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... sad pa Chuck Wendig?
Svako malo naletim na njega - to uglavnom zbog vickaste i vrckaste mu blogerske profanosti...
Ima par objavljenih naslova:
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... i opicen je, stvarno, u eks-gejmer, transmedija gik smislu:

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Q: What excites you most about transmedia storytelling?


A: Honestly, the philosophical lawlessness of it all is fascinating. You can
take one story and hit it with a hammer and see where all the pieces fall — this
piece is an app, that piece is a Twitter account, these other pieces are
episodic video, etc. It brings together all the storytelling disciplines into
some madcap media super-Kung-Fu.

a evo i ceo intervju na  http://silverstringmedia.com/ (http://silverstringmedia.com/)
I? jel' ko citao ista njegovo?

Nikad čula za njega (ova naslovna strana dušu dala za Angel). Ali zaboga, Libe, potpis! Jadan moj Končar!

Nisam ni ja čula za njega, ali sa ovakvom naslovnicom, potražiću.  :mrgreen:

Potpisujem sve sem komentara na potpis, a ni naslovnicu necu traziti  :)

Pa dobro, ali Chuck redovito uspeva da me oraspolozi, i prosto me odusevljava koliko je opicen. U Aprilu mu izlazi novi naslov, i to cu obavezno da nabavim, nema tu zbora, ali sam se nadala da je neko od vas overio Chuckove starije stvari.

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"Trailer-park tension, horrified hilarity, and sheer terror mixed with deft characterization and razor plotting. I literally could not put it down."

Quote from: Jevtropijevićka on 05-12-2011, 11:17:04
Ali zaboga, Libe, potpis! Jadan moj Končar!

:evil:  Draga moja, potpis je krajnje inspirativan makar zato sto ti lepo dokazuje da sekularni ekstremisti nisu ni pod nokat Njegovim pravovernima, a Cisterciti mu tu dodju ko udzbenicki primer radikalne efikasnosti.   8)

Inace, ovo mu je danasnji blog, tek da steknete ideju....  :lol:

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Right now, I have the barest little sparrow of a hangover fluttering its
wings against the inside of my forehead, against the backs of my eyes. Went out
last night, had a trio of drinks at Bolete in Bethlehem — a bourbon cocktail
called "The Remedy," a "Not-Your-Grandmother's Greyhound," and two fingers of
Laphroaig 10-year. I never really had much of a buzz, which made this hangover —
manifesting itself around 2AM last night — all the more disappointing and
undeserved. (Though the drinking remained delicious. Bolete creates impeccable
cocktails, and anybody in the area would be a wool-headed window-licker not go
to partake of their alcoholic and culinary delights.)


This hangover will be easy to defeat. Water and Advil — with some early
morning bacon — form a powerful hammer to beat back even the snarkiest of
hangovers, and this one just can't compete.


But, I remember the worst hangover I've ever had.


Friend showed up at college with a bottle of Yukon Jack. We drank less of the
bottle than you'd think, but got bombed just the same. Ended up laying outside
the dorm babbling at people.


Come morning, the hangover I suffered was as such where I felt like a room
full of balloons with a floor made of nails — I dared not move for fear
of expiring right then and there. Every ounce of my body hurt. My brain felt
like a caged rat gnawing through rusty hinges in order to escape. I knew if I
did anything but sit on my bed and stare at the wall I would cry out, vomit, pee
myself, and possibly explode inside my skin.


Seriously. I felt like hammered dogshit.


To this day if I catch a whiff of Yukon Jack, it all comes charging back, a
freight train of bodily memory.


Thing is, I know even that hangover just isn't that impressive.

Pratim mu sajt i twiter, bleskast je lik, ali još nisam dospeo da mu overim *pisanje*

Elem, overili smo Chuckov Totally Free Shit na blogu i fer je priznati, baja ima wordsmith dara.
moj favorit je weird "This Guy"...  xwink2

... Hillary Jordan? Njena nova knjiga je izašla početkom oktobra skoro da je instant hit i budući klasik, ako je za verovati rivjuima:


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Hannah Payne has been sentenced to 16 years as a Chrome. Her skin has been turned a rich, vibrant red in order to denote her crime of murder, for aborting her child. The scourge that killed many and made women infertile has been cured and the Sanctity of Life laws mark women like Hannah as outcasts. Her fundamentalist Christian upbringing did not prepare her for forbidden love with a married man or the horrors she would face as a Red. When She Woke is Hannah's story of endurance, enlightenment and ultimately self-empowerment.
As with many dystopian novels, When She Woke is terrifying because in may ways it's easy to see this future coming about. In the book, Roe v. Wade is overturned in order to help increase the population, an act some parties in the U.S. are already trying to do, removing women's rights to control their own bodies and their bodies' reproduction. The idea of tracking released criminals is also one close to being realized, with the jump to making such a database open to the public only a small step further.
While based on Nathanial Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, When She Woke is much darker. While she faces the reproach and repudiation of Christians, she also faces the lechery of those who would take advantage of the downtrodden, and a fundamentalist group the equivalent of the KKK, that targets and kills Chromes.
The book was therefore unsettling on a number of levels. It reads as though it will have an unpleasant and depressing ending, yet at some point Hannah stops letting others decide her path and takes control of her own life. It's amazing seeing her go from a cowed if outspoken Christian girl to a fully liberated woman who questions the truth and motivations of others; one who knows the consequences of her actions and is willing to face them instead of trying to please others and their notions of repentance. Her character changes so completely - yet so honestly - as the book progresses that when you reach the end it's hard to remember who she was at the beginning of the story.
Not for the faint of heart, this is a good thought-provoking read about personal rights, the justice system and being your own person.

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Hiromi Goto is the author of Darkest Light, which asks young readers to tackle big ideas (http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Young+Adult+novelist+Hiromi+Goto+delves+into+dark/6064539/story.html)





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Hiromi Goto is the author of Darkest Light, which asks young readers to tackle big ideas (http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Young+Adult+novelist+Hiromi+Goto+delves+into+dark/6064539/story.html)





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Op, op, ovo izgleda zanimljivo!!  xcheers

Nabasala sam na WFR na jedan clanak u kom Nancy Hightower govori o Ray Caesaru i jednostavno ne mogu da se odlepim od njegovih radova, to je do te mere fascinantno. Evo samo nekih:

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Intervju - Will McIntosh: (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/03/exclusive-interview-will-mcintosh-on-hitchers-and-the-boundary-between-science-fiction-and-fantasy/)


SF Signal: Hi Will, thanks again for talking with us. When we last spoke (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/03/exclusive-interview-will-mcintosh-on-hitchers-and-the-boundary-between-science-fiction-and-fantasy/), we talked about your first book, Soft Apocalypse.  How has the response been for that?


Will McIntosh: It's been very encouraging. The first printing sold out, it was on Locus magazine's recommended reading list, there is both a French and German edition coming out, and most importantly, I've heard from a lot of readers who enjoyed it.

Theodora Goss was born in Hungary and spent her childhood in various European countries before her family moved to the United States. Although she grew up on the classics of English literature, her writing has been influenced by Eastern European literary traditions. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List, and has won the World Fantasy and Rhysling Awards. The following is the first web appearance of a column originally slated for Realms of Fantasy Magazine. Her latest book is Thorne & Blossom.


Theodora Goss - A Brief History of Monsters (http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/a-brief-history-of-monsters/)
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A Brief History of Monsters

Norveski SF  :) , a DeNardo je odusevljen naslovnicom:


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It's been decades since anyone set foot on the moon. Now three ordinary teenagers, the winners of NASA's unprecedented, worldwide lottery, are about to become the first young people in space–and change their lives forever.

Mia, from Norway, hopes this will be her punk band's ticket to fame and fortune.

Midori believes it's her way out of her restrained life in Japan.

Antoine, from France, just wants to get as far away from his ex-girlfriend as possible.

It's the opportunity of a lifetime, but little do the teenagers know that something sinister is waiting for them on the desolate surface of the moon. And in the black vacuum of space... no one is coming to save them.

In this chilling adventure set in the most brutal landscape known to man, highly acclaimed Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad creates a vivid and frightening world of possibilities we can only hope never come true.


172 HOURS ON THE MOON (http://www.172hoursonthemoon.com/)
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The Grotesque Menageries of Greg Simkins (http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/the-grotesque-menageries-of-greg-simkins/)


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LEAH BOBET:
I didn't exactly start writing Above intending to write a book about being marginalized, intersectionality, and cultural trauma.

I started it because I was pissed off at a TV show.  An old one.  From 1987.
(Yeah, let's think about that for a second.)
–
I'm an engineer's kid; it means I'm a bit of a know-it-all sometimes. There's always a part of my brain that sees the underpinnings of some genre trope or assumption and hollers But that's not how it would really work!  And Ron Perlman and his friends below the sewers of New York in Beauty and the Beast, using nothing but dramatic black capes to pass on the streets?  Not notably worrying about the state of their plumbing or, well, scurvy?  That was not how it would really work.
So I started playing around.  With how it might really work.
Some of the answers to those questions were pure logistics: things like ventilation; how you'd pirate off the power grid; the social organization that'd emerge in a community where food was constantly rationed.  But the bigger ones quickly became about who would live there: What would have to be going on in your life to plausibly look at the choice between living in a cave underground or gritting your teeth and bearing it for one more day to make the cave the better option?  Well, you wouldn't be people with cool superpowers, forced to flee because your claws were just too cool and kept distracting motorists.  You'd be people who potentially have enough threat and marginalization and barriers to flee; the people our society's not so good at being built for.  The people we actively let down enough that they might just say, Screw this.  I'll live in the dark if it means I don't have to deal with that.
–and before I knew it, the underground community of Safe was populated by people with psychiatric diagnoses from schizophrenia to psychosis; people with physical disabilities that were either invisible enough to be scoffed at, or visible enough that nobody took them seriously when they said no, this is what I need; survivors of child abuse and institutional neglect.  People ostracized for how their bodies were put together, whether that was something fantastical like your arms growing back as crab claws or something fairly common, like intersex.
It also said something about the minds inside those bodies: The kinds of personalities who would make that choice instead of working within the system or becoming advocates; instead of just putting their energy into whole other parts of their lives and becoming musicians or tax accountants.  People who would have chosen to go down, below the subways and sewers, and live in a place that's a secret.
That meant trauma.  A whole community living with, and built around, and creating their mythologies out of trauma.
The stories they'd tell about the world they left would be terrible.
–
Two things occurred to that wiseguy insisting on realism in her fantasy at this point:
First, it couldn't last.  There's only so long you can keep people united with the threat of an outside enemy, and even secret underground societies are made up of people.  They'd be back to drawing battle lines sooner or later: I'd end up with a whole group of marginalized people, marginalizing each other even more because of that hierarchy-beast inside our heads.
Second: Now, what would it be like to grow up there?
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I have some experience with cultural trauma.  My grandfather on one side was a concentration camp survivor; my grandmother on the other was evacuated, as a child, from London during the Blitz.  There are little habits in how I was raised and educated that overstepped the bounds of normal familial concern: a sneaking, violent distrust of formal institutions; a whole family that was convinced that unless we were in sight — or telephone reach — at all times, something terrible was going to happen; a tendency to hoard food.  I was never a hungry kid, and I still feel obscurely less anxious when I have a full fridge.
This is ridiculous and does not make sense in the context of my own life.
But when your parents are brought up by people for whom yeah, children can and did go around the corner and just disappear, and enforced famine was a reality?  The idea of normal shifts.  All those reaction behaviours built up to keep you alive when things are bad twine around everything else, and they become the new normal, and your own kids treat that as the way to raise a child and pass the whole thing on.
After enough time goes by, and enough changes?  Some of those behaviours get downright weird and maladaptive.
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That is what it'd be like to grow up in Safe: It would mean having a toolset to deal with the wider world that just didn't apply when you got up there and had your first real look around.  It would mean being afraid of things that weren't there anymore.  Being not afraid enough, maybe, of some of the things living right in your own pocket.  Having to get over the idea of Us vs. Them if you wanted to get anywhere at all with anything.
Having to, somehow, go back among the people who raised you and love you, and recognize their mistakes.  And not repeat them.  Without becoming a traitor.
–and that is how I wrote a book about cultural trauma, and having compassion and respect for the things your parents lived through without having to agree about how the world is, and the terrible balance between redress for having been victimized and starting to victimize other people too.  About complicated, tangled, late-stage Growing Up.
And people with crab claws.  And living shadow-creatures.  And a girl who turns into a honeybee, and a boy who grew up underground.
Because Beauty and the Beast was getting it wrong.
...go figure.

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Matt Forbeck (http://www.forbeck.com/)'s Dracula-Titanic mash-up Carpathia (http://angryrobotbooks.com/carpathia-matt-forbeck/) was reviewed by James Floyd Kelly for Wired.com's Geek Dad blog (http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/carpathia/), who drew the following conclusion: "Very dark. Seriously twisted. I enjoyed every bit of it."

a tek ovo....  :-D


Next month (May) we're also publishing Evil Dark (http://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/justin-gustainis/evil-dark-justin-gustainis/) by Justin Gustainis (http://www.justingustainis.com/) and by way of a refresher, we've seen a new review of series-opener Hard Spell (http://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/justin-gustainis/hard-spell-justin-gustainis/) from Paul Simpson at Sci-Fi Bulletin (http://scifibulletin.com/books/fantasy/review-hard-spell/), who said: "If you enjoy hard-boiled cop stories, of the LA Confidential kind, you'll get a kick out of the various ways in which the genre is subverted during this story."

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Stina Leicht, one of this year's finalists for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer! Her first novel, Of Blood and Honey, was released last year. And Blue Skies from Pain, the second book of the Fey and the Fallen, just became available last month. (http://www.fantasybookcafe.com/2012/04/women-in-sff-month-stina-leicht/)

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... Gord Zajac?? :shock:


Njegov Major Carnage mi glanc promakao, mada se sad sećam nekoliko pominjanja tog romana.


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da li je ko čitao, ili ovaj roman ili bilo šta njegovo?

... Catherine Lundoff?


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http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/24/the-big-idea-catherine-lundoff/ (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/24/the-big-idea-catherine-lundoff/)

 The Crash is coming: Solaris announces second novel from breakthrough author, Guy Haley (http://solaris-editors-blog.blogspot.com/2012/06/crash-is-coming-solaris-announces.html)     

Unalloyed greed, markets dictating the will of humanity – when The Crash comes, nothing will be left standing.
   In a topical science-fiction take on the world's current economic woes, breakthrough author Guy Haley envisages a society in utter thrall to commerce, which must constantly expand to sustain itself. When a mission to the stars begins to go wrong, the fragility of human society and progress is exposed.

   The Crash is due for release in July 2013, it is Haley's second book for Solaris. 

  His first, Champion of Mars, was released in May this year and was described by SF legend Stephen Baxter as "a novel with an ambition on the scale of Olympus Mons itself, and it delivers. Recommended." 
  "Guy Haley's SF invokes in me the same excitement I had when reading Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg and Arthur C. Clarke's works for the first time," said Jonathan Oliver, editor-in-chief of Solaris. "His fiction is packed full of ideas while maintaining a very human voice. Haley's work is complex, exciting and vastly entertaining and I'm delighted to welcome him back to the Solaris fold." 
  The Market rules all, plotting the rise and fall of fortunes without human intervention. Mankind, trapped by a rigid hierarchy of wealth, bends to its every whim. To function, the Market must expand without end. The Earth is finite, and cannot hold it, and so a bold venture to the stars is begun, offering a rare chance at freedom to a select few people.
   But when the colony fleet is sabotaged, a small group finds itself marooned upon the tidally locked world of Nychthemeron, a world where one hemisphere is bathed in perpetual daylight, the other hidden by eternal night. Isolated and beset, the stricken colony members must fight for survival on the hostile planet, while secrets about both the nature of their shipwreck and Nychthemeron itself threaten to tear their fragile society apart.

Chuck Wendig preporucuje:

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Prvi put čujem za ovog pisca - Christopher Farnsworth, sa tri njegova romana u tri podžanra fantastike.

• Blood Oath (http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0515149039/sfsi0c-20?tag=sfsi0c-20) by Christopher Farnsworth (Jove)
• The President's Vampire (http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399157395/sfsi0c-20?tag=sfsi0c-20) by Christopher Farnsworth (Putnam)
• Red, White, and Blood (http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399158936/sfsi0c-20?tag=sfsi0c-20) by Christopher Farnsworth (Putnam)

Da nije neki pra-pra-pra-nešto profesoru Farnsworth-u?

 :lol:

Tri knjige iz istog serijala su pisane u tri različita podžanra?

Quote from: angel011 on 22-07-2012, 13:17:42
Tri knjige iz istog serijala su pisane u tri različita podžanra?

Tako je najavljen. Ako klikneš na link, videćeš i sama:




New Author Spotlight is a series designed to introduce authors with up to 3 books in the different SF/F subgenres.




http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/07/new-author-spotlight-christopher-farnsworth/#more-58717

Pogledala. Ta rečenica ne mora da se shvati kao da jedan isti autor piše u različitim podžanrovima, nego NAS pokriva različite podžanrove pa predstavlja autore (sa do 3 knjige) koji pišu u nekom od njih. Bar meni tako izgleda.  :)


(uopšte pokrećem pitanje jer sam kliknula na sve tri knjige i izgleda mi kao jedno te isto, u opisima nema nikakvih naznaka različitih podžanrova)

Jos jedan od zanrovskih pisaca sa kojima sam se mimoisla je Tobias Buckell, a to planiram da ispravim na najnovijem romanu Arctic Rising, i pored blage averzije koju proizvodi ovo Amazonovo predstavljanje romana u simplificiranom i pomalo bleskastom maniru:


  Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it's about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international community is racing desperately to claim the massive amounts of oil beneath the newly accessible ocean.

Enter the Gaia Corporation. Its two founders have come up with a plan to roll back global warming. Thousands of tiny mirrors floating in the air can create a giant sunshade, capable of redirecting heat and cooling the earth's surface. They plan to terraform Earth to save it from itself—but in doing so, they have created a superweapon the likes of which the world has never seen.

Anika Duncan is an airship pilot for the underfunded United Nations Polar Guard. She's intent on capturing a smuggled nuclear weapon that has made it into the Polar Circle and bringing the smugglers to justice.

Anika finds herself caught up in a plot by a cabal of military agencies and corporations who want Gaia Corporation stopped. But when Gaia Corp loses control of their superweapon, it will be Anika who has to decide the future of the world. The nuclear weapon she has risked her life to find is the only thing that can stop the floating sunshade after it falls into the wrong hands.

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A evo sto kaze sam Buckell: Is potable water really that huge of a threat, I wonder? I think my background actually plays into my answer here. I spent my high school years in exactly the sort of dystopia that people posit when talking about 'peak water' or 'water wars.' In St. Thomas, USVI, the sole spring doesn't produce much in the way of potable water for the 150,000 or so people on the island at any given time (residents plus tourists). As a result, water is made using reverse osmosis from the ocean. There's a lot of ocean in the world, well over some 1 billion cubic kilometers. What happens is price. The reverse osmosis system requires energy (in St. Thomas it's diesel power, so the whole edifice of being able to drink there requires fossil fuels) to be created, and the cost of water I grew up using was $65 per 1,000 gallons, versus $1.50 in Ohio for the very same amount. I grew up with water costing 50 times what it does in the US. What does it do? Well, it changes your conservation behavior, for one. I remember reading in the papers that Californians were in a drought, and being told to limit their showers to 'fifteen minutes' and laughing. Who the hell took fifteen minute showers? That shit was expensive.

But even at over 50 times the cost, we didn't don our Mad Max American Football-inspired leather uniforms and head out to do battle. There were water trucks, more conservation, more awareness of water use, and lots of clever human hacks around the situation (roofs that collected rain, cisterns, etc). People are clever.

Prekjuce sam zavrsio njegov Crystal Rain i poceo Ragamuffin. Jeste to simplificirano i pomalo bleskasto, ali i veoma citljivo. Malo promisljeniji Scalzi, dvaes`prvovekovni PC pulpic :-)

Od njega sam čitala samo The Executioness, definitivno simplificirano.  :)

 
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Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper was one of the best fantasy debuts published last year so it's no wonder that we are exceptionally excited about it's follow up, Trinity Moon! It turn our that second part of Wild Hunt Trilogy is all it promises to be - a great fantasy novel so it is more than deservedly our Book Of The Week!

Here's the synopsis:Gair's battle has only just begun, and yet his heart has already been lost. As he struggles with a crippling grief, still outwardly functional but inwardly torn into pieces, he sleepwalks into a situation that's greater and more deadly than he or Alderan ever anticipated. A storm of unrest is spreading across the land and they are going to be caught up in it - at a moment when Gair's hold on his magic, his greatest defence and most valuable tool, is starting to slip ...He is not alone in noticing the growing unrest and sensing something darker looming behind it. Beyond the mountains, in the bitterly cold north, Teia has seen the signs as well. After hundreds of years of peace her people are talking of a risky invasion to reclaim their ancestral lands ...her Speaker claims the gods are on their side, but Teia fears another, hidden hand of stirring her people up. Whatever the truth, all she can see in her future is blood, battle and death. If she could only see a way to avert that fate. But how can men be convinced to fight, when they have no idea they are part of a war ...?

Elspeth Cooper: Trinity Rising

Četvrto poglavlje:

http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2012/07/trinity-rising-chapter-four/ (http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2012/07/trinity-rising-chapter-four/)


Peto poglavlje:

http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2012/07/trinity-rising-chapter-five/ (http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2012/07/trinity-rising-chapter-five/)

Rob Ziegler sa svojim debi romanom SEED...

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     It's the dawn of the 22nd century, and the world has fallen apart. The United States has become a nation of migrants — starving masses of nomads who seek out a living in encampments outside government seed-distribution warehouses. In this new world, there is a new power. Satori is more than just a corporation; she is an intelligent, living city that grew out of the ruins of Denver. Satori bioengineers both the climate resistant seed that feeds a hungry nation and her own post-human genetic Designers, Advocates, and Laborers. What remains of the United States government now exists solely to distribute Satori seed; a defeated American military doles out bar-coded, single-use Satori seed to the nation's starving citizens. When one of Satori's Designers goes rogue, Agent Sienna Doss is tasked with bringing her in: the government wants to use the Designer to break Satori's stranglehold on seed production and reassert themselves as the center of power. As events spin out of control, Sienna finds herself at the heart of Satori, where an explosive climax promises to reshape the future of the world.
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kaze za njega Bacigalupi:

"A hungry beast of a book, rippling with slaughter and sex, powerhouse action, surreal post-human horrors and bigger-than-life heroes...Seed pulses with life." -Paolo Bacigalupi, author, The Windup Girl

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Geek Syndicate interviews Danie Ware (http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/danie-ware-talks-about-her-debut-novel-ecko-rising/).

... i malko upoznavanja sa genijalnim izdavacem ChiZine Publications:

Small Press Spotlight: ChiZine Publications                  By Justin Landon (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/author/justinlandon/) |                   Friday, September 21st, 2012                  at                  12:25 am                   

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I've taken to frequenting brick and mortar book stores more often since beginning this column. I find myself needing to peruse the stacks, to see what catches my eye and what's being stocked. It should come as no surprise that few of the presses I'll be covering find themselves en masse on the shelves at Barnes & Noble, but some do. ChiZine Publications is one of them.

When I first came across ChiZine, two years ago or so, I wrote them off to some degree. I've never been one for weird for its own sake and covers like David Nickle's Monstrous Affections coded that way for me. Many of their early titles also seemed to trend closer to horror than fantasy or science fiction and, of the three, horror has long been my least favorite. More accurately, I don't really like pissing myself while reading. ChiZine claims they want "Horror that isn't just gross or going for a cheap scare, but fundamentally disturbing, instilling a sense of true dread." To put it another way, be warned, you may piss yourself.

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So it came as some surprise when combing the stacks during a work trip, I found myself picking up ChiZine titles again and again. From David Nickle's newest work, Rasputin's Bastards, to Nick Mamatas's Bullettime, to Carolyn Ives Gilman's Ison of the Isles, I was interested. I shouldn't have been surprised. Their mission statement seems to echo much of my own feelings about the direction of New York publishing.

Larger presses are sometimes forced to play it safe: plots and stories we've seen before, because that's what the public seems to crave. . .Sometimes it can feel like we're all just reading the same stories, over and over, just in slightly different settings.

It goes on to say that they aspire to be better.

Fantasy that doesn't necessarily need spells or wizards to create a world far removed from ours, but that imbues the story with an otherworldly sense by knocking tropes on their heads. Science fiction that isn't just about space travel and gadgets, but about what it means to be human—or what it means not to be.

Are they succeeding? I was compelled to find out. I began with Nick Mamatas's Bullettime. Truth be told I've long had a fascination for him as an artist. He has a strong reputation in the field, and writers I've come to respect hold him in high esteem. It's a novel about a school shooter (sort of) following David Holbrook's life as a disturbed teenager, bullied and ostracized with no support at home. The narrative itself is all over the place, jumping through time and space. Not unlike the Peter Howitt film Sliding Doors, taking the reader to different decision points, Mamatas shows the branches that could take David anywhere, except where they can't.

The jumping around, and a narrator who's often tripping on a cough syrup cocktail, could have led to a mess of a narrative. Mamatas often moves from first person to third within a paragraph, and David himself, although ostensibly a single person, often becomes someone new entirely depending on his point of reference. Instead, Mamatas's strong voice shines, and he never seems out of control of his material.

I don't know how many prototypical genre readers would pick Bullettime up. There's far more Don DeLillo in it than Gene Wolfe. Perhaps the closest approximation to another genre writer might be Kurt Vonnegut who did so well in blending fantastic elements with satire. And yet, despite Mamatas's history of satire in Under My Roof (2007) and Sensation (2011), Bullettime is not.

ostatak na:  http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/09/small-press-spotlight-chizine-publications/#more-62132 (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/09/small-press-spotlight-chizine-publications/#more-62132)

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/09/small-press-spotlight-chizine-publications/#more-62132 (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/09/small-press-spotlight-chizine-publications/#more-62132)

Atomic Fez is over-​​joyed to announce details of a title for publication in the spring of 2013: Sleepless Knights by Mark H. Williams, with cover art by DC Comics and Vertigo (http://www.dccomics.com/vertigo/) artist Jimmy Broxton!

While Sleepless Knights is Mr. Williams's first novel, his writing has already been commissioned in the past by entities as diverse as BBC Cymru Wales TV and Radio (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiowales/), as well as Welsh National Opera (http://www.wno.org.uk/), and the Courtyard Theatre, Hereford (http://www.courtyard.org.uk/) for whom he is also working on a future main stage adaptation.

Jimmy Broxton, whose work has graced the pages of Knight & Squire, Saucer Country and The Unwritten, will be providing his prodigious gifts to the outsides of Sleepless Knights, with a 'concept sketch' of the cover art already in hand.

Mr. Broxton's contribution brings 'the final piece of the puzzle' for a project that has been quietly bubbling away at Atomic Fez Publishing for nearly a year (http://www.atomicfez.com/2012/02/02/titles-for-2012/).


About the Book: Sleepless Knights!

It's not easy being the man behind the myth.

Sir Lucas is butler to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, the person who managed every epic legend behind the scenes. He's the one who made sure each quest happened in the right place at the right time, and that everyone involved had comfortable accommodation for the weekend. The man whose average working day involved fighting dragons, defeating witches, banishing demons, and ensuring the Royal pot of tea never crossed the thin line separating 'brewed' from 'stewed'. What's more, 1,500 years after that golden age, he's still doing it: here in modern Britain, right under our noses...

Through ten working days in the life of Sir Lucas the Butler, discover what really went on at Camelot. The story behind Lancelot's affair with Guinevere. The truth about the quest for the Grail. And find out what happens one fateful day in June, when King Arthur and six of his knights are revealed as living among us. A revelation that brings about the return of Merlin and the end of the world, uncovering secrets from the past that King Arthur would rather stay buried, and forcing Lucas to confront the truth about his own unique and peculiar destiny. A destiny he will do anything to avoid, even if it means sacrificing the love of his life in the service of his master.

In short, the kind of crisis only the ultimate butler can resolve.


About the Author: Mark H. Williams!

Mr. Williams is a screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He's written two UK-​​touring stage adaptations for The Birmingham Stage Company (http://www.birminghamstage.com/) – Horrible Histories: The Frightful First World War (nominated for a Manchester Evening News Award, "Best Family Show") and Horrible Science.

He's written for BBC Cymru Wales TV and Radio (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiowales/), as well as Welsh National Opera (http://www.wno.org.uk/); the Courtyard Theatre, Hereford (http://www.courtyard.org.uk/); Sherman Theatre /​ Sherman Cymru (http://www.shermancymru.co.uk/); Cwmni Theatr 3D; The Desperate Men Theatre Company (http://www.desperatemen.com/); and Dirty Protest (http://dirtyprotesttheatre.co.uk/). Mark is under commission to Theatr Iolo (http://www.theatriolo.com/) for a new play for a family audience, touring Wales in the summer of 2013. He's also currently working on a main stage adaptation for the Courtyard Theatre Hereford, and research & development with Cartoon De Salvo (http://www.cartoondesalvo.com/) and National Theatre Wales (http://nationaltheatrewales.org/).

About the Artist: Jimmy Broxton (http://www.madefire.com/the-creators/jimmy-broxton/)!

Mr. Broxton is a UK based graphic artist, illustrator and designer. He is best known for his work on DC/Vertigo's "The Unwritten" with Mike Carey; Paul Cornell's "Knight and Squire" six issue mini series also for DC comics (collected in Batman: Knight and Squire), and most recently a run of short stories for Dark Horse Comics Presents, working with writer by Martin Conaghan. His hobbies include: cooking, cycling, boxing, and pretending to be somebody else.

Jeff Carlson (http://www.jverse.com/) is the author of Plague Year, Plague War (a finalist for the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award), and Plague Zone. To date, his work has been translated into fourteen languages. His short stories and nonfiction have appeared in a number of top venues such as Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Boys' Life, Strange Horizons and the Fast Forward 2 anthology. His latest book, The Frozen Sky, is available as an eBook.

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Aliens, Spaceships and The Frozen Sky I'm fourth generation sf/f.  My great-grandmother built her library around Frank L. Baum's Oz series, the original fantasy epic.  She passed those beautiful hardcovers to her son, my grandfather, who kept them alongside "Doc" E.E. Smith novels  such as Triplanetary and Galactic Patrol, which were the cutting edge in his time.

Later, when I was a boy, my grandfather introduced me to the world's first media tie-ins like Han Solo's Revenge and Splinter Of The Mind's Eye.  This was not a man who sneered at popular good fun.  He entranced me with Star Wars books, then fed my new addiction with the classics.

At the same time, my father was bringing home doorstoppers like The Hobbit and Clan Of The Cave Bear, which reads very much like alt history with strange people in a strange world.

My point is I know a good piece of science fiction when I see it.  Tell me this doesn't fit the bill:

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Jel neko čitao Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief (2010)???

Mislim da je Lidija čitala, možda i Mića.

A jel bi mogo neko da kaže vredi li to čemu?
Ovo apropo onog teksta http://ruthlessculture.com/2012/10/03/cowardice-laziness-and-irony-how-science-fiction-lost-the-future/ (http://ruthlessculture.com/2012/10/03/cowardice-laziness-and-irony-how-science-fiction-lost-the-future/)
u kojem nije baš jasno da li je ovo primer zamumuljivanja SF-a ili je primer dobrog SF-a u sadašnjoj produkciji.

Ja sam skinuo sa torenta, ali bih voleo da čujem utiske od nekog ko je čitao.

Meni vredi. Pisac bar ne kalkuliše, već piči nekim svojim tempom, ne obazirući se da li je usput pogubio glupe i površne čitaoce.
Neke spektakularnih noviteta tu nema, ali ima pomalo dilejnijevske atmosfere i nekog dekadentnog šmeka u oblandi posthumanizma...
Mada, mnogima se ovo nipošto neće svideti.


Kad sam pisao o tome o čemu bi trebalo raspravljati u čitaonici, između ostalog imao sam na umu i ovaj roman...
Da li je ovo smer u kome bi trebalo da ide savremeni SF?
Ili je to Mjevilov Embassytown?
Ili Gibsonova trilogija?
Ili libeatin Watts, koga nikako da počnem da čitam?
2312?
Zoo City?


Kakav crni The Difference Engine?

E, dobro, ajde, videćemo  8-)
Malo ću da čitam.

Quote from: Mica Milovanovic on 04-10-2012, 19:33:43
Kad sam pisao o tome o čemu bi trebalo raspravljati u čitaonici, između ostalog imao sam na umu i ovaj roman...
Da li je ovo smer u kome bi trebalo da ide savremeni SF?
Ili je to Mjevilov Embassytown?
Ili Gibsonova trilogija?
Ili libeatin Watts, koga nikako da počnem da čitam?
2312?
Zoo City?


Kakav crni The Difference Engine?

Ovako kako si naveo autore i dela, rekla bih da imaju zajednički nazivnik samo u najširem smislu te reči, i to uglavnom zato što su u pitanju novija dela. I ne govorim sad samo o razlici koja bi podrazumevala njihovo (pod)žanrovsko svrstavanje, nego govorim o bazičnoj razlici u percepcijama samih autora. Meni tu jedino Watts i KSR dele zajedničku percepciju, a ta podrazumeva vrlo racionalno razmišljanje (i pretpostavljanje) o budućnosti čoveka kao vrste, i to kroz najdirektnije moguće suočavanje specifičnih fenomena koje omogućavaju savremene tehnologije - recimo AI i genetski inžinjering. I sad ćeš verovatno reći da time povlačim granicu između današnjeg "tvrdog SFa" i svega ostalog u žanru, ali tu zapravo uopšte nije reč o toj konkretno razlici, pošto percepciju prepoznajem kao maltene direktnog naslednika feminističkog i ekološkog SFa novog talasa, i to u meri daleko većoj i očiglednijoj nego što je to pošlo za rukom hardSF struji iz istog razdoblja. Što ujedno znači da toj percepciji vidim korene u ondašnjem mekom, društvenjačkom esefu, a to mi  i objašnjava otkud toliko racionalizovanih tehnofobskih tonova u najnovijoj SF produkciji.


Problem je što ove nijanse teško opstaju van teorijskog domena, jer kad ih se laici dočepaju, to ispadne tuga i jad proizvoljnosti i suštinskog nerazumevanja ne samo terminologije, nego i koncepata koje bi trebalo da predstavljaju. Najgore tu prolaze transhumanizam i posthumanizam, a da stvar bude gora, upravo oni i jesu kamen temeljac ove percepcije. Da ne govorim sad koliko je i sama terminologija nesrećno odabrana u svojoj dvosmislenosti, pošto i "post" i "trans" neukima impliciraju isključivo aktivnosti prevazilaženja ili savladavanja i tako dalje u tom smeru, a pošto su upravo neuki ujedno i najgrlatiji, već se na tom ranom stepenu neshvatanja satre svaka šansa za razumnu konverzaciju. Recimo da je problem tu uvelike sličan onom tragičnom problemu koji laici imaju sa Suvinovim konceptom novuma.


Ali kad već imamo navedena imena,Watts tu svakako dođe kao najstariji autor koji se eksplicitno bavio upravo tim fenomenima, i to više u Blindsightu nego u samoj Rifters trilogiji. KRS se time više bavi kroz ekspanzionističku vizuru, ali, u biti, na istim su frekvencijama, tu nema zbora. 

Upravo sam to što si navela i hteo da istaknem...


Ako se izuzmu brojne budalaštine koje se lako mogu svrstati u pojedine "niše", ostaju autori koji su tako različiti da ih je nemoguće svrstati u "pokrete" kako je to bilo povremeno moguće u prošlosti (naučno) fantastične proze. Mislio sam da je vredno u "čitaonici" razmotriti pristup svakoga od njih i možda sagledati ko od njih uspeva da oslika trenutak u kome se nalazimo i kuda idemo... Da to možda pomogne nekome ko danas kreće u spisateske vode... Možda...


The Difference Engine je možda u svoje vreme nešto značio, ali moram da se složim sa kuferom (ponovo, avaj) da je besmisleno danas razmatrati ovaj roman...

Kud se ne izjasnište o DiffEngine onda kad ga je Bata predložio, nego sad kad smo ga izabrali za čitanje.

 Razumem Mićinu frustraciju, ali ne vidim kako se to moglo bolje, kad smo morali da odaberemo knjige unapred za tri meseca meseca, i to iz liste naslova predloženih striktno za prvi krug, uz svega 3-4 svežija dodatka. U takvom škripcu, DiffEngine je svakako imala velike šanse da upadne u svaki promišljeniji izbor, jer, budimo iskreni, koliko kod Mića mislio da je ta knjiga sad nerelevantna zbog starosti, toliko ja mislim da bi svi stimpank/paralelna istorija naslovi bili podjednako nerelevantni za ono što Mića ovde izlaže da ga zapravo zanima, a da o bilo kakvoj iracionalnoj fantastici sad i ne drvim. To kao prvo. A kao drugo, ne vidim što bi ikome za čitanje bila neophodna bilo kakva infantilna igrarija poput Čitaonice, ovakva kakva je sad: čitajte slobodno, braćo i drugovi, i čitajte šta god vam duša ište, pa otvorite topik za pročitani naslov i udrite po utiscima, a onaj koga to iole zanima će vam se već pridruži, jer nije valjda da vam je sad i za čitanje neophodan sagitin večernjoškolski plan & program.

Meni zapravo treba. Malo sam se odvikao od čitanja, i ova gungula je dobra prilika da se podsetim kako mi je nekad bilo, kad sam čitao knjige umesto da učim za ispit.

eh, ovo mi skroz propalo kroz pukotine, a bilo je na listi obaveznih debi romana pa se nekako zaturilo...  :(


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Emma NewmanEmma (http://www.enewman.co.uk/) lives in Somerset, England and drinks far too much tea. She writes dark short stories, post-apocalyptic and urban fantasy novels and records audiobooks in all genres. Her debut short-story collection From Dark Places was published in 2011 and 20 Years Later, her debut post-apocalyptic novel for young adults, was released early 2012. The first book of Emma's new Split Worlds urban fantasy series called Between Two Thorns will be published by Angry Robot Books in 2013. She is represented by Jennifer Udden at DMLA. Her hobbies include dressmaking and playing RPGs. She blogs at www.enewman.co.uk (http://www.enewman.co.uk/), rarely gets enough sleep and refuses to eat mushrooms.

New Short Fiction: THE PERIMETER by Will McIntosh

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In 2010, Will McIntosh astonished us with his Hugo Award-winning short story, "Bridesicle," so we signed him up to write a couple novels (http://www.orbitbooks.net/2012/01/09/will-mcintoshs-hugo-award-winning-bridesicle-to-become-a-novel/) for Orbit. But we never lost sight of the fact that McIntosh is a consummate short story writer, and we are thrilled to publish his new one on our Orbit Short Fiction program (http://www.orbitshortfiction.com/).

The Perimeter" is set in a human colony on a distant planet; beyond the colony's borders, strange fauna with sinister agendas lurk. All this creepy tale needs is Rod Serling standing in the foreground, saying "Picture if you will ..."


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>Michaelbrent Collings (http://michaelbrentcollings.com/) has written numerous bestselling novels and is a produced screenwriter and member of the Writers Guild of America, Horror Writers of America, and a couple of other fancy-sounding things. His wife and mommy think he is a can that is chock-full of awesome sauce. Check him out at www.facebook.com/MichaelbrentCollings (http://www.facebook.com/MichaelbrentCollings) or michaelbrentcollings.com (http://michaelbrentcollings.com/).
Horror: The Last Bivouac of HopeI am a guy who writes scary stuff.  It's basically all I do.  I'm one of the bestselling horror writers on Amazon, and as of this writing one of the scary movies in Redboxes and video stores all over the world has my name after the "screenplay by" part.  I specialize in ghosts and goblins.  In things that go bump in the night, in demons that steal souls, in madmen whose greatest desire is to maim and to kill.  In my most recent bestselling horror novel, Apparition, I write extensively about filicide – about parents who kill their children.  And in my book, the parents who commit such atrocities do so with gusto, with relish, with lust.  It is, as many reviewers have said, not only scary, but a deeply disturbing book.
To reiterate: I am a guy who writes scary stuff.
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E ovaj roman mi je sasvim promakao, svojevremeno sam ga tražila, nisam uspela da nađem, pa kasnije sasvim zaboravila. Ako neko od vas ima knjigu, udelite, ako možete. A ako je neko još i pročitao, posavetujte vredi li čitanja. 

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  Duncan McNeil is staring mistrustfully at a photograph of his daughter, Amy. She appears to be at or near her present age of ten, but the studio's dated stamp on the back indicates that the photo was taken nearly a year before her birth. More alarming, however, is the beautiful woman standing beside Amy, a woman with whom he had an affair in the periphery of his new marriage, during the time when Amy was conceived. And the fact that this photograph has been in his wife's possession for more than a decade is perhaps the most disturbing element of all.

Duncan's wife Rachel doesn't know about his affair with this woman, but he will soon tell her. And upon that revelation they will begin a journey that will take them clear across the continent, from California to Massachusetts, then ultimately into the boundless, uncharted territory of the human collective. There, a devil is waiting; the penultimate personification of evil. And he goes by the name of Mr. Gamble.

Advance Praise for Seraphim

"Apocalyptic in the truest sense of the word, Jon Michael Kelley's Seraphim is a stunning thriller with the very fate of the world at stake. Beautifully written, with prose as lush as it is chilling, Kelley is part poet, part prophet, but a true master of fear, through and through. This is top notch stuff of highest caliber!"
            --Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters and Inheritance

"Seraphim is a beautifully wrought tale of angels and demons that starts out strong and just gets better and better. A thoroughly enjoyable read. Jon Michael Kelley proves to be a mature, intelligent new voice in horror right out of the gate."            --Craig Saunders, author of The Love of the Dead and A Stranger's Grave

"Written with the finesse of a pro, Seraphim is one hell of a frightening horror novel. With bits of dark fantasy and humor mixed in, this one has it all! Hard to believe this is Jon Michael Kelley's first novel."           --David Bernstein, author of Amongst the Dead and Tears of No Return   Show More (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B008MU4O5C/sfsi0c-20#)  Show Less (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B008MU4O5C/sfsi0c-20#)
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 Još jedan roman koji je malko skliznuo kroz pukotine je Husk, Corey Redekop. Husk deli poduža pauza nakon debi romana  Shelf Monkey, pa valjda zato hajpa nije ni bilo.

Malo predstavljanje od strane autora:

Corey Redekop:
I'm going to now reveal five things about the making of Husk never before revealed!

1.   I usually put on headphones and listen to random rock and/or roll while I write (unlike some authors, I find silence distracting). For Husk, however, I intentionally keep my iPod playlist on the weird, atonal, unusual music and soundtracks I've collected over the years to keep my mind jumping and nervous, more in-tune with the on-page havoc I was attempting to create. Howard Shore's jittery score to Naked Lunch (with invaluable sax work by Ornette Coleman) would segue into John Carpenter's dark syntho-jive that drives much of his work, giving way to John Lurie's brilliant experimental jazz ensemble The Lounge Lizards and Philip Glass' eerie Candyman soundtrack.

2.   In my original manuscript, I brought back Munroe Purvis, a character from my debut novel Shelf Monkey. I wanted to try and create a new universe that would link together all my books. Through trial, error, and a very smart editor, Munroe found himself shafted, and I ended up with the far more interesting character of Lambertus Dixon. I am probably most proud of coming up with that name, I love a great character name. People don't realize how hard it can be sometimes for an author to settle on monikers.

3.   I had toyed with the idea of never mentioning the word "zombie," as they've done with The Walking Dead series. I discarded the idea because I just couldn't buy a world that doesn't know the term. You see someone crawl from the grave, you think zombie, simple as that.

4.   There are some suggestions to specific zombie movies and creators in some of the place and character names, but so far, not one person has noted it. Maybe "Fulci Towers" is too obvious?

5.   While zombies can be terrifying, I am always gratified when someone fully embraces the humour inherent in the messy disintegration of the human body. A scene late in the book involving spools of intestine and a malfunctioning electric wheelchair is my indirect homage to the slapstick splatter comedy of Peter Jackson's Brain Dead.



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    Outlandish and emotional, this humorous novel centers on Sheldon Funk, a struggling actor who dies in a bus restroom only to awaken during his autopsy and attack the coroner. Fleeing into the wintry streets of Toronto, Sheldon realizes he's now a zombie—as if he didn't have enough on his plate already. His last audition, reading for the reality television series House Bingo, had gone disastrously wrong. His mother is in the late stages of dementia, his savings are depleted, his agent couldn't care less, and his boyfriend is little more than a set of nice abs. All Sheldon has to his name is a house he can barely hold onto and a cat that is more pillow than mammal. Now he also has to contend with decomposition, the scent of the open grave, and an unending appetite for human flesh—and on top of it all, there's another audition in the morning. In order to survive his death without literally falling apart, Sheldon must find a way to combine his old life with his new addiction, which would be a lot easier if he could stop eating vagrants. A hysterical take on fame, love, religion, politics, and appetite, this is the story of the "everyzombie" people long to be.


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... Anonymous-9??  :lol:

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  "HARD BITE is outlandish in every way -- a crazed noir excursion into an unprecedented heart of darkness. From the opening line on, it challenges and confronts, attacks and confounds. Violent and sometimes funny, always entertaining."
— T. Jefferson Parker, three-time Edgar Award winner, author of THE JAGUAR and THE BORDER LORDS

The hit-and-run driver took everything—his wife, child and legs. Now a paraplegic, Dean Drayhart unleashes payback on suspected hit-and-runners in Los Angeles with helper-monkey Sid as his deadly assistant.

Dean's gentle, doting nurse knows nothing about what he's up to and when Sid tears out the throat of a Mexican Mafia member, Marcie gets kidnapped in order to force Dean's surrender.

Armed with nothing but his wits, Sid, and a sympathetic streetwalker named Cinda, Dean manipulates drug-cartel carnales and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in a David-against-Goliath plot that twists and turns to a heart-pounding finale.

From The Author
"When a strong, self-determined man loses not only his ability to walk, but life as he knows it, a choice must be made: to lie down and fade away, or fight back. But with what? His body is broken, his wife is gone, his beloved daughter is dead.

"Although Dean Drayhart's situation could be desperate or maudlin, his spirits are buoyed with the use of black humour and an unsinkable attitude. Dean doesn't just throw off the shackles of victimhood, he repurposes them as weapons to go after his targets: hit-and-run drivers.

"HARD BITE is a crime novel with a very different kind of serial killer — a victim who refuses to be a victim, a killer with a moral code. Readers can't help liking Dean — at the same time knowing there's a downward spiral to his vigilantism and that somehow, somewhere this is all going to blow back. As T. Jefferson Parker points out: "From the first line on, [Hard Bite] challenges and confronts, attacks and confounds."

"Happy reading."

Praise For Hard Bite
"A carnival of nightmarish fun, HARD BITE had me gasping from one outlandishly terrifying act to the next, each scene involving The Grim Reaper in a wheelchair; a sharp-fanged, treacherous monkey; a SWAT-team posse of drugged Mexican killers; and/or more tough-but-lovable women with guns than a Mickey Spillane novel."
— Jack Getze, Fiction Editor, Spinetingler Magazine

"a hell of a book that will leave a mark."
— Brian Lindenmuth, editor, Snubnose Press

"By the end, your heart aches a little for the narrator. That's the true goal of fiction, or it ought to be – to shift you on your foundations in the reading, leaving you off in a slightly different place from where you started."
— Sophie Littlefield, A BAD DAY FOR SORRY, A BAD DAY FOR PRETTY

"The ride is electric...quality that other writers should aspire to achieve."
— Joseph Patchen for Lurid Lit

"Nasty, but a beating heart underneath ...very clever; lovely writing."
— Patti Abbott, Derringer Award winner

"Anonymous-9 is one of my favorite crime writers."
— Nick Mamatas, Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild awards nominee.

"If you like your genre on the gonzo side, then you need to get on board the Anonymous 9 train. She's a mysterious writer with an imagination way off there in the ether."
—-Anthony Neil Smith, author of ALL THE YOUNG WARRIORS

About The Author
Anonymous-9 is the pen name of Elaine Ash, a Los Angeles-based book editor. Contact Elaine/Anonymous-9 via her author page at www.blastedheath.com (http://www.blastedheath.com) or visit her website at www.anonymous-9.com (http://www.anonymous-9.com). She loves to hear from readers and she doesn't bite.   Show more (http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Bite-ebook/dp/B009UFDXAU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360738700&sr=1-1#) 

... i kad smo vec kod Mamatasa i njegovih preporuka, evo 5 opskurnih naslova za koje tvrdi da su vredni citanja:

Five Obscure Books I Recommend You Read
For my "best of" list, I decided to go out of my way to highlight some titles that readers of Locus are unlikely to have already read. For fans, it seems that their favorite authors are always underrated. Ever hear of Asimov? Gaiman? Uh, yes. Here are some authors, and books, you may not have heard of yet.


The Holy Bile by Cameron Moloney
This is a great little novella about a plot to deprive the world of Coca-Cola. It also involves terrorist actions against McDonald's. Hilarious. It came out in the late 1990s in Australia, but I see that the author has recently Kindlefied it for the world. So go forth and consume! There's a bit when a young child writes a letter demanding Coca-Cola that still brings tears to my eyes.


Corn & Smoke: Stories, Performances, Things by "Blaster" Al Ackerman
Ackerman, a mail artist and underground SF writer heavily influenced by Theodore Sturgeon, is likely known to at least the aging hipster slice of Locus readers. This is a collection of stories and...well, things, just like the subtitle says. If pulp fiction were as good as pulp fiction magazine covers, the magazines never would have gone out of business, and Ackerman would own a pillowcase full of Hugos and Nebulas, and probably a National Book Award as well. Very strange, and a good introduction to this original figure. It's around.


The Consumer by M. Gira
If the previous two books had a baby, this would be the primitive unborn twin trapped within the flesh of its healthy-seeming brother, and squirming through every orifice at once in an attempt to get out. Short pieces, very dark and occasionally simply just gross, heavily Ballardian. Out of print, but easily torrentable, I suppose because of M. Gira's role as the leader of the band Swans. Note: I don't recommend torrenting books.


The Holiday House by Jennifer Callahan
Jennifer Callahan was a precocious self-published author of vampire fiction in the wrong decade. The Holiday House was published by Callahan's own Vanity Press (as in the name of her little company was literally "Vanity Press") back when angelfire.com was the queen of the web and Diaryland the apex of social media. You know, 1999. The Holiday House is a dreamy vampire novella, heavily influenced by the Goth scene of the last century and by plenty of teen angst. Not CW-ready teen angst, the real deal. Had Callahan self-published in the age of Kindle, she'd probably be a millionaire. As it stands, she seems to have vanished entirely. Are you out there Callie?


Mixtape for the Apocalypse by Jemiah Jefferson
At the risk of selling out, allow me to name a book currently in print. Jefferson is the author of several vampire novels that came out in mass-market paperback, so she probably doesn't belong on this list, but her self-published Mixtape for the Apocalypse is unjustly obscure. It's not a genre novel proper, but it is heavily influenced by genre, specifically end-of-the-world stories, secret histories, and the political paranoia of The X-Files or Fringe. A nerdy slacker believes—or realizes, is it?—that dark forces are at work. Published in 2011, this is also Jefferson's love letter to the 1990s. It's sort of like Jo Walton's Among Others, but the population Jefferson is waving the freak flag for don't vote for the Hugo Awards.

Nick Mamatas (http://www.nick-mamatas.com/) is the author of several novels, including the fantasy-noir Bullettime, and over eighty short stories. His work has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Tor.com, and the anthologies Dark Faith: Invocations and Psychos.
http://www.locusmag.com/Roundtable/ (http://www.locusmag.com/Roundtable/)

Fade to Black (Rojan Dizon Novels) by Francis Knight (26 Feb 2013)
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Rojan Dizon zvuci obecavajuce, iako me sinopsis jednim delom malko asocira na Grad & Grad. 





Publication Date: 26 Feb 2013 | Series: Rojan Dizon Novels     FROM THE DEPTHS OF A VALLEY RISES THE CITY OF MAHALA

It's a city built upwards - where streets are built upon streets, buildings upon buildings. A city that the Ministry rules from the sunlit summit, and where the forsaken lurk in the darkness of Under.

Rojan Dizon doesn't mind staying in the shadows, because he's got things to hide. Things like being a pain-mage, with the forbidden power to draw magic from pain. But when the fate of Mahala depends on him using his magic, he can't hide for ever.

THE FIRST ADVENTURE OF ROJAN DIZON

A debut fantasy tale of corruption and dark magic set in a world that's
both vertigo-inducing and awe-inspiring.   Show More (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fade-Black-Rojan-Dizon-Novels/dp/0356501663/ref=la_B008D0QMPG_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361340424&sr=1-1#)

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   Mercury – closest planet to the Sun. In the permanent darkness of Chao Meng-fu crater lie vast fields of ice that that have never seen the Sun, and the ruins of Erebus Mine, abandoned and forgotten after a devastating explosion that claimed the lives of 257 people. After an eight-year legal battle, the relatives of the victims have finally succeeded in forcing the Space Accidents Board to reopen its investigation. Matt Crawford, a mine engineer who escaped the disaster, joins a team sent back to the mine to discover the true cause of the accident. The team is led by Clare Foster, a pilot in the U.S. Astronautics Corps, who has taken on the mission in the hope of rebuilding her career after a near-miss incident.

But powerful forces are determined that what lies hidden in the mine will never be uncovered, and have taken steps to ensure that the mission team will never return. Stranded on Mercury, the team are divided by internal conflict, and a growing realisation of what really happened in the mine. Soon Matt and Clare are thrown together in a desperate race for survival against an implacable enemy that will not rest until it has killed them all ...

Featuring line drawings and maps, a highly detailed background story, and magnificent visions of the Sun's innermost planet, BELOW MERCURY sets new standards for the science fiction thriller.     Show more (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0058IYAZK/sfsi0c-20#)  Show less (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0058IYAZK/sfsi0c-20#)

 Na sve strane jako puno oduševljenja ovim debi romanom, pa to vredi (pr)overiti:

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Release date: February 26, 2013     He came back to kill a tyrant. He found the Devil instead. An amazing historical novel with a supernatural twist set after the English Civil War. This is the stunning debut from Clifford Beal. He came back to kill a tyrant. He found the Devil instead. 1653: The long and bloody English Civil War is at an end. King Charles is dead and Oliver Cromwell rules the land as king in all but name. Richard Treadwell, an exiled royalist officer and soldier-for-hire to the King of France and his all-powerful advisor, the wily Cardinal Mazarin, burns with revenge for those who deprived him of his family and fortune. He decides upon a self-appointed mission to return to England in secret and assassinate the new Lord Protector. Once back on English soil however, he learns that his is not the only plot in motion. A secret army run by a deluded Puritan is bent on the same quest, guided by the Devil's hand. When demonic entities are summoned, Treadwell finds himself in a desperate turnaround: he must save Cromwell to save England from a literal descent into Hell. But first he has to contend with a wife he left in Devon who believes she's a widow, and a furious Paris mistress who has trailed him to England, jeopardising everything. Treadwell needs allies fast. Can he convince the man sent to forcibly drag him back to Cardinal Mazarin? A young king's musketeer named d'Artagnan. Black dogs and demons; religion and magic; Freemasons and Ranters. It's a dangerous new Republic for an old cavalier coming home again.   Show more (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1781080844/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1781080844&linkCode=as2&tag=upcoming00-20#)  Show less (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1781080844/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1781080844&linkCode=as2&tag=upcoming00-20#)

Još jedan prilično zapažen roman:






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Release date: March 19, 2013




Deep beneath the Ural Mountains, in an underground city carved out by slave labor during the darkest hours of the Cold War, ancient caverns hold exotic and dangerous life-forms that have evolved in isolation for countless millennia. Cut off from the surface world, an entire ecosystem of bizarre subterranean species has survived undetected—until now.

Biologists Nell and Geoffrey Binswanger barely survived their last encounter with terrifying, invasive creatures that threatened to engulf the planet. They think the danger is over until a ruthless Russian tycoon lures them to his underground metropolis, where they find themselves confronted by a vicious menagerie of biological horrors from their past—and by entirely new breeds of voracious predators. Now they're rising up from the bowels of the Earth to consume the world as we know it.

USA Today praised Warren Fahy's debut novel, Fragment, as "a rollicking tale [that] will enthrall readers of Jurassic Park and The Ruins." Now Fahy sets off an even more thrilling stampede of action and suspense, bursting forth from the hellish depths of...Pandemonium.


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a posle Lauren Beukes evo se i Charlie Human probija na svetsku SF binu  :) : 


Baxter Zevcenko is your average 16-year-old-boy. If by average you mean kingpin of a smut-peddling schoolyard syndicate, and a possible serial killer who suffers from weird historical dreams. He's the first to admit that he's not a nice guy, but then, in high school, where's the percentage in being nice?
That is until his girlfriend, Esme, is kidnapped and all the clues point toward strange forces at work. Faced with navigating the increasingly bizarre landscape of Cape Town's supernatural underworld to get her back, Baxter turns to the only person drunk enough to help: bearded, booze-soaked, supernatural bounty hunter, Jackson "Jackie" Ronin.
I've been a fan of Charlie Human's bizarro-poignant (new word!) sense of humour since we first laid eyes on his work. His debut novel, Apocalypse Now Now, was picked up by Random House last May and I've been impatiently awaiting this novel for aaaaages. August can't come a day too soon...
As if Charlie's writing weren't already exciting enough, Apocalypse Now Now boasts not one, but two Joey Hi-Fi covers - one for the UK edition, one for South Africa. We caught up with the man himself to ask very serious questions about what goes into two extraordinarily apocodelicious covers... (another new word! I'm on a roll!)
Pornokitsch: So - the contents of Apocalypse Now Now are a (frustratingly) closely guarded secret. As one of the few that have read it - what's the book like?!
Joey Hi-Fi: It's insane. The good insane tough. Although it did make me worry about Charlie Human's mental state. Lauren Beukes did a great shout for the book -"Mad, dark, irreverent and wonderfully twisted in all the right ways". I think that sums it up quite well.
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    The most exciting new voice in sceince fiction has written a novel with enormous cross-over appeal. In an L.A. where Fictional characters are cloned into living beings, the author Niles Golan is on the verge of hitting the big-time - if he can just stay on top of reality long enough to make it. In Hollywood, where last year's stars are this year's busboys, Fictionals are everywhere. Niles Golan's therapist is a Fictional. So is his best friend. So (maybe) is the woman in the bar he can't stop staring at. Fictionals – characters 'translated' into living beings for movies and TV using cloning technology – are a part of daily life in LA now. Sometimes the problem is knowing who's real and who's not. Divorced, alcoholic and hanging on by a thread, Niles – author of Death By Degrees: A Kurt Power Novel and many others – has been hired to write a big-budget reboot of a classic movie. If he does this right, the studio might bring one of Niles' own characters to life. Somewhere beneath the movie – beneath the TV show it was inspired by, the children's book behind that and the story behind that – is the kernel of something important. If he can just hold it together long enough...   Show more (http://www.amazon.com/Fictional-Man-Al-Ewing/dp/1781080941/ref=sr_1_774?s=books&ie=UTF8&tag=upcoming00-20&qid=1367825340&sr=1-774#)  Show less (http://www.amazon.com/Fictional-Man-Al-Ewing/dp/1781080941/ref=sr_1_774?s=books&ie=UTF8&tag=upcoming00-20&qid=1367825340&sr=1-774#)

Something I see now when I look at the stories in "Conservation of Shadows" is how difficult I used to find writing about settings that weren't more or less Western. The stories in the collection are not organized by date, and most of the earliest stories aren't included, so I suspect this is a little harder for other folks to see. But "Counting the Shapes," which is the oldest story included, has a standard medievaloid fantasy setting with some fractals and topology tacked on. "The Black Abacus," which was the one after that, has people with Western names running around a mostly bog-standard Western sf setting.
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Part of this was because of the science fiction and fantasy I grew up reading. Most of the fantasy came in the medieval European flavor. On the rare occasion I saw Asian anything, it was based on Japan or, as a distant second, China. The science fiction tended to be centered on Western societies and superpowers. Of course there were exceptions, sometimes in YA or works aimed toward children. One of my favorite YA series, Geraldine Harris's Seven Citadels, features thoughtfully described and unusual cultures. I don't know if they're based on real-world examples, but the range of societies riveted me. Back then I was learning to write by imitation, however, and as a child, or a teenager, I only knew to imitate what was in front of me. I simply didn't run across enough Geraldine Harrises to envision other possibilities, and I didn't have the imagination to get there on my own.
The other reason was because I spent high school in South Korea, and more specifically, I spent high school in South Korea wanting desperately to *leave* South Korea. My parents moved a fair bit; I had just been getting comfortable in Houston (again) when we were picked up and deposited back in Seoul. I find it touching when people in the USA feel the need to explain Thanksgiving to me--I learned about Thanksgiving in a Department of Defense school, as a point of fact--but really, I get on better in the States. More banally, I missed my friends.
I couldn't have written stories touching on Korea, or being Asian, when I was in high school, or for some years after that. There are many beautiful things about Korea. I still miss the barley tea, and the profusion of forsythias in the spring, and the sound of the Korean language; the perennial mountains and the gingkos in the autumn and the rattling cries of the magpies. But I was too unhappy there to want to go back even in fiction.
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Nevertheless, it's impossible to run away from your own bones. Eventually I was drawn back to Korean stories: Admiral Yi Sun-Shin and his remarkable military skill coupled with the inability to stay out of political trouble. The Japanese occupation and the Korean War and the divided peninsula. Ancestral worship. I remember vividly the time we we went to a grave, I can't remember whose, and I refused to go through the ritual of bowing. I had a reason then, and I wasn't forced to do it, but I wonder sometimes what I lost.
The story I wrote specifically for this collection, "Iseul's Lexicon," ended up being a story that drew on my memories of Korea, although as you might expect, there's a lot of invention. The imaginary not-Korea is named Chindalla, which is roughly similar to the Korean word for "azalea." (It was named something else until I remembered that my state governor is Bobby Jindal. Then I had to adjust the name a bit!) South Korea's national flower is the mugunghwa, or Rose of Sharon, but there's a famous poem by Kim Seoweol called "Jindallae," or "Azaleas," and I have loved it ever since my mother read it to me.
"Iseul's Lexicon" is also about magic, and genocide, and threats to language. My parents did not force me to take Korean lessons, and I was insufficiently motivated as a child to take up the study myself. I regret this sometimes. Right now I'm sitting on a two-volume Korean novel, "Seonggyungwan Yusaengdeul-eui Nanal" by Kim Tae-hee, and the odds that I will get to the end of the first chapter, let alone with any comprehension, are dim. Korean is not a language that's in danger of dying out, but I am constantly reminded of all the histories and stories of my own people that I can't access because of the language barrier; of the fact that I pick my way through my mother's letters slowly and painfully, and even so get confused by whole paragraphs.
I'll be honest, I don't know if I am doing this right, or well, this business of telling stories, especially stories that draw directly on an existing people's history rather than something made-up. But it seems worse not to try. Maybe someday I'll figure it out.

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Yoon Ha Lee
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Al Ewing talks about THE FICTIONAL MAN! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUZL855IDGs#ws)

... A. C. Wise?

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A.C. Wise (http://www.acwise.net/) is the author of numerous short stories appearing in print and online in publications such as Clarkesworld, Apex, Lightspeed, and the Best Horror of the Year Vol. 4. In addition to her fiction, she co-edits The Journal of Unlikely Entomology (http://www.grumpsjournal.com/), an online magazine devoted to fiction and art about bugs. Follow her on twitter as @ac_wise (https://twitter.com/ac_wise).


Aliens Among Us: Speculative Fiction and Bugsby A.C. Wise
It should come as no surprise that bugs – whether you stick to the scientific definition of "true bugs" or go with the broader, popular definition of all things creepy and crawly – are the perfect source of inspiration for speculative fiction. Bugs are weird. They have too many eyes and too many legs. Most can walk on walls, some can walk underwater, and others on top of it. Ants can carry 10 to 50 times their body weight. Fruit flies, flour beetles, and waterbears can withstand massive doses of radiation (even more than cockroaches) and keep right on going.
Compared to humans, bugs essentially have super powers. They also have radically different social structures, life cycles, methods of reproduction, and means of communicating. When you look at close-up macro photographs of bugs, they barely look like they belong on the same planet as humans. Why wouldn't an author drawn on their characteristics when building an alien race, or an entire alien world?

Let's take a classic example – the xenomorph from the Alien franchise. Xenomorphs are eusocial, like most species of bees, ants, and termites, meaning they have a single fertile queen. Like parasitoid wasps, xenomorphs forcibly implant their larva in other species. They go through several distinct stages during their lifecycles – egg, face hugger, chestburster, and full-blown adult alien. (We won't discuss the weird alien wiener snake from Prometheus.) While parasitoid wasps are slightly less dramatic than chestbursters, simply feeding on their host body from the inside until they're ready to pupate (which they occasionally do while continuing to wear the dead skin of their hosts), the parallels are clear.
Like terrestrial insects, xenomorphs are the ultimate Other. There's no common ground for humans to reason or negotiate with them. They don't want anything, other than to live their lives and reproduce. At best, humans provide convenient host bodies to facilitate xenomorph breeding; at worst, they're an infestation to be eradicated.
In their role as the ultimate Other, xenomorphs can be used to illuminate aspects of humanity. Parallels can be drawn between the Alien's behavior and some of the darkest behavior of humanity – rape, enforced pregnancy, or even the way the Company in the franchise views it employees as entirely disposable, a means only to achieve their own growth and continued existence.
Even terrestrial bugs are Other enough they can be seen as a blank slate; their behaviors and motives can be anthropomorphized to show us ourselves. Humans have developed an entire insect-mythology or shorthand, which when done well can be used to tell a very effective story, and when used poorly can substitute for plot, character development, and motivation. Bees stand-in for a highly militarized societies, or rigid caste-systems where everyone has a rank, orders are not to be questioned, and the status quo is to be maintained. Praying mantises represent sexually predatory females. Spiders are clever tricksters. Ants are industrious. Grasshoppers are lazy. And so on.
In many cases, the way we use insects to tell stories can reveal uncomfortable truths about humanity outside the text. Other-ing a character, human or inhuman, strips away their agency, takes away the voice they would use to tell their own story. Behavior and motivation are ascribed from the outside, defined by a narrator who has no experience of what the Other is actually thinking or feeling.
When faced with the Other, humans often fall back on received 'wisdom', stereotypes, and prejudices. A relatively innocuous example of this as it relates to insects is the term "social butterfly". Butterflies are primarily solitary and not social at all. It is the 'flighty' aspect of butterflies, flitting from one flower to the next that brings about the association – butterflies have a surface relationship with bright, pretty flowers, but no lasting interactions. They are shallow and vapid, much like the outward appearance of a person described as a social butterfly. There are obviously less innocent ways to draw insect and human parallels. Used deliberately, they can illuminate a profound truth within the text; used unquestioningly, they may reveal an uncomfortable truth about the author's prejudices.
But I digress.
Coming back to character building and worldbuilding, there are several insect behaviors (and insect-related human behaviors) that rarely make it to the page, any one of which would make a fantastic jumping-off point for building an alien race and world. Why not create an alien race that tastes with its feet, the way butterflies do, or communicates through chemical traces in the earth? Why not have a society that expresses itself through something like a bee's waggle-dance, or the male peacock spider's elaborate mating dance? What would the technology of an insect-based alien race look like? Human scientists are working on building cameras that see the way a fly does, with fractal vision. They've built a robot that can be driven by the movement of a silk moth. There's even an app that lets farmers gauge the health of their crops based on insect activity in their fields.
The beneficial nature of insects often gets neglected in fiction, as bugs so readily conjure up images of horror or invading alien species. There's a worldbuilding goldmine in the complex ecosystem surrounding the symbiotic relationship between fig wasps and fig trees in Africa. The female of the species sheds her wings and antennae while burrowing into the immature fruit, while simultaneously depositing pollen gathered from outside and thus pollinating the female flowers found on the inside of the fig. Once inside the fig, the female lays her eggs and dies, and a new generation is born from inside the fig. As if that weren't enough, there are also ants farming aphids for the nectar they get from the figs, whose tough mandibles facilitate the wasps getting into the figs in the first place.
There's no shortage of examples of alien bugs, bug-like aliens, and bugs in general in speculative fiction: the Buggers of Ender's Game, the hive-minded Borg of Star Trek, and the buggalos of Futurama, which act as both a food source and a mode of transportation in a pinch. Last year, E. Lily Yu's "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/06/guest-post-a-c-wise-on-speculative-fiction-and-bugs/The%20Cartographer%20Wasps%20and%20the%20Anarchist%20Bees)" was nominated for just about every major genre award, including the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. This year, Kij Johnson's "Mantis Wives (http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_08_12/)" is nominated for a Hugo and a Locus Award. As you can see, when it comes down to it, bugs and speculative fiction fit together perfectly, and they make for a winning combination.

... Michael Logan?

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     If you think you've seen it all -- WORLD WAR Z, THE WALKING DEAD-- you haven't seen anything like this. From the twisted brain of Michael Logan comes Apocalypse Cow, a story about three unlikely heroes who must save Britain . . . from a rampaging horde of ZOMBIE COWS!   
Forget the cud. They want blood.   

It began with a cow that just wouldn't die. It would become an epidemic that transformed Britain's livestock into sneezing, slavering, flesh-craving four-legged zombies.   And if that wasn't bad enough, the fate of the nation seems to rest on the shoulders of three unlikely heroes: an abattoir worker whose love life is non-existent thanks to the stench of death that clings to him, a teenage vegan with eczema and a weird crush on his maths teacher, and an inept journalist who wouldn't recognize a scoop if she tripped over one.   As the nation descends into chaos, can they pool their resources, unlock a cure, and save the world?   Three losers. Overwhelming odds. One outcome . . .   Yup, we're screwed.   Show more (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250032865/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1250032865&linkCode=as2&tag=upcoming00-20#) 

Kaze Logan:

In all my years of writing, I never once imagined my breakthrough would come in the shape of a hulking zombie cow with a penchant for reverse bestiality. If I had, I probably would have doubted my sanity.
It may sound strange coming from somebody whose absurdist debut novel is built upon such a ridiculous premise, but I used to be a rather serious writer—both in terms of what I produced and what I chose to read. For 15 years I focused (if this word could be applied to my occasional dabbling) on short stories that were literary in style and theme. These works were largely vignettes based around chance encounters between strangers who opened up new windows on the world for each other: lit-wank, in other words.
Clearly, a book in which a loose collective of directionless losers are dropped into a world where sex-crazed zombie animals run amok is very different proposition. This transition in style came about when I was looking to begin working in the novel form. At that time, in 2006, I was juggling two journalism jobs in Budapest and found it near impossible to squeeze out enough time and focus to do justice to the serious novel I had chosen to write. So, I decided to set my sights on something more light-hearted that I could work on and enjoy after a day spent writing about weighty subjects.
And so, zombie cows. I had loved zombies since I first saw Romero's Dawn of the Dead and knew that if I was going to write something in that area, it would have to be a little different. Zombie animals (for I also venture into the territory of dogs, cats, sheep, squirrels and other small rodents) gave plenty of opportunity for silliness and satire of the government response to mad cow disease, foot and mouth disease and the general unrealized fear of deadly global pandemics. In many respects, I considered it a writing exercise. Even though I intended to concentrate on comedy, I saw the book as way to flex my writing muscles and figure out how to structure a novel with all the attendant concerns of character development, pacing, world building, theme and so on.
I quickly found out my expectations of an easier life were misplaced, as effectively mixing comedy and horror proved to be bloody difficult. After a lot of despairing and hair-pulling, which I blame for my ever-advancing tea biscuit (a rather unsightly bald patch on the crown, for those not familiar with the slang), I decided to restrict the comedy to the dialogue and social satire. When somebody died and characters got upset, I played it straight. Fundamentally, I took the approach of "it's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye". This means that the tone of the book fluctuates, but I consider that an accurate reflection of life. Moods can change from hour-to-hour, never mind day-to-day or week-to-week, and I always find it odd when a book remains relentlessly grim or sports a cheesy grin throughout horrendous situations where humour would normally falter.
Now, two years on from winning the Terry Pratchett First Novel award, a turn of events that surprised me more than anybody, my odd little book is undergoing serious public scrutiny. My tonally erratic approach doesn't work for everybody and a sense of humour is always a very specific thing. As a result, I expected some people to hate it. So it has proven. While the majority seems to love it, there are those who think it is the biggest pile of bullshit ever written. Happily for me, if not for the people who wasted money on a book they would gleefully ignite and fling from a very high building, I think this is a good thing. I didn't want to create a work bland enough to be considered just okay. If you provoke an intense reaction in readers you are doing your job—unless of course, everybody thinks it is dreadful.
All the same, criticism is a hard thing to take. After a long period of obsessively reading every review and checking every rating on Goodreads and Amazon, I have now realized the best way to cope is to ignore all opinions, good and bad. Worrying about how your work is being received, and constantly monitoring this process, is utterly debilitating and takes you away from the most-important task for an author: writing. Of course, checking on how your book is doing is an addiction like any other, and I have my relapses. They are growing less frequent, however.
There are other challenges. There is no doubt that having a book published is a great achievement, but the world of publishing is a tough place for a new author. If plankton actually ate anything instead of relying on photosynthesis, I would be that tiny meal. Publishing your debut novel is only the beginning of a long process; without gazillions of sales there is no guarantee that writing one well-received book will automatically lead to another deal.
This means I have to concentrate damn hard on getting better, and like most first-time novelists—geniuses aside—I have a lot of work to do on improving. Fortunately, I tend to think everything I produce is utter drivel, so this drives me to put in the necessary work on the craft—although now I must juggle this with a full-time job (which currently finds me in Mongolia working 16-hour days) that is complicated by two young children who, alas, don't seem to be content with being left locked in a darkened room for hours on end with a bowl of water and some hay. Writing comedy is difficult when you are exhausted and, to quote Frank N. Furter from The Rocky Horror Show, sometimes "even smiling makes my face ache".
I guess the point of this ramble is that no matter the style or subject matter, writing is a difficult and complex task and you have to be ridiculously dedicated to make it. It's too early to say if I am going to be a success or not, but one thing I can promise: if I fail, it won't be because I didn't try my utmost. And that is all any of us can do.

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Michael Logan
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A zasto, pobogu, to tebe zanima???

 :lol:  Zato što sam mišljenja da je horor podžanr o zombijima napravljen na tvrdoj i ne odveć elastičnoj premisi koja se brzo dodatno kalcifikovala u ekstremno prepoznatljiv kliše i šablon usled čega je sam podžanr brzo postao predvidiv a time i dosadan što dalje znači da mu je neophodno razbijanje rečenog šablona i otklon od pomenutog klišea ne bi li tako makar i za kratko postigao ono čitaocu tako neophodno stanje nepredvidivosti i neočekivanosti a to se najlakše postiže upravo preko apsurda, što svakako ne bi trebalo unapred osuđivati (ili bar ne previše), pošto je u ovom slučaju očigledno reč o prozi sa ironičnim otklonom. Jelte.  :mrgreen: 

Ironicni otklon ili ne, i dalje hoce da se ocese o trend. Mada, sta znam, pricam napamet. Imam predrasude a, u stvari, nisam procitao nijedan zombi roman :roll:

eeeee, a trebalo je.  :lol:  i to pogotovo one sa ironičnim otklonom, mene su jako zabavili. 

Mrzim humoristične romane...   :(

Quote from: Mica Milovanovic on 23-06-2013, 13:56:20
Mrzim humoristične romane...   :(

ma ne mrziš, nego te desenzitizovala silna komičnost u kojekakvim "ozbiljnim" ti romanima...  :evil:

Ta me tematika ic ne zanima, toliko je ispod mog praga zanimanja da cak ni Gregoryja jos nisam procitao... Zivot je previse kratak da bi citali romane o zombijima  :wink:


(ne da osudjujem ikoga, moj guilty pleasure su razne fantasy bljuzge)

Edit. A i ovo sto Mica kaze, humor bas ne funkcionise u fantastici (s retkim ali veoma poznatim izuzecima)

Tjah, znate kako kažu mudri i stari ljudi - sto ljudi, sto... koječega.  :mrgreen:


Ali šta da radim, godine su izgleda učinile svoje i danas je moj omiljeni film o Frankenštajnu ovaj (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/), a omiljeni o Drakuli  ovaj.  :lol:  (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112896/)

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   In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?

As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet's turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference.
It's a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth's past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet's species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just
during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.

     This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity's long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey's ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for "living cities" to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death.

     Newitz's remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world—on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.   Show more (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385535910/sfsi0c-20#)

... Tom Vater?



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Tom Vater is a writer and publisher working predominantly in Asia. He is the co-owner of Crime Wave Press, a Hong Kong based English language crime fiction imprint.
He has published two novels, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, currently available in English and Spanish, and The Cambodian Book of the Dead, released by Crime Wave Press in Asia and  world wide in July 1013 by Exhibit A.
His third novel, The Man with the Golden Mind, will be out with Exhibit A in 2014.
Tom has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The South China Morning Post, Marie Claire, Geographical, Penthouse and countless other publications.
He has published several non-fiction books, including the highly acclaimed Sacred Skin (with his wife, photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat) and the more recent Burmese Light with photographer Hans Kemp.
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... Patrick Lee.

Za njegov roman The Breach, DeNardo kaze ovo: (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.amazon.com%2Fimages%2FP%2F0061584452.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SL300_.jpg&hash=3858c6d8834e255568eb69dee5b6811e1d1272ca)I don't envy the job of book marketer.  Part of their job is categorizing books so that the greatest number of target readers find them. This is all well and good when the novel sits comfortably entrenched within the confines of a particular genre, but much harder as the genre lines become blurred.  The danger is that a particular book may not find the right audience if the marketing doesn't steer it that way.
This is all a roundabout way of explaining why I overlooked Patrick Lee's The Breach when it came out late last year.  The decidedly non-sf cover and synopsis is aimed squarely at the mainstream thriller fiction market. Travis Chase, an ex-cop (and a dirty one at that), stumbles upon a plane wreck in the Alaskan wilderness where he finds the First Lady of the United States holding a mysterious note in her dead hand.  The note pleads for someone to rescue the surviving hostages...a compelling request that entangles Travis in the mysterious operations of a secret group known as Tangent.
There's nothing science fictional at all in that description, a publicity decision that led this science fiction fan to assume that the book was meant for a mainstream thriller audience.  The only reason The Breach was given a second look is because of the undeniably-sf synopsis of the just-received sequel, Ghost Country.  I'm glad I took that second look, because The Breach is a fantastic read from start to finish.
It's only mildly spoilery to say how the book is science fiction since that becomes evident within the first sixty pages.  The Breach of the title is a doorway to another universe from which powerful and dangerous artifacts emerge.  The Tangent organization is tasked with examining these artifacts and studying the Breach in the remote location of Border Town, a facility set up for that very purpose.  It's a super-secret operation that's been in existence for decades, but now it's under attack by someone bent on world domination.  And considering the amazing abilities of the artifacts, it just might happen.
The Breach is everything a thriller should be: fast-moving, filled with several scenes of well-described action and genuine suspense, and peppered with (mostly) unexpected plot twists. It also has qualities that mark a good science fiction book: technological sense of wonder, a few well-trodden tropes that are nevertheless expertly deployed, and thought-provoking situations.  And like any good novel, it has memorable, well-drawn characters.  Chase's dark past haunts him throughout the story.  Paige Campbell's determination and strength are to be lauded.  Other characters, well, they don't really matter all that much and so are stereotypically drawn. All things considered, you wouldn't think this is Lee's first novel by the looks of it because it defies any reasonable interpretation of the so-called First Novel Syndrome.  The worst that could be said about the novel is that the science behind the artifacts remains unexplained – a point that can easily be overlooked because you're turning pages too fast to let it dampen the thrill.
I do wonder if the apparently-targeted mainstream audience would be put off by the science fictional elements of The Breach.  At the same time, I suspect science fiction fans will easily enjoy the sf thrill ride.


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Release date: February 18, 2014 | Series: A Sam Dryden Novel (Book 1)      Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she's running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal—to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for as long as she can remember, has been kept in a secret prison by forces within the government. But she doesn't know much beyond her own name, Rachel. She only remembers the past two months of her life—and that she has a skill that makes her very dangerous to these men and the hidden men in charge.

Dryden, who lost his wife and young daughter in an accident five years ago, agrees to help her try to unravel her own past and make sense of it, to protect her from the people who are moving heaven and earth to find them both. Although Dryden is only one man, he's a man with the extraordinary skills and experience—as a Ranger, a Delta, and five years doing off-the-book black ops with an elite team. But, as he slowly begins to discover, the highly trained paramilitary forces on their heels is the only part of the danger they must face. Will Rachel's own unremembered past be the most deadly of them all?   Show more (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1250030730/sfsi0c-20#)  Show less (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1250030730/sfsi0c-20#)

... Joan Frances Turner?

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One insomniac Saturday night in 2003, as there was little else on television, I sat down to watch the original Carnival of Souls.  More cheap black and white, shot on a shoestring in the middle of nowhere, and when Mary Henry's hand emerged from the depths of a lake long after she should have drowned, the movie had me.  She wasn't a zombie in the classic sense, but she was definitely undead; the living characters shied away from her as if they could smell her internal decay.  That and the movie's titular carnival, with the undead ghouls waltzing to eerie calliope music that came from nowhere, fascinated me.
In the wider imagination, however, zombies seemed to be nothing but a joke.  They were ugly, they stank, they talked and walked strangely, they ate filth, they spread disease, they were physically and mentally inferior, they multiplied at a horrifying rate, and it was a moral imperative for humanity to destroy them like the vermin they were.  This was so similar to so many classic racist and xenophobic stereotypes that it startled me, and also made me start to consider the matter from the other side.  Since zombies are, at the root, nothing but dead human beings—some of whom are our own departed loved ones—what if humanity only thinks they're monsters?  What if they still have working minds, can laugh, fight, form friendships, love each other, grieve—and kill, as humans do, not just from hunger but in self-defense, anger, malice?  What if what sounds like meaningless groans, to us, is an actual language?  What if the creature in your rifle crosshairs still remembers you, loves you, can't plead for mercy before you pull the trigger?  What if zombies aren't an "epidemic," but have always been with us, in one form or another?
questions became the basis of an alternate zombie mythology that very slowly, from a half-page of barely coherent scribbled notes, became a book (and then its sequel, and then a third).  Other influences included the Greek myth of Erysichthon, punished by the gods with a hunger so overpowering he devours his own flesh; Michael Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip, an unsettling collection of photographs and newspaper clippings from a murderous rural American Midwest; the cult horror film The Last Broadcast, especially its haunting end-credits banjo music; the songs "Dambala" and "Mama Loi, Papa Loi" by the musician Exuma; and Luc Sante's prose poem "The Unknown Soldier," where the dead speak for themselves one final time.
Dust was my chance, through zombie lore traditional and newly invented, to play with all sorts of notions of life and death:  ordinary mortal existence, conscious life trapped in dead decaying bodies, seemingly "live" flesh rotting and dying from the inside out, invulnerable immortality through the back door.  It was also a chance to let a literal angel of death loose in my own backyard—the postindustrial Chicago outskirts of northern Indiana—and destroy and rebuild it in ways best serving characters who never quite know if they're living, dead or in a very strange, fragile afterlife.  Life and death, and the living and undead, grapple eternally, fighting as only an unwilling family can.  Who wins, in the end?  Even now, I'm not entirely sure.

... Tom King?

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I can honestly say that Tom King's debut novel is quite unlike anything else I've ever seen. Imagine talking Watchmen, Promethea, The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier and Clay and taking it one step further. Before writing A Once Crowded Sky, King had an illustrious career working as a CIA counter-terrorism officer but even before that, he worked for DC Comics and Marvel. As mad as it sounds, in A Once Crowded Sky, King combined both experiences but in book form. While someone with a little less imagination would write a graphic novel, King created an experiment where the experience of reading a book feels like reading an expansive comics book series. The titles of each chapter are depicted as single issues of imaginary comic series and some of chapters are even made to look as proper comic books. Honestly impressive. However, the obvious question at this point is: "Is the story any good or is it all just gimmicks?"

Well, we're happy to report that the story is quite good as well. A Once Crowded Sky is set in the Arcadia City where heroes are always saving the day. However, when, to solve the latest challenge, heroes must sacrifice their greatest hero, Ultimate as well as their powers, everything suddenly becomes rather ordinary. When new danger threatens Arcadia City, our heroes find themselves in the situation where, without their powers, they can't do much. However, one hero still has the powers. His name is PenUltimate and these days, he's the most powerful man in the world.

Reading about names such Ultimate and PenUltimate , you'd be excused to think that King has played one trick to many but when you think about it, most of the superheroes in comics DO have such silly names and this is the crowd that King is probably aiming at. King perfectly captures the atmosphere and frankly speaking, I had more fun reading this than 99 percent of such comics. As such, I don't think this is the book that will convert to many people to reading superhero comics. There are simply to many ingrained convention and carefully crafted references for general readership. However, while A Once Crowded Sky won't be everyone's cup of tea and might not win Pulitzer like The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay did, Tom King has created a truly innovative and unique concept which, I expect, will have pretty hard core following once the word gets around. Until then, as with all good superheroes comics, it's time for sequel.

Quote from: LiBeat on 09-07-2013, 09:21:24
... Patrick Lee.

Meni je ovo idealno leglo za citanje na plazi. Zavrsio sam prvu (The Breach) i drugu (Ghost Country), i zapoceo trecu knjigu trilogije (Deep Sky). Kao sto covek rece: " ... fast-moving, filled with several scenes of well-described action and genuine suspense, and peppered with (mostly) unexpected plot twists".

Hvala za skretanje paznje na ovog coveka.

Hm, u kakvoj su vezi The Breach i Ghost Country? Ne vidim iz ovih tekstova ništa što ih direktno povezuje. Isti univezum?

Quote from: dejann on 08-08-2013, 23:49:41

Quote from: LiBeat on 09-07-2013, 09:21:24
... Patrick Lee.

Meni je ovo idealno leglo za citanje na plazi. Zavrsio sam prvu (The Breach) i drugu (Ghost Country), i zapoceo trecu knjigu trilogije (Deep Sky). Kao sto covek rece: " ... fast-moving, filled with several scenes of well-described action and genuine suspense, and peppered with (mostly) unexpected plot twists".

Hvala za skretanje paznje na ovog coveka.

e, kul što je takav Lee, ja sam se malko femkala (kao i uvek sa novim serijalima), pa mi je svaki dodatni info baš dobrodošao. (ti beše onaj baja kom se dopao i Kosmatka onomad, jelde? mi kanda imamo poprilično blizak žanrovski ukus... :) )

a kad sam već na topiku, evo još malko kurioziteta:


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a evo kako to najavljuje Jeff VanerMeer:

Quote from: zakk on 09-08-2013, 10:31:41
Hm, u kakvoj su vezi The Breach i Ghost Country? Ne vidim iz ovih tekstova ništa što ih direktno povezuje. Isti univezum?

Isti junaci, isti univerzum, kontinuirani timeline (sa skokovima od godinu-dve izmedju knjiga)... Mozes da stanes nakon prve ili nakon druge, ali ne vidim razlog za to ako ti se ono procitas svidi.

Quote from: LiBeat on 09-08-2013, 13:11:43
e, kul što je takav Lee, ja sam se malko femkala (kao i uvek sa novim serijalima), pa mi je svaki dodatni info baš dobrodošao. (ti beše onaj baja kom se dopao i Kosmatka onomad, jelde? mi kanda imamo poprilično blizak žanrovski ukus... :) )

Zbog Kosmatke i obracam posebnu paznju na knjige koje pomenes :) Jako malo citam poslednih par godina (kako su divna bila ona davna studentska vremena kada sam mogao da procitam unabridged verziju The Stand za jedan vikend), pa mi dobro dodje kad neko napravi predselekciju :)

BTW, da li si citala Kosmatkin Prophet of Bones? Nikako da mi dodje na red. A trebalo bi.

Eh, Kosmatka...  :)  kako je to prijatno otkriće bilo, nemam reči. A kad još k tomu dodam kako su mi u zadnjih 5-6 godina upravo debi romani bili najprijatnija otkrića, uvek pri vrhu izbora za naj-knjigu godine, sve se nekako raspilavim. Zato mi i bude smešno kad tamo neki čiča ustvrdi da je žanr u nekakvoj krizi ili nešto gore od toga, samo sklopim oči i zapitam se kakve to kvarne gljive čovek konzumira.  :mrgreen: Zdravi smo i pravi, hvala vam na pitanju, a bogami smo i lepši no ikada, jer stvarno je vrh vrhova kad ti se potrefi da te upravo debi romani oduševljavaju, to ujedno znači i da je trend postojan i da si ti (još uvek) u sinku sa trendom, pa kud ćeš lepše. Ali naravno, nominacije i nagrade to prate slabije nego što bi čovek od njih očekivao, pa nisu više ni toliko pouzdane kao reper za predselekciju, nego treba zasukati rukave i tražiti sam, a Kosmatka i Zeigler su mi najbolji dokaz za tu tvrdnju. Prophet of Bones ima žešće ambiciozan sinopsis pa čeka red na neka smirenija vremena, sa malko više letnje dokolice na raspolaganju, a to je kod mene tek tamo u decembru.


Inače, The Breach startuje stvarno ludačkim tempom, a i karakterizacija je baš po mom ukusu, overila sam ga premijerno tamo do Karla i odela, i  šta da ti kažem, to jeste upravo ona vrst SFa kojeg sumanuto i ovisnički obožavam. Ali još uvek zazirem od serijala, to je moj nekako bazični hendikep koji vučem od pamtiveka, patološki čak, sve duž linija da se ne treba vezati, da treba ostati slobodan jer je važno samo dobro se zezati sa vikendaškim once-off stand alone romanima.  xwink2  Bačelor po karakteru, šta ćeš, serijali mi i dandanas izgledaju ko mračne bračne obaveze, nikad se ne zna u šta će se to mundano na kraju izroditi...  :oops:  No dobro, The Breach je sad definitivno na tapetu.

Ja debitantske knjige dozivljavam kao nesto prilicno odvojeno od ostatka covekove karijere (ako je bude/ima). To je najcesce prica koju je covek u sebi nosio godinama, i ta neka strast i zelja da se to izbaci iz sebe lako nadjaca eventualne zanatske nedostatke. A onda dodje druga knjiga i to je meni prelomna tacka - da li ce od coveka nesto biti ili je ta jedna prica koju je ispricao jedina koju je imao u sebi. Zato me i kopka Prophet. Mislim da cu se baciti na to cim zavrsim Deep Sky.

Tempo u The Breach ostaje takav do kraja. Kao sto rekoh zakk-u, mozes da stanes posle prve knjige... Ali mislim da neces :)

Quote from: dejann on 10-08-2013, 15:13:56
[size=78%] Kao sto rekoh zakk-u, mozes da stanes posle prve knjige... Ali mislim da neces[/size] :)

Ne znam ko bi stao. To papirče iz epiloga... holomoli, to je triput žešća udica od one koja otvara roman, sad kad već znamo donekle kud sve to može da odvede, a da pritom tehnički nije čak ni totalni klifhanger, pošto makar u teoriji ne remeti zaokruženu celinu. Ali u praksi... ne znam ko bi tu stao, zaista. Strava je Lee, nema zbora, a od februara se šuška i o ekranizaciji romana - Justin Lin, O.o, pa sve vibriram od nade i strepnje ujedno. eto, tvoja knjiga za plažu meni ispala perfektna knjiga za hladne zimske noći...


Mali kuriozitet: kindle ima gotivnu "popular highlights" opciju, i divota jedna što je sve na vrhu liste - pored i povrh maestralnog "appointment in Samarra" momenta koji ovde strava fituje - pa bih rekla da se itekako Lee ceni kao stilista.  A ja se ne sećam da sam ga videla ni u bitnijim žanrovskim nominacijama...  :shock:

Zavrsio sam preksinoc Deep Sky. Gomila sjajnih elemenata je tu, ali mi je knjiga nekako najmanje legla od sve tri.


A mozda je problem i u okruzenju za citanje - lezaljka pod suncobranom na obali okeana vs. malo ukradnog vremena izmedju dve ture klijentskih mail-ova u paklenom Beogradu  :(

Pročitala sam i Ghost Country... uhuh, kako je ova trilogija impresivno debi štivo. Sve na svom mestu, sve perfektno funkcioniše, ništa nije ornamentalno, svaka kockica ima svoju važnu ulogu u mozaiku, to je čista perfekcija kako on to silno obilje tako lepo i sa lakoćom žonglira. (Plus, zaista sam iznenađena kako dobro podnosim to njegovo povremeno ali detaljno i vrlovrlo grafički prikazano eksplicitno nasilje...   :oops:  )

Da, meni je druga knjiga bila jos bolja od prve. Sa sve tim nonsalantnim nasiljem. Bas me zanima tvoje misljenje o trecoj.


In the meantime, ja sam krenuo Prophet of Bones  :)

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John Farrell is about to get "The Cure."
Old age can never kill him now.
The only problem is, everything else still can . . .
Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after  much political and moral debate-made available to people worldwide.  Immortality, however, comes with its own unique problems-including evil  green people, government euthanasia programs, a disturbing new  religious cult, and other horrors. Witty, eerie, and full of humanity,  The Postmortal is an unforgettable thriller that envisions a  pre-apocalyptic world so real that it is completely terrifying.

(ako neko ima vruci link za ovu knjigu, nek bude ortak i podeli ga...  :) )

libeat, imas PM

 

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Publication Date:September 24, 2013    Late in the twenty-first century, big business is booming and state institutions are thriving thanks to advances in genetic engineering, which have produced a compliant population free of addictions. Violent crime is a rarity. Hyper-intelligent Jayna is a star performer at top predictive agency Mayhew McCline, where she forecasts economic and social trends. A brilliant mathematical modeler, she far outshines her co-workers, often correcting their work on the quiet. Her latest coup: finding a link between northeasterly winds and violent crime. When a string of events contradicts her forecasts, Jayna suspects she needs more data and better intuition. She needs direct interactions with the rest of society. Bravely—and naively—she sets out to disrupt her strict routine and stumbles unwittingly into a world where her IQ is increasingly irrelevant...a place where human relationships and the complexity of life are difficult for her to decode. And as she experiments with taking risks, she crosses the line into corporate intrigue and disloyalty. Can Jayna confront the question of what it means to live a "normal" life? Or has the possibility of a "normal" life already been eclipsed for everyone?   Show more (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00DWFCA30/sfsi0c-20#)

Quote from: dejann on 29-08-2013, 22:03:52
libeat, imas PM

The Postmortal ima da te patosira. nacisto!   :)  gaddem odlicno stivo!

ne mi to raditi  :)  u poslu sam do guse ovih dana  :(

K. Ceres Wright?


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The Ryder family is at the top of the corporate elite. Father Geren Ryder heads up a global wireless hologram company with his son, Wills Ryder, a capable second, while daughter, Nicholle, is curator at an art museum. But when a dark stranger shows up, it sets off a chain reaction that puts Geren into a mysterious coma while Wills disappears with $50 billion from the family business. Worse, Geren's will specifies that he be taken off life support after five days. Just as Nicholle is trying to pick up the pieces, she becomes the target of an assassin and has to go on the run. With only a few days to save her father and keep the company from going under, Nicholle reaches back into the darkest part of her history, to the only person who could possibly help her. But the price is steep. Once she goes back, can she escape her past a second time?

Isa-Lee Wolf?




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A quirky collection of seven short short stories, each about 1000 words or so. All strange with a light dusting of sci-fi, these quick reads offer a brief escape into imaginary worlds with fun, excitement, and possibly a laugh. Or two. Three might be a stretch.

Warning: If a woman calling herself "Aunty Ida" approaches you and offers a solution to your problem, doctors recommend running. Quickly. Whatever direction she's not in.

Caution: Don't try any of the proposed solutions at home, as they've been found to be scientifically absurd.

Note: Imaginary animals may or may not exist. How should we know?


(a ovako je sve to pocelo, 2011:)

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  Publication Date:April 19, 2011   You know that case on LawTV? The one where the judge lost it on national television?

Yes, that was Margaret.

But Ida – who insists you call her "Aunty Ida," if you want to (no one ever seems to want to) – is there to help. That Margaret doesn't want her help doesn't dampen Ida's delight in playing with her mind-altering toys and calling it therapy.

Besides, the courtroom thing was only a big deal because of the cameras. OK, so it was Margaret's courtroom, and yes, she was hearing the biggest case of her career, and yes, the LawTV commentators were all over it, but these things always get sensationalized. The restraining order her husband got against her was only temporary.

So she's suspended. It's nothing she can't fix.

Sure, Margaret has no idea who this Ida person is, but if she can get her to sign a form, she'll be back on the bench in no time. Unfortunately for Margaret, Aunty Ida knows exactly who Margaret is. And Margaret isn't going anywhere.

With relentless optimism, Ida dives into curing Margaret of her problems, one odd treatment at a time. But Margaret knows there's nothing wrong with her.

She was set up, and she's determined to prove it.   Show more (http://www.amazon.com/Full-Service-Mental-Institution-Invitation-ebook/dp/B004XD8QT2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378712498&sr=1-1#)

Max Barry:


Posted on September 5, 2013 in Sci Fi (http://www.mybookishways.com/category/sci-fi-2), Suspense (http://www.mybookishways.com/category/suspense-2) with 0 Comments (http://www.mybookishways.com/2013/09/lexicon-by-max-barry.html#respond)                     
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When the book opens, Wil Parke is being held down by two men and having a needle driven through his eye at an airport bathroom. He has no idea why, only that he needs to get away. The snippets of their conversation that he can grasp make no sense, and when he finally gets a chance to run, what he witnesses is mind numbing. Soon, he realizes that his life has taken on a whole new meaning, and his captor may actually be his protector.
We then jump back in time a bit to the life of 16 year old Emily Ruff, a runaway who is barely scraping by as a card hustler in San Francisco. She has a knack for persuasion, however, and this is what puts her on the radar of the "poets", which is what this clandestine group of mind bending folks call themselves. They present an offer she really can't refuse, since she doesn't really have other attractive life choices at her fingertips, and so begins her journey. The author takes us through her schooling with the poets and she begins to show a talent that both intrigues and terrifies the establishment, especially the shadowy man that heads it up. He sees a tool in Emily, and possibly even a weapon.
Emily and Wil's futures eventually entwine in the tiny town of Broken Hill, Australia, which has been completely devastated by a horrific incident that Emily may be involved in. Perhaps most importantly, Will is an "outlier", who is immune to the powers of the poets, and it may be what saves his life, but what about Emily, and why has he been drawn into a battle that he wants nothing to do with?
I had absolutely no expectations when I began reading Lexicon, but let me tell you, it took about 10 seconds for me to be completely hooked on this unusual and absorbing story. Emily is a strong willed, yet very vulnerable girl whose future falls into the hands of a group that doesn't have her best interests at heart. She's very powerful and it's her struggle with her terrifying power and also with herself that makes her so tragic, and ultimately, so easy to identify with. Honestly, where Emily was concerned, I couldn't help but make comparisons to Firestarter, which is a good thing. Wil is a bit of a mystery to begin with, but as the narrative unfolds, you'll figure things out, and if you weren't already hopelessly hooked, just wait. You'll need to pay attention, because when the author changes timelines, he expects you to use your context clues to figure out where you are in the course of the story, and if you are indeed paying attention, it's not hard. I kind of liked this, because it really made me focus on the who and where and kept me in the moment. The scenes in the ruined Broken Hill are very, very creepy, and Emily's time at the poet's school will certainly bring to mind X-Men. Those are just comparison's to give you a bit of an idea of what you're getting into, though. Max Barry has certainly created something all his very own, and he'll have his hooks in you in no time. Lexicon is a scary, intelligent, and poignant thriller that defies categorization and more than deserves a look from readers looking for something a bit different, a little beyond the norm, satirically sharp, and just damn good.

... Adrian Barnes?

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Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no-one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no-one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand can still sleep, and they've all shared the same strange, golden dream. A handful of children still sleep as well, but what they're dreaming remains a mystery. After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises in which those previously on the fringes of society take the lead. One couple experience a lifetime in a week as he continues to sleep, she begins to disintegrate before him, and the new world swallows the old one whole. NOD.

... V.E. Schwab?

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A masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers.
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.
Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?
In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn't automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.

Robert Reed.


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Publication Date:May 28, 2013    The Ship has traveled the universe for longer than any of the near-immortal crew can recall, its true purpose and origins unknown. It is larger than many planets, housing thousands of alien races and just as many secrets.

Now one of those secrets has been discovered: at the center of the Ship is . . . a planet. Marrow. But when a team of the Ship's best and brightest are sent down to investigate, will they return with the origins of the Ship--or will they bring doom to everyone on board?

Robert Reed, whose fantastic stories have been filling all the major SF magazines for the past several years, spins a captivating tale of adventure and wonder on an incredible scale in this novel based on his acclaimed novella.

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a evo sta on sam kaze: 


MARROW the novel began with a novelette called "The Remoras" and the invention of Quee Lee and Perri, my eternal couple enjoying a near-infinite voyage onboard the Great Ship.  Kris Rusch at The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction bought "The Remoras" and made it her cover story.  Success made me confident enough to try a second story.  "Aeon's Child" introduces the eternally pissed-of Pamir, and in a side role, the noble captain Washen.  Of course I sent "Child" to Kris, but it was too long and Pamir proved too grim, which is why that tale ended was published by Gardner Dozois and Asimov's SF.
Two stories, and the Great Ship had no home berth.
Scott Edelman was the editor at SF Age, and because he was paying more than other magazines, I sent him a novella called "Marrow".  Washen was the center of that story, and one of my favorite creations, Miocene, had a fine role in the action.  It was a one-damned-thing-after-another story, with the author trying to top himself on every page.  Scott liked it and published it, and the novella was subsequently nominated for a Hugo.  People occasionally assured me that I was that year's frontrunner.  Which goes to show that people don't know very much.  I think my story beat out the "No Award" option, but that might be all it did.  The real, lasting benefit came when my former editor for novels, Jim Frenkel, suggested that I use those twenty thousand words, plus another one hundred thousand, to build a novel.
With the new MARROW, I made at least one lucky decision early on.  Unlike the shorter stories, I decided to begin with an omniscient, omnipresent voice.  Whether or not this was the Great Ship's voice, I can't say.  Honestly, I don't remember intentions.  But the all-seeing POV served as a general overview to the Ship, which helped me as much as any reader get an appreciation for the machine's size and staggering age.

The original novella lives inside MARROW's first half, with added material and changes to the plot that helped facilitate the novel's second half.  The result was a stronger narrative, what with more details and some necessary foundation work on the source material.  Scott Edelman claims that the first Marrow was perfect as it was, but then again, he's not a reliable witness to these events.
Of course, neither am I.

During the '90s, I worked with electronic typewriters and simple word processors.  MARROW was generated on one of those primitive machines.  I went through a truckload of Brothers before finally making the investment in my first computer--a dicey Gateway that has been replaced by a string of slightly less primitive machines.

Anyway, with the novella anchoring the front section, I needed another bridge from the indescribable observer, after which came an original story about greed and passion, ambition and dumb luck.  The Great Ship is stolen from the Master Captain, and the Great Ship is retaken by the presumed Forces of Good, and my cast of characters, drawn from the previous shorter stories, get to play critical roles in the action.

The day-by-day writing is lost to me, thankfully.  I don't know how a writer could continue if he or she couldn't forget thousands of words every day.  But the genesis of a few scenes linger.  My favorite moment in MARROW is near the end.  Washen has won her war, using the liquid hydrogen fuel to spectacular effect, and I rather expected her to take her victory to the logical end:  Obliterating the Ship's enemies.  Yet in the end, she holds back, revealing empathy and wisdom that showed me quite a lot.  I might take credit for her beneficence, but that would feel like a lie.  Washen is better my instincts, and because of that, she's a better captain than I would ever be.


My least favorite moment was added because my editor wanted romance between Washen and Pamir.  He claimed that readers expect and deserve affairs between characters.  The two did have a history.  They are tens of thousands of years old, after all.  Why wouldn't they share beds now and again?  I didn't agree with the copy-edited romance, but I did as I was told, and in the end, the love feels considerably less genuine than Quee Lee and Perri--and that's true even though I used the relationship in the sequel, THE WELL OF STARS.

            I've written more than a dozen Great Ship stories since MARROW was published.  On the whole, the works seem to be growing stronger, at least in my unreliable mind.  I am trying to produce an epub book called THE GREATSHIP, which should be out in a few weeks or months, or maybe it already is available when you read this.  The volume will gather together most of the stories, save for original "Marrow" and the most recent titles, and each has been rewritten a little or a lot with new bridges standing between them, and their author tried to place each work along the epic's timeline.

            The Great Ship is going someplace.
            I know where.  But I didn't realize where it was going until just last year.
            The revelations aren't over, either.  Just the other day, shoveling dirt in the backyard, I suddenly discovered something critical about Quee Lee and Perri.
            Why did it take me so long to see the obvious?
            Again, I would make a miserably poor captain, and a horrible pilot, and on my best days, my writing comes and goes.
            But my giant imaginary ship continues on.

Ofir Touche Gafla:


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As an epilogist, Ben Mendelssohn appreciates an unexpected ending. But when that denouement is the untimely demise of his beloved wife, Ben is incapable of coping. Marian was more than his life partner; she was the fiber that held together all that he is. And Ben is willing to do anything, even enter the unknown beyond, if it means a chance to be with her again.One bullet to the brain later, Ben is in the Other World, where he discovers a vast and curiously secular existence utterly unlike anything he could have imagined: a realm of sprawling cities where the deceased of every age live an eternal second life, and where forests of family trees are tended by mysterious humans who never lived in the previous world. But Ben cannot find Marian.Desperate for a reunion, he enlists an unconventional afterlife investigator to track her down, little knowing that his search is entangled in events that continue to unfold in the world of the living. It is a search that confronts Ben with one heart-rending shock after another; with the best and worst of human nature; with the resilience and fragility of love; and with truths that will haunt him through eternity.








A evo što sam Ofir kaže o knjizi:




It all started with a TV commercial I saw one night. A perfect looking family – man, woman and child – on a perfect looking beach in some perfect looking world. Idyllic, pastoral, euphoric. And unreal. When I saw this trio of bliss the first thought that crossed my mind was 'How enviable'. The second was 'How unreal'. I just couldn't buy it. They looked so otherworldly. And this is how The Other World came to be. I dashed to my study and started constructing the rules and regulations of a world where I initially believed such peace of mind could be obtained- no health worries, no financial concerns, no pressing matters, no fear of the unknown. I literally saw it, and in my mind that unbelievable family resided in such a world.



And then it all had to do with my philosophical musings on the subject of the end and its manipulative aspect in art as in life. I have always questioned the full stop, the period, the last word in a novel. No stop is full, every period is, well, periodic, and no word is really last. I have always wondered what came next, since 'The End' is but a means to a fabricated ending, one that will wrap things up and say 'Alright, ladies and gentlemen, this is where I wanted to get you, now please step down'. And if every ending is designed to fit the framework of a particular story, what about the ultimate end? Perhaps death is not the end per se, but an end of a kind, and a beginning of something else? I instantly knew that I wanted to write a story that begins at the conventional ending point, that is to say, with the death of the protagonist.


Not unsurprisingly, people mistake my books for my beliefs. Readers repeatedly ask me whether I believe in life after death. I always say I believe in life before death. My private beliefs are not that interesting. However, one thing that was really important to me when I started writing this novel was the nature of the other world, namely, being an alternative to another world we know so well: It is a secular world, judgment-free, anything but heaven, hell or any such place whose moral compass is the finger of reproach. I just wanted to pose an alternative, as ridiculous as it may be, to any other post-mortem version, that time and fear have rendered immutable. Funnily enough, many religious people have expressed a 'suspicious' fondness for this book.


There's a British philosopher, Roger Scruton, who once said that the consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. This is another way of looking at the story behind the story of this novel. So many exciting reactions have come my way over the years, some of them from sick people who said the book gave them hope, fiction or no fiction. And then there was a certain lady who approached me during a signing, looked me in the eye and asked, dead serious (no pun intended) whether the book was autobiographical. Honestly. I stared back at her and smiled.

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Ofir Touche Gafla

... Filippo Bologna?

One of the things I enjoy the most, whenever I'm traveling in Italy, is talking to locals and discovering their local specialties. Each and every place I've visited always had something they're particularly and fanatically proud of - be it some local delicacy, a writer only their town could've produced or a brand of car they're manufacturing. And they're always willing to go on at lengths why is it exactly that their particular thing is the best one in the world. But what's really interesting is that once you get to really know the people, you quickly realize that everyone feels the same down to the smallest bits of society - basically everyone is also competing with everyone else, even on neighborhood levels, about little things, such as who makes best pasta or something. All this is really charming and is quite a significant part of being Italian. Needless to say, this can sometimes go out of hand and things quickly turn nasty. Latest novel by Filippo Bologna, The Parrots is exploring exactly this aspect of everyday Italian life and revolves around a literary prize and three men willing to battle for it, using any means necessary.
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The Beginner is adored by critics but not by his readers. He has a rather trendy goatee beard and is a frequent sight on the literary festival circle. On the other hand, The Master is old and has just received the prostate cancer diagnosis. He feel like his writing life has been one huge failure but sees the price as the potential source of money. Third person is The Writer who is currently in his prime but the prize for him might just mean difference between life and death. Three men are not willing to play nice and just wait for the jury to come to the decision and soon The Parrots unexpectedly turns into a shambolic affair where everyone is doing pretty insane stuff - just to increase it's chances of winning the price.
The Parrots is a stunning read. While enjoyed it, I've felt like I was watching a bit weird, lost forgotten cousin of Fellini's Amarcord. In it, Bologna perfectly captured intricacies of everyday life while at the same time, he made an ironic, exaggerated and often funny commentary on the Italian society in general. Excellent second novel novel by one of the most exciting young talents of the Italian literature.
Additional benefit of The Parrots is that, after reading it, you'll never look at any literary prize in the same way. You just won't be able to help yourself guessing who on the shortlist fills the role of The Beginner, The Writer and The Master.

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Thanks to Pushkin Press for providing a review copy

... David Gullen?

njegov debi roman ima vrlo dobre preporuke:

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Novik and Josie have a lot of catching up to do. Two years he's been in jail; two years she's been waiting. They never want to be apart again.  A stress-filled encounter with some "Old-fashioned Boys" at a chain eatery turns their best of intentions upside-down; they're now on the run and in posession of a super-hot sentient muscle car and over 190 million dollars, covered with a potent psychoactive power.
Welcome to the Shopocalypse.


Praise for Shopocalypse: "Dave Gullen's debut novel is huge, enthralling, packed with bold ideas and genre-shattering extrapolations. And his characters get so deep inside your head you're still arguing with them days later. Seriously, you need this book." - Mike Carey
"Global warming has really begun to bite, but human consumption of resources has become more frantic than ever in this clever, dark and often very funny satire on rapacious capitalism." - Chris Beckett
"A sharp and witty take on the perils of consumerism. To be honest, it was fairly terrifying -- very believable." - Francis Knight
"Subversive. Hilarious. Touching. Brilliant." - Jaine Fenn

 
...Robert Harken?

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By 2040, efficient machines displace humans in nearly all tasks. Unable to contribute and too poor to consume, these surplus people succumb to propaganda from Earth's Emigration Effort and become cargo on interstellar starships launched toward distant solar systems. Aiden Haven, one of the displaced, departs Earth on the eve of parity between human and artificial intelligence. Believing he embarks on an adventure to resuscitate his life, Aiden underestimates the risks of colonizing an inhospitable new planet. When his daughter, Sarah, resurrects the future that colonists abandoned on Earth—a future now stalking them—father and daughter must face forces of nature and Earth's legacy or witness the destruction of their colony's last refuge.
Rules change; adapt or perish.
"Recalling a time when sf placed an emphasis on science and theoretical speculation, Harken's thoughtful debut should appeal to fans of Ben Bova's planetary series (Mars; Venus; Jupiter), Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red Mars; Green Mars; Blue Mars), and James Blish's classic Cities in Flight."—Library Journal (Starred Review and Science Fiction & Fantasy Debut of the Month, January 2013)
"Impressive and original . . . A first class read from beginning to end, Life on Nubis is very highly recommended."—Midwest Book Review (Reviewed by Jack Mason for MBR Bookwatch, May, 2013)

u ovom slucaju autor nije nepoznat, naprotiv, ali sama knjiga nosi i sporedne kuriozitete.


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'The conscious extraction of meaning from a procession of words is not, after all, the only way of interacting with a text, or with anything else in the world...'

A dealer in old books, lost books--books no-one knows even exist. A man who works for him, prizing meaning from places where it is deeply hidden. A book, at first unintelligible...but which begins to reveal its secrets in ways the translator could never have guessed.

This is the story of The Gist, but that s only the beginning of the journey. Michael Marshall Smith's original novelette was then translated into French by Benoit Domis, before being rendered back into English by Nicholas Royle--who had no access to the original text or author during the process.

All three versions are presented in this edition. The idea is to discover what happened during the process, how much the story changed while passing through two other minds and another language...

To see if The Gist survived.

... Roger Levy?


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Our planet is falling apart from tectonic palsy in this offbeat debut novel, thanks to crazed fundamentalists eager for the End Times: "The Earth was dead from the moment ReGenesis triggered the chain of nuclear devices it had set along the floor of the Marianas trench in the Pacific Ocean". With fault-lines cracking everywhere and even safe zones like England wracked by tremors and landslips, society is in a sanity-challenged mess. Escape into virtual reality becomes ever more popular. VR "gamezones" have a special, painful meaning for Far Warriors like reluctant hero Jon Sciler, who were sent to clean out the hostile native life of the colony world Dirangesept. What seemed a simple task, a shoot-'em-up game with Earth's invincible remote-controlled "autoids" pitted against primitives, went horribly, inexplicably wrong. The remnants of Sciler's team returned scarred and publicly shamed. Now a vengeful serial killer is apparently targeting Far Warrior veterans--at least those who sign up with the VR outfit Maze. Maze is running endless, mysterious tests on its impossibly realistic gameworld Cathar, haunted by magic and presence that even the operators don't understand. Must dying in Cathar always mean dying in reality? Sciler's struggle to make sense of how he is being manipulated by Maze and stranger forces leads to serious danger in and out of VR--for friends as well as himself--eventually uncovering the true legacy of the Dirangesept disaster. A fast-moving, street-wise, intensely paranoid SF thriller. --David Langford
  Book Description An extraordinarily exciting SF debut of conspiracies and mistaken realities from a writer who has it in him to be the British heir to Philip K. Dick

... Dave Eggers?


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The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award.

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

...Gabi Gleichmann?



Today, where authors wanting to break into the scene are ten a penny and the whole market is over-saturated with fiction that can be at best described as not very good, it takes a particular courage to write a 700+ page debut novel. Some might call it an act of sheer lunacy but if you ask me, the whole things is probably down to that old adage. Authors need to write - no matter the consequences. And sometimes, not very often, these massive debut door-stoppers turn out to be something really extraordinary. However, this time I'm not talking about Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries, this year's Man Booker Prize winner but about impressive and just as long "The Elixir of Immortality" by Gabi Gleichmann.
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Publisher: Other Press (October 1, 2013)
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Set over a vast period that spans some thousand years, "The Elixir of Immortality" explores in details aspects of both European and Jewish history as experienced by the members of Spinoza family. The story goes that Spinoza family is in the possession of a secret manuscript which contains the recipe of immortality. Said manuscript is passed from father to son down the generations but as the thirty-sixth generation of family slowly coming to it's natural end, Ari Spinoza doesn't have a son to pass manuscript to. Lying on his deathbed, in an ongoing fight against looming oblivion, Ari starts spinning his tale about the history of his family - because being forgotten is even worse than being dead.
Drawing deep on the tales heard over the years from his great uncle Fernando, and a thousand page manuscript written by his ancestor, it soon comes to light that Spinoza family played significant part in almost every major cultural event in Europe throughout the last thousand years. Moving in waves, the story moves from medieval Portugal to Amsterdam, then Spain during the era of Spanish Inquisition, French Revolution, and concluding with both world wars.
Throughout the narrative, Gleichmann puts his protagonists in all kinds of situations, ranging from truly outrageous and often very funny events up to tragic horrors of war, showing us that life needs to be lived. Even immortality itself is worthless if you don't experience it in it's fullness. In it's fabric, "The Elixir of Immortality" is not unlike Marquez's classic One Hundred Years of Solitude and delights for all the same reasons. It is impressive and monumental achievement and firmly places Gabi Gleichmann as one of the major talents of the global literary scene. 

 

Kathleen Ann Doonan?

znam za nju ali nista njeno do sada nisam citala.


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evo sta ona kaze za In War Times: This is the cover of the UK ebook edition of IN WAR TIMES, just published.
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It is a photo of my father, Thomas E. Goonan, whose memoirs, editing, and ideas helped shape the book. Additional kudos, like pull quotes from starred reviews in PW ("Paralleling the evolution of modern jazz with the creative ferment of science, Goonan delivers a bravura performance."), Kirkus (A complex, low-key, thoughtful and often dazzling journey through worlds that might, and perhaps should, have been."), and Booklist ("An authentic classic."), are inside, along with blurbs by Peter Straub, David Marusek, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones,and Kelly Link. It was the ALA's Best SF Novel of the Year and won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. All in all, a satisfying experience.

... Nate Kenyon?

ima dosta objavljenih naslova, ali tek se na ovaj najnoviji roman cesce nailazi, verovatno zato sto je otkupljen za ekranizaciju.




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THE FUTURE IS HERE AND IT DOESN'T NEED YOU



In Nate Kenyon's Day One, scandal-plagued hacker journalist John Hawke is hot on the trail of the explosive story that might save his career. James Weller, the former CEO of giant technology company Eclipse, has founded a new start-up, and he's agreed to let Hawke do a profile on him. Hawke knows something very big is in the works at Eclipse---and he wants to use the profile as a foot in the door to find out more.

After he arrives in Weller's office in New York City, a seemingly normal day quickly turns into a nightmare as anything with an Internet connection begins to malfunction. Hawke receives a call from his frantic wife just before the phones go dead. Soon he and a small band of survivors are struggling for their very lives as they find themselves thrust into the middle of a war zone---with no obvious enemy in sight.

The bridges and tunnels have been destroyed. New York City is under attack from a deadly and brilliant enemy that can be anywhere and can occupy anything with a computer chip. Somehow Hawke must find a way back to his pregnant wife and young son. Their lives depend upon it . . . and so does the rest of the human race.



Nate Kenyon writes thrillers, suspense and horror for Thomas Dunne Books. He also writes video game novelizations for Blizzard Entertainment in the worlds of StarCraft and Diablo. His novel, Bloodstone, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist and winner of the P&E Horror Novel of the Year. His novel, The Reach, was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist. His latest novel is the techno-thriller Day One (Thomas Dunne/St. Martins Press). Booklist gave it a starred review, calling it "exciting and inventive." Library Journal called it a "must" and Kenyon's "scariest to date." Day One was also recently optioned for a film. Visit him at NateKenyon.com.




a ima ovde i intervju:   (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/11/interview-with-nate-kenyon-author-of-day-one/#more-85596)

... Gareth L. Powell?




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Gareth L. Powell is a novelist based in Bristol, UK. He has written four novels and a collection of short stories. His short stories have featured in Interzone magazine as well as numerous anthologies , and his novels have been favourably reviewed in the Guardian. He has written about science fiction for The Irish Times and SFX, and recently penned a comic strip for 2000AD. You can find him on Twitter (@garethlpowell)

His upcoming book Hive Monkey, sequel to Ack-Ack Macaque, will be released by Solaris Books in January 2014.

... William Hertling?


(e al me uhvati amazon na besplatne knjige, pa to je cudo jedno. :) )

elem, ovo mu je objavljeno krajem 2011

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nije lose, nije lose. stil malko neizbrusen, kako to vec biva kod indie pocetnika ali nadoknadjuje to sa vesto konstruisanim zapletom i dobro izvajanim likovima. a i tema  je dobra, singulariti bauk i kako ce se probuditi i sve nas prozdrati (i to kroz email aplikaciju, lovlibejbi, a sve vrlo uverljivo sklopljeno, sa solidnom informativnom zaledjinom ali prezentovanom u prilicno neobaveznom maniru lisenom suvisnih tehnikalija. zaplet dobro tempiran, tehno-strana u striktnoj sluzbi trilera, bas kako i prilici, medjuljudski odnosi taman dovoljno suptilni da realisticno ozive ceo povelik ansambl protagonista, suspens isto solidan, sve u svemu - prilicno zabavno citanje.

2012 mu je izasao i nastavak:
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