#special editions

[azsazz]

What’s everyone’s thoughts on these? I get it but also lowkey underwhelmed…as a designer, I feel like these could’ve been done in a rlly cool way if she wanted a night court vibe. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[taylornation]

🎻 And the prices fell in synchronicity with the score. 🎻 For the next 12 hours, get 13% off THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Special Editions! Shop before 11:59pm EDT while supplies last at store.taylorswift.com.

[theaguanzon]

“I will never be the same.

I will always remember this.

Just him and me and the monsoon.”

Ecstatic to finally unveil @afterblossom’s US cover of A MONSOON RISING, the second book in THE HURRICANE WARS trilogy!

This December, we return to Alaric and Talasyn as they try to figure out their volatile marriage of convenience amidst a whirlwind of new magic, old secrets, and a tormenting passion that can no longer be denied.

The Hurricane Wars aren’t over. It’s time to decide what—and who—to fight for.

A MONSOON RISING is now available for preorder anywhere fine books are sold, with a deluxe limited first print run edition featuring these gorgeous sprayed edges and exclusive endpapers.

But wait there’s more!

��Dear man with a death wish 😡” // “To my darling wife 🙄”

Have you ever wondered precisely what levels of snark (and violent semi-flirtation) Alaric and Talasyn can reach if they wrote to each other while he’s in Kesath and she’s in Nenavar? Wonder no more because their letters are included in the Barnes & Noble special edition! Aside from the bonus material—which I had the time of my life making—this stunning hardcover comes with unique sprayed edges and endpapers and endpapers as well. Reserve your copy now while supplies last!

[gollancz]

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.

[bayofwolves]

Rereading Tales of the Great Beasts

I'm back after another reread! This time, I'm going over what I've discovered to be my favourite of the special editions. Let's get into it!

Kovo: Rise of the Reptile King

Feliandor talks to animals just like Shane does. Aww.

"[The mongoose's] obvious intelligence left no doubt -- this was a spirit animal." So canonically, Bile-bonded spirit animals have the intelligence of natural ones. That's got to be a crazy experience for the animal. Imagine you're just a normal mongoose, living your mongoose life, until suddenly you have the intelligence of a human. There's some serious psychological horror potential there, especially for the Bile-affected animals at the time of the Second Devourer War, who were presumably reduced to their previous state when the Bile lost its power.

The unnamed Niloan woman proves that humans have had access to the Bile for some time before Feliandor started the war. I wonder who the very first person Kovo and Gerathon entrusted with the Bile was. That would be an interesting story to tell.

"If the bird is not released within five days... my benefactor shall move on to others who may be more interested in his offer." You have to wonder what exactly Kovo's backup plan was. Go to the other world leaders and appeal to their unique problems, I'm assuming. What if instead of the king of Stetriol, the Devourer was an Amayan chief or Zhongese emperor? Infinite AU potential!

Fel's parents were killed? By whom??! My best guess is that they were assassinated, considering Fel blames the captain of the king's guard for not protecting them, but who would want to eliminate the much beloved king and queen? I wish we got more information on this.

Thylacines canonically exist on Erdas, at least in Feliandor's time! Yay!

Kovo was the one who gave Feliandor the title of Reptile King. Paralleling this, Briggan gave the Greencloaks their name.

I wish we learned what Fel named his crocodile. Unlike Shane, he thinks of his spirit animal as something beautiful, so he probably gave it a name.

Since Feliandor probably couldn't be the direct ancestor of the present-day royal family (there's no mention of him taking a queen or having children before his death), I made it so that they are descended from his cousins in A Revised History of Erdas. I believe this is already canon, but I may be wrong. When Fel died with no heir, the throne passed to his paternal cousin, Lysander -- the forefather of all kings to come. I plan to write a novella about his life eventually.

Jhi: Yin and Yu

Yin and Luan's chaotic bond is a good example of how things must have been before the Greencloaks. Before there was an organization dedicated to building upon the spirit animal bond, the Marked and their animals had to figure things out on their own.

I think Yin's father was formerly part of the Zhongese military, or held some other position in government. Yin mentions that her family had once had access to "important secrets" like the layout of the Bamboo Maze, but not anymore. I wonder what he did to lose his position.

Surprisingly, Yin and her family don't seem to know anything about Jhi before being told by the healer. And it's not that they can't remember her off the top of their heads, like Conor in the first book, either. When Yin tells Yu about her, he reacts like this is his first time hearing of her.

In ARHoE, Meilin can trace her lineage back to Teng Yin and Teng Yu. She is descended from Yu through her father. Meilin grew up hearing stories of her many-times-great-aunt Yin's adventures, and idolized her from a young age. The Sword of Teng (renamed from Tang to match their family name) is in their family's possession at the time of the first arc. It passes to Meilin in Blood Ties, after the death of General Teng, and she wields it like her famed ancestor thereafter.

Uraza: The First Greencloak

One of Uraza's titles is the Great Cat of the Grasslands.

I love how Uraza calls Tembo a kitten (although baby leopards are called cubs). I bet she thinks of Abeke as a cub, too.

Very ironic how the first green cloak was stolen from a Conqueror.

"I met in secret with young men and women I knew from other villages and nearby tribes... One night last spring, we all left behind our tribe colours and allegiances and replaced them with green cloaks..." Not all of the first Greencloaks were Marked!

Uraza marvels at how Tembo and Omika have learned to control precisely where she appears when she comes out of passive state, and in The Dragon's Eye, she masters this same skill with Abeke. I love all the little threads that are being woven between these ancient humans and our four protagonists.

We learn a lot about Nilo in this section, which I am over the moon about. Tribe names and customs! Landmarks! It's not much in the grand scheme of things, but it's something.

Getting inside Great Beast Uraza's head has only strengthened my belief that she should have taken a whole lot longer to accept being bonded to Abeke. Sure, she may have learned from her time with Tembo that humans are not all bad, but being one's spirit animal is another thing entirely. Uraza values her freedom and independence above all. Being tethered to a human, no matter how pleasant they may be, should be a hard thing for her to come to terms with. It would have been true to her character if she took a while to warm up to Abeke, wary and aloof until the girl earned her trust, and struggled with being her partner until the rewarding moment when she agrees to work together with her. They gave that arc to Essix, though -- who doesn't think badly of humans or the spirit animal bond in her short story.

In ARHoE, Tembo has three living descendants in present-day Erdas: Abeke, Soama and Irtike. Tembo married Jinta a few years after the war's end, and they had three children together. Chinwe and Ikenne would be born into this line many years later. Abeke is unaware of her connection to the first leader of the Greencloaks for much of the series. When Tembo chose to leave his family to hide the bond tokens and never returned, they grew bitter towards him. Some people on Erdas said he was killed on his journey, attacked by his enemies. Some said he spent the rest of his days away from the public eye on a secluded island, troubled by the war and the genocide he had overseen in Stetriol. Whatever the case, his wife and children never forgave him for abandoning them when they needed him the most. Refusing to speak of him to their descendants, he soon faded from living memory, and future generations would never know the Tembo of legend was their ancestor. (Author's note: This made me really want to write something about Tembo's family, especially since I imagine his kids retraced his footsteps years after he had left to try and find him, so maybe I will do that.)

Briggan: The Packleader

Considering her mission and how she had joined Briggan's Great Pack by the time of the Last Battle, I think it would have been more fitting if Katalin's spirit animal was a canine. I'm thinking a silver or cross fox could have served the same purpose as a black mink. This could have explained why the Marked resistance sent such a young, unassuming girl to convince Briggan to join them -- they thought her being bonded to one of his fellows might make him more willing to hear her plight.

Spirit animals can leave the passive state at will and don't have to wait to be called out by their human partner. Every day, they teach us something new about the spirit bond.

"Received your mark" is a cool way to say you've summoned a spirit animal.

Great Beast Briggan's presence giving people visions of the future, and that affect lasting even long after they've left him, is quite possibly the coolest thing ever.

We don't get much information on the human protagonists in this book, but as you can see, that hasn't stopped me from fleshing them out more. In my mind, Katalin is mixed Euran and western Zhongese (Arab-coded), a result of intermarrying being far more common in the days before Feliandor's war. (I'll go into this another time.) Conor is her direct descendant, through Fenray.

Essix: Fall of the Four

I wonder if the forest Tellun created on Stetriol remained after the Great Beasts had gone.

This section makes it seem like Rumfuss has always spoken haltingly, even though it was said in Hunted that this was likely a result of him going many years without saying a word.

Considering this book was released right before Rise and Fall, the hints pointing to where Halawir's true loyalties lie are nicely placed. It'll be fun for me to explore the full extent of his involvement in the First Devourer War.

"While the Evertree stands, our destinies are tied to Erdas. If one form is lost, another will rise." The Great Beasts always knew they would return to Erdas in some way, shape or form!

I always remembered Uraza, not Jhi, being the one to lend Tembo the speed and agility needed to kill Feliandor.

This section is so painful to read. I will never be fond of the other Great Beasts (besides Ninani, Tellun and Mulop). They were complicit in the deaths of the Four Fallen and the near-destruction of the world. They failed in their duty as protectors of Erdas. (The three I just mentioned can be excused... somewhat.)

I really do wish that Essix got a longer chapter where she encountered a human who convinced her to join the Greencloaks' cause, like all the rest. They might have skipped that with her because Amaya was uninvolved in the First Devourer War, it appears. Still, I want to know how she lost her talisman, and what made her decide to join the fight.

Ninani: Ninani's Nectar

Note: This short story is unfortunately only available online. You can read it here.

Tepin reads like a kid who has an innocent crush on his slightly older babysitter and it's honestly adorable. We only see them interact in flashbacks, but their friendship was beautiful to read.

The bonding sickness affected pre-existing bonds as well as new ones. That's horrible. I was previously under the impression that only the bonds that formed after Kovo damaged the Evertree were at risk.

I believe Tepin would have contracted the bonding sickness as well if not for the Nectar of Ninani. In one of his dreams, he asks Ninani if the Nectar will save him, to which she nods. She doesn't answer when he asks if it will save Ifa, who, as we know, dies from her illness.

Ninani can make plants grow! It would have been nice to show Tasha harnessing this power through their bond.

This chapter was so bittersweet. I'm not ashamed to admit I teared up a little at the end.

And with that, I've finally finished the first arc of Spirit Animals!

Although the arc ended at The Evertree, it has books that directly accompany it, such as this one. And now I'm done! I enjoyed this one quite a lot. I'm very grateful we got a special edition that explored some of Erdas during ancient times, and that gave us a brief glimpse into the lives of the Four's ancestors (to me!). This book had some awesome scenes -- Tembo riding on Uraza's back, the snakes being released in the throne room, the Great Pack tearing the Conquerors apart and, of course, the Battle to End All Battles. Tepin's story was probably my favourite, but I loved Yin and Katalin's, too, despite the relative lack of action in them. I just loved how atmospheric and emotional they were, and the experience of seeing the Four Fallen as Great Beasts through someone else's eyes. The dream-like quality of Tepin's chapter well and truly captivated me. I do think this book should have been told entirely from the Four Fallen's perspectives (with the exceptions of Feliandor and Tepin), but the humans' perspectives were done so well that I can't really complain.

Exciting stuff is coming next week. Stay tuned!

This is part of an ongoing series.

Wild Born | Hunted | Blood Ties | Fire and Ice | Against the Tide | Rise and Fall | The Evertree

Immortal Guardians | Broken Ground | The Return | The Burning Tide

Heart of the Land | The Wildcat's Claw | Stormspeaker | The Dragon's Eye

Tales of the Great Beasts | The Book of Shane | Tales of the Fallen Beasts

[bigheartedbibliophile]

Meme Monday! Who else can relate? 😂 Honestly, any book I see gets my attention, at least for a few minutes! I need to get better at reading the books I have (at least some of them!) before I get new ones. That probably isn't going to happen any time soon, seeing as I will be going to a bookstore cafe this weekend 😂

[kjones-fandom]

Just saw the new AFTG editions in Poland. I know they technically aren’t black in the original canon but Matt and Dan are so white washed in the art that I genuinely sent my best friend screenshots in shock.

[nevermoorsource]

According to a recent Instagram story from Jess, you can find signed versions of the Collector’s Editions at Kinokuniya Sydney 👀

[orange-calx]

talking heads - speaking in tongues [special edition clear vinyl]

This packaging, designed by Robert Rauschenberg, is housed in a transparent plastic case with artwork and credits printed on 3 12" circular transparent collages, one per primary color.

[ebookseditions]

Feel The Fear Ebook | old special horror edition

#horror #ebooks #halloween

[what-eats-owls]

Do you know whether Illumicrate, Macmillan, or another service may offer a special edition of Holy Terrors, whether as a pre-order edition or after it's released? Or even the trilogy as a set? I just found out Illumicrate had embellished editions for Little Thieves and Painted Devils last June and am bummed to have missed it; it was so pretty :(

Alas, even if I knew, I could not say until it's officially announced! One can only hope.

[mysticdragon3md3]

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[theaguanzon]

“Let’s tear it all down. And let’s build a life together.”

Alaric, Talasyn, and whatever they have going on (😭) return to the U.K. in A MONSOON RISING, the sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling romantasy THE HURRICANE WARS! I am so excited to share this *transcendent* @afterblossom cover, it’s giving “Though the Eversea itself be against us” 🤌🏼 And it perfectly captures the vibe of the second book in the trilogy, wherein sinister plots brew in the darkness and a burning passion that could change everything is finally dragged into the light…

Out December 5th from HarperVoyager U.K. with a *stunning* Waterstones exclusive edition! Just look at those sprayed edges 🔥

Preorder the Waterstones exclusive

Preorder from anywhere

[gollancz]

Are you ready for another EXCLUSIVE special edition?

Check out these gorgeous new editions of THE NAME OF THE WIND and THE WISE MAN'S FEAR by Patrick Rothfuss!

Exclusive run of 1000 copies each

Signed and numbered

New covers, printed endpapers and edges

Foiled cover boards

Page marker ribbon

Head and tail bands

Not to overuse the word and risk it losing all meaning, but... these are FIT.

These are available in November 2023, and you can pre-order them now through the Gollancz Emporium!

The Name of the Wind

The Wise Man's Fear

[bayofwolves]

Rereading The Book of Shane

So... I lied when I said I would be taking a break from my rereads. Shane's special edition was calling to me, and I gave in. So, we're back to it!

Venom

Yumaris's powers of prophecy are innate, rather than given by her bond with the earthworm. Even in this section, she cryptically references multiple future events, like Zerif's arrival and Shane's participation in the impending war.

It may not have been intended this way, but I can't help but imagine that the white rabbit little Shane was chasing before he was bitten by the snake was his mother's spirit animal. The interpretation that the white rabbit is a symbol of his innocent, happy childhood, and the snake is a symbol of the ugliness and pain of the war he threw himself into, makes me think that it being his mother's spirit animal would have been fitting.

I wonder if Shane's dream about the ostrich is foretelling his fate... bonding with Grahv unnaturally, and him one day becoming trapped in Shane's body in much the same way. "People kept their distance. But for Shane there was no escape from the ostrich, because the ostrich was him." (Also, ostriches don't live in Australia in the real world. The author was probably thinking of an emu, a similar bird which is native to Australia. Rookie mistake.)

Shane making a desperate plot to sail away to Nilo with his sister... yes, it's the closest land to Stetriol. But also, the significance is not lost on me.

It's revealed in this section that Zerif's bond with the jackal was natural... which I do not support! If Zerif called it many years ago when he was a child, why has he never named it (as revealed in The Return)? Why doesn't he acknowledge its gender, referring to the animal as an "it"? And most importantly, why does it abandon him when the Bile loses its power? This all points towards them being Bile-bonded, but Venom makes that impossible because a) Zerif already has his jackal when Shane creates Bile for the first time in centuries, and b) there are no jackals in Stetriol for Zerif to bond with, even if Kovo or Halawir gave him Bile, or if he found some on his own whilst in Stetriol. I like the theory that he discovered ancient stores of Bile elsewhere on Erdas, then forcibly bonded with a jackal he found in Nilo, Zhong or Eura. I simply can't accept that Zerif's bond with his jackal was natural all along. Theirs will always be a Bile bond to me.

We never find out what animals Shane's parents summoned, or even the name of Shane's mother. You'd think that would be important to mention. She's named Gwyneth in A Revised History of Erdas, but I haven't decided on her spirit animal yet. For Irwyn, I chose a thylacine, an animal that was going extinct in Stetriol at the time.

Vendetta

So Gerathon has controlled Shane before; she does so in this section to familiarize herself with his whereabouts. I can't believe I forgot that part. But then, why does he react so violently when she possesses him in The Evertree? (In any case, I prefer the idea that she had never controlled him before that battle.)

I'm tempted to write an AU where it is indeed Abeke and Uraza who track Shane down in the Niloan jungle. Same as I'm tempted to write one where Abeke gives in to her urge and goes after him following the events of Immortal Guardians. I want to know how he would handle those situations.

"Did you ever hear the story about how the goanna and the perentie got their colouring?" I was today years old when I learned that these are actual animals that exist on Earth. This entire time I thought they were made up! They are both lizards, which confirms my theory that they were the lizards depicted on the tapestry Shane saw in Venom. Edit: "How the goanna and the perentie got their colours" is a real story in Aboriginal Australian mythology, I'm just finding out. Look it up!

Shane's habit of talking to normal animals might be one of my favourite things about him. In this book, he does it with a kangaroo and then a monkey. It's endearing.

It's so sad that Shane and Achi ended on such bad terms. It was sweet seeing him take on something of a big brother role with the younger boy.

Vengeance

It's interesting that Shane keeps shifting the blame for what happened to Drina. In Rise and Fall, when talking to Abeke, he blames Gar. In The Evertree, he blames Gerathon. And in Vengeance, he blames Yumaris. He blames everyone but himself.

I wonder if Shane was buried in the very same cemetery where his parents and ancestors lie... I wonder if they placed him next to Drina.

The temple has spiral structures and symbols referencing the Wyrm... which makes me think it was the Hellans who built it, not ancient Amayans like Anya suggests. Initially it seems perplexing that they would build a temple in honour of it when they knew it to be an evil force, but I think they meant it as more of an entryway showing the way down to destroy it.

"Did she tell you I have a weak spot for girl archers? Did she think I'd be more likely to trust you if you reminded me of someone I care about?" The fact that even Yumaris was able to clock that Shane has feelings for Abeke says a lot. Shane must really have been wearing his heart on his sleeve. We've seen how this is true for Abeke in regards to Shane, so it's funny to see that this is equally the case for him.

"What happened to you?" Shane says when he sees what Yumaris is turning into... and Rollan says these same horrified words to him when he sees his changed appearance for the first time in The Return: Revised. The parallels.

In ARHoE, Shane dyes his hair brown to avoid being recognized because blond people primarily come from Stetriol. And you know what? I actually gaslit myself into thinking this was canon. Lol.

I'm debating on bringing Anya back in Path of the Heroes. On one hand, I feel like Shane isn't meant to cross paths with most of the people introduced in this book ever again, but on the other, I enjoyed their friendship and would love to explore it some more with Shane as a changed person. I dunno. We'll see what happens.

Venture

So Shane went to Sadre and all we hear about it is a mushroom? I weep…

Yeffa and Fito, two of the New Conquerors' raiders, were actually first introduced as Conqueror bosses that you have to defeat in the Spirit Animals game. Yeffa's spirit animal was a lion and Fito's was a jaguar. I love when they write game characters into the books; it's fun to make the connections. Timote and Piri, Kalani's brothers, are also on this raider team, which means they either were exiled or chose not to return home after the war.

It certainly means something that Shane dreams of Abeke (because the leopard is clearly alluding to her) on the night before his execution.

This was a great book; definitely one of my favourites. Nick Eliopulos's writing style, so thought-provoking and rich in symbolism, is exquisite. I have always loved how Abeke haunted the narrative; she was everywhere in this book, despite never making an appearance. The hints about the Wyrm set up the next arc perfectly. As much as I love Shane, I found his inner thoughts to be quite insufferable at times, and kept shaking my head at his painfully black-and-white view of the war and his deflection of the blame that was rightfully placed on him. But it was also very intriguing to read through. I came out of this liking Shane more, as I did the first and second and hundredth time around, because I can now appreciate how much he changed as a person. Coming to that, though: I feel like we didn't get to see him grow and break out of his old mindset in this book as much as I would have liked. His redemption arc is set in motion in this book, but I wish it progressed further, considering how little time we got with him in Fall of the Beasts. Another section or two would have been beneficial, in my opinion, to explore how he formed the Redcloaks (and maybe his travels in Sadre with Yumaris) and really solidify that he is beginning to walk a better path.

This is part of an ongoing series.

Wild Born | Hunted | Blood Ties | Fire and Ice | Against the Tide | Rise and Fall | The Evertree

Immortal Guardians | Broken Ground | The Return | The Burning Tide

Heart of the Land | The Wildcat's Claw | Stormspeaker | The Dragon's Eye

Tales of the Great Beasts | The Book of Shane | Tales of the Fallen Beasts

[cogecaratulascover]

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