Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 2nd July 2022

in hardcover:

Anthony Ryan – The Martyr volume 2 of The Covenant of Steel, after The Pariah
Neal Asher – Weaponized his latest stand alone Polity adventure
David Weber & Jane Lindskold – A New Clan the 4th in The Star Kingdom series, set in the Honorverse
Adam Roberts – The This the whole population now has super-connectivity with the latest social media device. A bit slow getting this one in…

in softcover:

Steven Erikson – The God is Not Willing part 1 of his new fantasy series and The First Tale of Witness
Foz Meadows – An Accident of Stars the 1st in The Manifold Worlds series. Nice new edition

David Weber & Richard Fox – Governor new adventure in Weber’s Path of the Fury universe; book 1 of Ascent to Empire
W. Michael Gear – Adrift the 5th in his Donovan series. A new expedition arrives to survey the ocean life…
Patrick Chiles – Frontier Marshall is dispatched to save a distant asteroid survey ship but meanwhile near-Earth space falls into chaos!

art, etc:

Carlos Ezquerra – The Art of CE subtilted 45 Years of 2000 AD although almost a third appears to be from before he started work there. Lots of colour artwork
Louis Garcia – The Art of LG text by David Roach, published by Dynamite. Plenty text but even more of his art covering his whole career. Mainly b&w
Terry Moore – 2022 Sketchbook b&w softcover. Mainly figure drawing

Jim Henson’s Labyrinth – Bestiary: A Definitive Guide to the Creatures of the Goblin King’s Realm H/C crammed with art by Iris Compiet (which echoes Brrian Froud‘s original work closely) & text by S. T. Bende

Olivier Ledroit –The Fairy Universe h/c with full colour art of dozens of fairies, with linking text by Olivier & Laurent Ledroit
Olivier Ledroit (co-ordinator) – The Dragon Universe art from dozens of artists, with text by Jean Baptiste Monge & Pascal Moguerou. Both very attractive h/c books

Maurice LeBlanc & Vincent Mallie – Gentleman Thief Arsine Lupin a very attractive h/c illustrated volume of some of the original French stories (translated by Mike Kennedy); mainly text but with a good number of colour & b&w illustrations.

Sherard Jackson – Darbi: volume 1 the 1st 3 colour drenched stories about a very violent little T-Rex. h/c.

Laurent Genefort, Francoise Rusak & Francesco Trifogli – The Blood of the Immortals Humanoids h/c. A small team land on a distant planet in search of it’s secrets… Looks nicely done

Neil Gaiman & Colleen Doran – Troll Bridge h/c colour adaptation of Gaiman’s story

Falynn Koch – The National Parks small graphic novel about the American National Parks, published by History Comics. Lots of facts and stories but not too serious; the narrator character is a Bigfoot!
Rosemary Mosco & Binglin Hu – Expedition Backyard very cute h/c graphic novel about the adventures of a mole & a vole when they inadvertently end up in the big city, having to make friends with with big city animals!

magazines:

Locus – issue # 737 June cover date interviews with Nicola Griffith & V. Castro; remembrances of Patricia A. McKillip

Illustration – issue # 76 20 pages on the character work of William Oberhardt but 50 pages on the pulp & cheesecake of Earle K. Bergey!
Heavy Metal – issue # 317 apparently now monthly again!

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 25th June 2022

in hardcover:

Miles Cameron – Against All Gods book 1 of The Age of Bronze warring gods and mortals
Rebecca Stott – Dark Earth magic and sword-smithing in post-Roman Britain

Michael S. Jackson – Ringlander the 1st book of The Path and The Way searching for her brother, Kyira makes her way to Tyr, the city that controls the dangerous shipping passage from the outer ocean to the inner seas…
Alex Livingston – The Knave of Secrets Quinol has abandoned sorcery and become a gambler, but he’s forced into a game for untold stakes…
Victoria Aveyard – Blade Breaker sequel to Realm Breaker epic fantasy

Kit Whitfield – In the Heart of Hidden Things if you annoy the fairyfolk, go to Gyrford, where the smiths can forge powerful protections…

in softcover:

Brian Staveley – The Empire’s Ruin vol 1 of The Ashes of the Unhewn Throne, which continues the story in The Chronicle of the Unhewn Thrown trilogy
Mike Brooks – The God Breaker vol 3 of the epic fantasy series which began with The Black Coast & The Splinter King
Robeet Jackson Bennett – Locklands vol 3 of The Founders Trilogy, which began with Foundryside

Doina Rusti – The Book of Perilous Dishes a slave in Bucharest is a wonderful cook because he has obtained a copy of a magic cookery book, but it’s rightful owner is on the trail…
Alex Jennings – The Ballad of Perilous Graves in an alternate New Orleans, 9 songs have escaped from a magic piano!

Stephen Baxter – Galaxias in the mid-21st C, the Sun goes out!
Agnes Gomillion – The Seed of Cain in a future, collapsed America an independent state known as Kongo arises on the Atlantic seaboard…
Dave Hutchinson – Shelter re-issue of post-apocalyptic novel set in rural England a couple of generations after the end of civilisation. I enjoyed it a lot when it first came out
James L. Campias – The Godel Operation Zee & Adya are searching the myriad habitats of the Solar System for the Godel Trigger, aided by Zee’s AI, but it’s not going smoothly!
Michael Z. Williamson (editor) – Freehold: Defiance anthology of 14 new stories set in his Freehold universe

magazines:

McSweeney’s Quarterly Review – issue # 66 softcover

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 18th June 2022

in hardcover:

Natasha Pulley – The Half Life of Valery K in 1963 a nuclear scientist is taken from the Soviet prison camp he’s in and forced to study a strangely damaged forest and the town deep within it…

Alix E. Harrow – A Mirror Mended 2nd in her Fractured Fables series. The 1st was A Spindle Splintered

in softcover:

Karen Heller – The Splendid City Eleanor is a young witch in the drought-struck state of Liberty and she’s turned her annoying colleague into a cat – but she still has to work with him and solve the water crisis by finding another missing witch…
Aliette de Bodard – Fireheart Tiger a young princess returns to the Imperial Court, having spent years away as a hostage… a TorDotCom novella
D. G. Compton – So here’s Our Leo a rare new novel (non-sf) from Compton. A ficticious biography of a man born in 1940, although the novel starts in 1983
E. C. Tubb – Planetoid Disposals Ltd. not actually new, but I saw it listed and couldn’t resist! Originally published in 1953 and revised in 2022. A space debris disposal company is the only defence against an alien invasion!

Lynne McEwan – In Dark Water new Scottish crime novel, set by the Solway Firth. Not sure how it got on the order form! Her 1st novel.

Charles E. Gannon & Robert E. Waters – Calabar’s War the latest 1636 book set in Eric Flint‘s 1632/Ring of Fire world

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 11th June 2022

in hardcover:

Raymond E. Feist – Master of Furies sequel to Queen of Storms & King of Ashes; the 3rd in his Firemane Saga
J. M. Miro – Ordinary Monsters in 1882 the Cairndale Institute, north of Edinburgh, is home to orphaned children with strange abilities…

Alastair Reynolds – Eversion a mission to a strange lake in the Arctic, or maybe an inlet in Patagonia, by schooner, or maybe a steamship, or even in a zeppelin!
David Koepp – Aurora a solar storm knocks out the world’s power grids – maybe for decades! The author is a world-famous Hollywood screenwriter.

Steve Brusatte – The Rise and Reign of the Mammals natural history book subtitled A New History, From the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us illustrated by Todd Marshall & Sarah Shelley

in softcover:

Andrzej Sapkowski – Warriors of God volume 2 of his Hussite Trilogy, translated by David French
David Hair – World’s Edge sequel to Map’s Edge; The Tethered Citadel vol 2. I enjoyed vol 1
Catriona Silvey – Meet Me in Another Life love across multiple worlds…

Megan Whalen Turner – The Thief re-issue of the 1st Queen’s Thief novel from 1996
Stefan Zweig – Shooting Stars (new to Transreal but actually quite old!) 10 ‘tipping point’ alternate histories, some first published back in 1927. 2013 UK Pushkin Press edition (translated by Anthea Bell)

Aaron Worth (editor) – The Night Wire and Other Tales of Weird Media the latest volume, with 17 stories, of the Tales of the Weird series from the British Library

magazines:

Shoreline of Infinity – issue # 31 the latest print issue

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 4th June 2022

Posted early this week because of the double Bank Holiday for the Jubilee. There are no deliveries on Thursday or Friday, so even if my suppliers get in new titles to send, I had to finalise this week’s order on Tuesday for delivery on Wednesday before the shut down.
Transreal Fiction will be open usual – i.e. 12.00 – 17.00 on Thursday & Friday & 11.00 – 17.00 on Saturday. Then closed Sunday & Monday.

in softcover:

Yoko Tawada – Scattered All Over the Earth Hiruko may be the last Japanese speaker alive. She and her companions try to track down rumours of another speaker, so she can hear her native language again… Translated by Margaret Mitsutani

Jeff Vandermeer – Hummingbird Salamander New Weird adventure in pursuit of strange taxidermy and possibly saving the world!

magazines:

Locus – issue # 736 May cover date with the Hugo Awards shortlists and interviews witth Adrian Tchaikovsky & Dhonielle Clayton

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 28th May 2022

in hardcover:

Zoraida Cordova – Reclaim the Stars anthology of 17 sf&f tales from across Latin America
Adam Roberts (editor) – Classic Science Fictiom Stories small volume of 14 stories with short intros by Roberts. Part of the MacMillan Collectors Library

in softcover:

Hannah Mathewson – Wayward the harder the High Sorcerer’s granddaughter trains, the less reliable her spells become…
Cari Thomas – Threadneedle Anna discovers a sercet, magical London…

Oliver K. Langmead – Glitterati in a future driven by fashion, a rival steals the credit for Simones accidentally created fashion trend…
Rosa Rankin-Gee – Dreamland with rising sea levels, most people are moving away from the coast, but Chance’s family are doing the opposite
Christopher Rowe – These Prisoning Hills a new stand alone novella set in the nanotech ravaged future Voluntary State of Tennessee. I really enjoyed a related novella, The Border State in his collection Reading the Map

Patricia A. McKillip – Riddle-Master following her death 3 weeks ago, I’ve re-stocked her most popular work, an omnibus edition of her 3 Riddle-Master of Hed novels (RMH, Heir of Sea and Fifre & Harpist in the Wind)

L. E. Modesitt, jr. – Isolate 1st in his new Grand Illusion series
Eric Flint & Dave Freer – The Shaman of Karres the latest in The Witches of Karres sequence, based on the classic 1966 work by James H. Schmitz
John Spurling – Arcadian Nights 40 Greek myths retold

John Ringo & Gary Poole (editors) – We Shall Rise anthology set in Ringo’s Black Tide Rising background

art, etc:

Scott Byran Wilson & Max Fuchs – One Life One Death full colour h/c graphic novel set in the world of Richard K. Morgan‘s Altered Carbon
Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino & Dave Stewart –Primordial h/c graphic novel; the first animals in space didn’t die there, they were taken! And now they’re being returned…

Seth – It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken duotone graphic novel about the creator’s quest for some rare cartoon art
George Wylesol – 2120 graphic novel; you are a technician locked in a building and have to steer through a decision tree to escape. A bit like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, but with neat art!

Dav – A Fine Summer vol 3 of Beneath the Trees. Another season in the country! Companion to The Autumn of Mister Grumpf & Winter Chills. The volume for Spring hasn’t been translated from French yet, as far as I can tell
Remi Lai – Surviving the Wild: Star the Elephant cute little h/c about a young elephant growing up

magazines:

McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern – issue # 65: Plundered new fiction from across the Americas
PS Artbook – Scream a facsimile of issue # 1 August 1973. b&w

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 21st May 2022

In hardcover:

Guy Gavriel Kay – All the Seas of the World his latest quasi-historical fantasy novel
Holly Black – Book of Night Charlie used to work for a cabal of secretive shadow-manipulators, and now they’re looking for her again…

Kim Stanley Robinson – The High Sierra: A Love Affair hefty memoir covering his life but concentrating on his love of, and many trips to, the Sierra Nevada mountains. Their history, exploration, and geology, etc. are also covered

in softcover:

Sarah J. Maas – A Court of Silver Flames the 5th in her Court of Thorns and Roses series
Derek Kunsken – The House of Styx the 1st Venus Ascendant novel, set 250 years before his Quantum Evolution trilogy
Tim Jordan – Afterglow sequel to Glow, a nanotech drug…

Eleanor Scott – Randalls Round subtitled Nine Nightmares. the latest volume from the British Library‘s Tales of the Weird series. This volume was edited by Aaron Worth & includes a further 2 stories as by N. Dennett, which was probably a pseudonym for Eleanor Scot (itself a pseudonym of a Helen Leys)

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 14th May 2022

in softcover:

Lauren T. Davila (editor) – When Other People Saw Us, They Saw the Dead new Gothic anthology from Haunt Publishing, who brought us Haunted Voices back in 2019!

Max Gladstone – Last Exit Zelda and her friends set off on a trip to see multiple worlds but may have to stop the apocalypse!
Neal Stephenson – Termination Shock sequel to Reamde, although there’s no need to have read that one first
Sarah Gailey – The Echo Wife near-future thriller

D. K. Fields – Farewell to the Liar final part of the Tales of Fenest, which began with Widow’s Welcome & The Stitcher and the Mute. I thought all 3 parts were very good.
Naomi Novik – The Last Graduate sequel to A Deadly Education
Christoipher Buehlman – The Blacktongue Thief 1st in a new fantasy series; I thought it was great fun!
J Dianne Dotson – Ephemeris vol 2 of The Questrison Saga
J Dianne Dotson – Accretion vol 3 of The Questrison Saga
J Dianne Dotson – Luminiferous vol 4 of The Questrison Saga. (Vol 1, Heliopause, came in a while ago)

A. M. Shine – The Watchers Mina breaks down driving across a remote moor in Ireland…
Faith Hunter – Of Claws and Fangs collection of short stories featuring Jane Yellowrock, and others

Jonathan Strathan (editor) – Someone in Time 16 new stories, many from major authors, about time travel and romance
Jim Butcher & Kerrie L. Hughes (editors) – Heroic Hearts a dozen new tales of heroism!

Roger Zelazny – The Chronicles of Amber SF Masterworks edition from Gollancz collecting the first 5 books of Amber (originally published 1970 – 78)
Ross E. Lockhart (editor) – The Book of Cthulhu II new 2022 edition of this Night Shade Press anthology of works inspired by H. P. Lovecraft and his work. Vol I arrived a couple of weeks ago…

art, etc:

Nanaco Yashiro – Wonderland: The Art of NY full colour, full page art, many with a touch of Art Nouveau about them

Sergio Toppi – Sharaze-De the latest volume of The Collected Toppi. H/C with good quality paper. Mainly b&w tales and legends from Africa
Francois Schuitten & Benoit Peeters – The Tower new addition to their Obscure Cities series of graphic novels, although this one appears not be be set in a recognisable location. B&W
Man Arenas – The World of Yaxin: The Day of the Unicorn full colour h/c graphic novel with cute unicorns!
Kuniko Tsurita – The Sky is Blue With a Single Cloud complete b&w manga, translated by Ryan Holmberg

Joe Flood – Science Comics: Birds of Prey the latest in the series, subtitled Terrifying Talons

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

slow week, I’m afraid!

in softcover:

Zen Cho – Black Water Sister returning home to Malasia, Jessamyne is blackmailed into helping her grandmother’s ghost gain revenge on behalf of a local diety…

R. W. W. Greene – Mercury Rising alternate history set in 1975 in which Brooklyn decides to join the Earth Orbital Forces and repulse the tentacled aliens! But are they actually the real enemy!?
E. V. Odle – The Clockwork Man 1st published in 1923; a mechanically enhanced man from the future crashlands during a village cricket match!

Maurice Broaddus – Pimp My Airship intrigue, politics & airships!
David B. Coe – Radiants part 1 of his Radiants series about secret telepaths; vol 2, Invasives, came in very recently

magazines:

Locus – issue # 735 April cover date. Tim Pratt & Premee Mohamed interviews…

Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 30th April 2022

in hardcover:

Mark Lawrence – The Girl and the Moon the 3rd in The Book of the Ice trilogy
John Gywnne – The Hunger of the Gods sequel to The Shadow of the Gods
Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson– Skyward Flight 3 short novels; Sunreach, Redawn & Evershore (580 pages altogether) together with almost 40 pages of scenes cut from Sanderson’s novel Skyward
Nicola Griffith – Spear a girl grows up in the wilderness but then takes a spear and sets off for the fabled court at Caer Leon…

Emily St.John Mandell – Sea of Tranquility from the Canadian wilderness in the early 20th C to a moonbase almost 500 hundred years later… Not read much about it but I believe it may have links to both Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel, both of which I liked

Seanan McGuire – Seasonal Fears the 2nd of her Alchemical Journeys, which began with Middlegame
Kelly Barnhill – When Women Were Dragons in mid-20th C America hundres of thousands of women literally turn into dragons!

Zorada Cordova (editor) – Reclaim the Stars anthology of 17 Latin American SF&F stories

Riley Black – The Last Days of the Dinosaurs subtitled An Asteroid, Extinction and the Beginning of Our World just what the title says! A very readable account of current thinking.

in softcover:

Alastair Reynolds – Inhibitor Phase a new book in his Revelation Space Universe!
Premee Mohamed – The Void Ascendant final volume of the Beneath the Rising trilogy
Julie Czernada – Spectrum the 3rd in her Web-Shifter’s Library set

Lucy Holland – Sistersong historical fantasy based on an ancient ballad… I liked the h/c
Sarah Tolmie – All the Horses of Iceland a story of how the first horses reached Iceland
Maggie Stievvater – Mister Impossible sequel to Call Down the Hawk; 2nd in the Dreamer Trilogy

Neil Wiliamson – Queen of Clouds Billy is delivering a sentient tree to Sunshine City when he is co-opted by the Weathermakers to help restore sense and order to the city…
Sam J. Miller – The Blade Between dark fantasy/horror from the author of Blackfish City

Luke Arnold – One Foot in the Fade the 3rd book in the Fetch Phillips Archive, which began with The Last Smile in Sunder City & Dead Man in a Ditch
Adam Simcox – The Dying Squad a murdered Lincolnshire detective is recruited to a spectral police force

Evan Dicken – To Chart the Clouds a Legend of the Five Rings adventure based on improved map-making techniques!

Liu Jue (editor) – Ticket to Tomorrow subtitled A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy. 12 newly-translated stories from current authors

art, etc:

Tyler Jacobson – The Art of TJ large full-colour h/c of mainly fantasy art

Martin Vaughn-James – Elephant & Projector two innovative monochrome graphic novels bound in dos-à-dos format, first published in Canada in 1970 & 71. The term “graphic novel” barely existed at the time so he called them “boovies” from “book-movies”!
Philippe Thirault & Roberto Zaghi – Makhno: Ukranian Freedom Fighter colour softcover from Humanoids set during and after WW1 & the Russian Revolution. Based on the true story of charismatic anarchist Nestor Makhno.
Alexandro Jodorowsky & Juan Gimenez – The Metabarons: First Cycle hefty 530+ pages full colour softback graphic novel from Humanoids
Valentina Grande & Sergio Varbella – Bauhaus: A Graphic Novel colour h/c historical look at the movemenrt

Jim Woodring – Weathercraft the 2016 h/c edition from Fantagraphics. b&w
Jim Woodring – Jim: Jim Woodring’s Notorious Autojournal Fantagraphic‘s 2014 h/c anthology of his work. Some colour. (I was billed for another, new, title but it wasn’t in the delivery.)

Jeff Parker & Sandy Jarrell – Meteor Men (Expanded Edition) full colour softcover graphic novel of alien contact!
Anders Eager & Peter Bergting – The Crows h/c g/n from Dark Horse about inheriting a strange old house in rural Sweden! Looks interesting!
Nerenika Kolomycka – Tiny Fox and Great Boar: There fun full colour h/c g/n
Charles Kermit Claytor & Ryan Claytor – A Hunter’s Tale cute little mini-comic by Ryan, illustrating a poem by his late grandfather

Wataru Nadatani – Cat + Gamer volume 1 manga; an office worker adopts a stray cat…

magazines:

Locus – issue # 735 April cover date, with Tim Pratt & Premee Mohamed interviews & the Nebula Awards ballot choices

Illustrators – Issue Thirty-Seven (# 37) with Antonio Caparo, Russ Heath & Arturo del Castillo, among others!
Heavy Metal – issue # 316