This Week's Acquisitions
- James P. Blaylock, Homunculus (Titan, 2013). Reprint of Blaylock's steampunk novel from 1986, one of a series featuring the dastardly Ignacio Narbondo vs. scientist-hero Langdon St. Ives; here, they square off over a mysterious alien lifeform orbiting the earth in an airship. (Barnes & Noble)
- ---, Lord Kelvin's Machine (Titan, 2013). Narbondo vs. Ives again, this time over murder, resurrection, and rifts in the space-time continuum (OK, not quite). (Barnes & Noble)
- William Boyd, An Ice-Cream War (Vintage, 1999). Jealousy, personal entanglements, and family strife set against the background of WWI. (Barnes & Noble)
- Caryl Ferey, Utu, trans. Howard Curtis (Europa, 2011). Translation of Ferey's 2004 novel about the investigation of a suicide (or was it?) that leads to the Maori. (Barnes & Noble)