INCOMING

A busy week. folks.  A lot of anthologies and replacement copies in this bunch.  MacKay's Books in Manassas should be ashamed for tempting me so much.  Ditto Second Look Books in Prince Frederick, Maryland.

• Brian Aldiss.  Seasons in Flight.  SF collection.
• Mike Ashley, editor.  Historical Detectives.  Mystery anthology.
• Mike Ashley, editor.  The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II.  Fantasy anthology.
• James Axler.  Deathlands:  Bloodlines.  Post-apocalyptic pulp, number mumblymumble in this everlasting pbo series.
• Ray Banks.  No More Heroes.  Crime novel, Cal Innes #3.  Uncorrected proof.
• Neal Barrett, Jr.  The Prophecy Machine.  SF novel.
• L. Frank Baum.  The Emerald City of Oz.  Children's book.  The 6th in the series.
• Patricia Briggs.  Iron Kissed.  Horror novel, third in the Mercy Thompson series.
• Pat Cardigan, editor.  The Ultimate Cyberpunk.  SF anthology.
• John Dickson Carr.  Papa La-Bas.  Historical Mystery.
• Peter Crowther, editor.  Destination Unknown.  SF anthology.
• Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, editors.  The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror:  Sixteenth Annual Collection.  Fantasy/Horror anthology, covering 2002.
• John DeChancie and Martin H. Greenberg, editors.  Castle Fantastic.  Fantasy anthology.
• Charles de Lint.  The Riddle of the Wren.  Fantasy novel.
• Samuel R. Delany.  The Motion of Light in Water:  Sex and Science Fiction, Writing in the East Village: 1960-1965.  Autobiography.  Unexpergated edition.
• Lester del Rey.  The Early del Rey:  Volume 1.  SF collection, reprinting the first twelve stories from the hardbound edition.
• Lester del Rey.  Rocket Jockey.  SF novel.
• Gordon R. Dickson.  The Man from Earth.  SF collection.
• Gardner Dozois, editor.  The Year's Best Science Fiction:  Twenty-Second Annual Collection.  SF anthology, covering 2004.
• David Drake.  Bridgehead.  SF novel.
• Pauline Rush Evans, editor.  Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Mystery Stories.  Mystery anthology, marketed to young readers.
• John Farris.  Minotaur.  Suspense novel.
• John Farris.  Son of the Endless Night.  Horror novel.
• Alan Dean Foster.  Dirge.  SF novel, Book Two of The Founding of the Commonwealth.
• Alan Dean Foster.  The Moment of the Magician.  SF novel, part of the Spellsinger series.
• Alan Dean Foster.  With Friends Like These...  SF collection.
• Alan Dean Foster.  Mid-Flinx.  SF novel, a Pip and Flinx adventure, number seven I think.
• Hal Foster, illustrator.  The Young Knight:  A Tale of Medieval Times.  Juvenile.  A hardbound story (author uncredited) set in the Prince Valiant world and featuring Arn; published in 1945 and on very cheap paper, the actual story runs less than 25 pages.
• David S. Garnett, editor.  The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two.  SF anthology, covering 1988.
• Ray Garton.  Dark channel.  Horror novel
• Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer, editors.  Confederacy of the Dead.  Horror anthology.
• George G. Gilman.  Adam Steele Number 20:  Wanted for Murder; Adam Steele Number 21:  Wagons East; Adam Steele Number 25:  Steele's War:  The Woman.  Western novels..
• George G. Gilman.  Edge:  Blood on Silver.  Western novel.  Number 5 in the series.
• Simon R. Green.  Deathstalker Honor. SF novel, being the fourth part of the life and times of Owen Deathstalker.
• Martin Harry Greenberg, Frank McSherry, Jr. & Charles G. Waugh, editors.  Civil War Ghosts.  Horror anthology.
• Peter Haining, editor.  Death on Wheels.  Mystery/Horror anthology.
• Peter Haining. editor.  The Vampire Hunters' Casebook.  Horror anthology.
• Joe Haldeman.  Tool of the Trade.  SF novel.
• Harry Harrison.  The Best of Harry Harrison.  SF collection.
• Harry Harrison.  Planet of No Return.  SF novel, sequel to Planet of the Damned.
• David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, editors.  Year's Best SF 14.  SF anthology, covering 2008
• L. Ron Hubbard.  Spy Killer.  Adventure novella.
• Marvin Kaye, editor.  Resurrected Holmes.  Sherlockian anthology.
• Damon Knight, editor.  Orbit 19.  SF anthology.  The pentultimate volume.
• William W. Johnstone.  Ordeal.  Thriller.
• R. A. Lafferty.  Fourth Mansions.  SF novel, one of Terry Carr's Ace Science Fiction Specials.
• Ursula Le Guin and Brian Atterbery, editors.  The Norton Book of Science Fiction.  Doorstopper SF anthology.
• Jake Logan.  Slocum and the Dirty Game.  Western novel, number 202 in the series.
• John Lutz.  Urge to Kill.  Thriller, a Frank Quinn novel.
• Graham Masterton.  Picture of Evil.  Horror novel.
• Michael Moorcock.  Von Beck.  SF omnibus containing revised versions of The Warhound and the World's Pain, A City in the Autumn Stars, and The Dragon in the Sword, plus a short story.
• Robert Morgan.  Things That Are Not There.  Supernatural mystery novel.  The first in the Teddy London series by C. J. Henderson under a pen name.
• E. Nesbit.  The Phoenix and the Carpet.  Children's fantasy, the third of the Five Children novels.
• Andre Norton.  Dragon Magic.  Fantasy novel.
• Norvell Page.  The Spider:  Robot Titans of Gotham.  Omnibus of three pulp hero novels from the Thirties, Satan's Murder Machines, Death Reign of the Vampire King, and The Octopus; the first two were originally published in The Spider under the house name "Grant Stockbridge", the third was originally published in the only issue of The Octopus under the name "Randolph Craig".
• Edgas Pangborn.  A Mirror for Observers.  SF novel, winner of the 1955 International Fantasy Award.
• George Pelecanos, editor.  D. C. Noir.  Mystery anthology.
• George Pelecanos, editor.  D. C. Noir 2:  The Classics.  Mystery anthology.
• Otto Penzler.  Murderers' Row.  Baseball-themed mystery anthology.
• Douglas Preston.  Blasphemy.  Thriller.
• Eric Frank Russell.  Dreadful Sanctuary.  SF novel.  Facsimile of the Fantasy Press edition!  Like new, unread!  Dust Jacket!  Slipcased!  For a buck!  Woot!
• Fred Saberhagen.  The Mask of the Sun.  SF novel.
• Pamela Sargent, editor.  Nebula Awards 30.  SF anthology, covering 1994.
• Peter Sellers, editor.  Cold Blood III.  Mystery anthology with a distinct Canadian flavour.
• Peter Sellers and John North, editors.  The Best of Cold Blood.  Retrospective mystery anthology covering the five volumes in the series.
• Sandy Schofield.  Aliens:  Rogue.  SF novel, based on a comic book story written by Ian Edington.
• Dean Wesley Smith.  Men in Black:  The Green Saliva Blues.  SF novel in the MIB franchise.
• Thomas Burnett Swann.  Cry Silver Bells.  Fantasy novel.
• Thomas Burnett Swann.  The Not-World.  Fantasy novel.
• Vince van Patten and Robert J. Randisi.  The Picasso Flop.  Mystery novel.
• Patricia Wallace.  Only Child.  Horror novel.
• Ian Watson and Ian Whates, editors.  The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories.  SF anthology.
• Robin Scott Wilson, editor.  Clarion.  SF anthology from the science fiction writing workshop.  (Of course this suddenly brings to mind an impromptu limerick that Isaac Asimov came up with in the early Seventies:  "There once was a stripper named Marion, Who did bump and did grind and did carry on, The result of her pains, Were ill-gotten gains, Which she promptly donated to Clarion.")
• James Yaffe.  Mom Among the Liars.  Mystery novel, the third in the series (I believe),ot counting any of the many "Mom" short stories.
• Roger Zelazny.  The Changing Land.  Fantasy novel.

     This is all part of my alternative health plan/immortality scheme: I figure I now have to live to age 227 to finish reading all the books I have.