Celebrated author Mike Resnick, who has been gracing each issue of Subterranean Online with a new tale of scalawag the Right Reverend Doctor Lucifer Jones, has just signed a contract to revisit his most famous creation, the “Kirinyaga” universe, with a new novella we’ll be releasing online and as a limited edition. Speaking of reader favorites, Lucius Shepard is due to turn in a new “Dragon Griaule” novelette in the coming weeks. Look for more updates as they happen!

Subterranean Press is proud to announce a two volume set that will contain virtually the last unpublished material by Robert A. Heinlein.

Project Moonbase and Others contains the screenplay for the now classic sf film, plus twelve finished teleplays and two story outlines for a projected television show, The World Beyond. In addition to original tales (”Ring Around the Moon” and the story outlines “Home Sweet Home” and “The Tourist”) Project Moonbase also contains teleplay adaptations of such RAH classics as “Delilah and the Space Rigger,” “And He Built a Crooked House” and much more.

The material in Project Moonbase, by terms of the contract, cannot be reprinted for at least five years following release of the Subterranean Press edition — the only exception being its inclusion in The Virginia Edition of RAH’s work, a set of volumes that will cost thousands of dollars. As the SubPress print run is limited to only 750 numbered and 26 lettered copies, we expect it to sell quickly.

Collector’s Note: Those who purchase Project Moonbase and Others will have the right of first refusal to purchase the same number or letter of volume two in the set.

Kage Baker’s screwball comedy, Rude Mechanicals, in which Company operatives Lewis and Joseph find themselves to-and-fro-ing through 1930s Hollywood, is headed for a second printing. We expect to have copies in just a few short weeks.

Special Offer: If you enter “baker50″ (minus the quote marks, naturally), in the coupon code section when checking out, you can preorder a copy of the second printing for 50% off — only $17.50, with Free US Shipping. The astute among you will figure out that the same coupon code works when you preorder a copy of Kage’s upcoming pirate novel, Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key. (As always, this special may not be combined with any other offers or coupons or savings certificates. Limit one copy of each title per person, household, or family.)

Just in stock and shipping, and over 80% sold out. Here’s another chance to enjoy Neil Gaiman’s children’s classic, Coraline, in a gorgeous edition, printed in two colors, with a number of full color plates, and a brand new wraparound cover by Dave McKean.

Signed HC:

$60

Lettered HC:

$400

We’ve just received a spate of new Advance Reading Copies. If you pen a high traffic blog, or run a popular website, please feel free to drop us a note if you’re interested in any of the following:

– Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key by Kage Baker
– Dark Integers and Other Stories by Greg Egan
– Venus on the Half-Shell and Others by Philip Jose Farmer
– Tales of Pain and Wonder by Caitlin R. Kiernan
– Haggopian and Other Stories by Brian Lumley
– The Best of Lucius Shepard
– Black & White by Lewis Shiner
– Something Wild is Loose by Robert Silverberg
– The Jack Vance Reader

Thanks in advance for helping us get the word out!

Connie Willis’s foray into YA Heinlein country, the novelette, D.A. is headed into a second printing. So if plucky heroines, space stations, being shanghaied, and a wildly comic perspective are your thing, you know, considering preordering the second printing, because they’ll be here in a just a few short weeks.

The signed numbered edition of Jack Vance’s rare novella, The Kragen, is sold out on publication, but we still have a few copies of the lettered edition not yet reserved. Enjoy this novella later expanded into his novel, The Blue World, with its wonderful cover illustration by Tomislav Tikulin.

Signed HC:

SOLD OUT

Lettered Edition:

$150

Return two Tim Lebbon’s signature fantasy world of Noreela in After the War for two long tales about outcasts, full of dark choices and even darker consequences. According to Booklist: “In each of these two powerful novellas set in Lebbon’s vividly imagined world, Noreela, an outcast struggles to make the right choices in a context in which no good choices are left…Lebbon’s postapocalyptic fantasy world is a bleak one, and his strong, descriptive writing and sympathetic characters make its horrors all too visible.”

Signed HC:

$35

Those two madmen, Powers and Blaylock are back, with a recently unearthed and touched up short story thought lost to the ages. Pilot Light is vintage William Ashbless, complex to the point of incoherence, with a good eighteen footnotes added by the poet refuting and clarifying the changes made by Powers and Blaylock to his sacred words. Also included in this small form hardcover chapbook are an introduction by Powers and an afterword by Blaylock.

The limited edition is the only version signed by all three contributors.

Signed HC:

$45

Trade HC:

$20

Our edition of Tim Powers’ classic supernatural pirate novel, On Stranger Tides, will feature the original cover art by James Gurney — with a different design for both the trade and limited editions. To make the limited even more attractive, Mr. Gurney has agreed to sign it!

Jim Butcher, author of the ultra-popular Dresden Files, has turned in a novelette set in that series for us. Check out as Harry Dresden’s big brother offers some “Backup” to get everyone’s favorite PI wizard out of a nasty spot of trouble.

One of last year’s most popular titles was Elizabeth Bear’s New Amsterdam — to be released in April as a trade paperback. We’ve just signed a contract with Ms. Bear for a 30,000 word follow-up to that tale, dealing with the wampyr Sebastian many years later.

Our string of publishing Philip Jose Farmer will continue into 2009, as we’ve just reached agreement to publish an omnibus of three of PJF’s lesser known, but still excellent novels, to be gathered as The Other in the Mirror. If all goes according to plan, each novel will feature a special introduction by an sf/fantasy luminary.