New Titles – w/e 24th September 2016
in hardcover:
Cherie Priest – The Family Plot a house clearance company are asked to clear a big old Southern house and estate, and of course, it has secrets…dark secrets!
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Complete Orsinia collection with the novel Malefrina & Orsinian Tales plus around 65 pages of other material: song lyrics, a couple of short stories, a timeline, textual notes, etc.
Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella Morton – Atlas Obscura hefty and fascinating look at all sorts of odd corners of the world. Heavily illustrated
in ‘B’ format:
Michael Cobley – Ancestral Machines a stand-alone novel using his Humanity’s Fire background (The Seeds of Earth trilogy); so it’s epic scale sf in the far future!
Ian Graham – The Path of the Hawk a party of the Church’s elite soldiers are sent on a mission to recover a presumed-dead priest (presumed dead because they had found his corpse a year before!) who is apparently still alive and being held captive… grimdark fantasy
Mark A. Latham – The Iscariot Sanction sequel to The Lazarus Gate. Victorian horror/steampunk
Tim Lebbon – Armageddon the final part of The Rage War trilogy, set in the Alien vs Predator background
John Hornor Jacobs – Southern Gods back in stock; a mysterious radio station broadcasts what may be the Devil’s music – literally!
Stephen Jones (editor) – Horrorology a dozen new horror stories from such as Kim Newman, Muriel Gray & Ramsey Campbell
in paperback:
David Weber & Joelle Presby – The Road to Hell volume 3 in Weber’s Multiverse series, which began with Hell’s Gate
Charles E. Gannon – Raising Caine the 3rd in his Terran Republic series, which began with Fire With Fire
John Joseph Adams (editor) – Operation Arcana anthology of military fantasy from the likes of Elizabeth Moon, Tanya Huff & Django Wexler
Star Trek – Hell’s Heart part 1 of mini-series Prey, written by John Jackson Miller
art, etc:
Kirsty Whiten – Wronger Rites subtitled The Quing of the Now People hardcover with full colour pages of strange and exotic people! Also some explanatory verse.
Neil Gaiman – Odd and the Frost Giants – children’s story about a young Viking, with b&w illustrations by Chris Riddell
magazines:
Shoreline of Infinity – issue # 5 another great cover from Sara Julia together with new fiction, reviews and more…
New Titles – w/e 17th September 2016
in hardcover:
Alastair Reynolds – Revenger in the far future Captain Rackamore and his crew scavenge for relics of ancient space-going civilisations, but they’re not the only ones…
Peter F. Hamilton – Night Without Stars the sequel to The Abyss Beyond Dreams and the 2nd in the Chronicle of the Fallers
Christopher Priest – The Gradual Alesandro is a musician in a warring Fascist state whose music is oddly influenced by the sight of some prohibited islands in the distance. Then he gets a chance to go there…
Jane Lindskold – Artemis Invaded sequel to Artemis Awakening, about an investigator stranded on a one-time pleasure planet run wild
Helen Keen – The Science of the Game of Thrones wide-ranging, fun and not entirely serious guide by the Fringe & R4 science communicator/comedienne
in large format:
Connie Willis – Crosstalk in the near future, a personal empathy device becomes available and newly-in-love Briddey and Trent can’t wait to get one…
Duncan Lunan – The Elements of Time short story collection published by Scottish SF magazine publishers Shoreline of Infinity. 7 time travel stories, with b&w illustrations by Sydney Jordan, creator of the long-running Jeff Hawke comic strip
Jane Lindskold – Curiosities short story collection
in ‘B’ format:
Kij Johnson – The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe a more modern take on Lovecraft‘s famous story…
Marie Brennan – A Star Shall Fall the 3rd in her Onyx Court series
George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois (editors) – Old Venus 16 new stories about an old fashioned Venus! Companion to the similar Old Mars anthology.
Doctor Who – Terrible Lizards what’s lurking in the Everglades!? By Jonathan Green
in paperback:
Julie E. Czerneda – This Gulf of Time and Stars part 1 of Reunification, the latest trilogy in her Clan Chronicles. Epic space opera full of trading and dip[lomacy between rival races and spheres of influence
art, etc:
Mark Schultz – Carbon2 a follow up to 2013’s original Carbon. b&w sketches and finished art
Michael Kaluta & Charles Vess – Mythic Coloring Book a tête-bêche (a book designed like an old Ace Double with 2 front covers) with b&w art by Vess in one half, and once flipped over, art by Kaluta in the other direction
magazines:
Interzone – issue # 266
Black Static – # 54
Heavy Metal – issue # 282 a sci-fi special issue
calendars:
George R. R. Martin – A Song of Ice and Fire 2017, with illustrations by Didier Graffet
Vintage Sci-Fi 2017 – a dozen classic pulp magazine covers
New Titles – w/e 10th September 2016
in hardcover:
Cixin Liu – Death’s End the 3rd in the set that began with the Hugo winning Three Body Problem
Sergei Lukyanenko – The Sixth Watch the latest in his Night Watch series, sequel to The New Watch. All the earlier ones are in stock in paperback…
Graham Masterton – Living Death his 7th Katie Maguire novel
Rodge Glass (editor) – Head Land anthology of 27 short stories celebrating 10 years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Includes the likes of China Mieville, A.L.Kennedy and Neil Gaiman
Yanni Kuznia (editor) – A Fantasy Medley #3 new stories from Kevin Hearne (an Iron Druid story), Aliette De Bodard, Laura Bickle & Jacqueline Carey. From Subterranean Press
James P. Blaylock – The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives omnibus edition collecting several stories & novellas: The Ebb Tide, The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs, The Adventure of the Ring of Stones, The Here and Thereians & Eathbound Things
Polly Faber – Mango & Bambang: Tapir all at Sea illustrated by Clara Vulliamy. Sequel to M&B: The Not-a-Pig. Transreal Fiction sponsors the tapirs at Edinburgh Zoo
Polly Faber – Mango & Bambang: Tiny Tapir Trouble illustrated by Clara Vulliamy. Transreal Fiction likes tapirs!
in large format:
Peter S. Beagle – Summerlong new fantasy novel from the author of The Last Unicorn
Robert McCammon – Blue World softcover from Subterranean Press, apparently expanded from previous editions and now with 16 stories
Neil Clarke (editor) – The Best Science Fiction of the Year from the editor of Clarkesworld magazine, 31 of the best sf stories from last year…
in ‘B’ format:
Adrian Tchaikovsky – The Tiger and the Wolf volume 1 of new fantasy series Echoes of the Fall
Miles Cameron – The Dread Wyrm book 3 of the adventures of The Red Knight
Daniel Abraham – The Spider’s War volume 5 of The Dagger and the Coin
Seanan McGuire – Once Broken Faith the 10th Toby Daye adventure
David Hair – Ascendant’s Rite the final book of The Moontide Quartet
Elizabeth May – The Vanishing Throne sequel to The Falconer; described as a cross between Jane Austin and the Brothers Grimm! Partly set in Edinburgh
James Bennett – Chasing Embers Ben Garston, AKA Red Ben, guards the border between myth and reality…
Austin Grossman – Crooked alternate history featuring President Richard Nixon
Ferrett Steinmetz – Fix sequel to Flex and The Flux. 3rd in the Mancer series
K. C. Alexander Necrotech cyberpunk thriller as Riko battles daily to survive in a future where everybody seems to be after her…
Edgar Allan Poe – Tales of Horror new edition of his most famous stories
Warhammer 40,000 – Sons of Titan 4 Grey Knights stories by David Annandale
Warhammer 40,000 – The Tau Empire anthology with 2 novellas & 8 short stories about the Legends of the Dark Millennium
in paperback:
S. M. Stirling – The Desert and the Blade the latest novel of the Change
art, etc:
Colin Salter – Science is Beautiful subtitled The Human Body Under the Microscope big hardcover full of pretty amazing images!
New Titles – w/e 3rd September 2016
in hardback:
S. M. Stirling – Prince of Outcasts the 13th in his Change series, which began with Dies the Fire
Eric Flint & David Carrico – The Span of Empire the 3rd in Flint’s Jao Empire series
Wen Spencer – Project Elfhome the 5th in the series that began with Tinker
in large format:
Michael Swanwick – Chasing the Phoenix further Darger & Surplus adventures in a very strange future China
Laura Gellego – Omnia the superstore’s warehouse has absolutely everything in stock, but sometimes it’s difficult to find it…
Kristine Kathryn Rusch (editor) – Women of Futures Past a dozen stories by some of the field’s most respected female writers, dating from the 1930s and C. L. Moore
in ‘B’ format:
Clifford D. Simak – The Big Front Yard and other stories the complete short fiction, volume 2
Clifford D. Simak – The Ghost of a Model T and other stories the complete short fiction, volume 3, both from Open Road Press
Ellen Datlow (editor) – Children of Lovecraft horror anthology with 14 stories
in paperback:
David Weber – Hell’s Foundations Quiver the 8th in his Safehold series, which began with Off Armageddon Reef
Larry Correia – Son of the Black Sword 1st volume of epic fantasy, The Saga of the Forgotten Warrior
Orson Scott Card – Gate Father the 3rd of his Mithermages series
Jennifer Estep – Unraveled the 15th Elemental Assassin adventure
Hunter Shea – The Jersey Devil a horror re-awakens at a summer music festival
W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O’Neal Gear – People of the Songtrail novel of First Contact between the Vikings and the inhabitants of North America..
Star Trek – Purgatory’s Key the 3rd volume of the 50th Anniversary Legacies trilogy, by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore.
art, etc:
Guillermo Del Toro: At Home with Monsters heavily illustrated hardback all about the film director’s influences. Text by Britt Salvesen & Jim Shedden
Hugo Pratt – The Ethiopian the 4th of the Eurocomics reprints of the Corto Maltese graphic novels
Arnoud Plumeri & Bloz – Dinosaurs: Biggest Battles in 3-D full colour hardcover with several short stories. With 3-D glasses.
Crystal Velasquez & Manuel Preitano – Just Princesses full colour adventures of Princess Katrina with Red Riding Hood, Snow White & Prince Maximillian as they try to save her kingdom…
Magazines:
Illustration – # 52 big articles on Harry Beckhoff & John Lagatta
Illustration – # 53 featuring Eric Pape & Mel Odom (not the SF author)
Illustrators – issue # 15 with articles on Jonathan Ball, Andy Thomas & Dave McKean
2017 wall calendars:
Frank Frazetta – The Fantasy Art of Frazetta
Cireulo – Dragons by Ciruelo
Star Trek – Beyond with stills from the recent movie
New Titles – w/e27th August 2016
in hardcover:
Terry Pratchett – The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner 14 short stories for children, with b&w illustrations by Mark Beech
Francis Spufford – Golden Hill in 1746, a mysterious stranger arrives in New York with a banker’s draft for a huge sum of money in his pocket… Historical novel from the author of Red Plenty and Backroom Boys
Eqwyn Ivey – To the Edge of the World in 1885, an expedition into heart of unexplored Alaska has no real idea what they’ll find…
in large format:
Stephen Baxter – Obelisk new short story collection which includes additions to his Proxima/Ultima novels, and also some set in the Long Earth world of the books he c0-wrote with Terry Pratchett
Nick Mamatas – I am Providence a gruesome murder at a Lovecraft convention known as the Summer Tentacular!
Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling – Transreal Cyberpunk 9 strange co-written short stories! With notes on their creation. And, yes, if you hadn’t realised, I named my shop after Rudy’s neologism…
Carrie Vaughn – Amaryllis and Other Stories 18 short stories
in ‘B’ format:
Luke Rhinehart – Invasion cute, friendly aliens appear from another dimension but quickly cause chaos…
Rob Boffard – Impact the 3rd in his trilogy set on a failing space station
Jamie Sawyer – Origins the final volume of his Lazarus War trilogy
Blake Charlton – Spellbreaker 3rd in the set that began with Spellwright
Andy Remic – Twilight of the Dragons sequel to The Dragon Empire, and part 2 of The Blood Dragon Empire series
M. R. Carey – Fellside horror/ghost story set in a strange little village on the Yorkshire Moors…
Warhammer – War Storm 3 stories by Nick Kyme, Guy Haley & Josh Reynolds set during the Realmgate Wars in the Age of Sigmar
Warhammer 40,000 – Hand of Asuryan by Gav Thorpe, featuring the warrior named
Asurmen
in paperback:
Robert Conroy – Germanica alternate history with a final Alpine German redoubt ruled by Goebbels and hoping to hold out long enough for the western Allies to tire and thus be able to sue for (conditional) peace
Greg Bear & Gardner Dozois (editors) – Multiverse: Exploring the Worlds of Poul Anderson
Hank Davis (editor) – Things From Outer Space
New Titles – w/e 20th August 2016
in hardcover:
Kate Elliott – Poisoned Blade the 2nd book in her Court of Fives series
in large format:
James Barclay – Heart of Granite book 1 of new sf series Blood and Fire. The world is at war but Max has everything he could want – until he hears something that he shouldn’t, then it all changes…
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Keris McDonald & Adam Gauntlett – The Private Life of Elder Things 11 short Lovecraftian stories, with 5 by Tchaikovsky and 3 by each of the other 2 authors
in ‘B’ format:
N. K. Jemisin – The Obelisk Gate sequel to The Fifth Season; part 2 of The Broken Earth trilogy
Trudi Canavan – Angel of Storms sequel to Thief’s Magic and the 2nd in her Millennium Rule set
Gail Carriger – Imprudence a little late getting this, the 2nd in her Custard Protocol steampunk series
Adrian Tchaikovsky – Spiderlight
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Monday Starts on Saturday new translation by Andrew Bromfield of their weird scientific magic novel from 1964. Previously titled Monday Starts on Saturday.
Doctor Who – Horror of the Space Snakes by Gary Russell
Doctor Who – Web in Space by David Bailley
Art, etc:
Paul Kidby – Terry Pratchett‘s Discworld Colouring Book dozens of b&w line drawings from the Discworld to colour in! With 16 pages of ‘filled in’ full colour sample pages from Paul Kidby at the back
Randy Writes a Novel in Transreal
So, a day or two ago, a big purple guy named Randy toured the shop, followed by a camera.
He’s doing a late-ish show at the Fringe and was just out and about…
Here’s the page with the video his team created!
Here’s the video itself on youtube
New Titles – w/e 13th August 2016
in hardcover:
Jay Kristoff – Nevernight epic fantasy, about a young girl raised to destroy her enemies…
in large format:
Michael Swanwick – Not So Much, said the Cat new short story collection, all from the past 8 years
Adrian Tchaikovsky – Tales of the Apt: Spoils of War short stories set in the world of his 10 volume Apt series
Chris Dolley – What Ho Automata 4 related humorous steampunk stories: Something Rummy This Way Comes, Reggiecide, The Aunt Paradox and What Ho, Automaton!
in ‘B’ format:
Catherine M. Valente – Radiance
Stephen Baxter – Xeelee: Endurance short stories set in his Xeelee background
Gavin Deas – Empires: The First Battle Extraction bound back to back with The First Battle Infiltration. Earth is invaded by two different alien species simultaneously! Gavin Deas is a pseudomyn for authors Stephen Deas & Gavin Smith
Afterblight Chronicles – End of the End omnibus edition containing short novels by Paul Cain, Cavan Scott & Simon Guerrier
Marge Piercy – Woman on the Edge of Time new edition
Murray Constantine – Swastika Night the latest SF Masterwork from Orion, set in a world 700 years after the Nazi victory Hitler is worshiped as a god… Originally published in 1937
Christopher Farnsworth – Kill File John Smith is a paid assassin who can read minds…
T. J. Lebbon – The Family Man Dom & his family are forced to flee for their lives. Thriller
Warhammer – Gotrek & Felix: Slayer volume 2 of the Doom of Gotrek Gurnisson, by David Guymer
Warhammer 40,000 – Crusaders or Dorn short stories by Guy Haley, in the Space Marines Battles series
in paperback:
C. S. Friedman – Dreamseeker volume 2 of her Dreamwalker series
art, etc:
Jim Henson‘s The Storyteller – Dragons the latest graphic novel hardcover, containing 4 short stories.
Jim Henson‘s Labyrinth – 30th Anniversary Special softcover with 6 short stories
magazines:
Locus – # 667 interviews with Nancy Kress & David D. Levine
New Titles – w/e 6th August 2017
in hardcover:
J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child parts one and two script of the play
Larry Correia & John Ringo – Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge the 1st ‘memoirs’ book but the 6th in the overall series
Travis S. Taylor & Les Johnson – On to the Asteroid sequel to Back to the Moon
in large format:
Sarah A. Hoyt – Through Fire the sequel to A Few Good Men
Kerryn Offord & Rick Boatright – 1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz the latest novel in Eric Flint‘s 1632/Ring of Fire series…
Greg Van Eekhout – Pacific Fire sequel to California Bones, about a strange, magical independent California
Neil Williamson – Secret Language in at last, after being on order since it came out in June; the new novel from the author of The Moon King
Catheryne M. Valente – In the Night Garden volume 1 of The Orphan’s Tales, back in stock. V2, In the Cities of Coin and Spice came back in last week…
in ‘B’ format:
Foz Meadows – An Accident of Stars Saffron stumbles through a hole in reality into a kingdom on the brink of war…
Markus Heitz – Dark Paths 3rd part of The Legends of the Alfar. Translated from German by Sheelafh Alabaster
R. S. Belcher – The Shotgun Arcana what looks like an extremely weird western! Sequel to The Six-Gun Tarot
Keith Yatsuhashi – Kojiki after his father dies, Keiko inherits a one way ticket to Japan and a message saying ‘Go to Japan in my place. Find the Gate. My camera will show you the way.’
Bennett R. Coles – Ghosts of War the sequel to Virtues of War
in paperback:
Harry Turtledove – Bombs Away the 1st in his new The Hot War series, in which the Korean conflict goes nuclear and war spreads over the rest of the world…
Ben Bova – Death Wave the sequel to New Earth, in which the expedition returns to Earth to warn of coming devastation to the planet…
R. M. Meluch – The Twice and Future Caesar the 6th of the Tour of the Merrimack, set on a battleship in a future space empire ruled by Rome
Faith Hunter – Blood of the Earth the 1st in her Soulwood series, a spin-off of her Jane Yellowrock series…
art, etc:
Mark Grilley – The Drawing Lesson softcover graphic novel teaching the reader how to draw
New Titles – w/e 30th July 2016
in large format:
Amanda Rouchet – A Promise of Fire in a kingdom on the brink of civil war, Cat has taken refuge in a circus, where her powers are more easily concealed from her enemies…
Elizabeth Crowens – Silent Meridian the secret adventures and cases of Sherlock Holmes, with H. G. Wells and others. Volume 1 of The Time Travelling Professor
Jack Cady – The Hauntings of Wood Canal a canal in Washington State conceals a dread menace, but when it’s killed, a far worse terror is revealed…
Stevie Kopas – The Breadwinner Trilogy omnibus volume containing the zombie apocalypse novels The Breadwinner, Haven & All Good Times
in ‘B’ format:
Aliette de Bodard – The House of Shattered Wings Paris is almost destroyed in the Great Magicians War, but life continues…
Rhonda Mason – The Empress Game the final seat on the beleaguered space empire’s ruling council is about to be decided by ritualised combat
Ursula K. LeGuin – Always Coming Home the latest in their SF Masterworks series from Orion
in paperback:
Eric Flint & Walter H. Hunt – 1636: The Cardinal Virtues the latest in Flint’s long running Ring of Fire/1632 series
Steve White – Soldiers out of Time the 5th in his Jason Thanon series, which began with Blood of the Heroes
art,. etc:
Mark Poulton & Dexter Weeks – A Cat Named Haiku cute art, each matched with a haiku (of sorts!) in hardcover
Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin & Julius Gopez – White Sand hardcover graphic novel adaptation of a previously unpublished work set in Sanderson’s Cosmere background
Milo Manara – Gullivera his adult version of Gulliver’s Travels! Hardcover from Humanoids
Maximilien Le Roy & A. Dan – Thoreau: A Sublime Life back in stock at last
magazines:
Locus – # 666 with interviews with Peter Straub and Joe Hill
Hi-Fructose – issue # 40 featuring Charlie Immer, who gets an 8 page insert
2017 calendars:
Yes, here they come again already!
Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell – Fantasy Calendar 2017
