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Books Received Jan 17th - Feb 11th 2007

Posted in: Books Received on 11th February 2007 by UKSFBN admin

Another three or four weeks' worth of arrivals at the UK SF Book News offices, presented for your perusing pleasure. Including new titles from Robert Holdstock, Charlaine Harris, Hal Duncan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Steve Aylett, James Barclay, G.W. Dahlquist, Minister Faust, Steven Utley, Dan Simmons and Liz Williams and as well as proofs from Michael Marshall, David Gunn and Richard Morgan.

As always, many thanks to the publishers concerned for bringing these titles to our attention.

Kitchen Princess Vol 1 by Natsumi Ando & Miyuki Kobayashi

Publisher: Del Rey Manga (US)
Date: February 30th 2007
Format: Manga Paperback
Price: $10.95
About the Book: "Najika is a great cook and she likes to make meals for the people she loves. But something is missing from her life. When she was a child, she met a boy who toucher her heart - and now she's determined to find him. The only clue Najika has is a silver spoon that leads her to the prestigious Seika Academy."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Lint by Steve Aylett

Publisher: Snowbooks (UK)
Date: February 1st 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
About the Book: "Jeff Lint was author of some of the strangest and most inventive satirical SF of the twentieth century. He transcended genre in classics such as "Jelly Result and The Stupid Conversation", becoming a cult figure and pariah. Like his contemporary Philip K. Dick, he was blithely ahead of his time. Aylett follows Lint through his Beat days; his immersion in pulp SF, psychedelia and resentment; his disastrous scripts for 'Star Trek' and 'Patton'; the controversies of 'The Caterer' comic and the scariest kids' cartoon ever aired; and his belated Hollywood success in the 1990s..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Shout for the Dead by James Barclay

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: January 4th 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £18.99
About the Book: In the sequel to Cry of the Newborn, "ten years have passed and Estorea is consumed by war and the four ascendents have chosen different sides in the conflict. As the armies muster and the final conflict draws close the ascendents are only now coming to their full power and soon summoned armies of the dead will march against the living..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Emperor by Stephen Baxter

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: February 8th 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99
About the Book: "A woman gives birth to her child in a village in Northern England, the cold northern edge of the Roman Empire. As she struggles through a painful labour she begins to scream out a series of words in Latin. A language she has never heard before, much less spoken. One of the family recognises the words for what they are. Only later does it become clear that the women has spoken a prophecy. A prophecy that relates to the death of the Emperor Constantine..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by G.W. Dahlquist

Publisher: Penguin Viking (UK)
Date: January 25th 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £16.99
About the Book: The single volume edition of the Victorian adventure yarn first released in ten instalments between October and December 2006. "What if there was a book made of blue glass that contained your whole life? If your desires and wants were dragged from you in a fearful process and preserved for others to savour and revel in? If your every secret and every dream were open to all and yet you had forgotten that you ever had them..?"
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Mordant's Need by Stephen Donaldson

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: January 18th 2007
Format: Large Paperback
Price: £15.99
About the Book: Single-volume edition of Donaldson's Mordant's Need series, incorporating The Mirror of Her Dreams and A Man Rides Through. "A lonely young woman feels isolated from the world: she uses mirrors to reassure herself that she is still alive - and then they change her life when, one night, a young man appears through the mirror and persuades her to come with him to his own land, where mirrors are magical gateways to other places."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Ink by Hal Duncan

Publisher: Macmillan (UK)
Date: February 2nd 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £17.99
About the Book: "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

From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain by Minister Faust

Publisher: Ballantine Books (US)
Date: January 30th 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: $13.95
About the Book: "Having finally defeated all their archenemies, the members of the Fantastic Order of Justice are reduced to engaging in toxic office politics that could very well lead to a superpowered civil war. Only one woman can save them from themselves: Dr. Eva Brain-Silverman, aka Dr. Brain, the world's leading therapist for the extraordinarily-abled..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Free Collars Kingdom Vol 1 by Takuya Fujima

Publisher: Del Rey Manga Vol 1 (US)
Date: January 30th 2007
Format: Manga Paperback
Price: $10.95
About the Book: "It's hard to resist Cyan: He's an adorable catboy whose cute ears and tail have made him a beloved pet. But then his family abandons him, leaving the innocent Cyan to fend for himself. Just when Cyan thinks he's all alone in the world, he meets the Free Collars, a cool gang of stray cats..." [Yup. It's Furry manga, folks.]
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Death's Head by David Gunn

Publisher: Bantam Press (UK)
Date: May 7th 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £10.00
About the Book: "The cage will kill you. And if it doesn't, well, then thirst and the blistering heat of the desert sure as hell will. Or drive you insane. Few legionnaires survive the cage. Fewer still live long enough to face the whipping post. Of those who do, few are in a state to know what is happening to them..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: January 18th 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £9.99
About the Book: The launch title in the brand new Gollancz Romancz line. "Harper Connelly had a lucky escape when she was hit by lightning: she didn't die. But sometimes she wishes she had died, because the lightning strike left her with an unusual talent: she can find dead people - and that's not always comfortable..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

The Broken Kings by Robert Holdstock

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: January 2nd 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £14.99
About the Book: Part three of Robert Holdstock's epic Merlin Codex. "The final part in the autobiography of Merlin, a unique take on the wizard-hero of King Arthur's days, by a writer who weaves myth and legend with reality to produce a seamless tapestry filled with wonders. In Robert Holdstock's books, gods and demigods walk among men and women in a world of passion, obsession and love."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (UK)
Date: March 5th 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £18.99
About the Book: "Accompanying his photographer father to the celebrated city of Aix-en-Provence, near Marseilles, 15-year-old Ned Marriner finds himself drawn into a centuries-old battle as dangerous, mythic figures from the Celtic and Roman conflicts of long ago erupt into the present, claiming and changing lives..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Black Juice by Margo Lanagan

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: February 8th 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
About the Book: "Margo Lanagan's stories will delight, shock, intrigue, amuse and move you to tears with their dazzling imaginative reach, their dark humour, their subtlety, their humanity and depth of feeling. After all, Black Juice runs through us all."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: February 8th 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
About the Book: "The Thorn of Camorr is said to be an unbeatable swordsman, a master thief, a friend to the poor, a ghost that walks through walls. Slightly built and barely competent with a sword, Locke Lamora is, much to his annoyance, the fabled Thorn. And while Locke does indeed steal from the rich... the poor never see a penny. All of Locke's gains are strictly for himself and his tight-knit band of thieves: The Gentlemen Bastards."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

The Intruders by Michael Marshall

Publisher: HarperCollins (UK)
Date: April 2nd 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £12.99
About the Book: "Jack Whalen was an LAPD patrol cop for twelve years. He left in difficult circumstances and now he's not really sure what he is. He's not too sure about his wife, either; when she goes missing on a routine business trip to Seattle, Jack heads up there to find her: only to discover she's not really missing after all. Over the coming days it becomes increasingly clear that something has changed, however... and is still changing..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Black Man by Richard Morgan

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: May 17th 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £12.99
About the Book: "One hundred years from now, and against all the odds, Earth has found a new stability; the political order has reached some sort of balance, and the new colony on Mars is growing. But the fraught years of the 21st century have left an uneasy legacy. Genetically engineered alpha males, designed to fight the century's wars have no wars to fight and are surplus to requirements..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Where or When by Steven Utley

Publisher: PS Publishing (UK)
Date: January 2007
Format: Hardback
Price: £25.00
About the Book: "In the near future, as eco-disaster and political repression take their devastating toll on the human race, the past seems like an ideal destination, quieter, more hopeful, known. In response, a few individuals develop an ability to travel in time..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Date: February 1st 2007
Format: Large Paperback
Price: £12.99
About the Book: "The men on board, Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isn't the constantly shifting landscape of white or the flesh-numbing temperatures, dwindling supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the unyielding grip of the frozen ocean. No, the real threat is far more terrifying."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

Publisher: Gollancz SF Masterworks (UK)
Date: February 8th 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99
About the Book: "Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien products. Even the nature of his daughter has been determined by the Zone. And it is for her that Red makes his last, tragic foray into the hazardous and hostile depths."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Interzone #208 by TTA Press

Publisher: TTA Press (UK)
Date: February 2007
Format: Magazine
Price: £3.75
About the Magazine: The latest issue of the UK's longest-running science fiction magazine includes: fiction from Jason Stoddard, G.D. Leeming, Jay lake, Paul Meloy and Alexander Marsh Freed, artwork from Kenn Brown, Doug Sirois, Vincent Chong and Jim Burns, interviews with Elizabeth Hand, Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke, plus the usual selection of fiction and film reviews.

Mushishi Vol 1 by Yuki Urushibara

Publisher: Del Rey Manga (US)
Date: January 30th 2007
Format: Manga Paperback
Price: $12.95
About the Book: "They have existed since the dawn of time... Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. Shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze, these deadly creatures, mushi, came into terrifying being. And they still exist and wreak havoc in the world today."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Bloodmind by Liz Williams

Publisher: Tor (UK)
Date: February 16th 2007
Format: Large Paperback
Price: £10.99
About the Book: "Vali Hallsdottir has returned to her home world of Muspell to discover that her nation is in chaos, preparing to face invasion from the neighbouring country of Darkland. When her friend and mentor Idhunn is brutally murdered and her spine removed and stolen, Vali falls under suspicion and is held by the army of the Morrighanu, but released by a mysterious force. Having nowhere else to run, she travels across the northern ice field to the hostile glacier territory of Darkland, where she meets an old enemy, Thorn Eld..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

Darkland by Liz Williams

Publisher: Tor (UK)
Date: February 16th 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99
About the Book: "In the far-distant future Vali Hallsdottir, assassin for an organisation known as the Skald, is sent on a secret mission to the world of Nhem. Her assignment is to eliminate the destructive patriarchal regime of the Hierolath. But shortly after her arrival Vali finds herself betrayed by her mission partner, who is not the man he seems..."
Buying: Amazon.co.uk

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