New Titles – w/e 15th February 2020
in hardcover:
A. K. Larkwood – The Unspoken Name to avoid becoming a sacrifice to the death cult which has raised her, Csorwe agrees to become apprenticed to a sorcerer…
Michael J. Sullivan – Age of Death the 5th volume of The Legends of the First Empire
Sarah Galley – Upright Women Wanted in a future, alternate, rural American South West, Esther stows away on the visiting library wagon to escape an arranged marriage…
Sophie Aldred – Doctor Who At Childhood’s End Ace meets up with the 13th Doctor!
in ‘B’ format:
Adrian Tchaikovsky – Children of Ruin sequel to the award winning Children of Time
Valerie Valdes – Chilling Effect Captain Eva Innocente scratches a living shipping dodgy caroes in her spaceship, La Sirena Negra, whose present cargo consists of psychic cats… and it’s about to get complicated…
H. J. Pang– The Last Server after a geomagnetic storm wipes most of the Earth’s computer data, the search is on for a rumored data cache that could solve a lot of problems!
Sarah Davis-Goff – Last Ones Left Alive the Irish mainland has been occupied by the skrake and Orpen must leave her little island home and search for other survivors…
Catherine Cavendish – The Garden of Bewitchment in 1893 two sisters decide they’d rather live up on the moors instead of their little Yorkshire town, but then they come across the titular garden…
Count Collin Van Reenan – The Spaces In Between a poverty-stricken student takes a temporary job as a tutor to a teenager living in a very old-fashioned house (electricity is banned from use!) in the aftermath of the Paris riots of 1968.
Hassan Blasim (editor) – Iraq+100 recent anthology imagining what Iraq will be like in 2103, a century after the US/UK-led invasion. 10 new stories by Iraqi authors
S. J. Huang (editor) – The New Singapore Horror Collection 13 stories
art, etc:
Dave Cooper – Pillowy Art of DC hefty hardcover of mainly full colour art, along with cartoon strips, an interview and more!
Basil Gogos – The Monster Art of BG a mix of b&w and full colour sketches, etc. of iconic horror actors, monsters & villains!
Jim Ottaviani & Maris Wicks – Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier digest-sized full colour graphic novel about the women who have been in the various space programmes
Graphic Classics # 4 – H. P. Lovecraft appears to be a re-print of the 2007 2nd edition. The lead story is The Shadow Over Innsmouth but also includes The Shadow Out of Time & Herbert West: Reanimator among others… b&w, with a colour cover
Andy Runton – Owly: The Way Home new full colour edition of his first adventure. Good fun, and the speech pictograms now have English translations beside them.
magazines:
Locus – issue # 709 February cover date with their 2019 Year in Review highlighted oon the cover
Hi-Fructose – volume # 54 of the quarterly art magazine
New Titles – w/e 8th February 2020
in hardcover:
Menna van Praag – The Sisters Grimm 4 young women know that in a month, when they dream they will finally meet their father… Dark fantasy set in Cambridge
Graham Masterton – The Last Drop of Blood the latest case for DS Katie Maguire
in large format:
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – The Inhabited Island it starts as a Robinsonade set on a distant planet, told from the Brothers’ unique Soviet perspective! Newly translated by Andrew Bromfield
Kim Stanley Robinson – Three Californias omnibus edition of his three early Orange County trilogy: The Wild Shore (1984), The Gold Coast (1988) & Pacific Edge (1990), with a new intro by Francis Spufford. One location, three very different futures!
Chloe Neill – Wicked Hour first in her new Heirs of Chicagoland series. The vampires of Chicagoland return!
in ‘B’ format:
Marlon James – Black Leopard, Red Wolf Tracker joins a search for a lost boy, but his companions are maybe better avoided! Strange fantasy set in ancient Africa… Part 1 of the Dark Star trilogy from the Man Booker Prize winner
Alexander Dan Vilhjalmsson – Shadows of the Short Days fantasy set in a magical Reykjavik. Translated by Philip Roughton
Breanna Teintze – Lord of Secrets Corcoran Gray is an outlaw wizard on the run who befriends a runaway slave, who could solve all his problems!
Kevin Hearne – A Blight of Blackwings sequel to A Plague of Giants. Volume 2 of The Seven Kennings
Bradley Beaulieu – Beneath the Twisted Trees book 4 of The Song of the Shattered Sands, which began with Twelve Kings. (with a comprehensive precis at the start)
Stephen Donaldson – The War Within sequel to Seventh Decimate and part 2 of The Great God’s War
Tom Lloyd – Knight of Stars book 3 of The God Fragments
Luke Arnold – The Last Smile in Sunder City Fetch Phillips has rules & one of them is never to work for other humans, and sobriety costs extra! Urban fantasy
E. J. Swift – Paris Adrift Hallie has dropped out of Uni to live in Paris but finds herself able to use a hole through time in her work’s basement…
Tim Clare – The Honours Delphine goes to live in a rambling old mansion set on a mysterious large estate in Norfolk a few years before the War… 1st published in 2015
Tim Clare – The Ice House decades later, Delphine is drawn back to the house and it’s weird secrets…
Matthew Reilly – The Secret Runners of New York Skye & her twin brother Red move to New York and join a club which they discover controls a secret portal to the future…
Warhammer 40,000 – Fist of the Imperium a Space Marine Conquests book by Andy Clark
Warhammer 40,000 – The Hollow Mountain number 2 in the Vaults of Terra series by Chris Wright
in paperback:
Martha Wells – The Siren Depths prompt appearance of the 3rd in her Raksura series; the first two, The Cloud Roads & The Serpent Sea are both recent paperbacks…
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction interesting short essay from 1988, with a new, equally long intro to it by Donna Haraway
art, etc:
Marianne Plumridge – If Dinosaurs Lived in My Town picture book with illustrations by Bob Eggleton. Looks fun!
New Titles – w/e 1st February 2020
in hardcover:
Alastair Reynolds – Bone Silence 3rd in the series that begins with Revenger & Shadow Captain. Substantially longer than either of the previous two at 600 pages
Michel Houellebecq – H. P. Lovecraft Against the World, Against Life new edition. Biographical volume first published in France in 1991. Translated by Dorna Khazeni
in large format:
K. J. Parker – Prosper’s Demon novella about a none-too-careful exorcist!
Michele Sagara – Cast in Wisdom the latest of the Chronicles of Elantra
Matt Phelan – Knights vs Monsters illustrated sequel to Knights vs Dinosaurs, in which some of the knights of King Arthur’s Round Table end up in Scotland! Fun for younger readers!
in ‘B’ format:
Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Gods of Jade and Shadow fantasy set in 1920s Mexico, just as the Jazz Age is arriving… Loved it in hardcover!
Samantha Shannon – The Priory of the Orange Tree large epic fantasy
Tad Williams – Empire of Grass the 2nd volume of The Last King of Osten Ard, the sequel set to best selling trilogy Memory, Sorrow & Thorn (The Dragonbone Chair)
Stephanie Garber – Finale last book of her trilogy which began with Caraval & Legendary
Neal Asher – The Warship sequel to The Soldier and the 2nd volume of the Rise of the Jain
A. G. Riddle – Winter World part 1 of The Long Winter Trilogy. An unexpected new ice age envelopes the Earth…
John Peel – On His Majesty’s National Service subtitled The Laughing Gnome: Coda and featuring Lethbridge-Stewart from Doctor Who
in paperback:
L. E. Modesitt, Jr. – Endgames the 12th (and possibly last?) in his Imager Portfolio
S. Andrew Swann – Marked 1st in his new series about Dana Rohan, who solves crimes by using her ability to travel through alternate timestreams…
Jim C. Hines – Terminal Uprising sequel to Terminal Alliance and the 2nd in his Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse series
Anne Bishop – Wild Country 2nd in her World of the Others series and the sequel to Lake Silence
John Birmingham – The Cruel Stars a renegade human faction launch a sneak attack on the Earth they were driven from centuries before…
Gregory Benford & Larry Niven – Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar omnibus edition of their 2 novels about an interstellar expedition encountering a huge alien object heading fo the same System…
art, etc:
Sergio Toppi – The Collected Toppi Volume Three: South America 5 tales of magic and adventure, with the 2 longest ones in full colour. Hardcover.
Dark Horse – FFDOT. subtitled The Pixel Art of Final Fantasy hardcover
Michael Lagace & Todor Hristov – The Forever Maps softcover graphic novel about a man who follows a map, only to find another map, which leads to another map…
Andy Runton – Owly: The Way Home new full colour edition of the first volume in h/c from Scholastic. With a little added text. The (low key) adventures of a friendly little owl!
Rich Sparks – Love and Other Weird Things single panel b&w cartoons
magazines:
Shoreline of Infinity – issue # 17
Heavy Metal – issue # 297 Winter Special
New Titles – w/e 25th January 2020
in hardcover:
William Gibson – Agency follow up to The Periferal and more tampering with the time streams
Jeff Vandermeer – Dead Astronauts a weird collection of cross-dimensional rebels battle the all powerful Company…
Eoin Colfer – Highfire Squib is a bit of a tearaway, spending summer working for a Moonshiner on the bayou, but there’s a dragon lurking deep in the swamps…
Joe R. Lansdale – The Sky Done Ripped signed edition from Subterranean Press with the further cross-dimensional adventures of Ned, the ‘Uplifted’ seal!
in large format:
Matthew Hughes – A God in Chains in the extreme far future, on a dying Earth, Farouche must scheme to regain his stolen memories and identity…
Matthew Hughes – Forays of a Fat Man collection of 4 novellas featuring Luff Imbry, one of the protagonists of Hughes’ novel Black Brillion back in 2004
Matthew Hughes – What the Wind Brings mainstream/slipstream novel about escaping shipwrecked slaves and the founding of Equador…
Frederic S. Durbin – The Star Shard Cymbril dreams of freedom, but she is trapped inside Thunder Rake, a gigantic labyrinthine town on wheels rolling across the land…
Gene Wolfe – The Best of GW 31 of his finest short stories
Susan Palwick – All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions 15 stories spanning the sf, f & h genres,, including 3 previously unpublished
Clarissa Weaks (editor) – Once Upon An Enchanted Forest subtitled An Anthology of Romantic Witchcraft Stories. 10 new fantasies, including a new Juliet Marillier story…
Mike Ashley (editor) – Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories 31 tales originally published from 1869 to 1990…
Crawford Kilian & Silvia Morano–Garcia – A Writer’s Guide to Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy packed full of tips and information for authors
in ‘B’ format:
Jen Williams – Poison Song 3rd in her Winnowing Flame trilogy; the previous 2 volumes each won the BFA‘s Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
R. F. Kuang – The Poppy War the Empire has been invaded twice before and survived, but now a 3rd invasion looms…
Guy Gavriel Kay – A Brightness Long Ago historical fantasy in a land much like Renaissance Italy…
Ian C. Esslemont – Kellanved’s Reach the 3rd book of the Path to Ascendancy, which began with Dancer’s Lament & Deadhouse Gates, all set in the world of the Malazan Empire
Peter MacLean – Priest of Lies volume 2 of The War for the Rose Throne. Sequel to Priest of Bones
Gareth Hanrahan – Gutter Prayer volume 1 of the Black Iron Legacy
Rod Duncan – The Fugitive & the Vanishing Man the final volume of The Map of Vanishing Things trilogy…
Patricia Briggs – Storm Cursed her 11th Mercy Thompson novel…
V. E. Schwab – The Near Witch re-issue of her first published novel
James S. A. Corey – Tiamat’s Wrath the 8th volume of The Expanse some years have passed and Chrisjen Avasarala has recently died… (Not a spoiler – it’s the 1st line of the book!)
Eyal Kless – Puzzler’s War sequel to The Lost Puzzler & book 2 of the Tarakan Chronicles. The last of the Guild of Historians must return to the City of Towers…
S. K. Dunstall – Stars Beyond the sequel to Stars Uncharted. The further adventures of the crew of the spaceship Another Road
Dominic Dulley – Morhelion sequel to Scattermoon and book 2 of The Long Game. Orry must discover who the traitor is among the Ascendancy elite
Karen Lord – The Best of All Possible Worlds a group of alien refugees arrive on an Earth colony planet…
Warhammer 40,000 – Anarch the latest Gaunt’s Ghosts outing by Dan Abnett
Warhammer 40,000 – The Knights of MacRagge by Nick Kyme, featuring the Ultramarines
in paperback:
Jack McDevitt – Octavia Gone the 9th in his Alex Benedict series, about a far-future antiquarian & antique dealer…
magazines:
Locus – issue # 708 January cover date, with articles/interviews with Joe Abercrombie & Arkady Martine highlighted on the cover
New Titles – w/e 18th January 2020
in hardcover:
C. J. Cherryh – Resurgence the latest volume of her epic Foreigner series; the 20th overall and the direct sequel to Emergence
John Ringo, Kacey Ezell & Christopher L. Smith – Gunpowder & Embers the 1st book in new series Last Judgement’s Fire. 30 years after civilisation was almost destroyed repelling an alien invasion, they’re back!
Terry Goodkind – Heart of Black Ice: Sister of Darkness the 4th in the Nicci Chronicles
Seanan McGuire – Come Tumbling Down the 5th in her Wayward Children series, which began with Every Heart a Doorway
Lois McMaster Bujold – Penric’s Progress omnibus edition containing Penric’s Demon, Penric and the Shaman & Penric’s Fox. Also an intro & author’s note by LMB
in large format:
Patrick Chiles – Frozen Orbit the first manned mission to the outer planets discovers that a secret Soviet mission got there decades earlier!
S. P. Somtow – The Singing Moons 1st of the Inquestor Tales, related to his epic sf Inquestor quartet (as by Somtow Sucharitkul), which began with Light on the Sound in 1982… Previous knowledge not required though!
Jin Jong – A Snake Lies Waiting the 3rd of the Legends of the Condor Heroes. Translated from Chinese by Anne Holmwood & Gigi Chang
Charlaine Harris – A Longer Fall the 2nd of her alternate American history series featuring mecenary Gunnie Rose
Kay Kenyon – Nest of the Monarch the final part of her alternate, magical 1930s Dark Talents trilogy, which began with At the Table of Wolves & Serpent in the Heather
Deliah S. Dawson & Kevin Hearne – No Country for Old Gnomes vol 2 of humorous fantasy series The Tales of Pell. The 1st was Kill the Farm Boy
in ‘B’ format:
Arkady Martine – A Memory Called Empire 1st half of the Teixcalaan duology, about a new ambassador who discovers that her predecessor was murdered, whilst also trying to protect her own small home from being absorbed into the star-spanning Empire…
Gareth Hanrahan – The Shadow Saint sequel to The Gutter Prayer and part 2 of the Black Iron Legacy.
Ellen Oh & Elsie Chapman (editors) – A Thousand Beginnings and Endings new anthology of 16 tales, retelling Asian myths and legends
in paperback:
Martha Wells – The Serpent Sea the sequel to The Cloud Roads and the 2nd of the Books of the Raksura
art, etc:
Andy Jones & Jeff Conner (project editors) – The Art and Making of The Expanse full colour hardcover full of photos & concept art, etc.
H. P. Lovecraft – The Call of Cthulhu large new heavily illustrated edition with lots of full page art by Francois Baranger. Intro by John Howe.
Owen D. Pomery – British Ice spys and high adventure in the high North! Two tone softcover graphic novel
Jenni Gudgeon – Folkland Fables interesting, whimsical art and stories about Folkland Wood and the strange creatures which live in it. Based on Scottish tales & lore, in hardcover
Jordi Bayarri – Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion; Charle Darwin and the Theory of Evolution; Marie Curie and Radioactivity; Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity these 4 books are short graphic novels showing important events in the characters’ lives and highlighting their main achievements. Full colour softcovers, with a timeline, glossary & further resources listed at the back of each.
magazines:
Interzone – issue # 285
Black Static – issue # 73
Monday Opening, or Not!
As in the previous few years, I’ll be closed on Mondays now it’s the New Year.
Unlike previous years, I probably won’t resume opening on Mondays in the Summer.
I might decide to open on Mondays during July, August & pre-Christmas December, but no guarantees!
New Titles – w/e 11th January 2020
in hardcover:
Jane Alexander – A User’s Guide to Make-Believe near future thriller involving Imagen, a cutting-edge company bringing extreme VR experiences to the public…
Terry Goodkind – Witch’s Oath subtitled a ‘Children of D’Hara Novella episode 4′
in large format:
Tanith Lee – The Heart of the Moon fairly obscure short novel, first published back in 2005. Also includes short story The Dry Season from 1996
in ‘B’ format:
Emma Newman – Atlas Alone her latest Planetfall novel
Blake Crouch – Recursion an apparent epidemic is sweeping the world, implanting impossible memories in all it touches…
Ben H. Winters – Golden State Laz is a special police veteran, trusted to find the truth in a society where the worst crime is to lie…
Megan Angelo – Followers Marlow and her mother are two of the ‘stars’ chosen to be continuously on tv, but why was she picked?
Mercedes Lackey – The Case of the Spellbound Child the 13th novel in her Elemental Masters series
Christopher Ruocchio – Howling Dark volume 2 of his Sun Eater series, and the sequel to Empire of Silence, mixing fantasy and epic space opera
Miles Cameron – Bright Steel the 3rd volume of hios Masters & Mages series
Terry Brooks – The Stiehl Assassin the 3rd book of The Fall of Shannara. By my count, the 31st Shannara volume overall, but maybe only the 28th!
John Brunner – The Shockwave Rider the pre-cyberpunk classic from 1975, now re-issued in the SF Masterworks series from Orion/Gollancz
art, etc:
Munashichi – The Art of Munashichi full colour softcover packed with detailed paintings of mainly fantasy & traditional Japanese backgrounds and buildings but also including some characters. Very nice.
Happy New Titles – w/e 4th January 2020
Hope you had a great time; a Happy New Year to all!
New titles available when I re-open at 10.00 on Saturday 4th January 2o2o will be:
in large format:
Tim Maugham – Infinite Detail back in stock
in paperback:
David Weber – Through Fiery Trials his 10th Safehold book
James L. Cambias – Arkad’s World human visitors to a very alien world find a human orphan to be their guide across it…
Eric Flint & Dave Freer – All the Plagues of Hell the 6th in their Heirs of Alexandria series
art, etc:
Eric Powell – Art and Many Mistakes large hardcover with a mix of b&w and ful colour art
Rick Berry & Phil Hale – Double Memory: Art and Collaborations warehouse find originally published in hardcover in 1992 by Donald M. Grant
Sam J. Glanzman – Battle For Britain (from the Pages of Combat) 3 short tales in full colour. Comic sized
J. Werner Presents Classic Pulp: Horror reproduction of 3 classic horror stories
magazines, etc:
Illustrators Magazine – issue # 28 including pieces on Frank Kelly Freas, Lauent Durieux, Yvonne Gilbert and more!
Illustrators Daggers Drawn! – The Art of Commando Comics. Special Issue – # 5
Illustrators – Brian Bolland. Special Issue – # 6
Festive Closing Times!
Yes, I will be shut at Christmas and New Year!
As ever, I’ll be closing mid/late afternoon on Christmas Eve – open until at least 15.00 but definitely closing up by 16.00. After that I’ll be shut until Saturday 28th – i.e. closed for 3 days.
And the same routine for the New Year break; closing early on Hogmany and re-opening at 10.00 on Saturday 4th January 2020. And, also as in years past, I’ll be closed on Mondays after the turn of the year, so official shop hours will be
Tues – Friday 11.00 – 18.00
Saturday 10.00 – 18.00
New Titles – w/e 21st December 2019
in hardcover:
Greg Egan – The Best of GE giant collection from Subterranean Press. Numbered edition of 1000
K. J. Parker – My Beautiful Life singed & numbered fantasy novella from Subterranean Press
in large format:
Elizabeth Bear – Ancestral Night 1st volume of her White Space sf series about a salvage mission in deep space discovering some ancient tech…
Mirah Bolender – The Monstrous Citadel sequel to The City of Broken Magic and volume 2 of her Chronicles of Amicae. Defusing ancient magical weapons…
C. Henry Martens – Hell Follows After in the 23rd C, in a ruined but recovering America, Edge and Jody meet when they join a trading mission to the interior…
Allan Kaster (editor) – The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories restock of volume 3, plus the first 2 in the series…
Reliquiae – vol 7 no. 2 small press publication described as ‘Landscape – Nature – Mythology‘. Verse & short prose pieces, both original and translations of older texts. Prayers, incantations, pastoral descriptive passages…
Adam Roberts – H. G. Wells: A Literary Life apparently the 1st book to look at all his writings across his lifetime, both fictional and otherwise. Looks very readable.
in ‘B’ format:
Aaron Dembski-Bowden – Spear of the Emperor a Warhammer 40,000 adventure
art, etc:
PIE Books – Silent World photographs of deserted Japanese buildings. From PIE International, in the same format as their anime-inspired Everyday Scenes From a Parallel World set of books
3dtotal Publications – Beginner’s Guide to Comic Art Characters from 2016, although I don’t think I’ve stocked it before. Multiple artists give lessons and tips on creating all sorts of heroes and villains! Soft cover with lots of colour pages
