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In this catalog you’ll find the best items fromour prose publishers for the holiday season.

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Welcome to the first DBD Prose catalog!

Of course, Diamond Book Distributors is known for its wideselection of quality graphic novel publishers we distribute.Equally as important are the fine prose publishers who also callDBD their home.

Here in this first DBD Prose catalog, we give these publishers the spotlight and focuson these great “traditional books.” You’ll find some great books are scheduled forthis Holiday season that should help ring up cash register sales!

Along with their bestselling and award-winning graphic novel lines, Dark HorseComics also offers an expanding line of prose novels, including works of fantasyand horror. Look out for the Damned Highway, a literary mash-up of H.P. Lovecraftand Hunter S. Thompson that’s one crazily spooky trip.

Sci-fi and fantasy fans looking for quality entertainment will find themselves spoiledfor choices. Night Shade Books focuses on new authors and voices in sci-fi andfantasy, breaking tomorrow’s legends today. Prime Books offers novels andanthologies mixing highly acclaimed literary and commercially successful works.Borne out of Clarkesworld Magazine, Wyrm Publishing offers collected stories andfull length novels. ChiZine Publications specializes in dark genre fantasy, storiesusing speculative elements to show the dark side of human nature.

Gaming publisher Fantasy Flight expands the worlds of their successful sci-fi andhorror role playing games with their novels, as does Paizo Publishing, which alsoreprints the works of numerous pulp authors. And Random House UK brings theirextensive line of novels based on the long-running and massively popular DoctorWho and its spin-off series Torchwood.

With the holiday season approaching, this catalog should help you find just whatyour genre readers are looking for!

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The Book of Cthulhu� Night Shade Books �

Beasts of Burden� Dark Horse Comics �

Eisner Award 2010:Best Publication for Teens,

Best Multimedia ArtistPublishers Weekly Best of 2010

Clover OmnibusEdition

� Dark Horse Comics �

YALSA 2010 GreatGraphic Novels for Teens

Gunnerkrigg Court� Archaia Studios �

YALSA 2010 Top Ten GreatGraphic Novels for Teens

Booklist 2010 Top Ten GraphicNovels for Youth

Scott Pilgrim� Oni Press �

Eisner Award 2010:Best Humor Publication

Harvey Award 2010:Special Award

for Humor in Comics

Buffy the VampireSlayer Season 8



Essex County� Top Shelf Productions �

Booklist 2009 Top TenBook of the Year

Canada Reads Top TenNovels of the Decade

Hatter M:Mad With Wonder

� Automatic Pictures �

IPPY Gold Medalist 2010:Best Graphic Novel

Umbrella Academy:Apocalypse Suite


2009 Harvey Awardfor Best Artist

Chew� Image Comics �

Eisner Award 2010:Best New Series, Best New Talent

Girl Genius Volume 9� Studio Foglio �

Hugo Winner 2010:Best Graphic Novel

The Helm� Dark Horse �


Walking Dead� Image Comics �

Eisner Award 2010:Best Ongoing SeriesHarvey Award 2010:

Best Continuing Series

Grandville� Dark Horse Comics �

Booklist 2010 TopTen Graphic Novels

Richard Stark’sParker: The Hunter

� IDW Publishing �

Eisner Award 2010:Best Adaptation

Harvey Award: Best Cartoonist

A hilarious, shocking, terrifying thrill-ride across the American landscape, The Damned Highway combines twogreat flavors of weird: the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and the uncanny terrors of H.P. Lovecraft!Horror legend Brian Keene and cult storytelling master Nick Matamas dredge up a tale of drug-fueled eldritchmadness from the blackest depths of the American Nightmare.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• The Damned Highway is a brilliant mash-up of two literary legends—gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompsonand horror master H. P. Lovecraft!

• Mamatas and Keene are master weird horror writers — Keene, an established talent and two-time BramStoker Award-winner, and Mamatas, a rising star frequently nominated for Bram Stoker, International HorrorGuild, World Fantasy, and Hugo awards.

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Publisher: Dark HorseWriter: Nick Mamatas, Brian KeeneSize: 5.25 x 8, 232 pagesFormat: Softcover, Black & White

Publication Date: 8/2/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-685-5Price: $14.99 (CAN: $16.99, £10.99)

THE DAMNED HIGHWAY:FEAR AND LOATHING IN ARKHAM

VAMPIRE HUNTER D VOLUME 17:TYRANT’S STARS PARTS 3 & 4

VAMPIRE HUNTER D READER’S GUIDE

Publisher: Dark HorseWriter: Hideyuki KikuchiArtist: Yoshitaka AmanoSize: 5 x 7, 300 pagesFormat: Softcover, Black & WhitePublication Date: 10/25/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-820-0Price: $14.99 (CAN: $16.99, £10.99)

Publisher: Dark HorseWriter: Hideyuki KikuchiArtist: Yoshitaka AmanoSize: 6 x 8.25, 240 pagesFormat: Softcover, Black & WhitePublication Date: Available Now!ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-111-9Price: $13.99 (CAN: $17.50, £10.50)

Vampire Hunter D continues his quest to overcome the inter-stellar evil brought to earth by the ultimate Noble, the terrifyingrenegade vampire Valcua! Wielding a sword that can cutthrough the fabric of space and time, Valcua has a score tosettle with the bloodline of humans responsible for his exile.The family has enlisted D to protect them from Valcua’s wrath,and the vampire hunter might be their only chance at survival.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Every volume of Vampire Hunter D features gorgeous black-and-white line illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano (FinalFantasy, Shinjuku) as well as a color tip-in illustration!

An international sensation for more than two decades, the now-legendary monster killer known only as “D” has conquered theworlds of movies, comics, and, since the publication of the firstnovel in English in 2004, is becoming just as popular in Americaand the English-speaking world as he has been in Japan for morethan a dozen novels. Now, for the first time, go behind the scenesof the phenomenon.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Features rare artwork from Yoshitaka Amano and interviewsthat shed light on the inspirations for the memorable stories.

• Dark Horse has sold over 300,000 copies of Vampire Hunter D!

• Includes a Vampire Hunter D short story from the character’screator, Hideyuki Kikuchi.

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BACKLISTVAMPIRE HUNTER D VOL. 13:TWIN-SHADOWED KNIGHT PARTS 1 & 2[ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-930-7]VAMPIRE HUNTER D VOL. 14: DARK ROAD PARTS 1 & 2[ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-440-0]VAMPIRE HUNTER D VOL. 15: DARK ROAD PART 3[ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-500-1]VAMPIRE HUNTER D VOL. 16: TYRANT’S STARS PARTS 1 & 2[ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-572-8]

ENTER, NIGHT

Publisher:ChiZine PublicationsWriter: Michael RoweSize: 5.5 x 8.5, 275 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 10/11/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-926851-45-7Price: $15.95(CAN: $17.95, £11.99)

Welcome to Parr’s Landing, Population 1,528... and shrinking.The year is 1972. Built on the site of a decimated 17th-centuryJesuit mission to the Ojibwa, Parr’s Landing is a town withsecrets of its own buried in the caves around Bradley Lake. Athree-hundred-year-old vampire is slumbering there, callingout to the insane and the murderous for centuries, begging forrelease — an invitation that has finally been answered. Oneman is following that voice, cutting a murderous swath acrossthe country, bent on a terrible resurrection of the ancient horror...plunging the town and all its people into an endless night!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Author Michael Rowe was the recipient of the LambdaLiterary Award for Horror/Sci-fi in 2002, the SpectrumAward in 2002, and the International Horror Guild Awardfinalist in 2002 for Queer Fear 2.

• “[Michael Rowe] has changed forever the shape of horror.”— Clive Barker

BEARDED WOMEN STORIES

Publisher:ChiZine PublicationsWriter: Teresa MilbrodtSize: 5 x 7.25, 250 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 10/11/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-926851-46-4Price: $15.95(CAN: $17.95, £11.99)

Welcome to the contemporary Freak Show! Meet the “freaks”— they’re mothers, wives, and lovers: all of them trying tonegotiate a world that is quicker to stare than sympathize.

BRIARPATCH

Publisher: ChiZine PublicationsWriter: Tim PrattSize: 6 x 9, 300 pagesFormat: Softcover, Black & WhitePublication Date: 9/13/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-926851-44-0Price: $15.95 (CAN: $17.95, £11.99)

Darrin’s life has been going downhill ever since his girlfriend,Bridget, walked out on him without a word of explanation sixmonths ago — until he sees her again, just moments beforeshe leaps to her death from a bridge! In his quest to discoverwhy she took her own life, Darrin’s journey leads him into aplace called the Briarpatch, which is either the crawlspace ofthe universe, or a series of ambitious building projects aban-doned by god, or a tangle of alternative universes, depend-ing on who you ask. Somewhere in that disorderly snarl ofworlds, he hopes to find Bridget again... or, at least, a reasonto live without her.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Tim Pratt is a Hugo Award winner, and has been a finalistfor Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial,Mythopoeic, and Bram Stoker Awards.

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KEY SELLING POINTS:• Teresa Milbrodt has had several short stories nominated forPushcart Prizes. She is an assistant professor of CreativeWriting at Western State College. This is her first book.

ISLES OF THE FORSAKEN

THE PATTERN SCARS

Publisher: ChiZine PublicationsWriter: Carolyn Ives GilmanSize: 6 x 9, 312 pagesFormat: Softcover, Black & WhitePublication Date: 8/9/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-926851-36-5Price: $15.95 (CAN: $17.95, £11.99)

Publisher: ChiZine PublicationsWriter: Caitlin SweetSize: 6 x 9, 375 pagesFormat: Softcover, Black & WhitePublication Date: 9/13/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-926851-43-3Price: $16.95 (CAN: $18.95, £12.99)

The Forsaken Isles are on the brink of revolution. Three indi-viduals are about to push it over the edge and trigger eventsthat will lead to a final showdown between ancient forces andthe new overlords of the land!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Carolyn Ives Gilman has been publishing fantasy andscience fiction for twenty years. Her first novel, HalfwayHuman, was called “one of the most compellingexplorations of gender and power in recent SF” by Locusmagazine. Her short fiction has appeared in Fantasy andScience Fiction, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Bendingthe Landscape, Interzone, Universe, Full Spectrum, Realmsof Fantasy, and others.

• “Pure and simple, this is a fantastic novel; it’s evocative,intriguing, and thought provoking. I can say without a doubtHalfway Human is the best book I’ve read this year. Markmy words, I smell a Hugo in this author’s future.” — JimKillen, Explorations (Barnes & Noble)

Nola is born into poverty in Sarsenay City. When her motherrealizes that Nola has the gift of Othersight and can foretellthe future, she sells her to a brothel seer, who teaches the girlto harness her gift. When a handsome, young Otherseerpromises to teach her, she’s suddenly drawn into a web ofmurder, treachery, and obsessive desire that will threaten thepeople and land she holds dear, and that she will soon learn theharshest of lessons: that being able to predict the future hasnothing to do with being able to prevent it!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Author Caitlan Sweet has been nominated for the Auroraand Locus Best First Novel Awards.

• “A Telling of Stars is an impressive debut, a re-envisioningof the fantasy genre rich in imagination, character, andmagic.” — Robert J. Wiersema, Quill & Quire

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ANDROID BOARD GAME

Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games

Size: 11.75 x 11.75Format: Boardgame, Black & WhitePublication Date: Available Now!ISBN-13: 978-1-58994-344-5Price: $59.95 (CAN: $75.00)

The world changed. Crime did not. Android is a ground-break-ing board game by Kevin Wilson (Arkham Horror, Descent)of murder and conspiracy set in a dystopian future. Detectivestravel between the city of New Angeles and moon colonyHeinlein chasing down leads, calling in favors, and uncoveringthe sinister conspiracy beneath it all. You’ve got just twoweeks to solve a gruesome murder, uncover the conspiracy,and face your personal demons!

ANDROID: GOLEM

Publisher:Fantasy Flight GamesWriter: Mel OdomSize: 4.25 x 6.75, 336 pagesPublication Date: 11/22/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-61661-099-9Price: $8.99 (CAN: $8.99)

When a talented New Angeles Detective wakes up in bed witha woman whose name he can’t recall, this seemingly harmlessmystery indicates a much larger problem. After all, as one ofthe few bioroids in the New Angeles Police Department, Drake3GI2RC isn’t accustomed to forgetting... or even sleeping. Buthis personal issues are forced to wait when he and his humanpartner Shelley Nolan are assigned a high-profile murderinvestigation — one that will change his world!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• A novel by Mel Odom, author of over 140 sci-fi and fantasyworks, and the bestselling author of Stalker Analog andLethal Interface.

• Based in the immersiveworld ofAndroid, a popular board game.

• The first book in The Identity Trilogy, a series that furtherexplores the dystopian future of Android.

ANDROID: FREE FALL

Publisher: Fantasy Flight GamesWriter: William H. Keith, Jr.Size: 4.25 x 6.25, 336 pagesPublication Date: 9/20/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-61661-097-5Price: $8.99 (CAN: $11.50)

It is the future, and while the world has changed, crime hasnot. When an influential lawyer is brutally murdered at the topof the Beanstalk, a towering exo-atmospheric elevator servingas Earth’s hub of interplanetary trade, Detective Rick Harrisonreluctantly accepts the case. But Harrison quickly finds him-self at the center of an ever-deepening conspiracy, and isfaced with the one question he never expected: What is thetrue definition of humanity?

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Free Fall is the first novel based on Fantasy FlightGames’ Android.

• Written by New York Times Bestselling author William H.Keith.

• Contains an exclusive offer for a unique event promo cardfor the Android board game.

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ARKHAM HORRORBOARD GAME


Format: Boardgame, Black & WhitePublication Date: Available Now!ISBN-13: 978-1-58994-210-3Price: $59.95 (CAN: $75.00)

The town of Arkham, Massachusetts is in a panic. Horrific andbizarre events have begun to occur with increasing frequency,and seem to point towards some disastrous cataclysmic eventin the future. Only one small band of investigators can saveArkham from the Great Old Ones and utter destruction! Origi-nally published by Chaosium, Inc., this updated edition ofArkham Horror features new artwork, as well as revised andexpanded rules from the game’s original creator, Richard Launius!

ARKHAM HORROR:DANCE OF THE DAMNED


Writer: Alan BlighSize: 4.25 x 6.75, 336 pagesPublication Date: 11/22/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-58994-970-6Price: $8.99 (CAN: $8.99)

A grim dance has begun, and for Miskatonic University librar-ian Daisy Walker, it is a dance of memory, one that will awakena horrible nightmare she hoped would stay long forgotten.When an unexpected letter from an estranged friend arrives,Daisy is quickly pulled into an unraveling mystery in Kingsport,Massachusetts — a place where her memory will not be theonly thing haunting her dreams. Now, her fate will intertwinewith that of world-weary bounty hunter Tony Morgan. The elu-sive Copperhead Industries wants their stolen secret back, andthrough manipulation and blackmail, they have securedTony’s acclaimed talents. But this recovery job has quicklyturned into one of survival, and this time it’s not only Tony’slife that hangs in the balance, but the fate of the entire world!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Based on the popular board game Arkham Horror, with over140,000 copies sold!

• A novel by Alan Bligh, co-author of several popular roleplayinggames, including Dark Heresy and Cthulhu Britannia.

• Features an offer for an exclusive promotional Mythos cardfor use in the Arkham Horror board game.

GHOULS OF THE MISKATONICAN:BOOK ONE OF THE DARK WATERS TRILOGY

Publisher: Fantasy Flight GamesWriter: Graham McNeillSize: 4.25 x 6.75, 336 pagesPublication Date: 9/20/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-58994-965-2Price: $8.99 (CAN: $11.50)

It is the roaring twenties — a time of jazz, gin, and g-men. Buta shocking murder has upset the tranquility of Arkham,Massachusetts. When the mutilated body of a student is foundon the grounds of Miskatonic University, the baffled authoritiesstruggle to determine who — or what — is responsible. Whilea Miskatonic professor seeks answers in the ramblings of aninsane former colleague, nightmares of a terrifying sunken cityplague his most gifted student. Meanwhile, a down-on-his-luck reporter trawls the dark underbelly of the town for clues,while a bootlegger escapes a deal gone horribly wrong inpossession of a strange, otherworldly device. Now, these un-likely investigators must come together to face horrors beyondcomprehension, as they seek answers to a mystery that threat-ens to destroy all they hold dear!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Based on the best-selling Arkham Horror board game, withover 140,000 copies in print.

• Written by New York Times bestselling author GrahamMcNeill, author of many popular Warhammer 40,000 andWarhammer Fantasy novels.

• Contains an exclusive offer for a unique ally promo card forthe Arkham Horror board game.

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TANNHAUSER BOARD GAME


Format: Boardgame, Black & WhitePublication Date: Available Now!ISBN-13: 978-1-58994-378-0Price: $69.95 (CAN: $86.25)

Tannhauser is set in an alternate-history version of 1949 wherethe Great War never ended. Featuring small squads of troopsof the “Army of the Union” in their attempts to track down andstop the Reich’s “Obscura Korps,” who use a mixture of tech-nology and occult magic to further the cause of the Fatherland.Tannhauser blends together alternate history, science fictionand magic to create a wholly original game world.

TANNHAUSER: RISING SUN,FALLING SHADOWS

Publisher:Fantasy Flight GamesWriter: Robert JeschonekSize: 4.25 x 6.75, 336 pagesPublication Date: 11/22/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-61661-180-4Price: $8.99 (CAN: $8.99)

The year is 1954, and in a dark and violent alternate history, theGreat War never ended. The forces of the Reich, led by the oc-cult-obsessed Kaiser, have sold their souls to demonic pow-ers as they scour the earth in search of paranormal weaponry.Meanwhile, President Edison has sanctioned the use of potentalien technology recovered at Roswell, in hopes of aiding thebeleaguered Union in its fight against tyranny. As the war rageson, can anything — or anyone — tip the balance of power?Enter the Shogunate, a far-eastern warrior sect with their ownshadowy agenda. When a small force led by “The Daimyo” IrohMinamoto sets out toward the evergreen peninsula of Kam-chatka, Union Major John McNeal and the 42nd Marines mustdiscover their plans before it’s too late!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• A novel by Robert Jeschonek, an award-winning writer ofover 30 bestselling e-books and short stories, and anominee for the prestigious British Fantasy Award.

• Based on the gritty and action-packedboard game Tannhauser,a supernatural alternate history in which WWI never ended.

FIREBORN: EMBERS OF ATLANTIS

Publisher: Fantasy Flight GamesWriter: Tracy HickmanSize: 4.25 x 6.75, 304 pagesPublication Date: 9/20/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-61661-100-2Price: $8.99 (CAN: $11.50)

Powerful scions walk the streets of modern London, obliviousto their true nature. Unknowingly, they carry within them thespirits of reincarnated dragons from an age of high fantasy.As magic begins to emerge once more in the 21st century,long-dormant memories begin to flood the minds of thesescions, reminding them of their mystical heritage. Welcome tothe world of Fireborn! Embers of Atlantis introduces readers toa modern world faced with the sudden emergence of magic.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• By legendary New York Times bestselling Author TracyHickman, co-author of the beloved Dragonlance series.

• Based on the celebrated Fireborn roleplaying game.

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Publisher: Night Shade BooksWriter: Phil Foglio, Kaja FoglioSize: 5.5 x 8.5, 264 pagesFormat: Softcover, Black & White

Publication Date: 8/2/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-212-3Price: $14.99 (CAN: $18.99, £10.99)

At Transylvania Polygnostic University, a pretty, young student named Agatha Clay seems to have noth-ing but bad luck. Incapable of building anything that actually works, but dedicated to her studies, Agathaseems destined for a lackluster career as a minor lab assistant. But when the University is overthrown bythe ruthless tyrant Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, Agatha finds herself a prisoner aboard his massive airshipCastle Wulfenbach— and it begins to look like she might carry a spark of Mad Science after all.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• From Phil and Kaja Foglio, creators of the Hugo, Eagle, and Eisner Award-nominated webcomic GirlGenius, comes Agatha H and the Airship City, a gaslamp fantasy filled to bursting with Adventure!Romance! and Mad Science!

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AGATHA H.AND THE AIRSHIP CITY

INFIDEL

Publisher:Night Shade BooksWriter: Kameron HurleySize: 6 x 9, 300 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 10/4/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-224-6Price: $14.99(CAN: $18.75, £10.99)

The centuries-long holy war between Nasheen and Chenja istaking its toll. While protecting the daughter of a Ras TieganDiplomat, Nyx, a bodyguard in Mustallah, the capital city ofNasheen, is caught up in a whirl-wind of intrigue involving BelDam Assassins plotting against the Queen. The danger thatnow swirls around her may have finally become too much, asNyx’s colleagues and friends begin to die. Will Nyx be next?

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Follow-up set in the same world as Kameron Hurley’sprevious novel, God’s War.

THE BOOK OF CTHULHU

Publisher:Night Shade BooksWriter: Caitlin R. Kiernan,Laird BarronSize: 6 x 9, 500 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 9/6/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-232-1Price: $15.99(CAN: $19.99, £11.99)

The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the 20th century’s most singularlyrecognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Love-craft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries (theso-called “Lovecraft Circle”), The Cthulhu Mythos story cyclehas taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own. The Bookof Cthulhu harvests the weirdest and most corpulent crop ofthese modern mythos tales.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Features stories by Stephen King, David Drake, ChinaMieville, Michael Chabon, Kage Baker, Cherie Priest,Thomas Ligotti, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Elizabeth Bear.

ALIEN CONTACT

Publisher: Night Shade BooksWriter: Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card,

Cory Doctorow, Ursula K Le GuinSize: 6 x 9, 400 pagesFormat: Softcover, Black & WhitePublication Date: 11/15/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-281-9Price: $15.99 (CAN: $19.99, £11.99)

Are we alone? FromWar of the Worlds to Invasion of the BodySnatchers, ET to Close Encounters, creators of science fictionhave always eagerly speculated on just how the story of aliencontact would play out. Editor Marty Halpern has gatheredtogether some of the best stories of the last 30 years, bytoday’s most exciting genre writers, weaving a tapestry thatcovers a broad range of scenarios: from the insidious, to theviolent, to the transcendent.

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Publisher:Night Shade BooksWriter: Michael DempseySize: 6 x 9, 320 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 10/4/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-315-1Price: $14.99(CAN: $18.75, £10.99)

In a world where death is a thing of the past, how far wouldyou go to solve your own murder? NYPD detective Paul Don-ner and his wife, Elise, were killed in a hold-up gone wrong.Fifty years later, Donner is back: revived courtesy of the Shift.But, strange forces have already begun tracking him, as Don-ner isn’t the only one obsessed with his past.

REAP THE EAST WIND

Publisher:Night Shade BooksWriter: Glen CookSize: 6 x 9, 300 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 10/4/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-318-2Price: $14.99 (CAN: $18.75, £10.00)

It has ended. It begins again. In the desert beyond the DreadEmpire, a young victim of the Great War becomes the Deliv-erer of an eons-forgotten god, chosen to lead the legions ofthe dead. And the power of his vengeance will make a world’sschemes as petty as dust, blown wild in the horror that ridesthe east wind!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Reap the East Wind is the first step on the road to thelong-delayed final chapter of Glen Cook’s legendary DreadEmpire series.

THOMAS WORLD

Publisher:Night Shade BooksWriter: Richard CoxSize: 5.5 x 8.5, 300 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 9/6/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-308-3Price: $14.99(CAN: $18.75, £10.99)

Thomas Phillips knows he’s losing his mind. He’s been losingit for as long as he can remember. And yet, when a strange oldman asks him to consider that he, out of everyone in the world,knows the real truth, Thomas’ life begins to spiral out of con-trol. What if you realized every person in your life had beenscripted to be there? What if you were haunted by the idea thatyou’d lived all these encounters before, hundreds or even thou-sands of times before? And what if the person watching all thistime — was you?

KEY SELLING POINTS:• In the grand Dickian tradition, New Wave SF is explored byRichard Cox in this 21st century thriller!

SEED

Publisher:Night Shade BooksWriter: Rob ZieglerSize: 6 x 9, 350 pagesFormat: Hardcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 11/15/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-323-6Price: $24.99(CAN: $31.99, £18.99)

It’s the dawn of the 22nd century, and the world has fallenapart. In this new world, there is a new power: Satori. Morethan just a corporation, she is an intelligent, living city thatgrew out of the ruins of Denver. Satori bioengineers both theclimate-resistant seed that feeds a hungry nation, and herown post-human genetic Designers, Advocates, and Laborers.When one of Satori’s Designers goes rogue, Agent SiennaDoss-Ex-Army Ranger turned glorified bodyguard is taskedby the government to bring her in: The government wants touse the Designer to break Satori’s stranglehold on seedproduction and reassert themselves as the center of power!

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NECROPOLIS

THE FOLDED WORLD

Publisher:Night Shade BooksWriter: Catherynne M. ValenteSize: 5.5 x 8.5, 320 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 11/15/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-203-1Price: $14.99(CAN: $17.99, £10.99)

When the mysterious daughter of Prester John appears on thedoorstep of her father’s palace, she brings with her news of warin the West — the Crusades have begun, and the bodies of thefaithful are washing up on the shores of Pentexore. Three nar-ratives intertwine to tell the tale of the beginning of the end ofthe world!

Publisher:Night Shade BooksWriter: Harrison GeillorSize: 5.5 x 8.5, 320 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 10/4/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-284-0Price: $14.99(CAN: $18.75, £10.99)

A small town… a plucky heroin, a shiny vampire, and a hunkeyNative American rival with a secret. But all is not as it seems inLake Woebegotten. Let Harrison Geillor reveal what lies be-neath the seemingly placid surface. You’ll Laugh. We promise.

Z: ZOMBIE STORIES

Publisher:Night Shade BooksWriter: Kelly Link, ScottEdelman, Walter Greatshell,Amelia Beamer, JamesLackey, Joe McKinney,Catherynne M. ValenteSize: 5.5 x 8.25, 416 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 10/4/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-312-0Price: $12.99(CAN: $16.75, £8.99)

When the zombie apocalypse comes, it’s not just those crustyold folks who will struggle against the undead, it’s young people.What happens when you come of age during the zombie apoc-alypse? Z: Zombie Stories has the answer to that question.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Z: Zombie Stories gathers together some of thehottest zombie fiction of the last two decades, fromauthors including Kelly Link, Jonathan Maberry, andCatherynne M. Valente.

THE PANAMA LAUGH

Publisher:Night Shade BooksWriter: Thomas S. RocheSize: 6 x 9, 300 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 9/6/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-290-1Price: $14.99(CAN: $18.99, £10.99)

Ex-mercenary, pirate, and gun-runner Dante Bogart knowshe’s screwed the pooch after he hands one of his shady em-ployers a biological weapon that made the dead rise from theirgraves, laugh like hyenas, and feast upon the living. Dante triedto blow the whistle, but that was before the black ops boysdeep-sixed him at a secret interrogation site on the Panama-Colombia border. When Dante wakes up in the jungle with thefive intervening years missing from his memory, he knows he’sgot to do something about the laughing sickness that hascaused a world-wide slaughter. Can Dante find redemptionand save civilization?

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THE TWILIGHT OFLAKE WOEBEGOTTEN

PATHFINDER ROLEPLAYINGGAME BEGINNER BOX

Take your first steps into an exciting world of fantasy adventurewith the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Beginner Box!The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Beginner Box is packed witheverything you need to get started with the PathfinderRoleplaying Game, an imaginative tabletop fantasy adventuregame for 2-5 players. Scores of monsters, challenges, andadvice give gamers the tools to create their own worlds andadventure, providing countless hours of gaming excitement.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Includes a 64-page Hero’s Handbook and a 96-page GameMaster’s Guide

• A complete set of seven high-impact polyhedral dice

• Four pre-generated and four blank character sheets

• A durable, reusable, double-sided Flip-Mat play surface thatworks with any kind of marker

PATHFINDER TALES:DEATH’S HERETIC

Publisher:Paizo Publishing, LLC.Writer: James L. SutterSize: 4 x 7, 400 pagesPublication Date: 12/6/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-369-9Price: $9.99(CAN: $11.99, £7.50)

Nobody cheats death! A warrior haunted by his past, SalimGhadafar serves as a problem-solver for a church he hates,bound by the goddess of death to hunt down those whowould rob her of her due. Such is the case in the desert na-tion of Thuvia, where a powerful merchant on the verge ofachieving eternal youth via a magical elixir is mysteriouslymurdered, his soul kidnapped somewhere along its path tothe afterlife. The only clue is a magical ransom note, offeringto trade the merchant’s successful resurrection for his dose ofthe fabled potion. But who would have the power to steal asoul from the boneyard of Death herself?

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Death’s Heretic is the sixth novel in the new Pathfinder

Tales fiction line, which explores the world of thePathfinder Roleplaying Game through sword & sorcerynovels rich with exploration and excitement.

• Written by Pathfinder Tales fiction editor James L. Sutter,popular author of City of Strangers.

PATHFINDER TALES: MASTER OF DEVILS

Publisher: Paizo Publishing, LLC.Writer: Dave GrossSize: 4.25 x 6.75, 400 pagesPublication Date: 8/23/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-357-6Price: $9.99 (CAN: $12.50, £7.50)

On a mysterious errand for the Pathfinder Society, Count Var-ian Jeggare and his hellspawn bodyguard, Radovan, journeyto the distant land of Tian Xia, on the far side of the world.When disaster forces him to take shelter in a warriormonastery, “Brother” Jeggare finds himself competing withthe disciples of Dragon Temple as he unravels a royal mys-tery. Meanwhile, Radovan — trapped in the body of a deviland held hostage by the legendary Quivering Palm attack —must serve a twisted master by defeating the land’s deadliestchampions and learning the secret of slaying an immortal foe.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Master of Devils is the fifth novel in the new Pathfinder

Tales fiction line, which explores the world of thePathfinder Roleplaying Game through sword & sorcerynovels rich with exploration and excitement.

• From fan-favorite author Dave Gross comes a newfantastical adventure set in the award-winning world of thePathfinder Roleplaying Game.

• Ties in with The Jade Regent Adventure Path and thePathfinder Campaign Setting Dragon Empires Gazetteer,both major 2011 Paizo releases.

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Publisher: Paizo Publishing, LLC.Size: 11 x 8Format: Box, Black & WhitePublication Date: 11/1/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-372-9Price: $34.99 (CAN: $42.99, £30.99)

PLANET STORIES: THE PLANET KILLERS

PLANET STORIES: THE CHALICE OF DEATH

Publisher: Paizo Publishing, LLC.Writer: Robert SilverbergSize: 6 x 9.25, 400 pagesFormat: Softcover, Black & WhitePublication Date: 9/27/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-336-1Price: $15.99 (CAN: $19.99, £11.99)

Publisher: Paizo Publishing, LLC.Writer: Robert SilverbergSize: 6 x 9.25, 400 pagesPublication Date: 12/6/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-377-4Price: $15.99 (CAN: $19.99, £11.99)

The Planet Killers includes three novel-length adventures byscience fiction Grand Master and multiple Hugo and NebulaAward-winner Robert Silverberg: The Planet Killers, The PlotAgainst Earth, and One of Our Asteroids is Missing. Never be-fore reprinted since their original appearances and with a newintroduction by the author, these three novels of science fic-tion adventure blaze back onto the scene, revealing early mas-terworks of one of the genre’s most gifted and celebratedstorytellers!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• First ever compilation of these stories, with a brand-newintroduction by the author looking back at the stories thathelped launch his career.

Three complete novels of mystery in space from Grand MasterRobert Silverberg explode back into print for the first time indecades in this thrilling new Planet Stories collection: The Chaliceof Death, Starhaven, and Shadow on the Stars. Theseextremely scarce tales originally appeared in the legendary AceDouble novel series, and represent a future multiple Hugo andNebula Award-winning author bridging the explosive, action-oriented science fiction adventures of the early pulps with moreintrospective themes of the new wave that swept sci-fi inthe 1960s.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• First-ever compilation of these stories, with a brand-newintroduction by the author looking back at the stories thathelped to launch his career.

• These rare tales were previously available only to dedicatedvintage paperback and pulp magazine collectors, and mosthave been out of print for decades.

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Publisher: Prime BooksWriter: Clive Barker, ChristopherGolden, Joe R. Lansdale,Robert R. McCammon,China Miéville, Cherie Priest,Jeff VanderMeerSize: 6 x 9, 384 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 9/27/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60701-284-9Price: $14.95(CAN: $16.95, £10.99)

Monsters: As old as the oldest of stories, as new as ourlatest imaginings. From the ancient stone corridors ofthe labyrinth to the graffitied alleyways of the contemporarymetropolis, they stalk the shadows. Close as the clutterunder the bed or the other side of the mirror, they are ourtruest companions.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Creatures features the best monster fiction from the pastthirty years, offering a wide variety of the best monsterstories including original stories from the field’s mostrelevant names and hottest newcomers including CliveBarker, Sarah Langan, Joe R. Lansdale, Kelly Link, ChinaMiéville, and Cherie Priest.

HALLOWEEN

Publisher: Prime BooksWriter: Ray Bradbury,Caitlin R. Kiernan, ThomasLigotti, H. P. Lovecraft,Stewart O’Nan, Al Sarrantonio,Peter Straub, F. Paul WilsonSize: 6 x 9, 480 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 9/27/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60701-283-2Price: $14.95(CAN: $18.99, £10.99)

Shivers and spirits... the mystical and macabre... our darkestfears and sweetest fantasies... the fun and frivolity of tricks,treats, festivities, and masquerades. Halloween is a holidayfilled with both delight and dread, beloved by youngsters andadults alike. Celebrate the most magical season of the yearwith this sensational treasury of seasonal tales — spooky, sus-penseful, terrifying, or teasing — harvested from a multitude ofmaster storytellers.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• First time ever in print together: Bradbury’s legendary “TheOctober Game” and New York Times bestseller F. PaulWilson’s sequel/homage, “The November Game.”

THE YEAR’S BEST DARK FANTASY& HORROR, 2011 EDITION

Publisher: Prime BooksWriter: Holly Black, NeilGaiman, Caitlin Kiernan,Joe R. Lansdale, Tanith Lee,Tim Powers, John Shirley,George R. R. MartinSize: 6 x 9, 544 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 8/23/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60701-281-8Price: $19.95(CAN: $24.99, £14.99)

This incomparable annual compilation of the best short fictionand novellas features an unmatched variety of the quietlyweird, the merely eerie, high fantasy, modern Lovecraftian hor-ror, nightmarish near-future scenarios, the darkly humorous,the supernatural, and the monstrously mundane from thebrightest new talent.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Features legendary authors and bestsellers including JoeR. Lansdale, Tanith Lee, Gene Wolfe, Holly Black, NeilGaiman, and Sarah Langan.

• Includes a 36,000 word novella by George R.R. Martin setin his A Song of Fire and Ice universe.

• “...certain to join the year’s-best collections as a staple inthe genre-fiction world.” — Booklist

• “...an expansive definition of the genre.” — Publishers Weekly

NEW CTHULHU:THE RECENT WEIRD

Publisher: Prime BooksWriter: Neil Gaiman, ChinaMiéville, Caitlin R. Kiernan,Sarah Monette, Kim Newman,Cherie Priest, Michael MarshallSmith, Charles StrossArtist: Rafael TavaresSize: 6 x 9, 528 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 11/29/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60701-289-4Price: $15.95(CAN: $17.95, £11.99)

For more than 80 years H.P. Lovecraft has inspired writers ofsupernatural fiction, artists, musicians, filmmakers, andgaming. New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird presents some ofthe best of this new Lovecraftian fiction — bizarre, subtle,atmospheric, metaphysical, psychological, filled with strangecreatures and stranger characters — eldritch, unsettling,evocative, and darkly appealing.

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CREATURES: THIRTYYEARS OF MONSTERS

Publisher: Prime BooksWriter: Sarah MonetteSize: 5.5 x 8.5, 288 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 10/18/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60701-290-0Price: $14.95(CAN: $16.95, £10.99)

Kyle Murchison Booth is the unlikeliest of characters to gain acult following, yet he has. Eccentric, socially awkward Booth isan introverted museum archivist, descended from a most un-usual family, who frequently finds himself in the midst of themost unsettling supernatural experiences and strange necro-mantic mysteries.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• A gentleman and a scholar, the unwilling hero perseveredthrough The Bone Key, a series of interconnected shortstories, to win readers’ hearts (and possibly their souls).

• Featuring a “puzzle” cover, this new edition of The Bone Keywill delight current fans and allow even more to discover itsdark charms.

• “Sarah Monette can write like a dream.”— PublishersWeekly

Publisher: Prime BooksWriter: Sarah MonetteSize: 5.5 x 8.5, 336 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 11/2/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60701-305-1Price: $14.95(CAN: $16.95, £10.99)

The first non-themed collection of critically acclaimed authorSarah Monette’s best short fiction. To paraphrase Hugo-awardwinner Elizabeth Bear’s introduction: “Monette’s prose is lap-idary, her ideas are fantastical and chilling. There is nothing elsequite like Sarah Monette’s fiction.”

MAYAN DECEMBER

Publisher: Prime BooksWriter: Brenda CooperSize: 6 x 9, 384 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 8/23/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60701-263-4Price: $14.95(CAN: $18.99, £10.99)

A savvy scientist, a handsome dreadlocked time-traveler, anancient shaman, a noble Mayan couple, a computer nerd, andan 11-year old traverse the past and present in a search forthe meaning of life — and a way to save two worlds!

LIGHTSPEED: YEAR ONE

Publisher: Prime BooksWriter: Stephen King, OrsonScott Card, George R. R. Martin,Robert Silverberg, Ursula K.Le Guin, Robert Reed, AnneMcCaffrey, Nancy KressSize: 6 x 9, 480 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 11/15/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60701-304-4Price: $16.95(CAN: $18.95, £12.99)

Lightspeed is the critically-acclaimed, online science fictionmagazine edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams.In Lightspeed: Year One, you will find all of the fiction publishedin Lightspeed‘s first year, including new stories by Nebula Awardfinalists, Vylar Kaftan’s [“I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You inReno”] and Adam-Troy Castro [“Arvies”], Carrie Vaughn’s HugoAward-nominee “Amaryllis,” and classic reprints by StephenKing, Ursula K. Le Guin, and George R. R. Martin.

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SOMEWHERE BENEATHTHOSE WAVES

THE BONE KEY: THENECROMANTIC MYSTERIES OFKYLE MURCHISON BOOTH

MYTHS OF ORIGIN:FOUR SHORT NOVELS

Publisher:Wyrm PublishingWriter: Catherynne M. ValenteSize: 6 x 9, 384 pagesFormat: Softcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 11/15/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-890464-14-1Price: $15.95(CAN: $17.95, £11.99)

Live the Myth! New York Times best-seller Catherynne M.Valente is the single most compelling voice to emerge infantasy fiction in decades. Collected here for the first time, herearly short novels (The Labyrinth, The Grass-Cutting Sword ,Under in the Mere, and Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams)explore, deconstruct, and ultimately explode the seminalmyths of both East and West, casting them in ways you’venever read before and may never read again.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Come visit the worlds of myth and fantasy made strangeagain, and then all-too familiar by the winner of theMythopoeic, Andre Norton, and James Tiptree Jr. awards.

DRAGON MOUND

Publisher:Sea Lion BooksWriter: Richard A. KnaakSize: 9 x 6, 592 pagesFormat: Hardcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 10/25/2011ISBN-13: 978-0-9828186-1-9Price: $24.95(CAN: $29.95, £18.99)

More than two centuries ago, the three kingdoms of Rundin,Wallmyre, and Tepis banded together at the urging of the wiz-ard Paulo Centuros to combat the ambitions of the sorcerer-king, Novaris. Yet, although they were triumphant and the forcesof the sorcerer-king were scattered, Novaris himself was not tobe found. Uncertain as to whether their foe was dead, the wiz-ard sent forth the knight Evan Wytherling on a quest to seek thetruth about Novaris, no matter how long it took. However, in fer-reting out the secrets of Novaris’s disappearance, Evan uncov-ers the sorcerer-king’s long-dreamt plot of vengeance...and thefact that not only is he key to them, but that the dead — evendragons — may not rest easy!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Richard A. Knaak is the New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author of World of Warcraft: Stormrage,Dragonlance: The Legend of Huma, and over forty othernovels and numerous short stories, including works in suchseries asWarcraft, Diablo, Dragonlance, Age of Conan, andhis own Dragonrealm.

WINNING MARS

Publisher: Prime BooksWriter: Jason StoddardSize: 5.5 x 8.5, 320 pagesFormat: Softcover, Black & WhitePublication Date: 11/29/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-60701-216-0Price: $14.95 (CAN: $18.99, £10.99)

Jere Gutierrez is bucking the trend at the dying art of “linear”entertainment — what we know today as TV shows. Of course,every one of his stories are fabricated, even though they’re soldas “real.” Desperate for another story, one large enough to cap-ture the attention of the world, he teams up with a retired TV ex-ecutive to create an ad-supported mission to Mars. What Jeredoesn’t know is just how captivating hisWinning Mars will be.

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DOCTOR WHO AND THEABOMINABLE SNOWMEN

Publisher:Random House UKWriter: Terrance DicksSize: 5 x 7, 160 pagesFormat: Softcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 8/23/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-192-5Price: $6.99 (CAN: $8.99)

The Doctor has been to Det-Sen Monastery before, and expectsthe welcome of a life time. But, fearing an attack by the leg-endary Yeti, the monks are prepared to defend themselves, andsee the Doctor as a threat! The Doctor and his friends join forceswith Travers, an English explorer out to prove the existence of theelusive abominable snowmen. But they soon discover that theseYeti are not the timid animals that Travers seeks — they are theunstoppable servants of an alien Intelligence!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Featuring the Second Doctor as played by PatrickTroughton, this novel is based on a Doctor Who story whichwas originally broadcast from September 30 thru November4, 1967.

• These long-out-of-print, classic novelizations were hugelysuccessful, with lifetime sales of up to 100,000 copies each.

Publisher:Random House UKWriter: Terrance DicksSize: 5 x 7, 160 pagesFormat: Softcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 8/23/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-193-2Price: $6.99 (CAN: $8.99)

Put on trial by the Time Lords, and found guilty of interfering inthe affairs of other worlds, the Doctor is exiled to Earth in the20th century, his appearance once again changed. His arrivalcoincides with a meteorite shower. But these are no ordinarymeteorites. The Nestene Consciousness has begun its firstattempt to invade Earth using killer Autons and deadly shopwindow dummies!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Featuring the Third Doctor as played by Jon Pertwee, thisnovel is based on “Spearhead from Space,” a Doctor Whostory which was originally broadcast in January 1970.


DOCTOR WHO ANDTHE CRUSADERS

Publisher:Random House UKWriter: David WhitakerSize: 5 x 7, 160 pagesFormat: Softcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 8/23/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-190-1Price: $6.99 (CAN: $8.99)

Arriving in the Holy Land in the middle of the Third Crusade,the Doctor and his companions befriend Richard the Lionheart,but must survive the cut-throat politics of the English court.Even with the king on their side, they find they have madepowerful enemies.

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Featuring the First Doctor as played by William Hartnell, thisnovel is based on a Doctor Who story which was originallybroadcast from March 27 thru April 17, 1965.


DOCTOR WHO ANDTHE CAVE MONSTERS

Publisher:Random House UKWriter: Malcolm HulkeSize: 5 x 7, 160 pagesFormat: Softcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 8/23/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-194-9Price: $6.99 (CAN: $8.99)

UNIT is called in to investigate security at a secret researchcenter buried under Wenley Moor. Unknown to the Doctor andhis colleagues, the work at the center has woken a group ofSilurians — intelligent reptiles that used to be the dominant lifeform on Earth in prehistoric times — who are appalled to find‘their’ planet populated by upstart apes!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Featuring the Third Doctor as played by Jon Pertwee, thisnovel is based on “The Silurians,” a Doctor Who story whichwas originally broadcast from January 31 thru March 14,1970.


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DOCTOR WHO ANDTHE AUTON INVASION

Publisher:Random House UKWriter: Gerry DavisSize: 5 x 7, 160 pagesFormat: Softcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 8/23/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-191-8Price: $6.99 (CAN: $8.99)

In 2070, the Earth’s weather is controlled from a base on themoon. But when the Doctor and his friends arrive here, theydiscover all is not well. Some malevolent force is infecting thecrew and sabotaging the systems as a prelude to an invasionof Earth. And the Doctor thinks he knows who’s behind it:the Cybermen!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Featuring the Second Doctor as played by PatrickTroughton, this novel is based on “The Moonbase,” a DoctorWho story which was originally broadcast from February 11thru March 4, 1967.


DOCTOR WHOAND THE DALEKS

Publisher:Random House UKWriter: David WhitakerSize: 5 x 7, 160 pagesFormat: Softcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 8/23/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-195-6Price: $6.99 (CAN: $8.99)

The mysterious Doctor and his granddaughter Susan arejoined by unwilling adventurers Ian Chesterton and BarbaraWright in an epic struggle for survival on an alien planet. In avast metal city they discover the survivors of a terrible nuclearwar — the Daleks. Held captive in the deepest levels of thecity, can the Doctor and his new companions stop the Daleks’plan to totally exterminate their mortal enemies, the peace-loving Thals?

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Featuring the First Doctor as played by William Hartnell, thisnovel is based on the second Doctor Who story which wasoriginally broadcast from December 21, 1963, to February1, 1964.


DOCTOR WHO: PARADOX LOST

Publisher:Random House UKWriter: George MannSize: 6 x 9, 256 pagesFormat: Hardcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 8/2/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-235-9Price: $11.99 (CAN: $14.99)

The Doctor and his friends must solve a mystery that hasspanned over a thousand years. Travelling backwards and for-wards in time, they must unravel the threads of an ancient plot.If they fail, the deadly alien Squall will devour the world!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy, andRory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and ArthurDarvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.

• Doctor Who is the most popular family program ontelevision — the new series starring Matt Smith debuted to8 million viewers and averaged 6 million per episode, withan average 24% audience share.

DOCTOR WHO:BORROWED TIME

Publisher:Random House UKWriter: Naomi AldermanSize: 6 x 9, 256 pagesFormat: Hardcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 8/2/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-233-5Price: $11.99 (CAN: $14.99)

Andrew Brown never has enough time. But, time is the busi-ness of Mr. Symington and Mr. Blenkinsop. They’ll lend AndrewBrown some time — at a very reasonable rate of interest. If hewas in trouble before he borrowed time, things have just got alot worse! Detecting a problem, the Doctor, Amy, and Rorymust move fast to stop Symington and Blenkinsop before theycash in their investments. The Harvest is approaching!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy, andRory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and ArthurDarvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.

• Sales of Doctor Who books since the show returned in 2005have exceeded 4 million copies.

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DOCTOR WHO ANDTHE CYBERMEN

DOCTOR WHO: THE SILENTSTARS GO BY

Publisher:Random House UKWriter: Dan AbnettSize: 5.25 x 8, 352 pagesFormat: Hardcover,Black & WhitePublication Date: 11/29/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-243-4Price: $19.99 (CAN: $24.99)

For centuries the Maintainers have worked. With no help fromother worlds, they subsist on the food they can grow and that’slittle enough. Now as their crops fail, livestock sickens, and thetemperature drops, it’s becoming impossible. This year’s Win-ter Season Feast won’t be the usual celebration. It’s not a timefor optimism or hope — and it’s not a time to welcome unex-pected guests. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory find a society break-ing apart under the strain. Tensions are mounting, old rivalriesare coming to the fore, people are dying... And then theDoctor’s old enemies, the Ice Warriors, make their move!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• BBC Books’ first Doctor Who Christmas Special— a stand-alone, Christmas-themed adventure.

• Doctor Who Christmas Specials are now an establishedtradition, drawing in huge ratings: the most recent hadconsolidated figures of 12.1 million, with a 42% share.

• Doctor Who fiction continues to dominate the charts, withevery one of Random Houses’ 2010 novels hitting thebookscan Top 10 for hardback fiction; sales averaged over30,000 copies per novel into the trade.

DOCTOR WHO: THE COMINGOF THE TERRAPHILES

Publisher:Random House UKWriter: Michael MoorcockSize: 6 x 9, 352 pagesFormat: Softcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 9/20/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-140-6Price: $12.99 (CAN: $16.50)

Miggea — a star on the very edge of reality. The cusp betweenthis universe and the next. A point where space-time has wornthin, and is in danger of collapsing... and the venue for thegrand finals of the competition to win the fabled Arrow of Law!The Doctor and Amy have joined the Terraphiles — a group ob-sessed with all aspects of Earth’s history, and dedicated to re-enacting ancient sporting events… and they are determined towin the Arrow!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• BBC Books’ first Doctor Who Special—an epic, standalone

Doctor Who novel by science fiction and fantasy giantMichael Moorcock.

• A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy,as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacularhit series from BBC Television.

DOCTOR WHO: TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL

Publisher: Random House UKWriter: Jonathan MorrisSize: 6 x 9, 256 pagesFormat: Hardcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 8/2/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-234-2Price: $11.99 (CAN: $14.99)

In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Herhusband Mark is still grieving. Then he receives a batteredenvelope, posted eight years ago, containing a set of instruc-tions and a letter with a simple message: “You can save her.”As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca, it’s up to theDoctor, Amy, and Rory to save the world. Because this time theWeeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon...

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TORCHWOOD: THE MENWHO SOLD THE WORLD

Publisher:Random House UKWriter: Guy AdamsSize: 6 x 9, 256 pagesFormat: Softcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 9/20/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-285-4Price: $11.99 (CAN: $14.99)

When Oscar Lupe appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his bodyis frozen solid and free-falling to earth. It shatters on impact.Soon after, a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes roguewith a cargo marked ‘Torchwood’ that they’ve been escortingfrom somewhere called Cardiff: a very special shipment theBritish government is keen to offload at almost any price!

KEY SELLING POINTS:• Based on the hit series created by Russell T Davies, The

Men Who Sold The World is a prequel to Torchwood:Miracle Day.

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• BBC Books has sold over 300,000 copies of Torchwoodfiction worldwide since 2006

TORCHWOOD:LONG TIME DEAD

Publisher:Random House UKWriter: Sarah PinboroughSize: 6 x 9, 256 pagesFormat: Softcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 9/20/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-284-7Price: $11.99 (CAN: $14.99)

Cardiff Bay. The government has ordered the excavation of thewreckage of a secret underground base. The disbanded Torch-wood Institute spent a century accumulating non-terrestrial ar-tifacts and catching aliens. Who knows what - or who - mightstill be intact down there. But by the time they find the firstbody, Suzie Costello is long gone.

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Time Dead is a prequel to Torchwood: Miracle Day.



TORCHWOOD: FIRST BORN

Publisher: Random House UKWriter: James GossSize: 6 x 9, 256 pagesFormat: Softcover, Full ColorPublication Date: 9/13/2011ISBN-13: 978-1-84990-283-0Price: $11.99 (CAN: $14.99)

Gwen and Rhys are on the run. Rhys was hoping this meant awindswept cottage on a cliff top, but he’s had to settle for amiserable caravan in the isolated village of Rawbone. With thelocals taking an unhealthy interest in their daughter, Gwen andRhys start to realize that something is very wrong— somethingwith echoes of a life they thought they’d left behind.

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Born is a prequel to Torchwood: Miracle Day.



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