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I love it when some of my favorite things come together into one great collectible item!

• Peter V. Brett is one of the nicest and most fun writers you will ever meet.
• Subterranean Press is a small specialty press producing some of the highest quality fully illustrated editions of fantasy and science fiction books in the marketplace.
• The Warded Man, titled The Painted Man in the UK, is one of the breakout debut books of 2009.

Put all of those together with a gorgeous cover, and one great book is forthcoming!

Subterranean Press announced today that they will be producing The Great Bazaar and Other Stories, a collection of short stories set in the same demon-ridden world as The Warded Man. It will contain a long new sotyr, as well as several outtakes from the first novel in the series—really, standalone short stories themselves—as well as additional material to flesh out Brett’s bravura storytelling.

In addition to the small trade hardcover, Subterranean Press is producing only 200 signed numbered copies, which, given Brett and epic fantasy’s popularity, are certain to sell quickly!

The Great Bazaar and Other Stories will be released in January 2010.

Also announced today is a very cool limited edition of Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself, the first volume of one of the grittiest, most exciting, bloody epic fantasy trilogies to come down the pike in over a decade. As Joe is also one of the best fantasy writers going right now, read more about the Subterranean Press edition HERE!

I love beautiful special editions! Nice job, Subterranean!

Here are the other book, DVD and movie releases for the week!

BOOKS

• Primeval: Extinction Event by Dan Abnett
• Seven for a Secret by Elizabeth Bear
• The Other in the Mirror by Philip Jose Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey
• Buyout by Alexander Irvine
• The Unincorporated Man by Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin

DVDS

• Chronicles of Riddick & Pitch Black [Blu-ray]
• The Matrix 10th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Book [Blu-ray]

IN THEATERS FRIDAY

• No New Movies

Every once in a while I will bring attention to something that I want for my collection—in hopes of finding a few others out there with common interest as well as highlighting a book I think deserves it.

The Subterranean Press edition of Drood, written by Dan Simmons, is one such book.

Dan was just in town, talking about Drood and the last five years in the life of Charles Dickens. It was utterly fascinating. Tomorrow I will post seven videos of Dan talking about Drood as well as reading from Drood, but I just couldn’t resist posting the Subterranean Press edition simply because it is gorgeous! The man on the cover is obviously Dickens, but if you look closely at his hat you see it is constructed of a collapsing train bridge, the event that altered the life of arguably the most famous writer in the 19th century. As that bridge collapsed, so did Dickens’ life, and the character of Drood rises up out of the smoke behind the train. That literary cover is just too beautiful and poignant not to love.

If you are a fan of beautifully wrought books or a fan of Dan Simmons, Subterranean Press is taking orders for that book now. Check it out HERE!

I am a bibliophile. As I’ve said before, I’ve been one for more than two decades. There is something about having a book, reading a book, and placing read book on the bookshelf to sit with other read books that appeals to some scholarly aspect of my personality. If I surround myself with smart things, perhaps I’ll be smart? It’s a hopeless belief and one that obviously has not come true yet!

What about surrounding oneself with beautifully made books? That’s where Subterranean Press comes in—and their example of the limited, fully-illustrated edition of Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson!