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Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-79102691000268933082014-01-18T14:35:00.001+00:002014-01-18T14:35:25.517+00:00Sláine: Book of Scars by Pat Mills
Sláine: Book of Scars
marks 30 years of the Celtic barbarian’s adventures with an anniversary book that
brings together a new story from creator Pat Mills and the biggest artists to
have worked on Sláine over the past three decades (now available from 2000AD
£19.99):
“Along with his odious sidekick Ukko the Dwarf, Sláine has
endured 30 years of trials across the ages as he has served the Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-37613117536170803762014-01-18T14:26:00.002+00:002014-01-18T14:26:44.123+00:00The Emperor of all Things by Paul Witcover
The Emperor of all
Things by Paul Witcover is out from Bantam (£8.99):
“1758. England is embroiled in a globe-spanning conflict
that stretches from her North American colonies to Europe and beyond. Across
the Channel, the French prepare for an invasion — an invasion rumoured to be
led by none other than Bonnie Prince Charlie. It seems the map of Europe is
about to be redrawn. Yet behind Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-46589171787113614982014-01-18T14:20:00.002+00:002014-01-18T14:20:51.180+00:00Breach Zone by Myk Cole
Breach Zone is the
third book in Myke Cole's Shadow Ops
series, due later this month from Headline (£7.99):
“The Great Reawakening introduced magic into an already
volatile world. Many of those with new-found powers have been conscripted by the
US Army ... but when the barriers between our reality and the source of this
magic starts to fall, they will have to decide who they are really Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-26650550143167879652014-01-18T14:15:00.001+00:002014-01-18T14:15:05.694+00:00The People’s Will by Jasper Kent
The People’s Will by Jasper Kent (Bantam £8.99) is the fourth
volume in the Danilov Quintet:
“Turkmenistan 1881: Beneath the
citadel of Geok Tepe sits a prisoner. He hasn’t moved from his chair for two
years, hasn’t felt the sun on his face in more than fifty, but he is thankful
for that. The city is besieged by Russian troops and soon falls. But one
Russian officer has his own reason to be Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-37752925802420557742014-01-18T14:09:00.000+00:002014-01-18T14:09:30.885+00:00Ex-Purgatory by Peter Clines
Ex-Purgatory by Peter Clines (Del Rey £7.99) is the latest in the Ex series:
“George Bailey is an ordinary
guy, working the nine to five as a handyman and trying to make the best of the
little he’s got. But when he sleeps, he dreams of fire and flying, of zombies
and superheroes.
When the two realities start to merge, George begins to question if he’s gone
mad.
That, or something has gone
Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-28581887203732382022014-01-15T15:01:00.003+00:002014-01-15T15:01:48.431+00:00Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson is published next month by
Solaris (£7.99).
“Rudi is a cook in a Kraków
restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the
country he’s trapped in a new career – part spy, part people-smuggler.
Following multiple economic
crises and a devastating flu pandemic, Europe has fractured into countless tiny
nations, duchies, polities and Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-72426638669800246422014-01-15T14:55:00.003+00:002014-01-15T14:55:57.661+00:00God’s War by Kameron Hurley
God’s War by Kameron Hurley (a British Fantasy Award winner) is
out from Del Rey at £8.99.
“Nyx is a bel dame, a bounty
hunter paid to collect the heads of deserters – by almost any means necessary.
‘Almost’ proved to be the problem.
Cast out and imprisoned for breaking one
rule too many, Nyx and her crew of mercenaries are all about the money. But
when a dubious government deal with Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-32281656718862109872014-01-15T14:48:00.002+00:002014-01-15T14:48:33.043+00:00The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston
The Winter Witch
by Paula Brackston is out from Corsair (£7.99)
“Fledgling witch Morgana must defend her love, her home, and
her life ‘Wild places make wild people, but only some have magic blood. There
are those with frozen hearts, whose souls know only winter. They would drive me
from my home. It will not do. Really, it will not.’
In her small Welsh town, there is no one quite like Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-77105902887557892862014-01-15T14:40:00.002+00:002014-01-15T14:40:25.698+00:00Invent-10n by Rod Rees
A limited signed, hardcover edition of Invent-10n by Rod Rees is now available from The Alchemy Press -- signed by Rees as well as the book's designers and artist. The print run is 100 copies and is only available from the publisher. A paperback edition is also available for around £11 from Amazon, The Book Depository and other online dealers.
"Greetings Gate, let’s Agitate. Look
over your Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-85320906576327684782014-01-15T14:31:00.002+00:002014-01-15T14:31:22.195+00:00The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff
Out this week from Titan Books
(£7.99): The Enchantment Emporium by
Tanya Huff. This is the first volume of a new urban fantasy series from the
author of The Blood Books.
“The Gale family can change the
world with the charms they cast, and they like to keep this in the family.
Alysha Gale is tired of having all her aunts try to run her life, both
personally and magically. So when the letterAlchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-50306172897239588032014-01-09T15:44:00.004+00:002014-01-09T15:45:06.938+00:00Innocence by Dean Koontz
Innocence by Dean Koontz is out now from Harper Collins (£18.99):
“Addison Goodheart is not like
other people … Addison Goodheart lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile
from a society which will destroy him if he is ever seen.
Books are his refuge and his escape: he embraces the riches they have to offer.
By night he leaves his hidden chambers and, through a network of storm drains
andAlchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-25105635142592426802014-01-09T15:40:00.001+00:002014-01-09T15:40:15.332+00:00Midkemia: The Chronicles of Pug by Raymond Feist
The world of Raymond Feist is beautifully
depicted in Midkemia: The Chronicles of
Pug (available from Harper Voyager £20) an illustrated deluxe compendium, complete with maps,
character drawings, and first-person narrative text.
“‘In the first year of the
reign of King Lyam conDoin, I, Pug of Crydee, magician to the royal court and
cousin to the King by adoption, do take quill in hand and setAlchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-84932012295830351082014-01-09T15:28:00.001+00:002014-01-09T15:28:50.446+00:00The Echo by James Smythe
The Echo by James Smythe, the sequel to The Explorer, is out next week from Harper Voyager (£16.99):
The disappearance of the
spaceship Ishiguro twenty-three years ago devastated the global space program
and set back exploration for a generation. Now, thanks to the tireless efforts
of twin brothers Mira and Tomas Hyvonen, the program has been resurrected.
Spearheading a new age of human Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-12398015313127262082014-01-09T15:11:00.002+00:002014-01-09T15:11:19.714+00:00Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea by Adam Roberts
Adam Roberts and artist Mahendra
Singh have revisited Jules Verne's classic SF novel with Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (now available from Gollancz £16.99).
“It is 1958 and France's first
nuclear submarine, Plongeur, leaves
port for the first of its sea trials. On board, gathered together for the first
time, one of the navy's most experienced captains and a tiny skeleton crew of
Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-8931028161774724962014-01-09T14:34:00.004+00:002014-01-09T14:37:20.383+00:00Fantasycon 2014: Charlaine Harris announced as GoH
FantasyCon 2014 has announced that Charlaine Harris will be joining as a Guest of Honour at FantasyCon in York from the 5th-7th September, 2014. She joins existing Guests of Honour, Kate Elliott, Larry Rostant and Toby Whithouse.
Charlaine is a New York Times bestselling author, who has been writing for over thirty years. She is perhaps best known as the creator of the Sookie Stackhouse Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-70597644968581980742013-12-31T12:58:00.004+00:002013-12-31T12:58:57.724+00:00The Shape Stealer by Lee Carroll
The Shape Stealer by Lee Carroll (Bantam £8.99 – out this week) is
the final volume in the urban fantasy trilogy that began with Black Swan Rising:
“Garet James is the watchtower
– the last in a long line of powerful women sworn to protect our world from
evil. She once defeated the malign sorcerer Dr Dee, but her pursuit of the man
she loves – the centuries-old vampire Will Hughes – has Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-34236171747767719642013-12-31T12:49:00.001+00:002013-12-31T12:49:15.894+00:00Winter by William Horwood
Winter, a Hyddenworld
novel, by William Horwood is out now (Macmillan £18.99). This is the last instalment of
Horwood’s fantasy quartet.
"Storms rage as the worst winter in living memory
ravages the human and Hydden worlds. The prophesied End of Days is here and the
universe is dying, yet only a few are even aware of the forces at work.
Jack and Katherine must help
their friend Bedwyn Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-54466325611254873292013-12-31T12:38:00.002+00:002013-12-31T12:39:27.691+00:00The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Staveley
The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Staveley is the first book in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne sequence
(Tor £16.99) – published on 2 January 2014.
“The Emperor has been murdered,
leaving the Annurian Empire in turmoil. Now his progeny must bury their grief
and prepare to unmask a conspiracy. His son Valyn, training for the empire’s
deadliest fighting force, hears the news an ocean away. He Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-27429662292949991052013-12-31T12:30:00.002+00:002013-12-31T12:31:24.099+00:00The Descent by Alma Katsu
Alma Katsu’s supernatural trilogy — that
began with The Taker — comes to a conclusion
with The Descent (Arrow £7.99). Out
in a day or so:
“Lanore McIlvrae encounters Adair,
her powerful nemesis. Dismayed by Adair’s otherworldly powers and afraid of his
passionate temper, Lanore has run from him across time, even imprisoning him
behind a wall for two centuries to save Jonathan, her eternal Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-64376780013231823152013-12-30T16:40:00.000+00:002013-12-30T16:40:45.588+00:00Veins and Skulls by Daniele Serra
Veins and Skulls by Daniele Serra. SST Publications. £16.95
Reviewed by Peter Coleborn
If you love the work of Daniele
Serra – as I do – you should love this art book. Dani Serra has the ability to
use a limited palette coupled with few bold brush strokes to generate paintings
that are alive with motion and emotion. Based on the PDF I was sent for review,
these examples represent some of Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-30385134825012459362013-12-28T15:52:00.001+00:002013-12-28T15:52:49.152+00:00The Fall of the Governor by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga
From the hit TV show comes The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor (part one) by Robert
Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga (Tor £7.99; part two is due out in a few months):
“Über-villain Phillip Blake has come a long way. He
journeyed from humble beginnings into the dark heart of the zombie apocalypse.
And here, he has manoeuvred to become a small town’s self-proclaimed leader.
But Woodbury’s Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-4157373508447451192013-12-28T15:41:00.004+00:002013-12-28T15:41:54.166+00:00Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal
Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal is the third volume in The Glamourist Histories (Corsair £7.99)
– out on 16 January 2014.
“Summer, 1816: Glamourists Jane
and David Vincent return home to an unseasonably cold Long Parkmeade. Cooped up
inside with Jane's fretful sister and father, they soon become restless, so
when they receive a commission from a prominent family in London, they Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-33766048260076590632013-12-28T15:32:00.003+00:002013-12-28T15:53:55.598+00:00Hunger by Melvin Burgess
Hunger by Melvin Burgess is out on 16 January 2014 as a Hammer
paperback (£7.99):
“When Beth wakes up one morning
covered in dirt, she puts it down to an extreme case of sleep-walking. But when
reports of a desecrated grave start to circulate, her night-time wanderings
take on a sinister air.
Soon the city is being plagued
by strange sightings and sudden disappearances.
Beth knows that Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809410764755630513.post-83765668427980821682013-12-28T15:17:00.000+00:002013-12-28T15:17:14.823+00:00The Arrows of Time by Greg Egan
Greg Egan’s The Arrows of Time is the third volume
of the Orthogonal trilogy (Gollancz
£16.99)
“After generations of travel,
the spaceship Peerless may finally
have achieved its goal – but the decision to return home may create more
tensions than ever before.
In an alien universe where
space and time play by different rules, interstellar voyages last longer for
the travellers than for those Alchemy Press/ Peter Colebornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833436536772138668noreply@blogger.com0