Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 18th May 2024

in hardcover:

Kaliane Bradley – The Ministry of Time a woman takes a post in a secretive government department to act as a contact for a seaman rescued from certain death 150 years ago and brought forward in time!
Sydney J. Shields – Honey Witch Marigold has been training to be a witch on the Isle of Innisfree at the cost of never finding true love…
Katee Robert – Blood on the Tide a sequel to Hunt on Dark Waters and vol 2 of Crimson Sails

Tim Powers – My Brother’s Keeper horribly late but here now! A gothic novel about the Bronte family!

in softcover:

Ken MacLeod – Beyond the Light Horizon final part of his Lightspeed Trilogy. Signed copies available soon!

Christopher Paolini – Fractal Noise scientists investigate a mysterious pit 50km wide!
Tracy Wolff & Nina Croft – Star Bringer seven strangers thrown together on a run-down spaceship must learn to get along while they’re trying to save the Universe!

Sterling E. Lanier – Hiero’s Journey new edition in the Science Fiction Masterworks series from Orbit

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 11th May 2024

in hardcover:

Rebacca Thorne – Can’t Spell Teason Without Tea a Royal bodyguard and a mage dream of retiring and opening a little business of their own…
Emma Sterner-Radley – Snowblooded two young rival assassins must co-operate to carry out their duty, and maybe earn enough prize money to buy their release from the Guild…
Willow Smith & Jess Hendel – Black Shield Maiden a young female West African warrior is abducted and sold into slavery in the far north…

in softcover:

Ann Leckie – Translation State Qver rebels against his destiny to be a translator for the alien Presger as an important treaty meeting with the humans approaches. A sequel to her award-winning Imperial Reach trilogy
Karen Lord – The Blue, Beautiful World alien civilisations have decided that climate changed Earth may be ready for First Contact…
Nir Yaniv– The Good Soldier A bumbling idiot brings the space navy to it’s knees… Jaroslav Hašek in space!

Aubrey Wood – Bang Bang Bodhisattva cyberpunk hacker Kiera has been framed for two murders and her only clues are sticks of incense left with each body…
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro – Equimedian Jason installs new VR systems for a living but finds that reality is starting to change subtly around him…

Kiersten White – Mister Magic the cast of a cancelled children’s TV programme meet again after 30 years and try to understand just what happened to close the show down.
Phoenicia Rogerson – Herc the stories of all the people behind the Labours of Hercules!
C. J. Piper – The Deer and the Dragon Marlow would rather she were mad than believe her missing lover was a Prince of Hell!

Ken MacLeod – Lightspeed Trilogy vol 3

Following on from Beyond the Reach of Earth & Beyond the Hallowed Sky comes Beyond the Light Horizon, a paperback original which concludes the Lightspeed Trilogy.

As before, it’s a paperback original and is £10.99 plus £2.51 postage within the UK, making a total of £13.50
It’s official release date is the 16th May but then Ken has to actually sign the books…

E.mail me if you want a signed copy, and how you’d like it signed, and I’ll issue the usual online Invoice.
Customers who have received the previous volumes from me have already been e-mailed…

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 4th May 2024

in hardcover:

Alexandria Warwick – The North Wind Greek Edgewood has been magically surrounded by ice for centuries but now the protective barrier might be failing… The 1st in the Four Winds series

Jared Shurin (editor) – The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1
Jared Shurin (editor) – The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 2 previously out in the USA as a single softcover volume; it was very big!
Lisa Kaszek (editor) – The Future Is Female! anthology of 25 stories dating from 1928 to 1969. Published by the Library of America
Lisa Kaszek (editor) – The Future Is Female! Volume Two: The 1970s second anthology of 25 stories dating from 1971 to 1979. Published by the Library of America
Ursula K. LeGuin – Five Novels a Library of America h/c containing The Lathe of Heaven, The Eye of the Heron, The Beginning Place, Searoad & Lavinia. 900+ pages of text
Ursula K. LeGuin – Collected Poems a Library of America h/c. Approx 800 pages

in softcover:

A. Y. Chao – Shanghai Immortal Lady Jing is a Ward of the King of Hell, but doesn’t really fit in among his Court…
P. Djeli Clark – Abeni’s Song slavers attack Abeni’s village but he is saved by a witch who trains him in magic so he can restore his village…
J. T. Greathouse – The Pattern of the World the final part of the Pact and Pattern trilogy
Erin M. Evans – Relics of Ruin volume 2 of the Books of the Usurper
Gareth Hanrahan – The Sword Unbound vol 2 in his Lands of the Firstborn series, after The Sword Defiant
Kacen Callender – Infinity Alchemist Ash has been found performing alchemy, but his discoverer offers him a deal…
Daniel M. Ford – The Warden as a female Necromancer, Aelis is assigned to a remote border village where nothing ever happens…
Charlie Heston – Catchpenny Sid Catchpenny is a thief who can travel through mirrors, but a crisis is growing which requires his talent…
Douglas Preston – Extinction Pleistocene Park! No dinosaurs, just mammoths and other pleistocene megafauna!

Adam S. Leslie – Lost in the Garden 3 young women travel though an idyllic English countryside on their way to the mysterious Almanby
C. M. Rosens – The Crows Carrie takes on a restoration project of a remote house known locally as ‘The Crows’…
Christina Henry – The House That Horror Built a woman takes a cleaning job in a gothic mansion belonging to a top horror director…

David Weber & Jacob Holo – The Weltall File the 4th in their Gordian Protocol series…
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller – Salvage Right the latst in their Liaden Universe series; Steve died very recently so I’m unsure if the series will continue…

Harlan Ellison – Greatest Hits his best-known stories, edited by J. Michael Straczyinski

Orsola Casagrande & Mustafa Gundogdu (editors) – Kurdistan +100 : Stories from a Future State from Comma Press;I had the ‘Iraq‘ volume a while back… 13 stories looking a century in the future.

art, etc:

Gretel Lusky – Wayfinder: The Art of GL full colour h/c from 3dtotal Publishing

Balthazar Pagani – How to Draw a Graphic Novel heavily illustrated softcover guide from Thames & Hudson

magazines:

Illustrators – The Trigan Empire Artists’ Special great looking softcover featuring all the artists who drew the strip, including Don Lawrence & Ron Embleton – along with writers Mike Butterworth & Ken Roscoe.

Locus – issue # 759 April 2024 cover date with interviews with Ken MacLeod & Nalo Hopkinson

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 27th April 2024

in hardcover:

Harlan Ellison (editor) – Dangerous Visions reprint of the groundbreaking 1967 anthology; also in softover

in softcover:

Anthony Ryan – The Traitor final book of his Covenant of Steel trilogy, following on from The Pariah & The Martyr
Max Gladstone – Wicked Problems volume 2 of his Craft Wars series after2023’s Dead Country, itself a sequel to The Craft Sequence.
Djamila Morani – The Djinn’s Apple orphaned in the sumptuous Caliphate, Nardeen must discover why her family were killed, and the significance of a mysterious manuscript!
Francesco Dimitri – The Dark Side of the Sky in rural Italy a retreat called the Bastion might be run by con artists, or maybe it does hold secrets…

Richy Craven – Spirit Level troubled office worker Danny can see ghosts (including his recently deceased best friend) – but only when he’s drunk!

Marie Brennan – The Market of 100 Fortunes the latest novel set in the Legend of the Five Rings world

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 20th April 2024

in hardcover:

Mark Lawrence – The Book That Broke the World sequel to The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
James Logan – The Silverblood Promise vol 1 of The Last Legacy Lukan vows to discover his estranged father’s murderer. Great fantasy romp!
John Wiswell – Someone You Can Build a Nest In she may be a monster but her hunters are worse!
Judy I. Lyn – Song of the Six Realms exotic adventure inspired by Chinese mythology…
Rogba Payne – The Dance of Shadows a budding musician must become a Shadow Wielder to fight back against a colonising empire…
Taran Matharu – Dragon Rider fleeing a coup, prince Jai steals a dragon egg to try to bond with the soon to hatch dragon!
Leigh Bardugo – Familiar a maid is persuaded by her mistress to use her minor magical skills to help her at the Court in madrid but the maid sees her chance!

Scott A. Howard – The Other Valley hike out the valley in one direction and you’re 20 years in the future! Go the other way and you’re 20 years in the past! But travel is very strictly controlled…
Sylvie Cathrall – A Letter to the Luminous Deep in an undersea civilisation two people try to solve the mystery of their brother & sister’s disappearance.after a sea-quake, and the puzzle they were working on…

Scarlett Thomas – Sleepwalkers a couple find their honeymoon on an idylic island reveals a very dark mystery…

in softcover:

Adrian Tchaikovsky – Lords of Uncreation last volume of The Final Architecture trilogy
M. Darusha Wehm – Shores of a New Horizon a Terraforming Mars novel; problems with a contaminated ice asteroid, which was meant to be their water supply…
Edward Ashton – Mal Goes to War another sequel to Mickey 7 (recently filmed as Mickey 17) and 3rd in the series after Antimatter Blues
Aliette de Bodard – A Fire Born of Exile companion novel to The Red Scholar’s Wake
David Musgrave – Lambda set in a parallel world with a small population of semi-aquatic humans living alongside normal humans…

Olivie Blake – One For My Enemy power struggles between two rival families…
Donna Glee Williams – The Night Field plague has descended on the People and Pyn-Poi must climb the unclimbable cliff to confront the Ancestors…

Matt Wallace – Savage Company the Empire’s pressganged, disposable shock troops are known as the Savages but they are a secret from the general population…
Brent Weeks – Night Angel Nemesis part 1 of The Kylar Chronicles, sequels to his Night Angel trilogy
Salinee Goldenburg – The Last Phi Fighter demon hunter Ex agrees to guide a woman though a treacherous forest…

Ted Chiang – Stories of Your Life and Others new cover design on his short story collection
Aaron Worth (editor) – Out of the Past the latest anthology from the British Library and their Tales of the Weird series, subtitled Tales of Haunting History

Jack Dann – The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History only taken 6+ months for my suppliers to get this! A guide of how to write it, and the pitfalls to avoid, subtitled A handbook on Craft, Art, And History

art, etc:

3dtotal Publications – Frank Frazetta: An Artists’ Tribute h/c with 17 different artists discussing Frazetts’a art, and producing their own tribute works…

Brian Sibley – Maps of Middle Earth h/c with 160 pages of illustrated (b&w drawings) text about the geography with 4 loose poster maps (smaller than before) of The Hobbit, the classic Middle Earth map, Numenor and Beleriand. Previously available with larger posters in a slipcase.

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 6th April 2024

Please note that the shop will be closed next week – the week ending Saturday13th April – open again on Tuesday 16th April

in hardcover:

David Weber – Toll of Honor the latest Honor Harrington book!

Robert Jackson Bennett – The Tainted Cup on the fringe of the Empire where strange magics and contagions are rife, a weird murder has been committed…
Lucy Holland – Song of the Huntress trying to resist the Romans, Herla makes a dread pact with the Otherworld King which will last for centuries… Her previous historical novel, Sistersong, was very good.
Barbara Hambly – The Nubian’s Curse the latest Benjamin January case…

in softcover:

Brandon Sanderson – Tress of the Emerald Sea his latest Cosmere softcover
Thomas D. Lee – Perilous Times the slumbering knights haven’t been awakened for help since the Battle of the Somme…
Kate Mascarenhas – Hokey Pokey gothic ghost story set during a blizzard in a big modern 1920s Birmingham hotel!
Shannon Chakraborty – The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi from the author of The Daevabad Trilogy, which began with The City of Brass

L. M. Sagas – Cascade Failure the 1st in the Ambit’s Run series; Jal is a Guild deserter but ends up crewing on a Guild spaceship which discovers a massacre on an apparently abandoned planet – and a survivor!
Subodhana Wijeyeratne – Triangulum Dawn & her Golden Swarm with other family and allies have kept the peace in the Nine Worlds for 3,000 years but that may be about to change!

Martha Wells – The Book of Ile-Rien omnibus volume with revised versions of both The Element of Fire & The Death of the Necromancer (first published in 1993 & 98)

Ann Leckie – Lake of Souls short story collection
Kellie Wells – God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna short story collection

Lavie Tidhar (editor) – The Best of World S.F. volume 3
Harlan Ellison (editor) – Dangerous Visions re-issue of the ground-breaking 1967 anthology. Again, Dangerous Visions & The Last Dangerous Visions should follow in June & October! H/C editions will be available as well as the softcovers.
Robert Silverberg & Martin Harry Greenberg (editors) – The Wildside Press Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels 15 classics from the 1940s to the 70s! Many now might be considered novellas…

art, etc:

Square Enix – The Art Of Final Fantasy XVI the latest large h/c from the franchise

magazines:

Shoreline of Infinity – issue # 37: Spring 2024

Transreal on Holiday!

Please note that the shop will be closed for a week in April, from Sunday 7th to Monday 15th inclusive. Open again on Tuesday 16th April.

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 30th March 2024

in hardcover:

Adrian Tchaikovsky – Alien Clay an outspoken professor wants to study a distant planet’s alien ruins but ends up in a labour camp there instead…
Hao Jingfang – Jumpnauts during a tense standoff between the 2 major power blocs in 2080, a signal is received from deep space which may change history!

Sebastien de Castell – Play of Shadows 1st in new series Court of Shadows in the world of the Greatcoats.

Oliver K. Langmead – Calypso epic wide-screen space adventure & exploration, told in verse!

in softcover:

Nicholas Binge – Ascension an expedition to climb the tallest mountain in the world, which has just appeared sticking out of the South Pacific!

Rebecca Yarros – Fourth Wing Violet is forced to join an elite dragon-rider training programme!
Constance Sayers – The Star and the Strange Moon a budding film star disappears but maybe she’s living inside her final film…
C. E. McGill – Our Hideous Progeny in the mid 19thC a niece of Victor Frankenstein tries to reconstruct a dinosaur!

Mike Ashley (Editor) – Fear in the Blood the latest in their Tales of the Weird anthologies from the British Library; subtitled Tales from the Dark Lineages of the Weird

art, etc:

Mike Trim – The Future Was Fab: The Art of MT softcover full of b&w & colour concept art & sketches of aircraft, spaceships, etc., mainly for Jerry Anderson projects! F.A.B.
Peter de Sève – Local Fauna: The Art of PDS large h/c, full of fantastical cratures, etc. including concept art for films such as the Ice Age franchise, Mulan, A Bug’s Life & Finding Nemo!
Jeff Smith – RASL 450+ page h/c with the complete collected comic about ‘a dimension-jumping art thief with personal problems’, from the creator of Bone. Full colour.

magazines:

Locus – issue # 758 March cover date

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 23rd March 2024

in hardcover:

Snorri Kristjansson – The Hidden Legion the exploits of a secret Roman Legion in the early 1stC!
Should have had it several months ago!

in softcover:

Charles Stross – Season of Skulls the latest of the Laundry/New Management novels
Sarah K. Jackson – Not Alone Katie and her young son must travel across the toxic wastelands of a near future Britain seeking safety…
J. Michael Straczynski – The Glass Box Riley is imprisoned in a dreadful new facility run by a future fascist government…
Stephen Graham Jones – The Angel of Indian Lake 3rd in the trilogy which began with My Heart is a Chainsaw & Don’t Fear the Reaper

Faith Hunter – Rift in the Soul the 6th of her Soulwood novels…

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (editor & translator) – The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction includes the 100+ page title story by Hemendrakumar Roy and 3 other shorter works

art, etc:

Mimahamu – In the Wind: The Art of Mimahamu full colour softcover
Tatsuyuki Tanaka – Cannabis Works 2 hardcover; no drug content that I could see!

PIE International – Cheerful Local Package Design to Make Souvenirs Stand Out hundreds of photos of examples of packaging, etc!
PIE International – Graphic Design for Shops & Cafes in the Age of Social Media hundreds, maybe a thousand+ carefully set photos of all sorts of stuff! From hairstyles to washing machines to do-nuts!

magazines:

Character Design Quarterly – CDQ issue # 28