We’re gearing up for our Chicon 7 appearance. We’ll have all your favorites, old and new, plus four new titles making their debut!
First up is our flagship release specifically for Chicon 7. It’s the 50th anniversary edition of The Proceedings: Chicon III. This is a limited edition – 100 copies, hand numbered and stamped. This will be available at our dealers table at Chicon and when we run out, we run out. Should we have any left over, we’ll make them available again, and we’ll have a general release edition as well. What is it? It’s a complete transcript of the events at the 1962 Worldcon–back when it was single-track programming.
You are there to witness the words of such folk as Poul Anderson, Fritz Leiber, Leigh Brackett, E.E. “Doc” Smith, Willy Ley, Jerry Pournelle, Frank Robinson, and many more. Witness, through these pages, Heinlein’s grandiose entrance at the Hugo Awards ceremony. These proceedings are as complete as they’ll ever be, with an introduction by Chicon VII Guest of Honor Mike Resnick, and an all-new Afterword by Earl Kemp.
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We’re also pleased to present the next volume of Connie Corcoran Wilson’s infernal cycle of stories, Hellfire & Damnation II. Once more Connie delves into the dark circles of the human psyche with these chilling tales that are all too real.
Features an introduction by noted author and editor Jason V Brock. As 5-time Stoker(R) winner Gary Braunbeck said: “I really don’t know how she managed to do it, but Wilson surpasses her previous Hellfire & Damnation collection with its sequel. Her writing is stronger, streamlined, and often lyrical, despite the nastiness her words describe. This is another impressive collection of tales from a writer I could very well learn to hate if she gets much better. Seriously, Connie, can’t you write just one stinker so the rest of us will feel a little bit better?”
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Next up is another fine print edition from the wildly popular Marla Mason series by TA Pratt. Bone Shop is a prequel novel about the early adventures of Marla Mason, heroine of the wildly popular urban fantasy novels: Blood Engines, Poison Sleep, Dead Reign, Spell Games, Broken Mirrors, and Grim Tides.
“Meet Marla Mason and the city of Felport. In this volume, mysteries are addressed and foreshadows are cast. This is an enjoyable addition to the Marla Mason universe.”
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And we’re particularly pleased to at New York Times-bestseller Tobias Buckell to the Merry Blacksmith roster with this print edition of Nascence: 17 Failed Stories and What They Taught Me.
In Nascence, Buckell reprints 17 failed stories written from 1996-2004 and details some of the major failings of the stories that led him to abandon them, and what he learned from those failures moving forward. Nascence isn’t just a look at how stories fail, but also a look the beginnings of Buckell’s fictional worlds and the stories he was trying to tell at the very start.
“ I found Nascence to have more impact upon me than, say, Stephen King’s On Writing.” –Escape Pod
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So, yeah… we have some great books in store for you. Come check us out in the dealers room, and you can order most of these now online either through our website or on Amazon. (Check for the general release edition of the Proceedings after Labor Day)
Cheers!