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Tor je od danas ponudio besplatno The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, prvu knjigu trilogiji. REc je o opustenoj epskoj fantastici, sasvim nepretencioznoj, koja nema drugog motiva do da zabavi citaoca. Napisana u maniru DnD avantura i romana - samo rukom daleko bolji pisaca od prosecnog DnD romansijera - The Outstretched Shadow je dobar naslov za nedeljno popodne i gubljenje vremena. Tor je ponudio i dva volpejpera: Donato Giancola's cover detail for City by Clifford D. Simak, and John Jude Palencar's cover for Someplace To Be Flying by Charles de Lint.


Inace, trudicu se da bar jednom nedeljno na ovoj temi i na Nightflier's BEST OV DE BEST propratim nove naslove strane produkcije i skrenem paznju na ono sto bi moglo biti zanimljivo - pa koga zanima, neka cita.

Kao sto Mizantrop rece na jednoj drugoj temi, Tor je danas svojim citaocima omogucio da skinu roman Farthing. Rec je o romanu koji zapravo prevazilazli zanrovske odrednice, buduci da spaja alternativnu istoriju sa klasicnim britanskim krimicem, u maniru Agate Kristi. Naravno, vec smo imali prilike da citamo slicne naslove. Setimo se samo Harisove Otadzbine, koja je i kod nas objavljena. Valtonova je dobitnik Kembelove nagrade, kao i Svetske nagrade za fantastiku, a Farthing je nominovan za Nebulu.

Pre ovog roman, Valtonova je za Tor oobjavila fentezi trilogiju, u kojoj se poigrava mitom o kralju Arturu. Rec je o romanima The King's Peace (2000), The King's Name (2001), i The Prize in the Game (2002). Inace, zanimljivo je da je Valtonova pre nego sto joj je Tor objavio The King's Peace bila jako aktivna na internetu, sto je kasnije doprinelo njenom uspehu kod citalaca.

Sledeće nedelje na tor.com :Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell

Bakel je pisac kojeg poznajem samo po kratkim pricama, a nekim cudom nisam nabavio njegove romane, tako da je ovo naslov koji zeljno iscekujem. Tor je napravio dosta dobar odabir iz svoje ponude, tako da citaoci mogu da uzivaju u hard SFu, klasicnom fenteziju, ali i alternativnoj istoriji. Po meni - sjajan uredjivacki potez.

Izdavacka kuca Planet Stories pokrenula je ediciju posvecenu klasicima zanra, vrativsi se korenima i zanemarivsi marketinsku podelu na podzanrove, tako da je u njihovoj ediciji sve "fantastika". Neki od naslova su The Anubis Murders pokojnog Garija Gigaksa, City of the Beast Majkla Murkoka, The Ginger Star Li Breket... Ovo je edicija posvecena ljubiteljima zanrovske knjizevnosti - obogacena novim grafickim resenjima, a svaka knjiga propracena je uvodom iz pera nekog od i dalje aktuelnih pisaca, kao sto su Ben Bova, Dzo Lendsdejl itd. Iako vecinu naslova vec imam u izdanju drugih kuca, u iskusenju sam da ih sve ponovo kupim. Oni koji vec nemaju ove knjige, a ljubitelji su stare skole, ne bi trebalo da oklevaju...

Jedna novosadska izdavacka kuca vec duze vreme priprema srpsko izdanje R. A. Salvatoreove sage o Driztu. Predvidjeno je istovremeno objavljivanje prve dve trilogije, odnosno Mracni vilovnjak i Dolina ledenog vetra.

Quote from: "nightflier"Kao sto Mizantrop rece na jednoj drugoj temi, Tor je danas svojim citaocima omogucio da skinu roman Farthing. Rec je o romanu koji zapravo prevazilazli zanrovske odrednice, buduci da spaja alternativnu istoriju sa klasicnim britanskim krimicem, u maniru Agate Kristi. Naravno, vec smo imali prilike da citamo slicne naslove. Setimo se samo Harisove Otadzbine, koja je i kod nas objavljena. Valtonova je dobitnik Kembelove nagrade, kao i Svetske nagrade za fantastiku, a Farthing je nominovan za Nebulu.

Počeo sam da čitam Farthing. E sad, sama činjenica da čitam sa ekrana znači da napredujem jako sporo i da sam za nedelju dana pročitao svega 6 poglavlja. Priča je za sada interesantna, drži pažnju ali je i suviše rano da se donosi neki konačan sud.
Do tada evo jednod intervjua sa autorkom Farthing-a:
It's a great misfortune that author Jo Walton is perhaps best known as the instigator of the International Pixel-Stained Peasant's Day, which was a response to a post by Dr. Howard V. Hendrix, then vice-president of the Science Fiction Writers' of America. However, as an author, Walton is even far more interesting and subversive than her internet persona.

A Welsh native currently living in Quebec, Walton is the Campbell Award winner for Best New Writer for 2002 and has won the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw (Tor 2004). In her latest series which begins with Farthing (Tor 2006), she subtly takes on issues of living in world where personal freedoms are being eroded in the name of security, while telling a compelling, personal story that's at once a manor house mystery and alternate history novel. In many ways, Farthing could be said to be making a parallel between Hitler's rise to power in Germany and George W. Bush's post 9/11 America.

It is, in my opinion, Walton's soft touch and sense of humor that make Farthing a success. She's also known for a "youthful indiscretion" involving a Coke and David Brin at a Boskone and an often un-credited, humorous Usenet poem, "The Lurkers Support Me in E-Mail."

Morehouse: Farthing, the first book in your alternate history series, has gotten a lot of attention. It was nominated for a Nebula, a Quill, a Campbell, and a Sidewise Award, and is, in my opinion, an excellent book that deals with, among other things, personal responses to fascism. What inspired you to write it (and its sequels, Ha'Penny and Half a Crown)?

Walton: I was reading Josephine Tey's Brat Farrar, a mystery published in 1952 which requires for plot reasons various things to have happened ten years before, including British people going on holiday to France. I'd read it before, but for some reason this time I stopped and thought, hang on, 1942, I think not—but when is it supposed to be set? Thinking about when it was supposed to be set, I worked out the whole background for the Farthing universe. I also thought of the whole Farthing thing, the Auden quote I use at the beginning, the idea of the country house with that name, the murder. I made a note of this and got on with whatever I was supposed to be working on.

Then in May of 2004 I got Lucy's voice in my head very clearly, the beginning of the book, and I just started to write it. Stories are always about characters for me, not worlds or ideas, though sometimes I have the worlds and ideas first and they have to wait until some characters wander along before I have anything to write. After I'd written the first Lucy chapter, I realised I'd have to contrast that voice with a third person detective voice. I wrote the first paragraph of the first Carmichael chapter, and immediately I realised that this is a very slashy situation. I'd fairly recently read Micole Sudberg's review of Peter Dickinson's Some Deaths Before Dying which talked about how these days the revelation of homosexuality isn't actually a dark unguessable secret, and I thought what fun it would be to make Carmichael gay, and have it a secret from the world but not from the text.

The whole time I was writing Farthing I was re-reading Orwell's essays, letters and journalism, which really helped more than I can say. I wrote the whole first draft in three weeks.

But also, it was May of 2004. Your country and mine had just invaded Iraq, while I was sitting in Canada surrounded by people whose countries hadn't done that. I was brought up by my grandparents, and the formative event of their lives was WWII. They married in 1938, they had that one year, and then the separation, the war, and life after the war. I'd grown up with WWII in the background, and I'd read quite a lot about it later as well.

In many ways it's the defining twentieth century event. In any case, watching the US and the UK defy the UN and invade Iraq on a trumped up excuse was just too much like Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland for me. I'd been furious, and there hadn't been anything I could directly do about it. Then there had been all the other things, the civil liberties things, in Britain especially. I started writing Farthing just after the Abu Ghraib revelations. I didn't set out to write something to draw explicit parallels. But it would be disingenuous to say I wasn't thoroughly aware of the implicit ones. At the same time, it was its own story, the characters were what was important. I couldn't have written it any other way.

Years ago, a friend of mine said about Marge Piercy's Gone to Soldiers that he was disappointed because in talking about WWII it didn't try to deal with the nature of evil. As I was writing Farthing I was afraid the characters were too black and white. Then I saw how to end it and deal with that problem. You say it's about personal responses to fascism. I say it's about how good people do bad things.

Farthing ends where I wanted it to end. I didn't intend to write a trilogy. Then some time later, when I was doing what I was thinking of as "post-research" for it, I had the idea for Ha'Penny and Half a Crown at the same time, that I could do one focused on the theatre and another ten years later focused on the debutante season and "Coming Out" and with Carmichael's trajectory through the three books. Those two books were much harder to write.

Morehouse: It's funny you should mention that one of the inspirations for the Farthing universe was the US/UK invasion of Iraq. I was going to ask you about that next. As I read the first book, I had a very chilling sense of a post 9/11 world wherein freedom is sacrificed in the name of security. I agree with you that this book is very much a character-driven story, but the backdrop is particularly fascinating for me because of its resonance with today's political climate.

Walton: Resonance is a good word. Resonance is fine, making people feel they've been hit over the head with a political point is terrible.

Morehouse: Personally, I think that this kind of, dare I call it, subversive writing works particularly well in science fiction, where readers can "distance" themselves from the now by going to another world, or in the case of Farthing and its sequels, an alternate past. This new series is categorized as science fiction. Previously, you wrote World Fantasy Award winning fantasy. Did you find the shift in sub-genres difficult in any way? What do you find is different about writing SF, if anything?

Walton: The way I write, there isn't any difference. All my novels start from history. These ones then go in an alternate history direction, and my others go in a fantastic direction. But history is the bedrock I'm building on in all of them. I think writing real SF, set in the future, is very much more difficult, because you don't have that foundation, everything is extrapolation. I don't do it very much, even though SF is what I like best to read, because it slows me down so much. Say you have a character want to send a message. In a novel in a setting based on history you know if that means a messenger on horseback, or a postal service, or a telephone, or email. In a future world you have to work out what they have, and then you have to integrate that and the effects of it into everything else. Then that goes for absolutely everything. It takes me forever. But that didn't apply to this.

Morehouse: Earlier, you mentioned Carmichael's sexuality and I have a lot of questions regarding that specifically and the gay characters in the novel in general. First of all, however, I absolutely adore Lucy's terminology regarding various gay male relationships: Macedonian (for basically straight men who have the odd gay/queer relationship) and Athenian (men who are gay). I also loved Lucy's other terms for things like adultery, etc. For me, those linguistic touches made Lucy seem very much a product of her time and social-economic class. In fact, they rang so true for me I wondered if you'd invented those terms or come across them in your research?

Walton: I made up those specific terms. But in Margaret Forster's biography of Daphne Du Maurier she talks about Du Maurier's personal sexual terms, which included "Venice" for lesbian sex and therefore Venetian for lesbian, and "Cairo" for male-female penetrative sex, and some third term which I've forgotten for non-penetrative sex, which was her preference. And I was as impressed as anything with how this allowed Du Maurier to be as sexually explicit as anything in her letters and journal without saying a word that could be censored, or even understood by the wartime censors, in the twenties and thirties and during the war. I also adored the way they were simultaneously totally explicit and weirdly coy. Du Maurier was, of course, from broadly the same kind of class as Lucy. When I started writing Lucy's running-on point of view, using something like that just seemed like a good idea.

When I start writing a book I often put things in because they seem like fun things to be playing with, and by the time I get to the end they seem like laws of the universe graven in stone, and with the weight of stone. Lucy's voice, which includes these terms, and Carmichael's sexuality would both fall into this category.

Morehouse: As a lesbian, I have to admit that when you early on revealed Carmichael was gay, my first thought was that, given his job and the situation, it would be used to compromise him. You suggested earlier that you thought it would be fun to make him gay, and so it seems to me he was not intended as a "plot coupon" from the start. And obviously, his story continues in the follow-up books. You also included a large number of gay/queer relationships in Farthing, to the point that I started to feel like everyone was gay but poor Lucy. What was your rationale behind those choices?

Walton: As far as Carmichael's concerned, as I said, at first I thought it would be neat, and then it became part of who he was in my mind, and then as the story developed and I saw what was going to happen it became a lever that could be used against him because it was part of who he was—like Alan Turing, and a lot of other people as well.

I think there are very few exclusively homosexual people in Farthing, only three—or four if you count Jack who doesn't appear, though he does in the later books.

That is, there are three "Athenians". There are a lot of "Macedonians", bi people. I'm straight myself, but I've been aware since reading Delany's Triton at an early age that I'm actually way off at the end of a bell curve in which most people fall somewhere in the middle in bisexuality.

This question, the "Why are there so many gay people?" completely threw me when people started asking it. My first response was "If you think there are a lot of queer people in Farthing you should see my livejournal friendslist." Then someone said my friendslist wasn't randomly selected. Well, no, they're the friends that a middle-aged straight woman happens to have. The people in Farthing aren't randomly selected either. They know each other, they come from the same social class. We don't see any gay or bi working class people, except for Jack again.

I've always written characters with the sexuality that seemed appropriate for who they were, and nobody has ever cared before. (For instance, one of my point of view characters in The Prize in the Game is gay, and the man he loves is cheerfully and promiscuously bi, which causes him much angst. Nobody has ever said a word about it.)

In Farthing, because of the time and place and background and class, you have a lot of characters who have been to public school, where homosexual acts are, face it, happening frequently and are expected and normal. If you read the journals and letters of this kind of people from this period, being exclusively straight starts to feel like an actual perversion.

Also, when they got a little older, straight sex was available only in marriage or in fairly grotty prostitution. Gay sex was very available. Christopher Isherwood, who is famously homosexual, talks (in Christopher and His Kind) about having sex with a woman and enjoying it but being repelled by the conventions and expectations. Evelyn Waugh was in his late twenties before he started thinking that maybe he wasn't queer. (He wasn't. Read his letters!) Heterosexual experimentation was taboo, but homosexual experimentation in youth was totally normal, and then of course, you got the people who really were gay and kept on with it.

And of course you have these passionate same sex friendships, some of which were, or had been, sexual at some point.

So when I was writing against this background, and from my knowledge of it, of course this affected the kind of characters I was writing.

At first I thought that the "too many gay people" thing was weird homophobia. Then people started saying it who I knew weren't homophobic and I wondered if there really were too many gay people. I don't think there are for the time and place, but then I wouldn't.

I'm tempted to go through and make a list of everyone in the book and their sexuality—and I'm positive it would be a strong majority of "Romans". But heterosexuality is so much the assumed default in fiction that when you have quite a few non-straight people they stand out. There have been studies done that show that lots of men percieve a room with 30% women in as majority female, and I wonder if it's that kind of thing that makes it noticeable.

To come back to Carmichael, I wouldn't want you to think that I think homosexuality is his tragic flaw. I think in the later books I make it clear that his relationship with Jack is the thing that makes his life worth living. What I wanted to do with it being used against him was to suggest that everyone is vulnerable. There's always something, some normal human thing, they can find on anyone, to use against you if they want to, and the more things are tolerated quietly but used to make an example when necessary, the more there's hypocrisy about this kind of thing, the more people stay in line and do what's wanted. We have these laws that are made out of fear, and which can be used to make people more afraid, and that's wrong. At the end of Farthing Carmichael quite explicitly gives up essential liberty for a little temporary safety. But it's because he's been doing that all along by staying closeted that he's able to be forced into it.

In so far as Farthing is about responses to fascism, as you said before, it raises the question of whether you're going to be brave or not. Being brave might not work, but the alternative is going along with it.

Morehouse: Yeah, though I think this last bit touches on my problem with the situation with Carmichael. At least as recently as a decade ago, being gay still excluded someone from a job in the U.S. intelligence service because we're seen as easily compromised. I know this from personal experience. I myself didn't lose a job, but a friend of mine asked me not to mention, or shall I say "not volunteer any information on," his orientation if someone from the CIA should call me for a reference. This frustrates me because, as you say, we all have secrets. Granted both Carmichael and James could die for this particular secret in the universe of Farthing, so it wasn't just Carmichael's own willingness he had to consider but his lover's as well. This kind of cowardliness is very human, realistic, and in many ways deeply sympathetic, but, honestly, I guess I just wished they'd had something else on him, you know? I struggled with my feelings about this because at first I thought you set him up as gay only to make him fall, but there are moments in the narrative when Carmichael needs to be gay to figure out pieces of the puzzle. So, what I'm saying is that you handled it well, but in the end I still left feeling strangely cheated. I was able to love Lucy and David, despite the fact that I knew they were doomed to certain compromises, but somehow theirs felt cleaner. Perhaps because you show Lucy and David so very much in love and the reader experiences their love on a visceral level, but Carmichael's lover is someone to go home to, whom we never see and only hear about very distantly. So when Carmichael has to choose love over honor, the sacrifice feels more selfish, more dare I say it sexual, rather than emotional. Because gay people are often seen as more concerned with sex than love, this difference in the way you portrayed Carmichael really stood out for me. Care to comment?

Walton: You're probably right. I was going to write a scene where Carmichael went home to Jack, but I didn't because it felt intrusive. I had difficulty writing the bits with Jack in Ha'Penny and Half a Crown for the same reason, and I'm not sure he ever gets a fair deal. Probably I should have written it, because the way Carmichael's enemies frame the relationship is so sexual, and because of all the stuff you're talking about.

My intention was to show Carmichael as a very private person, but just as much married to Jack as Lucy is to David. I was very surprised when Farthing won the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best SF novel, because one of the things I'd thought was how nice it was to have a novel without a romance, where all the main characters are married at the beginning and still married at the end. (Though a friend suggested that that is in itself romantic, so there you go.)

In the later books, they like it that Carmichael is gay, because it gives them a simple easy hold over him.

On this bit, while he is chosing love, he's also chosing his job. He likes his job, he likes being an inspector, but also, he's got no economic independence, nothing to fall back on, he's living like a middle class person with a servant but if he quits he's got no cushion and he has no experience of anything else—straight from school to the army and then the police, and if he's notorious, nobody's going to hire him for anything at all. So it's an economic choice too. That's a bind a lot of people are in—whistle blowing can lose you your career, and with it your house, everything, if you did the right thing you'd be on the streets.

Lucy and David are rich, and used to being rich so that even if they lost all their money and couldn't sell their jewellry or get money from David's family they'd still have the expectations of rich people. Carmichael's used to having barely enough money to keep up appearances. I think that's significant too.

Morehouse: Absolutely. Class is a huge issue for this book.

But, I think, too, Americans in particular (even people with a history degree like myself) still tend to think of gayness as a modern phenomenon, so Lucy's relaxed sensibility about it seems anachronistic, even though quite clearly it isn't, you know? Your publisher is American, so do you ever find yourself having to defend real historical fact over the "perception of history" to your publisher or your audiences? Are there things you've uncovered in your research that are stranger than fiction and that modern audience would find too difficult to believe?

Walton: The first bit, no, my publisher and editor have never had the slightest hesitation over anything, never asked me to change anything like that. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, my editor, has been behind these books all the way.

On the other hand, I can't get them published in Britain whatever I do.

As far as my readers go, and things you find in research, yes, all the time, and I call that the Tiffany Problem.

Tiffany is a real attested medieval name, it's a variant of Theophania, it appears in twelfth century documents from Britain and France, and you cannot give it as a name to a character in a historical or fantasy setting because it looks too horribly modern.

One review of Farthing said that as part of the changes in the alternate world, homosexuality was made illegal, and you can't respond to a review saying "1969! Homosexuality between adults wasn't legalized until in Britain until 1969!"

In Half a Crown, a number of my test readers had problems with things in the British constitution that are, I'm sorry, in the British constitution to this very day. I've tried to explain them more.

I'm very aware of this problem.

Morehouse: Speaking of historical research, I understand Ha'Penny features a group of wildly divergent sisters—one of whom is a fascist, another who's a Communist, etc.—are these characters loosely based on the Mitford sisters whose letters have recently been collected in a book by Mary S. Lovell?

Walton: Finally, an easy question! Yes, the Larkin family in Ha'Penny is inspired by the concept of the Mitford family. There aren't meant to be exact one to one correspondences between people, but yes. It's odd, since I finished Ha'Penny there have been a whole pile of new Mitford stuff published, Jessica Mitford's letters last year, and now those collected letters. Obviously I'm not the only person who finds them fascinating.

And speaking of improbable, I had to tone them down a lot for fiction.

Morehouse: Yeah, actually you've inspired me to do a little non-fiction reading about them while I wait for Half a Crown to come out. One last hard one: you're one of those writers whose name I heard long before I read anything by you. First, there was an incident involving a Coke and David Brin at a Worldcon that received a lot of attention in the SF community, and then, of course, there was International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant's Day. How do you think this notoriety affected your career, if at all?

Walton: I don't think any of it has made any difference. It's very odd to think of myself as notorious, too.

The Brin thing—it was a Boskone actually, not that it makes any difference. I'd like to say it was a youthful indiscretion. It was stupid and childish of me to give way to an impulse like that, and I've apologized. I was quite amazed at the kind of attention it got. There might be some people who wouldn't buy a book by someone who does idiotic things like that, I don't know.

International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day I did deliberately, though actually I wasn't expecting the overwhelming chord that struck in the community. My immediate and instinctive response to Dr Hendrix's rant was a desire to put something online for free —and it suddenly occurred to me that, as a Nebula nominee but not a SFWA member, I had standing to do that and make Dr Hendrix be aware of it. So I decided that not only would I do it, I'd encourage other people to do it as well. I was expecting maybe a dozen of my friends to join in, not thousands of people. I mean Mercedes Lackey posted something! The response was absolutely overwhelming. It's amazing sometimes what's going to make a difference.

Clearly, I was not the only person who felt that way.

But I don't think it's done anything for my career one way or the other. The only thing that does that is writing the books, isn't it?

I think, generally, there are people who go around doing things to advance their career, and they're always positioning themselves for it, and thinking about this kind of thing, and I'm not one of them. I am slightly better than I used to be about doing things first and considering whether they're a good idea later, at least I hope I am.

Morehouse: Even though I'm a throw-back, hidebound Neanderthal and can kind of see Dr. Hendrix's point (despite his objectionable and poor word choice—"webscabs"? Oy vey), I ended up posting something with you, too. Free content is a weird issue for me, however, and one I'm of two minds about. The Hendrix half of my brain agrees that as a professional writer I should have every expectation that what I do (i.e. provide content) is worth something to someone or I wouldn't be in business, right? But, the business model has changed quite drastically in the past several years as you, John Scalzi, and Cory Doctorow have clearly shown.

I'm a former member of NWU (the National Writer's Union), which won a seminal Supreme Court case against the New York Times over what is, in many ways, this same issue, i.e., that writers should get paid for what goes on the web (and in the case of the NYTimes, even if that content is a reprint of work already paid for.) I understand Hendrix's rant was off on a somewhat different tact, but, if you don't mind repeating what I'm sure feels to you like old news, what was the thrust of your argument with what he said?

Walton: I'm not Cory Doctorow, and I'm not an "information wants to be free" fanatic or anything like that. I just strongly resented being told I was a scab because I post poetry on my livejournal. Previous to IPSTD, I hadn't put up any work for free longer than the first couple of chapters of a novel. But I post poetry online all the time and this works for me.

On the one hand, if I can sell it I get maybe $10, and instant gratification of seeing people's reactions is worth more than $10. And on the other, I've found out since I started doing it that if I can sell it, I can sell it even after it has been on my journal. I have sold poetry that's been on my journal to Asimov's, Goblin Fruit, Mythic, Lone Star Stories— and it gives me a great sense of getting money for old rope too. This is a win/win situation for me, and I can't see how it's hurting anyone else.

I argued with Eric Flint when he was first suggesting what became the Baen model. But the Baen model has demonstrably worked. They're giving away free books and it is increasing sales. Cory Doctorow has said the problem for a writer isn't piracy, it's obscurity. If putting your first novel online for free means people will find you, and will buy your third, which might otherwise be your last chance the way publishing is today, how does it benefit anyone to stop you? How is that being a scab? A scab!

My position on copyright is that the writer should control it. Not anyone else, not the publisher, not pirates, certainly not SFWA, the writer.

Morehouse: Thank you so much for your thoughtful responses to my questions, Jo. This has been a great deal of fun. So, tell us: what can fans of Jo Walton look for from you in the next year or so? I know Half a Crown will be out soon. What's the next series/stand-alone percolating in your mind?

Walton: Half a Crown will be out in September 2008 from Tor.

I'm just starting a new thing called "Our Sea" which is a nice cheerful fantasy with no fascists at all. The idea is that there was a hole blowing about the ancient Mediterranean from about the fall of Troy to the fall of Rome, and ships from our world went through it into this other sea, and couldn't find their way back. They founded cities and civilizations there.

The original inhabitants there were bronze age hermaphroditic lizardmen. "Our Sea" is set in a Greek city-state that's holding the balance of power between the Romans and the Phoenicians. So far, I'm having a lot of fun with it. That'll probably come out sometime in 2009.

After that, I don't know. I always have a lot of ideas, and it's difficult to tell which of them are going to come alive and have enough to them to become actual novels. At this time of year I always start thinking about the fantasy world where they have one sun made of fire and one made of ice, and what happens if the ice sun doesn't retreat after midwinter. Then there's the Tooth and Claw sequel, there's the Douglas MacArthur in Elfland story, there's the version of Mansfield Park set on Mars â€" I would like to write something that's proper SF. But what'll happen is that I'll get some character talking in my head and I'll have to deduce her entire universe from the evidence of who she is and how she could have got to be like that, and there you go. That's how it usually works for me.

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Crystal Rain
Author - Tobias Buckell


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When I first heard of Buckell's novels, Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin, I wasn't sure quite what to think. They were short (always an oddity in the field of Science Fiction and Fantasy), they had a strong Caribbean flair and, well... I thought the name Ragamuffin was kinda silly.

Still, the more I read about him and his novels, the more interested I became to see just exactly what they were about. So, I got my hands on copies of his two novels and quickly set to work forming an opinion of my own. And its a positive opinion, more or less.

Let me start off by saying this about Crystal Rain: Buckell manages to fit more into this lean novel than most authors do into novels twice as long. I don't know how he does it, but other authors (and editors) need to take note; this is how you tell a lean, fast paced and frenetic story without any wasted words. Each and every one of Crystal Rain's 384 pages burst at the seams with creativity: a vivid world inhabited by real people all wrapped up in a plot that races towards the finish line at full steam ahead.

Buckell tells the story through the eyes of several characters throughout the story (another accomplishment for a lean novel) and each of them give the reader a different sense of the world and the violent events taking place during the course of the story. The main protagonist, John DeBrun, is mildly interesting (moreso towards the end of the novel when the reader has some light shed on his past), but it is the other characters that surround John that really make the novel shine.

Foremost amongst these is a character named Pepper. A trench-coat wearing, dreadlocked and pissed off killing machine that has some sort of connection to John's forgotten past. I found myself eagerly anticipating any scene involving Pepper, whether it was told from his point of view or not.

It's clear from the get-go that Buckell's Caribbean heritage plays a huge part in the novel. From the setting (a world inhabited by, more or less, Caribbean refugees from Earth), to the conflicts (Buckell mentioned Haiti's violent history as one inspiration for his writing in one interview) to the dialect of the characters.

And this is where we find what could be considered one of the novel's biggest problems: the dialect. Buckell, in an attempt at authenticity, chose to write dialogue of the Nanagadan's (the "good-guys" of the novel) just as it would be found in a current day setting among the Caribbean Islands. This means a lot of broken English and hard to read dialogue for the reader to wade through. I will admit that I had a really hard time with it at first and found that it got in the way of me connecting with the characters in the novel. As I moved further on in the novel, however, I found myself getting acquainted with the speech patterns of the characters and by the end decided I wouldn't have it any other way. Buckell made a risky move, one that is sure to turn off many readers, but in the end it payes off by helping to create a world, and a group of characters, that feels distinct and realistic.

The conflict between the aforementioned Nanagadan's (the Caribbean-based culture) and the Azteca (the Aztec-based culture) is a bloody and despondent affair that affords the perfect opportunity for Buckell to craft a fast, breakneck story that is always feeding the reader just enough new information to keep them from getting overwhelmed, but still feeling satisfied that things are moving along at a good pace.

My biggest criticism of the novel is that, ironically, the ending seems a little drawn out. With the rest of the novel being so fast paced, I would have liked to have seen a bit more visceral asskicking coming between the two opposing armies. Buckell seems to gloss over the most violent and gory portions of the story, and though I assume this is intentional, I would have liked to have seen some of the characters in action. Pepper is very clearly a proficient fighter, but many times we find Buckell ending a scene with a fight about to start and beginning the next scene with the fight having just ended.

All in all though, Buckell has crafted a great first novel that's crammed full of action, has a terrific setting and manages to cram a whole lot of story into a manageable amount of pages. If Crystal Rain is any indication, Buckell's next two novels (Ragamuffin and Sly Mongooe) are sure to be just as entertaining. He's definitely an author to keep an eye on in the upcoming years as he carves a niche for himself in amongst the heavy-hitters of the Science Fiction genre.

Tangled Webs: A Black Jewels Novel, Anne Bishop (Roc)

Danas sam zavrsio sa citanjem. Iako je poslednji nastavak sage o mracnim draguljima pobrao sve same hvalospeve citalstva, ja sam duboko razocaran. Pre svega, Bisopova je izneverila obecanje da ce se malo udaljiti od protagonista svojih ranijih radova, te da ce jedna od sporednih likova iz prvobitne trilogije, Sureal SaDijablo, u ovom romanu biti u prvom planu. To se nije desilo. Sureal svakako ima vise prostora nego ranije, ali opet imamo prilike da vidimo svu lepezu likova iz ranije objavljenih nastavaka, sto Tangled Webs svodi na neku vrstu uzgredne epizode, bez nekog velikog znacaja. Nako citanja zbirke od cetiri price Dreams Made Flesh, moram reci da sam od romana o Sureal imao jako velika ocekivanja, koja se nisu ispunila. Ko zna, mozda cemo jednog dana i dobiti taj roman.

Sumrak, spisateljice Stefani Mejer, izasao je iz stampe.

The Innocent Mage, Karen Miller (Orbit)

Roman koji je proglasen najboljim fentezi debitantskim romanom u Velikoj Britaniji za 2007. godinu, pokazao se zamornim i dosadnim. Ocigledno zamisljen kao odraz Martinove Pesme leda i vatre, bar kada je rec o makijavelijevskoj dvorskoj politici,  The Innocent Mage nikako ne uspeva da docara drustvenu podeljenost o kojoj govori, niti su njegovi protagonisti zivotni koliko Martinovi. Tragicno je sto autorka moze da se pozove na dela svog sunarodnika, Valtera Skota, i da u njima potrazi inspiraciju za opis drustvene segregacije - ali to ne cini. Bilo kako bilo, The Innocent Mage je daleko i od Pesme leda i vatre, i od Ajvanhoa. Jos jedan u nizu izdavackih pokusaja i promasaja u potrazi za narednim velikim fentezi autorom.

Scott Sigler- Infected
Knjiga izlazi 1.4.2008, a do 31.3. je možete besplatno skinuti ovde:http://www.scottsigler.com/node/1196

Tor je ponudio novu besplatnu knjigu - Lord of the Isles, Dejvida Drejka. REc je o epskoj fantastici, koja podseca na Dzorana, Gudkajnda i ostale pisce karakteristicne za devedesete godine proslog veka. Medjutim, Drejkov ciklus nije ni izbliza toliko dobro prihvacen od strane publike. Dejvid Drejk je, inace, najpoznatiji po tzv. military SF-u, kao i po kolaboracijama sa Erikom Flintom i S. M. Stirlingom. Zanimljivo je da je upravo saradnja sa Drejkom ovim piscima omogucila da se vinu iz anonimnosti i postanu daleko vece zvezde od njega.

Naredna knjiga koju ce Tor ponuditi citaocima je Through the Wolf's Eyes, koju je napisala Dzejn Lindskold. Opet je rec o epskoj fantastici, koja je po stilu i temi jako bliska delima Robin Hob. Preporucujem.

Bela Ruza, americkog pisca Glena Kuka, u Magnetovom izdanju, a u prevodu moje malenkosti, upravo je u stampariji.

Quote from: "nightflier"Bela Ruza, americkog pisca Glena Kuka, u Magnetovom izdanju, a u prevodu moje malenkosti, upravo je u stampariji.

e vidis nisam znao da si ti to prevodio  :evil:  :evil:

Mnooogo dobra knjiga....barem meni. To koliko se secam ima dosta delova??

Kada se bacas na prevod sledeceg dela....ako nije tajna  :twisted:

Quote from: "nightflier"Bela Ruza, americkog pisca Glena Kuka, u Magnetovom izdanju, a u prevodu moje malenkosti, upravo je u stampariji.

e vidis nisam znao da si ti to prevodio  :evil:  :evil:

Mnooogo dobra knjiga....barem meni. To koliko se secam ima dosta delova??

Kada se bacas na prevod sledeceg dela....ako nije tajna  :twisted:

Ne znam kada ce nastavak - i da li ce se ici na neposredni nastavak, koji nema puno veze sa Crnom cetom. Inace, Algoritam objavljuje Ubik, kultni roman Filipa Dika. Trenutno se radi priprema. Ponovice se stari prevod.

Ubik je jedan od mojih omiljenih romana, mozda najbolji Dikov. Bar po meni xkoenig

IPS najavljuje za jesen pravu ofanzivu kada je rec o fantastici. Sem najavljenog Neuromansera i Spook Copuntry, u planu je i nekoliko fentezi serijala. Za sada je izvesno da cu prevoditi bar jedan od njih, a mozda i vise - sve u zavisnosti od ostalih izdavaca prema kojima imam obaveze. IPS me je, inace, angazovao da prevedem roman Tisina, japanskog pisca Shusaku Endo-a, cetiri puta nominovanog za Nobelovu nagradu (u poslednje vreme mi padaju sve neki nesudjeni nobelovci), pa posle toga prelazim na fentezi. Nadam se da cu za jedno mesec dana moci da kazem o kojim je serijalima rec, ali za sada je to poslovna tajna.

Mozes li barem reci jesu li dosta popularni, i da li se radi o americkim, kanadskim, ili australijskim piscima?  :wink:

Jesu, jako su popularni. A rec je o Amerikancima.

Bre, kad ti postižeš sve ovo? Kontam da si se jako uverzirao. Jel se može živeti od toga?

Samo kada bi isplate bile redovne, moglo bi se ziveti jako dobro. Uostalom, poslednjih... sest godina, recimo, samo od toga i zivim. Naravno, sada dobijam vece honorare nego na pocetku karijere. Veca mi je cena rada, radim za vise izdavaca... Hocu da kazem da sam sasvim posvecen prevodjenju, pa mogu da prevedem veci broj stranica dnevno od nekoga ko se time bavi kad se vrati sa redovnog posla. Taj veci broj stranica znaci i vise para. Najveci je problem sto isplate umeju da kasne i po nekoliko meseci (da se razumemo, ne kod svih izdavaca), pa to poprilicno otezava stvari, ali godisnje svejedno zaradim oko pet i po hiljada evra. Nadam se da cu ove godine zaraditi i vise. Medjutim, sve ima svoju cenu. Otkako se bavim prevodilackim zanatom, ugojio sam se 20 kg. Doduse, da se pohvalim, smrsao sam pet za proteklih mesec dana.

A kolika je cena za nekog pocetnika prevodioca? Ja kontam da nije vise od 1 evra po stranici...ako nije i manje....?

2 evra po stranici, ili je bar bilo toliko.

Nije dva evra. Evro i dvadeset do evro i po. I iskusni prevodioci retko kad dobijaju preko tri evra. Vreme je oskudno...

Od danas na Torovom sajtu besplatno se moze skinuti Through Wolf's Eyes by Jane Lindskold. Naredne sedmice na redu je The Disunited States of America, velikog majstora alternativne istorije - Harija Tartldava.

Verovatno ima i onih koji rade za manje od 2 evra po šlajfni, ali to samo uništava ionako loš kvalitet prevoda kod nas.

Ja sam za prvu kompletnu knjigu koju sam radio (pre godinu i po) tražio 2 evra i, uz malo natezanja i dobio. Na kraju su svi bili zadovoljni. Već sada više nemam nameru da radim za te pare.

Asistenti i profesori sa filološkog, kao i neki stariji prevodioci sa imenom, naplaćuju i po 5 evra, pogotovu kada je u pitanju specifično delo(stručna literatura i sl.). Naravno, što je manji jezik sa koga se prevodi (što ima manje kvalitetnih prevodilaca), cena je veća. Sa, npr. finskog, sumnjam da će neko prevoditi za manje od 4 evra...

A koliko vam treba vremena, da prevedete jednu knjigu, od otprilike 300 strana?

Zavisi. Najbrze sam preveo Zmajeve kosti, Patrise Brigs. To je trajalo dve nedelje. Zapravo, trinaest dana. Prevod koji upravo zavrsavam, od 500 stranica, radim vec pet meseci.

@winter

A sta si prevodio i za koga?

Alnari je objavio peti nastavak Spajdervikovih zapisa (a ne Zapisa Spajdervika, kako su preveli), pod naslovom Mulgaratova srdzba. Ja sam preveo prve dve knjige ovog ciklusa, po kojem se snima film, ako vec nije snimljen, dok su me na trecu i cetvrtu potpisali bez mog znanja i uvida u tekst, tako da ne odgovaram za kvalitet prevoda. Romani su namenjeni deci, ali bilo je pravo uzivanje citati ih i prevoditi (prva dva!), tako da ih od srca preporucujem.

Quote from: "nightflier"Alnari je objavio peti nastavak Spajdervikovih zapisa (a ne Zapisa Spajdervika, kako su preveli), pod naslovom Mulgaratova srdzba. Ja sam preveo prve dve knjige ovog ciklusa, po kojem se snima film, ako vec nije snimljen, dok su me na trecu i cetvrtu potpisali bez mog znanja i uvida u tekst, tako da ne odgovaram za kvalitet prevoda. Romani su namenjeni deci, ali bilo je pravo uzivanje citati ih i prevoditi (prva dva!), tako da ih od srca preporucujem.

Film je, držim već snimljen, pošto je igra izašla pre jedno mesec dana.

Istina. Po Dark Horizons-u, premijera je bila 14. februara. Sad proverih.

@nightflier

Dva naslova za Tabernakl (Sremska Mitrovica): Egiptolog (Artur Filips, savremeni amer. roman) i Ktulu priče (Lavkraftova zbirka, postoji tema na hororu, tražio sam komentare, ali izgleda još niko nije nabavio :) )
Nesrećno sam započeo još jedan savremeni roman za izdavačku kuću koja je u međuvremenu odustala :(

@Alexderange

Mnogo zavisi od stila originala. Dnevna norme je 5-8 šlajfni, tj. 1800 znakova bez razmaknica. Knjiga od "300 strana" je prilično rastegljiv pojam... Recimo od 1 do 3 meseca.

Inače, to je jedna od onih stvari gde važi: kol'ko para tol'ko muzike - što duže radiš na prevodu biće bolji.

Sta su slajfne?
A kako brojite te slovne znakove? (ozbiljno pitam, ne zajebavam se)

Meni je knjiga od 300 strana, knjiga od 300 strana, ne vidim sta je tu rastegljivo; nisam mislio da je cepas.

Kao što rekoh: šlajfna je 1.800 znakova bez razmaknica (space-ova). Jedna stranica knjige može biti od pola do čak dve i po šlajfne! Zato i postoji standardizacija da bi novinari, pisci, prevodioci, lektori, korektori... mogli da naplate po količini urađenog posla.

Slajfna, ili prevodilacka strana je 1800 slovnih mesta SA razmaknicama.
Ne dajte se smesti po tom pitanju.

Zeznuto. Evro i dvadeset po stranici za nekog pocetnika? Stvarno malo. To je nekih 350 evra za knjigu od 300 strana. Pretpostavljam da kada steknes ime u poslu da se vise placa, ali ovaj ''pripravnicki'' staz prevodioca bas se malo placa  :(

Jasta, slajfna se racuna kao 1800 znakova sa razmacima. Nekada je bilo 1650, ali to je davna istorija. Pre mog vremena.

@perin

Moj prvi prevod, Zenica sveta, placen mi je 1,5 maraka (sto je sada 1,5 evra). Imao je 800 slajfni, sto sam preveo za nesto vise od tri meseca. Trebalo mi je puno vremena i prevoda da poboljsam tu cenu rada. Doduse, posto mi u poslednje vreme padaju sve neki dzebeni nobelovci i slicne koske, nisam bas siguran koliko mi se isplatilo :) Bolje da sam se drzao samo fantastike. :)

OK, zašto mi to niste rekli ranije!  :x

Ja sam zaista mislio da je bez razmaknica... Dobro, tako sam platio školu. Najgore je što me je u to ubedila iskusna lektorka koja je radila u Narodnoj knjizi pre privatizacije.

Ne znam šta si radio od nobelovaca, ali meni bi to više prijalo od raznih nepismenih idiota na koje ti je veća šansa da naletiš.
Moja večita dilema: ako naiđem na rečenicu koja je u originalu nepravilna ili nakaradna (ne namerno, nego zato što je pisac polupismen), da li treba nakaradno da je prevedem ili da je "sredim"?  :)

What about translations for example?

I'm hardly interested in my own fate, and certainly not in that of my books. Translations? What do you mean?

What happens to your books in other countries.

Doesn't interest me at all, because a translation is a different book. It has nothing to do with the original at all. It's a book by the person who translated it. I write in the German language. You get sent a copy of these books and either you like them or you don't. If they have awful covers then they're just annoying. And you flip through and that's it. It has nothing in common with your own work, apart from the weirdly different title. Right? Because translation is impossible. A piece of music is played the same the world over, using the written notes, but a book would always have to be played in German, in my case. With my orchestra!

Tomas Bernhard  :!:

Prevodilac je uvek i stvaralac. Ako nije, onda ne radi svoj posao kako treba. A kada je rec o nepismenim iditoima... Pa, to su sasvim razliciti izazovi. Obracas se i drugoj citalackoj publici, sa drugim ocekivanjima. Na kraju, u slobodne strelce presao sam bas stoga da bih birao sta cu da prevodim - ali opet se zajebem povremeno. Nego, ko to ima nakaradne recenice? Filipsa sam svojevremeno odbio kao urednik u Alnariju, tako da pretpostavljam da na njega mislis.

Za koji mesec trebalo bi da izadje noveleta pod naslovom Backup, smestena u svet Harija Drezdena, sada vec ultrapopularnog pisca Dzima Bucera. Zanimljivost se krije u tome sto je specijalno izdanje ove novelete (u koznom povezu i sa zlatotiskom) ilustrovao Majk Minjola. Sav tiraz je rasprodat u pretplati, po ceni od 250 $ po primerku.

Kad smo vec kod Harija, pre jedno nedelju dana zavrsio sam citanje desetog romana o privatnom carobnjaku, pod naslovom Sitnice (Small Favours). Prava poslastica za ljubitelje urbane fantastike. Ispunjava sva ocekivanja koja citalac ima kada u pandze zgrabi deseti naslov omiljenog ciklusa. Da se razumemo, Bucer nije knjizevna velicina - ali ne pretvara se da jeste, sto je veoma osvezavajuce. Kvalitativni pomak primetan od njegovih prvih romana ovde se pretvorio u pravi skok. Jedino je kraj tipicno frenetican i, kao po obicaju, nedostaje mu pedesetak stranica razrade nekih motiva, koje pisac gdegde samo natukne. Lako i zabavno stivo, koje preporucujem mesto subotnjeg izlaska i davanja para bioskopskim krvopijama.

Quote from: "nightflier"Moj prvi prevod, Zenica sveta, placen mi je 1,5 maraka (sto je sada 1,5 evra).

ne bih da cepidlačim, ali čini mi se da ovi prevodioci kubure s matematikom i faktima: pošto smo se dogovorili da 'šlajfna' ipak računa i razmake, treba još da ustvrdimo i da marka (ako se misli na nemačku) NIJE bila jednaka evru, tj. 1E= oko 2DM, što će reći da 1,5 ondašnjih DM= manje od 1E današnjeg.

Mislim da ideja nije da je to matematički ekvivalentno, jer nije, već ekonomski: sve cene koje su nekad bile u markama sada su to isto u evrima.

Veliki umovi slicno razmisljaju :) Da, mislio sam na realnu a ne knjigovodstvenu vrednost marke u odnosu na evro. Zato sam i stavio ono u zagradi.

Da, kao sto Meho kaze, nekad su cene bile u markama, a sada su ih samo pretvorili u evre.

@nightflier: Ja sam veliki fan serijala o Hariju Drezdenu, iako je piscev skill ocajan, romani su mu zanimljivi, bas lepi za ubijanje jednog popodneva. Small Favors je izasao dakle? Super, jos jedan roman za skidanje i citanje...

Quote from: "Meho Krljic"Mislim da ideja nije da je to matematički ekvivalentno, jer nije, već ekonomski: sve cene koje su nekad bile u markama sada su to isto u evrima.

Krajem sedamdesetih američke knjige su probile cenu od 1$ i to je tada delovalo kao šok... već do sredine osamdesetih novoizašli naslovi su probili granicu od 2$ a onda ubrzano i 3$.
Golf trojka kada je izašao, sa full opremom u Nemačkoj koštao je 17000DEM, danas valjda 28000€.

Život je sve teži jer mada su naoko plate veće, zapravo nisu.
U zlatno gastarbajtersko vreme u Nemačkoj (sedamdesete) fizički radnici na građevini su ladno imali 3000DEM, danas na tim istim poslovima 1200€ je misaona imenica. Manekenke i sportisti jesu mnogo bolje plaćeni, ali običnom svetu kapitalizam dere kožu s leđa...

Bas tako. Da ilustrujem necim sto je nama ovde blize: Cena mekog poveza u SAD u odnosu na devedesete skocila je za dolar do dolar i po, a tvrdog preko pet dolara.

Cetvrta knjiga Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, pod naslovom The Born Queen, pocela je da se prodaje na Amazonu. Pisac je Greg Kiz, poznat po svojoj izuzetno inovativnoj Changeling dulogiji. Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone po atmosferi najvise podseca na Martinov ciklus Song of Ice and Fire i prijace svim ljubiteljima malo surovije i prljavije fantastike. Svojevremeno, kada sam kupio trecu knjigu, bio sam razocaran jer se najavljena trilogija pretvorila u ciklus, tako  da je nisam ni procitao. Medjutim, sada kada su mi se strasti slegle, uvidjam da i nije tako lose uzivati u stalnom prilivu romana proverenih pisaca. Posto bi knjiga trebalo da mi stigne za jedno dve nedelje, bacicu se na citanje The Blood Knight, treceg naslova u seriji, pa cu za koji dan podeliti utiske sa vama.

Quote from: "nightflier"...pocela je da se prodaje na Amazonu...

Jedan mali off topic - Ako znaš, kakva je trenutno situacija sa kupovinom na američkom Amazonu? Ja poslednjih godinu dana nisam kupovao ništa tamo zbog cele priče sa UPS-om, špedicijom i carinjenjem.

Ne znam, posto ja kupujem preko kanadskog Amazona, a knjige mi se dopremaju avionom. Cela procedura je komplikovanija i cekam duze na naslove, ali sta da radim. Pri tom, kanadski Amazon je losije snabdeven, pa neke knjige cekam po godinu dana, a neke mi nikad i nisu stigle.

Hvala na odgovoru. Ja kupujem na Barnes & Noble poslednje dve godine, i to kupujem mnogo  :)  Paketi stizu za 20-25 dana.

Sa njima nisam imao iskustva. Kako funkcionise? Imas li problema sa carinom i slicnim glupostima?

Quote from: "nightflier"Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone

E! Pročitao sam prvu valjda prošle godine, nije bilo loše...

Kingdoms of Thorn And bone mi je jedna od omiljenih EF saga...originalno je trebala biti trilogija ali sta ces sad...prva knjiga je Briar King, druga Charnel Prince, treca Blood Knight a cetvrta koja je valjda izasla jeste Born Queen. Inace, 3 knjiga mi je najlosija u serijalu...oni koji vole Martina, Dzordana i Bejkera nece biti razocarani ovim serijalom, that's all I can say  :wink:

Novo na Tor.com: The Disunited States of America by Harry Turtledove  

''Time travel doesn't work. You can't go backward or forward; you're stuck at "now". What you can do is travel sideways, to the same "now" in another timeline where history turned out differently. So far, only our home timeline has figured out how to do that. We use Crosstime Traffic to conduct discreet trading operations in less advanced timelines, selling goods just a little bit better than the locals can make. It's profitable, but families who work as Time Traders have to be careful to fit in, lest the locals become suspicious.  Justin's family are Time Traders. The summer before he's due to start college, he goes with them to a different Virginia, in a timeline where the American states never became a single country, and American history has consisted of a series of small wars. Despite his unease, he accompanies Randolph Brooks, another Time Trader, on a visit to the tiny upland town of Elizabeth, Virginia. He'll only be away from his parents for a few days.  Beckie Royer thanks her stars that she's from California, the most prosperous and advanced country in North America. But just now she's in Virginia with her grandmother, who wants to revisit the tiny mountain town where she grew up. The only interesting thing there is a boy named Justin--and he'll be gone soon.  Then war between Virginia and Ohio breaks out anew. Ohio sets a tailored virus loose on Virginia. Virginia swiftly imposes a quarantine, trapping Becky and Justin and Randolph Brooks in Elizabeth. Even Crosstime Traffic can't help. All the three of them can do is watch as plague and violence take over the town.  It's nothing new in history, not in this timeline or any other. It's part of the human condition. And just now, this part of the human condition sucks.''

Tor od danas poklanja The Disunited States of America, americkog velikog majstora alternativne istorije - Harija Tartldava. Tartldav je pisac koji je objavljivan i kod nas, u izdanju Lagune (pod pseudonimom Tartltaub) i Evolute (roman Vizantijski agent), a postoji i mogucnost da se u neko skorije vreme objavi njegovo cetvoroknjizje Legija Videsosa, a u mom prevodu. U toku su pregovori u vezi sa pravima, a prvi roman je skoro preveden, posto sam ga svojevremeno prevodio za svoju dusu.
Naredni roman koji ce Tor pokloniti svojim citaocima je Reiffen's Choice, autora S. C. Butler-a. REc je o prvom naslovu u trilogiji namenjenoj deci, ali to je sve sto znam, posto Batlera nemam u biblioteci.

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U poslednjoj posiljci knjiga iz Kanade, stigao mi je i In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, Stiva Stirlinga. U ovom romanu, drugom u seriji Lords of Creation,  Stirling se vraca Marsu Edgara RAjsa Barouza, Li Breket i ostalih autora zlatnog doba sfa. Kao sto cini u svojoj Dies the Fire trilogiji, i u seriji Lords of Creation Stirling odaje pocast veliki piscima zanrovske knjizevnosti - i to nimalo prikrivenim aluzijama na njihova najbolja dela. Prethodni roman, nevezan sa ovim, odigravao se na Veneri.

Quote from: "nightflier"Sa njima nisam imao iskustva. Kako funkcionise? Imas li problema sa carinom i slicnim glupostima?

Nisam imao bilo kakvih problema... Carine ima ili nema, u zavisnosti od velicine/vrednosti paketa... Nema problema kao sa Amazonom tj. paketi stizu obicnom postom, tako da je carina nekih 1000-1500 dinara za paket vrednosti $80-$100... Paketi vrednosti do tridesetak dolara prolaze bez carine... Kao sto vec rekoh, paketi stizu za nekih 20-25 dana... Ja poslednjih par godina uplatim $25 godisnje za membership, tako da imam neki dodatni popust + special offers

Mislim da cu se okusati sa njima. Zamara me dugo cekanje na posiljke iz Kanade. Kako placas? Preko vize?

@dejann

Imas pm.

Za koji dan iz stampe izlazi Iron Angel, nastavak romana Scar Night, prvog u serijalu Deepgate Codex. Ocekujem da mi Iron Angel stigne veoma brzo, pa me je to ponukalo da predstavim prvi roman u serijalu. Elem, rec je o sada vec veoma popularnoj mesavini epske, urbane i mracne fantastike,koja pomalo podseca ne Mjevilovu Stanicu Perdido. Kao podosta romana-prvenaca, i Scar Night ima svojih pripovedackih boljki, ali to nadomescuje pravim obiljem motiva i ideja. Stil pisanja je negde izmedju Gejmanovog i Pikovog, samo ne tako pitak i izbrusen. Ako se samo malo zanatski popravi, Kembel ce postati veliki konkurent trenutacnim velicinama "uvrnutog" pripovedanja.

O-o-o, Scar Night uopste nije los. Nisam znao da uskoro treba da izadje i drugi deo. Kao sto si rek'o, ako se samo jos malo poravi, Kembel ce ovim serijalom dospeti daleko.

Od danas na Torovom sajtu - Reiffen's Choice by S.C. Butler, a za nedelju dana Suns of Suns by Karl Schroeder. Sreder je, inace, prava poslastica za ljubitelje hard sf-a.

Fino, taman dok završim Spin... Sreća te nisu sve knjige SF, inače ne bih mogao sve da postignem :)

Pa imas i Old Man's War - klasicna hajnlajnovska spejs-pucacina. Mislim da ima jos nesto sf-a sto se deli na Toru...

Quote from: "nightflier"Od danas na Torovom sajtu - Reiffen's Choice by S.C. Butler, a za nedelju dana Suns of Suns by Karl Schroeder. Sreder je, inace, prava poslastica za ljubitelje hard sf-a.

Eh.
Oni koje to zanima – znaju i sami, jerbo su dobili isti e-mail ko i ti.

A oni koji ne znaju, neće ništa novo ni da saznaju, osim ako ovde ne tutneš kakav rivju ili tako to...

Pa se pitam - čemu sve ovo?

šta fali, možda se još neko prijavi da mu knjige padaju s neba...

Quote from: "zakk"šta fali, možda se još neko prijavi da mu knjige padaju s neba...

Dragi moj zakkatustra, tu baš i nailazim(o) na izvestan malecki problemčić: sve da ja nesrećna i doživim onu famoznu stotu - i sve da za svo to vreme i ne radim ništa zahtevnije od obavljanja najosnovnijih bioloških funkcija – svejedno neću stići da pročitam sve knjige skinute sa Tora.

Iz čega proizilazi da bi nam nekakav selektivni modus ipak dobrodošao.

A najtflajer ovde to ne nudi, nimalo.  

Ali, ako tebi iole znači da se okači lista od dva trilijuna scifi nebuloza za čitanje, onda – nema frke, dragi moj, dal' da ti to šiljnem na PM ili da te ovde javno deprimiram?

Mh, sad... ove knjige upravo izlaze takvim tempom da možeš da pročitaš jednu dok ne izađe sledeća -- ako ti je do toga, naravno. Nemoj sad da vrdaš. To što se tebi ne čita, ili ne čita baš ovo što Tor trenutno deli, ne znači da neko drugi ne cupka dok mu ne dođe sledeća...

Što se tiče selekcije, bila bi poželjna, mada se to da napraviti i lično ovlašnim gvirkanjem u tekst ;)

Listu kači, naravno, veliku i opširnu. Samo naznači šta bi ti preporučila.

A i ja se već duže kanim da počnem predstavljanje online SF časopisa, al to ću najverovatnije jedan po jedan, pa ću i to ovde negde...

QuoteIz čega proizilazi da bi nam nekakav selektivni modus ipak dobrodošao.

A najtflajer ovde to ne nudi, nimalo.

Pa i nije mi bila namera da ovde recenziram ama bas svaku knjigu koja se pojavi. Ovo sam vise zamislio kao nekakve kratke vesti. Istina da procitam u proseku knjigu dnevnu, ali da bih napisao ljudski prikaz trebalo bi mi vise vremena nego da procitam samu knjigu, a toliko vremena bas i nemam. Stoga ovde postujem komercijalne blurbove, pa ako nesto nekoga zaintrigira, neka potrazi na internetu o cemu se radi - i neka skine i procita besplatna poglavlja, koja sada uglavnom svi izdavaci nude u promotivne svrhe. Sem toga, ova tema se ne bavi samo Torovim izdanjima koja se dele besplatno, vec i knjigama koje ce se pojaviti na srpskom. Koristim to sto saradjujem sa vise izdavaca da sa clanovima foruma podelim neke stvari koje sazna. Na kraju, po broju poseta ovoj temi, rekao bih da ipak ima ljudi kojima je bar u neku ruku korisna.

A kako drugačije shvatiti ovaj topik nego kao vesti o novim izdanjima?

Što se Tor-a tiče, naravno da ne stignem sve da pročitam što dođe sa tor-a, jedan deo knjiga čeka na lageru (kao uostalom i mnoge druge knjige koje nabavljam) a neke pročitam odmah kao recimo Farthing.

Quote from: "nightflier"Na kraju, po broju poseta ovoj temi, rekao bih da ipak ima ljudi kojima je bar u neku ruku korisna.

Eh.
Nije mi bila namera da te uvredim, na kraju krajeva, i mene ovaj topik zanima, vidiš i sam da ga redovito overavam.
Samo sam se nadala malko iscrpnijoj informaciji povodom knjiga sa Tora, to je sve. Od svih tih knjiga ja sam pročitala jedino Spin, upravo zbog preporuka.
Pa sam se nadala da bar vi, koji uspevate da drmnete po knjigu dnevno, učinite isto po pitanju nekih drugih naslova.
To je sve.

Pa sto tako ne kazes? Pretpostavljam da te epska fantastike ne zanima, je li tako? Potrudicu se da od ponedeljka svakog dana na ovoj temi postavljam detaljnije prikaze Torovih naslova sto potpadaju pod SF. Necu se gnjaviti sa Spinom, posto pretpostavjam da si ga vec procitala,zer ne?

Pa i rekla sam tako...  :cry:

I ne treba meni za svaki naslov tamo neki cakani rivju, brate, nego onako, prosto i jednostavno: kratka udica - jel' za decu il' za odrasle, ima li smisla i pointa, kakav je stil i jezik, isplati li se akati oči ili ne... onako, bre, ortački.
To su sve mega-romani, čoveče, a znaš li ti koji je to horor/strava/jeza/užas kad na pedesetoj strani mega-romana skontaš da će sve pročitano bio zapravo čist gubitak vremena?
A za Spin mi je trebala cela nedelja i kažem ti – nema ništa lepše nego se iznenaditi sa sveže-napisanim dobrim starim sf-om.   :)

Quote from: "Đehouva"nema ništa lepše nego se iznenaditi sa sveže-napisanim dobrim starim sf-om.   :)

U poslednje vreme drogiram se palpolikim omazima zlatnom dobu sf-a i spejs operama. Krs toga moze da se nadje na sajtu Baen Books, mada nikako ne i bas friske knjige. Potrudicu se da sastavim kakav spisak sa preporukama. A posle Spina, predji na Crystal Rain, a posle toga ne Sredera.

Kao sto svi koji su dobili mejl od Tora znaju, od danas se sa njihovog sajta moze besplatno skinuti roman Sun of Suns, Karla Sredera. Rec je o veoma domisljatoj interpretaciji tvrdog sf-a, sasvim u skladu sa (jednom poloinom_ savremenih tendencija u zanru. Evo sta kaze Amazon:

QuoteWith this book Schroeder launches a saga set on Virga, a balloon-world warmed by artificial suns. The inhabitants build, besides their own suns, floating towns. The spaces between the towns, lacking nearby suns, are wintry cold, and only a few pirates and the utterly desperate live on the towns' edges. Hayden Griffen is dead set on revenge for his parents' deaths in the destruction of his home, Aerie, by the nation of Slipstream six years before. Somewhat unexpectedly, after catching the attention of Venera Fanning and becoming her driver, Hayden is dispatched on a mission under Admiral Chaison Fanning, the man he believes responsible for his parents' demise, to find a vast treasure and, even more valuable, a key to the sun and the world outside, where posthumanity reigns. The satisfying opening of a promising space opera.

Meni je Sun of Suns isprva bio malo tezak i nezgrapan. Nisam se odmah upustio u roman. Medjutim, nakon nekoliko (desetina) stranica, prica me je uhvatila i povukla, tako da sam odmah presao na nastavak. Za sada su napisana tri dela, od kojih imam samo prva dva, tako da ne znam da li je rec o trilogiji, ili citavom ciklusu, kao kod Veberove Onor Harington. U svakom slucaju, poslastica za sf-ovce.

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Izvini sto (jos) nisam ispunio obecanje o detaljnijim rivjuima, ali ne postizem od posla - a jos i nisam uspeo da se izvucem od vodjenja  dnd sesije u nedelju. Cim ugrabim malo vremena, eto prikaza.

Danas Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest, na Torovom sajtu, a kroz sedam dana Spirit Gate  by Kate Elliott. Ovo prvo nisam citao, ali ovo drugo jesam, pa mogu da preporucim svima koji vole Martina, Dzordana i slicne skribomane. Trenutno sam umoran (posto sam celu noc nesto prevodio), pa se necu raspisati, ali dopunicu za nekoliko dana temu utiscima o ovim naslovima, kao i romanima Dzoa Aberkrombija, nove zvezde u usponu kada je o epskoj fantastici rec. Over end aut.

Hvala narode za preporuku za Spin. I ja sam pročitao. Kakvi su ostali njegovi romani? Nisu baš lako dostupni napolju u knjižarama...

Quote from: "Mica Milovanovic"Hvala narode za preporuku za Spin. I ja sam pročitao. Kakvi su ostali njegovi romani? Nisu baš lako dostupni napolju u knjižarama...

More of the same, rekao bih. Nije to pisac koji puno odstupa od nekog ustaljenog stila. Ako ti se svidela jedna prica, svidece ti se sve. AKo nemas sta da citas, probaj Crystal Rain, a ako ti se cita nesto u papiru i na srpskom, od srca preporucujem Zlatno doba, Dzona Rajta, a u izdanju Neora iz NS i mom prevodu (prve dve knjige od tri). Imas u Platou.

Hvala. Gledao sam ih pre neki dan, ali nisam bio siguran da li to valja...

Rajt je poprilicno hard kor. Veoma uvrnut pisac.

Prvi utisci nakon citanja The blade itself, Dzoa Aberkrombija: Podseca me na vanbracno dete Dzordana i Martina, sa ambicijom da postane Tolkin kad poraste. I tata Dzordan je patio od te boljke, samo sto Aberkrombi nece ni prismrdeti tati kada je rec o kompleksnosti i sarolikosti sveta i istorije u kojima se njegovi protagonisti kreci, a ni mami kada je rec o cistoj surovosti i karakterizaciji. No, to mu se sve da oprostiti, posto ocigledno pruza ono sto citaoci traze - laganu zabavu. Ovo se moze uciniti losom kritikom, ali Aberkrombi je zapravo poprilicno bolji pisac od vecine novijih zvezda i zvezdica sto su stalno u usponu, a nikako u zemitu. Problem se krije u tome sto bi mogao da bude puno bolji, samo kada bi se otrgao kliseizmima i pokusajima da bude duhovit kao Pracet, blaoglagoljiv kao Dzordan i spartanski kao Martin. Vredi procitati, ako ni zbog ceg drugog, a ono zbog toga sto nema niceg boljeg, a da je klasican high gantasy.

Demn, moram da prestanem da pisem u tri ujutru. Postovi su mi puni gresaka. Izvinjavam se svima.

Nadam se da ti prevođenje ide suvislije...

A cemu pa sluze lektori? Sem toga, znas da moji prevodi gotovo da nemaju slovnih gresaka; iz nekog razloga, shvatam ih ozbiljnije od postova po forumima...

verovatno iz finansijskog :evil:

Quote from: "gargamel"verovatno iz finansijskog :evil:

Bice da je tako! :evil:  :twisted:

Quote from: "nightflier"Demn, moram da prestanem da pisem u tri ujutru. Postovi su mi puni gresaka. Izvinjavam se svima.

:evil:

Izvinjavam se svima sto sam propustio da najavim novu Torovu besplatnu knjigu - poslednje dve nedelje ubija me kombinacija migrene i inslomnije. Ali, hajde da nadoknadim propusteno... Elem, nova besplatna knjiga je Spirit Gate by Kate Elliott. Rec je o epskoj fantastici sa jakim zenskim glavnim likom, sto je karakteristicno za ovu spisateljicu. Pre Spirit Gate, Eliotova je napisala trilogiju Jaran, ako i sedmoknjizje Crown of Stars. Po stilu veoma je bliska Robertu Dzordanu, recimo, pa cak i po nacinu na koji gradi pricu, kao i po konstrukciji romana. Cak bih se usudio da je nazovem zenskim Dzordanom, samo da pokojni Dzordan nije pisao ljubice pod zenskim pseudonimom.

Quote from: "nightflier"Eliotova je napisala trilogiju Jaran

A kako se zovu individualni romani u ovoj trilogiji?? 'Jaran kod amidže Idriza', 'Sunećenje jarana' i 'Hej jarane, jarane...'? Lepo je videti da i nas muhamedance zastupaju u tom anglofonskom EF-u.

Meho, Dina ti, ako tako nastavis, neces se osladiti od rajskih hurija. Jesi li citao "Srce komete" Grina i Benforda. E, tu ste dobro predstavljeni. Uostalom, vise ste zastupljeni nego mi. Rumuni nam sve preotese, pa bi sad i nas da maznu pod svoje.

Tor od juce poklanja roman Starfish by Peter Watts. Prava poslastica za sve one koji vole tvrdji sf. Zanimljivo je da je rec o romanu koji je proglasen za knjigu godine Njurork tajmsa, kao i o skoro deset godina starom naslovu - kojem je poslo za rukom da ama bas nista ne izgubi na svezini i aktuelnosti. Naredne nedelje Tor poklanja Touch of Evil by C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp. Ovaj roman bi se dao svrstati u senovitu zonu izmedju urbane fantastike i paranormalne romantike. O tome cu vise prozboriti za koji dan na NFBOTB.

Quote from: "nightflier"Zanimljivo je da je rec o romanu koji je proglasen za knjigu godine Njurork tajmsa

Tacnije, usla je medju 100 notable books of the year 99-e.
A mislim da na sajtu autora vec neko vreme moze da se cita (i skine) ova knjiga, dva nastavka, i jos ponesto.
Da ne bude da je Tor izmislio creative commons (u stvari 'promenu paradigme' izdavastva su prvi osetili i prihvatili manji izdavaci i autori, ali dobro, hvala Toru svakako), neka bude receno da iz Small Beer Press-a stize besplatna elektronska knjiga godine: Mothers and Other Monsters (http://lcrw.net/cc/index.htm#mchugh1) od Maureen Mchugh. Kod nas je objavljena odlicna alternativno istorijska prica iz gradjanskog rata Linkolnov Voz, mislim u Znaku Sagite broj 5. Meni je Maureen potpuno genijalan pisac, nesto izmedju minimalnog psiholoskog realizma i 'unutrasnjeg' prikazivanja paklova svakodnevnog bliskog recimo M. Atvud i sf-a od legvinovske sorte. Obavezno citajte !!

Ziva istina. Ne secam se da li sam ranije davao ovaj link, ali evo  ga sada i mislim da ce biti zanimljiv: http://www.baen.com/library. Na istom mestu moze se pronaci i razmatranje problema autorskih prava i elektronskog izdavastva, a od strane americkog pisca Erika Flinta.

Nakon duge pauze, evo me opet. Najpre da pomenem knjige koje je Tor delio tokom prethdne dve nedelje: Prva je Touch of Evil by C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp. Urbana fantastika/paranormalna romantika, po uzoru na Lorel Hamilton, sa nesto originalnijim vidjenjem vampira. Roman je dopadljiv i lagan za citanje, ali ne nesto cemu cete se vracati - sto je slucaj sa ranim Hamiltonkinim radovima. Oni koji vole podzanr paranormalne romantike ne bi trebalo da propuste ovaj roman, a tvrdokorni sf-ovci trebalo bi da se prekrste, pljunu u nedra i zaobidju ga u sirokom luku. Drugi roman koji je Tor sa nama podelio koliko pre neki dan jeste A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham. Jos nisam stigao da ga procitam, pa evo sta kazu strane kolege:

QuoteMuch like "The Gentlemen bastards sequence" and "The First Law", "The Long Price Quartet" is another of the new fantasy sequences that have had heaps of effusive praise piled upon them. However, unlike the first two (one more of a witty nature, and the other mere rote fantasy with rare redeeming values) this one is suppose to be deep

Novosti ima i kod nasih izdavaca. REdovni posetioci Laguninog sajta mogu da vide kako je nekoliko novih romana ugledalo svetlost dana: BAUKOV ŠEGRT, Džozef Dilejni; MAGIKA, Endži Sejdž; KRUNA MAČEVA - deo prvi, Robert Džordan, a pre toga i novi nastavak Taranovih pustolovina i jos ponesto namenjeno mladjima. Magiku je prevodio Sale Markovic - sada radi na drugom nastavku, uporedo sa Spook Country - a rec je o romanu koji pretenduje da nasledi Harija Potera. Samo sto je dosadan. Mada, kupicu ga, naravno, iako imam celu seriju na engleskom. Cini mi se da je rec o tetralogiji. Svima bih od srca preporucio Baukovog segrta, sto jeste roman namenjen mladjima - ali je sjajan. Uzivao sam citajuci ga, kao i nastavak. Za ljubitelje sf-a, ne znam da li sam ranije spomenuo, ali Algoritam objavljuje Dikov Ubik. Eto, toliko od mene. Vajda cu smoci snage i naci vremena da sastavim liste koje sam obecao za onu drugu temu...

Tor od danas deli Orphans of Chaos by John Wright. Ovo je Rajtov izlet u epsku fantastiku, nakon boravka u ludnici. Ovu knjigu imam dobrih godinu dana, ali nikako da mi podje za rukom da savladam Rajtov monotoni naratorski stil. Ono sto je u trilogiji Zlatno doba - koja spada u sam vrh SF-a bilo zanimljivo, ovde gusi i davi. Bar po meni. Ako neko drugi stekne drugacije misljenje, molim vas, napisite koju. Naredne nedelje Tor polanja In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker. Roman pripada seriji Company, koja je Bejkerovu proslavila. Ljubitelji putovanja kroz vreme - jednog od klasicnih SF motiva - nece biti razocarani. U neku ruku, na americki nacin, Bejkerova se poigrava istim onim motivima kao braca Strugacki u Tesko je biti Bog.

Meni Magika nije bila dosadna, prilično zabavna knjiga. Kamen-mezimac (pazite da ga ne hranite suviše, da ne dobijete kamenčinu), vukodav koji balavi svuda unaokolo, mačka pretvorena u patku (ali i dalje ima mačje navike i mjauče), uniforma koja pokunjeno ide u smeće, prgava štitobuba... Uz to, pisano je s mozgom, magija funkcioniše po nekom sistemu, nema onoga da sve može da prođe jer je fantastika ili jer je za mlađariju.

Ok, moglo bi da ne legne nekome ko nije derište kao ja :lol: ,ali meni se dopalo.

Ovom prilikom najavicu dva naslova koja je Tor podelio tokom protekle dve nedelje. Naime, rec je o In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker i In the Midnight Hour by Patti O'Shea. Bejkerova se proslavila serijalom The Company, koji se u sonovi bavi putovanjem kroz vreme - pa samim tim i alternativnom istorijom. Bejkerova je priznat i popularan autor, ali mene motiv putovanja kroz vreme u nacelu jako nervira, pa nisam procitao nijedan od njenih romana - mada ih sve imam. Pasce za slobodu nekog kisnog popodneva, kad ne budem imao sta drugo za citanje. In the Midnight Hour je prvi naslov u serijalu Light Warriors, koji - gle cuda - spada u podzanr paranormalne romantike. Znaci, dopasce se poklonicima Anite i Suki. A kad smo vec kod Suki, valja pomenuti da uskoro pocinje prikazivanje serije True Blood a po romanima iz serijala Southern Vampire, spisateljice Charlaine Harris.

Cast mi je i zadovoljstvo da najavim kako cu ubrzo otpoceti prevod tetralogije Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, autora Grega Kiza, a za izdavacku kucu IPS. Ova izdavacka kuca takodje ce objaviti Hauardovog Konana - najverovatnije u dva toma - kao i roman Witcher, poljskog pisca Sapkowskog. Inace, Konana prevodi mladi kolega Ajdukovic, to jest High Duke sa ovog foruma.

Izdavacka kuca Carobna knjiga objavice za oktobarski Sajam knjiga u Beogradu tetralogiju The Books of Ember, spisateljice Jeanne Duprau, cija ce prva knjiga biti ekranizovana i film ce imati americku premijeru u oktobru. Rec je o SF romanima za decu.

Quote from: "nightflier"roman Witcher, poljskog pisca Sapkowskog.

daj par rečenica o ovome, zvuči potencijalno zanimljivo.

Sori, ubijam se od posla, pa nemam zivaca da kucam nesto svoje - a nisam ni citao knjigu, niti igrao igru, stoga - evo sta kaze Vikipedija:

QuoteThe Witcher or Wiedźmin (Polish: Wiedźmin) by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski is a series of fantasy short stories (collected in two books, except for two stories) and five novels about the witcher Geralt of Rivia. In Sapkowski's books, witchers are monster-hunters who receive special training and have their bodies modified at an early age to provide them with supernatural abilities so they can battle extremely dangerous monsters and survive. The books have been adapted into a movie and television series, a computer game, a graphic novel series and others. The novel series (excluding the short stories) is also called the Witcher Saga (Polish: saga o wiedźminie) or the Blood of the Elves Saga.

Itd. Za podrobnije informacije, pogledaj ostatak clanka na V.

Quote from: "nightflier"Cast mi je i zadovoljstvo da najavim kako cu ubrzo otpoceti prevod tetralogije Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, autora Grega Kiza, a za izdavacku kucu IPS. Ova izdavacka kuca takodje ce objaviti Hauardovog Konana - najverovatnije u dva toma - kao i roman Witcher, poljskog pisca Sapkowskog. Inace, Konana prevodi mladi kolega Ajdukovic, to jest High Duke sa ovog foruma.

Ovo su sve ODLIČNE vesti :) Jee!

Ovo su sjajne vesti, Nightflieru. :!:

Stvarno jesu! Odavno bolje ne cuh  :lol:

Quote from: "nightflier"Cast mi je i zadovoljstvo da najavim kako cu ubrzo otpoceti prevod tetralogije Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, autora Grega Kiza, a za izdavacku kucu IPS. Ova izdavacka kuca takodje ce objaviti Hauardovog Konana - najverovatnije u dva toma - kao i roman Witcher, poljskog pisca Sapkowskog. Inace, Konana prevodi mladi kolega Ajdukovic, to jest High Duke sa ovog foruma.

Da li ce Konan biti ilustrovan? Ako da, cije su ilustracije?

Iskren da budem, vesti su poprilicno bajate. Morao sam da cekam da glavni urednik IPS-a da dozvolu da ih pustim u javnost. Inace, IPS priprema jos jedan veliki fentezi serijal, ali o njemu cu morati jos neko vreme da cutim.

Kad ce tacno Konan?Ne mogu da docekam.

Nista od toga (sem, mozda, Witchera) nece skoro. Naime, IPS namerava da smanji cekanje izmedju nastavaka sto je vise moguce. To znaci da ce se Kiz pojaviti u knjizarama tek kada zavrsim prevod drugog dela. Planirano je da vremenski razmak izmedju nastavaka bude 3-4 meseca, u zavisnosti od obima. Racunam da ce Konan biti objavljen u kompletu - to jest, oba toma odjednom - tako da ce to potrajati sigurno do  Nove godine. Ne znam da li ce biti ilustrovan, ali raspitacu se.

Tor od danas poklanja Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey A. Carver. Ovo ocigledno nisam citao - niti imam zelju. Serija me svejedno vec zamara. Naredne sedmice na redu je Flash by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Modesita sam citao - i svaki roman mu je isti. U tom jednolicju meni se izdvajaju prve tri knjige Corean Chronicles, koje preporucujem - ako nemate sta drugo za citanje.

Bela Ruza, treca knjiga Crne cete, izasla je iz stampe, a u mom prevodu.

Tor danas poklanja roman Soul by Tobsha Learner, a naredne Darkness of the Light by Peter David. Soul je zapravo erotski triler - sto objasnjava zasto nikada ranije nisam ni cuo za ovu spisateljicu - tako da ne znam zasto ga Tor deli u akciji koja promovise fantastiku. Piter Dejvid je citaocima stripa poznat to po svom radu na Incredible Hulk-u (Meho ce me ispraviti ako gresim), ali je i jako plodan romanopisac. Isticu se trilogija humoristickih romana Sir Apropos of Nothing, potom Howling Mad, njegov prvi originalni roman (koji nije deo nekog zajednickog sveta) - prica o vuku kojeg je ujeo vukodlak, pa se pretvara u coveka - i svakako Tigerheart.  Darkness of the Light je postapokalipticni fentezi, po premisi slican Bruksovim i Saberhagenovim romanima. Evo sta se na Amazonu moze procitati o njemu:

Bestseller David sets this clever, fast-paced fantasy on the Damned World (formerly Earth), home to a handful of enslaved humans, a greatly feared Overseer and the exiled inhabitants of the Twelve Races. Having nearly destroyed humanity, a variety of strange creatures now battle each other. Jepp, a freed human slave, joins a mixed-race band of scavengers. The king of the Cyclops orders Jepp's group to steal the Orb of Light from the trolls, believing its magic will destroy the bloodsucking vampires who have stolen his niece. Meanwhile, the Overseer investigates why hotstars, the energy source for most of the tech on the Damned World, are fading out. As Jepp discovers her own hidden powers, the Overseer realizes that the Twelve Races must understand humanity's place in their universe or risk annihilation. David (Knight Life) is a master at juggling multiple characters and plot lines—and, in what one hopes is the first in a new series, breathes new life into some well-worn mythic tropes.

Quote from: "nightflier"Piter Dejvid je citaocima stripa poznat to po svom radu na Incredible Hulk-u (Meho ce me ispraviti ako gresim)

Ne grešiš. Spider-man, Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man 2099 i još mnogo drugih stvari. Trenutno piše She-Hulk i X-factor, radio je strpizaciju Kingovog Dark Towera za Marvel, a što se tiče 'čistog' SF-a, radio je nekoliko Star Trek knjiga.

Evo jednog zanimljivog teksta o Torovim debitantima za 2007.

In Tor's most recent newsletter, they had a list of ten recent debuts. Here they are, arranged in release date order and hyperlinked:

Old Man's War by John Scalzi, January 2007 (original release in 2004)
The Outback Stars by Sandra McDonald, April, 2007
Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell, May 2007
KOP by Warren Hammond, June 2007
The Wanderer's Tale by David Bilsborough, July 2007
The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari, August 2007
The Genesis Code by Christopher Forrest, August 2007
Radio Freefall by Matthew Jarpe, August 2007
Spaceman Blues by Brian Francis Slattery, August 2007
God's Demon by Wayne Barlowe, October 2007

Now, because I'm an analyst by occupation and by nature, I thought I'd apply a bit of analysis to this list. We have ten debuts over the course of a year. This rate of debut publication seems highly typical for major publishing houses.

We have nine men and one woman in the list. Now, I'm no feminist, but this appeared to be a large disparity to me. They probably have perfectly good reasons for such a disparity. Maybe they simply didn't have many good submissions by female authors last year. I could analyze this in-depth, but Tor published over 200 books last year, and I have too many unknown variables, so I'll just note it and move on.

My next question to myself was, were any of these authors already established in the SF field before their debut? To answer that question, I had to look at each author in turn.

John Scalzi
Anyone who keeps a speculative fiction blog knows about John Scalzi. According to his bio, he's not a debut author anymore; Old Man's War was first published in 2004. Reading his bio is fascinating anyway, because he serialized several of his novels online before Tor picked them up. So he became published in a rather unorthodox way. Who knows? It may be the way of the future.

Sandra McDonald
I had not yet heard of Sandra McDonald. Her paperback comes out in February, and I'll be getting myself a copy. It looks to be a hoot. Anyway, she seems to have established a name for herself writing short stories before her publication of The Outback Stars.

Tobias Buckell
Prior to his publication, Tobias Buckell was no unknown. He had won the Writers of the Future contest in the fourth quarter of 2000, and he had published short stories as well.

Warren Hammond
Hammond appears to be a complete newcomer to the scene, thus proving that it is still possible.

David Bilsborough
Bilsborough appears to be another complete newcomer. Unlike Hammond however, he appears to maintain absolutely no web presence whatsoever. This is not the first time I've attempted to find him online without success. I just don't understand why any author would shun such an easy and inexpensive way to promote books. Perhaps he is a recluse.

Mark J. Ferrari
I'm pretty familiar with Mark J. Ferrari because I featured The Book of Joby a few months ago. He illustrated covers for major publishers for years. However, I don't think his connections helped him get published, at least not initially. According to his own guest post here at Fantasy Debut, a midsized publisher first picked it up to be published in 2004, but then that publisher canceled his book. However, he used that almost-publication credit to secure an agent, who secured his book deal with Tor. He also advises that you use the "back door" approach whenever possible.

Christopher Forrest
Unforgivably, I completely missed Christopher Forrest's debut in August. It seemed to have gotten buried in all the other Tor debuts of August. Maybe because it is billed as a thriller, I mis-categorized it as non-speculative. However, upon reading the book blurb, it is undoubtedly science fiction, so I'll have to do a regular announcement for it in the next few days. Anyway, Forrest also appears to be a complete newcomer.

Matthew Jarpe
Matthew Jarpe calls his writer's bio a "pathetic display of single mindedless." He has a trunked novel and a trunked movie script, but nothing else. So, he's another newcomer.

Brian Francis Slattery
Brian Francis Slatterly is an almost-newcomer. His bio includes a prestigious win of the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award and one other short piece in addition to his novel, Spaceman Blues. In addition, he is an editor and an author of nonfiction.

Wayne Barlowe
Wayne Barlowe is another illustrator-turned-writer. However, he's been writing since the 70s, when his book Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials, won the Hugo in 1979. He's done covers and illustrations for every major publisher, plus scads of other stuff. Really, you must read his bio for yourself. He cannot be considered an unknown to the field. I've probably seen his paintings at the Orlando Science Center with my own eyes. (Incidently, I have a guest reviewer lined up to review his novel, God's Demon, in the next week or so.)

Of the ten -- going strictly by their own bios -- I count four who had a clean bio upon their debut publication, and six who had bios ranging from a few sales to being a well-known name in the field for reasons other than fiction. If we strike Scalzi off the list because of his Established Author status, then we have 9 debuts this year. (This is making a rather broad assumption that the list includes all Tor's debuts of 2007.)

Tor had a total of 209 books published last year. I obtained this figure by using their search tool, narrowing the search to fantasy (111 books) and then science fiction (98 books). This is a 4.3 percent debut rate.

Over at SFWA, there are 29 "qualifying venues"; i.e. major publishers. Assuming Tor is average, and assuming this was an average year for major publishers, (more broad assumptions to make, I know) then there is an average of 261 debuts per year out of around 6061 novels.

(These figures does not count excellent small press markets like Juno Books, who gets books on shelves from coast to coast but does not qualify for SFWA's "professional" standards.)

And this concludes my analysis of Tor's debut list, for what it's worth.
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A evo sta Kori Doktorov kaze o sf-u za mlade. Mislio sam da bi ovo bilo zanimljivo procitati, zbog poplave sf filmova po romanima namenjenim mladjim narastajima.


Cory Doctorow: Nature's Daredevils: Writing for Young Audiences

I know, at the end of the last column I promised that this issue I'd talk all about Macropayments, but that was before I found out that this was Locus's special young-adult SF issue, and as I happen to be on tour with my first young-adult SF novel, Little Brother, I think I'd better put off Macros for a month a talk a little about what I've learned about writing for young people.

First of all, YA SF is gigantic and invisible. The numbers speak for themselves: a YA bestseller is likely to be moving ten times as many copies as an adult SF title occupying the comparable slot on the grownup list. Like many commercially successful things, YA is largely ignored by the power brokers of the field, rarely showing up on the Hugo ballot (and when was the last time you went to a Golden Duck Award ceremony?). Yet so many of us came into the field through YA, and it's YA SF that will bring the next generation into the fold.

Genre YA fiction has an army of promoters outside of the field: teachers, librarians, and specialist booksellers are keenly aware of the difference the right book can make to the right kid at the right time, and they spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to convince kids to try out a book. Kids are naturals for this, since they really use books as markers of their social identity, so that good books sweep through their social circles like chickenpox epidemics, infecting their language and outlook on life. That's one of the most wonderful things about writing for younger audiences — it matters. We all read for entertainment, no matter how old we are, but kids also read to find out how the world works. They pay keen attention, they argue back. There's a consequentiality to writing for young people that makes it immensely satisfying. You see it when you run into them in person and find out that there are kids who read your book, googled every aspect of it, figured out how to replicate the best bits, and have turned your story into a hobby. We wring our hands a lot about the greying of SF, with good reason. Just have a look around at your regional con, the one you've been going to since you were a teenager, and count how many teenagers are there now. And yet, young people are reading in larger numbers than they have in recent memory. Part of that is surely down to Harry Potter, but on this tour, I've discovered that there's a legion of unsung heroes of the kids-lit revolution.

These are booksellers like Anderson's of Naperville, a suburb of Chicago. Anderson's operates a lovely bookstore, the kind of friendly indie shop that we all have cherished memories of, but that's not the main event. They also have a "book fair" business that is run out of a nearby warehouse. This involves filling trucks with clever, rolling bookcases that snap shut like a cigarette case, each one pre-stocked with carefully curated titles. These are schlepped out to schools across the Midwest, assembled in impromptu school-gym book fairs. This matters. It matters because you don't go to the bookstore until you already know you love books. You need a gateway drug to get you hooked on the harder stuff. Traditionally, this was the non-bookstore retailer, the pharmacy, the supermarket. That was before distributorship consolidation took place in the wake of the rise of national, big-box retailers like Wal*Mart. The contraction in distribution led to a massive reduction in the number of titles stocked outside of bookstores across the land. Even as the bookstores got bigger and more elaborate, the vital induction system of finding the right book on the right spinner rack at the right age was collapsing. We know what happened next: the collapse of the midlist, massive mergers and acquisitions in publishing, the shuttering of many longstanding careers in the field. So when Anderson's pulls up a truck outside your school and puts the books right there, where you can't miss them, it starts to take back that vital territory that we lost 20 years ago, starts to bring kids back into the faith.

Writing for young people is really exciting. As one YA writer told me, "Adolescence is a series of brave, irreversible decisions." One day, you're someone who's never told a lie of consequence; the next day you have, and you can never go back. One day, you're someone who's never done anything noble for a friend, the next day you have, and you can never go back. Is it any wonder that young people experience a camaraderie as intense as combat-buddies? Is it any wonder that the parts of our brain that govern risk-assessment don't fully develop until adulthood? Who would take such brave chances, such existential risks, if she or he had a fully functional risk-assessment system?

So young people live in a world characterized by intense drama, by choices wise and foolish and always brave. This is a book-plotter's dream. Once you realize that your characters are living in this state of heightened consequence, every plot-point acquires moment and import that keeps the pages turning.

The lack of regard for YA fiction in the mainstream isn't an altogether bad thing. There's something to be said for living in a disreputable, ghettoized bohemia (something that old-time SF and comics fans have a keen appreciation for). There's a lot of room for artistic, political and commercial expectation over here in low-stakes land, the same way that there was so much room for experimentation in other ghettos, from hip-hop to roleplaying games to dime-novels. Sure, we're vulnerable to moral panics about corrupting youth (a phenomenon as old as Socrates, and a charge that has been leveled at everything from the waltz to the jukebox), but if you're upsetting that kind of person, you're probably doing something right.

Risk-taking behavior — including ill-advised social, sexual, and substance adventures — are characteristic of youth itself, so it's natural that anything that co-occurs with youth, like SF or TV or video games, will carry the blame for them. However, the frightened and easily offended are doing a better job than they ever have of collapsing the horizons of young people, denying them the pleasures of gathering in public or online for fear of meteor-strike-rare lurid pedophile bogeymen, or on the pretense of fighting gangs or school shootings or some other tabloid horror. Literature may be the last escape available to young people today. It's an honor to be writing for them.

Uf, vracam se na ovu temu nakon jako dugo vremena za internetske pojmove. Najpre sam se razboleo, pa mi se pokvario racunar, pa mi se opet pokvario racunar... i tako. Ranije sam obecao na BEST OV DE BEST temi da cu prozboriti koju o podzanrovima romantic fantasy i paranormal romances. REsio sam da to premestim ovde, posto ona tema u naslovu ima 2007. godinu. Dakle, za pocetak:

Nightflier's BEST OV DE BEST Romantic Fantasy

Sredinom osamdesetih godina pojavio se izvestan broj novih autora - uglavnom spisateljica - koji su uvideli potrebu za novim vidjenjem epske fantastike, potpuno drugacijim od tada dominantnih "romana potrage". Protagonisti tih novih romana obicno pocinju kao otpadnici i usamljenici, ali vremenom bivaju prihvaceni od strane drustva i zadobijajaju prestizne drustvene polozaje, obicno u organizacijama koje podsticu duh zajednistva, a za cilj imaju zastitu obicnog sveta. Za romanticnu fantastiku specificno je da obicno nema stvorenja iz spisateljske tradicije nadahnute Tolkinovim delima, vec ljudi svet dele najcesce sa inteligentnim zivotinjama ili duhovima koji poprimaju zivotinjski oblik. Interakcija coveka i prirode jako je naglasena, kao i potreba za ocuvanjem prirodnih bogatstava. U ovom podzanru i magija se razlikuje u odnosu na tzv. visoku fantastiku: nema bradatih carobnjaka, niti je retka. Obicno je blisko povezana sa prirodnim svetom i elementima, a cesto se ispoljava u vidu licnog dara koji se nagonski koristi, kao disanje ili hodanje.

Najznacajniji autori i tipicni naslovi:

Mercedes Lackey, serijal Heralds of Valdemar i njegovi spin-ofovi.

Diane Duane, The Door into Fire i nastavci.

Kristen Britain, za sada trilogija Green Rider.

Tamora Pierce (meni omiljena), Song of the Lioness i potonji serijali.

Nije lose. Iako nisam neki ljubitelj romanticnog fatasy-ja, mogu preporucit' jos recimo rhapsody trilogiju od Elizabeth Haydon.

Hajdonova bas i nije tipican predstavnik ovog podzanra. Ona ipak prica jednu u osnovi epsku pricu - mada na relativno smotan nacin. Stoji da njeni romani imaju elemenata romantic fantasy-a, ali ne dovoljno da bi je to neporecivo svrstalo u ovaj podzanr. Inace, malo cu se kasnije pozabavii podzanrom supernatural romance, posto je tu doslo do nekih raslojavanja, pa moram da se obsetim gradiva...

E, ovako, pokusacu da ovo napisem iz delova... Koliko mogu da sagledam, podzanr supernatural romance uslovno govoreci moze da se podeli na tri grube celine. Prva je ona najstarija, vec tradicionalna, koja pocinje od Vampirskih hronika En Rajs. Mada Rajsova zapravo ne pise u ovom podzanru, njeno vidjenje vampira - za razliku od originalnije Nensi Kolins - bilo je presudno za nastanak podzanra. Elem, ova prva grupa romana namenjena je zrelijoj citalackoj publici, odnosno zenama starijim od dvadesete-dvadeset pete godine. Necu se upustati u dublju ananalizu, vec cu samo nabrojati najvaznije autore.

1. Lorel K. Hamilton - Hamiltonova je svakako kraljica natprirodne romantike. S pocetka karijere jako originalan pisac, u urbanu fantastiku unela je veliki broj elemenata koji se danas uzimaju zdravo za gotovo i bez kojih se dobar roman urbane fantastike ne moze ni zamisliti. Da nije bilo nje, ne bi bilo ni Bucera, Harisonove - pa ni Stefani Mejer i Meg Kebot. Magnum Opus Lorel Hamilton svakako je ciklus romana o Aniti Blejk, lovcu na vampire (prvi deo kod nas je objavila Carobna knjiga), koji od negde devete knjige belezi nagli pad kvaliteta i iz prve kategorije - okrenute zahtevnijim citaocima - bezi ne u drugu, vec u sasvim levu kategoriju, koju cemo, u nedostatku bolje ideje, nazvati vampirskim pornicima. U svakom slucaju, prvih devet romana o AB obavezno su stivo za ljubitelje ovog podzanra, ako ni zbog cega drugog, a ono zbog toga sto se jos nije pojavio motiv, a da ga Hamiltonova nije obradila.

2. Tanya Huff  - Hafova je posle Hamiltonke najznacajniji autor ovog podzanra, mada se nije ogranicila samo na vampire. Njen serijal Blood Ties uspesno je ekranizovan i jedno vreme je izmedju nje i Lorel Hamilton bila mrtva trka, koju je Hamiltonova dobila na kraju, samo da bi ostala bez titule jer je dopustila da se njeni problemi iz kreveta prenesu na njene likove.

3. Charlaine Harris - verovatno Hamiltonkina smena na tronu. Autorka romana o Suki Stekhaus proslavila se toliko da je njena junakinja dobila i svoju seriju, koja ce sa emitovanjem poceti od jeseni. Ne tako originalna kao Lorel Hamilton, svoj uspeh duguje pre svega odlivu fanova, razocaranih onim sto je Hamiltonova napravila od svog serijala.

4. P. N. Elrod - Patrisa Nid Elrod manje je uticajna od Hamiltonove, mada je zanatski boji pisac, koji bezi od bravura u pokusaju i ima konzistentan stil pripovedanja. Zanimljivo je da je najveci uspeh dozivela ne kao romanopisac - iako ima dvadesetak objavljenih romana - vec kao urednik. U dve zbirke, My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding iz 2006. i My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon iz 2008. u kojima predstavlja trenutno najznacajnije pisce podzanrova urbane i romanticne fantastike. Njeni romani, iako sasvim zadovoljavajuci, komotno se mogu propustiti, ali zbirke nikako.


Sad, ima tu jos milion spisateljica, ali ove cetiri nekako pruzaju najbolji presek podzanra. Naredna kategorija su vampirski ljubici, karakteristicna po tome sto se vise razmenjuju bele i providne telesne tecnosti, nego ona crvena...

Nisam bas velik' poznavalac romanticnog fantazija, tako da mi ovaj tvoj post dosta objasnjava neke stvari.  :wink: Jedino jos sto sam procitao (sem En Rajs) a da lici na neki romanticni fantazi jeste Kushiel serijal od Jacqueline Carey. Mada to meni lici vise na erotski fantazi  :lol:  :lol:

Pa, ono što se danas naziva "romance" u sebi ima dosta erotike, i dobro je ako se ne sroza na niže od toga.

@Perin

Brkas pojmove. Romantic fantasy nije romantic zbog romantike, vec zbog romantizma. Kao knjizevni pravac, kapiras? To "romantic" odnosi se na vidjenje sveta, a ne seksualnih odnosa.

O-o-o...now I get it. Sorry :x  :x

Inace, Huga je ove godine dobio   roman The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon (HarperCollins; Fourth Estate), sto se i moglo ocekivati. Stoji mi na polici i tuzno me gleda, pa cu ga valjda procitati ovih dana, kada zavrsim petu i sedmu Eriksonovu knjigu o Malaskom carstvu. Cim procitam, prenosim utiske.

petu i sedmu?!  :shock:

Aha. Erikson ima dva pripovedacka toka i naizmenicno im posvecuje po citav roman, tako da su u paru isla cetvrta i sesta. Mda, ima nagovestaja da ce u sedmoj knjizi spojjiti price - bar u nekoj meri.

Blizim se kraju pete knjige Malazana i ne mogu da se nadivim Eriksonovoj sjajnoj prozi i velicanstvenoj kritici savremenog drustva i "predvodnika slobodnog sveta" koju je zamaskirao kao fantastiku. Evo jednog citata:"Such dark moments in Letherii history were systematically disregarded, she knew, and played virtually no role in their culture's vision of itself as bringers of progress, deliverers of freedom from the fetters of primitive ways of living, the cruel traditions and vicious rituals. Liberators, then, destined to wrest from savage tyrants their repressed victims, in the name of civilization. That the Letherii then imposed their own rules of oppression was rarely acknowledged. There was, after all, but one road to success and fulfilment, gold-cobbled and maintained by Letherii toll-collectors, and only the free could walk it."

Neke nove izdavacke vesti: Nazalost, Konan u izdanju IPS-a nece skoro, posto Hauardova zaduzbina - vlasnik prava - jos nije poslala originale za prevod. Dobre vesti su da je Narodna knjiga konacno objavila poslednji naslov u trilogiji Old Kingdom - Abhorsen. Niks je, inace, jedan od najoriginalnijih fentezi pisaca danasnjice.

malo pitanje za Nightfliera, zasto Tor vise ne salje e-knjige? nesto nisam bas pratio pa mi je to promaklo ili mozda gresim pa nesto nisam uradio i ja ih sada ne primam iako oni salju?

Quote from: "nightflier"Neke nove izdavacke vesti: Nazalost, Konan u izdanju IPS-a nece skoro, posto Hauardova zaduzbina - vlasnik prava - jos nije poslala originale za prevod.

Zasto je potrebno da zaduzbina salje originale za prevod, i kakve to originale uopste?

@gargamel

Ta akcija je zavrsena. Njen cilj je bila promocija novog Torovog sajta, na kojem se i dalje mogu naci razne besplatne gudiz. Na primer, u poslednjem njuz leter, obavestili su me da na sajtu moze da se nadje novela smestena u svet Guldovog "Skakaca". Ako si bio pretplatnik u "Watch the Skies", trebalo bi da ti i dalje stizu obavestenja.

@Marlou

Hauardova zaduzbina je vlasnik prava na Konana, a potrebno je da posalju knjige da bi prevodilac imao iz cega da prevodi.

Quote from: "nightflier"Neke nove izdavacke vesti: Nazalost, Konan u izdanju IPS-a nece skoro, posto Hauardova zaduzbina - vlasnik prava - jos nije poslala originale za prevod. Dobre vesti su da je Narodna knjiga konacno objavila poslednji naslov u trilogiji Old Kingdom - Abhorsen. Niks je, inace, jedan od najoriginalnijih fentezi pisaca danasnjice.

Kad reče "Narodna knjiga"...
Jel ima neko spisak fantastike u njihovim izdanjima? Toga ima, čak prilično puno...

Ima jako puno, zapravo. Problem je u tome sto im je to rasuto po milion edicija koje jedna sa drugom nemaju nikakve veze. Na primer, dva romana Lijan Hern o Otoriju bacili su u neku ediciju savremene proze, pa ih bibliotekari turaju u australijsku knjizevnost, a ne grupisu sa ostalom fantastikom - sto je, inace, praksa u bibliotekama, jer se fantastika jako cita i trazi.

QuoteKad reče "Narodna knjiga"...
Jel ima neko spisak fantastike u njihovim izdanjima? Toga ima, čak prilično puno...

To niko ne zna, mogu da ti potpisem.
Sam bog zna sta je sve od domacih pisaca fantastike objavljeno u ediciji Alfa. Stalno otkrivam neke nove. Mislim da ni oni sami ne znaju.
A da ne govorim sto u razlicite edicije trpaju sve sto stignu...

Kad smo vec kod Narodne knjige, da li iko mozda zna da li ce narodna knjiga izdati 3 dio prica o otoriju? Posto sam skoro naisao na prva dva dela (ne bi ni skontao da su prva dva sa obzirom da je across nightingale floor preveden kao mac tisine) u izdanju Mladinske knjige, pa sam se zbunio, da li je to narodna knjiga izgubila prava na izdavanje Tales of the Otori?

Cekaj, izdanje Mladinske knjige na srpskom? Mada, ne bi me cudilo da su izgubili prava, kao sa Poterom. Narodna knjiga je u poslednje vreme u poteskocama.

Zavrsio sam sedmu knjigu Malazana - Reaper's Gale - i nemam reci. Mada me je Erikson malo razocarao sto su njegovi romani postali porpiste epskih sukoba a protagonisti od reda bogovi i superheroji, ipak se nije razvodnio kao Dzordan ili upleo u sopstvenu pricu kao Martin. Malazan je i dalje svez i iznenadjujuci i u sedmoj knjizi uzbudjenje nije nista manje nego u sestoj. Doduse, Erikson se u petoj i sedmoj knjizi prepustio pomalo lirskom stilu pripovedanja, povremeno ostro kritikujuci temelje zapadne civilizacije, ali ova drustvena angazovanost ni u jednom trenutku ne smeta klupku da se odvija. Oni koji nisu pratili ranije romane nemaju sta da traze sa ovim. Prvi - Meseceve vrtove - preveo sam pre nekoliko godina, a sve ostale sam procitao po nekoliko puta, pa sam opet mestimice zbunjen mnostvom likova, sto starih - kojih je sve manje - sto novih, koji su sve ludji neverovatniji. Navescu kao primer samo neupokojenu lopovku, koja u sebi ima parazita sto je tera na neumereno upraznjavanje seksualnih odnosa. Vec sam narucio9 osmu knjigu, koja izlazi za desetak dana.

Pocetkom godine procitao sam prva 2 Malazana i moram priznati da su mnogo bolje no sto sam ocekivao. U medjuvremenu nabavio sam i ostalih 5 pa ce i one uskoro doci na red. Nego, jesi li citao Ian Cameron Esslemont-a?

Night of Knives mi vec duze vreme stoji na polici, ali ne volim prikvele, da budem iskren. Medjutim, posto me je Erikson zagolicao kada je o Grimiznoj strazi rec, a Eslemont 2009. objavljuje REturn of the Crison Guard, mislim da cu je vec koliko sutra uzeti u sake. Posatavljam ovde utiske cim zavrsim sa citanjem.

@nightflier: Da, Mladinska knjiga, na srpskom (mada nemam pojma cija je to izdavacka kuca, da li je srpska, hrvatska, bosanska, ali 'ajde da kazemo - na balkanskom:D). Kazem, nisam zavirio unutar knjige, ali po naslovu prvog dela sumnjam da je prevod dobar. A i poskupe su. Svaki dio po 34km. Puno brate. Ja sam od narodne knjige prva dva dela kupio za 30km. Steta sto im site ne radi, znam da su u veliki problemima i da su skoro pred bankrotom, ali bas bi bio bed kad ne bi izdali i 3 deo, ako ne i prikvel i sikvel....:D

Upravo sam zavrsio Sunrise Lands i spremam se da pocnem Scourge of God. Naravno, rec je o mom omiljenom piscu u poslednje vreme - S. M. Stirlingu. Na ovoj i drugim temama vec sam ga hvalio, pa necu vise gnjaviti o njemu, sem da istaknem kako je u ovoj cetvrtoj knjizi Dies the Fire ciklusa jos vise otisao u sajens fentezi nego ranije - a i pomenucu jednu zanimljivost. Naime, Stirling je clan spisateljske grupe, koja - sem njega - ukljucuje sledece autore: Melinda Snodgrass, Daniel Abraham, Emily Mah, Terry England, George R.R. Martin, Walter Jon Williams, Jan Stirling and Ian Tregellis, a svi zajedno su Critical Mass. Moram reci da je ovo jako talentovana skupinica ljudi i da nije ni cudo sto je rec o nekima od najoriginalnijih autora danasnjice, kada imaju medjusobnu podrsku.

Laguna je objavila Cuvare zapada, prvu knjigu Malorijade.

QuoteNew story by Elizabeth Bear

Newly-published on Tor.com is "The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder," an original contemporary fantasy story by Elizabeth Bear, illustrated by Brad Holland.

Elizabeth Bear is a phenomenon, one of the great new talents of modern fantasy and SF. Since her first appearance in professional print in 2003, she has published eleven solo novels (Hammered, Scardown, Worldwired, Blood and Iron, Whiskey and Water, Ink and Steel, Hell and Earth, Dust, Carnival, New Amsterdam, and Undertow), one novel in collaboration with Sarah Monette (A Companion to Wolves), and a story collection (The Chains You Refuse). A twelfth solo novel, All the Windwracked Stars, is forthcoming in November; in a starred review, Publishers Weekly hailed it as "rewarding and compelling." She has worked as a reporter, a typesetter, and a stablehand. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005, and just last month her story "Tideline" won the Hugo Award for best short story of the year.

QuoteNew giveaway e-books

More details next week--but yes, we plan to resume giving away selected e-books on Tor.com, at least one title per month. To download them you'll need to not just visit Tor.com but register as a user; the downloads won't be accessible until you do. Registering on the site takes maybe thirty seconds if you type particularly slowly...so Act Now, Act Without Thinking, get over to Tor.com and create yourself a user account today.

More original fiction and comics to come

Also coming in September on Tor.com: An all-new story by Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Terry Bisson, "Catch 'Em In the Act." New "A Softer World" strips by Joel Comeau and Emily Horne. The launch of another strip series about which we'll be trickling out maddening hints as the month goes on. Bloggage, commentage, and conversationage by multiple notable SF personalities, including, of course, you. Check the place out.

Dobio sam neke od knjiga o kojima je ovde bilo reci:

1. Terror - Simmonsa
2. Majkl Čabon - Yiddish Policemen's Union (sad već ima i Huga i Nebulu)
3. Iron Council - China Mieville

ali i par romana sasvim friških, iz 2008:
1. Paul Auster - Man in the Dark
2. Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World.

Ovaj potonji, delo Le Kareovog sina, čini se zanimljivim...

//www.goneawayworld.co.uk

Pre nego sto pocnes Iron Council, valjalo bi da procitas Stanicu Perdido. Imas je u prevodu Mirjane Zivkvic a u izdanju Moci knjige - mada je verovatno skuplja nego izdanje na engleskom.

Procitao sam Perdido Station u prevodu...
Nije lose, mada pomalo razvuceno pred kraj... Coveka ocigledno placaju po broju reci... Kako sam stariji sve više mrzim debele knjige. Terror ima zastrašujućih 930 strana, The Gone-Away World 530, veceg formata... Užas...

Jesi li konačno pročitao Čabona? Ni njegovih 400 nije malo...

Nisam. Predsajamska je sezona, a ja sam do guse u prevodima zbog havarije racunara od pre neku sedmicu. Izgubio sam puno uradjenog posla, pa sad to moram da nadoknadim. Ugrabicu malo vremena tokom naredne sedmice.

Perdido me poprilicno odusevio, posebno pred kraj :) Bacio sam pogled na prevod i delovao mi je kao nesto sto je apsolutno unakazilo roman. Ako vec imas takvo misljenje o Perdidu nemoj ni pocinjati Iron Council, a ako si se nameracio ne bi bilo lose da prvo procitas Scar.
Sto se tice Simonsa evo ga Teror na polici, ali ove godine procitao sam Ilium i Olympos te mi je pun ... Simonsa za 2008.  :x
Inace Gone Away World stvarno deluje zanimljivo, verovatno zbog nindji.

Možda nisam bio jasan. Ja sam staro džangrizalo, pa samo navodim loše stvari, a ne i ono što mi se sviđa. A Perdido mi se prilično svideo - jedan je od najboljih SF romana koje sam čitao poslednjih desetak godina. Ipak, voleo bih da je kraći. Mislim da je sve ono što je rečeno u romanu moglo biti mnogo efektnije da je pisac malo racionalizovao reči.

Ako je verovati Skrobonji, a ja mu verujem, Terror ne liči na Simmonsove poslednje romane, koje zaista nisam imao hrabrosti ni da počnem da čitam.

Hmmm, mozda, ali ipak cu sacekati januar da procitam Teror.
U svakom slucaju procitaj prvo Scar pa Iron Council, postoji tu, doduse prilicno labava, hronologija, samo budi upozoren da i Scar i Council pate od viska minimum 100 strana. Mada, morao je negde da se strpa marksizam, a on je, uglavnom, kapitalan.

Uh, znači sad treba prvo nabaviti Scar... Ionako nisam nameravao da počinjem pre zimovanja...

Imam ja, samo je trenutno u jednoj od 20-ak kutija koje cekaju da zavrsim sa preseljenjem. Ali do zime knjige ce se vratiti u moje okrilje pa cu ti rado uzajmiti.

Oto je nedavno pisao o Simonsu u Huperu. Kaže da je Terror odličan.

Tor ponovo poklanja knjige. Besplatno se mogu preuzeti War for the Oaks by Emma Bull i Dogland by Will Shetterly.

DA se manemo malo fentezija - urbanog, romanticnog i epskog - i zaplovimo u sf vode. Jedan od najprodavanijih sf pisaca u poslednjih dvadeset godina - a svojevrstan izopstenik iz zanra, posto nikada nije bio ni nominovan za neku od glavnih nagrada, koliko ja znam - Dejvid Veber, krajem ovog meseca objavljuje Worlds of Weber, antologiju novela smestenih u njegove sf i fentezi svetove. Da stvari budu jos sladje, na prolece sledece godine dolazi nam novi nastavak sage o Onor Hamilton. Zapravo, nastavak spin-of serijala koji je zapocet sa Shadows of Saganami. Za militari spejs operu Veber je muska Lois Makamaster Bizo, a inace je jedan od mojih omiljenih pisaca. Svima preporucujem.

Izdavacka kuca IPS najverovatnije pocetkom naredne godine objavljuje prvi roman o Hariju Drezdenu, americkog pisca Dzima Bucera - a u prevodu khm, khm...

NE MOGU DA VERUJEM!!!!! covece, ako si ti izganjao ovo, ako ikad dodjes u BL ili ak' ja budem u BG-u, castim druze!!! SVAKA CAST!!!!

Obicno - mada ne uvek - ali obicno kada prevodim fentezi, prevodim po svojim preporukama izdavacu. Kao Sendersona, npr.

Svaka cast, kazem ti. Ovo je skroz dobar potez (iako ima masa knjiga u serijalu) ali sam serijal drzi paznju i jedan mi je od omiljenih serijala. Samo da u godini izdaju barem po 2 knjige iz serijala, to bi bilo predobro!!!

Jedno pitanje za sve prevodioce i ljude iz izdavackih kuca: Da li postoji ikakva sansa da se kod nas izda nesto od Star Wars knjiga? Znam da ih ima mnogo, (ja ih sam imam preko 200 na kompu) ali bilo i super. Recimo Thrawn trilogija?

Ne, ne verujem. Mislim da to nikako ne bi bio isplativ potez. Pre ce se pojaviti Salvatore, kada se pojavi i neki izdavac koji je u stanju da resi problem prava.

Quote from: "nightflier"Izdavacka kuca IPS najverovatnije pocetkom naredne godine objavljuje prvi roman o Hariju Drezdenu, americkog pisca Dzima Bucera - a u prevodu khm, khm...

Vjerovatno planirate da objavite i nastavke "Neuromancer"-a? Da li je poznat bar okviran datum?

Ne znam da li se planira ostatak trilogije - u IPS-u nisam urednik, vec samo prevodilac. Znam da Sale Markovic prevodi poslednji Gibsonov roman, ali ne znam kada ce ga zavrsiti.

IPS objavljuje najnovije romane Terija Bruksa - prikvele za ciklus Sanara. Prvi roman se ocekuje do kraja godine. IPS takodje namerava da objavi niz antologija fantasticne proze. O tome detaljnije za jedno sedam dana. Sem najavljenog serijala o Hariju Drezdenu, u pripremi je i nekoliko fantazijskih romana namenjenih tinejdzerima i mladjoj publici. Po recima urednika, IPS namerava da paznju posveti i sf-u, tako da mozemo ocekivati nove naslove najverovatnije pocetkom naredne godine.

Meni se nimalo više ne čita išta od Terija Bruksa.

Ni meni. Nikad ga nisam voleo. Ali ima ljudi koji vole da ga citaju. Zato ce one antologije biti prava poslastica. Jos ne smem da pricam o cemu je rec, ali je sjajan izbor kako sf=a, tako i fentezija. Predlozio sam juce uredniku da oformi zasebnu ediciju sa jednim grafickim identitetom, pa da svih pet antologija objavi u jednoj ediciji.

Akhem... Skrenuta mi je paznja u jednom mejlu da nije u redu sto koristim ZS i tolkien.rs kao "svoj blog", te da ova tema zapravo "nikoga ne zanima". Izvinjavam se ako sam gnjavio clanove - nije mi bila namera. Ubuduce cu sve objave i najave, kao i komentare objavljivati na nekakvome blogu (u nastajanju), a ovde cu postovati samo obavestenja o novostima na blogu. Moze? Inace, ova tema je nastala iz ciste samoodbrane, posto mi je stizalo na desetine mejlova svakog meseca, koji se svode na "Sta ima novo od knjiga? Sta da citam?"

Ne znam ko ti je to skrenuo paznju ali cini mi se da broj strana na ovoj temi dovoljno pokazuje da ima ljudi koje ovo i te kako zanima. Nastavi po starom a ako se nastavi sa skretanjem paznje i sa konstatacijama da nikoga ne zanima, onda onaj koga ne zanima slobodno neka preskoci temu. Ono sto mene ne zanima ja ne citam. A ovo citam stalno.

ne obaziri se na takve tlapnje.

mada MENE uglavnom ne zanimaju knjige o kojima ovde govoriš, mislim da su tvoji postovi dragoceni za one (brojnije) koje zanimaju.
dakle, nastavi ovde, a blog to ne isključuje.

Quote from: "nightflier"Akhem... Skrenuta mi je paznja u jednom mejlu da nije u redu sto koristim ZS i tolkien.rs kao "svoj blog", te da ova tema zapravo "nikoga ne zanima".

Nemoj da ti padne na pamet da slušaš pametnjakoviće.
Svako piše šta želi, a svako čita šta želi; ne vidim kako stvari mogu biti poštenije.
Blogovi imaju tu manu da vremenom potonu, a topik se uvek nanovo može vaskrsavati i uvek se nanovo mogu naći novi sagovornici.

Taj što ti je to rekao nije dobronameran. Zato, molim te, nastavi. Za mene je ovo jedan od najzanimljivijih topika...

Baš me zanima ko je taj drkadžija koji nema muda da javno iznese svoje mišljenje.

Ovo je jedna od tema koje prvo posetim kad god dodjem na sajt. Smatram je jednom od najkorisnijih i ne vidim zasto bih morao da obilazim 5 razlicitih sajtova da bih sakupio podatke o onom sto me zanima. So, keep up the good work...

What all the people said...

Bezveznjaci! Ovaj topik je baš interesantan, na neposredan način saznajemo novosti + imamo priliku dobijemo običan prikaz bez visokoumnih naklapanja. Onako, baš s merakom ga čitam   :wink:

da... molim ljude koji imaju svoje forume i koji moderiraju svoje diskusije da ne dolaze ovde i uče mene i nas koji ovde učestvujemo kako treba da se ponašamo, o ćemu i na koji način pišemo.
Sve što važi za ostale forume, ovde ne važi, dakle, oftopičarenje i lutanje od teme poželjno, spontani razgovori gdegod nas tema odvede takođe, gotovo potpuna sloboda u stavovima i izražavanju svakako.
Znak sagite je prostrana livada na kojoj zajedno bujaju i sekvoje i korov, a drvoseče i kosačice nemaju pristup.
Neka se na drugim mestima prave uređene bašte i drvorede i maslinjaci, ovde su predviđeni nesputani prirodni rast i razvoj...

Samo nastavi, flajeru, koga ovaj topik ne zanima može jednostavno da ga ne čita.

Quote from: "Boban"da... molim ljude koji imaju svoje forume i koji moderiraju svoje diskusije da ne dolaze ovde i uče mene i nas koji ovde učestvujemo kako treba da se ponašamo, o ćemu i na koji način pišemo.
Sve što važi za ostale forume, ovde ne važi, dakle, oftopičarenje i lutanje od teme poželjno, spontani razgovori gdegod nas tema odvede takođe, gotovo potpuna sloboda u stavovima i izražavanju svakako.Znak sagite je prostrana livada na kojoj zajedno bujaju i sekvoje i korov, a drvoseče i kosačice nemaju pristup.
Neka se na drugim mestima prave uređene bašte i drvorede i maslinjaci, ovde su predviđeni nesputani prirodni rast i razvoj...

...i puna deponija onih koji ne misle isto kao mi ovde!
TAKO TREBA!

ne onih koji ne misle, nego koji pričaju o poželjnosti pedofilije i slične bljuzge.
Nikada nisam rekao da je ovde totalna sloboda, samo da je tolerancija drastično veća nego na drugim mestima.

Pedofilija, nekrofilija, pluvanje po sagovornicima i slicne bljuzge. Da, razumem

K'o sto rece berserker, ovo je jedna od prvih tema koju pogledam kad god dodjem na ZS. Posto sam iz BL i tamo bas i nema velike ponude manje poznatih izdavackih kuca iz Srbije (u osnovi imaju samo masu laguninih i alnarijevih knjiga), ova tema mi dodje kao pravi informativni centar  :wink:  Nikad sam ne bi znao da ce se izdati Witcher, Mistborn ili Dresden Files, zato pusti sta drugi pricaju i keep it up!

Quote from: "nightflier"Akhem... Skrenuta mi je paznja u jednom mejlu da nije u redu sto koristim ZS i tolkien.rs kao "svoj blog", te da ova tema zapravo "nikoga ne zanima".

Razmisli da li ti je ta osoba drugar - i piši, k'o do sada!!

Još bolje, objavi njegove podatke ovde da krenemo da se malo družimo s njim.

Quote from: "Boban"Još bolje, objavi njegove podatke ovde da krenemo da se malo družimo s njim.

Ovo je sjajna ideja!

Au, ljudi... ne znam sta da kazem. Nisam ocekivao ovakvu reakciju. Kao sto rekoh, ovu temu pokrenuo sam jer me jako puno ljudi redovno zapitkuje o novim izdanjima - stranim i domacim, pa mi je dojadilo da odgovaram na silne mejlove. A kad mi je skrenuta paznja da na ovoj temi dominiraju moji postovi, pomislio sam da je covek zaista u pravu, pa da zaista krsim nekakvu internet etiku. Nego dobro... Drago mi je sto vas zanima sta imam da kazem, pa da nastavim da pricam...


Posto se zavrsio sajam knjiga - i posto sam promenio dioptriju -  vreme je da se vratim na posao i da se posvetim najpre prevodjenju, a potom i hrpama knjiga koje su mi okruzile krevet, tako da moram da uskacem, mesto da legam kao normalan svet. Knjiga kojoj sam se najvise obradovao je najnoviji roman pisca po imenu Matthew Woodring Stover. Stover je siroj citalackoj publici znan po romanima smestenim u univerzum Star Warsa - koji, naravno, ne vrcaju od originalnosti, ali su sasvim podnosljivi za citanje. Medjutim, kada se dohvatio pisanja svojih romana, nesputanih Lukasovim sizofrenijama, napravio je cudo. Elem, prva dva romana nose naslove Heroes Die i Blade Of Tyshalle. Govore o Kejnu, liku iz futuristickog rijaliti soua. Pomislicete: "Pa, sta sad? Nista narocito." Jeste narocito. Naime, taj rijaliti sou odvija se na planeti koja kao da je iz romana Karla Edvarda Vagnera ili Frica Lajbera. Mracno srednjovekovno drustvo, sa sve vilovnjacima i carobnjacima, u kojem je Kejn - inace sociopata par ekselans - najcrnji i najgrdji placeni ubica, kojeg bi svi zeleli da ubiju, ako nista drugo, a ono radi prestiza. Znaci, Stover u svojim romanima spaja izvanredno naprednu tehnologiju i nauku sa magijom koju recena nauka i tehnologija ne mogu da objasne. Heroes Die i Blade Of Tyshalle govore o razlicitim periodima Kejnovog zivota, a treci roman - Caine Black Knife - predstavlja svojevrsni most izmedju ove dve knjige, Da jos jednom naglasim, rec je o piscu koji me je razgalio kao retko koji. Inace, dok sam citao prva dva romana, u mislima mi je odzvanjalo: "Ovo Boban treba da objavi u ZS!" Zaista, po stilu i nacinu pripovedanja ovaj covek nema ama bas nikakve veze sa Zelaznijem, a opet... Nekako mu je mesto na polici uz serijal o Amberu. Na kraju, kada sam poceo da citam Caine Black Knife, batalio sam nakon pedeset stranica, resen da najpre iznova procitam prva dva.

Sada malo losije vesti... Verovatno ste primetili da na sajmu knjiga nije bilo preterano fantastike. Razlog tome je sto je vecina izdavaca u nekakvim finansijskim poteskocama, pa to koci izdavanje. "Grad Ember", izdavacke kuce Carobna knjiga, pojavice se tek krajem godine - i to ne sve cetiri istovremeno, vec jedna po jedna. IPS ne muce finansije, vec neki krajnje prozaicni razlozi. Prevodilac Witchera zivi u Poljskoj, pa je tek pred sajam dosao da potpise ugovor, a originali Konana jos nisu pristigli iz Amerike. Sa druge strane, videcemo jos Hauardovih dela. U planu je i objavljivanje Solomona Kejna.

Toliko za sada.

Imaš li te knjige o Kejnu u e-izdanju?

Sigurno ih ima da se skinu. Pogledacu, pa cu ti poslati prvu na mej, ako hoces. Proteklih nekoliko dana nisam imao net, a i sada slabo radi. Sibni mi svoj mejl na pm, pa cu ti poslati veceras, cim pronadjem na netu.

Da nije ovaj Grad Svetlosti sa ovogodišnje Sinemanije roman Grad Ember pretočen u knjigu? Originalno ime filma je City of Ember. Kritičarima se donekle sviđa...

Rec je o romanu po kojem je snimljen film - a ako je prevod filma Grad svetlosti, zadavicu izdavaca. Insistirali su da ga prevedem doslovce, sto mi je stvorilo grdnih problema u prevodu. A navodno je distributer tvrsio da ce se film zvati "Grad Ember". Grmph!

Da, htedoh reći "pretočen u film".  :oops:

Možda se distributer popišmanio u poslednjem trenutku. Ja bih zadavio obojicu, čisto za svaki slučaj  :wink:

Ma dobro. Nemam volje da se bakcem oko toga. Zapravo, okrenut sam novim poslovima i jedva cekam da se bacim na nove radne zadatke. Proslavicu Samhain, pa od ponedeljka u nove radne pobede.

U prodaji je novi roman Terija Praceta - Nation. Nation se ne bavi Disksvetom, vec alternativnom planetom Zemljom, u vreme kada je Britanija suvereno vladala svetskim morima. Ovo je, inace, roman za koji ne znam da li cu ga procitati. U poslednje vreme, primetno je da se Pracet zasitio pisanja. Doduse, mozda se samo zasitio Disksveta. Svejedno, u tom paketu stigla mi je i knjizica kojoj sam se vise nadao: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Posto sam pripremio jos nekoliko Gejmanovih klasika, bacicu se sutra na citanje, pa podnosim izvestaj u ponedeljak (ako me bude sluzila veza sa svetom).

Quote from: "angel011"Imaš li te knjige o Kejnu u e-izdanju?

zaista sramotno> zbirka prica o solomonu kejnu je na sajmu mogla da se u platou kupi za 300 din, a mozda im je neki komad i pretekao pa ima u knjizari.
ja kupio jos prosle godine i s poprilicnim uzitkom procitao veci deo.

Ne misli se na Solomona Kejna. A price o Kejnu moci ce da se citaju i na srpskom. Procesljaj prethodne postove.

Inace, napravio sam pauzu u ponovnom iscitavanju romana o Kejnu da bih procitao novi roman u seriji o Meredit Dzentri. Mada u poslednje vreme taj serijal volim vise od onog o Aniti Blejk, sedma knjiga - Swallowing Darkness - na mene je ostavila relativno mlak utisak. Donekle mi se cini da je Hamiltonka ovim romanom zavrsila pricu o Meredit, bar na neko vreme. DA se razumemo, knjizica nije losa - za one koji su se navukli na ciklus, ali Laurel Hamilton odavno nije pisac koji pomera standarde podzanra koji je gotovo svojerucno stvorila (dobro, to bas nije tacno - ali ga je upravo ona ucinila ovoliko popularnim).

Nije završila, biće dalje.

Rekoh "donekle". Roman pocinjem ceznjom glavne junakinje za "krajem kao iz bajke", a zavrsava se upravo takvim krajem.

Nova knjiga iz serijala Dresden Files, Jima Butchera, izlazi u aprilu, 2009-te. Naziv knjige je Turn Coat.

Evo kratkog opisa:

The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council--and there's only one, final punishment for that crime. He's on the run, wants his name cleared, and needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. Someone like Harry Dresden.

Now, Harry must uncover a traitor within the Council, keep a less-than-agreeable Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself. And a single mistake may cost someone his head--someone like Harry.

Jeste, a krajem ovog meseca imacemo priliku da citamo poslednji roman istog autora, a u serijalu Codex Alera, pod naslovom Princep's Fury. Ovaj serijal poceo je manje-vise neslavno, ali svaki naredni roman bivao je drasticno bolji, tako da je serijal sada sasvim lepo stivo.

Da, citao sam nesto u fazonu da je on napravio neki eksperiment sa Codex Alerom. D je on u tom nekom klubu pisaca gde bude za zadatak dobio da napravi fantasy serijal od 2 ideje - od pokemona i rimske legije. A sto se samog serijala tice, nije toliko los - iao mi je klasicni fantasy, dosta lagano i pitko stivo. Narocito me Captain's Fury odusevio.

Da, i mene. Kao sto rekoh, svaki naredni nastavak sve je bolje napisan. To je primetno i u serijalu o Drezdenu. Bucer nikada nece biti spisateljska velicina - ali i ne treba. Bitno je da je zabavan. Inace, bas bih voleo da naprave neki d20 rpg po Codex Alera knjigama. To bi bas bilo zabavno.

Dobro - procitao sam Caine Black Knife, treci nastavak serijala koji sam onoliko hvalio - i razocaran sam. Stover je opet vratio pricu na dogadjaje iz prethodnih knjiga, mesto da napise nesto potpuno sveze. Mada u ovom romanu imamo priliku da vidimo malo vise planete na kojoj se radnja odvija (prethodna dva se zbivaju prakticno u dva grada - jednom na Zemlji i drugum na Owerworldu), to ne menja cinjenica da je pisac propustio priliku da otpocne sasvim novu pricu. Sa druge strane, serijal koji je poceo kao kiberpank/fentezi pretvorio se u stimpank/fentezi. Zarko me zanima kuda ce Stover povesti svoje citaoce u narednim nastavcima (ako ih bude).

Za sve one koji nameravaju da se okusaju sa poslednjim romanom iz sage Malazan - The Book of the Fallen sleduje upozorenje: pripremite se na digresije spram kojh je Robert Dzordan cist diletant koji Eriksonu ne moze ni da pljune pod prozor. Toll the Hounds je, sa svojih 1200 slajfni, najobimniji do sada Eriksonov roman u kojem ovaj konacno pocinje da zatvara krug sto je poceo da se ocrtava u Gardens of the Moon. Medjutim, Erikson je ovoga puta dao toliko oduska svojoj lirskoj strani, da citanje Toll the Hounds iziskuje neverovatnu koncentraciju. Da ilustujem: Gardens of the Moon - cca 700 slajfni - prvi put sam procitao za nesto malo manje od pet sati. Prvih 200 slajfni Toll the Hounds citam vec treci dan - i digao sam ruke. Znaci li to da je ovo los roman? Ne, nikako. Zapravo, ERikson kroji prelepe recenice, kakve se retko vidjaju - a narocito retko u kjekavkoj fantastici dvadeset prvog veka, ali upravo to njegovo insistiranje na jezickim i filozofskim bravurama cini Toll the Hounds jako teskim stivom, koje valja izbegavati ako vam je do opustenog i neobaveznog citanja. Ovo je roman kojem cu se u nekom trenutku vratiti, ali pitanje je kada...

Sve prave ljubiteljke Stefani Mejer da smesta pohitaju i nabave zbirku Prom Nights From Hell. U ovoj antologiji imace prilike da procitaju pricu Hell on Earth, a ima i drugih spisateljica koje bi im se mozda dopale. Sto se mene tice, Kim Harison me je razocarala, a najvise sam se od nje nadao. Inace, namerno nisam stavio ovo na teme o "Sumraku", cisto da vidim da li sumrakinje citaju i druge teme.  :twisted:

No, no , nightflier-u, pa valjda nas ima, usput,njene knjige mi se bas i ne cine bog zna kakvima!   :roll:

Quote from: "Morgana"No, no , nightflier-u, pa valjda nas ima, usput,njene knjige mi se bas i ne cine bog zna kakvima!   :roll:

E, za ovo si zasluzila pice, ako svracas ikad do Beograda. (Ti si bese iz Panceva, je li tako?)

:mrgreen:   Hvala nightflier-u !

De nada.

Cisto da se zna, u Odisejinom izdanju objavljen je nastavak "Amajlije iz Samarkanda", a pod naslovom "Golemovo oko".

Razvrstavam gomilu knjiga pored kreveta, pa rekoh da spomenem sta ima novo: Salvatore je objavio novu knjigu o Drizztu, pod naslovom The Orc King. Roman je pomeren za sto godina u buducnost Forgotten Realmsa - znaci, desava se nakon spellplague koja je oznacila prelazak settinga u 4.0 Ed. NEcem ga citati, posto nemam zivaca da trpim Salvatorea, ali red je bio da pomenem. Ima na gomili i nesto za ljubitelje horora i tako toga: naime, konacno mi je pristigao iz Kanade God's Demon, autora Vejna Barloua. Evo sta kaze Amazon (jos nisam procitao knjigu):

QuoteBest known for extraordinarily imaginative fantasy art, Barlowe (Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials) now sets his talents to writing equally compelling speculative fiction. Inspired by Paradise Lost, Barlowe conjures up the creatures who sided with Lucifer and were ejected from heaven, thrown down into Hell to become freakishly mangled demons. After innumerable eons of exile, the demon Sargatanas has started to dream of being reunited with God. Sargatanas amasses an army to aid him in overthrowing Lucifer's regent, Beelzebub, in an attempt to catch God's eye. In a flash of inspiration, Sargatanas adds human souls to his army, under the direction of Hannibal. Together, human sinners and once-rebellious demons unite to vanquish Beelzebub in an all-out war. Barlowe's interpretation is not for the squeamish, with its horrifically explicit descriptions of demonic behavior, but it's a compelling view of Hell and of a demon who seeks redemption.

Druga knjizica horor tematike je The Throne of Bones Bajana Maknotona.

QuoteImagine earthy Tolkienesque characters in a setting full of cemeteries, graverobbers, necromancers, corpse-eaters--even a huge labyrinthine necropolis. Imagine mephitic gardens where the sarcophage, selenotrope, and necrophilium bloom. Then throw in star-crossed lovers, crazed zealots, stalwart heroes, bloodthirsty renegade armies, hideous monsters, and likeable misfits. You've got just a hint of the wondrous and original visions in the dark fantasy world of Brian McNaughton.

Horror scholar S. T. Joshi, in the afterword to this collection of stories, notes the strong influence of Clark Ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Greco-Roman decadent works such as Petronius's Satyricon. "McNaughton seems to have mastered one of the most difficult of literary arts: to draw upon the classics of the field without losing his own voice.... The world that McNaughton has created in this book is the world of the ghoul; and who knows but that The Throne of Bones will become the standard textbook for the care and feeding of ghouls just as Dracula has become that for vampires?"

Kao sto vidite, spominje se Gul...

Treca knjizica tako malo uvrnute tematike na novoj golili goodies iz Kanade vika se The Graveyard Book. Naravno, rec je o najnovijim cedu Nila Gejmana, sa Makinovim ilustracijama. Rec je o jos jednom hororu za decu, po uzoru na "Koralinu"

QuoteNobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.

He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.

There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.

But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family. . . .

Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.

Nista od ovoga nisam procitao - jos - ali potrudicu se da za koji dan (nedelju, mesec...) to ucinim, pa cu napisati i svoje komentare.

Za sve ljubitelje urbane fantastike - zaobidjite novo remek-delo ovog podzanra, Magic to the Bone. Ocigledno inspirisan romanima Kim Harison, koja je inspirisana romanima Lorel Hamilton, Magic to the Bone ne donosi nista novo, vec samo davi citaoca nategnutim recenicama. U poplavi romana ove tematike, sve je teze pronalaziti pisce koji su objavljeni jer su njihovi romani zabavni, a ne jer izdavacke kuce pokusavaju da zarade jos koji cent. Naravno, ni publika ne pomaze, posto bezocno guta sve sto joj se servira - bar ako je verovati komentarima sa Amazona.

Nove knjige u narednoj godini: sem nastavka serijala o Persiju Dzeksonu, izdavacka kuca Stilos objavice i prvu knjigu serijala za decu Nightmare Academy. IPS najavljuje mnostvo novih naslova - koji ce za sada ostati poslovna tajna, ali nagovesticu da ce se Gulu dopasti neki od njih. Stavise, pominjao ih je na ovoj temi (za one koji prate temu, je li). Inace, juce sam preuzeo prve dve knjige serijala o Hariju Drezdenu. Mozete ih ocekivati pocetkom naredne godine. Kad smo kod Harija, jutros mi je rodjak iz Kanade doneo poslednje dve Bucerove knjige: novi Codex Alera i novelu iz Dresdenversa, ciji je protagonista Harijev vampirski polubrat. To be continued...

Ne znam da li sam spominjao, ali nije zgoreg da ponovim: Alnari je objavio zavrsnicu Mracne kule, kao i Lukjanjenkovu "Nocnu strazu". Ovaj serijal za sada ima cetiri knjige. Videcemo kojim ce ih tempom Alnari objavljivati. Kada je rec o novoj perjanici medjunarodne fantastike, Naomi Novik, Alnari najavljuje skoro izlazenje iz stampe "Prestola od zada", a "Barutni rat" se prevodi.

Kad smo vec kod Alnarija, obratite paznju na romane Nore Roberts, samo pod pseudonimom Dz. D. Rob. Rec je o svojevrsnom kiberpanku. Podnosljivo za citanje.

Oi, nisam cuo za ove novele sa Harijevim polubratom...daj mi nazive da skinem.

Ima jednu novelu - a trenutno mi nije pri ruci. Pogledaj na Amazonu. To mu je sada vec pretposlednja objavljena knjiga.

Tor ponovo deli knjige! Da podsetim sve zainteresovane - mada verovatno dobijaju mejlove od Tora - ova izdavacka kuca svakog meseca poklanja citaocima novi sf ili f naslov. Ovoga meseca rec je o The Buried Pyramid, americke spisateljice Dzejn Lindskold. O njoj sam vec pisao na ovoj temi, pa ne bih da se ponavljam. Roman nisam citao, pa nemam nista pametno da vam kazem do - procitajte.

Quote from: "nightflier"Ima jednu novelu - a trenutno mi nije pri ruci. Pogledaj na Amazonu. To mu je sada vec pretposlednja objavljena knjiga.

Novela se zove Backup, a radjena je u saradnji sa Majkom Minjolom. Protagonista je Harijev brat. Preporucujem i pricu Harrie's Day Off, koja pocinje sesijom DnD-a. Razvalio sam se od smeha.

Znam, procitao sam je, ima 22 strane u pdf-u. 'nako nije lose, pravi Jim Butcher stil ;)

Ova godina je toliko grozna kada je rec o novim naslovima, da sam se vratio starim. U pauzama izmedju poslova (citaj, kada me drma migrena), prelistavam Vagnera, Lajebera, Flinta, Drejka i tako jos neke pisce. Jedna od njih je i Fejt Hanter. Hanterova ja autor za sada trilogije koja potpada pod paranormal romance, valjda, ali sa elementima postapokaliptike. Naime, pojavili su se serafi i zbrisali covecanstvo. 106 godina kasnije, na scenu stupa nasa junakinja. Hanterova lepo pise - daleko bolje od mnogih drugih u zanru i nepravicno je zapostavljena. Doduse, mozda su razlog tome imbecilne korice njenih romana. Da ne bih mnogo tupio (ma, znate da volim da tupim, nego me boli glava), evo sta kaze Amazon:

QuoteAbout a century after devastating plagues and the War between Good and Evil, Earth is in another ice age. Demons and seraphs fight unendingly, as do humans. A host of other unworldly creatures, most with an appetite for humans, add to the general danger. Certain humans are neomages, with the power to use leftover creation energy; kept in luxurious prisons, they use their powers only for the seraphic "government." Neomage Thorn St. Croix had to escape or go mad. Hiding among ordinary humans, she even married. When an attractive policeman appears at her door and tells her she is suspected of abducting her former husband, Thorn has to use her powers to hunt for him, too. Of course, any official who watches her long enough will figure out what she is, which means madness or death for her. Hunter's very professionally executed, tasty blend of dark fantasy, mystery, and romance should please fans of all three genres.

Ne cini se losim, I'll give it a try. Kako se zove roman/trilogija?

Prva knjiga je Bloodring.

Kao sto sam pretio, pokrenuo sam svoj blog. Adresa je http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com. Naravno, necu zapostaviti Sagitu. Ovde ću i dalje najavljivati nove naslove, a na blogu ću se baviti dužim pisanijima. Ko ima volje i vremena, neka me poseti. Za sada nema ničeg preterano bitnog. Samo uvod.

Ko nije primetio, Laguna je najavila novog Fajsta i Simonsa, a premijerno i Kim Harison, najbolju ortakinju Džima Bučera.

Akhem... Mora da sam spominjao onu hrpu mejlova sa pitanjem "Sta da citam?", koji su bili povod pokretanja ove teme. Drugo po ucestalosti bilo je pitanje "Kako da postanem prevodilac?" - pa sam pokusao da na njega odgovorim u svom blogu. Ako vas ne mrzi, bacite pogled. Sad, zamolicu za malu pomoc: Ova tema se pokazala dobrom za krace najave i obavestenja, bez preteranog tupljenja o knjigama koje najavljujem. Da li onda da na blogu detaljnije prikazujem samo jedan po jedan naslov, nesto nalik na tribinu koju je svojevremeno Sale M. drzao u Lazi: "Knjige koje necete citati na srpskom"? O kakvim biste naslovima voleli da citate? Od cega sto sam spominjao na ovoj temi da pocnem?

Hm...sto ne pocnes od one liste sto si sastavio...mislim o piscima iz jednog dela EF-a....tipa urbana fantastika - i predstavis pisca i objasnis radnju njeove najpoznatije knjige/serijala....sem toga, sve ti to brate zavisi od ukusa. Mozes i ovako kao sto si na ovoj temi, samo sa opsirnijim opisima, svom misljenju o delu, kakvim bi se ljudima to delo svidelo...ma sta ti ja znam  :)

Ovde je poenta "nove knjige". Na blogu je poenta "blog o onome što pokriva blog". Da li ti ovo pomaže? :)

Quote from: "mac"Ovde je poenta "nove knjige". Na blogu je poenta "blog o onome što pokriva blog". Da li ti ovo pomaže? :)

Pa ne bas, posto je i poenta bloga da se na ovaj ili onaj nacin bavi knjigama, samo da to ne bude kao ovde, vec malo opsirnije, a i da usput odgovorim ljudima koji su mi preko mejla postavljali neka pitanja, tipa "Kako da postanem prevodilac?" - ako ovo zvuci konfuzno, to je stoga sto sam se upravo probudio, nakon sto sam citave noci senlucio sa Propovednikom i Poslednjim Carstvom.

Laguna je objavila Edingsovog "Kralja Murga". Baš zanimljivo, pošto nije ni bio u najavi za ovaj mesec, a Edings se inače prodaje slabije i sporije od ostalih Laguninih fantastičara. Zanimljivo je i to što su za decembar najavljeni "Mesečevi vrtovi", koje sam svojevremeno u svojstvu urednika u Alnariju odabrao za objavljivanje i preveo, ali je ipak Laguna dobila prava, greškom agenta. Postavlja se pitanje zašto ovoliko čekamo na Eriksona, a pojavljuju se neki drugi naslovi, sasvim nenadano. Da li je moguće da je Erikson baš toliko izazov za prevodioca i lektora da ga cekamo skoro tri godine? Nemojte da me pogrešno shvatite - ja najbolje znam koliko je Erikson težak za prevođenje i nimalo ne potcenjujem rad kolega - ali tri godine za jedan roman?  :x  :x  :x

Bas. Ja evo svaki dan proveravam Lagunin site da vidim ima li vise Eriksona u prodaji, i nista. Mada meni to nema veze sa teskocom prevoda, koliko sa time da jos nikako nisu ispostovali neki rok za izdavanje. Pored Eriksona, kojeg kako ti rece cekamo dugo, ni drugi dio Secanje, Jad i Trn serijala nije izasao ima godina dana. Jos svaki roman dele u 2 dela.

Jel zna neko šta se dešava sa Vorokosiganom? Čekam taj prvi deo već predugo...

Pretpostavljam da su odustali zbog lose prodaje. Cisto da se zna, posto sam ja predlagao Laguni da objavi te romane, insistirao sam da se preskoci pricao Kordeliji i da se odmah objavi "Ratnikov segrt". Ocigledno, nisu me poslusali.

Bezveze...  :(

Inace, u pripremi je novi roman o Vorkosiganima. Za sada se ne zna bas puno, ali verovatno ce svetska premijera biti u Hrvatskoj, kao sto je bio slucaj sa Winterfair Gifts.

A tek to nema logike, da nešto što u Hrvatskoj ima popularnost i svetske premijere ovde ne mož' ni da započne. Doduše, možda grešim u oceni popularnosti srijala u Hrvarskoj...

Serijal je u Hrvatskoj toliko popularan da se o tome govori i na autorkinom sajtu. Saga o Majlsu u Hrvatskoj ima jako odane poklonike. Mislim da razlog neuspeha Majlsa kod nas pre treba traziti u tome sto u tom trenutku nije bio nesto znacajan izdavacu, nego u razlici u trzistu. Inace, na mom blogu o "Nekronomikonu"...

Moram da priznam da sam kupio i procitao prvu knjigu koju je izdala Laguna iz serijala o Barajaru. I uopste mi se nije svidela. Stavise, lici na jeftini ljubavni romancic koji se desava  u svemiru. Prosto mi je bilo neverovatno da neko dobije nagradu za takvu limunadu, a objasnjenja "nije nagrada za tu, nego za kasniju knjigu iz tog serijala" nisu pomogla da je zavolim. Dakle, cini mi se da svakom citaocu SFa knjiga ostavlja isti utisak, osim ako nije u pitanju domacica koja je ispratila sve Kasandre, Ljovisne i Rose Alvahe pa je spremno dohvatila jos jednu spansku seriju koja se desava u svemiru.

Quote from: "berserker"Moram da priznam da sam kupio i procitao prvu knjigu koju je izdala Laguna iz serijala o Barajaru. I uopste mi se nije svidela. Stavise, lici na jeftini ljubavni romancic koji se desava  u svemiru. Prosto mi je bilo neverovatno da neko dobije nagradu za takvu limunadu, a objasnjenja "nije nagrada za tu, nego za kasniju knjigu iz tog serijala" nisu pomogla da je zavolim. Dakle, cini mi se da svakom citaocu SFa knjiga ostavlja isti utisak, osim ako nije u pitanju domacica koja je ispratila sve Kasandre, Ljovisne i Rose Alvahe pa je spremno dohvatila jos jednu spansku seriju koja se desava u svemiru.

Što se mene tiče, jako volim romane o Majlsu Vorkosiganu. Na kraju krajeva, ne bih se zalagao da se ti romani kod nas objave da nije tako. Laguna je grdno pogrešila objavivši najpre te prethodnike, kojima svakako nedostaje šarm kojim glavni ciklus obiluje, naročito potonji delovi serijala. Boban je, naravno, svojevremeno pokazao moć prekognicije tako što je u nekom Monolitu objavio novelu Mountains of Mourning, koja pripada ovom cilusu i koja je, ako se dobro sećam, lepo prihvaćena od strane čitalaca.

Slazem se sa tobom da su pogresili sto nisu startovali sa romanom dobitnikom Huga ili Nebule. Kad bi npr. sad neko pozeleo da startuje sa objavljivanjem Dine na trzistu na kojem je taj serijal nepoznat, pukao bi ako bi krenuo sa onim "prequelima" koje su napisali raznorazni mlatiparci (Kuca Atreida, Kuca Harkonena itd). Najbolji primer: nikad ne preporucujte nekome da cita Silmarilion pre Gospodara prstenova samo zato sto je ta knjiga sa dogadjajima koji hronolski prethode Gospodaru. Taj nece dogurati ni do Hobita, umrece od dosade. Silmarilion citaju samo neizmerni fanovi kojima je rodoslov na kraju Gospodara prstenova najbolji deo knjige... Na isti nacin mislim da je laguna pogresila sto je krenula sa prequelom. Sad je pitanje da li ce dogurati do romana koji je zaista lansirao sagu o Majklu...

Dobro, a kojim redom bi ih trebalo čitati?  :oops:

Mozda bi ih najbolje bilo citati redom kako su pisane. Iil, sto je prilicno zapetljano, poceti sa The Vor Games i par sledecih, a onda se vratiti na Ethana i tako dalje. Ja sam bar tako, pa sam pregurao i prequele kada su dosli na red. Nego, nisam pratio, da li je laguna objavila i Falling Free, ipak je to "ultimativni' prequel...

Ja sam ih čitao redom kojim su napisani. Ko želi da se upozna sa autorkom, a da pri tom ne izdvaja velike novce, na sledećoj adresi može da pronađe novelu Mountains of Mourning, potpuno legalno i besplatno: http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm

@Morgana
Fora sa serijalom je da je glavni lik serijala MAJLS. A Laguna je krenula sa dva romana koji su o tome kako su mu se upoznali mama i tata (Krhotine časti) i kako se Majls rodio (BARAJAR). Tako da serijal zapravo nismo ni dobili, već nekakve — u suštini nepotrebne — razrade dešavanja pominjanih negde u samom serijalu.

Quote from: "Morgana"Dobro, a kojim redom bi ih trebalo čitati?  :oops:

Uvek onim kojim su napisani, bez obzira sta je pisac zeleo da kaze...Za serijal o Vorkosiganu ne mogu pomoci, ako pitas za ove druge, tu mogu...

Hvala, momci! Obzirom na moje godine, poskidala sam knjige od naših zapadnih suseda   :oops:  Može se desiti da ne dočekam Lagunina izdanja istih   :twisted:

Posalji mi na pm odakle, da poskidam za kevu, da ima sta da cita za praznike, plz.

Proveri mail, poslao sam ti...na hrvatskom jeziku su knjige. Bar mislim da je to, to....pisac je Luis MekMaster Bizol, zar ne?

Jesje, a ne mejlu nema ništa.

Stiže... što mi ne posla samo linkove? Ali hvala.

Perine... dugujem ti ogromno izvinjenje. Ja sam sve to već imao!  :x  :cry:  :x  :cry:  :x  :cry: Potpuno sam izlapeo. Baš mi je žao što si se gnjavio, ali svejedno ti dugujem uslugu.

Ma ne dugujes nista, opusteno ;) i ti si meni pomogao sa nekronomikonom, pa smo sad kvit ;)

Posto sam na internetu naletela na par hvalospeva Majlsu, procitala sam i Krhotine casti i Barajar cim su se pojavili kod nas. E sad, knjige su solidne, ali ne mnogo vise od toga. A opet, meni su i Planine oplakivanja (ili kako je vec kod nas prevedeno) solidna, ali ne i ne znam kako dobra prica. Zar je bas tolika razlika u kvalitetu izmedju ovih i drugih knjiga? Ili je samo ljudima Majls zanimljiviji lik od Kordelije?
Meni je Kordelija inace draga kao aktivni zenski lik koji uz to valja trudnocu kroz pola knjige; a mozda je bas to odbilo druge citaoce...

I meni je Kordelija zanimljiv lik, ali tek u potonjim knjigama. Serijal o Vorkosiganima zamišljen je kao svojevrsna spejs opera pomešana sa militeri sf-om, pa ta dva prikvela upravo stoga toliko odskaću od, inače, dinamičnog i sumanutog serijala.

Najtflajeru, znas li mozda kako se razvija stvar sa Konanom?

Ako mislis na buduce IPS-ovo izdanje, prevodilac je juce preuzeo knjigu na prevod. Ako mislis na stripove Belog puta, pitaj Bobana.

Mislim na IPS-ovo izdanje,bilo je pominjano do Nove godine...Nema veze strpljiv sam ja...

@ Perin
moze li i meni link za skidanje Majlsa Vorkosigana? hvala unapred

Brendon Senderson sada piše i sf. Na tor.com može se pročitati i skinuti njegova nova priča, The Firstborn.

U decembru izasla nova knjiga (zbirka prica) poznate spisateljice J.K. Rowling, pod nazivom Tales od beedle the bard. Ne znam 'oce li ovde to koga zanimati, al' reko' cisto da podelim informaciju.

@gargamel: http://rapidshare.com/files/119874005/Lois_McMaster_Bujold.rar

Pass: ibs@crostuff.net

E da....ne znam da li se ovo kosi sa etikom ZS-a, ali prvi deo prince of nothing trilogije, pod nazivom darkness that comes before, ima skinuti na hrvatskom jeziku, u izdanju algoritma. Ova trilogija je jedna od njabolje napisanih EF serijala zadnjih godina, a sam Bejker (pisac) je pravi majstor pera. Inace kanadjanin, mislim cask da je i zavrsio knjizevnost...evo linka do prve knjige:

http://www.4shared.com/file/74331302/3ab01f11/R_Scott_Bakker_Tama_koja_prethodi.html

Decembar nam je doneo pregršt poslastica, taman za doček Nove godine. Sem pomenute nove knjige Dž. K. Rouling, nov naslov ima i Stiven King. REč je o zbirci priča - uglavnom ponovljenih, ali i ta jedna nova vredna je investicije. Za ljubitelje horora tu nije kraj poslasticama. Naime, objavljena je nova mamutska knjiga horora, tačnije The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Nineteen. Spisak autora je impozantan. Izdvojiću samo Gejmana i Smita, ali ima još jakih imena. Na kraju, sledeće izdanjenaročito je zanimljivo za nas na Sagiti:

QuoteH. P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction (Barnes & Noble Oct 2008)

This mammoth tome collects 68 stories, with an appendix including juvenilia and a discarded draft, and essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature". This is the first single-volume collection to include all Lovecraft's fiction, though it excludes his ghostwriting and "revisions." Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi corrected and edited the stories, and supplies an introduction.

AKo mi sve ovo stigne do kraja godine, Nova godina bi trebalo da bude baš užasna.

@ Perin
Hvala

Quote from: "nightflier"Decembar nam je doneo pregršt poslastica...nov naslov ima i Stiven King.

Imam... čitam... stari dobri storyteller.

Kako to da si ti dobio a ja još nisam? Ljubomoran sam. Baš sam na blogu kukao kako ova godina nije donela ama baš ništa novo, a da nešto vredi.

Eos poklanja roman Adama Troja Kastra, pod naslovom Emissaries from the Dead. Reč je o piscu kji je bio nominovan za Huga i Nebulu u kategoriji kratkih priča. Ovo je njegov prvi roman. Nisam ga čitao, ali obećava. Reč je o sf-u, inače.

Quote from: "nightflier"Eos poklanja roman Adama Troja Kastra, pod naslovom Emissaries from the Dead. Reč je o piscu kji je bio nominovan za Huga i Nebulu u kategoriji kratkih priča. Ovo je njegov prvi roman. Nisam ga čitao, ali obećava. Reč je o sf-u, inače.

http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com/E921608B-36E3-4C04-9DF7-E7034C5DE44C/10/125/en/Eos10

Ako se neko izbori sa procedurom (nije komplikovano, nego kod mene nešto neće), nek okači pdf ovde. Hvala!

Ovo sa Eosa važi samo za stanovnike SAD. Jel neko to već skinuo? Neću da im dajem svoj e-mail, čak i pravu adresu, da bi mi rekli da nema besplatne knjige za mene.

Skinuo sam ja, samo me provajder nešto zeza, pa mi aploud ne radi najbolje. Pokušaću kasnije.

Čarobna knjiga objavila je "Brisingr", treći nastavak u serijalu o Eragonu.

evo sad sam bio na sajtu Algoritma, i ako nekoga zanima, u pripremi imaju:

NAJMRAČNIJA CESTA  - Guy Gavriel Kay
MASLAČKOVO VINO  - Ray Bradbury
LUTAJUĆI PLAM  - Guy Gavriel Kay
Prvih 6 knjiga o Darrenu Shan-u - Darren Shan
KUSHIELOVA STRIJELA - Jacqueline Carey
GROZNIČAVI SAN  - George R. R. Martin
ANANSIJEVI DEČKI  - Neil Gaiman

E sad...ako je neko iz Hrvatske ili ako ima mogucnost da si naruci knjige, onda super. Ako nije, onda...all i can say is - welcome to the club
:x  :x

Čemu lamentiranje? Keja objavljuje Laguna, Martinov Fever Dream takođe namerava da objavi, A "Anansijeve momke" su objavili, ako se ne varam. Šana je objavila Narodna knjiga (po bezobrazno visokoj ceni), a Kerijeva može i da sačeka. Tu jedino vredi kukati nad Bredberijem.

U pravu si za "Anansijeve momke", objavili su ih.

Ma Gejmena nesto ne volim, Shana isto tako, ali Kushiel's Dart nije toliko losa knjiga/trilogija...nisam znao za fever dream...Kej mi je odlican pisac, ali malkice smara sa opisima, ako cemo iskreno.Njegove knjige cu kupiti sigurno, tj. vec sam kupio jedrenje u Sarantiju. Mada jedva cekam Tiganiu, to mi je njegovo najbolje delo. I da. Zar nije logicnije bilo prevesti Jedrenje ka Sarantiji, nego u Sarantiju, moze doci do zabune - Jedrenje u Sarantiju (kao tamo u Sarantiji) i jedrenje u Sarantiju (prema Sarantiji). Ipak je originalni naslov Sailing to Sarantium...znaci prema, ka Sarantiji. Mislim, prevod je ekstra odradjen, ali mi nekako naslov bas bode oci.

Ne kažem da je to loš serijal - koji je prerastao trilogiju - samo što po mom ukusu ima boljih. Pozabaviću se time na blogu koliko u ponedeljak. Sada radim na sređivanju nekog prevoda.

Maslačkovo vino je objavio kod nas Solaris.

Quote from: "smrklja"Maslačkovo vino je objavio kod nas Solaris.

Eto, rešen problem. A čuo sam da neko planira da objavi Kerijevu, mada ne mogu da setim ko ni za živu glavu.

Great! Nego, kad vec tako imas informacija, dal' se mozda u Srbiji planira izdat' Prince of Nothing trilogija od Bejkera kojeg sam vec pominjao ovde? Ima kupit' ovde prvi dio na Hrvatskom, ali je 56 maraka, a to mi je puno dati za jedan dio.

Bejkera izdaje Mono i Manjana. Objavili su dva romana, odnosno jedan iz dva dela. Pretpostavljam da će sve zavisiti od prodaje, ali budući da je to uredničko čedo Tanje Bižić, koja se nakon toga vratila u Lagunu - čisto sumnjam. S obzirom na to da Manjanci drže prava za Bejkera, slaba je vajda da će se neko drugi polakomiti da to objavljuje, naročito kad ima toliko pisaca koji su ovde potpuno nepoznati. Što bi se neko gnjavio, kad mu je isti đavo da li će da objavi Bejkera ili Kiza, recimo?

O-o-o-o, kako to da na njihovom sajtu nema nista o tome? Cak nema ni pisca u pretragi? A knjige da ni ne pominjem...da nisi ti mislio na Rasela i njegovu duologiju River into Darkness?

Jesam. Izvini. Iz nekog razloga mešam njih dvojicu. Mada, opet sumnjam da će neko da zagrize za Bejkera. Sada već imaš previše epske fantastike na tržištu. Ostaje da se vidi šta će Alnari da radi, pošto su završili sa Kanavanovom (mada imaju još jednu njenu trilogiju), kao i Laguna (mada oni imaju Eriksona da ih zabavlja kada završe se Džordanom, a otkupili su prava i za Kim Harison). Ukratko, ne verujem da će neko od većih izdavača da radi Bejkera, pošto svi već imaju rešene izdavačke planove za narednu godinu.

Nista...onda cu morati uzeti Algoritmovo izdanje...al' ce me skupo izaci. Nema veze, to mi je jedna od najomiljenijih trilogija. :D I da...ako nekog zanima, pojavio se na netu 2 dio pomenute trilogije...na hrvatskom...evo linka za download:

http://www.4shared.com/file/76755532/193c01a8/R_Scott_Bakker_-_Princ_niega_Ratnik_prorok.html

Kada zavrse sa DZordanom.. to ce biti otprilike 2014, s obzirom da ima jos pet knjiga, puta 2  :x .
Kim Harison, to mi nije poznato, moze malo info, sta pise, vredi li cekati..

Quote from: "tiha voda"Kada zavrse sa DZordanom.. to ce biti otprilike 2014, s obzirom da ima jos pet knjiga, puta 2  :x .
Kim Harison, to mi nije poznato, moze malo info, sta pise, vredi li cekati..

Mislim da sam je spominjao na ovoj temi... Ukratko, ženski Hari Drezden. Ako te ne mrzi da sačekaš do sutra, napisaću opširnije na blogu šta mislim o njoj.

Quote from: "Perin"Nista...onda cu morati uzeti Algoritmovo izdanje...al' ce me skupo izaci. Nema veze, to mi je jedna od najomiljenijih trilogija. :D I da...ako nekog zanima, pojavio se na netu 2 dio pomenute trilogije...na hrvatskom...evo linka za download:

http://www.4shared.com/file/76755532/193c01a8/R_Scott_Bakker_-_Princ_niega_Ratnik_prorok.html

A zašto jednostavno ne odštampaš i ukoričiš? Iznelo bi te drastično manje, a imao bi unikatno izdanje.

Mozda...ali ne verujem. Iako cu dat' love dosta, opet volim kada imam knjigu kao knjigu. Sem toga....nekako mi je to bezze, ako cemo iskreno. Al' videcu jos. Nije da mi nije palo na pamet :D

Ne mrzi me, sacekacu da napises. I hvala ti unapred.

@Zakk

http://rapidshare.com/files/175814852/Adam-Troy_Castro_-__Andrea_Court_01__-_Emissaries_from_the_Dead__lit_.rar

@Perin

Štampanje i koričenje u tvrd povez ona dva romana iznelo bi te 1000 rsd, što mu dođe oko 25 km. Za oba, dakle.

@Tiha Voda

Na mom blogu o Kim Harison

Ne znam...videcu. Nekako mi je vise isplativije to uradit' sa nekim romanima koje za sada nema sanse da budu izdani ovde. Tipa Dzenifer Falon, Dzenifer Robertson, En Bisop, Patriciju Mekalip, Kurt Benjamina. A ove knjige verovatno kupujem. I da. Danas sam kupio krhotine casti, u izdanju lagune i neuromanta u izdanju ips-a. Dobio na kladionici pa reko' da se pocastim  :!:  :!:  :D

Nisam znao da je "Neuromant" izašao. Sjajno!

Et', da i ja budem od pomoci jednom. Jeste, izasao je. I za divno cudo - ima ga kupiti u Banjaluci! To jest, bilo je. Ja sam kupio poslednji primerak, doduse iz Knjizare Biblioner. Al' sa obzirom da je IPS izdavac, sumnjam da je ima igde vise kupiti vise ovde.

P.S. I da. Knjiga nije uopste skupa. Ja sam je ovde u BL platio 6.5 evra, tako da pretpostavljam da cete vi u Srbiji jos bolje proci. Meke korice doduse. Malo losiji kvalitet. Previse lako se savijaju i uvijaju. :D

Sajt IPS-a jak je loš. Nemaju nikakve podatke o svojim izdanjima. Baš šteta, s obzirom na mnoštvo naslova koje nameravaju da objave.

Na Popboksu objavljen moj prikaz "Golemovog oka", nastavka "Amajlije iz Samarkanda".

http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=6976

Na sajtu carobne knjige stoji da je u pripremi :

Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Original Foundation trilogy)

Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire (Original Foundation trilogy)

Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (Original Foundation trilogy).

Quote from: "nightflier"

Quote from: "smrklja"Maslačkovo vino je objavio kod nas Solaris.

Eto, rešen problem. A čuo sam da neko planira da objavi Kerijevu, mada ne mogu da setim ko ni za živu glavu.

http://www.knjiga.ba/Knjizevnost/Romani/Maslackovo-vino_K3769.html

Upravo sam bio na Laguninom site-u, i tamo je ukinut Gardens of the Moon iz sekcije "U Pripremi." Sad, da li to znaci da je pusten u prodaju ili nece biti izdat, to ne znam, ali cu poslati mail Laguni da proverim.

Quote from: "Perin"Na sajtu carobne knjige stoji da je u pripremi :

Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Original Foundation trilogy)

Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire (Original Foundation trilogy)

Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (Original Foundation trilogy).

:shock:  :shock:  svaka cast nigdje ne mogu naći zadužbinu i carstvo  :!:  :D  :!:

Quote from: "Perin"Upravo sam bio na Laguninom site-u, i tamo je ukinut Gardens of the Moon iz sekcije "U Pripremi." Sad, da li to znaci da je pusten u prodaju ili nece biti izdat, to ne znam, ali cu poslati mail Laguni da proverim.

Ako ga ne objave uskoro, lako je moguće da će izgubiti prava na taj serijal.

I ja to mislim. Velika steta, posto sam bas kont'o da se istrosim za novu godinu. Gazda kod kojeg honorarno radim mi rece da ce mi isplatit' naknadno jos pola plate u decembru zbog nove godine  :!:

:evil:  to on zbog poreza od 1.1.2009 i ja dobih 2 plate + bozicnica  :evil:

Ma kak'og poreza, prevodim kod lika na crnjaka u firmi, cash on the hip i to je to  :)  Nije ni obavezan da mi bilo sta da, sa obzirom da mi je radno vreme oko 6 sati mesecno, a nekad ni toliko  :evil:  :evil:  Najzesci pos'o sto sam za lika odradio bio je kad sam nazv'o nekog francuza i pricao sa njim pola sata :D  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:

Laguna mi je odgovorila na mail glede Mesecevih Vrtova. Elem ovako stoje stvari:

Mail naravno pocinje sa "postovani gospodine" (wow, uvek se nekako izbijem kada me...postuju), privremeno smo uklonili Eriksona iz sekcije "u pripremi" zbog toga sto jos ne znamo kada ce biti PREVEDEN ovaj roman. Ocekujemo prevod u FEBRURARU (pa onda lepo pise u zagradi - nadamo se), te bi tek onda znali tacan datum obljavljivanja ovog serijala.

E sad, mail nije prepisan, ali je uglavnom u tom fazonu. Eto, od Mesecevih Vrtova nista do maja, po mom preracunu.  :x  :x

Laguna je nas najbolji izdavac ali ni oni nisu svemoguci. Erikson se jako lose prodavao.

Quote from: "Treperava Zvezda"Laguna je nas najbolji izdavac ali ni oni nisu svemoguci. Erikson se jako lose prodavao.

A gde se to Erikson najbolje prodavao? Laguna je, inace, nas najbolji izdavac beletristike.

Quote from: "Perin"Laguna mi je odgovorila na mail glede Mesecevih Vrtova. Elem ovako stoje stvari:

Mail naravno pocinje sa "postovani gospodine" (wow, uvek se nekako izbijem kada me...postuju), privremeno smo uklonili Eriksona iz sekcije "u pripremi" zbog toga sto jos ne znamo kada ce biti PREVEDEN ovaj roman. Ocekujemo prevod u FEBRURARU (pa onda lepo pise u zagradi - nadamo se), te bi tek onda znali tacan datum obljavljivanja ovog serijala.

E sad, mail nije prepisan, ali je uglavnom u tom fazonu. Eto, od Mesecevih Vrtova nista do maja, po mom preracunu.  :x  :x

Ma samo neka ocekuju. Jadni kolega verovatno proklinje dan kada se prihvatio tog prevoda. Eriksona je jako zajebano prevoditi, na stranu sto covek mora da bude debelo upoznat sa serijalom da ne bi napravio kakvu materijalnu gresku. Na primer, Whiskyjack. Bas me zanima kako ce mu prevesti ime... REci cu samo da se u nekoj sestoj knjizi, cini mi se, objasnjava kako je dobio ime i zasto je dobio bas to ime itd. Danas prevodioci pocinju prevode i pre nego sto procitaju roman, a kamoli serijal. Za nekoga ko nije upucen u materiju, taj ciklus je prava nocna mora za prevod. Jos kad se tu ubace lektori... Ne znam ko ce to da radi - pretpostavljam Nikola Pajvancic - ali znam da je posao tezak, jer sam i sam preveo te "Meseceve vrtove" za Alnari, samo sto je Laguna naposletku dobila prava.

Ne kazem nista, roman jeste puno tezak za prevesti, ali kao sto si ti vec  napomenuo na ovom forumu, jedan roman da se prevodi 3 godine? Treba 4 puta da bude preveden a ne jednom.

@Treperava Zvezda: Bez uvrede, ali o cemu ti bulaznis? Erkiskon NIJE jos ni izdavan na ovim prostorima uopste.

Quote from: "Perin"Ne kazem nista, roman jeste puno tezak za prevesti, ali kao sto si ti vec  napomenuo na ovom forumu, jedan roman da se prevodi 3 godine? Treba 4 puta da bude preveden a ne jednom.

@Treperava Zvezda: Bez uvrede, ali o cemu ti bulaznis? Erkiskon NIJE jos ni izdavan na ovim prostorima uopste.

Bez namere da napadam Lagunu, evo u čemu je problem: Laguna nema dovoljno prevodilaca koji su specijalizovani za fantastiku ma koje vrste, pa stoga većinu njihove fantastike rade ljudi koje to zapravo ne zanima. Erikson nije pisac kojeg neko takav može da prevede na zadovoljavajući način. Njegovi romani puni su skrivenih detalja, čije se značenje otkriva tek u kasnijim nastavcima, a koji su jako bitni za priču, te se ne mogu tek tako zanemariti ili zabašutiti. Moj je utisak da se tog prevoda neko olako prihvatio i da se zato toliko dugo čeka. Verovatno je pokušano da se u lekturi nešto sredi, pa verovatno nije uspelo. Voleo bih da grešim. Erikson je sjajan pisac, koji je visoko na spisku mojih omiljenih autora, bez obzira na žanr. Voleo bih da se pojavi na srpskom jeziku, pa makar to ne bilo u mom prevodu. Međutim, nešto mi govori da ćemo ga se načekati. (Ako ovaj post posluži Laguni kao motiv da me demantuju - tim bolje.)

Zar im nije jednostavije da lepo kupe tvoj prevod?

Znas da mi je palo na pamet da pomenem da imas ti (nightflier) vec gotov prevod, al' reko' necu da se petljam. Stvarno, sto se ne javis da imas sve gotovo, da si citao i ostale knjige iz serijala...zaradis koju kintu, boli te briga ;) Nije da nisi prevodio za njih :D

Bojim se da je jako malo verovatno da Laguna kupi moj prevod. Alnari im je svojevremeno nudio na otkup, kako bi povratio uloženo kada je već postalo jasno da Laguna definitivno ima prava za Eriksona, ali ta ponuda je - kako čujem - bila loše prihvaćena. Čini mi se da nisam dovoljno dobar da bih prevodio za Lagunu. A i prespor sam, navodno.

Svasta. Deadline uvek postoji, zar ne? Znaci i da si prespor, deadline moras ispostovati. Mrzim kad mi iznadju neke shit razloge - te nije zbog ovog ili onog, a ustvari je nesto sasvim deseto, al' ih je sramota da kazu.

Dobro, sad ni najmanje nisu bitni razlozi zašto više ne prevodim za Lagunu ili Alnari. Iskren da budem, ma koliko voleo neke njihove pisce i ma koliko mi bilo žao što više ne radim na Džordanu ili Eriksonu, ne verujem da bih prihvatio da se vratim tim serijalima. Već imam previše posla. Štaviše, pre nekoliko dana popucali su mi kapilari u očima od preteranog piljenja u "Poslednje Carstvo" Brendona Sendersona, pa doslovce nisam mogao da gledam. Trenutno radim za pet izdavača i zaista ne ynam gde bih našao vremena za šestog. Ono što pokušavam da kažem jeste da je Laguna postale previše inertna kada je reč o fantastici - i to bez ikakvog opravdanog razloga, budući da im se gotovo svi naslovi jako dobro prodaju.

mozda pitanje nije za ovaj topik
ali ima li nade da se objavi čitav Ursulin Hainski ciklus
:idea:

Ne verujem. Ko bi to kupovao? Mada, možda... Ja sam ti pre za to da se objavi nešto novo, mada je to veliki rizik. Neor je objavio pet remek-dela naučne fantastike - i propao. Ovaj forum ima oko 500 tvrdokornih članova, koji su sasvim lepo ignorisali sf izdavača. Možeš misliti kako je sa širim tržištem.

Kada smo već kod sf-a, na sajtu http://www.starrigger.net/Downloads.htm možete (sasvim legalno, naravno) daunloudovati romane Džefrija Karvera.

Ja prvi put čujem za entitet Neor. Dobra im je bila marketinška podrška...

Bio je čovek na Beokonima, a i pričalo se na forumu o tome. adresa je bila www.neor.co.yu, pa pogledaj.

Slabo ja zalazim na Beocone (nekako se pogodi da nisam tu baš kad mu je termin), a i jednom kad sam bio nisam video ništa što bi se moglo podvesti pod Neor. Od tema sa foruma, ne sećam se ni jedne u kojoj se spominje Neor. Kasno je sad da gledam, kad su propali. Hoću samo da kažem da se do te mere nisu potrudili da plasiraju svoj proizvod, da ja nisam ni čuo za njih. Nisu fanovi krivi.

Bila je reklama za Neor na sajtovima tolkien.co.yu i at-at.org.

Quote from: "mac"Slabo ja zalazim na Beocone (nekako se pogodi da nisam tu baš kad mu je termin), a i jednom kad sam bio nisam video ništa što bi se moglo podvesti pod Neor. Od tema sa foruma, ne sećam se ni jedne u kojoj se spominje Neor. Kasno je sad da gledam, kad su propali. Hoću samo da kažem da se do te mere nisu potrudili da plasiraju svoj proizvod, da ja nisam ni čuo za njih. Nisu fanovi krivi.

Nije kasno. Knjige su jos u prodaji.

Evo, sad iz knjizare..dobio platu, pa reko da se pocastim  :)  Kupio sam: Tamu koja prethodi u izdanju Algoritma (ipak te nisam poslusao nightflieru :D ), Barajara i Farenhajt 451 u izdanju Lagune i to za budzasto para...Barajar i Farenhajt zajedno 7 evra. Jes' da me zato izasao Bejker 30  :roll:  :D A od Nekronomikona jos uvek nista. Izlgeda da mi je sudjeno da ga cekam do sledeceg bozica...onih 30 evra sto sam ostavio na stranu su se ucrvali vise koliko cekam  :cry:

Srećna Nova godina svima koji je slave, a kao novogodišnji pokon od mene, najava za koju mi je izvor jedan strani književni agent: A Dance with Dragons kreće u prodaju na američkom tržištu 27. oktobra 2009. godine. Za neupućene, reč je o novom nastavku Martinove "Pesme leda i vatre". Nadajmo se...

Doneo dve nove knjige s puta: The Grin of the Dark (Remzi Kembel) i The Living Dead (zombi antologija sa pricama Kinga, Barkera, Brajtove, Kingovog sina, Martina, Gejmana i tako to). Jedva cekam da zagrizem u njih...

The Living Dead je sjajna antologija! Baš sam uživao čitajući je. Ostalo mi je još nekoliko priča, koje će sačekati Božić. Nego, jesi li čitao Wastelands? Isti je urednik, pa me je to ponukalo da je stavim na naredni spisak za naručivanje.

Quote from: "nightflier"Nego, jesi li čitao Wastelands? Isti je urednik, pa me je to ponukalo da je stavim na naredni spisak za naručivanje.

Bah! Poručio sam je sa Amazona pre mesec i po dana, samo da bi me iznova i iznova obaveštavali kako je "tem delayed" pa sam na kraju izgubio živce i poništio porudžbinu...

Mda, ja neke knjige godinama poručujem i redovno mi ne dolaze - a navodno ih imaju na stanju.

Koliko sutra iz štampe izlazi antologija Mean Streats, koja će sadržati novele Džima Bučera, Ket Ričardson, Sajmona Grina i Tomasa Snjegoskog. Reč je o trenutno najboljim piscima urbane fantastike, pa je od srca preporučujem. Takođe sutra iz štampe izlazi Just Another Judgement Day, deveta knjiga u serijalu Nightside, britanskog pisca Sajmona Grina. Fantastičan spoj parodije i omaža petparačkim krimićima, saj-faj filmovima pedesetih i crno-belim monster movies, Nightside je prava stvar da vam skrene misli sa svetske ekonomske krize (popularno zvane SEKA).

Naručite ih od mene. Baš bih voleo da znam šta biste da čitate. Mi ćemo verovatno u martu za USA.

Quote from: "scallop"Mi ćemo verovatno u martu za USA.

E, jebes ga. A, mi cemo verovatno u aprilu za Srbiju.

Quote from: "scallop"Naručite ih od mene. Baš bih voleo da znam šta biste da čitate. Mi ćemo verovatno u martu za USA.

Juhuhu! A kad se vraćate? Ja bih pokušao da nabavim neke knjige koje mi godinama izmiču, mada je veća verovatnoća da se nađu kao polovne.

Na mom blogu o Skotu Linču i "Lažima Loka Lamore".

Mozda ne bi bilo lose predstaviti DZuliju DZouns.
Kod nas Alnari izdaju njen serijal Mac Senki, i posle Martina i DZordana je ostavila na mene najaci utisak, kad je rec o modernoj fantastici. Mozda nasoj publici ne bi bilo zgorega predstaviti jos ponesto iz njenog opusa, verujem da ce biti jos njenih serijala kod nas, ovaj koliko mi se cini ima dobru prodju.

Takodje, sto se tice Horora- Peter Straub. Nama je uglavnom poznat preko Price o Duhovima, i svoje saradnje s Kingom na Talismanu i Crnoj Kuci. Siguran sam da ima jos mnogo sjajnih dela, a nisam ih vidjao po nasim knjizarama. Bilo bi sjajno i njega bolje predstaviti, a nadam se i skoro da ce neko izdati jos koje njegovo delo kod nas  :) .

Hmm, tesko, s obzirom da zena ima samo jos 5 knjiga i da je pitanje kada ce i ovaj serijal da zavrsi.

Hm...Dzulija Dzons je sjajan pisac. Iako bi trebao Mac Senki da se zavrsi sa jos 2 dela, ona ima trilogiju koja je doduse slabija od serijala Sword of Shadows, pod nazivom Book of Words. Nije toliko dobra kao Sword of Shadows, ali moze proci. Takodje, ima i standalone roman Barbed Coil, koji jos nisam uspio procitati, tako da ne mogu nista reci o njemu. I da. Smatram da bi dobro proslo izdavanje Dzounsove, narocito ako je neko drugi bude izdavao (do sada ju je izdavao Alnari). Ako se pitate zasto, treba samo da zavirite u Pecinu Crnog Leda (prvi dio) i vidite koliko je ocajan prevod i kako delo UOPSTE nije lekturisano. Znaci, 'ladno citas i odjednom pod capslockom rec VAINGATE pa onda nastavak na srspkom. Pa opet neka rec koju prevodilac nije znao prevesti na engleskom, takodje pod capslockom, pa onda dalje na srpskom. Sramota.

Mrka kapa da će to Alnari dalje objavljivati. Prodali su šta su prodali - i teraj dalje. Pretpostavljam da će se Alnari za sada usredsrediti na Naomi Novik i Lukjanenka. Sem toga, njihova fentezi produkcija uglavnom zavisi od toga šta im agenti uvale. Tako su objavili i Kanavanovu i Novikovu.

Ne mogu da sudim o Novikovoj ni o Trudi Kanavan, jer nist' nisam ni citao od njih. Ovu potonju spisateljicu necu ni citati, posto sam cuo da joj je serijal pun homoseksualizma, a posto sam ja netrpeljiv prema pederima, ne pada mi na pamet da ga procitam. Cudno je to. Od GOMILE fantasy pisaca, oni bas da odluce da izdaju serijal homoseksualnog fentezija. Pih.

Hm, ja sam citao Kanavanovu, moze proci, ali nije ni blizu Dzounsove. Naomi Novik sam procitao prvu knjigu, i uopste mi se nije dopala.  Lukjanenka nisam citao, gledao sam film radjen po knjizi, film je ocaj. Mada s obzirom da filmovi cesto znaju biti mnogo gori od knjige, necu da tvrdim da je delo lose.
Licno mislim da s Naomi i Lukjanenkom nece imati prodju kao sa DZons, ali opet to je samo moje subjektivno misljenje.
Videcemo.

Procitao sam ja Nocnu Strazu, 'nako, kalsican urban fantasy. Ako ne ocekujes neko puno jako fantasy delo, bices sasvim zadovoljan. Mada se sa Dzonsovom ne moze ni porediti.

HarperKolins je najavio novog Tolkina, ali ne nekog novog pisca, već pravog Tolkina. Opet su mu našli nešto u zaostavštini. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún bi trebalo da se tokom ove godine pojavi u knjižarama.

Preliminarne nominacije za Nebulu:

Novels:

Abraham, Daniel: A Betrayal in Winter (Tor, Jul07)
Barzak, Chris: One for Sorrow (Bantam, Sep07)
Bull, Emma: Territory (Tor, Jul07)
Doctorow, Cory: Little Brother (Tor, Apr08)
Goonan, Kathleen Ann: In War Times (Tor, May07)
Le Guin, Ursula K.: Powers (Harcourt, Sep07)
McDevitt, Jack: Cauldron (Ace, Nov07)
McDonald, Ian: Brasyl (Pyr, May07)
Pratchett, Terry: Making Money (Harper, Sep07)
Rothfuss, Patrick: The Name of the Wind (DAW, Apr07)

Novellas:

Asaro, Catherine: The Spacetime Pool (Analog, Mar08)
Benford, Gregory: Dark Heaven (Alien Crimes, SFBC, Jan07?)
Eskridge, Kelley: Dangerous Space (Dangerous Space, Aqueduct Press, Jun07)
Finlay, Charles Coleman: The Political Prisoner (F&SF, Aug08)

Novelettes:

Bowes, Richard: If Angels Fight (F&SF, Feb08)
Flynn, Michael F. : Quaestiones Super Caelo et Mundo (Analog, Aug07 (Jul/Aug07 issue))
Gardner, James Alan: The Ray-Gun: A Love Story (Asimov's, Feb08)
Goldstein, Lisa: Dark Rooms (Asimov's, Nov07 (Oct/Nov 07 issue))
Kessel, John: Pride and Prometheus (F&SF, Jan08)
Kosmatka, Ted: The Prophet of Flores (Asimov's, Sep07)
Moles, David: Finisterra (F&SF, Dec07)
Sinisalo, Johanna: Baby Doll (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, Tor, Jun07
    (trans. from the Finnish by David Hackston))
Wentworth, K.D.: Kaleidoscope (F&SF, May07)

Short Stories:

Allen, Mike: The Button Bin (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, Oct07
    (Reprinted in Transcriptase)
Cassutt, Michael: Skull Valley (Asimov's, Nov07 (Oct/Nov 07 issue))
Finch, Sheila: Stranger Than Imagination Can (The Guild of Xenolinguists, Golden
    Gryphon Press, Sep07)
Ford, Jeffrey: The Dreaming Wind (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Viking Juvenile, Jul07)
Henderson, Samantha: Bottles (Realms of Fantasy, Apr07)
Hobson, M. K.: The Hotel Astarte (Realms of Fantasy, Jun07)
Johnson, Kij: 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss (Asimov's, Jul08)
Jones, Gwyneth: The Tomb Wife (F&SF, Aug07)
Kelly, James Patrick: Don't Stop (Asimov's, Jun07)
Nestvold, Ruth: Mars: A Traveler's Guide (F&SF, Jan08)
Plante, Brian: The Astronaut (Analog, May07)
Rickert, Mary: Holiday (Subterranean #7, Sep07)
Scholes, Ken: Summer in Paris, Light From the Sky (Clarkesworld Magazine, Nov07)
Van Pelt, James: How Music Begins (Asimov's, Sep07)

Scripts:

Stanton, Andrew: WALL-E (Pixar, Jun08)

Primetićete da u kategoriji romana nigde nema Džoa Aberkrombija i Skota Linča (koje sam kudio), dok ima Patrika Rotfasa i Danijela Abrahama (koje sam hvalio). Naravno, Nebulu će bez dvojbe dobiti "Brazil". Gorane, obrati pažnju.

Najava za 2009, deo prvi:

Po onome što je nominovano za Nebulu vidi se da prethodna godina nije bila preterano berićetna, stoga nam ne preostaje ništa drugo nego da se okrenemo godini pred nama. Evo šta se može očekivati u 2009, najpre od epske a potom i od naučne fantastike:

Najpre, An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat  američkog pisca Glena Kuka, kod nas poznatog po romanima o Crnoj četi, od kojih sam jedan i ja preveo.  Reč je o reprintu njegovih ranijih dela, a sve pod trejdmarkom Nightshade Books. Kuk nije među mojim omiljenim piscima, ali voli da popriličan broj ljudi, tako da zaslužuje da se pomene.

Stiven ERikson planira novi roman, The Lees of Laughter's End, koji nas vraća njegovim suludim nekromantima iz "Mesečevih vrtova". Nažalost, imam samo prvu knjigu iz nezavisnog serijala posvećenog njima. Verovatno ću sačekati da se pojavi i ova, pa da pročitam sve tri.

Lois Makmaster Bižo  najavila je novi nastavak u serijalu The Sharing Knife. Zapravo, trebalo bi da bude objavljen krajem ovog meseca. Mada imam prethodne tri knjige, nešto mi nije dalo da ih pročitam. Uglavnom problemi sa zdravljem. Prava je šteta što Laguna ne objavljuje Curse of the Chalion, a ne daje ni drugima da ga objave.

Kim Harison priprema sedmi nastavak u Hollows ciklusu, a pod naslovom White  Witch, Black Curse. Laguna je najavila da će otpočeti ovaj ciklus.

Naslov kojem se ja možda najviše radujem jeste The Captal's Tower, treća knjiga u serijalu Exiles, koji piše Melani Ron. Svima koji vole Roberta Džordana iskreno preporučujem prva dva dela u ovom serijalu.

Rejmond Fajst nam sprema Rides A Dread Legion, mada su njegovi poslednji romani o Midkemiji gotovo nečitljivi.

Džim Bučer ubrzo objavljuje 11. roman o Hariju Drezdenu, a do kraja godine bi trebalo da izađe i The First Lord's Fury, poslednja knjiga serijala Codex Alera.

Džon Marko takođe ima novi roman i serijal: Starfinder

Kejt Eliot nastavlja Crossroads sa romanom Traitor's Gate.
I, na kraju, na ovo obratite pažnju, drugi omnibus iz Godstalker Chronicles, koji sadrži Seeker's Mask i To Ride a Rathorn. Ovo se ne sme propustiti, pošto su originalna izdanja njenih romana odavno out of print.

Ja bih jos pomenuo:
- A Dance with Dragons: Book 5 of a Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin mada je to uvek pod znakom pitanja
- The Judging Eye (Aspect-emperor) by R.Scott Bakker nisam jos procitao njegovu prvu trilogiju ali dosta je hvaljen
- Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb standalone (za promenu) od majstorice
- The City & the City by China Mieville ko ga voli taj ne pravi pitanje... ja na primer
- The Cold Commands (Gollancz S.F.) by Richard Morgan drugi deo njegovog prvog fantasy-a,ako je sudeci po ostalim romanima a i kritikama ovo je jako dobro
Pasce mi mozda jos nesto na pamet, toliko za sada.

Takodje:

The Wise Man's Fear, druga knjiga Kingkiller Chronicles-a, Patrick Rothfuss-a.

Quote from: "Melkor"Ja bih jos pomenuo:
- A Dance with Dragons: Book 5 of a Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin mada je to uvek pod znakom pitanja
- The Judging Eye (Aspect-emperor) by R.Scott Bakker nisam jos procitao njegovu prvu trilogiju ali dosta je hvaljen
- Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb standalone (za promenu) od majstorice
- The City & the City by China Mieville ko ga voli taj ne pravi pitanje... ja na primer
- The Cold Commands (Gollancz S.F.) by Richard Morgan drugi deo njegovog prvog fantasy-a,ako je sudeci po ostalim romanima a i kritikama ovo je jako dobro
Pasce mi mozda jos nesto na pamet, toliko za sada.

Naravno, naravno. Ovo je samo prvi deo najava. Pomenuću to i još neke stvari sutra u drugom delu, pa ću preći na sf.

Quote from: "Perin"Takodje:

The Wise Man's Fear, druga knjiga Kingkiller Chronicles-a, Patrick Rothfuss-a.

Rotfas je neizostavan, pošto je ušao u nominaciju za Nebulu. I Aberkrombi priprema novi roman, a tu je i novi Tolkin. Ali o svemu tome moraću da pišem malo kasnije. Naravno, ako još neko ima sveže vesti, više je nego dobrodošao da ih postavi ovde. Imam sve više posla, a sve manje zdravlja i živaca, pa mi je već problem da pratim sva dešavanja na polju.

E, jedno pitanje...Zasto nasi izdavaci preferiraju da prevode imena likova? Vidim da kod Hrvata to nije slucaj, i mislim da je puno bolje nego sto je ovde...em sto je onda to laksi posao za prevodioca, a i nekako manje zabune, dosta je blize originalu...uzmimo za primer prevod imena u Farseer trilogiji, Robin Hob. Bizicka je sasvim dobro obavila posao, ali je zato sa nslovom i prevodom imena meni zgadila citav serijal.

Zato što je reč o svetovima u kojima ta imena nešto znače, pa to značenje mora da se prenese i čitaocu. U načelu, jasno se vidi kada je piščeva namera da njegovi čitaoci znaju šta ime nekog lika znači, a kada ne. Na primer, Stonehand je očigledno Kamenšaka, dok je Rowan - Rovan - mada to ime izvorno znači "zaštitnik".

Sve to stoji, ali ja to gledam subjektivno - ja znam engleski, pa mi totalno svejedno da li ce prevest' imena ili ne. A kada ga prevedu lose, to je pravi dizaster. Recimo, dosta mi se svidelo kako je Ivana prevela prezime Naysayer iz Sword of Shadows sage - Kazejok. Veoma lepo i domisljato. Ali FitzChivalry Farseer kao Knezevic Plemeniti? I naziv dela assassin's apprentice kao krv kraljeva? Mislim halo? Zar nije to trebalo biti nesto kao: Ubojicin Segrt?

Quote from: "Perin"Sve to stoji, ali ja to gledam subjektivno - ja znam engleski, pa mi totalno svejedno da li ce prevest' imena ili ne. A kada ga prevedu lose, to je pravi dizaster. Recimo, dosta mi se svidelo kako je Ivana prevela prezime Naysayer iz Sword of Shadows sage - Kazejok. Veoma lepo i domisljato. Ali FitzChivalry Farseer kao Knezevic Plemeniti? I naziv dela assassin's apprentice kao krv kraljeva? Mislim halo? Zar nije to trebalo biti nesto kao: Ubojicin Segrt?

Znaš kako, nije svako da prevodi fantastiku, upravo zbog takve problematike. Mislim, još me prate priče o sipi, mada nikakve veze nemam sa prevodom Martinovih romana.

Quote from: "Melkor"Ja bih jos pomenuo:
- The Cold Commands (Gollancz S.F.) by Richard Morgan drugi deo njegovog prvog fantasy-a,ako je sudeci po ostalim romanima a i kritikama ovo je jako dobro

Ček, ček... pa prvi deo još nije izašao iz štampe, zar ne? Mislim, dosta sam toga propustio u poslednje vreme, ali to bih primetio.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0575077921/ref=nosim/authordatabase

ili za bogate ljubitelje

http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=morgan02&Category_Code=PRE&Product_Count=19

E, džebiga. Meni je američki Amazon reper, pošto knjige nabavljam iz Kanade. U SAD rilis dejt je 20. januar ove godine koje smo. A svejedno će mi knjiga stići tek u martu.

Upravo sam dobio Nekronomikon. Sta da kazem? V-R-E-D-I tih para. Znaci, platio sam ga 25 evra, i nisam zazalio ni sekunde. Apelujem na jos ovakvih izdanja. Covece, ovo vredi samo imati na polici da se pohvalis, ako neces vec da citas. Sad se bacam na citanje.  :!:  I da. Ko je iz Banjaluke i okoline, ostala su jos 3 primerka Nekronomikona u knjizari Biblioner, pa put pod noge i u knjizaru po knjigu ;)

Ha, na ovo sam potpuno zaboravio:

ako neko ima para, ima geekovsku dusu i voli Stivna Kinga evo sanse da se pojavi u Stephen King Goes to the Movies

http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=king02&Category_Code=PRE&Product_Count=13

Subterranean Press imaju sjajna izdanja, ali preskupi su. Inače, meni je poštar jutros doneo paketić. Konačno mi je stigla Wastelands, koju sam pominjao pre neki dan. Jedva čekam da se iskobeljam iz posla (uz malo sreće, već večeras), pa da se bacim na čitanje.

Preskupo? HA!
Pogledaj šta http://www.millipedepress.com nudi!

Jesu to stvarno uber-kvalitetna izdanja, ali klepaju po ušima sam' tako.
Planiram da kupim ovo (http://www.millipedepress.com/centipede-press/the-shadow-of-the-torturer-gene-wolfe) kad se ubogatim. Skuplju, nek ide život. Ništa kao povez od kozje kože...

Sa srecom covece :D 1500 dolara? Hehehe...

Za te pare možeš da kupiš i kozu. Sa jedne strane, to je previše. Sa druge, dosta mi je mekih poveza, a nešto nisam zadovoljan ni tvrdim, bar u poslednje vreme. Sećate li se edicije Fantasy Masterworks? Mogla je da se kupi u Platou, ali po bezobraznim cenama. E, jedan moj drugar je u SAD kupio otprilike nešto tako - sto probranih dela epske fantastike, samo u povezu od crne kože sa mesinganim okovima i bez ikakvih ilustracija. Štampano samo stotinu kompleta. Da ne pričam koliko je platio. Ni ja mu nisam verovao, sve dok nisam naleteo na neke slične edicije na netu. Elem, to mi je dalo inspiraciju da sam odaberem svoju Masterworks kolekciju, platim da mi se odradi priprema na osnovu elektronskih izdanja, odštampam i ukoričim u kožni povez. To ne bi trebalo da košta više od petnaestak evra za 250 a4 stranica, a imaću svoj unikatni primerak - a još mogu i da mećem ilustracije, po ceni od pedesetak dinara komad, di ja oću! Ozbiljno, smučili su mi se pejperbekovi. Nameravam da ih sve zamenim tvrdim povezom, pa da sve to rasprodam.

Ima i toga...evo sad kada imam Nekronomikon u svojoj kolekciji, bas sija na polici u odnosu na druge knjige. Kamo srece da jos bude takvih, lepih, ilustrovanih izdanja dobrog tvrdog poveza.

Sad sam se baš namerio da napravim sebi tvrdokoričeno izdanje Knjige Novog Sunca :)

Tebi će ispasti još jeftinije, pošto ćeš sam raditi pripremu.

Najava za 2009, deo drugi:

Dakle, u 2009. čeka nas svašta nešto lepo, ako je verovati najavama. Već smo spomenuli neke stvari - novog Martina (mada, to baš i nije pošteno. Martin je skoro objavio novi sf roman i novu zbirku priča, ali kod nas se to nije ni pomenulo, pošto nije reč o nastavku "Pesme leda i vatre") i Ričarda Morgana, ali i Rotfasa, pa i Mjevila. Evo onih koje smo propustili:

The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch je treći naslov od planiranih sedam. Iskreno se nadam da će se Linč popraviti, pošto mi je drugi nastavak serijala iskreno rečeno bio jako dosadan. O Linčovom pisanju detaljnije sam govorio na svom blogu, pa neću da se ponavljam. Dovoljno je reći da ne bih davao pare za njegove knjige. Jedini razlog što mi zauzimaju dragoceni prostor na policama jeste jednostavna činjenica da ih dobijam džabe. Doduše, ilustracije za korice jako su lepe.

The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett. Prvi deo dobio sam od Odiseje, pošto Bret i Senderson imaju istog agenta, ali nije mi se nešto dojmio početak, pa nisam ni pročitao knjigu. U to vreme lomio sam glavu oko terminologije u "Poslednjem Carstvu". Može biti da sam pogrešio, pošto je roman nahvaljen u vražju mater. Staviću ga na uži spisak za čitanje tokom januara.

Fall of Thanes (The Godless World) by Brian Ruckley. Još jedna trilogija koju sam počeo, ali nisam nastavio - iz neznanih razloga. Trebalo bi da liči na Martina, ali to je u poslednje vreme jako čest epitet. Ovde je reč o poslednjem nastavku.

Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie. Aberkrombija sam već pominjao po dobru na ovoj temi. Ovo ću da čitam samo ako dobijem besplatno. Liči mi na pokušaj fentezija inspirisanog južnoevropskim motivima i političkim intrigama, što obično ispadne glupavo.

Songs of the Dying Earth (Hardcover) by Martin (Author), George R. R. (Author), Dozois (Author), Gardner (Author), Tom Kidd (Illustrator). Ko ovo ne pročita da se pospe katranom i perjem i da mu se članska karta spali na Terazijama, a ako nema člansku kartu - da se skerletnim slovima pribeleži da je nikad ne dobije! Evo i zašto:

QuoteToday, in order to honor the magnificent career of Jack Vance, one unparalleled in achievement and impact, GEORGE R.R. MARTIN and GARDNER DOZOIS, with the full cooperation of Jack Vance, his family, and his agents, suggest a Jack Vance tribute anthology called Songs of the Dying Earth, to encourage the best of today's fantasy writers to return to the unique and evocative milieu of The Dying Earth, from which they and so many others have drawn so much inspiration, to create their own brand-new adventures in the world of Jack Vance s greatest novel.

Half a century ago, Jack Vance created the world of the Dying Earth, and fantasy has never been the same. Now, for the first time ever, Jack has agreed to open this bizarre and darkly beautiful world to other fantasists, to play in as their very own. To say that other fantasy writers are excited by this prospect is a gross understatement; one has told us that he'd crawl through broken glass for the chance to write for the anthology, another that he'd gladly give up his right arm for the privilege that's the kind of regard in which Jack Vance and The Dying Earth are held by generations of his peers.

Samo zbog ove knjige vadim Vensa sa dna kutije. Reč je o jednom od najznačajnijih pisaca sf&f-a u istoriji žanrova.

Ostatak u trećem delu...

U narednih sedam meseci, ili tako nešto, imaćete prilike da u prevodu moje malenkosti, a u izdanju IPS-a, čitate: Storm Front i Fool Moon Džima Bučera, The Briar King i The Charnel Prince Grega Kiza, The Lost Legion i Ruled Britania Harija Tartldava, dva romana Šuzakoa Endoa (još se ne zna baš tačno koja dva), a najverovatnije će uleteti još nešto. Dakle, svi ljubitileji alternativne istorije mogu da očekuju još dva romana.

Yey! Hoce li biti u narednih 7 meseci izdata oba romana Dzima Bucera? I Oba od Kiza?  :!:

Ako sve bude kako treba, prvi Bučer do kraja februara, pa Kiz u martu i tako svi naredni romani, sa razlikom od po mesec dana, ili tako nešto. Dosta toga zavisi i od toga kako će ići moje preseljenje. Ako mi se tu nešto iskomplikuje, sigurno neću moći da održavam taj ritam. Takođe zavisi i od Bobana, pošto poslovi za njega meni uvek imaju prvenstvo, pa ću sasvim sigurno najpre njemu prevoditi kad mi nešto bude dao, ako mu budem potreban, naravno.

Nekada su stari bibliofili imali sve knjige u istim, najcesce koznim, koricama. Na tim koricama bio bi neki simbol, znak, sara, koja bi bila karakteristicna za vlasnikovu biblioteku. Nevezano za ekslibris.
Zamislite sve vase knjige koje posedujete, na svim jezicima i iz svih perioda, u svim razlicitim formatima i obimu, ukoricene u ustobojne kozne poveze gde se samo zlatotisak na rikni razlikuje.
Ima li to smisla?

I te kakvog. Nameravam da napravim svoju ediciju, tako što ću štampati svoje omiljene knjige i koričiti u identične poveze. Baš tražim štampariju koja može da povezuje u "kožu". Muka mi je od pejperbekova.

E jesmo brate freakovi...tako i ja sa svojim knjigama - volim da mi sve bude po P.S-u. A sto se tice Bucera, jel' ti to 'oces da kazes da ce IPS objaviti prvu knjigu u februaru ili ti samo zavrsavas prevod? Znam da knjige nisu obimne, tako da prevod nece tesko ici.

Ne, mislim da će "Olujni talas" biti objavljen već u februaru. Upravo ga završavam i zbog toga neću moći na Beokon. Inače, na blogu sam postavio prikaze "Akacije" Dejvida Darhema i "Pacova" Dejmsa Herberta.

Najs. Znaci moram i to narucit'. Ovaj mesec sam dao na knjige 200km ili 100evra, sto mozda nije puno, ali kad se uzme u obzir da mi je tolika plata...jes' da sam dobio 50 evra vise, ali opet sam potrosio love :D Sad i u februaru moram...ccc :)

Nadam se da ne živiš u stanu, kao ja. Inače ćeš ubrzo ostati bez prostora, kao što se meni desilo. Kupio sam plac za voćnjak i vikendicu samo da bih imao gde knjige da strpam. Naravno, tek valja da je podignem, a do tada će mnogo vode proteći...

Nah, zivim u kuci. Najgore sto mi se buraz blizanac ozenio, pa sam morao da letim sa sprata...sad sam u prizemlju sa starcima, o oni me izludise. Moram da krijumcarim knjige u sobu, jer mi stara uvek s*re kad kupim puno knjiga :roll: A sto se tice prostora - meni su vec sve police pune, tako da sad knjige stavljam izmedju regala na pod :D

Spremaj pare i zidaj sprat za sebe!

Najava za 2009, deo treći:

Kraj odokativnih najava za 2009. Evo šta smo propustili:

Gears of the City by Felix Gilman. Ovo je već objavljeno. Reč je o nastavku Thunderer-a, koji imam, ali ne stižem da pročitam. Kada konačno stignem, verovatno ću naširoko i nadugačko na blogu o tome. Trenutno sam zauzet pisanjem o poreklu vampira. Thunderer je jako hvaljen roman, mada... Moram zapravo priznati da sam nekoliko puta pokušavao da ga čitam i nisam odmakao dalje od prvih nekoliko stranica. Naravno, to ne mora ništa da znači, pošto sam neke naslove počinjao doslovce na silu, pa su mi postali miljenici.

Traitor to the Crown The Patriot Witch by C.C. Finlay. Ovo bi trebalo da je alternativna istorija pomešana sa magijom, verovatno po uzoru na romane Naomi Novik. Videćemo kada se pojavi o čemu je reč. Meni je delovalo dovoljno zanimljivo da unapred naručim.

Midwinter by Matthew Sturges. Meho bi trebalo da kaže koju o ovom gospodinu. Znam da je scenarista stripova, ali ne znam šta je tačno radio. Kolege gikovi po belom svetu lude su za njim.

Blood of Ambrose by James Enge. Još jedan novi pisac. Čini mi se da ovaj roman prati liniju koju je Robin Hob povukla sa Farsijerima. Evo šta Amazon kaže:

QuoteBehind the King's life stands the menacing Protector, and beyond him lies the Protector's Shadow...

Centuries after the death of Uthar the Great, the throne of the Ontilian Empire lies vacant. The late Emperor's brother-in-law and murderer, Lord Urdhven, appoints himself Protector to his nephew, young King Lathmar VII and sets out to kill anyone who stands between himself and mastery of the Empire, including (if he can manage it) the King himself and his ancient but still formidable ancestress, Ambrosia Viviana.

When Ambrosia is accused of witchcraft and put to trial by combat, she is forced to play her trump card and call on her brother, Morlock Ambrosius--stateless person, master of all magical makers, deadly swordsman, and hopeless drunk.

As ministers of the king, they carry on the battle, magical and mundane, against the Protector and his shadowy patron. But all their struggles will be wasted unless the young king finds the strength to rule in his own right and his own name.

Lamentation (The Psalms of Isaak) by Ken Scholes. Roman koji mi je preporučen kao sf zamaskiran u fentezi. Opet novi pisac.

Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton. Dovraga, čovek je godinu dana mlađi od mene, a već ima čudovište od romana. Da se ne bih osećao kao propalitet (dobro, tešim se time da imam četrdesetak objavljenih prevoda) pročitaću ga čim bude objavljen u Americi. U Velikoj Britaniji primljen je jako dobro.

Mortal Coils by Eric Nylund. Roman koji deluje nesvakidašnje, pa samim tim zanimljivo.

QuoteNothing interesting ever happened to fifteen-year-old orphans Eliot and Fiona while they've lived in the strict, oppressive household of their grandmother. A chance visit, however, reveals that there is much more to the twins. They are the offspring of a goddess and Lucifer, Prince of Darkness.

Now, to settle the epic custody battle between these two families, the fallen angels create three diabolical temptations, and the gods fashion three heroic trials to test Eliot and Fiona. More than ever they need to stick together to survive and to learn how to use their budding supernatural abilities . . . for family allegiances are ever-shifting in the ancient, secret world they have entered.

Dragon in Chains by Daniel Fox. Ovim završavam spisak onoga što valja iščekivati u prvoj polovini ove godine. Naravno, treba imati na umu da se stvari menjaju - naročito kada je reč o Martinovim rokovima.[/code]

Juče me je mučila glavobolja, pa sam počeo da čitam The Steel Remains, Ričarda Morgana. Razočarao sam se, pa sve upozoravam da ne bacaju pare. Morganove sf romane jako volim, ali je omanuo kao pisac fentezija. Digao sam ruke nakon stotinak stranica. Priča koja nikuda ne vodi, likovi prema kojima čitalac ništa ne oseća - sem možda blage antipatije - i patina nepotrebne devijantnosti veoma otežavaju čitanje. Sve u svemu, nisam zadovoljan. Što se mene tiče, prvi ćorak ove godine, a ubeđen sam da će ih biti još.

Quote from: "nightflier"Nadam se da ne živiš u stanu, kao ja. Inače ćeš ubrzo ostati bez prostora, kao što se meni desilo. Kupio sam plac za voćnjak i vikendicu samo da bih imao gde knjige da strpam. Naravno, tek valja da je podignem, a do tada će mnogo vode proteći...

Biću slobodan, preporučiću ti jedan naslov, Stewart Home, "69 stvari koje treba učiniti sa mrtvom princezom", u izdanju V.B.Z. Zagreb. Imaš je u knjižari Akademija, u Knezu

Quote from: "Hobit"

Quote from: "nightflier"Nadam se da ne živiš u stanu, kao ja. Inače ćeš ubrzo ostati bez prostora, kao što se meni desilo. Kupio sam plac za voćnjak i vikendicu samo da bih imao gde knjige da strpam. Naravno, tek valja da je podignem, a do tada će mnogo vode proteći...

Biću slobodan, preporučiću ti jedan naslov, Stewart Home, "69 stvari koje treba učiniti sa mrtvom princezom", u izdanju V.B.Z. Zagreb. Imaš je u knjižari Akademija, u Knezu

Imam mali problem sa čitanjem na hrvatskom. Izbegavam, pošto mi utiče na jezik. Pokušaću da nabavim na engleskom, pa ako mi ne pođe za rukom - kupiću to izdanje. Zapravo, možda ga kupim verenici za dan zaljubljenih. Zvuči mi kao prikladan poklon. Znaš li koliko košta, odokativno?

Košta 990 dinara, ali.... ne, ne, ne...nikako nije prikladan poklon verenici, i to za dan zaljubljenih. Nikako, veruj mi...

Preskupo je to. Doduše, Hrvati uvek preteruju sa cenama, pošto mu to kod njih dođe deset kuna, zar ne? Evo šta Amazon kaže, mada su ocene čitalaca jako loše:

QuoteFrom Publishers Weekly
British experimental novelist and cultural critic Home (Cunt) makes his American debut with his trademark fusion of highbrow theory and pulp pornography. Narrator Anna Noon is a randy 20-year-old living in Aberdeen, Scotland, having an affair with a mysterious older man named Alan, as well as the occasional threesome and foursome. Alan is obsessed with a cult book called 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess, whose author claims that he was hired to secretly dispose of Princess Di's body by dragging it around Aberdeen's ancient stone circles until it decomposed. Alan tries to test the author's story by dragging a carefully weighted ventriloquist's dummy around the stone circles. In between these experiments and orgies, Alan and Anna discuss postmodern literature. Alan offers a running commentary on novelists and theorists like Kathy Acker, Francis Fukuyama and Donna Haraway, tracing the evolution of experimental writing in the postwar era and weighing in with his own critiques ("Alan didn't like [Paul] Johnson's Intellectuals.... Rather than developing an argument, Johnson simply reiterated his irrational prejudice against critical thinking in a series of poorly schematised chapters"). The contrast between these erudite lectures and the sex scenes, which Home writes in the coarse argot of porn novels-complete with dozens of colorful synonyms for the relevant anatomy-is amusing, though the joke wears thin after a while. There are bursts of vivid descriptive prose, as well as moments of demented humor (including the ventriloquist dummy's hilarious turn as narrator). Both the sex scenes and the arch commentary are occasionally tedious, but fans of Acker or Robert Coover may enjoy the metafictional conceit.

Nego ljudovi, znate sta mi treba - 'ste culi za Curt Benjamina? Vec neko vreme trazim njegovu knjigu u ebook formatu, svugde po netu, ali je nema. Procitao sam prve 2 knjige iz njegove Seven Brothers trilogije, i treba mi poslednja da zavrsim. Mislim da se zove Gates of Heaven, pa ako neko zna gde ima naci, bio bi za'valan ako i mi rekao gde ili mi je poslao ako ima.

Quote from: "nightflier"Preskupo je to. Doduše, Hrvati uvek preteruju sa cenama, pošto mu to kod njih dođe deset kuna, zar ne? Evo šta Amazon kaže, mada su ocene čitalaca jako loše:

QuoteFrom Publishers Weekly
British experimental novelist and cultural critic Home (Cunt) makes his American debut with his trademark fusion of highbrow theory and pulp pornography. Narrator Anna Noon is a randy 20-year-old living in Aberdeen, Scotland, having an affair with a mysterious older man named Alan, as well as the occasional threesome and foursome. Alan is obsessed with a cult book called 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess, whose author claims that he was hired to secretly dispose of Princess Di's body by dragging it around Aberdeen's ancient stone circles until it decomposed. Alan tries to test the author's story by dragging a carefully weighted ventriloquist's dummy around the stone circles. In between these experiments and orgies, Alan and Anna discuss postmodern literature. Alan offers a running commentary on novelists and theorists like Kathy Acker, Francis Fukuyama and Donna Haraway, tracing the evolution of experimental writing in the postwar era and weighing in with his own critiques ("Alan didn't like [Paul] Johnson's Intellectuals.... Rather than developing an argument, Johnson simply reiterated his irrational prejudice against critical thinking in a series of poorly schematised chapters"). The contrast between these erudite lectures and the sex scenes, which Home writes in the coarse argot of porn novels-complete with dozens of colorful synonyms for the relevant anatomy-is amusing, though the joke wears thin after a while. There are bursts of vivid descriptive prose, as well as moments of demented humor (including the ventriloquist dummy's hilarious turn as narrator). Both the sex scenes and the arch commentary are occasionally tedious, but fans of Acker or Robert Coover may enjoy the metafictional conceit.

Da. Pročitao sam knjigu, blesava je skroz. Ali, nije prigodan poklon verenici za dan zaljubljenih.
I, jeste skupa, pri tom, štampa je grozna, skoro da je to novinski papir

Quote from: "Perin"Nego ljudovi, znate sta mi treba - 'ste culi za Curt Benjamina? Vec neko vreme trazim njegovu knjigu u ebook formatu, svugde po netu, ali je nema. Procitao sam prve 2 knjige iz njegove Seven Brothers trilogije, i treba mi poslednja da zavrsim. Mislim da se zove Gates of Heaven, pa ako neko zna gde ima naci, bio bi za'valan ako i mi rekao gde ili mi je poslao ako ima.

Imas na undernet-u tu knjigu.


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Heheh, znam za taj kanal. Odatle sam skin'o prva 2 dela, ali 3 nema.

Quote from: "Perin"Heheh, znam za taj kanal. Odatle sam skin'o prva 2 dela, ali 3 nema.

Ja skinuo odatle 3 deo danas.


!EBrarian Benjamin, Curt - [Seven Brothers 03] - Prince of Dreams (v1.0) [html, jpg].rar


Tnx mate. Stalno sam proverav'o, ali nisam u poslednjih 10-15 dana mbio na mircu. Sad moram procitati ponovo i prva 2. jer sam skoro pozaboravio o cemu se radi :D

EDIT: Znao sam da nesto ne valja. Ono j 2 dio, samo je pisalo da je treci. Otvori fajl, i pogledaj naslov :D

Trebalo bi da tokom ove godine dobijemo novi nastavak kultnog serijala "Kensirat", američke spisateljice Pet Hodžel. Peti roman u nizu objaviće Baen Books, izdavačka kuća poznata najviše po sf neopalpu, ali i alternativnoj istoriji. Hodželova, inače, piše jako zamršenu mračnu fantastiku, ali polazi joj za rukom da svaki roman bude originalan i da prati neke nove teme. Tako je prvi, God Stalk, objavljen 1982. godine, ako se ne varam, napisan kao urbana pustolovina, koja i dan-danas zasenjuje pokušaje pisaca kao što su Skot Linč da napišu sličan roman o lopovima u fantazijskom okruženju. Jedini autor mlađe generacije koji se tome približio neosporno je Brendon Senderson, čija Vin ima i te kakve sličnosti sa Hodželkinom Džejmi, ali to je već neka druga priča...

The Heritage
(2008)
A novel by
Will Ashon

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When fifteen-year-old Tilly is wrongly sent to a Young Offenders Institute - a far cry from her safe, suburban upbringing - she's desperately bored and unhappy until she meets Sadie. Now released and living in Sadie's bedsit, the pair soon throw themselves into a contented life of petty criminality. But when sinister landlady and social worker Lynda comes to take DNA swabs - purportedly for a scientific investigation into the genetic roots of criminal behavior - their teenage idyll is shattered. For a joke, Tilly swaps the two girls' samples, setting into motion a gripping story of mistaken identity and corporate malice. With its depiction of shoplifting techniques, shadowy revolutionaries, alcopops, sperm banks, genetics, adolescense and a lot of smoking, "The Heritage" is both funny and sad, grittily real yet exuberantly imagined, utterly strange and yet strangely moving.


http://www.sendspace.com/file/zj83pq

IPS je izdao prvu zbirku pripovedaka o Geraltu od Rivije, takozvanom i siroj publici poznatom Witcheru. Ko je igrao igru, zna o cemu je rec. Pisac je Andrej Sepkovski, a knjige mozete naci u Mamutu i Platou, dok sam ih ja narucio u Banjaluci u Kulturi. Stizu, navodno, za 10-15 dana.

Pre nekoliko dana predao sam IPS-u prevod prvog romana Dzima Bucera u serijalu o Hariju Drezdenu, a pod naslovom "Olujni talas". Za dve nedelje predajem i "Kralja trnja" Grega Kiza. Do kraja marta zavrsavam "Noc mesecara", drugi roman o Drezdenu, a potom "Izgubljenu legiju" Harija Tartldava. "Legija" je vec prevedena, tako da tu nece biti previse posla. Inace, IPS je kupio i "Ruled Britania", Tartldavljevu alt. istoriju u kojoj je armada osvojila Englesku. Takodje ja prevodim. Za jedno dva meseca bice gotov Konan, a IPS je kupio i serijal "True Blood" Sarlejn Haris. Ima jos nekih novih naslova u igri, ali to je jos poslovna tajna.

Yey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kiz i Bucer!  :D  :D  :D  :!:  :!:  :!:

Biće toga koliko hoćeš. Pred sajam će verovatno i drugi Kiz, a ne bi me čudilo da do kraja godine stigne i treći Bučer.

Ove godine sam cvrsto odlucio da idem u BG na sajam. Cim se vrnem sa ekskurzije, stedim lovu i dolazim. Jest' da cu propustit' par nekih koncerata, ali Boze moj, nesto se mora zrtvovati. Samo mi frka, kako da prenesem bruku knjiga preko grane, posto se kontam bas istrosit' na sajmu.

Izdavačka kuća Del Rey pridružila se trendu besplatne ponude elektronskih izdanja novih romana manje poznatih pisaca, ili starih romana već etabliranih autora. Posetom stranici http://www.ccfinlay.com možete doći do pdfa romana The Patriot Witch, prvog u trilogiji Traitor to the Crown. Ovaj roman već sam pominjao, pa neću ponovo da tupim.

Bdv, na mom blogu kratak osvrt na Bobanov "Crni cvet". Prikaz bi tek trebalo da napišem. Ko svrne na blog, videće zašto.

Ljubitelji Džima Bučera i Sajmona Grina (koji bi bio sjajan dodatak Goranovoj izdavačkoj kući, odmah uz Njumena) trebalo bi da obrate pažnju na pisca po imenu Thomas E. Sniegoski. Evo šta Amazon kaže za njegov novi roman:

QuoteFrom Publishers Weekly
Tightly focused and deftly handled, this adult debut from YA and comic book author Sniegoski (The Fallen) covers familiar ground in entertaining new ways. The angel Remiel wanders the Earth in human form as private investigator Remy Chandler, experiencing the mortal life while indulging his fondness for the trappings of noir. When the Angel of Death vanishes, Heaven hires Chandler to find him as well as a missing set of scrolls that could bring about the apocalypse. Sniegoski's choice to frame this high concept with a straight noir detective tale grounds the world for the reader and highlights the mystical elements. Chandler's dog, Marlowe, written with a humorous but heartfelt voice, shows off Chandler's ability to talk to animals and provides some charming comic relief. Fans of urban fantasy and classic detective stories will enjoy this smart and playful story.

Ovo se definitivno mora procitati. Skidam odma'.

Zavidim ti na slobonom vremenu. Meni je poštar upravo doneo "Poslednju želju" i "Duvača stakla iz Murana", a ja nemam predstave kada ću stiči da to pročitam.

Ah, druze moj; nemam ja bash toliko slobodnog vremena. Ali to nadoknadjujem time sto vec jedno 7 godina ne lezem pre 3 sata ujutro...bez obzira kada ustajao sutradan. Moj bioloski sat je takav da mi je dovoljno svega 5 sati sna i da se osecam naspavanim...tako da sve knjige koje citam, citam navece ;) U svakom slucaju ti javim kakv je roman kada ga procitam ;)

Nov SF u 2009.
Ostao sam dužan da se pozabavim sf romanima u ovoj godini. Pa da počnemo:

Walter Jon Williams ima stand-alone roman, a pod naslovom This Is Not a Game. Vilijams je pisac na čije romane uvek posebno obraćam pažnju, ponajviše stoga što je član spisateljske grupe Critical Maas, debeo i bradat. Ova poslednja dva elementa ključna su za nastanak dobrog pisca sffa. Horor pišu žgoljavi. Vilijams se, inače, oprobao u kiberpanku, spejs-operi, alternativnoj istoriji i koječemu sličnom, a po stilu je blizak Makdonaldu i Sterlingu.

The Immortality Factor bz Ben Bova. Stari autor sa kojim smo se družili u POLARISU. Ja ga nisam nešto preterano voleo, ali ima poklonika u Srbiji.

WWW: Wake Roberta Sojera. Mada je Kanađanin, ne volem ga, ali ljubitelji sfa tvrdog kova kuju ga u zvezde, so...

Peter F. Hamilton ima novi roman u ciklusu Void, pod naslovom The Temporal Void.

Novi Company roman Kejdž Bejker, The Empress of Mars, nastavlja njenu alternativnu istoriju.

House of Suns Alistera Rejnoldsa stigao mi je pre neki dan. Tvrdi sf po uzoru na sedamdesete godine trebalo bi da bude jako dobro primljen kod naših čitalaca.

Vidim da je Laguna objavila novu knjigu u Goranovom prevodu, ali ne zna se je li reč o vesternu, krimiću ili fantastici. Možda bi Goran mogao da kaže nešto više o tome...

Inace, od 27. februara do 7. marta, u Novom Sadu, u Spensu,
trajace veliki prolecni sajam knjiga. Planiraju ucesce oko 70 izdavaca. Ulaz je kao i ranije, besplatan. Videcemo kako ce biti.
Nadam se da ce biti vise domace fantastike nego ranije, i da cu uspeti pronaci neka izdanja kojih nema u knjizarama.
Nadam se i ucescu Paladina ?

Bio sam skoro na sajtu Lagune, i ne vidjoh nista specijalno novo . Osim sto su poskupili cene knjiga. A kvalitet rada je i dalje verovatno isti. Ja mislim da je proslo skoro godinu dana od objavljivanja Prestola od zmajokosti, Teda Wiliamsa, a nastavka jos uvek nema. Od osmog nastavka Roberta DZordana ni traga ni glasa. Pretpostavljam da ce se nastaviti sa praksom delenja iole vece knjige, u dva dela. Kad Martin izda svoj dugoocekivani nastavak, ako to bude kakva knjizurina od 900 strana, ima da je podele u tri dela  :x . Priznajem im uspeh sa Martinom, DZordanom i jos nekim autorima, recimo Marijom Semjonovom, ali u nekim stvarima me jako nerviraju.

Quote from: "nightflier"Vidim da je Laguna objavila novu knjigu u Goranovom prevodu, ali ne zna se je li reč o vesternu, krimiću ili fantastici. Možda bi Goran mogao da kaže nešto više o tome...

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Izašlo!

  www.laguna.co.yu/index.php?m=naslov&id=989

Evo malo srpskog uticaja na svetsku SF scenu:

QuoteTHE CARYATIDS
2009
Review © 2008 by Thomas M. Wagner.

After close to a five year gap, cyberpunk godfather Bruce Sterling emerges from his cryotube with another near-future fiction offering. It's an ecodisaster satire, if you can imagine such a thing, with a ruthless and jaundiced sense of humor that burns like acid rain. Reminiscent of the work of Ballard in his heyday, as well as such classic exercises in trenchant social surrealism as John Brunner's The Jagged Orbit, The Caryatids is one of those books that doesn't so much tickle your funnybone as take a dentist's drill to it. Which means half of you are likely to love it while the other half will find it impossibly off-putting. I'm guessing Bruce wouldn't have it any other way.

In Greek architecture, caryatids are statues of women that serve as columns holding up buildings. Sterling's caryatids are, likewise, a group of women whose heads are burdened with the weight of propping up not a collapsing building, but a collapsing world. The Mihajlovic sisters are the four surviving clones of an illegal biopiracy lab, their "mother" a war criminal. Now, in 2065, they're spread around the globe, but far from apart. Vera, the altruist, works among the toxin miners restoring the Mediterranean island of Mljet to some semblance of its natural state. She's on the side of the Acquis, one of the two ideological superpowers that run (so to speak) most of the shattered post-national Earth.

The other one is the Dispensation, which isn't interested in anything that can't be commodified and monetized and which, not surprisingly, is based in Los Angeles. It's not exactly a satirical stretch to lampoon the shallowness and mendacity of Hollywood culture. But Sterling manages to mine some laughs out of a world that revels in its own superficiality and need to stage-manage literally everything, including the looming end of the world. Vera's sister Radmila is one of LA's most powerful celebrities, married into the Montgomery-Montalban clan, whose name alone Sterling must have truly enjoyed creating. In the world of the Montgomery-Montalbans — the Family, as they call themselves — everything comes down to performance. While the Acquis strive to restore Mljet through hard labor, Vera's brother-in-law John Montgomery turns up one day with a set of glasses that just project a fully restored island over the ruins of the old, and a plan to market the place as a tourist destination.

Sonja is the third sister, working deep in the Gobi Desert. Contrarian as ever, China is one of the very last remaining nation-states around, and its focus is on the development of Mars. If the Earth is falling apart, then why not just move? Sonja has her hands full keeping terrorists away from the experimental Martian biosphere project in the desert, and it's here she'll learn something about herself and her sisters, and the extent of the cloning projects that created her. The fourth sister, Biserka, is the one Sterling does not use as a viewpoint character, because she's virtually mad, and defined not by her own points of view but by how her sisters and others respond to her.

Sterling's caryatids personify the bickering, often petty natures of people at large, particularly our tendency to indulge in the worst of our pettiness precisely when we need to pull together to solve a problem. Sterling's a writer who's always been fascinated by the way people make factions. Today, environmental concerns have led to precisely this sort of divisiveness, with global warming deniers on one side, off-the-grid doomsayers on the other, and the vast fence-sitting middle who have figured out how to turn the word "green" into a hip marketing slogan. The Mihajlovic sisters are ultimately faced with the same moment of truth that we'll be confronted by: do we set our squabbles aside and do what we must to survive as a species, or do we just keep slouching towards armageddon? In Sterling's novel, there's no time left. Massive solar storms are shredding the skies and much of the world has been reduced to dust. But we have a little more time. Will we use it well and wisely? It's an effective message primarily because Sterling is no message-monger. He lets his stories and characters do the talking, and when the result is a book like this one — the prickly, funny, mordant and inspired work of a writer whose edge is still fine more than 25 years into his career — it's worth your time to listen. As cautionary tales go, The Caryatids isn't so much a wake-up call as a whoopee cushion.

Milošević: idealističko oportunistički nacionalista i ludak. Blizu je. Trebalo bi da širimo ovo jevanđelje.

Da nije možda Brus došao na ideju videvši spomenik na Avali?

I Širli ima novi roman, koji je počeo zajedno sa Gibsonom. Inače, viđao sam najave za "Karijatide", ali nisam se nešto posebno zanimao. Izgleda da je trebalo. Svaka čast, Mićo. Meni bi to potpuno promaklo.

Objavljen je novi roman Kim Harison, koja je po svemu sudeći nasledila Lorel Hamilton. Zove se White Witch, Black Curse.

IPS objavio jako zanimljiv naslov: "Zlikovci - Petparačke priče". Reč je o zbirci koju je priredio Oto Pencler, sa predgovorom Harlana Elisona.

Elen Datlou se i dalje bavi uredničkim poslom. Njena najnovija antologija nosi naslov "Po".

QuoteOne of the field's most respected editors celebrates the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth with an original anthology of 19 dark fantasy, horror, and suspense stories inspired by Poe and written by an impressive roster of authors including Kim Newman, Melanie Tem, Pat Cadigan, and Lucius Shepard. ''There are no cheap knock-offs or ersatz sequels among these 19 fine stories.''

Quote from: "nightflier"Elen Datlou se i dalje bavi uredničkim poslom. Njena najnovija antologija nosi naslov "Po".

QuoteOne of the field's most respected editors celebrates the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth with an original anthology of 19 dark fantasy, horror, and suspense stories inspired by Poe and written by an impressive roster of authors including Kim Newman, Melanie Tem, Pat Cadigan, and Lucius Shepard. ''There are no cheap knock-offs or ersatz sequels among these 19 fine stories.''

javi ako ti ovo padne u šake, baš bi me zanimalo kakvo je ZAISTA.

Pomislio sam na tebe kad sam video vest. Knjiga je tek objavljena, tako da ne znam kada ću je nabaviti.

Pročitao sam White Witch, Black Curse, i moram reći da sam razočaran, baš kao sa Bone Crossed Patriše Brigz. U žanru urbane fantastike očigledno vlada neka suša ideja, mada sve više pisaca sf-a i klasične epske fantastike prelazi u ovaj podžanr, u potrazi za komercijalnim uspehom. Međutim, čak i izuzetno nadareni pisci, kao što je Denijel Abraham iz kreativne grupe Critical Maas, u poslednje vreme grcaju pod teretom klišea.

The Necromancer by Kevin Dun

Salem, Massachusetts, 1692: The witch-hunts begin. Neighbors are turning on one another. A smallpox epidemic has broken out. People are dying. One man is responsible, a warlock of great power-The Necromancer-and he has just seduced one of Salem's purest women into a perdition that will haunt her the rest of her life. Using actual historical events as the backdrop for the fictional story of Reverend Ambrose Blayne and Susanna Harrington, it is a novel of passion, horror, love, and the cruelty which man is capable of. It is a deeply disturbing, often graphic depiction of those brutal and uncertain times. The novel, while primarily set in Salem, sprawls across Europe from witches being burned at the stake in Scotland to spiritual awakenings in the Roman Amphitheater and depraved Witches' Sabbats in the Harz Mountains of Germany. The series of events culminates in the warlock's summoning of a Lovecraftian demon which threatens to unknit the fabric of the world and an ending that will chill the reader's blood.

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Javlja mi se da će High Duke uskoro dobiti ponudu da uradi jedan prevod za Alnari. Naime, Trudi Kanavan je objavila prikvel svoje jako popularne trilogije "Crni čarobnjak", krajnje originalnog naslova - The Magician's Apprentice.

QuoteSet hundreds of years before the events of The Magicians' Guild, THE MAGICIAN'S APPRENTICE is the new novel set in the world of Trudi Canavan's Black Magician Trilogy.

In the remote village of Mandryn, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer. Her mother would rather she found a husband. But her life is about to take a very unexpected turn.

When the advances of a visiting Sachakan mage get violent, Tessia unconsciously taps unknown reserves of magic to defend herself. Lord Dakon, the local magician, takes Tessia under his wing as an apprentice.

The long hours of study and self-discipline also offer more opportunities than she had ever hoped for, and an exciting new world opens up to her. There are fine clothes and servants - and, to Tessia's delight - regular trips to the great city of Imardin.

But along with the excitement and privilege, Tessia is about to discover that her magical gifts bring with them a great deal of responsibility. For great danger looms on the horizon for Tessia and her world.

Sreo sam skoro jednog prijatelja, koji me je pitao kada će Laguna da objavi narednog Džordana, i da li ima izgleda da sa time malo ubrzaju. Sav razočaran mojim odgovorom da više ne radim za tog izdavača, pitao me je šta bi mogao da pročita, a da liči na Džordana. Odgovor se svodi na dve spisateljice, koje su nezasluženo neprimećene od strane naših fanova: Mišel Vest i Kejt Eliot. Obe imaju nove knjige, pa stoga imam opravdanje da o njima divanim na ovoj temi.

Elem, Vestova je Kanađanka koju sam već spominjao. Piše pod tri imena, baveći se različitim podžanrovima. Počela je sa klasičnom Džordanovskom megafantazijom, serijalom The Sun Sword, a trenutno je jako popularan njen serijal Chronicles of Elantra, u kojem je spojila paranormalnu romantiku, romantičnu fantaziju i klasičnu epsku fantastiku. Serijal The Sun Sword broji šest knjiga, a sada je dobio i spin-ov serijal, koji počinje naslovom The Hidden City. Relativno skoro objavljenim. Vestova ima još dva serijala, ali o njima drugi put.

Kejt Eliot je takođe počela devedesetih. Njen megaserijal broji sedam naslova, pod zajedničkim nazivom The Crown of Stars. Po stilu pripovedanja možda više podseća na Robin Hob, mesto na Džordana, ali ni Vestova se nije pretrgla od oponašanja pokojnog nam Roberta, pa stoga nema veze. Zapravo, obe pišu prilično bolje od Džordana. Pre dve-tri godine otpočela je novi serijal, i to romanom Spirit Gate, koji je nedavno dobio nastavak - Shadow Gate. Ova dva serijala nisu povezana, inače.

Imam Sun Sword na racunaru, ali necu da ga citam jer ne mogu nigde da nadjem ostale delove. I ja sam isto cuo da ako volis Dzordana da ce i Vestova da ti se svidi. Al' sad scejedno nemam vremena za citanje, tako da ni od toga nista. Baj d vej, procitao sam Poslednju Zelju od Sepkovskog, svidela mi se bas.

E da. Koga zanima, 2 ddeo Kingkiller Chronicles-a nece izaci u aprilu. Rotfus je izgleda postao kao Martin, ali nadajmo se da nece toliko odugovlaciti sa drugom knjigom. Enivej, koga zanima sta sam pisac kaze o tome, moze to da procita na njegovom blogu:

http://www.patrickrothfuss.com/blog/blog.html

Nakon prilično neuspešne prethodne knjige iz svog sveta o mračnim draguljima, Tangled Webs, En Bišop ima nov naslov u serijalu - The Shadow Queen.

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Znam to, bila je premijera knjige pre neki dan. Zvali su me da prisustvujem preko fejsa, posto sam fan Black Jewelsa :D

Nego, imam jedno pitanje za tebe nightflieru: Imas li mozda informaciju o tome da li Mono i Manjana ima u planu da izdaje jos knjiga od Son Rasela? Recimo sikvel duologiju za River into Darkness pod nazivom Rise of Moontide & Magic?

Nemam. Nisam ni u kakvom kontaktu sa njima. Znam im jednu lektroku i to je to.

Suvudu.com, the online portal for SF and fantasy from Random House, has announced their Free Book Library, offering readers free PDF downloads of the first books in assorted series.

The first five books on offer are Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb, Her Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik; Blood Engines by T.A. Pratt; Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson; and Settling Accounts: Return Invasion by Harry Turtledove. They plan to add additional books on an ongoing basis. To download, visit www.suvudu.com/freelibrary .

Koga zanima, Jim Butcher, tvorac serijala o Hariju Drezdenu, daje prvih par poglavlja svoje poslednje knjige o gorepomenutom liku na svome sajtu...evo linka:

http://www.jim-butcher.com/books/dresden/11/fullpreview.php

Izašla je nova knjiga Dejvida Vebera Storm from the Shadows. Imao sam prilike da je čitam znatno ranije, kao ARC. Moram priznati da me nije opčinila koliko romani koji prate Onor Harington, mada povezuje nekoliko sporednih naslova iz "Honorversa". Svejedno, za ljubitelje militeri spejs opera, odavno nije bilo ničeg boljeg. Naravno, još čekamo najavljeni nastavak sage o Majlsu Vorkosiganu, ali Veber ispunjava neke od najvažnijih uslova da bude miljenik srpskog čitalaštva, za razliku od Bižolove - to jest, debeo je i bradat. Zanimljivo mi je, inače, da je Veber pisac koji je redovno u vrhu Njujork tajmsove liste bestselera (Storm from the Shadows je debitovao na 12. mestu), ali nikada nije ni prismrdeo nekoj nagradi. Svejedno, reč je o piscu kojeg jako volim i koji je beskrajno zabavan.

Ovaj...ima li neka izdavacka kuca u planu mozda da objavi poslednje hronike Tomasa Kovenanta? Cini mi se da Moc Knjige odavno ne postoji, pa da li ce neok preuzeti ovaj serijal, da dovrsi...?

Te knjige su OGROMNE... a ciljna publika je mala - ipak je to treći ciklus. Voleo bih da se to desi, ali sumnjam.

A i da se ne lažemo, nije to loše, al nije ni blizu vrha Donaldsonove ponude. Pre ćemo videti The Gap (uh bre, pa ja sam to počeo da čitam i zaboravio na njega... damn). A ja bih još više voleo prvo njegove priče pa onda serijal Brew. To je odlično...

Ne mogu da sudim, posto sam od njega citao samo Hronike T.K....cini mi se da je on vise orentisan na SF, a ja SF i ne volim toliko. Sem toga, meni su Hronike jedan od najboljih serijala fantastike...pored toga, prevod je odlican. Bas sam ih uzeo citati po 2 put nakon 2 godine, i opet sam se odusevio. Cak mi je druga trilogija bolja od prve.

Donaldsona je preuzeo Stilos, kao i Tolkina. Pitaću šta nameravaju da rade s tim kada Srđanu uradim prevod.

Quote from: "nightflier"Donaldsona je preuzeo Stilos, kao i Tolkina. Pitaću šta nameravaju da rade s tim kada Srđanu uradim prevod.

Ko drži Michael Pollan-a?

Zar je on objavljivan kod nas?

Bash sam se pre neki dan setio, negde pre nekih 10-11 godina, procitao sam knjigu "Crni Gusar" od italijanskog pisca Emilija Salgarija. Secam se da mi je bila predobra knjiga u to vreme, sa piratima, ljubavnom pricom...cini mi se da je bio i nastavak "Kraljica Kariba." Zeleo bih da to ponovo procitam, pa me zanima da nema neka izdavacka kuca mozda u planu da to izda?

Quote from: "Perin"Bash sam se pre neki dan setio, negde pre nekih 10-11 godina, procitao sam knjigu "Crni Gusar" od italijanskog pisca Emilija Salgarija. Secam se da mi je bila predobra knjiga u to vreme, sa piratima, ljubavnom pricom...cini mi se da je bio i nastavak "Kraljica Kariba." Zeleo bih da to ponovo procitam, pa me zanima da nema neka izdavacka kuca mozda u planu da to izda?

Ti nisi normalan! Samo ako to neko ne objavi. Tih knjiga ima kao pleve po antikvarnicama.

Oi, Oi, keep your hair on :?: Ovde kod mene nema antikvarnica, a ni u biblioteci se ne moze naci. Nisam znao da ih ima kupiti bilo gde, znam da je neki hrvatski izdavac izdao '99-te godine. Enivej, u svakom slucaju hvala, kad budem dolazio u BG na sajam kupicu.  :wink:

Imam Crnog gusara i Kraljicu Kariba u Radovom izdanju iz ja mislim osamdeset i neke(to su one čuvene naslovnice sa fotografijama kolaža umesto ilustracija).
Kupila mi keva u kompletu sa još nekoliko Vernovih knjiga za rođendan.Dosta sam očekivao od tih romana jer sam znao da je Salgari tvorac Sandokana,kultne ličnosti dečurlije iz SFRJ kao i to da ga zovu italijanski Žil vern.
Medjutim,ovi romani koje sam pročitao u osmom osnovne mi nisu ostavili bogzna kakav utisak.Koliko me sećanje služi-prosto nabrajanje bitaka,bez nekih posebnih zapleta ili karakterizacije likova,sve pisano prilično jednostavnim i siromašnim stilom.Čak sam Kraljicu jedva dovršio.
Zbog tog utiska nisam se kasnije ponovo vraćao ovim knjigama al svejedno ne bih se od njih rastajao da ne razbijam komplet koji lepo izgleda u vitrini.
Enivej,možda i grešim,zanima me da čujem i još nečije mišljenje ako je još neko imao kasnije prilike da objektivno vrednuje ovo popularno dečije štivo.
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Salgari's work was imitated in one form or another by many others who came after him. Italian adventure literature is a continuation of Salgari's work. Many late 19th century writers like Luigi Motta and Emilio Fancelli penned further Sandokan adventures imitating Salgari's style: fast-paced, filled with great battles, blood, violence and punctuated with humour.

The style soon spread to movies and television. One example is iconic Spaghetti Western director Sergio Leone, whose outlaw heroes were inspired by Salgari's piratical adventurers. There have been over 50 cinematographic adaptations of Salgari's novels, and many more inspired by his work (corsair stories, jungle adventure stories, and swashbuckling B movies like Morgan, the Pirate, starring Steve Reeves).

Fellini loved Salgari's books. Mascagni had over 50 Salgari titles in his library. Umberto Eco read Salgari's works as a child, as did many Latin American writers (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda, to name but a few). Che Guevara read 62 of his books. Guevara's biographer Paco Ignacio Taibo II remarked that his anti-imperialism could be seen to be "Salgarian in origin".

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Ja znam da sam procitao knjigu par puta, al' sam tada imao mozda 10-11 godina i takva vrsta gusarskih prica sa dozom romantike su me privlacila. Secam se da se prica vrti oko nekog plemica koji je postao gusar da bi se osvetio nekom tipu pod imenom Van Guld. Pa u tu pricicu upada neka zena, koja je na brodu naseg junaka a on ne zna da je ona kci njegovog smrtnog neprijatelja...uglavnom, znam da je bio klise, ali mi je bila omiljena knjiga u to vreme i voleo bih da je imam na polici. Ono cega se bas secam jeste neko putesestvije kroz neku dzunlgu i opsivanje nekih biljaka iz prasume, znam da sam te delove gutao :D Kupice mi kolegica iz Hrvatske njihovo izdanje pa ce poslati. Kad se prisetim svega, javljam utiske.

Nova knjiga Kejt Denijels, Magic Strikes, odigrava se u svetu u kojem se magija vratila na velika vrata, skupa sa svim karakondžulama koje žive u magijskom svetu - što je poslednjih godina jako popularna tema u urbanoj fantastici. Treći naslov u serijalu obeležen je vidnim napretkom u pisanju u odnosu na prethodnike, tako je moguće da ćemo konačno dobiti zadovoljavajućeg pisca ovog podžanra. Dobro, Sa izuzetkom Bučera. Kome se Hari dopada, dopašće mu se i ovo. Ako ništa drugo, Denijelsova je, posle Hamiltonke, osmislila najmaštovitiji svet urbane fantastike i paranormalne romantike koji sam ja čitao u poslednje vreme. Doduše, videćemo da li će Robin Makinli da napiše nastavak Sunshine-a, koji sam ne tako davno hvalio...

Nova knjiga Jima Butchera, jednog od najpopularnijih pisaca urban fentezija, je upravo pustena u prodaju. Radi se o novom romanu u serijalu o Hariju Drezdenu, pod nazivom "Turn Coat." Ja cu je verovatno veceras ili sutra procitati, cim ugrabim vremena od posla, pa cu javit' utiske.

Uz jedno veliko izvinjenje zbog toga što me nema po forumima i na blogu, iskoristio bih ovaj trenutak pristupa internetu da spomenem kako je drugi nastavak romana o Beki Kuper u prodaji. Naravno, reč je o romanu Tamore Pirs, jedne od najboljih pisaca za decu i omladinu u SAD, još od osamdesetih. Ako ovaj svojevrsni prikvel romana smeštenih u kraljevinu Tortal bude pratio smernice prethodnih, verovatno će imati četiri knjige. Iskrena preporuka.

Osvrnuvši se na istoriju tvojih nevolja sa internetom u ovom veku, slobodan sam da zaključim da tu zapravo postoji neki problem u tebi i da tvoja negativna energija razara elektrokonekciju sa svetom.
Navoručenije: ne puštajte ovog čoveka da koristi internet na vašem računaru.

Mnjmph! Bojim se da je u ovom slučaju kriv stanar koji je nešto zajebao dok je živeo u mom sadašnjem stanu, pa sada naprasno nema "tehničkih mogućnosti" da se uvede adsl, a nijedan kablovski provajder nije sa kablovima stigao do te tačke u Zemunu.

U kom Zemuna stanuješ?

Preko puta Zemunskog parka.

Nisam siguran da ti je pametno da Hobitu odaješ svoju lokaciju.
Još uvek ne znamo šta je tačno njegov naum na ovom svetu.

Quote from: "nightflier"Preko puta Zemunskog parka.

Hm, "preko puta Zemunskog parka" može da bude, prema bolnici, prema Vrtlarskoj, prema vartogascima ili prema Meku. Na nekim od tih "lokacija" ima kablovskog interneta....

 @  Boban

Naravno, Bobane, moje namere su strašne. Planiram da izvečeri u potaji pokoljem tupom sabljom sve učesnike foruma, i, zakopam ih u Zemunskom parku, a gde drugde?!
Pri tom, inspirisaću Ghoula da napiše novi horor roman, predlažem naslov "Preklani namrtvo".

Pošto živimo blizu, možda ću da poštedim nightflitera, možda popijemo kafu u nekom kafiću u Gospodskoj, ima tamo i par dobrih knjižara... to su ona mesta, Bobane, koja tebe ne interesuju, priča se ovde po forumu, a i šire, po gradu, da ti i tako ništa ne čitaš

a, ti si od tih, hobite, što love muškiće po forumima za "druženje"?
Sad postaje sve mnogo jasnije...

Elem, živim u Vrtlarskoj - a nažalost nema nikakvih mogućnosti ni za kakav internet. Prethodni stanar je sa sobom preneo adsl, nijedan kablovski provajder nije proširio mrežu dotle, a bežičnog nema.

Ako je preneo ADSL, valjda nije preneo telefonsku liniju?!!!

Hm, da, Vrtlarska (ta strana parka) je slepo crevo za kablovske operatere.
Zakk je u pravu, ako je predhodni vlasnik preneo ADSL, nije preneo i telefonsku liniju. Tu bi moglo da se poradi na tome da ti uključe. Taj deo je "digitalizovan" tako da ima uslova za ADSL, nemoj da te lažu.
Pri tom, ako je stan iznajmljen, onda ni predhodni stanar, pošto je bio zakupac, nije mogao da ima ADSL na svoje ime, već samo na ime vlasnika tel. priključka, pa samim tim nije mogao ni da ga "odnese". To te gazda stana nešto mulja

Opet nisi u pravu. Kablovski operateri sklapaju ugovor na licu mesta sa osobom koja u tom trenutku ima ličnu kartu. Znam nekoliko primera gde se kablovska vodi na podstanare, a u jednom slučaju, posle odlaska prethodnog stanara, vlasnik stana ima dosta problema da prebaci pretplatu na svoje ime. Naizgled nema veze na koga se vodi, ali ako poželiš da promeniš paket ili vrstu usluge u okviru kablovske, obavezno je da se pojavi onaj na koga se vodi sa ličnom kartom.

Alo, Bobane
ne pričamo o KABLOVSKOM INTERNETU jer toga tamo NEMA, reč je o ADSL-u, to ti je, Bobane, ono što je povezano sa telefonskom linijom, i ima veze sa vlasnikom telefona.
Ako već ne čitaš knjige, čitaj bar postove kada se uključuješ u razgovor.
I daj da pomognemo čoveku, a ne da gubimo vreme oko toga ko je u pravu a ko nije, i oko toga da stalno tražiš priliku kako bi mene, iz samo tebi znanih razloga, podjebavao. Postaje dosadno pomalo.

Nighty, ako u stanu imas telefon, onda je ADSL tehnicki moguc, pod uslovom da su operatori sklopili ugovor sa telekomom da propustaju signal kroz postojece linije. Ako je telefon na tvoje ime, onda izaberi provajdera i nazovi ga, te ga priupitaj da li na telefonskom broju koji ti imas moze da se pusti ADSL i koja mu je maksimalna teorijska brzina. Ako ti daju potvrdan odgovor, onda se samo pretplati. Oni ne moraju da izvodi nikakve radove, niti ista da menjaju na tvojoj instalaciji. Tvoja pretplata ne utice na istorijskog operatora fiksne telefonije (koga placas obaska), a vlasniku stana to ne menja nista u zivotu.

Kablovska je drugo. Operator mora da sprovede kabl do zgrade, da busi zidove, da instalira prikljucak i tek onda mozes da se prikljucis. Jebes kablovsku, kad je ADSL prakticniji. Naravno najbolji je opticki kabl, a za to imate malo da cekate.

Sve to sto je cornelius rekao - tačno je. Uz jedan dodatak! Ako se opredeliš da ti ADSL operater bude Telekom (što ti toplo preporučujem jer su stvarno ok), onda ti dolazi zbirni račun i za telefonske usluge i za ADSL. Možeš da zahtevaš da ti šalju račune i odvojeno, mada, zašto bi to radio!? Ipak, ima jedan uslov za sve to: Vlasnik priključka mora da potpiše ugovor!

Hvala vam na savetima, ali već sam potegao neke veze. Samo. izgleda da nije svuda isto. Naime, prethodni stanar je adsl uveo na svoje ime, preko Telekoma, i stizali su odvojeni računi. U međuvremenu sam zvao čoveka, ali on se preselio u Crnu Goru, pa je otkazao nalog. Izgleda da su kreteni u pošti prodali moje portove nekom drugom, ili šta već. I ja sam se prijavio kod Telekoma - i sad čekam. Čim prođu praznici, nagariću veze u ptt-u da zajebu nekog drugog jadnika da bih ja dobio net. Srbija, šta ćeš.

A da se vratim na temu teme - pročitao sam Bloodhound, novu knjigu Tamore Pirs, koju sam pre nekoliko postova hvalio. Ne mogu da verujem da ću ovo reći, ali - dosadna je. Pirsova je sasvim očigledno poklekla pred izdavačkom silom i upustila se u pisanje sve dužih knjiga. To joj sasvim očigledno ne leži. Da podsetim, njene ranije knjige retko kad prelaze 250 šlajfni. Bloodhound je drastično obimnija. i dosadnija. Šteta.

Quote from: "Hobit"Vlasnik priključka mora da potpiše ugovor!

Možda bi trebalo, ali ne mora. Ja se potpiso, nit sam vlasnik nit se vodim na toj adresi nit išta... i dobio ADSL kod Telekoma.

Jeee! Dobih svoj prostor na Sagiti! Sada mogu da se ovde bavim nekim sadržajima koje sam zaplanirao za blog, a iz raznoraznih razloga nisam sproveo u delo.

Ali da ne odstupam od ove teme na kojoj smo, što bi rekao BB, želeo bih ovdašnjoj čitalačkoj populaciji da skrenem pažnju na nastavak sjajnog romana Maledicte, iz 2007. godine, a pod naslovom Kings and Assassins. Da podsetim, Maledicte je neka suluda mešavina epske fantastike, horora i mračne fantastike, a spisateljka - Lejn Robins - jako lepim stilom pripoveda grozote tela i duha. Kings and Assassins dobio sam kao poklon za prvomajske praznike, tako da još nisam stigao da ga pročitam, ali već od sutra eto mene ponovo u raznim čekaonicama, pa ću ga brzo sažvakati.

Možda ne bi bilo loše sve ovo tvoje pisanije razbiti po nekom principu u više toika. Ovako, ako sve budeš držao u jednom topiku, tebi ne treba poddiskusija, nego sticky...

Pa imam nameru da otvorim još nekoliko tema. Na primer: "Pisci koje smo zaboravili", gde bih se bavio knjigama i piscima koji su nekada bili veoma popularni, ali su iz nekog razloga prestali to da budu - naročito kod mlađih čitalaca. Na primer, Pol Anderson, Fric Lajber... Onda, mogao bi da prebaciš ovde Nightflier's Best ov de best, samo - ako možeš - izbaci iz naziva teme godinu proizvodnje. Imam još nekoliko zamisli za nove teme, ali trenutno sam u deficitu s vremenom (znaš već zašto), pa ne stižem. Računam da ću za koji dan imati nekoliko tekstova za nove teme.

Ovo deluje zanimljivo:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to read.

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A ja se trenutno kanim da pročitam novog Asaveda, Jailbait Zombie.

Ovo zvuči zanimljivo, ali su meni uvijek bili mrski zombiji koji su probirljivi u pogledu djelova tijela koje konzumiraju.

Od danas je u prodaji novi horror romance roman Šarlejn Haris, iz ciklusa o telepatskoj konobarici Suki Stekhaus. Roman se zove Dead and Gone. Kod nas je ovaj serijal postao popularan tek odskora, sa serijom True Blood, a našao je i domaćeg izdavača.

Evo još jedne knjige o zombijima, samo za Skalopa:

The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies

The invasion begins . . . and the dead start to rise. There's panic in the streets of London as invaders from Mars wreak havoc on the living, slaying the populace with Heat-Rays and poisonous clouds of black smoke. Humanity struggles to survive against technology far beyond its own, meeting fear and death at every turn. But that's not the only struggle mankind must face. The dead are rising from their graves with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Friends, neighbours and loved ones lost to the war of the worlds are now the enemy and the Earth is forever changed. It's kill or be killed, if you want to survive, otherwise you might become one of the walking dead yourself.

Da nastavimo sa zombijima...

Trilogija As The World Dies jako je popularna i zombifili ocenili su je veoma pozitivno. Pisac je Rhiannon Frater. Meni ovo neće stiče na red za čitanje do zime, pa ako neko ima vremena - neka pročita i kaže je li dobro ili ne.

Malopređašnji post mi je pojeo internet, pa da krenem ponovo.

Nove knjige: Lorel Hamilton ima novi roman - sedamnaesti o Aniti Blejk - Skin Trade. Izgleda da se u ovoj knjizi manula seksa dovoljno da ispriča i neku priču, pa ću ga možda i pročitati.

Jedna od njenih naslednica, Kim Harison, takođe ima novi roman, ali i novi srijal. Reč je o Once Dead, Once Shy.

QuoteMadison is dead. After she fled her prom with a mysterious guy and ended up in a crashed car—only to survive and then be struck down by this guy's magical sword—she has existed in a curious state of purgatory. She still walks around, interacts with others, eats, and sleeps, only now she does so in the company of Barnabas, a light reaper—a kind of angel who fights off dark reapers trying to harvest the souls of people about to make fate-altering decisions. There are also timekeepers, dark wings, guardian angels, seraphs, and magical amulets. If you're already clutching your head in despair, you won't be alone: the architecture of Harrison's world is confusing even after several explanations. However, for ardent fans of the good-looking undead, this has plenty of verve, an enjoyable role reversal (Madison is constantly rescuing the good-guy hunk), and is quite fun when the supernatural characters are placed within a regular high-school milieu. Like it or not, a sequel is rising from the underworld as we speak.

Kasandra Kler objavila je novi roman City of Glass - pravo osveženje u polavi Poterovih klonova i raznih sumračnika.

Čarls de Lint, koji mahom piše nešto što nazivaju "savremena fantastika" objavio je The Mystery of Grace.

E sad, jedna od mojih dragih spisateljica, Megi Fjuri, objavila je prikvel serijala "Aurijan". Reč je o romanu Heritage of the Xandim. Mada mrzim prikvele, mislim da ovo vredi pročitati.

Da ne bude da ne posvećujem pažnju sf-u, Piter Hamilton, Lucijus Šepard i Alen Stil objavili su nove romane.

Toliko u ovom postu.

Za novu Anitu Blejk neke opise imaš ovde: http://www.amazon.com/Trade-Anita-Blake-Vampire-Hunter/dp/0425227723

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Mislim da ovo čak ni ja neću da pročitam, a pročitala sam sve prethodne.

Svaka ti čast. Ja sam digao ruke posle "Harlekina". Okej: pročitao komentar. Sva sreća što sam dobio knjigu, ali ja ovo ne čitam. Radije ću čitati Kejt Danijels. Zapravo, već sam pročitao ono što je napisala. Druga knjiga je mali let down, ali u trećoj se popravlja. Fejt Hanter je takođe dobra alternativa... Mislim da ću sastaviti spisak knjiga koje valja čitati mesto Anite Blejk. Što se mene tiče, moram da nabavim ono kolekcionasko izdanje prvih devet romana u tri toma, sa Rojovim ilustracija i posle toga me ništa ne zanima. Ciklus o Meredit mi se tu i tamo drži, ali voleo bih da se vrati pisanju o Keleios.

Quote from: nightflier on 08-05-2009, 14:47:44
Evo još jedne knjige o zombijima, samo za Skalopa:

Tražiću da se na ovom delu foruma ukine tvoj kutak, jer više nije u okviru podforuma.

Uzgred, Bruks je pobio sve zombije. Vaskrsavaju ih neinventivni i tupavi. :|

A što nije u okviru podforuma? Šta, zombiji nisu fantastika? Sem toga, u toj poslednjoj preporuci zombiji su očigledna posledica Marsovaca. Dakle, čist sf. Nisam ja kriv što si ti pod stare dane postao pobornik horora,  :twisted:

Dva nova sf naslova nikako se ne smeju propustiti: The New Space Opera 2, koju su uredili Strahan i Dozoa, i Years Best SF 14. The New Space Opera 1 posedujem i jako sam uživao u njoj, tako da je nastavak neizostavna kupovina - posle krize.

Quote from: nightflier on 03-06-2009, 21:42:57
A što nije u okviru podforuma? Šta, zombiji nisu fantastika? Sem toga, u toj poslednjoj preporuci zombiji su očigledna posledica Marsovaca. Dakle, čist sf. Nisam ja kriv što si ti pod stare dane postao pobornik horora,  :twisted:

Marsovci i Zombiji? To ne bi progutala ni 1953. godina. Zar nije dosta glupih knjiga? Delovao si mi trezveno kad sam te poslednji put video. Volim ja horor, ako može da me uplaši, da strepim, da se naježim... Debilomanija me iritira. Čist SF ne postoji. Nikada nije ni postojao. To je oksimoron. Postoje neke konvencije i kompromisi, klizave hipoteze koje služe da bi se preispitivala realnost. Jebote, zar niko nije u stanju da to pseudožanrovsko stanje postavi na svoje mesto? xtwak

Pa ne može, jer čim se stanje definiše steknu se elementi za obilaženje definicije. Kao kad menjaš budućnost samim tim što imaš znanje o istoj.

Quote from: scallop on 05-06-2009, 00:20:05

Quote from: nightflier on 03-06-2009, 21:42:57
A što nije u okviru podforuma? Šta, zombiji nisu fantastika? Sem toga, u toj poslednjoj preporuci zombiji su očigledna posledica Marsovaca. Dakle, čist sf. Nisam ja kriv što si ti pod stare dane postao pobornik horora,  :twisted:

Marsovci i Zombiji? To ne bi progutala ni 1953. godina. Zar nije dosta glupih knjiga? Delovao si mi trezveno kad sam te poslednji put video. Volim ja horor, ako može da me uplaši, da strepim, da se naježim... Debilomanija me iritira. Čist SF ne postoji. Nikada nije ni postojao. To je oksimoron. Postoje neke konvencije i kompromisi, klizave hipoteze koje služe da bi se preispitivala realnost. Jebote, zar niko nije u stanju da to pseudožanrovsko stanje postavi na svoje mesto? xtwak

Dobro, valjda ti je jasno da je trenutno poplava tih i takvih romana zbog predstojećeg filma po WWZ-u, a i da bi se iskoristio talas zombifilije koji već nekoliko godina uzima zalet. Zombiji su ti novi vampiri. A glede horora, pa... izvinjavam se, ali ja zombije ne doživljavam kao horor - bar ne ove novokomponovane romerovske zombije. Doživljavam ih kao nekakvu fanastiku, pa ih stoga i pominjem ovde. Sad, da li mi se takve knjige dopadaju - ne nužno. Ali ima ljudi koji vole da ih čitaju. Doduše, nisam siguran da ti zalaze na ovu temu; verovatno se drže dela podforuma o hororu, a nisam siguran ni da preterano čitaju, već mi se čini da mahom gledaju filmove. Ali ja sam svoje ispunio, pa podelio sa ostalima ono što sam čuo i ono što mi je dopalo šaka. Verovatno ima još mali milion raznih zombi-proizvoda u opticaju, ali ovih poslednjih nekoliko naslova se izdvojilo iz ponude.

Nego, mani se više tih zombija. Bolje pogledaj The New Space Opera 2. Evo spiska učesnika:

Neal Asher
John Barnes
Cory Doctorow
John Kessel
Jay Lake
John Meaney
Elizabeth Moon
Garth Nix
Mike Resnick
Justina Robson
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
John Scalzi
Bruce Sterling
Peter Watts
Sean Williams
Tad Williams
Bill Willingham
Robert Charles Wilson
John C. Wright

Sve sam vrh ono malo preostalih pisaca sf-a. Izgleda mi da se sf povukao u kraće forme, gde se oduvek najbolje i snalazio. Prva zbirka je sjajna i nemam razloga da pretpostavljam kako ova neće biti. Prva kombinuje stare majstore sa novim nadama, tako da je sjajan presek trenutnog stanja u žanru. Dvojku željno iščekujem, pošto sam nešto navadio na zbirke priča u poslednje vreme. Zgodne su za bolničke i druge čekaonice.

Nightflyer je u pravu. Bar po piscima, ovo je ono najbolje što savremeni anglosaksonski SF može da ponudi... Ali, kao i Radmilo, i ja sam skeptičan kada pisci pišu po zadatku... Ipak, valja im pružiti šansu.

Ja sam tu prvu zbirku video kad je izišla, ali sam rešio da pričekam da vidim šta kritika kaže. Hajde daj malo detaljniji prikaz, iz svog ugla...

Sa velikim zadovoljstvom, ali tek posle vikenda, pošto tu zaista svakoj noveli valja posvetiti pažnje, a obećao sam Bobanu da ću se potruditi da mu do ponedeonika završim "Ligu 2". Ne znam da li ću uspeti, ali pokušaću. Elem, ne samo da valja pričama posvetiti pažnju, već i nekima od pisaca - budući da našem čitalaštvu nisu poznati. Hoću da kažem, biće mi potrebno dan-dva da napišem taj malo detaljniji prikaz.

Super.

THE CITY AND THE CITY
by China Miéville (Fantasy)
Hardcover

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.

Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel's equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman's secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives.

What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.

Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.

MOONBURN
by Alisa Sheckley (Urban Fantasy)
Mass Market

Some instincts are too powerful to deny.

In the past year, veterinarian Abra Barrow has gone through some major changes: She's left Manhattan for the deceptively quiet small town of Northside, ditched her cheating husband, and discovered that he has infected her with the rare werewolf virus. Now Abra is finally beginning to feel as if she has her life under control—except when the moon is full.

But then, all of a sudden, Abra starts losing her temper—and her inhibitions—even when the sun is shining. Her new man, shape-shifting wildlife expert Red Mallin, seems to know more about her condition than he's letting on, but he's a little preoccupied with strange creatures that have been crossing the dimensional border.

With her hormones in overdrive, Abra finds herself releasing the beast in all the men around her. As life in Northside becomes increasingly more peculiar—and more perilous—she must decide whom she can trust… when she's not even sure she can trust herself.

Poklonici romana o Aniti Blejk mogli bi da se okušaju sa delima spisateljice po imenu Lisa Shearin. Za sada ima tri romana, Magic Lost, Trouble Found, Armed & Magical i The Trouble with Demons.

Poklonici stimpanka nikako ne bi smeli da propuste Whitechapel Gods i Ghost Ocean. Autor je S. M. Peters. Mene podseća na mešavinu Gejmana i Mjevila. Još nisam stigao da pročitam, ali visoko mi je na spisku prioriteta.

Quote from: Goran Skrobonja on 04-05-2009, 11:38:44
Ovo deluje zanimljivo:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

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iz neznanog razloga ovo tek sad videh, a negde u vreme kad je postovano pomislih kako bi trebalo da repriziram "gordost i predrasuda". ocel neko ovo prevodit? ili to samo onako post, kao vidi sta sam nasao?

Knjiga je loša, kako čujem.

Većina tih naslova samo se trudi da iskoristi halabuku koja trenutno vlada u vezi s zombijima. Retko koji od njih zavređuje ozbiljno čitanje, čak i kada je reč o zombifilima, što ja nisam.

ondak ce da radi obican gordost i predrasuda. i ovako i onako ne volim zombije; ucinilo mi se interesantnim kao ideja, pa ko velim...

Ne znam da li ljubitelji horora zalaze na ovu temu, ali vidim da na svom delu foruma ne pominju novu nadu književne strave i užasa. Naravno, reč je o romanu The Strain, a autora Giljerma del Tora i Čaka Hogana.

QuoteA Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.

In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . .

So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city--a city that includes his wife and son--before it is too late.

Kada smo kod horora, IPS je objavio tinejdž horor "Kraljica demona". Detaljan prikaz pišem za Popboks, a za sada:

QuoteThe final assault on Longview was going to do more than just destroy the town -- it was going to rip open the world. In the blackness surrounding the town he thought he could see Rangda's enormous maw, open and hungry, ready to devour.

Jesse is a boy with a mysterious past. In and out of foster homes his whole life, he believes he was abandoned in Los Angeles as a baby. When he comes under the scrutiny of Homeland Security in an incident involving a mistaken identity, he starts learning some unsettling facts about himself.

Now he is living with the Mindells in a small Midwestern town, and for the first time he feels like he may have a real home -- until Honor Clarke shows up. Ever since Honor and her mother moved back to town following the gruesome death of Honor's father, strange things have been happening. Someone is murdering birds and painting odd symbols all over town, and Jesse feels as if he's losing his mind. He starts to see a man no one else can see, he is having violent nightmares, and it all seems to be leading to one conclusion -- he is here for only one reason: to fight the evil that is Rangda, the Demon Queen, and her loyal follower, Honor Clarke, no matter the consequences.

Richard Lewis brings Indonesian mythology and legend to the present day in this chilling novel of unimaginable horror.

O, Zače, what the FRAK se dešava sa kodovanjem? Da li da stalno kvoutujem da ne bi dolazilo do zajeba?

Nego, novi post na mom blogu u kojem možete videti šta sam radio ovih meseci na polju prevođenja.

1) Ne znam što uopšte koduješ kad je to citat.
2) A sad koduj do mile volje, naštimao sam da radi i to.

Ma, kodujem da bi zauzimalo manje mesta i da bi se videlo šta je moj tekst, a šta sam preuzeo odnekud. Ali, u pravu si da bi trebalo da citiram.

U svom današnjem blogu bavim se odnosom države prema knjizi, pa koga zanima neka baci pogled.

Inače, upravo čitam poslednju objavljenu knjigu u serijalu Wild Cards, koji uređuje Džordž Martin. Mada ne može da se uporedi sa naslovima objavljenim početkom serijala, Busted Flush uvodi nove pisce, a među njima Keri Von i Dejvida Darhema, koji su svakako među prepoznatljivijim imenima savremene fantastike. Doduše, nikako nisu u samom vrhu, ali ima vremena. Završna knjiga u toj poslednjoj trilogiji iz serijala Wild Cards, a pod naslovom Suicide Kings, trebalo bi da iz štampe izađe krajem ove godine, neposredno posle "A Dance With Dragons", verovatno da bi se ostvarila svojevrsna marketinška sinergija.

Bacio pogled  :mrgreen:. Iskreno, razumem te mada se ne bavim tim poslom, drzava
zaista svojim nepromisljenim delovanjem, ili nedelovanjem , ugrozava ljudima
posao i egzistenciju. Kultura nam je zadnja rupa na svirali, u ovoj drzavi.
Skoro su imali onu ujdurmu sa povecanjem poreza od autorskih prava, tj. honorara,
pa su 9.juna nesto smanjili, ali opet je to visoko.
Nisam znao za ovo neplacanje  prodatih knjiga izdavacima, to me zaista iznenadilo. A sto se tice jezika, meni najvise smeta sto medijski guraju neke pisce
kojima je recnik otprilike : sranje, brate, ulica, kreten.. jedan od njih gostovao je
u 19 sati, udarni termin, na b92, Marko Vidojkovic.
Potpisujem da na ovom, i drugim sajtovima koje posecujem iz oblasti fantastike,
ima x pismenijih i talentovanijih mladih pisaca, nego sto je on.

Na stranu to što se ugrožava jedna "industrija", što kažu Amerikanci. Veća je muka u tome što se kultura i lepa reč prave na privilegiju malog broja ljudi, što se otvara prostor raznim nepismenjacima da truju jezik i ljude oko sebe i što niko ne gleda šta će biti sutra. Na primer, ja bih "b92" kaznio ogromnom globom zbog gluposti koje njima redovno u vestima idu u program. Svaka njima čast na borbi za demokratiju, ali ja bih da se malo izbore i za osnovnoškolsku kuluturu izražavanja. Svojevremeno sam doživeo da od osobe koja u osnovnoj školi predaje srpski, na pitanje kako to da nisi čuo za pesmu "Sekula se u zmiju pretvorio" (što je jedan od značajnijih izvora za izučavaoce mita o zmaju kod Srba), dobio odgovor: "Pa ja sam studirao Svetsku književnost." Da podsetim, to smatra prestižnijom katedrom i rečena pesma se uči u šestom osnovne. Fakultet mu za to nije bio potreban. Ali ovo nije tema za kukumavčenje. Za to imam blog.

"Laguna" je objavila "Tamnu reku" - nastavak jako zanimljivog romana "Putnik". Nažalost, Goran Skrobonja ovoga puta nije potpisan kao prevodilac.

Upravo sam završio čitanje romana The Strain. Pisci su Giljermo del Toro i Čak Hogan. Pravo da vam kažem, ambivalentan sam prema ovom ostvarenju. Sa jedne strane, konačno smo opet dobili vampire kao neljudska čudovišta, koja ne samo da su zla, već i nehajna prema ljudskom rodu. S druge strane, roman previše podseća na scenario za film, a vidi se i poveliki uticaj Simonsove "Dece noći". Ćak i da zanemarimo raznorazne istraživačke propuste koje su autori učinili (na primer, pogrešan naziv za ruske vampire), što se od dvojice Amerikanaca i mora očekivati, roman ima poprilično medicinskih nedoslednosti, koje se na filmskom platnu ne bi primetile, ali sa stranica jednostavno vrište. Međutim, The Strain je solidno napisan roman, po stilu jako sličan Simonsovim izletima u horor, sa kojima deli i tu osobinu da nije ni najmanje strašan. Prva trećina romana obećava mnogo, ali ostatak knjige u velikoj je meri izneveravanje tog obećanja. Naravno, ovo nije samostalno delo i može se očekivati bar jedan nastavak, ali mi nos govori da će pre biti dva. Film nam, u svakom slučaju, ne gine.

Quote from: Mica Milovanovic on 05-06-2009, 01:14:16
Ja sam tu prvu zbirku video kad je izišla, ali sam rešio da pričekam da vidim šta kritika kaže. Hajde daj malo detaljniji prikaz, iz svog ugla...

Napisao sam kratku primedbu za svaku priču, ali postavio sam na blogu, da ne bih ovde gušio temu. Ne znam da li ti je uključeno da vidiš potpise, pa evo adrese: http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com/

Sledeće na mom spisku za čitanje:

QuoteThe Mirrored Heavens

Although normally cast in the future, science fiction still tends to be built upon current or relatively recent events and the state of the world. That's certainly the case with The Mirrored Heavens, the debut novel by David J. Williams. Williams uses terrorist threats, political battles, military branch rivalries and East-West distrust and tension as tools for a tale that combines military-flavored SF with a heavy dose of cyberpunk.

The Mirrored Heavens is set in 2110 on an Earth decimated environmentally and still feeling the ramifications of a nuclear war in the Middle East. The dominant political powers are the U.S. and a Eurasian coalition of Slavic countries and China. Those powers and the neutral Western European states run by commerce-oriented "Euro Magnates" have isolated their information systems from each other, including firewalls sealing off their cyberspace "zones." The book focuses on the hunt for Autumn Rain, a mysterious terrorist organization which has destroyed the Phoenix Space Elevator, a joint project of the United States and the Eurasian Coalition as part of the détente of the Second Cold War.

Williams approaches the tale with three different story lines involving different pairings of individuals. One is Claire Haskell and Jason Marlowe. Hearkening to some of the best cyberpunk tradition, Claire is a "razor," physically modified and trained to immerse herself into zones, including hacking into an enemy's. Jason is a "mechanic," a heavily armed and armored agent who can physically carry out missions facilitated by a razor hacking into and undermining opponents in the zones. Another razor-mechanic pairing exists with the Operative and his razor, Lynx; they are in search of a former fellow agent who has retired to the moon. While these groups are hunting Autumn Rain, Lyle Spencer, an undercover agent, is being blackmailed into helping Linehan, a rogue trying to escape the United States.

Using the different story lines means The Mirrored Heavens has almost non-stop action. It seems as if at least one of the pairings is always engaged in blasting their way into or out of almost hopeless situations. As a result, the book seems the verbal equivalent of a first-person shooter video game. The action is hard-hitting, as well as highly destructive and widely fatal. It's amazing the mechanics can carry as much ammo and explosives as they do. Of course, they need to given the fact they always are exceedingly outnumbered.

For those who love stories driven by descriptions of ferocious combat against great odds, The Mirrored Heavens is likely a success. The work also evokes some of the best of cyberpunk. It isn't nearly as strong from other perspectives, though.

The characters are stiff and somewhat one-sided with their penchant for death and destruction. We see little of how the detailed future Williams has affected them other than in their official roles. Instead, that future often tends to be simply background and transition pieces for their battle royales. In addition, some of the lead characters occasionally speak in almost comic book terms with ponderous remarks like "Next stop: Armageddon."

Undoubtedly, the world of The Mirrored Heavens is vividly imagined. It is also explored in greater detail on the book's website. Still, some of that wealth of information might have come in handy as background in the book itself. For example, a minor role player is the Jaguars, a terrorist organization in South America. It makes appearances here and there but is never really explored.

Finally, the infighting among and conspiratorial machinations of the various political and military players, as well as the individual characters, is convoluted. Often leaving the reader uncertain as to which side anybody is on or their ultimate goals, there are just too many wheels within wheels in the various plots and counterplots.

Still, given his splendid world creation, Williams has the ingredients for a long run of novels. He may reach a broader audience expanding the scope beyond the first-person shooter feel. Even if he sticks with nonstop action, there's little doubt the state of the world and politics will be able to keep him fully supplied with potential storylines for his future Earth.

Quote from: nightflier on 15-06-2009, 13:56:29
"Laguna" je objavila "Tamnu reku" - nastavak jako zanimljivog romana "Putnik". Nažalost, Goran Skrobonja ovoga puta nije potpisan kao prevodilac.

Cisto kao vodilja, da li je nastavak isti/bolji/gori od prvog dela? Posto je prvi deo poceo kao bomba a zavrsio kao petarda, sa usputnom pokvarenom forom potpuno otvorenog kraja (ustvari izgleda kao da ga je pisac prekinuo na pola recenice i stavio "to be continued") citanje drugog dela dolazi u obzir jedino ako je daleeeeko bolji od prvog.

Pravo da ti kažem, ne sećam se baš najbolje. Obe knjige sam čitao u vreme kad su se pojavile u Americi, a od tada je prošlo prilično vremena. Čini mi se da ja nastavak blago lošiji od prethodnika, ali možda je to stoga što se izgubio onaj osećaj pregršti novih ideja koji je priliko čitanja prve knjige jako upečatljiv.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

QuoteTeenagers love a good apocalypse. Who doesn't? All those annoying rules suspended. Society's pretenses made irrelevant. Malls to be looted. School out forever.

But in The Forest and Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan's marvelous debut novel, the post-apocalypse is defined more by constraints than freedoms. The book begins seven generations after the Return, an undead plague that has ended civilization as we know it. Of course, a zombie outbreak usually means shotguns and mall looting--the very essence of freedom. But more than a century on from the Return, the malls have already been looted, and shotguns are a distant memory. The novel's heroine, Mary, lives in a village surrounded by one last vestige of industrial technology: a chain-link fence, beyond which is a vast forest full of shambling, eternally ravenous undead--the forest of hands and teeth. No villager ever goes outside this fence, unless they want to die. (And given this bleak scenario, some do.)

Mary's world is bounded not only by the fence but by the archaic traditions of her people, which are enforced by a religious order called the Sisterhood. Marriages, childbirth, death, every stage of life must be controlled to sustain the village's precarious existence. Even the houses are circumscribed--literally--with passages of scripture carved into every entrance to remind the inhabitants of the rules that sustain human life amid the horrors of the forest.

After so long an isolation, the village is beginning to forget. Some doubt that there really was a time before the Return, with giant cities and wondrous technologies. Others believe that nothing at all exists beyond the forest of hands and teeth. And nobody but Mary and her slightly mad mother believes in something called "the ocean," a huge and unbounded space beyond the reach of the undead.

Mary is the sort of teenager who dreams of bigger things. Not just the ocean, but epic romance and adventure beyond the fence, maybe even other villages somewhere out there, safe behind their own fences. She believes that answers can be found to questions like, What made the Return happen? And what was it like before?

Escaping the confines of home for the greater world is, of course, one of the great themes of teen literature. But few heroes in any genre have faced an obstacle as daunting as the forest of hands and teeth. Though Ryan's writing is as lyrical as her title, this novel is driven by the same grim relentlessness that animates any good zombie film. Elegant prose and undead hordes combine to create a story where high drama feels completely unforced, where tension is constant, and where an image as simple as the open sea is achingly romantic.

Zombies have been metaphors for many things: consumerism, contagion in an overpopulated world, the inevitability of death. But here they resonate with a particularly teenage realization about the world--that social limits and backward traditions are numberless and unstoppable, no matter how shambling they may seem at first.

And yet we must try to escape them anyway, lest we wither inside the fence.--Scott Westerfeld

Nove knjige. Vonderboy epske fantastike, Brendon Senderson, konačno je u papiru objavio Warbreaker, stand-alone roman koji je u više verzija mogao da se skine s Sendersonovog sajta. Naravno, ovo je sjajan trenutak, pošto uskoro izlazi prvi deo dvanaestog dela "Točka vremena" - taman pred kraj ovog Doba od 13000 godina. Baš me zanima ko je trenutan Zmajeva reinkarnacija...

Kevin Enderson počinje fentezi ciklus romanom The Edge of the World. Nešto ne volem Endersona, ali moram priznati da je reč o subjektivnom osećaju, pošto se nisam potrudio da pročitam njegov opus, mada imam ponešto na policama.

Inače, postoje neki izgledi, mada slabi, da se na srpskom jeziku pojavi neverovatno zabavan i palpy serijal Nightside, britanskog pisca Simona Greena. Držim palčeve.

U knjižari "Akademija" može da se kupi trilogija Braided Path, po relativno niskoj ceni od 700 RSD po komadu. Pohitajte. Ja sam se ispucao za neke retke knjige u "Ekvilibrijumu", pa moram da sačekam...

Za nekoliko dana, tačnije 7. jula, iz štampe izlazi By Heresies Distressed, američkog pisca Dejvida Vebera. Nakon mlakog Storm from the Shadows, ovaj nastavak tipično bejnovske sprege alternativne istorije i spejs opere trebalo bi da Vebera vrati na liste bestselera. U novembru nas očekuje Torch of Freedom, roman koji je pisao sa Erikom Flintom, a koji se bavi planetom bivših robova. Veberov "Onorverzum" očigledno počinje da pati od manjka uverljivih negativaca, što se poprilično odražava na njegovo pisanje. Verovatno je jedan od razloga tome činjenica da je nameravao da ubije svoju glavnu junakinju i da ulogu lučonoše prepusti njenom sinu. Na kraju ga je odluka da popusti pred zahtevima čitalaca za još jednim romanom u serijalu koštala kreativnog lutanja. Ostaje da se vidi hoće li "Onorverzume" povratiti mesto najčitanije spejs opere na tržištu.

Novi unos na blogu, opet palamudački. Čisto da upozorim.

Inače, Džim Bučer planira zbirku priča o Hariju Drezdenu. Mada za sada ima pet ili šest kratkih priča objavljenih u raznim antologijama drugih priređivača, ovo će biti prva koja će sadržati isključivo priče o Hariju. Još ne znam da li će u njoj učestvovati i drugi pisci, ali po svemu sudeči ne bih rekao.

Brendon Senderson najavljuje novu tetralogiju, Way of Kings. Polako postaje jedan od najplaćenijih pisaca epske fantastike. Ove knjige objavljivaće se naizmenično s "Točkom vremena".

Počeo sam da na blogu objavljujem niz tekstova o Stivenu Eriskonu i njegovom serijalu "Malazan". Danas je objavljen prvi tekst, sa sve sličicama, pa ko voli nek izvoli.

A evo i neceg za tebe i tvoje fanove  8-)

http://www.marlamason.net/boneshop/

Quote from: Melkor on 27-06-2009, 02:13:36
A evo i neceg za tebe i tvoje fanove  8-)

http://www.marlamason.net/boneshop/

Ja imam fanove?  :? :? :?

Kevin Anderson (ili je Enderson?) završio je sedmotomnu sf Saga of Seven Suns, pa ću je i pročitati, ali pre toga pozabaviću se novim njegovim romanom, koji mi na prvi pogled ne deluje preterano zanimljivo, The Edge of the World. Kritičari ovo delo nazivaju "zapanjujućim i neverovatnim fentezi debijem", a i publika ga je dobro primila. Što se mene tiče, skeptičan sam, pošto u poslednje vreme nešto nema romana vrednih čitanja. Videćemo.

Gardner Dozoa objavio novu zbirku The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-sixth Annual Collection, koja sadrži i jedno delo sinoćnjeg pasivnog učesnika kviza. Pogodite kojeg. Evo nekih od uključenih autora (u zbirku, ne u kviz): Michael Swanwick's "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled", Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Gambler", Mary Robinette Kowal's "Evil Robot Monkey", Charles Coleman Finlay's "The Political Prisoner", Nancy Kress' "The Erdmann Nexus", James Alan Gardner's "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story", and Ian McDonald's "The Tear", plus other stories by Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, Jay Lake, Paul McAuley, Greg Egan...

Žaklin Keri, verovali ili ne, ima fanove u Srbiji. Ne znam da li neki od njih obitavaju na Sagiti, ali svejedno vredi napomenuti da je objavila sedmi roman, pod naslovom Naamah's Kiss.

Ester Frezner priredila je antologiju o vešticama, ali humorističkog tipa. Po spisku autora reklo bi se da se ovo mora kupiti. Neki od njih su: Harry Turtledove, Sarah A. Hoyt, Jan and S.M. Stirling, K.D. Wentworth, and Robin Wayne Bailey.

Još jedan od učesnika sinoćnjeg kviza, Robert Čarls Vilson, učesnik je i u ovoj, kako mi ono rekoše... "kvaziblogovjskoj kolumni koja nikoga ne zanima"...  da, to je to. Roman se zove Julian Comstock.

QuoteHugo-winner Wilson (Axis) perpetrates a kind of skewed steampunk novel set in a postcollapse, imperial United States returned to 19th-century technology and mores. Julian Comstock, the disgraced nephew of the tyrannical American president, grows up in a small town in what was formerly northern Canada. Adam Hazzard, Julian's working-class friend, and Sam Godwin, a bluff old retainer and secret Jew, struggle to keep Julian alive despite his uncle's hatred and Julian's proclivity for annoying the repressive Dominion Church. When Julian is drafted to fight the invading Dutch in Labrador, exaggerated tales of his heroism, written by would-be novelist Adam, catapult the young aristocrat to unwanted fame. Written with the eloquence and elegance of a Victorian novel, this thoughtful tale combines complex characters, rousing military adventure and a beautifully realized, unnerving future.

Kao malu najavu romana "Kralj trnja", na mom blogu možete pročitati razgovor sa piscem, Gregom Kizom, koji prati originalno izdanje ovog romana. Intervju je objavljen uz saglasnost izdavača.

Od sedmog jula u prodaji je novi roman Dejvida Vebera, By Heresies Distressed. Reč je o trećem u serijalu Safehold. Da podsetim, Veber se u ovom serijalu zapravo poigrava motivima koje su pre njega razradili braća Strugacki i Dejvid Drejk, ali to tako umešno i zabavno radi da ljubitelji alternativne istorije i spejs opere mogu da sasvim lepo uživaju - bar u prve dve knjige, koje sam pročitao.

Takođe od sedmog jula u prodaji je antologija Strange Brew. Priređivač je P. N. Elrod, poznat po serijalima o vampirima, a antologija sadrži priče trenutno najpopularnijih pisaca urbane fantastike.

QuoteToday's hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic!

In Charlaine Harris' "Bacon," a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line to find out who killed her beloved husband. In "Seeing Eye" by Patricia Briggs, a blind witch helps sexy werewolf Tom Franklin find his missing brother—and helps him in more ways than either of them ever suspected.  And in Jim Butcher's "Last Call," wizard Harry Dresden takes on the darkest of dark powers—the ones who dare to mess with this favorite beer.

For anyone who's ever wondered what lies beyond the limits of reality, who's imagined the secret spaces where witches wield fearsome magic, come and drink deep. Let yourself fall under the spell of this bewitching collection!

Osmi deo serijala Vampire Earth objavljen je i od strane moje malenkosi pročitan. Uobičajeno solidan roman, Winter Duty razrađuje teme iz prethodna dva romana, ali ne donosi ništa preterano novo. Na samom početku imamo neke nagoveštaje u vezi s budućnošću serijala, ali pisac ih tokom ovog romana nije razradio. Da podsetim, Winter Duty je deo serijala Vampire Earth, koji se odvija krajem 21. veka na planeti Zemlji, koju su osvojili vanzemaljci što se hrane ljudskim aurama.

Elen Datlou je pred objavljivanjem knjige Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, a Džon Kesel i Džejms Patrik Keli za istog izdavača kao Datlouova objavljuju The Secret History of Science Fiction. Ostatak članka možete pročitati na mom blogu.

U narednih nekoliko dana na blogu ću objaviti prikaze tri antologije koje se bave urbanom fantastikom, hororom i naučnom fantastikom. Opširnije na http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com/ (http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com/)

Ova treca je antologija - stare price...

Izvini, Mićo, nisam te shvatio...

oće reći da ima mnogo starih priča, nisu sve originalno pisane za antologiju niti nove - mnoge su iz BOOK OF THE DEAD 1 & 2, itd.
neke su bile čak i u EMITORIMA...

Aha... misli se na The Living Dead... Da, za razliku od sf zbirke i urbanofantastične The Living Dead ima ponavljanja. Međutim, ja jako slabo pratim kratku priču, tako da je velika većina njih za mene bila nova.

Na nekoliko novih romana valja obratiti pažnju:

Pre svega, na The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan. Kijernanova je vodeća perjanica savremene mračne fantastike/horora i pisac čija se dela obično opisuju kao deeply disturbing. Za prefinjena sagitaška nepca to je zalogaj koji se ne sme zaobići. Čitao sam njen prvi roman i... mljac!

Naredna tri romana/serijala pripadaju niši koju volim da zovem "treš fentezi", a u koju svrstavam Salvatorea, Aberkombija i njima slične majstore. Naravno, bez ove kategorije se ne može, jer većini služi kao uvod u fantastiku. Po svemu sudeći, sa ovim piscima se valja upoznati ako a) tek uplovljavate u žanrovske vode, ili b) sebe smatrate toliko uronjenim u pomenutu tekućinu da morate pratiti ama baš sve.

A Darkness Forged in Fire: Book One of the Iron Elves by Chris Evans

QuoteKonowa Swiftdragon, once commander of the Calahrian Empire's renowned Iron Elves, is now a disgraced ex-soldier. Though elvish, Konowa is more comfortable with metal and fire than with nature and, like all the Iron Elves, was marked at birth for an ill-omened destiny by the malevolent Shadow Monarch. When a prophetic Red Star falls, awakening lost magic, Konowa is recalled to find it with a new regiment of Iron Elves—except this bunch is the dregs of the military and not even elves. Their journey is plagued by monsters and an unforeseen rebellion, but the worst is to come. The Shadow Monarch's play for the Star is a ruse masking another intent that Konowa doesn't see until too late. An earthy, sardonic antihero, Konowa stands uneasily at the crux of a complicated network of loyalties while flanked by a large, colorful cast. Though knotty political machinations confuse the beginning, they eventually add richness to Evans' militaristic fantasy world, in which magic users mix with musket-wielding soldiers. A truly worrying conclusion hooks readers for book two.

Empire in Black & Gold: Shadows of the Apt. Book One by Adrian Tchaikovsky

QuoteSeventeen years ago Stenwold witnessed the Wasp Empire storming the city of Myna in a brutal war of conquest. Since then he has preached vainly against this threat in his home city of Collegium, but now the Empire is on the march, with its spies and its armies everywhere, and the Lowlands lie directly in its path. All the while, Stenwold has been training youthful agents to fight the Wasp advance, and the latest recruits include his niece, Che, and his mysterious ward, Tynisa. When his home is violently attacked, he is forced to send them ahead of him and, hotly pursued, they fly by airship to Helleron, the first city in line for the latest Wasp invasion.Stenwold and Che are Beetle-kinden, one of many human races that take their powers and inspiration each from a totem insect, but he also has allies of many breeds: Mantis, Spider, Ant, with their own particular skills. Foremost is the deadly Mantis-kinden warrior, Tisamon, but other very unlikely allies also join the cause. As things go from bad to worse amid escalating dangers, Stenwold learns that the Wasps intend to use the newly completed railroad between Helleron and Collegium to launch a lightning strike into the heart of the Lowlands. Then he gathers all of his agents to force a final showdown in the engine yard ...

The Way of Shadows (The Night Angel Trilogy) by Brent Weeks

QuoteFor Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist.

For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.

But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.

Ponekad se i fejsbuk isplati. Mesečevi vrtovi, dugo očekivani prvi deo A tale of Malazan book of the Fallen serijala, izlazi u septembru, barem mi tako reče Laguna na fejsbuku. Rejoice!

Sledeće godine trebalo bi da čitamo nastavak romana The Course of Empire Erika Flinta i K. D. Ventvort. S tim u vezi na mom blogu može da se pročita kratak osvrt na ovu spejs operu.

Quote from: nightflier on 25-06-2009, 12:58:03

Brendon Senderson najavljuje novu tetralogiju, Way of Kings. Polako postaje jedan od najplaćenijih pisaca epske fantastike. Ove knjige objavljivaće se naizmenično s "Točkom vremena".

Gad.

Inače, najnovija knjiga u WoT serijalu, the Gathering Storm, završena je i vlasnici/administratori fan sajtova su je već pročitali. Ako im je vjerovati, radi se o jednoj od najboljih do sada.
Ima li išta novo o Martinovom serijalu?

Novo pomeranje. Martin je previše zauzet radom na Wild Cards. Po nekim njegovim izjavama zključio bih da je potpuno izgubio interesovanje za SoIaF, te da piše na silu.

Nije valjda da nastavak nece izaci ni ove godine ?? Cini mi se da se spominjo neki termin na jesen 2009 ?

Poslednje što sam ja čuo je da će objavljivanje biti pomereno za decembar. Ali pošto GRRM još prerađuje neka poglavlja, učestvuje u produkciji pilot-epizode za HBO, uređuje Suicide Kings...

Danas sam dobio dva ARC-a (Advanced Reading Copy). Reč je o novom romanu Robin Hob, Dragon Keeper, i o novom romanu Dejvida Vebera i Erika Flinta, Torch of Freedom. Javljam kako je čim pročitam.

Malo sam pročeprkao po romanima koje sam poslednji put pomenuo. Hobova se vraća svetu Fica i Bingtaun trejdera, a Flint me je malko razoračarao. Toliko za sada.

Objavio The Onion:

Sci-Fi Writer Attributes Everything Mysterious To 'Quantum Flux'

August 10, ROLLA, MO—A reading of Gabriel Fournier's The Eclipse Of Infinity reveals that the new science-fiction novel makes more than 80 separate references to "quantum flux," a vaguely defined force the author uses to advance the plot, resolve conflict as needed, and account for dozens of glaring inconsistencies.
The strange force is used to explain everything from time travel to why everyone in the novel can understand aliens.

"I'm really excited about this latest book—there's action, adventure, drama, and a little bit of something for everyone," said Fournier, who decided to introduce the narrative device after realizing that the galactic ambassador vaporized in chapter two needed to be alive a lot longer. "And, of course, there's something I call quantum flux, which is like the binding force behind everything in the universe. Plus, it can cause time travel. And it's an energy source, too."

In Fournier's novel, the idea that particles of energy can appear suddenly out of nowhere is used to explain events that might otherwise seem random, such as how a starship achieves light speed despite the total destruction of its engines in battle, why a loyal first officer suddenly decides to spy on behalf of the aliens who murdered his family, and what became of the security captain whose Southern accent was getting annoying to work with.

"This is a huge oversimplification, but you can think of it as The Matrix times a million," Fournier said. "I use quantum flux to explore crucial questions about the nature of our universe, but also to probe basic human experiences we can all relate to. In my novel, as in life, sometimes things don't quite work out the way you planned."

The book's cover depicts Quantum Flux in the vacuum of deep space, a phenomenon readers later learn can be harnessed to open wormholes or provide eternal youth.

At the beginning of The Eclipse Of Infinity, a catastrophic quantum flux event on a nearby moon is threatening to destroy the planet Magnus 9. When the planet's shields suddenly become inoperable due to a quantum flux surge, the inhabitants frantically evacuate. At the end of the first chapter, the novel's protagonist, Cutter Van Dusen, clutches the hand of his dying mother, who before succumbing to quantum flux poisoning tells her son that an oracle has chosen him to travel back in time through a quantum flux rupture and save the planet by harnessing the power of a strange, mysterious force known as "quantum flux."
Though the storytelling device provided Fournier with what seemed like an endlessly flexible narrative structure, the author acknowledged that he still suffered from writer's block on at least one occasion.

"I had written myself into a corner," said Fournier, who recalled sitting for weeks just staring at the words "Chapter 12: Quantum Flux" on an otherwise blank computer screen. "Then out of nowhere, this really amazing twist came to me. I don't want to give it away, but if you've read carefully up to that point, it makes perfect sense."

According to Fournier, the rest of the novel—in which, on average, quantum flux is invoked every two pages to negate the effects of earlier quantum flux incidents—just seemed to flow from there.
"It was one of those rare moments when I was writing without any effort at all," said Fournier, who made use of quantum flux to iron out the remaining wrinkles in his plot, finding in it an unexpected justification for why Cutter's nemesis, Mal-Dag Par, abruptly switches gender for three chapters. "It's almost as if I were possessed by some kind of powerful unseen force or something."
Fournier told reporters that The Eclipse Of Infinity is part of a trilogy, the second book of which, Denizens Of Flux, will begin with a sudden fluxquake that ties up several of the first novel's loose ends.

The author admitted he wasn't entirely sure yet how the final book in the series, A Flux Quantum, would end.

"I'm giving it a lot of thought," said Fournier, who hinted that he has been toying with some cosmological theories that suggest different versions of his storyline could exist in multiple parallel universes. "I want to make sure that readers who've stuck with me through all three novels get the payoff they deserve."

In the meantime, Fournier is at work on an old-fashioned Western about a rugged band of pioneers who make their way across the unforgiving prairie only to find a fearsome enemy lying in wait—a tribe of Indians who wield a strange and ancient power the white men call "Cherokee flux."

Znači, nije Deus Ex Machina, nego je Quantum Flux. Izem ti vic, Dule.

U poslednjih mesec dana objavljeno je nekoliko zanimljivih knjiga. Što se mene tiče, nabavljao sam neke starije naslove koje sam propustio u studentskim danima, ali red je da se pomene ono što je zanimljivo i ono što je ostvarilo neki uspeh.

Bad Moon Rising je najnoviji roman u serijalu Dark-Hunter, autorke Šerilin Kenjon. Reč je o izuzetno popularnoj spisateljici, čiji bi se romani mogli svideti obožavateljkama "Sumraka". Kod nas ju je objavljivala izdavačku kuća "Porta Libris", ali bez velikog uspeha.

The Winds of Dune je poslednji nastavak u serijalu "Dina". Naravno, Kevin Anderson i sin pokojnog Frenka Herberta potpisani su kao autori.

Kejdž Bejker je napisala YA fentezi romančić pod naslovom The Hotel Under the Sand.

Na kraju, najslađe, Stiven Erikson je napokon objavio nastavak svojih novela o sumanutim nekromantima (ko je čitao "Mesečeve vrtove" znaće o čemu pričam): The Lees of Laughter's End.

E da, skoro je izašao i 9ti deo Malazana :)

Quote from: Perin on 24-08-2009, 17:03:33
E da, skoro je izašao i 9ti deo Malazana :)

U Engleskoj. Tamo uvek izlazi ranije. Ali kako ja knjige naručujem iz Severne Amerike, ne znači mi mnogo.

Inače, u svetu Malazana očekuje nas, nakon desete knjige u serijalu Book of the Fallen, nov ciklus od devet knjiga koji piše Erikson i još četiri ICE-ove knjige. Sve u svemu, izgleda da ćemo i naredne decenije imati prilike da svake godine dobijamo po jedan tom.

Ovde (http://browseinside.harpercollins.com.au/index.aspx?isbn13=9780007260331) možete da gvirnete u prvih stotinak strana (odličnih inače) novog romana Kim Stenli Robinsona, da vidite kako je nastao taj teleskop koji danas slavi rođendan.

Na mom blogu prvi deo prikaza romana Waarbreaker Brendona Sendersona: http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com/ (http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com/)

pratim ti blog ok je
nego reci ti nama jel ti samo čitaš knjige :D
stigneš li šta drugo

znam da brzo čitaš ali brate što je puno puno je

Heheheh, koliko ja znam, Nightflier i ne čita toliko koliko je pre...pre je čitao mnogo, mnogo više :)

Quote from: Ljudina on 26-08-2009, 16:56:59
pratim ti blog ok je
nego reci ti nama jel ti samo čitaš knjige :D
stigneš li šta drugo

znam da brzo čitaš ali brate što je puno puno je

Zapravo, čitam još mnogo toga. Na primer, evo šta sam pročitao tokom prethodnih nedelju dana:

Stripovi:

Mystic 43 epizode
Ultimate Fantastic Four 50 epizoda

Ozbiljne stvari:

Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Secrets
The Cambridge History of Russia
The Gospel of Food
The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Ritual Magic

Nekada sam čitao mnogo više (knjigu dnevno, u proseku), ali sada ne postižem.

Inače, cenjene dame i gospodo, od danas se mome blogu kao saradnik pridružio moj mladi ali persperktivni (ljubomoran sam - i ja sam nekada bio perspektivan!) kolega, Srđan Ajduković, aka High Duke. Poželimo mu dobrodošlicu gromoglasnim aplauzom (ili makar mlakim tapšanjem)...

O-o-o-o-o, ekstra, veoma sam obradovan ovom vešću! :)

Quote from: Perin on 27-08-2009, 03:33:01
O-o-o-o-o, ekstra, veoma sam obradovan ovom vešću! :)

Postepeno ću dodavati saradnike. Nažalost, ne stižem da se posvetim blogu koliko bi trebalo, ali napreduje da ta priča malo-pomalo.

Cestitke za Dukea xcheers.

Na http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com (http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com) postavljen je prikaz romana Dragon Keeper, spisateljice Robin Hob. Roman je objavljen u Velikoj Britaniji a još se čeka objavljivanje u SAD.

Ljubitelji epske fantastike valjalo bi da obrate pažnju na roman The Magicians. Pisac je Lev Grosman, a evo šta kaže Amazon:

QuoteAmazon Best of the Month, August 2009: Mixing the magic of beloved children's fantasy classics (from Narnia and Oz to Harry Potter and Earthsea) with the sex, excess, angst, and anticlimax of life in college and beyond, Lev Grossman's Magicians reimagines modern-day fantasy for grownups. Quentin Coldwater lives in a state of perpetual melancholy, privately obsessed with his childhood books about the enchanted land of Fillory. When he's admitted to the surreptitious Brakebills Academy for an education in magic, Quentin finds mastering spells is tedious (and love is even more fraught). He also discovers his power has thrilling potential--though it's unclear what he should do with it once he's moved with his new magician cohorts to New York City. Then they discover the magical land of Fillory is real and launch an expedition to use their powers to set things right in the kingdom--which, naturally, turns out to be a much murkier proposition than expected. The Magicians breathes life into a cast of characters you want to know--if the people you want to know are charismatic, brilliant, complex, flawed magicians--and does what Quentin claims books never really manage to do: "get you out, really out, of where you were and into somewhere better. " Or if not better, at least a heck of a lot more interesting. --Mari Malcolm 

Quote from: nightflier on 07-09-2009, 00:27:07
Ljubitelji epske fantastike valjalo bi da obrate pažnju na roman The Magicians. Pisac je Lev Grosman, a evo šta kaže Amazon:

Na trenutak mi se učinilo da piše Lav Geršman!  xrotaeye

Teri Bruks se setio da objavi novi naslov u serijalu "Landover". Reč je A Princess of Landover.

QuoteAfter fourteen years, New York Times bestselling fantasy master Terry Brooks has returned to the magic kingdom of Landover. The remarkable realm of dragons, demons, wizards, and wonders that wove an irresistible spell in five classic novels throws open its gates at long last for a brand-new adventure featuring a dazzling cast of characters and creatures.

Ben Holiday, Chicago lawyer and mere mortal turned monarch of enchanted Landover, has grappled with scheming barons, fire-breathing beasts, diabolical conjurers, and extremely wicked witches. None of whom have prepared him for the most daunting of challengers–a teenage daughter. Sent by Ben and his beloved sylph bride, Willow, to an exclusive girls' prep school, headstrong (and half-magical) Mistaya Holiday has found life in the natural world a less than perfect fit. And when her latest rebellious antics get her indefinitely suspended, she's determined to resume her real education–learning sorcery from court wizard Questor Thews–whether her parents like it or not.

But back home in Landover, Mistaya's frustrated father is just as determined that the precocious princess learn some responsibility, and he declares her grounded until she successfully refurbishes the long-forsaken royal library. Mortified by the prospect of salvaging a king's ransom in moldy books–and horrified by word that repulsive local nobleman Lord Laphroig seeks to marry her–Mistaya decides that the only way to run her own life is to run away from home.

So begins an eventful odyssey peppered with a formidable dragon, recalcitrant gnomes, an inscrutable magic cat, a handsome librarian, a sinister sorcerer, and more than a few narrow escapes as fate draws Landover's intrepid princess to the last place she expected to go, and into the thick of a mystery that will put her mettle to the test–and might bring the kingdom to its knees.

A sada rasisitičko-seksistička The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF. Zbirka je kontoverzna, pošto sadrži priče isključivo belih pisaca muškog roda i opredeljenja. Evo sadržaja:

   1. "Out of the Sun" by Arthur C. Clarke
   2. "The Pevatron Rats" by Stephen Baxter *
   3. "The Edge of the Map" by Ian Creasey
   4. "Cascade Point" by Timothy Zahn
   5. "A Dance to Strange Musics" by Gregory Benford
   6. "Palindromic" by Peter Crowther
   7. "Castle in the Sky" by Robert Reed *
   8. "The Hole in the Hole" by Terry Bisson
   9. "Hotrider" by Keith Brooke
  10. "Mother Grasshopper" by Michael Swanwick
  11. "Waves and Smart Magma" by Paul Di Filippo *
  12. "The Black Hole Passes" by John Varley
  13. "The Peacock King" by Ted White & Larry McCombs
  14. "Bridge" by James Blish
  15. "Anhedonia" by Adam Roberts *
  16. "Tiger Burning" by Alastair Reynolds
  17. "The Width of the World" by Ian Watson
  18. "Our Lady of the Sauropods" by Robert Silverberg
  19. "Into the Miranda Rift" by G. David Nordley
  20. "The Rest is Speculation" by Eric Brown *
  21. "Vacuum States" by Geoffrey A. Landis

* = New story written for this anthology

Iz toga je možda je urednik rasista/seksista, knjiga ne. A gledajući autore - još teže. Ne kontam...?

Crnci se bune ako se ne radi po ključu. I ti bi se bunio da si crnac.

Ma nek se bune, imaju pravo na to...

Quote from: zakk on 07-09-2009, 12:39:22
Iz toga je možda je urednik rasista/seksista, knjiga ne. A gledajući autore - još teže. Ne kontam...?

Ma napadaju je u SAD zbog toga. Meni je tako svejedno, naravno. Mislio sam da bi bilo zanimljivo da to pomenem. S druge strane, niko tamo ne pominje Džona Ringoa i njegove tehno-trilere u kojima ružni belac ima harem plavuša-amazonki i kolje talibane i albansku mafiju na sve strane, a prodaju se u po milion primeraka po naslovu.

Septembar je ispao jako solidan kad je reč o sffh ponudi.

Džo Aberkrombi je objavio novi roman, Best Served Cold, smešten u svet svoje prethodne trilogije. Nisam stigao da ga pročitam, ali kritike su dobre.

Danijel Ejbraham je romanom The Price of Spring završio tetralogiju The Long Price Quartet. Čitao sam samo prvu knjigu, ali Ejbraham je podmladak grupe Critical Mass, oformljenoj oko Martina, Snodgrasove, Stirlinga i drugih, tako da je to već samo po sebi preporuka, ako meni ne verujete na reč.

Kejdž Bejker je napisala stimpank novelu, čija je radnja smeštena u njen Company svet. The Women of Nell Gwynne's.

Kejtlin Djui je objavila Sacred Scars, nastavak romana Skin Hunger. Reč je o epskoj fantastici. Prvi roman je kritika toliko nahvalila da sam ga ja nabavio ne razmišljajući. Naravno, razočarao sam se. Pisanje je na nivou Trudi Kanavan. Ako vam se ona dopala, dopašće vam se i ovo. Ako ne, zaobiđite.

Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim. Ovo mi se čini izuzetno zanimljivim. Imam još jedan Kejdrijev roman, ali nisam ga pročitao. Evo blurba:

QuoteIn this edgy, irreverent, often satirical, hardboiled dark fantasy novel, James Stark escapes Hell and ends up in Los Angeles 11 years after his death, with some old scores to settle — while Heaven and Hell have plans of their own for him.

Karl Šreder predstavio četvrti roman u serijalu "Virga". Sjajan tvrđi sf pod naslovom The Sunless Countries.

Quote from: nightflier on 17-09-2009, 14:22:47
Septembar je ispao jako solidan kad je reč o sffh ponudi.

... a tek smo na pola meseca...

Valjalo bi pomenuti i novog Iana Banksa (obratiti paznju na nedostajuce M) sa Transition...

Quote from: nightflier on 27-08-2009, 02:06:17

Quote from: Ljudina on 26-08-2009, 16:56:59
pratim ti blog ok je
nego reci ti nama jel ti samo čitaš knjige :D
stigneš li šta drugo

znam da brzo čitaš ali brate što je puno puno je

Zapravo, čitam još mnogo toga. Na primer, evo šta sam pročitao tokom prethodnih nedelju dana:

Stripovi:

Mystic 43 epizode
Ultimate Fantastic Four 50 epizoda

Ozbiljne stvari:

Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Secrets
The Cambridge History of Russia
The Gospel of Food
The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Ritual Magic

Nekada sam čitao mnogo više (knjigu dnevno, u proseku), ali sada ne postižem.

Ja se izvinjavam sto upadam ovako zakasnelo i offtopicno, ali oduvek sam hteo nekog od ljudi s ovakvim stazom da upitam - koliko toga posle citanja ostane u glavi, i koliko dugo?

Pa, najveći je problem što se serijali stope u jedan veeeeliki roman, tako da obično nemam pojma u kojoj se knjizi tačno šta dešava, pošto su mi u glavi pretvorene u takoreći poglavlja istog romana. Neki naslovi se ne zadrže u čeonom režnju. Na primer, kroz nekoliko meseci biće mi potrebno malo napora da se setim ko je ko i šta je šta u Stormcalleru, pošto mi se roman nije preterano dopao. Međutim, ako malo promozgam ili bacim pogled na sinopsis - it all comes backt to me. Kod mene je muka u tome što ne čitam samo ono što volim, već i ono za šta mislim da je relevantno za trenutno stanje žanra, ili toliko komercijalno da se ne sme zaobići, pošto postoji mogućnost da se objavi kod nas - a samim tim i da ja to prevodim. Ne znam kako je kod Melkora, pošto on čita otprilike koliko ja.

Mislim da u poslednje vreme citam poprilicno manje, tj. sporije. A u glavi ostane sasvim dovoljno. Ne pamtis lepe recenice (prepisivanje u spomenar i podvlacenje u knjizi uvek je nekako bilo za devojcice, zar ne? ;)), ne zapamtis svaki plot twist, hell! imam problema da se iz prve setim sta sam sve procitao u poslednja 3 meseca, o poslednje 3 godine da ne govorim, ali pamtis stil pisanja, atmosferu romana, kada prodjem kroz spisak (koji eto, "moram" da pravim) sto rece Nf it all comes back to me i na kraju krajeva znas i secas se sta valja i koliko valja.
A sad bi mogao da pitas i Smrkija posto on ima strogo "informativan" pristup citanju.

Tokom narednih nedelju ili dve dana najverovatnije neću dolaziti na forum, ili to činiti veoma retko, pa vi nastavite ovu priču bez mene. Baš bih voleo da vidim kakva su tuđa iskustva s čitanjem. Svi smo mi čudaci na svoj način i svi čitamo drugačije. Ova tema retko ide u of topik, ali mislim da sada ne bi bilo zgoreg. Lepo se zabavljajte.

Ja imam slična iskustva kao vas dvojica - pamtim generalnu fabulu dela, ali ga 'ladno mogu nakon godinu dana  ponovo čitati. Imena likova, naročito sporednih-glavnih teško pamtim. Takođe, dela koja mi na kraju ispadnu sranje, lakše zaboravim. Tipa, pročitao sam dva dela onoga sranja od Lojd Aleksandera, o onom prascočuvaru, nit' znam kako se lik zove, nit' se sećam šta se dešava u knjigama, a pročitao sam to možda pre 2 godine. :D

My Swordhand Is Singing

Marcus Sedgwick's MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING is a dark novel with a heavy emphasis on thick, snowy forests of Eastern Europe, gypsies, and superstitious town folk. It is the perfect setting for a scary story, but it is also much, much more.

Tomas and his teenage son, Peter, are a pair of traveling woodcutters with a mysterious past that settle down in the village of Chust one winter. Before long a string a deaths strike the village. Peter is perturbed by the villagers' strange reactions to the occurrences. When he asks Tomas about them, his father brushes away his questions as silly folk lore. However, Tomas is also doing his own share of strange things, like digging a trench around their home and filling it with moving water. When Agnes, a girl Peter likes, is symbolically married to a dead man and shut up in a remote hut, Peter tries to rescue her and runs into a monster.

Sedgwick takes pains to distance his tale from the gentleman bloodsucker that Anne Rice and authors like her have embedded into pop culture. The word "vampire" is never mentioned and the vampires, themselves, have varying appearances throughout the novel. He does a great job at weaving various and sometimes seemingly paradoxical pieces of folk lore. This gives the story a great sense of immediacy and realism. Sedgwick also shifts the focus from vampires to people who have to deal with terrifying occurrences at home. The buildup of the growing atmosphere of fear and denial will have readers biting their fingernails.

Marcus Sedgwick seems to take a lot of risks in writing this atypical, historically rich vampire novel. Central to the story line is not the relationship between a human and vampire or a girl and a boy (a la Buffy and Angel), but a wounded relationship between father and son. While this may seem terribly uncool, the realism of this relationship is what grounds the novel and makes the more fantastical elements more believable and scary.

Na http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com (http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com) objavljen je prvi deo spiska naslova epske i naučne fantastike koje će izdavačka kuća IPS objaviti za predstojeći sajam knjiga.

Buhuuuu! Jel to znaci da nece biti drugog dela "Witchera"?

Mislim da će se sačekati, pa drugi i treći istovremeno, ali ne za ovaj sajam. Problem je što prevodilac živi u Poljskoj, pa dolazi jednom godišnje da bi potpisao ugovor.

Ispravka, Witcher 2 je na lekturi. Verovatno ide odmah posle sajma.

Izdavaštvo Prosvete je od prošlogodišnjeg Sajma knjiga objavilo nove naslove iz različitih žanrova, među kojima su romani, eseji, drame, knjige pesama, priručnici i leksikoni. Pored drugog izdanja drame Consul u Beogradu, Bore Ćosića, ljubitelji savremene srpske književnosti će u izdanju Prosvete moći da čitaju eseje Gorana Markovića (Češka škola ne postoji) i Dragiše Vasića (Neobjavljeni članci).

Ove godine, Prosveta će čitalačkoj publici sajma knjiga predstaviti i najnovije izdanje čuvenog Leksikona stranih reči i izraza Milana Vujaklije, kao i naslove objavljene u saradnji sa izdavačkom kućom IPS, među kojima su romani nobelovca Gintera Grasa (Kutija), Sola Beloua (Humboltov dar), Elmora Lenarda (Van domašaja), Sergeja Kostina (Vikend u Parizu) i drugih.

Roman Kutija predstavlja Grasov  najuspešniji rad u poslednjih nekoliko godina. Gras je ovde na vrhuncu pripovedačkih mogućnosti. Pojedinačni glasovi junaka se stapaju u hor. Oni se dopunjuju, a u isto vreme su kontradiktorni, oni tvrde i odbacuju. Ova povest se razvija iz raznolikosti glasova i priča, u njoj ništa nije tačno, a sve može da bude istinito. Kroz celu knjigu se prepliću stvarnost i mašta, duhovitost i gorčina. Posebnu ulogu u priči ima jedan stari Agfa fotoaparat.

IPS ove godine predstavlja tri nobelovca

Izdavačka kuća IPS, koja je do sada objavila preko 350 knjiga, kako iz oblasti beletristike, tako i non-fiction-a za decu i odrasle, u svom izdavačkom planu ima još mnogo naslova.
U izdavačkoj delatnosti IPS-a zastupljeni su gotovo svi žanrovi književnosti, a neki od autora za čije objavljivanje knjiga IPS ima ekskluzivna prava su: Le Klezio, Ginter Gras, Žoze Saramago, Jukio Mišima, Sol Belou, Kenzaburo Oe, Majkl Ondatje, Dejvid Memet, Pablo de Santis, Nikolas Evans, Vilijem Gibson, Greg Kiz, Kler Kuk, Majkl Keri, Piter Ejkrojd, Val Mekdermid, Grejam Grin i mnogi drugi.
Veliki broj pomenutih autora dobio je najveće svetske književne nagrade, od Nobelove, preko Pulicerove, Bukerove i nagrade Planeta.
Među najnovijim izdanjima su romani ,,Čovek koji je hteo da bude kralj i druge priče", Radjarda Kiplinga (dobitnika Nobelove nagrade 1907.); ,,Slepilo" Žozea Saramaga (dobitnik Nobelove nagrade 1998.), ,,Pad Troje" Val Mekdermid, a u najavi je i nekoliko romana aktuelnog nobelovca Le Klezioa, od kojih će dva već biti predstavljena na ovogodišnjem Beogradskom sajmu knjiga – Uranija i Tužbalica o gladii.

U izdavačkom programu IPS-a ima dosta dečjih knjiga i onih koje ne pripadaju fikciji, među kojima se posebno ističu vrhunske umetničke monografije koje se izdaju u saradnji sa najvećim svetskim izdavačem iz oblasti umetnosti - Taschen-om. Partneri sa kojima IPS redovno sarađuje su izdavačke kuće Taschen, Pearson, DK, Disney, Robert Frederick, Igloo, Egmont, Libsa, Holland, Usborne, WPL, Parkstone, Quercus i mnogi drugi.
RAD – dva romana Jukia Mišime

Izdavačka kuća Rad će posetiocima ovogodišnjeg Beogradskog sajma knjiga predstaviti najnovije naslove iz oblasti beletristike, objavljene u saradnji za izdavačkom kućom IPS, među kojima su romani Jukia Mišime (Zabranjene boje i Mornar koji je izneverio more), Gastona Lerua (Fantom iz opere), Džodi Piko (19 minuta); biografije Fransiska Franka, Fidela Kastra, Hitlera i Cedunga i mnogi drugi naslovi različitih žanrova. U izdavaštvu Rada je ove godine objavljena čuvena komedija Dušana Kovačevića, Maratonci trče počasni krug, kao i istorijski romani i vodiči najznačajnijih svetskih metropola.

Još jedno izdanje koje će svetlost knjižara premijerno ugledati za sajam knjiga jeste roman The Devil You Know by Mike Carey. Keri je britanski odgovor na Džima Bučera i lagano počinje da se probija i preko bare. NAravno, imam sve što je do danas objavio, ali moram priznati da nisam stigao da pročitam nijedan njegov roman. Evo šta kaže Amazon:

QuoteAviolent ghost in a world where spirits are rarely mean-spirited is a clue to a deeper mystery in this engrossing dark fantasy debut from comics-writer Carey. Felix Fix Castor is an itinerant exorcist who (like a certain famous group of Hollywood ghost-evicters) alternates between dispatching spooks and doing stage magic at ungrateful children's birthday parties. When he's summoned to end a haunting at London's prestigious Bonnington Archive, he finds a vengeful specter with a blood-veiled face that resists methods for extirpating the usually docile dead. When Castor begins probing more deeply, he quickly finds himself harassed by a ravenous succubus, a belligerent fellow exorcist and a slimy Eastern European pimp. The resolution of this ingeniously multilayered tale will satisfy fans of both fantasy and detective fiction. Fix Castor's wisecracking cleverness in the face of weird nemeses makes him the perfect hardboiled hero for a new supernatural noir series.

Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stamping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle--but there's a risk: Sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too strong for him. While trying to back out of this ill-conceived career, Castor accepts a seemingly simple ghost-hunting case at a museum in the shadowy heart of London--just to pay the bills, you understand. But what should have been a perfectly straightforward exorcism is rapidly turning into the Who Can Kill Castor First Show, with demons and ghosts all keen to claim the big prize. That's OK: Castor knows how to deal with the dead. It's the living who piss him off...

"Laguna" konačno objavila "Mesečeve vrtove".

J.J. Adams koji je u poslednje vreme priredio antologije Wastelands i Living Dead nastavlja slicnom temom

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Čarobna knjiga izdala Grad  Ember...

Od danas je u prodaji "Olujni talas" Džima Bučera, prvi naslov u serijalu "Drezdenovi dosijei".

Unseen Academicals Terija Pračeta je u mojim rukama i spreman za čitanje u bolničkim čekaonicama diljem Beograda. Jej!

Quote from: Perin on 06-10-2009, 19:29:55
Čarobna knjiga izdala Grad  Ember...

Bio sam na njihovom sajtu ali posteno nisam nasao ovaj naslov. Moze neki link?

Ako si na fejsu, ima na njihovoj fan stranici da su izbacili to...

Evo, opet su na fejsu objavili da je puštena u prodaju i druga knjiga iz istog serijala, pod imenom Narod Sparksa...

Evo ja nasao oba ta dela na fejsbuku, od Carobne knjige.
Citao sam malo opis, nesto kao apokalipticna vizija buducnosti, jel zna neko nesto vise o piscu, vredi li se baviti s tim ?

Mislim čak da je nightflier to prevodio...

Jeste, ja sam. Prva dva dela. U suštini reč je o romanima za decu. Postapokaliptična naučna fantastika bez neke akcije, ali sa dosta moralnih pouka. Nisam čitao treći i četvrti deo. Koliko znam, treći je prikvel.

znaci govno... pomislio sam da ima neke veze sa zelaznijem, zbog ambera, a ono jos gore...

Ovaj, znaš da je Zelazni mrtav, zar ne? Ne može da postigne da toliko piše u zagrobnom životu. Dosta što je objavio jedan roman otkako je umro. Nije ti on Ladlam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Ember (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Ember)

Quote from: nightflier on 10-10-2009, 00:48:07
Ovaj, znaš da je Zelazni mrtav, zar ne? Ne može da postigne da toliko piše u zagrobnom životu. Dosta što je objavio jedan roman otkako je umro. Nije ti on Ladlam.

Ali znam i za modu postavljanja mladih pisaca da pisu prequele i sequele zarad izvlacenja poslednje pare iz nekog serijala, pa sam pomislio da je to ovde slucaj. Laknulo mi je kad sam shvatio, a jos vise posle tvog opisa, jer cu sad ustedeti pare:)

PS
Jel "Noc u samotnom oktobru" taj posthumno objavljen roman Zelaznija? Znam da mu je to poslednji napisan, ima li jos neki? Ili imamo "ala Dzordan ala Dina" nastavke?

Ne. Početkom godine objavili su roman The Dead Man's Brother, koji je Zelazni napisao pre četrdeset godina, ili tako nešto, ali nikad nije objavio. Reč je o krimiću.

Lord Demon je u stvari napisala Jane Lindskold na osnovu ideje RZ, i to je posthumno izaslo; mozda ima jos jedan, nisam siguran, a mrzi me da proveravam.

Postavio sam na Bukspejsu novi deo predsajamskih najava izdavačke kuće IPS: http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com/2009/10/novi-naslovi-u-ips-u-deo-treci.html (http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com/2009/10/novi-naslovi-u-ips-u-deo-treci.html)

Zavrsio Meseceve vrtove od Stivena Eriksona. Odlicna knjiga, kako i pise u predgovoru Stivena Donaldsona, vredi sebe pocastiti ovom knjigom. Nema klasicnih heroja, ima dosta akcije, knjiga je uzbudljiva, dinamicna, Erikson je izgradio slozen svet, ali za razliku od recimo Dzordana ne gubi vreme na beskrajna opisivanja krcmi, pletenja i ostalog  :). Jedino me brine sto verujem da ce Laguna beskrajno otezati sa serijalom.
IPS vidim ima dosta zanimljivu ponudu, i slutim da cu pazariti dobro kod njih na Sajmu.
Perin mi rece da i hrvatski Algoritam ima vrlo dobrih izdanja, plus sto su im same knjige ( ilustracije, povez, mape itd. ) vrlo kvalitetno uradjene, ali su im cene mnogo vece od nasih, kako sam shvatio , 20 evra minimum  :o.

Pa, tamo kod njih Bejker dođe nekih 130-140 kuna. Mnogo je to, mada je fin povez i sve. Takva su izdanja od Keja, Martina, Vilijamsa....Bejkera ću kompletirati doduše :D

Budi oprezan s kupovinom hrvatskih izdanja. Lako je moguće da ti se prevod ne dopadne. Moj bi ti savet bio da se informišeš preko neta i nekih probnih stranica na sajtovima, pa da se onda odlučuješ glede kupovine.

Već imam prvi deo Bejkera ;) Nije toliko loš prevod, čak bih rekao da je ok. Martin im je skroz loš...recimo:

Primer rečenice iz Algoritmovog prevoda:

[...] mršava bosonoga djevojka dvostruko starija od nje srušila ju je na tlo i pokušala skinuti čizme s njenih nogu, ali Arya joj je dala pljas po uhu svojim drvenim mačem [...]

Primer iste rečenice kod Lagune:

Baš jučer, mršava bosonoga djevojka, duplo starija od nje, oborila ju je i pokušala da joj svuče čizme s nogu, ali ju je Arja odalamila štapom po uhu, tako da je ova [...]

Mislim, "dala pljas"....ogavan prevod.

U pravu si, pljas bi bio izraz za udarac po jednom drugom dijelu tijela... :lol:

Samo što meni u "Laguninom" prevodu smeta ono "duplo". Inače, bilo je jako zanimljivo na promociji SciFi Balkana. Večeras idem na žurku, mada sam se opirao. Napisaću sutra izveštaj na blogu. Biće krš serija i filmova.

@krema: Good one, mate!  :|

@nightflier: Jes' i "duplo" je malo bezze, ali mi čitav kontekst rečenice nekako grozomorniji sa onim "pljas." Kao da je neko prevodio za decu od 10 godina...

Isao sam bas danas na jesenji sajam knjiga u Novom Sadu, doduse nisam mnogo pazario. Video sam nesto sto bi moglo biti interesantno zenskom delu populacije.
Novi naslov od spisateljice vampirskih ljubića, Stefani Majer. Knjiga se zove Domaćin.
Ali nije u pitanju nastavak serijala, već zasebna knjiga. Koliko sam mogao videti iz sadržaja, reč je o nečem što bi se moglo svrstati u SF, tuđinska, vanzemaljska rasa valjda zaposeda telo jedne od poslednjih stanovnica Zemlje, pa nešto kao dva uma se bore i egzistiraju u jednom telu.. pa eto ko voli dotičnu, sajam traje do subote.

Slutim da će i u ovom delu biti romantično-ljubavnih elemenata.  :)

Taj "The Host" čak i ne zvuči loše, a što se tiče ljubavnih elementa, tek je tu sumanut trougao. Ako se ne varam, taj vanzemaljac što je zaposeda je zaljubljen u njenog muža ili brata, ili tako nešto...

House of Reckoning by John Saul

After the untimely death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane is forced to grow up quickly in order to help tend her family's Vermont farm and look after her grieving father, who's drowning his sorrow in alcohol. But their quiet life together is shattered when her father is jailed for killing another man in a barroom brawl and injuring Sarah in a drunken car crash. Left in the cold care of a loveless foster family and alienated at school, Sarah finds a kindred spirit in classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions. And in eccentric art instructor Bettina Phillips, Sarah finds a mentor eager to nurture her talent for painting.

But within the walls of Bettina's ancestral home, the mansion called Shutters, Sarah finds something altogether different and disturbing. Monstrous images from the house's dark history seem to flow unbidden from Sarah's paintbrush–images echoed by Nick's chilling hallucinations. Trapped for ages in the shadowy rooms of Shutters, the violence and fury of long-dead generations have finally found a gateway from the grave into the world of the living. And Sarah and Nick have found a power they never had: to take control, and take revenge.

Malo sam cackao po netu, da, i u The Host postoji ljubavna prica, nesto u smislu da taj strani parazit postaje dobrocudan, zaljubi se i sl. Po knjizi ce izgleda biti snimljen i film. Inace Majerova zaista nije maciji kasalj. U 2008 je imala prodaju svojih dela, od 22 000 000 primeraka.

Na ovo sam se najstrašnije naložio:

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet.

Aleksandar Ferdinand, prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battle-torn Stormwalker and a loyal crew of men.

Deryn Sharp is a commoner, a girl disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered.

With the Great War brewing, Alek's and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way...taking them both aboard the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure. One that will change both their lives forever.

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Dobra fora s mapom. Lepo videti da neko zna kako su se stvari nekad radile :)

To je fora da su neke nacije pošle putem tehnologije, a neke bioinženjeringa - a treće su, pak, neutralne. Sudeći po onome što sam našao na netu, Srbija je tek posmatrač. Izgleda da nismo negativci. Videću kad pročitam, ali kandal je po sredi sjajan stimpank.

na mapi srbije je vidljiv neki undead. Mozda su srbi krenuli u rat sa vojskom vampira i zombija?

Vidi se, ljudi, da ne čitate domaću fantastiku. Skrobonja, Ljuba, a i još neki, odavno tvrde nešto slično..

Quote from: Berserker on 16-10-2009, 10:01:14
na mapi srbije je vidljiv neki undead. Mozda su srbi krenuli u rat sa vojskom vampira i zombija?

"Serbia's imagery (a skeleton) is an indicator of the huge amounts of civilian deaths and suffering they'll find themselves subject to."

http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/?p=1597 (http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/?p=1597)

Svaka čast.

Kako to da jedino sa ZS ili Nightflierovog bloga mogu da dobijem informacije o novim knjigama koje izdaje IPS? Kada odem na njihov sajt http://www.ips.co.yu/ (http://www.ips.co.yu/) vidim samo podatke o prodajnim mestima. Da li su pokrenuli neki sajt gde ce kao izdavaci da reklamiraju nova izdanja, a ja sam glup pa ne mogu da ga nadjem? Ili ocekuju da ce citaoci automatski zapazati knjige kad udju u IPS pored hiljada drugih izdanja?

IPS sanja da poizbacuje iz prodajnih mesta sva izdanja osim svojih, tako da nećeš ništa drugo ni moći da zapaziš.

U IPS-u odavno nema hiljada drugih izdanja; u ovom trenutku imaš nešto izdanja Alnarija, Evro-Đuntija i Belog Puta... ali kako stvari stoje, ni toga neće biti dugo.

@Mića

Ja čit'o, nemoj tako.

@Berserker

Još nisu napravili sajt. A kad će, ne zna se. Inače, u "Akademiji" juče bilo krš fantastike po nenormalno niskim cenama. Kupio sam Elfsorrow za 283 RSD, a već imam knjigu. Nisam mogao da odolim.

Ne radi mi blog...  :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Oh, well... back to basics.

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So: the war's over, the soldiers return home – what happens next?

K J Parker's latest standalone novel examines such a situation, not often looked at but one clearly relevant in a Fantasy world: what happens to soldiers after the fighting is over?

The basic story here (though to be fair, KJ's stories are rarely basic) deals with a company of men, skilled in their wartime efforts, who all (or nearly all) have gone back to their homes and their civilian lives. As you might expect, life outside the army is quite different. The impression given here is that after the war, despite the company's heroism, non-combatants either know little or are unimpressed now that things are returning to normal seven years after. There is a return to the relative simplicity of civilian life and the mundane actions of small village communities. Bravery counts for little.

One of those returning, admittedly later than some of the others in this tale, is recently-retired Colonel (or at times General) Teuche Kunessin, commander of A Company. He has plans. Having leased the island of Sphoe upon his decommissioning, he plans to use the abandoned facilities there and create his own colony with all of his ex-comrades-in-arms. He returns to the village of his birth to recruit his compatriots – cattle farmer Kudei Gaion, defence school teacher Thouridos (nicknamed 'Fly') Alces, shopkeeper Aidi Proaipsen and tanner Muri Achaiois - and make good on a promise they made when in the army.

His compadres, realising the strength of the bonds of wartime friendship, rather conveniently drop everything, sell up, buy resources and get hitched in order to make their future life of self-sufficiency a reality. Unfortunately, despite Colonel Kunessin's reputation for being methodical and meticulous, (and being a KJ Parker novel) things do not go as planned.

This is KJ Parker's first standalone. For those who found The Engineer Trilogy too long and slow, this might be a better option. It has many of those signature touches of Parker – the slow delivery, the detached narrative, the details of how to make and build things, which this one does. It wouldn't be a KJ Parker story unless it told us of such activities as how to build a boat, rebuild burnt-down buildings, go panning in a river, build cranes, herd cattle and smelt metal. As ever, KJ's tale is an education as well as an entertainment, which can, in equal measures, intrigue and annoy.

It also has that slow, yet painstaking, unravelling of a dark tale which KJ has achieved so well in previous books. Again, here it starts slowly but builds cleverly to its conclusion. It is an unsettling story, one which deals with the basest of human actions rather than holds the moral high ground. To some extent the novel subverts the usual Fantasy clichés to suggest some enigmatic ideas that may make the unwary reader uncomfortable. Strangely, despite initial appearances, it is not a tale of heroism, though the protagonists are wartime 'heroes'. Instead, being KJ Parker at the author's most cynical, it deals more with the darker values of avarice, greed, snobbery, deception, murder, adultery and cowardice. Though it tells tales of bravery it is more about survival, both in wartime and peacetime.

We also see here another recurrent theme in Parker's books, that of the importance of gender in this quasi-agrarian situation. There are very different roles for the sexes here, with wives that are bought and relationships are forged in a variety of logical yet rationally unemotional ways. The two are not always compatible. Without giving plot revelations away, their interactions and positions in this micro-society are an important part of this novel and Parker emphasises here how and why those differences between the soldiers and the soldier's wives are important.

On the SFFWorld forums I've précis'ed the book as 'imagine Lost meets The Italian Job'. At its simplest, it is a survivalist tale combined with a meticulously designed if not executed crime caper. Not all is what it appears to be and much of the fun is watching unexpected things unfold. Though not as extraordinary as some might suggest, it is a very good book, though Parker's singular worldview may not be for all.

As has been said at times of Parker's previous work, it is a bitter, dark, cynical tale, yet also a masterfully planned and executed book, one that builds on ever-revealing characterisation and back-story, leading slowly yet inexorably to its final conclusion. Many readers may not like the ending, and although you may not feel happy about it, it is, like Parker's previous efforts, knowingly and coldly logical.

Ja imam samo jedno pitanje. Moze li mi bilo ko reci gde mogu da nabavim knjigu En Rajs- Vampir Armand?
Nova sam ovde, pa ne znam na koji drugi nacin da vam se obratim za pomoc. :) Sto ce reci-ne snalazim se.
Hvala unapred! :)))

Quote from: ReStOrE on 18-10-2009, 00:47:29
Ja imam samo jedno pitanje. Moze li mi bilo ko reci gde mogu da nabavim knjigu En Rajs- Vampir Armand?
Nova sam ovde, pa ne znam na koji drugi nacin da vam se obratim za pomoc. :) Sto ce reci-ne snalazim se.
Hvala unapred! :)))

Kod nas nije objavljena, a pošto je reč o čini mi se dvanaestoj po redu, ne verujem da će skoro. Izdavač En Rajs kod nas je "Čarobna knjiga". Za sajam će objaviti bar dva vampirska romana, a ako ne možeš da sačekaš nekoliko godina probaj da preko "Platoa" naručiš knjigu. Ili možeš da je sama naručiš preko Amazona. Inače, 16. novembra ću u Domu omladine održati predavanje o vampirskim ciklusima, pa će biti reč i o En Rajs.

Na blogu sam postavio prikaz "Malteškog šišmiša" i intervju s Borom Pantićem, vlasnikom "Čarobne knjige".

U "Laguni" domaća fantastika: "ZABORAVLJENA GORA - Mitska bića drevnog Balkana" Milisava Popovića i "BAKARNI BUBNJEVI" Miomira Petrovića.

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This ingeniously conceived anthology raises the intriguing question, If Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" had won the Nebula award in 1973, would the future distinction between literary fiction and science fiction have been erased? Exploring the possibility of an alternate history of speculative fiction, this literary collection reveals that the lines between genres have already been obscured. Don DeLillo's "Human Moments in World War III" follows the strange detachment of two astronauts who are orbiting in a skylab while a third world war rages on earth. "The Ziggurat" by Gene Wolfe traverses a dissolving marriage, a custody dispute, and the visit of time travellers from the future. T. C. Boyle's "Descent of Man" is the subversively funny tale of a man who suspects that his primatologist lover is having an affair with one of her charges. In "Schwarzschild Radius", Connie Willis draws an allegorical parallel between the horrors of trench warfare and the speculative physics of black holes. Artfully crafted and offering a wealth of esteemed authors - from writers within the genre to those normally associated with mainstream fiction, as well as those with a crossover reputation - this volume aptly demonstrates that great science fiction appears in many guises.

je l' pinconova duga gravitacije prevodjena kod nas?

Ne, koliko ja znam.

Nije.

Nightflier ponovo u "Laguni". Roman "Poslednje carstvo" Brendona Sendersona objaviće "Laguna" mesto "Odiseje". Tokom naredne godine biće objavljeni i nastavci. U ovom trenutku ne znam o kojim se rokovima radi, pošto je sajam pred nama, a i ja sam u raznoraznim obavezama zdravstvene prirode, ali čim se budem dogovorio, bićete obavešteni.

Ima smisla, pošto on završava "Točak vremena". Lako moguće da su morali da ga kupe u paketu da bi to dobili :/ (ne mislim ništa dobro o dilerima autorskih prava :))

Nemoj da sudiš odmah Zače ;) Slučajno sam upoznat oko pitanja Sandersona, i Odiseja je samo učinila ono što je morala :)

Quote from: zakk on 24-10-2009, 23:13:27
Ima smisla, pošto on završava "Točak vremena". Lako moguće da su morali da ga kupe u paketu da bi to dobili :/ (ne mislim ništa dobro o dilerima autorskih prava :))

Svojevremeno sam preporučio "Odiseji" Sendersona (i Kiza), još dok je Džordan bio živ. Nažalost, morali su da odustanu od objavljivanja. Iskren da budem, žao mi je zbog toga. S druge strane, "Laguna" će naredne godine objaviti oba nastavka, tako da će se čitava trilogija brzo naći pred čitaocima. To je prednost velikog izdavača. Doduše, nadam se da naredna godina neće biti kao ova kada je reč o ekonomiji i kada je reč o mojim (to jest, ne mojim - shvatiće ko zna o čemu je reč) medicinskim egzibicijama. Da nije bilo ovog prvog, roman bi bio objavljen pre godinu dana. Da nije ovog drugog, verovatno bih do sada preveo nastavak.

U oktobru je objavljen nastavak "Autostoperskog vodiča". Reč je o romanu And Another Thing... koji je napisao Oin Kolfer, Irac poznat po serijalu o Artemisu Faulu.

Ljubitelji epske fantastike obradovani su nastavkom romana Blood of Ambrose Džejms Endža. Pomenuti nastavak nosi naslov This Crooked Way. Nedavno sam dobio obe knjige, pa ću se potruditi da ih pročitam u nekom trenutku.

Čarli Hjuston je objavio novi roman o vampirskom kriminalcu-detektivu Džou Pitu. My Dead Body je peti i poslednji roman u serijalu. Naglasiću da su Pitovi romani jako neobični i predstavljaju vampire u potpuno novom svetlu.

Tom Lojd publici predstavlja The Grave Thief, treći nastavak u serijalu koji je počeo s The Stormcaller, kojeg sam ja onako napljuvao na blogu pre neki dan.

The Vampire Archives

Preface by Neil Gaiman
Edited by Otto Penzler
Foreword by Kim Newman

The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape.

Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler—editor of the bestselling Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps—has compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever. With over eighty stories, including the works of Stephen King and D. H. Lawrence, alongside Lord Byron and Tanith Lee, not to mention Edgar Allan Poe and Harlan Ellison, The Vampire Archives will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there.

Other contributors include:
Arthur Conan Doyle • Ray Bradbury • Ambrose Bierce • H. P. Lovecraft • Harlan Ellison • Roger Zelazny • Robert Bloch • Clive Barker

Postoji izrazita mogućnost da ovo osvane i kod nas.

     Dobar ti je txt o Humboltovom daru. Konacno da docekam da napises pokoji pasus i o "drukcijoj" knjizevnosti. Kada si vec u stanju da citas 100-200 str/h, nepisano pravilo glasi da bi bio red da s vremena na vrijeme recenziras i ovakve stvari.

    Samo se nadam da je prevod ispao kako valja - sjecam se malko zakrzljalog prevoda Rothovog Zbogom, Kolumbo u izdanju Politike i sa fontom 16.

    Takodje, izvjesna zenska je u medjuvremenu prevela i jednog opskurnijeg Servantesa i publikovan je u hardkoveru, ali u Podgorici to izdanje staje 20 eura, sto mi se u ovom trenutku cini pretjerano mnogo.     

Planiram da bude još prikaza visoke književnosti i ostale nefantastike. Drago mi je što pratiš blog.

cek bre, 100-200 stranica za sat vremena? :? kako je to moguce?

Je l' ja moram periodično da objašnjavam da sam mutant? To je moja mutantska sposobnost. Ništa neobično. Ima ljudi koji čitaju i brže od mene.

Quote from: nightflier on 31-10-2009, 22:15:47
Je l' ja moram periodično da objašnjavam da sam mutant? To je moja mutantska sposobnost. Ništa neobično. Ima ljudi koji čitaju i brže od mene.

I kiborga. Terminator, na primer.

Johnny 5 takođe!

I Automan!

Bar da rekoste Optimus...  :(

Ekstremno sam se obradovao kada sam video ovo:

The Domination by S.M. Stirling

QuoteIt's about time! No more scouring used-book stores for tattered copies to replace the ones you loaned your friends: the first two installments of S.M. Stirling's superlative military-SF/alternate-history Draka trilogy are back in print, bound along with the third installment in hardcover. The only downside to this collection--which spans Marching Through Georgia, Under the Yoke, and The Stone Dogs--is the disappointing omission of the helpful maps, glossary, and so on that appeared in the original editions. But as some consolation, we at least get a bit of new backstory for the pseudo-sequel to Stone Dogs, Drakon, in the form of a prologue and a few interspersed paragraphs bookending each title.

The Draka series (dubbed The Domination in this collection) still requires a strong stomach--you'll find no shortage of blood and bullets or sex and violence here. But it's prudish to argue with Stirling's choices. A skilled writer and rigorous thinker, he's spun a compelling--not to mention plausible and well-researched--alternate history for earth: in this timeline, the Loyalists losers in the American Revolution set up shop in South Africa and then proceed to subjugate and industrialize the continent, eventually exporting their brutal system of slavery and conquest through WWI, WWII, and beyond to cover the better part of the globe. Page-turning, blood-pumping, realistic, and masterfully written combat SF, The Domination is part of the genre's canon.

Ovo je, inače, jedna od najboljih alternativnih istorija koje sam ikada čitao, a prelazi u sjajan tvrdi sf. Izgleda da se Stirling nakon smrti Džima Bejna pomirio s Baen Books, pa ćemo možda imati prilike da vidimo još reprinta njegovih starijih romana. Eto mi povoda da uradim intervju s njim.

Changes (Dresden Files, Book 12)

QuoteLong ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it.

Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it-against Harry. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury of his own untapped dark power. Because Harry's not fighting to save the world...

He's fighting to save his child.

Fuck!

Fak fak fak fak fakova! AAAAA! Ekstra! Kad izlazi???

Quote from: Perin on 02-11-2009, 03:35:29
Fak fak fak fak fakova! AAAAA! Ekstra! Kad izlazi???

U aprilu.

Meni stigao novi Džordan. Videćemo kakav je...

Inače, do sada je prodato 300 komada "Olujnog talasa" - manje od dva meseca otkako je objavljen. Ako se tako nastavi, na proleće sledi novi tiraž.

Ja sma ga pazario na sajmu naravno :) E da, i ovim putem ti se MNOGO izvinjavam - u BG sam bio samo 2 ana, sve je bilo zbrda zdola, bio sam sa curom kod kolege, tražio sam te na štandu everest medije pošto si kazao da ćeš možda biti tamo, ali e nisam našao...za vansajamske avanture nisam imao vremena, nažalost :( Ali ću doći najverovatnije ponovo u BG posle Nove Godine, pa se možemo tada naći i razmeniti knjige :)

Quote from: Perin on 04-11-2009, 22:36:09
Ja sma ga pazario na sajmu naravno :) E da, i ovim putem ti se MNOGO izvinjavam - u BG sam bio samo 2 ana, sve je bilo zbrda zdola, bio sam sa curom kod kolege, tražio sam te na štandu everest medije pošto si kazao da ćeš možda biti tamo, ali e nisam našao...za vansajamske avanture nisam imao vremena, nažalost :( Ali ću doći najverovatnije ponovo u BG posle Nove Godine, pa se možemo tada naći i razmeniti knjige :)

Ma ok. Bićemo in touch.

Twelve, JAsper Kent

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Quotemyeevich had remained standing and now began to speak in very precise, but very formal and strangely accented French. His voice had a darkness to it that seemed to emit not from his throat but from deep in his torso. Somewhere inside him it was as if giant millstones were turning against one another, or as though the lid were being slowly dragged aside to open a stone sarcophagus...On 12th June 1812, Napoleon's massive grande armee forded the River Niemen and so crossed the Rubicon - its invasion of Russia had begun. In the face of superior numbers and tactics, the imperial Russian army began its retreat. But a handful of Russian officers - veterans of Borodino - are charged with trying to slow the enemy's inexorable march on Moscow. Indeed, one of their number has already set the wheels of resistance in motion, having summoned the help of a band of mercenaries from the outermost fringes of Christian Europe.Comparing them to the once-feared Russian secret police - the Oprichniki - the name sticks. As rumours of plague travelling west from the Black Sea reach the Russians, the Oprichniki - but twelve in number - arrive. Preferring to work alone, and at night, the twelve prove brutally, shockingly effective against the French. But one amongst the Russians, Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov, is unnerved by the Oprichniki's ruthlessness...as he comes to understand the true, horrific nature of these strangers, he wonders at the nightmare they've unleashed in their midst...Full of authentic historical detail and heart-stopping supernatural moments, and boasting a page-turning narrative, "Twelve" is storytelling at its most original and exciting.

IPS konačno ima svoj sajt, mada na njemu nema pola objavljenih knjiga. Bar nekakav pomak od autizma prema čitaocima - www.ipsmedia.rs (http://www.ipsmedia.rs)

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Seća li se neko mog kukanja da više nema novih dobrih pisaca fantastike? Demantovan sam na veličanstven način. Ken Šols je GENIJALAN. I potvrđuje moju tezu da čovek mora da bude debeo i bradat da bi dobro pisao sajfaj.

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Quote from: nightflier on 11-11-2009, 01:00:48čovek mora da bude debeo i bradat da bi dobro pisao sajfaj.

ovo implicitno uvlacenje bobanu je zaista degutantno.

sad ces da nateras i skalopa da pusti bradu.

Ko sledece godine ne bude zurio sa odlaskom na more na plazi ce moci da cita:

Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery
edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders


coming June 22, 2010
from Harper Eos

"Introduction: Check Your Dark Lord at the Door" - Lou Anders & Jonathan Strahan
"Goats of Glory" - Steven Erikson
"Tides Elba: A Tale of the Black Company" - Glen Cook
"Bloodsport" - Gene Wolfe
"The Singing Spear" - James Enge
"A Wizard of Wiscezan" - C.J. Cherryh
"A Rich Full Week" - K. J. Parker
"A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet" - Garth Nix
"Red Pearls: An Elric Story" - Michael Moorcock
"The Deification of Dal Bamore" - Tim Lebbon
"Dark Times at the Midnight Market" - Robert Silverberg
"The Undefiled" - Greg Keyes
"Hew the Tint Master" - Michael Shea 
"In the Stacks" - Scott Lynch
"Two Lions, A Witch, and the War-Robe" - Tanith Lee
"The Sea Troll's Daughter" - Caitlin R Kiernan
"Thieves of Daring" - Bill Willingham
"The Fool Jobs" - Joe Abercrombie

Baš je dobar izbor. Strejhanove antologije postaju sve bolje i bolje.

Bice da je ovde vise Anders u pitanju, njegovi izbori su, nacelno, smeliji i atraktivniji.

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Ovo i nije bas taze, ali mi je nekako promakla do sada...

'bem ti sliku. U pitanju je A Short History of Fantasy Fare Mendelson.

Under the Dome: A Novel

King's return to supernatural horror is uncomfortably bulky, formidably complex and irresistibly compelling. When the smalltown of Chester's Mill, Maine, is surrounded by an invisible force field, the people inside must exert themselves to survive. The situation deteriorates rapidly due to the dome's ecological effects and the machinations of Big Jim Rennie, an obscenely sanctimonious local politician and drug lord who likes the idea of having an isolated populace to dominate. Opposing him are footloose Iraq veteran Dale "Barbie" Barbara, newspaper editor Julia Shumway, a gaggle of teen skateboarders and others who want to solve the riddle of the dome. King handles the huge cast of characters masterfully but ruthlessly, forcing them to live (or not) with the consequences of hasty decisions. Readers will recognize themes and images from King's earlier fiction, and while this novel doesn't have the moral weight of, say, The Stand, nevertheless, it's a nonstop thrill ride as well as a disturbing, moving meditation on our capacity for good and evil. (Nov.)

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Bem ti nedostatak vremena...

zvuči nesnosno nezanimljivo.

Quote from: Ghoul on 19-11-2009, 07:24:30
zvuči nesnosno nezanimljivo.

I meni. Dobio sam knjigu, ali dobio sam i WoW, a i dešava se svašta nešto pride... Ova knjiga se samo pridružila legiji drugih koje čekaju na čitanje. Damn, što nisam Bil Gejts... kupio bih neki zamak u Karpatima, čopor kavkaskih ovčara i koje pleme Sika da kolju putnike namernike!

High Duke je na Bukspejsu postavio nimalo laskav prikaz "Drakule Nemrtvog".

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Nova knjiga Korija Doktorova, potvrda ne bas teze, vise zapazanja, da morate da nosite naocare kao Elvis Kostelo da biste pisali dobru gikovksu prozu...
Superzabavan roman, uz to i besplatan!

Melkor me je ubedio da je Paolo Bacigalupi sjajan pisac, pa sam nabavio The Windup Girl, njegov prvi roman. U ponedeljak radimo magnetnu nakon kontrolnog zahvata, pa ću čitati u čekaonici. Mada me mami i "Levijatan", koji mi je stigao u istom paketu. Uf... Evo šta Amazon ima da kaže:

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QuoteNoted short story writer Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories) proves equally adept at novel length in this grim but beautifully written tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation. Capt. Jaidee Rojjanasukchai of the Thai Environment Ministry fights desperately to protect his beloved nation from foreign influences. Factory manager Anderson Lake covertly searches for new and useful mutations for a hated Western agribusiness. Aging Chinese immigrant Tan Hock Seng lives by his wits while looking for one last score. Emiko, the titular despised but impossibly seductive product of Japanese genetic engineering, works in a brothel until she accidentally triggers a civil war. This complex, literate and intensely felt tale, which recalls both William Gibson and Ian McDonald at their very best, will garner Bacigalupi significant critical attention and is clearly one of the finest science fiction novels of the year.

This complex, literate and intensely felt tale, which recalls both William Gibson and Ian McDonald at their very best, will garner Bacigalupi significant critical attention and is clearly one of the finest science fiction novels of the year. --Publishers Weekly

Bacigalupi is as unflinching in his examination of the unthinkable cruelty, humiliation and banal evil that humanity inflicts on the Other as he is on the bleak future that our mass consumption society will inevitably unleash. In his fictional vision, there will be no miraculous rescue from our moral or environmental sins. The Windup Girl will almost certainly be the most important SF novel of the year for its willingness to confront the most cherished notions of the genre, namely that our future is bright and we will overcome our selfish, cruel nature.

Samo da pitam nightflier-a ili High Duke-a (pretpostavljam da su oni najmerodavniji), kada se ocekuje REH-ov Konan u izdanju IPS-a, u koliko delova (knjiga) ide i da li ce biti ilustrovan. Najvise bih voleo da idu SAMO originalne Hauardove price i da recimo bude izdat u stilu nekog ovakvog (luksuznog) izdanja-http://www.bookpalace.com/acatalog/REH_Fiction.html-znaci sa ilustracijama Marka Sulca, Geri Djanija i Gregori Manciza :| :!:. Znam da je to skupa i verovatno neisplativa varijanta, znaci malo verovatna, ali ajde da pitam, jer tu kompilaciju zeljno iscekujem vec godinama :(.

Hvala unapred na bilo kakvom odgovoru!

Quote from: mikoza on 23-11-2009, 20:24:10
Samo da pitam nightflier-a ili High Duke-a (pretpostavljam da su oni najmerodavniji), kada se ocekuje REH-ov Konan u izdanju IPS-a, u koliko delova (knjiga) ide i da li ce biti ilustrovan. Najvise bih voleo da idu SAMO originalne Hauardove price i da recimo bude izdat u stilu nekog ovakvog (luksuznog) izdanja-http://www.bookpalace.com/acatalog/REH_Fiction.html-znaci sa ilustracijama Marka Sulca, Geri Djanija i Gregori Manciza :| :!:. Znam da je to skupa i verovatno neisplativa varijanta, znaci malo verovatna, ali ajde da pitam, jer tu kompilaciju zeljno iscekujem vec godinama :(.

Hvala unapred na bilo kakvom odgovoru!

Mislim da će biti ukupno četiri toma, mada ne mogu da garantujem. Uglavnom, sve će knjige biti ilustrovane, samo što ovde neće biti reč o projektu tipa "Nekronomikona", već će se preuzeti strane ilustracije. Pošto je vlasnik prava Hauardova zadužbina, mislim da neće biti priča drugih pisaca. Ne znam kada će biti objavljena prva knjiga, koja je odavno prevedena.

Dvadeset četvrtog dana meseca kojeg smo objavljeno je nekoliko zanimljivih naslova, mada se to može reći i za čitav mesec. Novembar je možda omiljeni mesec za objavljivanje fantastike, pošto se nastavlja na Noć veštica i pada zgodno pred Božić. Najpre najperverzniji:

The Elder Scrolls: The Infernal City by Greg Keyes

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QuoteFour decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil. It is Umbriel, a floating city that casts a terrifying shadow–for wherever it falls, people die and rise again.

And it is in Umbriel's shadow that a great adventure begins, and a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary prince with a secret. A spy on the trail of a vast conspiracy. A mage obsessed with his desire for revenge. And Annaig, a young girl in whose hands the fate of Tamriel may rest . . . .

Based on the award-winning The Elder Scrolls, The Infernal City is the first of two exhilarating novels following events that continue the story from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, named 2006 Game of the Year.

Ne mogu da opišem koliko je imbecilno da ovakav pisac radi na knjizi po video igri.

First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher je završnica serijala Codex Alera, koji je nastao kao odgovor na pitanje šta se dobije kada se stari Rimljani ukrste s pokemonima.

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QuoteFor years he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not be restrained. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, Gaius Octavian became a legendary man of war-and the rightful First Lord of Alera.

But now, the savage Vord are on the march, and Gaius must lead his legions to the Calderon Valley to stand against them-using all of his intelligence, ingenuity, and furycraft to save their world from eternal darkness.

The Silver Mage: Book Four of the Silver Wyrm  by Katharine Kerr.

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The Horsekin are assembling along Prince Dar's northern border, and the Deverry alliance simply does not have the men and resources to prevent their enemies from moving into the wilderness areas known as the Ghostlands. But suddenly, the Dwrgi folk and the dragons come to Dar's aid, tipping the balance in their favor and offering Dar's people a chance to defeat the Horsekin once and for all.


Na http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com/ (http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com/) objavljen novi prikaz.

Nightflieru, molim te prosvetli me po pitanju jednog izdanja. Mono i Manjana, serijal "Recni sliv tmine", Son Rasel: imaju prvi deo "Stazama i dvoranama podzemlja" i "Kompas duse". Dali je ovo "duologija" ili ima vise delova?

Ja imam samo te dve. Koliko znam - više nema. Mada je on meni dosadan pisac.

Ovako. To jeste duologija - međutim, to je prikvel duologija za duologiju Rise of Moontide & Magic. Ja se sve nadam da će Mono i Manjana nastavit sa Raselom, jer mi se on kao pisac sviđa. Swans War trilogija mu je odlična, ali moj favorit ipak ostaje Brother Initiate duologija :)

 December 2009

   * Armstrong, Kelley • Angelic • (Subterranean Press, hc)
   * Baker, Kage • Not Less than Gods • (Subterranean Press, hc)
   * Blish, James • Flights of Eagles • (NESFA Press, cln, hc)
   * Butcher, Jim • First Lord's Fury • (Ace, hc)
   * Card, Orson Scott • Hidden Empire • (Tor, hc)
   * de Lint, Charles • Muse and Reverie • (Tor, cln, hc)
   * DeNiro, Alan • Total Oblivion, More or Less • (Ballantine Spectra, tpb)
   * Erikson, Steven • Crack'd Pot Trail • (PS Publishing, hc)
   * Gregory, Daryl • The Devil's Alphabet • (Ballantine Del Rey, tpb)
   * Hamilton, Laurell K. • Divine Misdemeanors • (Bantam UK, hc)
   * Hamilton, Laurell K. • Divine Misdemeanors • (Ballantine, hc)
   * Hughes, Matthew • Hespira • (Night Shade Books, hc)
   * Koontz, Dean • Breathless • (Bantam, hc)
   * Kowal, Mary Robinette • Scenting the Dark and Other Stories • (Subterranean Press, cln, hc)
   * Lackey, Mercedes, ed. • Changing the World and Other Tales of Valdemar • (DAW, anth)
   * Lake, Jay • Death of a Starship • (MonkeyBrain Books, nva, tpb)
   * Lake, Jay • The Specific Gravity of Grief • (Fairwood Press, nva, hc)
   * Lansdale, Joe R., ed. • Son of Retro Pulp Tales • (Subterranean Press, anth, hc)
   * Martin, George R. R., ed. • Wild Cards: Suicide Kings • (Tor, anth, hc)
   * Paxson, Diana L. • Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword of Avalon • (Roc, hc)
   * Rankin, Robert • Retromancer • (Gollancz, hc)
   * Resnick, Mike • Starship: Flagship • (Pyr, hc)
   * Scalzi, John • The God Engines • (Subterranean Press, nva, hc)
   * Shiner, Lewis • Collected Stories • (Subterranean Press, cln, hc)
   * Straub, Peter • The Skylark • (Subterranean Press, hc)
   * Valente, Catherynne M. • Under in the Mere • (Rabid Transit Press, nva, tpb)
   * Zelazny, Roger • The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Five: Nine Black Doves • (NESFA Press, cln, hc)
   * Zelazny, Roger • The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Six: The Road to Amber • (NESFA Press, cln, hc)
     

January 2010

   * Anderson, Poul • Young Flandry • (Baen, cln, tpb)
   * Bennett, Robert Jackson • Mr. Shivers • (Orbit US, hc)
   * Bennett, Robert Jackson • Mr. Shivers • (Orbit, hc)
   * Brett, Peter V. • The Great Bazaar and Other Stories • (Subterranean Press, cln, hc)
   * Brockmeier, Kevin, ed. • Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy, Volume 3 • (Underland Press, anth, tpb)
   * Brown, Eric • Cosmopath • (Solaris)
   * Brust, Steven • Iorich • (Tor, hc)
   * de Bodard, Aliette • Servant of the Underworld • (HarperCollins UK/Angry Robot, tpb)
   * Di Filippo, Paul • Roadside Bodhisattva • (PS Publishing, hc)
   * + Erikson, Steven • Dust of Dreams • (Tor, hc)
   * Fforde, Jasper • Shades of Gray • (Hodder & Stoughton, hc)
   * Fforde, Jasper • Shades of Grey • (Viking, hc)
   * Gevers, Nick, ed. • The Book of Dreams • (Subterranean Press, anth, hc)
   * Haldeman, Joe • Starbound • (Ace, hc)
   * Horton, Rich, ed. • Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download • (Wyrm Publishing, anth, tpb)
   * Hoyt, Sarah A. • Darkship Thieves • (Baen, tpb)
   * Hughes, Matthew • Quartet and Triptych • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
   * Jablokov, Alexander • Brain Thief • (Tor, hc)
   * Jones, Diana Wynne • Enchanted Glass • (HarperCollins Children's Books UK, nvl-ya, hc)
   * Joshi, S. T., ed. • Black Wings • (PS Publishing, anth, hc)
   * Kenyon, Kay • Prince of Storms • (Pyr, hc)
   * McCaffrey, Anne, & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough • Catalyst • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
   * Resnick, Laura • Doppelgangster • (DAW)
   * + Robinson, Kim Stanley • Galileo's Dream • (Ballantine Spectra, hc)
   * Snyder, Lucy A. • Spellbent • (Ballantine Del Rey)
   * Swainston, Steph • Above the Snowline • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
   * Tidhar, Lavie • The Bookman • (HarperCollins UK/Angry Robot, tpb)
   * Wilson, Gahan • Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons • (Fantagraphics Books, art, hc)
   * Zivkovic, Zoran • Escher's Loops • (PS Publishing, hc)
     

February 2010

   * Anderson, Poul • Captain Flandry: Defender of the Terran Empire • (Baen, cln, tpb)
   * Barker, Clive • The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies • (Earthling Publications, nf, hc)
   * Beagle, Peter S. • Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle • (Subterranean Press, cln, hc)
   * Black, Holly • The Poison Eaters and Other Stories • (Small Beer Press/Big Mouth House, cln, hc)
   * Bova, Ben • Able One • (Tor, hc)
   * Bradbury, Ray • The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition • (Subterranean Press, cln, hc)
   * Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy • (Prime Books, anth, tpb)
   * Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Tails of Wonder • (Night Shade Books, anth, tpb)
   * + Deas, Stephen • The Adamantine Palace • (Roc, hc)
   * del Rey, Lester • Robots and Magic • (NESFA Press, cln, hc)
   * Edelman, David Louis • Geosynchron • (Pyr, tpb)
   * Glukhovsky, Dmitry • METRO 2033 • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
   * Hamilton, Laurell K. • Flirt • (Berkley, hc)
   * Hill, Joe • Horns • (Gollancz, hc)
   * Hill, Joe • Horns • (Morrow, hc)
   * + Hobb, Robin • Dragon Keeper • (Eos, hc)
   * Horwood, William • Hyddenworld: Spring • (Macmillan UK, hc)
   * Hunt, Stephen • Secrets of the Fire Sea • (HarperVoyager, hc)
   * Lake, Jay • The Baby Killers • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
   * Lansdale, Joe R. • The Best of Joe R. Lansdale • (Tachyon Publications, cln, tpb)
   * Lovegrove, James • Collection • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
   * Mann, George • Ghosts of Manhattan • (Snowbooks, hc)
   * McCaffrey, Todd • Dragongirl • (Bantam UK, hc)
   * Meaney, John • Absorption • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
   * Moles, David • Seven Cities of Gold • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
   * Parker, K. J. • The Folding Knife • (Orbit US, hc)
   * Parker, K. J. • The Folding Knife • (Orbit, tpb)
   * + Redick, Robert V. S. • The Ruling Sea • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
   * Reynolds, Alastair • Boskone Book • (NESFA Press, cln, hc)
   * Shea, Michael • The Extra • (Tor, hc)
   * Shepard, Lucius • The Taborin Scale • (Subterranean Press, nva, hc)
   * Simmons, Dan • Black Hills • (Little Brown/Reagan Arthur Books, hc)
   * Stoddard, Jason • Winning Mars • (Prime Books, hc/tpb)
   * Straub, Peter • A Dark Matter • (Doubleday, hc)
   * Warren, Kaaron • Walking the Tree • (HarperCollins UK/Angry Robot, tpb)
   * Williams, Liz • The Iron Khan • (Night Shade Books, hc)
   * Willis, Connie • Blackout • (Ballantine Spectra, hc)
   * Yolen, Jane, & Midori Snyder • Except the Queen • (Roc, hc)
     

March 2010

   * Barclay, James • Elves: Once Walked with Gods • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
   * Bear, Elizabeth • Bone & Jewel Creatures • (Subterranean Press, nva, hc)
   * Bear, Elizabeth • Chill • (Ballantine Spectra)
   * Bell, Alex • Lex Trent versus the Gods • (Hodder Headline)
   * Bishop, Anne • Shalador's Lady • (Roc, hc)
   * Bradbury, Ray • A Pleasure to Burn • (Subterranean Press, cln, hc)
   * Copper, Basil • Darkness, Mist and Shadows • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
   * Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Best Horror of the Year: Volume 2 • (Night Shade Books, anth, tpb)
   * Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror • (Tachyon Publications, anth, tpb)
   * Edelman, David Louis • Almost the Last Stories • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
   * Englehart, Steve • The Long Man • (Tor, hc)
   * Fletcher, Jo, ed. • The Dark Side of the Seaside • (PS Publishing, anth, hc)
   * Griffin, Kate • The Midnight Mayor • (Orbit)
   * Harrison, Kim • Black Magic Sanction • (Eos, hc)
   * Hobb, Robin • Dragon Haven • (HarperVoyager, hc)
   * Hodgell, P. C. • Bound in Blood • (Baen, tpb)
   * Hughes, Rhys • Twisthorn Bellow • (Atomic Fez, tpb)
   * Kilpatrick, Nancy, ed. • Evolve • (Hades/EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy, anth, tpb)
   * Martin, George R. R., & Gardner Dozois, eds. • Warriors • (Tor, anth, hc)
   * + McDonald, Ian • Ares Express • (Pyr, tpb)
   * McGuire, Seanan • A Local Habitation • (DAW)
   * Moon, Elizabeth • Oath of Fealty • (Orbit)
   * Moon, Elizabeth • Oath of Fealty • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
   * Moore, Christopher • Bite Me • (Morrow, hc)
   * Nix, Garth • The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 7: Lord Sunday • (HarperCollins Children's Books UK, nvl-ya, tpb)
   * Nix, Garth • The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 7: Lord Sunday • (Scholastic Press, nvl-ya, hc)
   * Pinborough, Sarah • A Matter of Blood • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
   * Reynolds, Alastair • Terminal World • (Gollancz, hc)
   * Ryan, Carrie • The Dead-Tossed Waves • (Gollancz, hc)
   * Steele, Allen • Coyote Destiny • (Ace, hc)
   * Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four • (Night Shade Books, anth, tpb)
   * Stross, Charles • The Trade of Queens • (Tor, hc)
   * Whates, Ian • City of Dreams and Nightmare • (HarperCollins UK/Angry Robot, tpb)
   * Whates, Ian • The Noise Within • (Rebellion/Solaris, tpb)
   * Williams, Tad • Shadowrise • (DAW, hc)
   * Wolfe, Gene • The Sorcerer's House • (Tor, hc)
     

April 2010

   * Armstrong, Kelley • Tales of the Otherworld • (Orbit, cln)
   * Armstrong, Kelley • Tales of the Otherworld • (Bantam, cln, hc)
   * Ballantyne, Tony • Blood and Iron • (Tor UK, hc)
   * Barnes, John • Directive 51 • (Ace, hc)
   * Brett, Peter V. • The Desert Spear • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
   * Brett, Peter V. • The Desert Spear • (HarperVoyager, hc)
   * Briggs, Patricia • Silver Borne • (Ace, hc)
   * Butcher, Jim • Changes • (Orbit)
   * Butcher, Jim • Changes • (Roc, hc)
   * Card, Orson Scott • The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy • (Writer's Digest, nf, tpb)
   * Carriger, Gail • Changeless • (Orbit US)
   * Cobley, Michael • The Orphaned Worlds • (Orbit, tpb)
   * Datlow, Ellen, & Terri Windling, eds. • The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People • (Viking, anth, hc)
   * De Vries, Jetse, ed. • Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic SF • (Rebellion/Solaris, anth)
   * Deas, Stephen • The King of the Crags • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
   * Dowling, Terry • Clowns at Midnight • (PS Publishing, hc)
   * + Esslemont, Ian C. • Return of the Crimson Guard • (Tor, hc)
   * Fawcett, Bill, ed. • Nebula Awards Showcase 2010 • (Roc, anth, tpb)
   * Files, Gemma • A Book of Tongues • (ChiZine Publications, hc)
   * Flynn, Michael • Up Jim River • (Tor, hc)
   * Forbeck, Matt • Amortals • (HarperCollins UK/Angry Robot, tpb)
   * Grahame-Smith, Seth • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter • (Grand Central, hc)
   * + Gray, Alasdair • Old Men in Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers • (Small Beer Press, hc)
   * Horton, Rich, ed. • The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 Edition • (Prime Books, anth, tpb)
   * + Jones, Diana Wynne • Enchanted Glass • (HarperCollins/Greenwillow, nvl-ya, hc)
   * Jones, J. V. • Watcher of the Dead • (Orbit, hc)
   * Jones, J. V. • Watcher of the Dead • (Tor, hc)
   * Kay, Guy Gavriel • Under Heaven • (Penguin Canada, hc)
   * + Kiernan, Celine • The Poison Throne • (Orbit US, tpb)
   * Kilworth, Garry • Tales from the Fragrant Harbour • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
   * Lake, Jay • Pinion • (Tor, hc)
   * Lee, Sharon, & Steve Miller • Saltation • (Baen, hc)
   * Leiber, Fritz • The Best of Fritz Leiber • (Night Shade Books, cln, hc)
   * Lowachee, Karin • Gaslight Dogs • (Orbit US)
   * + Mann, George • Ghosts of Manhattan • (Pyr, tpb)
   * Nolan, William F. • Dark Dimensions • (Fairwood Press/Darkwood Press, cln, tpb)
   * Patterson, William H., Jr. • Robert A. Heinlein • (Tor, nf, hc)
   * + Reeve, Philip • Fever Crumb • (Scholastic, nvl-ya, hc)
   * Reeve, Philip • A Web of Air • (Scholastic UK, nvl-ya, hc)
   * Roberts, Adam • New Model Army • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
   * Sawyer, Robert J. • WWW: Watch • (Ace, hc)
   * Snodgrass, Melinda • The Edge of Ruin • (Tor, hc)
   * Spinrad, Norman • He Walked Among Us • (Tor, hc)
   * Tem, Steve Rasnic, & Melanie Tem • In Concert • (Centipede Press, cln, hc)
   * Tregillis, Ian • Bitter Seeds • (Tor, hc)
   * Williams, Walter Jon • The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories • (Night Shade Books, cln, hc)
     

May 2010

   * + Baxter, Stephen • Ark • (Roc, hc)
   * Baxter, Stephen • Stone Spring • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
   * Beukes, Lauren • Zoo City • (HarperCollins/Angry Robot, tpb)
   * Black, Holly • The White Cat • (Simon & Schuster/McElderry, nvl-ya, hc)
   * Canavan, Trudi • The Ambassador's Mission • (Orbit, hc)
   * + Chadbourn, Mark • The Devil in Green • (Pyr, tpb)
   * Cherryh, C. J. • Deceiver • (DAW, hc)
   * Cornish, D. M. • Monster Blood Tattoo, Book Three: Factotum • (Random House/Fickling UK, nvl-ya, hc)
   * Cornish, D. M. • Monster Blood Tattoo, Book Three: Factotum • (Putnam, nvl-ya, hc)
   * de Lint, Charles • The Very Best of Charles de Lint • (Tachyon Publications, cln, tpb)
   * Doctorow, Cory • For the Win • (HarperVoyager, nvl-ya, hc)
   * Doctorow, Cory • For the Win • (Tor Teen, nvl-ya, hc)
   * Duncan, Dave • Speak to the Devil • (Tor, hc)
   * Gilman, Laura Anne • Hard Magic • (Harlequin/Luna, tpb)
   * Graham, Jo • Stealing Fire • (Orbit US, tpb)
   * Harris, Charlaine • Dead in the Family • (Ace, hc)
   * Herter, David • The Fiery Angels • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
   * + Hobb, Robin • Dragon Haven • (Eos, hc)
   * Hogan, James P. • Migration • (Baen, hc)
   * Holt, Tom • Blonde Bombshell • (Orbit, tpb)
   * + Kay, Guy Gavriel • Under Heaven • (Roc, hc)
   * Kowal, Mary Robinette, ed. • The Hugo Award Winners, 2010 Edition • (Prime Books, anth, tpb)
   * Lackey, Mercedes, Eric Flint & Dave Freer • Much Fall of Blood • (Baen, hc)
   * Lindskold, Jane • Five Odd Honors • (Tor, hc)
   * Lovegrove, James • Age of Zeus • (Rebellion/Solaris)
   * Miéville, China • Kraken • (Macmillan UK, hc)
   * Miéville, China • Kraken • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
   * Rambo, Cat, Paul Tremblay & Sean Wallace, eds. • Worlds of Fantasy: The Best of Fantasy Magazine • (Prime Books, anth, tpb)
   * Rusch, Kristine Kathryn • Recovering Apollo 8 and Other Stories • (Golden Gryphon Press, cln, hc)
   * Sedia, Ekaterina, ed. • Running with the Pack • (Prime Books, anth, tpb)
   * + Warren, Kaaron • Slights • (HarperCollins/Angry Robot US, tpb)
   * Zafon, Carlos Ruiz • The Prince of Mist • (Little Brown, nvl-ya, hc)
     

 June 2010

    * Anderson, Kevin J. • The Map of All Things • (Orbit US, tpb)
    * Andrews, Ilona • Magic Bleeds • (Ace)
    * Arnason, Eleanor • Tomb of the Fathers • (Aqueduct Press, tpb)
    * Azinger, Karen • The Steel Queen • (HarperVoyager, hc)
    * Carey, Jacqueline • Naamah's Curse • (Grand Central, hc)
    * Carey, Jacqueline • Naamah's Curse • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * + Chadbourn, Mark • The Queen of Sinister • (Pyr, tpb)
    * Dann, Jack • Insinuations • (PS Publishing, nf, hc)
    * Emshwiller, Carol • Collection • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * Flewelling, Lynn • The White Road • (Ballantine Spectra)
    * Gevers, Nick, & Marty Halpern, eds. • Is Anybody Out There? • (DAW, anth)
    * Hamilton, Laurell K. • Bullet • (Berkley, hc)
    * Hartwell, David G., & Kathryn Cramer, eds. • Year's Best SF 15 • (Eos, anth)
    * + Holt, Tom • Blonde Bombshell • (Orbit US, hc)
    * Howard, Jonathan • Johannes Cabal the Detective • (Hodder Headline, hc)
    * + Hughes, Matthew • Template • (Paizo/Planet Stories, tpb)
    * Koontz, Dean • Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Lost Souls • (Bantam, hc)
    * Kowal, Mary Robinette • Shades of Milk and Honey • (Tor, hc)
    * Lord, Karen • Redemption in Indigo • (Small Beer Press, tpb)
    * Newton, Mark Charan • City of Ruin • (Tor UK, hc)
    * Okorafor, Nnedi • Who Fears Death • (DAW, hc)
    * Parks, Richard • On the Banks of the River of Heaven • (Prime Books, cln, hc)
    * + Reynolds, Alastair • Terminal World • (Ace, hc)
    * Robinson, Kim Stanley • The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson • (Night Shade Books, cln, hc)
    * Stevermer, Caroline • Magic Below Stairs • (Dial, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Sullivan, Tricia • Lightborn • (Orbit)
    * VanderMeer, Jeff • The Third Bear • (Tachyon Publications, cln, tpb)
    * Warren, Kaaron • Mistification • (HarperCollins UK/Angry Robot, tpb)
       

July 2010

    * Abnett, Dan • Embedded • (HarperCollins UK/Angry Robot, tpb)
    * Anders, Lou, ed. • With Great Power • (Pocket, anth, tpb)
    * Baker, Kage • The Bird of the River • (Tor, hc)
    * Beamer, Amelia • The Loving Dead • (Night Shade Books, tpb)
    * Carroll, Lee • Black Swan Rising • (Bantam UK, tpb)
    * Dozois, Gardner • When the Great Days Come • (Prime Books, cln, hc)
    * Dozois, Gardner, ed. • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-seventh Annual Collection • (St. Martin's, anth, hc)
    * Egan, Greg • Zendegi • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Hand, Elizabeth • Illyria • (Viking, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Harrison, Harry • The Stainless Steel Rat Returns • (Tor, hc)
    * Holland, Cecelia • Kings of the North • (Tor, hc)
    * + Howard, Jonathan L. • Johannes Cabal the Detective • (Doubleday, hc)
    * Lackey, Mercedes • The Sleeping Beauty • (Harlequin/Luna, tpb)
    * + Lynch, Scott • The Republic of Thieves • (Ballantine Spectra, hc)
    * MacLeod, Ken • The Restoration Game • (Orbit, hc)
    * McDonald, Ian • The Dervish House • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * McDonald, Ian • The Dervish House • (Pyr, hc)
    * Morgan, Richard • The Dark Commands • (Gollancz, hc)
    * Novik, Naomi • Tongues of Serpents • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
    * Reed, Robert • Eater-of-Bone • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * Romero, George • The Living Dead • (Hodder Headline, hc)
    * Romero, George A. • The Living Dead • (Grand Central, hc)
    * Sedia, Ekaterina • The House of Discarded Dreams • (Prime Books, tpb)
    * Stross, Charles • The Fuller Memorandum • (Orbit)
    * Stross, Charles • The Fuller Memorandum • (Ace, hc)
       

August 2010

    * Bakker, R. Scott • The White-Luck Warrior • (Orbit, tpb)
    * + Birmingham, John • After America • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
    * Connolly, Harry • Game of Cages • (Ballantine Del Rey)
    * Di Filippo, Paul • A Princess of the Linear Jungle • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
    * Duane, Diane • Omnitopia Dawn • (DAW, hc)
    * Erikson, Steven • The Crippled God • (Bantam UK, hc)
    * Harris, Charlaine, & Toni L. P. Kelner, eds. • Death's Excellent Vacation • (Ace, anth, hc)
    * Hoffman, Nina Kiriki • Thresholds • (Viking, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Lamplighter, L. Jagi • Prospero in Hell • (Tor, hc)
    * Pratt, Tim, ed. • Sympathy for the Devil • (Night Shade Books, anth, tpb)
    * Sanderson, Brandon • The Way of Kings • (Tor, hc)
    * Sargent, Pamela • Seed Seeker • (Tor, hc)
    * Somers, Jeff • The Terminal State • (Orbit)
    * Somers, Jeff • The Terminal State • (Orbit US)
    * Weeks, Brent • The Black Prism • (Orbit, hc)
       

September 2010

    * Adams, John Joseph, ed. • The Living Dead 2 • (Night Shade Books, anth, tpb)
    * Brooks, Terry • Bearers of the Black Staff • (Orbit, hc)
    * Brooks, Terry • Bearers of the Black Staff • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
    * Buckell, Tobias S. • Arctic Rising • (Tor, hc)
    * Datlow, Ellen, & Nick Mamatas, eds. • Haunted Legends • (Tor, anth, hc)
    * Elliott, Kate • Cold Magic • (Orbit US, tpb)
    * Gilman, Felix • A History of the Half-Made World • (Tor, hc)
    * Hamilton, Peter F. • The Evolutionary Void • (Macmillan UK, hc)
    * Jones, Gwyneth • The Universe of Things • (Aqueduct Press, cln, tpb)
    * McLeod, Suzanne • The Bitter Seed of Magic • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * + Morgan, Richard K. • The Cold Commands • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
    * Priest, Cherie • Dreadnought • (Tor, hc)
    * + Roberson, Chris • Book of Secrets • (HarperCollins/Angry Robot US, tpb)
    * Scholes, Ken • Antiphon • (Tor, hc)
    * Swenson, Patrick, ed. • The Best of Talebones • (Fairwood Press, anth, tpb)
    * Walton, Jo • Among Others • (Tor, hc)
    * Wentworth, K. D., ed. • L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXVI • (Galaxy, anth)
    * Wingrove, David • Son of Heaven • (Atlantic Books UK/Corvus, hc)
       

Šta je kome zanimljivo s spiska?

Bishop, Anne • Shalador's Lady •
Butcher, Jim • First Lord's Fury •
Erikson, Steven • Crack'd Pot Trail •
Erikson, Steven • Dust of Dreams •
Bradbury, Ray • The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition •
Barclay, James • Elves: Once Walked with Gods •
Martin, George R. R., & Gardner Dozois, eds. • Warriors •
Wolfe, Gene • The Sorcerer's House •
Williams, Tad • Shadowrise •
Butcher, Jim • Changes •
Card, Orson Scott • The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy •
Jones, J. V. • Watcher of the Dead •
Howard, Jonathan • Johannes Cabal the Detective •
Bakker, R. Scott • The White-Luck Warrior •
Erikson, Steven • The Crippled God •
Sanderson, Brandon • The Way of Kings •


S tim da me boldovane knjige baš interesuju. Vidim da nema Martina sa Asoiaf niti Rotfasa? Takođe, možeš li mi reći o čemu je reč sa ovom Martinovom knjigom i sa knjigom Anne Bishop?

Bučera sam pročitao - i malčice je razočaravajuć. Da First Lord's Fury ne završava serijal, bio bi zadovaljuvajuća knjiga. Ovako...

Shalador's Lady je povratak u Dark Jewels, ali poslednja knjiga iz serijala - u koju sam ja polagao velike nade - nimalo nije dorasla prvim naslovima u ciklusu. Stoga strepim da će i  Shalador's Lady  biti u najboljem slučaju osrednji proizvod.

Crack'd Pot Trail je nova novela o ona dva blesava nekromanta, a Dust of Dreams već sam nabavio, ali nisam pročitao ni osmu knjigu.

Elves: Once Walked with Gods - Barkli je baš loš pisac. Fentezi treš po uzoru na DnD. To ne znači da nije zabavan.

Warriors ne znam šta je, sem onoga što se može zaključiti po priređivačima.

Shadowrise je treća knjiga u serijalu Shadowmarch, ali meni je Vilijams smrtno dosada, a Shadomarch dosadniji od ostalih njegovih romana.

Changes je novi Hari Drezden.

Way of Kings je repriza. To jest, roman je objavljen valjda još 2006. samo što nije primećen. Čini mi se da se radi o urbanoj fantastici - mešavini svega i svačega.

Bučera i Fury (Codex Alera) serijal sam krenuo čitati, mislim da sam nekad prve 3 knjige pročitao, pa mi se više nije dalo u ebook, mada mi se serijal svideo. Barklija imam jedan roman, čuo sam negde da nije loš, pa me zainteresovao ovaj drugi...Vilijams je meni ok, Shadowmarch mi je i bolji od Sećanje Jad i Trna :D Inače, da se pohvalim - zahvaljujući svojoj dragoj, kompletirao sam Prince of Nothing trilogiju, od Bakera, u izdanju Hrvatskog Algoritma. Ova gorepomenuta knjiga od istog pisca je drugi deo sikvel trilogije na Prince of Nothing?

I jedno offhand pitanje: Pročitao sam Legende, i mnogo mi se svidela priča koja potpada u serijal o Alvin Makeru, od Orson Skot Karda... Ima li šanse da se pomenuti serijal objavi kod nas? Iskeženi čovek se zove pripovetka u Legendama :)

Ja sam poodavno preveo prvu knjigu. Pretpostavljam da se izdavaču ne isplati da objavljuje dalje zbog slabe prodaje. Inače, u knjižari "Delfi" izbor fantastike je sjajan i to po više nego pristupačnim cenama. Na primer, standardni fentezi meki povez je približno 900 dinara, a izbor im je više nego solidan. Do kraja godine stižu im dve pošiljke novih knjiga i proširuju sffh odeljak.

Quote from: nightflier on 05-12-2009, 19:52:05
Ja sam poodavno preveo prvu knjigu. Pretpostavljam da se izdavaču ne isplati da objavljuje dalje zbog slabe prodaje. .

Meni Vesa reče da planira da ih izda, samo je trenutno kriziro pa ne postizava. Predomislio se ili...

Trebalo bi da dobijem hrvatsko izdanje Harrison, Harry • The Stainless Steel Rat. Jel si čito? Utisak?

Quote from: JasonBezArgonauta on 05-12-2009, 20:29:27

Quote from: nightflier on 05-12-2009, 19:52:05
Ja sam poodavno preveo prvu knjigu. Pretpostavljam da se izdavaču ne isplati da objavljuje dalje zbog slabe prodaje. .

Meni Vesa reče da planira da ih izda, samo je trenutno kriziro pa ne postizava. Predomislio se ili...

Trebalo bi da dobijem hrvatsko izdanje Harrison, Harry • The Stainless Steel Rat. Jel si čito? Utisak?

To je i meni rekao, ali otkud znam. Nisam čitao "Pacova". Kao klinac nisam mogao da nabavim knjigu, a sada je imam, ali imam toliko toga da čitam da ne postizam. Neko od starijih članova sigurno je čitao.

Previse bi bilo da navedem sta mi je sve "zanimljivo" pa evo par stvari koje iscekujem/radujem im se/stvarno zelim da vidim sta je:

de Lint, Charles • Muse and Reverie
Valente, Catherynne M. • Under in the Mere •
Zelazny, Roger • The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Five: Nine Black Doves •
Zelazny, Roger • The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Six: The Road to Amber •
Gevers, Nick, ed. • The Book of Dreams
Black, Holly • The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
Hill, Joe • Horns •
Hobb, Robin • Dragon Keeper & Dragon Haven•
Willis, Connie • Blackout •
Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Best Horror of the Year: Volume 2
Martin, George R. R., & Gardner Dozois, eds. • Warriors •
Reynolds, Alastair • Terminal World
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four • 
Wolfe, Gene • The Sorcerer's House
Horton, Rich, ed. • The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 Edition
Kay, Guy Gavriel • Under Heaven •
Williams, Walter Jon • The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories
de Lint, Charles • The Very Best of Charles de Lint
Miéville, China • Kraken •
Dozois, Gardner, ed. • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-seventh Annual Collection •
Pratt, Tim, ed. • Sympathy for the Devil
Datlow, Ellen, & Nick Mamatas, eds. • Haunted Legends


Uf, a ovo je skraceni deo skracenog spiska. Ove stvari cu sigurno nabavljati i citati sledece godine (ako bude mogucnosti), a ima jos knjiga koje spadaju u skoro sigurno kategoriju, p[a verovatno, pa moguce... samo treba stici sve to  :x

Jao, znam. Ne stižem da čitam sve što bih voleo. Sad sam nabavio sve tri do sada objavljene The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, ali nemam kada da ih čitam. Jurim da završim prevode za Bobana i Gorana, pa ču valjda oko Nove godine moći da čitam. Inače, najviše se radujem novom romanu P. C. Hodgell, Bound in Blood.

The Rats and the Ruling Sea by Robert V. S. Redick

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The Rats and the Ruling Sea picks up where the first volume, The Red Wolf Conspiracy left off:

Thasha's wedding is hours away. It is a wedding that will both fulfill the promise of a mad god's return and see her murdered. Pazel has thwarted the sorcerer who would bring back the god but both sides now face deadlock. Can Thasha be saved? Can the war between two Empires be stopped?

The Rats and the Ruling Sea is, once again, focused on the giant ancient ship The Chathrand, but now she must brave the terrors of the uncharted seas including massive storms, ship-swallowing whirlpools and lands forgotten by the Northern world, all the time involved in a vicious running battle with a ship nearly her match...

Robert Redick's new novel takes the reader further into the labyrinthine plots and betrayals that have underscored the trilogy from the beginning. Along the way, we will learn more about the Ixchel as they fight for survival against the Chathrand's rats, discover more about the true motives of the conspirators, live with Thasha and Pazel as they face death & deceit, and journey with The Chathrand as it sails into the infamous Ruling Sea...

Ima ga u onom spisku malo iznad, mada ja imam podatak da se pojavljuje u martu, whatever. Novi Simons:

Black Hills is an important and revelatory novel, the most singular accomplishment to date by the always unpredictable Dan Simmons. With empathy and great narrative power, it illuminates a significant chapter in the nation's history, and takes us deep into the heart of an extraordinary American life.

The story begins at the Battle of Little Big Horn in June of 1876. Eleven-year-old Paha Sapa (whose name, in the Lakota dialect, means "Black Hills"), is present at the precise moment of Custer's death, a moment that will have enormous ramifications. The narrative that follows encompasses eighty years of highly charged history and ranges from the eponymous (and sacred) Black Hills of South Dakota to the Dust Bowls of the Great Depression to the emerging face of Mount Rushmore, where an astonishing revelation awaits.

On one level, Black Hills is a story of profound and inescapable loss: of family, of cultural heritage, of the ancient gods that once dominated the Lakota's world. On another, it is a visionary account of love, hope, and unexpected discovery, and a meditation on the Mystery that lies "at the heart of the heart of the universe." Absorbing, moving, and constantly surprising, Black Hills is, by any standard, a major novel, another landmark achievement in a constantly evolving career.

Teror me jos uvek ceka, Drood ne znam ni da li cu citati, ovo deluje zanimljivije, ali.........................................

Što se mene tiče, znam da ovo sigurno neću čitati. Deluje mi previše depresivno.

Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K. Hamilton

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Laurell K. Hamilton on Divine Misdemeanors

Meredith Gentry was created as a character so that my muse and I could have a break from writing the Anita Blake series. I'd written five Anita books in a row and was starting to have job anxiety dreams about her life instead of mine. I needed something different for my muse and me to play with. Merry was created to give me a different voice, a different world to visit. I guess she's like a second child that you have so the first one won't be an only. Then, like a parent that just didn't understand that a second child doesn't double your workload, but quadruples it, I was suddenly trying to do two different series at two different publishers. It went well since they're both New York Times bestsellers. The audience for both crosses nicely and continues to grow with every book in a time when very few authors can say that. So it's all good, but just like trying to juggle two kids instead of one, juggling two book series instead of just one presents its challenges.

At the beginning keeping Anita's voice out of the Merry books was the biggest challenge. I was used to her, and her voice and attitude were closer to my own, so Anita wrote faster, clearer in my head. Merry was that second baby that is nothing like your first baby, so most of what you learned about taking care of character A doesn't help a damn bit with character B. Who knew? But there comes a point when you make peace with the second child being so different from the first and so different from yourself. You find the unique joys in that second person, as I've found the joys in the Merry series that are different from Anita.

Anita fights me on paper and always has. She's very much my rebel. Merry never fought on paper until the last book, Swallowing Darkness, and then she found things worth fighting for. She finally stood up and told me what she wanted and she was willing to do whatever it took to get there. I understood that. I let Merry's desires, loves, and choices change where I had planned to end the first cycle of the series. Anita has thrown out entire last thirds of books by her choices, and even scrapped entire novel ideas because she'd simply grown in a different direction. If I did that for my oldest creation, how could I not do the same for my youngest creation?

In fact, Merry found her voice so pure and clear that on the last two Anita Blake novels I've had to chase her out of my head so Anita could be loud. Now the biggest challenge is balancing the writing schedule between two bestselling series, two different publishers, and that thing called a real life. Doing justice to my two imaginary worlds, and still managing to have a life in the real world... that's the true challenge.--Laurell K. Hamilton

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Dmitrij Gluhovski :: Metro 2033

Izdavač: Dereta
Format: 24X16cm
ISBN: 978-86-7346-747-4
Povez: tvrd povez
Pismo: latinica
Br. strana: 443
God. izdanja: 2009
Biblioteka: Trend
1.210 DIN
ANTI UTOPIJA ZA 21.VEK...
ROMAN KOJI ĆE VAM ODŠKRINUTI MOGUĆA VRATA BUDUĆNOSTI...
DA LI JE JEDINA NADA ČOVEČANSTVA RUSKI METRO 2033?

DRAGI MOSKOVLJANI I GOSTI PRESTONICE!

TRANSPORTNO PREDUZEĆE MOSKOVSKI METROPOLITEN POTPUNO JE NEBEZBEDNO ULAZITE NA SOPSTVENU ODGOVORNOST!

ONAJ KOME NE NEDOSTAJE HRABROSTI I STRPLJENJA DA SE CEO ŽIVOT OSVRĆE U MRAKU, PRVI ĆE U NJEMU UGLEDATI ZRAČAK SVETLOSTI.

Dve hiljada trideset treća godina. Čovečanstvo je gotovo u potpunosti uništeno. Moskva je pretvorena u avetinjski grad - kontaminiran radijacijom i nastanjen čudovištima. Malobrojni preživeli ljudi kriju se u moskovskom metrou - najvećem protivatomskom skloništu na zemlji. Njegove stanice pretvorene su u gradove - države, a u tunelima caruje tama i obitava užas.

Artem, stanovnik VDNP, treba da se probije kroz čitav metro da bi spasao strašne opasnosti svoju stanicu, a možda i preostalo čovečanstvo.

Kultni internet roman Dmitrija Gluhovskog već je poznat stotinama hiljada internet - čitalaca. Objavljivanje ove knjige izazvalo je oduševljenje nestrpljive publike.

Igrica koja prati Artemove doživljaje u moskovskom metrou je postala jedna od najpopularnijih igrica u svetu, a film A produkcije očekujemo već 2010. godine.

Ja ga baš skinuo s neta. Sjajno, Alekse! Ovo moram da pazarim!

Oklen ga skidate?

Džebem li ga gde sam ga našao. Mogu da ti pošaljem, ako hoćeš.

Pošalji.

Adresa?

Eto je u mom profilu. Na kom je to jeziku?

Ruskom, naravno. Inače, mejl ti je sakriven u profilu.

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Quote"Dobri stari demon" Majkla Kerija

"IPS/Prosveta" je objavila roman Majka Kerija "Dobri stari demon" u prevodu Ivane Maksimović-Tomić, koji pripada novom popularnom žanru trilera/horora u kome su akteri demoni, vampiri i njima slična neljudska bića.

Autor je stekao izuzetno dobro obrazovanje pošto je diplomirao engleski jezik i književnost na koledžu Sent Piters, na Oksfordu a zatim je 15 godina bio profesor, pre nego što se posvetio isključivo pisanju scenarija za stripove i grafičke novele.

Među strip serijalima i grafičkim novelama za koje je pisao scenarije su oni o Helblejzeru, X menu, Luciferu, Volverinu, ...

"Dobri stari demon" je prvi roman iz serijala koji za sada ima pet naslova a glavni lik je Feliks Kastor, lovac na demone svih boja i fela i egzorcista slobodnjak, a London je njegovo lovište.

Kad svet neljudskih, neživih bića pomahnita, njegove su usluge i te kako tražene. Dobar egzorcista može da naplaćuje koliko god želi i da živi na visokoj nozi, ali će pre ili kasnije naleteti na demona koji mu je opasan protivnik.

Prekidajući dobrovoljnu "penziju" za samo još jedan poslić (tek da plati račune), Kastor uleće u arenu gde se neživi nadmeću "ko će Feliksa Kastora ubiti prvi".

Borba sa demonima, metamorfima i vampirima je ono što Feliks Kastor zna najbolje ali živi ljudi mu stvaraju probleme i idu na živce.....

Serijal o avanturama Feliksa Kastora koji neodoljivo podseća na detektive poput Mikija Spilejna, samo što su mu protivnici bića mraka, doneo je Keriju izuzetnu popularnost .

Kritičar londonskog " Delji eskpresa" ih je ocenio kao "vrcavo, urnebesno i uzavrelo mračno", dok ga je "Gardijan" opisao kao spoj i "ukrštanje tinejdžerske TV junakinje 'Bafi ubice vampira' Džonatana Krika, i teškog noara".

xcheers xcheers xcheers xcheers xcheers

jedva sam prepoznao šta je ovo u stvari (The Devil You Know)  :evil: ali onda, w000!  :|

Nisam znao da voliš Kerija? Inače, Konan bi trebalo da stigne iz štamparije svakog časa.

"Laguna" objavila roman Kim HArison Dead Witch Walking pod imbecilnim prevodom "Mrtva si, veštice!".

Jel to opet neki obiman serijal?

Kraći od Bučerovog. To mu je najbolja ortakinja. Bar je bila. Sad će valjda sedmi roman da izađe. Inače, na Bukspejsu sam postavio prikaz Beketovog "Postanja".

Bound in Blood Patriše Hodžel mi je u inboxu. Neka korist i od mog bloga!  :evil:

Samo sto mi je stigao broj 3 (koji ceka tradicionalno citanje u januaru) evo i najave za:

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 4

With the manuscript safely in the hands of the publisher in San Francisco, I can now reveal the final table of contents for The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume 4. As anthologists always do, I wish I'd had more space to include other stories that I loved, but I think that these selections are very strong.

Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
1.  It Takes Two, Nicola Griffith(Eclipse Three)
2.  Three Twilight Tales, Jo Walton (Tor.com)
3.
4. The Island, Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2)
5.  Ferryman, Margo Lanagan (Firebirds Soaring)
6.  A Wild and Wicked Youth, Ellen Kushner (F&SF)
7.  The Pelican Bar, Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
8.  Spar, Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld)
9.  Going Deep, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's)
10.  The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black (The Eternal Kiss)
11.  Zeppelin City, Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn (Tor.com)
12.  Dragon's Teeth, Alex Irvine (F&SF)
13.  This Wind Blowing, and This Tide, Damien Broderick (Asimov's)
14.  By Moonlight, Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)
15.  Black Swan, Bruce Sterling (F&SF)
16.  As Women Fight, Sara Genge (Asimov's)
17.  The Cinderella Game, Kelly Link (Troll's Eye View)
18.  Formidable Caress, Stephen Baxter (Analog)
19.  Blocked, Geoff Ryman (F&SF)
20.  Truth and Bone, Pat Cadigan (Poe)
21.  Eros, Philia, Agape, Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com)
22.  The Motorman's Coat, John Kessel (F&SF)
23.  Mongoose, Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear (Lovecraft Unbound)
24.  Echoes of Aurora, Ellen Klages (What Remains)
25.  Before My Last Breath, Robert Reed (Asimov's)
26.  Jo Boy, Diana Wynne Jones (The Dragon Book)
27.  Utriusque Cosmi, Robert Charles Wilson (The New Space Opera 2)
28.  A Delicate Architecture, Catherynne Valente (Troll's Eye View)
29.  The Cat That Walked a Thousand Miles, Kij Johnson (Tor.com)
Recommended Reading

Eagle-eyed readers will note one of the spots is blank.  This isn't an error. I've agreed not to publicise one of the stories until the book comes out, so that publication here doesn't step too badly on the toes of its original publisher. I will, however, reveal the omitted story in March.  And yes, if space permits, there will be a Recommended Reading list in the book for the first time ever. If it doesn't make it for length reasons, I'll make sure it's published online.  You can pre-order the book at Amazon.com here.

A u istom paketu stigao je i Horton. Evo najave i za njega:

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"A Story, with Beans" by Steven Gould, Analog, May
"Child-Empress of Mars" by Theodora Goss, Interfictions 2
"The Island" by Peter Watts, The New Space Opera 2
"Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance" by John Kessel, The New Space Opera 2
"The Logic of the World" by Robert Kelly, Conjunctions 52
"The Endangered Camp" by Ann Leckie, Clockwork Phoenix
"Sylgarmo's Proclamation" by Lucius Shepard, Songs of the Dying Earth
"Three Twilight Tales" by Jo Walton, Firebirds Soaring
"Necroflux Day" by John Meaney, The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction 3
"This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe" by Robert Charles Wilson, Other Earths
"Technicolor" by John Langan, Poe
"Eros, Philia, Agape" by Rachel Swirksy, Tor.com
"A Painter, a Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor" by Nir Yaniv, Shimmer 10
"Catalog" by Eugene Mirabelli, F&SF, February
"Gliste" by Dominic Green, Interzone, August
"On the Human Plan" by Jay Lake, Lone Star Stories, February
"Dragon's Teeth" by Alex Irvine, F&SF, December
"The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" by Catherynne M. Valente, Clarkesworld, August
"The Qualia Engine" by Damien Broderick, Asimov's, April-May
"The Long Cold Goodbye" by Holly Phillips, Asimov's, March
"Wife-Stealing Time" by R. Garcia y Robertson, Asimov's, November
"As Women Fight" by Sara Genge, Asimov's, October-November
"Images of Anna" by Nancy Kress, Fantasy, September 14
"Mongoose" by Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear, Lovecraft Unbound
"Crimes and Glory" by Paul McAuley, Subterranean, Spring "Living Curiousities" by Margo Lanagan, Sideshow
"The Death of Sugar Daddy" by Toiya Kristen Finlay, Electric Velocipede, Spring
"Bespoke" by Genevieve Valentine, Strange Horizons, July 27
"The Persistence of Memory; or, This Space for Sale" by Paul Park, Postscripts 20/21

We're waiting on permission for one more story, but I'll update this entry when it's in.
Congratulations to all the authors, and publishers who made this possible.

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Boldovao sam preklapanja. Ono sto me raduje/rastuzuje je sto bar 1/3 prica iz obe antologije posedujem i sto cu ih verovatno procitati dok se docepam ove dve knjige. Za zainteresovane, mislim da su price preuzete sa internete i dalje online.

Meni su pre neki dan stigla sva tri, pa se nadam da ću ih i ja slistiti u januaru mesecu.

Videste li što se Watts proveo prelazeći SAD granicu?

Aha.

Dižu opaku dževu zbog toga, nadam se sve da neće čovek izgoreti u borbi protiv sistema...

Koji beše to?

Sjajan čovek!

Za sve koji mrze  Google:

U.S. border guards arrest author Peter Watts
Kristin Rushowy Staff Reporter
Published On Sat Dec 12 2009

For Peter Watts, life can be stranger than science fiction.

Watts – who has written six such books – was on his way back to Toronto last Tuesday after helping a friend move to the U.S. Before crossing the Blue Water Bridge into Sarnia, American customs officers pulled him over. He says when they began rifling through his car and luggage, he got out. They ordered him back in the car; he asked what was going on.

What happened next has become the talk of the blogosphere: Watts too has waded in on it, posting that he was assaulted, punched in the face, pepper-sprayed and thrown in jail for the night, only to find that he was the one charged – with assaulting a customs officer.

Customs officials told the Star Watts was given directions "and became non-compliant...he did not follow directions and a physical altercation" ensued.

An officer with the Port Huron police told the local newspaper that Watts "angrily" got out of the rental car and when he refused to get back in, they tried to cuff him and he became "aggressive." In the melee, police said, Watts "choked" a customs officer.

"As a result of that he was detained and turned over to local authorities," says Ronald Smith, chief customs and border protection officer at Blue Water, adding officers were conducing "outbound operations" stopping and inspecting vehicles after the toll booths but before they hit Canadian customs.

Watts empatically denies any such action.

"I can state categorically that I did not choke anybody, I did not use profanity and did not raise my voice, I did not initiate any physical contact," says Watts, who is also a marine biologist with a PhD in zoology.

"All I basically did was use words to ask what was going on."

Now, friends are raising funds online to help Watts to help him cover his legal costs, which he says are overwhelming for someone who makes a living as an author.

Fellow sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, who blogged about the incident at boingboing.net, chipped in $1,000 right off the bat – and while no one will say how much has been raised in total, friend David Nickle said it's enough to get Watts through the first hurdle. Should the case go to trial, friends will arrange a fundraiser.

"It's a bit like trying to figure out the mindset of a grizzly bear," Watts said when asked why officers attacked him.

Watts' next court appearance is Dec. 22. If eventually convicted, it's a felony charge that could see him imprisoned for two years and a possible fine of up to $2,000.

Watts had driven to Nebraska with a friend to help a retired University of Toronto professor move there, but their rental car had broken down. The two were driving a replacement car the rental agency had provided in the U.S.

After the incident, Watts' friend was arrested and interrogated, but not charged.

Watts, however, spent the night in jail, in the standard orange jumpsuit, and was released the next day on $5,000 bail. He was dropped off across the border at Canadian customs, without his coat – it was in the car, which was impounded – during a winter storm.

Watts is overwhelmed by the online donations, and jokes that while most people must be supportive, "it's quite possible that some people think I'm a ...jerk, but they hate homeland security more."

If more money is raised than he needs, it will be donated to charity, he said.

Among the many comments posted at boingboing.net, are some suggesting Watts must have had an attitude when dealing with customs.

"The question is what is attitude?" he said. "I've been told by cops in the system that the mere act of getting out of a car, the mere act of taking any action at all, not simply responding to an order...is considered attitude...what they take offence to is not necessarily what anyone else would find offensive."

Još će svinje da zarade.

cekajuci septembar

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Fantasy is more than just sword-and-sorcery novels of epic adventures. Here are innovative tales where mythology, fairy tales, and archetypes are re-imagined into a new style of storytelling.

Anthologist Peter S. Beagle knows fantasy. The author of the inventive fantasy novel, The Last Unicorn and the introduction to The Lord of the Rings now introduces the gifted writers that returned to the classics and throughly redefined the genre: Gregory Maguire, Francesca Lia Block, Robert Holdstock, Patricia McKillip, and Steven Millhauser, and others who have lead the way to expanding imaginative frontiers.

From the depths of an dangerous English forest to the top of the Tower of Babel, on a caffeinated journey to the empire of ice cream and in front of a television with the Lone Ranger and Tonto, discover The Secret History of Fantasy.


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Cover Design by Ann Monn
Interior Design by John Coulthart

Ima li neko The Secret History of Science Fiction? Zna li se kakva je?

mozes 3x da pogadjas

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China Miéville's KRAKEN 

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The Natural History Museum's prize exhibit - a giant squid - suddenly disappears. This audacious theft leads Clem, the research scientist who has recently finished preserving the exhibit, into a dark urban underworld of warring cults and surreal magic. It seems that for some, the squid represents a god and should be worshiped as such. Clem gradually comes to realise that someone may be attempting to use the squid to trigger an apocalypse. And so it is now up to him and a renegade squid-worshiper named Dean to find a way of stopping the destruction of the world as they know it whilst themselves surviving the all out-gang warfare that they have unwittingly been drawn into...

Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature suddenly and impossibly disappears?

For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headlong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and assassins. It might just be that the creature he's been preserving is more than a biological rarity: there are those who are sure it's a god.

A god that someone is hoping will end the world.

Kraken will be released next spring.

Ima Melkor i valja.

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Videću da nabavim.

Ovo nije nova knjiga, ali za mene jeste, mada ja nisam mogao da svarim ni prvi deo. Elem, reč je o romanu Corambis iz pera Sare Mone. Mada je reč o spisateljici vanrednog stila i lepote jezika, meni nikako ne prija njeno pisanje. Moneova je gotovo singhendedli stvorila podžanr gej fentezija, i upravo zbog tolike gejovštine ne mogu da je čitam. Da se razumemo, veoma volim Lorel Hamilton i Mercedes Leki - naročito ovu drugu, koja je prva na velika vrata uvela gej kulturu u fentezi - ali Moneova o homoseksualizmu piše na takav način da je meni njena proza nesvarljiva. Svejedno, treba pomenuti Corambis kao završetak jednog čitanog i hvaljenog četvoroknjižja.

QuoteThe rambling conclusion to Monette's Mélusine fantasy quartet (after 2008's The Mirador) reveals the destiny of three exiles. Prince Gerrard Hume dies in an attempt to start the sinister Cymellunar engine, which he hoped would help win Caloxa's independence from Corambis. Blinded by the engine, Kay Brightmore, the margrave of Rothmarlin and the prince's illicit lover, is imprisoned by Corambis's duke of Glimmering. Meanwhile, far away in Bernatha, gay wizard Felix Harrowgate returns to prostitution to raise money when his half-brother becomes ill, but is gang-raped by Corambins in a ritual that restarts the Clock of Eclipses, another terrible Cymellunar device. Monette throws in numerous unsubtle lessons on love, lust and power, but for full effect, the intricate plot requires familiarity with prior installments.

Decembar mesec svakako je u znaku Džordža Martina, budući da je 22. iz štampe izašao novi mozaički roman u serijalu Wild Cards, a pod naslovom Suicide Kings.

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QuoteThe People's Paradise of Africa (PPA) and Caliphate of Arabia meet in a battle that will determine whose vision of despotic rule in Africa will dominate. Whereas Prince Siraj has the superior military, the PPA leaders, siblings Dr. Nshombo and Alicia, own the Wild Aces though one key Wild Card Tom "Radical" Weathers increasingly is losing mental control of right from wrong. Even after his side wins the fight, the Radical gleefully continues his slaughter of enemy soldiers. Nshombo and Alicia believe they must eliminate Radical , who has gone insane with a berserker blood craving.

In the United States, Wally "Rustbelt" Gunderson worries about his friend Lucien being caught up in the war. He begs Jerusha "Gardener" Carter to accompany him when he sneaks into the war zone to rescue Lucien. At the same time Michelle "Amazing Bubbles" LaFleur comes out of her coma with help from a dream girl needing help to escape from a mass grave. Michelle and zombie Hoodoo Mama travel to Africa to rescue the dream girl who may not be real. As Prince Siraj blackmails Noel "Double Helix" Matthews to help him with a counter attack; the Wild Aces converge in Africa for a final confrontation.

The latest collaboration (see Busted Flushes and Inside Straight) is a royal flush in international fantasy that grips readers from the opening war in the Sudan until the final climax occurs. Much more than just what is described above happens in the action-packed thriller as the authors somehow keep their cast of a zillion superheroes and supervillains unique from one another. Fans will believe George R.R. Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass and the other contributors have dealt the audience a royal flush straight with this terrific look at those with extraordinary powers, who for the most part want acceptance not fear from the NT (like a combo Watchmen and X-Men).

Quote from: nightflier on 25-12-2009, 12:20:48
Ovo nije nova knjiga, ali za mene jeste, mada ja nisam mogao da svarim ni prvi deo. Elem, reč je o romanu Corambis iz pera Sare Mone.

Hm, videh malopre na IRC-u ovu knjigu - btw, mislim da bi transkripcija njenog prezimena bila  sa 't' na kraju...

Quote from: chovekoid on 27-12-2009, 13:50:20

Quote from: nightflier on 25-12-2009, 12:20:48
Ovo nije nova knjiga, ali za mene jeste, mada ja nisam mogao da svarim ni prvi deo. Elem, reč je o romanu Corambis iz pera Sare Mone.

Hm, videh malopre na IRC-u ovu knjigu - btw, mislim da bi transkripcija njenog prezimena bila  sa 't' na kraju...

Mogućno, mogućno. Jako mi je žao što ne mogu da je čitam. Odličan je pisac za one koji mogu da istrpe njene likove.

Jeste sa "t" - Mone bi bilo da se pise Monet, kao slikar - a priznajem da su se meni sve cetiri knjige prilicno svidele. Mozda zato sto volim i Smrt u Veneciji  xrofl a mozda i zato sto su i njeni strejt likovi, i muski i zenski, odlicni, a pristup magiji nekonvencionalan tj. akademski. (Ko se odvazi da zadje malo dalje u citanju - ima i strejt seksa, bez diskriminacije...)

Pokušaću da joj u novoj godini dam još koju priliku. Inače, dozvolite svi kojima se Monetova svidela da vam preporučim Lejn Robins i njen roman Maledicte. Neverovatna i veličanstvena proza.

Ovog meseca valja obratiti pažnju na nekoliko knjiga u engleskom i srpskom izdanju. Najpre, IPS je konačno objavio prvi tom sabranog Konana - i knjiga izgleda sjajno. Velikog je formata, mada mekog poveza, i sadrži originalne crno-bele ilustracije. Ne znam koja će cena biti u knjižarama, a IPS nažalost nema klub čitalaca, niti nastupa na Božićnom sajmu, tako da su mali izgledi da se knjiga nabavi s popustom sve do narednog oktobra.

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"Laguna" je objavila roman Kim Harison Dead Witch Walking, pod pomalo nesrećnim naslovom "Mrtva si, veštice!". Ovde je reč o uredničkom propustu, ali neću baš toliko tražiti dlaku u jajetu. Podsetiću da je reč o jako popularnoj spisateljici urbane fantastike i sjajnom izboru za sve ljubitelje romana o Hariju Drezdenu ili "Malteškog šišmiša".

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The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbar by Jesse Bullington pobrao je sjajne kritike i izuzetno je dobro prihvaćen kod čitalaca. Detaljan prikaz na http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com/2009/12/sad-tale-of-brothers-grossbart-jesse.html (http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com/2009/12/sad-tale-of-brothers-grossbart-jesse.html)

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Mark Čadborn počinje novi serijal, a ja se nerviram što ne mogu da dođem do njegovih knjiga. Ono što piše je po svemu sudeći po mom ukusu. U Britaniji je postao uticajan pisac, pa se nadam da će poći Eriksonovim stopama i postati poznat i u SAD.

The Silver Skull (Swords of Albion) by Mark Chadbourn

QuoteTwo-time British Fantasy Award winner Chadbourn (the Age of Misrule trilogy) offers a grim and decidedly current take on supernatural Elizabethan intrigues. Will Swyfte, England's greatest spy, is charged with stopping the faerie and their Spanish tools from acquiring the Skull, the Key and the Shield, magic items whose combination could devastate all of Britain. Scenes range from squalid London slums to King Philip's monumental El Escorial palace and the mighty confrontation with the Armada in the English Channel. Readers familiar with cold war spy novels will wryly note Swyfte's visits to Dr. John Dee for the latest in spy technology, à la James Bond and Q. Graphic presentations of tortures from the rack to waterboarding recall contemporary issues in national security, carefully contextualized with Swyfte's dilemmas of personal versus professional codes. (Nov.)

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Lorel Hamilton je objavila novi roman u seriji o Meredit Džentri i za promenu je malo spustila loptu. Divine Misdemeanors je na tragu njenih prvih romana o Aniti Blejk i mada ima seksa, nije preterivala. Čak joj je pošlo za rukom i da smanji power creep. Nije bila loša knjižica. Uživao sam.

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The Dead That Walk: Flesh-Eating Stories urednika Stivena Džonsa je, logično, antologija o zombijima. Meni ne toliko zanimljivo štivo, siguran sam da će se već naći neko na ovom forumu kojem će rečeni naslov biti draži.

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Beyond the Wall of Time je nova knjiga Rasela Kirkpatrika. Njome nastavlja serijal The Broken Man. Kirkaptrikovu prethodnu trilogiju čitaoci su loše primili, pa je ja nisam ni uzimao da čitam. Po svemu sudeći, ovo je mnogo bolje.

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Graham Sharp Paul ima novi roman o Helfortu. Izgleda budućnost militeri spejs opere, Pol je miljenik publike. Naručio sam sve tri njegove knjige, pa ćemo videti.

QuoteIf he survives, hell just may freeze over.

The savage Hammer Worlds are not only near invincible but almost certain to win their war to crush the Federated Worlds and control humanspace–unless the Feds can find and destroy their secret antimatter warhead facility.

Only dreadnoughts, the lone Federated ships able to withstand antimatter missile attacks, can do the job, and only Lieutenant Michael Helfort has the skill to lead them. But skill may not be enough, because Helfort is more than the newly appointed captain: He's a hero, and this means that his own senior officers want him to fail–and that the enemy's kingpin wants him dead.

Helfort's early victories merely intensify everyone's determination. No action is too low, no price too high, to bring him down–with treachery, or betrayal, or an offer he can't refuse, even if it means selling out his own side.

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Imas u onoj Solaris book of Fantasy(prijavio sam je dole pre neki dan) Chadbournovu pricu iz tog okruzenja. Manje mi se nesto svidela od Misrule-a ali je relativno bezbolan nacin da vidis da li ce ti se svideti.

Samo što je meni stigao Solaris Book of Science Fiction kad sam naručio. Zajebao se čovek kad je kupovao. Ali nije preterano bitno - nabaviću ga ja u kompletu jednog dana. Sad sam dobio toliko zbirki da ne znam kad ću ih sve pročitati, a ne smem ništa da uzimam u ruke dok ne završim Njumena.

samo da najavim kupnju Konana, da se ne iznenadite posle.

Dogovorio sam veliku promociju s IPSom. Ko nam je najveći stručnjak za Konana? Jor? Imam tu još neke ideje, ali o tome posle praznika. Sad ne znam gde mi je glava.  :x

kad kazes Konan svi pomisle na Jora i varvarina  :|

Moze li neka naznaka kad ce se Konan pojaviti u slobodnoj prodaji?
PS
"Poslednja zelja" jos nije dobila naslednika i pored najava za kraj ove godine. Da li znas nesto vise o roku za objavljivanje Nocobdijo?

IPSov Konan je u prodaji... u IPSu.

Quote from: Berserker on 30-12-2009, 21:32:30
Moze li neka naznaka kad ce se Konan pojaviti u slobodnoj prodaji?
PS
"Poslednja zelja" jos nije dobila naslednika i pored najava za kraj ove godine. Da li znas nesto vise o roku za objavljivanje Nocobdijo?

Ovo je potpuno neosnovana teorija, ali pretpostavljam da je IPS u pozamašnim problemima oko integracije "Rada" i "Prosvete", što ima ogromnog uticaja na njihov izdavački plan i plaćanje honorara, štampara itd. Takođe je problem to što je redakcija samo deo sistema, pa ne ide sve kako bi oni hteli i ne objavljuje se kada bi hteli. Ukratko, knjiga je spremna a objaviće je kada se za to steknu uslovi.

Quote from: zakk on 31-12-2009, 01:19:04
IPSov Konan je u prodaji... u IPSu.

i ako ga budete trazili tamo pogledajte medju decijim knjigama, najlepsima bajkama i slicnim.

Quote from: Melkor on 31-12-2009, 03:57:53

Quote from: zakk on 31-12-2009, 01:19:04
IPSov Konan je u prodaji... u IPSu.

i ako ga budete trazili tamo pogledajte medju decijim knjigama, najlepsima bajkama i slicnim.

Da, njihova maloprodaja je užas nad užasima. Pre nekoliko meseci, kada sam ušao u "Akademiju" da pogledam je li objavljen moj prevod "Olujnog talasa", morao sam da rovarim po budžacima da bih našao knjigu koja je njihovo rođeno izdanje.

Fakat je da prodavci u IPSu nemaju pojma o tome sta prodaju. Najefektivnija usluga koju sam dobio do sada je pretraga po piscima i konstatacija "da imamo to, tu je negde" kad god nesto potrazim. Uz to, ne znam zasto imaju politiku da mesaju svoja izdanja sa drugim tematski srodnim naslovima umesto da ih guraju u prvi plan i bolje reklamiraju. I za kraj, u alnarijevim i laguninim knjizarama pordavci su bar okvirno upoznati sa izdavackim planom svoje kuce, dok me u IPSu uvek gledaju belo kad ih pitam za neke knjige koje najavi Nightflier...
Anyway, hvala za Konana, saljem danas brata da ga kupi ako je stigao u niski IPS.

samo cijena nije nimalo naivna za konana - oko 960 din.

Quote from: Alexdelarge on 31-12-2009, 16:00:58
samo cijena nije nimalo naivna za konana - oko 960 din.

na konanu se poznaju junaci!

Quote from: Alexdelarge on 31-12-2009, 16:00:58
samo cijena nije nimalo naivna za konana - oko 960 din.

Šteta što nije mogao da ide tvrdi povez zbog ugovora.

Da. Kupci ce ipak radje zavuci ruku u dzep zbog tvrdog poveza. Ipak, ljubitelji Konana ce se snaci. Kad smo iskesali 1755 za Nekronomikon, dacemo nekako i 960 za Konana.

btw Konana nema nigde van Bg. Izem ti promociju...

eto vidis. dokaz vise da je decentralizacija pogubna po knjizevnost/kulturu. beogradizacija cele srbije je jedino resenje.

Jedno pitanje za stručnjaka. Gledao sam film CITY OF EMBER koji mi se dopao. Zanima me jesu li to knjige za decu ili za malo zrelije čitaoce? I jesu li dobre? Vredi li followupovati?

dok se, recimo, smrki ne javi... knjige su za young adult. Sto bi bila malo zrelija deca citaoci  :twisted:

izvinjavam se. Izdavac ih je krstio kao juvenile fiction  ;)

OK, kapiram. Preskočiću. Hvala na brzom odgovoru.

Quote from: Eriops on 03-01-2010, 10:20:41
Da. Kupci ce ipak radje zavuci ruku u dzep zbog tvrdog poveza. Ipak, ljubitelji Konana ce se snaci. Kad smo iskesali 1755 za Nekronomikon, dacemo nekako i 960 za Konana.

Na trenutak sam se vratio u civilizaciju, ako je definicija civilizacije signal za mobilni i vajerles internet, pa da se naodgovaram: Ugovor sa Hauardovom zadužbinom izričito zabranjuje tvrdi povez, što je baš šteta, pošto bi na cenu knjige uticao s možda 100 dinara, a dobilo bi se na jebozovnosti.

Quote from: crippled_avenger on 11-01-2010, 00:29:42
Jedno pitanje za stručnjaka. Gledao sam film CITY OF EMBER koji mi se dopao. Zanima me jesu li to knjige za decu ili za malo zrelije čitaoce? I jesu li dobre? Vredi li followupovati?

Prve dve knjige prevodila je moja stokilaška malenkost... knjige su namenjeno uzrastu do 12 godina i poprilično su angažovane u cilju osvešćivanja mladih naraštaja, naročito glede moralnosti, častoljubivosti, svesnosti o životnoj okolini itd. U suštini, ovo ti dođe kao lektira iz nekadnjeg vremena, začinjena prstohvatom sfa.

Inače, odštampani su drugi Šapkovski, Murkok i još nekoliko fantastika. Mogu da najavim i serijal čuvenog ruskog pisca epske fantastike Nika Perumova, koji je 2004. proglašen za najboljeg evropskog pisca (van engleskog govornog područja). Prevodiće se s ruskog, a lako je moguće da ću ja raditi prevod, kada završim projekat na kojem sada radim.

Hvala.

Svašta nešto zanimljivo pojavilo se na policama knjižara daleko od nas, pa evo meni najzanimljivijeg naslova kojim je počela fantastična godina:

The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny by Simon R. Green je deseta knjiga u serijalnu Nightside, koji je sjajan omaž Gejmanovoj "Nikadođiji", izmešanoj s crnim humorom i palp noarom. Urnebesno ozbiljne i smrtno zabavne knjige. O Grinu sam već pisao, pa ne bih da se ponavljam.

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Inače, tek sam sad video da je ova tema probila pedeset hiljada hitova.  xrotaeye

Danas su mi stigla dva romana. Reč je o jednoj militeri spejs operi stare škole, The Lotus Eaters by Tom Kratman. Ovo je treći roman u serijalu, a prvi je sjajno prihvaćen kod ljubitelja ovog podžanra sfa. Mnogi ga porede s Hajnlajnom, ali pomalo smeta vidan uticaj 11. septembra, koji se kao motiv provlači kroz njegovo pisanje.

Drugi roman je  Howling Legion by Marcus Pelegrimas, drugi roman u seriji koja pokušava da unovči popularnost urbane fantastike kao podžanra.

QuoteCole was a video games designer at the top of his profession when he realized that creatures of myth and legend are real. There is a secret society that has fought the evil denizen of the dark especially vampires, who go by the nomenclature of Shifters. They fight Nymars (vampires) as well as were shapeshifters who prey on humans and don't stay in their own territory. Cole joins the group and his mentor Paige places him under an intense training regimen physically and using magical weapons to restrain these creatures. He has become a Skinner enforcing the rules (see Full Blood).

A Full Blood werewolf who can change at will creates many half-breeds, who can only exist in wolf form, to take over Kansas City, Missouri. The Full Blood Liam knows that the Nymarr are unorganized so they cause him no concern and another Full Blood is harassing the Skinners. When he liberates his offspring to attack the city Paige and Cole lure them into a deserted area where they kill most of them. That fails to solve the problem because the Full Blood can make more hybrids; they know they must destroy Liam before he can create more Half Breeds, but he alos knows of the two Skinners are in his city so he plans to show them how a Full Blood deals with adversaries.

Part horror and part urban fantasy, Skinner: Howling Legion contains a fantastic world filled with a werewolf species that seems genuine as Marcus Pelegrimas provides his original take on the shapeshifting mythos living up to the motto of the "Show Me" state. Cole and Paige are resolute dedicated warriors who gave up their comfortable middle class lifestyles to risk their lives fighting malevolence. Exciting and thrilling from start to finish, the audience will enjoy a walk on the wild side of Kansas City. Karen Koehler fans will love this book.

Zna li neko kad izlazi Metro 2033?

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Dmitrij Gluhovski :: Metro 2033

Izdavač: Dereta
Format: 24X16cm
ISBN: 978-86-7346-747-4
Povez: tvrd povez
Pismo: latinica
Br. strana: 443
God. izdanja: 2009
Biblioteka: Trend
1.210 DIN
ANTI UTOPIJA ZA 21.VEK...
ROMAN KOJI ĆE VAM ODŠKRINUTI MOGUĆA VRATA BUDUĆNOSTI...
DA LI JE JEDINA NADA ČOVEČANSTVA RUSKI METRO 2033?

DRAGI MOSKOVLJANI I GOSTI PRESTONICE!

TRANSPORTNO PREDUZEĆE MOSKOVSKI METROPOLITEN POTPUNO JE NEBEZBEDNO ULAZITE NA SOPSTVENU ODGOVORNOST!

ONAJ KOME NE NEDOSTAJE HRABROSTI I STRPLJENJA DA SE CEO ŽIVOT OSVRĆE U MRAKU, PRVI ĆE U NJEMU UGLEDATI ZRAČAK SVETLOSTI.

Dve hiljada trideset treća godina. Čovečanstvo je gotovo u potpunosti uništeno. Moskva je pretvorena u avetinjski grad - kontaminiran radijacijom i nastanjen čudovištima. Malobrojni preživeli ljudi kriju se u moskovskom metrou - najvećem protivatomskom skloništu na zemlji. Njegove stanice pretvorene su u gradove - države, a u tunelima caruje tama i obitava užas.

Artem, stanovnik VDNP, treba da se probije kroz čitav metro da bi spasao strašne opasnosti svoju stanicu, a možda i preostalo čovečanstvo.

Kultni internet roman Dmitrija Gluhovskog već je poznat stotinama hiljada internet - čitalaca. Objavljivanje ove knjige izazvalo je oduševljenje nestrpljive publike.

Igrica koja prati Artemove doživljaje u moskovskom metrou je postala jedna od najpopularnijih igrica u svetu, a film A produkcije očekujemo već 2010. godine.

Hvala. Nisam stigao da pregledam sve topice... Nece se ponoviti. :)

nema na cemu  :)

Američko tržište sve se više otvara za ruske pisce. Nakon što su Lukjanjenko i Perumov postigli znatan uspeh i Pehov je preveden i objavljen. Za to je zaslužno "Torovo" uredništvo, koje se sve više otvara neameričkim piscima i pokušava da ponudi nešto novo kada je reč o epskoj i naučnoj fantastici.

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After centuries of calm, the Nameless One is stirring.

An army is gathering; thousands of giants, ogres, and other creatures are joining forces from all across the Desolate Lands, united, for the first time in history, under one, black banner. By the spring, or perhaps sooner, the Nameless One and his forces will be at the walls of the great city of Avendoom.

Unless Shadow Harold, master thief, can find some way to stop them.

Epic fantasy at its best, Shadow Prowler is the first in a trilogy that follows Shadow Harold on his quest for a magic Horn that will restore peace to the Kingdom of Siala. Harold will be accompanied on his quest by an Elfin princess, Miralissa, her elfin escort, and ten Wild Hearts, the most experienced and dangerous fighters in their world...and by the king's court jester (who may be more than he seems...or less).

Reminiscent of Moorcock's Elric series, Shadow Prowler is the first work to be published in English by the bestselling Russian fantasy author Alexey Pehov. The book was translated by Andrew Bromfield, best known for his work on the highly successful Night Watch series.

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Quote from: Nightflier on 22-01-2010, 01:05:28
Američko tržište sve se više otvara za ruske pisce. Nakon što su Lukjanjenko i Perumov postigli znatan uspeh i Pehov je preveden i objavljen. Za to je zaslužno "Torovo" uredništvo, koje se sve više otvara neameričkim piscima i pokušava da ponudi nešto novo kada je reč o epskoj i naučnoj fantastici.

Mada, sudeci po opisu ovo novo ni po cemu nije bolje od onog starog  :(

Nastavak prethodnog posta:

Još zanimljivije je što su otkupljena prava za srpsko tržište za Perumova. Николай Даниилович Перумов je jako poznat pisac u Rusiji i to najviše po tome što je napisao svoj nastavak "Gospodara prstenova". Njegovi romani prodati su u više od četiri miliona primeraka, a kod nas će se najverovatnije najpre pojaviti Хроники Хьерварда. trilogija čiji je prvi roman Гибель Богов  upravo preveden na engleski (mada se Amerikancima predstavljak kao samostalan) kao Godsdoom.

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Quote from: Melkor on 22-01-2010, 01:09:12

Quote from: Nightflier on 22-01-2010, 01:05:28
Američko tržište sve se više otvara za ruske pisce. Nakon što su Lukjanjenko i Perumov postigli znatan uspeh i Pehov je preveden i objavljen. Za to je zaslužno "Torovo" uredništvo, koje se sve više otvara neameričkim piscima i pokušava da ponudi nešto novo kada je reč o epskoj i naučnoj fantastici.

Mada, sudeci po opisu ovo novo ni po cemu nije bolje od onog starog  :(

Mislim da je bolje od onoga što se trenutno nudi kao novo. Problem je u tome što se nakotilo na tone Paoliniju sličnih pisaca, koji tržište zasipaju lošim romanima po ugledu na one iz sredine osamdesetih. S tim da je to tada imalo svoju draž i kakvu-takvu originalnost. Sada od svega toga nema ništa.

Shadow Prowler:

Night is the best time for my kind. When I appear in the street, ordinary people have long been asleep in their warm, soft beds. Old drunks out drinking late won't brave the city's impenetrable darkness. No, they would rather spend an uncomfortable night in a tavern.

Night. Silence. Only the hollow echo of the municipal guard patrol's footsteps bounce off the walls of the old houses and ripple on along Avendoom's dark streets, dead and empty until morning.

The soldiers hurry along, walking quickly. In the darkest alleyways they break into a run. I can easily understand how these valiant servants of the law feel: no, it's not people they're afraid of—any madcaps who might summon up the impudence to attack the guardians of public order will be given short shrift with their heavy battle-axes. What makes them afraid is something else. There are other creatures lurking in the shadows of the stone buildings. Creatures that creep out into the open at this uneasy hour for their nocturnal hunt. And may Sagot help the men of the watch if those vile beasts are feeling hungry.

The shades of night are a refuge for all: for the good townsfolk, fearfully hiding themselves away from dangerous men; for the petty thieves whose one wish is to clean out the respectable citizens' purses as quickly as possible; for the robbers just waiting for a chance to make use of their knives. And, of course, for the demons living in those dark shades, who are only too happy to prey on good citizens, petty thieves, and robbers alike.

Fortunately, I have yet to run into the demons who have appeared in the city since the Nameless One began stirring in the Desolate Lands after centuries of calm. And that's why I'm still alive.

Shortly after they pass me, the watchmen's footsteps fade into silence on the next street.

On the orders of Baron Frago Lanten, the head of Avendoom's municipal guard, all patrols have been tripled in strength. The rumor is that the artifact that has until now held the Nameless One in the Desolate Lands is weakening, and soon he will burst through into our world from that icy desert covered with eternal snow. War is approaching, no matter how hard the Order of Magicians and the multitudes of priests try to put it off. It's simply a matter of time. Six months, or perhaps a year—and then all those things they used to frighten us with when we were children will be upon us. The Nameless One will gather together an army and come to us from behind the Needles of Ice, and the horror will begin. Even here, in the capital, you sometimes come across devotees of the Nameless One. And I'm far from certain that the Wild Hearts of the Lonely Giant Fortress will be able to hold back the hordes of ogres and giants. . . .

Once again I have gone unnoticed. My thanks to the shadow of night. The shadow is my helpmate, my lover, my companion. I hide inside her, I live with her, and she is the only one always ready to shelter me, to save me from the arrows, from the swords that flash balefully in the moonlit night, and the bloodthirsty, golden eyes of the demons. No one else cares for Harold . . . maybe Brother For.

"Shadow is the sister of darkness," says Brother For, Sagot's kindly priest. And where there is darkness, the Nameless One is never far away.

What absolute nonsense! The Nameless One and the shadow? Entirely different things. You might as well compare an ogre and a giant. The shadow is life, freedom, money, and reputation. Shadow Harold knows about such things firsthand. For a shadow to appear there has to be at least a scintilla of light, and to compare it with darkness is stupid, to say the least. But of course, I don't tell my old teacher that. You don't go teaching your grandmother to suck eggs.

It's quiet. So quiet you can hear the moths scrabbling at the coolness of the night with their fragile little wings. It's a long time now since the watch patrol passed me and it's high time for me to be going about my business, but somehow I'm feeling extracautious to night. . . . Some premonition makes me remain in cover, beside the wall of the building that is submerged in gloom.

There were no suspicious sounds to be heard in that narrow little street with the old stone houses that could remember the old Quiet Times. Nothing but a painted tin sign above the baker's shop creaking in the faint wind. The slow-stirring grayish yellow mist for which our capital is famous lay thick across the rough stone paving of the road, chipped and battered by the cart wheels. They say the mist was a trick played by some half-trained wizard back in the distant past. But ever since then not one of the kingdom's archmagicians has been able to rid the city of the consequences of his innocent prank.

The silence alarms me. The only place that is ever this quiet is a rich man's vault after a visit from one of the city's bands of petty thieves.

The signboard creaks, the light wind swirls merrily, clouds drift lazily across the night sky. But I stand there, fused with the shadow of the building, trying not to move a muscle. My intuition and my experience of life compel me to listen to the night silence of the city. No street, not even the most deserted, could be as dead as this.

There should be sounds in the night. Rats rustling in the garbage. A drunk snoring away beside them, his pockets cleaned out by thieves who are already sheltering for the night in some dark, narrow hidey-hole. The sound of snoring from the windows of the gray houses. A dirty dog sneaking through the darkness. The heavy breathing of a novice thief lying in wait for his victim, clutching his knife in a palm sweaty from excitement. Sounds from the shops and workshops—even at night the laborious work continues in some of them. But there was none of this in the dark little street wreathed in its shroud of mist. There was nothing but silence, gloom, and a thickening atmosphere of danger.

The carefree, roistering wind ruffled my hair affectionately, but I didn't dare raise my hood. Some insistent hand seemed to hold me back.

Sagot! What is happening on this quiet little street of artisans?

In answer to my prayer the glorious god of all thieves seemed to make my hearing keener.

Footsteps. Hasty footsteps that even the creeping yellow-gray froth of the mist had failed to deaden. In a recess in the wall of the house opposite, I spotted a momentary flicker in the darkness.

Had someone else decided to hide here?

I peered hard into the ink-black night. No. I'd imagined it. I was too much on edge, anticipating non ex is tent problems. I must be getting old.

Meanwhile the footsteps grew louder and louder. The sounds came from the street into which the municipal guard patrol had turned only a few minutes earlier. I froze and tried to merge even deeper into the shadow, while the phantom of danger circled indolently above my head.

A man came round the bend at a fast walk, almost a run, and made straight for me. He had to be a fool or a brave man to be roaming through the darkness alone. Most likely a fool. Brave men don't live long in our world. But then, neither do fools, unless they work as jesters for our glorious king.

The stranger was coming closer. Tall and well dressed, even wealthy looking, his hand resting on the hilt of a rather good sword.

Once again clouds crept across the sky, covering the stars, and the gloom that was already total became absolutely impenetrable. Even when he drew level with me, I couldn't make out the stranger's face, although he was so close that if I'd wanted, I could have reached out my hand and lifted the bulging purse off his belt. But I'm no small-time pickpocket, I won't stoop to that—the impetuous years of my youth are long since over and gone, and in any case my instinct has already hinted that this is the wrong moment to twitch a single muscle, or even take a deep breath.

In the niche opposite me the darkness began swirling again, eddying chaotically and welling up into a dark flower of death, and ice-cold terror froze me to the spot. From out of the gloom, Darkness burst forth in the form of a winged demon with a horned skull for a head, and fell on its victim like an avalanche from the Mountains of the Dwarves, pinning him down with its prodigious weight.

The man let out a screech like a wounded cat and grabbed vainly at his useless sword, trying to draw it, but the Darkness crumpled up the nocturnal wayfarer, sucked him in, and devoured him, and then the creature, what ever it was, soared up into the sky, bearing away its fresh meat, and perhaps a soul as well. I slid slowly down the wall, trying to calm my breathing. My heart was pounding like a mad thing.

The demon hadn't noticed me, although I was directly opposite it all the time. But if I had made just the slightest movement! If I had even started breathing a little more loudly. . . . Then I was the one who would have been his prey.
Shadow Prowler


I had been lucky. Once again I had been very lucky. A thief's luck is a fickle wench, she can turn her back on him at any moment, but as long as she is with me, I can carry on plying my trade.

In a dark corner of the next building a rat squeaked, followed by another. Up in the sky a bat flew past, hunting the late June moths. The danger had passed, now I could carry on along my way. I detached myself from the wall and set off, trying to stick to the darkest sections of the street.

Moving rapidly, but with my boots making no sound, I dashed from building to building, from shadow to shadow. I left the Street of the Bakers behind me, turning into the alleyway on the right. The mist was thicker here, it welcomed me into the soft embrace of its clammy paws, deadening my footsteps, concealing me from the eyes of humans and nonhumans alike.

The dark alleyway came to an end, and the dark walls of the houses that had seen so much joy and sorrow in this life suddenly parted sharply. The wind scattered the clouds and the sky was transformed into a table-cloth across which some rich man had scattered bright coins. Hundreds and thousands of stars started twinkling at me out of the cold summer night.

On Grok Square there were occasional street lamps burning. After all, it is one of the large central squares, and even if they were afraid, the lamplighters had to do their job. Encased in its glass armor, each flame cast a spot of flickering light around itself, and chaotic shadows danced in silence on the walls of the sullen buildings.

I wish the wind would drive its herd of gray, fluffy sheep back out across the sky, but for the time being I'll have to stick to the shadow, huddling against the walls of the tall buildings. Only the shadow has turned pale and timid from all the light all around.

Grok himself stared at me mutely with his all-seeing eyes. I think he was a general who saved our kingdom from an invasion by orcs, or some royal adviser back in the hoary old days of antiquity. And there, right behind the plinth of his pedestal, is the goal of my nocturnal outing. A large house, surrounded by a wall with battlements, built out of immense blocks of stone quarried in the Mountains of the Dwarves in the times when that race was still on friendly terms with our kingdom. To my mind the building is in barbarously bad taste, but the Duke Patin who lives here would hardly be interested in my opinion. A cousin of the king who is in charge of the treasury is a very big wheel, and so people turn a blind eye to his whimsical taste in architecture.

The king tolerates his relative's other caprices; rich aristocrats can get away with almost anything. But rumor has it that just recently he discovered a certain sum of money missing from the treasury. And that means that heads are bound to roll, since His Majesty is not very well disposed to individuals who expend the state's money too liberally. Fine by me; one less fat cat.

The high wall of the house was buttressed at each end by a tower with a truncated pinnacle. In the left tower there was a gateway seven yards wide with heavy wooden gates clad in iron sheeting. Four horse-men could easily enter it riding abreast. But that grand formal entrance was only for the invited, and it would be best for me to forget about it.

I ran quickly across the illuminated square and took cover in the shadow of the columns of the Royal Library—a place of pilgrimage for magicians of the Order and for historians. Sometimes even nobles came here to improve their store of wisdom, although more often the so-called gentlemen preferred to go straight to Ranneng—the city of learning—for their studies.

From my shelter I have a clear view of the duke's residence. It is as if the house has died. I can't see any guards at the gates or on the walls. They must be huddling in the watch house with their teeth chattering. I can understand them; I would be hidden away in my den myself, if not for the Commission. A certain individual made me a generous offer—he was interested in a rare little item in the duke's collection. The fee offered was excellent, and all I had to do was get into the house, take the trinket, and leave. Not too difficult, especially if you bore in mind the fact that His Lordship and his retinue had gone off hunting deer in the forests around the city and there would only be a very small number of menials left in the house.

Of course, the risk of stirring up a hornets' nest was considerable. But by the time the hornets realized what was what, I would be long gone.

I ran my hands carefully over my equipment and clothing, checking for the hundredth time that night to make sure I had brought everything I needed to carry out my plan. A dark gray jerkin with a hood, gray gloves, black trousers and boots. A large double-edged knife, firmly secured to my thigh by two leather straps so that it would not hinder my movements. That knife had cost me a whole stack of gold coins. It was a little less than a cubit in length, almost a short sword, and the mounting of the blade was covered with a strip of silver, so if you wished you could even risk a fight with someone who had risen from the dead. I could quite easily be lucky enough to walk away from such a skirmish, even if my arm had been torn off. And with the same knife, or rather, its heavy handle, I could easily knock out any idiot who couldn't sleep at night and happened to get under my feet. The master thief is not the one who slits the throat of the watchman roused by the alarm, but the one who enters silently, takes what he wants, and makes a quiet exit, leaving behind the smallest possible number of clues, including dead bodies.

Hanging behind my shoulder I had a miniature crossbow that fitted comfortably into one hand without hindering my movements. It fired short, thick bolts with heads that had four barbs, and with the necessary skill this little toy could hit a man's eye at seventy paces.

The small calfskin bag hanging on my belt contained several phials for use in extreme circumstances. For them a certain dwarf merchant of my acquaintance had stripped me of all my earnings from a robbery at a reception in the home of one of the city's notorious rakes. But the effectiveness of those magic baubles more than justified the price I had paid for them.

That was all. No more time for delay. I went dashing toward the duke's house, all the time keeping as close as possible to wall of the library. If anyone had taken it into his head to look down, he would have seen nothing but the gray stones and the wind-shredded mist playing tag with the shadows in the square. I ran fast, close to the right side of the house, with the gray crenellated wall flashing past my eyes in a blur. There it was, almost invisible to people passing by on the street: the small wicket gate for servants that led into His Lordship's inner sanctum.

As ill luck would have it, there was a street lamp burning opposite the gate and there was no cover—I might have been standing on Sagot's palm. The light fell directly on the wall, and there was not a trace of shadow. Fortunately, the narrow street was empty and the patrol was not due to pass by there for another two minutes or so. I had enough time.

Reaching inside my belt, I took out a set of lock picks made by dwarves to my own specifications. Only ignorant philistines think that being a master thief is easy and cheap. That's rubbish. If you want to steal anything worth stealing, the most important thing is your equipment (I maintain a modest silence on the subject of experience and talent—you can't steal much without them).

Completely absorbed in scrabbling with my pick, I felt for the spring of the lock. Aha! A quiet click. The first line of defense had been overcome.

But just at that moment there was the sound of hoofbeats at the end of the narrow street and I started working faster.

A click. The second secret solved. I spun my pick in desperation, feeling for that final spring. That's it! No more time left!

I jerked the pick out of the lock—all the springs were already free—and dashed across to the other side of the winding street. Into the refuge of the shadow.

Just in time.

A group of horse men appeared from round the bend. Two, three, five, seven. Oho! Thirteen of them! A lucky number. They were riding tall horses of the Doralissian breed. Dark silhouettes against the gray background of the night. I squatted down, pulled the hood over my face, and screwed up my eyes, hoping that they hadn't glinted in the light from the stars.

Ten of the soldiers were wearing the gray and blue uniform of the royal guard. The eleventh turned out to be a woman with her face concealed by a dense veil. But even beneath that veil, I could see the sparkle of her eyes. Hmmm, I thought, isn't that something, sparkling eyes. The two men riding on either side of her had their faces hidden under the hoods of their cloaks.

I wonder what the king's guardsmen and a mysterious lady are doing out in the street at night? I think it's none of my business.

Only three minutes after the strange cavalcade, another detachment of horse men came galloping by. They were dressed in ordinary uniforms, not gray and blue, but I spotted a purple stripe on the sleeve of the last man.

Oho! Wild Hearts! Just how do they happen to be so far away from the Lonely Giant?

I waited until the riders disappeared into the next street, loitered for a few more minutes, and went back to the wicket gate.

The courtyard was quiet, dark, and deserted. In the whole of the duke's grand nest, only two windows were lit up: one in the kitchen and one under the roof. The grass that was shrinking from the chill of the June night completely muffled my steps. It was too cold for the crickets, and the heavy hand of silence hung over the inner yard.

There was the door into the kitchen. The timid, trembling flame of a torch was blackening the wall beside the door. I turned the bronze handle, and I was inside.

The stoves and fireplaces in the kitchen were long since cold. The tables were stacked with dirty dishes and there was a young scullion sleeping on the floor. I stopped in a corner and began checking everything against the plan that I was carrying in the most reliable place of all—my head. That door over there will take me into a dining hall with a high marble staircase leading to the second floor. But I don't need to risk the hall, there's another way round. The oak door on the right leads into the servants' wing, and from there I can get to the second floor, avoiding the guard. Of course the hour is late and the guardsmen, if I know anything about their kind, have been asleep for a long time, but even so, there's no point in asking for trouble.

I set off, treading carefully (the dry floorboards creaked under my feet). In the dark corridor only every second torch was lit. From behind a door on the left I heard the snoring of someone in good health and clearly well satisfied with life. That was definitely a guard—no one else could be so recklessly carefree.

Chuckling to myself, I moved on.

Forward! And quietly! The most important thing is not to hurry.

I walked to the staircase leading from the servants' wing to the ducal apartments. Climbing the steps took no time at all, and there in front of me were the heavy double doors of oak. Locked, of course, but we can deal with that.

The corridor was as gloomy and deserted as the rest of the building. But I could see that from that point on the floor was cunningly paved with slabs of Isilian marble, which makes footsteps sound unnaturally loud and clear. A deaf man at the other side of the city could hear them. And I had to walk the full length of the corridor to the bedchamber at the far end.

Curses! If only I could fly!

But I can't. And so I shall have to use every ounce of the skill that Sagot has granted me in order not to make any noise.

Suddenly I heard a menacing growl behind me. I shuddered and froze, with my foot suspended above the black-and-white marble slabs. I turned my head gingerly, and there was a garrinch, devouring me with the insane glare of its white eyes.

A shudder ran right through me. That swindler Gozmo—when he gave me the Commission there wasn't a word about the duke having one of these brutes in the house.

Garrinches live far away in the south, in the Steppes of Ungava, almost on the borders of the hot Sultanate. The creatures are magnificent watchdogs, especially useful against lads like me. Getting hold of a live garrinch cub is incredibly difficult, almost impossible, because the price is simply sky-high. They say the king's treasure house is guarded by two of the beasts.

What a garrinch resembles most of all is a huge rat, the size of a well-fattened calf, covered with snake's scales instead of fur, with a magnificent set of teeth that can saw straight through a knight in armor, and two white gimlets for eyes. Killing one is extremely difficult—unless, of course, you happen to be a magician.

The creature snorted and stared alertly, probing the shadow where I had thought it best to hide. There was nothing I could do but pray to Sagot to protect his humble servant. I was drenched in cold sweat. After thinking for about a minute, it began growling again. It sensed a trick, but it couldn't understand where I could have gone, so it was trying to flush me out.

Eventually the beast abandoned its thoughts of an easy supper and set off at a slow, pigeon-toed waddle toward the open door leading into the servants' wing. I realized that one reason the door was usually locked was so that the brute that was let out to guard the second floor wouldn't eat anyone. But I had nonchalantly left the door wide open. What fun and games there would be in the morning when someone discovered a couple of servants were missing!

I caught my breath and took my finger off the trigger of the crossbow. The danger had passed. But I had to be on the alert; the creature could come back at any time.

Nemoj vise, molim te. Ovo je bas  :x :x :x :x

Meni se uopšte ne razlikuje od Toma Lojda. Trenutno pokušavam da nađem novu antologiju kineske epske fantastike, u sličnom maniru kao ova ruska.

THE MYSTERY KNIGHT is the third SONG OF ICE AND FIRE prequel novella, following on from THE HEDGE KNIGHT and THE SWORN SWORD. The new novella continues the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and his unusual squire, Egg, as they travel the Seven Kingdoms at the height of Targaryen power, roughly 85 years before the events of A GAME OF THRONES.

The new novella will be published in the WARRIORS anthology (also including stories by David Weber, Naomi Novik and Robin Hobb), to be published in the USA on 16 March. No UK date has been set, but the book should be available via Amazon or Forbidden Planet stores.

A light summer rain was falling as Dunk and Egg took their leave of Stoney Sept.

Dunk rode his old warhorse Thunder, with Egg beside him on the spirited young palfrey he'd named Rain, leading their mule Maester. On Maester's back were bundled Dunk's armor and Egg's books, their bedrolls, tent, and clothing, several slabs of hard salt beef, half a flagon of mead, and two skins of water. Egg's old straw hat, wide-brimmed and floppy, kept the rain off the mule's head. The boy.had cut holes for Maester's ears. Egg's new straw hat was on his own head. Except for the ear holes, the two hats looked much the same to Dunk.

As they neared the town gates, Egg reined up sharply. Up above the gateway a traitor's head had been impaled upon an iron spike. It was fresh from the look of it, the flesh more pink than green, but the carrion crows had already gone to work on it. The dead man's lips and cheeks.were torn and ragged; his eyes were two brown holes weeping slow red tears as raindrops mingled with the crusted blood. The dead man's mouth sagged open, as if to harange travellers passing through the gate below.

Dunk had seen such sights before. "Back in King's Landing when I was a boy, I stole a head right off its spike once," he told Egg. Actually it had been Ferret who scampered up the wall to snatch the head, after Rafe and Pudding said he'd never dare, but when the guards came running he'd tossed it down, and Dunk was the one who'd caught it. "Some rebel lord or robber knight, it was. Or maybe just a common murderer. A head's a head. They all look the same after a few days on a spike." Him and his three friends had used the head to terrorize the girls of Flea Bottom. They'd chase them through the alleys, and make them give the head a kiss before they'd let them go. That head got kissed a lot, as he recalled. There wasn't a girl in King's Landing who could run as fast as Rafe. Egg was better off not hearing that part, though. Ferret, Rafe, and Pudding. Little monsters, those three, and me the worst of all. His friends and he had kept the head until the flesh turned black and begin to slough away. That took the fun out of chasing girls, so one night they burst into a pot shop and tossed what was left into the kettle. "The crows always go for the eyes," he told Egg. "Then the cheeks cave in, the flesh turns green... " He squinted. "Wait. I know that face."

"You do, ser," said Egg. "Three days ago. The hunchbacked septon we heard preaching against Lord Bloodraven."

He remembered then. He was a holy man sworn to the Seven, even if he did preach treason. "His hands are scarlet with a brother's blood, and the blood of his young nephews too," the hunchback had declared to the crowd that had gathered in the market square. "A shadow came at his command to strangle brave Prince Valarr's sons in their mother's womb. Where is our Young Prince now? Where is his brother, sweet Matarys? Where has Good King Daeron gone, and fearless Baelor Breakspear? The grave has claimed them, every one, yet he endures, this pale bird with bloody beak who perches on King Aerys's shoulder and caws into his ear. The mark of hell is on his face and in his empty eye, and he has brought us drought and pestilence and murder. Rise up, I say, and remember our true king across the water. Seven gods there are, and seven kingdoms, and the Black Dragon sired seven sons! Rise up, my lords and ladies. Rise up, you brave knights and sturdy yeomen, and cast down Bloodraven, that foul sorcerer, lest your children and your children's children be cursed forevermore."

Every word was treason. Even so, it was a shock to see him here, with holes where his eyes had been. "That's him, aye," Dunk said, "and another good reason to put this town behind us." He gave Thunder a touch of the spur, and he and Egg rode through the gates of Stoney Sept, listening to the soft sound of the rain. How many eyes does Lord Bloodraven have? the riddle ran. A thousand eyes, and one. Some claimed the King's Hand was a student of the dark arts who could change his face, put on the likeness of a one-eyed dog, even turn into a mist. Packs of gaunt grey wolves hunted down his foes, men said, and carrion crows spied for him and whispered secrets in his ear. Most of the tales were only tales, Dunk did not doubt, but no one could doubt that Bloodraven had informers everywhere.

He had seen the man once with his own two eyes, back in King's Landing. White as bone were the skin and hair of Brynden Rivers, and his eye -- he only had the one, the other having been lost to his half-brother Bitterstell on the Redgrass Field -- was red as blood. On cheek and neck he bore the winestain birthmark that had given him his name.

When the town was well behind them Dunk cleared his throat and said, "Bad business, cutting off the heads of septons. All he did was talk. Words are wind."

"Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason." Egg was skinny as a stick, all ribs and elbows, but he did have a mouth.

"Now you sound a proper princeling."

Egg took that for an insult, which it was. "He might have been a septon, but he was preaching lies, ser. The drought wasn't Lord Bloodraven's fault, nor the Great Spring Sickness either."

"Might be that's so, but if we start cutting off the heads of all the fools and liars, half the towns in the Seven Kingdoms will be empty."

Six days later, the rain was just a memory.

Dunk had stripped off his tunic to enjoy the warmth of sunlight on his skin. When a little breeze came up, cool and fresh and fragrant as a maiden's breath, he sighed. "Water," he announced. "Smell it? The lake can't be far now."

"All I can smell is Maester, ser. He stinks." Egg gave the mule's lead a savage tug. Maester had stopped to crop at the grass beside the road, as he did from time to time.

"There's an old inn by the lake shore." Dunk had stopped there once when he was squiring for the old man. "Ser Arlan said they brewed a fine brown ale. Might be we could have a taste while we waited for the ferry."

Egg gave him a hopeful look. "To wash the food down, ser?"

"What food would that be?"

"A slice off the roast?" the boy said. "A bit of duck, a bowl of stew? Whatever they have, ser."

Their last hot meal had been three days ago. Since then, they had been living on windfalls and strips of old salt beef as hard as wood. It would be good to put some real food in our bellies before we started north. That Wall's along way off.

"We could spend the night as well," suggested Egg.

"Does m'lord want a featherbed?"

"Straw will serve me well enough, ser," said Egg, offended.

"We have no coin for beds."

"We have twenty-two pennies, three stars, one stag, and that old chipped garnet, ser."

Dunk scratched at his ear. "I thought we had two silvers."

"We did, until you bought the tent. Now we have the one."

"We won't have any if we start sleeping at inns. You want to share a bed with some peddler and wake up with his fleas?" Dunk snorted. "Not me. I have my own fleas, and they are not fond of strangers. We'll sleep beneath the stars."

"The stars are good," Egg allowed, "but the ground is hard, ser, and sometimes it's nice to have a pillow for your head."

"Pillows are for princes." Egg was as good a squire as a knight could want, but every so often he would get to feeling princely. The lad has dragon blood, never forget. Dunk had beggar's blood himself... or so they used to tell him back in Flea Bottom, when they weren't telling him that he was sure to hang. "Might be we can afford some ale and a hot supper, but I'm not wasting good coin on a bed. We need to save our pennies for the ferryman." The last time he had crossed the lake, the ferry only cost a few coppers, but that had been six years ago, or maybe seven. Everything had grown more costly since then.

"Well," said Egg, "we could use my boot to get across."

"We could," said Dunk, ,but we won't." Using the boot was dangerous. Word would spread. Word always spreads. His squire was not bald by chance. Egg had the purple eyes of old Valyria, and hair that shone like beaten gold and strands of silver woven together. He had as well wear a three-headed dragon as a brooch as let that hair grow out. These were perilous times in Westeros, and...well, it was best to take no chances. "Another word about your bloody boot, and I'll clout you in the ear so hard you'll fly across the lake."

"I'd sooner swim, ser." Egg swam well, and Dunk did not. The boy turned in the saddle. "Ser? Someone's coming up the road behind us. Hear the horses?"

"I'm not deaf." Dunk could see their dust as well. "A large party. And in haste.

"Do you think they might be outlaws, ser?" Egg raised up in the stirrups, more eager than afraid. The boy was like that.

"Outlaws would be quieter. Only lords make so much noise." Dunk rattled his sword hilt to loosen the blade in its scabbard. "Still, we'll get off the road and let them pass. There are lords and lords." It never hurt to be a little wary. The roads were not as safe as when Good King Daeron sat the Iron Throne.

He and Egg concealed themselves behind a thorn bush. Dunk unslung his shield and slipped it onto his arm. It was an old thing, tall and heavy, kite-shaped, made of pine and rimmed with iron. He had bought it in Stoney Sept to replace the shield the Longinch had hacked to splinters when they fought. Dunk had not had time to have it painted with.his elm and shooting star, so it still bore the arms of its last owner: a hanged man swinging grim and grey beneath a gallows tree. It was not a sigil that he would have chosen for himself, but the shield had come cheap.

The first riders galloped past within moments; two young lordlings mounted on a pair of coursers. The one on the bay wore an open-faced helm of gilded steel with three tall feathered plumes; one white, one red, one gold. Matching plumes adorned his horse's crinet. The black stallion beside him was barded in blue and gold. His trappings rippled with the wind of his passage as he thundered past. Side by side the riders streaked on by, whooping and laughing, their long cloaks streaming behind.

A third lord followed more sedately, at the head of a long column. There were two dozen in the party, grooms and cooks and serving men, all to attend three knights, plus men-at-arms and mounted crossbowmen, and a dozen drays heavy laden with their armor, tents, and provisions. Slung from the lord's saddle was his shield, dark orange and charged with three black castles.

Dunk knew those arms, but from where? The lord who bore them was an older man, sour-mouthed and saturnine, with a close-cropped salt-and-pepper beard. He might have been at Ashford Meadow, Dunk thought. Or maybe we served at his castle when I was squiring for Ser Arlan. The old hedge knight had done service at so many different keeps and castles through the years that Dunk could not recall the half of them.

The lord reined up abruptly, scowling at the thorn bush. "You. In the bush. Show yourself." Behind him two crossbowmen slipped quarrels into the notch. The rest continued on their way.

Dunk stepped through the tall grass, his shield upon his arm, his right hand resting on the pommel of his longsword. His face was a red-brown mask from the dust the horses had kicked up, and he was naked from the waist up. He looked a scruffy sight, he knew, though it was like to be the size of him that gave the other pause. "We want no quarrel,: m'lord. There's only the two of us, me and my squire." He beckoned Egg forward.

"Squire? Do you claim to be a knight?"

Dunk did not like the way the man was looking at him. Those eyes could flay a man. It seemed prudent to remove his hand from his sword. "I am a hedge knight, seeking service."

"Every robber knight I've ever hanged has said the same. Your device may be prophetic; ser...if ser you are. A gallows and a hanged man. These are your arms?"

"No, m'lord. I need to have the shield repainted."

"Why? Did you rob it off a corpse?"

"I bought it, for good coin." Three castles, black on orange... where have I seen those before? "I am no robber."

The lord's eyes were chips of flint. "How did you come by that scar upon your cheek? A cut from a whip?"

"A dagger. Though my face is none of your concern, m'lord."

"I'll be the judge of what is my concern."

By then the two younger knights had come trotting back tosee what had delayed their party. "There you are, Gormy," called the rider on the black, a young man lean and lithe, with a comely clean-shaved face and fine features. Black hair fell shining to his collar. His doublet was made of dark blue silk edged in gold satin. Across his chest an engrailed cross had been embroidered in gold thread, with a golden fiddle in the first and third quarters, a golden sword in the second and the fourth. His eyes caught the deep blue of his doublet, and sparkled with amusement. "Alyn feared you'd fallen from your horse. A palpable excuse, it seems to me, I was about to leave him in my dust."

"Who are these two brigands?" asked the rider on the bay. Egg bristled at the insult: "You have no call to name us brigands, my lord. When we saw your dust we thought you might be outlaws, that's the only reason that we hid. This is Ser Duncan the Tall, and I'm his squire."

The lordlings paid no more heed to that than they would have paid the croaking of a frog. "I believe that is the largest lout that I have ever seen," declared the knight of three feathers. He had a pudgy face beneath a head of curly hair the color of dark honey. "Seven feet if he's an inch, I'd wager. What a mighty crash he'll make when he comes. tumbling down."

Dunk felt color rising to his face. You'd lose your wager, he thought. The last time he had been measured, Egg's brother Aemon pronounced him an inch shy of seven feet.

"Is that your warhorse, Ser Giant?" said the feathered lordling. "I suppose we could butcher it for the meat."

"Lord Alyn oft forgets his courtesies," the black-haired knight said. "Please forgive his churlish words, ser. Alyn, you will ask Ser Duncan for his pardon."

"If I must. Will you forgive me, ser?" He did not wait for reply, but turned his bay about and trotted down the road.

The other lingered. "Are you bound for the wedding, ser?"

Something in his tone made Dunk want to tug his forelock. He resisted the impulse and said, "We're for the ferry, m'lord."

"As are we...but the only lords hereabouts are Gormy and that wastrel who just left us, Alyn Cockshaw. I am a vagabond hedge knight like yourself. Ser John the Fiddler, I am called." That was the sort of name a hedge knight might choose, but Dunk had never seen any hedge knight garbed or armed or mounted in such splendor. The knight of the golden hedge, he thought. "You know my name. My squire is called Egg."

"Well met, ser. Come, ride with us to Whitewalls and break a few lances to help Lord Butterwell celebrate his new marriage. I'll wager you could give a good account of yourself."

Dunk had not done any jousting since Ashford Meadow. If I could win a few ransoms, we'd eat well on the ride north, he thought, but the lord with the three castles on his shield said,"Ser Duncan needs to be about his journey, as do we."

John the Fiddler paid the older man no mind. "I would love to cross swords with you, ser. I've tried men of many lands and races, but never one your size. Was your father large as well?"

"I never knew my father, ser."

"I am sad to hear it. Mine own sire was taken from me too soon." The Fiddler turned to the lord of the three castles. "We should ask Ser Duncan to join our jolly company."

"We do not need his sort."

Dunk was at a loss for words. Penniless hedge knights were not oft asked to ride with highborn lords. I would have more in common with their servants. Judging from the length of their column, Lord Cockshaw and the Fiddler had brought grooms to tend their horses, cooks to feed them, squires to clean their armor, guards to defend them. Dunk had Egg.

"His sort?" The Fiddler laughed. "What sort is that? The big sort? Look at the size of him. We want strong men. Young swords are worth more than old names, I've oft heard it said."

"By fools. You know little and less about this man. He might be a brigand, or one of Lord Bloodraven's spies."

"I'm no man's spy," said Dunk. "And m'lord has no call to speak of me as if I were deaf or dead or down in Dorne."

Those flinty eyes considered him. "Down in Dorne would be a good place for you, ser. You have my leave to go there."

"Pay him no mind," the Fiddler said. "He's a sour oldsoul, he suspects everyone. Gormy, I have a good feeling about this fellow. Ser Duncan, will you come with us to Whitewalls?"

"M'lord, I..." How could he share a camp with such as these? Their serving men would raise their pavilions, their grooms would curry their horses, their cooks would serve them each a capon or a joint of beef, whilst Dunk and Egg gnawed on strips of hard salt beef. "I couldn't."

"You see," said the lord of the three castles. "He knows his place, and it is not with us." He turned his horse back toward the road. "By now Lord Cockshaw is half a league ahead."

"I suppose I must chase him down again." The Fiddler gave Dunk an apologetic smile. "Perchance we'll meet again some day. I hope so. I should love to try my lance on you."

Dunk did not know what to say to that. "Good fortune in the lists, ser," he finally managed, but by then Ser John had wheeled about to chase the column. The older lord rode after him. Dunk was glad to see his back. He had not liked his flinty eyes, nor Lord Alyn's arrogance. The Fiddler had been pleasant enough, but there was something odd about him as well. "Two fiddles and two swords, a cross engrailed," he said to Egg as they watched the dust of their departure. "What house is that?"

"None, ser. I never saw that shield in any roll of arms."

Perhaps he is a hedge knight after all. Dunk had devisedhis own arms at Ashford Meadow, when a puppeteer called Tanselle Too-Tall asked him what he wanted painted on his shield. "Was the older lord some kin to House Frey?" The Freys bore castles on their shields, and their holdings were not far from here.

Egg rolled his eyes. "The Frey arms are two blue towers connected by a bridge, on a grey field. Those were three castles, black on orange, ser. Did you see a bridge?"

"No." He just does that to annoy me. "And next time you roll your eyes at me, I'll clout you on the ear so hard they'll roll back into your head for good."

Egg looked chastened. "I never meant -- "

"Never mind what you meant. Just tell me who he was."

"Gormon Peake, the Lord of Starpike."

"That's down in the Reach, isn't it? Does he really have three castles?"

"Only on his shield; ser. House Peake did hold three castles once, but two of them were lost."

"How do you lose two castles?"

"You fight for the black dragon, ser."

"Oh." Dunk felt stupid. That again.

For two hundred years the realm had been ruled by the descendants of Aegon the Conquerer and his sisters, who had made the Seven Kingdoms one and forged the Iron Throne. Their royal banners bore the three-headed dragon of House Targaryen, red on black. Sixteen years ago, a bastard son of King Aegon IV named Daemon Blackfyre had risen in revolt against his trueborn brother. Daemon had used the three-headed dragon on his banners too, but he reversed the colors, as many bastards did. His revolt had ended on the Redgrass Field, where Daemon and his twin sons died beneath a rain of Lord Bloodraven's arrows. Those rebels who survived and bent the knee were pardoned, but some lost land, some titles, some gold. All gave hostages to ensure their future loyalty.

Three castles, black on orange. "I remember now. Ser Arlan never liked to talk about the Redgrass Field, but once in his cups he told me how his sister's son had died." He could almost hear the old man's voice again, smell the wine upon his breath. "Roger of Pennytree, that was his name. His head was smashed in by a mace wielded by a lord with three castles on his shield." Lord Gormon Peake. The old man never knew his name. Or never wanted to. By that time Lord Peake and John the Fiddler and their party were no more than a plume of red dust in the distance. It was sixteen years ago. The Pretender died, and those who followed him were exiled or forgiven. Anyway, it has nought to do with me.

For a while they rode along without talking, listening to the plaintive cries of birds. Half a league on, Dunk cleared his throat and said, "Butterwell, he said. His lands are near?"

"On the far side of the lake, ser. Lord Butterwell was the master of coin when King Aegon sat the Iron Throne. King Daeron made him Hand, but not for long. His arms are undy green and white and yellow, ser." Egg loved showing off his heraldry.

"Is he a friend of your father?"

Egg made a face. "My father never liked him. In the Rebellion, Lord Butterwell's second son fought for the pretender and his eldest for the king. That way he was certain to be on the winning side. Lord Butterwell didn't fight for anyone."

"Some might call that prudent."

"My father calls it craven."

Aye, he would. Prince Maekar was a hard man, proud and full of scorn. "We have to go by Whitewalls to reach the kingsroad. Why not fill our bellies?" Just the thought was enough to cause his guts to rumble. "Might be that one of the wedding guests will need an escort back to his own seat."

"You said that we were going north."

"The Wall has stood eight thousand years, it will last a while longer. It's a thousand leagues from here to there, and we could do with some more silver in our purse." Dunk was picturing himself atop Thunder, riding down that sour-faced old lord with the three castles on his shield. That would be sweet. 'It was old Ser Arlan's squire who defeated you,' I could tell him when he came to ransom back his arms and armor. 'The boy who replaced the boy you killed.' The old man would like that.

"You're not thinking of entering the lists, are you,ser?

"Might be it's time."

"It's not, ser."

"Maybe it's time I gave you a good clout in the ear." I'd only need to win two tilts. If I could collect two ransoms and pay out only one, we'd eat like kings for a year. "If there was a melee, I might enter that." Dunk's size and strength would serve him better in a melee than in the lists.

"It's not customary to have a melee at a marriage, ser."

"It's customary to have a feast, though. We have a long way to go. Why not set out with our bellies full for once?"

The sun was low in the west by the time they saw the lake, its waters glimmering red and gold, bright as a sheet of beaten copper. When they glimpsed the turrets of the inn above some willows, Dunk donned his sweaty tunic once again and stopped to splash some water on his face. He washed off the dust of the road as best he could, and ran wet fingers through his thick mop of sun-streaked hair. There was nothing to be done for his size, or the scar that marked his cheek, but he wanted to make himself appear somewhat less the wild robber knight.

The inn was bigger than he'd expected, a great grey sprawl of a place, timbered and turreted, half of it built on pilings out over the water. A road of rough-cut planks had been laid down over the muddy lakeshore to the ferry landing, but neither the ferry nor the ferrymen were in evidence. Across the road stood a stable with a thatched roof. A dry stone wall enclosed the yard, but the gate was open. Within, they found a well and a watering trough. "See to the animals," Dunk told Egg, "but see that they don't drink too much. I'll ask about some food."

He found the innkeep sweeping off the steps. "Are you come for the ferry?" the woman asked him. "You're too late. The sun's going down, and Ned don't like to cross by night unless the moon is full. He'll be back first thing in the morning."

"Do you know how much he asks?"

"Three pennies for each of you, and ten for your horses."

"We have two horses and a mule."

"It's ten for mules as well."

Dunk did the sums in his head, and came up with six-andthirty, more than he had hoped to-spend. "Last time I came this way it was only two pennies, and six for horses."

"Take that up with Ned, it's nought to me. If you're looking for a bed, I've none to offer. Lord Shawney and Lord Costayne brought their retinues. I'm full to bursting."

"Is Lord Peake here as well?" He killed Ser Arlan's squire. "He was with Lord Cockshaw and John the Fiddler."

"Ned took them across on his last run." She looked Dunk up and down. "Were you part of their company?"

"We met them on the road, is all." A good smell was drifting out the windows of the inn, one that made Dunk's mouth water. "We might like some of what you're roasting, if it's not too costly."

"It's wild boar," the woman said, "well peppered, and served with onions, mushrooms, and mashed neeps."

"We could do without the neeps. Some slices off the boar and a tankard of your good brown ale would do for us. How much would you ask for that? And maybe we could have a place on your stable floor to bed down for the night?"

That was a mistake. "The stables are for horses. That's why we call them stables. You're big as a horse, I'll grant you, but I only see two legs." She swept her broom at him, to shoo him off. "I can't be expected to feed all the Seven Kingdoms. The boar is for my guests. So is my ale. I won't have lords saying that I run short of food or drink before they were surfeit. The lake is full of fish, and you'll find some other rogues camped down by the stumps. Hedge knights, if you believe them." Her tone made it quite clear that she did not. "Might be they'd have food to share. It's nought to me. Away with you now, I've work to do." The door closed with a solid thump behind her, before Dunk could even think to ask where he might find these stumps.

He found Egg sitting on the horse trough, soaking his feet in the water and fanning his face with his big floppy hat. "Are they roasting pig, ser? I smell pork."

"Wild boar," said Dunk in a glum tone, "but who wants boar when we have good salt beef?"

Egg made a face. "Can I please eat my boots instead, ser? I'll make a new pair out of the salt beef. It's tougher."

"No," said Dunk, trying not to smile. "You can't eat your boots. One more word and you'll eat my fist, though. Get your feet out of that trough." He found his greathelm on the mule, and slung it underhand at Egg. "Draw some water from the well and soak the beef." Unless you soaked it for a good long time, the salt beef was like to break your teeth. It tasted best when soaked in ale, but water would serve. "Don't use the trough either, I don't care to taste your feet."

"My feet could only improve the taste, ser," Egg said, wriggling his toes. But he did as he was bid.

Pre koji dan pojavila se u prodaji Tyrant's Blood: Book 2 of the Valisar Trilogy by Fiona Mcintosh. Makintošova je prilično lepo primljena kod američke publike, ali to ne mora ništa da znači. Budući australijska spisateljica, reklo bi se da je sličnog senzibiliteta kao ovde objavljena Trudi Kanavan, što bi se već moglo pokazati zanimljivim. Australijanci nam tradicionalno nude autorski autentičniji pogled na fantastiku. Nažalost, nisam imao vremena da se bolje upoznam s njenim stvaralaštvom, ali rekao bih da se vredi oprobati s njenim knjigama. Imam prvu knjigu u prethodnoj trilogiji smeštenoj u isti svet kao Valisar, tako da ću detaljniji sud dati kada ponovim taj roman.

Drugi zanimljiv naslov koji je objavljen u januaru iz iste je kuhinje kao Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. REč je o Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter.

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    There were many staff at Kensington Palace, fulfilling many roles; a man who was employed to catch rats, another whose job it was to sweep the chimneys. That there was someone expected to hunt demons did not shock the new Queen; that it was to be her was something of a surprise.

London, 1838. Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the orb, the scepter, and an arsenal of bloodstained weaponry. If Britain is about to become the greatest power of the age, there's the small matter of the undead to take care of first. Demons stalk the crown, and political ambitions have unleashed ravening hordes of zombies even within the nobility itself.

But rather than dreams of demon hunting, Queen Victoria's thoughts are occupied by Prince Albert. Can she dedicate her life to saving her country when her heart belongs elsewhere? With lashings of glistening entrails, decapitations, zombies, and foul demons, this masterly new portrait will give a fresh understanding of a remarkable woman, a legendary monarch, and quite possibly the best demon hunter the world has ever seen.

In another incarnation as a more serious (though still satirical) author, A. E. MOORAT has won critical acclaim and been shortlisted for awards. Here, however, he was chained in the dungeon, fed tea and ghost stories, and kept busy writing the adventures of Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter.

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Za koji dan očekuje nas nastavak romana Spiral Hunt iz pera Margaret Ronald. Ronaldova je pisac urbane fantastike, čije su se kratke priče našle u antologijama tipa The Best Horror of the Year. Spiral Hunt je u tranzitu a tokom februara bi trebalo da mi stigne i nastavak, Wild Hunt, koji izlazi za jedno nedelju dana.

The Best Horror of the Year #2 TOC

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        January 24th, 23:00

    YES. It's done done done. And I'm very relieved. I handed in everything but the summary before I left for Florida Saturday afternoon and then cranked out the rest of the summary (and edited it) and emailed it to Ross at Night Shade when I finished it at 2a.m.

    I didn't have time to post the TOC before Ross got to it so I know it's all over the web but...here it is anyway. As usual in the past few years, there were many more stories that I'd have loved to have taken, but didn't have room.


    Summation 2009 Ellen Datlow
    Lowland Sea Suzy McKee Charnas
    The End of Everything Steve Eller
    Mrs Midnight Reggie Oliver
    each thing I show you is a piece of my death Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer
    The Nimble Men Glen Hirshberg
    What Happens when you wake up in the night Michael Marshall Smith
    Wendigo Micaela Morrissette
    In the Porches of My Ears Norman Prentiss
    Lonegan's Luck Stephen Graham Jones
    The Crevasse Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud
    The Lion's Den Steve Duffy
    Lotophagi Edward Morris
    The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall Kaaron Warren
    Dead Loss Carole Johnstone
    Strappado Laird Barron
    The Lammas Worm Nina Allen
    Technicolor John Langan

Kao nova knjiga sada se računa i "Arijel" Stivena Bojeta. Reč je o još jednoj apokaliptičnoj priči o povratku magije i smrti tehnologije, samo što se "Arijel" od većine takvih storija razlikuje po tome što je objavljen stedinom osamdesetih godina.

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QuoteIt's been five years since the lights went out, cars stopped in the streets, and magical creatures began roaming Earth.

Pete Garey survived the Change, trusting no one but himself until the day he met Ariel-a unicorn who brought new meaning and adventure to his life.

"Ariel" is special. It's about a young man in modern-day America trying to navigate his world after a traumatic Change that has rendered machines inoperative, guns impotent, and electricity defunct. Nothing more complicated than a Coleman lantern works in his world now -- cars stopped in their tracks, elevators fell instantly, and in general society fell apart. In exchange for these staggering losses, magic now works -- and magical beasts once found only in fantasy novels now wander the earth. One of these beasts, a young unicorn, joins up with the hero, and they go wandering. Eventually they find a quest to go on and meet lots of interesting people, including a bunch of Society for Creative Anachronism members who have found adjustment to the new world remarkably easy.

The writing is easy to read and fluid; characterizations are excellent. I found the plotting very realistic as well, considering what the Change involves. The ending is not a bubbly, happy ending, but it's realistic and something I could live with. The deft humorous touches are enough of a presence to leaven the very serious tone of the book. (Let's face it, if unicorns did exist today, they probably WOULD like peppermint candies.) The unicorn, in particular, is a fascinating blend of the vulgar and the divine.

Odmah po objavljivanju novog izdanja ovog romana objavljen je i nastavak, Elegy Beach.

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QuoteAriel, a tough-talking unicorn, and her best friend, Peter Garey, reunite in this sporadically charming sequel to 1983's Ariel. Their colorful postapocalyptic world has experienced the Change, in which magic made science obsolete. Now young spellcaster Yanamandra Ramchandani wants to reverse the Change, and Ariel's unicorn mate, Joe, has been murdered. To stop Yan and find the killer, Ariel and Peter recruit Fred Garey, Peter's son and Yan's best friend, as well as Yan's father. Boyett enhances the adventure with tantalizing glimpses of forever-Changed sites like John Wayne Airport, the Goodyear Airship station and San Simeon, but it's marred by fuzzy details (why would magic users eat 30-year-old canned chili instead of conjuring food?) and lacks the original's sparkle. (Nov.)

Veliku dževu i pre objavljvanja pobudio je roman The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms spisateljice N. K. Džemisin. Porede je s Denijelom Ejbrahamom i Džejom Lejkom. Ako je zaista tako, očekuje nas upoznavanje s sjajnom knjigom i serijalom, budući da je ovaj roman najavljen kao prvi u nizu.

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QuoteConvoluted without being dense, Jemisin's engaging debut grabs readers right from the start. Yeine desires nothing more than a normal life in her barbarian homeland of Darr. But her mother was of the powerful Arameri family, and when Yeine is summoned to the capital city of Sky a month after her mother's murder, she cannot refuse. Dakarta, her grandfather and the Arameri patriarch, pits her against her two cousins as a potential heir to the throne. In an increasingly deep Zelaznyesque series of political maneuverings, Yeine, nearly powerless but fiercely determined, finds potential allies among her relatives and the gods who are forced to live in Sky as servants after losing an ancient war. Multifaceted characters struggle with their individual burdens and desires, creating a complex, edge-of-your-seat story with plenty of funny, scary, and bittersweet twists.

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.

With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate - and gods and mortals - are bound inseparably together.

Džona Skalzija obično prati nekakav hajp. Tako je i s njegovim novim romančićem The God Engines.

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QuoteCaptain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this -- and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to whom the task is given.

Tephe knows from that the start that his mission will be a test of his skill as a leader of men and as a devout follower of his god. It s what he doesn t know that matters: to what ends his faith and his ship will ultimately be put -- and that the tests he will face will come not only from his god and the Bishopry Militant, but from another, more malevolent source entirely...

Author John Scalzi has ascended to the top ranks of modern science fiction with the best-selling, Hugo-nominated novels Old Man's War and Zoe's Tale. Now he tries his hand at fantasy, with a dark and different novella that takes your expectations of what fantasy is and does, and sends them tumbling.

Say your prayers...and behold The God Engines.

Skalzi sam sebi pravi hajp :)

Istina. Ali to mu dosta dobro polazi za rukom. Pročitao sam prvih nekoliko njegovih romana kada su se pojavljivali - i bili su zabavni, ali ni po čemu posebniji od gomile drugih romana gomile drugih pisaca. Čini mi se da je on iskoristio talas rivajvala stare škole spejs opere, pa se tako probio u centar pažnje.

Početkom januara objavljen je šesnaesti naslov u serijalu Recluce iz pera Lelanda Ekstona Modesita Mlađeg. Ovaj serijal otpočet je devedesetih godina i nosi sve odlike fantastike tog vremena - duge i zamršene priče objavljene u mamutskim tomovima. Modesit je uz Martina i Gudkajnda poslednji predstavnik pisaca te generacije. Meni su se, inače, drugi njegovi serijali znatno više svideli od ovog (Corean Chronicles), ali ne može se propustiti da se pomene novi roman u dvadeset godina dugoj seriji.

Arms-Commander (Saga of Recluce) by L. E. Modesitt Jr.

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QuoteModesitt's 16th Recluce novel (after 2008's Mage-Guard of Hamor) continues the story of Westwind, an all-female enclave in a feudalistic world. Westwind's chauvinistic, abusive neighbors were soundly defeated 10 years earlier (as detailed in 1997's The Chaos Balance), but the community attracts so many refugees that the nearby men invade again. The women's fighting ability and talent for psi-magic lead to the quick annihilation of the men's army, after which the Marshal of Westwind sends her Arms-Commander, Saryn, into a nearby country to prevent civil war. Saryn soon becomes bolder, developing new skills with political maneuvering as she ponders the social roles of men and women. The novel moves slowly but develops considerable momentum as Saryn works through her dilemmas in conversations and on the battlefield. Despite many protestations of emotion, there's little personal passion, but the complex plot will keep readers engaged.

Quote from: Nightflier on 28-01-2010, 00:36:22
Džona Skalzija obično prati nekakav hajp. Tako je i s njegovim novim romančićem The God Engines.

Samo se ti zezaj, Scalzi se kandidovao za predsednika SFWA.  (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/01/25/dear-the-internets-i-am-running-for-president-of-sfwa/#more-9785)

Možda je jedan takav i potreban žanru. Prilično je agresivan i izgleda da zna šta hoće.

Možda je ovo trilier - zapravo, jeste - ali postavka je krajnje naučnofantastična.

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QuoteNear the start of this solid thriller from bestseller Preston, the U.S. president's science adviser asks former CIA operative Wyman Ford, last seen in 2008's Blasphemy, to look into the sudden appearance of radioactive gemstones, in particular to identify the precise location of their origin in Cambodia. Meanwhile, college dropout and frustrated astronomer Abbey Straw, who believes she witnessed a meteor's fall, embarks on a search of small islands near her Maine home to locate pieces of the meteorite to sell on eBay. In California, soon-to-be murdered professor Jason Freeman sends Mark Corso, a Mars mission technician at the National Propulsion Facility, a classified hard drive with evidence of gamma rays emanating from the red planet. The three story lines end up neatly intersecting, though the final payoff doesn't do justice to the engaging setup. Preston refrains from inserting the scientific minilectures of which the late Michael Crichton was so fond.

Čini mi se da mi je ovo nekako promaklo...

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Quotelong history of war between the followers of Aiden and Urec, two of the sons of creator-god Ondun, is scuttled when an accidental fire engulfs the city of Ishalem, which occupies the isthmus separating the warring kingdoms. The repercussions of the blaze, which include massacres, betrayals and vicious reprisals, play out over the next 13 years as naval chartsmen guide the kingdoms' sailing ships through the treacherous waters around Ishalem. The details of the cultures and politics add little insight into human nature, and a paucity of fantasy elements gives readers no reason to prefer this tale over its numerous contemporaries.

Mali privju Warriors-a:

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QuoteSoldierin', by Joe Landsdale:

In this daringly nifty piece of historical fiction, Mr. Landsdale brings us back to the old days of slavery and American expansion into the West. Meet an escaped slave headed to sign up as a Buffalo Soldier after narrowly escaping an old fashioned lynching. The tone of the story is reminiscent of Abercrombie in his First Law trilogy - dark and ironic with a healthy abundance of sarcasm masked as humor. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the tale, at least for me, is the protagonist's world view and the casual familiarity with which racist epithets - and racism -abound. A true cowboys and indians frontier story, Soldierin' will delight, amaze, and leave one hoping for an expanded novella on the part of Mr. Landsdale.

Dirae, by Peter S. Beagle:

Unique in its structure, Dirae is a dreamscape like staccato narrative of a hero in the truest sense; a being who exists only in the moments of greatest need to protect the innocent and punish evil. Part superhero quest and journey of self-discovery, Dirae holds more twists than is proper for such a short story, showcasing a profound sense of loss and sorrow that seems all to personal. Peter S. Beagle is undoubtedly a modern master of the short story who has once again amazed me with his raw skill and daring narrative style. I would give this one three thumbs up, but physically that would be a bit awkward.

The Triumph, by Robin Hobb:

Brutal and bloody, The Triumph is a story of friendship, honor, and courage in an age in which warriors dreamed and lived for glory - to be remembered - and where mythical beasts roamed the land. The story, more than anything, highlights the timeless bond between warriors that is forged in the heat of battle, that endures unto, and even beyond, death. In a historical sense, Mr. Hobb highlights a worldview that is long extinct, and was perhaps even doomed to extinction from the start. Gruesome and bloody, Triumph is a story of a bond broken and friendship lost, but a memory sustained. Highly recommended and second only to Mr. Beagle's Dirae at this point.