Book Haul - Williams, Gunn, Zafon, Gemmell, Wolfe, Gunn

I've been spending lots of time in the library lately, how can I go and not pick up a book or two that's for sale? It's just about impossible as it turns out.

Used:
- City of Golden Shadow (Otherland #1) by Tad Williams - Been meaning to pick this up for a while.
- Death's Head by David Gunn - Picked these three up in their entirety for $1.20. My other blog gets a pretty constant stream of people to all of our David Gunn stuff, which occurred before I became a regular and it's peaked my interest. I guess no one knows who he/she is. Pays to be linked in Wikipedia too I guess.
- Death's Head: Maximum Offense by David Gunn
- Death's Head: Day of the Damned by David Gunn
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Another that's been on the list a while.
- The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend by David Gemmell - Need to get back to these.

For Review:
- Shadows of the New Sun - This is an anthology dedicated to Gene Wolfe with two new stories from him. I read the first one and it was good ... if a little confusing as to its point.
- Transcendental by James Gunn - Speaking of Gunns. I don't know if I'll get to this, the reviews of people I trust have not been good.

Book Haul - Martinez, Clines, Barnes, Kemp, Carniepunk, King

I've been meaning to try A. Lee Martinez for a while and Peter Clines has been making a splash lately with his Ex-Heroes series, plus some other good ones.

Audio (all from Brilliance Audio):
- Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez
- 14 by Peter Clines
- The Garden of Stones by Mark T. Barnes
- A Discourse in Steel (Egil & Nix #2) by Paul S. Kemp

Paper:
- Carniepunk by multiple (Gallery)
- A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King (Touchstone)

Book Haul - Bennett, North, Bernardo, Malki !, Erikson, Gafla, Posey, Salvatore, Kemp, Sullivan, Lynch

While I'm looking forward the the physical books this week, I'm extremely excited for the ebooks. One in particular...

Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures by Chistopher L. Bennett

This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death, edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bernardo, David Malki ! - This is the follow up to the Machine of Death anthology which I enjoyed but never finished. I just felt like this concept was ... done to death. I read the first story and again it was good, but I just can't handle another batch of stories like this.

This River Awakens by Steven Erikson - This is Erikson's first novel that's being released for the first time in the US. Very much looking forward to it.

The World of the End by Ofir Touche Gafla - This is really an odd book that I'm about 30% through. I don't know if I like it yet, but it's certainly unique and compelling. There are a couple giveaways I listed on the other blog here.

eBooks:

Three by Jay Posey - I have to say it's about 99% cover that makes me want to read this. Plus you usually can't go wrong with Angry Robot.

The Companions (The Sundering #1)by R.A Salvatore - A Forgotten Realms event called The Sundering starts with their most famous author.










The Godborn (The Sundering #2) by Paul S. Kemp - Part of the event above, but number two.











The Crown Tower (Riyria Chronicles #1) by Michael J. Sullivan - The first in a two book prequel series to Sullivan's excellent Riyria Revelations.










The Rose and Thorn (Riyria Chronicles #2) by Michael J. Sullivan - The second.











The Republic of Thieves (Gentlemen Bastards #3) by Scott Lynch - Only the most anticipated book of the year if not the last couple years. Very happy to have this, I guess it's time to start Red Seas Under Red Skies since I waited until this was a sure thing before I would start RSURS.

Book Haul - Brust, Bennett, King, Modesitt

Two for review, two bought used. Looking forward to all, probably mostly Mr. Shivers because Robert Jackson Bennet is my new favorite author.

- Brokedown Palace by Steven Brust
- Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennet
- Joyland by Stephen King
- The One-Eyed Man by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

Book Haul - Star Trek Crafts, Foster, Card/Johnston

This first batch of the haul is probably the strangest (and yet still awesome) thing I've ever received for review. I can't say I have much use for them, especially the cross-stitching one, but I don't think a true fan could live without these:

- Star Trek Cross-Stitch: Explore Strange New Worlds of Crafting ($13.50)
- Star Trek Craft Book: Make it so! ($13.36)

Next, we're keeping with the Star Trek theme... for some reason I can't quite put my finger on.

- Earth Afire (The First Formic War #2) by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
- Star Trek: Into Darkness by Alan Dean Foster - I don't usually go for movie novelizations, but this one does look really cool and the first few pages made it really hard to put down.

Book Haul - Scalzi, Walton, Sanderson, McClellan

I can't deny, I was pretty excited about this week's haul. Tor just keeps 'em coming and a surprise from Orbit that I didn't think was coming.

- The Human Division by John Scalzi - This is the hardback in addition to the ARC you can see in the background
- Quintessence by David Walton - Usually I have to make a request from Tor, but sometimes books just show up and this is one of the latter. This is also never a bad thing. :)
- The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson - Very excited for this one!
- Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan - I just finished this one and needs a review. Very good.

Book Haul - Correia, Walton, Tregillis, Gould, Golden, Traviss, Card

As a reviewer for sffaudio.com I've begun to receive ARCs in the form of audio as well as paper and electronic. Here are four I requested along with some other ARC's in the mail. Behind these books is pretty much my TBR for the next few months now that I take a good look at this picture.

- Hard Magic (Grimnoir Chronicles #1) by Larry Correia
- Among Others by Jo Walton
- Bitter Seeds (Milkweed Triptych #1) by Ian Tregillis
- Jumper by Steven Gould - The book the movie was based on.
- Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War (World of Warcraft) by Christie Golden - Received the hardcover last year, here's the mmpb.
- Gears of War: The Slab by Karen Traviss - Also received the hardcover last year and can't believe it's already been a year. I meant to have had this read by now since I really enjoyed Coalition's End.
- The Gate Thief (Mither Mages #2) by Orson Scott Card - The Lost Gate came out last year and I really enjoyed even though I had a few problems with it.