Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Companions Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants An Unofficial Guide by Andy Frankham-Allen Transreal Fiction. Shawn Harmon – Fever Medicine illustrated sf novel about the law and bioethics in the future! Art by Mara Aum , Sky Chase & Kevin Allen . Miles Cameron – The Fell Sword sequel to The Red Knight , one of my favourite fantasy novels last year. The Red Knight and his companions venture across the sea to the Empire, where his services are required… Ariel Djanikan – The Office of Mercy Natasha gains a place on a crack team about to venture Outside from their underground utopia to the ruined Earth above… Brian Stableford – The Cthulhu Encryption pirates and Cthulhu, with Auguste Dupin and the Comte de Saint-Germain. Pat Cadigan – Gateway Omnibus edition from Orion , containing Mindplayers , Fools and Tea From an Empty Cup Henry Kuttner – Gateway Omnibus with the three books Fury, Mutant and collection The Best of Henry Kuttner with 17 of his best stories. Clifford D. Simak – Gateway Omnibus with Time is the Simplest Thing, Way Station and A Choice of Gods John Sladek – Gateway Omnibus of 3 novels; The Reproductive System, The Muller-Fokker Effect and Tik-Tok E. C. Tubb – Gateway Omnibus with Extra Man, The Space Born and the posthunously- published Fires of Satan . (None of these are Dumarest novels!) Kate Atkinson – Life After Life engrossing novel of alternate histories of the 20th C. I thought it was excellent. Tanya Huff – The Heart of Valour the 3rd Confederation novel, about Marine Corp sargeant Torin Kerr and another tricky mission Kameron Hurley – God’s War war has raged for centuries and bounty hunter Nyx is hired for a covert mission against the alien foe. Jasper Kent – The People’s Will the 4th in the historical vampire series set in 1880s Russia. The 1st was Twelve . Ben Dunn – Paper Cuts: The Collected Art of BD mainly b&w with a colour section at the beginning Mike Schneider (editor) – Steampunk Originals 28 graphic shorts in all sorts of styles Marco Nizzoli & Michelangelo La Neve – Day of the Magicians soft-cover graphic novel from Humanoids. Interzone – #250 quite a milestone for a British sf magazine! Locus – issue #636 Stephen Baxter on the cover Hi- Fructose – issue #30 Juxtapoz – February cover date; issue #157. Lord of the Rings – The Hobbit Map mirror . It’s a rather nice 12″ x 8″ black-framed mirror, with the Hobbit map on it. New Titles – w/e 25th January 2014. in large format: Simon Ings – Wolves near future tale set in the media and advertising worlds. Simon R. Green – Once in a Blue Moon the latest Hawk and Fisher novel, although it also appears to be volume 4 of the Forest Kingdom series. But it’s been a long time anyway, however you count it. McSweeney’s #45 – Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven consisting mainly of short stories culled from anthologies edited by Bradbury and Hitchcock. Plus 4 modern stories from the likes of China Mieville . Some excellent looking stuff. C. Robert Cargill – Dreams and Shadows present day fantasy involving changelings, and much more. A bit like John Crowley; I really liked the h/c last year Andrzej Sapkowski – Time of Contempt latest in the fantasy series that began with The Last Wish . Translated from Polish by David French. Tanya Huff – The Enchantment Emporium unemployed Alice inherits a junk shop far away from her constricting family… Christopher Brookmyre – Bedlam Ross volunteers to test some new tech for his employer but finds himself trapped in a VR game… Tim Lebbon – Out of the Shadows a brand new authorised Alien novel! Greig Beck – Dark Rising ancient artifact thriller featuring Alex Hunter ; sequel to Beneath the Black Ice. Andy Frankham-Allen – Companions: An Unofficial Guide 50 years of Doctor Who assistants. Feels very comprehensive and includes Expanded Universe references, but, sadly, no pictures. Or index; it’s all listed by Doctor. Alex Archer – Treasure of Lima the 46th adventure featuring the Rogue Angel James Axler – Siren Song the 69th post-apocalyptic adventure in the Death Lands. Peyo – The Smurfs Anthology vol 2 full colour hardcover. It should have arrived before Christmas… Black Static – #38, cover date Jan?Feb 2014. Fiction and reviews. Doctor Who – Afterlife Big Finish adventure #181, with Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred Doctor Who – The King of Sontar the latest Fourth Doctor adventure (#3.10) from Big Finish . With Tom Baker and Louise Jamieson. New Titles – w/e 18th January 2014. Adam Roberts – Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea a re-imagining of Verne’s classic, with illustrations in b&w by Mehendra Singh . France’s 1st nuclear submarine dives but no matter how deep she goes, how far beyond crush depth, the bottom can’t be found… looks great fun. Gene Wolfe – The Land Across a travel writer wants to write the first guide to a very obscure little European country with a Kafkaesque bureaucracy… Edmond Hamilton – The Reign of the Robots volume 4 of his collected stories from Haffner Press Edmond Hamilton – The Collected Captain Future Volume Three from Haffner Press. Jo Walton – What Makes This Book Great 130 essays on sf&f classics (and others) from the award-winning author and critic. in large format: John C. Wright – The Hermetic Millenia sequel to Count to a Trillion post-human genius Montrose is in cryogenic suspension awaiting a challenge he knows is coming far in the future. But his talents are required before then… Christopher Golden – Snow Blind the small town of Coventry, MA suffered a huge storm 12 years ago, and now they’re expecting an even worse one – much worse… Gemma Files – A Book of Tongues weird western, book 1 of the Hexslinger series about an undercover Pinkerton agent. Carolyn Ives Gilman – The Ice Owl novella set in her Twenty Planets background (like Arkfall) I got in because I liked Arkfall a lot. Algis Budrys – Gateway Omnibus containing the novels The Iron Thorn , Michaelmas and Hard Landing Garry Kilworth – Gateway Omnibus with the trilogy The Roof of Voyaging , The Princely Flower and Land-of-Mists , which he considers to be among his best work C. L. Moore – Gateway Omnibus from Orion with Jirel of Joiry , Northwest of Earth and Judgement Night . Essentially 3 short story collections with her 2 best known characters and also the best from her other work. Darrell Schweitzer – Speaking of the Fantastic book of 13 interviews with the likes of Leiber , Simmons , Brunner & Holdstock which Schweitzer carried out in the 1990s. Maggie Furey – Exodus of the Xandem sequel to 2009’s Heritage of the Xandem Christopher Golden – King of Hell a new Peter Octavian novel; he must try to rescue his friends, some of whom he inadvertently betrayed years ago… Guy Adams – Once Upon a Time in Hell sequel to The Good, the Bad and the Infernal ; Heaven’s Gate trilogy volume 2 Peter Higgins – Wolfhound Century corruption is rife in the police state of Vlast and it may be related to the ancient secret hidden beneath the central police station… and a fallen Angel is stirring hundreds of miles to the east… Tom Lloyd – The God Tattoo short stories set in the land of his Twilight Reign novels. Philip K. Dick – Dr. Bloodmoney post-WW3 novel writen in 1965. Subtitled Or How We Got Along After The Bomb. Vincent Zhoa (editor) – Fantasy+ #5 latest in the series that now rivals Spectrum as an annual look at the fantastic in art. From Cypi Press CG Galaxy: Top Chinese CG Artists and Their Works some excellent stuff, with the emphasis on characters rather than landscapes, etc. Also from Cypi Press Aunja Kahn & Russel J. Moon (editors) – Lowbrow Tarot all sorts of tarot card art from a variety of artists… hardcover Mitch Byrd – Women, Dinosaurs and Random Illustrations vol 1 b&w sketches of (mainly) dinos, women and astronauts! Herman Melville – Moby-Dick a manga version from Variety Art Works nice little b&w edition H. G. Wells – The War of the Worlds a manga version from Variety Art Works nice little b&w edition. Locus – December 2013 cover date; issue #635 with coverage of Brighton’s recent World Fantasy Convention Illustration – issue #23 highlighting the work of Henry Patrick Raleigh and also Victor Kalin (by his daughter) Heavy Metal – issue #266. Comics Revue – December 2013 their latest collection of old comic strips, from Flash Gordon and Tarzan to Modesty Blaise and Alley Oop ! Some in colour. Plush USS Enterprise 25cm soft Star Trek model/toy (NCC-1701) Ender’s Game – Battle School: The Board Game . All you need to play as either Ender Wiggen and his Dragon Army or Bonzo Madrid and the Salamander Army! New Titles – w/e 11th January 2014. Joe Haldeman – Work Done for Hire ex-military sniper turned struggling author Jack finds his 2 careers converging… in large format: Iver P. Cooper – 1636: Seas of Fortune the latest in Eric Flint ‘s Ring of Fire series, this time without Flint! Laura Lam – Shadowplay sequel to Pantomime ; fantasy featuring ex-circus performer Micah Grey. Barb & J. C. Hendee – The Dog in the Dark the latest of their Noble Dead novels Faith Hunter – Black Arts the 7th Jane Yellowknife novel M. L. Brennan – Iron Night the 2nd Generation V adventure, about a film theory graduate cum waiter who’s also a fledgling vampire… D. K. Mok – The Other Tree interesting sounding ancient artifact thriller. Irene Radford – The Broken Dragon volume 2 of The Children of the Dragon Nimbus. Enki Bilal – les fantomes du Louvre hardback with all his art from his recent exhibition in the Louvre. Fascinating images of famous artworks, reworked by Bilal.