New Titles – w/e 22nd July 2017
x-n hardcover:
Daryl Gregory – Spoonbenders the story of down-on-their-luck ex-circus performers, the Amazing Telemachus Family
in ‘B’ format:
Christopher Brown – Tropic of Kansas law & order has collapsed, revolution is in the air and the centre of the USA is a wasteland… Looks interesting!
Brent Weeks – The Blood Mirror 4th volume of his Lightbringer series
Jeff Noon – A Man of Shadows PI John Nyquist‘s latest case takes him from the permanently bright Dayzone into the city’s other dark half, Nocturne…
Patrick S. Tomlinson – Children of the Divide 3rd in his Children of a Dead Earth series, which began with The Ark and Trident’s Forge
art, etc:
Mark Salisbury – The Art of the Film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets big, heavily illustrated hardcover. From concept art to the big screen.
magazines:
Interzone – # 271
Black Static – # 59
and, as added to last week’s post on Saturday, Locus – issue # 678, July cover date
New Titles – w/e 15th July 2017
in hardcover:
Charles Stross – The Delirium Brief the 8th of his Laundry Files
Nancy Kress – Tomorrow’s Kin an apparently minor scientist is the first to be invited aboard the visiting alien spaceship…
Louise Welsh – No Dominion a plague has killed most of the World’s population. But on Orkney a small community struggles to survive
R. S. Belcher – The Queen of Swords the 5th book in the Six-Gun Tarot series…
in large format:
Gail Z. Martin – Scourge 2 orphans inherit the family business in Ravenwood, a city full of intrigue and political chicanery. Part 1 of Darkhurst
Dmitry Glukhovsky – Metro 2035 the final part of the Metro Trilogy
N. K. Jemisin – The Inheritance Trilogy big omnibus with the three novels plus a novella, The Awakened Kingdom
Gardner Dozois (editor) – The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection 39 of the top stories from last year
Ellen Datlow (editor) – The Best Horror of the Year: volume Nine
in ‘B’ format:
Ben Aaronovitch – The Hanging Tree the the 6th Peter Grant adventure
Amy S. Foster – The Rift Uprising Ryn has been specially trained to guard one of the Rifts, rips in space/time to alternate worlds…
Dale Lucas – First Watch fast-moving fantasy; the 1st in the Fifth Ward series (or it might be the other way round!)
Nina Allan – The Rift Selena’s sister disappears for 20 years and then claims to have been visiting another planet…
Carrie Vaughn – Bannerless post-Collapse, Enid is an Investigator, making sure the very strict rules of a rare, successful community are maintained…
Angus Donald – The Death of Robin Hood final volume in the series
Austin Grossman – Crooked alternate history featuring Richard Nixon!
Kevin Hearne – Besieged short stories from the world of the Iron Druid
Stephen Baxter – Obelisk short story collection, including 4 set in the Proxima / Ultima background
Gail Carriger – Romancing the Inventor a Supernatural Society novella
in paperback:
Tanith Lee – The Storm Lord reprint of her 1976 novel, volume 1 of the Wars of Vis trilogy
art, etc:
Geof Darrow – Lead Poisoning: The Pencil Art of Geof Darrow sometimes incredibly detailed sketches in hardcover from Dark Horse. Very nice.
Camilla d’Errico – Femina & Fauna mainly full colour art, in hardcover from Dark Horse
Frank Thorne – Frank Thorne’s Battling Beauties interviews and art, together with some very short stories paired with specific pieces. Hardcover from Hermes Press
Frank Cho – Drawing Beautiful Women: The Frank Cho Method updated edition
Jacques Tardi & Leo Malet – Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge the latest Nestor Burma Mystery hardcover from Fantagraphics
Frederic Brremand & Federico Bertolucci – Little Tails in Prehistory the 4th volume featuring Chipper & Squizzo exploring natural history. From the creators of the Love series of textless graphic novels about animals
magazines:
Locus – issue # 678 July cover date
Hi-Fructose – volume # 44 with a 16 page glossy insert of Jeremy Geddes‘ art
New Titles – w/e 8th July 2017
Posted a day early because the shop will not be open on Friday, 7th July
A couple of outstanding titles may arrive in time for Saturday – have to see
in hardcover:
C. F. Iggulden – Darien book 1 of new fantasy series Empire of Salt. From the acclaimed historical novelist
Anna Smith Spark – The Court of Broken Knives first in a big new fantasy series, The Empire of Dust
Terry Brooks – The Black Elphstone the 1st book of The Fall of Shannara set, again (obviously) set in the long-running Shannara series
Matt Haig – How to Stop Time Tom Hazard teaches history, which is easy for him, because he’s lived through hundreds of years of it! But he can’t last forever…
in large format:
R. Scott Bakker – The Unholy Consult the 4th and final volume of his Aspect-Emperor series
Dave Freer – Stardogs huge, alien ‘stardogs’ are essential for interstellar travel but now they’re dying out…
Joshua Dalzelle – Omega Rising Jason inadvertently becomes trapped on an alien spacecraft he stumbles across and is whisked away from Earth…
in ‘B’ format:
Jen Williams – The Ninth Rain part 1 of her new The Winnowing Flame Trilogy
Melinda Snodgrass – In Evil Times sequel to The High Ground
Peter Watts – Firefall omnibus edition of Blind Sight and Echopraxia
Mike McCormack – Notes From a Coma in near-future Ireland a man in an induced coma is part of a research project but his coma goes viral!
Joshua Dalzeele – Call to Arms & Counterstrike books 2 & 3 of his Black Fleet Trilogy. The 1st, Warship, is also back in stock. There hasn’t been a threat to Terran occupied space for hundreds of years and the battleships are barely functional anymore…
Zachary Mason – The Lost Books of the Odyssey retelling & reinterpretation of scenes from the epic. By the author of new sf hardcover Void Star
Andy Frankham-Allen – Night of the Intelligence a Lethbridge Stewart adventure set in the Doctor Who universe
in paperback:
Joshua Palmetier – Threading the Needle sequel to the recent Shattering the Ley
Kalayna Price – Grave Ransom the 5th Alex Croft adventure…
Closed – Friday 7th July
Please note that Transreal Fiction will be closed all day this coming Friday.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
I fully expect to be open as usual on the Thursday and Saturday.
New Titles – w/e 1st July 2017
in hardcover:
Tad Williams – The Witchwood Crown part 1 of The Last King of Osten Ard. A welcome return to the world of The Dragonbone Chair!
Anna Smith Spark – The Court of Broken Knives 1st in a big new fantasy series, Empires of Dust
Eric Flint, Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlet – The Alexander Inheritance the latest Ring of Fire novel but this is a new scenario in which a cruise ship vanishes from the present and ends up in the Greek controlled Mediterranean of the 4th Century B.C.
Diana Gabaldon – Seven Stones to Stand or Fall collects 7 new Outlander stories. 2 (190 pages between them) appear to be original to this volume
Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden, Kelly Armstrong, Jonathan Maberry, Kat Richardson, Seanan McGuire, Tim Lebbon, Cherie Priest, James A. Moore & Mark Morris – Indigo a mosaic novel by 10 of the top names in dark fantasy/horror.
K. J. Parker – Mightier Than the Sword short, signed & numbered fantasy novel from Subterranean Press
William Browning Spencer – The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and other stories 10 short stories in a signed & numbered limited edition from Subterranean Press. Long time since he’s had a book out…
Doctor Who – Myths & Legends collection of 14 ‘Epic Tales From Alien Worlds’ by various authors
in large format:
David Mealing – Soul of the World the 1st book of the Ascension Cycle fantasy series
McSweeney’s – issue # 49: Cover Stories it’s been a long time coming!
in ‘B’ format:
Tad Williams – The Heart of What Was Lost novel tidying up a loose end from the Memory Sorrow & Thorn series and a lead-in to the new series set in Osten Ard, land of The Dragonbone Chair!
Jay Kristoff – Nevernight 10 year old Mia seeks training by the assassins of the Red Church of Itreya
Erika Johansen – The Fate of the Tearling final part of the trilogy that began with The Queen of the Tearling
Jodi Taylor – The Long and Short of It the 9th in the fun time travel series…
Jason M. Hough Escape Velocity the 5th in the Dire Earth Cycle, which began with Darwin’s Elevator
Drew Magary – The Hike surreal fantasy novel
Sarah Kuhn – Heroine Worship sequel to Heroine Complex, about a team of female superheroes in California
Christina Henry – Lost Boy an alternate story of Peter Pan from the PoV of one of the Lost Boys…
Richard Kadrey – The Kill Society the 9th Sandman Slim novel
in paperback:
Arianne “Tex” Thompson – Dreams of the Eaten the 3rd volume of The Children of the Drought
art, etc:
Hiroshi Unno – The World of Mucha thick volume collecting Alfons Mucha‘s art. Subtitled A Journey to Two Fairylands: Paris and Czech. Wonderful Art Nouveau imagery
Joe Lansdale & Sam Glanzman – Red Range: A Wild Western Adventure full colour hardback graphic novel from IDW
Alexandro Jodorowsky & Juan Himenez – The Metabarons volume 2: Aghnar & Oda the 2nd section of the classic graphic novel from Humanoids
Francois Schuiten & Benoit Peeters – The Leaning Girl b&w graphic novel of The Obscure Cities. Companion volume to The Theory of the Grain of Sand, which came out recently…
Winsor McCay – The Airship Adventures of Little Nemo small, but easily legible, full colour volome from Taschen collecting the entire run of his trips aboard an airship, starting in January 1910. Wonderful stuff and very reasonably priced! Slumberland, Mars, and all across North America!
New Titles – w/e 24th June 2017
in hardcover:
Zachery Mason – Void Star in a flooded near future, people need interpreters to fully understand their AIs…
large format:
Shirley Johnson – The Water War: Episode 1 America’s water supply has been rendered mostly undrinkable by various bacteria, algae and worse, and as society collapses people have to take matters into their own hands…
T. A. Pratt – Closing Doors the final Marla Mason adventure…
John Shirley – Lovecraft Alive: A Collection of Lovecraftian Stories 10 stories of which only 4, I think, have been in books I’ve stocked previously…
Tanith Lee – The Weird Tales of Tanith Lee literally the 28 stories she had published in the magazine Weird Tales
in ‘B’ format:
Yoon Ha Lee – Raven Stratagem the sequel to Nine Fox Gambit and volume 2 of Machineries of Empire
Wendy N. Wagner – An Oath of Dogs Kate has a new job on an alien forest planet but her boss may have been murdered and the mill is being sabotaged, possibly in co-operation with the dog-like native aliens
Jay Posey – Sungrazer sequel to Outriders, about a new Cold War between Earth and her colonies…
Daniel Godfrey – Empire of Time time travel and a new city of Pompeii
Karin Tidbeck – Amatka Vanja is sent on an info-gathering trip to a strange, wintry colony, where very different philosophies and lifestyles are being pursued…
Sarah Gailey – River of Teeth alternate history set some years after the US imports hippos to the Louisiana swamps as an alternative food source! (This was a real proposal!)
William Dietrich – The Trojan Icon the 8th Ethan Gage adventure, mainly set in the Russian Empire and eastern Europe
Tom Holt – The Management Style of the Supreme Beings his latest surreal fantasy!
Paul Magrs – Fellowship of Ink The Smudgelings are a group of writers who meet regularly to discuss their various works, but all their talk of fantasy is affecting the fabric of Space/Time…
Angus Watson – You Die When You Die part 1 of a new epic fantasy, West of West
Dana Fredsti – The Spawn of Lilith set in the dark, non-human corners of the Hollywood film industry…
Michael Prescott – The Street the protagonist finds himself reliving three days of his 1970s childhood
in paperback:
Elizabeth Haydon – The Weaver’s Lament the 9th in her Symphony of Ages series
Nicholas Sainsbury Smith – Extinction Edge sequel to Extinction Horizon, set in the devastated aftermath of a global bio-weapon being used…
Star Trek – Enigma Tales the latest Deep Space Nine adventure, written by Una McCormack
The Horus Legacy – Eye of Terra the latest volume of short stories, edited by Laurie Goulding
art, etc:
Shichigoro-Shingo – The Art of Shichigoro reminiscent of both Giger & Ian Miller
Socar Myles – Fantasy Art Drawing Skills comprehensive guide from Barron’s
Harry Potter – Houses of Hogwarts: Cinematic Guide lots of movie stills and brief descriptions of the Houses, their main pupils and Heads of House
Ruth McEnergy Stuart & Albert Bigelow Paine – Gobolinks or Shadow-Pictures for Young and Old non-illustrated booklet describing various inkblots for use in a Victorian-era parlour game (pre-dating their use in the Rorschach Test)
magazines:
Locus – issue # 677 June cover date. With news of various Awards and Forthcoming Books
Signed Copies of The Delirium Brief
Yes, Charlie’s latest Laundry book, The Delirium Brief – the 8th – is out in hardcover in a few weeks and, as before, I’ll be able to offer signed copies of it.
Official publication date is Thursday the 13th of July and the hardcover price is £18.99
Postage within the UK will be £2.90 = £21.89 in total
Postage to the rest of Europe is £7.20 = £26.19 in total
Postage to most other places is £10.70 = £29.69 in total
Postage to Australia & NZ, etc. is £11.40 = £30.39 in total
Signing options are as before and include having your copy dated, or with the location (Edinburgh) added, or a brief greeting or phrase – Happy Birthday, for example. No first lines though.
Previous customers should receive an e-mail in the next couple of days, or you can contact the shop on enquiries@transreal.co.uk
Let me know what you want and I’ll send a PayPal Invoice out to you.
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Bob Howard’s career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from the supernatural, has involved brilliant hacking, ancient magic and combat with creatures of pure evil. Now the Laundry’s existence has become public, and Bob is being trotted out on TV to answer pointed questions about elven asylum seekers. What neither Bob nor his managers have foreseen is that their organisation has earned the attention of a horror far more terrifying than any demon: a government looking for public services to privatise.
There are things in the Laundry’s assets that big business would simply love to get its hands on …Inch by inch, Bob Howard and his managers are forced to consider the truly unthinkable: a coup against the British government itself.
New Titles – w/e 17th June 2017
in hardcover:
Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland – The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. a link is found between science, magic and time travel and so the Department of Dichronic Operations is born…
Laura Lam – Shattered Minds the sequel to False Hearts signed copies available soon
Anna Stephens – Godblind the Red Gods were banished long ago but now they want to break the Veil Between Worlds and return to rule again…
Jeff Vandermeer – Borne in a future, ruined city, Rachel finds a strange creature in the fur of an enormous bear!
Stephen Baxter – Xeelee Vengeance the alien Xeelee travel back over a million years to destroy the man most responsible for the war between them and humans…
Taylor Anderson – Devil’s Due the latest (12th) in the Destroyermen series, which began with Into The Storm as a WW2 warship found itself sailing on an alternate Earth and in the middle of a very different war…
Seanan McGuire – Down Among the Sticks and Bones a companion volume to Every Heart a Doorway. Wayward Children # 2
Richard Kadrey – The Kill Society the 9th Sandman Slim novel
in large format:
Ilona Andrews – One Fell Sweep volume 1 of The Innkeeper Chronicles.
Lilith Saintcrow – Cormorant Run the 4th Bannon and Clare adventure, and apparently an homage to Roadside Picnic/Stalker and the Strugatsky Brothers…
Lindsay Smith & Max Gladstone (creators) – The Witch Who Came in From the Cold back in 1970, there’s a darker, magical war being waged beneath the Cold War…
in ‘B’ format:
Robert Dickinson – The Tourist a time-traveller departs from his strict schedule
Edward Cox – The Watcher of Dead Time the 3rd in the Relic Guild series
Mark De Jager – Infernal Stratus wakes with no memory except his name and that he’s not human, but must cross a world ruined by dark magic
James Morrow – The Asylum of Dr. Caligari a radical new painting inspires WW1 troops to rush into battle…
Stephen Donaldson – The King’s Justice and The Augur’s Gambit 2 short novels totalling around 300 pages between them, originally published separately in hardcover…
Alastair Reynolds – Beyond the Aquila Rift 19 short stories
John Crowley – Totalitopia plus… the latest volume of fiction and essays, etc. from PS Press in their Unknown Author series
Warhammer 40,000 – Legacy of the Wulfen omnibus containing Curse of the Wulfen by David Annandale and Legacy of Russ by Robbie Macniven
in paperback:
Harry Turtledove – Fallout the 2nd in The Hot War series, set in a world where the Korean War sparks new conflicts…
Forgotten Realms – Maestro the 2nd of the Homecoming series (after Archmage) by R. A. Salvatore
art, etc:
Jacques Tardi & Jean-Patrick Manchette – Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell b&w hardcover adaptation by Tardi of Manchette’s novel…
Alison Wilgus & Molly Brooks – Science Comics: Flying Machines 4th in the series of colour softcovers concerning an aspect of science or technology. From men with wings to the mode4rn day (but mainly the early stuff!)
Hirohiko Araki – Manga in Theory and Practice sparsely illustrated but very informative text which probably transfers to other comic styles as well… Subtitled The Craft of Creating Manga
magazines:
Shoreline of Infinity – issue # 8 new fiction, poetry and reviews
Illustrators – issue # 18 including articles on Mort Drucker and Puffin Books covers. Illustrators issue # 16 (with Neal Adams) also back in stock
New Titles – w/e 10th June 2017
in hardcover:
Simon R. Green – Moonbreaker the 11th in his Secret Histories series…
Catherynne M. Valente – The Refrigerator Monologues linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, etc…
large format:
Ada Palmer – Too Like the Lightning in the future living in a utopia feels normal but maybe it really isn’t…
Jane O’Reilly – Blue Shift to survive, humanity will have to fight their way through alien-held space… Part 1 of The Second Species Trilogy
Bob Proehl – A Hundred Thousand Worlds a minor sci-fi tv series star takes a roadtrip across the USA with her 9 y.o. son, visiting comic & media cons on the way…
Jack Campbell – The Sister Paradox Liam never knew he had a sister, let alone one who would drag him from school into a fantasy world…
Jack Campbell – The Pillars of Reality volumes 4, 5 & 6 which are The Pirates of Pacta Servanda, The Servants of the Storm & The Wrath of the Great Guilds
in ‘B’ format:
Tanya Huff – A Peace Divided the 2nd Peacekeeper book, after An Ancient Peace
Becky Chambers – A Closed and Common Orbit sequel to The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Ren Warom – Virology sequel to Escapology
Emma Green – The Many Selves of Katherine North a secret project to enable people to inhabit the minds of various animals…
Victoria Schwab – Our Dark Duet sequel to This Savage Song
Daniel Polansky – A City Dreaming ‘M’ is a down on his luck mage in a New York which may be sinking…
Ever Dundas –Goblin in 2011 a woman is forced to come to terms with her childhood as a young WW2 orphan who took refuge in an imaginary world…
Angus Donald – Outlaw first time in stock, the first of his Outlaw Chronicles about Robin Hood. V8, The Death of Robin Hood, is about to be published…
Ursula K. LeGuin – Orsinia omnibus volume of short stories containing the collections Malefrina and Orsinian Tales, with 2 other stories; Two Delays on the Northern Line & Unlocking the Air
Darren Naish – Hunting Monsters subtitled Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths. A serious look at current cryptozoology
art, etc:
Alfred S. McEwan, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck & Ari Espinoza – Mars: The Pristine Beauty of the Red Planet massive hardback of stunning satellite pics of the Martian surface
Glenn Fabry – Anatomy for Fantasy Artists new, expanded edition. Softcover from Barron’s
Linda Ravenscroft – How to Draw & Paint Fairyland from fairies to their castles, mushroom rings, little houses, bridges, etc!
Running Press – A Tolkien Treasury tiny hardcover of art and quotes by and about JRRT & LotR
New Titles – w/e 3rd June 2017
in hardcover:
J. R. R. Tolkien – Beren and Luthien their story, extracted from among other writings in The Silmarillion and illustrated by Alan Lee.
Steve Tribe – A Brief History of the Time Lords. A Doctor Who tie in book, heavily illustrated
in ‘B’ format:
George R. R. Martin – A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms collecting the 3 previously published Dunk and Egg stories, set a century before the events of The Game of Thrones. The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword & The Mystery Knight. Illustrated by Gary Gianni (who does the art for the annual calendars, as I recall)
Gavin Chait – Lament for the Fallen set in a collapsed and failed Nigeria, a man who appears to have fallen out of the sky is befriended by some villagers… Loved the hardcover last year!
Jason M. Hough – Injection Burn the 4th of the Dire Earth Cycle, which began with The Darwin Elevator
Nik Korpon – The Rebellion’s Last Traitor the past has been outlawed and memory has become a commodity…
K. W. Jeter – Grim Expectations the 3rd in what has become The George Dower Trilogy of Infernal Devices, Fiendish Schemes and now this title
Rachel Vincent – Spectacle the cryptids of the Menagerie are sold into slavery to perform and fight for rival show, The Spectacle. Volume 2 of her Menagerie series
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Bladestorm the latest novel of The Realmsgate Wars, by Matt Westbrook
Warhammer 40,000 – Tyrant of the Hollow Worlds a Space Marines Battles adventure, by Mark Clapham
in paperback:
David D. Levine – Arabella of Mars the Red Planet was colonised early, by an expedition led by Captain William Kidd in the late 17th C and now, a hundred years later, young Arabella must come to London on Earth to complete her education. But she joins a spaceship crew instead!
F. Paul Wilson – Panacea Medical Examiner Laura becomes entangled in a war between rival cults, one which claims to have a universal Panacea, and another determined to destroy it…
Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Extinction Horizon first book of The Extinction Cycle, about a U.S. military Delta Force team battling a zombie plague in a post-apocalyptic world!
David L. Golemon – The Traveller the 11th Event Group novel
Star Trek – Hearts and Minds the latest Next Generation adventure, by Dayton Ward
art, etc:
Jeffrey Jones – World Without End portfolio of 4 colour prints in a large envelope with b&w art on the front. It’s a warehouse find, issued in 1980 by SQP
Melanie Delon – Magika: The Art of MD full colour softcover, published by SQP
Christina Rosetti – Goblin Market the classic poem, heavily illustrated by Omar Rayyan
Igor Baranko – Egyptian Princesses b&w adventure in ancient Egypt, from Humanoids
Christophe Casenove – Sea Creatures In Their Own Words: Armed and Dangerous 2nd informative & humorous volume from Papercutz
Frederic Brremaud & Federico Bertolucci – Little Tails: In the Savannah the 3rd Chipper & Squizzo natural history adventure! The creators also produce the ‘Love‘ series
Mark Crilley – Manga Art: Inspiration & Techniques From an Expert Illustrator looks very informative, with plenty of illustrations
magazines:
Illustration Magazine – issue #56 main articles on Saul Tepper and James Avati
Heavy Metal – issue # 286 a Magick Special issue
