Iain Banks & Ken MacLeod – Poems
Before Iain Bank‘s death in June 2013 he and Ken MacLeod agreed that a book of their poems should be published. It comes out in a couple of weeks time and is called, appropriately, Poems.
As with previous books of his, Ken has agreed to sign copies for me.
It will cost £12.99 and postage within the UK will be £1.51, making £14.50 in total.
Copies to Europe will be £12.99 + £5.15 p&p making £18.14 in total
Copies to almost everywhere else will be £12.99 + £7.45 p&p making £20.44 in total
Copies to Australia & NZ will be £12.99 + £7.90 p&p making £20.89 in total.
To order a copy, please contact me with your location and how you’d like it signed, and I will issue a PayPal Invoice for the amount due.
People who have previously ordered signed copies of books by either Ken or Iain should receive an e-mail from me about this offer shortly.
New Titles – w/e 31st January 2015
in hardcover:
Robert Repino- Mort(e) the world’s ants have secretly been creating all sorts of ‘uplifted’ animals, and now is the time to rise against the Humans!
Matthew Reilly – The Great Zoo of China the Chinese are about to unveil a great new zoo, and it’s main draw will be dragons!
Simon R. Green – The Dark Side of the Road Ishmael Jones must discover which of the Colonel’s house guests murdered him…
Graham Masterton – Taken for Dead Katie Maguire of the Garda has another gruesome crime to tackle in Cork…
Neil Gaiman – Trigger Warning short story collection, The oldest stories date from 2007
large format:
Karen Lord – The Galaxy Game three students at the Lyceum school for the psionically gifted can’t wait to graduate and use their acquired skills for good… But there’s a crisis brewing bewteen rival star-faring civilisations
in ‘B’ format:
Joe Abercrombie – Half a King left for dead, the crippled Prince Yarvi knows he can’t win back his position by his strength…
Robert Lydon – Imperial Fire epic sequel to Hawk Quest, an historical novel set in 1081 and spanning much of Europe. In this one, Valton and his companions must venture east… Really enjoyed the 1st one.
Josh Malerinan – Bird Box the internet fails; tv stops broadcasting, then the phones go down. And you can’t see out the windows…
Chuck Wendig – Unclean Spirits part of the Gods and Monsters multi-author series
Jame Smythe – The Echo sequel to The Explorer, set 20 years on. Part 2 of his Anomaly Quartet
V. E. Schwab – Vicious back in stock; 2 ex-friends battle with their psychic powers… Signed copies of her new book, A Darker Shade of Magic, will be available soon!
Martyn Amos & Ra Page (editors) – Beta Life anthology of sf stories set in 2070, written by pairs of authors & scientists.
Jesse Bullington (editor) – Letters to Lovecraft 18 new short stories…
Warhammer 40,000 – First and Only the latest Gaunt’s Ghosts novel, by Dan Abnett
in paperback:
William C. Dietz – Deadeye in a much-altered world, Cassandra Lee must try to find a notorious murderer and kidnapper and may have to venture into the red zone. Volume 1 of The Mutant Files
Lisa Shearin – The Dragon Conspiracy the magical ‘Dragon Eggs’ jewels have been stolen and Makenna has 24 hours to break the case… Volume 2 of the SPI Files, and the sequel to last year’s The Grendal Affair
Heather Graham – Waking the Dead a painting’s characters can come to life…
John Joseph Adams (editor) – Wastelands anthology with 22 ‘stories of the apocalypse‘, as the strap line says. Authors include George R. R. Martin, Cory Doctorow and Jack McDevitt
art, etc:
Stefano Raffaele – Loving Dead h/c zombie graphic novel from Humanoids
magazines:
Interzone – # 256 with fiction from Neil Williamson and an interview with Ann Leckie
audio:
Rip-Off! 13 top authors, including Robert Charles Wilson, Lavie Tidhar, Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory and 9 more, take the first line from a favorite famous book and then write their own story starting with it! Works thus ‘ripped-off’ include Moby Dick, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Huckleberry Finn!
Doctor Who – Mistfall Big Finish full cast audio drama # 195, with Peter Davidson
gift:
Game of Thrones – Playing Cards back in stock; the original deck of cards from the series
Signed Copies – V. E. Schwab
The latest book by V. E. Schwab comes out in a couple of weeks and she has kindly agreed to sign copies for me.
It’s called A Darker Shade of Magic and is a ‘B’ format paperback from Titan Books, costing £7.99 plus postage.
Postage within the UK will be £1.51, making the total £9.50
I’ll also have a limited number of the Tor US hardcover, which will be £18.99 plus postage.
Postage within the UK will be £2.80, making the total £21.79
Signing options available will be plain signature, or with date, location (Edinburgh) or brief greeting (To Mike, Best wishes, Happy Birthday, etc.)
To order your copy e-mail me at enquiries@transreal.co.uk saying what you’d like and which country you live in and I’ll issue a PayPal Invoice for the appropriate amount. Once paid, and the books are in, I’ll get it signed and sent off to you.
For postage rates abroad, please see the V. E. Schwab page on the ‘pages’ list beside this post. Other books you can ask to be signed are listed there also.
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A Darker Shade of Magic
Most people only know one London; but what if there were several? Kell is one of the last Travelers – magicians with a rare ability to travel between parallel Londons. There’s Grey London, dirty and crowded and without magic, home to the mad king George III. There’s Red London, where life and magic are revered.
Then, White London, ruled by whoever has murdered their way to the throne. But once upon a time, there was Black London…
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New Titles – w/e 24th January 2015
in large format:
Patricia A. McKillip – Gateway Omnibus from Gollancz, containing In the Forests of Sfere, Alphabet of Thorn and The Bell at Sealey Head
Gareth E. Rees – Marshland weird fiction and strange history and folklore featuring Hackney marshes and the surrounding areas. Illustrated by Ada Jusic.
in ‘B’ format:
Patricia Briggs – Night Broken her 8th Mercy Thomson novel…
Gareth L. Powell – Macaque Attack 3rd volume in his Ack-Ack Macaque trilogy
Stephen Blackmoore – Mythbreaker Fitz is trying to go straight after a life of crime, but ends up on the run from an angel. And he’s always suffered from hallucinations…
Charles DeLint – Over My Head the middle part of his Wildings trilogy. All three parts are now is stock.
magazines, etc:
Black Static – #44 the usual mix of fiction and reviews
New Titles – w/e 17th January 2015
in hardcover:
Jim C. Hines – Unbound the 3rd in his Magic Ex Libris series…
Tim Powers – Nobody’s Home subtitled An Anubis Gates Story. Novella from Subterranean Press, illustrated by J. K. Potter
in large format:
Alfred Doblin – The Three Leaps of Wang Lun early (1915) German Expressionist novel, also an early example of ‘China as a fantasy kingdom’. Translated by C. D. Godwin
Edgar Pangborn – Gateway Omnibus the latest release in the Gollancz series, containing Davy, A Mirror for Observers and the short story collection Good Neighbours and Other Strangers
Charles DeLint - Under My Skin shape-shifting fantasy; Wildings #1
‘B’ format:
Maggie Stiefvater – The Raven Boys the pupils of the nearby private school are known as the Raven Boys, and Blue can’t resist finding out more about magic and their strange and sinister world…
art, etc:
Joseph Corn & Katherine Chambers – Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future softback full of art showing now obsolete futures! Lots of explanatory text
Terry Pavlet & Sam Gafford – Strange Detective Mysteries 14 years after Edgar Allan Poe‘s death, a group of crack problem solvers is assembled to solve his murder. Features Conan Doyle, Wells, Tesla, Houdini & Bat Masterton! b&w
Warren Ellis & Chris Weston – Ministry of Space back in stock; alternate history with Great Britain winning the post-war Space Race. Full colour
magazines:
Locus – November issue, trailing in at last…
Heavy Metal – issue #272
Juxtapoz – February cover date
Hi-Fructose – #34; includes a 16 page Gary Taxali insert
New Titles – w/e 10th January 2015
Happy New Year!
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in hardcover:
James Morrow – Galapagos Regained alternate history in which Darwin’s animal keeper steals his ideas, but then has to collect her own specimens to back up her arguments!
Brandon Sanderson – Firefight the 2nd in his Reckoners series, the first was Steelheart
John Ringo – Strands of Sorrow the 4th (and apparently final) part in his nautical zombie apocalypse series!
Peter V. Brett – Messenger’s Legacy illustrated Demon Cycle novella
Simon R. Green – Tales from the Nightside 10 short stories
in large format:
Charles de Lint – Out of this World the 3rd book in his Wildlings series, which began with Under my Skin
James Morrow – The Philosopher’s Apprentice Mason Ambrose accepts a dream job on a tropical island to re-educate a young woman who has lost both her memory and her moral compass…
James Morrow – The Madonna and the Starship short satirical novel with diabolical lobsters from outer space!
Liz Riley Jones - Hiraeth Moira is an orphan who discovers she is descended from Druids, and that they still exist on Anglesey. She is soon at the centre of a secret civil war…
Douglas F. Warwick - Plow the Bones collection of his weird fiction
Ellen Datlow (editor) – Lovecraft’s Monsters stories from some top current authors!
Pamela Sargent – Dream of Venus and Other Science Fiction Stories 5 stories from her ‘Venus of Dreams‘ background. Published back-to-back Ace Double style with
Jack Dann & George Zebrowski – Decimated: 10 Science Fiction Stories collaborative stories, mainly from the early/mid 1070s
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Wave in the Mind stories and essays, published in 2004
Mike Resnick (editor) – The Best of Galaxy’s Edge 2013 – 2014 25 short stories, reprinted from the magazine’s first year’s issues.
The Book of Apex: volume 1 collecting the best from the 1st 18 months of monthly online sf/fantasy publication Apex Magazine http://www.apex-magazine.com/
The Book of Apex: volume 2
The Book of Apex: volume 3 stories from the issues edited by Catherynne M. Valente
The Book of Apex: volume 4 culled from the 1st 15 issues edited by Lynne M. Thomas
in ‘B’ format:
Larry Niven & Gregory Benford – Shipstar further exploration of the Bowl of Heaven, the gigantic space-going habitat discovered in book 1.
Andrzej Sapkowski – Baptism of Fire the 4th in the fantasy series that began with The Last Wish
Den Patrick - The Boy With the Porcelain Blade the King rules Landfall from a vast castle and Lucien is only a pawn in his schemes, except Lucien has other ideas…
Mark Alder – Son of the Morning an alternate history of the 14th century. Unlike Philip of France, Edward the Third finds he cannot summon his bloodline’s angels, as his father could, so searches for different forces to help him win their struggle. Part 1 of Banners of Blood.
A. J. Smith – The Dark Blood book 2 of the epic fantasy, Chronicles of the Long War
Brian Staveley – The Emperor’s Blades the 1st Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne. The Emperor has been murdered and his three children are all under threat, whether they be monk, soldier or princess…
Col Buchanan – Farlander fantasy re-issue. The Free Ports are under siege by the Empire and the assassin Ash and his apprentice are in the middle of it all. Parts 2 & 3 will be out again in February and March
Rebecca Levene – Smiler’s Fair 5 people’s paths cross at the great, ever-moving carnival, and their lives change track dramatically. Volume 1 of The Hollow Gods
Genevieve Cogman – The Invisible Library Irene and her new assistant secretly gather fiction from alternate realities for the Library. But this time the book they’ve been sent to obtain has already been stolen…
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Unreal & the Real: Outer Space, Inner Lands the 2nd of her 2 volume short story retrospective
in paperback:
Steven Harper – Iron Axe part 1 of The Books of Blood and Iron young half-troll Danr is tasked by Death herself with a quest…
Daniel Jose Older – Half-Resurrection Blues Carlos is a half-dead agent of the NY Council of the Dead and has to defeat another ‘inbetweener’ who is a sorcerer! Bone Street Rumba #1
C. S. Friedman – Dreamwalker someone is trying to steal artwork based on Jessica’s strange dreams, and now they’ve kidnapped her younger brother for leverage…
Alex Archer – Death Mask the latest Rogue Angel adventure
James Axler – Hive Invasion the latest Deathlands adventure
End of the Year!
Another year almost over!
I’ll be closing at 15.00 this afternoon, which is maybe a little early compared to previous years but I have other commitments to attend to, I’m afraid. I usually aim at three o’clock but then overshoot a bit! This year I have to be on time.
Anyway, hope you have a fun time and a great new year.
I’ll be open again at 10.00 on Saturday the 3rd January 2015.
New Titles – w/e 3rd January 2015
in large format:
Julie E. Czerneda - A Play of Shadow the 2nd half of Night’s Edge, the story begun in A Turn of Light
Alex Gordon – Gideon Lauren discovers that her late father had secrets she has to solve, even if time itself seems to behave strangely… The blurb compares it to Preston/Child
Helen Marshall – Gifts for the One Who Comes After collection of 17 weird fiction short stories
in paperback:
Steve Perry – The Tejano Conflict the 3rd in his Cutter’s Wars military sf series…
Allen Steele – V-S Day instead of the V2, Nazi Germany is trying to develop a space plane
Joe Haldeman – Work Done for Hire an ex sniper turned author is forced to use both his talents to track a murderer in a slightly future USA
Glen Cook – Working God’s Mischief the 4th in his Instrumentalities of the Night fantasy series
L. E. Modesitt, Jr. – Rex Regis his 8th Imager novel
art, etc:
Hugo Pratt – Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn big new softcover which is the 1st in a projected series of 12. In b&w, with a colour fold-out map on the extra deep front and back jacket flaps.
Alien: The Archive big hardcover full of art, etc. covering the whole franchise
New Titles – w/e 27th December 2014
In before Christmas!
in large format:
William H. Patterson – Learning Curve: 1907 – 1948 volume 1 of the authorised biography of Robert A. Heinlein. I really should have had this in a long time ago… I’ll claim I was waiting for volume 2 to come out in hardcover!
art:
Robert E. McGinnis & Art Scott – The Art of REMcG h/c full of McGinnis’ paperback cover art, National Geographic art, his film posters for James Bond, Woody Allen, blaxploitation movies, etc. spanning 7 decades…
Peter Maresca (editor) – Forgotten Fantasy: Sunday Comics 1900 – 1915 giant hardback reproducing the great early comics like Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend, Kin-Der Kids, and many more. The same huge 15″ x 21″ size as the Little Nemo tribute volume that came in recently.
Humanoids – Eros Gone Wild 54 illustrated short stories from some of the best European artists in the graphic novel field…
magazines, etc:
Locus – cover date December 2014 Michael Moorcock on the cover
Juxtapoz – January 2015 cover date
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Nothing more due in this week, but there should be some new titles next week, carriers allowing!
New Titles – w/e 20th December 2014
in hardcover:
Phil Rickman – Night After Night a reality tv show is to be set in a remote Tudor farmhouse with a tragic history…
Inna Cannon, Damon Murray & Olesya Turkina – Soviet Space Dogs history of the various dogs the Soviet Union launched into space, starting with Laika, the most famous
in large format:
Peter Tieryas Liu – Bald New World one day, everyone wakes up bald…
Mike Resnick – The Fortress in Orion vol 1 of his new Dead Enders space opera series…
Jerome Bixby – Mirror Mirror short story collection 15 of his best stories, from 1949 to 1964
in paperback:
Jasper Fforde – The Eye of Zoltar the 3rd in the series that began with The Last Dragonslayer
Laline Paull – The Bees Flora 717 is a hard-working bee, with ambition!
Mercedes Lackey (editor) – No True Way the latest Valdemar anthology
Laurell K. Hamilton – Jason the 23rd Anita Blake novel
Oliver Bowden – Unity the latest Assassin’s Creed adventure
chapbook:
Noel Chidwick – Professor MacIntyre is Missing 9 short stories subtitled New Myths and Legends of Edinburgh volume 1
art, etc:
Andy Scott – ~The Kelpies heavily illusatrated hardback detailing the creation of Scott’s gigantic Kelpies horse head sculptures near Falkirk.
Brian Kesinger – Coloring With Your Octopus outline images from the popular Walking Your Octopus book
Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples – Saga Volume Four collecting the next 6 comics after v3.
2015 wall calendars:
Mary Fairburn (illustrator) – Tolkien: The Official Calendar not seen this artist’s LotR work before… interesting stuff
Star Trek – stills from The Original Series
