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Roadside Bodhisattva [sc]
novel by Paul Di Filippo
publication date: June 2010
£40.00 [$62.00]
Slipcased Jacketed Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1906301767

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Kid A, sixteen, a runaway, determined to equal the hobo exhilarations and revelations described in the books of Jack Kerouac, is wandering the highways of the American Northeast. Stopping to sleep for the night under a particularly hospitable tree, he meets Sid, a fifty-something old-timer of the roads, who steps into the Kid's life like an apparition, full of stories and existential wisdom. The two do not travel together far before settling down to work at the Deer Park Kitchen - Motel and Filling Station attached--for what should be a brief, restorative stint. But Deer Park is full of interesting personalities, some expansive, some in need, and the short stay comes to span many weeks, which will change forever the lives of both Sid and Kid A . . .

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The Machineries of Joy [sc]
collection by Ray Bradbury
publication date: June 2010
£50.00 [$77.50]
Slipcased Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-905834-41-9

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There are authors I remember for their stories, other authors I remember for their people. Ray Bradbury is the only author I remember who sticks in my heart for his times of year and his places. The October Country is a perfect Bradbury title. It gives us a time and it makes it a country. You can go there. It’s waiting.

Places: the green meadows of Green Town Il. in Dandelion Wine; the red sandy expanses broken by crumbling canals that could only be Bradbury’s Mars; the misty Venice Beach of Death is a Lonely Business. All of them, and so many more, locations that linger.

The Machineries of Joy is a book of places as much as it is a book of tales. Priests debate and argue about space travel, and an old woman seals her house from Death, and we ask (as Bradbury made us ask and ask and ask again) Who are the Martians? and we wonder, was the man on the bridge in Dublin really a beggar. . . ?

Ray colonised Hallowe’en, just as the Silver Locusts colonised Mars. He built it, as he built so much, and made it his. So when the wind blows the fallen autumn leaves across the road in a riot of flame and gold, or when I see a green field in summer carpeted by yellow dandelions, or when, in winter, I close myself off from the cold and write in a room with a TV screen as big as a wall, I think of Bradbury. . .
With joy. Always with joy.
Neil Gaiman, from his Introduction

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The Machineries of Joy [tc]
collection by Ray Bradbury
publication date: Early 2010
£95.00 [$147.25]
Traycased Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-906301-69-9

Clowns At Midnight [tc]
novel by Terry Dowling
publication date: October 2010
£60.00 [$93.00]
Traycased Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-848630-86-4

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"If you wish to fall into another world for a time-of shifting masks, beautiful bodies and terrible fears, of mystic philosophy and living labyrinths (with the human heart at their centre)-you have found your book . . . Mr Dowling's Clowns at Midnight is the stuff of magic."

-Danel Olson, editor of Exotic Gothic I, II, III, and 21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000

Troubled by coulrophobia, a lifelong fear of clowns, 41-year-old writer David Leeton goes to the north-eastern corner of New South Wales to mind a property for a friend. Not usually one to run away from his problems, David has just come out of a seven-year relationship with Julia, and needs time away from his old routines. House-sitting at Starbreak Fell seems the perfect solution.

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Catastrophia [jhc]
anthology by Edited by Allen Ashley
publication date: Late 2010
£25.00 [$38.75]
Jacketed Hard Cover
ISBN: 978-1-848630-96-3

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Did you grow up on a diet of catastrophe novels? Classics such as "War of the Worlds", "Death of Grass", "Day of the Triffids", "Greybeard", "The Purple Cloud" and so forth? Did you hone your teen angst through a diet of disaster stories?

This book won't exactly take you back to that Golden Age . . . because the purpose of "Catastrophia" is to revitalise this sub-genre of Science Fiction for the early twenty-first century. To bring a modern sensibility and craft to the business of ending the world as we know it. These days, there's plenty of catastrophe on screen - whether it be at the cinema or on TV - but we have somewhat let the subject slip in the literary world. No longer!

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Catastrophia [tc]
anthology by Edited by Allen Ashley
publication date: Late 2010
£50.00 [$77.50]
Traycased Jacketed Hard Cover
ISBN: 978-1-848630-97-0

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Did you grow up on a diet of catastrophe novels? Classics such as "War of the Worlds", "Death of Grass", "Day of the Triffids", "Greybeard", "The Purple Cloud" and so forth? Did you hone your teen angst through a diet of disaster stories?

This book won't exactly take you back to that Golden Age . . . because the purpose of "Catastrophia" is to revitalise this sub-genre of Science Fiction for the early twenty-first century. To bring a modern sensibility and craft to the business of ending the world as we know it. These days, there's plenty of catastrophe on screen - whether it be at the cinema or on TV - but we have somewhat let the subject slip in the literary world. No longer!

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The Seven Days Of Cain [jhc]
novel by Ramsey Campbell
publication date: Late 2010
£20.00 [$31.00]
Jacketed Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-848630-98-7

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"I'm the voice you're not sure if you're hearing. I'm the man who tells you what to think and you believe you're thinking it yourself. Anything you do, I've already thought of it. You can't even dream unless I give you dreams. Perhaps you only see what I put into your head. I'm what you have for a soul . . . "

A street performer is murdered in Barcelona, and a playwright is tortured to death in New York. Andy Bentley is a photographer who works for his family's firm in a British suburb. Why is the killer emailing him to boast about the crimes? What did Andy do ten years ago that created the situation? As he tries to cope with a childless marriage and his ageing parents, what he called up begins to invade every aspect of his life. By the end he will have to confront not just the consequences of his actions but the uncertainty of reality itself, and how much that he loves will be destroyed?

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The Seven Days Of Cain [tc]
novel by Ramsey Campbell
publication date: Late 2010
£50.00 [$77.50]
Traycased Jacketed Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-848630-99-4

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"I'm the voice you're not sure if you're hearing. I'm the man who tells you what to think and you believe you're thinking it yourself. Anything you do, I've already thought of it. You can't even dream unless I give you dreams. Perhaps you only see what I put into your head. I'm what you have for a soul . . . "

A street performer is murdered in Barcelona, and a playwright is tortured to death in New York. Andy Bentley is a photographer who works for his family's firm in a British suburb. Why is the killer emailing him to boast about the crimes? What did Andy do ten years ago that created the situation? As he tries to cope with a childless marriage and his ageing parents, what he called up begins to invade every aspect of his life. By the end he will have to confront not just the consequences of his actions but the uncertainty of reality itself, and how much that he loves will be destroyed?

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