Recent book arrivals

Night Shade Books, click to enlarge.

A shelf-full of Night Shade Books arrived in the mail. It's an interesting assortment, representing everything they've published from December 2011 through April 2012. I'll name check a few of the books in the photo here:

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 6, edited by Jonathan Strahan
And Blue Skies from Pain by Stina Leicht (the author's second novel)
Hitchers by Will McIntosh (the author's second novel)
A Path to Coldness of Heart by Glen Cook (a previously unpublished Dread Empire novel)
When We Were Executioners by J.M. McDermott (second in the author's Dogsland Trilogy)
The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells (second in the author's Raksura series)

The other Glen Cook title is a reprint and the Clark Ashton Smith is a collection of material for completists. Many of the remaining titles appear to be first novels, with which Night Shade has done very well.

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Books received

A pile of reading material from Night Shade Books arrived in the mail today. First up will be Infidel by Kameron Hurley. I enjoyed her first novel, God's War, which came out earlier this year.

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A pretty good haul in today’s mail. These are all titles from the excellent small publisher Night Shade Books. The surprise of the bunch? Paolo Bacigalupi’s first novel, The Windup Girl, which isn’t officially due out until September 15. Bacigalupi is a new writer to watch. His short fiction has been nominated for numerous awards in recent years. (“The Gambler” was my choice to win the best novelette Hugo a few weeks ago at Anticipation in Montreal.) His first collection of short fiction, Pump Six and Other Stories from Night Shade Books, was one of the must-have books of 2008.

I can’t pretend these are review copies, since this blog is new and traffic is low. I bought them and they are free, sort of. A few years back I bought a lifetime subscription to Night Shade Books, which I figure has paid for itself. So they are almost free. And, since I will be reviewing some of them on this blog, Night Shade Books gets a little extra mileage, too.