New Titles – w/e 4th July 2009

in hardback:

Glen Cook - An Empire Unaquainted with Defeat a collection which pulls together all the Dread Empire short fiction…

Charles Stross – Wireless new short story collection, covering his whole career. 9 stories including Missile Gap and Rogue Farm

Alan Campbell – God of Clocks the latest volume in his Deepgate Codex, which began with Scar Night and Iron Angel
Carrie Ryan – The Forest of Hands and Teeth Mary lives safely in the village, behind the fence… Sounds a bit like M. Night Shyamalan’s film, but it isn’t! More like Kim Wilkins, I think…

Steven Erikson – The Lees of Laughter’s End ‘a tale of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach‘; this is the new Night Shade Books edition

in large format:

Markus Heitz - The Dwarves part 1 of a top-selling german fantasy series, translated by Sally-Ann Spencer

Christopher Miller – The Cardboard Universe subtitled ‘a guide to the world of Phoebus K. Dank’ and is definitely not a tongue-in-cheek look at the life and work of Philip K. Dick!

David Gunn – Day of the Damned the 3rd Death’s Head adventure

in ‘B’ format:

Richard Morgan – The Steel Remains his first fantasy novel…

Ian McDonald - River of Gods back in after being unavailable for a while…

Jacqueline Carey – Santa Olivia near-future sf, featuring a genetically modified woman who is effectively a superhero…
Charmed Destinies anthology consisting of 3 novellas by Mercedes Lackey (Counting Crows), Rachel Lee (Drusilla’s Dream) & Catherine Asaro (Moonglow)

Mark Wernham – Martin Martin’s on the Other Side a new government spy called Jensen Interceptor* infiltrates a group called the Martin Martinists, named after a tv psychic…

* one of the coolest looking cars of the 60s!

in paperback:

Charles Stross – Saturn’s Children a fembot has to make her way in the world…
Jane Lindskold – Thirteen Orphans 1st in the Breaking the Wall series, where refugees and their children must battle the forces pursuing them. I liked this when I read the hardback.
Eric Flint & Virginia DeMarce – 1634: The Bavarian Crisis the latset in the ongoing 1632/Ring of Fire series
Ben Bova – Mars Life the investigation of ancient Martian sites is in danger of having it’s funding cancelled…
David Robbins – The Fox Run the first in the Endworld post-apocalypse series… (although there was a #0 a month or two ago!)
Robert A. Heinlein – Farmer in the Sky reprint of the 1950 classic…
Georgia Evans – Bloody Awful the sequel to Bloody Good, about vampires in WW2
Rachel Vincent – Prey the 4th in the series that began with Stray…
J. F. Lewis – Staked a vampire with memory problems runs a strip club…
Patrice Sarath – Red Gold Bridge over it lies a magic kingdom…
Kristin Landon – The Dark Reaches sequel to The Hidden Worlds and The Cold Minds
Marjorie M. Liu – Darkness Calls sequel to The Iron Hunt
Linda Robertson – Vicious Circle featuring the witch Persephone Alcmedi and her werewolf friend, Johnny
Chris Marie Green – Midnight Reign a Vampire Babylon novel, the sequel to Night Rising…
Ed Gorman – The Midnight Room a serial killer is burgled, and it soon turns to blackmail…
Robert Dunbar - The Shore an ancient evil is abroad in winter…

Joel Shepherd – Crossover & Breakaway the 1st two books featuring Cassandra Kresov. The 3rd came in last week…
Howard L. Myers – A Sense of Infinity a collection mainly from the late 60s and early 70s; divided into 3 main sections, one of which includes a 230+ page novel. The other 8 stories also include  and another couple of  lengthy stories… This is a companion volume to The Creatures of Man and together thay gather all his fiction in to 2 volumes totalling around 1200 pages!

Star Trek – Losing the Peace the latest Next Generation novel by William Leisner…

Forgotten Realms – The Crystal Mountain the final part of The Empyrean Odyssey trilogy by Thomas M. Reid

Starcraft – Twilight the 3rd and last in the Dark Templar Saga, by Christie Golden