New Titles – w/e 21st April 2018
in hardcover:
Jack McDevitt – The Long Sunset Hutch takes on a final mission to track down the source of a musical, possibly alien, message… Academy novel # 8
Sam J. Miller – Blackfish City post climate-change, a woman known as ‘the Orcamancer’ arrives to help save a failing floating Arctic city… Budget price of £12.99
John Scalzi – Head On a possible case of murder in a violent, robotic computer game…
in large format:
Paul Levinson – The Loose Ends Saga 4 linked time travel stories from the author of The Silk Code. The 1st is Loose Ends, which was nominated for several awards.
Paul Levinson – Ian’s Ions and Eons short collection with 3 linked time travel stories
R. S. Belcher – The Night Dahlia a Faerie mob boss employs Laytham Ballard to track down his missing daughter…
in ‘B’ format:
Patricia Briggs – Silence Fallen the 10th Mercy Thomson novel…
Christopher Fowler – Wild Chamber the latest case for Bryant & May
Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Book of Swords Part I & Part II between them they contain the 16 stories from the single volume hardcover edition. 9 in the 1st book and 7 in the 2nd.
Alien – The Cold Forge the latest original story set in the world of the film Alien. Written by Alex White
Warhammer 40,000 – Warlord: Fury of the God-Machine novel by David Annandale
in paperback:
Eric Flint & David Carrico – The Span of Empire the 3rd in Flint’s Jao Empire series, after ‘Course‘ & ‘Crucible‘
Doctor Who – Rose novelisation of the 9th Doctor tv episodes by Russell T. Davies
Doctor Who – The Christmas Invasion novelisation of the first 10th Doctor Christmas Special by Jenny T. Colgan
Doctor Who – The Day of the Doctor novelisation of the 10th, 11th & War Doctors tv episodes by Steven Moffat
The Horus Heresy – Corax anthology of 6 more short stories in the Warhammer 40,000 universe
art, etc:
3dtotal Publishing – Sketching From the Imagination: Dark Arts
Brian Kesinger – Walking Your Octopus & Traveling With Your Octopus back in stock! Limited quantities available.
magazines:
Shoreline of Infinity – Issue 11.5 Special Edition for this year’s Edinburgh Science Festival. Their Event Horizon evening was a big success, with Paul McAuley, among others, participating
Locus – issue # 687 the cover promises interviews with Jeff Vandermeer & Tananarive Due and has a ‘Celebrating 50 Years of Locus‘ headline as well! It’s come a long way since I first read it back in the 1970s…
New Titles – w/e 14th April 2018
in hardcover:
Django Wexler – The Infernal Battalion the 5th in his Shadow Campaigns black powder fantasy series which began with The Thousand Names
Scarlett Thomas – The Chosen Ones sequel to Dragon’s Green and vol 2 of her Worldquake series
in large format:
David Thomas Moore (editor) – Dracula: Rise of the Beast 5 short stories about the rise of Dracula, including Noblesse Oblige by Adrian Tchaiskovsky
in ‘B’ format:
Tad Williams – The Witchwood Crown volume 1 of The Last King of Osten Ard. A return to the world of The Dragonbone Chair!
Kay Kenyon – At the Table of Wolves following the psychic trauma of WW1, strange talents began to appear in the British population. By 1936 there’s a secret training site for the Talented, training them in how to combat the rising Nazi menace, both at home and abroad…
Angels Slater – Vigil Verity has the ability to walk between worlds. Part 1 of the Verity Fassbinder series
Jodi Taylor – An Argumentation of Historians the 9th novel in the Chronicles of St. Mary’s time travel series
John Scalzi – Head On online VR games have become ever more realistic, and bloody. And beheading people is only a game!
Mike Ashley (editor) – Lost Mars 10 classic tales of ‘The Golden Age of the Red Planet’. Wells, Bradbury, Weinbaum, Ballard, Tubb, and more…
Garard Jones – Men of Tomorrow subtitled The True Story of the Birth of the Superheroes. Looks to be a well-researched history of the early days of the genre
art, etc:
Loish – The Sketchbook of Loish: Art in Progress slip-cased hardcover from 3dtotalPublishing
magazines:
Hi-Fructose – issue # 47 with an 8-page insert featuring art by Erik Jones
New Titles – w/e 7th April 2018
in hardcover:
Catherynne M. Valente – Space Opera peace now reigns but every Cycle the great galactic civilisations come together to celebrate and compete against each other at various accomplishments…
in large format:
Emma Newman – Before Mars Anna arrives on Mars to take up the post of geologist and also artist in residence but she soon stumbles on a mystery footprint…
Mur Lafferty – Six Wakes Maria wakes to find that she’s had to be cloned to survive, and that the rest of the spaceship crew are all dead…
K. C. Archer – School for Psychics Teddy had never thought of herself as special, but is recruited to attend a secret training facility for psychics…
Lara Elena Donnelly – Amberlough in a glamerous, decadent city, revolution is in the air…
Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins – The Silver Well 7 tales set in the same little English village, each set further back in time than the previous one, spanning almost 2000 years…
Kate Forsyth – Vasilisa the Wise short stories of ‘tales of brave young women’, illustrated by Lorena Carrington
in ‘B’ format:
Mark Lawrence – Red Sister book one of his new Ancestor series
K. M. McKinley – The Brass God the 3rd book of her Gates of the World series. Book 1 was The Iron Ship, followed by The City of Ice.
Ed McDonald – Blackwing book 1 of The Raven’s Mark, set in a wasteland known as the Misery… epic fantasy
Sebastien de Castell – Tyrant’s Throne the 4th in his Traitor’s Blade series…
Sylvain Neuvel – Waking Gods set 10 years after Sleeping Giants and 2nd in his Themis Files series. More giant alien robots appear on Earth…
Ada Palmer — Seven Surrenders sequel to Too Like the Lightning. In 2454, Earth’s long golden age is coming to a close… The Terra Ignota trilogy volume 2.
Joanne M. Harris – Runelight sequel to Runemarks, about the Norse Gods reasserting themselves in the present day
Gail Carriger – Competence the 3rd in her steampunk Custard Protocol set
Kevin Hearne – Scourged short stories set in the world of his Iron Druid Chronicles
art, etc:
3dtotal Publishing – Sketching From the Imagination: Dark Arts tips and suggestions from 50 different artists…
magazines, etc:
3dtotal Publishing – CDQ #4 Character Design Quarterly
New Titles – w/e 31st March 2018
in hardback:
Adrian Tchaikovsky – The Hyena and the Hawk the 3rd in his Echoes of the Fall fantasy trilogy
Leo Carew – The Wolf the ambitious Suthdal armies have invaded the lands of the Black Kingdom to the north but now face a desperate struggle…
Simon R. Green – Death Shall Come the 4th Ishmael Jones Mystery
in large format:
Theodora Goss – The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter Jekyll’s daughter, Mary, encounters Hyde’s daughter, Diana! And that’s just the beginning… A Nebula Award nominee
Mishell Baker – Imposter Syndrome the 3rd book in her Arcadia Project urban fantasy series, initially set in Hollywood…
James Maxey – Big Ape sequel to Cut-Up Girl and vol 2 of Lawless, set in a world with B-list superheroes…
Scott R. Jones (Editor) – Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis 15 new Lovecraftian stories…
in ‘B’ format:
Elan Mastai – All Our Wrong Todays Tom & Penny have inadvertently changed history and become stuck in this world, instead of the utopia they grew up in…
Omar El Akkad – American War in 2075, North America is undergoing an ongoing political and military upheaval…
Tim Lebbon – The Folded Land sequel to dark urban fantasy novel Relics
Mark A. Latham – Red Tower a new Sherlock Holmes case investigating a murder following Watson’s attendance at a seance…
Elizabeth Bear – Stone Mad sequel to Karen Memery, set in a steampunk Seattle…
Star Wars: Battlefront II – Inferno Squad the crack Imperial troops have infiltrated the Rebel faction led by Saw Gerrera… Written by Christie Golden
art, etc:
Nicola Streeten & Kath Tate (editors) – The Inking Woman heavily illustrated history of female artists in British comics & cartooning over the past 250 years! Hardcover.
Hugo Pratt – The Golden House of Samarkand the latest Corto Maltese graphic novel…
Saverio Tenuta, Bruno Letizia & Carita Lupattelli – Izuna hardcover fantasy graphic novel from Humanoids. Nominated for an Eisner Award!
Jim Henson‘s – Fraggle Rock Omnibus full colour softcover collection of 20 stories featuring the characters from the tv series
magazines:
The Happy Reader – issue # 9 a Treasure Island (by RLS) special issue!
New Titles – w/e 24th March 2018
in large format:
Andrzej Sapkowski – Lady of the Lake the latest in the Witcher series, which began with The Last Wish. Translated as usual from Polish by David French
Joe R. Lansdale – Jackrabbit Smile his latest Hap and Leonard novel…
Jonathan Strahan (editor) – The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: volume twelve 29 of the best from last year
in ‘B’ format:
Robin Hobb – Assassin’s Fate after 16 novels ans a couple of novellas, it’s the final volume of the long-running cycle which started with Assassin’s Apprentice
Brian Catling – The Erstwhile sequel to The Vorrh
Terry Brooks – Black Elfstone the latest Shannara novel; the 3rd in the Fall of Shannara set
Andrew Bannister – Iron Gods the sequel to Creation Machine
Anna Newman – Planetfall & After Atlas her 2 books about a distant human colony, in anticipation of her new novel, Before Mars, coming in April
Pacific Rim: Uprising – Ascension prequel novelisation to the 2nd Pacific Rim film, by Greg Keyes
Guy Haley – Dante the latest Warhammer 40,000 adventure; the tale of one of the great Masters of the Space Marines
magazines:
Locus – March cover date, issue # 585 with Ursula K. Le Guin on the cover
New Titles – w/e 18th March 2018
in hardcover:
Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias Buckell – The Tangled Lands in the crumbling empire, every use of magic corrupts the ecology just a little bit more… yet the last, great city is ruled by a master Majister
Kim Wilkins – Odin’s Girl on discovering who she is, Sara is set a series of challenges by the Norse God…
Doctor Who – The Day She Saved the Doctor 4 novellas from 4 different authors, about 4 different Companions: Sarah Jane, Rose, Clara & Bill
in large format:
Jen Williams – The Bitter Twins sequel to The Ninth Rain and part 2 of The Winnowing Flame Trilogy
Robert V. S. Redick – Master Assassins 1st book of his new series, The Fire Sacraments. 2 brothers are mistaken for professional killers and must flee into the desert…
in ‘B’ format:
Kim Stanley Robinson – New York 2140 climate change 120 years from now. One of his best, imho.
Annalee Newitz – Autonomous post climate-change cyberpunk-ish novel. Very good.
Jeff Vandermeer – Borne ‘new weird’ novel set in a ruined future city, from the author of The Southern Reach Trilogy
Ada Palmer – Too Like the Lightning 1st book of Terra Ignota, set in 2454
Andrzej Sapkowski – The Lady of the Lake the 7th volume of The Witcher series, which began with The Last Wish. Translated by David French
Aliette De Bodard – The House of Binding Thorns sequel to The The Home of Shattered Wings
Deborah A. Wolf – The Dragon’s Legacy the singers of the magic song that keeps the Earth Dragon asleep are becoming fewer every year…
Anna Stevens – Godblind minor skirmishes have plagued the border reaches for years, but now the ruler of one of the Kingdoms is distracted. Now might be the chance for the other to seize the advantage…
Kristen Britain – Firebrand her 6th Green Rider novel
Patricia Briggs – Burn Bright the 5th Alpha & Omega novel
Ben Aaronovitch – The Furthest Station a new Peter Grant novella
Max Porter – Grief is the Thing With Feathers a recently bereaved father and his two sons are visited by Crow, who gives them Hope, among other things…
Ben H. Winters – Countdown City & World of Trouble the sequels to The Last Policeman
Warhammer 40,000 – The Magos 700 pages of all the short stories with a new novel featuring Gregor Eisenhorn, written by Dan Abnett
Polly Faber & Clara Dulliamy – Mango & Bambang: Superstar Tapir m4 more illustrated short stories about a friendly but clumsy tapir living in the big city!
in paperback:
Seanan McGuire – Tricks for Free the 7th InCryptid adventure
art, etc:
Martha H. Kennedy – Drawn to Purpose subtitled American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists serious h/c appreciation of women in comics, etc.
Magnetic Press – Robot Envy: Zenith hardcover of robot art in all styles from 64 different artists
Ibraham Swaid & Joumana Ismail (editors) – Epilogue hardback subtitled Illustration and Concept Art of the Middle East. Mainly in colour; some very nice illos.
Moebius – Inside Moebius somewhat autobiographical h/c graphic novel from Humanoids, which also features some of his best known characters
Jerry Frissen & Philippe Scoffoni – Exo epic science fiction graphic novel in h/c from Humanoids
Jiro Taniguchi – A Distant Neighbourhood a businessman finds himself back in his home town, reliving his life as a young teenager… Mainly b&w hardcover
magazines:
Interzone – issue # 274 with a cover by Vince Haig
Black Static – issue # 62 with cover art by Jim Burns
Heavy Metal – issue # 289 a Sci-Fi Special issue
New Titles – w/e 11th March 2018
Nancy Kress – If Tomorrow Comes 2nd in her Yesterday’s Kin trilogy
Steven Brust – Good Guys a motley collection of people with various powers work for the secretive Foundation, but are they actually the ‘good guys’ like they say!
Christoper Golden & Tim Lebbon – Blood of the Four in Quandis everybody is a slave, either to another human, or to a god…
David Weber, Timothy Zahn & Thomas Pope – A Call to Vengeance the 3rd of the Manticore Ascendant series, set in Weber’s Honorverse
large format:
Ezekiel Boone – Zero Day sequel to The Hatching and Skitter, about a world ravaged by flesh-eating spiders…
Eric Brown – The Martian Simulacra novella. Following their ultimate victory over Earth, the Martians request that Holmes, Watson & Professor Challenger visit Mars…
James Maxey – Bitterwood: The Complete Collection with an Introduction, a new Prologue and the 4 original novels…
James Maxey – Dragon Apocalypse: The Complete Collection contains the 4 novels, starting with Greatshadow, and also a new ‘ origins’ novella at the end
‘B’ format:
Anne Corlett – The Space Between the Stars on a distant planet, Jamie recovers from an illness to find herself alone. The plague has wiped out almost all mankind and she determines to return to Earth…
Tristan Palmgren – Quietus an alien anthropologist studying Earth saves a medieval Monk’s life and stumbles on a vast conspiracy…
Samantha Shannon – The Song Rising 3rd in her Bone Season series, set in 2059
A. G. Riddle – The Atlantis Gene 1st in a series about the discovery of ancient aliens…
James Brogden – The Hollow Tree Rachel has had a hand amputated but still has phantom sensations, leading to an insubstantial hand clutching hers, and a ghost being dragged back into this world…
David Zindell – Idiot Gods sensing signs of impending cataclysm, an Orca tries to contact humans to warn the ‘idiot gods’
in paperback:
Sean Grigsby – The Smoke Eaters nearing retirement, a veteran dragon fighter is enlisted in the elite Smoke Eaters squad…
Marshall Ryan Maressa – Lady Henterman’s Wardrobe sequel to The Holver Alley Crew; 2nd in his Streets of Maradaine set
Nic Korpon – Queen of the Struggle sequel to The Rebellion’s Last Traitor
magazines:
Shoreline of Infinity – issue #11 special all female issue, launched on 8th March, International Women’s Day. Lead story by Aliette de Bodard
New Titles – w/e 4th March 2018
Due to the inclement weather, most of this week’s new titles have been delayed.
They’re currently ‘in transit’ and could possibly arrive later this afternoon. But maybe not.
I’ll update this post as necessary.
in ‘B’ format:
Eleanor Cameron – The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet children’s sf novel
in Paperback:
Clive Cussler & Justin Scott – The Cutthroat the 10th Isaac Bell adventure
art, etc:
PIE International – Everyday Scenes from a Parallel World lavish softcover concentrating on those wonderful backgrounds in Anime & Manga works…
Julia Wertz – Tenements, Towers & Trash large h/c full of b&w illustrations of little known aspects of New York
Tom Gould – Baking With Kafka his latest collection of 1-page cartoons. Hardcover
magazines:
Illustration – Issue Number Fifty-Nine pulp illustrator Harold McAuley, Jes Schlaikjer, early American Frontier illustrators, and more!
New Titles – w/e 24th February 2018
in hardcover:
Brent Weeks – Perfect Shadow a Night Angel novella, together with a short story called Night Angel
Graham Masterton – Dead Men Whistling the 9th Katie Maguire thriller
Doctor Who – The Missy Chronicles anthology of 6 stories, all featuring the female regeneration of the Master
Roger Luckhurst (editor) – Science Fiction: A Literary History 8 separate chapters about different (sometimes overlapping) periods of the genre’s development, right up to 2016
in large format:
Simon Ings – The Smoke humanity has split into 3 species, and war between them looms, while gigantic spaceships are being fabricated to take people to the stars…
in ‘B’ format:
James Islington – Echo of Things to Come sequel to The Shadow of What Was Lost and part 2 of The Licanus Trilogy
Michael Marshall Smith – Hannah Greene and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence she discovers that her grandfather is 150, knows the Devil, and that the pair need her help!
Jasmine Gower – Moonshine in 1920s Soot City, Modernism is all the rage and the old magics and spells are forbidden…
Melissa Albert – Hazel Wood Alice’s grandmother dies and she has to visit the isolated estate called Hazel Wood but the only clue to her death is a warning…
Nicola Mostyn – Gods of Love divorce lawyer Frieda discovers that the ancient Greek Gods are alive and well…
Neil Jordan – Carnivalesque Andy is trapped inside a weird world inside a Hall of Mirrors but nobody knows, because one of the reflections has taken his place outside!
Andy Clark – Shroud of Night the latest Warhammer 40,000 adventure
magazines:
Locus – February cover date, #685 with their 2017 Year in Review
New Titles – w/e 18th February 2018
in hardcover:
W. Michael Gear – Outpost it should be a rich planet but the colony has collapsed and only the town of Donovan has any laws anymore. And then a Corporation ship arrives in orbit to check on progress…
Myke Cole – The Armored Saint the Order ensures that no magician lives who might inadvertently bring disaster down on the world… Part 1 of The Sacred Throne Trilogy
Nick Clark Windo – The Feed despite their best efforts, 6 years after civilisation collapses, their young daughter goes missing…
Zoe Gilbert – Folk the strange lives and times of the inhabitants of remote Neverness
in large format:
Charles DeLint – The Wind in His Heart a new Newford novel! (Well, one of the characters comes from there… It’s mainly set in the American South West)
E. J. Swift – Paris Adrift trying to escape from the Chronometrist, Haillie stumbles on a time portal and is soon on a wild adventure…
Mishell Baker – Phantom Pains sequel to Borderline and the 2nd in the Arcadia Project series about an alternate Hollywood with magic
Jin Yong – A Hero Born historical fantasy set in 12th C China…
James Maxey – Cut Up Girl Lawless #1
Jane Lindskold – Asphodel portal fantasy
Steve Propusch, Christopher Sqqueira & Bryce Stevens (editors) – Cthulhu Down Under volume 1 anthology of 10 stories featuring Lovecraftian goings-on in Australia!
in ‘B’ format:
Gareth L. Powell – Embers of War a sentient warship eschews fighting and joins a search & rescue group helping to find lost spaceships…
R. J. Barker – Blood of Assassins sequel to Age of Assassins; part 2 of The Wounded Kingdom
Marcus Heitz – The Triumph of the Dwarves the 5th of the ‘Dwarf‘ books…
David Hair – Empress of the Fall the 1st volume of The Sunsurge Quartet. The Rondian Empire is on the brink of a civil war…
Jordanna M. Brodsky – Olympus Bound Selene has been living quietly in New York but an evil cult forces her to resume her true identity as Artemis, the Huntress! Vol 3.
J. G. Ballard – Extreme Metaphors fat collection of 44 interviews with the late author dating from 1967 to 2008
in paperback:
Michelle Sagara – Grave vol 3 of The Queen of the Dead series
art, etc:
Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer & Erin Humiston – Calla Cthulhu collecting the 1st 4 issues of the comic about Cthulhu’s daughter and her efforts to get a summer job and apply for college…
audio:
Brian Aldiss – Helliconia Spring budget 2 disc mp3 complete recording. 18 hours long, performed by Christopher Slade!
