Transreal Fiction new Titles – w/e 1st October 2022

Please note that the shop will not open until 13.00 on Saturday 1st October.

in hardcover:

Naomi Novik – The Golden Enclaves lesson 3 in her Scholomance series
Stephen Baxter – The Thousand Earths due to relativistic effects John Hackett will hardly age as he travels millions of years into the future to help prevent cosmic disaster!

Shuang Xuetao – Rouge Street 3 fantastical novellas rooted in present day China, translated by Jeremy Tiang

in softcover:

Adam Soto – This Weightless World how the arrival of aliens disrupts various lives…
G. R. Matthews – Seven Deaths of an Empire epic fantasy I missed a few months ago after my ceiling fell in…
M. Rickert – The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie a man returns home looking for his parents, but it’s always a mistake to visit Bellfairie…
Ling Ma – Bliss Montage collection of horror-tinged stories…
Larry Niven – The Magic Goes Away omnibus edition with the novels The Magic Goes Away & The Magic May Return plus associated collection More Magic with stories by Niven and others. Not new but I’ve never had it in stock before (iirc)

magazines:

Locus – issue # 340 September cover date; includes tributes to Nichelle Nichols & Alexi Panshin

Transreal Fiction new Titles – w/e 24th September 2022

in hardcover:

Paul MaAuley – Beyond the Burn Line long after climate change is not even a memory, life has moved on…
Hiron Ennes – Leech in the remote north a doctor has died from a parasite, but being possessed by the Interprovincal Medical Institute should have made that impossible…
Victor Lavalle – The Ballad of Black Tom jazz age New York confronts Lovecraft’s monsters… from tordotcom
Darcie Little Badger – Snake Falls to Earth Nina befriends Oli, from the land of spirits & monsters, to help avert a catastrophe…
David Weber & Jane Lindskold – A New Clan the 4th Star Kingdom novel, set in the Honorverse

in softcover:

Kelly Robson – High Times in the Low Parliament Lana is a scribe who has to juggle all sorts of problems to prevent disaster!
Naslem Jamnia – The Bruising of Qilwa Firuz is a refugee in Qilwa and finds a deadly, magic-caused disease is threatening her new refuge…
Kai Ashante Wilson – The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps a perilous caravan trek across the wastelands by two demi-gods, fallen from heaven…

Walter Jon Williams – Imperium Restored the final book in his Praxis trilogy, after The Accidental War & Fleet Elements
Brian Trent – Ten Thousand Thunders hundreds of years in the future, Gethin is investigating his own death and whether it was part of a deeper scheme…
Peter Clines – The Broken Room burnt-out agent Hector owes the ghost of another agent in Natalie’s head big time!
Dave Bara – Trinity Jared was on the losing side in the Rim Rebellion, but gets the chance to command the 1st ftl ship… From Baen Books

John M. Ford – Growing Up Weightless the latest in Orion’s SF Masterwork series, about growing up on the Moon. First published in 1993

Manon Burz-Labrande (editor) – Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird the latest anthology in the Tales of the Weird series from the British Library
Michael Wheatley (editor) – The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan anthology published by the British Library in their Tales of the Weird series
P. L. McMillan & Solomon Forse (editors) – Howls From the Dark Ages anthology of horror stories set in the medieval period

art, etc:

Honojiro Towoji – Shikinomemorie Poster Book published by PIE International; softcover with Japanese art, both colour & b&w

Carlos Trillo & Enrique Breccia – Alva Mayor book 1: The Legend of El Dorado nice looking h/c with b&w art; adventure set in S. America in the 16th C.
A. W. Jantha & Gris Grimley – Hocus Pocus novelisation of the 1993 Disney film; hardcover with large text & colour illustrations by Grimley
Kyla Vanderklugt – Crows: Genius Birds in the Science Comics series

PS Artbooks Softee – Pre-Code Classics: Mister Mystery contains issues 1 – 5 from 1951/52. Ful colour siftcover
PS Artbooks Softee – Pre-Code Classics: Strange Mysteries contains issues 1 – 5 from 1951/52. Ful colour siftcover

magazines:

Shoreline of Infinity – issue # 32 lead story by Adam Roberts

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 17th September 2022

in hardcover:

Christopher Priest – Expect Me Tomorrow climate change, twins, possible time travel or communication, spanning two centuries, from Victorian explorers to mid 21st C brain experiments…

in soft cover:

Olive Blake – The Atlas Six stiff competition to fill the vacent seat on the World’s magicians’ prestigious Alexandrian Society
C. J. Cooke – The Lighthouse Witches Luna’s family had died 20 years earlier, on a remote Scottish island. But now her sister has re-appeared, looking exactly as she did before!
Davina Evans – Notorious Sorcerer Siyon is a ratherslipshod alchemist and has screwed up badly and now the whole city may be destroyed!
Mary E. Pearson – The Beauty of Darkness final book of the Remnant Chronicles. The Kiss of Deception & The Heart of Betrayal also came in. Reprint.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Signal to Noise reprint. Meche used to do magic, but can she still use her old skills after 20 years…
Faith Hunter – Final Heir the 15th Jane Yellowrock adventure

Diana Gabaldon – Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone massive (1320+ pp) new Outlander novel!
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch – Out of Service sequel to Wish You Weren’t Here. Rooks vol 2, about a family of ghost-hunters
M. Rickert – Lucky Girl novella; Christmas horror story

Taylor Anderson – Purgatory’s Shore book 1 of his new alternate history series Artillerymen. In 1847 some US soldiers deployed to Mexico are shipwrecked in a storm – and wake up in a vastly different world! (Although in just under a century, the Destroyermen (his previous, similar series) will arrive there also!)
David Weber & Eric Flint – To End In Fire the 4th Crown of Slaves book, set in Weber’s Honorverse

Premee Mohamed – And What can We Offer You Tonight novella set in a future, totalitarian city

Eileen Gunn – Night Shift the latest Outspoken Author volume from PM Press. The usual mix of a novella, some shorter pieces, an essay & an interview by Terry Bisson.

art, etc:

Jacob Johnston – The Art of Ron Cobb h/c full of concept art & sketches all the way from Dark Star, Star Wars & Alien through Total Recall & Firefly to District 9 and beyond!

magazines:

McSweeney’s Quarterly – issue # 67 consisting of 3 small books of prose, poetry, and illustration

Closing Early Today (Friday)

For personal reasons Transreal Fiction will close at around 16.00 on Friday 16th September.

Open again as usual at 11.00 on Saturday.

(Transreal Fiction will also be closed on Monday 19th September for my usual day off.

And, further down the road, the shop won’t open until approx 13.00 on Saturday 1st October)

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 10th September 2022

in hardcover:

Stephen King – Fairy Tale young Charlie does odd jobs for his aging neighbour, but when he dies Charlie inherits the secret to entering a parallel world…
Alex Pheby – Malarkoi sequel to Mordew
Stacey McEwan – Ledge book 1 of the Glacian Trilogy. The people living on the completely inaccessible Ledge must regularly sacrifice one of their own to the winged Glacians in order to survive!

Lafcadio Hearne – Of Ghosts and Goblins a selection of Japanese stories, first published around 120 years ago… nice little edition

J. E. A. Tyler – The Complete Tolkien Companion re-issue. Encyclopedia first published in 1976

in softcover:

Wesley Chu – The Art of Prophecy book 1 of The War Arts Saga epic fantasy, heavy on the martial arts!

Tori Bovarino – Not Good For Maidens a dark re-telling of the poem Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti. Lou has only 3 days to rescue her aunt from the goblin slavers by beating them at their own game…
Tori Bovarino – Devil Makes Three Tess & Elliot release a demon from a school library book by mistake…
Christina Henry – Horseman set 30 years after the events in Washington Irving‘s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Rachel Harrison – Cackle Annie has fled big city life to live in the country but becomes friends with someone who appears to be a witch!

Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman – Aurora’s End the final part of the Aurora Cycle. Can the disparate members of Squad 312 (Academy Class of 2380) save the Galaxy!? Aurora Rising & Aurora Burning also now in stock

art, etc:

Paul Davidson – Cosmic-70: The Art of PD softcover, mainly full page panels of various characters/monsters

magazines:

Illustrators Special Issue – issue # 14: The Illustrated History of Warren Magazines all about Eerie, Creepy, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Vampirella and more!

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 3rd September 2022

in hardcover:

R. F. Kuang – Babel big new fantasy set in late 19thC Oxford, in a world where silver has magical properties. A young woman arrives from Canton and takes up enployment at the towering, Empire-influencing ‘Royal Institute of Translation’ at Oxford. From the author of The Poppy War trilogy
Claire North – Ithaca Penelope’s life as she struggles to keep her kingdom intact for Odysseus’ return
Travis Klune – Wolfsong young Ox was a loner & didn’t think he’d amount to much, but then a family of shape-shifters moved in next door!
Alexandra Rowland – A Taste of Gold and Iron to regain favour, inexperienced Prince Kadou is investigating a break-in in the city but soon finds it’s a lot more serious!

Elizabeth Bear – The Origin of Storms 3rd in The Lotus Kingdoms series which began with The Stone in the Skull & The Red-Stained Wings

Nigel Kneale – Tomato Cain and Other Stories collection dating from 1949, well before his tv screenplay writing for the likes of Quatermass. Mainly concerning life on the Isle of Man at the time.
Maurice Leblanc – The Adventures of Arsene Lupine 9 short stories from the early 20th C featuring the imfamous gentleman burglar. Translated from French by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos. This is a small Macmillan Collector’s Library edition, published in 2021

Robert Foster – The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth: The Definitive Guide to the World of J. R. R. Tolkien although the title page gives it as The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth: From The Hobbit to The Silmarillion (1st pub with that title in 1978, although it appears to date from 1971 under a slightly different title and portions appeared as early as 1966!) This new edition has the 2003 edition’s full-colour illustrations by Ted Naismith)

in softcover:

Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Certain Dark Things vampires in Mexico City!
Trudi Canavan – Maker’s Curse oops! I missed this during lockdown. 4th in her Millennium’s Rule series

Tim Pratt – The Veiled Masters the 3rd part of his Twilight Imperium series
Brian Trent – Redspace Rising tracking down body-swapping war criminals on Mars! Sequel to Ten Thousand Thunders

art, etc:

Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson – Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad Dib continuing the adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s classic novel. Art by Paul Allen & Patricia Martin

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 27th August 2022

in hardcover:

Becky Chambers – Prayer for the Crown-Shy the 2nd Monk & Robot novella and the sequel to A Psalm For the Wild-Built
Tanya Huff – Into the Broken Lands following the devastating Mage War Nonee & her family must attempt to cross the Broken Lands… Part 1 of a new epic fantasy series

in softcover:

Nnedi Okorafor – Noor disabled from birth & subsequently also injured in a serious accident, the much-augmented Noor is forced to flee across the Sahal, watched on-line by millions…
T. L. Huchu – Our Lady of the Mysterious Ailments sequel to The Library of the Dead and the 2nd of the Edinburgh Nights series
Mercedes Lackey – Beyond vol 1 of her latest Valdemar series, Founding of Valdemar

Joseph Jacobs – Celtic Folk & Fairy Tales 26 stories collected by the Victorian/Edwardian folklorist. Subtitled ‘Magical stories from the land of the Celts’

Michael Shea – Mr. Cannyharme written in 1981, a novel length adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft‘s story The Hound, re-set in San Francisco from Europe
Linda Shea & S. T. Joshi (editors) – The Autopsy: Best Weird Stories of Michael Shea. The title story will soon be on Netflix as one of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities

art books, etc:

Trina Robbins – Gladys Parker: A Life in Comics; A Passion for Fashion bio following both her fashion designer career and her popular newspaper comic strips, published from the early 30s to the mid-60s, including Flapper Fanny & Mopsy

Peter & Maria Hoey – Bend of Luck full-color, episodic graphic novel in which luck will find a way!
Michael Deforge – Birds of Maine h/c with 450+ full colour pages all about the fantastical life of birds!
Jim Woodring – One Beautiful Spring Day 400 b&w pages, including 100 of new art, tying together & resolving his earlier tales Congress of the Animals, Fran & Poochytown
Bong Redila – Melag: Town of Fables softcover with short, b&w stories of curious or fun events in a fictional town somewhere between Dreamland & the Phillipines! From Fantagraphics
Kaui Shirai & Posuka Demizu – The Promised Neverland: Art Book World full colour h/c graphic novel from the pages of Shonen Jump, which includes dozens of pages of extra concept art, storyboards, etc!

PS Artbooks Presents – Scream facsimile edition of issue #2 from October ’73. b&w art
PS Artbooks Softee – Strange Suspense Stories vol 5. Part of their Silver Age Classics series; incluses issues 38 – 42 from1958/9
PS Artbooks Softee – Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds vol 5. Part of their Silver Age Classics series; incluses issues 21 – 25 from 1960/1

magazines:

Illustration – issue # 77 includes articles on Fritz Willis & Raymond Johnson
Heavy Metal – issue # 318 alternate covers, inc a Hildebrandt

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 20th August 2022

in hardcover:

Sunyi Dean – The Book Eaters there are only 6 ancient families left in Britain who still subist by eating the printed word…
Sangu Mandana – The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Mika lives quietly, concealing her abilities, but then she is asked to teach 3 young witches the craft

in softcover:

Tasha Suri – The Oleander Sword the 2nd book of The Burning Kingdoms, following on from The Jasmine Throne
Richard Swan – Justice of Kings Konrad is an Emperor’s Justice, which can be a dangerous position…
Dan Koboldt – Silver Queendom a team of tricksters are asked to steal a consignment of Dreamwine…

Josh Reynolds – Flower Path a Daidouji Shin Mystery set in the world of The Legend of the Five Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings new compact omnibus of the trilogy. Small print!

Paula Guran (editor) – The Year’s Best Fantasy Volume 1 the best short stories from 2021
Gerry McGowan & Andrew Sherlock (editors) – The Lost Letters of Flann O’Brien a collection of letters purporting to be from various other authors to O’Brien. Looks fun!

magazines:

Character Design Quarterly – CDQ issue # 20
Character Design Quarterly – CDQ issue # 21

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 13th August 2022

in softcover:

Stephen Aryan – The Warrior sequel to The Coward and the 2nd half of The Quest for Heroes duology
Jay Posey – Every Star a Song the sequel to Every Star a Grave. Vol 2 of The Ascendance
Randee Dawn – Tune in Tomorrow a secretive reality tv show, with the Fae as the audience!

Adam Roberts – Haven re-issue of the companion volume to Shelter by Dave Hutchinson. Together they comprise The Aftermath. Not sure if any more books are planned; I suspect not.
Roger Zelazny – The Second Chronicles of Amber 22 years after the Fantasy Masterworks edition of the 1st five books of Amber, we finally get the Fantasy Masterworks edition of books 6 – 10!

art, etc:

Fortunino Matania – 1914-191: Through the Eyes of FM. H/C with period b&w illustrations of the Western Front; an Illustrators Super Special, edited by Peter Richardson

Alexandro Jodorowsky – Selected Short Stories the latest h/c volume of the AJ Library from Humanoids. Over 400 pages of full colour art, including Final Incal, After the Incal, Weapons of the Metabaron & more

Dav – First Spring the 4th volume of Beneath the Trees, the seasonal adventures of some woodland creatures. The 4th and presumably final volume as all the seasons are now represented

Marc Hagan-Guirey – Le Corbusier Paper Models subtitled 10 Kirigami Buildings To Cut And Fold. (kirigami is akin to origami, but you can cut the paper as well as fold it)

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 7th August 2022

in hardcover:

Lois McMaster Bujold – The Assassins of Thasalon signed & numbered novel from Subterranean Press
Ruthanna Emrys – A Half-Built Garden thoughtful novel about first contact set 60 years in the future, and the world the aliens find

in softcover:

Seanan McGuire – When Sorrows Come the 15th October Daye adventure

Peter V. Brett – The Desert Prince part 1 of a new series set 15 years after the events in his Demon Cycle, which began with The Painted Man (aka The Warded Man)
Katherine Addison – The Grief of Stones sequel to The Witness for the Dead and the 2nd of The Cemeteries of Amalo series
Mark Stay – The Ghost of Ivy Barn 3rd in The Witches of Woodville series. The adventures of a trainee witch during the Battle of Britain!

Catherine Tobler – The Necessity of Stars 1st contact novella

Herve le Tellier – The Anomaly a passenger jet encounters a weird storm but all seems fine – until 3 months later an exact duplicate appears, including duplicate crew and passengers!
Theo Clare – The Book of Sand a small group of strangers come to, lost in a desert. There are mysterious towers to hide in from the various threats they must overcome…

Robert Denton III, Marie Brennon & D. G. Laderoute – The Great Clans of Rokugan: The Collected Novellas Volume Two, set in the world of The Legend of the Five Rings. With 3 novellas and several shorter

Shiela Finch – Forkpoints a dozen stories of alternate branches history might have taken. Subtitled Stories of Decisions Made and Roads Not Taken
Scott R. Jones (editor) – Cthulhusattva Lovedraft-inspired horror anthology with 15 stories, subtitled Tales of thr Black Gnosis

Magazines:

Interzone – issue 292/293 double isse with 4 novelettes, 7 stories, and the usual features!