So what were this year's selections from the new and the old on the many stands?
John Courtney Grimwood - Felaheen (The Third Arabesk)
Linda Nagata - Memory
Paul Di Filippo - A Mouthful Of Tongues (Her Totipotent Tropicana) **
Bryan Cholfin (ed.) - The Best Of Crank!
Dick Jude - Fantasy Art Masters
Tom Arden - Shadow Black ** %
Arthur C. Clarke - The Collected Stories %
Colin Greenland - Finding Helen
Dan Simmons - Darwin's Blade
Sean McMullen - The Centurion's Empire
Justina Robson - Silver Screen
Jessica Rydill - Children Of The Shaman
Robert Asprin - Myth-ing Persons/Little Myth Marker
James Lovegrove - How The Other Half Lives
Graham Joyce - Leningrad Nights
Adam Roberts - On
David Zindell - The Silver Sword (The Lightstone 2) %
David Farland - The Sum Of All Men (The Runelords 1) ***
Cathy and Arnie Fenner (ed.) - Spectrum 9
Justina Robson - Natural History
Jeffrey E. Barlough - The House In The High Wood
Harry Turtledove - Blood and Iron (American Empire 1)
Poul Anderson - Going For Infinity %
M. John Harrison - Things That Never Happen **
Greg Bear - The Collected Stories
Katharine Kerr - Snare *
Timothy Zahn - Dragon And Thief *
Ken Hollings - Destroy All Monsters ** %
Kevin J. Anderson - Hidden Empire (The Saga Of Seven Suns 1) * %
Vernor Vinge and James Frenkel (ed.) - True Names and The Opening Of The Cyberspace Frontier *
* indicates a proof copy
** indicates small press
*** free book in the con bag (you think I'd have bought this!)
% won on the BSFA tombola
Twenty nine books in total (of which nine were hardcovers, ten were trades, and two oversize). Good job I'd taken the car...
(Oh, and if the numbers don't seem to tally, that's because one of the books was a compilation of two PS Publishing novellas, and I have entered them on the main list seperately...)