Our friends in Canada have sent us two new books to sell. The first is Rasputin’s Bastards by David Nickle, which sounds distinctly creepy. I can do no better than quote the start of the blurb:

They were the beautiful dreamers. From a hidden city deep in the Ural mountains, they walked the world as the coldest of Cold Warriors, under the command of the Kremlin and under the power of their own expansive minds. They slipped into the minds of Russia’s enemies with diabolical ease, and drove their human puppets to murder, and worse. They moved as Gods. And as Gods, they might have remade the world. But like the mad holy man Rasputin, who destroyed Russia through his own powerful influence… in the end, the psychic spies for the Motherland were only in it for themselves.

The other book is Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, edited Sandra Kasturi & Halli Villegas. It is, as the title suggests, made up of writers by Canadians, and there are a lot of really great writers in it. The Table of Contents includes Steven Erikson, Gemma Files, Geoff Ryman, Lisa L. Hannett, Peter Watts, Helen Marshall, Cory Doctorow, Madeline Ashby and many others. It is a huge anthology, and a great way to check out what Canada has to offer.