New Titles – week ending 19th June 2021
in hardcover:
Brian Catling – Hollow a band of mercenaries are tasked with transporting a religious oracle across landscapes populated by beasts from Bosch and Bruegel
Terry Miles – Rabbits an addictive, mysterious game has rumours of wonderful prizes – maybe even immortality! But by Round 11 there seems to be errors creeping in, with possibly disastrous consequences
in large format:
Miles Cameron – Artifact Space using fake papers, Marca has gained a place on the huge interstellar Greatship Athens but leaving her past behind isn’t easy
Mirah Bolender – Fortress of Magi sequel to City of Broken Magic & The Monstrous Citadel. The 3rd of the Chronicles of Amicae
in ‘B’ format:
Megan E. O’Keefe – Catalyst Gate the 3rd of her Protectorate novels, after Velocity Weapon & Chaos Vector
Stark Holborn – Ten Low a ex-con scraping a living out on civilisation’s edge saves an enhanced enemy General from a wrecked spaceship…
Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Mexican Gothic just what it says! Loved her earlier Gods of Jade and Shadow but this time fewer gods and more shadows!
Ge Yan – Strange Beasts of China a cryptozoologist is commissioned to track down the ancient beasts of legend (and other more recent cratures) some of which are closer than anyone suspects!. Translated by Jeremy Hang
Adrian Tchaikovsky – The House on the Old Cliff dyslexic friendly, large print novella featuring paranormal investigators, time trave;l and an ancient Sciottish home!
George Robinson – Greyfriars Bobby and the One O’Clock Gun new, revised edition of a very local history book!
in paperback:
art, etc:
magazines:
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Saturday: 11.00 – 17.00
New Titles – w/e 12th June 2021
in hardcover:
Zen Cho – Black Water Sister a young woman returns to her family’s roots (and ghosts) in Malasia…
Martha Wells – Fugitive Telemerty the latest Murderbot novella!
Kate Milford – The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book stranded by bad weather at the Blue Vein Tavern, varied travellers tell their different stories in their own ways… Set in the world of The Greenglass House.
David Weber & Richard Fox – Governor volume 1 of Ascent to Empire, although it also appears to be a set in the same background as Path of the Fury/In Fury Born (originally from the early 90s)
John Ringo & Gary Poole (editors) – We Shall Rise anthology with 11 new stories set in the world of Ringo’s Black Tide Rising apocalyptic zombie series
Roland Lehoucq, Loic Mangin & Jean-Sebastian Steyer (editors) – The Science of Middle Earth serious essays about all sorts of aspects of Tolkien’s Middle Earth! The anatomy of Hobbit feet; climate; metallurgy, Elvish eyesight, and many more! B&W illustrations by Arnauld Rafaelian
in large format:
Edward Cox – The Wood Bee Queen a soon-to-be unemployed folklorist may be the last hope of saving the ruling House Wood Bee of a realm on the other side of the sky and the sea… Signed copies available v. soon.
J. S. Dawes – The Last Watch far in the future one of the worst military postings is to be a Sentinel, guarding The Divide at the edge of the Universe
Jack Campbell – Pirate of the Prophecy volume 1 of the Empress of the Endless Sea series. Her naval career destroyed by a prophecy, Jules flees to join a pirate crew. Elsewhere, the powerful Guilds hold strange secrets about the Empire’s origins…
Margaret St.Clair – A Compendium of Mst.C little remembered, innovative female sf author; 62 short stories, almost all from the 1950s, with a couple slightly later. Big book, small print! Edited by Christopher Broschell
in ‘B’ format:
D. K. Fields – The Stitcher and the Mute more stories are revealed in volume 2 of the Tales of Fenest as Detective Cora Gorderheim continues her investigation into the murky world of murder and politics… I’m keen to read volume 3!
Tasha Suri – The Jasmine Throne volume 1 of The Burning Kingdoms confined in an ancient temple, Princess Manhi drams of vengence against her family while her maid dreams of freedom! Epic fantasy
Nicky Drayden – Escaping Exodus: Symbiosis sequel to Escaping Exodus, one of the strangest generation starship novels I’ve read!
Robbie Arnott – The Rain Heron Ren lives alone in a bleak future, but then soldiers arrive searching for a mythical bird said to be able to change the weather…
Fernando A. Flores – Tears of the Trufflepig absurdist near-future novel about the black market for animals of species brought back from extinction…
Kate Milford – Greenglass House 1st in the series set in the old smugglers inn. Long time since I’ve stocked it!
Nick Mametas – The Planetbreaker’s Son the latest in the PM Press Outspoken Authors series. a novella, a short story, an essay, a bibliography & an interview with Terry Bisson.
Tarun K. Saint (editor) – New Horizons subtitled The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction. 28 new stories
in paperback:
Adam Wisniewski-Snerg – Robot another of the new Penguin Science Fiction Classics, translated from Polish by Tomasz Mirkowicz. BER-66‘s controllers tell him that he’s a robot, but as he caries out his mission of exploring a mysterious underground complex, he becomes less sure that he is!
art, etc:
Frederic Brremaud & Federico Bertolucci – Love: The Mastiff the latest in the series of full colour h/cs about a day in the life of a particular animal. Looks great.
Frederic Brremaud & Federico Bertolucci – Love: The Fox new edition. Also in stock are Love: The Tiger, Love: The Lion & Love: The Dinosaur
Frederic Brremaud & Federico Bertolucci – Brindille and the Shadow Hunters h/c graphic novel about a young girl who might be an elf!
Jim Henson‘s Labyrinth – Under the Spell h/c collecting the comics Under the Spell # 1 & Masquerade # 1
Ben Fisher, Emily S. Whitten & Michelle Nguyen – The Underfoot: The Mighty Deep vol 1 of the full colour adventures of some post-human future ‘uplifted’ animals. Vol 2 came in last month… softcover; good fun!
Jeremy Tankard & Hermione Tankard – Yorick and Bones humorous full colour softcover featuring a young skeleton and his dog, and lots of Shakespeare references!
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Saturday: 11.00 – 17.00
New Titles – w/e 6th June 2021
in large format:
Brian Keene & Nick Mamatas – The Damned Highway subtitled Fear and Loathing in Arkham the darker side of Nixon’s 1972 Presidential campaign trail!
in ‘B’ format:
Peter F. Hamilton – Saints of Salvation the 3rd in the Salvation Sequence
Chaz Brenchley – Three Twins at the Crater School steampunk high jinks at a girl’s boarding school on Mars!
in paperback:
The 2nd tranche of new Penguin Classics adding to the 8 released last year
Kōbō Abe – The Ark Sakura classic Japanese novel from 1984 about a recluce who retreats to a vast bunker system
Samuel R. Delany – Driftglass his 1971 collection with classic work from 1967 – 71
Harry Harrison – Make Room! Make Room! classic over-population novel, filmed as Soylent Green
Anna Kavan – Ice frozen post-nuclear dystopia from 1967
David Lindsay – A Voyage to Arcturus astral projection to a strange planet around a distant star
George S. Schuyler – Black No More race satire from 1931
Robert Sheckley – Untouched By Human Hands his 1st short story collection (1954), with work from 1952 & 53
Olaf Stabledon – Star Maker epic tale of the Cosmos!
James Tiptree Jr. – Warm Worlds and Otherwise her 1975 collection with stories from 1968 – 1973. Includes Silverberg’s erroneous Who is Tiptree. What is He? essay
magazines:
Locus – issue # 724, May 2021 cover date. Includes interviews with Nnedi Okoraror & Nghi Vo
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New Titles – w/e 29th May 2021
in hardcover:
Adrian Tchaikovsky– Shards of Earth part 1 of The Final Architecture trilogy, his big new series about a war the humans thought had ended!
Joanne M. Harris – Honeycomb her latest fantasy, illustrated by Charles Vess. There is a story the bee used to tell…
Christopher Buelhman – The Blacktongue Thief having run up huge debts training to be a thief, Kinch awaits the next traveller to pass his hiding place, but Galva is a survivor of the brutal Goblin Wars…
Mike Shackle – Fool’s Hope sequel to We Are the Dead and part 2 of The Last War
A. J. Smith – The Sword Falls sequel to The Glass Breaks and vol 2 of The Form & Void Trilogy
Catriona Ward – The Last House on Needless Street in the trees at the end of Needless Street something unexpected lies buried… Probably not related to Needless Road in Perth! 😉
in ‘B’ format:
Elizabeth Bear – Machine sequel to Ancestral Night and thus the 2nd White Space novel
Stephen Baxter – Creator the 2nd in his World Engines series, following Destroyer
Gareth Hanrahan – The Broken God volume 3 of The Black Iron Legacy. The 1st was The Gutter Prayer & v2 was The Shadow Saint
Alfred Bester – The Flowering Thundermug novelette from 1964. An imagined look back at the mid-20thC from 500 years in the future
Jen Baker (editor) – Minor Hauntings the latest Tales of the Weird anthology from the British Library, subtitled Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth.
Mike Ashley (editor) – Future Crimes a Science Fiction Classics anthology from the British Library, subtitled Mysteries and Detection Through Time and Space
in paperback:
Eric Flint & Walter H. Hunt – 1636: The Atlantic Encounter the latest paperback (apparently the 25th!) in his 1632 / Ring of Fire alternate history series
art, etc:
Aron Wiesenfeld – Travellers h/c. Guaranteed no superheroes from this ex-Marvel artist! Moody forests & landscapes
Hisao Fukui – Fantastic Origami Sea Creatures hardcover with full colour details on making walrusses, penguins, manta rays, ichthyosaurs, and 16 other marine based animals!
Guillaume Perreault – Biker Bandits a 2nd book about the Postman From Space
Frederic Brremaud & Federico Bertolucci – Love: The Tiger reprint of the 1st in their series. A wonderfully illustrated day in the life of a tiger!
magazines:
Illustration – issue # 72 excellent feature on the b&w work of Frank Fruzyna. Also Mark Ludlow & C. Calvert Beall
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Tues – Fri: 12.00 – 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 17.00
Shop Hours, End of Sale, etc
I’ve been offering £2.00 OFF every item as a special re-opening offer but I’m afraid it has to end!
The last day the offer is on will be Saturday 29th May, after which the marked prices will apply again.
I would have run it to the end of the month but, since the shop is closed on Mondays, Saturday 29th is the end of the month for me!
The shop will also be closed for part of Friday 28th as I just gor my appointment letter for my 2nd COVID vaccination jab. I hope to open not long after 14.00 but my first appointment was very slow and took over an hour queueing, so no guarantees just when I open!
The current shop hours are
Tue – Fri: 12.00 – 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 17.00
Closed Sunday & Monday
As things pick up again I hope to open longer hours, as before.
New Titles – w/e 22nd May 2021
in hardcover:
Natasha Pulley – The Kingdoms alternate history where, having won at Trafalgar in 1805, the French Empire rules supreme, including over England! In Londres Joe receives a postcard from almost 100 years in the past, with a picture of a much more recently-built Scottish lighthouse on it…
in ‘B’ format:
Joe Abercrombie – The Trouble With Peace the 2nd in The Age of Madness trilogy, which started with A Little Hatred
Seth Dickinson – The Tyrant the 3rd in his Masquerade series, which began with The Traitor & The Monster
Mike Ashley (editor) – Queens of the Abyss the latest anthology from the British Library in their Tales of the Weird series. Subtitled Lost Stories From the Women of the Weird
art, etc:
Daniel Wallace – Godzilla vs Kong: One Will Fall full colour art from the recent film. Subtitled The Art of the Ultimate Battle Royale
Patrick J. Jones – Oil Painting Masterclass softcover full of tips and examples. Mainly portraiture rather than landscapes.
Tim Fielder – Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale hardcover; looks interesting!
Alejandro Jodorowsky & Jeremy – Knights of Heliopolis full colour graphic novel set in 18thC Spain and featuring alchemy, secret Royal identities & immortality!
Jak Lemonner & Eddy Simon – Renoir: Father and Son full colour graphic novel of the artists’ lives, with an intro by Jacques Renoir, a descendant.
Barry Windsor-Smith – Monsters giant b&w graphic novel. H/C
Val McDermid & Kathryn Briggs (artist) – Resistance b&w graphic novel about a fast-spreading disease!
Ben Fisher, Emily S. Whitten & Michelle Nguyen – The Underfoot: Into the Sun the continuing adventures of some very special hamsters! Full colour softcover
Andy Runton – Owly: Flying Lessons softcover reprint, with added English text in the speech bubbles!
Rob Reger & Buzz Parker – Emily the Strange: All Things Strange the complete collection in softcover
PS Artbooks Softee – Forbidden Worlds reprint of ‘stories of strange adventure’ from PS Artbooks
PS Artbooks Softee – Mysteries of Unexplained Worlds collects Unexplained Worlds issues # 1 – # 5
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New Titles – w/e 16th May 2021
in hardcover:
P. Djeli Clark – A Master of Djinn novel set in the background of last year’s excellent The Haunting of Tram 015 novella
Eric Flint & Griffin Barber – 1637: The Peacock Throne the latest in Flint’s 1632 / Ring of Fire series
in large format:
Zen Cho – Black Water Sister Jessamyn has moved back to the family home and now she keeps hearing her dead grandmother speaking to her, wanting justice…
Seanan McGuire – Angel of the Overpass the 3rd in her Ghost Roads series
Emma Melville – Long Miles Hoime the 2nd Inspector Marshall Mystery, as a city detective tries to get to grips with rural life and age-old legends as he tries to solve his cases…
Guy Haley – Richards & Klein an omnibus edition of his 22ndC crime-solving AI & it’s gun-toting sidekick cyborg. Contains slightly overhauled versions of Reality 36, Omega Point and Richards & Klein
Tobias S. Buckell – The Trove Jane dreams of adventure but is stuck helping her mother run an inn on a space port…
Ben Aaronovitch – Tales From the Folly very late getting this, but his Rivers of London short story collection is finally here!
Gideon Lichfield (editor) – Make Shift the latest in the Twelve Tomorrows series of sf anthologies from MIT Press
in ‘B’ format:
Essa Hansen – Nophek Gloss Caiden’s hope of survival lies in joining a crew of misfit aliens aboard a very strange spaceship..
Django Wexler – Hard Reboot off-worlder Kas is lured into the seedy side of brutal battle-droid prize fights back on Old Earth…
Nigel Foster – Revelations part 3 of the Netherspace Trilogy. The first two were co-authored with Andrew Lane
Raymond E. Feist – Queen of Storms sequel to King of Ashes and the 2nd in his Firemane Saga
Anna Stephens – The Stone Knife book 1 of The Songs of the Drowned only two tribes remain to stand against the Empire. But then there are also the river-dwelling monsters…
Suyi Davies Okungbowa – Son of the Storm the 1st volume of The Nameless Republic Danso is a scholar who only wants to do his research about what may be outside the City, but the ruling elite want his findings suppressed…
Nicole Jarvis – The Lights of Prague in 19thC Prague, the city’s lamplighters had a more important role in keeping the streets safe than lighting the lamps!
Jeff Noon – Within Without the 4th Nyquist Mystery
Eric Brown – Ace Doubles a fading Sf author is asked to ghost write a novel, but there’s something odd about the person he’s ghost-writing for… An homage to the sense of wonder!
in paperback:
W. Michael Gear – Unreconciled the 4th in his Donovan series, which began with Outpost
art, etc:
3dtotal Publishing – Creating Stylised Animals the latest in their series about aspects of visual art and a companion to the recent Creating Stylised Characters
magazines:
3dtotal Publishing – Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) issue # 16
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Saturday: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 12th May – Closed
For personal reasons Transreal Fiction will be closed on 12th May (tomorrow).
I should re-open at Noon on Thursday as normal.
All stock continues to be £2 off each item!
New Titles – w/e 8th May 2021
Sale! There is still £2 off every book or magazine in stock for in-shop sales!
in hardcover:
Andy Weir – Project Hail Mary Ryland comes to and discovers he’s lost his memory and all his crewmates re dead, – and that he’s part of a vital deep space mssion…
Arkady Martine – A Desolation Called Peace sequel to A Memory Called Empire
in large format:
Chloe Neill – Shadowed Steel the 3rd Heirs of Chicagoland novel
in ‘B’ format:
Naomi Novik – A Deadly Education El attends an academy of magic where you have to survive to graduate!
A. K. Larkwood – The Unspoken Name the 1st in the Serpent Gates series about girl who is offered a new fate rather than to sacrifice herself to the gods
Marie Brennan – Night Parade of 100 Demons a Legend of the Five Rings adventure!
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