*** DragonCon 2006 Shopping! *** Comics ------ Iron Man: Hypervelocity Seaweed: A Cure for Mildew Order of the Stick volumes 1-4 Nodwick Vol. 1-6 ($16 each) Volumes 6-7 and 1-3 of Girl Genius. Daredevil hardcover volumes 3+ if they're cheap. See also the Hulk Visionaries (2+) and Fantastic Four visionaries trades from Marvel. Thing 3-8 (or the trade) Sabrina Online 1-N Viz Golgo 13: The Professional 1-3 Iron Wok Jan 22-28 Firefighter! From Eroica With Love Cipher 4+ Moon Child 1-12 Games ----- Race for the Galaxy Agricola Black Goat of the Woods (If it's out) No Thanks ($7) Cities and Knights of Catan and the 5-6 player expansion, 3rd edition. Good luck with that one. Hackmaster Player's Guide, if a deal presents itself. I should also check Ed McCay's. Update: Ed McCay's had a battered DMG that I decided I wasn't excited about. Antiquity or Indonesia if I'm feeling completely insane and can find a copy for eighty bucks or so. Other board games: Kremlin (Funagain has it for $28), Junta (new edition, list price $45), More Cosmic, Simply Cosmic Vamprie: the Requiem, despite not having read WoD or Mage. Promethean if I'm feeling extra crazy or if it looks particularly inspired. (Used at Ed McCay's in Raleigh) The Champions supplement for Hero System. (Ditto) Paranoia XP: Flashbacks - Old adventures updated for the new system. Chessex dice, especially another set of "raw transparent precision-edge" in a color other than green (collect 'em all!), perhaps fancy dice styles for WoD and D&D, more cheap dice for my Clinton dice bag, more dice bags. Books ----- Duainfey by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Liaden Universe Companion Vol. 2 by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty Territory by Emma Bull Anathem by Neal Stephenson Liaden chapbooks if that bookdealer is back. I need 9 and 12 - though, with Vol. 2 of the collected edition coming out, I may want to just grab 12. And speaking of Meisha Merlin, throw in P.C. Hodgell's Seeker's Mask, and perhaps the Dark of the Gods omnibus edition to replace tattered paperbacks. Also consider Lichtenberg's Sime-Gen omnibus The Unity Trilogy, Morressy's Kedrigern Chronicles, Vol. 1, and George R. R. Martin's Tuf Voyaging. Update: MM has gone under, so definately snag some of their editions if possible. Oh, and John Ford's _The Last Hot Time_, as well as the Bordertown anthologies and, well, anything else. Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series, beginning with Moon Called Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan series, starting with Dead Witch Walking Kelly Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series (rec'd by Sea Manky) - I believe "Bitten" is the first novel. Update: Picked up Bitten used. Marjorie M. Liu - Tiger Eye (Paranormal Romance, first in series; fun fluff) Ahern's The Survivalist, preferably via eBay lots; 22 volumes for $50 currently available. Update: I've got 1-8, 10, 16, and 18, so lots may prove tricky. Perhaps some media dealer will have the two Sandbaggers books: The Sandbaggers by Ian Mackintosh (1978) and The Sandbaggers: Think of a Number (1980) by Donald Lancaster, a pseudonym for William Marshall. Probably not, as they're damned expensive on eBay and abebooks. Filk ---- I don't really expect to find any filk at the con beyond what the filkers themselves are selling directly. Here's the big list of stuff I was interested in last year, just in case. iTom 3.0 - Tom Smith For Amusement Only - Rob Balder Kitchen Junk Drawer - Michael Longcor Heather Alexander CDs? Maybe? Con-Chord Concert - Recorded Live at Con-Chord One (old-school!) Song of the Stars: Adventures in Space (Con-Chord III) The Black Unicorn: Songs of Folk and Fantasy (Con-Chord III) Divine Intervention - Julia Ecklar (1986) Balance - Julia Ecklar Live Tempus Fugitives - Barry and Sally CHilds-Helton Passing Through - Bill Sutton Children of the Future - Karen Willson Balticon Tapes: 1978-2000 (2 CD set!) Millennium Pandamonium I - PhilCon 2001 Parody Violation: Jordin Kare, Straight and Twist Roundworm - Bob Kanefsky Screams of the Vegetables - WorldCon 1998 Live The Filk Was Great - The Best of Conterpoint Live To Touch The Stars (Space song collection from Promteheus Music) Tom Smith and his Digital Acoustic Compilation (Live) Smoked Fish and Friends - Leslie Fish Super Secret - Ookla the Mok