New Titles - w/e 30th June 2012

in hardcover:

Graham Joyce – Some Kind of Fairy Tale a missing girl turns up again after 20 years with stories of her travels that don’t quite make sense… Signed copies available.
Ben Aaronovitch – Whispers Underground the 3rd of his Rivers of London novels

James Rollins – Blood Line the 7th Sigma Force novel…
David S. Goyer & Michael Cassutt – Heaven’s War the sequel to Heaven’s Shadow; groups of scientists are stranded within the Rama-like object…
Anne & Todd McCaffrey – Sky Dragons this is the final volume of the Pern cycle that started with Dragonsblood. They completed it, save for copy-editing, just before Anne passed away
Mark L. Van Name – No Going Back the 5th Jon & Lobo adventure, about a space-going ‘security consultant’ and his sentient spaceship

Richard Kadrey – Sandman Slim neat hardback edition of the 1st of his novels featuring a gangster who has escaped from Hell!
Richard Kadrey – Kill the Dead the 2nd Sandman Slim adventure, in a matching edition. Two more are due before the end of the year

Warhammer 40,000 – Angel of Fire the 1st volume of The Macharian Crusade by William King

H. P. Lovecraft – The Lovecraft Library II: The call of Cthulhu and other Mythos Tales another 6 of his best stories, with illustrations

in large format:

Hugh Howey – Wool omnibus all 5 parts of the post-apocalyptic series where everybody has lived underground until everywhere else is just a legend…

Patricia C. Wrede – Across the Great Barrier Eff isn’t sure she wants to become a magician, but is sent on a mission which may make her mind up

Damien Broderick & Paul DiFillipo (editors) – Science Fiction – the 101 Best Novels 1985 – 2010

in ‘B’ format:

David S. Goyer & Michael Cassutt – Heaven’s Shadow NASA and the Russians both try to land on an approaching object, and find it may be 100k across, but it isn’t just a rock…
Mark Charon Newton – The Book of Transformations the 3rd book of The Legends of the Red Sun
Paul S. Kemp – The Hammer and the Blade the 1st Tale of Egil & Nix
Christopher Ransom – The Fading Noel has always been able to disappear, but now he finds some people can see him and that he’s also inadvertently unleashed evil upon the world!

Warhammer 40,000 – Wrath of Iron the latest Space Marine Battle novel, by Chris Wright

in paperback:

Steven Gould – 7th Sigma a young boy flees into a nano-tech devastated area…
Michael Z. Williamson – Rogue the latest sequel the The Weapon

Star Wars – Choices of One Timothy Zahn returns to the Star Wars Universe, and a plan for a new Rebel base. It’s set in the period between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back
Bioshock – Rapture the latest novel set in the gaming background, by John Shirley

George R. R. Martin (editor) – Wild Cards 1 re-issue of the original anthology, with 3 new stories not in the 1987 release!
Clan of the Claw #1 – Exiled shared world anthology set in a world where the dino killer asteroid missed! 4 novellas by S. M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, Michael Z. Williamson and John Ringo & Judy Lynn Nye
Mark L. Van Name (editor) – The Wild Side subtitled ‘urban fantasy with an erotic edge‘
Gene Wolfe – An Evil Guest an actress falls in love with a stranger returned from a human colony on an alien world…

Graham Brown – The Eden Prophecy thriller featuring ex-CIA agent Hawker
Dean Koontz – The Good Guy Timothy is inadvertantly taken for a hitman…

Felix J. Palma – The Map of Time H. G. Wells is called on to help prevent various literary classics (including his own!) from being wiped from existence! Weird steampunk!

Kevin J. Anderson – The Key to Creation the 3rd book of the Terra Incognita trilogy
Rowena Cory Daniells – Besieged the 1st volume of the Outcast Chronicles, with war, madness and religious fervour!
James Maxey – Hush the sequel to Greatshadow, and book 2 of The Dragon Apocalypse
Kelly McCullough – Bared Blade the sequel to Broken Blade continues the adventures of former temple assassin Aral and his living shadow
Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear – The Tempering of Men sequel to A Companion to Wolves; the war against the trolls is won, but new enemies approach…

Freda Warrington – Midsommer Night a man stolen by the fae decades before re-appears, or does he!?
Nicole Peeler – Tempest’s Fury the 5th Jane True adventure
Kelly Meding – Changeling the sequel to Trance
Stacia Kane – Chasing Magic the latest outing for Chess Putnam

art, etc:

Howard Chaykin – The Art of HC big hardback with loads of his art and plenty text to contextualise it all… also a checklist of his appearances
Berkeley Breathed – Outland: The Complete Library, Sunday Funnies 1989 – 1995 The complete run of the strip he started after calling it a day creating Bloom County! Full colour hardback
Lee Falk, Ray Moore & Wilson McCoy – The Phantom: the Complete Dailies volume Four 1940 – 1943 big b&w hardcover

Larry Marder – Tales of the Beanworld cute little colour hardback of more Beanworld weirdness!

magazines:

Locus – June 2012, #617
Juxtapoz – July cover date; Adult Swim issue!

gift, etc:

Game of Thrones – playing cards. The four suits have different sigils on each card, and the face cards are different characters from the tv series

Zombie Tarot – full tarot deck with instruction booklet in an attractive box!