Today was a going round talking to people day, which I did a fair amount of. Here are some things I can actually talk about.

Top of the list must be Liverpool University Press who have a previously-unpublished John Wyndham novel that they are going to release this year. It is about a plan to create a clone of Hitler, and it was written long before Boys from Brazil. The book is called Plan for Chaos. Here’s the cover.

Bay Area folks will be interested to know that Seanan McGuire is about to become a big name writer. Daw are not here themselves, but there was a US rights sale company that had many books on offer, and they ones they were making the biggest fuss about (out of all of the publishers they represented) were Seanan’s forthcoming Rosemary and Rue trilogy. Here are the posters.

Also I got a freebie. It is a Welsh science fiction novel. Howell Davies, writing under the pen name of Andrew Marvell, wrote three SF novels for Gollancz in the 1930s. Davies was a close friend of Robert Graves and also knew James Joyce. His third novel, Congratulate the Devil, has recently been re-published by Library of Wales, and I now have a copy. If the blurb is anything to go by, it has a lot of drug taking in it.