If anyone’s worried about problems with access due to the Grassmarket improvements, this is the view from the front door, showing the new, wider pavement, albeit with a large hole at the corner.
I’ve been assured today that progress is still being made and the hole should be looked into very soon!
in hardback:
Lois McMaster Bujold - Passage book 3 of The Sharing Knife
Katharine Kerr - The Shadow Isle the 6th (of 7) in her Dragon Mage series - the 14th Deverry book overall - only one more to come!
Charlaine Harris - From Dead to Worse the 8th Sookie Stackhouse book…
Jonathan Strahan (editor) - The Starry Rift high-powered anthology of ‘tales of new tomorrows’
Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland: the Movie Edition large hardback which has both the original novel and the film script (with glossy colour stills and b&w sketches). However, it’s not the film I recently sponsored at the Maths Cubed Film Fest, it’s the other one that came out last year!
large format:
Eric Brown - Kethani I really liked his previous book, Helix
Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman’s Union alternate history set against the Jewish homeland being established in Alaska, rather than Palestine…
Thomas E. Sniegoski - A Kiss Before the Apocalypse the sequel, I thinl, to Fallen, featuring Boston P.I. Remy Chandler…
Ruth Downie - Medicus 1st in a new series about a Roman doctor in Britannia.
John Baldwin & Ron Powers - Last Flag Down true story of the Confederate warship CSS Shenandoah that raided shipping in the Indian Ocean and Far East
in paperback:
Ian C. Esslemont - Night of Knives a novel of The Mazalan Empire; he and Steven Erikson created the world between them, although this novel is set way before the event’s in Erikson’s books…
David Sherman & Dab Cragg - Firestorm the 12th in their Starfist series…
Glen Cook - Cruel Zinc Melodies the 12th in the Garrett, P.I. series…
Sarah A. Hoyt - Draw One in the Dark Kyrie Smith is a young shapechanger (black panther) who discovers that one of her co-workers is also one (dragon)
Sean Murphy - The Time of New Weather Buddy can perform miracles; well, little ones like finding spare change!
J. F. Englert - A Dog Among Diplomats the sequel to A Dog About Town, which came in recently…
David Gunn - Death’s Head violent, near-future war novel.
Katie MacAlister - Playing With Fire the first novel of the Silver Dragons
Raven Hart - The Vampire’s Betrayal 4th in the series
Keri Arthur - The Darkest Kiss 6th in the Riley Jensen, Guardian series
Wolverine - Nature of the Beast by David Stern
Iron Man by Peter David the novel of the new film
Forgotten Realms - The Shield of Weeping Ghosts the 3rd in The Citadels set
Eberron - Storm Dragon the 1st in the Dragon Prophecies series
Warhammer 40,000 - Storm of Iron by Graham McNeill and also Brothers of the Snake by Dan Abnett
art, etc:
Based on the books by C. S. Lewis - Narnia Chronology - an interactive timeline heavily illustrated pop-up chronology of the Narnia series…
Transreal Fiction is a shop dedicated to selling science fiction, fantasy & related books, together with a limited selection of other merchandise.But really, it’s about books. Transreal Fiction opened in April 1997. The owner, Mike Calder, first sold sf & f books many years ago and has worked in the business either part- or full-time since. For years he also had a respectable job as well, but that’s another story…
The shop is named after the term coined by Rudy Rucker to describe his fiction and I thought it an apt name for a shop specialising in speculative fiction. And, in case you’re wondering, yes, Rudy Rucker was happy to allow me to use of the term as a name for my shop.
