hadn't thought i'd be dropping by here in a while, but i must let it be known that i just found out that M. John Harrison's second book set in the Kearney-Tate-twisted universe first seen in Light will be coming out in November 2006.
you can read an excerpt of Nova Swing here.
i really must wrap up PKD's A Scanner Darkly soon, so i can get back to reading The Course of the Heart and maybe read Light over before the new book hits the shelves.
i just hope it actually hits the shelves, and stays on them, and not just sort of grazes the shelves only to slide off and disappear into the floor, such as what seemed to happen to Light.
same goes for Shriek, which is meant to hit shelves on August 8 (Titus Groan's birthday, incidentally).
also incidentally, this isn't to say that i'm not enjoying A Scanner Darkly. it's the best PKD book i've read so far, and i wonder why it took the impending arrival of the Linklater movie to finally push me into getting it.
i could, conceivably, read them all simultaneously, but it's difficult as i'm currently also digging into Borges' Ficciones, courtesy of Paul.
no wonder i've been misplacing my head lately.
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Well, I thought Harrison's stuff seems to be doing better now on the shelves. I keep seeing the new Viriconium edition in a couple of bookshops. Likewise, FB came out with Anima (and sold quickly too, it seems).
Ditto with Vandermeer's books. Both hardbound and TPB of City are now available in FP and Power. Though I really want to get Shriek meself.
ktsap-- a wet kiss from a tree
well, the Viriconium books have been around a while, and i can't tell whether they're moving or not.
they only ever had a couple copies of Anima, and a couple copies of City, as far as i know.
i'm surprised they have the hardbound of City back in FB as they had a ton of those a long time back, and they had to put those on sale, and even then their stocks weren't moving.
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Yeah, it was almost sad. Pitiful philistines don't know what they're missing. ;-)
I wonder though if FB returns their unsold stock?
hmm. i'm not sure they can. but i've wondered what happened to all those books. they had a ton.
funny thing is, people i know who were looking for it didn't seem to notice that the book had come and gone.
pity, too, as the paperback doesn't reprint the dustcover story/introduction.
There were people still looking for the books. Pfft. And yes, the dustcovers are incredible. I once spent a few minutes trying to read the story on the cover. And there's something to be said about a good hardcover to begin with.
Btw, are you also looking for any books? Still interested in the Barry Hughart? Might pass by Cubao Friday.
it's weird, it's as if the hardbound copies of City had some sort of person specific cloaking device...or maybe they were sentient, and only hunting for particular readers...and then they passed on in their own version of the Silence...
Bridge of Birds? yes, please, i am interested. only it's already friday, so i imagine it might well be too late.
ah, well.
thanks though.
Haha not to worry. Managed to procure the Barry Hughart copy. Email at estranghero [<[at]>]gmail yadda yadda on how you want to get this. :-)
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