Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore 2864 Chicago Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55407 Newsletter #94 June — August, 2011 Hours: M-F 10 am to 8 pm RECENTLY RECEIVED AND FORTHCOMING SCIENCE FICTION Sat. 10 am to 6 pm; Sun. Noon to 5 pm ALREADY RECEIVED Uncle Hugo's 612-824-6347 Uncle Edgar's 612-824-9984 Doctor Who Insider #1 (US version of the long-running Doctor Who Magazine. Fax 612-827-6394 Matt Smith on his latest foe, the Silence; the Sontarans; more). $6.99 E-mail: [email protected] Doctor Who Magazine #431 (Controversial Dalek redesign; writer Mark Gatiss Website: www.UncleHugo.com reveals some clues about his new episode; Janet Fielding uncovered; more).. $8.99 Doctor Who Magazine #432 (New series secrets; Matt Smith Karen Gillan, and Award News Arthur Darvill star in a special mini-adventure for Comic Relief; David Tennant tells us what he's doing for Red Nose Day; more). $8.99 Doctor Who Magazine #433 (Exclusive interview with Steven Moffat; Marked The nominees for Hugo Awards for Death? Amy Pond, The Doctor, River Song, Rory Pond: one of them will die in the for Best Novel are Cryoburn by Lois season opener; more. Four separate collectors' covers, one featuring each character)$.8.99 McMaster Bujold ($25.00 signed), Feed Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2011 (New fiction, reviews, more).$7.50 by Mira Grant ($9.99), The Hundred Locus #603 April 2011 (Interviews with Shaun Tan and Dani & Eytan Kollin; Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin industry news, reviews, more).......................................... $6.95 ($7.99), The Dervish House by Ian Locus #604 May 2011 (Interview with David D. Levine; roundtable discussion of McDonald ($26.00), and Blackout/All Theodore Sturgeon; Diana Wynne Jones obituary and appreciations; Hugo nominees; Clear by Connie Willis (Blackout is industry news, reviews, more).......................................... $6.95 currently a $16.00 trade pb and All Bacigalupi, Paolo The Alchemist (Novella; every time a spell is cast, a bit of bramble sprouts, sending up Clear is currently a $26.00 hardcover). tangling vines, bloody thorns, and threatening a poisonous sleep. A little at first, and then more - until whole cities are dragged down under tangling vines and empires lie dead) The finalists for the Nebula ................................................................ $20.00 Award for Best Novel are The Native Bakker, R. Scott The White-Luck Warrior (Aspect-Emperor #2: As Kellhus and his Great Ordeal Star by M. K. Hobson ($7.99), The march farther into the Ancient North, Esmenet finds herself at war with her family as well Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. as with the Gods. Achamian leads his expedition to the ruins of Sauglish, to a truth he may K. Jemisin ($7.99), Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal not survive, let alone comprehend. Into this tumult walks the White-Luck Warrior, assassin ($24.99. $14.99 trade pb coming in and messiah)...................................................... $27.95 June), Echo by Jack McDevitt ($24.95), Ballantine, P/Morris, T Phoenix Rising (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences #1: PBO; A malevolent brotherhood Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorator is intent upon the enslavement of all Britons. Wellington Books and Eliza Braun - he with ($24.95, $15.00 trade pb coming in his encyclopedic brain and she with her remarkable devices - must get to the twisted roots June), and Blackout/All Clear by of a most nefarious plot, or see Victorian England fall to the Phoenix!). $7.99 Connie Willis (Blackout is currently a Barnes, B/Ambaum, G Unshelved: Large Print (PBO; Black & white comic strips about life at the local $16.00 trade pb and All Clear is library).......................................................... $11.95 currently a $26.00 hardcover). Bisson, Terry TVA Baby and Other Stories (Collection; 13 previously uncollected sf and fantasy stories).......................................................... $14.95 Zoo City by Lauren Beukes Brett, Peter V. Brayan's Gold (Novella set in the world of the Demon Cycle). $20.00 ($7.99) won the Arthur C. Clarke Award Briggs, Patricia et al Moon Called Volume 1 (Mercy Thompson: Full color graphic novel; reprints issues for best novel of 2010. 1-4 of the comic book).............................................. $16.99 Butcher, Jim et al Storm Front #2: Maelstrom (Dresden Files GN #01: Full color graphic novel; The Strange Affair of Spring reprints issues Vol. 2 #1-4 of the comic book). $24.99 Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder ($16.00) Crumb, R. The Season of the Snoid (Complete Crumb Comics #13: Graphic novel; won the Philip K. Dick Award for best underground comix and illustrations; black & white with some color sections). $19.99 paperback original sf book published in Crumb, R. Featuring Mode O'Day and Her Pals (Complete Crumb Comics #15: Graphic the U.S. in 2010. novel; underground comix and illustrations; black & white with some color sections) ................................................................ $19.99 The Edgar Award winners DePaul, Virna Chosen by Blood (Para-Ops #1: PBO; With an anti-vamp vaccine slowly starving his included Best Novel to The Lock Artist people into extinction, half-breed vampire Knox Devereaux joins an FBI mssion to recover by Steve Hamilton ($14.99); Best First the stolen antidote - and falls for human Special Agent Felicia Locke).. $7.99 Novel by an American Author to Rogue Dick, Philip K. 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