Bruce Sterling’s mammoth, 200k word retrospective has just received a coveted review in Publishers Weekly, which reads, in part, “Sterling (Visionary in Residence: Stories), the godfather of cyberpunk, demonstrates his full range, from far future to forgotten past, in this well-stocked career-spanning collection of his finest SF pieces. His blend of uncompromising realism and irrepressible optimism shows up wherever his protagonists do… Readers who like a hard-eyed view of the future combined with a wry wink at the past, with a few inventive postmodern narrative kicks mixed in, will be greatly rewarded.”

We’re still a good month out from the release of Orson Scott Card’s YA novella, and more than 1800 of the 2000 copies in the first printing are already reserved, making Space Boy a likely bet to be sold out on publication, or very shortly thereafter.

We’ve got a number of titles at the printer, some just sent, others a bit further along in production, including:

– Space Boy (Orson Scott Card)
– The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate (Ted Chiang)
– M is for Magic (Neil Gaiman)
– To the Dark Star (Robert Silverberg)
– D.A. (Connie Willis)

and a few awaiting slipcases before shipping:

– I Sing the Body Electric (Ray Bradbury)
– Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories (Philip Jose Farmer)

Titles heading to the printer in the next batch include:

– Old Man’s War (John Scalzi)
– Ascendancies (Bruce Sterling)
– Sky Horizon (David Brin)

We’ve just posted cover art for a couple of our titles due this fall. Plots and Misadventures by Stephen Gallagher gathers “eleven flights of fancy and one true story,” while Allen Steele’s River Horses is a welcome standalone novella set in his signature world of Coyote.

We’ve seen early trade reviews on the Steele title, and they’re strong enough to guarantee a sell out upon its release this fall. As to the Gallagher, both of his previous SubPress’ releases have sold out quickly, and we see no reason his collection shouldn’t follow suit.

The second printing (all copies signed) of Joe Hill’s stunning debut novel, Heart-Shaped Box, are in our offices and shipping. The first printing sold out prior to publication, with at least one copy breaking the $1000 mark on Ebay, and countless others going for more than $800. Now’s your chance to own the preferred edition, identical to the original with the exception of the copyright page, for a much more affordable price.

Signed Edition:

$60

We’ve just started shipping our signed reprint of Brian Lumley’s ultra-rare collection of tales vampiric. Copies of the original unsigned hardcover go for $300+ when you can find them; ours is barely more than a tenth that price, and also includes an exclusive bonus chapbook containing two more Lumley shorts. Coven is the perfect book to whet your appetite for The Taint and Other Novellas, the first volume of his collected Mythos tales, due later this year.

Signed Edition:

$35

Subterranean Press is proud to present After the War, two novellas set in Tim Lebbon’s signature world of Noreela!

Vale of Blood Roses
A mercenary should be allowed to quit. That’s what Jakk thinks. But his companions don’t want to quit. As the Cataclysmic War ends they enter a valley that should not exist, see machines that should be dead, and interrupt something that should be left alone. There’s regret, but some actions can’t be undone. There’s hope, but it’s so obviously false. And there’s revenge.

The Bajuman
Korrin is a Bajuman, vilified for some vague wrongdoing in his people’s past. He’s also a hunter, making his living tracking down lost people, forgotten things. Charged with finding a missing fodder – member of an ancient race originally bred for food — he soon realises a painful truth. In Noreela City, still recovering from the Great Plagues, everyone is lost.

Limited: 1000 signed numbered hardcover copies: $35

We’ve added a couple of books to our forthcoming schedule:

The Other Teddy Roosevelts by Mike Resnick:

Theodore Roosevelt: president, naturalist, explorer, author, cowboy, police commissioner, deputy marshal, soldier, taxidermist, ornithologist, and boxer. Everyone knows about that.

But how about vampire hunter?

Or African king?

Or Jack the Ripper’s nemesis?

Or World War I doughboy?

Mike Resnick (the most-awarded short story writer in science fiction history, according to Locus) has been the biographer of these other Teddy Roosevelts for almost two decades. Here you will find a familiar Roosevelt, but in unfamiliar surroundings — stalking a vampire through the streets of New York, or a crazed killer down the back alleys of Whitechapel, coming face-to-face with the devastation of 20th Century warfare, waging an early battle for women’s suffrage, applying all his skills to bring American democracy to the untamed African wilderness, or coming face-to-face with one of H. G. Wells’ Martian invaders in the swamps of Cuba.

And, as Winston Churchill said of the Arthurian legends if these stories aren’t true, then they should have been.

Limited: 1000 signed numbered copies: $35

Enjoy.

The Summer issue of Subterranean Online is shaping up nicely, with a recently posted novelette by Charles de Lint. We published “Make a Joyful Noise” as a chapbook some time back, and have had so many requests to reprint it, but decided to let everyone in on this tale of de Lint’s delightful Crow Girls.

Continuing our Summer focus on Elizabeth Bear, you’ll also find an interview (conducted by Sarah Monette, herself a fine writer), and a brand new Bear short story, “Black is the Color.” Next week, look for us to start a 20,000 word serial.

We’ve received finished copies of both Philip Jose Farmer’s gathering of rarities, Up from the Bottomless Pit, and Ray Bradbury’s seminal collection, I Sing the Body Electric. We’re in the process of having the slipcases manufactured, and will ship as soon as that process is complete, in another four weeks or so. We think everyone will be happy with how these turned out.

In a couple of related notes, we’ve just reached agreement with PJF to publish another collection next year. Venus on the Half Shell and Others will collect the best of Phil’s “fictional author” stories, including the title novel, “written” by Kurt Vonnegut’s hack sf alter-ego, Kilgore Trout.

Little more than a week ago, we posted that we had pulled Ray Bradbury’s I Sing the Body Electric from our site, upon being informed that we were going to be shorted copies by our printer. Well, we are being shorted, but the situation is not as dire as they initially indicated, so we have a limited number of copies still available for preorder.