New Titles – w/e 18th May 2019
in hardcover:
Sebastien D. Castell – Queenslayer the 5th in the Spellslinger series
in large format:
Jen Williams – The Poison Song final book in her Winnowing Flame trilogy, which began with The Ninth Rain
Tanith Lee – Strindberg’s Ghost Sonata 20 previously uncollected short stories including 2 Flat Earth tales. Intro by Storm Constantine
in ‘B’ format:
Naomi Novik – Spinning Silver Miryem is the best at spinning that anybody knows… Update of Rumplestiltskin
Brian Catling – Cloven 3rd part of his Vorrh trilogy
Syd Moore – Strange Tombs the latest Essex Witch Museum Mystery
Johanna Sinisalo (editor) – The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy stories from 1870 up until 2001. First published 2005
art, etc:
Hirochi Unno – The Art of Fantasy, Scifi and Steampunk nice looking book with some great illustrations. Text in Japanese.
magazines:
Interzone – issue # 281
Black Static – issue # 69
Locus – May cover date, issue # 700! Includes appreciations of the late Gene Wolfe. I’ve probably been reading it for something like 520 issues, since it was an 8(?) page fanzine…
British Library Anthologies
The British Library have recently been publishing a lot of re-print anthologies, with some often obscure stories included.
Present stock includes:
Science Fiction Classics
Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures
Lost Mars: The Golden Age of th Red Planet
The End of the World and Other Catastrophes
Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction
Tales of the Weird
Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings
Glimpses of thr Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories
From the Depths: And Other Strange Tales From the Sea
Mortal Echoes: Encounters With the End
The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways
Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy
Wiliam Hope Hodgson – The Weird Tales of WHH
Lost in a Pyramid: & Other Classic Mummy Stories
The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories
Silver Bullets: Classic Werewolf Stories
Walter De La Mare – Out of the Deep And Other Supernatural Tales
cover art on the Tales of the Weird titles is by Paraguayan artist Enrique Bernadou
New Titles – w/e 11th May 2019
in hardcover:
Adrian Tchaikovsky – Children of Ruin sequel to the award winning Children of Time
David Weber & Jacob Holo –The Gordian Protocol alternate realities and time travel!
Guy Gavriel Kay – A Brightness Long Ago his latest fantasy seems to be set in a version of medieval Italy and his version of Constantinople, Sarantium!
Stephanie Garber – Finale the 3rd part of her Caraval trilogy
Seanan McGuire – Middlegame the Alchemical Congress are scheming to take control…
Scarlett Thomas – Galloglass the 3rd in her Worldquake series
Lewis Shiner – Outside the Gates of Eden hefty mainstream novel about the 60s generation… Signed & numbered edition from Subterranean Press
in large format:
S. M. Stirling – Theater of Spies sequel to Black Chamber and the 2nd in his alternate WWI series
Lara Elena Donnelly – Amnesty the 3rd Amberlough Dossier
P. C. Hodgell – By Demons Possessed the 6th Kencyrath Chronicle
in ‘B’ format:
D. B. Jackson – Time’s Demon part 2 of his Islevale Cycle; the sequel to Time’s Children
G. S. Denning – Warlock Holmes: The Sign of Nine 4th in the series
James Brogden – The Plague Stones Trish moves to an old cottage in the country which happens to have some standing stones near the back door…
S. A. Harris – Haverscroft modern haunted house chiller. Um, the house isn’t modern!
Mike Ashley (editor) – Doorway to Dilemma short stories from The British Library Tales of the Weird imprint
in paperback:
Rudy Rucker – Million Mile Road Trip – 3 teenagers find themselves on the wrong side of a transdimensional connection with a long way to go to get back…
Rudy Rucker – The Big Aha – all pervasive future biotech and quantum wetware!
Taylor Anderson – River of Bones the 13th Destroyermen adventure
Alan Dean Foster – Strange Music the 15th Pip & Flinx adventure, received very late!
Catherine Asaro – The Bronze Skies sequel to Undercity and part of her Skolian Empire series
Ilona Andrews – Magic Triumphs the 10th Kate Daniels novel. Premier format
Clive Cussler & Robin Burcell – The Grey Ghost the 10th Fargo case, and the 3rd with Burcell as co-writer. Premier format
art, etc:
Pierre Wazem & Antoine Aubin – Snow Day b&w softcover graphic novel from Humanoids in which a new Sheriff has to solve a crime in a winter-bound town…
D–P.Filippi, J. Etienne & Silvio Camboni – Gregory and the Gargoyles h/c graphic novel about a kid who stays opposite an old church…
Tony Sandoval –The Windy Day h/c about a young girl who wants to fly a kite but is afraid of the goblins she sees on her route
Pepe Sanchez – PicoPico Adventures colourful children’s fantasy adventure
magazines:
Hi-Fructose – issue # 51 with 16 poage insert of the art of Brandi Milne
Heavy Metal – issue # 293
New Titles – w/e 4th May 2019
in hardcover:
Tad Williams – Empire of Grass volume 2 of his series The Last King of Osten Ard. Vol 1 was The Witchwood Crown and the whole trilogy is a sequel to the epic Memory, Sorrow & Thorn set.
in large format:
Rachel Armstrong (writer/editor) – Star Ark non fiction. 500 pages analysing what ‘a living, self-sustaining spaceship‘ (A generation starship) might require and how it would operate. Part 1 describes what it might look like and how it might function; part 2 is an anthology of related topics by various experts.
in ‘B’ format:
Chris Wooding – The Ember Blade the 1st volume of The Darkwater Legacy. The blade might be the key to overthrowing the tyrants and changing the system!
Peter Newman – The Deathless the immortal royal families live within floating palaces while the rest of humanity live beside the great Godroads, in fear of the dangers beyond…
Anna Kashina – Shadowblade a young swordswoman must impersonate a threatened princess…
Lucy Booth – The Life of Death to avoid being burnt at the stake in 1590, Elizabeth must take on the role of Death but now she’s desperate to find a way out of her pact…
Stewart Hotston – Tangle’s Game yesterday Amanda had the perfect life, today she’s an enemy of the all-encompassing System…
Tim Major – Snakeskins Caitlin battles to prevent the new science of rejuvenation from creating a government who will never cede power…
Thea Lim – An Ocean of Minutes Frank is dying and to fund his cure Polly agrees to time-travel to the near future. But when she arrives Frank is nowhere to be found…
Jodi Taylor – Hope for the Best the 10th in The Chronicles of St. Mary’s time travel series
R. A. Lafferty – Three Great Novels omnibus of of late 1960s books Space Chantey, Past Master & Fourth Mansions. Not sure that Space Chantey counts as great, but it is fun!
R. A. Lafferty – The Best of RAL great collection with 22 of his best short stories. Each has an intro by the likes of Swanwick, Willis, Scalzi, Gaiman and others… In Orion‘s SF Masterworks series
Arthur C. Clarke – Against the Fall of Night short novel from 1953, later re-written and expanded to become The City and the Stars. A Golden Age Masterwork from Orion
Andy Clark – First Mark the 2nd Blacktalon adventure set in the Warhammer series Age of Sigmar
in paperback:
Steve White & Charles E. Gannon – Oblivion the latet in the Starfire series, which began back in with the David Weber & Steve White collaboration Insurrection back in 1990!
art, etc:
3dtotal Publishing – Sketching From the Imagination: Creatures and Monsters the latest in their series of instructive volumes
Neil Gaiman & Divya Srinivasan (illustrator) – Cinamon children’s picture book about a tiger
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
