July 2020 Science Fiction & Fantasy Catalogue
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Science Fiction & Fantasy Catalogue Pulp Fiction Booksellers • Shop 4, Level 1 (first floor) • Blocksidge & Ferguson Building Arcade • 144 Adelaide Street • Brisbane • Queensland • 4000 • Australia Postal: GPO Box 297 • Brisbane • Queensland • 4001 • Australia • Tel: 07 3236-2750 • e-mail: [email protected] www.pulpfictionbooks.com.au Includes new books by: SKOLIAN EMPIRE, MAJOR BHAAJAN 03: BLACKWOOD & VIRTUE 01: WINDS OF MARQUE have come to Austria’s assistance, but everyone knows this is going THE VANISHED SEAS COLES, Bennett R to be a long and brutal struggle. In order to relieve the pressure on ASARO, Catherine In a dense star cluster, the solar winds blow fiercely. The star the Austrians, General Mike Stearns proposes to open a second Jim Butcher Science fiction TP $35.95 sailing ship HMSS Daring is running at full sheet with a letter front in the Levant. The USE’s emperor Gustavus Adolphus gives of marque allowing them to capture enemy vessels involved in his approval to the plan, and Mike sets it in motion, with the very Ted Chiang SONG OF SHATTERED SANDS 05: illegal trading. Sailing under a false flag to protect the ship and capable assistance of his wife Rebecca Abrabanel, now the USE’s WHEN JACKALS STORM THE WALLS its mission, Daring’s crew must gather intelligence that will lead Secretary of State. Meanwhile, Poland is coming to a boil. Gretchen Raymond E Feist BEAULIEU, Bradley them to the pirates’ base. Posing as traders, Daring’s dashing Richter, the newly elected chancellor of Saxony, has seized control Fantasy TP $32.99 second-in-command Liam Blackwood and brilliant quartermaster of Lower Silesia. Her small army is now approached to form an M John Harrison Amelia Virtue infiltrate shady civilian merchant networks, alliance with the Polish revolutionaries who have seized power OUTER PLANETS TRILOGY 01: URANUS believing one will lead them to their quarry. But their mission is in the Ruthenian province of Galicia – which, in the universe Jessie Mihalik BOVA, Ben threatened from within their own ranks when Daring’s enigmatic the time-displaced Americans of Grantville came from, would On a privately financed orbital habitat above the planet Uranus, captain makes a series of questionable choices, and rumblings of have constituted the western Ukraine. Now, the Bohemians send Silvia Moreno-Garcia political idealism conflicts with pragmatic, and illegal, methods of discontent start bubbling up from below decks, putting the crew an army led by Morris Roth into Poland, ostensibly to aid the financing. Add a scientist who has funding to launch a probe deep on edge and destroying morale. On top of it all, Liam and Amelia revolutionaries but also with the goal of expanding King Albrecht July 2020 into Uranus’ ocean depths to search for signs of life, and you have must grapple with their growing feelings for each other. Facing Wallenstein’s growing empire in eastern Europe. And – the icing on Nnedi Okorafor a three-way struggle for control. Humans can’t live on the gas giants, danger from unexpected quarters that could steer the expedition the cake – Mike Stearns sends the Hangman Regiment of his Third making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has off course, Blackwood and Virtue must identify the real enemy Division under the command of Jeff Higgins to reinforce Jeff’s wife H G Parry built Haven, a sanctuary above the distant planet Uranus. He invites threat and discover the truth about their commander – and their Gretchen, in Silesia. The maelstrom in Poland grows… and grows… ‘the tired, the sick, the poor’ of Earth to his orbital retreat where mission – before Daring falls prey to the very pirates she’s meant and grows… Will it drag all its displaced Americans and their allies Martha Wells men and women can find spiritual peace and refuge from the to be tracking. down with it? world. The billionaire who financed Haven, however, has his own Tall ships SF PBK $24.95 Alternate history PBK $24.95 … and many others. designs: beyond the reach of the laws of the inner planets Haven could become the centre for an interplanetary web of narcotics, NOIR FATALE (ANTHOLOGY) FROST FILES 02: All the books in this catalogue prostitution, even hunting human prey. Meanwhile a scientist has CORREIA, Larry & EZELL, Kacey (editors) RANDOM SH*T FLYING THROUGH THE AIR gotten funding from the Inner Planets to drop remote probes into the From straightforward hardboiled detective story to dark urban FORD, Jackson are new books due for release in ‘oceans’ of Uranus, in search of life. He brings money and prestige, fantasy to the dirty secrets of futuristic science fiction – all with a Teagan Frost’s life is finally back on track. Her role working for the July 2020. but he also brings journalists and government oversight to Haven. hard, gritty feel. All new stories by: Larry Correia; Kacey Ezell; government as a psychokinetic operative is going well. She might And they can’t have that. The first in a new series. 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