Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 30th July 2022
in hardcover:
Ken Liu – Speaking Bones the 4th in his epic Dandelion Dynasty fantasy series
Mike Ashley (editor) – Gothic Fantasy: Weird Horror Short Stories 44 stories from the 1870s to the 2020s!
in softcover:
Rian Hughes – The Black Loconotive a new, secret, Underground tunnel is being built beneath London but an ancient archeological puzzle is uncovered during construction… Lots of b&w schematics & photographs throughout the text. Almost New Wave in it’s design & layout!
Rachel Swirsky – January Fifteenth in the near future everybody receives UBI (Universal Basic Income), but how they spend it varies tremendously!
Kristen Britain – Winterlight the 7th novel in her Green Rider series
Tad Williams – Brothers of the Wind stand-alone novel set in Osten Ard, a thousand years before The Dragonbone Chair
Peter McLean – Priest of Crowns the 4th in his War For the Rose Crown series
Melissa Albert – Our Crooked Hearts Ivy & her mother confront issues and creatures from her mother’s past…
Mary McMyne – The Book of Gothel a re-interpretation of the story behind Rapunzel, and why she was in the tower
Sascha Stronach – The Dawnhounds disgraced officer Yat is murdered by her collegues but the biotech throughout the city of Hainack, and an ancient Power, have resurected her for their own reasons…
Kirsti Wishart – The Projectionist a mystery set in a small Scottish town whose inhabitants live in a perpetual film festival…
Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham & Joan Passey (editors) – Our Haunted Shores the latest volume of the British Library Tales of the Weird series, subtitled Tales From the Coasts of the British isles
art, etc:
Hayao Miyazaki – The Art of Princess Mononoke
Hayao Miyazaki – The Art of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Sergio Toppi – Bestiary the latest in The ST Gallery of matching editions of his work. Animals, creatures & humans of all descriptions. H/C with a mix of b&w and colour
Vincent Perriot – Negalyod: The God Network. Full colour hardcover with a cross-time dinosaur adventure!
Matthew Arnold & Riccardo Burchielli – Eden full colour softcover. Cryogenically frozen prisoners wake up after a malfunction – thousands of years after a catastrophic war and find the planet is now very different, and dinosaurs are back!
Jiro Taniguchi – The Walking Man: Expanded Edition hardcover with some colour pages. A gentle walk through urban Japan and a man’s memories…
Rokurou Ogaki – Crazy Food Truck ) Gordon runs a food truck in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and finds his new helper has an armed mititia hunting her… b&w softcover manga
magazines:
Locus – issue # 738 cover date July with interviews with Daniel Abraham & Nadia Afifi