Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 4th December 2022
in hardcover:
Freya Marske – A Marvellous Light struggling to rescue his newly-inherited estate from it’s debts, Robin Blyth, Bart. finds himself appointed parliamentary liason to a secret society…
Monica Byrne – The Actual Star complex novel spanning 2 thoudand years, from the Maya far into the future…
Mercedes Lackey – Beyond the origins of Valdemar! Signed by the author
Darren Naish – Dinopedia compact h/c mainlt text with some b&w illos. Subtitled A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur lore
in large format:
David Hair – World’s Edge sequel to Map’s Edge and vol 2 in The Tethered Citadel series
Ellen Datlow (editor) – The Best New Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen 25 of the best stories from 2020
Edward Willett (editor) – Shapers of Worlds 1st volume of this anthology series (vol 2 came in last month) includes John Scalzi, Gareth Powell, Tanya Huff & 14 more
in ‘B’ format:
Kim Newman – Something More Than Night monster hunting in 1930’s Hollywood!
Adrian Tchaikovsky – Elder Race short science fantasy novel; a princess must ask a reclusive sorcerer for help, but nothing is as it seems…
Victoria Schwab – Bridge of Souls the things you miss during a pandemic! Should probably have had this back in March! Vol 3 of her City of Ghosts series, the 1st of which was set in Edinburgh… This one is in New Orleans.
in paperback:
Eric Flint & Charles E. Gannon – 1637: No Peace Beyond the Line latest paperback in Flint’s Ring of Fire/1632 alternate history series
art, etc:
Mike Slater – Lovecraft Cocktails from the author of The Necronomnomnom. Drinks inspired by the works of HPL.
magazines:
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Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 28th November 2021
in hardcover:
Brandon Sanderson – Cytonic the 3rd part of his Skyward series after Skyward & Starsight
Andrea Stewart – The Bone Shard Emperor sequel to The Bone Shard Daughter
in ‘B’ format:
Ken MacLeod – Beyond the Hallowed Sky part 1 of his new Lightspeed Trilogy. Signed copies available from the 1st December. No hardback edition.
Ernest Cline – Ready Player Two a return to the virtual world of Ready Player One
Louis Greenberg – Exposure Vincent falls off a ladder & impulsively asks the woman he nearly lands on out on a date to an alternative theatre experience called Metamuse, but he’s sure he never entered the contest he won the tickets in…
art, etc:
Alexandro Jodorowsky – Deconstructing the Jodoverse: A Deluxe Collector’s Slipcased Box Set. One of a numbered edition of 1500. Includes expanded deluxe editions of Deconstructing the Incal, Deconstructing the Metabarons, After the Incal & Weapons of the Metabarons. From Humanoids
Alexandro Jodorowsky – The Jodorowsky Library : Anibal 5, Megalex, Selected Short Stories. !st hardcover in a new uniform edition of his work. From Humanoids
John Howe – JH’s Ultimate Fantasy Art Academy softcover. The strapline says: Inspiration, approaches and techniques for drawing and painting the fantasy realm. Looks very good
Peter Jackson – Illustration Art Gallery Presents – Through the Ages: Drawings and Paintings by PJ mostly full colour scenes from throughout British history from the Middle Ages to Victorian times. Softcover, a companion to the recent Charles Dickens volume by Ronald Sydney Embleton
Xavier Dollo & Djibril Morissette-Phan – The History of Science Fiction: A Graphic Novel Adventure from Humanoids. Full colour h/c packed with information as it wends it’s way from the roots of SF, meeting all the major players, right up to the present. Lots of recommendations for reading along the way, too.
Wall Calendars:
Flame Tree Publishing – The Sci-Fi Art of Virgil Finlay 12 b&w images from the pulps…
Flame Tree Publishing – Cthulhu Wall Calendar 2022. A dozen full colour depictions
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Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 21st November 2021
in hardback:
Katherynne M. Valente – Comfort Me With Apples short new horror novel from Tordotcom
(various authors) – Monstrous Tales short stories from around the world, each with a full page colour illustration by Sija Hong
in ‘B’ format:
Christopher Ruocchio – Demon in White part 3 of his Sun Eater series. Should have had it months ago!
Lucy Evans & Tanya Kirk (editors) – Sunless Solstice another dozen stories in the latest anthology in the British Library Tales of the Weird series. Subtitled Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights. Includes Muriel Spark!
art, etc:
Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood – Art of the Revolution: Western Memories
Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood – Art of the Revolution: Eastern Memories the latest 2 big artbooks of the FF gameworld
Ed Hulse – The Art of Pulp Fiction subtitled An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks big, heavily illustrated hardback
Barry Windsor-Smith – Monsters big b&w graphic novel; UK edition in hardcover
magazines:
Heavy Metal – issue # 311
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Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 14th November 2021
in hardcover:
Neal Stevenson – Termination Shock his big new 700 page near future novel
Donna Barba Higuera – The Last Cuentista Petra is on a deep-sleep spaceship, fleeing Earth’s destruction. But when she eventually awakens no one else remembers the Earth at all…
Ken Liu – The Veiled Throne the 3rd of The Dandelion Quartet, after The Grace of Kings & The Wall of Storms
Katherynne M. Valente – Comfort Me With Apples dark new novella from Tor
Fred Scharmen – Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space a serious look at what life was going to be like in space…
Terry Pratchett & Stephen Briggs – The Ultimate Discworld Companion the latest, most up-to-date cyclopedia of the Discworld, with b&w illustrations by Paul Kidby
Chronicle Books – Monstrous Tales 21 tales of strange creatures and fearsome beasts from all over the world, each with a full page illustration by Sija Hong
in ‘B’ format:
Gus Moreno – This Thing Between Us a couple buy an advanced new smart speaker and weird things start to happen…
Nick Mamatas – The Second Shooter Journalist Mike Karras is hired to investigate strange technomystical conspiracy theories…
Joshiah Bancroft – The Fall of Babel vol 4 of The Books of Babel, which began with Senlin Ascends
Kim Bo-Young – I’m Waiting For You collection of 4 linked stories from a top Korean author. Translations by Sophie Bowman & Sung Ryu.
James Patrick Kelly – The First Law of Thermodynamics plus... the latest in PM Press‘ Outspoken Authors series, with the usual fiction, essays and interview
Xueting Christine Ni (translator & editor) – Sinopticon 2021 anthology subtitled A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction. 13 fairly recent stories by rising sf authors from China
art, etc:
Aminder Dhaliwal – Cyclopedia Exotica mainly b&w satirical graphic novel about a young woman who happens to be a cyclops
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Beyond the Hallowed Sky – Ken MacLeod
Ken has a new book out soon!
It’s the first in a new series called The Lightspeed Trilogy and Ken has agreed to sign copies for me.
If you’d like a signed copy and haven’t received an e-mail from me about this, please ask!
It’s a paperback original and will cost £8.99 plus £2.01 p&p within the UK. That’s £11.00 total.
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An exceptional blend of international politics, hard science, and first contact’ Michael Mammay, author of the Planetside series.
When a brilliant scientist gets a letter from herself about faster-than-light travel, she doesn’t know what to believe. The equations work, but her paper is discredited – and soon the criticism is more than scientific. Exiled by the establishment, she gets an offer to build her starship from an unlikely source.
But in the heights of Venus and on a planet of another star, a secret is already being uncovered that will shake humanity to its foundations. Science fiction legend Ken MacLeod begins a new space opera trilogy by imagining humankind on the precipice of discovery – the invention of faster-than-light travel unlocks a universe of new possibilities, and new dangers.
Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 6th November 2021
in hardcover:
Justin Robertson – The Tangle cross-genre novel about the secrets at the heart of the wood…
in large format:
A. J. Hackwith – The God of Lost Words the 3rd book in their Hell’s Library sequence
Edward Willett (editor) – Shapers of Worlds Volume II 18 new sf&f stories plus 6 fairly recent tales from the likes of Kress, Hambly & Stirling
in ‘B’ format:
Anna Cheung – Where Decay Sleeps gothic poetry from Haunt Publishing, who produced the excellent Haunted Voices anthology 2 years ago
in paperback:
art, etc:
magazines:
Locus – issue # 729 with interviews with Tade Thompson & R. B. Lemberg trailed on the cover…
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Transreal Fiction New Titles – w/e 30th October 2021
The shop is open it’s normal hours again, but with restricted access to most of the A – Z shelves.
in hardcover:
Stephen Baxter – Galaxias several decades from now, the Sun goes out! Epic scale SF.
Andrzej Sapkowski – Warriors of God the 2nd in his Hussite Trilogy, sequel to Tower of Fools
T. J. Klune – Under the Whispering Door from the author of Beneath the the Cerulean Sea. A new spirit is given a deadline to pass on beyond…
Alan Garner – Treacle Walker novella in which a young boy becomes friends with a rag-and-bone man…
Bridget Collins (editor) – The Haunting Season anthology subtitled Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights. 8 new stories from various authors, including a Natasha Pulley story with Mori & Thaniel from The Watchmaker of Filigree Street!
David Pringle & Tim Dedopulos (editors) – The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The Definitive Illustrated Guide films, books, authors, games and more!
in large format:
Courttia Newland – Cosmogramma 15 short sf stories, with an African theme…
in ‘B’ format:
Kim Stanley Robinson – The Ministry for the Future eagerly awaited paperback edition of his latest near-future novel about tackling climate change. Pity they’ve finally turned up well over a week after the author was here to sign them!
Tade Thompson – Far From the Light of Heaven a deep-sleep colony ship arrives but someone has murdered some of the sleepers…
Ursula K. leGuin – The Lathe of Heaven reprint
Thilde Kold Holdt – Shackled Fates the 2nd in the Hanged God Trilogy, based on Norse mythology
Mark Stay – Babes in the Wood sequel to The Crow Folk, and vol 2 of the Witches of Woodville. More wartime goings-on in the sleepy little village as 3 refugee children arrive, fleeing Nazi Germany…
Scott G. Bruce (editor) – The Penguin Book of Dragons interesting anthology, mainly of dragons in world folklore, etc. Only 2 somewhat modern ones from Kenneth Graham & Edith Nesbit.
A. B. Mitford – Japanese Legends and Folklore subtitled Samurai Tales, Ghost Stories, Legends, Fairy Tales, Myths and Historical Accounts. Not sure if they say which is which!
art, etc:
Simon Stalenhag – The Labyrinth his 4th large, illustrated story, about the appearance of Black Globes and their effect on the world
Tom Parker – Saurian: A Field Guide to Hell Creek. Hell Creek is a real place in the US whose deep history has been very well investigated – and it’s also a very accurately reproduced setting for the game Saurian. Great art of the fauna & flora of 66 million years ago, just befor the K-Pg (K-T) extinction event! Includes text justifying the artists’ dino (etc) design choices!
Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess – Stardust excellent look at the art of their original heavily illustrated collaboration, later to be filmed.
Ken Barr – The Beast Within: the Art of KB slim, full colour hardback
Allen Williams – Covenant: the Art of AW b&w gothic-looking art, each image with a short piece of verse opposite. Softcover
Jules Verne, Brian Haberlin & David Hine – Lighthouse softcover collection of the 4-issue comic adaptation of his novel The Lighthouse at the End of the World. Now re-imagined and set in 2717 on a giant navigation structure near a hazardous area of space
H. P. Lovecraft & Steve Jones – Beyond the Wall of Sleep b&w adaptation, with the complete text afterwards, from Caliber Comics
PS Artbooks Softee – The Beyond: vol 5 with stories from issues 21 – 25 of Beyond, first published in July ’53 – March ’54
PS Artbooks Softee – Space Man: vol 2 with stories from Space Man issues 5 – 7 from 63/64, Spaceman (UK) issues 5 & 6 from 1954 & Drift Marlo issue 2 from 1962…
Fortifem (art & design) – Cthulhu: Dark Arts Tarot complete 78 card deck in a presentation box with a 32 page booklet. Based on the imaginings of H. P. Lovecraft
magazines:
Illustrators Magazine – issue # 35 with large features on Bob Eggleton & Alex Raymond with a slightly shorter look at Jacques Terpant
Illustrators Special Edition – The Art of Glamour: A Pictorial History of the Pin-Up with examples from the 1900s through to the 2010s
Heavy Metal – issue # 310 with two alternate covers
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Transreal New Titles – w/e 23rd October 2021
Transreal Fiction is open again, from 11.00 on Saturday morning. Some of the shop is closed off due to a leak from the flat above and numbers allowed in will be limited to 4 as only the front half is open. This will probably continue until repairs are completed, which will take some time to organise and schedule. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Annoyngly, my main delivery (including this week’s new titles) has been delayed and won’t arrive until after the weekend. But I do have a few new books in!
in hardcover:
Simon R. Green – Jekyll & Hyde Inc. 2 centuries ago monsters such as vampires & mummies vanished, but they had only retreated into the criminal underworld! And only The Hydes can combat their activities!
David Weber & Eric Flint – To End in Fire the 4th in Weber’s Crown of Slaves spinoff from his Honor Harrington series…
in large format:
Kerryn Offord & Rick Boatright – 1637: Dr. Gribbleflotz and the Soul of Stoner part of Eric Flint‘s 1632 / Ring of Fire world. An alchemist and a quack doctor have to co-operate to expose an even worse fake!
in paperback:
Tim Akers – Knight Watch a medieval reenactor ends up being recruited to a secretive organisation protecting the world from monstrous threats…
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Closed
I apologise for any inconvenience but Transreal Fiction has had to close for a short, indefinite period.
Updates in due course.
Mike.
Transreal new Titles – w/e 17th October 2021
in hardcover:
Lindsay Ellis – Truth of the Divine sequel to Axiom’s End; vol 2 of the Noumena series
Gregory Benford – Shadows of Eternity in the SETI library of alien transmissions on the Moon clues are discovered to a wormhole hidden somewhere in the Solar System…
Jasper Fforde – The Great Troll War the 4th in his Last Dragonslayer series
A. Deborah Baker – Along the Saltwise Sea sequel to Over the Woodward Wall & 2nd of the Up-And-Under series. ADB is a pseudonym of Seanan McGuire
Jiankin Sun (translator) – Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas illustrated edition of the Chinese classic with art by Siyu Chen together with a fresh translation
in large format:
Harry Josephine Giles – Deep Wheel Orcadia sf novel written in verse using Orcadian dialect, from a local author
Un-Su Kim – The Cabinet the clerk looking after the files in cabinet # 13 on emerging mutants finds the job & responsibilities very annoying… Translated from Korean by Sean Lin Halbert
David Liss – Peculiarities Thomas has been forced into a tedious job but he has more to worry about than the family business – he’s started growing leaves and turning into a tree!
Averil Drummond – Gloam on a distant world two alien Rangers work at an animal sanctuary; elsewhere, Rosee visits the mysterious Gila…
T. J. Klune – Fairy Tales From Verania short story collection from the author of The House in the Cerulean Sea
in ‘B’ format:
Derek Künsken – The Quantum War 3rd in his Quantum Evolution series, which began with The Quantum Magician
Adam Roberts – Purgatory Mount a spaceship approaches a distant planet to examine an ancient alien construction. Meanwhile a neurotoxin is destroying people’s memories back on Earth…
Melissa Carusa – The Quicksilver Court sequel to The Obsidian Tower; 2nd in her Rooks and Ruin series
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch – Wish You Weren’t Here near off-season Skegness some local ghosthunters fear they’ve found the start of the apocalypse… Part 1 of The Rooks
Neil Cockburn – M.J.Bikie Meets the Loch Ness Monster children’s adventure
in paperback:
Mercedes Lackey – Jolene her latest Elemental Masters novel
art, etc:
Alison E. Wright – Curious Beasts: Animal Prints from the British Museum historic prints & wookcuts (not always based on accurate descriptions!) previously published but new to Transreal
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