The new acquisitions list seemed to be popular last month, so I hope to make it a regular feature.

Without further ado, here are the things the SFBC's editors have bought over the past month:

• The Magic of Reason is my tentative title (I'm hoping the author likes it) for a 3-in-1 of Justine Larbalestier's Magic or Madness YA trilogy.
• Off Armageddon Reef starts a new Military SF series from David Weber, from a new publisher, in a new universe -- newness abounds.
• Un Lun Dun is China Mieville's first YA novel, about the girl who's the best friend of "the Chosen One"
• Warcraft Archive is an Altiverse thing that I don't know much about; I believe it's related to some RPG game or other.
• Ghost Rider: The Visual Guide by Andrew Darling is from the DK series, and ties in to the upcoming movie.
• Through a Faery Stone is a follow-up to Faeries and Other Fantastical Folk, from the same publisher in a similar package, and features the art of Ed Hicks with poems by Dee Stotts
• For a Few Demons More is the fifth novel of the Hallows by Kim Harrison, and the first one we're not holding to do an omnibus -- members have demanded that we stop making them wait, and we agreed.
• The Vampire Files, Volume Two by P.N. Elrod is coming to the SFBC a bit late -- it's been out in stores for a couple of months already -- due to some confusion between me and my contact at the publisher, but the novels collected here are already fifteen years old, so I hope that won't matter. Anyway, this is the second omnibus collecting a nice series of novels about a vampire PI in '30s Chicago.
• To Ride a Rathorn is the fourth book in the very-slowly-publishing series by P.C. Hodgell. (And how do you pronounce "Rathorn," anyway? We've been saying it "rat-horn" around here, which does not sound particularly ominous.)
• Ysabel is the new fantasy novel by Guy Gavriel Kay, and something of a departure for him: it's set in the contemporary world.
• The Dark Art of Tony Mauro is another one of those collections of fantasy art mostly featuring lovingly painted depictions of women not wearing all that many clothes (but brandishing swords, or fangs, or something else suitably dangerous).

And we're still buying as I type this -- I made offers on five other books this week, which I hope I'll be able to tell you about next month.

There are also a few things coming up in the SFBC that we're picking up from our sister clubs; these are usually less specifically SFF, but still of interest (and sometimes absolutely wonderful):

• Deep Storm, a thriller by Lincoln Child set at the bottom of the ocean
• The Dead Fathers Club, one of those absolutely wonderful books I just mentioned, a modern-day retelling of Hamlet that I loved when I read it a few weeks ago
• Dark Cosmos by Dan Hooper, a popular science book about the search for dark matter and dark energy
• Jemima Parry-Jones' Falconry, one of our odder titles, is indeed all about falconry
• Innocent in Death is the latest in the long-running Eve Dallas series of SF mysteries by Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb

And that's what it looks like this month.