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We’ve been receiving a ton of requests that we run one of our 50% off sales, which we haven’t done in quite some time. Tim and I have carved a little time out of the SubPress schedule to handle the increased level of orders that usually accompanies one of these sales, so here goes. The rules are simple:

1. The special runs until the end of the day July 3, 2009.
2. You must buy at least 5 different titles to qualify for the sale prices. There is no the maximum number of titles you may order.
3. You may buy only one copy of a given title.
4. Your shopping cart total and automatic email confirmation won’t reflect the sale price. Don’t worry, we’ll apply the proper discount when processing your order.
5. If you’re using PayPal, do NOT go through our site. Please email us for an invoice.
6. Please note that only the titles listed below are part of the sale, and only editions with cover prices of $150 or less are included.
7. We’re not able to offer retroactive discounts on titles, or combine this special with any other coupons, specials, or savings certificates.

– Angelic (Kelley Armstrong);
– Not Less Than Gods (Kage Baker);
– The Ebb Tide (James P. Blaylock);
– Where Everything Ends (Ray Bradbury);
– Alpha and Omega (Patricia Briggs);
– Forever Twilight 2 (Peter Crowther);
– The Dark Volume (Gordon Dahlquist);
– The Onion Girl (Charles de Lint);
– Nick and the Glimmung (Philip K. Dick);
– Crystal Nights and Other Stories (Greg Egan);
– The Evil in Pemberley House (Farmer and Eckert);
– The Reality Dysfunction (Peter F. Hamilton);
– Crimson Shadows (Robert E. Howard);
– Scenting the Dark and Other Stories (Mary Robinette Kowal);
– Son of Retro Pulp Tales (ed. Joe R. Lansdale);
– Unchained and Unhinged (Joe R. Lansdale);
– Screaming Science Fiction (Brian Lumley);
– In Between (R. A. MacAvoy);
– Songs of the Dying Earth (ed. Martin, Dozois);
– Purple and Black (K.J. Parker);
– The Club Dumas (Arturo Perez-Reverte);
– Hazards (Mike Resnick);
– Thousandth Night & Minla’s Flowers (Alastair Reynolds);
– The Last Colony (John Scalzi);
– Metatropolis (John Scalzi);
– The God Engines (John Scalzi);
– Judge Sn Goes Golfing (John Scalzi);
– Collected Stories (Lewis Shiner);
– The Terror (Dan Simmons);
– The Skylark (Peter Straub);

Please feel free to spread news of this sale near and far. We’re unlikely to repeat it anytime soon, and don’t want anyone to miss out.

Our shippers are finishing up James P. Blaylock’s Metamorphosis along with huge batch of distributor orders. Now it’s on to two brand new books, including the individual and bookstore orders for Wild Thyme, Green Magic, the brand new gathering of tales by Jack Vance; and The City and the City, China Mievielle’s masterful exploration of a clever fantasy milieu, as well as a riveting detective novel.

Like many people right now, author Tim Pratt has found himself in a tight spot. He and his family are down to one income at the moment–his. Not one to let life get him down, Tim is doing what he does best to support his family–write. His current project is a serialized, donation-funded urban fantasy novella starring his series protagonist Marla Mason – the star of Blood Engines, Poison Sleep, and other fine novels.

The first installment of the Bone Shop will be posted on June 29th, with weekly installments following. You’ll get a rare glimpse into Marla’s early life, before she became the chief sorcerer of Felport. We can easily say that Tim’s tales are worth reading as we’ve featured them in the past (“Her Voice in a Bottle”) and will in the future, with a fine comedic time travel novelette, “Troublesolving”.

Just announced — In Between, by R. A. MacAvoy, a fine fantasy writer too far gone from the publishing scene. Her previous novels included the beloved Tea with the Black Dragon and its sequel, Twisting the Rope, as well as A Trio for Lute, The Book of Kells, as well as a number of other fine novels.

Bertie returns to publshing with this delight novella, a storytelling gift to those who treasure her previous work, and a fine introduction to new readers. Look for In Between to appear late this summer.

Just an early head’s up — we’ve just reached agreement with Pyr books to publish a signed limited edition of Joe Abercrombie’s so good it’s off the charts epic fantasy debut, The Blade Itself. We’ll be talking to Joe soon about an illustrator, and announce ordering details as soon as everything is in place.

While we’re talking about epic fantasy, we should mention that we’re down to the last 40 copies of Richard K. Morgan’s The Steel Remains, one of the most talked about and controversial fantasy novels of the past few years. This one turned out especially well, with a full color dust jacket, full color endsheets, and a frontice by Vincent Chong, as well as a truly stunning interior design, printed in two colors throughout. When Richard’s done with volume two, we’ll definitely attempt to pick up the rights to that volume.

Update: All the found copies of Snow Crash are now spoken for.

While doing some rearranging in our warehouse, our shippers have turned up copies of the odd book or three that we thought long out of print. First up for sale are six copies of Neal Stephenson’s classic, Snow Crash. Copies are $150 apiece plus shipping (limit one copy per household or family). If you’re interested, please drop us an email with the following info: name, address, and preferred method of payment, and we’ll let you know how to proceed.

If you look at past titles published by SubPress, you’ll note we have a definite liking for some of Lawrence Block’s books that have gone rather far afield, such as Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man, Threesome, and Cinderella Sims. What most of Block’s many fans don’t know is that early in his career he wrote a trio of novels with the equally wonderful Donald E. Westlake. (An aside: Get to a bookstore and pick up Westlake’s The Ax, or any of the Parker novels he wrote as Richard Stark.)

Next year we’ll be publishing the trio of novels — Sin Hellcat, So Willing, and A Girl Called Honey — under the overall title of Hellcats and Honey Girls.

Thanks everyone for your enthusiasm. The limited edition of Christopher Golden’s zombie anthology, The New Dead, is sold out less than one week after being announced. Late this year, readers will be treated to new stories by Joe Hill, Kelley Armstrong, Max Brooks, Joe R. Lansdale, and a whole host of other shambling authors.

We’re already hard at work on the book — we’ve already approved the general design, while all of Glenn Chadbourne’s interior illustrations are already in hand. Next to arrive should be the full color illustrations by Stephen R. Bissette. Finally, within the week, we should have the signature pages at the printer, and start them circulating among the authors soon.

We’ve snagged a very limited quantity of Stephen Gallagher’s first short story collection from PS Publishing. Out of his Mind contains over twenty stories of the sort that made Steve’s SubPress collection, Plots and Misadventures, a quick sell out. If you’re of a mind, please get your order in, because once our stock in hand is gone, we won’t be reordering.

Our shippers have just finished sending out copies of Robert Silverberg’s Trips and Philip Jose Farmer’s The Other in the Mirror — the limited edition is sold out, by the way.

Next up in the shipping queue is Metamorphosis, the special collection of three collaborative stories by James P. Blaylock, with original illustrations by Tim Powers, and some necessary meddling by William Ashbless. You can check out one of the stories in the book, “Stone Eggs” over at Subterranean Online, where we also recently published a solo story by Jim, “The Dry Spell“.

These two starred reviews say it all.

From Publishers Weekly:
“Better known for New Weird fantasies (Perdido Street Station, etc.), bestseller Miéville offers an outstanding take on police procedurals with this barely speculative novel… Through this exaggerated metaphor of segregation, Miéville skillfully examines the illusions people embrace to preserve their preferred social realities.”

From Booklist:
“An excellent police procedural and a fascinating urban fantasy, this is essential reading for all mystery and fantasy fans.”

Limited:

$75

Lettered:

$500

Kage Baker’s steampunk novella has just been published amidst a bevy of glowing reviews, including those from Publishers Weekly (”The beautifully drawn Victorian era is neatly spiced up with futuristic technology such as mechanical eye implants. Baker’s fans will delight in this slight, bawdy and funny confection.”); Booklist (“A good time should be had by enough readers to prompt further Nell Gwynne’s capers from Baker.”); and i09.com (”It’s a witty steampunk thriller as if written by Ian Fleming’s crazy libertine aunt. I am hopeful we will see more of Lady Beatrice and her sisters in espionage.”)

Pick up a copy and enjoy. Also, slated for publication later this year, illustrated by J. K. Potter, is her related, full length novel, Not Less Than Gods.

Limited Edition:

$35

It seems that we’ll have three releases by Jack Vance this summer: his new collection, Wild Thyme, Green Magic; the massive (nearly 700 pages) tribute volume, Songs of the Dying Earth; and this gem, Jack’s autobiography. If you want to read about an adventuresome life that went well beyond being one of our seminal sf/fantasy writers, This is Me, Jack Vance! paints a picture of the travels and influences that went into many of Jack’s classic works. The book is rounded out by a healthy photo section, with images from Jack’s early years to his most recent. This, like so many of Jack’s books, is one to treasure.

Trade HC:

$40

Our latest Jack Vance collection, Wild Thyme, Green Magic is just out, selling very well, and drew very strong praise indeed from Publishers Weekly: “The ’spun-silver’ prose of fantasy grand master Vance (Lurulu) illuminates 12 delightful stories, some with intriguing afterwords by the author…this showcase follows Vance’s career from his very first publication, 1945’s ‘The World-Thinker,’ through 1961’s fast-paced novelette ‘The Augmented Agent’ and 1974’s Dying Earth story ‘The Seventeen Virgins’ to ‘Wild Thyme and Violets,’ the outline for an Italy-inspired gothic romance that reads like a surreal flash fiction novel and was first published in 2005. Most of the focus is on Vance’s work from the 1960s and 1970s, which ranges from dramatic fantasy (’Green Magic’) to classic science fiction parables (’Ullward’s Retreat’).”

Lettered Edition:

$300

Trade HC:

$40

Here’s The Other in the Mirror, a trio of classic novels by SF Grandmaster Philip Jose Farmer, including the rarity Fire and the Night, as well as Jesus on Mars and Night of Light. At nealy 500 pages of vintage PJF, with a great dust jacket by Bob Eggleton, you can’t go wrong.

Lettered Edition:

$300

Trade HC:

$45

The fourth volume of Robert Silverberg’s Collected Stories, Trips, may well mark his high point as a writer of short fiction. As Publishers Weekly notes, “Thought-provoking and deeply ironic, these stories and the others in this volume are as powerful today as they were when they first saw print.”

We also happen to know that Trips will be receiving a starred review from another prestigious trade journal soon, which makes a sell-out in the next month likely.

Limited Edition:

$65

Trade HC:

$35

The limited edition of the second volume of Jim Butcher’s bestselling series, The Dresden Files, is in stock and shipping. We still have a limited number of copies of Fool Moon available for sale, so those who missed out on Storm Front can start collecting these special editions, illustrated with full-color covers and black-and-white interiors by Vincent Chong.

Limited Edition:

$75

Greg Egan’s excellent 80,000 word collection, Dark Integers and Other Stories, is now available as a trade paperback through our Far Territories imprint. As Publishers Weekly noted, “Egan (Teranesia) is renowned for bringing the most abstract concepts of physics and philosophy to life, and these diamond-hard science fiction stories ably showcase his talent.”

Don’t forget, later this year we have a longer gathering of Egan’s uncollected short fiction, Crystal Nights and Other Stories, on our schedule. The hardcover of Dark Integers sold out very quickly, and we expect the same of Crystal Nights.

Trade Paperback:

$14.95