in hardback:

Jim Butcher – First Lord’s Fury the 6th in his Codex Alara series…

in large format:

Galen Beckett – The Magicians and Mrs. Quent fantasy which starts off similarly to Pride and Prejudice and then later like Emma. (I may be getting my Classics mixed up) Great characters and background; I thoroughly enjoyed it when I read the hardback last year…
Greg Keyes – The Infernal City the 1st spin-off novel based on the Elder Scrolls game. Looks fun!

Daryl Gregory – The Devil’s Alphabet from the author of last year’s Pandemonium. Paxton returns to his home town 15 years after a horrible, mutating disease ravaged the inhabitants…
Victor Gishler – Vampire a Go-Go

George Alec Effinger – What Entropy Means to Me stocked purely because I’ve just re-read Relatives (very downbeat ending!) and remembered how much I enjoyed reading WEMTM for the first time back in 1972! I guess it’s best considered fantasy. Strange fantasy.

Damon Knight – Creating Short Fiction by a key editor in the field, and writer of many top sf stories…

in ‘B’ format:

Terry Bisson – The Left Left Behind a companion volume to the recent Kim Stanley Robinson book, The Lucky Strike. This contains the lead story, a brief play called Special Relativity and a recent interview

Michael P. Spradlin – It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies! re-written Christmas carols, with illustrations…

in paperback:

Jim Butcher – Princeps’ Fury the 5th in his Codex Alara series…
Robin McKinley – Chalice a humble beekeeper is told she must be the new Chalice of the demesne
John Levitt – Unleashed the 3rd Dog Days novel, about an enforcer and his dog-like familiar

John Ringo & Travis S. Taylor – Claws That Catch the 4th in the Into the Looking Glass series…
Graham Paul Sharp – The Battle of Devastation Reef the 3rd of the Helfort’s War series
Jeff Carlson – Plague Zone in the aftermath of a nanotech disaster and a subsequent world war…
Kelly Gay – The Better Part of Darkness Atlanta is the gateway for Off-Worlders, and Charlie Madigan has to help keep the peace…
Poul Anderson – The Van Rijn Method hefty short story collection, with introductions by Anderson to each story

Sarah A. Hoyt – Gentleman Takes a Chance the shape-changing sequel to Draw One in the Dark
Jullie Kenner – Torn the 2nd of the Blood Lily Chronicles… #3 will be out by the New Year…
Kelly Meding – Three Days to Dead Evangeline Stone wakes up naked in a cell, and it’s someone else’s body!
Carole Nelson Douglas – Vampire Sunrise the 3rd Delilah Street adventure

Star Trek – Precipice the latest Vanguard adventure, written by David Mack

Star Wars – Millennium Falcon Han Solo’s grand daughter finds a mysterious object… Written by James Luceno

art, etc:

Dave McKean – Pictures That Tick large softcover, split between b&w and colour illustrations…
Dorian Cleavenger – The New Works & Visions of… full colour hardback
Aly Fell & Duddlebug (editors) – The Future of Fantasy Art great-looking full colour hardback, from a host of artists…

Jodorowsky & Manara – Flames From Hell the latest in their Borgia graphic novel series, from Heavy Metal
Andre Schiffrin – Dr. Seuss & Co. go to War ww2 illustrations and cartoons, with some text. Hardback

magazines:

Locus – #586, cover date November 2009. Cory Doctorow on the cover
Juxtapoz – December 2009 coverdate

audio:

Doctor Who – The Eternal Summer Big Finish adventure #128
Doctor Who – The Nightmare Fair the first of The Lost Stories

merchandise:

Plushes - 

Pandas, medium sized, chewing bamboo!
Skunks
Meerkats, small, 2 different coats, like the large ones (restock of them also now in)
Triceratops – large, restock, but a while since I’ve had this size
Stegosaurus – large, restock, but a while since I’ve had this size
Brontosaurus – medium

in hardback:

David Weber & Eric Flint – Torch of Freedom the latest novel set in the Honorverse, a sequel to their previous collaboration, Crown of Slaves

Philip Jose Farmer & Win Scott Eckert – The Evil in Pemberley House unfinished Wold Newton novel, completed by Eckert; it’s a gothic horror!

in large format:

Brian D’Amato – In the Courts of the Sun a time-travel adventure based on the Mayan calendar and the end of all things predicted to happen in 2012
Kim Stanley Robinson – The Wild Shore reprint of his first novel, from 1984. The first of his Three Californias trilogy
Abraham Merritt – The Ship of Ishtar classic time-travel adventure from 1924, this is a slightly reduced size facsimile of the pulp reprint from a couple of decades later, with the same cover, the Virgil Finlay interior art and the double columns of text! Introduced by Tim Powers.
Patricia A. McKillip – Riddle-Master restock of the omnibus edition containing The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire and Harpist in the Wind, all originally published in the mid to late 1970s…

Poppy Z. Brite – Second Sign omnibus edition of 2 short novels, The Value of X and D*U*C*K, both described as being about ‘love and cooking in New Orleans’
C J. Henderson – The Sleep that Rescues the latest adventure in the Teddy London horror/P.I. series…

in ‘B’ format:

Kim Stanley Robinson – The Lucky Strike an early novella, together with a reprint of his story A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions,which acts as a sort of sequel to it, an author interview with Terry Bison and a reasonably good bibliography! (it doesn’t list the contents of short story collections)
Laurell K. Hamilton - Skin Trade the 17th UK Anita Blake, vampire Hunter novel…

Warhammer – The Chronicles of Malus Darkblade vol 2 omnibus edition by Dan Abnett and Mike Lee. Contents include the novels Warpsword and Lord of Ruin, the Darkblade comic strip (in b&w) and other editorial material

in paperback:

Jo Graham – Black Ships a novel set in ancient Greece, after the Trojan War…

Warhammer 40,000 – Titanicus by Dan Abnett. The god machines go to war!
Warhammer On Line – Forged by Chaos an Age of Reckoning adventure by C. L. Werner

small press:

the latest chapbooks from Writers Bloc and Bloc Press:

Andrew C. Ferguson – The Secret of Scottish Football This one contains Andrew’s ’sweary fairy’ football tales! Nothing like the usual Fantasy Football!
Morag Edward – Nil by Mouth stories and recipes, with illustrations by the author
Both editions are signed by the author

magazines:

Interzone – issue #225, cover date December 2009

Dodgem Logic – issue 1 the new publishing venture from Alan Moore. Articles, comics and stories, together with a free cd celebrating 25 years of Northampton music! The strapline is ‘colliding ideas to see what happens’

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.

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!

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

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

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!

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…

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…

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.