Subterranean Press has just announced two new books on their schedule for February 2008 publication: The Other Teddy Roosevelts by Mike Resnick and After the War: Two Tales of Noreela by Tim Lebbon. Both will be limited to 1000 signed, numbered copies for $35 each. Bob Eggleton will be painting for the cover for the Resnick, while Tomislav Tikulin will do Lebbon’s cover.
Resnick’s book is described thus: “Theodore Roosevelt: president, naturalist, explorer, author, cowboy, police commissioner, deputy marshal, soldier, taxidermist, ornithologist, and boxer. Everyone knows about that. But how about vampire hunter? Or African king? Or Jack the Ripper’s nemesis? Or World War I doughboy?
“Mike Resnick has been the biographer of these other Teddy Roosevelts for almost two decades. Here you will find a familiar Roosevelt, but in unfamiliar surroundings—stalking a vampire through the streets of New York, or a crazed killer down the back alleys of Whitechapel, coming face-to-face with the devastation of 20th Century warfare, waging an early battle for women’s suffrage, applying all his skills to bring American democracy to the untamed African wilderness, or coming face-to-face with one of H.G. Wells’ Martian invaders in the swamps of Cuba.
“And, as Winston Churchill said of the Arthurian legends if these stories aren’t true, then they should have been.”
Lebbon’s book is a collection of two novellas set in his signature world of Noreela. In “Vale of Blood Roses,” a “mercenary should be allowed to quit. That’s what Jakk thinks. But his companions don’t want to quit. As the Cataclysmic War ends they enter a valley that should not exist, see machines that should be dead, and interrupt something that should be left alone. There’s regret, but some actions can’t be undone. There’s hope, but it’s so obviously false. And there’s revenge.”
“The Bajuman” is the story of Korrin, who is “vilified for some vague wrongdoing in his people’s past. He’s also a hunter, making his living tracking down lost people, forgotten things. Charged with finding a missing fodder—member of an ancient race originally bred for food—he soon realizes a painful truth. In Noreela City, still recovering from the Great Plagues, everyone is lost.”
Both volumes are available for pre-order on www.SubterraneanPress.com.