INCOMING

The day before my local Borders closed, I managed to snag a few bargains.

• Paolo Bagigalupi, Pump Six and Other Stories.  SF collection of ten stories. Yeah, the back cover blurb says eleven stories, but there's only ten, trust me.
• Andrea Camilleri [Stephen Sartarelli, translator], August Heat, The Shape of Water, and The Wings of the Sphinx.  I really enjoy the Inspector Montalbano series MHz-TV and am hoping the novels will be just as good.
• Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others.  SF collection of seven stories.
• Nancy A. Collins, Right Hand Magic.  Fantasy novel, the first in the Golgotham series.
• Joshua Gaylord, Hummingbirds.  Novel.
• Charlie Huston, Half the Blood of Brooklyn.  PI/vampire novel featuring Joe Pitt.
• "Dion Fortune" (Violet Firth), The Demon Lover.  1926 occult novel, the first from the founder of The Societt of the Inner Light.
• J. A. Konrath, Shaken.  A "Jack" Daniels mystery.  I am an admitted addict.
• K. W. Jeter, Morlock Night.  Steampunk.  What happened when H. G. Wells' Time Machine returned.
• Justine Karbalestier, Magic and Madness.  YA fantasy, a debut novel and the first of a trilogy.  The first of two early-in-the-week thrift store finds.
• Stini Leicht, Of Blood and Honey.  Fantasy, a book of The Fey and The Fallen.
• Dick Lupoff & Steve Stiles, The Adventures of Professor Thintwhistle & His Incredible Aether Flyer.  Graphic novel.  This one is based on the Lupoff novel Into the Aether (1974), which in turn was based on an earlier version of the graphic novel, one which died a-borning some forty-five years ago.
• Stuart Neville, The Ghost of Belfasts (a.k.a. The Twelve).  Celtic noir with fantasy elements.
• Otto Penzler, editor, The Lineup:  The World's Createst Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives.  Nonfiction.
• Don Russell, editor for the Western Writers of America, Trails of the Iron Horse.  A 1975 collection of 15 articles from Tom Curry, Todhunter Ballard, Steve Frazee, William R. Cox, Elmer Kelton, and others providing an informal history of the railroad's westward expansion.  My other early thrift store find.
• Hank Schwaeble, Diabolical.  Horror novel featuring Jake Hatcher, a follow-up to the author's first Stoker Award novel.
• Duane Swierczynski, Expiration Date.  Time travel crime thriller.
• Mark L. Van Name, editor, The Wild Side.  Urban fantasy anthology with ten stories.
• Ann & Jeff Vandermeer, editors, The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities.  Comp-endium with story contributions from 30 writers and catalog contributions from another 36 writers.
• Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe:  A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction.  One could argue every story by Wolfe is among his finest short fiction.  There's 31 stories here.

     My bride was also happy to snag a copy of J. R. Ward's latest, Envy.

     So I tried be good this week.  Then on Saturday Kitty suggested we stop by another thrift store.  Um, paperbacks were a quarter.  Um, I went overboard.  Then I heard Kitty say (in her best Sheriff Brody voice), "You're going to need a bigger shed."  Damn.

• Clifton Adams, Doomsday Creek and Tragg's Choice.  Westerns.
• Robert Adams, Bili the Axe, A Cat of Silvery Hue, Champion of the Last Battle, The coming of the Horseclans, The Death of a Legend, Horseclans Odyssey, Horses of the North, Madman's Army, The Patrimony, Revenge of the Horseclans, The Savage Mountains, Swords of the Horseclans,Trumpets of War, The Witch Goddess, and A Woman of the Horseclans; all are volumes in Adams' Horseclan SF series.  Also, Stairway to Forever, Book II:  Monsters and Magicians.
• Jerry and S. A. Ahern, The Takers:  Rivers of Gold.  Adventure; number 2 in the series.
• Poul Anderson, Star Ways, with Kenneth Bulmer, City Under the Sea.  Ace SF double.
• Burt Arthur, Boss of the Far West and The Killer.  Westerns.
• Burt and Budd Arthur, Requiem for a Gun.  Western.
• Robert Asprin and Linda Evans, Time Scout.  SF.
• Brian N. Ball, The Regiments of the Night.  SF.
• Max Brand, The Gentle Desperado (fix-up of three short stories) and Montana Rides.  Westerns.
• Matt Braun, Kinch.  Western.
• John Brunner, Endless Shadow, with Gardner F. Fox, The Arsenal of Miracles.  Ace SF Double.
• Kenneth Bulmer, The Wizards of Senchuria, with Brian M. Stableford, Cradle of the Sun.  Ace SF double.
• Martin Caidin, Killer Station and Star Bright, both SF, The Last Dogfight, war, and Three Corners to Nowhere, an adventure set in The Burmuda Triangle. 
• "Al Conroy" (Marvin Albert), Clayburn.  Western.
• Will Cook, Comanche Captives (Two Rode Together).  Western.
• Barry Cord, Gun Junction.  Western.
• William R. Cox, The Gunsharp.  Western.
• Ray Cummings, Beyond the Stars.  SF.
• Tom Cutter, Tracker #1:  The Winning Hand.  Western.
• David Drake, Fortress, Northworld, and Servent of the Dragon.  The first two are military SF and the third is a book in Drake's Lord of the Isles sequence.
• Bill Dugan, Gun Play at Cross Creek.  Western.
• "Tabor Evans" [house name], Longarm #1, #4 Longarm and the Wendigo, #5 Longarm in the Indian Nation, #6 Longarm and the Loggers, #8 Longarm and the Nesters, #9 Longarm and the Hatchet Men, #10 Longarm and the Molly Maguires, #12 Longarm in Lincoln County, #17 Longarm and the Bandit Queen, #20 Longarm at Robber's Roost, #21 Longarm and the Sheepherders, #26 Longarm and the Dragon Hunters, #29 Longarm on the Big Muddy, #30 Longarm South of the Gila, #36 Longarm on the Santa Fe, #42 Longarm and the Moonshiners, #44 Longarm in Boulder Canyon, #46 Longarm and the Great Train Robbery, #47 Longarm in the Badlands, #48 Longarm in the Big Thicket, #50 Longarm in the Big Bend, #52 Longarm on the Great Divide, #53 Longarm and the Buckskin Rogue, #55 Longarm and the French Actress, #56 Longarm and the Outlaw Lawman, #57 Longarm and the Bounty Hunters, #59 Longarm and the Big Outfit, #64 Longarm and the Cattle Baron, #65 Longarm and the Steer Swindlers, #70 Longarm on the Ogallala Trail, #72 Longarm and the Blind Man's Vengeance, #75 Longarm West of the Pecos, #76 Longarm on the Nevada Line, #77 Longarm and the Blackfoot Guns, #78 Longarm on the Santa Cruz, #79 Longarm and the Cowboy's Revenge, #80 Longarm on the Goodnight Trail, #81 Longarm and the Frontier Duchess, #82 Longarm in the Bitterroots, #84 Longarm and the Stagecoach Bandits, #85 Longarm and the Big Shoot-Out, #86 Longarm in the Hard Rock Country, #87 Longarm in the Texas Panhandle, #89 Longarm and the Inland Passage, #90 Longarm in the Ruby Red Range, #91 Longarm and the Great Cattle Kill, #92 Longarm and the Crooked Railman, #94 Longarm and the Runaway Thieves, #97 Longarm and the Mexican Line-Up, #100 Longarm on Death Mountain, #101 Longarm and the Cottonwood Curse, #103 Longarm and the Rocky Mountain Chase, #104 Longarm on the Overland Trail, #107 Longarm in the Bighorn Basin, #110 Longarm and the Hangman's Vengeance, #113 Longarm in the Big Burnout, #114 Longarm and the Quiet Guns, #116 Longarm and the Blood Bounty, #110 Longarm and the New Mexico Shoot-Out, #119 Longarm and the Renegade Sergeant, #121 Longarm and the Mad Dog Killer, #125 Longarm and the Hangman's Noose, #127 Longarm and the Outlaw Sheriff, #129 Longarm and the Rebel Killers, #134 Longarm and the Pawnee Kid, #135 Longarm and the Devil's Stagecoach, #141 Longarm in the Osage Strip, #142 Longarm and the Lost Mine, #143 Longarm and the Longley Legend, #144 Longarm and the Dead Man's Badge, #150 Longarm and the Skull Canyon Gang, #158 Longarm and the Ute Nation, #162 Longarm on the Devil's Highway, #165 Longarm and the Rebel Brand, #178 Longarm and the Golden Death, #185 Longarm and the Drifting Badge, #186 Longarm and the High Rollers, #191 Longarm and the Texas Hijackers, #219 Longarm and the Crying Corpse, #252 Longarm and the Four Corners Gang, #258 Longarm and the Pistolero Princess, #271 Longarm and the Scorpion Murders, Longarm and the Lone Star Frame (a Longarm Giant), Longarm and the Lone Star Rescue (a Longarm Giant), Longarm and the Navaho Drums (a Longarm Giant), and Longarm and the San Joaquin War (a Longarm Giant).  That's 86 Longarm novels, folks.
• Hal G. Evarts, Apache Agent.  Western
• Cliff Farrell, Shootout at Sioux Wells and The Walking Hills.  Westerns.
• L. L. Foreman, Desperado's Gold and Last Stand Mesa.  Westerns.
• Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point.  Fantasy.
• Zane Grey, The Dude Ranger and Nevada.  Westerns.
• Frank Gruber, Wanted!  Western.
• E. E. Halleran, Smoky Range.  Western.
• Brett Halliday, Blood on the Stars, Caught Dead, Count Backwards to Zero, Murder in Haste, Pay-Off in Blood, Shoot the Works, and Violence Is Golden.  Mike Shayne mysteries.
• Wade Hamilton, Gunsmoke.  Western.
• William Heuman, Heller from Texas.  Western.
• Philip E. High, The Mad Metropolis (with Space Captain by Murray Leinster) and No Truce with Terra (with The Duplicators by Murray Leinster).  Ace SF doubles.
• Ray Hogan, The Rimrocker and The Tombstone Trail.  Shawn Starbuck Westerns.
• L. P. Holmes, Night Marshall and Shadow of the Rim.  Westerns.
• William Hopson, Gunfighter's Pay.  Western.
• Clair Huffaker, Badge for a Gunfighter.  Western.
• Zach Hughes, For Texas and Zed.  SF.
• Dean Ing, Loose Cannon.  Thriller.
• Alexander Jablokov, Nimbus.  SF.
• "Richard Jessup", Comanche Vengeance.  Western.
• William W. Johnstone, Alone in the Ashes, Blood in the Ashes, Crisis in the Ashes, Danger in the Ashes, Death in the Ashes, Fire in the Ashes, Hatred in the Ashes, Out of the Ashes, Smoke from the Ashes, Standoff in the Ashes, Trapped in the Ashes, Valor in the Ashes, and Warriors from the Ashes.  That's 13 books in the post-apocalyptic series.
• Day Keene, Guns Along the Brazos.  Western.
• Keith Laumer, The Breaking Earth (Catastrophe Planet) and Night of Delusions.  SF.  The first adds articles by Frederik Pohl and G. Harry Stine while the second includes two "bonus" stories.
• Steven C. Lawrence,  A Texan Comes Riding.  Western.
• William Colt MacDonald, Action at Arcanum.  Western.
• Eli Mitchell, After Hard Guns.  Western.
• Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, creators, The Destroyer #72 Sole Surviver, #73 Line of Succession, #74 Walking Wounded, #75 Man of Terror, #80 Death Sentence, #81 Hostile Takeover, #82 Survival Course, #86 Arabian Nightmare, #87 Mob Psychology, #91 Cold Warrior, #96 Infernal Revenue, #97 Identity Crisis, #99 The Color of Fear, #100 Last Rites, #101 Bidding War, #104 Angry White Mailmen, #108 Bamboo Dragon, #111 Prophet of Doom,#113 The Empire Dreams, #117 Deadly Genes, and #135 Political Pressure.
• Andre Norton, Breed to Come, Forerunner:  The Second Venture, Victory on Janus, and Zarthor's Bane.  SF all.
• Alan E. Nourse and J. A. Meyer, The Invaders Are Coming.  SF.
• Nelson Nye, Long Run.  Western.
• T. V. Olsen, A Man Called Brazos.  Western.
• Frank O'Rourke, Blackwater.  Western.
• Wayne D. Overholser, The Long Trail North.  western.
• E. M. Parsons, Fargo.  Western.
• Lewis B. Patten, Death Rides a Black Horse and The Gun of Jesse Hand.  Westerns.
• Don Pendleton (et al.), Mack Bolan The Executioner #40: Double Crossfire, #96 Death Has a Name, #79 Council of Kings, #101 Eternal Triangle, #103 Assault on Rome, #173 Capitol Hit, #183 Clean Sweep, #233 Tough Justice, #237 Hellfire Trigger, and Inferno (Book III of The Terror Trilogy).  Also Copp in Deep (second of the Joe Copp series) and The Guns of Terra 10 (SF).
• R. J. Pimeiro, Retribution.  Thriller.
• "J. R. Roberts", The Gunsmith:  Tales from the White Elephant Saloon.  A Gunsmith Giant novel,
• Jake Saunders and Howard Waldrop, The Texas-Israeli War:  1999.  SF.
• Luke Short, Bold Rider, Desert Crossing, The Deserters, The Feud at Single Shot, Hard Money, Ramrod, Ride the Man Down, Savage Range, Station West, and War on the Cimarron.  Westerns.
• L. Neil Smith, Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu.  Movie tie-in.
• Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, Survival Zero, and The Tough Guys.  The first has two novellas, the second is a Mike Hammer novel, and the third collects three novellas.
• George R. Stewart, Earth Abides.  The classic SF novel.
• Clay Tanner, Chance #6:  Mississippi Rogue.  Western.
• "Ramsay Thorne", Renegade #1, #2 Blood Runner, #3 Fear Merchant, #4 Death Hunter, #5 Macumber Killer, #6 Panama Gunner, #7 Death in High Places, #8 Over the Andes to Hell, #9 Hell Raider, #11 Citadel of Death, #12 The Badlands Brigade, #13 The Mahogany Pirates, #14 Harvest of Death, #15 Terror Trail, #16 Mexican Marauder, #17 Slaughter in Sinaloa, #18 Cavern of Doom, #19 Hellfire in Honduras, #20 Shots at Sunrise, #21 River of Revenge, #22 Payoff in Panama, #24 Guatemala Gunman, #25 High Sea Showdown, #26 Blood on the Border, #27 Savage Safari, #28 The Slave Raiders, #29 Peril in Progreso, #31 Shootout in Segovia, #32 Death Over Darien, #35 Standoff in the Sky, and #36 Guns for Garcia.  That's 31 of the books in the series.
• A. E. van Vogt, The Darkness on Diamondia and Earth Factor X (The Secret Galactics).  SF.
• Carlos Ruiz Zafon.  The Shadow of the Wind.  Fiction.