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Books Received, Oct 1st - Oct 15th 2006

Posted in: Books Received on 15th October 2006 by UKSFBN admin

UK SF Book News has received the following books during the first half of October 2006 (many thanks to the publishers concerned for bringing them to our attention). Check out the list, there might be a new release or two that you've not seen yet.

Polity Agent by Neal Asher

Publisher: Tor (UK)
Date: October 7th 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £17.99
About the Book:
The fourth Agent Cormack novel. "From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien 'Maker' back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut down - because something alien is pursuing them."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Cry of the Newborn by James Barclay

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: September 14th 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
About the Book:
The first part of the new fantasy epic from James Barclay, author of the bestselling Chronicles of the Raven and Legends of the Raven series. "The Emperess of Estorea is young and idealistic. The Empire she has inherited has never been more powerful, never been so large. She believes she can bring in a golden age. But her armies are stretched thin, the border provinces are reluctant to pay homage and, even in her own court, dissent and betrayal is in the air."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Abarat II: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker

Publisher: Voyager (UK)
Date: October 2nd 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
About the Book:
"Candy's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more stranger by the Hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchmen to capture her. Why? She wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of the Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesn't even remember learning? There is a mystery here."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Transcendent by Stephen Baxter

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: 21st September 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99
About the Book:
The third volume in Baxter's new epic future history of mankind, Destiny's Children. This melding of a near future narrative that carries a terrible warning about the post-oil and post-global warming world and a narrative thread that tours the fantastically varied diverse species that mankind has become in the impossibly distant future, is an example of Baxter at his best.
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Resplendent by Stephen Baxter

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: 21st September 2006
Format: Large paperback
Price: £12.99
About the Book:
Billed as Destiny's Children, Book Four, this is actually a collection of short stories that are set in the same Xeelee Universe as the main triptych, along the lines of Baxter's earlier collection, Vacuum Diagrams.
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks

Publisher: Orbit (UK)
Date: September 7th 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £18.99
About the Book:
"Fifty years from now, our world is unrecognisable. Pollution and warfare have poisoned the skies, the water and the soil. Pockets of society still exist, living in highly fortified strongholds, while those outside the walls roam the landscape - either predator or prey. But even these isolated compounds are not safe; armies of demons and once-men assault their defences, and inevitably, one by one, they succumb."

Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Age of Misrule by Mark Chadbourn

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: September 14th 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
About the Book:
This is the collected one-volume edition of Chadbourn's Age of Misrule trilogy: World's End, Darkest Hour and Always Forever. "All over the country, the ancient gods of Celtic mythology are returning to the land from which they were banished millennia ago. Following in their footsteps are creatures of folklore: the Fabulous Beasts, shape-shifters and Night Walkers, and other, less wholesome beings."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (UK)
Date: September 7th 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £12.99
About the Book:
"'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother...' As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crooked Man comes."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Into a Dark Realm by Raymond E. Feist

Publisher: Voyager (UK)
Date: September 14th 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £18.99
About the Book:
The second book in the latest Midkemia series from mega-bestseller Feist. "Chaos threatens to overwhelm two worlds as the most dangerous force ever encountered threatens to invade Midkemia, while the most treacherous magician in history - the madman Leso Varen - begins to wreak havoc on the world of Kelewan."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

On the Overgrown Path by David Herter

Publisher: PS Publishing (UK)
Date: September 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.00
About the Book:
A new novella from the multi award-winning PS Publishing. "En route from Bratislava to Prague in the deceptive spring of the 1920s, Leos Janacek, famed opera composer, ethnographer, and amateur psychologist, is stranded in an obscure and enigmatic mountain village, lured from his train by a song of blood."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

Publisher: Voyager (UK)
Date: November 6th 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
About the Book:
The first half of the third installment of George R.R. Martin's truly epic A Song of Ice and Fire. "Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. But fear and deceit are in the air: their enemies are poised to strike."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? 114 questions and answers from the New Scientist 'Last Word' column

Publisher: Profile Books (UK)
Date: October 5th 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
About the Book:
The follow-up to last year's bestselling Does Anything Eat Wasps?, this volume presents further questions and answers from the pages of New Scientist's 'Last Word' column, including the eponymous puzzler about Antartic penguins' non-freezing feet.
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Discworld Diary 2007: Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook by Terry Pratchett with Stephen Briggs and Paul Kidby

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: August 31st 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £12.99
About the Book:
The Ankh-Morpork Post Office provides the jokes for this year's Discworld-themed desk diary. Like all great bureaucracies, the Ankh-Morpork Post Office has its rules and regulations and these, together with the history of this once-great department, are highlighted and parodied in the Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook.
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: October 19th 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £9.99
About the Book:
A collection of Alastair Reynolds' stories and novelettes set in the universe of Revelation Space, his first bestseller. Galactic North also includes several brand-new pieces written specially for this collection.
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Doctor Whom by A.R.R.R. Roberts

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: September 21st 2006
Format: Hb
Price: £8.99
About the Book:
Introducing Doctor Whom, the gramatically-correct TimeLord (or should that be Time Lord, or Timelord..?) has come to save our universe from the terror's of sloppy syntax and bad grammar, in a new pardoy by that man Roberts.
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Air by Geoff Ryman

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: September 31st 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99
About the Book:
In Geoff Ryman's return to science fiction he asks us to consider the potential effects of technology on the future of the human race. Air won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the James Tiptree award and the BSFA Award, and is based on a Philip K. Dick Award-nominated short story.
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration ed. by Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan

Publisher: British Fantasy Society (UK)
Date: September 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £11.99
About the Book:
This celebratory anthology features short fiction from a host of British fantasy and horror legends (Stephen Jones, Christopher Fowler, Clive Barker, Mark Chadbourn, Michael Marshall Smith, John Connoll, Peter Crowther, Juliet E. McKenna, Mark Morris, Ramsey Campbell, Chaz Brenchley, Kim Newman, Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, Simon Clark, Robert Holdstock, Brian Aldiss, Richard C. Matheson, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Gallagher and Graham Joyce) who also share their experiences of the BFS and Fantasycon.
Buying: BFS

I Am The Bird by T.M. Wright

Publisher: PS Publishing (UK)
Date: September 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.00
About the Book:
T.M. Wright's new novella from award-winning PS Publishing is a surreal character study... hard to describe in more detail, your best best would be to check out the PS Publishing website catalogue for more details.
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

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