We have a literal ton of books at the printer right now, and thought we’d share some of the tentative completion dates we’ve been given, so here goes:

– The Voyage of the Proteus by Thomas M. Disch (shipping next week)

– Venus on the Half-Shell and Others by Philip Jose Farmer (1/17)

– Lye Street by Alan Campbell (1/22)

– The Lovecraft Chronicles by Peter Cannon (1/22)

– The Other Teddy Roosevelts by Mike Resnick (1/22)

– Rude Mechanicals by Kage Baker (1/22)

– Hunter’s Run by George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham (1/29)

– D.A. by Connie Willis (1/24)

– Promises to Keep by Charles de Lint (1/25)

We’re sending new titles to the printer on an almost weekly basis at the moment, but this list will suffice for now!

From Green Man Review, which just surfaced in our inbox: Lye Street “also has some strikingly beautiful moments, in that harsh, dark way some of us love so well. The journey of the angel arnival is most compelling, as she simultaneously follows and flees messages seemingly addressed to her, scrawled across the walls and tunnels and towers of the dangling city. Neatly juxtaposed are Sal Greene’s sojourns through demonic realms as he struggles to save his family from Carnival’s murderous intent. This is a world where good and evil are not absolutes, where it is as easy to sympathize and root for an unearthly murderer as it is for her future victim.

Artist Dominic Harman has turned in a distinctive cover for the first of Naomi Novik’s Temeraire novels, His Majesty’s Dragon, which is headed to the printer next week. In addition to the full color cover — a distinct counterpoint to the other Temeraire covers Dominic has produced — our signed limited edition is printed in two colors on 80# Finch paper and includes a number of full color plates by Anke Eissmann.

We’re more than a bit pleased to announce that we’ll be publishing Tim Powers’ Fisher King Trilogy as matching signed limited editions.

Last Call

Twenty years ago Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player and went into hiding, after a weird high-stakes game played with Tarot cards–but now the cards, and the supernatural powers behind them, have found him again.

Crane’s father killed gangster Bugsy Siegel in 1948 to become King of the West, and to keep that power he is now determined to kill his son–and Scott Crane must cross the Mojave Desert to his father’s Perilous Chapel in Las Vegas, and take up the cards again for one last poker duel in a deadly game to save his soul.

Expiration Date

Twelve-year-old Koot Hoomie Parganas’s parents prepared him for a career as a metaphysical holy man–but after they’re brutally murdered one night he finds himself a fugitive in the darkest corners of Los Angeles, pursued by denizens of a dark underworld who want what Kootie’s parents have been hiding for forty years–the ghost of Thomas Edison contained in a bust of Dante.

But Kootie has broken the bust and inhaled the ghost, and now has in his head the lively personality of Edison himself–and together Kootie and Edison must learn the harsh rules of the occult world existing behind the glitter of modern Los Angeles, and find a way to save Kootie’s life and free Edison’s ghost from its earthly Purgatory.

Earthquake Weather

Janis Cordelia Plumtree has killed the King of the West–or at least one of the personalities in her head has killed him, and the other personalities are resolved to restore the king to life. But first Plumtree must escape from a mental hospital with ally Sid Cochran, a winemaker who believes that his wife was killed by Dionysus, the Greek god of madness and wine.

Their quest for redemption and vengeance leads them to San Francisco, where they find themselves in the midst of a supernatural battle among several magicians-who-would-be-king, and finally to a tumultuous face-to-face confrontation with the god on the cliffs below the Golden Gate Bridge.

Artist J. K. Potter will be illustrating each of the volumes, to give them a uniform look, and ensure they take up residence on the permanent shelf of any serious collector or Powers fan.

Each volume will be limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author at $75, and 26 signed lettered sets, containing all three volumes, at $750.

Subterranean Press is proud to present all of James P. Blaylock’s Steampunk stories and novels, collected for the first time in one mammoth (over 200,000 words) volume.

“A good deal of controversy arose late in the last century over what has been referred to by the more livid newspapers as ‘The Horror in St. James Park’ or ‘The Ape-box Affair’….”

So begins the first chronicle in the long and often obscure life of Langdon St. Ives, Victorian scientist and adventurer, respected member of the Explorers Club and of societies far more obscure, consultant to scientific luminaries, and secret, unheralded savior of humankind. From the depths of the Borneo jungles to the starlit reaches of outer space, and ultimately through the dark corridors of past and future time, the adventures of Langdon St. Ives invariably lead him back to the streets and alleys of the busiest, darkest, most secretive city in the world — London in the age of steam and gaslamps, with the Thames fog settling in over the vast city of perpetual evening. St. Ives, in pursuit of the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, discovers the living horror of revivified corpses, the deep sea mystery of a machine with the power to drag ships to their doom, and the appalling threat of a skeleton-piloted airship descending toward the city of London itself, carrying within its gondola a living homunculus with the power to drive men mad….

This omnibus volume contains the collected Steampunk stories and novels of James P. Blaylock, one of the originators of the genre, which hearkens back to the worlds of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, a world where science was a work of the imagination, and the imagination was endlessly free to dream.

The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives will contain the original illustrations J. K. Potter created for the novel Lord Kelvin’s Machine, plus many more for the novel, Homunculus, and the short stories.

In addition to the stories and illustrations, The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives will feature an introduction by Tim Powers and an afterword by James P. Blaylock. Please check out the product page for a sampling of J. K. Potter’s atmospheric illustrations.

Limited: 200 signed numbered copies, bound in full leather: $60

Trade: fully cloth bound hardcover: $38

Our edition of Neal Stephenson’s landmark novel, Snow Crash, is finally complete, and headed to the printer this week. One of our favorite artists, Patrick Arrasmith, has contributed the dust jacket, nifty signature page art, a small scene break ornament, and chapter heading. The lettered edition will have exclusive illustrated endpapers. Snow Crash is shaping up to be one gorgeous, distinctive production. As to the story itself, what can be said besides it’s one of the most important novels of the past twenty years? We’re more than pleased to be able to offer a gorgeous limited edition for the permanent shelf.

Just when we thought all of the reviews were in for David Marusek’s stunning short story collection, Getting to Know You, another laudatory note arrives in the mail, this time from Magill Book Reviews: “To date, David Marusek’s published output consists of twelve short stories and one novel. Yet these have won him a place as one of the most inventive and challenging science fiction writers since William Gibson’s Neuromancer spun a whole new orbit for the genre… Getting to Know You is not your father’s science fiction: it gives readers nanobots rather than aliens, and the clones and simulations frequently seem more human than its ‘real people.’ Still, in the genre’s grand tradition, it takes readers to an imagined future that exceeds most people’s wildest dreams.”

We’re down to the last copies of the limited edition, which contains a bonus short story as a chapbook — the trade hardcover sold out almost immediately upon publication. Order a copy now. If cutting edge science fiction is your thing, you most certainly won’t be disappointed.

Just added to our schedule are two new titles that are already deep into production. First up is a very rare Philip K. Dick offering — Ubik: the Screenplay. This title, published 23 years ago by a different small press, has been out of print ever since, and fetches well over $100 on the secondary market when you can find a copy. Our edition will not only include the full text of the script — which features an ending different than that of the novel — but also Tim Powers’ foreword from the fist edition, and a brand new afterword by PKD admirer Tad Williams. The wonderful cover art is by Dave McKean. Look for Ubik to ship late this summer.

Our second announcement is a HUGE career retrospective (more than 250,000 words) by NY Times Best-selling writer, David Weber. Along with a ton of other great stories, Worlds of Weber will include a 50k word Honor Harrington short novel. The cover art, due any day, will be by SubPress favorite Bob Eggleton. Just like Ubik, Worlds of Weber is slated for a late summer release.