New Titles – w/e 21st October 2017
in hardcover:
Philip Pullman – La Belle Sauvage return to the world of His Dark Materials with the 1st in a new series, The Book of Dust
Kevin Hearne – A Plague of Giants 1st in a new fantasy series, The Seven Kennings, from the author of the Iron Druid Chronicles
Steven Brust – Vallista the 15th Vlad Taltos adventure…
Brandon Sanderson –Edgedancer small hardcover with a short novel from the Stormlight Archive
Andrew Michael Hurley – Devil’s Day a century on, it’s difficult to make sense of just what happened back then to destroy civilisation…
in large format:
Paul McAuley – Austral a desperate woman flees with her kidnap victim to the warming Antarctic wildernesses…
Miles Cameron – The Fall of Dragons the 5th in the Traitor Son Cycle
in ‘B’ format:
D. Nolan Clark – Forbidden Suns the 3rd volume of The Silence. Forsaken Skies & Forgotten Worlds were the 1st two…
Kevin Hearne – A Plague of Giants 1st in a big new fantasy series, The Seven Kennings
K. J. Parker – The Two of Swords: Volume 1 first book in his latest fantasy series…
Mercedes Lackey – A Scandal in Battersea the 12th in her Elemental Masters series
Neil Spring – The Lost Village once a year the military allow the long-ago evacuated villagers back to their deserted homes…
Ian Watson – The Embedding Science Fiction Masterworks edition of his 1st novel, from 1973
Eleanor Dobson (editor) – Silver Bullets 14 classic werewolf stories, dating from 1831 to 1920
Bryan Thomas Schmidt (editor) – If It Bleeds anthology of 16 Predator stories!
Warhammer 40,000 – Baneblade another adventure featuring the massive battletanks, by Guy Haley
in paperback:
Star Trek – Original Sin the 1st in the Deep Space Nine: Gamma series, by David R. George III
New Titles – w/e 14th October 2017
in hardcover:
Peter Cawdron = Retrograde the multi-national crew of the first Mars colony are in trouble when war breaks out and support from Earth is threatened…
Natasha Pulley – The Bedlam Stacks in 1859 Merrick Tremayne is sent on a dangerous mission to uncharted Peru. By the author of The Watchmaker of Filligree Street
Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Book of Swords brand new stories from top names, including Martin, Hobb, Cherryh, Lynch and a dozen more, with most being set in the authors’ best loved worlds!
William Goldman – The Princess Bride beautiful, large Deluxe Edition with illustrations by Michael Manomivibul
in large format:
William Shatner & Jeff Brown – Zero G law enforcement in 2050 on the various orbiting space stations…-
Connie Willis – A Lot Like Christmas collection of a dozen stories plus some lists and articles all to do with the Festive Season! Much of it appeared previously as Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
in ‘B’ format:
Charles Stross – Empire Games 1st book in a new set following on from his Merchant Princes series
Bennett R. Coles – March of War the final part of his Virtues of War Trilogy
Brian Staveley – Skullsworn Pyrre is about to become a priestess but before that can happen she must kill 7 people described in an old song. Part of the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne
Hailey Edwards – Bayou Born a half-wild child rescued from the swamps is adopted by a policeman but she needs to discover her past… Part 1 of the Foundling series
Addison Gunn – Invasion the 1st Extinction Biome adventure. An ancient parasite that last preyed on dinosaurs is resurrected…
Vic James – Tarnished City the sequel to Gilded Cage, set in an alternate, feudal Britain….
Philip Reeve – Rail Head 1st in a YA series set on the Great Network which connects planets all across space…
Philip Reeve – Black Light Express volume 2
Roger Zelazny – A Night in the Lonesome October dark fantasy reprint from 1993, with illustrations by Gahan Wilson
Warhammer 40,000 – Shadowsword 1st in a new series, by Guy Haley
art, etc:
Syd Mead – The Movie Art of SM, Visual Futurist excellent hardcover, full of sketches and full colour concept art for the films he worked on, from Star Trek: The Motion Picture right up to Bladerunner 2049
Blas Gallego – The Art of BG the latest full colour album from SQP
3D Total Publishing – Mythical Beasts: An Artist’s Field Guide to Designing Fantasy Creatures very informative hardback. All kinds of tips for drawing the varius features of a whole range of creatures
William Gibson‘s Archangel hardcover collection of the comic mini-series created by Gibson and Michael St.John Smith
Francois Schuiten & Benoit Peeters – Samaris the latest of their Obscure Cities reprints from IDW
Miguelanxo Prado – Streak of Chalk reprint of the influential 1994 Spanish graphic novel
Katherine Collins as Arn Saba – The Collected Neil the Horse everything Neil, except the original colour covers from the 80s comics. Still making the world safe for musical comedy!
David Day – The Heroes of Tolkien 4th in the series of books about various aspects of J. R. R. Tolkien‘s Middle Earth. Previous volumes were Dictionary, Atlas & Battles of Tolkien
New Titles – w/e 7th October 2017
in hardcover:
Ann Leckie – Provenance to restore her position, Ingray must first free the thief who stole some invaluable artifacts from her people – but he’s on an impregnable prison planet…
Annalee Newitz – Autonomous in the future, Jack manufactures cheap but illegal drugs to help the poor but the latest one is faulty and the authorities (well, one agent and his indentured robot) are on her trail…
Walter Jon Williams – Quillifer vol 1 of a new fantasy series…
Graham Masterton – The Coven when 7 girls disappear their one time benefactor claims they were a coven of witches…
Doctor Who – Tales of Terror a dozen short stories, one for each Doctor!
Christopher Fowler – The Book of Forgotten Authors 99 chapters, most focusing on a single, now little known author. Looks fascinating, even if I haven’t even heard of most of them!
Ben Aaronovitch – The Furthest Station a new Peter Grant novella
J. K. Rowling – The Prisoner of Azkaban volume 3 of the large, heavily illustrated editions of the Harry Potter series
Patrick Rothfuss – The Name of the Wind very nice 10th Anniversary edition of the 1st of his Kingkiller Chronicles
in large format:
Annalee Newitz – Autonomous in the future, Jack manufactures cheap but illegal drugs to help the poor but the latest one is faulty and the authorities (well, one agent and his indentured robot) are on her trail…
K. Arsenault Rivera – The Tiger’s Daughter the Empire is corrupt and failing with demons overrunning remote villages but 2 warriors may are willing to attempt to tackle them…
Charles Yu (editor) – The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 annual anthology of the best short fiction of the year
Peter S. Beagle (editor) – The New Voices of Fantasy 19 of the best stories from the last half dozen years…
in ‘B’ format:
Gavin Smith – The Bastard Legion in 400 year’s time, criminals are kept asleep in orbiting spaceships and rehabilitated by sharing a VR environment… but now one of the ships has been stolen
Jane O’Reilly – Blue Shift volume 1 of the Second Species trilogy. To survive, humans must first travel though alien held space…
Cixin Liu – The Wandering Earth short story collection from the author of The Three Body Problem
Katherine Arden – The Bear and the Nightingale in a remote Russian village people think the creatures in the old tales are myths, but Vasya knows better – she can see them lurking close by!
Kim Newman – One Thousand Monsters the latest Anno Dracula novel…
Stephen Aryan – Mage Born the 1st of the Age of Dread books, which continue on from the events in his Age of Darkness trilogy
Brandon Sanderson – Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection 9 short stories, etc. linked to his Stormlight Archive books
Jeannette Hg – Under the Pendulum Sky Catherine’s brother has gone missing whilst spreading the Gospel; not in darkest Africa, but in the lands of the Fae!
Alison Littlewood – The Hidden People investigating his cousin’s death, Albie heads for the picture postcard village of Halfoak…
Simon Morden – The White City sequel to Down Station, in which a varied group of people fled a fire to a strange new world…
Eric Scott Fischl – The Trials of Solomon Parker sequel to weird western Dr. Potter’s Medicine Show…
Anna Caltabiano – The Day before Forever 2nd sequel to time travel novel The Seventh Miss Hatfield
David Wong – What the Hell Did I Just Read 3rd novel in the series which started with John Dies at the End
Roger Zelazny – Doorways in the Sand a precious alien artifact has disappeared… reprint of the classic 1976 novel
Bernard Capes – The Black Reaper collection of this Victorian author’s Tales of Terror
Warhammer 40,000 – Calgar’s Fury adventure & battle by Paul Kearney
in paperback:
Ben Bova – Apes and Angels a huge wave of radiation is set to wipe out life on many planets and a fleet of Earth ships is sent to try to help various alien species survive…
Jacey Bedford – Nimbus the 3rd Psi-Tech novel
Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Hell Divers humanity lives on giant airships above a devastated world, sending down crews to scavenge the ruins to keep their ships aloft…
James Becker – The Templar Brotherhood 3rd in the series of present day ancient srtifact thrillers
L. E. Modesitt, jr. – Treachery’s Tools the 10th volume of the Imager Portfolio
Marshall Ryan Maresca – The Imposters of Aventil the 3rd of his Novels of Maradaine
Forgotten Realms – Hero the 3rd in R. A. Salvatore‘s Homecoming set
Herbert van Thal (editor) – The Pan Book of Horror Stories new edition of the very first Pan Book of Horror
art, etc:
3DTotal Publishing – Masters of Sketching lessons and tips from 20 different artists
magazines, etc:
Character Design Quarterly – issue # 1 new magazine about all aspects of, um, character design!
Graphite – issue # 4 concept drawing, illustration & urban sketching
New Titles – w/e 30th September 2017
in hardback:
Peter V. Brett – The Core the 5th and final volume in his Painted Man series. Signed hardcovers of vol 2, The Desert Spear, also available
Laura Purcell – The Silent Companions Elsie finds a 200 year old diary, and an equally old wooden figure that resembles her, behind a locked door in her new home…
Sage Walker – The Man in the Tree as a vital ‘seedship’ is launched into space the (part time) security officer has a possible murder to solve
in large format:
Joseph Nasise (editor) – Urban Enemies top writers contribute short stories set in their best known worlds… Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin Hearn and many more!
in ‘B’ format:
Neal Asher – Infinity Engine volume 3 of his Transformation series, which began with Dark Intelligence & War Factory
Jamie Sawyer – Pariah part 1 of The Eternity War, the sequel set to his Lazarus War trilogy
Terry Goodkind – Death’s Mistress: Sister of Darkness part 1 of The Nicci Chronicles
Sylvia Hunter – A Season of Spells the 3rd book in her Midnight Queen trilogy…
Warhammer 40,000 – Blood of Sanguinius novel by Darius Hinks featuring Mephiston, Lord of Death
Polly Faber – Tiny Tapir Trouble the 3rd book of Mango & Bambang‘s adventures, now in softcover. Illustrated by Clara Dulliamy
in paperback:
Eric Flint & Ryk E. Spoor – Castaway Odyssey sequel to Castaway Planet, about survivors of a spaceship disaster who find themselves stranded on an uninhabited, wild planet…
art, etc:
Bernie Wrightson – Art and Designs for Gang of Seven Animation hardcover of his character sketches and some finished art from various projects…
Hugo Pratt – Fable of Venice the latest of Euro Comics‘ Corto Maltese reprints
Falynn Koch – Bats: Learning to Fly the 5th in her Science Comics series
Falynn Koch – Plagues: The Microscopic Battlefield the 6th in her Science Comics series… previous volumes have focused on dinosaurs, coral reefs, volcanoes & flying machines
Leanne Shapton – Toys Talking board book of sketches of toy animals and what they might be saying…
magazines:
Illustrators – issue Nineteen with heavily illustrated pieces on James Gurney, Erik Kriek, Arturo del Castillio and more!
New Titles – w/e 23rd September 2017
in hardcover:
Ken McLeod – Emergence the 3rd volume of his Corporation Wars trilogy. Signed copies available
Trudi Canavan – Successor’s Promise the 3rd volume in her Millennium’s Rule series…
Jay Kristoff – Godsgrave sequel to Nevernight and the 2nd book in The Nevernight Chronicles
Peter Clines – Paradox Bound time seems to have stopped in the sleepy town of Sanders…
Kij Johnson – The River Bank sequel to Kenneth Williams‘ classic The Wind in the Willows. With b&w illustrations by Kathleen Jennings. Looks fun!
Eric Brown – Starship Coda final novella rounding off his Starship sequence of stories from PS Publishing
Subterranean Press hardcover titles:
James Blaylock – River’s Edge signed & numbered newly published story featuring Langdon St. Ives
Tim Powers – Medusa’s Web signed & numbered slipcased edition
Caitlin R. Kiernan – Dear, Sweet Filthy World short story collection
Robert Silverberg – Early Days: More Tales From the Pulp Era signed & numbered edition
Mike Resnick – Voyages: The Chronicles of Lucifer Jones 1938 – 1941 signed & numbered edition
Mira Grant – Final Girls signed & numbered novella
Lois McMaster Bujold – Penric and the Shaman
in large format:
Tricia Sullivan – Sweet Dreams Charlie thought she was the only ‘dreamhacker’ there was…
Patricia Bray & Joshua Palmetier (editors) – All Hail Our Robot Conquerors! 15 new stories celebrating the rise of the robots!
Laura Anne Gilman & Kat Richardson (editors) – The Death of All Things 22 new stories about the Grim Reaper…
in ‘B’ format:
Marina J. Lostetter – Noumenon a fleet of generation starships crewed entirely by clones who, generation by generation, are slowly changing…
Mark A. Latham – The Legion Prophecy the 3rd of the Appolonian Casefiles…
Peter V. Brett – Messenger’s Legacy soft cover novella, set in the world of The Painted Man
Terry Goodkind – Nest Kate Bishop’s brother has been murdered but who did it is the least of her concerns…
Jy Yang – The Red Threads of Fortune
Jy Yang – The Black Tides of Heaven 1st 2 companion volumes in the Tensorate fantasy series
Philip K. Dick – Electric Dreams collection of the 10 stories that have been adapted for the current C4 tv series
Mark Morris (editor) – New Fears original horror anthology
in paperback:
James Becker – The Lost Treasure of the Templars 1st of a new series featuring antiquarian bookseller Robin Jessop…
James Becker – The Templar Archive 2nd in the series with Robin Jessop
Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Extinction End volume 5 of the Extinction Cycle
Alien: Covenant – Origins official prequel to the events in the Alien: Covenant film. By Alan Dean Foster
art, etc:
Jon Jardine – Adventures in Space: The Architecture of Science Fiction illustrated history of the connection between SF and modern architecture and how they influenc each other. Interesting stuff!
magazines:
Shoreline of Infinity – issue # 9
Shoreline of Infinity – Book Festival Special Issue limited number available
Interzone – issue # 272 includes a nice piece on the late Brian Aldiss
Black Static – issue # 60
Locus – issue # 680 interview with Matt Ruff & several appreciations of Brian Aldiss
audio:
Tanith Lee – Night’s Master cover-to-cover reading of the 1st in her Tales from the Flat Earth series. Read by Susan Duerden
2018 wall calendars:
Tolkien Calendar 2018 – Beren and Luthien with illustrations by Alan Lee
Arthur Rackham – Calendar 2018
New Titles – w/e 16th September 2017
in hardback:
Omar El Akkad – The American War Sarat was only 6 when the 2nd American Civil War broke out in 2074, amidst civil unrest, fake news, the effects of climate change & more…
large format:
Jo Walton – Thessaly: The Complete Trilogy of The Just City, The Philosopher Kings & Necessity her acclaimed series based on Greek myth and philosophy in one volume!
in ‘B’ format:
Sergei Lukyanenko – The Sixth Watch continuing the series that started with The Night Watch. Translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield
Sarah Gailey – Taste of Marrow sequel to the recent River of Teeth, about an alternate southern USA where hippos were introduced decades before…
Benjamine Burford-Jones – The Dreamer’s Lament the latest Lethbridge Stewart adventure…
art, etc:
Simon Stalenhag – Things From the Flood 2nd volume of his art depicting alien incursions in Sweden! The 1st was Tales From the Loop
Flammarion – Pin-Ups: Night and Day small hardcover postcard book reproducing classic pin-ups
David Petersen & Serena Malyon – Mouse Guard Alphabet Book full colour hardback fromm the creators of the comic
Marco Tabilo – Marco Polo: Dangers and Visions graphic novel about the explorer/trader
magazines:
Illustration – issue # 57 featuring Earl Mayan and Peter Stevens
calendars:
Vintage Sci-Fi 2018 – wall calendar with classic pulp magazine covers
New Titles – w/e 9th September 2017
in large format:
C. Robert Cargill – Sea of Rust in a human-free robot future, one damaged robot refuses to be absorbed into the One World Intelligence…
Jonathan Strahan (editor) – Infinity Wars 15 new stories in the 6th anthology of his Infinity Project
in ‘B’ format:
Adrian J. Walker – The Last Dog on Earth from the author of The End of the World Running Club
Ferrett Steinmetz – The Uploaded despite most people having had their consciousnesses uploaded, they still want to interfere with those left behind…
Stephen Hunt – The Stealer’s War volume 3 of The Far-Called series, which began with In Dark Service
Anthony O’Neill – Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Seek 7 years after Jekyll/Hyde’s death, a man appears claiming to be Dr. Jekyll; only Jekyll’s old lawyer knows he must be an imposter…
Jen Williams –The Ninth Rain the 1st of her Winnowing Flame trilogy
Joseph Brassey – Skyfarer trainee sorceress Aimee is caught up in a race to find an ancient relic, travelling by skyship and trying to outwit magic-wielding knights… The Drifting Lands vol 1
Paige Orwin – Immortal Architects sequel to The Interminables, featuring Edmund Templeton, a time-manipulating sorcerer and part of a magical cabal ruling the US’s East Coast…
Clifford D. Simak – A Heritage of Stars a man treks across a future primitive world seeking knowledge…
Scarlett Thomas – Dragon’s Green YA fantasy novel; the 1st in her Worldquake series…
E. Nesbit – In the Dark 21 ghost stories from around a century ago…
New Titles – w/e 2nd September 2017
in hardback:
Eric Flint & Alistair Kimble – Iron Angels two FBI Agents investigating strange cults in Illinois realise they have to call in the Scientific Anomalies Group to aid them…
Jonathan Carroll – The Crow’s Dinner signed & numbered edition (limited to 1000) from Subterranean Press consisting of hundreds of short pieces that initially appeared on Medium.com
Naomi Novik – Golden Age short story collection with 6 short stories & 26 Drabbles (100 word stories).
in ‘B’ format:
Jon Hollins – False Idols sequel to Fool’s Gold and the 2nd volume of The Dragon Lords
Sylvia Hunter – Lady of Magick set in a magical version of Britain, Sophie hopes life as a female student is easier away from Oxford, in Din Edin… Sequel to The Midnight Queen
James Bennett – Raising Fire sequel to Chasing Embers
Claire North – The End of the Day ultimately, everybody meets death. But before that they meet Charlie…
Max Gladstone – Ruin of Angels the 6th in his Craft series, which began with Three Parts Dead
Corey J. White – Killing Gravity Miriam Xi has spent years on the run but now she’s in a crippled spaceship and they’re closing in on her…
James Bennett – Raising Fire
Ken Liu (editor) – Invisible Planets new short SF from 7 of China’s best sf authors…
in paperback:
Julie E. Czerneda – The Gate to Futures Past the 2nd in her Reunification series, set in her Clan Chronicles universe
Lisanne Norman – Circle’s End the 9th in her Shaolin Alliance series…
Christie Golden – Valerian: City of a Thousand Planets novelisation of the new film by Luc Besson.
art, etc:
Jim Henson – Giants the latest volume of The Storyteller series, with illustrated stories inspired by his characters and art…
Jack Kirby – Kirby 100 big celebration of his art, issued for his 100th birthday. He would have been 100 on 28th August.
magazines:
Rue Morgue – The Weird World of H. P. Lovecraft with 26 articles covering all aspects of his life and work
Comics Review – August 2017 issue; reproductions of old (mainly b&w) cartoon strips – Alley Oop, Modesty Blaise, Krazy Kat, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, many more…
New Titles – w/e 26th August 2017
in hardcover:
Adam Roberts – The Real-Town Murders near-ish future murder mystery/thriller
in large format:
Mick Franklin – The Nightmare Man an escaped prisoner flees his pursuers to his hometown only to find it’s infested with zombies…
in ‘B’ format:
James Lovegrove – Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows the 1st of his Cthulhu Casebooks
Sylvia Hunter – The Midnight Queen in a fragmented, magical Britain, Gray Marshall must solve the mystery of the long-missing Midnight Queen. Ist in a trilogy
Sabaa Tahir – A Torch Against the Night sequel to An Ember in the Ashes. Epic fantasy
Deborah A. Wolf – Split Feather Siggy can see demons & talks to phantoms and is forced to travel to Alaska to discover her past…
Mike Resnick – The Castle of Cassiopeia the 3rd Deadenders book
Charles Beaumont – Perchance to Dream short stories from one of the most admired Twilight Zone writers. It’s been out a while, but I’ve not stocked it before…
Polly Faber – Tapir All at Sea the 2nd softcover reprint of the Mango & Bambang series. Illustrated by Clara Vulliamy
in paperback:
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller – Alliance of Equals the 19th Liaden Universe novel…
Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson – Navigators of Dune sequel to Mentats of Dune
Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Extinction Evolution the 4th book of the Extinction Cycle
Clive Cussler & Robin Burcell – Pirate the 8th in Cussler’s Fargo series but the 1st to be co-written with Burcell…
Star Trek – Patterns of Interference the latest ST: Enterprise adventure, written by Christopher L. Bennett
New Titles – w/e 19th August 2017
in large format:
Lisa Tuttle – (The Curious Affair of) The Witch at Wayside Cross sequel to (The Curious Affair of) The Sonambulist and the Psychic Thief
Amanda Blake – Zero One, Zero Two poetic novella about the end of Humanity. Possibly. By a local author
Sean McMullen – Colours of the Soul & Ghosts of Engines Past two short story collections with 27 stories between them
in ‘B’ format:
Blake Crouch – Dark Matter Jason wakes up in an alternate world, strapped to a hospital trolley and attended by strangers in hazmat suits…
James Bradley – Clade in the near future, as England suffers from climate change and civil unrest, Ellie takes solace in beekeeping…
Tim Akers – The Iron Hound sequel to The Pagan Night and vol 2 of The Hallowed War
Sean McMullen – Before the Storm time travel novel
Warhammer 40,000 – Kingsblade stand alone novel by Andy Clark
Polly Faber – Mango & Bambang: The Not-a-Pig softcover edition of the 1st book of stories about a city-living tapir! Illustrated by Clara Vulliamy
in paperback:
James Rollins – The Seventh Plague the latest Sigma Force adventure…
Ilona Andrews – Wildfire the 3rd in her Hidden Legacy series
magazines:
Locus – August 2017 cover date, whole issue number 679
