Over at Subterranean Online, we’ve just posted a nifty little piece with links galore by Elizabeth Bear, as well as Norm Partridge’s latest installment of Harvesting the Darkness, on the occasion of his picking up another Stoker award. (Congrats, Norm!) If that’s not enough, reviewer Dorman T. Shindler fairly glows off the page about M. Rickert’s new collection, Map of Dreams, while also covering Virginia Baker’s first novel, Jack Knife. Enjoy!

We’ve just received the softcover chapbooks of Charles de Lint’s latest Newford tale, Old Man Crow. We expect to have all advance orders shipped by the end of the week.

Also shipping this week are a whole passel of lettered editions, including:

– Rite (Tad Williams)
– The Jack Vance Treasury (Jack Vance)
– Missile Gap (Charles Stross)
– Seven Whistlers (Amber Benson & Christopher Golden)
– D*U*C*K (Poppy Z. Brite)
– Currency of Souls (Kealan Patrick Burke)
– In Other Words (John Crowley)
– Dead Names (Simon)

We’ve just nailed down the extra material that will grace the 26 copy Traycased Lettered Edition of Ray Bradbury’s I Sing the Body Electric, which promises to be one of our most lavish productions yet, printed in two colors throughout, with one of the most graceful, spot-on, appropriate designs you’ll ever see. The extra material, 40 pages in all, will include a reproduction of an original proposed cover sketch by the author, an early version of the short story “The Kilimanjaro Device,” then called “The Kilimanjaro Machine”, complete with copious hand corrections, and a reproduction of an earlier version of the poem “Christus Apollo,” again, heavily hand edited and corrected by Mr. Bradbury.

In honor of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, we (along with the estimable author, Charlie Stross), have decided to make the full text of the just nominated for a Locus award novella, Missile Gap, available online for Free over at Subterranean Online. Enjoy! Thanks also to the kind folks who voted in the Locus poll, making Subterranean a finalist as Best Publisher.

Cherie’s new mosaic novel continues to get great coverage, this time from fantasybookspot.com: “Priest shows with Dreadful Skin that she’s both a versatile wordsmith and storyteller, and most comfortable in the south where the ghosts and ghouls roam wildly. If you enjoyed Priest’s other work, Dreadful Skin is highly recommended.” Why not snag a copy and see what all the fuss is about?”

Mark R. Kelly, in Locus, about “Getting to Know You”:
“Marusek, showing a potentially volatile synergy of technology and human foibles, is a writer who gives the impression that he’s been to the future, seen it work, and has come back to tell us all about it.”

Cory Doctorow on “The Wedding Album”:
“Marusek’s amazing story ‘The Wedding Album’ floored me when I read it in 1999, was a finalist on the Nebula ballot, won the Sturgeon and Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Awards, placed in the Locus, Seiun and HOMer awards, and left all who read it gob-smacked.”

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Subterranean Press is proud to present its first audio-book, a short novel in Kage Baker’s signature series recounting the adventures of the time traveling cyborgs of Dr. Zeus incorporated. Rude Mechanicals is read by Mary Robinette Kowal. You can order a hard copy here.

After catching up on some paperwork this week, we discovered that there are 5 copies of the lettered edition of George R. R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows unreserved. If you’re interested in this book, please drop us a note at subpress@gmail.com for ordering instructions. In buying a lettered edition of Feast, you’ll have the rights of first refusal on subsequent volumes in the series.

A quick update: Tom Canty has turned in almost all of the black-and-white art, and volume one is 90% designed. We’re just waiting for the last few pieces from Tom, then we’ll check with George to make sure the art placement is to his liking, and begin proofreading. Tom has also completed most of the b&w artwork for volume two, and is hard at work on the color pieces for both books, including the different covers that will grace each volume.

This week over at Subterranean Online we’ve got a special treat for the pulp lovers, where there’s an essay, “Me and Lucifer” about Mike Resnick’s favorite creation, the Right Reverand Doctor Lucifer Jones, con-man and missionary extraordinaire. We’ve now posted a new adventure — a send up of pulp situations and conventions — “The Lost Continent of Moo.” Enjoy!

Joe Hill and his agent have authorized a second printing of the Subterranean Press edition of Heart-Shaped Box. There will be 400 unsigned copies of the regular edition ($60) and 100 copies of the signed deluxe edition (the latter is already sold out). Given the prices the book is fetching on Ebay, Joe wanted to make it available again to fans who might have missed out the first time. U.S. shipping costs are included in the prices. We’re also limiting households to one copy of either edition, and those who ordered the first printing of HSB are not eligible to buy a copy of the second printing. No coupons, savings certificates, or other special offers may be applied to this title.