We’re finally getting a hand on the logjam at the warehouse. Trips, volume four of Robert Silverberg’s Collected Short Stories, has just finished shipping. Right now, our shippers are elbow deep in all of the recent Ebay auctions (which are still ongoing — it’s not too late to pick up some books at stone cold bargain prices).

We’ve still got a host of books on the shipping tarmac, including

• The Women of Nell Gwynne’s (Kage Baker)
• Metamorphosis (James P. Blaylock)
• The Other in the Mirror (Philip Jose Farmer)
• Wild Thyme, Green Magic (Jack Vance)

Finally, we’ve just hired another full-time shipper, which should help get things flowing smoothly through the warehouse.

We’ve just received a number of titles back from our distributors and re-jacketed them where necessary to bring them up to snuff. The upshot is that some titles that were out-of-print or in short supply are available once again, including:

• The Empress of Mars (Kage Baker)
• Seven for a Secret trade hardcover (Elizabeth Bear)
• Stonefather (Orson Scott Card)
• Woods and Waters Wild (Charles de Lint)
• The Proteus Sails Again (Thomas M. Disch)
• The Last Science Fiction Writer (Allen Steele)

In a few cases we also received 1-2 copies of other titles that will likely show up in Ebay auctions when we have the chance.

Only a false sense of modesty, and a potential copyright violation, prevents us from quoting fully what Locus Publisher Charles N. Brown had to say about SubPress in the most recent issue of his esteemed magazine, but here’s a taste: “Subterranean Press is probably the most important and successful small press in the field today… I stopped collecting limited edition reprints years ago because I just put them on the shelf and never looked at them again. But sometimes I think I might have been wrong. For instance, Subterranean’s reprint of the Tim Powers trilogy got me reading them again, and I plan to read Erikson’s Gardens of the Moon and Stephenson’s Snow Crash just because the limiteds look so readable.”

In addition, short fiction reviewer Rich Horton catches up with his Subterranean Online reading and singles out “Three Fancies from the Infernal Garden” (C.S.E. Cooney) as “always gleefully imaginative, and very fun — with a sinister edge”; and “The Ascendant” (Ted Kosmatka) as “set in a very odd prison…telling of a child born to a woman prisoner, and his growing awareness of his world.”

Our original plans called for marbled paper covered boards for Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition. However, we had this “cover” created especially for the Advance Reading Copies, so who knows which direction we’ll go in… If you’ve ordered the book and have a strong opinion, feel free to drop us an email (listed at the bottom of this page.)

Just a reminder that in a couple of short weeks we’ll begin posting the next issue of Subterranean, which features not only two brand new tales by Alexander C. Irvine, but a Diogenes Club novella by Kim Newman, an article on sieges by K. J. Parker, and more fiction by Elizabeth Bear, Garth Nix, Neal Barrett, Jr., and others.

The atmospheric cover is by one of our favorite illustrators, Dominic Harman.

We don’t have time for a full on 50% off special, but we’ve been receiving quite a few requests wondering when we’ll run our next major special. To help folks snag some great books at even greater prices, we’ve just posted a number of Ebay auctions at bargain prices, more than 20 different titles in all.

Hurry if you’re interested, as in most cases we’ve only listed 10 copies of a given title so we can fit the auctions into our shipping schedule. You’ll find everything including books by Tim Powers, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Dan Simmons, and many more!

We’re close to releasing the Jack Vance tribute anthology, Songs of the Dying Earth, with stories by Dan Simmons, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, and many other fine writers.

Over at Subterranean Online, we’ve just posted Lucius Shepard’s 11,000 word novelette, “Sylgarmo’s Proclamation“. Enjoy, and please consider picking up a copy of the anthology proper. At nearly 700 pages of spot on Vancean stories, with a full color cover and more than 20 interior illustrations by Tom Kidd, it may well be one of the bargains of the year.

Here’s some late arriving, but no less appreciated praise for the Alastair Reynolds space opera novella we released late last year. According to the Sacramento Book Review, “The Six Directions of Space is a delightful story of the expanding understanding of the nature of the universe. Here, the universe is far bigger than imagined, and Reynolds has crafted an exciting story filled with intrigue and an action-packed ending.”

Those who’ve read Six Directions might want to preorder a copy of Al’s double novella book, Thousandth Night & Minla’s Flowers, which is every bit as good, and twice as long.

We’re proud to announce the signed limited edition of a modern classic. Fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind take note, as this will be a production on the same level as that volume.

Since its initial publication in 1993, Arturo Perez-Reverte’s The Club Dumas has been widely recognized as one of the most intricate, rewarding “literary” mysteries of the modern era. It is one of those all too rare novels that imprints itself on the reader’s memory, that offers new pleasures and new discoveries with each successive reading.

The Club Dumas is a multi-layered quest story featuring “mercenary” book hunter Lucas Corso, who is hired to authenticate a pair of literary curiosities: a hand-written fragment of Alexander Dumas’s masterpiece, The Three Musketeers and a rare edition of a proscribed volume of black magic entitled The Book of the Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows. These interlinked quests lead Corso into a labyrinth of murder, suicide, and satanic rituals. At the same time, they lead him into the heart of a carefully constructed narrative that is strange, familiar, and deeply seductive, all at once.

Using elements from John Milton, Umberto Eco, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and, of course, Alexander Dumas, this enthralling novel is an intellectual thriller of the highest order. More importantly, it is a profoundly erudite meditation on the importance of books, and on the power they continue to exert on us across the centuries.

The Club Dumas will be produced to the highest standards, printed in two colors on 80# Finch, bound in a fine cloth, with a projected full-color cover, five full-color interior plates, and sixteen duotone images by Vincent Chong.

We’ve got another John Scalzi project in the works, a deluxe chapbook titled Judge Sn Goes Golfing, set to be published at the same time as his apocalyptic fantasy novella, The God Engines.

For those who aren’t familiar with the set up, here goes:

John Scalzi visits the universe of his bestselling novel The Android’s Dream for this exclusive short story, featuring fan favorite character Judge Nugan Bufan Sn — a brilliant alien jurist whose misanthropy and lack of social graces is matched only by his futile, unrequited love for the game of golf. When he hits the links at the absymal Dulles Woods golf course, the unexpected happens: He begins to play well. But there are more hazards on the course for Sn than just sand traps and disaffected caddies…

Long a staple of Scalzi’s live readings, “Judge Sn Goes Golfing” has never seen print until now. Read what you’ve been missing.

Judge Sn will be feature a cover and several interior illustrations, and be printed in two colors throughout. This one’s pure mean-spirited fun, perfectly timed for the holiday season.