New Titles – w/e 21st July 2018
in hardcover:
Becky Chambers – Record of a Spaceborn Few the 3rd volume of the Wayfarers series, which began with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Brian Catling – Cloven the final book in his Vorrh Trilogy
in large format:
Manuel de Pedrolo – Typescript of the Second Origin translated from Catalan by Sara Martin. Key Spanish Sf novel from 1974 about a new beginning after an apocalypse… Foreward by Kim Stanley Robinson
James Maxey – Victory the Lawless series, part 3
in ‘B’ format:
Nick Setchfield – War in the Dark in 1963, the Cold War was also being fought with magic and occult knowledge…
Craig Dilouie – One of Us a generation of children are born with various weird mutations…
Mike Ashley (editor) – Moonrise anthology subtitled The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures A companion volume to Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet , both published by the British Library
magazines:
Locus – issue # 690 with the Locus Awards and the Locus Poll results. Also tributes to Gardner Dozois.
Interzone – issue # 276 fiction, art, reviews, columns…
Black Static – issue # 64 includes novelettes by Simon Avery & Sean Patraic Birnie
New Titles – w/e 14th July 2018
in hardcover:
Naomi Novik – Spinning Silver Miryem is forced to take up spinning to pay her family’s debts, but soon attracts attention she’d rather not…
Ruthanna Emrys – Deep Roots the sequel to the Lovecraftian Winter Tide
Taylor Anderson – River of Bones the 13th Destroyermen novel; the twelfth, Devil’s Due, came in very recently in paperback
Michael J. Sullivan – Age of War the 3rd volume in The Legends of the First Empire
in large format:
Hannu Rajaniemi – Summerland the British Empire and the Soviet Union vie for power in the newly discovered afterlife, known as Summerland. Already re-printing!
Jay Schiffman – Game of the Gods in an all enveloping future war both sides want Max Cone on their side, but he has other plans…
Jonathan Strahen (editor) – Infinity’s End 14 stories in the 6th of the Infinity Project series of top-name anthologies
in ‘B’ format:
Ann Leckie – Provenance to regain status among her people Ingray must spring a prisoner from a notorious prison planet…
Andy Weir – Artemis hard sf novel set among the criminals & smugglers of the first city on the moon
Christopher Brookmyer – Places in the Darkness a detective has to leave Earth for an orbiting space station to catch a murderer…
Gavin Smith – Friendly Fire the 2nd Bastard Legion space opera adventure…
Tom Doyle – American Craftsmen magician-soldier Captain Morton is on the track of treason in the Pentagon…
Adam Roberts – Real Town Murders Alma must solve the murder of a person in a totally human-free automated car factory…
Adam Christopher – I Only Killed Him Once the final book in the L.A. Trilogy, featuring a robot detective turned hitman!
Seanan McGuire – The Girl in the Green Silk Gown book 2 in the Ghost Roads series; vol 1, Sparrow Hill Road came out just recently (also in stock)
Tade Thompson – The Murders of Molly Southbourne every time she bleeds, Molly spawns a deadly copy of herself which she must kill in order to survive…
Victor Lavalle – Changeling inheriting only a box marked ‘improbabilia’, Kagwa finds himself on a quest for his wife & child, journeying through an ever more unworldly New York City…
Catherine Webb – The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle 1st in a series of books set in Victorian London featuring an ex-Special Constable, now a sleuth with a passion for science and invention!
Adrian Tchaikovsky – The Expert System’s Brother Handry is an exile, wandering a world that seems stranger the more he learns about it…
Stephen Baxter – Raft new SF Masterworks edition of his 1st novel about a desparately endangered colony, split between miners and scientists, each necessary to the other’s survival…
Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal – Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler essays and critism on all aspects of th late writer’s work from a variety of writers and scholars
in paperback:
Victor Milan – The Dinosaur Princess volume 3 of his Dinosaur Lords series…
art, etc:
Frederic Brremaud & Federico Bertolucci – Little Tails Under the Sea the latest adventures of Chipper & Squizzo as they explore the World’s oceans!
magazines:
Hi-Fructose – volume # 48 includes a great article about Hitotsuyama Studio and their giant paper creations!
Illustrators – issue # 22 featuring the Bardon art agency and also various Spanish artists…
An Illustrators Special – Don Lawrence: Illustrations and Comic Strip Art lots of full colour art, covering his whole career, including pages I hadn’t seen for years. The Range Rider! The Trigan Empire (of course!) and much more…
New Titles – w/e 7th July
in hardcover:
Claire North – 84K Theo works in the Criminal Audit Office, which assesses the price to be paid for every crime, including murder
Chris Ruocchio – Empire of Silence book 1 of The Sun Eater. Epic fantasy meets space opera!
in large format:
Gardner Dozois – When the Great Days Come collection of 18 of his best short stories. He wasn’t only an editor!
in ‘B’ format:
Benedict Jacka – Marked 9th in the Alex Verus series, about a wizard living in London
T. J. Berry – Space Unicorn Blues humans are about to be judged by all powerful aliens assessing their first decades in space…
Micah Yongo – Lost Gods Neythan has been raised as an assassin, but is being framed for the murder of his best friend…
Joe Hill – Strange Weather 4 short novels, 90 to 140 pages long. Includes Snapshot, Loaded, Aloft & Rain
Phil Kelly – War of Secrets the latest Warhammer 40,000 adventure; a Space Marines Conquests book
New Titles – w/e 30th June 2018
in large format:
Mary Robinette Kowal – The Calculating Stars the threat of a massive meteorite strike sparks a much accelerated rush to space back in the early 1950s!
Raymond Bolton – Awakening a world on the cusp of an industrial revolution is invaded by aliens… Book 1 of The Ydron Saga
Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection the editor’s final volume of 38 stories, completed before he died.
Ellen Datlow (editor) – The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 21 stories from 2017
William Hope Hodgson – The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of WHH excellent collection from Oldstyle Tales Press
Fitz-James O’Brien – The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of F-JO. Subtitled What Was It? & Other Horrors. From Oldstyle Tales Press
Edith Nesbit – The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of EN. Subtitled Man-Size in Marble and Other Horrors. 19 stories, some illustrated and others annotated (as are the other 2 volumes).
in ‘B’ format:
Charles Stross – The Delirium Brief the 8th of the Laundry Files
Jay Kristoff – Godsgrave book 2 of The Nevernight Chronicle
Jonathan French – The Grey Bastards a company of half-orcs patrol the wasteland, protecting human lands from bands of true orcs
Christopher Husberg – Blood Requiem 3rd volue in the Chaos Queen quintet
Fonda Lee – Jade City turf war fro the control of jade, which in Janloon is used for magic…
Francesco Dimitri – The Book of Hidden Things after Art disappears in southern Italy, his friends discover some of his secrets, including a strange book…
Elizabeth Bear – Stone Mad sequel to Karen Memory
Caitlin R. Kiernan – Black Helicopters expanded and revised edition
Diana Gabaldon – Seven Stones to Stand or Fall collection of 7 Outlander short stories
Neil Gaiman – Norse Mythology re-telling of 15 tales of the old Norse Gods. It’s actually been out for a bit…
Joseph O’Neill – Land Under England the latest in the SF Masterworks series, about the fate of a missing Roman Legion…
Warhammer 40,000 – Fabius Bile: Clonelord the latest Black Library offering, by Josh Reynolds
in paperback:
Eric Flint & Mike Resnick – The Gods of Sagittarius ancient aliens may have visited Earth, and they also seem to have destroyed another race’s religious centre and now an alien shaman seeking revenge desires human help…
art, etc:
Alejandro Jodorowsky & Francois Bouco – Moon Face hardcover from Humanoids publishers
Saverio Temuta & Carita Lupattelli – Izuna book 2 more fantastical Japanese adventure from Humanoids
Carole Maurel – Luisa: Now and Then teenage Luisa travels into the future and meets herself at twice her age! She soon makes changes to her stuck-in-a-rut elder self’s life! Softcover from Humanoids
Pierre Cristin & Jean-Claude Mexieres – Valerian: The Complete Collection Volume 4. Contains Chatelet Station, Destination Cassiopeia; Brooklyn Line, Terminus Cosmos; The Ghosts of Inverloch & The Wrath of Hypsis
Science Comics – Rockets: Defying Gravity fun history of rocketry and the space race by Anne & Jerzy Drozd
Larry Marder – Beanworld Omnibus vol 1 collecting the first 21 issues of the 1980s b&w comic. Very strange and very good!
Huw Lewis Jones & Karl Herbert – Explorers’ Sketchbooks heavily illustrated h/c with extracts and art from the original journals, etc. kept by dozens of explorers as they travelled the remote parts of the world
gift:
Harry Potter – Dogtags style necklace with a Gryffindor House crest and a Golden Snitch attached
Harry Potter – Dogtags style necklace with the Hogwarts School crest and a Deathly Hallows device attached
New Titles – w/e 23rd June 2018
in hardcover:
Terry Brooks – The Skaar Invasion the 2nd book of The Fall of Shannara
Sarah Pinsborough – Cross Her Heart psychological thriller
Lois McMaster Bujold – Mira’s Last Dance fantasy novella published by Subterranean Press; a sequel to Penric’s Mission
McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern – issue #52 titled In Their Faces a Landmark 17 new stories about ‘movement and displacement’
in large format:
Ruthanna Emrys – Winter Tide Lovecraft inspired novel featuring the few surviving residents of Innsmouth after their release from internment with the American Japanese during WW2!
in ‘B’ format:
Tanya Huff – The Priviledge of Peace her 3rd Peacekeeper novel
David Hutchinson – Shelter almost a hundred years after the disaster that shattered civilisation, society is looking beyond scavenging the past and towards the future… Volume 1 of shared world series The Aftermath. Volume 2, Haven, will be by Adam Roberts.
Michael Blumlein – Thoreau’s Microscope the 21st in PM Press‘ Outspoken Author series. Fiction, an essay and an interview with Terry Bisson.
in paperback:
Scott Westerfield – The Risen Empire re-issue of the 1st of the two Succession books; the Emperor & his sster have ruled for centuries but now augmented humans want a change…
James Rollins – The Demon Crown the latest Sigma Force adventure! Premium edition.
magazines:
Shoreline of Infinity – issue # 12 lead story by Helen Jackson plus more fiction, reviews, poetry, art, and even a ‘spot the difference’ game!
Locus – issue # 689 June cover date; includes their ‘Books through March‘ feature on upcoming releases
New Titles – w/e 16th June 2018
in hardcover:
Rob Grant & Andrew Marshall – The Quanderhorn Xperimentations secret, absurd history based on documents discovered during the refurbishment of Westminster!
Peter Newman – The Deathless people scratch a living from the verges of the Godroads, fearing the nearby forests where the Demons lurk. Above, the Deathless live their lives in floating castles…
Robert McCammon – The Listener crime novel set during the Great Depression, featuring a man who can sometimes hear things that haven’t been spoken out loud…
Eric Flint & Walt Boyers (editors) – Grantville Gazette VIII the latest volume of short stories set in Flint’s 1632/Ring of Fire universe…
H. P. Lovecraft & Gary Gianni (illustrator) – The Illustrated Call of Cthulhu very nice h/c edition, filled with b&w art. Includes short story The Sea Raiders by H. G. Wells, also with illustrative sketches. Published by Flesk, who do the annual Spectrum arts collection.
Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black – The Spiderwyck Chronicles: The Completely Fantastical Edition not new, but I now stock the illustrated single volume of the Spiderwyck Chronicles
in large format:
Amanda Downum – Still So Strange collection of 28 short stories with a Lovecraftian tinge…
in ‘B’ format:
Natasha Pulley – The Bedlam Stacks strange adventures in 19thC Peru, searching for botanical specimens! Loved the hardcover last year.
Christina Henry – The Mermaid rumours of the perfect sideshow exhibit reach P. T. Barnam…
Rebecca James – The Woman in the Mirror after the War, Alice becomes a governess at remote Winterbourne in Cornwall; 70 years later Rachel is informed of the death of a previously unknown relative and she is requested to travel down to Cornwall…
Hailey Edwards – Bone Driven part 2 of the Foundling series, sequel to Bayou Born
Stephen Donaldson – Seventh Decimate 1st part of The Great God’s War, a new epic fantasy series
Gavin Chait – Our Memory Like Dust set in a near future North Africa and a companion volume to Lament for the Fallen. Another h/c favorite of mine from last year!
Marina J. Lostetter – Noumenon deep into humanity’s 1st multi-ship voyage to another star all the ships are crewed by clones of the original crew!
Rob Boffard – Adrift Sigma Station, an exotic space hotel, is suddenly destroyed, stranding or killing everyone
Daniel Godfrey – The Synapse Sequence in the near future, Ais, bots and drones do everything but the controlling algorithms aren’t always fair…
art, etc:
J. A. W. Cooper – Familiars softcover; sketches of witches and their familiars. Some colour
J. A. W. Cooper – Flora & Fauna sketches of mainly animals, with some plants
J. A. W. Cooper – Viscera slightly more violent sketches of animals and humans
Mike Mignola & Gary Gianni – Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea – Studio Edition large h/c with all the b&w art highlighted, with the comic’s text and editorial comments alongside instead of obscuring the art. Looks great!
Moebius – Inside Moebius Part 2 h/c from Humanoids of Moebius’ musings and art
Frederic Brremaud & Giovanni Rigano – Daffodil Nosferatu’s vampire legions prepare to descend upon a quiet little town… Hardcover collecting issues 1 – 3 of the comic.
magazines:
Heavy Metal – issue # 290
Illustration – issue Sixty with pieces on N. C. Wyeth, Frederic Varady & Gilbert Bundy
New Titles – w/e 9th June 2018
in hard cover:
Christopher Moore – Noir it’s the summer of ’47 and strange things have been seen in the sky. Sammy & Cheese (her surname name is Stilton!) are approached by the Airforce for some sensitive snooping…
Simon R. Green – Night Fall apparently a cross-over between his Secret Histories and Nightside series, making it nos. 12 & 14 respectively!
Jacqueline Carey – Starless Khai has been raised from birth to protect the Princess Zariya
Travis S. Taylor – Bringers of Hell the 6th in his Tau Ceti Agenda series
Jim Butcher – Brief Cases a dozen short stories from The Dresden Files
J. R. R. Tolkien – The Hobbit Facsimile Gift Set a tray/box which has a lenticular (3-D) version of the classic cover on it & in the tray is a replica of the unrevised 1937 1st edition, a cd with JRRT reading extracts, a map (with hidden moon runes on it) and more!
in large format:
Dominic Dulley – Shattermoon volume 1 of The Long Game. Orry screws up one of har father’s cons by fleeing off-planet with an artifact that may have belonged to the aliens who used to inhabit the shattered moon, the remnants of which are still orbiting the planet…
Lilith Saintcrow – Afterwar as a 2nd Civil War winds down in the USA, the hunt is on for a war criminal who holds dangerous secrets which could re-ignite the conflict…
K. R. Richardson – Blood Orbit a rookie policeman is transferred to a distant planet to help investigate a mas murder…
Seanan McGuire – Sparrow Hill Road 1st in the new Ghost Roads series, about a hit & run victim trying to track down the man who killed her in order to retain his immortality…
Roger Taylor – The Keep you did your job and didn’t ask what was going on when you worked at the remote, mysterious Keep
Joe R. Lansdale & Kasey Lansdale – Terror is Our Business: Dana Roberts’ Casebook of Horrors collecting all 8 of the PI’s strange cases
Philip K. Dick – 5 Great Novels fat volume with argueably his five best novels: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Martian Time-Slip, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Ubik & A Scanner Darkly
in ‘B’ format:
Daryl Gregory – Spoonbenders complex novel about a family of semi-retired showground magicians, whose powers may or may not be real. I really enjoyed the h/c last year…
Alex Marshall – A War in Crimson Embers the 3rd book in The Crimson Empire series, earlier titles were A Crown for Cold Silver & A Blade of Black Steel
Cameron Johnston – The Traitor God after 10 years away, Edrin returns home to avenge his friend’s brutal death and no sorcery, daemons or gods will stop him…
Jess Richards – City of Circles when her circus visits the magical city of Matryoshka, Danu stays behind to try to uncover the secrets in her past…
Vivian Shaw – Strange Practice Dr. Greta Helsing tends to the London undead and their various peculiar ailments but things are changing…
Bryan Camp – The City of Lost Fortunes in chaotic post-Katrina New Orleans Jude has retired but still has the gift of finding missing objects; drawn back into things, can he use his ability to find the murderer of the Fortune god…
Jack Campbell – Ascendant 2nd volume in his Genesis Fleet series, set in the universe of The Lost Fleet series…
Michael Tolkin – NK3 a weaponised microbe has destroyed the memories and identities of almost all humankind and the few uninfected left in the remnants of civilisation rule it all!
Amber Royer – Free Chocolate in the far future chocolate is Earth’s only worthwhile export! Looks fun!
Rob Boffard – Outer Earth omnibus containing the Tracer, Zero-G & Impact trilogy, about a failing orbital habitat which harbours the last few thousand humans
Warhammer 40,000 – The Last Hunt featuring the White Scars, a Space Marine Chapter. Written by Robbie MacNiven
Lea Taylor – Midlothian Folk Tales two dozen stories set in and around Edinburgh…
in paperback:
Taylor Anderson – Devil’s Due the 12th Destroyermen adventure, about a WW2 destroyer crew in an alternate universe
art, etc:
Dougal Dixon – After Man new h/c edition of his 1981 classic showing how (and the why) various yet-to-evolve new species might look
Mark P. Witton – Recreating an Age of Reptiles 90+ full colour up-to-date paintings of dinosaurs, early mammels, etc. with notes on aspects of their creation and rendering.
Kevin J. Anderson & Neil Peart – Clockwork Lives steampunk flavoured full colour h/c graphic novel conceived by Neil Peart of Canadian rock group Rush
magazines:
Graphite – issue # 7 new issue of the concept drawing magazine
New Titles – w/e 2nd June 2018
in hardcover:
Catherynne M. Valente – Space Opera humans have reached the stars and discovered that influence and position can be gained by competing in the once-a-Cycle Metagalactic Grand Prix…
Greg Egan – Phoresis one of a pair of twin planets is dying, and it’s people hope that migration to it’s unknown companion may save them…
in large format:
Sarah Gailey – American Hippo alternate history omnibus containing the novellas River of Teeth & Taste of Marrow with 2 more short stories, all about the hippo ranching business in the swamps of the American South!
Yahtzee Croshaw – Jam the Apocalypse will be a lot… stickier… than anyone prepared for!
Duncan Lunan (editor) – Starfield re-issue of the 1989 anthology of 17 Scottish science fiction stories, published this time around by the Shoreline of Infinity team.
David Rowe – The Proverbs of Middle-Earth strange as news from Bree!
Mur Lafferty – I Should Be Writing subtitled ‘A Writer’s Workshop‘ and written by the award winning podcaster and author
in ‘B’ format:
Peter Watts – The Freeze-Frame Revolution when only a tiny proportion of deep-sleep passengers are awake at any one time, how can they plan anything? Especially without the controlling AI knowing!
Ian McDonald – Time Was two people, presumed dead during WW2, are adrift in time and try to find each other by leaving clues in books, plays, etc…
in paperback:
L. E. Modesitt, Jr. – Assassin’s Price the 11th volume of the Imager Portfolio
Hailey Edwards – Bone Driven the sequel to Bayou Born and part 2 of her Foundling series…
Deborah Harkness – A Discovery of Witches Diana discovers a rare manuscript about alchemy in the Bodlian Library stacks and wants nothing to do with it. But it’s too late, and strange beings are stirring! Volume 1 of her All Souls trilogy
Star Trek: Prometheus – The Root of All Rage the 2nd novel set on the USS Prometheus in the same era as ST: The Original Series. Written by Bernd Perplies & Christian Humberg
art, etc:
The Art of Jim Starlin: A Life in Words and Pictures large, heavily illustrated hardcover
Simon Grenan, Roger Sabin & Julian Waite – Marie Duval hardcover collecting the work of this Victorian cartoonist & illustrator
Frank Quietly – Drawings & Sketches small h/c with b&w and colour sketches and drawings
M. Alice LeGrow – Bizenghast: Falling Into Fear hardcover, with 2 dozen little removable colour posters in plastic sleeves and a dozen pages of stickers
David Munoz, Tirso & Javi Montes – Whispers in the Walls horror story set in a children’s hospital in Czeckoslovakia in 1949. From Humanoids
Giovanni Gualdoni, Gabriele Clima, Matteo Piana & Davide Turotti – The Ring of the Seven Worlds softcover. Steampunk fantasy from Humanoids
Daniel Lieske – The Wormwood Saga brightly coloured little fantasy adventure. Softcover
Bernard Seret & Julien Sole – Sharks small h/c all about sharks! One of several titles in IDW’s new The Little Book of Knowledge series
Evan Dorkin – Milk and Cheese b&w collection of the comic, which ran from 1989 – 2000. Softcover
Tentacle Kitty: Coloring Book with b&w drawings by 8 artists, from Dark Horse
Gardner Dozois – 1947 – 2018
The man who was probably the top short fiction editor in the field for over 30 years died last week. The 35th edition of his annual doorstop of an anthology of The Year’s Best Science Fiction is due out this summer although his editing career (as opposed to his writing career) started long ago in a small way back in 1972 and kicked into gear in 1976 and hardly paused until now. Apart from producing dozens of anthologies, often with the assistance of Jack Dann or George R. R. Martin, among others, he also edited Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine for 20 years and won innumerable awards for his work.
(cover art by Doug Herring)
But he was also an acomplished author in his own right and won, or was nominated for, Hugos & Nebulas 16 times over 30 years. I probably first read his short work in The Visible Man, his first short story collection, back in 1977 (I still have my copy!) and later in Geodesic Dreams. He also wrote a couple of novels, Nightmare Blue, with George Alec Effinger in 1975, which I bought when it came out for the Effinger connection but never really liked, and Strangers three years later, which I struggled with as well. But his short fiction was great! He collaborated with several authors, including his wife Susan Casper, and Slow Dancing Through Time, in 1990, collected the best of these stories in one place.
When I heard of his death, I wanted to read something of his but many of my books are currently boxed up. But I did find my little copy of Peacemaker, his Hugo nominated and Nebula winning story from 1983, re-issued on it’s own by Pulphouse in 1991.
I hadn’t remembered much about it, but it’s still a strong story; the climate change details are fortunately wrong (his changes are much speeded up), but the portrayal of a future rural America is still chilling to read today.
So, farewell Gardner, a giant in our field.
New Titles – w/e 26th May 2018
in hardcover:
Andrzej Sapkowski – Season of Storms the latest volume of The Witcher series, which began with The Last Wish. The previous volume, The Lady of the Lake is recently out in paperback
Andrew Caldecott – Wyntertide the sequel to the splendidly strange Rotherweird
V. E. Schwab – Vicious hardcover edition of her 2014 title…
in ‘B’ format:
Neal Stephenson & Nichole Galland – The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. time travel goings on in the Department of Diachronic Operations!
Adrian Tchaikovsky – Dogs of War Rex is a heavily armed, and armoured, genetically modified fighting machine. But at heart all he wants to be is a Good Dog…
Mercedes Lackey – The Hills Have Spies part 1 of her new Family Spies series, set in Valdemar
Juliet E. McKenna – The Green Man’s Heir Daniel is a drifter, picking up casual work as he goes, but now the police are interested in his background, but he’d rather not have his childhood investigated…
Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff – Illuminae, Gemina & Obsidio all 3 volumes of their Iluminae Files, about Hanna & Nik and their efforts to help win an interstellar war…
Warhammer 40,000 – The Carrion Throne 1st novel of The Vaults of Terra, by Chris Wright
art, etc:
PIE International – Beautiful Scenes From a Fantasy World companion volume to the recent Everyday Scenes From a Parallel World. Background images from various anime and manga
Jean-Francois Chabas & David Sala – The Enchanted Chest large h/c with a full page colour illustration opposite every page of the text of the fairy tale
magazines:
Locus – issue # 688 May cover date, with pieces on Nick Harkaway & Ada Palmer, among others. Also details of this year’s PKD Award
