Iain Banks – The Quarry

Neil Gaiman – The Ocean at the End of the Lane dark fantasy novel; his only help may be the three strange women who live down the lane…
Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter – The Long War sequel to The Long Earth, about infinite parallel worlds starting just a step away…
Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint & Dave Freer – Burdens of the Dead the 4th book in their Heirs of Alexandria series, which began with The Shadow of the Lion

in paperback:

Steven Harper – The Havoc Machine the 4th novel of The Clockwork Empire.

art, etc:

Victoria Frances – Misty Circus her first new book for years! It’s a heavily-ilustrated hardback with a story set in a strange circus…

other:

Lord of the Rings – The One Ring/Sauron Mug large (460 ml)  mug with the golden One Ring on one side and the glowing red eye of Sauron on the opposite one

It’s called Neptune’s Brood and the UK edition costs £16.99
Signed & personalised copies will be availabe as in the past; I’ll be e-mailing previous customers about this, but feel free to contact me and tell me what you’d like.

Plain signature, date, location, brief greeting, etc. should be possible, but no first lines, I’m afraid.

The postage within the UK will be £1.90 or £18.89 in total
Within Europe: £6.00 or £22.99 altogether
Most of the rest of the world: £10.40 or £27.39 altogether
Australia & NZ, etc: £10.80 or £27.79 altogether

If you want more than one copy, I’ll check and let you know the postage.

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“My friend has discovered faster-than-light travel! If we get in now, we can make it rich! Just send us your bank details today…” Krina Alizond-114 is a metahuman in a universe where the last natural humans went extinct five thousand years ago. When a letter from her sister goes missing Krina embarks on a dangerous journey across the star systems to find her, along the way getting caught up in an elegant and unprecedented financial scam that involves the mystery of the missing space colony – Atlantis.

Max Barry – Lexicon latest novel from the author of Jennifer Government, Company and Syrup (now an independent film, hopefully coming to the UK soon!)

Stanislaw Lem – SUMMA Technologiae originally published in Polish in 1964, now translated by Joanna Zylinska. Non-fiction; Lem looks at human and non-human life, past,  prsent and future in this ‘caustic and logical philosophical treatise’

in large format:

Brandon Sanderson – The Rithmatist studying ‘rithmatics’ can bring chalk drawings to life… but Joel can’t manage it. Then people who can start disappearing…

Felix J. Palma – The Map of the Sky in 1898 H. G. Wells believes the appearance of various strange, large cylinders is a hoax based on his recent War of the Worlds. But he’s also privy to other strange information…the previous volume, The Map of Time, is also in
Robert Jackson Bennett – American Elsewhere hefty book about a strange little town and it’s stranger inhabitants, in New Mexico…
Travis Bradberry – Cryonic China controls half of America, and restoring cryonically frozen people to life is having mixed results!

in ‘B’ format:

Elizabeth Moon – Limits of Power the 4th book of Paladin’s Legacy
Will McIntosh – Love Minus Eighty in the future, both love and death are complicated… I really enjoyed his 2 previous books, Soft Apocalypse and Hitchers.
Orson Scott Card – Earth Unaware the first in a prequel trilogy, The First Formic War, to Ender’s Game
Carolyn Ives Gilman – Arkfall novella about life underground on an icy planet

Jonathan Strahan (editor) – Fearsome Journeys a dozen new fantasy stories from the likes of Scott Lynch, Elizabeth Bear and K. J. Parker

in paperback:

Simon R. Green – Live And Let Drood the 6th Secret History adventure for Bond. Shaman Bond.

art, etc:

Ashley Wood – Machine Sabbath large colour h/c of his art
Christopher Blain – In the Kitchen With Alain Passard h/c with illustrated stories in colour involving cooking. Some recipes and tips included!

George R. R. Martin – A Game of Thrones: the graphic novel volume two full colour hardback, adapted by Daniel Abraham and illustrated by Tommy Patterson
Peyo – The Smurfs Anthology volume 1 full colour hardback reprinting the original Smurfs stories, dating from 1959

magazines:

Illustrators – issue three ‘autumn’ cover date. UK magazine featuring commercial art from the 20th century
Juxtapoz – July cover date

other:

Hugo Pratt – Corto Maltese Tarot
Gary Baseman – Coasters set of 4 colourful coasters featuring his art

We all thought he had several months at least before the inevitable end but it was not to be.
I heard the news on the BBC News at 22.00 and was impessed by Ian Rankin’s interview about him and what he has meant to his friends and readers.
And now I’m just back from our local pub, where we went and raised a glass of malt to his memory. I had 10 y.o. Lagavulin and my partner Madeleine had a 10 y.o. Caol Ila, both from Islay. Cheers, Iain, you shan’t be forgotten!

Brian Aldiss – Finches of Mars apparently his final sf novel; the Mars colony is 10 years old and there still haven’t been any healthy births to sustain it…
Doctor Who – Harvest of Time new adventure by Alastair Reynolds. UNIT is back!

in large format:

James S. A. Corey – Abaddon’s Gate the 3rd in the set that began with Leviathan Wakes and Caliban’s War. Top notch sf.

in ‘B’ format:

Alan Garner – Boneland long-awaited final volume in his Weirdstone trilogy. Colin is now grown-up and an astronomer. His sister is missing. The 1st two books, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath are children’s classics but this is more an adult read than for children.
Robert Jackson Bennett – The Troupe the vaudeville troupe aren’t touring; they’re running for their lives!

Jack McDevitt – A Talent for War the 1st in his Alex Benedict series, about his investigation into an ancient space battle and the truth behind it’s hero. I really liked it when it first came out back in 1989. Must re-read it!
Jack McDevitt – Polaris Alex Benedict‘s 2nd investigation, this time into a 60 year old mystery about an abandoned and drifting space yacht

Meljean Brook – The Iron Duke and Heart of Steel 1st two books in her steampunk series, The Iron Seas. The third,, Riveted, came in a couple of weeks ago… Good fun!

audio:

Doctor Who – The Lady of Mercia Peter Davidson in the latest full cast audio drama from Big Finish. It’s #173 and by Paul Magrs

Locus have a brief piece here.

And I like what Battered, Tattered, Yellowed & Creased said as well.

I first came across his work when I bought The Eyes of the Overworld back in about 1967 or so, possibly a bit later, but still 45 years ago! I used to go to a local newsagent whenever I had enough pocketmoney to buy one of the import sf titles they had on a spinner and one time that’s what I risked my money on! It probably cost me 10d, maybe 1/-

By the mid 70s I was picking up his books as   they were (re)released by Mayflower and in the late 70s I bought my first hardback (the outsize Underwood Miller edition of Morreion)! Since then I’ve got hold of most of what he’s written, from almost all his 1st appearances in old pulp magazines, though paperbacks, hardbacks and more!

In 1992 he was Guest of Honor at Worldcon in Orlando and I made the trip there to see him. It was great fun and I ended up chatting to him and Norma and their son Jack, jr. and helping with one of the official signing events he had. Even then his sight was failing and I sat beside him opening all the books to the right page, lining them up so he could sign without needing to adjust his wrist and telling him what the titles were… I felt quite honoured.
To keep my luggage weight under control I only took one book of my own to get signed – The Blue World h/c from Putnam

  I’ve accumulated many    other signed editions, but  that’s the only personalised one.

He’s written too many books for me to name a favourite but The Killing Machine, Trullion, Pao, The Miracle Workers, The Blue World are all up there, with many more! One or two clunkers, I admit, especially in his early short fiction but nothing I haven’t felt worth re-reading at some point! Over the years his books have been a constant, the centre-point of my reading, around which everything else has revolved.

But, at last, like the Dying Earth’s sun, his light is finally eclipsed.

Fare thee well, Jack.

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Jack Vance 1916 – 2013

My Flickr set has my comments on some of his books, etc.

Simon R. Green  – Casino Infernale the 7th in his Secret Histories series
Mercedes Lackey – Steadfast the 8th in her Elemental Masters series
S. M. Stirling – Shadows of Falling Night the 3rd of his Shadowspawn sequence
Wen Spencer – Eight Million Gods Nikki is a horror writer with OCD and reality is unravelling around her…

Clive Cussler & Graham Bond – Zero Hour the 11th Kurt Austin adventure and the 3rd by this particular partnership. Based around the concept of Zero Point Energy.

in large format:

Joe Abecrombie – Red Country his 6th epic fantasy novel…
Alan Averill – The Beautiful Land Tak works exploring parallel worlds but somewhere out there is one known as the Beautiful Land…

David Weber – House of Steel consists of a short Honorverse novel,  I Will Build my House of Steel, and also an Honorverse concordance, with 16 page colour insert of uniforms, rank ribbons, spaceships, etc. produced with the aid of on-line fangroup Buntyne

Stephen L Antczak & James C. Bassett (editors) – Clockwork Fairy Tales 9 ‘steampunked’ fairy tales by the likes of K. W. Jeter, Paul Di Filippo and Pip Ballantyne

in ‘B’ format:

N. K. Jemisin – The Killing Moon volume 1 of Dreamblood, set in an ancient city where dreams are harvested for healing, but there’s a conspiracy in the temple…
Charles Stross – The Revolution Trade the final omnibus of his Merchant Princes series,containing vols 5 & 6 – The Revolution Business and The Trade of Queens

in paperback:

Todd McCaffrey & Anne McCaffrey – Sky Dragons the latest Dragonriders of Pern novel
David Weber – War Maid’s Choice sequel to 2004s Wind Rider’s Oath
Deborah J. Ross – The Seven-Petaled Shield 1st in her new epic fantasy series
Wen Spenser – Elfhome the 3rd in the series featuring Tinker, who has escaped Pittsburgh and become an elf princess…

Mercedes Lackey – Home From the Sea the 8th novel in her Elemental Masters series
Linda Grimes – In a Fix Ciel Halligan is a human chameleon, able to change her appearance at will but now she’s been kidnapped by modern-day Vikings!
Nicole Peeler – Tempest Reborn 6th in the series about Jane True, whose comic characters can come to life – and worse!
Jenna Black – Rogue Descendant the 3rd adventure for Nikki Glass, descendant of Artemis the Hunter
Chuck Wendig – The Blue Blazes Mookie Pearl runs the supernatural and criminal underworlds, but his daughter has other ideas…
Rachel Vincent – Oath Bound the 3rd Unbound adventure

Jack Skillington – Life on the Preservation inside the Seattle Dome it’s always the 5th October and the rest of the world is in ruins
Jason Starr – The Craving sequel to The Pack, about a man becoming a werewolf

A. Bertram Chandler – Ride the Star Winds the final John Grimes Saga omnibus
Devon Monk – Dead Iron the 1st book in The Age of Steam. Western steampunk weirdness!
Peter David – After Earth a father and son crashland on an Earth that’s been abandoned by humanity for centuries. Tie-in to the Will Smith film. Premium edition
Clive Cussler & Graham Brown – The Storm the 10th Kurt Austin adventure; the 2nd by this particular writing team. Premium edition.

Star Trek – The Shocks of Adversity the latest Original Series novel by William Leisner
StarCraft II – Flashpoint novel based on the computer game, by Christie Golden

Jonathan Strahan (editor) – Fearsome Journeys anthology subtitled The New Solaris Book of Fantasy. A dozen new stories.

art, etc:

Hill, Kolean, Maris & Spurlock (eds) – Jeffrey Jones: The Definitive Reference pretty much all the art! In softcover and hardback editions
Stephen D. Korshak & J. David Spurlock – The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage large h/c with plenty of text but also loads of full page, full colour art of her covers for Weird Tales, etc. Great stuff!
E. B. Hudspeth – The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black hardback as if by this 19th C quasi-scientist and detailed anatomical drawings of all the strange creatures he encountered.  3-headed dogs, flying horses, minotaurs, etc!
Star Wars – Storyboards: The Prequel Trilogy large hardback with hundreds of sketches covering all the plot and action in the 1st 3 films. Good value.
Jeffrey Brown – Darth Vader and Son official Star Wars postcard book, with 30 humerous colour cards

Alexandro Jodorowsky & Moebius – What Lies Beneath outsize limited edition from Humanoids. one of 999 numbered copies
George Martin & Stefano Martino (art) – Doorways graphic novel h/c about a man who discovers parallel worlds…

magazines:

Interzone #246
Locus – #628, May cover date with Tim Powers on the cover
Juxtapoz – June cover date, with a pictorial history of The Beastie Boys featured

J. R. R. Tolkien – The Fall of Arthur edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, his unfinished version of some of the Arthurian myth, with notes, etc. on it’s relevance to Middle Earth…
Stella Gemmell – The City epic fantasy set in an ancient city, by the widow of the late David Gemmell. Her first solo novel although she co-wrote the Troy trilogy with her husband

large format:

James Barclay – Beyond the Mists of Katura book 3 of Elves. Volume 1 was Once Walked With Gods and v2 was Rise of the TaiGethen
Jasper Kent – The People’s Will the 4th in his Danilov Quintet; vampires and Russian history, set in 1881
Star Trek – Into Darkness novelisation by Alan Dean Foster

in ‘B’ format:

Daniel Abraham – The King’s Blood sequel to The Dragon’s Path. Epic fantasy.
James Barclay - Rise of the TaiGethen book 2 of Elves. Volume 1 was Once Walked With Gods 
Max Frei – The Stranger’s Magic volume 3 of the Russian dark fantasy/parallel world series, The Labyrinths of Echo. Translated by Polly Gannon & Ast A. Moore
Guy Adams – Makes You Stronger Deadbeat #1, set around a struggling jazz club. The owners see a body being abducted from a neighbouring cemetery, but it’s still alive!
Christopher Priest – The Dream Archipelago revised and expanded edition; now with 8 stories! The Trace of Him and The Discharge are new to this edition.
Michael Moorcock – Elric of Melnibone and other stories includes the novel, the transcript of the graphic novel, Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer and several other stories etc.

Warhammer – Headtaker by David Guymer
Warhammer 40,000 – Angel of Fire the 1st book of The Manchurian Crusade trilogy by William King
Warhammer 40,000 – Redemption omnibus edition of Ben Counter‘s first three Soul Drinkers novels Soul Drinker, The Bleeding Chalice and Crimson Tears Warhammer 40,000 – Annihilation omnibus edition of Ben Counter‘s Soul Drinkers novels Chapter War, Hellforged and Phallanx

magazines, etc:

Black Static issue #34, dated May-June 2013

Lauren Beukes – The Shining Girls cross-time murder mystery! From the author of Zoo City
John Scalzi – The Human Division the latest book set in the same background as Old Man’s War

in large format:

Daniel Abraham – The Tyrant’s Law the 3rd in his Dagger and the Coin series, which began with The Dragon’s Path and then The King’s Blood. Epic fantasy!
Linda Nagata – The Red: First Light part one of her new series, set in the endless future wars waged to keep the arms manufacturers’ profits up…

in ‘B’ format:

Jack Campbell – Guardian continuing the adventures of The Lost Fleet Beyond the Frontier. Sequel to Dreadnaught and Invincible
Gary Gibson – Stealing Light reprint of volume 1 of his epic space-spanning Shoal Trilogy. Nova War (vol 2) and Empire of Light (vol 3) are also available again.

in paperback:

Alex Hughes – Clean the 1st Mindspace novel, about a detective who used to be in the Telepath’s Guild until they kicked him out! Volume 2, Sharp, came in a couple of weeks ago.
Christa Faust – The Zodiac Paradox the 1st in the Fringe series, about drug induced mind-linking and a menace it allows access to from another world…

James Axler - Sorrow Space the latest Outlanders adventure

Starship Seasons is published by DIP (an imprint of PS Publishing) and consists of 4 linked novellas, Starship Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring.
The Serene Invasion is a new novel about the peaceful invasion of earth, and of those who oppose it and is published by Solaris.

The books are both £7.99 each, plus £1.00 per book for postage within the UK. Some other signed titles of Eric’s are also available.

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In other related news, also available signed (and numbered) is The Boolian Gate by Walter Jon Williams, a limited edition hardcover novella from Subterranean Press. Price is £25 plus £2.00 posteage in the UK.