David Weber – Torch of Freedom
Just to say his new hardback has shipped and will probably arrive sometime on Tuesday 17th… It’s the sequel to Crown of Slaves and is co-written with Eric Flint.
New Titles – w/e 14th November 2009
in hardback:
Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner – Destroyer of Worlds the 3rd in their pre-Ringworld series, set in Known Space
Greg Bear – Mariposa near-future thriller, a sequel to Quantico
Brom – The Child Thief prose novel with some illustrations, both b&w and colour, by the dark fantasy artist
Michael Crichton – Pirate Latitudes completed before his death last year, and set in 1666 in the pirate-infested Caribbean!
Jake Black – The Authorised Ender Companion hardback guide to everything to do with Orson Scott Card’s top-selling Ender series…
McSweeney’s Thirty-Two the latest edition, subtitled 2024, featuring 10 pieces set in the near future…
in large format:
Gene Wolfe – An Evil Guest another genre-defying novel from Wolfe, set 100 years in the future
Robert J Sawyer – Wake a blind girl has an eye operation which isn’t completely successful, and ends up ’seeing’ the internet! A minor re-titling from the original title of www.Wake
Kage Baker – The House of the Stag war comes to a remote valley; looks very good
S. A. Swann – Wolfbreed werewolves and Teutonic Knights in the pagan lands to the east…
Pierre Pevel – The Cardinal’s Blades 17th C Paris, with dragons and swashbuckling! Translated from French by Tom Clegg
Justina Robson – Chasing the Dragon the 4th in her Quantum Gravity series
Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden & Stephen R. Bisette – Prince of Stories subtitled the many worlds of Neil Gaiman. A complete, authorised, overview of his work from his earliest stories right up to date, with two 8 page colour inserts and interviews, etc. It looks to be pretty definitive.
in ‘B’ format:
Ellen Datlow (editor) – Lovecraft Unbound new anthology with a strong line-up of authors…
Christopher Priest – The Dream Archipelago reprint of his inter-linked short story collection
in paperback:
Tom Kratman – Carnifex sequel to A Desert Called Peace
Travis S. Taylor – The Tau Ceti Agenda a plot against the President; and the plotters have an almost instantaneous space drive!
Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler – Arctic Drift the 20th Dirk Pitt adventure!
David Devereux – Eagle Rising sequel to Hunter’s Moon, about a magician who works for a secret UK agency…
Brian Lumley – Haggopian and other stories some of his Cthulhu Mythos stories…
Ben Bova – Laugh Lines omnibus of 2 novels (The Starcrossed and Cyberbooks) and 6 short stories…
Bryan Smith – Soulsuckers horror
Wrath James White – Succulent Prey
Tobias S. Buckell – The Cole Protocol the latest Halo adventure
James Axler – Warlord of the Pit the 26th Outlanders book
art, etc:
Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell – The Ultimate Collection now in softcover
Simon Bisley – The Bible: A Work in Progress restock, mentioned because it’s been a while since I had it in
James Gurney – Imaginative Realism subtitled How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist. This looks fascinating. He’s best known for his Dinotopia work, but obviously has a working knowledge of film, bookcover art, etc., and how they all work best. Heavily illustrated, but still has a lot of text and technical info…
magazines:
Juxtapoz – November cover date
Locus – September cover date; issue 584. I was wrong 2 weeks ago when I said it wouldn’t arrive!
New Titles – w/e 7th November 2009
in hardback:
Simon Clark – Whitby Vampyrrhic Whitby, 1942, war, vampires and Viking curses!
Cherie Priest – Fathom fantasy, by the author of the recent Boneshaker
John Clute – Strokes: Essays and Reviews 1966 – 1986 interesting stuff!
in large format:
Katharine Kerr – The Silver Mage the 7th book of The Dragon Mage and the 15th and, 24 years after Daggerspell, the final book overall of the Deverry Series!
Jeff Vandermeer – Finch highly-rated steampunk derived novel; also described as ‘fungal noir’ by Richard Morgan!
Paul Chafe – Exodus: The Ark the sequel to Genesis, this is the story of the middle years of a vast generation starship… I enjoyed v1 much more than I thought I might!
Rachel Caine – The Morganville Vampires omnibus edition collecting the first 2 books of the series: Glass Houses and The Dead Girls’ Dance. Vampires control a mid-West college town…
in ‘B’ format:
Timothy Zahn – The Cobra Trilogy hefty omnibus edition containing Cobra, Cobra Strike & Cobra Bargain. A 4th book is due soon…
Clifford D. Simak – Project Mastodon neat little story, which I think was the basis for (and is part of) Catface, aka Mastodonia.
Clifford D. Simak – Hellhounds of the Cosmos novelette first published in 1932…
Karl Schroeder – The Engines of Recall collection of 10 short stories
in paperback:
Harry Turtledove – The Breath of God the sequel to Beyond the Gap, in which a route to new lands opened up as the northern glaciers melted back… In this one, the fight is taken to the new enemy beyond
L. E. Modesitt, jr. – The Lord-Protector’s Daughter a stand-alone novel set in the lands of the Corean Chronicles…
Timothy Zahn – Odd Girl Out the 3rd in the series that began with Night Train to Rigel, featuring a vast interstellar transport system and a private detective!
Devon Monk – Magic in the Blood the 2nd in the series; I should have had this one before v3 arrived last week, obvioulsy!
Lori Handeland – Apocalypse Happens Elizabeth Phoenix battles the demons of hell in the 1st of The Phoenix Chronicles
Marcus Pelegrimus – Howling Legion the 2nd of the Skinners adventures, in which Cole & Paige are present-day warriors entrusted with keeping evil at bay
Keri Arthur – Circle of Desire her 3rd Damask Circle novel
Keri Arthur – Bound to Shadows the 8th in her Riley Jenson, Guardian series…
Forgotten Realms – Corsair seagoing adventure in book 2 of the Blades of the Moonsea trilogy, by Richard Baker
Forgotten Realms – The Fall of Highwatch 1st book in the Chosen of Nendawen series, written by Mark Sehestedt
Eberron – Son of Kyhber the 2nd in the Thorn of Breland series by Keith Baker…
graphic novels, etc:
Max Brooks & Ibraim Roberson (illustrator) – The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks 12 vignettes of zombie horror from across the world and history!
Alison Jenkins – Jurassic Towel Origami fold your bath towel into a dinosaur! 15 designs; mainly dinos but also mammoths, sabre tooths and Stonehenge!
Page-a-Day Calendars:
Origami Fold a Day designed by Jeff Cole
Paper Airplane Fold a Day. Both published by Accord
New Titles – w/e 31st October 2009
in hardback:
Jack McDevitt – Time Travellers Live Forever new stand-alone hardcover – the title says it all! Looks good, and should be the next book I read…
Cory Doctorow – Makers new economic models and fabbing! [using 3D printers or rapid prototyping machines (i.e. fabricating, or fabbing)]
Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois – The Dragon Book all new anthologywith many top authors contributing!
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Left Hand of Darkness nice 40th anniversary hardcover edition!
in large format:
A. M. Dellamonica – Indigo Springs Astrid inherits an old house and discovers a stream of magic flowing beneath it… looks interesting
C. J. Hutchins – 7th Son: Descent near-future thriller featuring assassination by clone!
Celia Friedman – Wings of Wrath part 2 of the Magister Trilogy; part 1 is Feast of Souls, which has just been re-issued with matching cover art…
Michael Moorcock – Elric : In the Dream Realms the 5th volume of the complete Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melnibone. Includes The Fortress of the Pearl and Elric, the Making of a Sorceror, among others…
in ‘B’ format:
Orson Scott Card – Ender in Exile this appears to be set in the period between Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead
Geoff Ryman (editor) – When it Changed 15 (or possibly 16*) stories which emphasize the science of science fiction
*Justina Robson opens the anthology with Carbon: Part One and closes it with Carbon: Part Two. I don’t yet know how they’re related.
Celia Friedman - Feast of Souls new jacket to match the l/f sequel just out…
in paperback:
Taylor Anderson – Crusade Destroyermen #2, following on from Into the Storm. An aging American destroyer finds itself at the heart of an alien war in an alternate timestream…
Carlos C. Cortes – The Prisoner from the author of Perfect Circle, this one features a near-future prison system, much like the one in Minority Report, as far as I can tell
Todd McCaffrey – Dragonheart a Dragonriders of Pern novel, based on his mother Anne McCaffrey’s Pern; the only person who can cure the Dragons has been dead for hundreds of years…
Fiona Patton – The Golden Tower the 2nd instalment of The Warriors of Estavia…
Morgan Howell – Candle in the Storm the sequel to A Woman Worth Ten Coppers, and part 2 of The Shadowed Path
Rachel Caine – Fade Out the 7th book in her highschool-based Morganville Vampires series…
Devon Monk – Magic in the Shadows the 3rd of the Allie Beckstrom novels…
Jennifer Armintrout – Child of Darkness the 2nd of the Lightworld/Darkworld books. The first was Queene of Light, which came out last month…
Gerry Bartlett – Real Vampires Get Lucky paranormal romance featuring ‘plus-sized’ vampire Glory St. Claire
Tom Piccirilli – Shadow Season horror
Will Adams – The Lost Labyrinth ancient artifact thriller
Neal Asher – The Gabble short story collection
Denise Little – The Trouble With Heroes original anthology
Star Wars – 501st an Imperial Commando adventure, by Karen Traviss
The 4400 – Promises Broken the 4th in series, by David Mack
Warhammer – Innocence Proves Nothing another Dark Heresy book from Sandy Mitchell
Warhammer 40,000 – Iron Company a novel of the Empire Army by Chris Wright
art, etc:
Doug Chiang – Mechanika sf art techniques… softcover with a lot of colour, although the initial sketches and treatments are mainly b&w
Digital Art Masters volume 4 the latest in the series, published by Focal Press
R. C. Hunsicker – Roger Hane: Art, Times and Tragedy retrospective softcover
Drakaina: Fantasy Art Muse lated full colour book from SQP, with art featuring the model, Drakaina
Francis Tsai – Extreme Worlds full colour guide to drawing and painting sci-fi art…
Jon Hodgson – Fantasy Art for Beginners step by step guide to creating various fantasy characters and creatures…
Roman Dirge – Noogies the latest Lenore hardback, with 4 additional unbound colour plates
magazines:
Heavy Metal Fall 2009 issue
Hi Fructose vol 13
Locus October cover date, with Connie Willis on the front; looks like the September issue won’t be coming after all… sorry.
audio:
Doctor Who - The Scapegoat the latest Eighth Doctor adventure from Big Finish
New Titles – w/e 24th October 2009
in hardback:
Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson – The Gathering Storm book 12 of the Wheel of Time! Following Jordan’s deathe 2 years ago, Sanderson was asked to complete the saga, which was supposed to be twelve books long. However, the story was too big for a single volume, so this is also part 1 of the concluding A Memory of Light trilogy! The US ecition doesn’t go on sale until the 27th (Tuesday) so the UK one is the World 1st edition…
Kelly Link – Pretty Monsters short story collection at a budget price for a hardback…
Theodore Sturgeon – Slow Sculpture volume XII in The Ccomplete Stories of, published by North Atlantic Books
in large format:
Robert V. S. Redick – The Rats and the Ruling Sea volume 2 of the series which began with The Red Wolf Conspiracy, which I thoroughly enjoyed! Epic fantasy mainly set on a giant, aged sailing ship!
Kristine Kathryn Rusch – Diving into the Wreck a space-salvager stumbles across an ancient abandoned spaceship dating from the days before ftl…
Jennifer Rardin – Bite Marks the 6th outing for Jaz Parks, this time she’s off to Australia, not Scotland, so no credit for me this time at the back of the book!
Cecelia Holland – The Witches’ Kitchen re-issue of the 2nd of her CorbanViking sequence, which started with The Soul Thief.
Star Trek Enterprise – Beneath the Raptor’s Wing the first volume of The Romulan War, written by Michael A. Martin
in ‘B’ format:
Steve Berry – The Charlemagne Pursuit sunken submarines and cryptic Carolingian clues!
Paul Kane – Broken Arrow the latest in The Afterblight Chronicles…
in paperback:
Jack McDevitt – The Devil’s Eye the 4th in the Alex Benedict sequence…
Mike Shepherd – Undaunted the 7th in the Kris Longknife series…
Steven L. Kent – The Clone Betrayal the 5th in the Clone series…
R. M. Meluch – Strength and Honor the 4th novel featuring the U.S.S. Merrimack as it battles against the neo-Roman space empire of Palatine!
James P. Blaylock – The Knight of the Cornerstone strange goings-on in small town Colorado. I enjoyed the hardback last year
Nichole Peeler – Tempest Rising 1st in a new series set on the coast of Maine, featuring Jane True, a secret selkie!
Diana Pharaoh Francis – Bitter Night the 1st in the Horngate Witches series. Max is a witch, bound by spellcraft to be ‘Shadowblade’ to the Coven leader… meanwhile the ancient Guardians are stirring!
Julie Kenner – Tainted the 1st of the Blood Lily Chronicles. She becomes an assassin for the forces of Light!
Star Trek - Synthesis the latest book to feature the Starship Titan, written by James Swallow
art, etc:
William O’Connor – Dracopedia hardcover all about dragons, including how to draw them! Heavily illustrated
Bob Hobbs – Dark Art how to draw witches & sorcerors, etc.
Gecko Keck – Draw Gothic just what it says!
Gecko Keck – Draw Sci Fi how to draw robots and aliens, etc. Published by Search Press as part of a series of HTD books, as is Draw Gothic
magazines:
Black Static #13 with a very striking cover!
New Titles – w/e 17th October 2009
in hardback:
Eoin Colfer – And Another Thing the new Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novel, but obviously not by Douglas Adams! Many, if not all, of your favourite charactrs return in this 6th novel.
Edward M. Lerner – Small Miracles nanotech! The author is best-known for his recent collaborative work with Larry Niven…
Paolo Bacigalupi – The Windup Girl as the world collapses into warring corporations, biotech plagues, etc. one of the creche-grown New People makes her way in Bangkok…
Nova Ren Suma – Dani Noir armed with her knowledge of all things Rita Hayworth, Dani sets out to solve a mystery…
Tad Williams & Deborah Beale – The Dragons of Ordinary Farm children’s story about a very strange farm (despite it’s name)
Bill Willingham – Peter & Max prose novel, with line illustrations by Steve Leialoha, set in the popular comics world of Fables
in large format:
David Anthony Durham – The Other Lands the 2nd volume of his Acacia Trilogy; turns out the 1st part was actually called The War with the Mein, not Acacia, despite that being the only name on the front cover! Anyway, v2 looks just as good.
Cherie Priest – Boneshaker steampunk, with added pirates and zombies!
Stan Nicholls – Army of Shadows the latest Orcs novel…
in ‘B’ format:
Eames Demetrios – Discover Leddl the 2nd (although numbered 4th) guide to Kymaerica (or Kcymaerxthaere), the alternate history of the world. A guide to some more of the plaques the author has had installed at various places around the world to commemorate Kymaerican events. There’s one in Edinburgh near the shop, just up the Vennel, and soon there’ll be one in North Berwick! Strange project; interesting book!
in paperback:
Greg Cox – Cold War a Terminator: Salvation novel…
art, etc:
John Howe - Fantasy Drawing Workshop a detailed walk-through of 10 art projects…
Dean Motter – Condemned the latest graphic novel featuring Mister X and Radiant City
Rob Sacchetto – The Zombie Handbook heavily illustrated (in colour) guide to zombies and how to deafeat them!
Dr. Robert Twombly – Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection heavily illustrated (mainly in colour) diary-style story…
New Titles – w/e 10th October 2009
in hardback:
John Ringo & Tom Kratman – The Tuloriad the 13th book in Ringo’s Aldenata series of books. This one follows a clan of defeated Posleen.
Eric Flint & others – Grantville Gazette V the 5th volume of short stories, etc. expanding on his 1632 background
in large format:
J. F. Lewis – Revamped the sequel to Staked
Chloe Neill – Some Girls Bite the 1st in her Chicagoland Vampires series; v2 came in week or two ago…
in ‘B’ format:
Greg Bear – City at the End of Time new multiple timestream sf novel
Ian McDonald – Cyberabad Days short story collection, set against the same background as his earlier award-winning novel, River of Gods
Amanda Grange - Mr. Darcy, Vampyre
Maggie Furay – Heritage of the Xandem 1st in a new fantasy series
Tom Lloyd – The Grave Thief the 3rd volume of The Twilight Reign…
David Drake – The Complete Hammer’s Slammers volume 1. The 1st of 3 volumes collecting all the Hammers Slammer’s stories together; this one is introduced by Gene Wolfe
in paperback:
Mercedes Lackey – Foundation back to the early(ish) days of Valdemar! The first of the Collegium Chronicles
Dennis L. McKiernan – City of Jade a return to the world of Mithgar
Jim C. Hines – The Mermaid’s Madness the sequel to The Stepsister Scheme
David Forbes – The Commanding Stone the 3rd in his Osserian Saga, which began with The Amber Wizard…
Laura E. Reeve – Vigilante the 2nd of the Major Ariane Kedros books, following on from Peacekeeper
Barb Hendee – Blood Memories the 1st of her new Vampire Memories
series
Jocelynn Drake – Dawnbreaker the 3rd of her Dark Days novels
Mark Billingham – In the Dark
Heather Graham – Unhallowed Ground
Sarah Langan – Audrey’s Door
Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes (editors) – Zombie Racoons & Killer Bunnies 15 new stories, all featuring animals of some kind
Dragonlance – Goblin Nation the 3rd of The Stonetellers books, written by Jean Rabe…
art, etc:
John Howe – Lost Worlds heavily illustrated hardback featuring lost cultures and cities from across the ages…
wall calendars:
Star Trek – The Future Begins images (mainly of the cast) from the new film!
audio:
Doctor Who – Paper Cuts and Blue Forgotten Planet adventures #125 & #126 from Big Finish…
Dreams of Steam
I’m happy to announce that tickets for the forthcoming Dreams of Steam event, to be held on the 30th October, are now available through Transreal Fiction.
Price £7.50 each; coin and notes of the Realm only, please.
New Titles – w/e 3rd October 2009
in hardback:
Terry Pratchett – Unseen Academicals the latest Discworld novel!
Torchwood – Risk Assessment by James Goss and The Undertaker’s Gift by Trevor Baxendale. The latest 2 compact hardbacks…
Torchwood – The Encyclopedia illustrated hardback compiled by Gary Russell
in large format:
Terry Pratchett – The Wit & Wisdom of Discworld compiled by Stephen Briggs just what it says! Favourite bits of each book, in order.
Paul McAuley – Gardens of the Sun the sequel to The Quiet War, recently out in ‘B’ format…
J. L. Bourne – Day by Day Armageddon blog-style story of zombie infestation! A page-turner!
Kim Paffenroth (editor) – History is Dead anthology featuring zombies throughout history!
Thomas Brannan & John Sunseri (editors) – Cthulhu Unbound anthology of Lovecraftian horror!
John Sunseri & Thomas Brannan (editors) – Cthulhu Unbound 2 a second anthology, also from Permuted Press
Forgotten Realms – House of Serpents an omnibus volume collecting Venom’s Taste, Viper’s Kiss and Vanity’s Brood, all by Lisa Smedman
in ‘B’ paperback:
Terry Pratchett – Nation not a Discworld novel! Life on a desert island
Lev Grossman – The Magicians life at magician college!
Brandon Sanderson – The Final Empire the 1st book of his Mistborn trilogy
Philip Palmer – Red Claw fight for survival in an alien jungle!
David Wellington – Frostbite subtitled ‘a werewolf tale’
Ritch Duncan & Bob Powers – The Werewolf’s Guide to Life subtitled ‘a guide for the newly bitten‘. Similar to The Zombie Survival Guide, but pro-werewolf!
Chloe Neill – Friday Night Bites the 2nd Chicagoland Vampires novel…
Mark Chadbourn – The Ice Wolves a Hellboy novel…
Peter Straub (editor) – Poe’s Children anthology of ‘the new horror’; full of top authors…
in paperback:
David Weber – Worlds of Weber over 900 pages collecting his shorter fiction
Larry Correia – Monster Hunter International restock at last! It’s surprising for Baen to take so long to print more copies of an obviously successful book…
Brenda Cooper – Reading the Wind the sequel to The Silver Ship and the Sea
Orson Scott Card – A War of Gifts short Christmas story, set in the Enderverse
Harry Connolly – Child of Fire when she is injured, chauffeur Ray must complete his sorcerous boss’s task for the Twenty Palace Society…
M. L. N. Hanover – Darker Angels the 2nd of her Black Sun’s Daughter series… I’m still enjoying the first one, which came out recently…
Piers Anthony – Two to the Fifth obviously the 32nd Xanth adventure. Puntastic!
Denise Rossitti – The Flame and the Shadow the 1st book of her Four-Sided Pentacle series…
Joe Abercrombie – The Blade Itself book 1 of The First Law, finally out in regular paperback size…
Andy McDermott – The Covenant of Genesis the 4th in the ancient artifact thriller series featuring Nina Wilde & Eddie Chase
Esther Friesner (editor) – Strip Mauled more lighthearted fantasy stories
Star Trek – Unworthy the latest Voyager novel, by Kirsten Beyer
Iron Man – Femmes Fatales adventure based on the comicbook character, written by Robert Greenberger
Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead a new Indy adventure, by Steve Perry
Daniel Keyes – The Asylum Prophecies a new horror novel from the author of Flowers for Algernon, although I think it’s more like The Minds of Billy Mulligan!
Gail Carriger – Soulless the 1st Alexia Tarabotti adventure; Victorian vampires!
Jennifer Armintrout – Queene of Light the 1st in her new Lightworld/Darkworld trilogy; the other 2 volumes should be out by the end of the year… looks interesting
L. A. Banks – Cursed to Death the 4th of her Crimson Moon books…
Jeff Mariotte – Light of Day the 4th 30 Days of Night book
Sarah Pinborough – Feeding Ground horror
John Farris – Avenging Fury
Bryan Smith – Depraved
David Robbins – Thief River Falls Run Endworld #2, the 3rd in the postapocalyptic action series! (there was a#0 set-up volume to start with!)
Robert Heinlein – Between Planets reprint of his 1951 novel
art, etc:
Roger Hane – Art, Times and Tragedy hardback covering his career, compiled and written by R. C. Hunsicker
Alex Horley – Sketchbook mainly b&w, but there is a colour section
Mark Texeira – Tex: The Art of Mark Texeira; The Artist’s Great Escape softcover
Alien Race – visual development of an intergalactic adventure full colour softcover from DesignStudio Press. Looks very nice.
Mark Mignola – Hellboy volume 3 hardback edition, includes Conqueror Worm and Strange Places
Maryam Naville – Temet Nosce (Know Thyself) very gothic art; text in English
The Time Tunnel – The Complete Series softcover reprint of the short-lived 60s series (both issues!) that spun off from the tv series. Includes some photos and text also
Dan Goodsell – Kaleidoscope small illustrated hardback featuring Mr. Toast and his friends (also in stock as plushes!)
Andrew Cosby, Johanna Stokes & Axel Medellin Machain – Mr. Stuffins graphic novel from Boom! about an angry teddy bear!
magazines:
Heavy Metal – November cover date
Juxtapoz – Halloween issue; October cover date
Illustration #27 squarebound; 20th Century art of various styles…
wall calendars (all published by Heavy Metal):
Luis Royo – Dead Moon 2010 Calendar images from his most recent book
Victoria Frances – 2010 Calendar
Simon Bisley – 2010 Calendar
Heavy Metal – The Art of Heavy Metal
Night Song – Vampire Women of the Crimson Eternal the 1st in a series from SQP. Full colour
Girls of Gaming – Girls of Anime volume 1 overview of one aspect of Japanese art! English text
audio:
Doctor Who – The Company of Friends Big Finish release #123, featuring Paul McGann
Grassmarket Art Walk – 2009
Until October 4th, a couple of dozen shops around the Grassmarket area will have art from various Art College students on display in their windows…
I was assigned an artist called Robert Powell and now have 6 of his pieces on display!
Art walk Window, with reflections!
Mr.Wood’s Fossils next door has a piece by the organiser, Lorna Pirrie, on display
Dinosaur in the Fossil Shop!
