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We have three books out this month:
The first is BLUR 5, the latest volume collecting Steve Bissette's movie reviews. Steve is the artist of SWAMP THING and the first publisher of FROM HELL.
The second book is IGNIS, THE CENTRAL FIRE a very strange proto-sci-fi novel from 1883 describing some kind of dystopia fueled by magma energy, with steam-powered robots which end up revolting and driving the whole place into space on a chunk of Earth. To top it all, the Wandering Jew figures in it, and believe it or not, it's perhaps the first (and only?) creationist sci-fi novel (Biblical age of the Earth, etc.) ever written. Very odd, but an acquired taste.
The cover is by French artist Dimitri Rastorgoueff.
Finally, our third book is our own, new translation of ROULETABILLE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM. As always, comparing the previous English translation to the French version was astonishing -- about 30 book pages of French text had purely and simply be omitted, and further, several passages of this complex, clockwork-like closed-room mystery had been mistranslated. It's amazing that anyone actually understood the book before!
In addition to being one of the best and cleverest detective novels ever, YELLOW ROOM has references to Holmes, Dupin and Lecoq -- I think Leroux was knowingly playing to the gallery -- and a few other bits that most readers of genre fiction will find fascinating.
The cover is by David Rabbitte.
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