09/27/06 WED:
---Here are the few mmpbs that arrived Friday from HarperCollins:

Avon Eos 06453 Hartwell, David G. & Kathryn Cramer (eds) YEAR'S BEST SF 8, 2nd, (2002 stories; a collection of luminous visions that shines more brightly than a newborn sun), new 7.99
Avon Eos 57561 Hartwell, David G. & Kathryn Cramer (eds) YEAR'S BEST SF 10, 2nd, (2004 stories), new 7.99
Avon Eos 87341 Hartwell, David G. & Kathryn Cramer (eds) YEAR'S BEST SF 11, 6/06, (2005 stories), new 7.99
Avon Eos 74715 Nix, Garth ACROSS THE WALL: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories, nd (1st Eos pb edn), (novella set in world of trilogy), new 7.99
Avon Eos 57474 Bujold, Lois McMaster THE HALLOWED HUNT, 6/06, (a magnificent epic tale of devotion, possession, obsession, and strange destiny), new 7.99
Avon Eos 81793 Simmons, Dan OLYMPOS, 8/06, (extraordinary and magnificent epic conclusion to Ilium), new 7.99
Avon Eos 54172 Traviss, Karen THE WORLD BEFORE, 11/05, (orig; sequel to City of Pearl and Crossing the Line), new 7.50

09/22/06 FRI:
---A few here today from HarperCollins (all 30% discount). I checked the Locus Recommended 2005 list to add a few, but not too many from this publishing hydra, possibly thankfully:

Bujold, Lois McMaster THE CURSE OF CHALION, Eos '06, (first published in 2000; nicely detailed and wittily accented fantasy), new 13.95

Crowley, John LORD BYRON 'S NOVEL: The Evening Land, Morrow, 2nd('05), (imagines the novel the great, haunted, and enigmatic Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned...but very well might have), new in dj 25.95

Ford, Jeffrey THE GIRL IN THE GLASS, Harper, 3rd('06), (Edgar Allan Poe Award winner for best paperback original; at once a hypnotically compelling mystery and a stunningly evocative portrait of Depression-era New York; a masterly literary achievement from a writer of exemplary vision and skill), new 13.95

Hardinge, Frances FLY BY NIGHT, HarperCollins '06, 1st US edn, (imagine a world in which all books have been BANNED!; astonishingly original, a grand feat of the imagination from a masterful new storyteller), new in dj 16.99

Lanagan, Margo BLACK JUICE, Eos, 2nd, (stories; Printz Award winner), new in dj 15.99

Morrow, James THE LAST WITCHFINDER, Morrow, 3rd('06), (novel of history, adventure, science, sex, satire, absurdity, and philosophy; abrim with picaresque adventures), new in dj 25.95

Pratchett, Terry THUD!, HarperCollins '05, 1st edn, (A Novel of Discworld®), new in dj 24.95

---Back in stock:

Pratchett, Terry MONSTROUS REGIMENT, HarperCollins '03, 1st edn, (Discworld), new in dj 24.95

---The mass-market paperbacks I will catalog shortly.

09/21/06 THU:
---Here today from Independent Press Group:

Bailey, Dale & Jack Slay, Jr. SLEEPING POLICEMEN, Golden Gryphon '06, 1st edn, (dark-fantasy thriller; gut-wrenching horror), new in dj 24.95
---Golden Gryphon book #46.

Brown, Eric THRESHOLD SHIFT, Golden Gryphon '06, 1st edn, (accomplished and affecting stories set in author’s Kéthani universe; SF infused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility; foreword by Stephen Baxter), new in dj 24.95
---Golden Gryphon book #47.

Kelly, James Patrick & John Kessel (eds) FEELING VERY STRANGE: The Slipstream Anthology, Tachyon '06, 1st edn, (ambitious stories of visionary strangeness that defy the conventions of science fiction), new 14.95

Lansdale, Joe MAD DOG SUMMER and Other Stories, Golden Gryphon '06, 1st pb edn, (first published in a hc ltd edn by Subterranean in 2004), new 14.95

---Not in shipment, but maybe backordered is the new one from Tachyon by Peter S. Beagle. The ltd hc I had earlier is out of stock. Maybe I should try to see if I could get more of those, and see if the trade pb edn is still to be had.

09/15/06 FRI:
---Finally got ‘round to faxing orders to HarperCollins and Independent Press Group (Golden Gryphon, Tachyon).

---Fifty-seven years old today.

09/14/06 THU:
---Caught the big Planned Parenthood Book Sale opening day. Not much to brag about finding but found some things that looked interesting--to me anyway. As always much more than I could ever get to read, but wish I could. I’ll be throwing some of the up on half.com--the ones with ISBNs (mid-70s on). Also, will put their covershots in a folder in Covershots 8 (in progress).

09/13/06 WED:
---Another one here today from Stark House:

Millar, Margaret AN AIR THAT KILLS / DO EVIL IN RETURN, Stark House Mystery Classics, 8/06, 1st thus, (two mysteries, both representative of author's well-regarded work of the 1950s; new intro by Tom Nolan), new 19.95

09/05/06 TUE:
---Here today:

TALEBONES: Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy #33, sum/06, (Van Pelt, Mark Rich, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, D'Ammassa; more), new 7.00