New Titles – w/e 4th April 2009
in hardback:
Jim Butcher – Turn Coat Dresden Files #11
Walter Jon Williams – This is not a Game near-future thriller
Lois McMaster Bujold – Horizon the 4th of The Sharing Knife series, I should have had it earlier…
in ‘B’ format:
several re-issues with rather stark cover art…
Arthur C. Clarke – Rendezvous With Rama
Poul Anderson – Tau Zero
Adam Roberts – Stone
Olaf Stapledon – Last and First Men
in paperback:
Chris Beckett – The Holy Machine I liked his recent first novel, Marcher, a lot
Steven Barnes – Great Sky Woman 30,000 years ago, in East Africa…
David Robbins – Doomsday the 1st of the new Endworld adventure series
Joseph Staten – Contact Harvest the 5th Halo novel, based on the game
Ray Garton – Bestial
Edward Lee – The Golem
art, etc:
The Easter Bunny Postcard Book Edwardian bunny paintings!
Tara McPherson – Lost Constellations vol 2 of The Art of Tara McPherson
Melanie Delon – Elixir part 1; In Silence very nice-looking gothic art
Hi-Fructose – Collected Edition beautiful hardback, laid in a box with added material, compiling the best from the early issues… Looks great.
William Stout – Prehistoric Life Murals beautiful book collecting details of his various murals from universities and museums depicting all sorts of extinct life forms!
Marion Bataille – ABC3D a pop-up book of the alphabet! Very cute!
magazines:
Hi-Fructose – vol 11
Locus – March & April issues, although both are short supplied
Juxtapoz – April, short supplied; see also art books!
Illustration – #25
Gothic & Lolita Bible – Autumn 2008
Anime Insider – #67, April cover date
Neo- #57
SFX – April 2009
Megani – February & March cover dates
New Type – January & February cover dates
Otaku USA – April
toys & merchandise:
Tony Millionaire – Drinky Crow vinyl figure from his comic strip The Maakies; comes with it’s own booze bottle and replacement eyes with Xs on them!
Leo Frankowski
I’ve just learned that Leo Frankowski passed away on Christmas Day 3 months ago.
He was noted mainly for his Conrad Stargard (Cross Time Engineer) series about a man from 1986 Poland (iirc) who ends up back in time only a few years before the scheduled Mongol invasion… Good fun, as he struggles to develop weapons and armaments to protect himself (and the rest of the country)
His other books were also interesting – Copernick’s Rebellion and The Fata Morgana (about a mysterious floating island) especially…
Overall, a fairly minor writer within the sf&f field, but he did write fun books!
New Titles – w/e 28th March 2009
in hardback:
William Dietrich – The Dakota Cipher the 3rd adventure featuring Ethan Gage, this time in the wilds of North America in uncharted territory
Matthew Glass – Ultimatum in 2032 a new President is told that Global Climate Change is much worse than official figures have implied – can he steer a successful path that will save the world!?
Doctor Who – Judgement of the Judoon the latest compact hardcover…
in large format:
Jonathan Maberry – Patient Zero thriller featuring the fight to stop a ‘zombie’ bioweapon being released…
George Alec Effinger – Budayeen Nights short story collection, all set in his cyberpunk city of Budayeen. Includes what would have been the 1st part of a 4th novel set there.
Carla Nayland – Paths of Exile Dark Age novel, set around York…
in ‘B’ format:
Brian Ruckley – Bloodheir the 2nd in his Godless World trilogy
Kate Griffin – A Madness of Angels dark fantasy set in London; looks good…
Paul McAuley – Eternal Light reprint; I enjoyed it when it first came out…
Adam Roberts – Stone reprint
in paperback:
Eric Brown – Kethani linked short stories about an alien ‘invasion’
Ilona Andrews – Magic Strikes the 3rd Kate Daniels novel…
Pati Nagle – The Betrayal fantasy with elves and vampires!
Jaye Wells – Red-Headed Stepchild vampires, mages and assassins, featuring Sabine Kane!
J. D. Robb – Salvation in Death the 28th(?) in the Eve Dallas series…
Warhammer – Honourkeeper by Nick Kyme
Warhammer 40,000 – Hellforged, a Soul Drinkers novel by Ben Counter
Warhammer 40,000 – Tales of Heresy short stories of The Horus Heresy
audio:
Doctor Who – Orbis the latest 8th Doctor adventure (#3.1)
Doctor Who : The Key2Time – The Destroyer of Delights & The Chaos Pool Big Finish cds #118 & 119
Doctor Who BBC Audio releases – The Doctor Trap, Ghosts of India & Shining Darkness
Google Street View
Picture taken last year sometime…
Google Street View of Transreal Fiction
I can’t seem to get the location to say ‘7 Cowgatehead’, 5 (which is Mr.Wood’s Fossils) is as close as I can get…
edit: if it’s not working, I give up! It should be simple (and was when I first put the shop view up) but trying to tweak it usually just results in a black screen. If you’re keen, it’s not too difficult to find it anyway…
New Titles – w/e 21st March 2009
in hardback:
David Weber – Storm from the Shadows the 3rd Honorverse novel, about Mike (Michelle) Henke, Honor Harrington’s best friend…
Charles DeLint – The Mystery of Grace in a small town in the South West, Grace works customising hotrods…
Ricardo Pinto – The Third God the long-awaited 3rd volume of The Stone Dance of the Chameleon!
Clive Cussler & Jack DuBrul – Corsair the latest from The Oregon Files…
in large format:
Stephen Deas – The Adamantine Palace dragons lie at the core of the Realms power, and now one has gone missing!
Amanda Ashby – Zombie Queen of Newbury High unpopular Mia inadvertantly turns the rest of her class into zombies…
Benjamin Rosenbaum – The Ant King and other stories weird short fiction
David Gaider – The Stolen Throne the first novel (in fact a prequel) set against the Dragon Age gaming background
in ‘B’ format:
David Anthony Durham – Acacia book one of The War With the Men
John Christopher – The Death of Grass long out of print post catastrophe novel; like Wyndham, except these characters fight dirty!
in paperback:
Rogue Angel – Eternal Journey the 17th adventure in the series by Alex Archer…
magazines:
Interzone #221 cover date March/April; includes a new Bruce Sterling story and has a great-looking steampunk cover…
McSweeney’s #28, #29 & #30 I thought this publication had ceased due to distribution difficulties. I was obviously wrong. #28 consists of 8 little hardback fables, #29 is a hardback, and #30 is a softcover…
New Titles – w/e 14th March 2009
in large format:
Mario Acevedo – Jailbait Zombie the 4th in the series featuring Felix Gomez
in ‘B’ format:
Joe Abercrombie – Last Judgement of Kings the final part of his First Law trilogy
Alastair Reynolds – House of Suns epic sf!
Sheri S. Tepper – The Margarets a woman has to search for her imaginary childhood friends!
Stephen King – Goes to the Movies a collection of 5 stories that became movies; by far the longest piece is the novel that became Hearts in Atlantis (Low Men in Yellow Coats) but also included are 1408, The Manager, Children of the Corn and The Shawshank Redemption (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption)
Clark Ashton Smith – Lost Worlds and Out of Space and Time reprints from Bison Books of 2 of CAS’s short story collections. These editions have been available for a while (2006) but I’ve not stocked them before. They look very nice but I suspect the pages are scans of earlier paperback editions as they obviously haven’t been re-set for the actual size of the books…
in paperback:
Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Scarborough – Deluge the 3rd in the Twins of Petaybee series, although it’s listed as #6 on the inside – the list inside starts with the Powers That Be trilogy…
Jay Lake – Escapement the sequel to Mainspring, which I enjoyed a lot; the heavens really are clockwork!
L. E. Modesitt, jr. – Mage-Guard of Hamor the 15th volume in the Saga of Recluce, set on the distant island of Hamor
Paul Park – The Hidden World the concluding book of the quartet which began with A Princess of Roumania
Kathleen Bryan – The Golden Rose book 2 of The War of the Rose, which began with The Serpent and the Rose…
David A. McIntee – The Light of Heaven the latest Twilight of Kerberos novel from Abaddon Books
Terminator : Salvation – From the Ashes the prequel to the upcoming 4th Terminator film
art:
The Art & Life of Dave Stevens a year after his untimely death, here’s a beautiful looking large retrospective edited by Arnie & Cathy Fenner from Underwood Books…
Joseph Michael Linsner – Dawn The Seven Deadly Sins a portfolio of 8 colour prints, signed and numbered…
magazines, etc:
Juxtapoz March cover date
The Shadow #26 – containing the adventures Vengeance is Mine! and Battle of Greed by Maxwell Grant
Zombie Tales – Good Eatin’ a 3rd collection of the comics from Boom!
Challenger Deep the mini-series from Boom! collected together…
New Titles – w/e 7th March 2009
in hardback:
Raymond E. Feist – Rides a Dread Legion the remnants of a race of elves, fleeing a demon horde, arrive in Midkemia…
Allen Steele – Coyote Horizon the 1st of the Coyote Chronicles, the 6th Coyote book overall
in large format:
Dan Simmons – Drood a novel about Dickens, as if by Wilkie Collins. I think; there’s bound to be more a brief look misses…
Michael Cobley – Seeds of Earth set on one of Earth’s few colonies, founded in desperation a century earlier as aliens ravaged the Solar System… part 1 of Humanity’s Fire
John AJvide Lindquist – Handling the Undead in Stockholm’s morge, the dead are waking up… His previous book, Let the Right One In, was good.
in ‘B’ format:
Toby Litt – Journey Into Space rebellion on board a generation starship!
Paul Magrs – Conjugal Rites the 3rd in the series that started with Never the Bride. Another mystery for Brenda and Effie!
Ramsey Campbell – Thieving Fear a camping expedition goes horribly wrong…
in paperback:
Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl – The Last Theorem the Grandmaster’s final novel. And Pohl is 90, I believe…
Raymond E. Feist – Wrath of a Mad God his latest Midkemian paperback…
Mike Carey – Thicker Than Water the 4th Felix castor adventure…
Dale Brown – Shadow Command techno-thriller featuring the Aerospace Battle Force, in premier format (2cm tallewr than usual, but the same width)
Adam-Troy Castro – The Third Claw of God the 2nd Andrea Cort novel, following on from Emissaries From the Dead…
Caitlin Kittredge – Second Skin the 3rd Nocturne City book…
Alice Henderson – Voracious horror
Gord Rollo – Crimson horror
Warhammer Online – Dark Storm Gathering by Chris Wright. The 2nd Age of Reckoning novel after Empire in Chaos
art, etc:
Mythical Creature Origami Book & Gift Set which consists of 50 sheets of paper, an 80 page book by Duy Nguyen and a completed dragon! All in a gift box. Looks great!
Elaine Hill – Mythical Creatures a b&w design source book…
