In my Wiscon post, I mentioned that I scored a bunch of free Prime Books from Sean Wallace. But since I had so little room in my luggage, I had to ship them back home. Now that I’ve got them, I can catalog my loot:

• The Grass-Cutting Sword by Catherynne M. Valente
• Best American Fantasy edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer
• Best New Romantic Fantasy edited by Paula Guran
• Science Fiction: The Best of the Year edited by Rich Horton
• Fantasy: The Best of the Year edited by Rich Horton
• The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia
• In the Forest of Forgetting by Theodora Goss

Prime has got some of the best designed books coming out lately. Best American Fantasy and The Secret History of Moscow in particular have really beautiful covers that kind of scream “Read me!”  

As it happens, I probably didn’t really need to pick these up at Wiscon, as Prime was also at Book Expo America this weekend, which I also attended, so I could have picked these up then.

Although I was told BEA was a great place to score free loot, I actually found the pickings to be rather slim. It was probably because I didn’t go on Friday, and by Saturday most of the good stuff was already gone. But I did manage to pick up a few interesting things:

• Stardust by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Charles Vess (I’ve read this, but only the book version; I’ve never seen this original illustrated version)
  
• The Anubis Murders by Gary Gygax (the first of a new pulp reprint book line from Paizo Publishing called Planet Stories)
• The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
• Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson
• Heavy Metal Fun Time Activity Book (which is, strangely enough, exactly what it sounds like)