking Glass…
Andy Remic – Biohell the sequel to War Machine; a Combat-K adventure
Jennifer Rardin – One More Bite the 5th Jaz Parks adventure; Transreal Fiction and I both get mentioned in the acknowledgments! 
Worth buying for that alone!
Jeremy Robinson – Kronos an unknown leviathan of the deep which killed his wife is targeted by a multi-millionaire. Moby Dick meets James Bond (it says!)
Eric Flint (creator & editor) – Ring of Fire II anthology of stories set in the Ring of Fire/1632 background…
Mark Geston – The Book of Wars omnibus edition of Lords of the Starship, Out of the Mouth of the Dragon & The Siege of Wonder. Excellent stuff; the first 2 are a pair featuring efforts to build a gigantic starship. Two of my favourite books from the early 70s… the 3rd title is linked to them thematically at best, though. But it’s great to see this under-appreciated author back in print. Also interesting introductions from both Geston and David Drake…
Andre Norton – From the Sea to the Stars omnibus edition containing Sea Siege and Star Gate, both from the mid/late 1950s…
magazines:
Locus #576 cover date January 2009
Kevin Eastman’s – Roninbop graphic collection from Heavy Metal
Pigeons From Hell graphic novel of the Robert E. Howard story, adapted by Joe R. Lansdale
art, etc:
Watchmen – Portraits big book of b&w photographs of characters, etc. from the forthcoming film
Stephen Jones – Coraline, a Visual Companion behind the scenes of the new movie, with a forward by Neil Gaiman
World of Warcraft - The Cinematic Art of WoW: Wrath of the Lich King very attractive book of the upcoming film, it even has prints in envelopes attached inside
Studio Ghibli – The Art of Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea big book of art, etc. illustrating the next Studio Ghibli film…
Steve Holland – Sci-Fi Art: a Graphic History a heavily-illustrated overview of sf art
ImagineFX – Fantasy Woklshop subtitled ‘Mastering Digital Painting Techniques’
The Art of The Trigan Empire a catalog of original art that was offered for sale; a lot of the strips reproduced are shrunk quite small, unfortunately. But there’s also a lot of much more readable strips, too!
Dave McKean – Postcards from Paris small hardback with b&w (and grey) illustrations…
Dave McKean – Squink b&w sketches…
Ken Barr – The Beast Within restock
Sword Song: Sisterhood of Steel another title from SQP in full colour
Bloodlust: Vampire Erotica a Gallery Girls book from SQP
Victoria Frances – Favole Postcard Book 10 postcards, in a book!
Melanie Delon – Elixir Postcard Book
Cris Ortega – Forgotten Postcard Book
Melanie Delon – Elixir Portfolio 6 full colour plates on stiff card in a folder
Cris Ortega – Forgotten Portfolio 6 full colour plates on stiff card in a folder
audio:
Doctor Who – The Judgement of Isskar Big Finish #117
Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen a reading of the novelisation…
New Titles – w/e 24th January 2009
in large format:
Adam Roberts – Yellow Blue Tibia a secret project initiated by Stalin to invent another, non-Western (indeed, non-human) threat is suddenly cancelled. But years later one of the team re-surfaces and claims it’s all true! And it’s happening now!
Daniel Fox- Dragon in Chains exotic eastern fantasy – looks good!
Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon – The Map of Moments 2nd in their novels of Hidden Cities, which began with Mind the Gap. Set in New Orleans
David Marusek – Getting to Know You short story collection. 10 stories published over the last 15 years, or so…
Lisa Tuttle – The Pillow Friend out for some time, but never mind…
James Maxey – Nobody Gets the Girl Richard becomes an invisible superhero…
in ‘B’ format:
Tania Hershman – The White Road short story collection
in paperback:
David J. Williams – Mirrored Heavens the world’s first space elevator has just been destroyed…
Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye – Myth-Chief the 19th Myth adventure!
Greg Keyes – The Born Queen the final book of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone quartet
Alex Archer – Polar Quest the 16th Rogue Angel adventure…
Mark Del Franco – Unfallen Dead 3rd in his urban fantasy series
Carrie Vaughn – Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand 5th in the series…
Nate Kenyon – The Reach horror
Brian Keene – Castaways tv reality show Survivors meets Lost, or maybe Lovecraft!
Mary Janice Davidson & Anthony Alongi – Seraph of Sorrow the 3rd Jennifer Scales adventure…
Raven Hart – The Vampire’s Revenge 5th in the series…
Chris Marie Green – Night Rising the 1st in the new Vampire Babylon series…
E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith – Triplanetary reissue of the 1st of the seminal Lensman Saga books. First magazine appearance was 75 years ago!
Star Trek – A Singular Destiny sequel to the recent Destiny trilogy, written by Keith R. A. DeCandido…
Star Wars – Patterns of Force the 3rd Coruscant Nights book, by Michael Reaves…
New Titles – w/e 17th January 2009
in hardback:
Poul Anderson – David Falkyn: Star Trader the 2nd in the five volume reprint series of the Technic Civilization Saga, following on from the recent Van Rijn Method
David Marusek – Mind Over Ship the sequel to Counting Heads…
in large format:
R. Scott Bakker – The Judging Eye part one of the Aspect-Emperor series, itself a sequel to his Prince of Nothing trilogy
Ian Irvine – The Destiny of the Dead the final volume of The Sonmg of the Tears trilogy
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (editors) – The Coyote Road new anthology, subtitled Trickster Tales
Steve Hockensmith – On the Wrong Track the 2nd in the series that began with Holmes on the Range…
in ‘B’ format:
Kate Elliott – Shadow Gate the sequel to Spirit Gate and the 2nd in her new Crossroads series…
M. F. W. Curran – The Secret War the 1st in a new historical/horror series set just after Waterloo. I enjoyed the hardback a couple of years ago…
Fiona McIntosh – Royal Exile the UK edition of the 1st in her Valisar series…
Simon R. Green – Daemons are Forever the sequel to The Man With the Golden Torc
John Meaney – Dark Blood another novel in the same world as Bonesong…
Adam Roberts – Swiftly a sequel to Gullivar’s Travels, where the Lilliputians have been enslaved and war rages, with Brobdingnagians used as shock troops…
in paperback:
Yasmin Gelenorn – Night Huntress the 5th in her Otherworld series…
magazines:
Interzone #220 includes stories by Neil Williamson and Rudy Rucker
in audio:
Doctor Who – Return to the Web Planet full cast drama, starring Peter David as the Doctor
New Titles – w/e January 10th 2009
in hardback:
C. J. Cherryh – Regenesis long-awaited sequel to Cyteen, which first came out way back in 1988!
Simon R. Green – Just Another Judgement Day the 9th Nightside volume…
Barb & J. C. Hendee – In Shade and Shadow the first in a new cycle of books featuring the Noble Dead
John Ringo & Julie Cochrane – Honor of the Clan the 10th Legacy of Aldanata novel, a sequel to Cally’s War…
in large format:
Gwyneth Jones – Spirit new space adventure; a girl is kidnapped from Earth and strives to survive…
Vince Flynn – Extreme Measures thriller
Mean Streets an anthology of 4 novellas from Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Thomas E. Sniegoski & Kat Richardson, each featuring their best known characters. (i.e. Harry Dresden, John Taylor, Remy Chandler & Harper Blaine!)
Henry Kuttner – The Dark World mid-40s parallel world adventure! The hero ends up sharing his body with his ‘twin’ from another, more fantastical, world…
Lisa Tuttle – The Silver Bough I should have had this a long time ago! I enjoyed this contemporary Scottish fantasy a lot when I read the hardback…
Star Trek – Shards and Shadows the 3rd Mirror Universe collection, with a dozen stories
Battlestar Galactica – Trilogy contains The Cylon’s Secret by Craig Shaw Gardner, Sagittarius is Burning by Peter David & Unity by Stephen Harper
in paperback:
Lois McMaster Bujold – Passage the 3rd in The Sharing Knife series…
Elizabeth Bear – Whiskey and Water the 2nd in her Promethean Age series…
Carol Berg – Breath and Bone the second in a pair of books; the sequel to Flesh and Spirit
S. C. Butler – Queen Ferris – part 2 of the Stoneways trilogy; the first was Reiffen’s Choice
Barb & J. C. Hendee – Child of a Dead God the concluding (6th) volume of the first series featuring The Noble Dead… the first of a 2nd cycle is just out in h/c
Jim C. Hines – The Stepsister Scheme fantasy farce; 3 princesses on a mission!
Fiona McIntosh – Royal Exile the first book of her new Valisar Trilogy. Young Crown Prince Leonel must fight to claim his throne…
Joshua Palmetier – The Vacant Throne the 3rd in the series that began with The Skewed Throne…
Peter Crowther (editor) – We Think, Therefore We Are original stories from sopme top names in the sf field…
L. A. Banks – The Darkness the 12th in her Vampire Huntress series…
A. J. Hartley – What Time Devours thriller involving a lost Shakespeare manuscript…
Tim Dorsey – Atomic Lobster bizarre Florida crime adventure!
Chris Kuzneski - Sword of God ancient artifact thriller…
Jonathan Green – Human Nature the latst Pax Britannia novel from Abaddon Books…
Warhammer; Time of Legends – Malekith book 1 of The Sundering, by Gav Thorpe
Warhammer 40,000 – Ice Guard an Imperial Guard adventure by Steve Lyons
art, etc:
Paul Johnson - The Little People of the British Isles illustrated book detailing pixies, sprites, brownies, etc, published by Wooden Books, whose books always look interesting…
Jacob Covey (editor) – Beasts! now in soft covers, a great collection of all sorts of bizarre creatures! Subtitled ‘Ninety artists depicting the cryptozoological’
Jacob Covey (editor) – Beasts Book 2 new hardback similar to vol 1, also featuring 90 artists…
Shawn Martinbough – How to Draw Noir Comics
Ben Dunn - How to Draw Pirates
Paul Bryn Davies – How to Draw Dragons
H. P. Lovecraft – Nyarlathotep nice little hardback of the tale, illustrated by Chuck BB
Boom! comics - Fall of Cthulhu: Apocalypse #1; Cthulhu Tales #10 & Necronomicon #4
Calendars:
George R. R. Martin – A Song of Ice and Fire full colour art illustrating the series. No surprise that it’s late! 
audio:
H. P. Lovecraft – At The Mountains of Madness and a companion tale,
H. P. Lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror two 75 minute audio adaptations by the Dark Adventure Radio Theatre, which seems to be backed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society. ‘Authentic’ cuttings, photos, etc. are also included in them both. But they’re sealed, so I can’t see just what!
