New Titles – w/e 8th December 2018
in hardcover:
James Lovegrove – Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils 3rd in The Cthulhu Casebooks series
Intan Paramaditha – Apple and Knife collection of 13 intense stories from a rising Indonesian author…
in large format:
Edgar Allan Poe – Ghastly Tales From the Master of the Macabre hefty volume with 27 of his best stories…
Phil Rickman – Merrily’s Border a look at the area where the author’s Merrily Watkins books are set. With photos by John Mason
in ‘B’ format:
Michael Cobley – Splintered Suns somewhere on the remote planet there’s a 2 km long spaceship a million years old!
James Bennett – Burning Ashes the 3rd in his Chasing Embers series
Sean Wallace (editor) – The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures I usually have The Mammoth Book of Steampunk in stock; thought I’d see what this one was like instead!
Star Trek – In the Heart of Chaos the 3rd of the Prometheus adventures, by Bernd Perplies & Christian Humberg, set after the events in the Star Trek: The Fall novels
Warhamer 40,000 – Warmaster the latest Gaunt’s Ghosts adventure from Dan Abnett
New Titles – w/e 1st December 2018
in hardcover:
J. K. Rowling – The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay script of the 2nd of the Fantastic Beasts films, set 70 years or so before the Hary Potter books begin…
Joyce Carol Oates – The Hazards of Time Travel Adriane is sent back 80 years in time to rural Wisconsin for political rehabilitation…
David Weber – Uncompromising Honor a new Honor Harrington adventure! The previous one was Shadow of Victory two years ago
Stevan Erikson – The Search for Spark the 3rd in his Wilful Child series
Caitlin R. Kiernan – The Dinosaur Tourist new collection from Subterranean Press with 19 stories. Great cover by Ray Troll, whose latest book, Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline came in a couple of weeks ago…
in large format:
Frank Owen – North sequel to South! The aftermath of the 2nd American Civil War…
in ‘B’ format:
Nnedi Okorafor – Who Fears Death? Onyesonwu is a young misfit growing up in a post-apocalyptic Africa, wanting to find her true roots…
Hailey Edwards – Death Knell 3rd in her post-apocalyptic Foundling series…
Colson Whitehead – The Intuitionist not new, but new to the shop; set in a strange city where the philosophy & politics of elevator safety are major issues!
Jamie Sawyer – Exodus volume 2 of The Eternity War, the sequel to Pariah
M. D. Lachlan – Night Lies Bleeding the 5th in his Wolfsangel series
Adrian Laing – Kosmos a newly appointed Barrister defends an elderly man who is up on a charge of manslaughter and who also claims to be Merlin,
Ramsay Campbell – Think Yourself Lucky David didn’t think the rather disturbing blog that shared a title with one he never got round to writing had anything to do with him personally…
Gareth E. Rees – Stone Tide Gareth moves into a delapidated house in Hastings and discovers it has a strange background with links to the likes Alastair Crowley & John Logie Baird! From the author of Marshland
Jonathan Janz – The Sorrows two film composers go on a month long retreat on a remote Californian island, uninhabited since some gruesome deaths in 1925…
in paperback:
Eric Flint & Alastair Kimble – Iron Angels in Chicago, a case becomes too strange for the local F.B.I. office to handle and so Agent Black of the little-known Scientific Anomalies Group arrives to take over…
art, etc:
William Stout – Fantastic Worlds: The Art of WS thick hardcover with hundreds of colour illustrations covering his whole career, especially his paleoart.
Florent Gorges –Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography; Beyond the Fantasy heavily illustrated h/c about the influential Japanese creator
John Fleskes (editor) – Spectrum 25 the annual review of the fantasy arts. Hardcover, although the softcover is due soon as well
Dave Addey – Typeset in the Future hardcover subtitled Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies. Not much to add to that!
Thierry Smolderen – McCay great looking hardcover about the life of Winsor McCay, one of the great comic strip & animation innovators a century+ ago
Bilal, Dionnet & Baranko – Exterminator 17 hardcover from Titan Comics with the original graphic novel (now titled Rebirth) with art by Enki Bilal, together with the sequel, The Ellis Trilogy with art from Igor Baranko. Both stories written by Jean-Pierre Dionnet
William Roy & Sylvain Dorange – Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life softcover graphic novel from Humanoids about Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. Colour
Sebastien Samson –My New York Marathon true story of an unfit middle aged art teacher who decided to compete in the NY Marathon! Softcover published by Humanoids in b&w
Nancy Pena – Madame Cat the trials and tribulations of getting a new cat! Two tone sketches making up little episodes starting with the cat still in it’s carry-crate on the way home…
Emily Tetri – Tiger vs Nightmare colour h/c about a young tiger who really does have a monster under the bed!
magazines:
Illustrators – Issue Twenty Three featuring pieces on Bobby Chiu, Virgil Finlay, N. C. Wyeth and Anne & Janet Grahame Johnstone. All excellent artists.
New Titles – w/e 24th November 2018
in hardcover:
George R. R. Martin – Fire and Blood two dozen chapters laying out the history and events three hundred years before the action in A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) Illustrated with myriad b&w illustrations by Doug Wheatley.
Peter S. Beagle – The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey a sequel! With several b&w illustrations by Stephanie Law
Joanne M. Harris – TheBlue Salt Road a modern fairy tale, illustrated by Bonnie Helen Hawkins
S. M. Stirling – The Sky-Blue Wolves the latest, and billed as the final, novel of The Change
Doctor Who – Combat Magicks the 13th Doctor‘s latest adventure, by Steve Cole
in large format:
Lavie Tidhar – Unholy Land alternate history in which a Jewish Homeland was established in East Africa
S. M. Stirling – Black Chamber 1st in a new alternate history series set in 1916, just before America’s entry into The Great War
in ‘B’ format:
Genevieve Cogman – The Mortal Word the 5th in her Invisible Library series
Jacey Bedford – Rowankind 3rd in the fantasy series… The 1st was Winterwood
Ian Douiglas – Bright Light the 8th in his Star Carrier series
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child – City of Endless Night the latest in their Agent Pendergast series…
Mercedes Lackey (editor) – Choices the latest anthology of 18 new Valdemar short stories…
Elly Blue (editor) – Bikes Not Rockets anthology of new work subtitled Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories
small books:
Italo Calvino – The Distance of the Moon 4 short stories from his collection, The Complete Cosmicomics. Penguin Modern # 22. Budget price of £1
art, etc:
Marie-Alice Harel – Hortari: Art and Stories elegant hardcover collecting her single page short stories, each with a full page illustration of the creature involved. There’s currently an exhibition of prints from the book on at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on the High Street…
magazines:
Interzone – issue # 278 November – December cover date
Black Static – issue # 66
New Titles – w/e 17th November 2018
in hardcover:
Ben Aaronovitch – Lies Sleeping the 7th Peter Grant novel! The 1st was Rivers of London.
Subterranean Press editions – all signed and numbered:
Ann Leckie – Provenance
Jim Butcher – Turn Coat the 11th of the Dresden Files
David J. Schow – DJStories large collection spanning his career
Kelly Armstrong – Amityvill Horrible novella
in large format:
Stephen Jones (editor) – The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories anthology with 27 stories, all set during Hallowe’en and obviously a little late arriving!
David Thomas Moore (editor) – Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein anthology of 5 novellas…
in ‘B’ format:
Adrian Selby – Winter Road sequel to Snakewood. the Circle is a huge expanse of untamed wilderness and Teyr is part of a trade caravan determined to open up a route through it…
Tasha Suri – Empire of Sand 1st of the Books of Ambha; fantasy set in an exotic Indian-inspired setting…
Rita Indiana – Tentacle translated from Spanish by Achy Obejas. In the ruined future, Acilde must travel back in time to protect the Ocean…
Doctor Who – The Secret in Vault 13 a 13th Doctor adventure by David Solomons
srt, etc:
Lily Murray – Dinosaurium large hardcover with wonderfull illustrations by Chris Wormell
Lily Murray – Dinosaurium Juniur Edition smaller hardback with simpler text but still with loads of Chris Wormell art
New Titles – w/e 10th November 2018
in hardcover
Kim Stanley Robinson – Red Moon set on the moon and in China in 2047, amidst furious infighting and scheming to decide who will be the new General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party… Much of the rest of the world is in turmoil too!
Jasmin B. Frelih – In/Half in an even more electronically entangled world 25 years in the future, the global network crashes…
John Ringo & Mike Massa – The Valley of Shadows the 6th in Ringo’s Black Tide Rising zombie series…
Brandon Sanderson – Skyward 1st in a new fantasy series. Spensa’s dream is to become a pilot and help fight the alien Krell, who are trying to conquer her world. Part 1 of Claim the Stars
M. R. Carey – Someone Like Me Liz wouldn’t hurt a fly, but she might do anything to get her own way!
Una McCormack –Molten Heart a new Doctor Who adventure
Matt Phelan – Knights vs. Dinosaurs children’s adventure novel with loads of b&w illustrations by the author!
in large format:
Alex White – A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe book 1 of The Salvagers the search for a semi-mythical ancient spaceship…
Christopher Kastensmidt – The Elephant and Macaw Banner a Dutchman and an African explore the depths of Brazil in the 15th C in a dozen adventures…
Jonathan Maberry – Deep Silence the latest Joe Ledger book
Daniel Abraham – The Long Price Quartet omnibus edition containing all four books; A Shadow in Summer, A Betrayal in Winter, An Autumn War & The Price of Spring Originally published from 2006 – 09
Jack Dann – Da Vinci Rising / The Diamond Pit 2 back-to-back short novels; one about a commission DaVinci had involving his flying machine plans, and the other a fantasy set in 1920s America with William Randolf Hearst
Christina Jurado (editor) – The Apex Book of World SF: volume 5 18 new stories from, well, all over! Overall series editor is Lavie Tidhar.
David Stokes (editor) – Tales of the Sunrise Lands anthology of new fantasy inspired by Japanese myth & legend, from Guardbridge Books
H. P. Lovecraft – Uncanny Tales of Cosmic Horror and Unspeakable Terror collection of 10 of his best known stories, from Carlton Books
James Cowan – A Mapmaker’s Dream subtitled The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice historical novel about mapmaking during the Golden Age of Exploration…
in ‘B’ format:
Neal Asher – The Soldier volume 1 of the Rise of the Jain series
Tristan Palmgren – Terminus the sequel to Quietus the alien Unity continues to interfere in Earth’s history…
Katherine Clements – Coffin Path Mercy lives in Scarcross Hall, on the old coffin path to the grtaveyard…
Simon A. Forward – Scary Monsters part 1 of The Laughinbg Gnome set, featuring Brigadier lethbridge Stewart from Doctor Who
in paperback:
Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Wolves the 4th Hell Divers adventure!
Star Wars: Last Shot a Han & Lando novel, by Daniel Jose Older
art, etc:
3DTotalPublishers – Digital Painting in Photoshop: Industry Techniques for Beginners
Nigel Dobbyn – The H. P. Lovecraft Drawing Book how to draw all sorts of Lovecraftian monsters!
Bruce Brown – Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom another hardcover adventure for the young HPL!
Alan Grant & Arthur Ranson – Mazeworld collected softcover edition of the 2000 AD strip that ran originally in the late 1990s
New Titles – w/e 3rd November 2018
in hardcover:
Charles Stross – The Labyrinth Index the 8th of The Laundry Files. Signed copies available soon
Marina & Sergey Dyachenko – Vita Nostra Sasha is persuaded to enrol in the peculiar, and probably magical, Institute of Special Technologies. Translated from Rusian by Julia Meitov Hersey
Flame Tree Publishing – Lost Worlds: Short Stories anthology of new & reprint stories concerning lost races, hidden valleys, mysterious islands, etc.
Doctor Who – The Good Doctor novel featuring the 13th Doctor by Juno Dawson
Brandon Sanderson – Skyward new novel, available on Tuesday the 6th
in large format:
Lucy A. Snyder – Garden of Eldritch Delights collection of a dozen short stories
in ‘B’ format:
Alastair Reytnolds – Elysium Fire 2nd of the Prefect Dreyfus Emergency novels; the sequel to Aurora Rising (previously titled The Prefect)
Dave Hutchinson – Europe At Dawn the fourth and final part of his Europe sequence…
Tom Fletcher – Idle Hands sequel to Gleam and the 2nd in The Factory Trilogy
Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias Buckell – The Tangled Lands 4 linked novellas (2 by each author) set in a land poisoned by magic…
C. E. Murphy – Kiss of Angels: Collected Tales of the Old Races 9 short stories set in her Old Races Universe
Alyson Leeds – Fear of the Web adventure featuring Doctor Who’s Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart. Part 2 of The Laughing Gnome. Part 1, Scary Monsters, is due in shortly
Warhammer 40,000 – The Voice of Mars by David Guymer
art, etc:
Kirk Johnson & Ray Troll – Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline heavily illustrated book about the pre-history of the American coast from Mexico north to Alaska. Lots of text, but also plenty of Ray Troll‘s wondeful art!
David Day – The Dark Powers of Tolkien 5th in the series on various aspects of Middle Earth. Previous volumes are the Dictionary, Atlas, Battles & Heroes
New Titles – w/e 27th October 2018
in hardcover:
Richard K. Morgan – Thin Air Hakon takes a job as security to a team investigating a disapparance on corporate-run Mars…
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Books of Earthsea hardcover omnibus with all the books and stories. Illustrated by Charles Vess, with full colour plates and various b&w drawings, etc. Including her intro, that’s 1000 pages!
Kristen Brittain – The Dream Gatherer a Green Rider novella, plus 2 other related stories, with b&w line llustrations by the author
Joe R. Lansdale – Driving to Geonimo’s Grave short story collection from Subterranean Press
in large format:
Maria Lewis – The Witch Who Courted Death Casper is considered the world’s most powerful medium, but now she must delve deeper into the supernatural world seeking revenge… From the author of Who’s Afraid & Who’s Afraid Too
Jane Yolen – How to Fracture a Fairy Tale her latest volume of short stories…
in ‘B’ format:
Yoon Ha Lee – Revenant Gun the 3rd volume of the Machineries of Empire sequence, which began with Ninefox Gambit
John Everson – The House by ther Cemetery horror from Flame Tree Press
Walter Jon Williams – The Accidental War a new novel of The Praxis
Christopher Golden (editor) – Hark! The Herald Angels Scream anthology with 18 new Christmas horror stories!
Greg Buzwell (editor) –Mortal Echoes: Encounters With the End 15 classic stories issued as part of the British Library Tales of the Weird series
Tanya Kirk (editor) – Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings 14 classic ghost stories issued as part of the British Library Tales of the Weird series
art, etc:
Dave McKean – Short Films heavily illustrated h/c about his short film projects, with a Blu-Ray disc of them all included!
Dean Mullaney (editor) – King of the Comics softcover edition of the h/c from a couple of years ago. Large collection of classic comic strips, from The Yellow Kid to Zippy! Subtitled ‘A Hundred Years of King Features‘
3dtotalPublishing – The Sketch Encyclopedia big hardcover with hundreds of pages of tips on how to sketch a myriad of items, from baguettes to water mills!
George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle – Windhaven: The Graphic Novel with art by Elsa Charretier. Loved the (fix-up) novel and this looks to be a good adaptation. Hardcover
William Gerauts & Richard Fairgray – The Time Travelling Tourist graphic novel about a rather louche time traveller… full colour
Brian Froud, et al – Jim Henson‘s The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths slipcased edition containing all 3 softcover volumes
magazines:
Illustrators – Issue Twentty Three with pieces on N. C. Wyeth, Virgil Finlay, Bobby Chiu and Ann & Janet Grahame Johnstone! I usually only mention a couple of the artists featured, but this issue, they all deserve it!
calendars:
Sergey Krasovskiy – Dinosaurs lush prehistoric landscapes with all sorts of dinos!
New Titles – w/e 20th October 2018
in hardcover:
Steven Erikson – Rejoice an alien AI must decide how to save the Earth’s precious ecosystem, and if it should eliminate humans to do so…
John Scalzi – The Consuming Fire sequel to The Collapsing Empire and volume 2 in his Interdependency Sequence. Also in paperback.
Brandon Sanderson – Edgedancer calls itself a Stormlight Archive novella, although it’s actually over 250 pages long!
Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Book of Magic new fiction from 17 of the top names in fantasy! I understand this was the editor’s final project before his untimely death earlier this year.
in large format:
Diana Pharoah Francis – Putting the Fun back in Funeral she’s always hated her mother, and now that she’s dead Beck gets to plan her funeral…
Karen Chance – Dragon’s Claw a new Midnight’s Daughter novella
Laura Bickle – Pawned the one thing Raz would love to do is not work in the family pawn shop business…
Paula Guran (editor) = The Year’s Best Dark fantasy & Horror 2018 29 of the best stories from the past year…
in ‘B’ format:
Lila Bowen – Treason of Hawks the 4th in The Shadow quartet, which began with Wake of Vultures
Susan Dennard – Windwitch the sequel to Truthwitch, and part 2 of The Witchlands series
in paperback:
Laurie Goulding (editor) – Shattered Legions anthology of Horus Heresy stories set in the world of Warhammer
art, etc:
Kazuo Terakado (editor) – The Art of the Dinosaur how did I miss this last year!? Art from 9 top current palaeoartists; lots of colours and feathers!
Edward Brooke-Hitching – The Golden Atlas heavily illustrated collection of period maps and the adventurers and explorers who used or created them
magazines:
CDQ – issue # 6 the latest issue of Character Design Quarterly
New Titles – w/e 13th October 2018
in hardcover:
Tim Powers – Alternate Routes LA’s freeways are infested with ghosts, and mysterious on- and off-ramps…
Terry Brooks – Street Freaks adventure in the Los Angeles megacity of the future…
Greg Van Eekhout – Voyage of the Dogs with the human crew missing, the up-lifted ‘barkonauts’ must do theit best to pilot their spaceship home
Shaun Tan – Tales From the Inner City short stories about humans and animals, heavily illustrated by the author
Michael J. Sullivan – The Disappearance of Winter’s Daughter the 4th of his Riyria Chronicles
Cherie Priest – The Agony House Denise has moved back to New Orleans and hopes that the answers to strange goings-on will be found in an old comic… Illustrated by Tara 0’Conner
Charlie Jane Anders – Rock Manning Goes For Broke signed & numbered novella from Subterranean Press featuring Vikings and Steampunks!
Doctor Who – Twelve Angels Weeping collection of a dozen short stories, eaxh featuring a different Villain! Written by Dave Rudden, with illutrations by Alexis Snell
in large format:
C. E. Murphy – Redeemer Rosie wants to keep her job now the troops are returning home after WW2 but first there are demons to kill…
John Birmingham – Stalin’s Hammer omnibus edition of the sequels to his epic Axis of Time alternate history
in ‘B’ format:
John Scalzi – The Consuming Fire sequel to The Collapsing Empire
Derek Kunsken – The Quantum Magician genetic engineering has enabled him to become the greatest con artist and thief in the Galaxy. But now there’s job which will either end in war, or spur mankind’s evolution… 1st book in the Quantum Evolution series
Elizabeth May – The Fallen Kingdom missed this when it came out fairly recently. 3rd in her Falconer trilogy
Jin Yong – A Hero Born volume 1 of Legends of the Condor Heroes epic fantasy from China
Gary Kemble – Strange Ink Harry finds he has a strange tattoo on his neck one morning. Gradually more appear which trigger nightmares, and worse…
Martha Wells – All Systems Red the 1st in her Murderbot Diaries series
Richard Mathieson – The Best of RM 33 short stories chosen by Victor LaValle and issuead as a Penguin Classic
in paperback:
Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Deliverance Helldivers III
art, etc:
Dopress Books – Monsters of the Imagination published by Cypi Press. Subtitled ‘Amazing Creature Designs by Global Artists‘
Moebius – Inside Moebius Part 3 hardcover from Humanoids
Terry Moore – How To Draw softcover, mainly on figure drawing, especially for comic panels
magazines, etc:
Hi-Fructose – issue # 49 with a 18 page insert on ‘The art of the mushroom‘!
Graphite – issue # 09
calendars:
Jack Yerka – Surrealscapes a dozen of his clasic weird pitures…
Vintage Sci-Fi – another dozen old pulp magazine covers!
The Labyrinth Index – Charles Stross
Yes, it’s that time again!
There’s a new Laundry Files novel out (the ninth!) at the end of the month and, as ever, I’ll be able to provide signed copies.
The cost is £18.99 for the Orbit UK edition
Postage within the UK will be an additional £2.95
Postage to Europe will be £7.45
Postage to Canada, the US and most of the rest of the world will be £10.95
Postage to Australia & NZ,etc. will be £11.65
Multiple copy order prices on request.
Let me know how you’d like your copy/ies signed, and the country you live in and I’ll send a PayPal Invoice confirming the details and asking for yours!
Options include having it dated, or the location added, or a brief greeting, etc. No first lines though.
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about The Labyrinth Index:
Britain is under New Management. The disbanding of the Laundry – the British espionage agency that deals with supernatural threats, has culminated in the unthinkable – an elder god in residence in 10 Downing Street. But in true ‘the enemy of my enemy’ fashion, Mhari Murphy finds herself working with His Excellency Nylarlathotep on foreign policy – there are worse things, it seems, than an elder god in power, and they lie in deepest, darkest America.
A thousand-mile-wide storm system has blanketed the midwest, and the president is nowhere to be found – Mhari must lead a task force of disgraced Laundry personnel into the storm front to discover the truth. But working for an elder god is never easy, and as the stakes rise, Mhari will soon question exactly where her loyalties really lie.
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