So just like we thought, it's pretty much the same wherever you are in Europe (at least western Europe).

Yalahii.

Good luck and patience. :) I think I'll go to my regular bookstore this afternoon and ask them about ordering... As long as they don't charge me more, I think I'll let them order, since it's more easy to deliver it there (as in I'm never at home).

Yalahii.

[ March 27, 2006: Message edited by: Sahi ]

Thanks Rimmers! Party in the Mint!

Yalahii.

Just preordered from SubTer. ~pleased~

The cover art has been posted on the subterranean press page.

I like it. :-)

[ May 27, 2006: Message edited by: Avi Stetto ]

From Publishers Weekly
Those who know prolific novelist Williams from his epic series (Shadowmarch, etc.) may be surprised by this collection of 15 short stories plus a smattering of nonfiction and television concepts. As with his longer work, nearly every story overlays several plot lines, providing an epic aura without the length. "Three Duets for Virgin and Nosehorn" weaves together the life, death and mythology of a fabulous single-horned beast; "Child of an Ancient City" (later expanded to novel length by Nina Kiriki Hoffman) details a fateful tale-telling contest; and "The Writer's Child" is the haunting story of a child telling a story about a child reading a story. The collection's second half falters: Michael Moorcock fan fiction pieces, "The Author at the End of Time" and "Go Ask Elric," and his Otherland series tie-in, "The Happiest Dead Boy in the World," are ponderous with backstory. The flatness of the essays and TV scripts disappoints after the lyrical fun of the fiction. Still, the stand-alone stories make this volume worthwhile. (Dec.)
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From Green Man Review:
The highlight of this collection is of course his fantastic fiction. Whether it's about pseudo time travel, vampires, unicorns (or a realistic interpretation of one), Tad Williams delivers in nearly every single fictional piece. Among my personal favourites was "The Happiest Dead Boy In the World", which is a continuation of sorts from the Otherland series, regarding ill protagonist Orlando and how he's adapted to near-immortal life in a fantastical computer simulation...

Other exceptional pieces included "Three Duets for Virgin and Nosehorn", about how a certain one-horned creature isn't exactly a unicorn but does a bang up job of protecting virginity nonetheless; "The Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of", which isn't strictly a fantasy but explores the dirty laundry of magicians; the hilarious "The Author at the End of Time", where a fantasy world of people with very inaccurate ideas about literature are visited by a man who claims to be their author (and although the introduction to this story warns that anyone who hasn't read Michael Moorcock's work might not get all the jokes, I certainly enjoyed it enough to want to start reading Michael Moorcock), and "Child of an Ancient City", a tragic horror story about an abandoned group of Muslims who encounter a vampire in the forests of medieval Europe.

Tad Williams' short fiction is written with the beauty of language that he has become known for, but also with the winking sense of humour a youth often shows to a beloved mentor, especially in the pieces he writes in honour of authors who have personally influenced him. For example, "Three Duets" is a tribute to Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, and "The Author at the End of Time" and "Go Ask Elric" are weighted with Moorcock references.