We’ve just posted the covers for Connie Willis’ 270k word career retrospective, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, which we’re readying to send to the printer in the next few weeks. The stunning cover art is by John Jude Palencar.

Not to be outdone, Dave McKean has just turned in the wraparound cover — only part of which you can see here — for Alan Campbell’s Lye Street, an excursion into the world he first fleshed out in the excellent novel Scar Night. Lye Street also contains, in addition to a gruesome, grotesquely wonderful novella, copious b&w interior illustrations by Bob Eggleton.

We are, as you might expect, completely jazzed to be doing this project. Here are the particulars:

Snow Crash
By Neal Stephenson
(preorder–to be published this fall)

Illustrated by Patrick Arrasmith

Limited: $150
Lettered: $500

Fifteen years since its initial release, Snow Crash remains one of the most popular and important novels in recent memory. Subterranean Press is proud to announce the Limited Edition, printed in two colors throughout on 80# Finch paper, with a premium cloth binding, and a number of illustrations and design elements by Patrick Arrasmith.

Given Mr. Stephenson’s popularity, and the importance of this book, we fully expect it to sell out prior to publication.

Limited: 500 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author
Lettered: 26 signed copies, handbound, in a custom traycase, with an original piece of art not in the Limited Edition

“Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st Century.”
– William Gibson

“A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole.”
– San Francisco Bay Guardian

“Brilliantly Realized…Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow.”
– The New York Times Book Review

We’ve just posted ordering info for three brand new titles, including Pilot Light (Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock, writing as “William Ashbless”), a recently discovered short story we’re publishing as a hardcover chapbook; Tales of Pain and Wonder (Caitlin R. Kiernan), the expanded definitive edition of her first short story collection; and Something Wild is Loose (Robert Silverberg), the third volume of the SF master’s Collected short fiction.

Once again we have Advance Reading Copies in hand for a number of titles. If you’re a reviewer for a prominent website — sorry, Amazon doesn’t count — or have a highly trafficked blog, feel free to drop us a line and request a review copy. We can’t promise anything, as we always receive far more requests than we have ARCs available, but you never know.

ARCS available include:

* The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury
* Lye Street by Alan Campbell
* The Lovecraft Chronicles by Peter Cannon
* Plots and Misadventures by Stephen Gallagher
* The Taint and Other Novellas by Brian Lumley
* The Other Teddy Roosevelts by Mike Resnick
* The Winds of Marble Arch by Connie Willis

Welcome to I Sing the Body Electric! one of Ray Bradbury’s most beloved collections. The Subterranean Edition is published in two colors throughout, with stunning cover art by Vincent Chong. Once again we’ve kept the limitation on our edition down, both in deference to Mr. Bradbury’s overworked signing hand, and to make ours among the more collectible Bradbury titles of recent years.

Limited Edition:

$150

Up from the Bottomless Pit is the ultimate collection for Philip Jose Farmer fans, including 140,000 words (roughly 400 pages) of very obscure, never-before- collected short stories, a novel beginning, non-fiction, and a complete novel as well.

All of these pieces have only seen publication in Farmerphile, a fanzine with a regular circulation well under two hundred copies per issue. Subterranean Press is proud to give these newly discovered gems a more permanent home, in an edition specifically geared toward Phil’s most ardent fans. In addition to the rarities, there will be copious introductions and numerous black and white illustrations.

Limited Edition:

$125

It appears to be non-fiction week over at the current issue of Subterranean Online, with a new Joe R. Lansdale column singing Robert E. Howard’s praises, and an interview with hot new fantasy writer Patrick Rothfuss. If you haven’t yet encountered his debut novel, The Name of the Wind, consider it highly recommended. (You can also look for an exclusive Rothfuss book on next year’s SubPress schedule.)

Two new titles have just been sent to the printer, which means they should be in stock and shipping in four to five weeks.

Promises to Keep is Charles de Lint’s 175 page novel about the early days of Jilly Coppercorn. As Booklist notes, “De Lint returns to Newford and Jilly Coppercorn’s youth, which readers of The Onion Girl and other Jilly stories know was extremely painful. The setting here is Jilly’s early college days. She is just beginning to put her abused past behind her. One evening she runs into her only friend from her days in a juvenile institution, one of the few who know her original name… De Lint presents Jilly’s choices, the memories impelling them, and the solution to the riddle of Donna in his characteristic powerful yet intimate style. Jilly’s reader friends, including those first meeting her, will be more than delighted.”

Also just sent to the printer is Old Man’s War by John Scalzi. The limited edition to the first novel by one of SF’s rising stars is limited to only 415 copies, featuring a full color dust jacket, and four full-color interior illustrations by Vincent Chong. We’re already hard at work on the second novel in the series, The Ghost Brigades, due out later this year.

Over at the current issue of Subterranean Online, we’ve just posted a rarity (from the anthology Nova Scotia) by one of our favorite of the current batch of sf writers, Charles Stross, as well as a pulp adventure of the irrepressible scalawag, the Right Reverend Doctor Lucifer Jones. Join Mike Resnick for a bit of “Carnival Knowledge,” and encounter an old “friend’ from Rev. Jones’ past.

In Space Boy, Orson Scott Card, author of Ender’s Game, takes readers into a strange and wonderful future, where people from another world regularly visit Earth - usually without being noticed. And when humans travel to their world, they find themselves dangerously weak and powerless. Until Todd finds a way to set both worlds to rights.

The 2000 copy signed edition of Space Boy is out of print on publication, but a very limited number of lettered copies remain available for reserve.

Lettered Edition:

$150