Book cover illustration showing a woman in a cowboy hat with a hammer and sickle emblem on the brow. She looks down on a monument with three tall pillars,
#BoxOfBooks day! From Subterranean Press, Neal Stephenson's latest novel Polostan. This is volume 1 of the Bomb Light series which follows an American woman who ends up training as a Soviet spy. @subpress.bsky.social @nealstephenson.bsky.social
Spine of a four-book slipcase showing a dark moon over the silhouette of a futuristic city. Text: PHILIP K. DICK SOLAR LOTTERY THE WORLD JONES MADE THE MAN WHO JAPED EYE IN THE SKY CENTIPEDE PRESS
The spines of four books in a slipcase. From left: Solar Lottery, The World Jones Made, The Man Who Japed, and Eye In the Sky
#BoxOfBooks day! From Centipede Press, their second collection of Philip K Dick novels:
- Solar Lottery
- The World Jones Made
- The Man Who Japed
- Eye In the Sky
#PhilipKDick #PKD #CentipedePress
Dust jacket illustration showing two men dressed in black. The Black man on the left is firing a handgun. The White man on the right is holding a shotgun and pointing. In the background is a small Ferris wheel. Text: JOE R. LANSDALE SUGAR ON THE BONES
#BoxOfBooks day. From SST Publications via Subterranean Press - Sugar on the Bones by Joe R. Lansdale, a Hap and Leonard novel, which is one of my favorite series. My wife and I loved the TV series on Sundance TV.
@sstpublications.bsky.social @subpress.bsky.social @joerlansdale.bsky.social
Cover jacket showing a human woman in a gas mas holding a chicken. Behind her are nine different aliens of various sizes and shapes. Text: JOHN SCALZI CONSTITUENT SERVICE
#BoxOfBooks day!
From Subterranean Press, Constituent Service by John Scalzi.
It's the rollicking adventures of a community liaison person in a city ward filled with alien immigrants. Great jacket art by Tristan Elwell. Unguents anyone?
@subpress.bsky.social @scalzi.com @tristanelwell.bsky.social
Book slipcover and book. The book cover shows a man with blue eyes sitting on a throne. Text: GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE FOLIO SOCIETY
Three book covers, each showing a magical tree with various plants, animals, and people in it. From top left and clockwise: - The Enchanted Wood (orange spine) - The Magic Faraway Tree (yellow spine) - The Folk of the Faraway Tree (Red spine)
A #BoxOfBooks Day from The #FolioSociety! @foliosociety.bsky.social
- God Emperor of #Dune by #FrankHerbert
- The first three books in the The Faraway Tree series by #EnidBlyton
Book cover showing a woman seen through a shattered window. The color scheme is purple. Text: AGATHA CHRISTIE ENDLESS NIGHT
Book cover showing a prone man on a rifle range aiming at targets with a sniper rifle. Text: OCTOPUSSY & THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS IAN FLEMING
Slipcase with a cutout showing a new moon. The color scheme is purple and yellow.
Book cover showing a city landscape with two moons in the sky. Someone is on a balcony looking through binoculars. Book spine has a butterfly on the top with text below it. The color scheme is purple and yellow. Text: HARUKI MURAKAMI 1Q84 VOL 2
Yesterday was a #BoxOfBooks day courtesy of The Folio Society. @foliosociety.bsky.social
Three gorgeous books:
- Endless Night by Agatha Christie
- Octopussy & The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Book jacket showing a large spaceship hovering over a wrecked spaceship on the ground. Text: THE LONG-AWAITED SEVENTH NOVEL IN THE OLD MAN'S WAR SERIES THE SHATTERING PEACE JOHN SCALZI NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR
#BoxOfBooks today - from Tor Books via Subterranean Press, I got my signed copy of John Scalzi's newest Old Man's War novel, "The Shattering Peace."
@scalzi.com @torbooks.bsky.social @subpress.bsky.social
Book jacket depicting a maze. The maze outlines the title of the book. Text: WOLF IN WHITE VAN JOHN DARNIELLE
Book javcket showing a hideous blue childlike creature. Text: Born of Man and Woman Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Richard Matheson
Book jacket showing,from left: an old woman with gnarled hands wearing a Chinese-style roof as a hat, a man and a woman embracing, and a ghost. Text (stylized): FEEDING GHOST A GRAPHIC MEMOIR TESSA HULLS
While we were away in NJ and at Shoe Fest, several #BoxOfBooks arrived.
- Wolf In White Van by John Darnielle (for @nightvaleradio.bsky.social Book Club)
- Born of Man and Woman by Richard Matheson (from Suntup Editions)
- Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls (as recommended by @feistywaters.com)
Book dust jacket showing a rocket ship and human eye with a planet in the background. Text: Masters of Science Fiction Pamela Sargent Introduction by Pat Cadigan
Dust jacket cover showing five pairs of hands holding or touching the Ryder Cup. Text: RYDER CUP RIVALS The FIERCEST BATTLES for GOLF'S HOLY GRAIL FOREWORD BY DAN HICKS HANK GOLA Author of City of Champions
#BoxOfBooks day!
From #CentipedePress:
Masters of Science Fiction - #PamelaSargent
From Barnes and Noble:
Ryder Cup Rivals by #HankGola
Five book spines, from the left: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell The Lives of Christopher Chant - Diana Wynne Jones Use Of Weapons - Iain M. Banks The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
Five book covers, from upper left, clockwise: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell The Lives of Christopher Chant - Diana Wynne Jones The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain Use Of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
It's a #BoxOfBooks day!
I wasn't happy about the #TrumpTariffs, but I'm happy to get these books from @foliosociety.bsky.social
Piranesi - #SusannaClarke
Faceless Killers - #HenningMankell
The Lives of Christopher Chant - #DianaWynneJones
Use Of Weapons - #IainBanks
The Innocents Abroad - #MarkTwain
#BoxOfBooks day from The Folio Society in Great Britain. @foliosociety.bsky.social
- All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
- No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
- And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
- The Planets - Andrew Cohen and Brian Cox
Book cover showing an astronaut in a space suit on a moon made of Swiss cheese. Text: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR JOHN SCALZI WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE
A #BoxOfBooks day--our favorite postwoman delivered a signed copy of John Scalzi's "When the Moon Hits Your Eye" from Subterranean Press and Tor Books.
It's all about a lunar strange cheese incident.
@subpress.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social @scalzi.com
Book cover showing a man standing on a platform overlooking a flooded overpass. The city skyline is threaded with dark, ominous clouds.
Book cover showing a red-pink nebula sprinkled with stars.
A #BoxOfBooks day:
- The Subterranean Press edition of Terminal Shock by Neal Stephenson
- Inside PixInsight by Warren A. Keller
The astronomy textbook will be useful as I learn how to use PixInsight to pretty up my astrophotographs.
@subpress.bsky.social
Three dust jackets of books by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. From the left: - Before the Coffee Gets Cold, showing a cafe table with two cups of coffee, a lamp and two chairs. There is a cat under the table. - Tales From the Cafe, showing three clocks, a chair and a cat - Before Your Memory Fades, showing three windows with scenes of a flowered hill, a wintry tree-lined lane, and autumn leaves. There is a chair and a cat.
A #BoxOfBooks from Swamp Fox Bookstore in Marion IA!
We learned of #ToshikazuKawaguchi's time travel books at #Capricon45. Each book contains 4 novellas about people coming to sit in a certain chair in the cafe, drinking the coffee and traveling back in time.
@swampfoxbookstore.bsky.social
Unfolded dust jacket showing a man with no shirt holding a gun to his temple. In the background are scenes of urban devastation, including explosions and helicopters flying.
#BoxOfBooks from #CentipedePress - Pat Frank's 1959 post-apocalyptic novel 'Alas, Babylon' about a nuclear war between the US and USSR.
Along with John Hersey's 'Hiroshima' and the movie 'Fail Safe,' this threesome is most responsible for my recurring nightmares that continue to this day.
Two book covers, from left: - Shooting Star, showing a flying saucer crashed onto railroad tracks with a derailed train in the background. - Something Lumber This Way Comes, showing a spooky house with feet walking through a neighborhood
A #BoxOfBooks from #PandiPress via Subterranean Press; two novella by the master of the form, Joe Lansdale.
- Something Lumber This Way Comes. An homage to Ray Bradbury
- Shooting Star. A UFO with nasty aliens crashes into a passenger train
@joerlansdale.bsky.social @subpress.bsky.social
Three books, from left: - The Mad Files, the cover illustration shows Alfred E. Neumann in a box with various descriptive labels, all crossed out - The Black Fantastic with a abstract cover of eaves, one of which has a human head with dreadlocks swooping up to meet another face. - O'Connor, Collected works with a photo of the author above a red, white and blue ribbon.
Before the snow started, a #BoxOfBooks from the Library of America arrived. An interesting mix of childhood memories, #Afrofuturism, and #SouthernGothic:
- The Mad Files edited by David Mikis
- The Black Fantastic edited by André M. Carrington
- Collected Works of Flannery O'Connor
#LoA
The spines of three books, from left to right: red and black spine of Blood Meridian - Cormac McCathy, black spine of Death By Black Hole - Neil deGrasse Tyson and the black spine of the two volumes of A Man On the Moon - Andrew Chaiken
The covers of, from upper left, widdershins: - Death By Black Hole with a black circle surrounded by c colorful mandala of squares, semi circles a nd rings. - Blood Meridian with a vulture/horse chimer drawn on orange, black and white - the two volumes of A Man On the Moon with photos of the Apollo command module and a gibbous far side of the Moon.
A #BoxOfBooks arrived from the Folio Society!
- A Man On the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by #AndrewChaikin
- Death By Black Hole by #NeildeGrasseTyson
- Blood Meridian by #CormacMcCarthy
@foliosociety.bsky.social
The spines of three books. From left: green binding with yellow lettering for Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase, Black binding with yellow and blue lettering for Haruki Muakami's A Wind Up Bird Chronicle, and a red-orange binding with red and yellow lettering for Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant
The book cover (top) and book jacket (bottom) for the three books. From left: Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase: green binding with yellow rays of light outlining a stylized outline of a sheep's head. The book jacket has rays of light radiating from a physical hole in the middle. Haruki Muakami's A Wind Up Bird Chronicle: The book cover shows a starry night over an open landscape with pitched tents. A single blue star is in the middle. The book jacket has a physical hole with concentric circles surrounding it. Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant: The book cover is red-orange with a black and yellow drawing on it. The drawing shows a man on a horse holding up a sword. He is riding through hilly land with a skull and several swords across the landscape. The book jacket is yello-green with black and yellow drawing. The drawing shows the same man riding through the same territory, but with elevation lines added.
Today, from overseas, a #BoxOfBooks from the Folio Society!
Gorgeous editions of:
#KazuroIshiguro - The Buried Giant
#HarukiMurakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and A Wild Sheep Chase
@foliosociety.bsky.social
Very light green cover of the book with the text in handwritten print writing: Practices Tomorrowing Terry Bisson
Partial text: JUNE 25, 2012. Muscle car protest. Forty-three thousand SUVs jam Washington's fabled beltway to protest the Nader Tax, establishing a $1 monthly "atmosphere use fee" for every cubic centimeter of engine displacement over 1,500 cc. With the passage of the law in January, President Nader's approval rating fell from 24% to a term low of .66%. JULY 5, 2044. Heads of state of 21 nations and 53 NGOs turn out for funeral of Earth's last elephant. The great beast was electrocuted by an illegal power tap in suburban Lagos, where it had apparently retreated from the brush fires raging through central Africa. It was previously thought that the last elephant had been killed in 2036, when the "Dumbo virus" raged through the world's zoos. JULY 11, 2189. Renewed fighting in Los Angeles between the Earl of Water and the Count of Electricity. Disorder spreads to freeways as gangs of "underpass boys" take 8 and 5, setting fire to stalled cars.
One of my favorite features of @locusmag.bsky.social was Terry Bisson's This Month In History. These mini-sketches were scattered through the mag in the bottom corner à la Sergio Aragones' Mad Marginals.
Today's #BoxOfBooks is "Tommorowing" with all 2004 to 2023 TMIH collected.
RIP TBB (1942-2024)😔
The spines of the four editions, from the top: - Children of Dune - Witch Week - George's Marvelous Medicine / Danny the Champion of the World / Fantastic Mr. Fox - Murder Is Easy
The cover of the four editions, from the bottom right, widdershins: - Children of Dune: a girl and a boy wearing stillsuits - Witch Week: a young witch on a broom flying over a graveyard - George's Marvelous Medicine / Danny the Champion of the World / Fantastic Mr. Fox - Murder Is Easy: a dead woman lying on her back in a bed with her right arm over the side of the bed. There is a night stand with a open bottle on it.
It's a #BoxOfBooks day!
From the #FolioSociety, four editions:
- Children of Dune by #FrankHerbert
- Witch Week by #DianaWynneJones
- George's Marvelous Medicine / Danny the Champion of the World / Fantastic Mr. Fox (Collection #3) by #RoaldDahl
- Murder Is Easy by #AgathaChristie
Book jacket showing the shadowed-in outline of a person holding a briefcase in their right hand. Their left arm is in a sling. Behind them is a mass of strange looking flowering plants that exude an ambiance of aggressiveness.
It's a #BoxOfBooks day!
Our mailwoman brought us a copy of Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth, which my wife and I will be reading for the #WecomeToNightVale Book Club. #WtNV
@nightvaleradio.bsky.social @debolinunferth.bsky.social @planetoffinks.bsky.social
Book cover showing a long library shelf stretching along a corridor into an alien desert landscape
Chapter listing. Text: Contents Introduction. 1929 in Review 1929: A Chronology of the Past. 1929: A Chronology of the Future Milestones.. Author Births & Deaths... SF Debuts.. Science Fiction Magazines of 1929 Amazing Stories. Amazing Stories Quarterly Science Wonder Stories. Air Wonder Stories. Science Wonder Quarterly. Weird Tales. Other Magazines. Science Fiction Books of 1929. Science Fiction Films of 1929 Science Fiction Plays of 1929 Other Worlds Evolution of the Term "Science Fiction" Gernsback Bankruptcy The First SF Clubs Fanzines Rocketry Clubs... Women Pioneers of SF (1666 - 1925)
The chapter about the 1929 movie The Mysterious Island. There are clips from the movie on the right-hand page.
A #BoxOfBooks day--the 4th volume in Jim Emerson's Futures Past series highlighting 1929.
When I was a kid I loved reading through almanacs. All that cool information in one spot! It was a great birthday present.
Check out the chapter page of this marvelous SF almanac.
#JimEmerson #FuturesPast #SF
Book jacket showing a red-haired young woman in a dark hooded jacket holding the upside-down severed head of another young women. The severed head has tendrils of a vine coming out of her mouth.
It's a #BoxOfBooks day!
Today, our mailwoman brought Nino Cipri's just released "Dead Girls Don't Dream," about two young women who work together to survive Voynich Woods and perhaps decipher its mysteries.
Jacket illustration by Michelle Avery Koncyzk
#Fantasy #darkFantasy @ninocipri.bsky.social
Dust jacket with small illustrations of the various stories contained within: In the center: a person wearing a mask with feathers . Surrounding the masked person, from 11 o'clock and going widdershins: - a black gloved hand holding a rat by the tail - a hobo with a bindle sack - a man in diner garb holding a broom - a pile of junked cars - an elderly woman and man on a park bench - a young man with a knife - a middle-aged man in a 'wife-beater' tee shirt wielding a two by four - a white freight liner - a collar festooned with fish hooks - an exploding passenger jet - an electric chair -
(1/2) Upon our return from New Jersey, a #BoxOfBooks was waiting for us along with the rest of the mail--two gorgeous books from #CentipedePress.
First, "Rough Justice," a collection of 43 stories by #SteveRasnicTem.
A stack of four books. From the top: - The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones - The Other Wind by Ursula K LeGuin - I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - The Player of Games by Iain Banks
#BoxOfBooks Day--I received four from Folio:
- The Magicians of Caprona by #DianaWynneJones
- The Other Wind (the sixth and final volume of Earthsea) by #UrsulaKLeGuin
- I Capture the Castle by #DodieSmith
- The Player of Games by #IainBanks
A man and a woman gaze warily out from the dust jacket. Behind them, a silhouetted hooded figure is in the middle of circle of runes.
#BoxOfBooks Day! They just keep coming from Subterranean Press.
I just received Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
I'm looking forward to reading this tale of cinema, terror and Nazi occultism. @subpress.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social
The dust jacket illustration showing a girl and her dog walking on a stylized forest path with a raptor's beak and claws at the top of the illustration Text: PETER S. BEAGLE The Way Home TWO NOVELLAS FROM THE WORLD OF THE LAST UNICORN
Dust jacket illustration showing a ghoulish mummy in jacket and top hat holding a meat cleaver Text: THE UNLIKELY AFFAIR OF THE CRAWLING RAZOR JOE R. LANSDALE
It was a #BoxOfBooks day from Subterranean Press:
- #PeterBeagle's The Way Home: two novellas from the world of The Last Unicorn.
- #JoeLansdale's novella The Unlikely Affair of the Crawling Razor.
@subpress.bsky.social
Book jackets for: - on the left: Lincoln's Dream, showing ghost-like woman from the chest up with a cemetary in the background - on the right: Logical Fantasy showing two spaceships zooming past a cratered moon Text: CONNIE WILLIS LINCOLN'S DREAMS LOGICAL FANTASY THE MANY WORLDS OF JOHN WYNDHAM Edited by DAVID DYTE
A #BoxOfBooks day from Subterranean Press:
- Lincoln's Dreams by #ConnieWillis
- Logical Fantasy: The Many Worlds of #JohnWyndham
As a big Willis fan, I am especially eager to read Lincoln's Dream which I hadn't read before.
@subpress.bsky.social
The spines of the three books and the slipcase which is illustrated with a tree limb and a raven wearing a crown. Text: Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Volume One Volume Two Volume Three FS
(2/2) A few days later, in a separate #BoxOfBooks, the just published Folio edition of #SusannaClarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. #TheFolioSociety
