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Books Received Dec 3rd 2006 - Jan 16th 2007
Posted in: Books Received on 16th January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
UK SF Book News has received the following books during December last year and the first half or so of January, including new titles from Joe Abercrombie, Jonathan Barnes, Hal Duncan, Stephen Hunt, Stephen Baxter, Naomi Novik, and more, as well as a selection of top-notch novellas from PS Publishing. As always, many thanks to the publishers concerned for bringing these titles to our attention.
Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie (UK proof)
Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: March 15th 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £18.99
About the Book: The second part of Joe Abercrombie's dark / heroic fantasy saga The First Law, sequel to his 2006 debut novel The Blade Itself. The Northmen have spilled over the border into Angland, a million Gurkish are on the move and the city of Dagoska is their target. Meanwhile a small band of reluctant adventurers must cross countless miles in search of... something. They're not sure what, because the leader of the group isn't telling...
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Ariel Says:
"Absolutely fantastic stuff. An genuinely superb follow-up to a quite incredible debut. Wonderful characterisation, great dialogue, laced throughout with an incredibly dry, laconic sense of humour. Highly recommended to fans of epic, heroic and / or dark fantasy everywhere."
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: February 15th 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £16.99
About the Book: "Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It is a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and willfully bizarre. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it." So starts the extraordinary tale of Edward Moon, detective, his silent sidekick the Somnambulist and devilish plot to recreate the apocalyptic prophecies of William Blake and bring the British Empire crashing down.
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Conqueror by Stephen Baxter (UK proof)
Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: February 15th 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £17.99
About the Book: The second part of Baxter's Time's Tapestry series. As the centuries between the these two events pass, as Britain emerges from the ruins of Roman rule to become a vibrant, rich power in its own right, as invasions ebb and flow and Kings rule and die, a single thread is spun and stretched."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Tsubasa Character Guide by CLAMP
Publisher: Del Rey (US)
Date: December 26th 2007
Format: Manga Paperback
Price: $12.95
About the Book: "A revealing look at the acclaimed bestselling manga series Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE. Spanning the first seven graphic novels, this guide includes intriguing details about the characters, worlds and mysteries of Tsubasa..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Ink by Hal Duncan
Publisher: Macmillan (UK)
Date: February 27th 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £17.99
About the Book: The second volume of Hal Duncan's Book of All Hours. "It's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Sieg Heil Iconographers by Jon Farmer
Publisher: Savoy (UK)
Date: November 13th 2006
Format: Coffee-table Paperback
Price: £25.00
About the Book: The third part of the history of Savoy Books, the most iconoclastic of all UK publishing houses. "In Savoy's latest manifesto, the dark mavericks of art, literature and music once again sally forth, contradicting preconceived conceptions of who are the important cultural figures of our times. And not a moment too soon..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Dalek I Loved You, a Memoir by Nick Griffiths (UK proof)
Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: April 19th 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £12.99
About the Book: "Nick Griffiths watched his first Doctor Who aged four and a bit. He would have hidden behind the sofa but it was back against the wall and his parents didn't let him move furniture so he hid behind a cushion instead. He's since been told by his mum and dad that they didn't have a sofa only armchairs. So this book should really be called 'Behind the Armchair', but that didn't sound right..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
The Wallflower Vol 10 by Tomoko Hayakawa
Publisher: Del Rey (US)
Date: December 26th 2007
Format: Manga Paperback
Price: $10.95
About the Book: "Poor Kyohei is cursed... no, not by the devil or evil spirits. Not even by the dark, macabre Sunako, the girl he and his three pals have been trying to transform into a demure lady. Kyohei is cursed by his own good looks..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Forest Mage by Robin Hobb
Publisher: Voyager (UK)
Date: February 5th 2007
Format: Large Paperback
Price: £12.99
About the Book: Part two of the Soldier Son trilogy. "The King's Cavalla Academy has been ravaged by the Speck plague. The disease has decimated the ranks of both cadets and instructors... Many have been forced to relinquish their military ambitions and return to their families..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt (UK proof)
Publisher: Voyager (UK)
Date: April 2nd 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £12.99
About the Book: "Two orphans are more than they seem. And one megalomaniac will stop at nothing to find them. When Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has just been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to return to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was in fact the real target of the attack...."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
No Dominion by Charlie Huston
Publisher: Del Rey (US)
Date: January 2nd 2007
Format: Manga Paperback
Price: $13.95
About the Book: The follow-up to Already Dead, Charlie Huston's first New York vamp-noir novel about down-at-heel private eye Joe Pitt, gun-for-hire, vampire, neutral party in a city dominated by rival vampire gangs. In No Dominion, Joe's un-life is reaching new depths as both blood and money start to run out; he may have to break his own cardinal rule... and actually choose a side.
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Ghost Hunt Vol 6 by Shiho Inada and Fuyumi Ono
Publisher: Del Rey (US)
Date: December 26th 2007
Format: Manga Paperback
Price: $10.95
About the Book: "The brave investigators of Shibuya Psychic Research must unravel a strange mystery. People are vanishing in a peculiar mansion. Eerie manifestations abound from the moment the team enter the house... something very sinister is awaiting its next victim."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
School Rumble Vol 4 by Jin Kobayashi
Publisher: Del Rey (US)
Date: December 26th 2006
Format: Manga Paperback
Price: $10.95
About the Book: "Cute Tsukamoto Tenma is desperately trying to help juvenile delinquent classmate Harima Kenji win the girl of his dreams: Tenma's friend Mikoto. But when Tenma hears Kenji say 'I love you' to someone else, she begins to have serious doubts about Kenji's loyalties..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Pastel, Vol 5 by Toshihiko Kobayashi
Publisher: Del Rey (US)
Date: December 26th 2006
Format: Manga Paperback
Price: $10.95
About the Book: "When Mugi and Yuu miss the last train home after a late night out, a friendly restaurant proprietor, Tetsu-san, invites them in from the cold... which is how Mugi comes to meet the gorgeous eighteen-year-old Aoi-san..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Sorcerer's Moon by Julian May
Publisher: Voyager (UK)
Date: February 5th 2007
Format: Large Paperback
Price: £12.99
About the Book: Part three of the Boreal Moon Tale. "For sixteen years, King Conrig Ironcrown has ruled High Blenholme, battling both to preserve the sovereignty he ruthlessly established over the four provinces of the island kingdom and to repel the invading Salka monsters that threaten them all..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Changelings by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Publisher: Corgi (UK)
Date: January 1st 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99
About the Book: The first in a new series from McCaffrey and Scarborough. "Ronan Born for Water Shongili and Murel Monster Slayer Shongili are the twin son and daughter of Yana Maddock and Sean Shongili. Born on Petyabee, their destiny is deeply intertwined with the sentient planet that is their home, for Ronan and Murel are more than human."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Maelstrom by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Publisher: Bantam (UK)
Date: January 1st 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £17.99
About the Book:
Book two of The Twins of Petaybee. "The Shongili twins, Ronan and Murel, accompany their friend Marmie on her luxury space craft Piaf to rescue their friend Ke-ola's family from an uninhabitable planet. They arrive to find the planet in the midst of a terrible meteor storm and when they go down to the surface find that the survivors have taken refuge under ground."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Albion by Alan Moore, Leah Moore, John Reppion, Shane Oakley, George Freeman
Publisher: Titan (UK)
Date: January 26th 2007
Format: Paperback Graphic Novel
Price: £9.99
About the Book: Moore, Moore, Reppion, Oakley and Freeman present a hardcore trip down memory lane for anyone who used to read British comics. Ever wandered what happened to the characters you knew and loved once all those old comic titles dropped out of circulation and ceased publication? Brace yourself for a bit of a shock...
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Temeraire: Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
Publisher: Voyager (UK)
Date: January 2nd 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £14.99
About the Book: Part three of Novik's soon-to-be-filmed Temeraire trilogy. "British flyer Will Laurence and his extraordinary Celestial dragon, Temeraire, gratefully anticipate their voyage home from China. But before they set sail, they are waylaid by urgent new orders. The British Government, having purchased three valuable dragon eggs from the Ottoman Empire now require Laurence and Temeraire to make a more perilous overland journey instead, stopping off in Istanbul to collect and escort the precious cargo back to England."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Flavors of My Genius by Robert Reed
Publisher: PS Publishing (UK)
Date: November 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £25.00
About the Book: "Damian Veers enjoys a rich, comfortable existence. His body wants for nothing, while his soul is possessed by an infinite, enduring genius. Using nothing but his own restless mind, Damian spends his long days visiting a multitude of distant worlds, seducing dream-women of every sort; when he wishes, he leaps casually back and forth through his own rich memories, replaying little portions of a gigantic existence that may never end."
Buying: www.pspublishing.co.uk
The Voyage of Night Shining White by Chris Roberson
Publisher: PS Publishing (UK)
Date: November 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £25.00
About the Book: In an alternate history dominated by Imperial China, the forces of the Dragon Throne control most of the Earth, and now turn their attentions to the heavens. In the tradition of its great fifteenth century admiral, Zheng He, the Chinese Empire constructs a massive Treasure Fleet. But unlike the dragon boats which coursed across terrestrial seas ... this new fleet sails interplanetary gulfs, to the red planet fourth from the sun, in search of mineral wealth and territorial claims."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Kage Tora Vol 4 by Akira Segami
Publisher: Del Rey (US)
Date: December 26th 2007
Format: Manga Paperback
Price: $10.95
About the Book: "Noble ninja Kagetora has an important duty: to protect and train young Yuki. Falling in love with her is not an option; unfortunately, it's a little too late for that. Things get really complicated when Yuki's cousin comes to town to check out Kagetora..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Colin Wilson: Philosopher of Optimism by Brad Spurgeon
Publisher: Michael Butterworth (UK)
Date: May 26th 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
About the Book: To coincide with the 50th Anniversary of Colin Wilson's The Outsider, now in his seventy-fourth year the writer and philosopher sums up his thinking. He brings new thoughts to bear on his work, and clearly illustrates the discoveries he has made, showing how these can provide an antidote to the pessimism of 20th Century thought.
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Gacha Gacha, the Next Revolution Vol 1 by Hiroyuki Tamakoshi
Publisher: Del Rey (US)
Date: December 26th 2007
Format: Manga Paperback
Price: $12.95
About the Book: "Akira Hatsushiba is just your typical, average high school kid... until a glitch in a Gacha Gacha video game changes his life forever. Now, every time Akira sneezes, his entire body undergoes a gender-bending switcheroo!" (seriously folks, we're not making this stuff up...)
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Kuro Gane Vol 3 by Kei Toume
Publisher: Del Rey (US)
Date: Del Rey 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: $10.95
About the Book: "Jintetsu left the world of the living behind... until he was resurrected in a new steel body. Now his only future seems to be as an aimless drifter, an assassin for hire. It's a hard and lonely life, because beneath this samurai's cold steel armour beats an all-too-human heart."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk
Batman Legends #1 by Various
Publisher: Titan Magazines (UK)
Date: January 2007
Format: Magazine / Comic
Price: £1.60
About the Book: Titan Magazines presents the first issue of a new monthly Batman title, bringing you the best of the caped crusader's adventures. Issue one features three stories: 'All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder', 'Batman & Son' and 'Public Enemies: Part One. The World's finest. Mostly reprint material from the DC archives (judging by the copyright dates on the inside cover), but aimed at a news-stand rather than specialist comic shop audience, by the looks of things.
Julian: A Christmas Story by Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher: PS Publishing (UK)
Date: November 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £25.00
About the Book: "It is the year 2176. The world has survived a catastrophic 21st Century, emerging from oil depletion, climate change, and epidemic disease with a drastically reduced population. And in the United States, it's an election year. Young Adam Hazzard lives in rural Athabaska, one of the sixty States of the Union. His hometown of Williams Ford is – or seems to be – safely distant from the conflicts of the day ... but that illusion of safety is quickly coming to an end."
Buying: www.pspublishing.co.uk
If you are a publisher whose titles are generally available in the UK - or if you are working with UK authors, or if you sell your titles worldwide and would like to bring them to the attention of a UK audience - please get in touch to let us know what you'd like to send us and we'll supply a postal address if it sounds like something we might be interested in.
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