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• John Joseph Adams, editor, The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Dominion.  SF anthology with 22 stories. 
• Robert Adams, editor, Phantom Regiments.  Fantasy anthology with fifteen stories of military ghosts.  Pamela Crippen Adams and Martin H. Greenberg are included in the copyright notice.
• "Alan Burt Akers" (Kenneth Bulmer), Transit to Scorpio, The Suns of Scorpio, Warriors of Scorpio, and Prince of Scorpio.  Planetary romance novels a la Edgar Rice Burroughs. These are the first three and the fifth novels in the Delian Cycle of the Dray Prescot series.  There were 52 volumes in the series, comprising of at least nine "cycles."  A number of later books in the series were also printed as by "Dray Prescot," while some later books appeared only under the author's true name.  
• Poul Anderson, Kinship with the Stars.  Sf collection with eight stories and the short novel "A Bicycle Built for Brew" (previously published in book form as The Makeshift Rocket).
• Todhunter Ballard, Lost Gold.  Western collection with the title novel and a short story.  Mary Thorne must match wits with a notorious cutthroat if she is to survive and claim her grandfather's treasure. 
• Kate Bernheimer, editor, XO Orpheus:  Fifty New Myths.  Fantasy anthology with 50 twists on old myths and stories.
• David Brin, Existence. SF novel.  Gerald Livingston makes his living collecting space debris, then one day he "collects" an alien artifact.
• Bill Brooks, Dakota Lawman:  Killing Mr. Sunday.  Western novel, the second in a series.  Legendary gunman Billy Sunday is dying and wants to reconcile with his daughter, but there are a lot of people who would rather see him dead.
• John Carnell, editor, New Writings in SF -- 12.  SF anthology with six stories.
• Lin Carter, Lost Worlds.  Fantasy collection with nine stories, including posthoumous collabrations with Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith.
• James P. Coyne, Strike Eagles.  SF.  "A Visual Novel of the War of Tomorrow."  See also Michael A. Palmer, below.
• John Curran, Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks.  Compiled and edited by Curran from 73 handwritten volumes of notes, lists, and drafts.  Includes two unpublished Hercule Poirot short stories.
• Gordon R.Dickson, Invaders! and Survival!  SF collections with eight and twelve stories, respectively.
• David Drake, The Voyage.  Military SF novel.  Lissea Doorman gathers a crew of mercenaries for a desperate mission to the Lost Colony. 
• Alan Dean Foster, STAR TREK LOG FIVE.  Television tie-in collection of three stories adapted from the animated Star Trek series.
• Hal Foster, Prince Valiant, Vol. I:  1937-1938 and Vol. 2:  1939-1940.  The first two volumes of the collected strips.  Evan Lewis featured Vol. 6 on his blog last week so when I serindipitously had a chance to pick up these drool-worthy collections, I jumped at it.
• Christopher Golden, editor, 21st Century Dead.  Zombie anthology with 19 stories.
• Heather Graham (a.k.a., Heather Graham Pozzessere), The Keepers.  Paranormal romance novel, the first in a series continued by Alex Sokoloff and Deborah LeBlanc.  Fiona MacDonald is a Keeper, one designated to maintain a delicate balance with the unworldly in New Orleans; she must join vampire detective Jagger DeFarge in a hunt for a killer who could tear the city apart.
• Joseph Green, Conscience Interplanetary.  Sf fix-up novel from four short stories.  Allen Odegaard is a member of the Practical Philsopher Corps, trained to detect intelligent life-forms on newly colonized planets.
• Martin H.Greenberg, editor, My Favorite Fantasy Story.  Eighteen fantasy authors present their favorites by other authors.
• Martin H. Greenberg and Brittiany A. Koren, editors, Fantasy Gone Wrong.  Fantasy anthology with 16 stories..
• Miriam Gross, editor, The World of Raymond Chandler.  Nonfiction anthology with 14 articles on Chandler.
• Paula Guran, editor, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010.  Annual collection with 39 stories from 2009.
• Steve Hamilton, Blood in the Sky and Ice Run.   Steve McKnight mysteries.
• M. John Harrison, The Centauri Device.  SF novel.  John Truck is the last of the mysterious Centaurians, and the only one who can operate the bomb they left behind.
• Carl Hiaasen. Paradise Screwed.  Nonfiction collection of selected columns from the Miami Herald, arranged in 24 sections.  Edited by Diane Stevenson.
• Alfred H. Holt, Phrase and Word Origins:  A Studyof Familiar Expressions.  Nonfiction.  Who doesn't lovvve words?
• Jay Hopler, editor, The Killing Spirit.  Crime anthology with seventeen stories and novel exerpts about hired killers.
• Carla Jablonski, The Books of Magic:  The Invitation.  YA fantasy novel, the first of six based on the graphic novel series created by Neil Gaiman and John Bolton.  Thirteen-year-old Timothy Hunter may be the most powerful magician of his time...if he survives.
• Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga, The Walking Dead:  Rise of the Governor.  Teleision tie-in novel.  The story of how one of the television show's greatest villians became the Governor.  Kirkman is the creator of The Walking Dead comic books.
• Andrew Klavan, Dynamite Road.  A Weiss and Bishop crime novel.  The "Shadowman" is the anme tagged on to every heinous crime that goes unsolved.  Corruption at a California airport leads PIs Weiss and Bishop on the trail of Shadowman murders.
• Louis L'Amour, The Man from Broken Hills, Ride the River,and The Warrior's Path. western novels in the Sacketts saga;  Kiowa Trail, western novel;.  Lonigan, collection of six western stories, and The Outlaws of Mesquite, western collection of eight stories; The Riders of High Rock, Hopalong Cassidy novel first published as by "Jim Mayo; The Haunted Mesa, a "modern" western novel; and The Walking Drum, a historical novel.
• Keith Laumer, Back to the Time Trap.  SF novel.  Roger Tyson is one a several earthmen bouncing back and forth through time via an alien timegate.  
• Stan Lee, editor, The Ultimate Silver Surfer.  Comic book tie-in anthology with 15 stories.
• Donna Leon, Friends in High Places.  A Commissario Brunetti mystery.  Bureaucratic red tape leads to murder in Venice.
• The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,   November-December, 2012.
• Richard Matheson, Other Kingdoms.  Fantasy.  An injured American soldier recuperates in a small English village in 1918; the neighboring woods are said to harbor malevolent spirits.
• David McDaniel, The Arsenal Out of Time.  SF novel.  A spy, an archeologist, and a lady try to find some super-race's hidden weapons cache.
• Vonda N. McIntyre, Star Trek III:  The Search for Spock.  Movie tie-in novel.
• Merril, Judith, The Best of Judith Merril and Out of Bounds.  SF collections with seven and eleven stories, respectively, with some overlap.
• Michael Moorcock, The Nomad of Time.  Sf omnibus containing three Oswald Bastable novels:  The Warlord of the Air. The Land Leviathan, and The Steel Czar.
• Andre Norton, The Magic Books.  YA fantasy omnibus containing Fur Magic, Steel Magic, and Octagon Magic.
• Norvell Page, Robot Titans of Gotham.  Pulp hero omnibus containing Satan's Murder Machine, Death Reign of the Vampire King, and The Octopus.  The first two feature The Spider and were originally published as by "Grant Stockbridge;" the last features  Dr. Skull and was originally published as The City Condemned to Hell under the name "Randolph Craig."
• Michael A. Palmer,  Arctic Strike!  SF.  "A Visual novel of the War of Tomorrow."  See also James P. Coyne, above.
• [Perry Rhodan], #11 The Planet of the Dying Sun by Kurt Mahr, #12 The Rebels of Tuglan by Clark Darlton, #21 The Cosmic Decoy by K. H. Scheer. #22 The Fleet of the Springers by Kurt Mahr, #24 Infinity Flight by Clark Darlton, #26 Cosmic Traitor by Kurt Brand (title page credits Clark Darlton), #27 Planet of the Gods by Kurt Mahr, #28 The Plague of Oblivion by Clark Darlton, and #34 SOS:  Spaceship Titan! by Kurt Brand.  Bottom-level SF series about the "Peacelord of the Universe" comes Germany and was created by Karl-Herbert Scheer and Walter Ernsting.  The series began in 1961 and is still going strong with #2815 (!) due out at the end of this month.  The American translations (by Wendayne Ackerman) were edited by Forrest J. Ackerman and published by Ace Books; later books were published in digest form by Master Publications.  145 books in the series were translated into English.  Many of the Ace books have additional material.
• Samuel H. Post, anonymous editor, The 6 Fingers of Time.  Sf anthology with six stories from If (the cover erroneously state the stories are from Galaxy).
• Byron Preiss, editor, Weird Heroes, Volume Eight.  SF/fantasy anthology with five stories.
• Steve Ramey andd Jamie Lackey, editors, Triangulation:  Last Contact. 2011 edition of this annual speculative fiction anthology; 28 stories in this one.  Signed and inscribed to previous owner by Ramey.
• Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Star Trek:  Prime Directive.  Television franchise tie-in novel taking place in the last year of the Enterprise's original five-year mission
• Mike Resnick, The Soul Eater.  Sf novel.  Nicobar Lane is a hunter for hire.  The Soul Eater is a myth of the spaceways.  They meet up in the depths of space, but who will be hunting who?
• Mike Resnick and Robert T. Garcia, editor, Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs.  Homage SF/fantasy anthology with eleven stories
• David B. Riley, editor, Six-Guns Straight from Hell 2.  Weird western anthology with nine stories.
• David Robbins, Nowhere, TX.  Western novel, one of those labeled "a Ralph Compton novel,"  and supposedly one written with the flavor of that dead writer.  Nowhere, Texas, was a border town overrun with outlaws, then the citizens decided to change that.  There are probably more Ralph Compton novels written by other hands than by Compton himself.
• Arthur W. Saha, editor, The Year's Best Fantasy Stories:  13.  Fantasy anthology with eleven stories from 1986.
• "Jon Sharpe" (house name), The Trailsman #249:  Silver City Slayer and #287:  The California Camel Corps.  Adult westerns.  I'll let you guess the real authors.
• Dennis Sanders & Len Lovallo, The Agatha Christie Companion:  The Complete Guide to Agatha Christie's Life & Work.  Nonfiction.  A 1984 edition.
• Geroge Scithers, editor, Asimov's Choice:  Extraterrestials & Eclipses.  SF anthology with twelve stories from IASFM.
• Bob Shaw, Orbitsville Departure.  SF novel.  Orbitsille is an artificial world  -- a shell enclosing its own sun -- with a mass of fivve billion earths.  Gary Dallen tries to discover who built it, and why.
• D. L. Snell & Elijah Hall, editors,  The Undead:  Zombie Anthology.  Horror anthology with two dozen storie
• Tim Somheil, The Destroyer #143:  Bad Dog.  Men's action adventure novel in the series created by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir.
• Michael Stadther, 100 Puzzles, Clues, Maps, Tantalizing Tales, and Stories of Real Treasure.  Half puzzle book and half stories of arious lost treasures and historical puzzlers.  Many of the puzzles seem simplistic and a number of them involve famliar optical illusions.
• Brian M. Thomsen, editor, The American Fantasy Tradition.  Fantasy anthology with 43 stories.
• Jay Williams & Raymond Abrashkin, Danny Dunn and the Swamp Monster.  Juvenile SF novel in the once-popular series.
• Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, editors, World's Best Science Fiction 1971.  The seventh annual edition of this SF series with 15 stories from 1970.