We’ll let Publishers Weekly (in a starred review) describe the over 250,000 gathering of David Weber’s best stories in Worlds of Weber: “This hefty and moving reprint collection of nine novellas written between 1995 and 2007 fills in the corners of Weber’s celebrated Honor Harrington series (most recently 2005’s At All Costs) and offers several other variations on political and military themes… With restraint and good taste, Weber tempers his mourning for war’s destruction with heartfelt celebrations of the honorable men, women, creatures and machines of the armed forces.”

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With Starred Reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Booklist, The Best of Lucius Shepard may well turn out to be the collection of the year. At over 250,000 words, it covers Lucius from his early classics such as “The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule” up to his most recent tales “Dead Money” and “Stars Seen Through Stone.”

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Publishers Weekly just weighed in with a starred review of our upcoming The Best of Michael Swanwick: “More than a quarter century’s worth of short fiction is gathered in this comprehensive collection of stories from Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winner Swanwick… Swanwick’s blend of savvy science fiction, Freudian fantasy and top-notch storytelling both chills and charms.”

James P. Blaylock has a long, career spanning interview over at FantasyBookSpot.com that covers, among other things, his upcoming The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives, mention of his new St. Ives short novel, The Ebb Tide (which we’ll be publishing next year, illustrated by J. K. Potter, naturally), a well as his major New York release this winter, The Knights of the Cornerstone. I’m reading an e-copy of the latter right now, and it’s prime stuff, and worth preordering even at this early date.

A full month before its scheduled release date, David Weber’s 270,000 word collection, Worlds of Weber, is in stock and shipping. As Publishers Weekly noted in its starred review, “This hefty and moving reprint collection of nine novellas written between 1995 and 2007 fills in the corners of Weber’s celebrated Honor Harrington series (most recently 2005’s At All Costs) and offers several other variations on political and military themes… With restraint and good taste, Weber tempers his mourning for war’s destruction with heartfelt celebrations of the honorable men, women, creatures and machines of the armed forces.”

If intelligent, compassionate military sf is your thing, look no further.

Charles de Lint has just turned in the manuscript and cover art for the third volume of his Collected Early Stories. Woods & Waters Wild is a gathering of ultra-rare and unpublished de Lint tales, guaranteed to be cherished by his many fans.

Next up, he’s revising/rewriting a long (130,000 words) novel, Eyes Like Leaves. We’ll have more info about that one shortly.

Straight to the goods: “The Jack Vance Reader provides a snapshot of Vance’s mastery over language for those who may be most familiar with his writing through The Dying Earth saga. Furthermore, this volume will be a great companion piece to the other volumes Subterranean is publishing of and in homage to Vance’s work.”

You’ll have to forgive us if we consider the August 1 issue of Booklist to be the SubPress special issue, as they gave positive reviews to no less than four of our upcoming titles. Here’s a taste of what they had to say:

– Backup (Jim Butcher): “One of the fine supporting cast of the dark-fantasy mystery series the Dresden Files here gets his moment in the spotlight… Thomas has to work without Harry noticing him, which is difficult, given how sensitive Harry’s gotten. Practiced rogue Thomas manages somehow in this satisfying novella.”

– Stonefatther (Orson Scott Card): “In this novella-length precursor to Card’s forthcoming fantasy saga Mithermages, a young man leaves his home town for the big, mage-ridden city and learns that he has powers… Judging from Stonefather, it seems we’re about to receive another American fantasy classic from Card.”

– The Best of Lucius Shepard (Lucius Shepard, Starred Review): “Shepard writes the richest prose in all of dark fantasy, the longish short story and the novella are his fortes, and it isn’t too extreme to say he ranks with Hawthorne in depth of concentration, perception, and moral resonance… Quite often, Shepard seems to be writing fantasy only because he conceives of magic, supernatural or existential, arising out of extreme violence and terror. Always, however, he is writing better than nearly anyone else in Anglophone America today.”

– Skeleton in the Closet (Robert Bloch): “Bloch’s pulp-magazine stories, satisfyingly seasoned with horror, mystery, and humor, sometimes unnerving, often shamelessly purple of prose, are entertainment pure and simple.”