We’ve just posted ordering details for three brand new titles that are deep into production, all slated for publication this summer;

– The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker is her first lengthy foray into the Gentleman’s Speculative Society, the precursor to a certain Company about which she’s written extensively. This steampunk-ish novella will be illustrated throughout by J. K. Potter, who did such wonderful (and spot on) work for Kages’s Rude Mechanicals and The Empress of Mars.

– Hazards by Mike Resnick is the latest novel collecting the further adventures of the Right Honorable Doctor Lucifer Jones, whose goal is the saving of souls, establishing the Tabernacle of Saint Luke, and the lining of his own pockets. Hey, a con man’s gotta live, right, and in these pulp adventures Resnick shows us myriad ways in which such escapades can go horribly wrong.

– Purple and Black by K. J. Parker is delightfully twisty novella by the acclaimed author of The Engineer Trilogy, and, most recently, The Company. It’s a gritty glimpse into an emperor’s attempt to maintain his hold on the outlying lands of his empire, told in official missives (printed in purple ink) and private notes (printed in black ink) exchanged with his most trusted advisor. As this is Parker’s first limited edition, we’re expecting demand to be strong, espeically for the signed version.

Head over to Subterranean Online to check out a tale (“Three Fancies from the Eternal Garden”) by new fantasy writer, C.S.E. Cooney, as well as Nick Gevers’s interview with SubPress favorite, Kage Baker, in which she talks about the precursor to the Company series, as well as a number of other subjects.

In addition, we’ve just bought new stories by Alex Irvine (a pair of tales), Elizabeth Bear, and a short but delightfully obscure Bernie Rhodenbarr vignette by Lawrence Block. (Larry being one of my three or four favorite writers, you’ll understand I consider publishing him in the magazine a singular honor.)

Here’s a first look at the cover (by Mark A. Nelson) for our special Ray Bradbury collection, Marionettes, Inc. We’re wrapping everything up to get this one to the printer on schedule for its April release. In addition to Mark’s cover and nifty black and white interiors, Marionettes will feature full-color endsheet art by none other than Ray Bradbury himself.

In other news, we’ve just received the proofer’s corrections for our mammoth (784 pages) gathering of Mr. B’s mystery novels. Where Everything Ends not only contains the trio of novels that feature Bradbury as protagonist, it will also include the title story, unpublished in the 64 years since it was written, that formed the basis for Death is a Lonely Business. We’ll post ordering info soon.

Congratulations to Neil Gaiman, who just won the Newbery Award for The Graveyard Book. Our limited edition is nearly ready to ship. The books themselves are done. We’re just waiting to approve the slipcase prototype and have those manufactured.

We’ll admit it. We can’t get enough of Greg Egan, especially his short fiction. The hardcover of his 80,000 word collection, Dark Integers and Other Stories, sold out immediately when we released it last year, and we’ll be publishing a trade paperback of it this spring.

In addition, we have a much longer (120,000 words) hardcover collection by Greg already in the pipeline, Crystal Nights and Other Stories.

Here’s the book’s full description:

The nine stories in Greg Egan’s new collection range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.

In “Lost Continent”, a time traveler seeking refuge from a war-torn land faces hostility and bureaucratic incompetence. “Crystal Nights” portrays a driven man’s moral compromises as he chases an elusive technological breakthrough, while in “Steve Fever” the technology itself falls victim to its own hype.

“TAP” brings us a new kind of poetry, where a word is more powerful than a thousand images. “Singleton” shows us a new kind of child, born of human DNA modeled in a quantum computer—who, in “Oracle”, journeys to a parallel world to repay a debt to an intellectual ancestor.

“Induction” chronicles the methods and motives behind humanity’s first steps to the stars. “Border Guards” reflects on the painful history of a tranquil utopia. And in the final story, “Hot Rock”, two immortal citizens of the galaxy-spanning Amalgam find that an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.

We’re pleased to announce a new book by Alastair Reynolds, slated to be published later this year. Thousandth Night & Minla’s Flowers collects two of Al’s space opera novellas. Interested readers may want to jump on this one early, as his novella The Six Directions of Space was recently sold out on publication.

Here’s the lowdown on the upcoming title:

For many of us, the Ace Double Novels of the ‘50s and ‘60s have long been a source both of pleasure and nostalgia. This new double volume from Subterranean Press stands squarely in that distinguished tradition, offering a pair of colorful, fast-paced stories from the reigning master of the intergalactic space opera: Alastair Reynolds.

Thousandth Night, the genesis for the epic novel House of Suns, is quintessential Reynolds. A visionary account of intrigue, ambition, and technological marvels set within a beautifully realized far-future milieu, it combines world-class storytelling with a provocative meditation on the mystery, grandeur, and inconceivable immensity of the universe.

The masterful novella Minla’s Flowers features Merlin, a familiar figure to Reynolds’s readers. Diverted by technical difficulties to a planet known as Lecythus, Merlin finds himself forced to play a part in the moral and military dilemmas of a world on the verge of extinction.

We’ve just received the first advance copies of Neil Gaiman’s tale for all ages, The Graveyard Book, and they’re absolutely stunning, from the handmade paper special ordered, to the richness and depth added by printing Dave McKean’s artwork in two colors, to the full-color bonus section of sketches and alternate cover mockups.

We’ve just UPSd a copy of the book to our slipcase manufacturer, who’ll fit this job in while he’s also working on George R. R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows. In just a few short weeks, we’ll have the cases in hand for both books, and drop everything else to get them into customers’ hands.

Continuing in the vein of the Award winning Retro Pulp Tales, Joe R. Lansdale and his son Keith Lansdale present Son of Retro Pulp Tales. More stories in the tradition of the pulps, early digest magazines and pre sixties films, this one contains everything from Lovecraftian monsters to demons to hardboiled shootouts to plain ole unchained oddness.

So, tuck yourself in bed with a reading light and a snack, and prepare to be transported to wild worlds and weird situations by the pure storyteller tradition. Come on in, the pulp is fine.

With tales by Harlan Ellison, Joe R. Lansdale (a new Dead in the West story), Mike Resnick, Cherie Priest, and others, how can you go wrong?

We’re already hard at work on Retro2, which is on schedule to ship in May.

Our shippers are sending out the limited edition of Barry Hughart’s massive omnibus, The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox this week. This is the signed, slipcased version that comes with a trade paperback of the uncorrected first version of Bridge of Birds, which differs significantly from the finished book.

It looks as though, when our shippers are done, we’ll have a few copies of the limited to spare, so keep an eye on our newsletter for the particulars on snagging a copy.

We’ve just reached agreement with Peter Crowther to publish books two (Windows to the Soul) and three (Darkness Rising) in his Forever Twilight series. We should have ordering info on book two posted in a matter of days, and will be slipping it into our production schedule for late this summer.

A quick note of apology: In checking our emails, we realized we jumped the gun in announcing we were taking on the Forever Twilight series, and that Cemetery Dance didn’t have the chance to notify their customers of the change in publisher. (Sorry Rich and Mindy.) Also, we’ve made arrangements with CD so that they’ll be able to purchase copies of Forever Twilight 2 for customers who originally purchased the book through them.