New Titles – w/e 17th August 2019
in hardcover:
Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Gods of Jade and Shadow in the 1920s, having inadvertantly freed an ancient Mayan death-god, Casiopea embarks on a trek deep into the Mexican jungles with it to try to achieve her dreams…
in large format:
Rudyard Kipling – With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. featuring the Aerial Board of Control for world-wide air traffic, which is becoming a de-facto World Government as it controls trade… Originally from 1905, although this version is the 1909 text.
in ‘B’ format:
Andrew Skinner – Steel Frame Root’s own mecha fighting robot has been destroyed and she’s assigned another one, almost ready for the junk yard, but there’s a mission to carry out on the edge of Human space…
Marie Brennan – Turning Darkness Into Light the 6th of her Natural History of Dragons series, which began with A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent
Octavia E. Butler – Parable of the Sower re-issue, along with companion volume Parable of the Talents (which should have come in as well, but a box has gone missing… )
JG Faherty – Hellrider the psychotic ghost of a murdered biker… From Flame Tree Press
Jonathan Janz – The Darkest Lullaby Chris and his wife inherit an old house with an evil reputation… published by Flame Tree Press
Yvonne Howell (editor) – Red Star Tales anthology of 18 stories from ‘A Century of Rusian & Soviet Science Fiction‘. Stories appear to date from 1892 to 1992
in paperback:
Karen Chance – Brave the Tempest the 9th Cassie Palmer adventure
art, etc:
John Aroudi (editor) – From Hell’s Heart full colour hardcover with dozens of current artists each illustrating a quote from across Herman Melville‘s oeuvre; Moby Dick, Bartleby, Typee, White Jacket, and others…
Cathy & Arnie Fenner (editors) – Spectrum 11 in softcover and hardback
Cathy & Arnie Fenner (editors) – Spectrum 19 in hardback. Both editions available again for a short time. I should have had other back volumes (5, 9 & 20) but my order was cancelled… Spectrum 26 (this year’s volume) is due in mid/late November
3DTotal Publishing – Creating Characters for the Entertainment Industry 300 pages of detailed info, from initial concept presentation to the final product. Full colour softcover
J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets illustrated edition of Volume Two with art by Jim Kay. Now out in softcover
magazines:
Heavy Metal – issue # 294 Industrial Special edition. 2 different covers
Hi-Fructose – volume 52 with 16 page Jim Woodring b&w insert!
Illustration – Number Sixty Five featuring large articles on Aiden Lassell Ripley, Ollie Harrington & Coles Phillips
Locus – issue # 703 with William Gibson
New Titles – w/e 10th August 2019
in hardcover:
Lois McMaster Bujold – The Flowers of Vashon the latest novella from Subterranean Prss, featuring Lady Vorkosigan
in large format:
Mike Shackle – We Are the Dead Tinnstra deserted the army as the Egril defeated her people decisively using dreadful magic. Now she has to prove herself… Book 1 of The Last War
Breanna Teirntze – Lord of Secrets an outlawed wizard saves a runaway slave but they both end up in prison…
Lord Dunsany –Tales of Three Hemispheres 14 of his best short stories, with small b&w illustrations by Tim Kirk (taken from the earlier Owlswick edition) Also includes Idle Days on the Yann
Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng (editors) – The Sea is Ours anthology of a dozen Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia
Karen Lord (editor) – New Worlds, Old Ways anthology of 11 stories subtitled Speculative Tales From the Carribean
in ‘B’ format:
Adam Roberts – By the Pricking of Her Thumbs P.I. Alma, from The Real Town Murders, is investigating a murder, although she’s not sure whose, when an obsessive Stanley Kubrick fan kidnaps her…
Stephen Aryan – Magebane volume 3 of his Age of Dread trilogy. which began with Mageborn & Magefall
Micah Yongo – Pale Kings sequel to Lost Gods, set in the Five Lands
Stanislaw Lem – Tales of Pirx the Pilot collection of 5 stories, which form the tale of a space pilot’s career. First issued in English in 1979. Translation by Louis Iribarne
Ian MacPherson – Wild Harbour a couple flee to the remote Highlands to escape the encroaching war… Novel from 1936, re-issued by The British Library
in paperback:
Edward Willett – Worldshaper 1st volume of the Worldshapers series. Shawna is a potter, reluctantly drawn into a weird mission to use her skills to help mend the flaws in other, alternate worlds…
magazines:
restock of available issues of both Graphite and CDQ: Character Design Quarterly
New Titles – w/e 3rd August 2019
in hardcover:
D. K. Friends – Widow’s Welcome investigating a curious murder Cora finds herself sucked into the murky politics surrounding the up-coming election. Book 1 of the Tales of Fenest, set in a world where stories have power…
in large format:
Strefan Spjut – Trolls sequel to 2015’s Stallo, set deep in the Norwegian forests a decade later…
Cherie Priest – The Toll two honeymooners drive across an unmapped bridge in the Florida swamps…
Glen Cook – Chronicles of the Black Company omnibus edition of the 1st three novels in the series: The Black Company, Shadows Linger & The White Rose. Back in stock after a long break!
Darran Anderson – Imaginary Cities new edition at last! Non-fiction
in ‘B’ format:
Jy Yang – The Ascent to Godhood the 4th in the Tensorate series
Robert Jackson Bennett – Foundryside in the city of Tavanne escaped slave Sancia is persuaded to try to steal an ancient artifact…
Brian Ruckley – The Free stand alone fantasy novel back in stock. A band of mecenaries take one last job…
in paperback:
Eric Flint – Worlds 2 collection which includes a short Ring of Fire novel (The Austro-Hungarian Connection), a short novel (Fanatic) set in David Weber‘s Honor Harrington universe, some short pieces from The Grantville Gazette and 7 other stories
Michael Z. Williamson – Tide of Battle collection of short tories and essays
Kevin J. Anderson & Sarah J. Hoyt – Uncharted magical, alternate history version of the Lewis & Clark expedition the Arcane Territories
Greg Weisman – Ravnica 1st volume of War of the Spark, the first new Magic: The Gathering novel for many years!
art, etc:
Pie Internatonal – Retrospective Scenes From a Sentimental World matching volume to Beautiful Scenes From a Fantasy World & Everyday Scenes From a Parallel World. All are full colour softcovers with glossy wrap-around dustjackets. Various artists.
William Gibson – Alien 3 graphic novel of his unused script for the 3rd film in the Alien franchise. adapted by Johnnie Christmas & Tamra Bonvillain
Enki Bilal – Monster big new hardcover from Titan Books collecting the whole Monster tetralogy of The Dormant Beast, December 32, Rendez-vous in Paris & Four? in English for the first time.
Phillippe Thirault & Jorge Miguel – Shanghai Dream a pair of aspiring film-makers flee Germany in 1938 and end up in China… Full colour softcover from Humanoids
Ben Katchor – Conversations collection of interviews about his art spanning his career
New Titles – w/e 27th July 2019
in hardcover:
Andrew Caldecott – Lost Acre the 3rd volume of his Rotherweird trilogy, with b&w illustrations by Sasha Laika
Blake Crouch – Recursion people are waking up and finding their memories are all different…
Alexander Dan Vilhjalmsson – Shadows of the Short Days fantasy novel set in Reykjavik
Terry Goodkind – Hateful Things the 2nd novella in The Children of D’Hara series, which is set in the world of The Sword of Truth
Mark Saward – Resurrection of the Daleks the latest Doctor Who novella
in large format:
Aliette de Bodard – The House of Sundering Flames 3rd in the series which began with The House of Shattered Wings
Max Gladstone – Empress of Forever a billionaire entrepreneur finds herself fighting for survival at the end of time
Andy Duncan – An Agent of Utopia collection of ‘a dozen new and selected’ stories
Vandana Singh – Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories collection of 14 short stories
Neil Clarke (editor) – The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four 29 top stories from 2018
in ‘B’ format:
David Wellington – The Last Astronaut the sole astronaut still alive leads a team to investigate a strange, alien object which has taken up station around Earth…
Lee Fonda – Jade War sequel to Jade City, and the 2nd in her Green Bone Saga about controlling the magical jade trade
Muriel Jaeger – The Question Mark 1925 dystopian novel featuring a man displaced 200 years into the future
Emily Tesh – Silver in the Woods a solitary man lives in a cottage deep in the woods with his cat and his dryads…
Hailey Edwards – Bayou Born a young girl is rescued from the swamps but has no memories and apparently no traceable past…
Elizabeth Bear – Sanction sequel to Pinion and previously published as Chill. 2nd in her Jacob’s Ladder trilogy. Set on a giant, damaged generation starship, the original titles were Dust, Chill & Grail but now the books have been re-titled Pinion, Sanction & Cleave
Steven Erikson – The Second Collected Tales of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach includes The Wurms of Blearmouth, Crack’d Pot Trail & The Fiends of Nightmaria
Jodi Taylor– Long Story Short collection of 8 tales set in the world of her Chronicles of St. Mary’s time travel research institute background
Alan Garner – Where Shall We Run To? childhood autobiography
in paperback:
Gareth L. Powell – About Writing advice and ideas
Jorge Luis Borges – The Garden of Forking Paths small edition of 5 of his short stories – only £1.00; I also already stock matching volumes by Italo Calvino & Stanislaw Lem
New Titles – w/e 20th July 2019
in hardcover:
Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar – This is How You Lose the Time War two rival time travellers start to fall in love…
Neal Stephenson – Atmosphaera Incognito novella about the construction of a 20 kilometre high skyscraper! Smart looking limited edition from Subterranean Press
in large format:
Rebecca Roanhorse – Trail of Lightning 1st book in her Sixth World post apocalyptic series drawing on Native American lore.
Christopher Ruocchio – Howling Dark 2nd volume of his epic science fantasy Sun Eater series, following on from Empire of Silence.
Brian Stableford – The Cthulhu Encryption: A Romance of Piracy sea-going Lovecraftian adventure!
David Lindsay – A Voyage to Arcturus back in stock after a long break!
Neal Clarke – The Eagle has Landed subtitled 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction 2 dozen moon-centric stories from the best in the field!
David Gullen (editor) – Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales anthology of 17 stories, including work by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Liz Williams & Neil Williamson
Philip K. Dick – The Exegesis of PKD back in after a long break!
Paul Magrs – The Novel Inside You his guide to writing and living!
in ‘B’ format:
Lois H. Gresch – The Adventure of the Innsmouth Mutations the 3rd in her Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu series
Heather Kassner – The Bone Garden Irreele fears that she’s not quite real, but she is only made of dustand bone and imagination!
Jonathan Janz – Castle of Sorrows seeking inspiration for a film score, a composer visits a haunted Californian island…
Tim Waggoner – They Kill a mysterious man revives her dead brother, but to make it permanent Sierra may have to pay a heavy cost…
Tade Thompson – The Murders of Molly Southbourne horror novella
magazines:
Interzone – issue # 282
Black Static – issue # 70
art, etc:
Ami Chopine – 3D Art Essentials subtitled The Fundamentals of 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Animation, from Focal Press
New Titles – w/e 13th July 2019
Neal Stephenson – Fall or, Dodge in Hell sequel to Reamde. Following an accident, a gaming billionaire’s mind is preserved until medical advances allow it to be re-awakened, but into a very different world…
Baoshu – Redemption of Time novel set in the world of The Three Body Problem, by Xixin Liu
Alyson Rudd – The First Time Lauren Pailing Died a young girl keeps dying, but each itteration alters reality for everyone surrounding her…
Christopher Priest – Episodes short story collection with 11 stories spanning his career
David C. Weinczok – The History Behind the Game of Thrones serious look as similarities between real Scottish history and the in-series history in the George R. R. Martin epic! Comes with free poster on heavy stock
in large format:
Tanya Huff – The Complete Smoke Trilogy comprising Smoke and Shadows, Smoke and Mirrors & Smoke and Ashes, from 2004 – 2006. Described as ‘Novels of Vampires, Wizards and TV Terror’
Paul G. Brand & Craig A. Hart – A Stark and Stormy Night fun parody of gumshoe P.I. pulp stories…
in ‘B’ format:
Angela Slatter – Restoration the 3rd in her Verity Fassbinder urban fantasy series, which began with Vigil and then Corpselight
Joanne Harris – The Testament of Loki sequel to The Gospel of Loki
Suyi Davies Okungbowa – David Mogo: Godhunter Lagos is in chaos as all the old gods return but David Mogo has a job to do…
Ausma Zehanat Khan – The Black Khan sequel to The Bloodprint; volume 2 of the Khorasan Archives
Mimi Yu – The Girl King abruptly cut out of the line of succession to the throne, the emperor’s daughter seeks help from a shapeshifter…
Nick Setchfield – The Spider Dance Cold War thriller, with added demons!
Morgan Llywelyn – Drop by Drop disaster novel in which all plastic worldwide starts to decay and melt…
Kim Newman – Beasts in Velvet reprint of a 1993 ‘Jack Yeovil‘ Vampire Genevieve short story collection from Warhammer Horror
Kim Newman – Silver Nails reprint of a 2002 ‘Jack Yeovil’ Vampire Genevieve novel from Warhammer Horror
Warhammer 40,000 – Apocalypse a Space Marine Conquests novel by Josh Reynolds
in paperback:
Sean Grigsby – Ash Kickers sequel to Smoke Eaters
art, etc:
Jack Yerka & Harlan Ellison – Mind Fields back in stock after several years! Single page stories matched with surreal art. Hardcover
Robin Hobb & Manuel Preitano – Fitz and the Fool Coloring Book with all your favourites from across the Six Dutchies!
magazines:
Locus – issue # 702 cover date July 2019 Locus Award winners, the Nebula Conference and the Locus Poll results
New Titles – w/e 6th July 2019
in hardcover:
Ed McDonald – Crowfall the 3rd book of The Raven’s Mark
Wayne Barlow – The Heart of Hell the Underworld is in disarray and Lilith, Beelzebub’s original Consort, is busy scheming… Sequel to 2007’s God’s Demon
Ted Chiang – Exhalation new short story collection
in large format:
Lilith Saintcrow – Harmony Val & her father visit a commune called Harmony House but gradually they learn it’s secrets…
Diana Pharaoh Francis – The Witchkin Murders book 1 of Magicfall. Some years after the return of Wild Magic to the world, an ex-P.I. scavenging for trade goods can’t help starting to investigate a murder…
Ann Vandermeer & Jeff Vandermeer (editors) – The Big Book of Classic Fantasy 80 short stories, of which the most recent is from 1945 (I think). Text is double column.
Stephen L. Gillett – World-Building in stock again after several years! The strap line reads ‘A writer’s guide to constructing star systems and life-supporting planets‘
in ‘B’ format:
Jasper fforde – Early Riser sf story featuring the maintainance crew of a ‘deep-sleep’ spaceship
Catheynine M. Valente – Space Opera to join the galactic community, Earth must take part in a talent contest…
Mercedes Lackey – Eye Spy 2nd book in her Family Spies series, set in Valdemar
Richard Kadrey – The Grand Dark fantastical novel set in a decadent, post-war metopolis…
New Titles – w/e 29th June 2019
in hardcover:
Michael Swanwick – The Iron Dragon’s Mother sequel to 1993’s Iron Dragon’s Daughter (although there was also The Dragons of Babel back in 2008)
Leo Carew – Spider sequel to The Wolf. 2nd in his Under the Northern Sky series
Tom Lloyd – Knight of Stars volume 4 of The God Fragments series
Michael Sullivan – Age of Legends 3rd in The Legends of the First Empire series
Ursula K. LeGuin – A Wizard of Earthsea new edition; the rest of the series should follow in h/c in due course. With 1 colour plate & several b&w illos by Charles Vess
David Morrell – Before I Awake limited edition from Subterranean Press
n large format:
David Gerrold – Ganny Knits a Spaceship discovering that her way-station in the Asteroid Belt will soon be rendered redundant, the owner comes up with an unexpected solution!
Algernon Blackwood – The Willows, The Wendigo, And Other Stories subtitled The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of AB. 20 of his best from Oldstyle Tales Press
Arthur Machen – The Great God Pan, The White People, & Other Horrors subtitled The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of AM. 13 of his best from Oldstyle Tales Press
Also in stock at the moment from Oldstyle Tales Press are their Robert W. Chambers, William Hope Hodgson, Edith Nesbit & Fitz-James O’Brian collections! It’s a great series of uniform editions of classic horror & weird authors…
in ‘B’ format:
Paul Tremblay – Growing Things and Other Stories horror collection of 19 stories
Octavia E. Butler – Bloodchild and Other Stories missed this completely, but I have it now! 7 short stories & 2 essays
Rudy Rucker – Jim and the Flims Jim inadvertently allows some strange aliens to invade the Earth through a quantum portal…
Rudy Rucker – Spacetime Donuts reprint of the 1st of his books that read.! Circular scale. Great fun!
Josh Reynolds – Soul Wars a Warhammer: Age of Sigmar adventure
in paperback:
L. E. Modesitt, jr. – Outcasts of Order the 20th in his Saga of Recluse and a direct sequel to The Mongrel Mage
art, etc:
Michael Kogge – Game of Thrones: The Storyboards b&w storyboard sketches for scenes from the first 7 series of the epic fantasy production. Slip-cased hardcover
3DTotal Publishing – Cozy Days : The Art of Iraville the art of, and tips from, the artist Ira Sluyterman van Langeweyde, aka Iraville. Hardcover in a cardboard slip-case
Asia Ladowska – Sketch With Asia tips & tutorials for manga inspired art. Hardcover from 3DTotal Publishing
Frank Frazetta – Telling Stories: The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta complete, full colour strips from his early career. Hardcover in a slipcase. 2008 publication, at a much reduced price!
Cathy Fenner (editor) – Women of Wonder: Celebrating Women Creators of fantastic Art highlighting dozens of female artists, full colour softcover, with some text about each artist. First published by Underwood Books 2015
Artie & Kathy Fenner (editors) – Strange Days: Aliens, Adventurers, Devils and Dames 30 full colour, outsize reproductions of clasic pulp illustrations. Includes work by Margaret Brundage, Hannes Bok & Virgil Finlay. First published by Underwood Books in 2009
Underwood Books – Savage Art hardcover of classic pulp art. Initially published in 2010
Underwood Books – Shameless Art companion hardcover of classic pulp art. Initially published in 2010
Patrick Wirbeleit & Ulwe Heidschotter – Box small, full-colour graphic novel about the fun to be had with a strange cardboard box!
H. P. Lovecraft & Gou Tanabe – At the Mountains of Madness: The First Volume square-bound manga style adaptation of the classic horror story. B&W, with 4 pages of colour. AtMoM: The Second Volume, with the rest of the tale, should be available in August/September
New Titles – w/e 22nd June 2019
in hardcover:
Sarah Gailey – Magic for Liars Ivy is a struggling P.I. and takes a case investigating a murder at a reclusive Academy for Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister is a teacher…
Sam Hawke – City of Lies the 1st Poison War novel. Jovan only appears to be an irresponsible heir; he’s actually trained to detect poisons and protect the rest of the ruling family…
Simon R. Green – Till Sudden Death Do Us Part the latest Ishmael Jones mystery
Peter Newman – Ruthless sequel to The Deathless
in large format:
Rhys Williams & Mark Bould (editors) – M. John Harrison: Critical Essays 14 (inc. the intro) serious essays about one of the most interesting UK f&sf authors
in ‘B’ format:
Yoon Ha Lee – Hexarchonate Stories 21 short stories set in the Machineries of Empire background, where the Ninefox Gambit books were set
Jackson Ford – The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind Teagan is the only telepath the government is aware of but now someone’s been murdered in such a way that it looks like only she could have done it!
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch – Darkwood Gretel Mudd is forced to flee into the nearby forest, where she meets various strange characters, but her knowledge of maths may help!
Christina Henry – The Girl in Red post-Apocalyptic take on a classic fairy tale…
Rena Rossner – Sisters of the Winter Wood in a remote village in the Ukranian forest two sisters discover that the old fairy tales may be true after all, and that this knowledge might save them!
Jonathan Barnes – Cannonbridge in the 21st C, somebody realises that a flamboyant, ubiquitous character mentioned in popular culture and in all the history books about the 19thC maybe never existed!
Alexis Hall – The Affair of the Mysterious Letter returning from an inter-dimensional war, Captain Wyndham takes rooms at 221b Martyr’s Walk and meets Sheharazed Haas, a consulting sorceress with a dark reputation…
John Eversdon – The Devil’s Equinox
Jonathan Janz – Dust Devils
Andrew Smith – Moon Dust up-to-date biographies of the surviving astronauts who walked on the Moon, based on interviews, etc. with them all.
SF Masterworks from Orion which I’ve not had in for some time:
Greg Bear – Blood Music classic cyberpunk from 1985!
Colin Greenland – Take Back Plenty BSFA & Clarke Award winner from 1990
magazines:
Locus – issue # 701 with Michael Blumlein, Kaaron Warren, Stokercon & the Nebula Awards winners highlighted on the cover
Opening Times for Transreal Fiction
Short term:
Transreal Fiction will be closing today by 16.30 at the latest – I have a train to catch! – and won’t re-open until 11.00 on Thursday morning (the 20th) Sorry for any inconvenience this causes.
Longer term:
I’ve resumed opening on Mondays again (except this Monday, obviously) and intend to continue being open 6 days a week until the end of the year. After that, I’ll be taking Mondays off again.
