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
New Titles – w/e 19th May 2018
in hardcover:
Mark Lawrence – Grey Sister sequel to recent paperback Red Sister and volume 2 of his Book of the Ancestor series
Joanne M. Harris – The Testament of Loki sequel to Runemarks and Runelight
in large format:
Thomas Welsh – Anna Undreaming a student discovers she is an ‘undreamer’ and must confront a community of ‘Dreamers’ with evil intentions… Author is from Glasgow, so not quite local!
TTA Press/Andy Cox (editor) – Crimewave 13 a dozen new stories in an attractive looking anthology
Robert C. Poyton – Remnants collection subtitled Tales of Fenland Horror & Hauntings the author’s 3 major influences are apparently M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft and the fens of East Anglia!
Robert Cowley (editor) – What If? book of essays by military historians about key moments and battles throughoiut history and how things might have changed…
in ‘B’ format:
E. M. Brown – Buying Time interesting looking time travel novel by a slightly re-branded Eric Brown!
Angela Slatter – Corpse Light sequel to Vigil; Verity Fassbinder vol 2, about the Weyrd Council‘s Brisbane agent…
G. S. Denning – My Grave Ritual the 3rd Warlock Holmes case
Brian McClellan – Wrath of Empire epic fantasy sequel to Sins of Empire
Scott Oden – A Gathering of Ravens in the year 999 Grimnir, the last of the Skraelings, makes his way from Scandinavia to the Viking town of Dubhlinn seeking vengence…
Mark Adler – Son of the Night it’s the eve of the battle of Crecy in Banners of Blood vol 2, the sequel to Son of the Morning
Cynthia Masson – The Flaw in the Stone the sequel, and part 2, of The Alchemist’s Council
Warhammer40,000 – Ghost Warrior by Gav Thorpe. Part 1 of Rise of the Ynnari
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Overlords of the Iron Dragon C. L. Werner‘s latest adventure…
Isaac Asimov – The Complete Robot re-issue of the omnibus containg I, Robot, The Rest of th Robots, and other robot stories. New cover; one of a batch of Asimov re-issues
Michael Andre-Ddiussi – Jack Vance: Seven Articles on his Work and Travels slim book looking at various aspects of JV’s writing and life. The main pieces are an attempt to map out a loose ‘future history’ (as the author did in his Handbook of Vance Space) and a look at The Blue World. The New Prime, Sjambek, and other works also feature in the other essays…
in paperback:
Larry Correia – Monster Hunter: Siege the 6th in the main Monster Hunter series, excluding the MH Memoirs & the MH Files anthology
art, etc:
3dtotal Publishing – Creating Stylized Characters latest in their series of books on art technique
Rosemary Mosco – Birding Is My Favorite Video Game little colour collection of fun nature centred cartoons taken from the Bird and Moon webcomic about birdwatching, etc.
gift:
F. A. Steel – English Fairy Tales nice little hardcover with versions of various fairy tales re-crafted by Steel and first published in 1918. Illustration both in b&w and colour by Arthur rackham.
Antoine De Saunt Exupery The Little Prince similar to the little h/c copy I usually stock, but with the illustrations in full colour instead of b&w!
magazines:
Interzone – # 275 cover date May/June
Black Static – # 63 featuring a novella by Steven J. Dines (who also has a novelette in the new Interzone as well!)
Wednesday!
Transreal Fiction will be closed all day tomorrow, the 16th of May) for pressing personal reasons…
Hope to open on Thursday as normal.
New Titles – w/e 12th May 2018
in hardcover:
Neal Asher – The Soldier Orlandine’s duty is to guard an ancient weapons store but maybe she could just destroy it instead?. Until a super-soldier from the horde is awakened by unknown enemies… Part 1 of the Rise of the Jain, his latest series featuring humans and the alien Prador Empire
Robyn Bennis – By Fire Above the 2nd Signal Airship adventure; the war against the Vin gets personal for Airship Captain Josette Dupre
in large format:
Nancy Springer – The Oddling Prince the king of Caledon may be dying, and his kingdom’s fate lies with 2 very different brothers…
Lara Elena Donnelly – Armistice sequel to her recent Amberlough
Cat Sparks – Lotus Blue an ancient satellite crashes to ground near to some post-apocalyptic nomadic traders…
Bruce Sterling – Schismatrix Plus restocked after several years of absence! His original 1985 cyberpunk novel, plus 5 stories set in the same Shaper/Mechanist world
F. Marion Crawford – The Upper Berth, for the Blood is the Life, and other Horrors subtitled The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of FMC; 8 stories originally published between 1885 and 1911
in ‘B’ format:
Robyn Bennis – The Guns Above fantasy steampunk action featuring a new airship captain…
Justina Robson – The Switch orphans Nico and Twostar don’t fit into Harmony’s perfect society…
Jaroslav Kalfar – Spaceman of Bohemia the Czcch Republic’s first space mission is to investigate a strange cloud around Venus… An Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist slection
Laini Taylor – Strange the Dreamer Lazlo Strange had always wanted to find the mythic city of Weep, and finally has an opportunity to do so!
Jennie Melamid – Gather the Daughters every summer on a remote island all the children are allowed to do anything they want, until one of them discovers something that could completely change their small world…
Kate Murray-Brown – The Upstairs Room Eleanor & Richard have finally bought their dream house, but soon their feelings about it change…
New Titles – w/e 5th May 2018
in hardcover:
Sylvain Neuvel – Only Human the 3rd of the Themis Files series, which began with Sleeping Giants
Kevin J. Anderson & Sarah A. Hoyt – Uncharted 1st of the new Arcane America series. The whole of America has a very different history and Lewis & Clark’s overland expedition meets all sorts of unexpected difficulties! The premise sounds like a cross between Jeffrey Barlough‘s Western Lights series and Manifest Destiny (the comic)
Kim Wilkins – Daughters of the Storm a dying King’s daughters set out to find the witch who might cure him, and save his Kingdom…
Leife Shallcross – The Beast’s Heart a re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast, from the Beast’s point of view
Connie Willis – I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land sheltering from the rain, Jim goes into a quaint little bookshop… (not Transreal!) Signed & Numbered novella from Subterranean Press
in large format:
Emily Devenport – Medusa Uploaded Oichi is surreptitiously rescued from being ‘spaced’ from a generation starship and vows to discover the truth behind the voyage
in ‘B’ format:
Peter V. Brett – The Core the 5th novel in his Demon Cycle, which began with The Painted Man
Roger Levy – The Rig interesting looking, complex sf novel, difficult to summarize without reading it!
Benjamin Percy – The Dark Net an evil power is infiltrating peoples’ minds via a computer virus…
Louisa Morgan – A Secret History of Witches the old, magical ways are dying but when WW2 looms, a family in Brittany rises to the challenge…
Syd Moore – Strange Fascination the 3rd Essex Witch Museum Mystery
J. R. R. Tolkien – Beren and Luthien the definitive version of this tale from Middle Earth‘s First Age. Colour plates by Alan Lee.
Star Wars – From a Certain Point of View anthology of 40 stories from 40 authors celebrating 40 years since the original film!
Samuel R. Delany – The Athiest in the Attic plus… the latest in PM Press‘s Outspoken Authors series. The title novella, an essay, an interview with Delany by Terry Bisson and a biblography
in paperback:
Timothy Zahn – Pawn Nicole is kidnapped and finds herself forced to work on a huge alien spacecraft…
Faith Hunter – Dark Queen the latest Jane Yellowrock adventure
Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Hell Divers II – Ghosts set on a gigantic airship floating above a poisonous, ruined Earth…
art, etc:
Charles R. Knight – Life Through the Ages a commemorative edition of his 1946 book, with examples of his b&w drawings of all sorts of prehistoric animals, not just the dinosaurs for which he was most famous. The original text is somewhat outdated, as are some of the assumptions made in drawing the earlier animals especially. But still a very nice softcover book!
Lee Lanier – Aesthetic 3D Lighting: History, Theory and Application how it was done, and how to do it, including virtually.
New Titles – w/e 28th April 2018
in hardcover:
Raymond E. Feist – King of Ashes part one of the Firemane Saga, a brand new series from the author of the long running Magician series of books…
in large format:
Adrian Tchaichovsky – For Love of Different Shores the 3rd volume of Tales of the Apt, with 4 more novellas…
Rachel Armstrong – Origamy the fabric of space/time may have to be re-woven…
Ian Whates (editor) – Fables from the Fountain back in stock at last! Homage anthology to Tales From the White Hart by Arthur C. Clarke. I was in one of the stories, but was cut for length…
in ‘B’ format:
Andrew Caldecott – Rotherweird strange goings-on in a very forgotten little English town…
Melissa Caruso – The Defiant Heir sequel to The Tethered Mage
Brian T. Schmidt (editor) – Infinite Stars two dozen top authors of military & space opera contribute stories set in their most popular backgrounds
in paperback:
Michael McBride – Forsaken the 2nd Unit 51 adventure. Premium format.
art, etc:
Katie Cook – Drawing Cute softcover full of tips and examples of how to make characters and objects look cuter! Looks fun!
Kris, Rob & Dave – Cyanide and Happiness book of short strips subtitled A Guide to Parenting by Three Guys With No Kids. With text by Dave McElfatrick. Somewhat cynical adult humour.
magazines:
Illustrators – issue Twenty One featuring Rodney Matthews, J. Allen St. John and more!
Illustrators – British War Comics Special issue. Bumper issue with 48 extra pages; the title says it all!
New Titles – w/e 21st April 2018
in hardcover:
Jack McDevitt – The Long Sunset Hutch takes on a final mission to track down the source of a musical, possibly alien, message… Academy novel # 8
Sam J. Miller – Blackfish City post climate-change, a woman known as ‘the Orcamancer’ arrives to help save a failing floating Arctic city… Budget price of £12.99
John Scalzi – Head On a possible case of murder in a violent, robotic computer game…
in large format:
Paul Levinson – The Loose Ends Saga 4 linked time travel stories from the author of The Silk Code. The 1st is Loose Ends, which was nominated for several awards.
Paul Levinson – Ian’s Ions and Eons short collection with 3 linked time travel stories
R. S. Belcher – The Night Dahlia a Faerie mob boss employs Laytham Ballard to track down his missing daughter…
in ‘B’ format:
Patricia Briggs – Silence Fallen the 10th Mercy Thomson novel…
Christopher Fowler – Wild Chamber the latest case for Bryant & May
Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Book of Swords Part I & Part II between them they contain the 16 stories from the single volume hardcover edition. 9 in the 1st book and 7 in the 2nd.
Alien – The Cold Forge the latest original story set in the world of the film Alien. Written by Alex White
Warhammer 40,000 – Warlord: Fury of the God-Machine novel by David Annandale
in paperback:
Eric Flint & David Carrico – The Span of Empire the 3rd in Flint’s Jao Empire series, after ‘Course‘ & ‘Crucible‘
Doctor Who – Rose novelisation of the 9th Doctor tv episodes by Russell T. Davies
Doctor Who – The Christmas Invasion novelisation of the first 10th Doctor Christmas Special by Jenny T. Colgan
Doctor Who – The Day of the Doctor novelisation of the 10th, 11th & War Doctors tv episodes by Steven Moffat
The Horus Heresy – Corax anthology of 6 more short stories in the Warhammer 40,000 universe
art, etc:
3dtotal Publishing – Sketching From the Imagination: Dark Arts
Brian Kesinger – Walking Your Octopus & Traveling With Your Octopus back in stock! Limited quantities available.
magazines:
Shoreline of Infinity – Issue 11.5 Special Edition for this year’s Edinburgh Science Festival. Their Event Horizon evening was a big success, with Paul McAuley, among others, participating
Locus – issue # 687 the cover promises interviews with Jeff Vandermeer & Tananarive Due and has a ‘Celebrating 50 Years of Locus‘ headline as well! It’s come a long way since I first read it back in the 1970s…
New Titles – w/e 14th April 2018
in hardcover:
Django Wexler – The Infernal Battalion the 5th in his Shadow Campaigns black powder fantasy series which began with The Thousand Names
Scarlett Thomas – The Chosen Ones sequel to Dragon’s Green and vol 2 of her Worldquake series
in large format:
David Thomas Moore (editor) – Dracula: Rise of the Beast 5 short stories about the rise of Dracula, including Noblesse Oblige by Adrian Tchaiskovsky
in ‘B’ format:
Tad Williams – The Witchwood Crown volume 1 of The Last King of Osten Ard. A return to the world of The Dragonbone Chair!
Kay Kenyon – At the Table of Wolves following the psychic trauma of WW1, strange talents began to appear in the British population. By 1936 there’s a secret training site for the Talented, training them in how to combat the rising Nazi menace, both at home and abroad…
Angels Slater – Vigil Verity has the ability to walk between worlds. Part 1 of the Verity Fassbinder series
Jodi Taylor – An Argumentation of Historians the 9th novel in the Chronicles of St. Mary’s time travel series
John Scalzi – Head On online VR games have become ever more realistic, and bloody. And beheading people is only a game!
Mike Ashley (editor) – Lost Mars 10 classic tales of ‘The Golden Age of the Red Planet’. Wells, Bradbury, Weinbaum, Ballard, Tubb, and more…
Garard Jones – Men of Tomorrow subtitled The True Story of the Birth of the Superheroes. Looks to be a well-researched history of the early days of the genre
art, etc:
Loish – The Sketchbook of Loish: Art in Progress slip-cased hardcover from 3dtotalPublishing
magazines:
Hi-Fructose – issue # 47 with an 8-page insert featuring art by Erik Jones
New Titles – w/e 7th April 2018
in hardcover:
Catherynne M. Valente – Space Opera peace now reigns but every Cycle the great galactic civilisations come together to celebrate and compete against each other at various accomplishments…
in large format:
Emma Newman – Before Mars Anna arrives on Mars to take up the post of geologist and also artist in residence but she soon stumbles on a mystery footprint…
Mur Lafferty – Six Wakes Maria wakes to find that she’s had to be cloned to survive, and that the rest of the spaceship crew are all dead…
K. C. Archer – School for Psychics Teddy had never thought of herself as special, but is recruited to attend a secret training facility for psychics…
Lara Elena Donnelly – Amberlough in a glamerous, decadent city, revolution is in the air…
Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins – The Silver Well 7 tales set in the same little English village, each set further back in time than the previous one, spanning almost 2000 years…
Kate Forsyth – Vasilisa the Wise short stories of ‘tales of brave young women’, illustrated by Lorena Carrington
in ‘B’ format:
Mark Lawrence – Red Sister book one of his new Ancestor series
K. M. McKinley – The Brass God the 3rd book of her Gates of the World series. Book 1 was The Iron Ship, followed by The City of Ice.
Ed McDonald – Blackwing book 1 of The Raven’s Mark, set in a wasteland known as the Misery… epic fantasy
Sebastien de Castell – Tyrant’s Throne the 4th in his Traitor’s Blade series…
Sylvain Neuvel – Waking Gods set 10 years after Sleeping Giants and 2nd in his Themis Files series. More giant alien robots appear on Earth…
Ada Palmer — Seven Surrenders sequel to Too Like the Lightning. In 2454, Earth’s long golden age is coming to a close… The Terra Ignota trilogy volume 2.
Joanne M. Harris – Runelight sequel to Runemarks, about the Norse Gods reasserting themselves in the present day
Gail Carriger – Competence the 3rd in her steampunk Custard Protocol set
Kevin Hearne – Scourged short stories set in the world of his Iron Druid Chronicles
art, etc:
3dtotal Publishing – Sketching From the Imagination: Dark Arts tips and suggestions from 50 different artists…
magazines, etc:
3dtotal Publishing – CDQ #4 Character Design Quarterly
New Titles – w/e 31st March 2018
in hardback:
Adrian Tchaikovsky – The Hyena and the Hawk the 3rd in his Echoes of the Fall fantasy trilogy
Leo Carew – The Wolf the ambitious Suthdal armies have invaded the lands of the Black Kingdom to the north but now face a desperate struggle…
Simon R. Green – Death Shall Come the 4th Ishmael Jones Mystery
in large format:
Theodora Goss – The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter Jekyll’s daughter, Mary, encounters Hyde’s daughter, Diana! And that’s just the beginning… A Nebula Award nominee
Mishell Baker – Imposter Syndrome the 3rd book in her Arcadia Project urban fantasy series, initially set in Hollywood…
James Maxey – Big Ape sequel to Cut-Up Girl and vol 2 of Lawless, set in a world with B-list superheroes…
Scott R. Jones (Editor) – Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis 15 new Lovecraftian stories…
in ‘B’ format:
Elan Mastai – All Our Wrong Todays Tom & Penny have inadvertently changed history and become stuck in this world, instead of the utopia they grew up in…
Omar El Akkad – American War in 2075, North America is undergoing an ongoing political and military upheaval…
Tim Lebbon – The Folded Land sequel to dark urban fantasy novel Relics
Mark A. Latham – Red Tower a new Sherlock Holmes case investigating a murder following Watson’s attendance at a seance…
Elizabeth Bear – Stone Mad sequel to Karen Memery, set in a steampunk Seattle…
Star Wars: Battlefront II – Inferno Squad the crack Imperial troops have infiltrated the Rebel faction led by Saw Gerrera… Written by Christie Golden
art, etc:
Nicola Streeten & Kath Tate (editors) – The Inking Woman heavily illustrated history of female artists in British comics & cartooning over the past 250 years! Hardcover.
Hugo Pratt – The Golden House of Samarkand the latest Corto Maltese graphic novel…
Saverio Tenuta, Bruno Letizia & Carita Lupattelli – Izuna hardcover fantasy graphic novel from Humanoids. Nominated for an Eisner Award!
Jim Henson‘s – Fraggle Rock Omnibus full colour softcover collection of 20 stories featuring the characters from the tv series
magazines:
The Happy Reader – issue # 9 a Treasure Island (by RLS) special issue!
