New Titles – w/e 19th September 2020
in hardcover:
Michel Faber – D (A Tale of Two Worlds) fantasy in which the letter ‘D’ isappears
Christopher Paolini – To Sleep in a Sea of Stars surveying yet another empty planet, Kira disturbs an ancient alien artifact…
Nate Crowley – Notes From Small Planets a traveller’s guidebook to planets, species, spectacles & customs across the universe! Good fun
Richard Kadrey – Ballistic Kiss the latest Sandman Slim novel. The softcover came in a couple of weeks ago
large format:
Christopher Buehlmen – The Necromancer’s House a warlock tries to save his horde of Russian magic (stolen from the collapsing Soviet Union) from an avenging witch… (out some time ago but a new author to Transreal)
Gene Wolfe – The Wizard Knight omnibus edition of The Knight & The Wizard. Some time since I last stocked this. The 2 books first came out in 2004
Carrie Vaughn – The Heirs of Locksley sequel to The Ghosts of Sherwood
Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (editors) – Monstrous Affections 15 new tales of relationships between monsters and humans
in ‘B’ format:
M. R. Carey – The Trials of Koli sequel to the recent Book of Koli. Koli has been banished from his village but, if he can discover the lost tech of Old London mentioned in stories, he may redeem himself…
Stanislaw Lem – His Master’s Voice translated by Michael Kandel. Considered by some to be his best novel
J. S. Barnes – Dracula’s Child intriguing sequel to the classic novel
Martin White – Club Medusa avoiding a street brawl, Gerry & Paul are offered refuge in a very strange club in an Old Town basement… Local author.
Mike Ashley (editor) – Nature’s Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction the latest anthology from the British Library in their Science Fiction Classics series. Contents include stories by Brian Aldiss,Clifford D. Simak, Margaret St.Clair, and others…
Maria Dahvana Headley – Beowulf a new verse translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic
in paperback:
Dan Hanks – Captain Moxley and the Embers of Empire fun, fast-paced occult adventures in a world where WWII dragged on until 1954
Les Johnson & Robert E. Hampson – Stellaris: Peopleof the Stars short fiction & factual pieces about what humans might have to do to reach the stars
art, etc:
David Bainbridge – How Zoologists Organise Things a history of the subject, with a huge number of illustrations from Antiquity onwards, in hardcover
magazines:
Interzone – # 288 cover by Warwick Fraser-Coombe
Black Static – issue # 76 cover by Richard Wagner
New Titles – w/e 12th September 2020
in hardcover:
Susanna Clarke – Piranesi the reviews all say ‘excellent, but nothing like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell‘
Andrea Stewart – The Bone Shard Daughter Lin is heir to an empire but must master old magic to restore her lost memory and claim her position…
Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Mexican Gothic dark fantasy set in 1950s Mexico from the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow
Terry Pratchett – The Time-travelling Caveman children’s book collecting 17 short stories, illustrated by Mark Beech
in ‘B’ format:
Carl Neville – Eminent Domain in an alternate timeline, the Communists won the Cold War in Europe and Britain is planning Games to celebrate 20 years of being a republic, but the celebration organiser dies suddenly and an investigator discovers hints of a vast conspiracy…
Maggie Tokuda-Hall – The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea the Lady Evelyn is travelling on her way to her unwelcome arranged marriage, only to discover that she’s taken passage on a pirate ship!
Christina Henry – The Ghost Tree Lauren doesn’t believe the police will find a brutal killer; her father was also killed the year before, and she’s had visions of a monster in the woods…
Paul Tremblay – Survivor Song a rabies-like virus is spreading quickly but two women must venture out to try to reach a hospital…
Jonathan Janz – The Raven 2 years after a genetic warfare attack mankind has regressed and ancient traits have become dominant
Hunter Shea – Misfits the Melonheads were just an urban myth – feral cannibals living in the woods on the edge of town…
M. John Harrison – Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970 – 2020 his choice of his best 17 short fictions from the past 5 decades!
Mike Ashley (editor) – Born of the Sun anthology from The British Library in their Science Fiction Classics series. Subtitled Adventures in Our Solar System, it features stories set on each of the planets
art, etc:
Frank Cho – The Art of FC: 20 Year Retrospective large hardback full of his art, probably 2/3rd in full colour
Andy Runton – Owly: Just a Little Blue new full-colour softcover edition of the 2nd volume. Great fun, and the various speech bubble heiroglyphs now also have the English meaning beside them.
magazines:
Heavy Metal – issue # 300 a big round number from this long-running magazine!
Hi-Fructose – volume # 56 includes a 16 page insert of art by Dave Cooper
Illustration – Issue Number Sixty-Eight featuring the art of Austin Briggs
Illustration – Issue Number Sixty-Nine with Robert O. Reid and his cover work for Colliers magazine, Nesya McMein & J. F. Kernan
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current shop hours are
Tues – Friday : 12.00 – 17.00
Saturday : 11.00 – 17.00
or by arrangement
New Titles – August/September
in hardcover:
Seanan McGuire – A Killing Frost the 14th October Daye adventure. Also includes a new novella called Shine in Pearl
Max Barry – Providence the crew in an advanced new warship fighting the aliens find that there’s nothing the ship’s AI wants them to do…
Jenn Lyons – Memory of Souls 3rd in her Chorus of Dragons series, which began with The Ruin of Kings
Lev Grossman – Silver Arrow Kate is given a magical steam train for her birthday! A children’s/YA title, but looks fun!
in large format:
Nancy Kress – Sea Change new novel from Tachyon Publications set in a grim, anti-science near future
Julliet Marillier – A Dance With Fate the 2nd of her Warrior Bards fantasy series; sequel to The Harp of Kings
Roger Zelazny – The Magic: Ten Tales by RZ 3 intoductions, 2 interviews and his best fiction from the 1960s, from October ’61 to October ’67, selected by Samuel R. Delany
Mike Resnick – The Hex is In linked short stories subtitled The Fast Life and Fantastic Times of Harry the Book
in ‘B’ format:
Nina Allan – The Dollmaker Andrew the dollmaker becomes penfriend to the strange, troubled Bramber, and creates a plan to save her!
Mercedes Lackey – Spy, Spy Again 3rd in her Family Spies series
Katy Rose Pool – As the Shadow Rises sequel to There Will Come a Darkness, and part 2 of the Age of Darkness series
Kassandra Montag – After the Flood in a now mainly underwater America, Myra & her daughter Pearl venture into the chaotic remnants of the world to seek her missing husband, who left with her other daughter years earlier…
Toshikazu Kawaguchi – Before the Coffee Gets Cold in an obscure little Japanese coffee shop, customers can travel back in time – but they can’t leave the cafe! Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Ttousselot
Richard Kadrey – Ballistic Kiss the latest Sandman Slim adventure
Claire L. Smith – Helena times are hard in Victorian London for mortician Helena Morrigan who is forced to move closer to the local graveyard, but that leads to problems with the ghosts, who also have problems!
Steve Frech – Nightingale House recent widower Daniel and his young daughter want a new start and move into an old house by a lake…
John Miller (editor) – Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain gothic horror from The British Library‘s Tales of the Weird series
A J Dalton – The Satanic in Science Fiction and Fantasy serious book about the subject from the author of The Sub-Genres of British Fantasy Literature
art, etc:
J. David Spurlock – Fantastic Paintings of Frank Frazetta large hardcover showcasing his art. Very nice edition. Also in stock is the deluxe limited edition in a slipcase with a 16 page bonus art portfolio.
Ashley Wood – Zawa, Zawa new 220+ page softcover of his art. Mainly in colour
Alexandro Jodorowsky & Moebius – The Incal new softcover edition of the classic bande desinee from Humanoids publishers
Magazines:
Locus – issue # 715 August cover date with the Locus Awards results
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current shop hours are
Tues – Friday : 12.00 – 17.00
Saturday : 11.00 – 17.00
or by arrangement
Late August New Titles
in hardback:
Adrian Tchaikovsky – The Doors of Eden are disappearances and sightings of monsters on the moors related to rumours of parallel worlds!?
Tamsyn Muir – Harrow the Ninth sequel to Gideon the Ninth. Limited stock
Linden A. Lewis – The First Sister she is bound to her ship but has a mission to accomplish which will test her severely…
Peter Newman – The Boundless the 3rd in his Deathless series of The Deathless & The Reckless
Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan – The Hollow Ones the 1st volume in The Blackwood Tapes
Stephen R. Lawhead – In the Land of the Everliving vol 2 of his Eirlandia Irish fantasy series
Stephen R. Lawhead – In the Kingdom of All Tomorrows vol 3 of his Eirlandia series
Joe R. Lansdale – Jane Goes North from Subterranean Press
Sarah Pinborough – Dead to Her mainstream thriller
Jonathan Strahan (editor) – The Book of Dragons 23 new tales & 6 new poems from 28 authors…
in ‘B’ format:
Mark Lawrtence – Holy Sister the 3rd Book of the Ancestor
Kevin Hearne – Ink & Sigil 1st in a new series, set in Scotland
Marie Brennan – Driftwood Last is a guide to the Driftwood, where everything finally ends up to die or fade away, and rumours say that he’s died…
R. D. Lemberg – The Four Profound Weaves 4 linked short tories, set in their Birdverse
A. J. Hackwith – The Library of the Unwritten Claire is newly in charge of the wing of Hell’s library where unfinished books are kept. Obviously, without an end to their stories, the characters in them are restless!
Lindsay Ellis – Axiom’s End Cora is forced by circumstances to become an interpreter for aliens who have been on Earth secretly for decades!
Gardner Dozois & Michael Swanwick – City Under the Stars the authors were working on an expansion of their novella, The City of God, when Dozois died. Swanwick has now completed the project.
Frances Hardinge – Deeplight Hark & Jeh scrounge a living, diving in search of relics of the Gods…
G. S. Denning – The Finality Problem the 5th of the Warlock Holmes books
Stephen Graham Jones – The Only Good Indians a Native American spirit is seeking revenge against four elk hunters…
Elizabeth Dearnley (editor) – Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales From the Weird City the latest in the Tales of the Weird series from The British Library.
in paperback:
C. J. Cherryh – Resurgence the 20th in her Foreigner series overall; the middle volume of the 7th trilogy.t
T. C. McCarthy – Tyger Burning Maung is one of a group of disgraced much-enhanced warriors and an alien invasion may be their chance for redemption!
Seanan McGuire – The Unkindest Tide the 13th October Daye book
Mercede Lackey & Rosemary Edghill – The Waters and the Wild subtitled ‘An Underhill Adventure‘. It’s been 17 years since their previous novel in the Bedlam’s Bard series…
Penguin Books have launched a new series of Penguin Classics: Science Fiction
Initial titles include
Andreas Eschbach – The Hair-Carpet Weavers
Angelica Gorodischer – Trafalgar
H. P. Lovecraft – The Colour Out of Space (3 novellas)
Robert Sheckley – Dimension of Miracles
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – One Billion Years to the End of the World (previously Definitely Maybe)
James Tiptree Jr. – 10,000 Light-Years From Home (collection)
Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle
Yevgeny Zamyatin – We
art, etc:
J. A. W. Cooper – The J.A.W. Cooper Genesis Collection mainly sketches with some finished pieces, a mix of b&w and colour. Softcover
Jeffrey Alan Love – The Mountain of Smoke: A JAL Sketchbook hardcover with b&w art somewhat reminiscent of Ian Miller
Tim Lane – Toybox Americana h/c with short strips, single page illos., etc. & observational text about all sorts of aspects of life during the previous century in America…
Trina Robbins – Flapper Queens: Women Cartoon Artists of the Jazz Age wonderful looking hardcover full of great colour art from the 1920s
Hugo Pratt – Mu: The Undiscovered Continent volume 12, the final Corto Maltese volume!
Osamu Tezuka – Wonder 3 fat manga (in English) about three aliens disguised as animals (a duck, a rabbit & a horse) observing humans to see if we are fit to join galactic society, or if the planet should be destroyed!
Transreal Fiction Opening Hours
Current opening hours are
Tuesday – Friday : Noon to 17.00
Saturday : 11.00 – 17.00
or by arrangement
August New Titles
Laura Lam & Elizabeth May – Seven Devils fast moving space opera as the resistance battles to save a vital peace conference from disruption. Signed copies will be available (but not quite yet; see previous post)
Eric Flint & Walter H. Hunt – 1636: The Atlantic Encounter the latest Ring of Fire/1632 adventure
Emily St.John Mandel – The Glass Hotel novel partially set at a remote hotel on Vancouver Island. A brother & sister simultaneously leave their employment there under very different circumstances… Her previous book was the excellent, award-winning Station Eleven
Zen Cho – The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water a ‘wuxia’ (martial arts) fantasy novella from Tor.
in Large Format:
Mary Robinette Kowal – The Relentless Moon the 3rd of her Lady Astronaut alternate history novels
Morgan Llywelyn– Inch By Inch sequel to Drop By Drop and Volume 2 in her Step By Step near-future sf series
Hank Davis & Christophe Ruocchio (editors) – Cosmic Corsairs 15 stories about space pirates, from Baen Books!
in ‘B’ format:
Elizabeth Bear – Worldwired 3rd in the Jenny Casey trilogy which began with Hammered & Scardown. Humanity’s first contact may just be it’s last!
in paperback:
Arkary & Boris Srtugaksky – One Billion Years to the End of the World a re-issue by Penguin of one of my favourite Strugatsky novels, previously published as Definitely Maybe by Collier back in 1978. It’s the same translation in both, by Antonina W. Bouis.
art, etc:
Titan Books – Alien: 40 Years 40 Artists large hardcover packed with all sorts of art from over the decades since the film first appeared. Also with a fascinating little Forward by (one of the original Alien film concept artists) Chris Foss. Very nice package altogether.
Pernille Ørum – Sparks… the Art of PØ hardcover full of her rather cartoon/retro looking figure work and details of her technique
3dtotal Publishing – Art Fundamentals 2nd edition subtitled Color, Light, Composition, Anatomy, Perspective, and Depth softcover
magazines:
Shoreline of Infinity – issue # 18 now more content than before! More pages! More words!
Character Design Quarterly – CDQ # 12
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Signed Copies of Seven Devils, by Lam & May
This offer is not available outside the UK
The best contact address is enquiries@transreal.co.uk
This first book in a feminist space opera duology follows seven resistance fighters who will free the galaxy from the ruthless Empire – or die trying. When Eris faked her death, she thought she had left her old life as the heir to the galaxy’s most ruthless empire behind. But her recruitment by the Novantaen Resistance, an organization opposed to the empire’s voracious expansion, throws her right back into the fray.
Eris has been assigned a new mission: to infiltrate a spaceship ferrying deadly cargo and return the intelligence gathered to the Resistance. But her partner for the mission, mechanic and hotshot pilot Cloelia, bears an old grudge against Eris, making an already difficult infiltration even more complicated. When they find the ship, they discover more than they bargained for: three fugitives with firsthand knowledge of the corrupt empire’s inner workings.
Together, these women possess the knowledge and capabilities to bring the empire to its knees. But the clock is ticking: the new heir to the empire plans to disrupt a peace summit with the only remaining alien empire, ensuring the empire’s continued expansion. If they can find a way to stop him, they will save the galaxy.
If they can’t, millions may die.
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Late July, 2020 New Titles
Back to 5-day a week opening! Tuesday to Saturday. Noon until Four. Longer hours soon! E-mail enquiries@transreal.co.uk to request private browsing outwith these core hours.
in hardcover:
Jim Butcher – Peace Talks the long-awaited 16th volume of The Dresden Files
S. A. Chakraborty – The Empire of Gold book 3 of the Daevabad Trilogy
Beth Cartwright – Feathertide Marea was born covered with feathers and, searching for her father, voyages to the city of Murmurs – a place of mystery & mermaids!
Jo Walton – Or What You Will a recurring character in a popular novelist’s work worries about his fate as the writer ages…
Lois McMaster Bujold – The Orphans of Raspey a novel length Penric story from Subterranean Press
in large format:
Tamsyn Muir – Gideon the Ninth a necromancer needs a swordswoman; Gideon has a sword but also no time for any of that ‘undead’ nonsense!
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky– Lame Fate Ugly Swans twin interwoven novels, the second of which is written as if by the protagonist of the first! Lame Fate is in English for the first time; Ugly Swans is a fresh new translation by Maya Vinokour, not the one from Collier in the 1970s
Gideon Marcus – Kitra staking her inheritance on an old salvaged spaceship, Kitra finds herself and her crew stranded with little hope of returning home…
R. S. Belcher – The Queen’s Road his life in ruins after Hurricane Harvey, Ray is entrusted with an interstellar quest by a dying alien…
Lilith Saintcrow – Hood: Season Two Robin Locke doesn’t want to be helped up but a childhood friend is in danger from his planet’s visiting overlords…
Anne & Jeff Vandermeer (editors) – The Big Book of Modern Fantasy 92 short stories, many of them from places other than the US & UK. A companion volume to last year’s The Big Book of Classic Fantasy
in ‘B’ format:
Tade Thompson – Making Wolf a store detective bigs up his career on a visit back to his home town in West Africa, and finds himself forced to investigate much more serious crimes…
Ian Douglas – Alien Secrets volume 1 of his new Solar Warden series, about a Navy SEAL picked to join a secret intersteller project being put together in conjunction with aliens
Nicholas Bowling – Alpha Omega the key person who might prevent a catastrophic plague is unreachable, deep in the levels of a huge on-line VR game
Hailey Edwards – End Game the 5th in the Foundling series, which began with Bayou Born
D. B. Jackson – Time’s Assassin 3rd volume of the Islevale Cycle, following on from Time’s Children & Time’s Demon
art, etc:
Bong Joon Ho – Parasite: A Graphic Novel in Storyboards the full 2020 Oscar winning film storyboarded with script and shooting directions alongside the (mainly) b&w shetches
Guillaume Perreault – The Postman From Space humorous colour graphic novel about a postman; text translated by Francoise Bui. Great fun!
Jacques Lob & Jean-Marc Rochette Snowpiercer 1: The Escape the original graphic novel, now in softcover. b&w
Fleetway Picture Library Classics – Air War Stories with 4 b&w strips by Ferdinando Tacconi from the 1950s & 60s
Fleetway Picture Library Classics – John Steel 4 thrilling adventures from the early 1960s, with art by Luis Bermejo & Reg Bunn
Nathan W. Pyle – Strange Planet little h/c with 4-panel cartoons of aliens mis-describing human activities! Good fun.
Nathan W. Pyle – Stranger Planet more of the same good fun!
Meredith Finch, Renae de Liz (art) & Ray Dillon (art) – George MacDonald‘s The Light Princess complete graphic novel of the classic Victorian children’s story
magazines:
Illustrators – Issue Twenty-Nine with articles on Charles Adams & Lawson Wood, among others
Illustrators – Pirates: Special Issue # 7 including art by Howard Pyle
Heavy Metal – issue # 299: Mythical Worlds Special edition
Jesse Lonargan – Hedra textless colour sf graphic novel from Image
Locus – issue #714 July cover date with interviews/articles on Steven Erikson & Veronica Roth with Locus,Award & Nebula Award winners
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Mid-July New Titles
in hardcover:
M. John Harrison – The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again a new novel!
Martha Wells – Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel the previous novellas are also all in stock
Grady Hendrix – The Southern Bookclub’s Guide to Slaying Vampires looks good fun!
Kim Harrison – American Dream the 15th Rachel Morgan novel, as she returns to The Hollows
Charles E. Gannon – At the End of the World set in the South Atlantic as a yacht crew make for the dubious safety of South Georgia, set in John Ringo‘s Black Tide Rising background
in large format:
Ken MacLeod – Selkie Summer short novel set on Skye from Newcon Press
Nnedi Okorafor – Binti: The Complete Trilogy comprising of the novellas Binti, Binti: Home & Binti: The Night Masquerade plus the short story/novelette Binti: Sacred Fire
Delilah S. Dawson & Kevin Hearne – The Princess Beard the 3rd of their Tales of Pell
Jo Walton – Lent
Yahtzee Croshaw – Differently Morphous the Ministry of Occultism is forced to become public in it’s efforts to protect Britain from magic
in ‘B’ format:
Ry Herman – Love Bites Angela meets Chloe and discovers she can only come out at night. Local author; signed copies now available!
Shaun Hamill – A Cosmology of Monsters Noah’s father Harry is obsessed with building a Haunted House, which becomes only too real…
Madeline Ashby – ReV vol 3 of The Machine Dynasty. I’ve had this title on order since October 2015! The previous books in the series were vN & iD. Post-human intelligences road the internet…
Ted Chiang – Exhalation his new collection of short stories
paperback:
Eric Flint – 1637: The Polish Maelstrom the latest in the long-running 1632/Ring of Fire alternate history series
Michelle West – Firstborn the 7th in her Housewar series
art, etc:|
Laurent Durieux – Mirages: The Art of LD big full colour hardcover loaded with dozens of his prints and posters
Spoke Art Gallery – My Neighbor Hayao Miyazaki hardcover with art inspired by the films of Studio Ghibli creator Miyazaki
Carl Buziak – Creating Celtic Animal Designs from basic shapes to complex designs; the author is an expert on Celtic knotwork & art…
John Garth – The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien subtitled The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth heavily illustrated hardcover with lots on info on all sorts of geographical locations, pieces of art and historical items which Tolkien may have been inspired or influenced by. Looks very interesting.
Note: The is very different from the recent The Illiustrated World of Tolkien by David Day. Same size though!
audio:
Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities an mp3-cd of his classic book, read by John Lee
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Open Again (Briefly)
Transreal Fiction will be open for a few hours on Tuesday 14th July from about 14.00 (after a non-essential appointment at my GP’s) until about 17.00 or so – later if I have a customer! 😉
Maximum of 3 customers in the shop at any one time. Sanitiser by the door as you come in. I’ll be wearing a mask or a visor and there’s also a protective screen on the counter.
My partner is on the ‘shelter in place’ register so I’m taking things slower than I might otherwise.
Opening hours will be brief this week but should include 11.00 until 16.00 on Friday.
Next week I hope to open noon until four on Tuesday through Saturday.
All times subject to change.
