New Titles – w/e 1st August 2009
in hardback:
Songs of the Dying Earth 670 pages of new Dying Earth stories by the best in the field – edited by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozios! Subtitled ‘Stories in Honor of Jack Vance‘ Excellent! Especially as my supplier had said they wouldn’t be getting copies after all a couple of months after I ordered them… Nice surprise when I opened the box!
Kim Stanley Robinson – Galileo’s Dream a novel largely based on Galileo’s life, in which he witnesses the future, but doesn’t necessarily understand it…
Harry Turtledove – Hitler’s War what if the Allies hadn’t tried appeasment and Chamberlain not signed up for ‘peace in our time!’
Richard Kadrey – Sandman Slim an ex-hitman escapes from hell…
Mathias Malzieu – The Boy with the Cookoo-Clock Heart small fantasy hardback, set in Victorian Edinburgh about a boy who needs wound-up every morning!
in large format:
Glen Cook – The Swordbearer heroic fantasy, although I’m not sure if it’s connected to any of his other works… It features Gathrid and the Great sword Daunbendiek…
Michael Moorcock – Duke Elric the 4th of the collected Elric series being published by Ballantyne Books. There will be 6 altogether; #5 later this year, and the final volume in 2010.
in ‘B’ format:
Sarah Micklem – Wildfire the sequel to Firethorn, which came out several years ago, and which I enjoyed a lot…
Markus Heitz – The Dwarves big new fantasy from Germany, translated by Sally-Ann Spencer
Thomas E. Sniegoski – The Satan Factory a Hellboy spin-off, featuring pre-WWII vigilante Lobster Johnson…
Warhammer 40,000 – Ravenor: the Omnibus 890 page volume containing 5 novels by Don Abnett; Ravenor, Thorn Wishes Talon, Ravenor Returned, Playing Patience & Ravenor Rogue
in paperback:
Mercedes Lackey & Roberta Gellis – And Less Than Kind the 4th in their collaboration that began with This Scepter’d Isle…
Adrian Tchaikovsky – Blood of the Mantis volume 3 of the Shadows of the Apt series…
Barb & J. C. Hendee – Child of a Dead God the 6th in the series that began with Dhampir…
Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett – Havemercy scandal and intrigue in the Dragon Corps!
Tim Akers - Heart of Veridon a strange artifact turns up in the ancient city of Veridon…
Paul Melko – Singularity’s Ring Apollo is a quintet of minds in one body and is being trained to pilot a starship!
James Lovegrove – The Age of Ra in the future, the Egyptian Gods have returned…
Mark Alpert – Final Theory thriller featuring Einstein’s own possible solution to his proposed Unified Field Theory…
M. L. N. Hanover – Unclean Spirits part 1 of The Black Magician’s Daughter; Jayne inherits the task of battling the Invisible College of dark forces…
Jenna Black - Speak of the Devil Morgan Kingsley is a successful exorcist, but then one goes wrong…
Stacia Kane – Demon Inside sequel to Personal Demon; Megan is the only person without her own demon!
John Saul – Faces of Fear Alison finds that her plastic surgeon step-father is molding her into a look-a-like of his ex-wife…
Clive Barker – Weaveworld new paperback edition…
Norvell Page – Spider: City of Doom an omnibus of 3 adventures from the 1930s
Star Trek – The Soul Key the latest Deep Space 9 novel, written by Olivia Woods
The 4400 – Welcome to Promise City the 3rd tie-in novel, written by Greg Cox
Gears of War – Jacinto’s Regiment the 2nd game tie-in novel by Karen Traviss
Warhammer – Grey Seer featuring the characters Thanquol & Boneripper from the Gotrek & Felix series, written by C. L. Warner…
Warhammer 40,000 – Emperor’s Mercy a Bastion Wars novel by Henry Zou
magazines:
Locus – July cover date, whole number 582
art, etc:
Sparrow #13 – Camilla D’errico is the featured artist in this cute little hardback, all pinks and yellows!
H. R. Giger – ARh+ compact overview of his career, back in print after several years…
Stefano Mozzotti – Booty: Pirate Queens a 50/50 mix of colour and b&w art from SQP
Kazu Kibuishi (editor) – Flight: Nimber Six latest volume of short graphic stories about ‘flight’ from a variety of artists…
Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell – The Ultimate Illustrations hardback edition
Apocalypse – latest collection of the Fall of Cthulhu comics from Boom!
Jeff Smith – Little Mouse gets Ready cute little hardback from the creator of Bone
Chris Ortega – The Portrait of Destiny book 2 of Forgotten (in English)
Steven Philip Jones – The Worlds of H. P. Lovecraft: Dagon and Other Tales 5 H. P. Lovecraft stories adapted by Jones and illustrated by a variety of artists
Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon mainly b&w, with some colour, this collects all of Williamson’s Flash Gordon work. Very nice!
audio:
H. G. Wells - The Time Machine a new adaptation of the classic novel, featuring William Gaunt and Robert Glennister…
Torchwood – Golden Age full cast drama of an adventure featuring Torchwood Delhi, which Jack though he had closed down years ago!
New Titles – w/e 25th July 2009
in hardback:
Graham Masterton – Basilisk someone may have created one in their laboratory!
Jack Vance – Wild Thyme, Green Magic retrospective collection of some of his lesser known stories… the rarest piece is Wild Thyme and Violets, which is an outline for an unwritten historical novel set in Italy! Other rarities include the early Seven Exits from Bocz (should have been a Twilight Zone episode!) and The World-Thinker (his first published story) and also the later novelets Rumfuddle and Assault on a City. Nice production from Subterranean Press…
large format:
Greg Egan – Incandescence the multi-species Amalgam civilisation spans the Universe…
Storm Constantine – The Shades of Time and Memory the 2nd of the Wraeththu Histories set…
Renee Wildes – Duality the 1st in the Guardians of Light series, about a young half-dragon mage
John Farris – High Bloods a werewolf plague in California…
in ‘B’ format:
Robert Rankin – Necrophenia madcap fantasy/horror novel…
Andrzej Sapkowski – Blood of Elves first rate fantasy, translated from Polish by Danusia Stok …
Jasper Bark – Way of the Barefoot Zombie the latest volume of the Tomes of the Dead. Free your inner zombie; the latest self-help fad!
Mike Ashley (editor) – The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF 21 great short stories in 530 pages! Top stories from the last 6 decades (except the 70s!), many by big name authors, and including 5 new stories…
in paperback:
Joe Haldeman – Marsbound I enjoyed the hardback of this…
Alex Archer – Seeker’s Curse the 19th Rogue Angel adventure!
Lilith Saintcrow – Redemption Alley the 3rd Jill Kismet adventure!
Mark Del Franco – Skin Deep the 1st in his new Laura Blackstone series, featuring the PR Director for the Fey Guild…
Robert Sawyer – Flashforward or maybe Flash Forward. The basis for a new tv series set to air soon! Restock.
magazines:
Interzone issue number 223; cover date July/August 2009
audio:
Arthur C. Clarke – The Lion of Comarre & other stories 9-cd collection of stories from 1937 – 49. The title story was the basis for the later City and the Stars novel
Earthlight & Other Stories this is a 9-cd collection of stories from 1950 – 51. Excellent value!
Doctor Who – The Rising Night the latest release in the BBC series of cd audio adventures…
cuddly critters:
Meerkats! possibly larger than life!
Camels two-humped Bactrian ones, not Dromedarys
Charles N. Brown
The founder and mainstay of premier sf&f news magazine Locus died yesterday.
He founded the magazine over 40 years ago and I’ve been reading it (with a few gaps) for over 30 of them, from back when it was a slim pamphlet, almost, rather than the 76 page monthly it’s turned into.
I never met him to speak to, although I did speak to some of his staff at various cons they were covering, and a couple came by the shop here when Worldcon (or maybe Eurocon the following year) was last in Glasgow… He reviewed hundreds of books himself, and published reviews of thousands more, together with news, gossip and interviews with the key writers in the field since the late 60s.
Hope he had a good last meal; Locus used to finish regularly with a note of what the wrap party for that issue had to eat!
New Titles – w/e 18th July 2009
in hardback:
Greer Gilman – Cloud & Ashes subtitled Three Winter’s Tales. Her new book consisting of a linked novel, novella & short story…
in large format:
Robert Holdstock – Avilion a new Mythago Wood novel!
Mark Chadbourne – Destroyer of Worlds the 3rd book of the Kingdom of the Serpent, which began with Jack of Ravens…
Greg Egan – Oceanic big new collection of 12 stories. Annoyingly, it includes 4 of the 5 stories in his other recent collection, Dark Integers
Scarlett Thomas – Going Out and Dead Clever 2 older works from the author of The End of Mr.Y and Popco
Rudy Rucker – Postsimgular in the near future, everything changes… the sequel, Hylozoic, came in last week in hardback
Tim Lebbon – Bar None post-catastrophe survivors try to reach the last pub on Earth, and safety!
Emma Bull – Bone Dance new edition of her 1991 ‘fantasy for technophiles’
P. N. Elrod (editor) – Strange Brew 9 ‘urban fantasy’ short stories from some of the top writers in the field (or should that be ‘inner city development site’?) Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Karen Chance and more!
in ‘B’ format:
Pax Britannia – Evolution Expects the latest novel from Abaddon Books, by Jonathan Green
in paperback:
Walter John Williams – Implied Spaces jokingly called ‘a sword & singularity novel’ on the back cover! A paperback original (as they used to say)
S. M. Stirling – Ice, Iron and Gold 13 short stories, including pieces set in both the Emberverse and the Nantucket series backgrounds…
Diana Pharoah Francis – The Turning Tide the 3rd Crosspointe novel…
audio:
Doctor Who – The Stealers from Saiph, Wirrn Dawn and The Angel of Scutari the latest 3 releases from Big Finish…
also in are – Hothouse and The Beast of Orlok
New Titles – w/e 11th July 2009
in hardback:
David Weber – By Heresies Distressed the 3rd in the set that began with Off Armageddon Reef, about an isolated human colony planet…
John Ringo – Eye of the Storm the 12th book in The Legacy of Aldenata sequence (aka the Posleen series). This volume continues the story of Michael O’Neal
Rudy Rucker – Hylozoic the sequel to Postsingular
Charles Stross – Wireless the US edition of his new collection
Clark Ashton Smith – The Mage of the Enchanter the long-awaited 4th volume of his Collected Fantasies… only one to go now! Announced date for vol 5 isn’t until March 2010; it may well run late though!
in large format:
Storm Constantine – The Ghosts of Blood and Innocence the 3rd in her Histories of Wraeththu trilogy
Ian McDonald – Desolation Road reprint from 1988; probably my all-time favourite ‘Mars’ novel
Peter S. Beagle – We Never Talk About My Brother apart from some obscure verse, the stories all date from the last 3 years…
Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan (editors) – The New Space Opera 2 new collection of top authors…
Marcel Theroux – Far North in a grim, failing future northland, there are rumours of civilisation far to the south…
in paperback:
Julie Czerneda – Riders of the Storm book 2 of Stratification, the 1st trilogy of The Clan Chronicles. (the 2nd series is the Trade Pact Universe set)
Sandra McDonald – The Stars Down Under the sequel to The Outback Stars
Steven Brust – Jhegaala the 11th Vlad Taltos outing
Sherwood Smith – King’s Shield the 3rd in the Inda sequence, and the sequel to The Fox
Alex Bledsoe – The Sword-Edged Blonde the first Eddie LaCrosse book, about a jobbing sword-jockey! (his term, not mine!)
Daniel Abraham – An Autumn War the 3rd of the Long Price Quartet
E. E. Knight – Fall with Honor the 7th Vampire Earth book
Paul Christopher – The Sword of the Templars his 5th ancient artifact adventure but the 1st not to feature Finn Ryan…
Yasmine Galenorn – Demon Mistress the 6th in the Otherworld series
Vicki Pettersson – City of Souls the fourth Sign of the Zodiac
S. J. Day – Eve of Chaos the 3rd Marked book, following from the very recently published Eve of Darkness and Eve of Destruction
Faith Hunter – Skinwalker the 1st in the Jane Yellowrock series, about a Cherokee Skinwalker employed to kill vampires
Kat Richarson – Poltergeist the 2nd Greywalker novel
D. D. Barant – Dying Bites the first of the Bloodhound Files
Maria V. Snyder – Storm Glass the 1st Opal Cowan novel; Opal has always felt unsure of her place at the magic academy…
Nate Kenyon – The Bone Factory
Heather Graham – Dust to Dust the 1st book of The Prophecy
Nicholas Pekearo – The Wolfman
Gamer Fantastic original collection of stories set around gaming of all descriptions, edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes
Forgotten Realms – The Pirate King the 2nd in the Transitions series by R. A. Salvatore
magazines:
Hi-Fructose vol 12
art, etc:
Juxtapoz – Poster Art the 4th Juxtapoz book of art of various sorts…
Ausonia – The Art of Ausonia slightly gothic art and comic illustrations
Todd Schorr – American Surreal beautiful big book filled with wonderful imagery. Reminds me a little of Patrick Woodroffe or Rodney Matthews in places…
Michael Parkes – The Art of Michael Parkes II another volume of his fantastical art
Philip Nowlan & Dick Calkins – Buck Rogers in the 25th Century subtitled ‘the complete newspaper dailies v2: 1930 – 1932‘ high quality reproduction of the original b&w strips (and some period adverts!) from Hermes Press. Looks great!
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: the complete series v1. Another excellent package from Hermes Press; this contains 6 full-colour adventures…
Brian Fies – Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow loving pastiche in 6 sections, starting in 1939, looking at how we imagined the future should be!
Frezzato – Tour de France timely graphic novel; pity it’s in French…
audio:
Doctor Who – The Story of Martha a BBC audiobook of how Martha spent a year garnering support to rescue the Doctor from the Toclafane and the Master… Read by Freema Agyeman
Sunday Opening
This summer the Shop will be open a bit more than usual.
Starting on Sunday 5th July – tomorrow!
Then probably Sunday 26th July, and through until the 6th September.
Tomorrow, the 2nd August and the 6th September are all days when there’s a Sunday Market in the Grassmarket with stalls, live music, storytelling, etc.
The 26th July is the same day as the big Homecoming event on the Royal Mile
The other August Sundays are during the Fringe and Festival, as usual.
