Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore Uncle Edgar's Mystery ...

Hugo’s from the tour, but that he’d try to find time
to drive over for a signing after he was done with
the publisher’s tour. We don’t yet have a date set–
watch the website for updated information.
SHORT RECOMMENDATIONS
by Don Blyly
Larry Correia is well-known to Uncle Hugo’s
customers for Monster Hunter International ($7.99)
and Monster Hunter Vendetta ($7.99), the first two
of an action-packed humorous contemporary fantasy
series about a Blackwater-like company that hunts
supernatural threats for the secret government
bounties. Vendetta was our #1 seller for 2010 and
International was #3.
Hard Magic ($25.00 hardcover or $15.00 trade
paperback, officially early May, but Larry will be
signing at Uncle Hugo’s on Saturday, April 30) is
the first of a new series, the Grimnoir Chronicles.
Classifying it is pretty hard, but Larry refers to
it as “noir/pulp/alternative-history/fantasy/ action
with blimp fighting, hard boiled detectives, demons,
teleporting magic ninjas, Cossack fighting bears,
samurai, Tesla super weapons, John M. Browning,
Teutonic zombies, and profane squirrels.”
The story is set in 1932, in a world where about 1%
of the population has the ability to work magic to
some degree (though perhaps no more than being able
to light a cigarette without a match) and about 1/10