We’re pleased to announce the signed limited edition of Dan Simmons’s classic space opera, Hyperion. Fans will be thrilled to know that we plan limited editions for the subsequent three novels in the Hyperion Cantos, as well.

Our edition of Hyperion will be an oversize volume, printed on 80# Finch, with a dust jacket and full-color endsheets by John Picacio.

First published in 1989, Dan Simmons’s Hugo Award-winning Hyperion is one of the undisputed classics of modern science fiction. The opening movement of a hugely ambitious multi-volume epic, it is both a masterpiece of pure storytelling and a visionary meditation on the future development of the human race.

The narrative takes place some seven hundred years from now, at a time when humanity has left Old Earth behind and has begun to colonize the worlds between the stars. At a critical moment, with interstellar war about to begin, seven travelers are summoned to a pilgrimage on a distant planet called Hyperion, where ancient mysteries are taking on a new and sudden urgency. At the heart of these mysteries are the Time Tombs, enigmatic artifacts that appear to be traveling backward in time, and the savage, barbed creature known as the Shrike.

Included among these seven pilgrims are a soldier, a poet, a scholar, a priest, and a private detective. As they make their way toward their destination, they tell each other stories, transforming the novel into a far-future version of The Canterbury Tales. These varied, highly personal tales form the heart of this extraordinary book. Individually, they offer highly developed examples of narrative art. Collectively, they set the stage for the wonders, terrors, and revelations to come. The result is a remarkable—and durable—accomplishment that remains fresh and exciting more than two decades after its initial appearance. Hyperion, together with its successors, does what only the finest imaginative literature can do: It creates and populates a complex, extravagantly detailed universe more vivid, vital, and consistently enthralling than our own everyday world. Popular fiction just doesn’t get better than this.

Limited: 474 signed numbered hardcover copies: $125

Lettered: 52 signed leatherbound copies housed in a custom traycase: $300

We’re pleased to announce The Naked God, the mammoth, concluding volume of Peter F. Hamilton’s epic space opera, The Night’s Dawn trilogy. The Naked God is on schedule for publication early next year.

With the Confederation starting to fall before the onslaught of the possessed, wealthier worlds are preparing to abandon their cousins to save themselves at any cost. Meanwhile the possessed are taking their newly captured planets out of this universe altogether so they can escape the beyond from which they’ve just escaped. But as they start to learn, their quest for deliverance is propelling them towards a fate much worse than the purgatory they’ve already suffered.

Amid the chaos of what must be the final days of humankind, the dark messiah Quinn Dexter has reached the fabulous arcology cities of Earth. Alone among the possessed his vision of the future is a terrifying version of Armageddon which will encompass all worlds no matter where they hide or who lives on them.

As all hope fades it is left to Joshua Calvert and Syrinx to make one last frantic flight into an unexplored section of the galaxy to find what the alien Tyrathca have called their Sleeping God. This enigmatic entity, if it exists, might just be able to offer salvation. But no one has seen it for 15,000 years, so that leaves the fate of everything dependant on one very unsaintly man…

Limited: 500 signed numbered hardcover copies: $60

Lettered: 26 signed leatherbound copies, housed in a custom traycase: $250

We’re going to have a larger, official announcement when our new website design is completed — soon — but we wanted to give long-time customers a head start on our new ongoing promotion before our mailing list swells.

From here to the end of the year, and beyond, almost every week, we’re going to offer Advance Reading Copies and Signed Limited Editions for Free. You’ll find books by Kelley Armstrong, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert McCammon, Joe Hill, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and many many other fine writers we publish.

What do you need to do to be eligible for the giveaways?

Essentially, nothing. So long as you’re signed up for our newsletter, Notes from the Underground, you’re eligible. You can do so on the right hand side of our main page.

Our first promotion is for five ARCs of Kelley Armstrong’s Hidden. On or about September 3, we’ll draw the names of five lucky winners and let them know they’ve won advance copies of Kelley’s latest Otherworld short novel. Winners will have three days to get back to us with their full names and addresses, and we’ll send the Advance Reading Copies their way.

Good luck everyone.

Head over to the product page for Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm’s collaborative collection, The Inheritance and Other Stories, to check out a few examples of Tom Kidd’s interior pen and ink illustrations. He’s graced the book with ten black-and-white illos, one at the head of each tale, much the same way he did a number of years ago with our Jack Vance tribute anthology, Songs of the Dying Earth.

All of the stories in The Inheritance are truly top notch, and the presentation will be one of our high points this year.

Robert McCammon’s new collection of linked tales featuring Michael Gallatin, hero of his classic novel, The Wolf’s Hour, looks to be headed to the printer ahead of its scheduled date. At the moment, we’re waiting for Rick to set pen to signature pages. As soon as those are in hand, The Hunter from the Woods shuttles off to the printer.

In the meantime, head over to the Hunter page to check out a few of Vincent Chong’s seven full-color interior illustrations. Hunter is preselling so well that we many not have copies available to our wholesale and large online retail accounts. A direct order is your best bet to guarantee you receive a copy.

Snag yourself a copy of Robert McCammon’s new supernatural-tinged thriller at an unbelievable price. The Five is regularly $26.95, but we have some returned copies we’d just as soon put directly into customers’ hands, so are offering them at this unbeatable price.

There are a few things you should know: these copies have been returned to us by distributors, so aren’t necessarily in the pristine condition that our usual hardcovers are. They may have a ding here or there, as well as scuffed dust jackets. Copies may be first or second printings.

Please get your offer in soon. Supplies are limited!

J. K. Potter recently turned in the dust jacket and interior illustrations — one for each tale — for Tim Powers’ upcoming The Bible Repairman and Other Stories. We’ve fully designed and proofed the book. All that remains is for Tim to take a pass through the pages and sign signature sheets. As soon as those two tasks are completed, The Bible Repairman jumps to the head of the production list and heads to the printer.

Bubble and bag, then box and add postage. That’s the theme this week at the SubPress’ warehouse, as along with the signed limited edition of Robert McCammon’s The Five we’re also sending out copies of Jim Butcher’s latest Dresden Files limited edition. Summer Knight is well over 90% sold out on publication, meaning we won’t have copies for large online retailers or distributors.

The signed limited edition of Side Jobs, Jim’s short story collection, will be ready to go as soon as Jim’s had a chance to sign the signature pages and Vincent Chong the opportunity to turn his digital hand to the illustrations.

We have a few great bits of Robert McCammon news to share with you today.

• We’ve just reached agreement to publish his next Matthew Corbett novel, The Providence Rider. As the novel opens, Matthew is a problem-solver having difficulty negotiating the consequences of his encounter with Mister Slaughter. Readers are going to be thrilled at the Dickensian cast of grotesques and characters in The Providence Rider, from stout friend Hudson Greathouse, to the ever in shadows Professor Fell, to new characters such as Mother Deare, Madame Chillany, the Thacker Brothers, and the turbaned, deadly, Sirki. Perhaps best of all, the signed limited and lettered editions will feature a story from Matthew Corbett’s world available nowhere else. Sign up for our newsletter for more details, due soon.
• After a bit of delay, the signed limited edition of The Five is in stock and shipping, with the lettered edition due soon. Thanks to everyone for their patience, while we sorted out some difficulties with the slipcases. The limited edition may be sold out, but you can still pick up a signed copy of the first trade hardcover.
• We’re in the homestretch on The Hunter from the Woods, McCammon’s new collection of linked stories and novellas that features Michael Gallatin, the lycanthropic hero of his classic novel, The Wolf’s Hour. Be sure to check out the long novella from the collection, “The Room at the Bottom of the Stairs”, available on Hunter’s page.
• All of the work is done on the classic novel, Baal, virtually unobtainable in hardcover at a reasonable price, until now. Our edition of Rick’s first novel is just waiting its place in our production queue.

Subterranean Press is proud to present Shadows West, a 400+ page volume containing a trio of excursions into the very weird west—screenplays written solo by Joe R. Lansdale and in collaboration with his brother, John L. Lansdale. In addition to the classic, “Dead in the West”, two scripts make their debut in the pages of Shadows West, which is fully designed, being proofed, and slated to ship in January.

Six guns and zombies, a chicken eating werewolf, deals with the devil, and things that go bump in the night. John Wayne never had to deal with these kind of shenanigans, or these kinds of rowdies. But Joe R. Lansdale and John L. Lansdale aren’t afraid, partner. They make this kind of material their everyday business. Compared to the cowpokes in their stories, John Wayne was a big sissy.

We got shoot-em-ups and bite-em-ups and blow em-ups, and the appearance of classic bad guys, like Jesse James, sent straight from hell with a bad attitude. We got a horse black as the pit and fast as the wind. We got things that won’t die even when they’re dead. There are demons and ugly people, both inside and out, giant spiders and unnecessary cursing, and one hot red-head heifer with an eye patch and a bull whip.

Who could ask for anything more.

So, for your entertainment, pilgrim, here we have it: three screenplays that venture way out west… Way, way, way out west.

The Western and the horror film will never be the same.

Limited: 500 signed numbered hardcover copies: $50

Table of Contents:

* Riding with the Dead (Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale)
* Hell’s Bounty
* Deadman’s Road
* Dead in the West