We’ve just posted a host of new artwork to our site, including the covers to Antediluvian Tales (Poppy Z. Brite) and Getting to Know You (David Marusek); also posted are some of the interiors to The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch) and The Shadows, Kith and Kin (Joe R. Lansdale). Head over and give ‘em a look.

Thanks, everyone, for making our latest John Crowley book, In Other Words, such a success. Once we were done shipping all the individual, retailer, and wholesaler orders for this one, we realized, rather surprisingly, that the numbered edition was completely sold out. Copies of the Lettered Edition ($125), which will not be published for several months yet, are still available for reservation.

David Marusek’s debut collection, Getting to Know You, just received the following starred review from Publishers Weekly: “Marusek, in a blurb for this superb collection of 10 stories (all the shorter SF he’s published to date), gives fair warning when he says he lays his stories ‘like traps and bait[s] them with shiny ideas…’ Marusek’s ’shiny ideas’—cloned laborers, electronic ‘proxies,’ the ’boutique economy’—sparkle, but these assured stories also draw on core SF themes: in the face of change, what does it mean to be human, and where do we draw the line between helping ourselves and hurting others?”

Color us more than a little bit pleased.

We’ve just posted the details for three brand new titles to the SubPress online store, each of them deep into design/production.

Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling is a gathering of 200k words by one of the finest writers of science fiction working today…and yesterday. Included are such early gems as the Shaper/Mechanist stories, “Green Days in Brunei” and “Flowers of Edo.” From there Bruce goes on to his “Leggy Starlitz” and “Chattanooga” series of tales, to one of his most recent, “The Blemmye’s Stratagem.”

Plots and Misadventures is Stephen Gallagher’s second short story collection, containing, as the author writes, “eleven flights of fancy and one true story…but it can be hard to say where fancy ends and the truth begins.” Along the way, you’ll encounter grisly goings-on in a tattoo parlour… a bereaved girl’s poetic revenge… hunting fairies with pickup truck and cattle prod… and one novella written especially for this volume. Both of our previous Gallagher books (The Painted Bride and The Spirit Box) have sold very well, so you might want to get your order in early for this Halloween release.

Also due this Halloween is the first of two volumes set to collect the best of Brian Lumley’s Mythos tales. The Taint and Other Novellas collects his lengthy Lovecraftian tales, including such gems as the recent title story, and harder to find tales such as “The House of the Temple.” Look for The Taint to weigh in around 400 pages, with a full color dust jacket and copious black and white illustrations by Bob Eggleton.

As I’m sure you can understand we were absolutely stunned and delighted to receive the following note a few days ago. Folks, it’s moments like this that make all the hard work worthwhile.

Dear Bill:

Ray

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We’re down to the last five copies of the numbered edition of Farewell Summer, and the last seven of the lettered, the latter which includes everything in the numbered, plus full color endsheets and a chapbook of additional fiction not available anywhere else.

Thanks, everyone, for the overwhelming response. We now have a whole host of new places to send ARCs to for review, and are done taking requests/suggestions.

In the past few weeks we’ve received a number of Advance Reading Copies for forthcoming titles. If you review for someplace of note, or have a heavily trafficked blog, by all means drop us a note — our email’s at the bottom of this page — and let us know what titles you might be interested in reviewing.

The ARCs include
New Amsterdam (Elizabeth Bear);
D.A. (Connie Willis);
The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate (Ted Chiang)
To the Dark Star (Robert Silverberg);
Dreadful Skin (Cherie Priest);
The Shadows Kith and Kin (Joe R. Lansdale);
Getting to Know You (David Marusek);
and You’re Not Fooling Anyone… (John Scalzi).

We’re just days away from the release of Cherie Priest’s nun-with-a-gun vs. the werewolf in the wild west novel, Dreadful Skin, and another glowing review has just been published, this time at Bookslut:

“I was fairly dazzled by Dreadful Skin, by the innovative way that Priest has found to tell an age old story and by the richly chosen words she has used to embrace it. This one crosses all the genre lines and soundly delivers on the promise of good storytelling. A reader could not ask for anything more from a fiction writer, and Cherie Priest, thankfully, has given us her best.”

Wonderful note of the day! As I type this, The Sagan Diary is all the way up to #194 on Amazon, by far the highest we’ve ever been, and higher than any other small press title I’ve heard of. Thanks to everyone who’s been ordering it, from us, and over at Amazon, where you can save a few bucks, and get it for $13.60.

To commemorate the release of John Scalzi’s novelette The Sagan Diary, we’ve produced a special version of the book — an audio book, featuring the voices and talents of Elizabeth Bear (New Amsterdam), Cherie Priest (Dreadful Skin), Ellen Kushner, Mary Robinette Kowal and others, each putting their own mark on the character of Jane Sagan. You don’t want to miss this.

Hi.

Due to overwhelming demand, our email special to receive certain lettered editions for $50 apiece is now over. Many thanks to everyone who took advantage!

In 2005, Caitlín R. Kiernan surprised her readers with, Frog Toes and Tentacles, a small-form hardcover of “darkly weird erotica.” Now Kiernan follows that sold-out volume with a second collection of her unique brand of erotica, Tales from the Woeful Platypus. Like its predecessor, this book is illustrated by acclaimed artist Vince Locke (The Sandman, Batman, A History of Violence, Deadworld, etc.), and also like the first volume, it is unlikely ever to be reprinted.

The Limited Edition sold out months ago, but we have a goodly supply of the unsigned trade hardcover.

Trade HC:

$20