The UK based small press Wandering Star issued glorious editions of Robert E. Howard’s work, including The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, The Ultimate Triumph, as well as two volumes of Howard’s Conan tales.

Subterranean Press is proud to continue this series of limited editions, beginning with Kull: Exile of Atlantis, exquisitely illustrated by Justin Sweet with color plates and black and white illustrations illuminating the text. We plan to match or better the quality of materials used in the Wandering Star editions, and will be doing the other books in the series, including the third volume of Conan stories, as well as The Best of Robert E. Howard, volumes one and two, and much more.

Our editions will be limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist ($150, more than $50 less than the Wandering Star editions) and 50 Deluxe numbered copies at $400.

Look for ordering information in the very near future!

The second printing (unsigned) of John Scalzi’s rarest full-length book, You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop is in stock and shipping.

Coffee Shop shows the writing life as it is, from the perspective of novelist and writer John Scalzi, who in 15 years as a professional writer has written just about everything: critically acclaimed novels, best-selling humor books, nationally syndicated newspaper columns, magazine cover stories…and ad copy, corporate brochures and Web site headlines, too. His wide range of experience informs this collection of essays on writing and the writing life, taken from his popular personal Web site, The Whatever.

Whether providing practical advice, discussing writing and writers or observing the state of the writing world, Scalzi lays it out in a sharp, no-nonsense way that assumes you want the lay of the land, without all the huggy-squeezy hand-holding. Notes on the writing life, unvarnished views of writers and books and (yes) even some practical advice: It’s all here.

Take this to the coffee shop instead of your laptop. You’ll get more out of it — and if you spill coffee on it, it’ll be cheaper to replace. See? Practical.

The second printing (unsigned) of John Scalzi’s rarest full-length book, You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop is in stock and shipping. Given that the first printing of this was sold out on publication, we don’t expect copies of this one to last long either, and it’s not a book we’re planning on reprinting again. So unless you’re prepared to fork over hundreds of dollars on the secondary market — which is what the first edition goes for — here’s your chance to pick up the full book, identical to the first edition except for the signature page, for a mere $35 plus shipping.

Unsigned HC:

$35

Connie Willis’ latest, All Seated on the Ground, is a madcap holiday novella (128 pages) with aliens, misguided and befuddled humans, and the comic aspect we’ve all come to expect and love in Connie’s fiction. This Willis title has the smallest print run yet we’ve released for one of her books, so don’t hesitate to get your order in.

Signed HC:

$45

Trade HC:

$20

We’re deep into the production of Haggopian and Other Tales, the 424 page companion volume to The Taint and Other Novellas, with the author currently making his final corrections to Haggopian which collects the Best of Brian Lumley’s Mythos short stories, while The Taint contained the novellas.

Once again, we have an absolutely stunning cover and page decorations by Bob Eggleton, as well as stories familiar and obscure. As an added attraction, Haggopian is a full 160 pages longer than The Taint, giving you even more bang for your $40.

Poor Tim Lebbon. Not only was his two novella collection, After the War, the recipient of a glowing review from Publisher’s Weekly (”Lebbon vividly describes the landscape and local color. Readers who have enjoyed other books in the Noreela series will find these tales a tide-me-over until the next full-length novel.”), now he’s laboring under similar praise from Booklist: “In each of these two powerful novellas set in Lebbon’s vividly imagined world, Noreela, an outcast struggles to make the right choices in a context in which no good choices are left… Lebbon’s postapocalyptic fantasy world is a bleak one, and his strong, descriptive writing and sympathetic characters make its horrors all too visible.”

After the War is right on schedule for release in late January or early February.

We’re more than a little proud to announce that we’ve reached agreement with The Robert A. Heinlein Trust to publish virtually the last of the unpublished RAH material, nearly 20 scripts, some original, some adaptations of classic stories. Look for the first of (what will likely be) two volumes next year, limited to only 750 numbered copies, and 26 lettered copies. We’ll make a more formal announcement once we’ve settled the table of contents.

As you can see from the image above, we’re making some steady progress on Richard K. Morgan’s first novel, Altered Carbon, which introduced us to Takeshi Kovacs. Vincent Chong has just completed the cover, and is hard at work on the four full-color interior illustrations that will grace the book. Look for ordering information soon. As Richard noted when seeing the cover: “Thanks for these — looks very nice indeed, very much the (Bladerunner-inspired) vision I had when I was writing it.”

Finally, we’ve reached agreement to publish two of Philip K. Dick’s works. The first, Nick and the Glimmung, is a YA sf novel making its first US appearance, and first publication anywhere in nearly 20 years. The second is Dick’s own screenplay adaptation of his novel Ubik, which appeared from a small press in the mid-eighties, and has been out of print since. We’re still in the process of selecting an artist for the YA novel, but Ubik: the Screenplay, will sport a cover by Dave McKean.

Caitlin R. Kiernan has just turned in the bonus chapbook for our new signed hardcover of her seminal horror collection, Tales of Pain and Wonder. The chapbook, niftily titled Tails of Tales of Pain and Wonder contains a ton of unpublished material, including the original version of her story “Bela’s Plot”, story fragments “A Study for ‘Estate’”, the original shorter form of “Salammbô Redux “(”Little Conversations”), and a perpetually unfinished novella, “And Prayers for Rain,” plus a whole lot more. So, in addition to the 140k word collection, for only $35, you’re also getting nearly 17,000 words worth of rarities and unpublished material.

We’ve just completed the Fall issue of Subterranean Online, wrapping up The Support Technician Tango, Daniel Abraham’s foray into comic sf.

Now we’re on to the Winter 2008 issue, where the first few features are posted, including a brand new short story (actually, an excerpt from his novel, Black & White, by Lewis Shiner) and a column by SubPress favorite Joe R. Lansdale. In the coming weeks and months, look for new fiction by Michael Bishop, Rachel Swirsky, a novella by Thomas M. Disch, an audio of what just might be Charles Stross’ funniest story, and much more.

Gemo (aka Tom Kidd) has delivered a striking bit of cover art for The Jack Vance Reader, which contains three novels (spread over nearly 500 pages) by the science fantasy master. With a general introduction by Jonathan Strahan and Terry Dowling, and intros to the individual novels by Ursula K. LeGuin, Mike Resnick, and Robert Silverberg, The Reader is shaping up to be a wonderful sampling of Vance’s longer work.

The Voyage of the Proteus is Thomas Disch’s strange foray into the classics, one in which the author injects himself into an alternate take on the The Odyssey.