Yesterday a big box arrived at the SFBC Fortress of Solitude, bearing hot-off-the-presses copies of our newest original anthology, Mike Resnick's Alien Crimes.

(We only publish three or four really original books a year, so I hope you'll forgive us if we get excited about them.)

Alien Crimes is a companion to Resnick's previous anthology, Down These Dark Spaceways; while Spaceways had stories about private detectives in SFnal settings, Crimes features police and other official investigators.

Alien Crimes contains six brand-new novellas by some of the best writers in the business:

• “Nothing Personal” by Pat Cadigan
• “A Locked-Planet Mystery” by Mike Resnick
• “Hoxbomb” by Harry Turtledove
• “End of the World” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• “Dark Heaven” by Gregory Benford
• “Womb of Every World” by Walter Jon Williams

We're pretty busy right now sending Alien Crimes to the contributors and to reviewers, but, if you want your own copy, just click on that link and you can get it (and four other books) for a buck each by joining the SFBC. You're not going to see a deal like that anywhere else...and you're not going to see Alien Crimes anywhere else, either.