New Titles – w/e 27th April 2019
in hardcover:
Neal Asher – The Warship part 2 of The Rise of the Jain trilogy. The 1st was The Soldier
in large format:
Emma Newman – Atlas Alone her latest Planetfall novel
Sarah Pinsker – Sooner Or Later Everything Falls Into The Sea 13 short stories from the Nebula Award winning author (Best Novelette 2018; included here)
Sofia Samatar – Tender collection of 20 cross-genre short stories
Larry Niven (creator) – Man-Kzin Wars XV 7 new tales of the conflict…
in ‘B’ format:
Greg Egan – Perihelion Summer a small black hole enters the Solar System…
Scarlett Thomas – The Chosen Ones sequel to Dragon’s Green, in her Worldquake Sequence
Ramsey Campbell – The Hungry Moon his latest horror novel; a firebrand priest and an ancient sacrificial pit!
Raymond A. Villareal – A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising a plague of vampirism sweeps America…
Ian Doescher – William Shakespeare’s Get Thee… Back to the Future! From the author of the popular William Shakespeare’s Star Wars series
in paperback:
Eric Flint & Charles E. Gannon – 1636: The Vatican Sanction the latest novel in Flint’s sprawling Ring of Fire/1632 alternate history series
Travis S. Taylor – Bringers of Hell the 6th in his Tau Ceti Agenda series…
Les Johnson – Mission to Methone an asteroid miner discovers something very odd about the rock he’s mining…
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller – Neogenesis their latest Liaden Universe novel
New Titles – w/e 20th April 2019
Happy Easter!
in hardback:
M. G. Wheaton – Emily Eternal an AI which could maybe save humanity is under threat, but 2 human companions may be able to help…
Jim Al-Khalili – Sun Fall in a little over 20 years, scientists discover that the Earth’s magnetic field is begining to fail. Ist novel from the well known physicist & radio/tv personality…
Timothy Zahn – Knight the sequel to Pawn and the 2nd in his Sibyl’s War series. Nicole has a plan to take control of the massive spaceship she has been abducted to…
Mike Resnick – The Master of Dreams madcap timeline hopping fantasy romp…
Delilah S. Dawson & Kevin Hearne – No Country for Old Gnomes the sequel to Kill the Farm Boy; and the second of the Books of Pell
in large format:
Jonathan Strahan (editor) – The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen 30 of the best f&sf stories published in 2018
Peter S. Beagle & Jacob Weisman (editors) – The Unicorn Anthology 16 stories about unicorns, written since the late 1980s
in ‘B’ format:
Melissa Caruso – The Unbound Empire sequel to The Defiant Heir and the conclusion of her Sword and Fire trilogy
Anna Stephens – Darksoul sequel to Godblind
Nicki Pau Preto – Crown of Feathers 16 years ago the legendary Phoenix Riders disappeared but Veronika’s dream is to join their ranks…
Andrew Bannister – Stone Clock the 3rd in his Spin series, which began with Creation Machine
Roque Larraquy – Comemadre Argentinian strangeness, translated by Heather Cleary
art, etc:
Mark A. Nelson – Fantasy World-Building subtitled A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures. From Dover Publications. This appears to be a late re-titling of the announced Creative World Building and Creature Design
New Titles – w/e13th April 2019
in hardcover:
Mark Lawrence – Holy Sister the 3rd in the Book od the Ancestor series, after Grey Sister
Terry Goodkind – The Scribbly Man the 1st Children of D’Hara novella
in large format:
Claire Legrand – Furyborn a thousand years on, ancient events seem more like a fairy tale but assassin Eliana finds that’s not the case as she searches for her mother…
in ‘B’ format:
K. J. Parker – Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City engineer Orhan leads the defense of his city during the Great Siege!
Mike Ashley (editor) – Menace of the Machine anthology from the British Library subtitled The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Part of their Science Fiction Classics series
magazines:
Locus – issue # 699 April 2019 cover date, with Jasper Fforde as the lead interview
CDQ – issue # 8 of Character Design Quarterly
Illustrators – Issue Twenty-Five with feature articles on Milo Manara, Greg Hildebrandt, Margaret Brundage & Art Frahn
Illustrators Special issue – The Art of Ron Embleton
gift:
Cthulhu Landscape Mug – mug with wrap-around b&w art of Cthulhu rising from the ocean and threatening the crew of a passing sailing ship!
New Titles – w/e 6th April 2019
in hardcover:
Chris Beckett – Beneath the World, A Sea a police officer investiugates the killing of a number of Duendes, recently discovered somewhat humanoid creatures…
Eric Flint – The Polish Maelstrom the 26th Ring of Fire / 1632 (now 1637) novel overall, and the 22nd Flint has written himself, or co-written.
Samantha Shannon – The Priory of the Orange Tree the unwed Queen of Inys must avoid assassins and also produce an heir to continue the millenia old dynasty…
in large format:
Tais Teng – Phaedra: Alastor 824 a new stand alone Alastor Cluster novel, with the full permission and co-operation of the Jack Vance estate!
Jonathan Janz – Wolf Land a werewolf disrupts the 10 year anniversary High School reunion!
in ‘B’ format:
Hannu Rajaniemi – Summerland in 1938 the British secret services combat their Soviet opposite numbers in the realm of the afterlife…
Tim Maughan – Infinite Detail terrorists destroy the Internet!
Tunde Farrand – Wolf Country in a future London, all but the rich live a life of enforced consumerism, ending eventually in obligatory euthanasia…
Kameron Hurley – The Light Brigade soldiers being ‘beamed’ back from fighting on other planets seem somehow…diferent
Drew Williams – The Stars Now Unclaimed Kamati is a mercenary searching for people who may be able to reverse the damage an alien pulse of energy has sone to civilisations across space…
Stephen Baxter – Xeelee Redemption a population of Xeelee may still live at the centre of the galaxy…
Mark Lawrence – Grey Sister the 2nd Book of the Ancestor and the sequel to Red Sister
Den Patrick – Witchsign decades after the victory over the forces of fire and magic, any child found with the witchsign is seized, never to be seen again…
Ed McDonald – Ravencry sequel to Blackwing and book 2 of The Raven’s Mark
Gail Carriger – The Omega Objection volume 2 of the San Andreas Shifters series. The Summage Solution (vol 1) is also back in stock
Gail Carriger – How to Marry a Werewolf rejected by her family and friends, Faith travels to London looking to better herself, and plot revenge…
Catriona Ward – Little Eve during a future war a terrible storm brings change to a secretive cult living on a remote Scottish island…
Lesley Kelly – The Health of Strangers as a strange disease sweeps the city, the North Edinburgh Health Enforcement Team battle the Virus
Jonathan Janz – The Dark Game 10 authors find that the 6 week writing retreat they’ve been invited to is not what it seems!
C. L. Moore – Jirel of Joiry a Golden Age Masterworks edition of stories featuring her most famous fantasy character
William Hope Hodgson – The Weird Tales of WHH 10 of his best stories selected by Xavier Aldana Reyes for this British Library Tales of the Weird edition.
Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Book of Magic part 1 8 of the stories originally in the hardcover edition
Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Book of Magic part 2 the other 9 of the stories originally in the hardcover edition
in paperback:
Sylvain Neuvel – Only Human sequel to Sleeping Giants & Waking Gods; the 3rd of the Themis Files
audio:
Frederic S. Durbin – Dragonfly reading by Casey Holloway of one of my favourite Hallowe’en novels! Bridget investigates strange noises coming from beneath her uncle’s cellar…
New Titles – w/e 30th March 2019
in hardcover:
James S. A. Corey – Tiamat’s Wrath the 8th novel in the Expanse series
Adrian Tchaikovsky – Cage of Souls on a far future dying Earth, one man leaves the last city to see what manner of folk may still survive in the wilds
Arkady Martine – A Memory Called Empire the new ambassador to the alien Teixcalaanli Empire discovers that her predecessor may have been murdered…
in large format:
Theodora Goss – Snow White Learns Witchcraft short story collection
Georgina Bruce – This House of Wounds short stories from a local author
Aliya Whiteley – Witchcraft in the Harem new dark fantasy collection
Joseph Michael Sommers & Kyle Eveleth (editors) – The Artistry of Neil Gaiman serious look at Gaiman’s career and work
in ‘B’ format:
Andrew Caldecott – Wyntertide the strange sequel to Rotherweird
Madeline Miller – Circe historical novel
Josh Reynolds – Shadowspire: The Mirrored City a Warhammer Underworlds adventure
art, etc:
Donato Giancola – Middle-Earth: Journeys in Myth and Legend big hardcover, full of his takes on iconic scenes and characters from The Hobbit & LotR. Looks great!
Josh Frank, Tim Heidecker & Manuela Pertiga (illustrator) – Giraffes on Horseback Salad hardcover graphic novel adaptation of the almost forgotten 1930s screenplay by Salvador Dali for a Marx Brothers movie! (Obviously, the film never got made!)
Tadd Galusha – Cretaceous textless, vibrantly coloured graphic novel about a T.Rex and the various other dinosaurs and reptiles it encounters. Softcover from Oni Press
Alejandro Jodorowsky & Moebius – Angel Claws new edition from Humanoids of this b&w graphic novel, re-issued to coincide with Jodorowsky’s 90th birthday. Mature content.
Alejandro Jodorowsky & Juan Gimenez – The Metabarons 40th Anniversary edition from Humanoids!
magazines:
Illustration – issue Sixty-Three with a large article on Mario Cooper
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…
