New Titles – w/e 16th September 2017
in hardback:
Omar El Akkad – The American War Sarat was only 6 when the 2nd American Civil War broke out in 2074, amidst civil unrest, fake news, the effects of climate change & more…
large format:
Jo Walton – Thessaly: The Complete Trilogy of The Just City, The Philosopher Kings & Necessity her acclaimed series based on Greek myth and philosophy in one volume!
in ‘B’ format:
Sergei Lukyanenko – The Sixth Watch continuing the series that started with The Night Watch. Translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield
Sarah Gailey – Taste of Marrow sequel to the recent River of Teeth, about an alternate southern USA where hippos were introduced decades before…
Benjamine Burford-Jones – The Dreamer’s Lament the latest Lethbridge Stewart adventure…
art, etc:
Simon Stalenhag – Things From the Flood 2nd volume of his art depicting alien incursions in Sweden! The 1st was Tales From the Loop
Flammarion – Pin-Ups: Night and Day small hardcover postcard book reproducing classic pin-ups
David Petersen & Serena Malyon – Mouse Guard Alphabet Book full colour hardback fromm the creators of the comic
Marco Tabilo – Marco Polo: Dangers and Visions graphic novel about the explorer/trader
magazines:
Illustration – issue # 57 featuring Earl Mayan and Peter Stevens
calendars:
Vintage Sci-Fi 2018 – wall calendar with classic pulp magazine covers
New Titles – w/e 9th September 2017
in large format:
C. Robert Cargill – Sea of Rust in a human-free robot future, one damaged robot refuses to be absorbed into the One World Intelligence…
Jonathan Strahan (editor) – Infinity Wars 15 new stories in the 6th anthology of his Infinity Project
in ‘B’ format:
Adrian J. Walker – The Last Dog on Earth from the author of The End of the World Running Club
Ferrett Steinmetz – The Uploaded despite most people having had their consciousnesses uploaded, they still want to interfere with those left behind…
Stephen Hunt – The Stealer’s War volume 3 of The Far-Called series, which began with In Dark Service
Anthony O’Neill – Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Seek 7 years after Jekyll/Hyde’s death, a man appears claiming to be Dr. Jekyll; only Jekyll’s old lawyer knows he must be an imposter…
Jen Williams –The Ninth Rain the 1st of her Winnowing Flame trilogy
Joseph Brassey – Skyfarer trainee sorceress Aimee is caught up in a race to find an ancient relic, travelling by skyship and trying to outwit magic-wielding knights… The Drifting Lands vol 1
Paige Orwin – Immortal Architects sequel to The Interminables, featuring Edmund Templeton, a time-manipulating sorcerer and part of a magical cabal ruling the US’s East Coast…
Clifford D. Simak – A Heritage of Stars a man treks across a future primitive world seeking knowledge…
Scarlett Thomas – Dragon’s Green YA fantasy novel; the 1st in her Worldquake series…
E. Nesbit – In the Dark 21 ghost stories from around a century ago…
New Titles – w/e 2nd September 2017
in hardback:
Eric Flint & Alistair Kimble – Iron Angels two FBI Agents investigating strange cults in Illinois realise they have to call in the Scientific Anomalies Group to aid them…
Jonathan Carroll – The Crow’s Dinner signed & numbered edition (limited to 1000) from Subterranean Press consisting of hundreds of short pieces that initially appeared on Medium.com
Naomi Novik – Golden Age short story collection with 6 short stories & 26 Drabbles (100 word stories).
in ‘B’ format:
Jon Hollins – False Idols sequel to Fool’s Gold and the 2nd volume of The Dragon Lords
Sylvia Hunter – Lady of Magick set in a magical version of Britain, Sophie hopes life as a female student is easier away from Oxford, in Din Edin… Sequel to The Midnight Queen
James Bennett – Raising Fire sequel to Chasing Embers
Claire North – The End of the Day ultimately, everybody meets death. But before that they meet Charlie…
Max Gladstone – Ruin of Angels the 6th in his Craft series, which began with Three Parts Dead
Corey J. White – Killing Gravity Miriam Xi has spent years on the run but now she’s in a crippled spaceship and they’re closing in on her…
James Bennett – Raising Fire
Ken Liu (editor) – Invisible Planets new short SF from 7 of China’s best sf authors…
in paperback:
Julie E. Czerneda – The Gate to Futures Past the 2nd in her Reunification series, set in her Clan Chronicles universe
Lisanne Norman – Circle’s End the 9th in her Shaolin Alliance series…
Christie Golden – Valerian: City of a Thousand Planets novelisation of the new film by Luc Besson.
art, etc:
Jim Henson – Giants the latest volume of The Storyteller series, with illustrated stories inspired by his characters and art…
Jack Kirby – Kirby 100 big celebration of his art, issued for his 100th birthday. He would have been 100 on 28th August.
magazines:
Rue Morgue – The Weird World of H. P. Lovecraft with 26 articles covering all aspects of his life and work
Comics Review – August 2017 issue; reproductions of old (mainly b&w) cartoon strips – Alley Oop, Modesty Blaise, Krazy Kat, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, many more…
New Titles – w/e 26th August 2017
in hardcover:
Adam Roberts – The Real-Town Murders near-ish future murder mystery/thriller
in large format:
Mick Franklin – The Nightmare Man an escaped prisoner flees his pursuers to his hometown only to find it’s infested with zombies…
in ‘B’ format:
James Lovegrove – Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows the 1st of his Cthulhu Casebooks
Sylvia Hunter – The Midnight Queen in a fragmented, magical Britain, Gray Marshall must solve the mystery of the long-missing Midnight Queen. Ist in a trilogy
Sabaa Tahir – A Torch Against the Night sequel to An Ember in the Ashes. Epic fantasy
Deborah A. Wolf – Split Feather Siggy can see demons & talks to phantoms and is forced to travel to Alaska to discover her past…
Mike Resnick – The Castle of Cassiopeia the 3rd Deadenders book
Charles Beaumont – Perchance to Dream short stories from one of the most admired Twilight Zone writers. It’s been out a while, but I’ve not stocked it before…
Polly Faber – Tapir All at Sea the 2nd softcover reprint of the Mango & Bambang series. Illustrated by Clara Vulliamy
in paperback:
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller – Alliance of Equals the 19th Liaden Universe novel…
Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson – Navigators of Dune sequel to Mentats of Dune
Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Extinction Evolution the 4th book of the Extinction Cycle
Clive Cussler & Robin Burcell – Pirate the 8th in Cussler’s Fargo series but the 1st to be co-written with Burcell…
Star Trek – Patterns of Interference the latest ST: Enterprise adventure, written by Christopher L. Bennett
New Titles – w/e 19th August 2017
in large format:
Lisa Tuttle – (The Curious Affair of) The Witch at Wayside Cross sequel to (The Curious Affair of) The Sonambulist and the Psychic Thief
Amanda Blake – Zero One, Zero Two poetic novella about the end of Humanity. Possibly. By a local author
Sean McMullen – Colours of the Soul & Ghosts of Engines Past two short story collections with 27 stories between them
in ‘B’ format:
Blake Crouch – Dark Matter Jason wakes up in an alternate world, strapped to a hospital trolley and attended by strangers in hazmat suits…
James Bradley – Clade in the near future, as England suffers from climate change and civil unrest, Ellie takes solace in beekeeping…
Tim Akers – The Iron Hound sequel to The Pagan Night and vol 2 of The Hallowed War
Sean McMullen – Before the Storm time travel novel
Warhammer 40,000 – Kingsblade stand alone novel by Andy Clark
Polly Faber – Mango & Bambang: The Not-a-Pig softcover edition of the 1st book of stories about a city-living tapir! Illustrated by Clara Vulliamy
in paperback:
James Rollins – The Seventh Plague the latest Sigma Force adventure…
Ilona Andrews – Wildfire the 3rd in her Hidden Legacy series
magazines:
Locus – August 2017 cover date, whole issue number 679
New Titles – w/e 12th August 2017
in hardback:
Kate Elliott – Buried Heart the 3rd Court of Fives novel…
Greg Egan – Dichronauts Seth & Theo are strange beings who live on a very strange planet where the habitable zone continually forces them to migrate to stay alive…
in large format:
Eric Brown – Binary System an emergency spaceship capsule crashlands on an uncharted ice planet…
Kate Elliott – Poisoned Blade sequel to Court of Fives
Hunter Shea – Magalodon in Paradise his latest cryptozoological thriller
Tutu Dutta – Nights of the Dark Moon subtitled Gothic Folktales from Asia and Africa 13 stories, mainly from S. E. Asia
Arnold T. Blumberg & Scott Alan Woodard – Cinema and Sorcery: The Comprehensive Guide to Fantasy Film 480 pages with chapters on each of several dozen films
in ‘B’ format:
N. K. Jemisin – The Stone Sky 3rd in her Broken Earth series
Miles Cameron – A Plague of Swords the 4th in his Traitor Son Cycle, which started with The Red Knight
Christopher Priest – The Gradual new novel set in the Dream Archipelago
Connie Willis – Crosstalk there’s a new kind of mobile phone out – but it’s for emotions!
Nate Crowley – The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack a re-animated corpse (executed for a crime it doesn’t think it committed) enslaved on a huge trawler fishing in perilous seas on a distant planet regains consciousness…
Al Robertson – Waking Hell sequel to Crashing Heaven Dieter has sold his afterlife as part of an insurance scam…
Warhammer 40,000 – Scythes of the Emperor the latest in the Space Marines Battles books, by L. J. Goulding
in paperback:
Tanith Lee – Anackire the 2nd volume of The Wars of Vis
Karen Chance – Ride the Storm the latest Carrie Palmer adventure…
art, etc:
Jiro Taniguchi – Venice great looking book of the artist’s present day recreations of views from 1920s & 30s postcards of the city which he found
Stephen Pearce – 101 Textures in Graphite & Charcoal practical step by step tips for getting fur, wood, fruit and all sorts of other surfaces just right
Alexandro Jodorowsky & Juan Jimenez – The Metabarons: Steedhead & Dona Vicenta 3rd of the softcovers with the next 2 chapters of the graphic novel
magazines:
Heavy Metal – issue # 287
calendars:
Valerian – 2018 film tie-in wall calendar
Frank Frazetta – 2018 wall calendar
Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell – 2018 wall calendar
New Titles – w/e 29th July 2017
in hardback:
Michael Marshall Smith – Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence Hannah discovers that her grandfather is a friend of the Devil and that they need her help!
Ed McDonald – Blackwing book 1 of new fantasy series The Raven’s Mark. For a long time The Misery has been a hellish no-mans-land keeping the Republic safe from the Deep Kings…
in large format:
John Hornor Jacobs – Infernal Machines the 3rd in the series that began with The Incorruptibles and Foreign Devils, about Romans in North America
Paul Kincaid – Iain M. Banks critical analysis of all of Iain’s work. From the University of Illinois Press in their Modern Masters of Science Fiction series
in ‘B’ format:
J. K. Rowling with John Tiffany & Jack Thorne – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play script with HP as an adult
Peter F. Hamilton – Night Without Stars sequel to The Abyss Beyond Dreams; part 2 of Chronicle of the Fallen
Mishell Baker – Borderline I missed this last year but it’s now a Nebula nominee. The Arcadia Project monitors traffic between Hollywood and a parallel, magical world…
Nicky Drayden – The Prey of Gods if it weren’t for emergent AIs, new cult religions & hallucinogenics, the future South Africa would be booming…
Josh Malerman – Black Mad Wheel a washed up rock band are tasked by the US Army to go on a desert mission to Africa to find a new sound. Literally.
art, etc:
Posuka Demizu – The Art of PD full colour, often quirky art. Love his cut-a-ways of submarines shaped like a gigantic turtle or a sunfish!
Gou Tanabe – H. P. Lovecraft‘s The Hound and other stories contains The Temple, The Hound & The Nameless City. Small, squarebound b&w graphic novel printed manga style, so you start at the back…
Peter Hopes & Andrew Bastow – The Ice Chronicles neat little locally created, illustrated tale about an expedition to Antarctica.
gift:
Harry Potter – Hogwarts Playing Cards in a Tin back in stock although supplies are limited
New Titles – w/e 22nd July 2017
x-n hardcover:
Daryl Gregory – Spoonbenders the story of down-on-their-luck ex-circus performers, the Amazing Telemachus Family
in ‘B’ format:
Christopher Brown – Tropic of Kansas law & order has collapsed, revolution is in the air and the centre of the USA is a wasteland… Looks interesting!
Brent Weeks – The Blood Mirror 4th volume of his Lightbringer series
Jeff Noon – A Man of Shadows PI John Nyquist‘s latest case takes him from the permanently bright Dayzone into the city’s other dark half, Nocturne…
Patrick S. Tomlinson – Children of the Divide 3rd in his Children of a Dead Earth series, which began with The Ark and Trident’s Forge
art, etc:
Mark Salisbury – The Art of the Film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets big, heavily illustrated hardcover. From concept art to the big screen.
magazines:
Interzone – # 271
Black Static – # 59
and, as added to last week’s post on Saturday, Locus – issue # 678, July cover date
New Titles – w/e 15th July 2017
in hardcover:
Charles Stross – The Delirium Brief the 8th of his Laundry Files
Nancy Kress – Tomorrow’s Kin an apparently minor scientist is the first to be invited aboard the visiting alien spaceship…
Louise Welsh – No Dominion a plague has killed most of the World’s population. But on Orkney a small community struggles to survive
R. S. Belcher – The Queen of Swords the 5th book in the Six-Gun Tarot series…
in large format:
Gail Z. Martin – Scourge 2 orphans inherit the family business in Ravenwood, a city full of intrigue and political chicanery. Part 1 of Darkhurst
Dmitry Glukhovsky – Metro 2035 the final part of the Metro Trilogy
N. K. Jemisin – The Inheritance Trilogy big omnibus with the three novels plus a novella, The Awakened Kingdom
Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection 39 of the top stories from last year
Ellen Datlow (editor) – The Best Horror of the Year: volume Nine
in ‘B’ format:
Ben Aaronovitch – The Hanging Tree the the 6th Peter Grant adventure
Amy S. Foster – The Rift Uprising Ryn has been specially trained to guard one of the Rifts, rips in space/time to alternate worlds…
Dale Lucas – First Watch fast-moving fantasy; the 1st in the Fifth Ward series (or it might be the other way round!)
Nina Allan – The Rift Selena’s sister disappears for 20 years and then claims to have been visiting another planet…
Carrie Vaughn – Bannerless post-Collapse, Enid is an Investigator, making sure the very strict rules of a rare, successful community are maintained…
Angus Donald – The Death of Robin Hood final volume in the series
Austin Grossman – Crooked alternate history featuring Richard Nixon!
Kevin Hearne – Besieged short stories from the world of the Iron Druid
Stephen Baxter – Obelisk short story collection, including 4 set in the Proxima / Ultima background
Gail Carriger – Romancing the Inventor a Supernatural Society novella
in paperback:
Tanith Lee – The Storm Lord reprint of her 1976 novel, volume 1 of the Wars of Vis trilogy
art, etc:
Geof Darrow – Lead Poisoning: The Pencil Art of Geof Darrow sometimes incredibly detailed sketches in hardcover from Dark Horse. Very nice.
Camilla d’Errico – Femina & Fauna mainly full colour art, in hardcover from Dark Horse
Frank Thorne – Frank Thorne’s Battling Beauties interviews and art, together with some very short stories paired with specific pieces. Hardcover from Hermes Press
Frank Cho – Drawing Beautiful Women: The Frank Cho Method updated edition
Jacques Tardi & Leo Malet – Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge the latest Nestor Burma Mystery hardcover from Fantagraphics
Frederic Brremand & Federico Bertolucci – Little Tails in Prehistory the 4th volume featuring Chipper & Squizzo exploring natural history. From the creators of the Love series of textless graphic novels about animals
magazines:
Locus – issue # 678 July cover date
Hi-Fructose – volume # 44 with a 16 page glossy insert of Jeremy Geddes‘ art
New Titles – w/e 8th July 2017
Posted a day early because the shop will not be open on Friday, 7th July
A couple of outstanding titles may arrive in time for Saturday – have to see
in hardcover:
C. F. Iggulden – Darien book 1 of new fantasy series Empire of Salt. From the acclaimed historical novelist
Anna Smith Spark – The Court of Broken Knives first in a big new fantasy series, The Empire of Dust
Terry Brooks – The Black Elphstone the 1st book of The Fall of Shannara set, again (obviously) set in the long-running Shannara series
Matt Haig – How to Stop Time Tom Hazard teaches history, which is easy for him, because he’s lived through hundreds of years of it! But he can’t last forever…
in large format:
R. Scott Bakker – The Unholy Consult the 4th and final volume of his Aspect-Emperor series
Dave Freer – Stardogs huge, alien ‘stardogs’ are essential for interstellar travel but now they’re dying out…
Joshua Dalzelle – Omega Rising Jason inadvertently becomes trapped on an alien spacecraft he stumbles across and is whisked away from Earth…
in ‘B’ format:
Jen Williams – The Ninth Rain part 1 of her new The Winnowing Flame Trilogy
Melinda Snodgrass – In Evil Times sequel to The High Ground
Peter Watts – Firefall omnibus edition of Blind Sight and Echopraxia
Mike McCormack – Notes From a Coma in near-future Ireland a man in an induced coma is part of a research project but his coma goes viral!
Joshua Dalzeele – Call to Arms & Counterstrike books 2 & 3 of his Black Fleet Trilogy. The 1st, Warship, is also back in stock. There hasn’t been a threat to Terran occupied space for hundreds of years and the battleships are barely functional anymore…
Zachary Mason – The Lost Books of the Odyssey retelling & reinterpretation of scenes from the epic. By the author of new sf hardcover Void Star
Andy Frankham-Allen – Night of the Intelligence a Lethbridge Stewart adventure set in the Doctor Who universe
in paperback:
Joshua Palmetier – Threading the Needle sequel to the recent Shattering the Ley
Kalayna Price – Grave Ransom the 5th Alex Croft adventure…
