INCOMING

Another good week.

• Piers Anthony, Two to the Fifth.  Fantasy, number 32 in the Xanth series.
• Linwood Barclay, Fear the Worst.  Thriller.
• James Blish, Doctor Mirablilis.  Historical novel about Roger Bacon.  This one ties in thematically with several of his science fiction novels.
• Gary Bradner, Hellborn.  Horror.
• Simon Brett, So Much Blood.  A Charles Paris mystery.
• Christopher Buckley, No Way to Treat a First Lady.  Thriller, kind of.
• John Coleman Burroughs, Treasure of the Black Falcon.  ERB's son tries his hand at a science fiction novel.
• Lou Cameron, Before It's Too Late.  Hardboiled mystery.
• John Connolly, The Black Angel.  A Charlie Parker mystery.  This is a signed first edition with a soundtrack CD included.
• A. E. Coppard, The Collected Tales of A. E. Coppard.  Thirty-eight stories, some fantasy.
• Chris Curry and Lisa Dean, Winter Scream.  Horror.
• Gordon R. Dickson, Young Bleys.  SF, part of Dickson's Childe Cylcle.
• Roger Elwood, editor, Future Quest.  SF anthology with eight stories.
• Linda Fairstein, Likely to Die.  An Alexandra Cooper mystery.
• Kinky Friedman, Spanking Watson and Steppin' on a Rainbow.  Mysteries, kind of.  Why, oh why didn't Texas elected this guy governor instead of that guy?
• Simon R. Green,  The Spy Who Haunted Me.  A Secret Histories/Eddie Drood fantasy.
• John Harvey, editor, Men from Boys.  Mystery anthology with 17 stories.
• Rick Hautala, Night Stone.  Horror.
• James P. Hogan, The Legend That Was Earth.  Science fiction.
• Ruby Jean Jenson, Annabelle.  Horror.
• William W. Johnstone, The Last Mountain Man.  Western.
• David Kyle, The Dragon Lensman.  Science fiction.  The first in a brief series continuing the adventures of the Lensmen created by E. E. "Doc" Smith.
• Lynda La Plante, Clean Cut.  An Anna Travis mystery by the creator of Jane Tenneson and Prime Suspect.
• Harold Lamb, Hannibal.  A fictional retelling of the life of the Carthaginian general.
• Hugh Lamb, editor.  Gaslit Horror:  Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Lafcadio Hearn, Bernard Capes and Others.  Unwieldy title; this anthology has 13 mostly unfamilar horror stories dating from 1882 to 1908.  The stories were selected from two earlier anthologies:  Gaslit Nightmares:  An Anthology of Victorian Tales of Terror and Gaslit Nightmares 2:  An Anthology of Victorian Tales of Terror.
• Donna Leon, Death at La Fenice.  A Guido Brunetti mystery.  By coincidence, I watched the German television movie based on this book the day before I bought it.
• Brian Lumley, The Whisperer and Other Voices.  Horror collection, with nine stories, one a short novel.
• Richard A. Lupoff, Sandworld.  Science fiction.
• Sharyn McCrumb, Ghost Riders.  A multilayered Appalachian novel, moving from the 1860s to modern times.  McCrumb's Spencer Arrowood and Nora Bonesteel appear.  McCrumb writes novels now, not mysteries.  If that's how she wants to catagorize this book, it's fine with me.
• Henning Mankill, One Step Behind.  A Kurt Wallander mystery.
• "Barbara Michaels", The Grey Beginning.  Suspense.
• "Wallace Moore" [Gerard F. Conway], Balzan of the Cat People:  The Blood Stones.  The first of three books in a SF series about "the Tarzan of outer space."
• Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, Saturn's Race.  Science fiction.
• George Pelecanos, King Suckerman.  Crime novel.
• George Pelecanos, editor, The Best American Mystery Stories 2008.  Twenty good 'uns.  Otto Penzler, series editor.
• Douglas Preston, The Codex.  Thriller, with Mayans.
• Ian Rankin, Hide and Seek. An Inspector Rebus mystery.
• John Ringo and Tom Kratman, Watch on the Rhine (Die Wacht am Rhein).  SF.
• "Kenneth Robeson" [Lester Dent], The Lost Oasis.  Doc Savage pulp novel originally published in Doc Savage magazine, September, 1933.  This was the seventh adventure published and was number six in the Bantam reprints.
• James Rollins, Deep Fathom.  Apocalyptic thriller.
• Stanley Schmidt and Martin H. Greenberg, editors, Unknown Worlds:  Tales from Beyond.  Two dozen classic stories from Unknown, John W. Campell's short-lived (1939-1943) fantasy magazine.  (The magazine changed its title to Unknown Worlds in 1941.  Despite what the acknowledgement page would have you believe, these stories are from both versions of the magazine.)  To my knowledge, this is the fifth anthology derived from the magazine.
• Norman Spinrad, No Direction Home.  Collection of eleven SF stories.
• Allen Steele, Galaxy Blues.  SF novel in the Coyote Universe.No direction Home
• Harry Whittington, Burden's Mission.  Adventure/war/spy novel.
• Eric Wright, A Single Death.  A Charlie Salter mystery.  Previously published as Totem Crime.