The Brothers Grimm – The Complete Fairy Tales with b&w art by Arthur Rackham. Finally decided to stock a nice edition of them…

in large format:

William Gibson – Distrust That Particular Flavor 25 articles and essays culled from the course of his career; it looks very readable.

in ‘B’ format:

Adrian Tchaikovsky – Heirs of the Blade the 7th in his Shadows of the Apt series…
Lavie Tidhar – The Great Game Mycroft Holmes is murdered, but what have the Ark of the Covenant and Martian war machines to do with it? Sherlock’s protege, Lucy Westerna, returns in the 3rd of the Bookman series.
Cherie Priest – Four and Twenty Blackbirds Eden Moore was raised by her aunt, and three ghostly sisters…

in paperback:

K. Bennett – The Year of Eating Dangerously the sequel to Mallory Caine, Zombie at Law
James R. Tuck – Blood and Bullets the first book in a new series featuring Deacon Chalk, Occult Bounty Hunter

audio:

Doctor Who – Destination: Nerva episode 1.1 of Big Finish‘s new Classic Doctors series, with Tom Baker and Louise Jameson
Doctor Wh0 – The Curse of Davros the 156th Big Finish full cast audio drama

Alastair Reynolds – Blue Remembered Earth the start of a new series from the author of, most recently, Terminal World… Looks very good; initially set in a 22nd C Africa as Geoffrey tries to remain apart from his family’s greater schemes and problems…
Orson Scott Card – Shadows in Flight the 11th volume set in the Enderverse! 10 novels and a collection of short stories, iirc.

Ian Esslemont – Orb Sceptre Throne his 3rd novel set in the Mazalan Empire, which he created with Steven Erikson…

in large format:

Paul McAuley – In the Mouth of the Whale humans and post-humans struggle for control in a distant star system. Meanwhile, back on Earth other plans are coming to fruition…
John Meaney – Transmission the 2nd volume of Ragnarok. The sequel to Absorption; with several strands set in different times, including 1300 years ago, WW2  and 600 years in the future…

Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson – Sisterhood of Dune the 1st in their latest trilogy, The Schools of Dune, based on Frank Herbert‘s award-winning Dune. This volume features the origins of the secretive Bene Gesserit…

Lisa Goldstein – The Uncertain Places Will is introduced to the Feierabend sisters, who seem to know a lot about a fairytale discovered asnd then suppressed by the Brothers Grimm…

in ‘B’ format:

Steven Erikson – The Crippled God the concluding 10th volume of The Mazalan Book of the Fallen! The conclusion of an 11,000+ page epic! I’m almost surprised it only has two Epilogues!

John Meaney – Absorption the 1st book of his new series, Ragnarok.  Several disparate strands spread across history both past and future, with characters all dreaming of a group called the Ragnarok Council…

magazines, etc:

Interzone – issue 238, cover date Jan/Feb 2012. The covers this year will all apparently be based on interpretations by Ben Baldwin of Major Arcana from a tarot deck… This one has the Moon in the background with what appear to be dogs in spacesuits in the foreground!

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child – Gideon’s Corpse the sequel to Gideon’s Sword,  and their 17rh collaborative novel! A thriller featuring their new hero, Gideon Crew.
Dave Barry & Alan Zweibel – Lunatics comic novel about a pet-shop owner caught up in greater things!

Lucy Wood – Diving Belles a dozen short stories set along the coast of Cornwall, with it’s myths and legends and how they still impact on the present day…

in large format:

Darly Gregory – Raising Stony Mayhall a mother of three finds a zombie baby by the roadside and raises him in secret… I really liked his previous novel Pandemonium, about a village of mutants
Daryl Gregory – Unpossible and other stories 15 stories, with an intro by Nancy Kress. Two are original to the collection; almost half the rest first appeared in F&SF

in ‘B’ format:

Stanislaw Lem – Lemistry a celebration of the Polish author, with 3 newly translated stories by Lem, together with several essays and also 13 stories from Lem admirers like Ian Watson and Brian Aldiss and other much more obscure fans! Edited by Ra Page and Magda Raczynska

Karen Marie Moning – Shadowfever the 5th Mackayla Lane book, about the battle between humans and the Fae…
Christopher Fowler – Hell Train if this were a film, it would be a big screen epic from Hammer!
Stephen Donaldson – The Runes of Earth reprint of the 1st of the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Algis Bydrys – Rogue Moon SF Masterworks reprint of his classic novel…
David Moody – The City the 2nd part of his Autumn set, about a world-wide plague and it’s after effects

art, etc:

Jodorowsky & Janjetov – Before the Incal beautiful slip-cased hardback edition of the full-colour prelude to the classic Incal series. Other major artists like Moebius were also involved; not sure why his name isn’t more prominent. Numbered edition of 999 copies.

Modern Masters Volume Twenty-Seven – Ron Garney the latest in-depth look at a popular comic artist… mainly b&w, with 8 pages of colour art
C. F. – Sediment signed and numbered (edition of 1000) book with 66 examples of his art…

Shaky Kane – Monster Truck full-colour collection of his strip. Interestingly strange!
Jordan Crane – Keep Our Secrets (to be read in a whisper) small board book with neat art and cute comments, also with heat-sensitive panels on every page to reveal more! Published by McSweeney’s

magazines:

Locus – December cover date, with Charlie Stross on the cover…

Unspoken Water – issues 1 & 2 small press fiction magazine for ‘the strange, the weird & the uncanny’

in hardback:

Simon R. Green – The Bride Wore Black Leather the 12th Novel of the Nightside

Timothy Zahn – Cobra Gamble the 3rd of the Cobra War set
Ben Bova – Power Play  politics intrude as a prospective Senator trys to turn a new power generation method to his advantage…
Matthew Reilly – Scarecrow Returns the latest adventure, set in the high Arctic!

Eric Flint & Paula Goodlet (editors) – Grantville Gazette VI the latest story collection set in Flint’s 1632/Ring of Fire background

in large format:

Kristine Kathryn Rusch – Boneyards the 3rd in the series that began with Diving into the Wreck
Jo Walton – Among Others doing magic at school isn’t like being at Hogwarts!
Michael Swanwick – Dancing With Bears post-apocalyptic tale set in a resurgent, but low-tech, Muscovy. Two rogues are escorting a caravan from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke, and others plot revolution and destruction!

in ‘B’ format:

Amanda Hocking – Switched Wendy was accused of having been switched at birth, by her own mother! As she grows up, she realises she’s a little different from everyone else…
John R. Fultz – Seven Princes the 1st of the Books of the Shaper, a new series following Prince D’zan as he struggles to find support and regain his father’s usurped throne…

Warhammer 40,000 – Word Bearers the omnibus consisting of Chaos Marines novels  Dark Apostle, Dark Disciple & Dark Child, all written by Anthony Reynolds

in paperback:

William Dietrich – Blood of the Reich ancient artifact thriller set in pre-WW2 Tibet, and also the present day…

Warhammer 40,000 – Deliverance Lost: Ghosts of Terra the latest Horus Heresy novel from Gav Thorpe
Warhammer – Age of Legend a Time of Legends anthology, edited by Christian Dunn

art, etc:

Design Studio Press – Abakan 2288: Kalamity’s World of Mecha Design Part One heavily illustrated, mainly in full colour, book of designs, etc. for mechas

McSweeney’s – Thirty Nine the latest issue of the top fiction magazine. This time it’s a fairly compact hardback, with a small full colour insert…

in large format:

Maria V. Snyder – Touch of Power the 1st novel featuring Avry of Kazan, who has the power to heal the sick. But her people are also blamed for a horrifying disease…
Steve Aylett – Novahead his latest madcap adventure, and apparently the last to be set in Beerlight City

John Crowley – Otherwise omnibus edition of his three early novels, Beasts, The Deep and Engine Summer. Restock, but I’ve not had it in stock for several years….

in ‘B’ format:

China Mieville – Embassytown Avice is one of the few translators at one of the alien/human meeting points, and the aliens have appointed a new ambassador…

Lari Don – Storm Singing and other Tangled Tasks the 3rd outing for young vet’s daughter Helen, who must help her Selkie friend win a strange competition to preserve the ocean’s peace. The 1st book was First Aid for Fairies

in paperback:

Travis S. Taylor & Les Johnson – Back to the Moon a manned Chinese mission has crashed on the moon, and a newly-revived American space program is their only hope…
Mercedes Lackey with Steve Libbey, Cody Martin & Dennis Lee – Invasion the 1st volume of the Secret World Chronicle, in which the world’s new metahumans must battle against invading Swastika-emblazoned mecha fighting machines…

Ari Marmell – The Warlord’s Legacy the sequel to The Conqueror’s Shadow Corbus Rebaine‘s adventures continue as he is forced to become ‘the Terror of the East’ once again…

Diana Pharaoh Francis – Shadow City the 3rd in the series featuring the Horngate Witches…
Lucy A. Snyder – Switchblade Goddess the 3rd book featuring apprentice wizard Jessie Shimmer
Linda Robertson – Wicked Circle the 5th in the Persephone Alcmedi series…

Christopher Fowler – Hell Train traditional horror novel set on a train

Joan Spicci Saberhagen & Robert E. Vardeman (editors) – Fred Saberhagen: Golden Reflections a tribute anthology featuring stories from various well-known authors all set in the background of Saberhagen’s alternate history novel, Mask of the Sun, which is also included. So, a classic novel, 7 related stories and other material in around 630 pages…

Star Trek – Blind Man’s Bluff the latest New Frontier novel by Peter David

art:

Matt Kennedy (curator) – Pop-Sequentialism square-bound comic-sized catalogue from an exhibition at La Luz De Jesus Gallery of Los Angeles. B&W reproductions of panels, etc. together with comments and interviews with some well-known artists

magazines, etc:

Brick Journal #16 a steampunk special of this Lego magazine

I’m planning to close for the same days over New Year.
i.e. late afternoon on Hogmanay, and reopen on the 4th.

James Rollins – The Devil Colony the latest Sigma Force adventure, after a short break for Altar of Eden. Hundreds of ancient mummies and buried treasure are found at Yellowstone…

John C. Wright – Count to a Trillion decyphering an alien monument drives mathematician Montrose mad; 200 years later he’s revived and everything’s changed… but he still has a job to do!

Clark Ashton Smith – The Miscellaneous Writings of CAS an extra 6th volume to the 5 volume set recently issued by Night Shade Books of  his short fiction. Originally only available to direct subscribers, now available to all. Includes a 40 page introduction by CAS scholar and fan Donald Sidney -Fryer and a 10 page foreward by the set’s editors, Scott Conners and Ron Hilger.

in large format:

Greg Bear – Primordium the 2nd book in the Forerunner Saga, set in the Halo game universe
Stan Nicholls – Inferno the 3rd volume of Orcs: Bad Blood

Madeleine Roux – Sadie Walker is Stranded the sequel to Alison Hewitt is Trapped. Zombies in Seattle.
David Moody – Disintegration the latest Autumn zombie novel

Catheryne M. Valente – The Folded World the 2nd part of A Dirge for Prester John. Part 1 was The Habitation of the Blessed

Marty Halpern (editor) – Alien Contact the best stories on the theme from the past 30 years…very strong line-up of authors
Fritz Leiber – Selected Stories edited by Jonathan Strahan and the late Charles N. Brown. The best collection of Leiber since the massive Dark Harvest Leiber Chronicles 20 years ago…

in ‘B’ format:

Brandon Sanderson – Warbreaker stand alone epic fantasy
Ian Whates – City of Light and Shadow the 3rd in his City of a Hundred Rows sequence. The monstrous rust warriors have returned!

Adam Christopher – Empire State  in an alternate Prohibition-era Manhatten, jaded superheroes bicker with each other rather than fighting crime… Looks fun!

in paperback:

Andy Remic – Cloneworld the 4th of his Combat K military sf novels

Anne McCaffrey died of a stroke a few weeks ago; she was, of course, the creator of the top-selling Pern series which began back in the early 1960s…
I met Anne several times, most recently 5 or 6 years ago when she and some friends came into the shop. She rested on the chair at the counter while they browsed and she was kind enough to sign stock as we chatted.
Other meetings included lunch at a top Edinburgh restaurant – Anne and I and a publisher’s rep paid for by her publisher
We also met at various signings I helped arrange for her in Edinburgh and Glasgow, before one of which I disparaged one of her characters, only to be told that he was based on her son, Todd! (Who is now the author of the current Pern books).
She was very warm-hearted and will be much missed.

Russell Hoban has also passed away recently. He was a much-loved children’s writer although his claim to fame in the sf&f markets rests mainly on his classic Ridley Walker, a post-apocalyptic novel written entirely in a future dialect!

T. J. Bass was one of the older writers, although his output was relatively small and he stopped writing years ago. His best known works (now long out of print, I’m afraid were The Godwhale and Half Past Human.  I met his daughter a few years ago and she said her father would be very pleased that his work was still remembered…

Darrell K. Sweet isn’t a name the casual reader would definitely recognise, but most would certainly recognise many of the covers he painted! Not always to everybody’s taste as they were perceived as a bit sacharine, but extremely influential. They included the original Wheel of Time covers, covers for the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Xanth series and for numerous novels by Jack L. Chalker, Terry Brooks, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., and many more…

Hope I don’t have to pass on more sad news too soon…

in ‘B’ format:

Dan Abnett – Embedded on a distant planet, a reporter manages to report from the very front lines, via an illegal chip in a soldier’s head!

Warhammer 40,000 – The Gildar Rift the latest Space Marines Battles novel, by Sarah Cawkwell

in paperback:

Warhammer 40,000 – Hammer and Anvil the 2nd of James Swallow‘s Sisters of Battle series

art, etc:

Paul Peart-Smith – The Future of Erotic Fantasy Art full colour hardcover

Mobius & Jodorowsky – The Eyes of the Cat very large hardcover of their new work. Limited to 750 copies, all signed and numbered. Shrinkwrapped.

Scott Dunbier (editor) – Rocketeer Adventures volume one hardback collection of the fairly recent comics featuring Dave Steven‘s Rocketeer. Looks very nice.

Patrick McDonnell – Our Little Kat King mainly b&w collection of comic strips featuring the Mutts, a kitten and a puppy who are best friends and very cute…

magazines:

Juxtapoz – January 2012 cover date
Black Static – issue #26

Joe Haldeman – Earthbound the 3rd in his Marsbound set; aliens have destroyed the moon and set civilisation back centuries…
Harry Turtledove – Supervolcano: Eruption Yellowstone is set for a cataclysmic eruption…
Robert Conroy – Himmler’s War what if Hitler had died in June 1944…
Michael Crichton & Richard Preston – Micro the novel Crichton was working on when he died, finished by Preston. The incredible shrinking men…

Warhammer – Blood of Aenarion a Tyrion & Teclis adventure by William King…

in large format:

A. Bertram Chandler – Galactic Courier the 3rd of 4 John Grimes omnibus collections , containing the novels Star Courier, To Keep the Ship, Matilda’s Stepchildren and Star Loot

Patricia A.McKillip – The Bards of Bone Plain her latest complex fantasy novel
P. C. Hodgell – Honor’s Paradox the 6th of her long-running Kencyrath series. Jane must survive the school for warriors which she attends…

Robert Charles Wilson – A Bridge of Years reprint of one of his early novels; I enjoyed it a lot back in about 1991!
Paolo Bagigalupi – Pump Six 10 short stories from the author of The Windup Girl

Dungeons & Dragons – Ed Greenwood Presents Waterdeep Book II omnibus edition containing City of the Dead, The God Catcher and Circle of Skulls, all set in the Forgotten Realms background…

in ‘B’ format:

Sherri S. Tepper – The Waters Rising fantasy set in a world of rising sea-levels…

Max Berry – Machine Man the latest blackly humourous novel from the author of Jennifer Government; Charles Neumann sees losing a leg as an opportunity rather than a tragedy!

Michael J. Sullivan – Rise of Empire subtitled Fortune Favours the Thief the 2nd volume of The Riyria Revelations epic fantasy series. Volume 1, Theft of Swords: Sometimes You Have to Steal Glory also arrived; a thief and a mercenary become unwilling scapegoatsin an assassination attempt…
Sarah Pinborough – The Shadow of the Soul sequel to A Matter of Blood and part 2 of the Dog-Faced Gods series

Cecelia Holland – Floating Worlds complex politics among the planets of the Solar System. An SF Masterworks edition of this mid 70s novel
Robert E. Howard – Conan the Indomitable 1st of three books collecting the original Conan stories in chronological order.

in paperback:

Brett Patton – Mecha Corps Matt Lowell is in a mecha weapon suit training camp on a backward planet called Earth… 1st in the Armor Wars series
Gini Koch – Alien Proliferation the 5th in the series that began with Touched by an Alien
Nancy A. Collins – Left Hand Magic the sequel to Right Hand Magic, again set in the magical New York district of Golgotham
E. E. Knight – March in Country the 9th in the Vampire Earth series…

Martin H. Greenberg & Jennifer Brozek (editors) – Human for a Day strong anthology of original stories
Mercedes Lackey (editor) – Under the Vale and other tales of Valdemar original anthology of stories set in the world of Valdemar

David Gaider – Asunder the 1st novel set in the Dragon Age gaming background, written by it’s lead writer.

Dungeons & Dragons – Cry of the Ghost Wolf the 3rd of the Forgotten Realms series Chosen of Nendawen, written by Mark Sehestedt
Dungeons & Dragons – The Last Garrison by Matthew Beard
Dungeons & Dragons – Death March a Dark Sun novel by Robert J. Schwald