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Out now: ‘Conscientious Inconsistencies’ by Nancy Jane Moore
Posted by Paul Raven on May 5th, 2008 at 10:28
The latest arrival in the PS Publishing warehouse is the second of our PS Showcase mini-collections.
Nancy Jane Moore's Conscientious Inconsistencies will be making its way to the post-boxes of pre-order customers over the coming week, and is available for immediate purchase from the PS Webstore right now.
Here's the jacket blurb to whet your appetite for this challenging and genre-smashing collection of short fiction:
“Break all rules, including these.” So advises Nancy Jane Moore in one of the stories in this collection.
Moore tends to break rules. As these stories demonstrate, she doesn’t confine herself to any one genre or style. The stories jump among fantasy, science fiction, and slipstream—sometimes in the same story—and subvert history, the present, the future, and readers’ expectations of gender roles.
The fantasy (science fiction? slipstream?) story “Three O’Clock in the Morning” (a tale of strange and indestructible walls) was described by Charles Coleman Finlay on Tangent Online as an “emotionally affecting story of the relationship between love, loneliness, marriage, and society.”
“A Mere Scutcheon” plays with the world of Alexandre Dumas, where swordswomen guard the queen and swordsmen guard the king, while “Homesteading” provides a glimpse into future history. “The First Condition of Immortality” slides into that uneasy realm between fantasy and real life, where death takes an unexpected form.
One story even breaks the basic rules of storytelling. “Thirty-One Rules for Fulfilling Your Destiny” is an epic fantasy (or maybe a space opera) told in a list of aphorisms.
However, this collection shows consistency in one area: the protagonists in these stories are women. Moore has written stories about men, and is noted for stories in which the main character is a combination of male and female, but she remains an unapologetic feminist who explores gender issues even when she’s writing fight scenes...
Conscientious Inconsistencies is ready to ship - click on through to secure your copy.
- Jacketed hardcover - £25.00 ($50.00 approx.) 100 copies
- Hardcover - £10.00 ($20.00 approx.) 300 copies
Out now: ‘Thieving Fear’ by Ramsey Campbell
Posted by Paul Raven on May 2nd, 2008 at 8:45
Good news, horror fans! A brand new novel from home-grown head honcho of British horror Ramsey Campbell is about to be unleashed - PS Publishing has taken delivery of Thieving Fear, and copies should be making their way into the postboxes of pre-order customers within a week or so.
Here's the jacket pitch:
Charlotte Nolan and her cousins may not have ended up in the jobs they hoped to have when they were teenagers, but they've made their way in life. Charlotte works for a London publisher, Ellen cares for the elderly, Hugh has left teaching to work in a supermarket while his brother Rory is a controversial artist.
Then more than their jobs begin to go wrong as something reaches out of the past for them.
What has it to do with the summer night they spent on Thursaston Common? If the dreams they had that night are catching up with them, how is the Victorian occultist Arthur Pendemon involved? Before the nightmare ends more than one of them will have to enter what remains of Pendemon's house and confront what still lives there in the dark.
Sound spooky enough for you? Then click through below and buy your copy right away!
- Slipcased hardcover - £50.00 ($100.00 approx.) 200 copies
- Hardcover - £20.00 ($40.00 approx.) 500 copies
Matthew Hughes is sf’s best-kept secret, says Robert Sawyer
Posted by Paul Raven on April 28th, 2008 at 9:15
Award-winning Canadian sf supremo Robert Sawyer is a big fan of Matthew Hughes, whose new novel Template is due out from PS Publishing later this year.
Says Sawyer:
"Matthew Hughes's Template is many things - including a template others should follow to produce outstanding writing. Hughes has been the best-kept secret in SF for far too long: he's a towering talent, and Template is his best work to date. Bravo!"
That's about as glowing as glowing reviews can get!
Template will be published as a slipcased hardback in a print run of 200, with an introduction by Jay Lake and a cover illustration by Chris Erkmann - click through to place a pre-order right now over in the PS Publishing Store.
Out Now: ‘Random Walk’ by Lawrence Block
Posted by Darren on March 29th, 2008 at 17:28
We're delighted to announce that copies of our re-issued edition of veteran crime scribe Lawrence Block's mystery novel Random Walk are currently being delivered to our despatch warehouse and should be winging their way to our pre-order customers early next week.
Heres' the teaser text from the book, to whet your appetite:
In Rosburg, Oregon, a bartender named Guthrie Wagner responds to an inner prompting by quitting his job, walking out of town, and heading east, over the Cascades.
In Fort Wayne, Indiana, a woman named Sara Duskin realizes she’s losing her eyesight; her inner vision leads her to board a series of buses, taking her in turn to Chicago and Salt Lake City and Portland.
In Littleton, Colorado, a real-estate investor named Mark Adlon lures a clerk into the rear section of a convenience store, knocks her out with a blow to the head, then waits for her to regain consciousness before strangling her.
These and other lives connect and collide in a rich narrative that is magical and mystical and vividly real.
Lawrence Block has never written another book like Random Walk.
Neither has anybody else.
Random Walk is available to order from the PS Webstore in two editions:
- Signed, limited, slipcased hardcover - £50.00 ($100.00 approx.) 200 copies
- Hardcover - £20.00 ($40.00 approx.) 500 copies
Out Now: ‘Omega’ by Christopher Evans
Posted by Darren on March 29th, 2008 at 17:22
Omega is Christopher Evans' first adult science fiction novel for over ten years. It's a story of cross-multiverse alternate history and one man's struggle to come to terms with his crumbling identity:
Omega: an apocalyptic rumour from the Eastern Front.
Omega: something that will alter all the strategic calculations of the Earth's great military blocs.
Omega: the code name for a weapon that may well bring doomsday with it.
But if Omega is indeed the agent that will destroy the world, that world is not our own. For this is a timeline in which World War Two never truly ended: a timeline in which Hitler died in a plane crash, Britain joined Germany in its battle against Communist Russia, and the present is an age of intermittent, but deadly, armed conflict between the USSR, the European Alliance, and the USA. The frontier regions are radioactive wastelands, nuclear winter threatens catastrophe, global confrontation could erupt again any time - and that's before Omega is taken into account...
This is the reality experienced by Owen Meredith when an accident forces his consciousness from the England we know into the mind of his cognate self in that other darker, Europe. Switching back and forth between being plain Owen Meredith and troubled Major Owain Maredudd, Owen is faced not only with a Cold War going Hot, but with a deep crisis of identity. Who is he? Whose twisted destiny is he treading? Did the ordinary domestic life he remembers ever even take place? Perhaps the universe of Owain and Omega is merely a symptom of mental illness - but if so, why is it so urgently tangible?
Omega can be ordered in one of two editions from the PS Webstore:
- Signed, limited, slipcased hardcover - £50.00 ($100.00 approx.) 200 copies
- Hardcover - £20.00 ($40.00 approx.) 500 copies
The hardcover is in stock and will be shipping imminently. But we're sorry to have to report that the slipcased edition will be delayed by a couple of weeks; a printing error has meant that the whole run will have to be re-done. Watch this space, we'll keep you posted!
Out Now: ‘The Last Book’ by Zoran Zivkovic
Posted by Darren on March 29th, 2008 at 17:19
The Last Book is the brand new novel by multiple award-winning Serbian author Zoran Zivkovic and tells the tale of a mysterious tome that seems to be responsible for the demise of a number of unfortunate bibliophiles:
A series of mysterious deaths in the Papyrus Bookstore brings literature-loving police inspector Dejan Lukic to investigate. Here he meets the attractive owner, Vera Gavrilovic, and learns that the only thing the victims have in common is that in the moments before their deaths they were reading an elusive and unidentified volume - the Last Book.
As the plot thickens and the seemingly causeless deaths multiply, the National Security Agency, a secret apocalyptic sect and an exotic teashop become involved, while Dejan and Vera's growing attachment is threatened by nightmares and ever-encroaching danger...
Is a literary madman on the loose, murdering readers according to the method laid down in The Name of the Rose? In a final race against time, Inspector Lukic must discover the secret of the Last Book and the reason why he feels as though he has already read everything that is happening to him. The extraordinary denouement reveals hidden truths about the clash of realities and the awesome power of the creative imagination.
The Last Book is available to order from the PS Webstore in two editions:
- Signed, limited, slipcased hardcover - £50.00 ($100.00 approx.) 200 copies
- Hardcover - £20.00 ($40.00 approx.) 500 copies
Dare you read it?
Finished Cover: ‘PS Showcase #2 - Conscientious Inconsistencies’ by Nancy Jane Moore
Posted by Darren on March 29th, 2008 at 17:15
Here's the artwork for Conscientious Inconsistencies by Nancy Jane Moore; the second volume in our 'PS Showcase' series of mini-collections of brand new short stories by some of the best and brightest new writers on the genre fiction scene.
The instantly-recognisable style will tell you that this piece is by PS favourite Edward Miller.
PS Showcase #2: Conscientious Inconsistencies will be published in the next month or so, in two editions:
- Signed, jacketed hardcover - £25.00 / $50 (approx.) 100 copies
- Hardcover - £10.00 / $20.00 (approx.) 300 copies
Finished Cover: ‘Shrike’ by Quentin S. Crisp
Posted by Darren on March 29th, 2008 at 17:12
Another gorgeous piece of work by Vincent Chong will be gracing our edition of Quentin S. Crisp's novella Shrike when we publish later in the year. Here it is in all its glory:
Two editions are available to pre-order from the PS Webstore:
- Signed, jacketed hardcover - £25.00 / $50 (approx.) 200 copies
- Hardcover - £10.00 / $20.00 (approx.) 500 copies
Finished Cover: ‘The Last Book’ by Zoran Zivkovic
Posted by Darren on March 29th, 2008 at 17:03
A deceptively simple, minimalist cover for this brand new novel by one of Serbia's finest literary sons, Zoran Živkovic:
The Last Book is just back from the printers and will be shipping to pre-order customers in the next few days in two editions:
- Signed, limited, slipcased hardcover - £50 / $100.00 (approx.) 200 copies
- Hardcover - £20 / $40.00 (approx.) 500 copies
PS Current Catalogue and Forthcoming Titles Update
Posted by Darren on March 29th, 2008 at 17:00
We've been working away here at PS Towers to bring our Webstore catalogue and forthcoming title schedule for the rest of 2008 bang up-to-date.
Low Stock Warnings
The first change you'll notice when checking the Current Catalogue page of the Webstore is the addition of a number of low and very low stock warnings.
Following our first ever sale last Autumn that ran through to the end of a very busy holiday season, we've carried out a full stock-check. As a result, a number of titles which are now sold out have been moved to the archive. In addition, any titles with between 11 and 20 copies in stock have been marked low stock and any title with 10 or fewer copies in stock has been marked very low stock.
So if there's a title you've had your eye on for a while that's now marked 'very low', you might want to get an order in sooner rather than later...
Forthcoming Schedule Update
We've also been through our schedule for the rest of 2008 with a fine-tooth comb and have made a few necessary adjustments. Thieving Fear by Ramsey Campbell has been brought forward and will now be published earlier than we were originally anticipating. Alas though, a few titles have suffered from what we in the trade technically term 'slippage' for one reason or another and will now be published a little later than we originally hoped (although having said that, they may well end up being moved forward again... these things can happen when you're an independent publisher).
- The Babylonian Trilogy by Sébastien Doubinsky
- The City in These Pages by John Grant
- Planet of Mystery by Terry Bisson
- Harsh Oases by Paul DiFilippo
- The Painting and the City by Robert Freeman Wexler
- The Book, The Writer, The Reader by Zoran Zivkovic
- Living With the Dead by Darrell Schweitzer
- The Song of Time by Iain R. MacLeod
- Camp Desolation and an Eschatology of Salt by Uncle River
- Blue Canoe by T.M. Wright
- The Witnesses Are Gone by Joel Lane
- Billy's Book by Terry Bisson
- Counting Tadpoles by Uncle River
We've also added four new titles to the forthcoming titles page of the webstore, which of course means they're now available to pre-order:
- The Pilo Family Circus (a Novel) by Will Elliott
- PS Showcase #3: Mad Scientist Meets Cannibal by Robert Jeschonek
- PS Showcase #4: Glyphotech by Mark Samuels
- Grazing the Long Acre (a Collection) by Gwyneth Jones
Please click the book title to visit the relevant catalogue page for more information.
If you have any questions about any of the information in this article, please get in touch via the Contact Page of the Webstore.
Out Now: ‘The Situation’ by Jeff VanderMeer
Posted by Darren on March 19th, 2008 at 19:20
Our limited edition of Jeff VanderMeer's brand new chapbook novelette, The Situation is back from the printers, in-stock at our despatch warehouse and is shipping now to pre-order customers.
As you will probably have heard, we recently teamed up with Wired.com's GeekDad blog to give away a pdf copy of the entire text of The Situation and if you're interested in trying before you buy, that download is still available over at blog.wired.com/geekdad.
As a result of the coverage, the book has been selling very strongly indeed, particularly the 200-copy only signed, numbered, jacketed hardcover edition, so we're really not kidding when we say that if you want to secure a copy you'll need to get your order in fast!
And now, a quick note from our publisher, Peter Crowther:
It's mea culpa time, folks. We've just noticed, with a fair degree of embarrassment, that the signing sheet for the limited edition of The Situation states that there will be '200 slipcased signed hardcovers of this book, plus 500 unsigned hardcovers'. Well, the truth is that we mixed up the text from a signing sheet for a different PS title, and the signed hardcovers will not be slipcased... just as it has said all along on the website.
Of course, right now, everyone is happy with that - nobody is expecting a slipcase - but, of course, as soon as the pre-ordered books start plopping onto hallway mats and into creaky old tin rfd mailboxes, everywhere from here (just a couple of streets away is a brand-new regular customer), to all over the USA, to Australia, to North Korea (I kid you not! PS straddles the globe...) then people are going to be phoning wondering where their darn slipcase is.
Well, now you know: there weren't any. Looks like I ducked out of too many lectures on that 'Publishing 101' course! Note to self: must do better in future. Apologies for any confusion caused!
Best wishes
Contrite Crowther
Win a proof / ARC of ‘The Return of the Crimson Guard’ with Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist
Posted by Darren on March 16th, 2008 at 10:19
We've teamed up with top fantasy blogger Pat St Denis of the legendary Pat's Fantasy Hotlist to give away one ultra-rare proof / advanced reading copy of our forthcoming Ian Cameron Esslemont novel, The Return of the Crimson Guard, sequel to his debut Night of Knives.
Both Night of Knives and Return of the Crimson Guard are set in the same world made hugely popular by Steven Erikson's Malazan Books of the Fallen, which Esslemont and Erikson co-created.
Return of the Crimson Guard has such a huge page count that we're publishing our limited, true first edition in a two-volume slipcased edition, priced £75.00 (£150.00 approx.) and proof copies will be incredibly rare, so make sure you enter the competition sooner rather than later...
Out Now: ‘Basil Copper a Life in Books’ by Stephen Jones
Posted by Darren on February 29th, 2008 at 18:09
Last Saturday saw the official launch of our bilio-biography of one of the living legends of British horror writing.
In Basil Copper: A Life in Books, horror editor and anthologist extraordinaire Stephen Jones had been granted unprecedented access to Basil Copper's notes and source material, and the result is a truly unique and in-depth study of the author and his works.
The book is in stock and shipping now (pre-order customers may already have received their copies) in two editions:
- Jacketed Hardcover - £25.00 / $50.00 (approx.) signed by Basil Copper and Stephen Jones.
- Hardcover - £15.00 / $30.00 (approx.) unsigned
And a great time was had by all at the launch event; we'll have a write-up for you (complete with photos, courtesy of master-snapper Peter Coleborn) just as soon as we've had chance to gather our notes together...
‘Basil Copper: A Life in Books’ launch event, London, February 23rd
Posted by Darren on January 18th, 2008 at 17:20
Hosted by the British Fantasy Society and PS Publishing, the bio/bibliography Basil Copper: A Life in Books, compiled and edited by Stephen Jones, will be launched on Saturday, February 23rd at The Upstairs Bar, Ye Olde Cock Tavern, 22 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1AA from 6.00 p.m. onwards.
Among those signing copies will be Basil Copper, editor/co-designer Stephen Jones, artists Randy Broecker and Les Edwards, co-designer Michael Marshall Smith and publisher Peter Crowther. Special Guests (subject to commitment) include legendary anthology editors Hugh Lamb, Michel Parry and David A. Sutton.
About the Author:
Basil Copper became a full-time writer in 1970. His first story in the horror field, 'The Spider', was published in 1964 in The Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories, since when his short fiction has appeared in numerous collections and anthologies, and been extensively adapted for radio and television.
Along with two non-fiction studies of the vampire and werewolf legends, his other books include the novels The Great White Space, The Curse of the Fleers, Necropolis, The Black Death and The House of the Wolf.
Copper has also written more than fifty hardboiled thrillers about Los Angeles private detective Mike Faraday, and has continued the adventures of August Derleth's Sherlock Holmes-like consulting detective Solar Pons in several volumes of short stories and the novel Solar Pons Versus the Devil's Claw.
About the Book:
Concluding three years' extensive research, multiple award-winning editor and writer Stephen Jones was given unprecedented and unrestricted access to the books and papers of renowned British macabre and crime writer Basil Copper.
The result is Basil Copper: A Life in Books, a unique and in-depth study of the author and his works. Not only does this volume contain the most comprehensive Working Bibliography ever compiled of Basil Copper's productive output – including Macabre and Supernatural Novels and Collections, the 'Solar Pons' series, the 'Mike Faraday' series, Short Fiction and Novellas, Media Adaptations, Unpublished Works and much more, enhanced with commentary by the author himself – but it also features several rare and obscure articles covering everything from Arkham House creator August Derleth to a brief history of Count Dracula.
There are also a number of short stories, most of them original to this volume, ranging from his very first published work back in 1938 to a brand-new “Mike Faraday” detective adventure, along with a complete television script based on M.R. James' classic horror story 'Count Magnus'.
With an in-depth look at the author's life and career by acclaimed ghost story editor Richard Dalby, and Basil Copper's inspirational Guest of Honour speech from the 1977 British Fantasy Convention, Basil Copper: A Life in Books is illustrated with numerous cover reproductions, artwork and unique personal photographs.
The book will be published in two editions:
- Jacketed Hardcover - £25.00 / $50.00 (approx.) signed by Basil Copper and Stephen Jones.
- Hardcover - £15.00 / $30.00 (approx.) unsigned
Special Offers:
If you cannot make it to the signing, but still want to pre-purchase a personally-signed copy (or copies) please contact us for details of how to place your order. Dealer's enquiries welcome – trade discounts available.
BFS BONUS!!! On the night, a number of specially-priced copies of the PS hardcover anthology Don't Turn Out the Light will be available on a first-come basis. Edited by Stephen Jones, this third volume in the acclaimed new 'Not at Night' series features work by Basil Copper, Paul McAuley, Mark Samuels, Jay Russell, Randy Broecker, Les Edwards and many others (including Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles L. Grant and Hugh B. Cave...)
Announcing the next six PS Showcase Titles
Posted by Darren on January 7th, 2008 at 16:37
Our first PS Showcase mini-collection, Gary Fry's Sanity and Other Delusions has been a huge success so far, and we're delighted to be able to confirm initial details of the next six additions to the Showcase range:
- Showcase #2 - Mad Scientist Meets Cannibal by Robert Jeschonek. Intro by Mike Resnick. Due early 2008.
- Showcase #3 - Conscientious Inconsistencies by Nancy Jane Moore. Intro by L. Timmel Duchamp. Due mid 2008.
- Showcase #4 - Impossibilia by Douglas Smith. Intro tbc. Due mid 2008.
- Showcase #5 - Glyphotech by Mark Samuels. Intro by Ramsey Campbell. Due end 2008 (Launching at FantasyCon 2008).
- Showcase #6 - Glass Coffin Girls by Paul Jessup. Intro tbc. Due early 2009.
- Showcase #7 - A Web of Black Widows by Scott Carter. Intro tbc. Due mid 2009.
Full catalogue pages will be added to the webstore once we've finalised a few more details, such as ISBNs and, hopefully, cover artists for all six.
Out Now: new titles from Bradbury, Clarke, Hughes, Coney, plus: Postscripts #13!
Posted by Darren on December 21st, 2007 at 14:26
We're absolutely delighted to announce that no fewer than six brand new titles have now come back from the printers and will start shipping at the end of next week, for delivery in early January.
And those titles are:
- Dandelion Wine, 50th Anniversary Edition by Ray Bradbury - hardcover edition
- Tales From the White Hart by Arthur C. Clarke - hardcover edition
- Crystal Cosmos by Rhys Hughes - hardcover and jacketed hardcover editions
- Hello Summer Goodbye by Michael Coney - hardcover edition
- I Remember Pallahaxi by Michael Coney - hardcover edition
- Postscripts Magazine #13 ed. by Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers - paperback and limited hardcover editions
- Hardcover, £10.00 ($20.00 approx.), limited to 300 copies, signed by Gary Fry
- Jacketed Hardcover, £25.00 ($50.00 approx.), limited to 100 copies, signed by Gary Fry and Stephen Volk (introducer)
- The Other Celia by Theodore Sturgeon
- Mimic by Donald A. Wollheim
- The Man Upstairs by Ray Bradbury
- Neutrino Drag by Paul DiFilippo
- Nights at the Crimea by Jessica Reisman
- The Reality Trip by Robert Silverberg
- Once by Jack Slay, Jr
- Linkage by Barry N. Malzberg
- Apprenticeship by Howard Waldrop
- Cooking Creole by A. M. Dellamonica
- Under the Hollywood Sign by Tom Reamy
- All the Kinds of Yes by James Tiptree, Jr.
- Judgment Call by John Kessel
- A Spaceship Built of Stone by Lisa Tuttle
- Detectives and Cadavers by Jeff VanderMeer
- Sex and/or Mr. Morrison by Carol Emshwiller
- Thieving Fear by Ramsey Campbell, Limited Slipcased edition
- Thieving Fear by Ramsey Campbell, signed Hardcover edition
Please note: we're still waiting on slipcases (where applicable) for all these titles. We're expecting them to arrive by mid-January: if you've pre-ordered a slipcased edition of any of these titles, please accept our apologies for the delay, and we promise to get them to you at the earliest possible opportunity!
And don't forget: if you're a current Postscripts subscriber (or if you take out a Postscripts subscription between now and the publication of the next issue...) you'll also receive a free copy of this year's PS Holiday Chapbook: 'The Saved' by Joe Hill, previously published only in the extremely limited (and now incredibly rare and valuable) slipcased hardcover edition of 20th Century Ghosts...
Out Now: PS Showcase #1 ‘Sanity and Other Delusions’ by Gary Fry
Posted by Darren on November 29th, 2007 at 10:39
We're delighted to announce that the first of our new series of 'Showcase' mini-collections has been printed, delivered to the warehouse and is now being shipped to pre-order customers and anyone placing a new order via our webstore (although please bear in mind that the imminent PS office closure will mean that new orders won't now be shipped until mid-December).
Sanity and Other Delusions by Gary Fry contains six stories of madness and psychological horror: 'Beggars Belief', 'The Indelible Strain of Company', 'No Oil Painting', 'It Can Also End at Home', 'The Familial' and 'Projecting Malice'.
The book is available in two editions:
"...an outstanding mini-collection of short stories on psychological disintegration..." - Colin Harvey, Suite101.com
New cover art for Ray Bradbury’s ‘Dandelion Wine’, 50th Anniversary edition
Posted by Darren on November 20th, 2007 at 9:34
There's been a slight change of plan here at PS Towers regarding the forthcoming 50th Anniversary edition of Ray Bradbury's classic novel Dandelion Wine. Pete will explain how it happened:
Hi Folks -
It was out of the blue. That's how it happened. We were all geared up to print Dandelion Wine when, completely unannounced, one of our fave artists, Tomislav Tikulin, sent us a copy of his latest work... and wouldn't you know it - it was Dandelion Wine! Not only that, but it's absolutely wonderful! I checked with Tomislav to make sure it was for sale and then (having had the thumbs-up) set to trying to figure out how best to shoehorn the second piece of cover artwork into the project.
It was fairly straightforward, as it turned out - ALL copies of the book will have Tomislav's artwork printed onto the boards, while the slipcased and deluxe editions will additionally have the original artwork (as advertised on the website this past few months) on a dust-jacket ON TOP of the illustrated boards.
Prices remain the same except for the trade edition which, because it will not now have a dust-jacket, we're reducing from £25/$50 to £20/$40. If you've paid in advance for that book, you will receive a refund of the extra £5/$10; either that or get in touch and use the overspend as credit on another book. It's your choice - we're easy either way.
This, may mean that the book takes a little longer to finalise and print, but crumbs... Dandelion Wine is one of my all-time favourite books. And that artwork is just superb. I mean... what could I do?! Or, for that matter... what would YOU have done?! See for yourself:
Cheers, Pete!
So, just to confirm, here are the full details for each edition:
Hardcover edition - £20.00 ($40.00 approx.) - 500 copies
This 'standard' edition will now feature the new Tomislav Tikulin artwork on a PPC cover - the artwork will be printed directly onto the book cover - and the book will no longer be supplied with a dust jacket. The price of this edition will also be dropped to £20 ($40 approx.) to reflect the lower production costs involved, and to bring it in line with the rest of the forthcoming PS titles. As Pete said, appropriate refunds will be given to anyone who has already paid the earlier, higher price.
Slipcased edition - £50.00 ($100 approx.) - 200 copies
The slipcased edition will also have the Tomislav Tikulin artwork printed onto the cover, and in addition will feature a dust-jacket with the original Amos Sewell illustration (as per our previous 'Finished Cover...' post. In effect, two jackets for the price of one, and no alteration in the price.
Deluxe Two Volume Slipcased edition - £375.00 ($750.00 approx.) - 100 copies
Likewise, the copy of Dandelion Wine included in the deluxe edition will also have the Tomislav Tikulin artwork printed onto the cover, and the Amos Sewell dust-jacket. The companion volume, Summer Morning, Summer Night will remain unchanged, featuring front and back cover artwork by Ray Bradbury himself.
If you have any questions at all, please send them to the general enquiries email address on the Contact Page.
TOC: ‘Passing for Human’ edited by Michael Bishop and Steven Utley
Posted by Darren on November 3rd, 2007 at 20:08
Here's the finalised Table of Contents for our forthcoming short fiction anthology Passing for Human, which we're publishing in early 2008:
Heck of a line-up, we think you'll agree (indeed, it's a "juicy and mighty line-up", according to SFSignal). We're publishing in two editions: hardcover at £20.00 ($40.00 approx.) and slipcased hardcover at £50.00 ($100.00 approx.)
Both are available for pre-order from the Webstore now.
Announcing a brand new Ramsey Campbell novel: ‘Thieving Fear’
Posted by Darren on October 27th, 2007 at 8:28
PS Publishing is proud and pleased to announce that we will be publishing limited slipcased (£50 / $100 approx.) and signed hardcover (£20 / $40 approx.) editions of the brand new Ramsey Campbell novel Thieving Fear in Spring 2008.
We had hoped to include this title as part of our Major Schedule Update back in September, but were still finalising one or two details at the time. We will also be announcing the introducer and cover artist in the near future.
Thieving Fear can be pre-ordered right away, and pages for each edition have been added to the PS catalogue, as follows:
John Berlyne’s ‘Works of Tim Powers’ website relaunches
Posted by Darren on October 26th, 2007 at 15:54
If you're a Tim Powers reader or fan then you'll no doubt be interested to hear that John Berylne's official Powers website www.TheWorksofTimPowers.com has just been given a substantial makeover and relaunched as a Wordpress-driven blog, which John promises to keep up-to-date with all the latest news and developments of interest to Powers fans.
As many of our long-time customers and e-bulletin subscribers will know, we've been working with John for some time now on an incredibly detailed, utterly comprehensive cornucopia of Powers delights called Secret Histories (with a tag-line that varies from time to time).
John has added a Secret Histories section to the new Powers site, where he details the twists and turns of the project to-date and reveals the eventual publication date that we're all now aiming for: April 2009, to coincide with Powers' first visit to the UK as Guest of Honour at the 2009 Eastercon in Bradford.
More than that we're unable to confirm quite yet, but as soon as we've finalised the relevant detail we'll be adding Secret Histories to the catalogue - along with shots of some of the interior pages to give you an idea of the sheer volume of work that's gone into this incredible project - at which point we're anticipating a record-speed pre-order take-up... watch this space for further announcements!
Out Now: ‘Starship Summer’ by Eric Brown
Posted by Darren on October 22nd, 2007 at 11:34
In stock and shipping this week: the hardcover and jacketed hardcover editions of Eric Brown's science fiction novella Starship Summer.
From the synopsis:
David Conway leaves Earth and settles on the backwater planet of Chalcedony, Delta Pavonis IV, in search of a quiet life away from the haunting reminders of his past.
Living aboard a derelict spaceship in the quiet coastal community of Magenta Bay, he meets artist Matt Sommers, beachcomber Maddie Chamberlain and ex-starship pilot Hawksworth, and things seem about as perfect as he could hope... until he discovers that his ship is haunted by an alien spectre.
What follows will change Conway and his friends - and the future of humankind's destiny in space - for ever.
We're still waiting on the slipcases to be delivered for the 26-copy Lettered edition; sincere apologies to anyone who has pre-ordered, but we'll ship the books just as soon as they're available.
Out Now: ‘Dead Earth: The Green Dawn’ by Mark Justice and David T. Wilbanks
Posted by Darren on October 22nd, 2007 at 11:28
In stock and shipping this week: the hardcover and jacketed hardcover editions of Mark Justice and David T. Wilbanks' zombiepocalpyse novella Dead Earth: The Green Dawn!
From the synopsis:
Something bad has happened in Nevada.
No one knows what it is for sure. Rumors fly about plagues and secret government experiments. And the President isn't talking.
In Serenity, New Mexico, Deputy Sheriff Jubal Slate has his hands full. It seems that half the town, including his mother and his boss, are sick from an unusual malady.
Even more worrisome is the oddly-colored dawn sky.
Then a stranger crashes through town, a woman with a nightmarish story about what really happened in the Nevada desert.
Soon, the townspeople of Serenity start dying.
And they won't stay dead.
We're still waiting on the slipcases to be delivered for the 26-copy Lettered edition; sincere apologies to anyone who has pre-ordered, but we'll ship the books just as soon as they're available.