#exclusive books

[shortandsharp]

[bixels]

me too, luna.

[bluecrocss]

Adult PJO fans: "I can't relate to her if she doesn't look like me" "this is disrespectful to book!Annabeth" "I can't see her as the same character if she's black" "blonde, white women are soooo underrepresented in media. No one else can understand 😫"

Meanwhile, the actual demographic the show and books are for:

(@/walkersriptide_ on TikTok)

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Caveats in the tags.

[vintrage]

fire cannot kill a dragon BITCH

[gollancz]

our office proof has arrived (singular) so Brendan now the most popular person here as everyone swarms to his desk to coo over it. It's not allowed to leave his sight.

Fun fact! The cover and endpaper art is designed by Daniel Brown, who we worked with on our last set of paperbacks of the series back in 2016.

Daniel's work is tied into his programming background, marrying design with creative generative engines to create this phenomenal abstract but distinctly urban scenes. He's the perfect artist for this book, and I'm so happy we were able to bring him back for this gorgeous edition, and that he's created an entirely new work of art for it.

NEUROMANCER 40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION

don't mind me posting fifteen things in a row because EVERYTHING EXCITING IS HAPPENING THIS WEEK

We have just announced our 40th anniversary special edition of NEUROMANCER, and already nearly half have been sold in pre-orders. Brendan said so, and Brendan would know.

In fact, we actually have TWO special editions.

For £250, you can get one of only 200 signed copies:

Numbered edition of just 200 copies, signed by the author William Gibson

Housed in a bespoke soft-touch solander box with magnetic-shutting doors with original artwork designed by Daniel Brown

Marker ribbon to remove book from box

Book interior printed in two colours

Endpapers designed by Daniel Brown

Featuring 25 illustrations by Marco Luna

Striking chapter head artwork

Marker ribbon

Head and tail bands

Sprayed edge

Holographic foil blocked real cloth cover

Printed on 140gsm Golden Sun acid free paper

Sewn binding

And in recognition of cozzie livs, we also have a limited run of 500 unsigned copies:

Limited to just 500 copies

Book interior printed in two colours

Stunning dust jacket and endpapers designed by Daniel Brown

Featuring 25 illustrations by Marco Luna

Striking chapter head artwork

Marker ribbon

Head and tail bands

Sprayed edge

Holographic foil blocked real cloth cover

Printed on 140gsm Golden Sun acid free paper

Sewn binding

PLEASE NOTE: this edition is not signed by the author and is not numbered

When I say these are STUNNING, I mean that Brendan has pushed the boundaries on what we offer with our exclusive editions, the spec on these is incredible. Between these and our anniversary edition of The Dispossessed, we have reached new heights on the finishes. they are truly really special collectors items.

Unfortunately these editions aren't available in:

American Samoa

Canada

Guam

Northern Mariana Islands

United States Minor Outlying Islands

Micronesia, Federated States of

Marshall Islands

Philippines

Puerto Rico

United States of America

Virgin Islands, U.S.

But for everyone else? Special edition Hunger Games is ON.

[communistkenobi]

On the one hand, slavery represented the most radical rural degradation of labour imaginable - the conversion of men themselves into inert means of production by their deprivation of every social right and their legal assimilation to beasts of burden: in Roman theory, the agricultural slave was designated an instrumentum vocale, the speaking tool, one grade away from the livestock that constituted an instrumentum semi-vocale, and two from the implement which was an instrumentum mutum. On the other hand, slavery was simultaneously the most drastic urban commercialization of labour conceivable: the reduction of the total person of the labourer to a standard object of sale and purchase, in metropolitan markets of commodity exchange.

— Perry Anderson (1974), Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, pp. 24-25

I always knew that the Roman Empire probably wasn’t great to live in for a variety of reasons but reading about the obscene amounts of chattel slavery they were doing is really driving home why all the fascist guys on twitter are obsessed with this period of history

[ragsy]

I handle a lot of books every day, and I have learned that cozy mystery novels (which the grandmas go NUTS over) always have some sort of cute animal or whimsical handicraft on the cover, but since they're mysteries, there's usually still some form of grisly murder involved, which gets you absolute gems like this:

[jameslongforjimshortforgabriel]

yeah i am reblogging fiddauthor AND billford fanart. fuck you

[egophiliac]

@enderfore replied to your post “What do you think of Rook's savanaclaw card? <333”:

Chenya pic where???? I can barely see anything in that room there so much going on, rooks such a lil freak (affectionatr)

​he's under the row of flags on Neige's side of the room, next to the big Neige poster with the yellow background (look just to the right of the hand holding the apple)! he's REAL little; once you know he's there you can kind of see him in-game, but I only noticed him in the first place because I took a screenshot and was having fun zooming in on all the details!

I think that's either Hop or Snick and Dominic on either side of Neige, but if the others are meant to be anyone in particular I don't recognize 'em. though I do love all the absolutely terrifying implications of Rook having this. was this some kind of officially-published merchandise (and if so, why) or did Rook like...go hunting through the RSA trash to find this random student lineup just because it included Neige, and has had it hanging proudly on the wall ever since. (I mean, he definitely did do this, I don't know why I'm asking. the real question is why he hasn't cut out little pictures of his own face and stuck them over everyone else's yet.)

there is seriously SO MUCH in this room. how did Rook manage to keep this hidden for three years. also, somebody give this background artist a raise immediately.

[roseworth]

based on a convo with my brother

[dipperpines-kin]

These are all the pages exclusive to the Barnes and Noble Book Of Bill, start at the end and work backwards, I couldn't be bothered adding one image at a time.

[lucky-draws]

took me a long time to draw this because i kept swooning + falling out of my chair + generally coming over all hot and bothered etc

[kyouka-supremacy]

BUNGO STRAY DOGS ANIME GUIDEBOOKS

[hkthatgffan]

At last! 2 days late from the original arrival day but here nonetheless!

The signed Barnes and Noble edition of The Book of Bill!!

And it had Alex's full signature on it, which was a nice plus!

The holy trinity is now complete! And now I have both books

Overall, I liked the B&N exclusive of BoB. It's got some funny extra pages and content in it that is fun to have but also not something I feel if you own the standard red one, you'd feel too bad about missing out on.

It's a solid bit of new content for an already amazing book.

My Gravity Falls shelf has once again gained a new book and grown that bit more. Who knows when the next one will come but when it does, I'll be beyond ready to read it and welcome it to my GF book family!

[drink-some-cranberry-juice]

fuck it here’s another long ass infinity train edit

i miss this show sm