Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore 2864 Chicago Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55407 Newsletter #103 September — November, 2013 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 Magazine #460 (DWM heads to Trenzalore to find out the name of Fax 612-827-6394 the Doctor; tribute to the man who designed the Daleks; more).. $9.99 E-mail: [email protected] Doctor Who Magazine #461 (Doctor Who & the Daleks: what playing the Doctor Website: www.UncleHugo.com meant to Peter Cushing; more)......................................... $9.99 Doctor Who Magazine #462 (Regeneration: Who will be the twelfth Doctor? How’s Business? more)............................................................ $9.99 Fantasy & Science Fiction July / August 2013 (New fiction, reviews, more) By Don Blyly ................................................................. $7.99 Fantasy & Science Fiction May / June 2013 (New fiction, reviews, more) As many of our older customers ................................................................. $7.99 retire, they often move from a large old Locus #629 June 2013 (Interviews with Rudy Rucker and Sofia Samatar; Nebula house with lots of space to store books to winners; awards info; forthcoming books; industry news, reviews, more). $7.50 a smaller place with a lot less room for Locus #630 July 2013 (Interviews with Maria Dahvana Headley and Neil Gaiman; in books, resulting in many bags or boxes of books being brought to the Uncles. memoriam: Jack Vance and Iain Banks; Locus Award winners; industry news, reviews, more) This has been going on for many years, ................................................................. $7.50 but we recently had the largest batch Locus #631 August 2013 (Interviews with Kim Stanley Robinson and Aliette de we’ve ever seen at Uncle Hugo’s. A Bodard; industry news, reviews, more).. $7.50 customer who was a regular for decades Aaronovitch, Ben Midnight Riot audiobook (UK title: Rivers of London) (Peter Grant #1: decided, back when cover prices were Unabridged; Great narrator, brings the characters to life).. $39.99 going from $.75 up to $.95, that he Aaronovitch, Ben Moon Over Soho audiobook (Peter Grant #2: Unabridged). $39.99 wanted to collect all the science fiction Aaronovitch, Ben Whispers Under Ground audiobook (Peter Grant #3: Unabridged). $39.99 and fantasy paperbacks every published. Arnason, Eleanor Big Mama Stories (Collection; 5 stories featuring members of the colorful tribe of Big He picked up every new paperback from Mamas and Big Poppas as they rove through time and space). $16.00 our new release shelf for a couple of Bailey, D/Lyons, S Sightseeing in Space: The Web in Space / Terminal of Despair (Doctor decades, plus looking for used copies of Who: Young Reader Adventures #4: PBO; Kids; 2 novels featuring the 11th Doctor, Rory, older books. About the time the cover and Amy). ....................................................... $10.99 prices started hitting $3.95, he started Ballingrud, Nathan North American Lake Monsters (PBO; Collection; 9 stories using the trappings being more selective in his buying. of the Gothic and the uncanny to investigate the loneliest and darkest corners of After Scott Imes died in 2001, the contemporary American life). ........................................ $16.00 customer stopped coming in and stopped Banks, Iain The Quarry (18-year-old Kit is big, odd, socially disabled. Now his father Guy is dying, collecting. Around the middle of July he and old friends are gathering. As young film students they all lived with Guy, and they've stopped in, told me that he was 72 and all come back because they want something. Kit wants something, too - to know who his had decided it was time to get rid of his mother is, and what's on the mysterious tape the visitors are all looking for. But most of all, collection. Over the next few weeks I he wants to stop time, and keep his father alive). $26.00 bought almost 6000 used science fiction, Barnholdt, Lauren Girl Meets Ghost (Kendall Williams #1: Kids; The dead speak to 12-year-old Kendall fantasy, and horror paperbacks from Williams. They want her to help them move on, but they're not always good at explaining him, along with a few hardcovers and what their unresolved issues are. So how is she supposed to help this ghost of a gymnast, trade paperbacks. There were a lot of who keeps popping up at the worst moments?). $6.99 rare books in there that I remember Bowes, Richard The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others (PBO; Collection; 8 stories: selling to him back in the 1970s, but modern fairy tales, their fantasy offspring, and their legendary ancestors). $12.00 there were a few that I don’t remember Bradberry, Travis Cryonic (PBO; Royce figured coming back to life would be exciting, but he awakes in ever having seen before. Several 2047 to find that the Chinese regime controlling the US regards him as their prized hundred of the books have already been possession. They are eager to reanimate other cryonics, but something goes wrong, snatched up by other customers, but we unleashing a terrifying epidemic. It's a race against time when Royce discovers the cure for still have huge amounts of hard-to-find the disease lies within him). ......................................... $13.95 paperbacks clogging our aisles. Please Butler/Holden/Shawl(ed) Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American stop by and buy some. Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (PBO; Nonfiction; the ground-breaking writer's Over a year ago the KFC work is examined in this anthology of scholarly essays, reminiscences and personal essays, franchisee for the Twin Cities went poems, correspondence, photographs, and interviews).. $20.00 bankrupt, and almost a year ago Campbell, J (Hemry, J) The Last Full Measure (Mid-1800s: In an America dominated by plantation owners Popeye’s bought 14 former KFC and kept in line by Southern military forces, Professor Joshua Chamberlain becomes part locations to turn into Popeye’s Fried of a daring plan to foment revolution. But they need a leader to inspire the people - they'll Chicken outlets. We’ve been hearing for have to break Abraham Lincoln out of prison). $20.00 many months that all of the former KFC Carrott, J/Johnson, B Vintage Tomorrows (Black & white photos. Through an examination of Steampunk locations would be remodeled and culture, a historian and a futurist demonstrate how to learn about the future by studying reopened by the end of July, but there’s alternative pasts).................................................. $24.99 been little activity around the KFC Cooper, Brenda The Creative Fire (Ruby's Song #1: PBO; Ruby Martin expected to spend her days location near Uncle Hugo’s. Finally, repairing robots while avoiding the dangerous peacekeeping forces that roam the corridors around the middle of July a locked of the generation ship. Then a ship-wide accident gives her a chance to fight for the freedom storage container about the size of a she craves)....................................................... $17.95 semi trailer was dropped in the parking Correia, L/Long, S Monster Hunter International Employee's Handbook and lot near the back door of the building. Roleplaying Game (Everything you need to know about MHI, from its history and The dentist located between the Uncles resources to the people who make it such a unique and successful organization, plus and the former KFC has been watching character sheets for members, allies, principal enemies, and monsters, and the complete the site very carefully. He said that the HERO System basic rules, with expanded rules for gunfights, magic, and other common MHI only action he’s seen on the site in the actions).......................................................... $60.00 last couple of months was somebody Cosby, Nate (ed) Jim Henson's The Storyteller (Full color graphic novel; 9 original stories of with a weed whip. He asked the guy wonder and myth, as told by The Storyteller and his loyal canine companion).. $14.95 when the Popeye’s would be open, and Crumb, R. Some More Early Years of Bitter Struggle (Complete Crumb Comics #2: the guy claimed it would be open with 5 Reissue; Graphic novel; adults only. Underground comix and illustrations; black & white weeks. That was 4 weeks ago, and still with some color sections)............................................ $19.99 nothing is happening on the site. Our Crumb, R. Happy Hippy Comix (Complete Crumb Comics #5: Reissue; Graphic novel; adults long fried chicken famine continues. only. Underground comix and illustrations; black & white with some color sections$).19.99 As usual lots of stuff had to be Delany, Samuel et al Bread & Wine (Reissue; Adults only; short black & white graphic novel about how cut from the paper newsletter, but the Delany met and got involved with his longtime companion Dennis).. $14.99 full version is available on the website. Doescher, Ian William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope (Star Wars: Return once more to a galaxy far, far away, this time in the style of the Bard of Avon) Short Recommendations ................................................................ $14.95 By Don Blyly Donovan, Art The Art of Steampunk (Full color photos of extraordinary devices and ingenious contraptions, plus notes about their creators; expanded edition with 50+ additional Kate Elliott’s excellent photos).......................................................... $19.99 Spiritwalker Trilogy is an alternate Duchamp (ed) Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia history fantasy that throws in almost Entries from Across the Known Multiverse (PBO; Anthology; a sampling of everything but the kitchen sink, but still entries that shed interesting or edifying light on the familiar narratives we know (and in manages to work very well. The Romans some cases love) in our own small corner of the Multiverse).