The latest issue of Booklist is its Fantasy/SF Spotlight issue, and SubPress is quite well represented.

– Trips (Robert Silverberg): “The introductions to the whole volume and each story represent new installments of Silverberg’s literary autobiography and make it more obvious that the series is an invaluable resource to sf readers and scholars alike.”

– The Women of Nell Gwynne’s (Kage Baker): “A good time should be had by enough readers to prompt further Nell Gwynne’s capers from Baker.”

– The Ebb Tide (James P. Blaylock): “Blaylock tips his hat to Robert Louis Stevenson in the afterword (as well as the title), which seems quite right. Cracking entertainment.”

– Purple and Black (K. J. Parker): “In Parker’s absorbing epistolary novella, Phormio, the new young governor of a border province in an alternate Byzantine empire, gets things rolling with a plaintive missive—“What the hell did I ever do to you?”—to His Divine Majesty Nicephorus V, who is one-and-the-same as his recent college bosom-buddy Nico… [T]he badinage between the two amuses, the martial action (of Phormio fighting off barbarians) diverts, and the hardest of hardball politics plays out. Only the characters here are fantastic; the physical details and the scenario are all too historically veristic.”

It was time to whip the God.

This is how John Scalzi begins his very dark fantasy novella, The God Engines. Need I say more to encourage you to preorder a copy?

If so, I can add that it will feature a full color cover and four black-and-white interiors by Tomislav Tikulin, and the story itself is gripping, bloody, nuanced, bloody, and pretty damned bloody, if I’m to be honest.

Our shippers are in the latter stages of packing and sending out the hundreds of orders we received for Richard K. Morgan’s The Steel Remains. They should finish with those in the next day or two. As soon as Steel has finished shipping, they’ll turn their attention to Naomi Novik’s Black Powder War, the latest Temeraire adventure, which will be sold out once shipping is finished.

On the horizon, and approaching fast, are The Other in the Mirror (Philip Jose Farmer), Trips (Robert Silverberg), and the limited edition of Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft (Joe Hill).

As you can tell from Vincent Chong’s dust jacket, Robert McCammon’s singular creation Mister Slaughter is a nasty fellow indeed, surrounded as he is with the implements of his chosen trade.

The novel progresses well, as we’ve just sent the author page proofs to review, and will be printing ARCs for the book as soon as we have his corrections. In addition, Hunter Goatley has just conducted an interview with Rick, which will be included, along with an excerpt from the book, in an exclusive chapbook we’ll be including with orders for various SubPress titles through the summer and fall.

We’ve just posted a limited number of Ebay auctions, including some of the last copies we have of George R. R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows, Jim Butcher’s Fool Moon, plus new titles by Ray Bradbury and Tim Powers. If we have time later in the week, we’ll add a few more. Head over and check them out.

PS Publishing has just released one of the most impressive specialty press volumes we’ve seen in years. Powers: Secret Histories contains a full illustrated bibliography, notes on his novels, doodles, juvenilia, 75 pages of outtakes and outlines from Powers most famous novel, The Anubis Gates, as well as a major find for Tim’s many fans — a lengthy (60 pages) — excerpt from his unpublished novel, To Serve in Hell.

All of this is contained in over 500 oversize, full-color pages, making it a great bargain as well as a cornerstone of any Powers collection.

For even more hardcore Powers aficionados, there’s the deluxe slipcased edition, which contains all of the above, plus a second volume, the uncompleted unpublished novel, The Waters Deep Deep Deep

For a limited time, shipping to US addresses is Free on all PS Publishing books we have in stock.