New Titles – w/e 27th May 2017
in hardcover:
Cixin Liu – The Wandering Earth short story collection. 10 stories, 5 of which have won awards!
in large format:
Tobias S. Buckell – Apocalypse Ocean the 4th volume of his Xenowealth sf series
Tobias S. Buckell – Xenowealth: A Collection 9 stories and an afterward about the background to the series
Hunter Shea – Swamp Monster Massacre set in the Florida Everglades
Laird Barron – X’s for Eyes strange pulp horror novel about rich twins whose father is a super-villain!
Mike Davis (editor) – Autumn Cthulhu 19 new short stories
in ‘B’ format:
D. Nolan Clark – Forgotten Worlds sequel to Forsaken Skies and part 2 of The Silence series. The alien armada has been defeated but there’s still more to do…
Ken Liu – The Wall of Storms volume 2 of his Dandelion Dynasty epic fantasy series, and sequel to The Grace of Kings
gift, etc:
Harry Potter – Talking Sorting Hat & Sticker Book little battery powered plastic hat which randomly announces one of the Hogwarts House names when a button is pressed…
New Titles – w/e 13th May 2017
In hardback:
Robin Hobb – Assassin’s Fate the 16th novel in her epic tale that began 4 trilogies and a quartet ago with Assassin’s Apprentice! Book 3 of Fitz and the Fool.
Jacqueline Carey – Miranda and Caliban novel featuring the two characters from The Tempest
Peter S. Beagle – In Calabria Claudio lives quietly in southern Italy but wakes up one morning to find a unicorn outside…
Adrian Tchaikovsky – A Time for Grief another collection of Tales of the Apt. Also in softcover
in large format:
Jenna Rhodes – The Queen of Storm and Shadow the 4th in her Elven Ways series
Rachel Vincent – Menagerie Delilah is an unwilling member of a travelling show with a menagerie of strange creatures… 1st in a new series
Neil Williamson – The Memoirist near-future novella from NewCon Press
Adrian Tchaikovsky – A Time for Grief another collection of Tales of the Apt. Also in hardcover
Lauren Beukes – Slipping subtitled Stories, Essays & Other Writing
in ‘B’ format:
Charles Stross – The Nightmare Stacks the 7th of The Laundry Files. Signed copies should be available soon…
Cixin Liu – Death’s End the final part of the trilogy that began with the award winning The Three-Body Problem. Translated by Ken Liu
James Islington – The Shadow of What Was Lost book 1 of The Licanius Trilogy. New epic fantasy
Seanan Maguire – Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day Jenna is a ghost, but only she can save the other ghosts of New York…
Andrew Beasley – The Mummy’s Revenge in Edinburgh’s Old Town a 3,000 year old mummy is prowling about… Book 1 in the SCREAM series for younger readers – Billy & Charley are investigators for S.C.RE.A.M. Supernatural Crimes, Rescues, Emergencies And Mysteries
Yako Kitanous – Mr. Turtle a cyborg turtle living in Japan, with vague memories of a war on Jupiter… Translated by Tyran Grillo.
George R. R. Martin (editor & creator) – Wild Cards: High Stakes the latest in the mosaic novel series which began back in 1986, published by Gollancz
in paperback:
Ilona Andrews – Magic Binds the 9th Kate Daniels novel
Tanith Lee – Delirium’s Mistress the 4th of her Tales from the Flat Earth novels
Tanith Lee – Night’s Sorceries the 5th and final of her Tales from the Flat Earth novels
Steve Alten – Nightstalkers the 5th in his MEG series, about unknown marine creatures
art, etc:
Alejandro Jodorowsky & Georges Bess – The Magical Twins fun-looking adventure in hardcover from Humanoids
Grant Snider – The Shape of Ideas great little hardcover subtitled ‘An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity‘. Generally, 1 or 2 page colour strips on a variety of topics…
magazines:
Locus – issue 676, cover date May 2017 with the full Hugo Awards ballot listings
New Titles – w/e 6th May 2017
in hardcover:
Mark Lawrence – Red Sister Book of the Ancestor vol 1
M. R. Carey – The Boy on the Bridge in a post-Breakdown Britain, an expedition sets off from the south of England for the Scottish Highlands…
Eric Flint & Mike Resnick – The Gods of Sagittarius Russ is assigned to protect humanity’s most brilliant mind, who believes that ancient aliens known as the Old Ones may be returning…
Robyn Bennis – The Guns Above can Josette, the Corps’ first female airship captain, survive in her post long enough to prove herself!?
Polly Faber – Superstar Tapir the 4th Mango & Bambang book, with four new adventures. Illustrations by Clara Vulliamy. I should have had this for World Tapir Day last week but it’s here now!
in large format:
Robert Jackson Bennett – City of Miracles the 3rd in his Divine Cities series. City of Stairs & City of Blades were the first 2 volumes
Todd Lockwood – The Summer Dragon Maia witnesses the Summer Dragon, seen as an omen of change, and her peaceful life is shattered as she is swept up in greater events…
Cassandra Khaw – Food of the Gods chef Rupert Wong’s 2nd job is as admin for the Ten Chinese Hells, and his bosses there aren’t to be messed with!
Jonathan Maberry – Dogs of War the latest adventure for Joe Ledger, as robot dogs are produced which can carry WMDs into almost anywhere across America!
in ‘B’ format:
Andrew Lane & Nigel Foster – Netherspace humans can’t understand the aliens but they have managed to trade with them…
Joe Hill – The Fireman a terrible virus is destroying humanity but Harper Grayson just wants to see her unborn baby safe…
Guy Gavriel Kay – Children of Earth and Sky a lush, somewhat Renaissance-era fantasy…
James Abbott – The Never King a once loved military commander is imprisoned for life but news eventually arrives that spurs him to action…
Foz Meadows – A Tyranny of Queens sequel to An Accident of Stars and volume 2 of The Manifold Worlds
Peter MacLean – Damnation 3rd in his Burned Man series, about a down & out magician living rough in Edinburgh
Peter V. Brett – The Great Bazaar and Brayan’s Gold novella set in the world of The Painted Man
Warhammer – Black Rift adventure in the Age of Sigmar by Josh Reynolds
in paperback:
Taylor Anderson – Blood in the Water the 11th Destroyermen adventure
Gini Koch – Alien Education the 15th in the series!
Simon R. Green – Dr. DOA the 10th in his series of Secret Histories
Faith Hunter – Cold Reign the latest Jane Yellowrock novel…
Larry Niven & Steven Barnes – The Seascape Tattoo heroic fantasy
New Titles – w/e 29th April 2017
in hardcover:
Cory Doctorow – Walkaway his first major novel for several years, set in a climate-changed, post-scarcity world, where the rich still seem to own everything
Sylvain Neuvel – Waking Gods the sequel to Sleeping Giants
Steven Erikson – The Fiends of Nightmaria novella featuring Bauchelain & Korbal Broach. From P. S. Publishing.
Doctor Who – The Shining Man novel featuring the current Doctor and his new companion, Bill, written by Gavin Scott
Doctor Who – Diamond Dogs novel featuring the current Doctor and his new companion, Bill, written by Mike Tucker
Doctor Who – Plague City novel featuring the current Doctor and his new companion, Bill, written by Jonathan Morris
in large format:
Anne Charnock – Dreams Before the Start of Time a series of interweaving vignettes spanning 5 generations, focusing on advances in medical techniques, etc. to do with human fertility…
Bernie Mojzes & A. C. Wise (editors) – Clowns : The Unlikely Coulrophobia Remix anthology of flash fiction concerning strange clowns!
in ‘B’ format:
Terry Brooks – The Sorcerer’s Daughter the 3rd volume in The Defenders of Shannara sub-series of his Shannara books
Bill Broun – Night of the Animals 35 years in the future, a man sneaks into London Zoo to release all the animals. Outside, a cult has sworn to destroy all animals everywhere…
Jon Wallace – Rig 3rd in the trilogy. Previous volumes were Barricade & Steeple
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Far Rainbow 2004 reprint of their classic novel about a distant planet called Rainbow. Translator unknown.
in paperback:
David B. Coe – Shadow’s Blade the 3rd of the Case Files of Justin Fearsson
Steve White & Charles E. Gannon – Imperative the 7th Starfire novel, which began back in 1990 with David Weber & Steve White‘s Insurrection
magazines:
Illustrators – Issue Seventeen nice looking articles on Zac Retz, Mort Kunstler & Gustave Dore and others…
New Titles – w/e 22nd April 2017
in hardcover:
Sam Peters – From Darkest Skies Keon has an illegal AI, built from his dead wife’s memories, which is his only hope of solving her murder…
in large format:
Jonathan Strahan (editor) – The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: volume eleven 28 top stories from the past year…
Daniel M. Kimmel – Time on My Hands subtitled My Misadventures In Time Travel fun-looking humorous time travel novel
in ‘B’ format:
Laura Lam – False Hearts near future thriller featuring two once conjoined twins, one of whom is accused of murder. Signed copies available on request
Elizabeth Moon – Cold Welcome after several years, a return to Slotter Key and her Vatta’s War sequence. Previous volume was 2008’s Victory Conditions
Kieran Shea – Off Rock jaded asteroid miner Jimmy strikes it rich – if he can smuggle his find off the Company-owned asteroid it’s on!
Jodi Taylor – And the Rest is History the 8th volume in the time travel series, The Chronicles of St. Mary’s
Sarah Perry – The Essex Serpent mysterious goings-on on the marshlands of Victorian Essex…
Christopher Golden – Ararat an avalanche reveals a massive cave in the side of the mountain. Something that might be the Ark is in it…
Samantha Shannon – The Mime Order Paige is a clairvoyant
Joanne M. Harris – Runemarks magic is outlawed but outsider Maddie is about to find herself travelling through the World Below…
J. F. Lewis – Grudgebearer an ancient taboo is casually broken and terrible oaths must be kept, unless a way around them can be found
John Joseph Adams (editor) – Cosmic Powers 18 epic short stories of distant galaxies…
Jonathan Maberry (editor) – Aliens: Bug Hunt short story anthology of 18 tales set in the world of the classic space horror movies
in paperback:
Christopher Farnsworth – Killfile thriller featuring a mind-reader
Warhammer – Pharos the latest Horus Heresy novel, by Guy Haley
New Titles – w/e 15th April 2017
Please remember – I’ll be closed on Easter Monday
in hardback:
Brian Staveley – Skullsworn Pyrre must kill 7 people in a fortnight, including her ‘one true love’, in order to become a priestess to the God of Death. But she’s never been in love…
Sarah Pinsborough – Behind Her Eyes widow Louise meets a young couple who seem to good to be true…
in large format:
Anna Caltabiano – The Day Before Forever sequel to The Seventh Miss Hatfield. Rebecca & Henley are stranded in time in the Court of Henry 8th.
Piers Anthony – Ghost Writer in the Sky the 41st Xanth novel
in ‘B’ format:
Sebastien De Castell – Saint’s Blood 3rd in the Greatcoats series, which began with Traitor’s Blade
John Gwynne – Wrath the 4th in his The Faithful and the Fallen series
Jon Hollins – Fool’s Gold volume 1 of The Dragon Lords, set in a world where dragons rule. A mismatched gang decide to steal some of a dragon’s hoard…
G. S. Denning – Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone I imagine you can deduce for yourself what kind of book this is…
Tom Merritt – Pilot X having brokered peace between 3 time traveling races, Pilot X discovers another time war in progress…
Heidi Heilig – The Girl From Everywhere Nix and her father cruise multiple versions of Earth’s history using differing old maps, which can be used only once…
in paperback:
Ian Douglas – Altered Starscape 1st book in the Andromedan Dark series. A huge scientific expedition to the Galactic core inadvertently ends up in the very distant future, where nothing is the same.
art, etc:
Manuel Auad (editor) – The Art of Nestor Redondo b&w illustrations on high quality paper
Alex Irvine & Ben Bishop – The Far Side of the Moon nice little hardcover graphic novel telling the story of Michael Collins‘ trip to the Moon during which his two crew mates became the first humans to land on the surface – but he stayed in the orbiter.
Mathieu Masmondet, Julia Verlanger & Zhang Xiaoyu – Savage Highway nice-looking post-apocalyptic adventure from Humanoids. Hardcover
Alexandro Jodorowsky & Juan Gimenez – The Metabarons volume 1: Othon & Honorata. Humanoids softcover of the first 116 pages of the classic bande desinee
magazines:
Locus – issue # 675 their 49th anniversary issue!
Illustrators – Special ‘Spanish Artists‘ issue. Extra thick 146 page issue outwith the usual numbering. Enric, Sanjulian, Maroto, Gonzalez and more!
Hi-Fructose – issue # 43 with an insert featuring Matt Gordon
It was twenty years ago today…
Um, what’s to say?
Transreal Fiction opened it’s doors 20 years ago today! That’s back in 1997, when the Spice Girls ruled the charts and Kim Stanley Robinson was about to win the Hugo for Blue Mars. And Comet Hale-Bopp was at perihelion. Tony Blair swept to power about 3 weeks after I opened, and someone carved ‘Yes!’ in celebration on the newly-painted shop door.
So much has changed, including the shop’s address, but the core concept I had back then continues on much as I envisaged. My initial plans may not have included selling cuddly toy mammoths but I see that as a bonus! 🙂
Thanks to all who have given me money (by buying stuff!) over the years! It’s been very much appreciated and it’s all helped to keep Transreal Fiction going.
New Titles – w/e 8th April 2017
in hardcover:
B. Catling – The Erstwhile the sequel to The Vorrh
John Llewellyn Probert – All Hallows Horror the first outing for The Lovecraft Squad; from an idea created by Stephen Jones
in large format:
Aliette de Bodard – The House of Binding Thorns sequel to The House of Shattered Wings
Andrzej Sapkowski – The Lady of the Lake the 7th of his Witcher novel series, which began with The Last Wish. Translated from Polish by David French
Gavin G. Smith – First Strike Weapon the 1st in his new Special Purposes series. In 1987 a crack Soviet military team are sent on a secret mission to the USA but it all goes wrong… post apocalyptic horror, with zombies
in ‘B’ format:
Chris Beckett – Daughter of Eden the 3rd in his Eden series, set in a world without light
K. W. Jeter – Fiendish Schemes a sequel to one of the original steampunk novels, Infernal Devices. A 3rd volume in the George Dower Trilogy, called Grim Expectations, should follow in June
Bruce R. Cordell – Myth of the Maker Earth is insulated from the monsters of The Strange by layers of fictional worlds…
Mark A. Latham – A Betrayal in Blood Sherlock Holmes investigates the strange goings-on and murders at a remote castle in Transylvania!
Keith Yatsuhashi – Kokoro companion volume to Kojiki. exiled from court, Prince Baiyren steals a sentient suit of armour and uses it to inadvertently open a portal to a strange world called ‘Earth’!
Xan Brooks – The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times in 1923 in a sunny rural England, young Lucy meets ‘the funny men’…
Nicholas Eames – Kings of the Wyld an aging mercenary band accept a task only the brave or stupid would consider taking on…
Megan O’Keefe – Inherit the Flame the 3rd Scorched Continent book, after Steal the Sky & Break the Chains
N. S. Dolkart – Among the Fallen book 2 of Godserfs, after Silent Hall
Clifford Beal – The Witch of Torinia Tales of Valdur #2
Warhammer 40,000 – Blades of Damocles the latest Space Marines Battles adventure, by Phil Kelly
Warhammer – Fury of Gork the latest book of the Realmgate Wars, set in the Age of Sigmar. By Josh Reynolds
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J. K. Rowling – Quidditch Through the Ages & The Tales of Beedle the Bard new editions with new cover art. I still have some of the previous editions left, especially if you want Beedle the Bard in hardback!
Closed Until Thursday 6th
Closing at 17.00 on Saturday evening; not re-opening until Thursday 6th.
New Titles – w/e 1st April 2017
Just to say that Transreal Fiction will be closing at 17.00 on Saturday 1st April and not be re-opening until Thursday the 6th April.
After Easter Monday the shop will, however, be open on Mondays again.
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in hardcover:
Neal Asher – Infinity Engine volume 3 of his Transformation trilogy
C. J. Cherryh – Convergence the final book of the 6th Foreigner trilogy, making it the 18th overall!
Eric Flint & Griffin Barber – 1636: Mission to the Mughals the 23rd (?) 1632/Ring of Fire novel, although authors other than Flint wrote 5 of them…
Ruthanna Emrys – Winter Tide in 1929 the residents of Innsmouth were all sent to an inland prison camp but now, 20 years later, the US needs their help in the Cold War… Lovecraft-inspired novel
Simon Green – Very Important Corpses his 3rd Ishmael Jones Mystery
in large format:
R. S. Belcher – The Brotherhood of the Wheel Jimmie the truckdriver is also a member of a secret Order and is drawn into trying to solve the disappearance of a number of xhildren…
Tanith Lee – Redder Than Blood re-issue of her book of 19 re-imagined fairy tales
Hank Davis (editor) – The Best of Gordon R. Dickson, volume 1 14 short stories from the 1950s and early 60s, including the original Dragon & the George short story, together with his previously unpublished ‘Last Dangerous Visions‘ story!
in ‘B’ format:
Django Wexler – The Guns of Empire the 4th volume of The Shadow Campaigns, which began with The Thousand Names
Gary Gibson – Survival Game on an alternate Earth, an agent of the Russian Empire must travel on a desparate mission to a different alternate, where America is more powerful…
Cherie Priest – Brimstone a WW1 flamethrower operator can’t stop dreaming of fire…
Sylvain Neuvel – Sleeping Giants as a child, Rose was trapped down a well and now her life is spent investigating what was found as she was rescued…
Peter Crilley – Poison City Gideon Tau works for an occult investigative unit in South Africa…
Sarah Pinborough – The Double-Edged Sword Fin has been forced to live a double life for 16 years and today he should find out why! Nowhere Chronicles #1
Sarah Pinborough – The Traitor’s Gate a tiny crack has appeared in the Prophecy table! Nowhere Chronicles #2
Sarah Pinborough – The London Stone Nowhere Chronicles #3 a key piece of London’s history has been stolen…
Peter Tremayne – Penance of the Damned the latest Sister Fidelma case
in paperback:
C. J. Cherryh – Visitor the middle book of the 6th Foreigner trilogy, making it the 17th overall!
Gene Wolfe – Pirate Freedom it’s taken almost 10 years, but finally Wolfe’s pirate novel reaches paperback!
Alex Stewart – Shooting the Rift Simon is an apprentice on a merchant spacer but tensions on board, and between neighbouring power blocs are rising and war may ensue…
Greg Cox – The Librarians and the Lost Lamp 10 years ago there was only one Librarian left, but now there’s a new team been recruited to protect the world’s magical treasures!
Elizabeth Hand – Fire. plus... the latest in PM Press‘s Outspoken Authors series; 2 short stories, a long interview with Terry Bisson, an autobiographical essay and a couple of her essays on other sf authors – Tiptree & Disch. Also a short bibliography of her work
art, etc:
Kodansha Comics – Otomo: A Global Tribute to the Mind Behind Akira. 79 different artists contribute a piece depicting a scene from Katsuhiro Otomo‘s classic AKIRA. The artist notes often include reminiscences of their meetings with Otomo. Hardcover
3DTotalPublishing – Digital Painting Techniques volume 8
3DTotalPublishing – ZBrush: Sculpting From the Imagination 50 digital artists give their tips on sculpting in 3D
magazines:
Heavy Metal – issue number 285 a Love Special Issue
Graphite – issue 3 of the specialist concept drawing, illustration & urban sketching magazine. Looks very good; good enough that I’ve back-ordered issues 1 & 2!
gift:
J. K. Rowling‘s Wizarding Worlds – Travel Journal nice little lined notebook, with a big 9¾ on the cover
