Elder Signs Press announces three upcoming novels and an updated reference volume. Each will be available as a signed, numbered, limited edition hardcover (50 copies each), a signed trade paperback, and a regular trade paperback.
John Shirley’s Black Glass is billed as “the lost cyberpunk novel,” and should be out this Summer or Autumn.
In the future, we will forget who we are…
Taking the fall for his younger brother, Richard Candle went from being cyber cop to condemned criminal. After four years of UnMinding—his mind suppressed, his body enslaved—he’s released to discover his brother has slipped back into the underworld of the V-Rat, the virtual reality addict.
Meanwhile, Candle’s harried by the murderous Grist, the head of the world’s biggest multinational. But his real enemy is something else: a conscious program, the Multisemblant, a meld of copied personalities, the dark side of five powerful people, with its own brutal agenda.
Human society is sinking ever deeper a mire of escapism—but Richard Candle, looking for his missing brother, fights his way through the real world of underground stock markets, flying guns, the trash-walled labyrinth of Rooftown and the fringe of the fringe.
In Summer 2008, they’ll be publishing Pallid Light by Alexander Griffin.
The world ends with the flip of a switch. The thundering storms strike across the world, searing the earth, leaving destruction in their wake. Few will survive.
For the folks living in Temperance, Illinois, the nightmare is just beginning. When the sky roils in luminous colors, the people of the small town begin to die, and Randall Clay decides to escape. What he didn’t expect was the dead to come back to life—or the nightmare that came after that.
And in the Autumn, they’ll release James Lowder’s The Screaming Tower, which is book one of “The Ebonacht Trilogy.”
Superstition shrouds the island of Thran and keeps the fear-plagued inhabitants subservient to the reclusive tyrant, Lord Ebonacht, and the denizens of the unseen Twilight Court. Only Janus, an orphan whose own mysterious past is discussed in frightened whispers, rails against the tales of the Strangerfolk and the other creatures that are rumored to stalk the night. His quest to prove the old stories false will bring him face to face with the prisoner of the Screaming Tower and reveal secrets about the world—and himself—far more terrible than those hinted at in the grimmest of legends.
Elder Signs also plans to publish the third edition of The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia by Daniel Harms sometime in mid-2008. It will be “updated with more fiction listings and recent material, this unique book spans the years of H.P. Lovecraft’s influence in culture, entertainment, and fiction. The voluminous entries make The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia invaluable for anyone knowledgeable about the Cthulhu Mythos and necessary for those longing to learn about the Cosmic Horrors from past and present decades.”