New Titles – w/e 13th October 2018
in hardcover:
Tim Powers – Alternate Routes LA’s freeways are infested with ghosts, and mysterious on- and off-ramps…
Terry Brooks – Street Freaks adventure in the Los Angeles megacity of the future…
Greg Van Eekhout – Voyage of the Dogs with the human crew missing, the up-lifted ‘barkonauts’ must do theit best to pilot their spaceship home
Shaun Tan – Tales From the Inner City short stories about humans and animals, heavily illustrated by the author
Michael J. Sullivan – The Disappearance of Winter’s Daughter the 4th of his Riyria Chronicles
Cherie Priest – The Agony House Denise has moved back to New Orleans and hopes that the answers to strange goings-on will be found in an old comic… Illustrated by Tara 0’Conner
Charlie Jane Anders – Rock Manning Goes For Broke signed & numbered novella from Subterranean Press featuring Vikings and Steampunks!
Doctor Who – Twelve Angels Weeping collection of a dozen short stories, eaxh featuring a different Villain! Written by Dave Rudden, with illutrations by Alexis Snell
in large format:
C. E. Murphy – Redeemer Rosie wants to keep her job now the troops are returning home after WW2 but first there are demons to kill…
John Birmingham – Stalin’s Hammer omnibus edition of the sequels to his epic Axis of Time alternate history
in ‘B’ format:
John Scalzi – The Consuming Fire sequel to The Collapsing Empire
Derek Kunsken – The Quantum Magician genetic engineering has enabled him to become the greatest con artist and thief in the Galaxy. But now there’s job which will either end in war, or spur mankind’s evolution… 1st book in the Quantum Evolution series
Elizabeth May – The Fallen Kingdom missed this when it came out fairly recently. 3rd in her Falconer trilogy
Jin Yong – A Hero Born volume 1 of Legends of the Condor Heroes epic fantasy from China
Gary Kemble – Strange Ink Harry finds he has a strange tattoo on his neck one morning. Gradually more appear which trigger nightmares, and worse…
Martha Wells – All Systems Red the 1st in her Murderbot Diaries series
Richard Mathieson – The Best of RM 33 short stories chosen by Victor LaValle and issuead as a Penguin Classic
in paperback:
Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Deliverance Helldivers III
art, etc:
Dopress Books – Monsters of the Imagination published by Cypi Press. Subtitled ‘Amazing Creature Designs by Global Artists‘
Moebius – Inside Moebius Part 3 hardcover from Humanoids
Terry Moore – How To Draw softcover, mainly on figure drawing, especially for comic panels
magazines, etc:
Hi-Fructose – issue # 49 with a 18 page insert on ‘The art of the mushroom‘!
Graphite – issue # 09
calendars:
Jack Yerka – Surrealscapes a dozen of his clasic weird pitures…
Vintage Sci-Fi – another dozen old pulp magazine covers!
The Labyrinth Index – Charles Stross
Yes, it’s that time again!
There’s a new Laundry Files novel out (the ninth!) at the end of the month and, as ever, I’ll be able to provide signed copies.
The cost is £18.99 for the Orbit UK edition
Postage within the UK will be an additional £2.95
Postage to Europe will be £7.45
Postage to Canada, the US and most of the rest of the world will be £10.95
Postage to Australia & NZ,etc. will be £11.65
Multiple copy order prices on request.
Let me know how you’d like your copy/ies signed, and the country you live in and I’ll send a PayPal Invoice confirming the details and asking for yours!
Options include having it dated, or the location added, or a brief greeting, etc. No first lines though.
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about The Labyrinth Index:
Britain is under New Management. The disbanding of the Laundry – the British espionage agency that deals with supernatural threats, has culminated in the unthinkable – an elder god in residence in 10 Downing Street. But in true ‘the enemy of my enemy’ fashion, Mhari Murphy finds herself working with His Excellency Nylarlathotep on foreign policy – there are worse things, it seems, than an elder god in power, and they lie in deepest, darkest America.
A thousand-mile-wide storm system has blanketed the midwest, and the president is nowhere to be found – Mhari must lead a task force of disgraced Laundry personnel into the storm front to discover the truth. But working for an elder god is never easy, and as the stakes rise, Mhari will soon question exactly where her loyalties really lie.
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New Titles – w/e 6th October 2018
in hardcover:
Gigi McCaffrey – Dragon’s Code stand alone (I think) novel set on mother Anne McCaffrey‘s world of Pern. The story of some of the time-stranded Dragonriders, stuck 400 years in their future…
Martha Wells – Exit Strategy one of The Murderbot Diaries
Graham Masterton – Ghost Virus his latest horror novel, set in present day London…
in large format:
Sebastien de Castell – Soulbinder the 4th of his Spellslinger books
Grady Hendrix – My Best Friend’s Exorcism
in ‘B’ format:
James S. A. Corey – Persepolis Rising the 7th in the Expanse series
Tricia Sullivan – Sweet Dreams Charlie is a dreamhacker, hired to help someone who believes they’re being stalked in the dreams…
John Hornor Jacobs – Infernal Machines the 3rd in his Incorruptibles series, about Romans in America…
Terry Goodkind – Shroud of Eternity book 2 of The Nicci Chronicles
D. B. Jackson – Time’s Children volume 1 of the Islevale series. He also writes as David B. Coe
Alison Littlewood – The Crow Garden Nathaniel takes a new position as a mad-doctor at a remote Manor in mid-19th C England…
Jennie Melamid – Gather the Daughters in a remote, restrictive society, all the children are given a taste of freedom by being left to roam the island doing whatever they want every summer. One young girl discovers a dark secret…
Tanya Huff – The Demon’s Den and Other Tales of Valdemar collection of 7 stories set in Mercedes Lackey‘s world of Valdemar
Warhammer 40,000 – Legacy of Dorn featuring a Chapter of Crimson Fist Space Marines. Written by Mike Lee
in paperback:
L. E. Modesitt, jr. – The Mongrel Mage the 20th volume of the Saga of Recluce, set several generations after the events in Cyador’s Heirs and featuring Beltur, a young Mage.
Marshall Ryan Maresca – The Way of the Shield part 1 of The Maradaine Elite, and the 9th novel set in Maradaine overall
Orson Scott Card – Children of the Fleet volume 1 of new Enderverse series, Fleet School
art, etc:
John Howe – A Middle-Earth Traveller subtitled Sketches From Bag End to Mordor. Nice looking hardback with mainly b&w work but some full colour more finished looking pieces as well. It includes some art relating the Hobbit and the Silmarillion (I think) as well, not only LotR. Same size and look as The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook by Alan Lee (signed copies of the Alkan Lee book available!)
Huw Lewis Jones – The Writer’s Map heavily illustrated book all about the history of fantasy maps! Looks fascinating. Subtitled An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, but it looks to be much more than that!
magazines:
listed last week, but not until Saturday afternoon!
Locus – issue # 692 September cover date
New Titles – w/e 30th September 2018
in hardcover:
Hank Green – An Absolutely Remarkable Thing giant, mysterious humanoid sculptures start appearing all over the world and April is the first person to upload video, etc. about them and thus becomes the popular expert on, um, whatever they are!
Rena Rossner – The Sisters of the Winter Wood in a remote village steeped in folklore in eastern Europe two sisters discover they have a magical heritage…
in ‘B’ format:
Adrian Tchaikovsky – The Hyena and the Hawk book 3 of his Echoes of the Fall series
Andrew Michael Hurley – Devil’s Day a century ago a huge blizzard struck and life in the valley has never been the same since, and who can put credence in the old tales of how it used to be…
Mike Ashley (editor) – Glimpses of the Unknown 18 forgotten ghost stories, dating from 1899 to 1929, issued in one volume by the British Library in their Tales of the Weird series
Cecily Gayford (editor) – Tales From the Dead of Night collection of 13 classic ghost stories…
art, etc:
Hugo Pratt – Tango the 10th in Eurocomics‘ re-issues of the Corto Maltese books
Tommy Redolfi – Marilyn’s Monsters softcover graphic novel from Humanoids re-imagining Norma Jean‘s life
Youssef Daoudi – Monk! nice looking hardcover biography of jazz great Thelonius Monk
Mike Wu – Henri’s Hats a young boy finds a trunk full of his grandfather’s hats! Hardback children’s storybook from Pixar in their Artist Showcase series
Jim Henson‘s The Dark Crystal: A Discovery Adventure slim hardcover with large pictures of scenes from the film, with a list of characters and items to find in each piece… Art by Laura Langston
Krent Able & Julian Hanshaw (editors) – I Feel Machine softcover anthology of 6 stories about technology & humanity… Each tale is by an individual, not a collaboration.
Rosemary Mosco & Jon Chad – Solar System: Our Place in Space the latest Science Comics title
Andy Hirsch – Trees: Kings of the Forest the other latest Science Comics title! Easy to read & easy to understand science books for (mainly) young beginners
Scott McCloud – Making Comics softcover subtitled Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
magazines:
Shoreline of Infinity – issue #13 latest issue of the British Fantasy Award nominated magazine produced here in Edinburgh
late arrival!
Locus – issue # 692 September cover date
New Titles – w/e 22nd September 2018
in hardback:
V. E. Schwab – Vengeful sequel to Vicious
Harry Turtledove – Through Darkest Europe alternate history in which Europe is the equivalent of today’s troubled Middle East…
Chris Wooding – The Ember Blade the 1st book of The Darkwater Legacy. Unjustly imprisoned, Aren must escape but maybe it was safer in jail!
Christelle Dabos – A Winter’s Promise Ophelia can read the past of any object, and can also travel through mirrors… Book 1 of The Mirror Visitor. Translated from French by Hildegarde Serle
Tamora Pierce – Tempests and Slaughter volume 1 of The Numair Chronicles, about how young Arram becomes the powerful mage Numair…
Brandon Sanderson – Legion: Lies of the Beholder a 3rd novella featuring polymath/multiple pesonality Stephen Leeds
Brandon Sanderson – Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Legion omnibus edition containing Legion, Skin Deep & Lies of the Beholder
Peter V. Brett – Barren new novella set in the world of The Demon Cycle
Stephen Erikson – The Second Collected Tales of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach contains the stories The Wurms of Blearmouth, Crack’d Pot Trail & The Fiends of Nightmaria
Nnedi Okorafor – Who Fears Death Oops! several months late…
Flame Tree Books – Robots & Artificial Intelligence: Short Stories a wide range of Thrilling Tales, from L. Frank Baum to the present day; editied by Josie Mitchell
Flame Tree Books – Lost Souls: Short Stories a wide range of Gothic Fantasy from Poe to the present day; edited by Laura Bulbeck
Philip Pullman – Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling 30+ essays covering all aspects of creating fiction
Ryan North – How To Invent Everything the only book you’ll need if you’re stuck sometime in history!
in large format:
David Stokes (editor) – Beyond the Edge volume 2 of anthology series Myriad Lands. V1, Around the World, came in a few weeks ago…
in ‘B’ format:
Tade Thompson – Rosewater set in Nigeria in 2066
Chris Beckett – America City Holly takes a job in a climate-changed America, working for a dodgy Presidential candidate…
Nicky Drayden – Temper in a future South Africa, two twins lead very different lives… I really enjoyed her previous book, The Prey of Gods
Scott Westerfield – Imposters one of a pair of identical twin sisters has been trained to kill, in order to protect the other…
Victoria Schwab – City of Ghosts ghost story set in Edinburgh
L. L. McKinley – A Blade So Black Alice has to venture deeper into Wonderland from Atlanta to find an antidote to the poison her mentor has been dosed with…
Grady Hendrix – We Sold Our Souls Kris quits her dead-end job, determind to re-unite the rock group she was in, which almost made it big, until the lead singer went solo…
Robert Dinsdale – The Toymakers in 1917, runaway Cathy finds a job in a magical London toyshop
John Bellairs – The House With a Clock In It’s Walls YA novel the new film is based on. 1st published in 1973, with several sequels following
Max Brooks – Minecraft: The Island adventure set in the game and landscape of Minecraft! From the author of World War Z and The Zombie Apocalypse Guide
Warhammer 40,000 – Carcharodons: Outer Dark new Space Marines adventure from Robbie MacNiven
Mark Morris (editor) – New Fears 2 21 brand new stories
Rowan Routh (editor) – Eight Ghosts modern ghost stories, all set in places owned by English Heritage!
magazines:
Interzone – issue # 277
Black Static – issue # 65
New Titles – w/e 15th September 2018
in hardback:
Glen Cook – Port of Shadows the latest Chronicle of the Black Company. The 15th overall, I think
in large format:
Nick Mamatas – The People’s Republic of Everything collection of 14 of his short stories
Michael Sims (editor) – Frankenstein Dreams 20 stories; subtitled ‘A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Science Fiction‘
William Hope Hodgson – The Nightland and Other Perilous Romances the 4th volume in the definitive 5 volume The Collected Fiction of WHH, from Night Shade Books. The final volume is due in January 2019
in ‘B’ format:
Angus Watson – The Land You Never Leave sequel to You Die When You Die
Justina Robson – Salvation’s Fire volume 2 of After the War, which follows on from Adrian Tchaikovsky‘s Redemption’s Blade
Chris McCrudden – Battlestar Suburbia screwball science fiction…
in paperback:
Tim Pratt – The Dreaming Stars sequel to The Wrong Stars
Julie E. Czerneda – To Guard Against the Dark the 3rd in the Reunification set of The Clan Chronicles sequence
Clive Cussler & Robin Burcell – The Romanov Ransom the latest Fargo adventure…
art, etc:
Mark P. Witton – The Palaeoartist’s Handbook complete illustrated guide to everything about drawing and painting dinosaurs, etc!
Tony Millionaire – TM’s Sea Monsters Coloring Book 4 dozen b&w illustrations with some of his favourite characters!
Simon Stalenhag – The Electric State his 3rd book of alien invasion in Sweden, this time with a bit more narrative structure!
Philippe Druillet & Michel Demuth – Yragael: Urm the Mad fantastical, psychedelic graphic novel from 2012, now in English
The Beatles – Yellow Submarine 50th anniversary hardcover edition of the story, Full colour adaptation by Bill Morrison
magazines:
Heavy Metal – issue # 291
una impresión española de la librería
From this site, about 2/3rds of the way down the page.
(English translation below this text)
Saliendo de la Royal Mile en dirección al cementerio de Greyfriars muy cerca de la estatua del popular terrier Bobby que da la bienvenida al camposanto (un pequeño perro que podríamos considerar como el Hachiko escocés), descubriremos en Candlemaker Row, el sencillo hogar de Transreal Fiction. A diferencia de los locales que mencioné anteriormente, esta librería es mucho más austera en espacios y decoración, y se avoca a un nicho en particular: ciencia ficción y fantasía, tanto en formato de novela como en literatura gráfica. Aquí es posible encontrar desde lo más clásico, hasta las ediciones más recientes de estos géneros. De hecho, según leí tiempo atrás, Transreal tendría la mayor gama de obras importadas de ciencia ficción y fantasía en Escocia, además de contar con la invaluable ayuda de su dueño, Mike Calder, si necesitas alguna recomendación u orientación en la búsqueda de material.
No muy lejos de Transreal, podemos avanzar hasta Grassmarket. Siglos atrás en esta zona se realizaron ejecuciones públicas, se cometieron famosos crímenes y se protagonizaron numerosos disturbios, sin embargo, hoy en día nos encontramos con un animado sector lleno de pubs y restaurantes. Si avanzamos hasta la calle West Port además veremos pequeños locales que ofrecen libros de segunda mano a bajos precios.
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Leaving the Royal Mile in the direction of the cemetery of Greyfriars very close to the statue of the popular terrier Bobby who welcomes the graveyard (a small dog that we could consider as the Scottish Hachiko), we will discover in Candlemaker Row, the simple home of Transreal Fiction . Unlike the stores I mentioned earlier, this bookshop is much more austere in spaces and decoration, and is dedicated to a niche in particular: science fiction and fantasy, both in novel format and in graphic literature. Here you can find everything from the most classic, to the most recent editions of these genres. In fact, as I read some time ago, Transreal would have the largest range of imported science fiction and fantasy works in Scotland, as well as the invaluable help of its owner, Mike Calder, if you need any recommendation or guidance in the search for material.
Not far from Transreal, we can advance to Grassmarket. Centuries ago, public executions were carried out in this area, famous crimes were committed and numerous disturbances took place, however, today we find a lively sector full of pubs and restaurants.
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translated using Google Translate; hope it’s more or less accurate!
New Titles – w/e 8th September 2018
The shop will be closed on Friday, so I’m posting this a bit early… Open on Saturday as usual.
in hardcover:
Christopher Priest – An American Story Ben believes, without any hard evidence, that someone close died on 9/11, but now another plane crash has been discovered…
Seanan McGuire – Night and Silence the 12th October Daye adventure…
Jo Walton – An Informal History of the Hugos hefty book going year by year through the awards, from 1953 until 2000…
in large format:
Howard Waldrop – Things Will Never be the Same collection of his best stories, published in 2007. Limited stock available.
in ‘B’ format:
Philip Pullman – La Belle Sauvage 1st part of his new series, The Book of Dust, which is the name it was known by (mistakenly) as a hardback
Stephen Aryan – Mage Fall sequel to Mage Born and thw 2nd in the Age of Dread series
Marc Turner – Red Tide the 3rd of The Chronicles of the Exile
Sue Burke – Semiosis on a new colony planet, the indigenous plants appear to be intelligent…
James Lovegrove – Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities the 3rd of the Cthulhu Casebooks
Richard Morgan – Thirteen previously published in 2007 as Black Man, about genetically enhanced soldiers in peacetime…
Warhammer 40,000 – Emperor’s Legion a Watchers of the Throne adventure by Chris Wraight
Warhammer 40,000 – Of Honour and Iron by Ian St. Martin A Space Marine Conquests book
magazines, etc:
McSweeney’s – Issue # 53 softcover in a sealed bag, with 8 additional ‘inflatable stories’ (balloons with text and/or images on them – it’s hard to tell!)
Don’t Come By On Friday 7th!
Pleae note that Transreal Fiction will be closed from approx 16.00 on Thursday 6th September until 10.00 on Saturday morning. I had hoped to close for only a couple of hours on Thursday and Friday morning but that’s no longer practical.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
New Titles – w/e 1st September 2018
in hardcover:
Peter F. Hamilton – Salvation an alien spaceship is discovered crashed at the edge of human space… Part one of the Salvation Sequence
Stephen Baxter – Xeelee Redemption the Belt is an immense structure enabling a population of the Xeelee to survive into the extreme future…
J. R. R. Tolkien – The Fall of Gondolin the long awaited book length tale of the end of the Second Age of Middle Earth. Illustrated by Alan Lee
H. P. Lovecraft – The Gothic Tales of HPL attractive hardcover from the British Library of 13 of his stories, edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes
in large format:
Miles Cameron – Cold Iron part 1 of a new series from the author of The Traitor Son Cycle!
Adrian Tchaikovsky (editor) – The Scent of Tears the 4th Tales of the Apt collection, with 9 stories by other authors, and 2 by himself
Juliet Marillier – Pickle Moon 16 short stories
Angela P. Nicholas – Aragorn: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Undervalued Hero large, 400+ page examination of the role and actions of Aragorn
in ‘B’ format:
Nicholas Eames – Bloody Rose sequel to Kings of the Wyld
John Gwynne – A Time of Dread 1st n his new series, Of Blood and Bone, which follows on after the events in his The Faithful and the Fallen quartet
Daniel Polansky – The Builders spaghetti western style anthropomorphic animal fantasy!
Martin Millar – Supercute Futures as young teenagers, childhood friends Mox & Mitsu founded what has grown into a huge global corporation, and things are very different now!
Rhonda Mason – Exile’s Throne 3rd part of The Empress Game series
Hal Duncan – The Land of Somewhere Safe novella featuring the Scruffians…
Ricardo Pinto – Matryoshka lost in Venice, Cherenkov finds himself in mysterious Eborius…
Ramsey Campbell – Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach Ray & Sandra go on holiday to the Greek islands but it turns out not to be relaxing!
Tim Waggoner – The Mouth of the Dark Jayce’s daughter is lost in Shadow and even the Harvest Man won’t stop him finding her…
Hunter Shea – Creature Kate & her husband book a cottage for the summer in rural Maine…
Jonathan Janz – The Siren and the Spectre a skeptic is invited to spend a month in ‘the most haunted house in Virginia’
Johnny Mains (editor) – Best British Horror 2018 17 of the best, from NewCon Press
Ian Whates (editor) – Steampunk International new stories from Finland, Portugal & the UK
William F. Temple – Four-Sided Triangle reprint by the British Library of the 1949 classic about the invention of an all-purpose replicator
Arthur C. Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey new edition marking the 50th anniversary of the novel’s release. In the book, they’re actually warthogs, not tapirs, in the early scenes!
Peter Brannen – The Ends of the World an examination of the previous 5 mass extinctions on Earth, and also the current one…
mini:
Stanislaw Lem – The Three Electro-Knights small volume from Penguin with 4 of his short stories
art, etc:
Bill Pearson & J. Michael Catron (editors) – Best of Witzend hardcover collecting strips, etc. from the entire 13 issue run (from mid 60s – mid 80s) of the groundbreaking underground comic published by Wally Wood
Jim Henson‘s The Power of the Dark Crystal volume 3
Octavia Butler – Kindred 250 page softcover graphic novel adaptation of the novel, by Damian Duffy & John Jennings
magazines:
Illustration – issue # 61 featuring Earl Moran, Thomas Nast & a feature on the changing American Frontier
2019 Wall Calendars:
Tolkien Calendar 2019 – with art by Alan Lee from The Fall of Gondolin, Beren and Luthian & The Children of Hurin
Olivia de Berardinis – The Art of Olivia 2019
Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell – Fantasy 2019
