New Titles – w/e 23rd March 2019
in hardcover:
Joe R. Lansdale – Rime sf novella from PS Publishing, set on board a giant deep-sleep starship…
in large format:
Ian McDonald – Moon Rising the conclusion of his Luna trilogy
Ryu Mutsuse – 10 Billion Days & 100 Billion Nights Stabledonian scale philosophical Japanese sf novel, first published there in 1967
Joe R. Lansdale – The Elephant of Surprise the latest Hap and Leonard adventure…
K. A. Doore – The Perfect Assassin a young assassin is having doubts about his new occupation… Book 1 of the Chronicles of Ghadid
Caitlin R. Kiernan – To Charles Fort With Love horror/dark fantasy collection
in ‘B’ format:
David Dalglish – Soul Keeper Devin is a peaceful, itinerant Soulkeeper but now the Veil is torn and magic and monsters are invading the land again…
David Hair – Prince of the Spear third part of his Sunsurge Quartet
Louisa Morgan – Witches Kind sequel to A Secret History of Witches, set just after the end of WW2
C. Ruocchio – The Empire of Silence book 1 of the far future Suneater series, about Hadrian, some time hero, or just as likely, considered a monster!
Seth Fried – The Municipalists a bureaucrat & a rogue AI are tasked with tracking down a cyberterrorist, and it looks like it was an inside job…
Mandy Haggith – The Amber Seeker sequel to The Walrus Mutterer, about Pytheas the Greek‘s voyage to Britain and beyond in 320 BC!
Nisi Shawl (editor) – New Suns anthology of 17 new stories by people of colour
in paperback:
Alan Dean Foster – Relic Rustan is probably the only human in the Galaxy but is persuaded to look for his rumoured home planet of Earth!
art, etc:
Charles Vess (illustrator) – The Book of Ballads and Sagas Neil Gaiman, Emma Bull, Jane Yolan, Charles DeLint and others interpret classic ballads & stories, which Vess then illustrates. The original verses, etc. are also included. 1st published in 2004. Hardcover, b&w
New Titles – w/e 16th March 2019
in hardcover:
Cory Doctorow – Radicalized 4 novellas set in the near future
Zen Cho – The True Queen magical goings-on in Regency London… sequel to 2013’s Sorcerer to the Crown
Kevin Hearne, Lila Bowen & Chuck Wendig – Death & Honey 3 original novellas in a signed & numbered edition. The Buzz Kill by KH, Grist of Bees by LB & Interlude: Tanager by CW. Each with a colour plate by Galen Dara
in large format:
Delilah S. Dawson & Kevin Hearne – Kill the Farm Boy humorous fantasy
Priya Sharma – All the Fabulous Beasts collection of 16 of her stories
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – The Snail on the Slope new translation by Olena Bormashenko of one of their best novels. I re-read the old 1980 translation by Alan Meyers back in 2014 and now I’m keen to see how this one compares!
Jonathan Janz – The Nightmare Girl horror
in ‘B’ format:
Tade Thompson – Rosewater Insurrection sequel to Rosewater
M. T. Hill – Zero Bomb near future mystery in a future UK police state. Looks interesting.
Rachel Heng – Suicide Club if she follows the rules Lea could live forever, but the sacrifices she’ll have to make may be too great
Karl Schroeder – The Million the ruling class on Earth live lives of luxury but every 30 years 10 billion alien tourists descend on the planet…
Robert Jackson Bennett – Vigilance in 2030 violent reality gameshows have perhaps become a bit too realistic…
Leo Carew – The Wolf epic fantasy in which the short-lived people of the South invade the lands of the long-lived, pastoral Northerners
Lilith Saintdrow – The Quill and the Crow volume 1 44 short essays about all sorts of aspects of writing
in paperback:
Timothy Zahn – Cobra Traitor book 3 of his Cobra Rebellion set
Lilith Saintcrow – Roadtrip Z #1 – Cotton Crossing, #2 – In the Ruins, #3 – Pocalypse Road & #4 – Atlanta Bound complete quartet of the adventures of librarian Ginny and handyman Lee during a zombie apocalypse!
art, etc:
Dark Horse Books – The Art of Anthem large full colour hardback with loads of art from the new game, from concept to final realisation
Gareth Hinds – The Illiad hefty graphic novel version of Homer’s masterpiece. Full colour softcover. Extras include notes, map & a bibliography
magazines:
Shoreline of Infinity – issue # 14 includes new Ken MacLeod story!
Interzone – issue # 280 with cover art by Richard Wagner
Black Static – issue # 68 cover art by Joachim Luetke
Locus – issue # 698 March 2019 cover date with remembrances of both Bety Ballantine and Carol Emshwiller
New Titles – w/e 9th March 2019
in hardcover:
K. Chess – Famous Men Who Never Lived hordes of refugees fleeing a nuclear war on an alternate time line settle in New York…
Temi Oh – Do You Dream of Terra-Two? the 1st ever mission to an Earth-like planet 23 years travel away, crewed by a mix of aging veteran astronauts and teenagers who have trained all their lives for this trip…
V. E. Schwab – The Near Witch reprint of her 1st published novel, from 2011
John Ringo & Gary Poole (editors) – Voices of the Fall a short story by Ringo plus a dozen other stories by other authors, using his Dark Tide Rising background…
in large format:
Elizabeth Bear – Ancestral Night Haimey and her space salvager crew stumble upon some ancient alien tech but are immediately on the the run from pirates, revolutionaries & the government! Grand scale space opera!
Caitlin R. Kiernan – A is for Alien collection with a dozen of her best stories. Interior art by Vince Locke
Caitlin R. Kiernan – Tales of Pain & Wonder collection of 22 interconnected stories (with an alternate reading order given at the end); interior art by Richard A. Kirk
Doctor Who – Thirteen Doctors; 13 Stories anthology of Doctor Who stories, one per regeneration
in ‘B’ format:
Andrzej Sapkowski – Season of Storms the 8th Witcher novel, translated from Polish by David French
V. E. Schwab – Vengeful sequel to Vicious
Anna Smith Spark – The Tower of Living and Dying the sequel to The Court of Broken Knives; volume 2 in her Empires of Dust series
Graham Edwards – String City a PI able to jump between alternate timelines in an interdimensional city finds himself on a case which just keeps getting weirder!
Patrick Edwards – Ruin’s Wake history has been erased, and individual identies are following suit…
Pat Cadigan – Fools her 3rd novel (from 1992) and Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, now re-issued in Orion‘s SF Masterworks series
C. L. Moore – Northwest of Earth the space opera stories featuring Northwest Smith, starting with the classic Shambleau. Now re-issued by Orion in their Golden Age Masterworks series
in paperback:
Seanan McGuire – That Ain’t Witchcraft the 8th InCryptid novel
Clive Cussler & Graham Brown – The Rising Sea the 15th NUMA Files adventure wth Kurt Austin and the 7th by the Cisser/Brown pairing
magazines:
Shoreline of Infinity – The Chosen From the First Age anthology collecting work fom the 1st 10 issues of the magazine
Graphite – issue # 10 concept design, illustration & urban sketching, from 3dtotal Publishing
New Titles – w/e 2nd March 2019
in hardcover:
Ann Leckie – The Raven Tower the author of the multi-award winning Ancillery Justice series turns her hand to fantasy… the kingdom of Traden seems to have been deserted by it’s protective god, Raven
Marlon James – Black Leopard Red Wolf very well reviewed fantasy, drawing from African myth and history…
Django Wexler – A Ship of Smoke and Steel career criminal Isoka is captured and forced to go on a mission to steal a ghost ship…
Den Patrick – Witchsign 75 years have passed since the overthrow of magic and the founding of the Solmindre Empire but vigilante gangs still roam, seeking out any who bear the taint of magic…
Roshani Chokshi – The Gilded Wolves in Paris in 1889, the Order of Babel forces top hotelier Severin to track down a magical artifact…
Rudy Rucker – Notes for Return to the Hollow Earth all sorts of extra material and background for his new novel
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Complete Orsinia volume 1 of her collected work, published by The Library of America. It was issued some time ago and is now almost out of print…
J. K. Rowling – The Tales of Beedle the Bard
J.K. Rowling – Quidditch Through the Ages
J.K. Rowling – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
uniform large hardcover editions, with large clear text and illustrations
in large format:
Rudy Rucker – Return to the Hollow Earth reprint of his weird 1990 novel
Rudy Rucker – The Hollow Earth & Return to the Hollow Earth the original novel bound together with the sequel
Rudy Rucker – Notes for Return to the Hollow Earth all sorts of extra material and background for his new novel
John Kessel – Pride and Prometheus Mary Bennet falls in love with Victor Frankenstein, and befriends Frankenstein’s creation!
Dave Freer – Tom humorous novel featuring a cat who becomes a Wizard’s assistant
Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Very Best of the Best giant collection of the 38 best short stories from the 35 volumes of The Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies which he edited!
in ‘B’ format:
Becky Chambers – Record of a Spaceborn Few 3rd in the series that began with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Terry Brooks – The Skaar Invasion the sequel to The Black Elfstone and the 2nd part of The Fall of Shannara set, itself part of the overarching Shannara series (now at, I think, 30 volumes!)
in paperback:
B. Caitling / Iain Sinclair – Scales / Silenic Drift 2 novellas published back to back. Brian Caitling (author of The Vorrh trilogy) has Scales, about a (real) expedition to Greenland to transport a massive 30+ ton meteorite from it’s landing site in Greenland to the New York Natural History Museum in 1894. Ian Sinclair’s story, Silenic Drift, is about London and it’s geology & meteorites
art, etc:
Alexandro Jodorowsky & Moebius – The Incal: Alexandro Jodorowsky 90th Birthday Edition gorgeous boxed edition of the classic bande dessinee with additional rare illustrations and an extra short story by Moebius. Numbered edition, limited to 1550 copies in total.
Hugo Pratt – The Secret Rose the 11th of the softcover EuroComics reprints of the classic Corto Maltese stories…
Cyril Pedrosa – Equinoxes nice h/c collection from NBM of some of his short graphic stories. Also with several fairly short prose pieces.
Heikala – The Art of Heikala: Works and Thoughts very nice hardcover by the Finnish artist. Sketches, tutorials, finished pieces, her thoughts on all sorts of aspects of her work. The 1st edition was massively oversubscribed on Kickstarter and it’s obvious why!
3dtotal Publishing – Beginner’s Guide to Sketching: Robots, Vehicles & Sci-Fi Concepts hints and tips from dozens of artists…
New Titles – w/e 23rd February 2019
in hardcover:
Ian C. Esslemont – Kellanved’s Reach the 3rd book of the Path to Ascendancy
in large format:
Caitlin R. Kiernan – The Very best of CRK 20 of her best stories, with an intro by Richard Kadrey
David Craig – Resurrection Men in Victorian Glasgow, the undead’s influence reaches the highest levels…
Rachel & Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley – Skraelings first contact between a small tribe of Inuit and a Norse expedition…
in ‘B’ format:
Gareth L. Powell – Fleet of Knives the sequel to Embers of War
Angus Macallan – Gates of Stone a prince and a princess from two completely separate countries both set out on quests which will cross the same pirate ridden seas… The 1st book of The Lords of the Islands series. Set mainly in an alternate S.E.Asia
T. Frohock – Where Oblivion Lives in 1932 arcane forces struggle to avert the looming Spanish Civil War! A los Nefilim novel.
Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin (editors) – The Outcast Hours 2 dozen new stories plus 9 ‘microstories’ by China Mieville. The editors previously released the well-received The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories
magazines:
Locus – issue # 697 cover date February 2019 includes The Year in Review 2018 and their recommended reading lists…
New Titles -16th February 2019
in hardcover:
Charlie Jane Anders – The City in the Middle of the Night new novel from the author of All the Birds in the Sky and set in a city on a planet which doesn’t rotate…
Jim C. Hines – Terminal Uprising sequel to Terminal Alliance, and book 2 of The Janitors od the Post-Apocalypse
Kim Wilkins – Sisters of the Fire sequel to Daughters of the Storm, about 5 Royal siblings…
Ken Liu (editor/translator) – Broken Stars anthology of new Chinese science fiction
in ‘B’ format:
Stephanie Garber – Legendary sequel to Caraval
V. E. Schwab – Dark Vault onmibus of 2 early books, The Archived and The Unbound
Charles Eric Maine – The Darkest of Nights reprint by the British Library in their Science Fiction Classics series, of his 1962 novel about a world-wide pandemic…
Mary E. Braddon – The Face in the Glass subtitled The Gothic Tales of MEB 14 stories; published in their Tales of the Weird series by the British Library
in paperback:
Michael J. Sullivan – Age oi War volume 3 of The Legends of the First Empire. Prestige format
Seanan McGuire – Deadlands: Boneyard 3rd in the weird western series…
Kelly Meding – Stray Moon sequel to Stray Magic
art, etc:
James Wyatt – The Art of Magic: the Gathering: Ravnica companion volume to The Art of M:tG – Dominaria
Jason Viola & Zack Giallongo – Polar Bears: Survival on the Ice the latest fun & educational full-colour square-bound comic from Science Comics. I think that’s 14 so far.
New Titles – w/e 9th February 2019
in hardcover:
Nnedi Okorafor – Binti: The Complete Trilogy includes Binti, Binti: Home, Binti: The Night Masquerade and also the 34 page short story Binti: Sacred Fire
Deborah K. Wolf – Forbidden City sequel to The Dragon’s Legacy
Graham Masterton – Begging to Die his latest Katie Maguire thriller…
in large format:
Nancy A. Collins – Absalom’s Wake wierd 19th C whaling horror!
Michelle Sagara – Cast in Oblivion latest in the Elantra series…
Michael Prescott – Tears for the Dead the latest Bonnie Parker case
in ‘B’ format:
Ratmond E. Feist – King of Ashes volume 1 of his brand new Firemane saga!
Anthony Ryan – The Empire of Ashes the third volume of The Draconis Memoria
Darius Hinks – The Ingenious set adrift in time, the city of Athanor has collected a very mixed citizenship over the centuries…
Patrice Sarath – Fog Season more scheming in the port of Port Saint Frey; the sequel to The Sisters Mederos
George Mann – The Revenant Express the 6th Newbury and Hobbes Investigation
Sam J. Miller – Blackfish City climate change & cyberpunk in a city at the top of the world…
Sam Peters – From Distant Stars sequel to From Darkest Skies
Lidia Yuknavitch – The Book of Joan a woman called Joan leads her small band of rebels in a fight to save a resource depleted world…
Arwen Elys Dayton – Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful 6 linked narratives about the future of humanity
Arthur C. Clarke – Earthlight latest in the Golden Age Masterworks series from Gollancz
Warhammer 40,000 – Blood of Iax latest Ultramarines adventure, by Robbie MacNiven
in paperback:
S. A. Sidor – The Beast of Nightfall Lodge sequel to Fury From the Tomb, and the second case for The Institute for Singular Antiquities
Hank Davis (editor) – Space Pioneers classic reprint anthology!
New Titles – w/e 2nd February 2019
in hardcover:
Jenn Lyons – The Ruin of Kings slum-dweller and bard’s apprentice, Kihrin has been marked by a Demon, which brings him to the attention of the King…
R. A. Salvatore – Reckoning of Fallen Gods the sequel to Child of a Mad God and volume 2 of The Coven
Lois McMaster Bujold – The Prisoner of Limnos sequel novella to Mira’s Last Dance, set in the world of the Five Gods
in ‘B’ format:
Jordanna Max Brodsky – The Wolf in the Whale her family starving, Omat treks across the Arctic ice for help but encounters a Viking warrior whose actions will change the world forever…
in paperback:
C. J. Cherryh – Emergence the 1st part of the 7th trilogy of her Foreigner sequence; the 19th overall
Stephen Lawhead – In the Region of the Summer Stars book 1 of his new Eirlandia series, set on an alternate Celtic island of Eire
Anne Bishop – Lake Silence the 6th book in The World of the Others
S. A. Sidor – Fury From the Tomb 1st book in a new series featuring The Institute for Singular Antiquities and set in the late 19th C. Vol 2 is due out soon.
magazines:
Hi-Fructose – issue # 50 half a century! This issue’s insert features the art of Jason Limon
art, etc:
Michael Whelan – Beyond Science Fiction: The Alternative Realism of MW softcover featuring art from the 1970s to the present day… Some classic stuff!
Frank Frazetta & J. David Spurlock – Frazetta: Sketchbooks II hardcover with more of his iconic art…
Sergio Toppi – The Collected Toppi: Volume One – The Enchanted World 11 of his short strips from the late 1970s to the 1990s. Excellent b&w pencil work slightly reminiscent of Ian Miller and quirky stories. Hardcover.
Alexandro Jodorowsky & Juan Gimenez – The Metabarons new 40th Anniversary Edition from Humanoids. Hardcover with 540+ pages
Michael Tisserand – Krazy subtitled George Herriman: A Life in Black and White thick softcover biography, but don’t expect too much Krazy Kat…
New Titles – w/e 26th January 2019
in hardcover:
Ben H. Winters – Golden State crime novel set in a future America
Tom Baker with James Goss – Scratchman a Doctor Who novel set in Scotland, with the Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane Smith…
in large format:
Miles Cameron – Dark Forge sequel to Cold Iron; part 2 of Masters and Mages
Adrian Collins & Mike Myers (editors) – Knee-Deep in Grit 26 grimdark fantasy tales from the likes of Adrian Tchaikovsky, James A. Moore, R. Scott Bakker & Mark Lawrence…
in ‘B’ format:
Dominic Dulley – Shattermoon Orry’s latest con goes horribly wrong and suddenly she’s fleeing for her life on board an obsolete spacecraft piloted by a reclusive loner… Book 1 of The Long Game
Jeff Noon – A man of Shadows John Nyquist hunts a serial killer nicknamed Quicksilver in the dim shadows of Dusk, the zone lying between unending darkness and permanent light…
Josiah Bancroft – The Hod King the 3rd of The Books of Babel, set after Senlin Ascenda & Arm of the Sphinx
Tessa Gratton – The Queens of Innis Lear ruined by the King, his 3 daughters know only a change of monarch can revive the magic of their island kingdom…
Charles Eric Maine – The Tide Went Out Philip is a journalist investigating a cover up into the reason why water levels have started dropping… new edition of this 1958 novel, now a Science Fiction Classic from the British Library
Mike Ashley (editor) – The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways anthology from the British Library in their Tales of the Weird series
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – The Silver Shard a Callis & Toll adventure by Nick Horth
art:
Lee J. Ames with Erin Harvey – Draw 50: Outer Space step by step guide to drawing rockets, spaceman etc!
magazines:
CDQ – Character Design Quarterly issue # 07 includes special features on drawing tentacles and horns!
New Titles – w/e19th January 2019
in hardcover:
C. J. Cherryh & Jane Fancher – Alliance Rising an unmarked, unknown ship is inbound for the aging Alpha Station and attracts the attention of distant powers like Pell and Cyteen… Set in a bywater of Cherryh’s most popular background.
R. S. Belcher – King of the Road the 2nd book in The Brotherhood of the Wheel series, about a forgotten Templar offshoot which still continues to protect travellers on their journeys…
Diane Setterfield – Once Upon a River a complex mystery story set on the Thames in the 19th C. A stranger arrives at a riverside pub with a drowned girl in his arms…
in large format:
S. Andrew Swann – Marked Dana was born with a strange mark on her skin and the ability to walk into differing pasts and futures at will…
Michael Moreci – Black Star Renegades fast moving space adventure!
in ‘B’ format:
Emma Newman – Before Mars a stand alone novel set before her other Planetfall books
Jane O’Reilly – Deep Blue the sequel to Blue Shift
David Hair – The King the 4th in his The Return of Ravana series, following The Pyre, The Adversaries & The Exile
Gareth Hanrahan – Gutter Prayer part 1 of The Black Iron Legacy, set in an eternal city where something is stirring in the ancient tunnels below!
Rachel Hyland (editor) – Geek versus Geek book of 36 pairs of essays (or rants!) contrasting two sides of a genre topic.
art, etc:
Jackie Morris – Tell Me a Dragon Postcard Pack box of 10 large cards & envelopes, each card with a full colour dragon of some sort on it!
Rikke Villadsen – The Sea h/c b&w graphic novel about an old fisherman and his strange catch!
magazines:
Illustration – issue Sixty-Two featuring Ron Lesser, and a long article about wartime propaganda art
Locus – issue # 696 Charles Vess looks at f&sf art
