New Titles – w/e 31st July 2021
in hardcover:
D. K. Fields – Farewell to the Liar the final part of the Tales of Fenest trilogy; probably my favourite fantasy series of recent years! Previous titles were Widow’s Welcome & The Stitcher and the Mute
Peter V. Brett – The Desert Prince long-awaited 1st volume in a new series set 15 years after the events in The Core, the final book of The Demon Cycle
Matt Bell – Appleseed in 50 years the fierce disasters of climate change are biting deep; in a 1000 years an icesheet lies atop America… the roots of both may have been planted by two brothers in the 18thC…
Darcie Little Badger – Elatsoe in a time much like our own, native American myth and magic have also helped shaped our world…
Adam Simcox – The Dying Squad Lincolnshire DI Joe Lazarus comes across his own body – and a spirit guide to enlist him in a squad of recently deceased police! Signed (bookplate) copies available
in ‘B’ format:
Jasper Fforde – The Constant Rabbit human-sized anthropomorphic rabbits move into a conservative English village…
J. K. Jemisin – The City We Became 5 people, each representing a borough of New York, must unite to repel a trans-dimensional incursion!
Dan Klefstad – Fiona’s Guardians an ancient vampire exists quietly, with her bound servant procuring the blood she needs, but over the decades they have been surruptiously surrounded by an aggressive order of monks dedicated to anti-vampirism…
Jin Yong – A Snake Lies Waiting the 3rd volume of the epic Legends of the Condor Heroes. Translated from Chinese by Anna Holmwood & Gigi Chang
Jean Passey – (editor) – Cornish Horrors subtitled Tales From the Land’s End anthology of 15 stories in the latest volume of the British Library‘s Taies of the Weird.
Zoraida Cordova & Natalie C. Parker (editors) – Vampires Never get Old anthology with new stories from 11 YA authors such as V. E. Schwab, Rebecca Roanhorse & Tessa Gratton
art, etc:
Piers Bizony – The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions giant book of concept art!
Eric Nolen-Weathington – Paolo Rivera: Modern Masters Volume Thirty latest artist to be featured in the series…
Dave McKean – Raptor full colour softcover, subtitled A Sokol Graphic Novel
Manuele Fior – Celestia full colour hardcover; 2 young telepaths are forced to venture onto the unknown mainland…
Geof Darrow – The Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek sodftcover continuation of his often violent adventures!
H. P. Lovecraft – The Alchemist b&w comic adaptation by Steve Jones & Octavio Cariello, together with a short bio and the original prose story by HPL
Hugo Pratt & Val Holding – Battler Britton h/c from Rebellion with 2 war stories illustrated by Pratt
Tait Howard – Spiders: Worldwide Webs excellent little comic from Science Comics with more than you ever wanted to know about spiders!
magazines:
Heavy Metal – issue # 308
Calendars:
Ted Naismith – Tolkien Wall Calendar 2022 his interpretations of scenes from Middle Earth…
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New Titles – w/e 24th July 2021
in hardcover:
Steven Erikson – God is Not Willing a return to Mazalan! The First Tale of Witness
Nina Allan – The Good Neighbours Cath returns to her roots and investighates local myths while also making friends with the woman now living in the house her childhood friend’s family was murdered in…
Claire North – Notes From the Burning Age an archive keeper able to translate the ancient texts is approached to translate stolen texts that may rewrite everything he believes in…
in large format:
Dan Abnett – Embedded journalist Lex is leterally embedded (on a chip) inside a combatant’s head. But then the soldier dies and Lex may be trapped…
James S. Parker – Infinity’s Gateway a warship disappears during WW2. Decades later another ship investigates a strange phemomenon and what lies beyond!
X. L. Beckett – Gamechanger after the struggles of the 21stC, defense lawyer Rubi needs to discover why her latest client apperently want’s to stop the planet’s recovery…
Jeffrey Ford – Big Dark Hole 15 short stories in this collection from Small Beer Press, including 3 never before published.
Paula Guran (editor) Far Out two dozen stories in this ‘recent queer science fiction and fantasy‘ anthology
in ‘B’ format:
John Appel – Assassin’s Orbit investigators of a murder on a distant planet find clues to a threat thought long past…
A. E. Warren – The Hidden Base book 2 of Tomorrow’s Ancestors and the sequel to Subjrct Twenty One. Elise has already rescued neanderthal # 21 from the Museum of Evolution but now the stakes are even higher…
Hank Green – A Beautifully Foolish Endevour sequel to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. The strange giant statues have disappeared from around the world and April May is assumed dead. But her friends receive strange, predictive books and maybe she’s not dead after all…
Louise Carey – Inscape Tanya’s first mission into the unafilliated zone should have been a simple retrival…
Alex Pheby – Mordew Nathan grows up in the slums, diving in the mud for treasure to survive. But his talent is soon noted…
Katherine Addison – Witness for the Dead Thara Celehar tries to live quietly and not attract attention… sequel to The Goblin Emperor
H. G. Parry – A Radical Act of Free Magic 2nd of the Shadow Histories, sequel to A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians a 2 part alternate, magical late 18thC.
Andrew Neill MacLeod – The Fall of the House of Thomas Weir The Casebook of Johnston & Boswell Volume 1; the pair investigate ghoulish rumours circulating in Edinburgh’s Old Town closes… Scenes set very near the shop! (But well before I opened!)
Bora Chung – Cursed Bunny collection of strange short stories translated from Korean by Anton Hur
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New Titles – w/e 17th July 2021
in hardcover:
Max Barry – The 22 Murders of Madison May murder across multiple parallel worlds! From the author of Jennifer Government and Company, among others.
Becky Chambers – Psalm for the Wild-Built new novella from Tor; Monk and Robot book 1. Robots abandoned humanity long ago but have now returned and want to know how they can help…
in large format:
Rebecca Roanhorse – Black Sun the 1st book of Between Eatth and Sky. A disgraced sea captain is bringing an apparently harmless passenger from a distant city to the capital
Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington (editors) – Sword Stone Table new, inc;lusive anthology re-imagining the Arthurian legends
in ‘B’ format:
Ada Hoffmann – The Fallen sequel to The Outside the laws of physics have been completely changed on the planet Jai, leading to chaos and the planet’s quarantine
Bob Proehl – The Nobody People young children all over the US are starting to demonstrate special abilities and soon have to start taking precautions to stay safe…
Bob Proehl – The Somebody People sequel to The Nobody People; The Pulse gave millions mutant abilities but now they’re being manipulated against their will… I really enjoyed Proehl’s 1st novel, A Hundred Thousand Words (which used some of these characters as background)
Jo Walton – Or What You Will one of an elderly author’s recurring characters doesn’t want to die when his creator does!
Ry Herman – Bleeding Hearts sequel to Love Bites. Local author
Mike Brooks – The Splinter King God King Chronicles volume 2 and the sequel to The Black Coast
art, etc:
Philippe Druillet – Night hardcover graphic novel; restock
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New Titles – w/e 10th July 2021
in hardcover:
Jamie Mollart – Kings of a Dead World a janitor watches over all the people in hibernation, kept asleep most of the time to preserve resources
Chris Beckett – Tomorrow a would-be author thinks he’s found the perfect place to write his novel…
in large format:
Sylvia V. Lindsteadt – Tatterdemalion episodic novel of a young boy exploring the strange world of 2315 and the truth behind the fantastic myths of the past. Illustrations by Rima Staines
in ‘B’ format:
Adrian Tchaikovsky – Bear Head Jimmy is a smuggler on Mars but he’s never smuggled anything like this before!
Andrzej Sapkowski – The Tower of Fools part 1 of a new trilogy set in Bohemia in the early 15thC and the Crusades against the Hussites
David Hair – Map’s Edge fleeing the invading Empire troops, Raythe & Zar flee to the far north, seeking a way to be allowed to return home… Book 1 of The Tethered Citadel. I enjoyed the larger edition last year
Gary Hutchinson Crouch – Glass Coffin the 3rd in her Darkwood series. Gretel’s village is close to Darkwood and gets on well with it’s magical inhabitants despite their being declared an abonimation!
Garth Nix – Left Handed Booksellers of London Merlin is a young bookseller, charged with protecting London from intrusions of the Old World
Kate Mascarenhas – Thief of The Winged Horse a tightly-knit community of collectable dollmakers has many secrets!
Robert Dinsdale – Paris by Starlight Levon is determined to live as his ancestors lived, under the magic of starlight…
Max Brooks – Devolution the eruption of Mt. Ranier near Seattle forces Bigfoot into the open…
Chris Humphries – The Coming of the Dark sequel to Smoke in the Glass
Robert Jackson Bennett – Shorefall sequel to Foundryside
Daisy Butcher & Janette Leaf (editors) – Crawling Horror the latest title in the British Library‘s Tales of the Weird series of horror stories, subtitled Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird
art, etc:
Shaun Manning & Anna Wieszczyk – Macbeth the Red King graphic novel; an alternate take, neither strictly accurate, nor based on Shakespeare’s play!
Simon Birks & Juan Flleites – Gone a robot powers up and discovers it’s spaceship’s crew all disappeared long ago…
magazines:
Interzone – double issue # 290/291 double the previous page count with 196 pages but the same mix of fiction, articles and art as ever!
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New Titles – w/e 3rd July 2021
in hardcover:
Claire McKenna – Deepwater King sequel to Monstrous Heart and vol 2 of the Deepwater Trilogy
Alix E. Harrow – The Once and Future Witches suffragists & witches at New Salem in 1893, from the author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Brian Staveley – The Empire’s Ruin volume 1 of The Ashes of the Unhewn Throne
in large format:
Alan Morton – The Golden Age of Telefantasy subtitled ‘a Comprehensive Guide to Science Fiction, fantasy and Horror Television Series of the 1940s and 1950s’. Just what it says! Captain Video, Space Patrol, and many more, episode by episode (where there’s adequate info available as not all episodes survive)
in ‘B’ format:
Charles Stross – Dead Lies Dreaming the latest Laundry novel, also part 1 of
Evan Winter – The Fires of Vengeance sequel to The Rage of Demons, and vol 2 of The Burning.
David Wragge – The Righteous sequel to The Black Hawks
J. P. Oakes – City of Iron and Dust the Fae have been utterly defeated by the goblins but maybe one more dodgy deal by a young fae can make a difference…
Michael Christie – Greenwood complexly-plotted ecological novel spanning centuries
art, etc:
Lu Ming – Mongolian Wind hardback of his art, not all inspired by Mongols!
Square Enix Books – Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward: The Art of Ishgard; Stones and Steel
Square Enix Books – Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward: The Art of Ishgard; The Scars of War matching softcover volumes
Dark Horse – The Art of Arkham Horror full colour hardcover with art from the role-playing game
PIE International – Asian Illustration highlighting the work of 46 artists in a full colour hardcover
Alejandro Jodorowsky & Juan Gimenez – Metabarons: First Cycle hefty 536 page softcover collecting the 1st 8 books of the start of the Metabarons saga in full colour
Geof Darrow & Dave Stewart –Shaolin Cowboy: Shemp Buffet the mayhem continues in a new softcover graphic novel… and maybe finishes, too!
Jeffrey Alan Love – Hero’s Quest hardcover illustrated children’s book, with Love’s inimitable dynamic art illustrating a mythic quest, with rhyming couplets of description
calendars:
Jim Henson‘s Labyrinth – wall calendar for 2022 with stills from the film
magazines:
Heavy Metal – issue # 307 with 2 variant covers
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New Titles – w/e 26th June 2021
in hardcover:
G. R.Matthews – Seven Deaths of an Empire apprentice magician Kyron is part of the guard for the late Emperor’s body as it’s returned home, but whoever has the body may control the succession!
Benjamin Rosenbaum – The Unraveling in a very complex future society, young Fift is the only child of a particular gender… I really enjoyed his earlier short story collection Other Cities
in large format:
Stephen Aryan – The Coward vol 1 of the Quest for Heroes series. Kell’s a bonafide hero, but he feels he’s done his share and is reluctant to unsheath Slayer again – after all, he knows it was really just luck, not heroism!
Christoph Ransmayr – Dog King an alternate post-war Europe, where Germany is divided north/south instead of east/west (based on the short-lived Morgenthau Plan). Not a new publication, but the 1st time I’ve stocked it.
Samuel R. Delany – Occasional Views volume 1 a wide ranging collection of essays by, and interviews with, Delany
in ‘B’ format:
Jack Campbell – Boundless the latest (19th overall) Lost Fleet volume with Captain ‘Black’ Jack Geary. Part 1 of the Lost Fleet: Outlands sub-series
Ari Marmell – Litany of Dreams an Arkham Horror novel, set at Miskatonic University during the Roaring Twenties
K. J. Parker – Inside Man an under-achieving demon is caught in a plan to subvert the very meaning of good and evil. Novella
Daryl Gregory – The Album of Dr. Moreau the classic Wells story updated to the world of boy bands, with the murder of the WildBoyZ manager, Dr. M thrown in!! Novella
in paperback:
Jerry Pournelle – Mamelukes a hefty new Janisaries novel, completed after his death by his son Phillip with David Weber
art, etc:
Anton Seder – Fantastic Beasts of the Nineteenth Century reprint (with improved layout) of a 19th C German book of illustration & design called Das Thier in der Decorativen Kunst. Softcover with wonderful looking full colour birds, fish, reptiles, etc!
Philip Ball (text), Wenting Zhu & Yan Liang (photographers) – The Beauty of Chemistry subtitled Art, Wonder, and Science. Just what it says! Hardback full of great imagery (plus explanatory text) with over 350 colour images. 9″ square approx.
audio:
Lord Dunsany – In the Lamd of Time giant 14 cd 17 hour collection of his best work, read by Steven Crossley. From Pegans to Jorkins, including Idle Days on the Yann & The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
magazines:
Locus – issue # 725 June cover date
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New Titles – week ending 19th June 2021
in hardcover:
Brian Catling – Hollow a band of mercenaries are tasked with transporting a religious oracle across landscapes populated by beasts from Bosch and Bruegel
Terry Miles – Rabbits an addictive, mysterious game has rumours of wonderful prizes – maybe even immortality! But by Round 11 there seems to be errors creeping in, with possibly disastrous consequences
in large format:
Miles Cameron – Artifact Space using fake papers, Marca has gained a place on the huge interstellar Greatship Athens but leaving her past behind isn’t easy
Mirah Bolender – Fortress of Magi sequel to City of Broken Magic & The Monstrous Citadel. The 3rd of the Chronicles of Amicae
in ‘B’ format:
Megan E. O’Keefe – Catalyst Gate the 3rd of her Protectorate novels, after Velocity Weapon & Chaos Vector
Stark Holborn – Ten Low a ex-con scraping a living out on civilisation’s edge saves an enhanced enemy General from a wrecked spaceship…
Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Mexican Gothic just what it says! Loved her earlier Gods of Jade and Shadow but this time fewer gods and more shadows!
Ge Yan – Strange Beasts of China a cryptozoologist is commissioned to track down the ancient beasts of legend (and other more recent cratures) some of which are closer than anyone suspects!. Translated by Jeremy Hang
Adrian Tchaikovsky – The House on the Old Cliff dyslexic friendly, large print novella featuring paranormal investigators, time trave;l and an ancient Sciottish home!
George Robinson – Greyfriars Bobby and the One O’Clock Gun new, revised edition of a very local history book!
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New Titles – w/e 12th June 2021
in hardcover:
Zen Cho – Black Water Sister a young woman returns to her family’s roots (and ghosts) in Malasia…
Martha Wells – Fugitive Telemerty the latest Murderbot novella!
Kate Milford – The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book stranded by bad weather at the Blue Vein Tavern, varied travellers tell their different stories in their own ways… Set in the world of The Greenglass House.
David Weber & Richard Fox – Governor volume 1 of Ascent to Empire, although it also appears to be a set in the same background as Path of the Fury/In Fury Born (originally from the early 90s)
John Ringo & Gary Poole (editors) – We Shall Rise anthology with 11 new stories set in the world of Ringo’s Black Tide Rising apocalyptic zombie series
Roland Lehoucq, Loic Mangin & Jean-Sebastian Steyer (editors) – The Science of Middle Earth serious essays about all sorts of aspects of Tolkien’s Middle Earth! The anatomy of Hobbit feet; climate; metallurgy, Elvish eyesight, and many more! B&W illustrations by Arnauld Rafaelian
in large format:
Edward Cox – The Wood Bee Queen a soon-to-be unemployed folklorist may be the last hope of saving the ruling House Wood Bee of a realm on the other side of the sky and the sea… Signed copies available v. soon.
J. S. Dawes – The Last Watch far in the future one of the worst military postings is to be a Sentinel, guarding The Divide at the edge of the Universe
Jack Campbell – Pirate of the Prophecy volume 1 of the Empress of the Endless Sea series. Her naval career destroyed by a prophecy, Jules flees to join a pirate crew. Elsewhere, the powerful Guilds hold strange secrets about the Empire’s origins…
Margaret St.Clair – A Compendium of Mst.C little remembered, innovative female sf author; 62 short stories, almost all from the 1950s, with a couple slightly later. Big book, small print! Edited by Christopher Broschell
in ‘B’ format:
D. K. Fields – The Stitcher and the Mute more stories are revealed in volume 2 of the Tales of Fenest as Detective Cora Gorderheim continues her investigation into the murky world of murder and politics… I’m keen to read volume 3!
Tasha Suri – The Jasmine Throne volume 1 of The Burning Kingdoms confined in an ancient temple, Princess Manhi drams of vengence against her family while her maid dreams of freedom! Epic fantasy
Nicky Drayden – Escaping Exodus: Symbiosis sequel to Escaping Exodus, one of the strangest generation starship novels I’ve read!
Robbie Arnott – The Rain Heron Ren lives alone in a bleak future, but then soldiers arrive searching for a mythical bird said to be able to change the weather…
Fernando A. Flores – Tears of the Trufflepig absurdist near-future novel about the black market for animals of species brought back from extinction…
Kate Milford – Greenglass House 1st in the series set in the old smugglers inn. Long time since I’ve stocked it!
Nick Mametas – The Planetbreaker’s Son the latest in the PM Press Outspoken Authors series. a novella, a short story, an essay, a bibliography & an interview with Terry Bisson.
Tarun K. Saint (editor) – New Horizons subtitled The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction. 28 new stories
in paperback:
Adam Wisniewski-Snerg – Robot another of the new Penguin Science Fiction Classics, translated from Polish by Tomasz Mirkowicz. BER-66‘s controllers tell him that he’s a robot, but as he caries out his mission of exploring a mysterious underground complex, he becomes less sure that he is!
art, etc:
Frederic Brremaud & Federico Bertolucci – Love: The Mastiff the latest in the series of full colour h/cs about a day in the life of a particular animal. Looks great.
Frederic Brremaud & Federico Bertolucci – Love: The Fox new edition. Also in stock are Love: The Tiger, Love: The Lion & Love: The Dinosaur
Frederic Brremaud & Federico Bertolucci – Brindille and the Shadow Hunters h/c graphic novel about a young girl who might be an elf!
Jim Henson‘s Labyrinth – Under the Spell h/c collecting the comics Under the Spell # 1 & Masquerade # 1
Ben Fisher, Emily S. Whitten & Michelle Nguyen – The Underfoot: The Mighty Deep vol 1 of the full colour adventures of some post-human future ‘uplifted’ animals. Vol 2 came in last month… softcover; good fun!
Jeremy Tankard & Hermione Tankard – Yorick and Bones humorous full colour softcover featuring a young skeleton and his dog, and lots of Shakespeare references!
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New Titles – w/e 6th June 2021
in large format:
Brian Keene & Nick Mamatas – The Damned Highway subtitled Fear and Loathing in Arkham the darker side of Nixon’s 1972 Presidential campaign trail!
in ‘B’ format:
Peter F. Hamilton – Saints of Salvation the 3rd in the Salvation Sequence
Chaz Brenchley – Three Twins at the Crater School steampunk high jinks at a girl’s boarding school on Mars!
in paperback:
The 2nd tranche of new Penguin Classics adding to the 8 released last year
Kōbō Abe – The Ark Sakura classic Japanese novel from 1984 about a recluce who retreats to a vast bunker system
Samuel R. Delany – Driftglass his 1971 collection with classic work from 1967 – 71
Harry Harrison – Make Room! Make Room! classic over-population novel, filmed as Soylent Green
Anna Kavan – Ice frozen post-nuclear dystopia from 1967
David Lindsay – A Voyage to Arcturus astral projection to a strange planet around a distant star
George S. Schuyler – Black No More race satire from 1931
Robert Sheckley – Untouched By Human Hands his 1st short story collection (1954), with work from 1952 & 53
Olaf Stabledon – Star Maker epic tale of the Cosmos!
James Tiptree Jr. – Warm Worlds and Otherwise her 1975 collection with stories from 1968 – 1973. Includes Silverberg’s erroneous Who is Tiptree. What is He? essay
magazines:
Locus – issue # 724, May 2021 cover date. Includes interviews with Nnedi Okoraror & Nghi Vo
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