Week Ending June 3rd 2016
In Stock – The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar (ISBN 9780857665973 $9.99)
In a 19th century unlike our own, the shadowy assassin known as the Bookman moves unseen. His weapons are books; his enemies are many. And when Orphan, a young man with a mysterious past, loses his love to the sinister machinations of the Bookman, Orphan would stop at nothing to bring her back from the dead.
In The Bookman, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar writes a love letter to books, and to the serial literature of the Victorian era: full of hair-breadth escapes and derring-dos, pirates and automatons, assassins and poets, a world in which real life authors mingle freely with their fictional creations – and where nothing is quite as it seems.
From Blastr - Kick back with White Sand, Spider-Woman, and ten more of June’s greatest graphic novels. Go HERE for the full article. You can order the titles below from this week’s SHOWCASE
Brandon Sanderson's White Sand V01 (ISBN 9781606908853 $24.99) Outcast V03 This Little Light (ISBN 9781632156938 $14.99) Shadowman by Garth Ennis & Ashley Wood (ISBN 9781682151358 $19.99) DC Super Hero Girls V01 Finals Crisis (ISBN 9781401262471 $9.99) Fight Club 2 (ISBN 9781616559458 $29.99) Dark Night: A True Batman Story (ISBN 9781401241438 $22.99) Spider-Woman: Shifting Gears V01: Baby Talk (ISBN 9780785196228 $15.99) Saga V06 (ISBN 9781632157119 $14.99) Neil Gaiman's How to Talk to Girls at Parties (ISBN 9781616559557 $17.99) Disciples V01 – No info Mythic V01 (ISBN 9781632157362 $16.99) Vision V01 Little Worse Than A Man (ISBN 9780785196570 $17.99)
FX Networks ordered an eight-episode season one of X-Men drama Legion, about a troubled young man who may be more than human, to debut on FX in early 2017. Fargo’s Noah Hawley is showrunner; Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Rachel Keller (Fargo), Jean Smart (Fargo) and Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) star. Production on the first live-action cable Marvel series begins in Vancouver this summer. Go HERE for the full article
Smoke by Dan Vyleta (ISBN 9780385540162 $27.95)
England. A century ago, give or take a few years.
An England where people who are wicked in thought or deed are marked by the Smoke that pours forth from their bodies, a sign of their fallen state. The aristocracy do not smoke, proof of their virtue and right to rule, while the lower classes are drenched in sin and soot. An England utterly strange and utterly real.
An elite boarding school where the sons of the wealthy are groomed to take power as their birthright. Teachers with mysterious ties to warring political factions at the highest levels of government. Three young people who learn everything they’ve been taught is a lie—knowledge that could cost them their lives. A grand estate where secrets lurk in attic rooms and hidden laboratories. A love triangle. A desperate chase. Revolutionaries and secret police. Religious fanatics and coldhearted scientists. Murder. A London filled with danger and wonder. A tortured relationship between a mother and a daughter, and a mother and a son. Unexpected villains and unexpected heroes. Cool reason versus passion. Rich versus poor. Right versus wrong, though which is which isn’t clear.
This is the world of Smoke, a narrative tour de force, a tale of Dickensian intricacy and ferocious imaginative power, richly atmospheric and intensely suspenseful.
People Magazine – Review - 6/6 New York Times Book Review – 6/12 IN STOCK
After overcoming a handful of hurdles, New Line’s reboot of Stephen King’s “It” (ISBN 9781501142970 $19.99) is back on track with a new face in the project’s most iconic role. Go HERE for the full article
Preacher episode 2 - June 5th at 10pm AMC will air live after show Talking Preacher, following the season premiere and finale episodes of new series Preacher. Hosted by comic Chris Hardwick, the hour-long talk show will feature cast, creators, producers and celebrity fans discussing the supernatural, dark comedy. Talking Preacher debuts Sunday, May 29 at 10:30pm, after an encore airing of Preacher’s pilot episode at 9pm. The second installment will air after Preacher’s season finale on Sunday, July 31 at 10pm. Go HERE for the trailer
With a little prayer, 'Preacher' might be AMC's best adaptation yet – Go HERE ‘Preacher’ Review: Comic Adaptation From Seth Rogen & AMC Is Fun Leap Of Faith. Go HERE for the full review AMC’s Brilliant ‘Preacher’ (Vol.1 ISBN 9781401240455 $19.99) Is Television’s Next Great Weekly Cultural Event - Go HERE Preacher premieres on AMC on Sunday, May 22 at 10 p.m. ET. Check out this week’s SHOWCASE for available titles
Premieres June 3rd Outcast V01 A Darkness Surrounds Him (ISBN 9781632150530 $9.99) Outcast V02 A Vast & Unending Ruin (ISBN 9781632154484 $14.99) Check out the trailer HERE
Warner Bros is back on track with its remake of the pulp sci-fi classic Logan’s Run (ISBN 9781101911372 $14.95). For more go HERE
Brie Larson the Frontrunner to Play Captain Marvel – Go HERE
Batman: The Killing Joke Tops Graphic Novel Sales Chart for Bookstores. Go HERE for the full article and make sure to check out Bookazine’s Graphic Novel bestsellers HERE
July release - The first in a fantastic new space opera series from acclaimed author and scriptwriter of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The High Ground: Imperials BK01 by Melinda Snodgrass (ISBN 9781783295821 $14.99)
Emperor’s daughter Mercedes is the first woman ever admitted to the High Ground, the elite training academy of the Solar League’s Star Command, and she must graduate if she is to have any hope of taking the throne. Her classmate Tracy has more modest goals—to rise to the rank of captain, and win fame and honor. But a civil war is coming and the political machinations of those who yearn for power threatens the young cadets. In a time of intrigue and alien invasion, they will be tested as they never thought possible.
From a book to a movie and now an ABC series: ABC has picked up Time After Time (ISBN 9780765326225 $19.99). – Go HERE for the official trailer.
Harley Quinn Spinoff Movie in the Works with Margot Robbie. Go HERE for the full article
In Theaters Now X-Men: Apocalypse
X-Men:Age of Apocalypse: Dawn (ISBN 9780785193500 $34.99) X-Men:Age of Apocalypse: Twilight (ISBN 9780785193449 $34.99)
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Michael Keaton Back in the Mix for ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Villain. Go HERE
A decade after John Crowley, best known for Little, Big, first queried Small Beer Press about publishing a 400-year-old science fiction novel, his English-language version of Johannes Valentines Andreae's The Chemical Wedding (1616) is scheduled for this fall. The original book (Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459) was written in German and set in the 1400s. Go HERE for the full article
Releasing in June Infomocracy by Malka Older (ISBN 9780765385154 $24.99) A high-tech political thriller about a global information monopoly attempting to prevent election sabotage and world war. Little Brother meets The West Wing.
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global microdemocracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line.
With power comes corruption. For Ken, this is his chance to do right by the idealistic Policy1st party and get a steady job in the big leagues. For Domaine, the election represents another staging ground in his ongoing struggle against the pax democratica. For Mishima, a dangerous Information operative, the whole situation is a puzzle: how do you keep the wheels running on the biggest political experiment of all time, when so many have so much to gain?
All three begin to realize that not everyone plans to play fair at the next election. The Liberty party is ascending on the back of subtle promises of warfare, and Heritage will do anything to keep itself in power. A perfect storm is brewing, one that might bring the new world order to its knees.
Killing it In Theaters Now!!!
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Releasing in June THERE’S GOING TO BE HELL TOUPEE! The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America by Andrew Shaffer (ISBN 9781683310457 $14.99)
On January 20, 2017, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., a tall, orange man with a dubious hairline places his hand on a paperback of The Art of the Deal and pledges to defend the Constitution of the United States, whatever that is. Before the sun sets on this hugely momentous day, the real-estate mogul-turned-reality show star-turned-leader of the hypothetically Free World reclines in the Oval Office, a glass of Trump Ice in his little hand. He Skypes in with his BFF Vladimir Putin; assembles his Cabinet and White House staff, including a former Miss Universe as chief of staff; and procures some sizzling new lingerie for the new First Lady. Two years later, as the increasingly ironically named United States of America barrels toward war with the United Kingdom, and the never-quite-finished Mexican wall is continually breached by refugees (risking their lives to get to Mexico), disgraced ex-tabloid reporter Jimmie Bernwood drags himself through his days freelancing for chump change...until The Donald plucks him from the depths of despair. Jimmie becomes the president’s official biographer, giving him enviable access to the gold-plated Trump White House and all of its secrets.
To be published just ahead of the Fourth of July and both the Republican and Democratic National Convention
Releasing in August Bedtime for Batman by Michael Dahl, Illustrated by Ethen Beavers (ISBN 9781623707323 $15.95)
When a dark night comes to the big city, one little super hero prepares for a great adventure . . . bedtime! He dons his pajama uniform, speeds upstairs, cleans up the nightly grime, and keeps watch from his towering bunk bed. Written by award-winning author Michael Dahl (Goodnight Baseball, Goodnight Football, and Goodnight Hockey) and illustrated by Ethen Beavers (DC Super Friends), this bedtime tale will have Batman fans, young and old, delighting in their nightly routines. Bedtime for Batman is the perfect way to say goodnight to your little Dark Knight.
Bryan Cranston is in for the 10-part sci-fi anthology series Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K. Dick for Sony Pictures Television and Channel 4. The series, which will celebrate and illustrate Dick’s distinctive vision and include a seminal back catalog of his work, is slated to debut on UK’s Channel 4. Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) and Michael Dinner (Justified) are writing; Cranston is exec-producing as well as appearing in the series. Go HERE for the full article. Also check out this week’s SHOWCASE for PKD titles
From Time Magazine - Why Black Panther’s Debut in Captain America: Civil War Is So Important – Go HERE for the full article Check out this week’s SHOWCASE for Black Panther GNOVs
Finally collected into one volume Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk, Illustrated by Cameron Stewart & David Mack (ISBN 9781616559458 $29.99) June 28th release
Fight Club 2 will be available exclusively as a Graphic Novel! Some imaginary friends never go away…
Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, he lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won’t last long, the wife has seen to that. He’s back where he started, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived…Rize or Die.
New York Tomes bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk and acclaimed artist Cameron Stewart have collaborated for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of 2015—the return of Tyler Durden. The first rule of Fight Club 2 might be not to talk about it, but Fight Club 2 is generating international headlines and will introduce a new generation of readers to Project Mayhem.
Praise for the comics that comprise Fight Club 2: “At turns deeply poignant and very funny; Palahniuk’s freakish fables capture a twisted zeitgeist and add an oddly inspirational and subversive voice to the contemporary canon…. In the post-9/11 present, a hyperactive, Internet- obsessed, war- and recession-weary America apparently needs Tyler again.”—THE ATLANTIC
“The book is fantastic, my highest recommendation…. Excellent work by Cameron Stewart and David Mack, and by our awesome friends at Dark Horse Comics.”—Brian Michael Bendis
“If Tyler Durden needed a resurgence, there’s no time like the present for his return… Fight Club 2 is a comic that taps back into everything great about the source material, and one that makes Tyler Durden’s warm nihilistic embrace a welcome draw back into a familiar world of cynicism, violence, and anarchy….“Tyler Lives,” and I couldn’t be happier by the prospect of more bedlam.”—NEWSARAMA “Palahniuk is delivering a worthy sequel to his most beloved story.”—THE NERDIST “An amazing piece of work. You do not want to miss out on this.”—COMICVINE “We have a worthy sequel on our hands…. A must read.” —COMICOSITY “Clever and beautiful.” —COMICS ALLIANCE
Joel Kinnaman will star in Netflix’s sci-fi series “Altered Carbon” (ISBN 9780345457684 $16.00). For the full article go HERE
20th Century Fox has tapped into an entirely new superhero universe. The studio has acquired Irredeemable, a Boom! Comics comic book. Go HERE for the full article and check out this week’s SHOWCASE for titles
The TV adaptation of The Wheel of Time is moving forward. Harriet McDougal, the widow of the novel series by author Robert Jordan, announced that a “major studio” is bringing the project to the small screen. “Wanted to share with you exciting news about ‘The Wheel of Time,'” McDougal wrote on Google+. “Legal issues have been resolved. ‘The Wheel of Time’ will become a cutting edge TV series! I couldn’t be more pleased. Look for the official announcement coming soon from a major studio.” Check out this week’s SHOWCASE for Robert Jordan titles
In theaters High-Rise: A Novel by J. G. Ballard (ISBN 9780871404022 $14.95)
"Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." —Martin Amis, New Statesman
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
In Stock - Outriders (ISBN 9780857664518 $7.99)
The start of a Military SF series from imprint best-seller and Tom Clancy game series writer Jay Posey.
Captain Lincoln Suh died on a Wednesday. And things only got harder from there. Snatched out of special operations and thrown headfirst into a secretive new unit, Lincoln finds himself as the team leader for the 519th Applied Intelligence Group, better known as the Outriders. And his first day on the job brings a mission with the highest possible stakes. A dangerously cunning woman who most assuredly should be dead has seemingly returned. And her plans aren’t just devastating, they might be unstoppable. How do you defeat a hidden enemy when you can’t let them know they’ve been discovered?
You send in the Outriders.
Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus by Chester Brown (ISBN 9781770462342 $21.95) Interview - What Would Jesus Do About Prostitution? Chester Brown has the answer. Go HERE
Backlist classics!!!
City (ISBN 9781504013031 $14.99) Way Station (ISBN 9781504013215 $12.99 During his fifty-five-year career, Clifford D. Simak produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in 1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare time.
Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In 1953 City was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Batman The Killing Joke (ISBN 9781401216672 $17.99) on DVD will be released on Aug. 2nd, but the book is available now! Go HERE for the Entertainment Weekly article
IN STOCK The City of Mirrors (Book 3 of the Passage Trilogy) (ISBN 9780345505002 $28.00) The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place?
The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew—and daring to dream of a hopeful future.
But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy—humanity’s only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him.
One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate.
Find this title and the two previous ‘Passage’ titles in this week’s SHOWCASE
Gillian Anderson has been tapped to play Media, the mouthpiece for the New Gods, in Starz’s upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed contemporary fantasy novel American Gods (ISBN 9780062080233 $19.99). Go HERE for the full article
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