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Evo liste iz lokusa:

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)

To smo već postavili. Spremam tekstić za "Nove knjige", pošto sam neke stvari već dobio. Na primer, Butcher, Jim • First Lord's Fury • (Ace, hc),
Hamilton, Laurell K. • Divine Misdemeanors • (Ballantine, hc), Gregory, Daryl • The Devil's Alphabet • (Ballantine Del Rey, tpb) itd. Sad, nemojte me pogrešno shvatiti - nije zbog sujete, ili nečeg sličnog - ali teško mi je da pratim gomilu tema koje se bave istom stvari, a lakše je i za kežual posetioce foruma da prate sve na jednom mestu, tako da ću ja i dalje postovati na "Novim knjigama" i "Upravo čitam". Dapače, čekam da se otvori "Upravo čitam 2010." Dapače, evo - otvoriću je ja, pošto sam već pročitao nekoliko knjiga koje se zvanično objavljuju tek u martu...

Dobro bre Mico, procisti taj spisak malo, ionako slabo vidim  xnerd

Elem, naslovnica za jedan od cekanih naslova

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An epic historical adventure set in a pseudo 8th century China, from the author of the 2008 World Fantasy winner, Ysabel. Under Heaven is a novel of heroes, assassins, concubines and emperors set against a majestic and unforgiving landscape. An epic historical adventure set in a pseudo 8th century China, from the author of the 2008 World Fantasy winner, Ysabel. Under Heaven is a novel of heroes, assassins, concubines and emperors set against a majestic and unforgiving landscape. For two years Shen Tai has mourned his father, living like a hermit beyond the borders of the Kitan Empire, by a mountain lake where terrible battles have long been fought between the Kitai and the neighbouring Tagurans, including one for which his father - a great general - was honoured. But Tai's father never forgot the brutal slaughter involved. The bones of 100,000 soldiers still lie unburied by the lake and their wailing ghosts at night strike terror in the living, leaving the lake and meadow abandoned in its ring of mountains. To honour and redress his father's sorrow, Tai has journeyed west to the lake and has laboured, alone, to bury the dead of both empires. His supplies are replenished by his own people from the nearest fort, and also - since peace has been bought with the bartering of an imperial princess - by the Tagurans, for his solitary honouring of their dead. The Tagurans soldiers one day bring an unexpected letter. It is from the bartered Kitan Princess Cheng-wan, and it contains a poisoned chalice: she has gifted Tai with two hundred and fifty Sardian horses, to reward him for his courage. The Sardians are legendary steeds from the far west, famed, highly-prized, long-coveted by the Kitans

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From George R. R. Martin's Introduction to Warriors:

'People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down their tales of Gilgamesh, warriors, soldiers, and fighters have fascinated us; they are a part of every culture, every literary tradition, every genre. All Quiet on the Western Front, From Here to Eternity, and The Red Badge of Courage have become part of our literary canon, taught in classrooms all around the country and the world. Our contributors make up an all-star lineup of award-winning and bestselling writers, representing a dozen different publishers and as many genres. We asked each of them for the same thing - a story about a warrior. Some chose to write in the genre they're best known for. Some decided to try something different. You will find warriors of every shape, size, and color in these pages, warriors from every epoch of human history, from yesterday and today and tomorrow, and from worlds that never were. Some of the stories will make you sad, some will make you laugh, and many will keep you on the edge of your seat.'

Included are a long novella from the world of Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, a new tale of Lord John by Diana Gabaldon, and an epic of humanity at bay by David Weber. Also present are original tales by David Ball, Peter S. Beagle, Lawrence Block, Gardner Dozois, Joe Haldeman, Robin Hobb, Cecelia Holland, Joe R. Lansdale, David Morrell, Naomi Novik, James Rollins, Steven Saylor, Robert Silverberg, S.M. Stirling, Carrie Vaughn, Howard Waldrop, and Tad Williams.

Many of these writers are bestsellers. All of them are storytellers of the highest quality. Together they make a volume of unforgettable reading.

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The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller
(2007 kao audiobook, tek sad u klasicnom obliku)
A novel by
Lee Child, David Corbett, Jeffery Deaver, Joseph Finder, Jim Fusilli, John Gilstrap, James Grady, David Hewson, John Ramsey Miller, P J Parrish, Ralph Pezzullo, S J Rozan, Lisa Scottoline, Peter Spiegelman and Erica Spindler




15 thriller masters. 1 masterful thriller.

Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. As he races from Poland to America to uncover the mystery of the manuscript, Middleton will be accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins. But the greatest threat will come from a shadowy figure out of his past: the man known only as Faust.

The Chopin Manuscript is a unique collaboration by 15 of the world's greatest thriller writers. Jeffery Deaver conceived the characters and set the plot in motion; the other authors each wrote a chapter in turn. Deaver then completed what he started, bringing The Chopin Manuscript to its explosive conclusion.

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What Subterranean Press will be publishing is an earlier state of the novel now called A Dark Matter, not merely the limited version of the trade edition. I wish to have it preserved and published in this form as well as the final, many-times-re-edited form to indicate what I hoped its shape would be like. This is a much looser, sloppier, more wild-eyed version of the book, with blind alleys, red herrings, and false trails." -- Peter Straub

***

In the fall of 1966, a group of students, led by a charismatic wanderer named Spencer Mallon, meet in a deserted field outside of Madison, Wisconsin. Their purpose: to conduct an "experiment" that will, if successful, alter the nature of reality itself. The outcome of that experiment is astonishing and inexplicable, and will affect the destinies of everyone involved in fundamental ways.

The Skylark remains the clearest expression of the author's original intentions. With precision, delicacy, and great narrative power, it traces the endless reverberations of a single catastrophic event. In the process, it takes us deep into the lives of a diverse group of fully realized characters, among them a thief, a killer, a best-selling novelist, and a magnetic, luminously beautiful blind woman--the skylark of the title. The result is both a visionary novel about the mystery and terror that lie beneath the surface of the visible world and a moving account of believable people struggling to come to terms with the defining moments of their lives. Moving effortlessly, and with great authority, between the past and the present, the magical and the mundane, The Skylark is the kind of intense, wholly absorbing reading experience that only Peter Straub could have created.

The Subterranean Press edition of The Skylark is approximately 200 manuscript pages longer than the trade edition, to be published as A Dark Matter.


A bice i ovoga

The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories

Peter Straub's Blue Rose trilogy (Koko, Mystery, and The Throat) is one of the landmark accomplishments of modern popular fiction. Ranging from the Caribbean to Vietnam to the American Midwest and spanning decades of tumultuous history, these books are both unforgettable narratives and indelible portraits of people in extremis, struggling to survive in a world marked by grief, loss, pain, trauma, and homicidal madness. The four stories gathered here are offshoots of that larger fictional universe. Each one stands entirely on its own. Together, they shine a revelatory light on the mysteries and hidden corners of the novels that inspired them.

"Blue Rose" recounts a defining moment in the childhood of Koko's Harry Beevers, the moment when the ten-year-old Harry discovers his capacity for violence and brutality. "The Juniper Tree" describes, with almost unbearable clarity, a lonely young boy's encounter with adult betrayal, and with the darker aspects of human sexuality. "The Ghost Village" takes us to the phantasmagoric landscape of Vietnam, where the barriers between the living and the dead begin to dissolve, to mesmerizing effect. "Bunny is Good Bread" is arguably Straub's single most harrowing story. With relentless attention to detail, it anatomizes the creation of a human monster through abuse, cruelty, and neglect.

These disturbing, beautifully written stories have a moral weight and emotional resonance that only the finest fiction achieves. They are the clear product of a master storyteller at the very top of his game. No one who reads them is likely to forget them, or come away unchanged.

A sada nesto za Angel i ekipu koja pokazuje svoju macu:

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Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories

From Publishers Weekly

Few things alarm the experienced reader more than the prospect of a science fiction, fantasy, or mystery book that involves—or worse, fetishizes—cats. This reprint anthology is the exception, an assortment of 40 stories by authors who are for the most part willing to take cats on their own ground. Datlow avoids the trap of a too-narrow premise: though there appears to be a slight bias toward horror, the stories are various within that field, from Jack Ketchum's ghost story Returns to Michaela Roessner's highly scientific Mieze Corrects an Incomplete Representation of Reality and Edward Bryant's brilliantly repellent Bean Bag Cat. Other tales are amusing, like Lawrence Block's The Burglar Takes a Cat, or gently sentimental, like Dennis Danvers's Healing Benjamin. This is that rarity of rarities: an anthology of cat stories worth reading. (Feb.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Product Description

From legendary editor Ellen Datlow, Tails of Wonder collects the best of the last thirty years of science fiction and fantasy stories about cats from an all-star list of contributors. The Stephen King Story is UNCOLLECTED, and has not been in print since the Horrorstory III anthology.

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Mislili ste da ima samo u Holivudu??? ;)

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za 1.400 din.

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The Sorcerer's House
Gene Wolfe

Tor Books, 3/16/2010
ISBN: 978-0-7653-2458-0, ISBN10: 0-7653-2458-X,
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches, 304 pages,

In a contemporary town in the American midwest where he has no connections, Bax, an educated man recently released from prison, is staying in a motel. He writes letters to his brother and to others, including a friend still in jail, to whom he progressively reveals the intriguing pieces of a strange and fantastic narrative. When he meets a real estate agent who tells him he is, to his utter surprise, the heir to a huge old house in town, long empty, he moves in. He is immediately confronted by an array of supernatural creatures and events, by love and danger.

His life is utterly transformed and we read on, because we must know more. We revise our opinions of him, and of others, with each letter, piecing together more of the story as we go. We learn things about magic, and another world, and about the sorcerer Mr. Black, who originally inhabited the house. And then knowing what we now know only in the end, perhaps we read it again.

Sympathy for the Devil
(2010)
An anthology of stories edited by
Tim Pratt

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The Devil is known by many names: Serpent, Tempter, Beast, Adversary, Wanderer, Dragon, Rebel. His traps and machinations are the stuff of legends. His faces are legion. No matter what face the devil wears, Sympathy for the Devil has them all. Edited by Tim Pratt, Sympathy for the Devil collects the best Satanic short stories by Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Stephen King, Kage Baker, Charles Stross, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Kelly Link, China Mieville, Michael Chabon, and many others, revealing His Grand Infernal Majesty, in all his forms. Thirty-five stories, from classics to the cutting edge, exploring the many sides of Satan, Lucifer, the Lord of the Flies, the Father of Lies, the Prince of the Powers of the Air and Darkness, the First of the Fallen... and a Man of Wealth and Taste. Sit down and spend a little time with the Devil.

# Paperback: 400 pages
# Publisher: Night Shade Books (15 Aug 2010)

skrenuo bih paznju na  dva zanimljiva naslova s kraja prosle godine

Do Androids Sleep With Electric Sheep? Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Androids-Sleep-Electric-Sheep-Perspectives/dp/1889307238)
edited by Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry and Thomas Ballhausen
RE/Search Publications, ~260 pages

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Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson  (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Julian-Comstock-Story-22nd-Century-America/dp/0765319713/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265041590&sr=1-1)

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novo i drugacije od ovde, u poslednje vreme, mnogo hvaljenog pisca.

Krajem januara pojavilo se jos par interesantnih naslova

'More than one thousand compelling pages from one of the most haunting, cogent, and individual imaginations in contemporary literature.' - William Boyd The American publication of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard is a landmark event. Increasingly recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic novelists, J. G. Ballard was a 'writer of enormous inventive powers,' who, in the words of Malcolm Bradbury, possessed, 'like Calvino, a remarkable gift for filling the empty deprived spaces of modern life with the invisible cities and the wonder worlds of imagination.'

Best known for his novels, such as Empire of the Sun and Crash, Ballard rose to fame as the 'ideal chronicler of disturbed modernity' (The Observer). Perhaps less known, though equally brilliant, were his devastatingly original short stories, which span nearly fifty years and reveal an unparalleled prescience so unique that a new word - Ballardian - had to be invented. Ballard, who wrote that 'short stories are the loose change in the treasury of fiction, easily ignored beside the wealth of novels available,' regretted the fact that the public had increasingly lost its ability to appreciate them.

With 98 pulse-quickening stories, this volume helps restore the very art form that Ballard feared was comatose. Ballard's inimitable style was already present in his early stories, most of them published in science fiction magazines. These stories are surreal, richly atmospheric and splendidly elliptical, featuring an assortment of psychotropic houses, time-traveling assassins, and cities without clocks. Over the next fifty years, his fierce imaginative energy propelled him to explore new topics, including the dehumanization of technology, the brutality of the corporation, and nuclear Armageddon. Depicting the human soul as 'being enervated and corrupted by the modern world' (New York Times), Ballard began to examine themes like overpopulation, as in 'Billenium,' a claustrophobic imagining of a world of 20 billion people crammed into four-square-meter rooms, or the false realities of modern media, as in the classic 'Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan,' a faux-psychological study of the sexual and violent reactions elicited by viewing Reagan's face on television, in which Ballard predicted the unholy fusion of pop culture and sound-bite politics thirteen years before Reagan became president. Given Ballard's heightened powers of perception, it is astonishing that the dehumanized world that he apprehended so acutely neither diminished his own febrile imagination nor his engagement with mankind, evident in every story, including two new ones for this American edition.

So eerily prophetic is his vision, so commanding are his literary gifts, the import and insight of J. G. Ballard's deeply humanistic and transcendent works can only grow in years to come. .



Continuing in the vein of the Award winning Retro Pulp Tales, Joe R. Lansdale and his son Keith Lansdale present, Son of Retro Pulp Tales. More stories in the tradition of the pulps, early digest magazines and pre sixties films, this one contains everything from Lovecraftian monsters to demons to hardboiled shoot outs to plain ole unchained oddness.

So, tuck yourself in bed with a reading light and a snack, and prepare to be transported to wild worlds and weird situations by the pure story teller tradition. Come on in, the pulp is fine.


Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons--bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting and killing humanity for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the increasingly isolated populace.

But there was a time when the demons were not so bold. A time when wards did more than hold the demons at bay. They allowed man to fight back, and to win. Messenger Arlen Bales will search anywhere, dare anything, to return this magic to the world.

Abban, a merchant in the Great Bazaar of Krasia, purports to sell everything a man's heart could desire, including, perhaps, the key to Arlen's quest.

In addition to the title novelette, The Great Bazaar and Other Stories contains a number of scenes not included in The Painted Man (published in the US as The Warded Man) as well as a glossary and a grimoire, making it an essential guide to one of the most exciting epic fantasy series currently being published.


Magic is already fading in the Green Isles, but it's still a time when myths walk the world and the children of the ancient gods are engaged in one final confrontation. But when legendary creatures wage war, it s the ordinary people who suffer the consequences--unless they, themselves, can find a way to bring an end to the hostilities. The trouble is, not all of them are able to pick a side.

Eyes Like Leaves was written in the days of Moonheart and Charles de Lint's other high fantasy novels. The tale slept like a long-forgotten lover until he recently chose to revisit (and polish) this never-before-published gem.

Creativity is something like magic. One form might feed the other, providing inspiration, sparking ideas, fueling the creative juices. For the authors contained within this unique anthology, the source of inspiration was the music of Bruce Springsteen. Themes, lines, song titles . . . whatever it took to draw these stories into life.

So many of Springsteen's songs bring you close to the edge of a darkness where uncertainty reigns - a darkness not just on the edge of town but of our hearts and minds . . . the darkness between child and adulthood, perhaps; or between courage and fear; marriage and divorce; even confidence and self-doubt. These nineteen authors nudge us closer to an answer . . . and let us see what really is stirring out there in the shadows.

From "Nothing Forgiven" by Lee Thomas
(Inspired by "Something In the Night")
Long ago, you made a promise, swore you'd never return to this place. Now though, with your promise broken and the past's topography rising, they return, joining you in the car like phantom passengers.

From "Fire" by Elizabeth Massie
(Inspired by "I'm On Fire")
Mac put his hand on the wall, willing her to feel his love through the plaster.
"Lisa, let me help you."
"You? You're kidding, right? How can you help?"
Mac was taken aback. She saw him as only the cripple next door, the young man who had nothing to offer but pasta, pie, and a friendly word through the wall.

From "Atonement" by Gary A. Braunbeck
(Inspired by "My Father's House")
Don't tell me you've forgotten? Yes, that's right. Thirty years ago tonight, my father buried us under the floorboards in my bedroom after he came home early from work and caught us in my bed.

From "Kneeling in the Darkness" by Lorne Dixon
(Inspired by "Point Blank")
"Listen." Riddle said, his grip steadying Teddy's hand. A hundred invisible blades punctured his flesh at as many angles, bullets tore chunks of flesh out of his body, he felt himself crushed by stone, suffocated by linen, beaten until his skeleton was nothing but an assembly of shards. "Listen to her."

From "The Hungry Heart" by Michael A. Arnzen
(Inspired by "Hungry Heart")
A recurring snore. A blasted monitor bleep. A terrible spoon pinging porcelain.
It was an orchestra conducted by some subsonic sadist intent on keeping him awake. He clutched the heart-shaped pillow against his chest.
It was still beating.

From "Die Angle" by Lawrence C. Connolly
(Inspired by "Murder, Incorporated")
Nick took an envelope from the desk. "Call me as soon as you finish." He passed the envelope to Johnny. "I need to know the moment he's dead."

From "From the Dark Heart of a Dream" by Tom Piccirilli
(Inspired by "Adam Raised a Cain")
My father's ghost might be standing in the darkness, watching, evaluating, judging.
I bond with a man thirty-five years embalmed. It does things to a person.

From "Independence Day" by Sarah Langan
(Inspired by "Independence Day" and "The Rising')
The doctor has a Cyclops-like eye in the center of his face. It lights up white, and then red. The doctor is a five-foot wide metal box in the curved corner of the room. It's attached to the needles, and her, by worn plastic tubes that over time have turned pink from other peoples' blood.

From "Ain't No Angel Gonna Greet Me" by Guy Adams
(Inspired by "Maria's Bed")
Sitting on the back seat I scrubbed at each foot in turn before pulling on the dead man's socks and boots; a size or so too big, but nothing I couldn't walk in. Finally I popped his snake-eyes cufflinks in place, pulled on the jacket. I closed the trunk lid and got back behind the wheel. I would take the last step of the journey in my dead-man's clothes.

From "With These Hands" by Kurt Dinan
(Inspired by "Factory" and "Two Faces")
When he died three weeks later, I inherited his house, his car, and his bills. Then, like every other son in town eventually does, I took my father's place on the line, my hands continuing his work as if they'd never taken a break.

From "Wings For Wheels" by John Palisano
(Inspired by "Thunder Road")
The Angels pulled up alongside the Chevy on Mary's side. She saw Tommy behind the wheel. He turned to look at her. Mary wanted to duck down, but was so scared she couldn't move. "What are they, Johnny?"

BLACK WINGS: NEW TALES OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR

Edited by S. T. Joshi

The work of H. P. Lovecraft continues to inspire many of the leading contemporary authors of horror and the supernatural. In this anthology, S. T. Joshi, the world's leading expert on Lovecraft and the author of the lively treatise The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos, tries his hand at assembling a modern-day Lovecraftian anthology, casting his net on both sides of the Atlantic and producing a volume that radically expands our notions of what constitutes "Lovecraftian" fiction. Caitlín R. Kiernan, Brian Stableford, and Nicholas Royle produce innovative deconstructions of Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model" and "The Hound." Michael Shea transfers the Cthulhu Mythos to San Francisco, Laird Barron and Philip Haldeman set their Lovecraftian horrors in the Pacific Northwest, and Donald R. Burleson and William Browning Spencer enliven the parched Southwest with cosmic monsters. Ramsey Campbell, Jonathan Thomas, Jason Van Hollander, and others make Lovecraft himself a character in tales of cosmic menace, while David J. Schow and Michael Cisco ring new changes on the Lovecraftian concept of the forbidden book. These and other stories by Michael Marshall Smith, Norman Partridge, W. H. Pugmire, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Darrell Schweitzer, Donald R. and Mollie L. Burleson, Sam Gafford, and Adam Niswander all reveal how vital and vibrant the Lovecraftian idiom remains . . . and how terrifying.

S. T. Joshi is a leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft and the author of The Weird Tale (1990), The Modern Weird Tale (2001), The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos (2008), and other critical and biographical studies. His biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), won the British Fantasy Award and the Horror Writers Association award; it has now been published in an unabridged edition as I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010). Joshi has prepared corrected editions of Lovecraft's fiction, poetry, and essays, and is working on a long-range project to publish Lovecraft's collected letters. He has also done work on Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, Lord Dunsany, and other writers. He has received the World Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. He lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Leslie, and numerous cats.

Compiled and Edited by Stephen Jones

"An outstanding British writer in the genre."
August Derleth

"He beguiles the mind as he lures the imagination beyond the outposts of reality."
Donald Wandrei


ollected together for the first time in two handsomely produced volumes from PS Publishing are all the supernatural and macabre short stories and novellas of legendary British writer Basil Copper.

Drawn from numerous collections, anthologies and magazines as varied as the legendary Pan Book of Horror Stories series, rare and collectible compilations edited by Peter Haining and Richard Dalby, and the author's own highly-prized books from Arkham House, these two extensive collections contain more than four decades' worth of weird fiction from one of the genre's most renowned practitioners.

In this initial volume you will find such classics of the macabre as the author's first professionally published short story, 'The Spider', along with memorable tales like "Camera Obscura' (adapted by Rod Serling for the TV series Night Gallery), 'The Academy of Pain', 'Amber Print', 'The Recompensing of Albano Pizar' (dramatised by BBC Radio 4) and the author's terrifying Cthulhu Mythos novella, 'Shaft Number 247'.

With an historical Introduction by editor Stephen Jones, Volume One of Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper also contains original illustrations by Dave Carson, Les Edwards, Bob Eggleton, Gary Gianni and Allen Koszowski, along with a stunning cover painting by Stephen E. Fabian.


BASIL COPPER became a full-time writer in 1970. His first story in the horror field, 'The Spider', was published in 1964 in The Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories, since when his short fiction has appeared in numerous collections and anthologies, and been extensively adapted for radio and television. Along with two non-fiction studies of the vampire and werewolf legends, his other books include the novels The Great White Space, The Curse of the Fleers, Necropolis, The Black Death and The House of the Wolf. Copper has also written more than fifty hardboiled thrillers about Los Angeles private detective Mike Faraday, and has continued the adventures of August Derleth's Sherlock Holmes-like consulting detective Solar Pons in several volumes of short stories and the novel Solar Pons versus The Devil's Claw.

STEPHEN JONES lives in London, England. He is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, four Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards as well as being a twenty-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee. A former television producer/director and genre movie publicist and consultant, he is one of Britain's most acclaimed anthologists of horror and dark fantasy with more than 100 books to his credit. You can visit his web site at: www.stephenjoneseditor.com (http://www.stephenjoneseditor.com)




Collected together for the first time in two handsomely produced volumes from PS Publishing are all the supernatural and macabre short stories and novellas of legendary British writer Basil Copper.

Drawn from numerous collections, anthologies and magazines as varied as the award-winning Dark Terrors series, rare and collectible compilations edited by Stephen Jones and Peter Haining, and the author's own highly-prized books from Fedogan & Bremer, these two extensive collections contain more than four decades' worth of weird fiction from one of the genre's most renowned practitioners.

In this second volume you will find such classics of the macabre as 'The Candle in the Skull' (read over Hallowe'en on BBC Radio 4), 'Better Dead' the acclaimed Lovecraftian novella 'Beyond the Reef', 'Bright Blades Gleaming', 'Ill Met by Daylight', and the first printing of the author's preferred version of his final published short story, 'Voices in the Water'.

With an critical Introduction by broadcaster Kim Newman, Volume Two of Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper also contains original illustrations by Randy Broecker, Dave Carson, Les Edwards, Bob Eggleton and Allen Koszowski, along with a stunning cover painting by Stephen E. Fabian.

Just a fraction of our library (http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2010/02/02/weird/#comments) of strange short fiction–there're another ten to fifteen shelves not shown. Ann and I are beginning to read for a "big book of weird" we're editing for Grove Atlantic. It'll be 750,000 words, covering 100 years. To be published in November.

Jeff VanderMeer

u je, 100 godina weirda :)

sa amazonovih preporuka :)



Product Description

Stephen Baxter's epic sequence of Xeelee novels was introduced to a new generation of readers with his highly successful quartet, Destiny's Children, published by Gollancz between 2003 and 2006. But the sequence of novels began with RAFT in 1991. From there it built into perhaps the most ambitious fictitious universe ever created. Beginning with the rise and fall of sub-quantum civilisations in the first nano-seconds after the Big Bang and ending with the heat death of the universe billions of years from now the series charts the story of mankinds epic war against the ancient and unknowable alien race the Xeelee. Along the way it examines questions of physics, the nature of reality, the evolution of mankind and its possible future. It looks not just at the morality of war but at the morality of survival and our place in the universe. This is a landmark in SF.

About the Author

Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife.

# Paperback: 912 pages
# Publisher: Gollancz (18 Mar 2010)
# ISBN-10: 0575090413
# ISBN-13: 978-0575090415
# Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.3 x 5.1 cm

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jebes sve ostalo, upravo sam provalio da je za maj najavljen novi roman jako mi dragog pisca, prvi posle Black Swan Green iz 2006 :!: :!: :!:




The author of Cloud Atlas's most ambitious novel yet, for the readers of Ishiguro, Murakami, and, of course, David Mitchell.

The year is 1799, the place Dejima, the "high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island" that is the Japanese Empire's single port and sole window to the world. It is also the farthest-flung outpost of the powerful Dutch East Indies Company. To this place of superstition and swamp fever, crocodiles and courtesans, earthquakes and typhoons, comes Jacob de Zoet. The young, devout and ambitious clerk must spend five years in the East to earn enough money to deserve the hand of his wealthy fiancée. But Jacob's intentions are shifted, his character shaken and his soul stirred when he meets Orito Aibagawa, the beautiful and scarred daughter of a Samurai, midwife to the island's powerful magistrate. In this world where East and West are linked by one bridge, Jacob sees the gaps shrink between pleasure and piety, propriety and profit. Magnificently written, a superb mix of historical research and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is a big and unforgettable book that will be read for years to come.

# Hardcover: 480 pages
# Publisher: Sceptre (13 May 2010)

He enraged America's religious right with his portrayal of God as a senile old man in the His Dark Materials trilogy, and now Philip Pullman is set to court more Christian controversy – this time with a novel about "the Scoundrel Christ".

The book will provide a new account of the life of Jesus, challenging the gospels and arguing that the version in the New Testament was shaped by the apostle Paul. "By the time the gospels were being written, Paul had already begun to transform the story of Jesus into something altogether new and extraordinary, and some of his version influenced what the gospel writers put in theirs," said Pullman, who last year pronounced himself delighted that the His Dark Materials trilogy was one of the most "challenged" series in America's libraries, boasting the most requests for removal from the shelves because of its "religious viewpoint".

His new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, will be published next Easter as part of Scottish independent press Canongate's Myths series, which has also seen Margaret Atwood tackle The Odyssey from the perspective of Odysseus's wife Penelope, Jeanette Winterson retell the myth of Atlas and Heracles and Michel Faber take on Prometheus with a modern retelling which sees an academic discover a fifth gospel. In Faber's version, Jesus's last words on the cross are "please, somebody, please finish me", and one of his last actions is to urinate on the head of the gospel's author.

"Paul was a literary and imaginative genius of the first order who has probably had more influence on the history of the world than any other human being, Jesus certainly included. I believe this is a pity," said Pullman. "The story I tell comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is my responsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like a history, and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is, among other things, a story about how stories become stories."

Publisher Jamie Byng said that Pullman's contribution to the series "strips Christianity bare and exposes the gospels to a new light". "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ throws down a challenge and does what all great books do: make the reader ask questions," he added.

Foreword by Clive Barker
Introduction by Phil and Sarah Stokes

Cover and interior art by Clive Barker

From the man who has brought you twenty books of dark fiction and fantasy, unforgettable horror movies such HELLRAISER and CANDYMAN, and countless paintings and illustrations, this is the first-ever collection of Clive Barker's nonfiction. Representing more than 25 years of writing, THE PAINTER, THE CREATURE, AND THE FATHER OF LIES contains:

   * All the introductions he's written for his own works (prefaces in fiction and non-fiction books, liner notes on CDs/laserdiscs/DVDs, introductions in graphic novel adaptations, text of theatre playbills, and more);
   * All the forewords and afterwords he's written on other people's works (books, graphic novels, etc.); and
   * Essays and articles written for magazines on the horror genre and other topics.

These have never been collected together and many are nearly impossible to track down. Furthermore, from Barker's personal archives: a couple of unpublished pieces, including an unused self-penned introduction to Volume 1 of the BOOKS OF BLOOD from 1983 written from the point of view of a demon interviewing Clive Barker.

The editors, Phil and Sarah Stokes, who operate the official Clive Barker website at www.clivebarker.info (http://www.clivebarker.info), have spent the past several years compiling these 100 separate pieces to produce a truly definitive work. This collection features a new foreword by Barker, an introduction by the Stokes, and new illustrations by Barker. The numbered and lettered edition will contain bonus material: cover images for the majority of publications in which the nonfiction pieces were first published.

If you haven't read any of Barker's nonfiction, you'll find that it's just as compelling, enjoyable, and well-written as his fiction. These pieces cover the inspirations for his works, insights into the creative process, and musings on art and the horror genre. Not currently scheduled to be published anywhere else, don't miss this landmark collection from a modern master of horror and dark fantasy.


THE PAINTER, THE CREATURE, AND THE FATHER OF LIES will be published in the following three editions:
Unsigned trade hardcover    $35
250 numbered hardcovers, bound in leather and housed in a cloth-covered slipcase, and signed by Clive Barker and Phil and Sarah Stokes    $125
26 lettered hardcovers, hand sewn, housed in a handmade traycase, book and traycase made with the finest materials, signed by Clive Barker and Phil and Sarah Stokes, and includes an original sketch by Barker    $750

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dok cekamo nove knjige

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It's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between

Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him.

When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilities—a woman who can turn invisible, a man who can walk through walls, and the woman Marsh saw in Spain who can use her knowledge of the future to twist the present—Marsh is the man who has to face them. He rallies the secret warlocks of Britain to hold the impending invasion at bay. But magic always exacts a price. Eventually, the sacrifice necessary to defeat the enemy will be as terrible as outright loss would be.

Alan Furst meets Alan Moore in the opening of an epic of supernatural alternate history, the tale of a twentieth century like ours and also profoundly different.

About the Author

IAN TREGILLIS lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he works as a physicist at Los Alamos Laboratory. He is a member of the Wild Cards writing collective, directed by George R. R. Martin. Bitter Seeds is his first novel.

# Hardcover: 352 pages
# Publisher: Tor (3 May 2010)

u sklopu cp-a sa "deca i fantastika"

Children's Books: Dystopian Novels for Teens, Present and Future

Compiled by Karen Springen -- Publishers Weekly, 2/15/2010

There are plenty of modern dystopian novels, including Lois Lowry's The Giver, Jeanne DuPrau's Book of Ember series and, more recently, Cory Doctorow's Little Brother and Neal Shusterman's Unwind. But the genre is more popular than ever. Here, we have gathered a few dozen titles from fall 2009 through 2010 and beyond.

Beyond the Mask by David Ward (Abrams/Amulet, Sept. 2010). In the finale to the Grassland Trilogy, which follows Escape the Mask and Beneath the Mask, kids live in dark caves at night and work in grasslands by day.

Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien (Roaring Brook, Apr. 2010). Sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone and her mom are midwives who dutifully turn over babies to the mysterious Enclave.

Candor by Pam Bachorz (Egmont USA, Sept. 2009). In a "model" community in Florida, subliminal messages control kids' behavior.

The Carbon Diaries 2017 by Saci Lloyd (Holiday House, Feb. 2010). The sequel to The Carbon Diaries 2015 continues the tale of a world with carbon rations.

The Clone Codes by Patricia, Fredrick, and John McKissack (Scholastic, Feb. 2010). Set in the year 2170, an underground abolitionist movement fights for the freedom of cyborgs and clones, who are treated like slaves.

Dark Life by Kat Falls (Scholastic Press, May 2010). People live in "stack" cities or underwater since earthquakes and swollen oceans left earth uninhabitable.

The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan. (Delacorte, March 2010) is a sequel to Ryan's The Forest of Hands and Teeth (2009), in which humans are still threatened by the zombielike Mudo.

Delirium by Lauren Oliver (HarperTeen, spring 2011). Love is declared a dangerous disease.

Empty by Suzanne Weyn (Scholastic Press, Sept. 2010). People struggle to survive without gasoline.

Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve (Scholastic Press, Apr. 2010). A prequel to the author's acclaimed Hungry City Chronicles.

Fire Will Fall by Carol Plum-Ucci (Harcourt, May 2010). This sequel to Streams of Babel follows teens whose New Jersey suburb was hit by bioterrorists.

For the Win by Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen, May 2010). Millions of people battle for "virtual gold."

The Gardener by S.A. Bodeen (Feiwel and Friends, June 2010). Teenagers are grown for particular attributes, as if they were plants.

Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines (Bloomsbury, Oct. 2009). Teenage Lyn is drawn into a world of neo-gladiators.

Green Witch by Alice Hoffman (Scholastic Press, Mar. 2010). In this sequel to Green Angel (2003), teenage Green bands together with other survivors of the cataclysmic events of the first book.

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (Dial, Jan. 2010). In a world frozen in late medieval times, prisoners are kept in a living prison that contains forests and cities. A sequel, Sapphique, arrives in 2011.

Lies by Michael Grant (HarperTeen, May 2010). In the follow-up to Gone and Hunger, kids (some with special powers) struggle to survive in a world without adults.

The Line by Teri Hall (Dial, Mar. 2010). A physical barrier encloses the United States.

Matched by Allyson Condie (Dutton, Nov. 2010). In a world in which girls' mates are chosen for them, a 17-year-old falls in love with someone else.

The Maze Runner by James Dashner (Delacorte, Oct. 2009). In the first book of a trilogy, 60 boys try to escape their prisonlike home through a hazardous maze.

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, Aug. 2010). Katniss Everdeen returns in the highly anticipated finale to the trilogy that began with The Hunger Games and Catching Fire.

Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness (Candlewick, Sept. 2010). Following The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and the Answer, this story concludes the Chaos Walking Trilogy, set on a planet where men's thoughts are audible.

Nomansland by Lesley Hauge (Henry Holt, June 2010). On an island populated only by women, teenage Trackers defend their home against the enemy—men.

The Owl Keeper by Christine Brodien-Jones (Delacorte, Apr. 2010). Eleven-year-old Max and Rose combat the High Echelon and seek to fulfill a prophecy.

Perfect by Peter Lerangis (Egmont USA, Feb. 2012) takes place in a world in which kids are born without genetic flaws.

Raiders Ransom, by Emily Diamond (Scholastic/Chicken House, Dec. 2009). In the early 23rd century, climate change leaves much of England underwater.

Restoring Harmony by Joëlle Anthony (Putnam, May 2010). After the crash of 2031, people return to agrarian life.

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown, May 2010). Set in a futuristic Gulf Coast town, people—divided between the very rich and the very poor—struggle without oil.

A Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda Millard (Holiday House, Feb. 2010). War survivors hide out in the ruins of an amusement park, scavenging for food and hiding from gangs and lawless soldiers.

This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Harcourt, Apr. 2010). This sequel to Life As We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone looks at Miranda and Alex one year after an asteroid collides with the moon.

Truancy City by Isamu Fukui (Tor Teen, Aug. 2011). In this follow-up to Truancy (Mar. 2009) and Truancy Origins (May 2009), teens continue to battle oppressive educators.

The Unidentified by Rae Mariz (HarperCollins, Oct. 2010). Kids go to high school in a shopping mall where they are under the constant watch of corporations.

The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann (S&S/Aladdin, fall 2011). Creative children are exiled from their homeland in this middle-grade novel.

Vulture's Wake by Kirsty Murray (Holiday House, March 2010). In a world destroyed by war, Bo may be the only girl left.

The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher (Sourcebooks, Jan. 2011). Water is more valuable than gold due to global warming.

Winter's End by Jean-Claude Mourlevat (Candlewick, Nov. 2009). Four teens, whose parents were murdered by the government, flee their "boarding school."

Witch & Wizard by James Patterson (Little, Brown, Dec. 2009). Imprisoned kids, some with special powers, defy New Order leaders.

Ima smisla da su SF distopije popularne, jbga, uvek su i bile, a uvek je i bilo i biće razloga za distopiju. Naročito u ovom trenutku: naslovi su ili eko, ili nafta, ili represija... Baš ko vesti :)

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Scientists may call the rhinoceros a unicorn, but only Beagle can make it feel like one. Facing reality—often a magical reality hidden under mundane trappings—is the key to understanding magical transformations and repairing damage, saving one time-traveling brother trapped in Thursday (El Regalo) and thwarting another who is the angel of death (We Never Talk about My Brother). Prosaic rabbis must deal with angels (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel) and ghosts (The Rabbi's Hobby) while supernatural daughters cope with mother issues (Lila the Werewolf, What Tune the Enchantress Plays). Two Hearts, the coda to The Last Unicorn, is a moving ode to heroism. Beagle plays on the heartstrings like a master musician, and this definitive collection, a magnificent grand tour of his many created worlds, will thrill his legions of fans. (Mar.)

Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Product Description

When New York Times Bestselling writer Tad Williams described Peter S. Beagle as a 'bandit prince out to steal reader's hearts' he touched on a truth that readers have known for fifty years. Beagle, whose work has touched generations of readers around the world, has spun rich, romantic and very funny tales that have beguiled and enchanted readers of all ages.

Undeniably, his most famous work is the much loved classic, The Last Unicorn, which tells of unicorn who sets off on quest to discover whether she is the last of her kind, and of the people she meets on her journey. Never prolific, The Last Unicorn is one of only five novels Beagle has published since A Fine and Private Place appeared in 1960, and was followed by The Folk of the Air, The Innkeeper's Song, and Tamsin.

During the first forty years of his career Beagle also wrote a small handful, scarcely a dozen, short stories. Classics like 'Come Lady Death,' 'Lila and the Werewolf,' 'Julie's Unicorn,' 'Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros,' and the tales that make up Giant Bones. And then, starting just five years ago, he turned his attention to short fiction in earnest, and produced a stunning array of new stories including the Hugo and Nebula Award winning follow up to The Last Unicorn, 'Two Hearts,' WSFA Small Press Award winner 'El Regalo,' and wonderful stories like the surrealist 'The Last and Only,' the haunting 'The Rabbi s Hobby' and others.

Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle collects the very best of these stories, over 200,000 words worth, ranging across 45 years of his career from early stories to freshly minted tales that will surprise and amaze readers. It's a book which shows, more than any other, just how successful this bandit prince from the streets of New York has been at stealing our hearts and underscores how much we hope he ll keep on doing so.

# Hardcover: 456 pages
# Publisher: Subterranean; Trade Hardcover edition (February 28, 2010)

zace, reaguj!  xcheers





Coming November 2010

Brother Hiob of Luzern, on missionary work in The East on the eve of the 16th century, stumbles across a miraculous tree whose fruits are books... books which chronicle the Kingdom of Prester John. The Habitation of the Blessed recounts the fragmented narratives found within these miraculous volumes, revealing John's rise to power... from John's own viewpoint... from the viewpoint of his wife Hagia, and from the viewpoint of Hajji, a prayer-cantor who vowed to end John's illegitimate reign.

World Fantasy Award nominee Catherynne M. Valente reimagines the legends of Prester John in this stunning tour de force.

Trade Paperback - $14.99
978-1-59780-199-7

A ovo je preslo u kategoriju "cekajuci da se nabavi", sto se, po svemu sudeci nece dogoditi pre leta, u mom slucaju  :cry: :cry: :cry:




Celebrities take refuge in a white-walled mansion as plague and fever sweep into Cannes; a killer finds that the living dead have no appetite for him; a television presenter stumbles upon the chilling connection between a forgotten animal act and the Whitechapel Murders; a nude man unexpectedly appears in the backgrounds of film after film; mysterious lights menace the crew of a small plane; a little girl awakens to discover her nightlight--and more--missing; two sisters hunt vampire dogs in the wild hills of Fiji; lovers get more than they bargained for in a decadent discotheque; a college professor holds a classroom mesmerized as he vivisects Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"...

What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the seventeen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year.

Legendary editor Ellen Datlow (Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe), winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, joins Night Shade Books in presenting The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two.


Contents:
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 Allan
Technicolor - John Langan

978-1-59780-173-7
March 2010
TP - 350 pages - $15.95





A ruthless venture capitalist finds love--or something chemically similar--in an Atlanta strip club; a girl in grey conjures a man from a handful of moonshine; an ship blazing a highway between the stars discovers an island of life on a distant gas giant; a boy becomes a man by mastering the sword; a rebellious young woman suffers a strange incarceration; an astronaut shares a lifeboat--and herself--with an unfathomable alien; an infected girl counts the days until she becomes a vampire; an aviatrix and an inventor square off against saboteurs and monstrous brains; a big man travels to a tiny moon to examine an ancient starship covered with flowers...

The depth and breadth of science fiction and fantasy fiction continues to change with every passing year. The twenty-nine stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully map this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.

Jonathan Strahan has edited more than twenty anthologies and collections, including The Locus Awards (with Charles N. Brown), The New Space Opera (with Gardner Dozois), and The Starry Rift. He has won the Ditmar, William J. Atheling Jr. and Peter McNamara awards for his work as an anthologist and reviewer, and was nominated for a Hugo Award for his editorial work. Strahan is currently the reviews editor for Locus.


Contents:
Introduction - Jonathan Strahan
It Takes Two - Nicola Griffith
Three Twilight Tales - Jo Walton
The Night Cache - Andy Duncan
The Island - Peter Watts
Ferryman - Margo Lanagan
A Wild and Wicked Youth - Ellen Kushner
The Pelican Bar - Karen Joy Fowler
Spar - Kij Johnson
Going Deep - James Patrick Kelly
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - Holly Black
Zeppelin City - Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn
Dragon's Teeth - Alex Irvine
This Wind Blowing, and This Tide - Damien Broderick
By Moonlight - Peter S. Beagle
Black Swan - Bruce Sterling
As Women Fight - Sara Genge
The Cinderella Game - Kelly Link
Formidable Caress - Stephen Baxter
Blocked - Geoff Ryman
Truth and Bone - Pat Cadigan
Eros, Philia, Agape - Rachel Swirsky
The Motorman's Coat - John Kessel
Mongoose - Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear
Echoes of Aurora - Ellen Klages
Before My Last Breath - Robert Reed
Joboy - Diana Wynne Jones
Utriusque Cosmi - Robert Charles Wilson
A Delicate Architecture - Catherynne M. Valente
The Cat That Walked a Thousand Miles - Kij Johnson
Recommended Reading - Jonathan Strahan

Trade Paperback 978-1-59780-171-3
528 Pages $19.95

Strahan & Night Shade(s) su vredni



Coming June 2010

Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages' wisdom, and winged weapons of war...

WINGS OF FIRE brings you all these dragons, and more, seen clearly through the eyes of many of today's most popular authors.

Edited by Johnathan Strahan (THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR, ECLIPSE), WINGS OF FIRE collects the best short stories about dragons. From writhing wyrms to snakelike devourers of heroes; from East to West and everywhere in between, WINGS OF FIRE is sure to please dragon lovers everywhere.

Coming June 2010
978-1-59780-187-4
Trade Paperback
300 pages - $15.95

Izbor od 1984 do 2005.

Jacqueline Ess: Her Will And Testament Clive Barker 1984

Dancing Chickens Edward Bryant 1984

The Greater Festival of Masks Thomas Ligotti 1985

The Pear-Shaped Man George R.R. Martin 1987

The Juniper Tree Peter Straub 1988

Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds Dan Simmons 1988

The Power and the Passion Pat Cadigan 1989

The Phone Woman Joe R. Lansdale 1990

Teratisms Kathe Koja 1991

Chattery Teeth Stephen King 1992

A Little Night Music Lucius Shepard 1992

Calcutta, Lord of Nerves Poppy Z. Brite 1992

The Erl King Elizabeth Hand 1993

The Dog Park Dennis Etchison 1993

Rain Falls Michael Marshall Smith 1994

Refrigerator Heaven David J. Schow 1995

---- Joyce Carol Oates 1995

Eaten (Scenes from a Moving Picture) Neil Gaiman 1996

The Specialist's Hat Kelly Link 1998

The Tree is My Hat Gene Wolfe 1999

Heat Steve Rasnic Tem 1999

No Strings Ramsey Campbell 2000

Stitch Terry Dowling 2002

Dancing Men Glen Hirshberg 2003

My Father's Mask Joe Hill 2005

Evo i sadrzaja Ratnika, by Martin & Dozois

   1. "The King of Norway" by Cecilia Holland
   2. "Forever Bound" by Joe Haldeman
   3. "The Triumph" by Robin Hobb
   4. "Clean Slate" by Lawrence Block
   5. "And Ministers of Grace" by Tad Williams
   6. "Soldierin'" by Joe Lansdale
   7. "Dirae" by Peter S. Beagle
   8. "The Eagle and the Rabbit" by Steven Saylor
   9. "Seven Years from Home" by Naomi Novik
  10. "The Custom of the Army" by Diana Gabaldon
  11. "The Pit" by James Rollins
  12. "Out of the Dark" by David Weber
  13. "The Girls from Avenger" by Carrie Vaughn
  14. "Ancient Ways" by S.M. Stirling
  15. "Ninieslando" by Howard Waldrop
  16. "Recidivist" by Gardner Dozois
  17. "My Name is Legion" by David Morrell
  18. "Defenders of the Frontier" by Robert Silverberg
  19. "The Scroll" by David Ball
  20. "The Mystery Knight" by George R.R. Martin

There's also an introduction, Stories from the Spinner Rack, written by Martin.

Product Description

Adam Roberts' new novel is a terrifying vision of a near future war - a civil war that tears the UK apart as new technologies allow the worlds first truly democratic army to take on the British army and wrest control from the powers that be. Taking advances in modern communication and the new eagerness for power from the bottom upwards Adam Roberts has produced a novel that is at once an exciting war novel and a philosophical examination of war and democracy. It shows one of the UKs most exciting and innovative literary voices working at the height of his powers and investing SF with literary significance that is its due.

About the Author

Adam Roberts is Professor of 19th-century Literature at London University. His first novel, SALT was shortlisted for the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD, as was his novel GRADISIL. His novel SWIFTLY was shortlisted for a SIDEWISE AWARD. He has also published a number of academic works on both 19th-century poetry and SF, and is a regular contributer on SF for the BBC and various online venues.

# Paperback: 288 pages
# Publisher: Gollancz (15 April 2010)

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This is Jant Shira's life before the drugs took over, as a hunter in the mountains. Awian exiles are building a stronghold in the Darkling mountains, where the Rhydanne hunt. Their clash of interests soon leads to bloodshed and Shira Dellin, a Rhydanne huntress, appeals to the immortal Circle for justice. The Emperor sends Jant, half-Rhydanne, half-Awian, and all-confidence, to mediate. As Jant is drawn into the spiralling violence he is shaken into coming to terms with his own heritage and his feelings for the alien, intoxicating Dellin. ABOVE THE SNOWLINE tells the story of Jant's early years in the Circle and shows the Fourlands as you've never seen them before.

About the Author

Steph Swainston is a qualified archaeologist with a degree from Cambridge and a research degree. She worked as archaeologist for six years, working on the dig that researched the oldest recorded burial site in the UK, before working as an information scientist. She lives in Wokingham.

Ovo je companion roman Fourlands trilogiji (koju jos nisam procitao - ove godine cu, nadam se, - pa ne mogu da potvrdim sledece) koju su uvek pominjali u kontekstu New Weirda, a Swainstonovu kao mozda nabitnijeg predstavnika uz Mievilla sto mu, u mojim ocima, dodje kao ozbiljna preporuka.

Product Description

'I'm afraid of everything.' Stephen King Since Stephen King's wife fished his first novel Carrie out of the waste paper basket, King has written more than 50 books, selling 300 million copies worldwide. Here, for the first time, is the ultimate biography of this prolific and widely-loved writer. Lisa Rogak has interviewed friends, relatives and stars who know King in order to fully uncover the story behind King's childhood through to his becoming a successful writer, and beyond. She follows the effects of abandonment by his father at an early age ('We were ashamed not to have a father'), and his mum giving him a nickel for every story he wrote. At the age of four he saw a neighbouring boy get hit by a freight train. At 13, he was sent to his grandmother's room to wake her but instead found her cold, lifeless body. His local Bookmobile which visited every week allowed him to take out Edgar Allan Poe, HP Lovecraft and he ran through the classics of horror. Haunted Heart is the story of one of the greatest horror writers, and his trials both as a young boy and, now 70, an ageing citizen. It covers everything from his love of buying scratch cards to the real-life stories and events that have provided the backdrop to many of his novels. Lisa Rogak is the co-author of Barack Obama: In His Own Words, The Man Behind The Da Vinci Code: An unauthorized Biography of Dan Brown amongst many other titles. Her works have been reviewed and otherwise mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Family Circle, and hundreds of other publications. She lives in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

# Paperback: 304 pages
# Publisher: JR Books Ltd (25 April 2010)

Novo iz Ps Publishinga, nesto sto me stvarno zanima, mada nemam nameru da sada dajem pare



Synopsis / Contents:

From Andy Duncan, master of the Southern tall tale, author of the acclaimed Beluthahatchie, a new novelette about lesbian love, cryptography, and signals from beyond the grave. . .

When Jenny, lowly cashier for a certain major book store chain, flirts with female customers, it is not in the expectation of lasting romance. But at last one of them reciprocates sincerely, and a deep love is born, as if predestined, and indeed Jenny's new lover is called Destiny, Destiny Creech, initiate in an eccentric subculture that hunts carefully concealed caches by means of GPS readings, coded co-ordinates, and oddball intuition. The happiness of the two persists for a time, but when death sunders the partnership, the living and the departed must find one another again, and now the clues are cryptic indeed. . .

The Night Cache is Andy Duncan at his witty best, and a fine foretaste of his upcoming collection from PS Publishing, The Pottawatomie Giant and other Stories.

i nesto drugo...



Synopsis / Contents:

Escher's Loops is the latest magisterial story suite from Zoran Zivkovic, Serbia's grand master of literary surrealism. In his most intricate and audacious marriage yet of human life and the symbolic infinite, Zivkovic dazzles writers and critics alike:

"Once again Zivkovic demonstrates the sheer power of storytelling in this complex cycle of interlocking narratives. Like one of Escher's drawings, the narrative threads lead one through a dizzying labyrinth of recurring themes, images and characters, all of which are linked with elegant mathematical precision: God and suicide, food and poison, monks, athletes, soldiers and soccer players all take their places in the circle-dance. Absurdity, surreality and humour abound; death is the ultimate destiny, yet always the next story offers infinite ways of escape."

--Tamar Yellin

"A narrative constructed as a fractal Moebius strip, which defies story conventions to incredible effect. Divided into four loops, the book explores the lives and dreams of a number of unnamed characters (described only by their jobs), with stories embedded within and intersecting with others to provide snapshots adding up to a mysterious whole. A remarkable undertaking which manages to examine the mystery and importance of memory and dreams."

--Jason Erik Lundberg

publication date: Early 2010
£50.00 [$80.00]
Slipcased Jacketed Hardcover

Edition: Limited signed
Introduction: None
Cover Artist: Mariana Tavares

The Living Dead 2 comes out in September. Meanwhile, here's the table of contents (original stories are in bold text, reprints are in regular text):

    * Introduction — John Joseph Adams
    * Alone, Together — Robert Kirkman
    * Danger Word — Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due
    * Zombieville — Paula Stiles
    * The Anteroom — Adam-Troy Castro
    * When the Zombies Win — Karina Sumner-Smith
    * Mouja — Matt London
    * Category Five — Marc Paoletti
    * Living with the Dead — Molly Brown
    * Twenty-Three Snapshots of San Francisco — Seth Lindberg
    * The Mexican Bus — Walter Greatshell
    * The Other Side — Jamie Lackey
    * Where the Heart Was — David J. Schow
    * Good People — David Wellington
    * Lost Canyon of the Dead — Brian Keene
    * Pirates vs. Zombies — Amelia Beamer
    * The Crocodiles — Steven Popkes
    * The Skull-Faced City — David Barr Kirtley
    * Obedience — Brenna Yovanoff
    * Steve and Fred — Max Brooks
    * The Rapeworm — Charlie Finlay
    * Everglades — Mira Grant
    * We Now Pause For Station Identification — Gary Braunbeck
    * Reluctance — Cherie Priest
    * Arlene Schabowski Of The Undead — Mark McLaughlin & Kyra M. Schon
    * Zombie Gigolo — S. G. Browne
    * Rural Dead — Bret Hammond
    * The Summer Place — Bob Fingerman
    * The Wrong Grave — Kelly Link
    * The Human Race — Scott Edelman
    * Who We Used to Be — David Moody
    * Therapeutic Intervention — Rory Harper
    * He Said, Laughing — Simon R. Green
    * Last Stand — Kelley Armstrong
    * The Thought War — Paul McAuley
    * Dating in Dead World — Joe McKinney
    * Flotsam & Jetsam — Carrie Ryan
    * Thin Them Out — Kim Paffenroth, Julia Sevin & RJ Sevin
    * Zombie Season — Catherine MacLeod
    * Tameshigiri — Steven Gould
    * Zero Tolerance — Jonathan Maberry
    * And the Next, and the Next  — Genevieve Valentine
    * The Price of a Slice — John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow
    * Are You Trying to Tell Me This is Heaven? — Sarah Langan

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The "I Can Read Movies (http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/i-can-read-movies)" series by Spacesick shows the covers to imaginary film-to-book adaptations.

To je genijalna "edicija" :D

Product Description

The last sixty years have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrorism, genetic engineering, AIDS and other pandemics. These stories, both pre- and post-apocalyptic, describe the fall of civilization, the destruction of the entire Earth, or the end of the Universe itself. Many of the stories reflect on humankind's infinite capacity for self-destruction, but the stories are by no means all downbeat or depressing - one key theme explores what the aftermath of a cataclysm might be and how humans strive to survive.

About the Author

Mike Ashley is a leading authority on science fiction, fantasy, crime and weird fiction. He has written or edited over 90 books, including The Mammoth Book of King Arthur, The Mammoth Book of Extreme SF, The Mammoth Encycopedia of Crime Fiction and Starlight Man, the biography of Algernon Blackwood, which, in total, have sold over a million copies worldwide. He lives in Chatham, Kent with his wife, three cats and over 30,000 books.

# Paperback: 512 pages
# Publisher: Robinson Publishing (27 May 2010)

Hmm, Robinson Publishing ima jos zanimljivih naslova, izmedju ostalih i ovo



  The Ultimate Collection: Two Decades of Dark Fiction
For twenty years The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror has been recognized as the world's foremost annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. Now, with one story from each year in which it has been published, from 1989 to 2008, representing the work of dozens of authors, many of them acknowledged as the foremost practitioners of the genre, multi-award-winning editor Stephen Jones looks back on two decades of superb writing to bring readers the ultimate horror fiction anthology.

With names such as Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Michael Marshall Smith, Paul J. McAuley and Lisa Tuttle, this collection represents a true landmark in horror fiction publishing.

Robinson
Paperback
B format, 560 pp
Published 25th Mar 2010

Milose, evo neceg za predavanje:

   


Trade paperback / 288p. / September 2010 /

This intricate, highly-revealing biography and memoir in a newly revised edition, reveals the inner workings of one of the twentieth century's most important writers through his tumultuous relationship with his third wife. Brilliant, talented, and charismatic, Philip K. Dick was a prolific author, a loyal friend, and a loving father and husband. His six-year marriage to Anne Dick, whom he described as "the love of his life" and his intellectual equal, was full of passion, the meeting of soul mates and the best of friends. But behind the façade of an untroubled life was a man struggling with his demons, unable to trust anyone, and reliant upon his charm to navigate his increasingly dark reality and descent into drugs and madness. Even after their marriage collapsed, Philip K. Dick continued to haunt his ex-wife, appearing at random intervals and then retreating again. Upon his tragic demise, she spent many years researching his life, resulting in an unrepresented portrait of both the man and her life with him, for better and for worse.
Anne's detailed account of her years with Philip K Dick is a must read for anyone discovering the autobiographical elements in his writing. No other biography gives the reader as strong a sense of how he crafted his fiction, where he got his characters, and what made him tick. Parts of Anne's memoir are instantly recognizable to PKD's readers as they describe the inspiration for many of his most bizarre fictional scenes
-David Gill, San Francisco State University

Besides being a remarkably accurate and life like picture of the man, it is also a rattling good tale, like a real-life detective story.
-Ray Nelson, co-author (with Philip K. Dick) of The Ganymede Takeover

The secret of Phil Dick's greatness, as with so many other great men, is his... [third] wife, Anne. You can see her influence in the development of his novels, their increasing awareness of the human/family/sexual element. Most SF writers simply didn't pay attention to such things, which are the entire concern of mainstream fiction. Dick was almost alone among the SF writers of his day in trying to write mainstream novels himself. And what is their constant theme? His battles with, and bafflement by, and love of Anne, the Other who never left his thoughts...
-Thomas M. Disch, author of Camp Concentration and The Wall of America

An investigation full of epiphanies, a narration of absolute vividness that could only be inspired by a passionate love, a book that transports us to a indissoluble past, more true than our own present.
-Miguel Diaz Fernandez, author of "Vestigia"


Anne R. Dick    
      
Anne R. Dick is Philip K. Dick's third wife and an accomplished writer and artist in her own right. She was intimately involved in her husband's creative life, serving as his first reader during the period in which he wrote the novels that made him world famous. Her bronze and silver jewelry has been sold in museum stores and galleries throughout the United States and abroad; Philip K. Dick accurately chronicled the beginnings of her jewelry business in his most famous novel, The Man in the High Castle. Having retired from jewelrymaking after 47 years, she continues to write novels and poetry. Anne Dick lives in Point Reyes, California, in the same house where she lived with Philip K. Dick and raised her four daughters.

The Book Seer (http://bookseer.com/?title=&author=) Vam preporucuje sta dalje citati  xwink2

This intricately-illustrated companion to a bestselling anthology takes the wonders of Steampunk to a new level, abounding with clockwork contraptions, eccentric heroines, and mad scientists. Steampunk has artfully captured the collective imagination by blending the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with modern scientific advances, and synthesizing outlandishly imaginative technologies. Combining a sumptuous visual design with an array of original illustrations and new canon-defining nonfiction, this anthology showcases the most exciting Steampunk talents of the last decade, demonstrating exactly why the future of the past is so excitingly new.

Trade Paperback / 384 pp. / October 2010

Psi.Copath – Andy Remic                                      

The Maker's Mark – Michael Cobley                    

Sussed – Keith Brooke                                            

The Cuisinart Effect – Neal Asher                          

Harmony in My Head – Rosanne Rabinowitz      

Our Land – Chris Beckett                                        

Fallout – Gareth L. Powell                                      

Proper Little Soldier – Martin McGrath                

War Without End – Una McCormack                    

Dissimulation Procedure – Eric Brown                  

In the Long Run – David L. Clements                    

Last Orders – Jim Mortimore                                  

Songbirds – Martin Sketchley

# Paperback: 304 pages
# Publisher: NewCon Press (2 April 2010)

Philip Jose Farmer is a pioneer of science fiction. His stories were the first to explore alien sexuality, love, religion, and mythology. He has won numerous awards, including three Hugo Awards and the World Fantasy Award, and has been named a Nebula Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. In a long and distinguished career, he has published over seventy novels and story collections. "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" has called him "perhaps the most impish and anarchic" of major science fiction writers.

# Paperback: 448 pages
# Publisher: Tor Books (30 Mar 2010)

Mislim da niko nije pominjao a ni search mi nije bio od pomoci...



  1. "Goats of Glory" by Steven Erikson
  2. "Tides Elba: A Tale of the Black Company" by Glen Cook
  3. "Bloodsport" by Gene Wolfe
  4. "The Singing Spear" by James Enge
  5. "A Wizard of Wiscezan" by C.J. Cherryh
  6. "A Rich Full Week" by K. J. Parker
  7. "A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet" by Garth Nix
  8. "Red Pearls: An Elric Story" by Michael Moorcock
  9. "The Deification of Dal Bamore" by Tim Lebbon
 10. "Dark Times at the Midnight Market" by Robert Silverberg
 11. "The Undefiled" by Greg Keyes
 12. "Hew the Tint Master" by Michael Shea
 13. "In the Stacks" by Scott Lynch
 14. "Two Lions, A Witch, and the War-Robe" by Tanith Lee
 15. "The Sea Troll's Daughter" by Caitlin R Kiernan
 16. "Thieves of Daring" by Bill Willingham
 17. "The Fool Jobs" by Joe Abercrombie

# Paperback: 544 pages
# Publisher: Eos (22 Jun 2010)

Lou Anders also points out that: "...these are all original stories, no reprints. Also, the Moorcock is a new Elric story, the Silverberg a new Majipoor, the Cook a new Black Company, the Enge a Morlock tale, the Keyes a Fool Wolf tale, the Abercrombie featuring characters from his next work..."

E ovo mi se čini skroz cool :D

E a na ovo ću da svršim kad se objavi.  xdrinka :!: :|

Podseti me da ne pozajmljujem knjige od tebe  ;)

eeheeehe

Ma neću - sem ako ne prodaju plastificirana izdanja, kao ona za bebe.

A father's inconsolable grief over his son's untimely death opens a door to a potentially redemptive supernatural experience in this poignant but meandering novella. Since young Toby died in his sleep, Ray has wandered the streets of the little Cornish fishing village of Skentipple in a fog of misery, watching his ex-wife rebuild her life. A chance encounter with an enigmatic old man seems to hold out the prospect of Ray's own emotional healing—though, as becomes apparent, at a very dear price. Lebbon (Bar None) superbly captures the thoughts and feelings of a man whose misery so unhinges him that an encounter with the uncanny is unavoidable, but too often Ray's self-pity comes across as artlessly repetitive and padded. An idea that might have made a haunting short story seems underde-veloped at this greater length. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

# Paperback: 150 pages
# Publisher: ChiZine Publications (May 15, 2010)

Ovo se vec pojavilo ali ga nisam primetio do danas...



The Horror Zine has burst onto computers all over the world as an e-zine. "And Now the Nightmare Begins" brings you the very best from The Horror Zine as a book. From dark fantasy and pure suspense to classic horror, this book from The Horror Zine contributors is relentless in its approach to basic fears and has twisted, unexpected endings. So come and find out what terrifying things can creep out of The Horror Zine to make your skin crawl. "And Now the Nightmare Begins: THE HORROR ZINE" contains contributions from famous writers such as Ramsey Campbell, Simon Clark, Joe R. Lansdale, and Trevor Denyer. But it also contains deliciously dark delights from morbidly creative people who have not made the big time...yet.

Lokusova prvoaprilska rekapitulacija  :lol:

2010: News Summary of the Year To Date

by Merrick Shellaney
— posted @ 4/01/2010 12:01:00 AM PT

Cory Doctorow has had a busy year. First there was his ill-fated attempt to write in real-time on the Internet, with readers able to add micro-comments line-by-line as he wrote. (Teresa Nielsen Hayden stated that the reduction of Doctorow's story to a flamewar between writers of Harry Potter slash and Twilight slash was due to the lack of moderation, but Doctorow insists everything would have been fine if Jonathan Lethem had not cut-and-pasted various passages from the Marquis de Sade's oeuvre throughout.) Then there was the fiasco of open-source wet-ware, leading Doctorow to be charged with multiple counts of grave-robbing and homicide. "It is not a crime," he wrote on Boing Boing, "to liberate brains from the insanely limiting DRM of their bodies." But Doctorow appears to have learned his lesson. He claims to have eschewed all experimental publishing schemes and, released on bail and having accepted a three-figure advance, is on a book tour communicating with fans strictly face-to-face. If you spot a Lincoln Town Car parked outside a Borders Bookstore with the bumper sticker "Little Brother is Watching You," that's him. "It's a tremendous challenge, communicating with people in realtime," Doctorow said via his avatar in Second Life.

Not to be outdone, and traveling by horse-and-buggy in the Pennsylvania countryside to promote her novel Butter-Churn to the Moon, is former steam-punk writer Cherie Priest now riding the Amish-punk movement. Fans are reportedly impressed by Priest's black buggy with a small spaceship woven from straw dangling from the back stay.

Ted Chiang plans to serialize his latest short story "Inhalation" in monthly 100-word segments in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. "No more will fans have to wait a year or more for one of my stories," Chiang said. F&SF editor Gordon Van Gelder expects each segment to be a strong contender for Hugo and Nebula awards, and notes that though each section of the story is short, Chiang was still required to submit it via regular mail and not electronically.

Written on tear-stained pages from a journal found in a shoebox left in a Greyhound bus station somewhere between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky: "Neil Gaiman marries." Elsewhere, one of the forbidden brides of the faceless slaves in the secret house of the night of dread desire has been reported missing.

Ursula K. Le Guin's latest contribution to the Earthsea series pits the young wizard Ged against the loathsome Googlebux, a pervasive but invisible monster that steals the souls of the Earthsea artists, transforming them into withered husks buffeted about by the island winds. Who wins this epic battle? You can find out yourself by reading "A Wizard Alone," available either as a $25 softcover with royalties paid to the author or as a free Internet download from Yahoo.

First the plot of Stephen King's novel Under the Dome was compared to that of The Simpsons Movie. Then the sequel,Trapped in a World He Never Made, was released and critics immediately found parallels to an old Howard the Duck comicbook story, though King assured his fans he had the idea for a sequel to Under the Dome back when he was four years old, long before he ever read a comic. But suspicions continued to be raised when King's memoir of his apocalyptic childhood, The Stand by Me, contained many passages reminiscent of John Gorman's 1982 novel Blood Brothers of Gor. Said King, "Norman's work was an obvious rip-off of a little-known novel by Arthur Machen, which was my real inspiration."

Events turned ugly at the Fiftieth Anniversary party of the announcement of the Last Dangerous Visions anthology. In attempting the grab Harlan Ellison®'s butt, Connie Willis inadvertently squeezed Ellison®'s registered trademark. Ellison® promptly demanded an apology but Willis refused, saying it was all done in harmless fun and anyway was simply a case of "tat for tit."

From the Inside Flap

Birds of Prey is an extraordinary anthology that has brought together authors from the past and the present; from the West and from the East. They have produced a collection of exotic, and sometimes terrifying stories about birds. There is a deftness to their talent and a mystical quality to everything they have created. These seven stories are unique in literature in that they are not just about birds themselves. There is metaphor in their meaning out of which emerges a disturbing symbolism. Readers of these sardonic tales cannot fail to acknowledge the magnetism of these powerful writers.

From the Back Cover

This collection of tales and anecdotes has a powerful linking theme which makes the whole more than the sum of its parts ... [it] makes us think again about real birds, symbolic birds, mythical birds, and leaves us with a memory of strange and haunting landscapes where the unexpected and the unexplained prevail--MARGARET DRABBLE

# Hardcover: 128 pages
# Publisher: Rare Books and Berry (1 April 2010)

Product Description

We've all dreamt of Faraway, a place so like the world we know but where we make the rules. For Frankie Finnegan, a boy whose sister has died, whose family is in meltdown and whose school life is blighted by bullies, such dreams have a keener edge. Until one day he wakes up in Faraway. His World; His Rules; His Dream; where Grace is still alive and his parents can be happy again.

Yet it soon becomes clear that he's not the only one with power in Faraway, and the mysterious `Owner' doesn't take kindly to interference. Things start to unravel, and Frankie's Dream slides inexorably towards Nightmare...

From the Publisher

The hardback edition is limited to just 150 numbered copies, signed by the author and introducer.

The paperback is limited to just 200 numbered copies, signed by the author.

# Hardcover: 176 pages
# Publisher: NewCon Press (2 April 2010)

Pre desetak godina poceo sam da citam Janny Wurts i njene Wars of Light and Shadow. Nisam ih jos zavrsio posto ni ona nema nameru da ih zavrsi, a uopste nije mirisalo na to u pocetku. Ako je jos neko zabrazdio u ove romane mozda ce mu znaciti da ce se u novembru pojaviti:

(http://Now%20that%20Ms.%20Wurts%20is%20well%20on%20her%20way%20to%20selling%20out%20the%20first%20run%20of%20Stormed%20Fortress,%20with%20the%20ninth%20volume%20of%20The%20Wars%20of%20Light%20and%20Shadow%20well%20underway,%20and%20with%20it%20being%20the%20first%20of%20a%20duology%20for%20the%20fourth%20arc%20(entitled%20Sword%20of%20the%20Canon)%20of%20that%20series,%20I%20thought%20that%20a%20speculation%20thread%20might%20be%20a%20good%20thing%20to%20have.%20The%20name%20of%20the%20forthcoming%20book%20is%20Sword%20of%20the%20Canon:%20Initiate's%20Trial.%20The%20second%20volume%20of%20the%20fourth%20arc%20duology%20will%20be%20called%20Sword%20of%20the%20Canon:%20Destiny's%20Conflict.)

Naslovnice jos nema, ali zato evo prethodne knjige, da jos malo usporim forum  :twisted:

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Evo jos jedne knjige za sada bez dobre naslovne strane

Tobias S. Buckell - Arctic Rising

trebalo bi da izadje u septembru. Nema veze za prethodnim delima, moguce da ih u tom univerzumu vise nece ni biti a evo i zasto:

QuoteSo a few sharp eyed folks noticed the title of the novel I was working on, Arctic Rising, is not the title of the novel I'd previously mentioned as coming up next, which was Duppy Conqueror.

Crystal Rain, Ragamuffin, and Sly Mongoose were three books loosely related to each other, set in what I call 'The Xenowealth' (the reasoning is explained at the end of Sly Mongoose).

Sadly, the sales have not been as strong as everyone around me wanted. Crystal Rain did somewhat okay in hardcover in libraries and online sales, but not as much on the book shelves (particularly at Borders). It did get Wal-Mart distribution in paperback, however, which was nice. Ragamuffin, sadly, suffered from very low orders (almost no presence in Borders in hardcover) and limped out there. Sly Mongoose was a nice rebound in the big picture, selling more copies than Ragamuffin but not quite as much as Crystal Rain: but mostly online. Sly Mongoose was hardly carried in actual bookstores, but has sold fairly briskly online. Last checked, I think over 60% of sales have been online with Sly.

It's been a symptom of: bookstores order 100, sell 50, then order 50 the next time, and sell 25, and then for the third book order 12.

Sly Mongoose got incredible reviewer love, my agent and editor both are happy with everything I've done. About half or more of my income, despite the slowing bookstore orders, still comes from writing novels. So I've been pretty chipper. But as I finished the Halo book and looked back at restarting Duppy Conqueror, which I have somewhere between 10-20,000 words of, my editor and I sat down to chart out what we could do to get bookstores re-interested in me (particularly now that I had NY Bestseller next to my name with the Halo novel).

So my editor, agent and I, decided to reboot. We didn't want to change my name (this is usually what authors do at this point to 'fool' the bookstores, often quite successfully) (prim. melk.), but send a signal with whatever I work on next that I'm doing something different, that is not associated with the Space Opera series to see if we can dream a bit bigger and go for the brass ring. I had two novels I owe Tor still, so why not?

So last month, before I flew out to New York, and after my health excitement in November/December was over, I came up with two proposals to show my editor.

We settled on Arctic Rising. Since writing Mitigation (soon to be in one of the Year's Best anthologies) with Karl Schroeder and Stochasticity for Metatropolis, I've wanted to write some nearer future stuff that took advantage of a great deal of research I've been doing. Arctic Rising, if you're read Mitigation, will be very familiar. It's a novel about the resource rush to develop the north polar region after the ice melts.

And yes, there will be blimps.

I'm playing with ideas about seasteading, climate adaptation and mitigation, re-terraforming, future politics, post-democratic tribalism and feretting out really cool ways to blow shit up in the 30-50 year timeline.

This will most likely be out in 2010, not 2009. But both my agent and editor think it's pretty groovy, though all I gave them was a fairly odd first chapter (since ditched as I found my bearings) and the pitch.

I've described it to my friends as "if Michael Chricton was on crack and hadn't disbelieved in the concept of global warming, and he collaborated with Bruce Sterling at the height of cyberpunk, you'd get Arctic Rising."

So far, 6 chapters in, it's been a great deal of fun to write. And seeing how Sly Mongoose was this much fun to write, it looks like it may be an interesting book.

As for Duppy Conqueror and Desolation's Gap, they're both plotted out in fair detail. I may one day get back to them, but for the immediate future they're on hold. I was happy with the money they were making me and the direction and fun of the Space Opera, and I hope everyone will be willing to follow me into the nearer future anyway.

And who knows, there may be other opportunities to still finish the Xenowealth books, so don't give up hope!

# Hardcover: 384 pages
# Publisher: Putnam Adult (September 7, 2010)

Bigend trilogy:

   1. Pattern Recognition (2003)
   2. Spook Country (2007)
   3. Zero History (2010)

Preorder-ovao sam da se skupi u jednoj posiljci: "Under Heaven" -Guy Gavriel Kay; "Kraken" - China Mieville; "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet" - David Mitchell; "Terminal World" - Alastair Reynolds; "The Sorcerers's House" - Gene Wolfe. Prosto sam morao da se pohvalim  8-)

Another of our freelancers, Gwenda Bond, has already proofed the main book and is going through the index one final time. We've already ordered ARCs, which should be in hand shortly. Look for REH Horror some time late this summer/early fall. Check out the book's page for a good number of the color and black-and-white illustrations by Greg Staples that grace the volume.

Limited: 750 numbered cloth bound copies signed by the artist, in slipcase: $150

Deluxe Limited: 50 numbered leatherbound copies signed by the artist, in slipcase: $400

Quote from: Melkor on 29-03-2010, 01:03:25
Mislim da niko nije pominjao a ni search mi nije bio od pomoci...

Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery
by Jonathan Strahan, Lou Anders

  1. "Goats of Glory" by Steven Erikson
  2. "Tides Elba: A Tale of the Black Company" by Glen Cook
  3. "Bloodsport" by Gene Wolfe
  4. "The Singing Spear" by James Enge
  5. "A Wizard of Wiscezan" by C.J. Cherryh
  6. "A Rich Full Week" by K. J. Parker
  7. "A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet" by Garth Nix
  8. "Red Pearls: An Elric Story" by Michael Moorcock
  9. "The Deification of Dal Bamore" by Tim Lebbon
 10. "Dark Times at the Midnight Market" by Robert Silverberg
 11. "The Undefiled" by Greg Keyes
 12. "Hew the Tint Master" by Michael Shea
 13. "In the Stacks" by Scott Lynch
 14. "Two Lions, A Witch, and the War-Robe" by Tanith Lee
 15. "The Sea Troll's Daughter" by Caitlin R Kiernan
 16. "Thieves of Daring" by Bill Willingham
 17. "The Fool Jobs" by Joe Abercrombie

Lou Anders also points out that: "...these are all original stories, no reprints. Also, the Moorcock is a new Elric story, the Silverberg a new Majipoor, the Cook a new Black Company, the Enge a Morlock tale, the Keyes a Fool Wolf tale, the Abercrombie featuring characters from his next work..."

A ovo sprema Subterranean:

The three sets of signature sheets are making the rounds for this 400+ page antho that's billed as The New Sword and Sorcery. Proofreading is complete, and Dominic Harman has just turned in a stunning dust jacket illustration. We'll post a copy of it as soon as the design is finished.

Limited: 500 numbered copies signed by all contributors: $75

# Hardcover: 40 pages
# Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd (7 Oct 2010)


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One hell of a huge book of great, exciting stories which will become a uniting force for readers of all forms of imaginative fiction.

Rather than being dictated by genre, for co-editors Gaiman and Sarrantonio there is only one true distinction in fiction: the one dividing realistic and imaginative fiction. STORIES is a collection of the very best original fiction from some of the most imaginative writers in the world, as well as a showcase for some of fiction's newer stars.

Contributors include: Roddy Doyle; Joyce Carol Oates; Joanne Harris; Neil Gaiman; Michael Marshall; Smith; Joe R. Lansdale; Walter Mosley; Richard Adams; Jodi Picoult; Michael Swanwick; Peter Straub; Lawrence Block; Jeffrey Ford; Chuck Palahniuk; Diana Wynne Jones; Stewart O'Nan; Gene Wolfe; Carolyn Parkhurst; Kat Howard; Jonathan Carroll; Jeffrey Deaver; Tim Powers; Al Sarrantonio; Kurt Andersen; Michael Moorcock; Elizabeth Hand; Joe Hill.

* * *

This astonishing collection of all-new tales by some of the most acclaimed writers at work today is called, simply, Stories. Edited by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, The Graveyard Book, Anansi Boys, Coraline) and Al Sarrantonio (award-winning author of forty books and editor of numerous collections), Stories presents never before published short works from a veritable Who's Who of contemporary literature—breathtaking inventions from the likes of Lawrence Block, Roddy Doyle, Joanne Harris, Joe Hill, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Stewart O'Nan, Chuck Palahniuk, Carolyn Parkhurst, Jodi Picoult, Peter Straub...and, of course, the inimitable Neil Gaiman himself.

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   "The joy of fiction is the joy of the imagination. . . ."

The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.

Stories is a groundbreaking anthology that reinvigorates, expands, and redefines the limits of imaginative fiction and affords some of the best writers in the world—from Peter Straub and Chuck Palahniuk to Roddy Doyle and Diana Wynne Jones, Stewart O'Nan and Joyce Carol Oates to Walter Mosley and Jodi Picoult—the opportunity to work together, defend their craft, and realign misconceptions. Gaiman, a literary magician whose acclaimed work defies easy categorization and transcends all boundaries, and "master anthologist" (Booklist) Sarrantonio personally invited, read, and selected all the stories in this collection, and their standard for this "new literature of the imagination" is high. "We wanted to read stories that used a lightning-flash of magic as a way of showing us something we have already seen a thousand times as if we have never seen it at all."

Joe Hill boldly aligns theme and form in his disturbing tale of a man's descent into evil in "Devil on the Staircase." In "Catch and Release," Lawrence Block tells of a seasoned fisherman with a talent for catching a bite of another sort. Carolyn Parkhurst adds a dark twist to sibling rivalry in "Unwell." Joanne Harris weaves a tale of ancient gods in modern New York in "Wildfire in Manhattan." Vengeance is the heart of Richard Adams's "The Knife." Jeffery Deaver introduces a dedicated psychologist whose mission in life is to save people in "The Therapist." A chilling punishment befitting an unspeakable crime is at the dark heart of Neil Gaiman's novelette "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains."

As it transforms your view of the world, this brilliant and visionary volume—sure to become a classic—will ignite a new appreciation for the limitless realm of exceptional fiction.


# Hardcover: 384 pages
# Publisher: Headline Review (15 Jun 2010)

čekajući nove knjige 2011:

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Philip K Dick's visionary journals to be published

Exegesis, Dick's 'personal laboratory for philosophical inquiry' to be issued in two volumes in 2011

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Philip K Dick

An android of Philip K Dick is displayed at Chicago's NextFest in 2005. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters

A vast set of mostly unseen personal journals in which SF author Philip K Dick "took on the universe mano a mano" has been acquired by a US publisher.

The author of novels including the Hugo award-winning The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Minority Report, Dick died aged 53 in 1982. In 1974, recuperating from having had his wisdom teeth extracted and under the influence of sodium pentothal, the author had a series of visions in which a "pink light" beam of information transmitted directly into his consciousness; these "2-3-74" experiences would inform his writing for the rest of his life, and he would attempt to unravel them in the "Exegesis".

Although a selection from the mostly handwritten journal was published in 1991 as In the Pursuit of VALIS: Selections from the Exegesis, thousands of pages of Dick's journal, including autobiographical material, philosophical speculation and analysis of his fiction, have not been published. The author's daughters, Laura Leslie and Lisa Dick Hackett, said the publication of The Exegesis of Philip K Dick "has been a goal of ours for years", and they were "thrilled" that US publishing giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) shared the goal, acquiring North American rights in the previously unpublished two-volume Exegesis with plans to bring out the first book next autumn.

The journals, which HMH's Bruce Nichols said served "as the foundation for ideas and themes that would appear throughout the work of this visionary author", will be edited by critically-acclaimed author and Dick expert Jonathan Lethem, along with Pamela Jackson, author of a PhD on 2-3-74 and Dick's Exegesis.

"The title he gave it, 'Exegesis,' alludes to the fact that what it really was was a personal laboratory for philosophical inquiry. It's not even a single manuscript, in a sense. It's an amassing or a compilation of late-night all-night sessions of him taking on the universe, mano a mano, with the tools of the English language and his own paranoiac investigations," Lethem told the New York Times . "It's absolutely stultifying, it's brilliant, it's repetitive, it's contradictory. It just might contain the secret of the universe."

HMH also snapped up rights in 39 titles from Dick's backlist, which it will publish in autumn 2011. Nichols said the author's books were "as provocative and cutting-edge today as ever" and that "each generation wants to claim him as its own".

Izašlo?! Što niko ne javlja BRE!

Jevrejska policijska stanica - Majkl Čabon 

http://www.dereta.rs/knjiga.jsp?id=16165 (http://www.dereta.rs/knjiga.jsp?id=16165)

Mislim da smo pricali o tome na putu za Zg. Verovatno u nekom od tvojih "dremljivih" trenutaka  xfrog

Ili je to, ili A.

Nemac, nemac... :x

'I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In 'Big Driver', a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself. 'Fair Extension', the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Harry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends 'A Good Marriage'. Like DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.

# Hardcover: 352 pages
# Publisher: Scribner Book Company (9 Nov 2010)

Quote from: zakk on 06-05-2010, 00:28:52
Izašlo?! Što niko ne javlja BRE!

Jevrejska policijska stanica - Majkl Čabon 

http://www.dereta.rs/knjiga.jsp?id=16165 (http://www.dereta.rs/knjiga.jsp?id=16165)

xrofl

Genijalni prevoditelj nije čak niti pogledao na wikipediju.

Jer da je, znao bi da se Chabon čita Shaybon, znači Šejbon, ne Čabon  xrotaeye




offtopic: Pozdrav iz Zagreba. Čitam neko vrijeme ali se nisam još javio.

Dereta ima jos jednu genijalnu transkripciju njegovog prezimena, samo nikako ne mogu da se setim ma koliko  :x

nego




What if you had a holocaust and nobody came?

Imagine a father who has sent his child's soul voyaging and seen it go astray. Or a backyard tale from the 1001 American Nights. Macbeth re-imagined as a screwball comedy. Three extraordinary economic tasks performed by a small expert in currency exchange that risk first career and then life and then soul.

From the disturbing beauty of 'Flat Diane' (Nebula-nominee, International Horror Guild award-winner) to the idiosyncratic vision of 'The Cambist and Lord Iron' (Hugo- and World Fantasy-nominee), Daniel Abraham has been writing some of the most enjoyable and widely admired short fiction in the genre for over a decade.

Ranging from high fantasy to hard science fiction, screwball comedy to gut-punching tragedy, Daniel Abraham's stories never fail to be intelligent, compassionate, thoughtful, and humane. Leviathan Wept and Other Stories is the first collection of his short works, including selections from both the well-known and the rare.

# Hardcover: 280 pages
# Publisher: Subterranean; Deluxe Hardcover edition (May 31, 2010)

Taman tedo da kažem da je to izašlo. Elem, Ejbraham je genijalan pisac - kada ne piše urbanu fantastiku pod pseudonimom. Uživao sam u Long Price tetralogiji.

Quote from: Melkor on 09-05-2010, 22:24:34
Dereta ima jos jednu genijalnu transkripciju njegovog prezimena, samo nikako ne mogu da se setim ma koliko  :x

Majkl Šabo: ČUDESNI MOMCI

In Caitlín R Kiernan's The Ammonite Violin & Others, one of contemporary dark fantasy's most bewitching and distinctive voices is back with another banquet of the weird and unexpected. In his introduction, Jeff VanderMeer (City of Saints and Madmen, Finch) writes, Kiernan creates her own light in this remarkable collection, and shines it on dark places. In doing so, she gives us gritty, lyrical, horrible, beautiful truths.

In The Ammonite Violin & Others, the author rises to meet the high expectations she set with such collections as Tales of Pain and Wonder, A is for Alien, and the World Fantasy Award-nominated To Charles Fort, With Love. Within these pages, you ll discover a dazzling suite of stories situated on the borderlands between the unspeakbale and the erotic, the grotesque and the sublime. Here are stories of dream and metamorphosis, strange lands and beings existing beyond the veil of death and beyond this earth. Here is a selkie who's lost her sealskin, a woman with a blackhole in her heart, a fairie girl fallen to the Queen of Decay, the descent of a modern-day Orpheus, and a killer who has fashioned the most exquisite musical instrument from the remains of one of his victims. Here are dreams, nightmares, and worse things yet.

The Ammonite Violin & Others is comprised of stories first published in the subscription only Sirenia Digest, run by Caitlin for her most devoted readers. This publication marks the stories' first availability to the general public.

# Hardcover: 240 pages
# Publisher: Subterranean; Deluxe edition (30 Jun 2010)

The Boneshaker (2010)
A novel by Kate Milford

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Thirteen year-old Natalie Minks loves machines, particularly automata - self operating mechanical devices, usually powered by clockwork. When Jake Limberleg and his traveling medicine show arrive in her small Missouri town with a mysterious vehicle under a tarp and an uncanny ability to make Natalie's half-built automaton move, she feels in her gut that something about this caravan of healers is a bit off. Her uneasiness leads her to investigate the intricate maze of the medicine show, where she discovers a horrible truth, and realizes that only she has the power to set things right.

Set in 1913, The Boneshaker is a gripping, richly textured novel about family, community, courage, and looking evil directly in the face in order to conquer it.


Izgleda zabavno. Da li neko prati YA & mlađe izdanjca?

Windblowne (2010)
A novel by Stephen Messer

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A high-flying fantasy adventure that will blow readers away!

Every kite Oliver touches flies straight into the ground, making him the laughingstock of Windblowne. With the kite-flying festival only days away, Oliver tracks down his reclusive great-uncle Gilbert, a former champion. With Gilbert's help, Oliver can picture himself on the crest, launching into the winds to become one of the legendary fliers of Windblowne.

Then his great-uncle vanishes during a battle with mysterious attack kites - kites that seem to fly themselves! All that remains is his prize possession, a simple crimson kite. At least, the kite seems simple. When Oliver tries to fly it, the kite lifts him high above the trees. When he comes down, the town and all its people have disappeared. Suddenly the festival is the last thing on Oliver's mind as he is catapulted into a mystery that will change everything he understands about himself and his world.

Inspired by the work of Diana Wynne Jones, debut author Stephen Messer delivers a fantasy book for boys and girls in which the distance between realities is equal to the breadth of a kite string.

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The Boneshaker (2010)
A novel by Kate Milford

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Thirteen year-old Natalie Minks loves machines, particularly automata - self operating mechanical devices, usually powered by clockwork. When Jake Limberleg and his traveling medicine show arrive in her small Missouri town with a mysterious vehicle under a tarp and an uncanny ability to make Natalie's half-built automaton move, she feels in her gut that something about this caravan of healers is a bit off. Her uneasiness leads her to investigate the intricate maze of the medicine show, where she discovers a horrible truth, and realizes that only she has the power to set things right.

Set in 1913, The Boneshaker is a gripping, richly textured novel about family, community, courage, and looking evil directly in the face in order to conquer it.


Izgleda zabavno. Da li neko prati YA & mlađe izdanjca?

Ja se trudim da pratim, ali poslednje što sam nabavio je Vesterfeldov "Levijatan", premda ga nisam pročitao.

Gde i to da pratim  :(. Taj market je toliko narastao u poslednje vreme da bi pracenje pojelo previse vremena, posebno sto ne citam te stvari, sem u slucaju da se neki dragi pisac oproba i u tim vodama ili kad, poput Leviathana, knjiga izadje iz starosnih okvira.

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It isn't easy to get a group of bestselling SF authors to write new stories for an anthology, but that's what Elizabeth Anne Hull has done in this powerhouse book. With original, captivating tales by Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, David Brin, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe, and others, Gateways is a SF event that will be a must-buy for SF readers of all tastes, from the traditional to the cutting edge; from the darkly serious to the laugh-out-loud funny.

Each author has written a story that he or she feels reflects the effect Pohl has had on the field—in the style of writing, the narrative tone, or the subject matter. It says a lot about Pohl's career that the authors represented here themselves span many decades and styles, from the experimental SF of British SF author Brian W. Aldiss to the over-the-top humor of Harry Harrison and Mike Resnick, from the darkly powerful drama of Hollywood screenwriter Frank Robinson to the satiric pungency of multiple Hugo Award-winner Vernor Vinge. Every story here is uniquely nuanced; all of them as entertaining and thought provoking as Pohl's fiction.

In a career dating back to 1939, Pohl has won all the awards science fiction has to offer: Hugos, Nebulas, the SFWA Grand Master Award. Having written more than two million words of fiction and edited the groundbreaking Star anthologies and Hugo Award-winning magazines and books, Pohl is an SF icon. This anthology of brilliant, entertaining SF stories is a testament to his stature in the field.

# Hardcover: 416 pages
# Publisher: Tor Books (July 6, 2010)

Coming August 2010

Adventurers, scientists, artists, workers, and visionaries--these are the men and women you will encounter in the short fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson. In settings ranging from the sunken ruins of Venice to the upper reaches of the Himalayas to the terraformed surface of Mars itself, and through themes of environmental sustainability, social justice, personal responsibility, sports, adventure and fun, Robinson's protagonists explore a world which stands in sharp contrast to many of the traditional locales and mores of science fiction, presenting instead a world in which Utopia rests within our grasp.

From Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars), the Three Californias Trilogy (The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, Pacific Edge), the Science in the Capital series (Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting), The Martians, and The Years of Rice and Salt, comes The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson. These twenty-two stories, including the Nebula Award-winning "The Blind Geometer," and World Fantasy Award winner "Black Air" represent The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson.

Contents:

Venice Drowned
Ridge Running
Before I Wake
Black Air
The Lucky Strike
A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions
Arthur Sternbach Brings The Curveball To Mars
The Blind Geometer
Our Town
Escape from Kathmandu
Remaking History
The Translator
Glacier
The Lunatics
Zurich
Vinland the Dream
"A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations"
Muir On Shasta
Sexual Dimorphism
Discovering Life
Prometheus Unbound, At Last
The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942 *
Afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson

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* Original to this collection

Hardcover 978-1-59780-184-3 (August 2010)
400 Pages $27.95

Return to the Seven Kingdoms
Announcing the Art of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice & Fire

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Fantasy Flight Games is excited to announce The Art of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice & Fire, Volume One, coming this fall. This new hardcover collection contains almost 200 pages of scenes, characters, and landscapes from Martin's beloved novels.

When this collection was originally published in 2005, all copies quickly sold out and were not reprinted. Since then, Fantasy Flight Games has revised, edited, and updated its contents to create this new edition, making these imaginative renditions of Westeros available once more.

Featuring a foreword written by George R.R. Martin himself, this book is the cornerstone of any A Song of Ice & Fire collection. With art pieces from various board and card games such as A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, Battles of Westeros, and A Game of Thrones: The Board Game, this collection brings together the best visions of the Seven Kingdoms and beyond.

"Here, indeed, is the world of Westeros as I imagined it: the chilly honor of the Starks and the cruel splendor of the Lannisters, the squalor and danger of King's Landing, the sands of Dorne, the flowers of Highgarden, the snows of Winterfell, the icy immensity of the Wall and the fiery promise of Daenerys and her dragons . . .

This first volume of The Art of A Song of Ice & Fire paves the way for future volumes to eventually bring all the lands of Westeros to life.

Watch your local bookstore this fall, when a collection of rich and vibrant artwork will immerse you in the danger and intrigue of the Seven Kingdoms.

Da osvezim malo topik



Product Description
Eighteenth-century critics believed Gothic fiction would inspire deviant sexuality, instill heretical beliefs, and encourage antisocial violence--this book puts these beliefs to the test. After examining the assumptions behind critics' fears, it considers nineteenth-century concerns about sexual deviance, showing how Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dorian Gray, and other works helped construct homosexuality as a pathological, dangerous phenomenon. It then turns to television and film, particularly Buffy the Vampire Slayer and David DeCoteau's direct-to-video movies, to trace Gothicized sexuality's lasting impact. Moving to heretical beliefs, Gothic Realities surveys ghost stories from Dickens's A Christmas Carol to Poltergeist, articulating the relationships between fiction and the "real" supernatural. Finally, it considers connections between Gothic horror and real-world violence, especially the tragedies at Columbine and Virginia Tech.

About the Author
L. Andrew Cooper is assistant director of the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Tech. His work has appeared in The Quarterly Review of Film and Video and Gothic Studies.

Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: McFarland

Jay Li should be in Chicago, finishing high school and working at his family's restaurant. Instead, as a born member of the Yellow Dragon Clan - part human, part dragon, like his grandmother - he is on a quest even he does not understand. His journey takes him to Santo del Vado Viejo in the Arizona desert, a town overrun by gangs, haunted by members of other animal clans, perfumed by delicious food, and set to the beat of Malo Malo, a barrio rock band whose female lead guitarist captures Jay's heart. He must face a series of dangerous, otherworldly - and very human - challenges to become the man, and dragon, he is meant to be. This is Charles de Lint at his best!

Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Viking Children's Books (11 Nov 2010)

Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force unlike anything he's ever written

Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.

An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families.
A group of young people in a squat in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
A Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world.
William Wyler's 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives.
A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway.
An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage.

These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. Sunset Park is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers.

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Faber and Faber (4 Nov 2010)

Product Description

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture. Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A war - brutal, far-reaching - is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead, and it's about to erupt into reality. It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the centre of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.

Hardcover: 640 pages
Publisher: Orbit (7 Oct 2010)

From the internationally bestselling author who brought us Ender's Game, a brand-new series that instantly draws readers into the world of Rigg, a teenager who possesses a secret talent that allows him to see the paths of people's pasts. Rigg's only confidant is his father, whose sudden death leaves Rigg completely alone, aside from a sister he's never met. But a chance encounter with Umbo, another teen with a special talent, reveals a startling new aspect to Rigg's abilities, compelling him to reevaluate everything he's ever known. Rigg and Umbo join forces and embark on a quest to find Rigg's sister and discover the true depth and significance of their powers. Because although the pair can change the past, the future is anything but certain..

Hardcover: 672 pages
Publisher: Simon Pulse (23 Nov 2010)

Za ovo svi znamo, al' proveravao sam toc sad pa...


A groundbreaking anthology of fantasy and romance from bestselling authors in both genres, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.

"Love Hurts" by Jim Butcher [a Harry Dresden story]
"The Marrying Maid" by Jo Beverly
"Rooftops" by Carrie Vaughn
"Hurt Me" by M.L.N. Hanover
"Demon Lover" by Cecelia Holland
"The Wayfarer's Advice" by Melinda M. Snodgrass [an Imperials story]
"Blue Boots" by Robin Hobb
"The Thing About Cassandra" by Neil Gaiman
"After the Blood" by Marjorie M. Liu
"You and You Alone" by Jacqueline Carey [a Kushiel story]
"His Wolf" by Lisa Tuttle
"Courting Trouble" by Linnea Sinclair
"The Demon Dancer" by Mary Jo Putney
"Under/Above the Water" by Tanith Lee
"Kashkia" by Peter S. Beagle
"Man in the Mirror" by Yasmine Galenorn
"A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows" by Diana Gabaldon [an Outlander story]

Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Gallery Press (16 Nov 2010)

Ne deluje mi...nesto...

Quote from: Melkor on 27-08-2010, 13:32:06
Za ovo svi znamo, al' proveravao sam toc sad pa...

Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love
George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois

A groundbreaking anthology of fantasy and romance from bestselling authors in both genres, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.

"Love Hurts" by Jim Butcher [a Harry Dresden story]
"The Marrying Maid" by Jo Beverly
"Rooftops" by Carrie Vaughn
"Hurt Me" by M.L.N. Hanover
"Demon Lover" by Cecelia Holland
"The Wayfarer's Advice" by Melinda M. Snodgrass [an Imperials story]
"Blue Boots" by Robin Hobb
"The Thing About Cassandra" by Neil Gaiman
"After the Blood" by Marjorie M. Liu
"You and You Alone" by Jacqueline Carey [a Kushiel story]
"His Wolf" by Lisa Tuttle
"Courting Trouble" by Linnea Sinclair
"The Demon Dancer" by Mary Jo Putney
"Under/Above the Water" by Tanith Lee
"Kashkia" by Peter S. Beagle
"Man in the Mirror" by Yasmine Galenorn
"A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows" by Diana Gabaldon [an Outlander story]

Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Gallery Press (16 Nov 2010)

Ne deluje mi...nesto...

Ni meni. Ovde mi je nepoznato samo "The Wayfarer's Advice" by Melinda M. Snodgrass. Nisam siguran da vredi kupovati hardkaver samo zbog priča koje ću svejedno nabaviti u nekim drugim zbirkama. Jedino se hrčak u meni buni, pošto sam kupio već dve zbirke koje je ovaj dvojac priredio, a najavljeno ih je još...

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space-time.

Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time-travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician - part counselor, part gadget repair man - steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a onehour cycle, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog named Ed, and using a book titled How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe as his guide, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory.

With echoes of both Mark Danielewski and Douglas Adams, yet altogether wildly new and adventurous, Yu's debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space-time.

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Corvus (1 Oct 2010)

Product Description
A private gift to Ursula K. Le Guin becomes a gift to all readers, an exciting chance to enjoy someone else's birthday present. In 2009, for the momentous occasion of Ursula K. Le Guin's 80th birthday, Karen Joy Fowler and Debbie Notkin put together a volume of tributes and appreciations, as a birthday present. The project, known in academic circles as a ''festschrift,'' or ''celebration book,'' resulted in a single copy, handbound in green leather, which Karen presented to Ursula a few days after her birthday in October. The original idea came from Kim Stanley Robinson, who also contributed an essay to the book. With Ms. Le Guin's kind agreement, Aqueduct Press is delighted to share this unique celebration with Le Guin's readers and fans. The book contains poetry, personal essays, academic essays, biographical information about Le Guin, as well as fiction, including previously unpublished fiction by Andrea Hairston and John Kessel. Publication will coincide with Le Guin's 81st birthday. Contributors include Eleanor Arnason, Brian Attebery, Richard Chwedyk, Karen Joy Fowler, Molly Gloss, Eileen Gunn, Andrea Hairston, Jed Hartman, Gwyneth Jones, John Kessel, Ellen Kushner, Nancy Kress, Sarah LeFanu, Vonda N. McIntyre, Pat Murphy, Julie Phillips, Paul Preuss, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nisi Shawl, Lisa Tuttle, Élisabeth Vonarburg, and Jo Walton, among others.

# Paperback: 239 pages
# Publisher: Aqueduct Press; First edition (October 21, 2010)

   1. "Malak" by Peter Watts
   2. "Watching the Music Dance" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
   3. "Laika's Ghost" by Karl Schroeder
   4. "The Invasion of Venus" by Stephen Baxter
   5. "The Server and the Dragon" by Hannu Rajaniemi
   6. "Bit Rot" by Charles Stross
   7. "Creatures with Wings" by Kathleen Ann Goonan
   8. "Walls of Flesh, Bars of Bone" by Damien Broderick & Barbara Lamar
   9. "Mantis" by Robert Reed
  10. "Judgment Eve" by John C. Wright
  11. "A Soldier of the City" by David Moles
  12. "Mercies" by Gregory Benford
  13. "The Ki-anna" by Gwyneth Jones
  14. "The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees" by John Barnes

The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with a sense of wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light and, with it, the enormity of the universe, realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it's hard science-fiction where sense of wonder is most often found and where science-fiction's true heart lies. The exciting and innovation science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field including Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross and Greg Bear.

# Paperback: 608 pages
# Publisher: Solaris (6 Jan 2011)

From Publishers Weekly
The 16 previously unpublished short stories of this collection, taken from the beginning of Vonnegut's career, show a young author already grappling with themes and ideas that would define his work for decades to come. "Girl Pool" features typist Amy Lou Little, employee of the Kafkaesque Montezuma Forge and Foundry Company, who is tasked with transcribing a plea for help she receives on her Dictaphone from an escaped, dying murderer hiding somewhere in the works of the company's cavernous factory. The tale reveals Vonnegut investigating one of his recurring themes: the isolation brought by technology and the necessity for basic humanity in the workplace. The title story melds a sentimental meditation on the true meaning of Christmas with elements of the mystery genre as a hard-nosed reporter stalks the story of stolen nativity scene characters. While these early stories show an author still testing the boundaries of his craft and obsessions, Vonnegut's acute moral sense and knack for compelling prose are very much on display. In the foreword, Dave Eggers calls Vonnegut "a hippie Mark Twain," which perfectly captures an essential truth about this esteemed author. (Jan.) (c)
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# Hardcover: 272 pages
# Publisher: Delacorte Press (January 25, 2011)

Product Description
Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down. But the military is fighting a war with aliens in distant solar systems, and her months in the service will be years in relative time on Earth. Chelle returns to recuperate from severe injuries, after months of service, still a young woman but not necessarily the same person while Skip is in his forties and a wealthy businessman, but eager for her return. Still in love (somewhat to his surprise and delight), they go on a Caribbean cruise to resume their marriage. Their vacation rapidly becomes a complex series of challenges, not the least of which are spies, aliens, and battles with pirates who capture the ship for ransom. There is no writer in science fiction like Gene Wolfe and no science fiction novel like HOME FIRES.

# Hardcover: 304 pages
# Publisher: Tor Books (18 Feb 2011)

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. His many stories and novels, which include such classics as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, reflect a deeply personal world view, exploring the fragile, multifarious nature of reality itself and examining those elements that make us — or fail to make us — fully human. He did as much as anyone to demolish the artificial barrier between genre fiction and "literature," and the best of his work has earned a permanent place in American popular culture.

The King of the Elves is the opening installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, expanded from the previous Collected Stories set to incorporate new story notes, and two added tales, one previously unpublished, and one uncollected. This generous collection contains 22 stories and novellas including Dick's first published story, "Beyond Lies the Wub," together with such landmark tales as "The Preserving Machine," in which an attempt to preserve our fragile cultural heritage takes an unexpected turn, "The Variable Man," a brilliantly imagined novella encompassing war, time travel, and the varied uses of technology, and the title story, in which Shadrach Jones, owner of a dilapidated gas station in Colorado, stumbles into an ongoing war between trolls and elves, and encounters a fantastic — and utterly unexpected — destiny. Like the best of Dick's novels, these stories offer a wide variety of narrative and intellectual pleasures, and provide an ideal introduction to one of the singular imaginations of the modern era.

Table of Contents

    * Stability
    * Menace React
    * Roog
    * The Little Movement
    * Beyond Lies the Wub
    * The Gun
    * The Skull
    * The Defenders
    * Mr. Spaceship
    * Piper in the Woods
    * The Infinites
    * The Preserving Machine
    * Expendable
    * The Variable Man
    * The Indefatigable Frog
    * The Crystal Crypt
    * The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
    * The Builder
    * Meddler
    * Paycheck
    * The Great C
    * Out in the Garden
    * The King of the Elves
    * Colony
    * Prize Ship
    * Nanny
    * Notes

# Hardcover: 488 pages
# Publisher: Subterranean Press; Deluxe edition (31 Dec 2010)

Quote from: Melkor on 26-10-2010, 01:47:13

While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

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From Publishers Weekly
The 16 previously unpublished short stories of this collection, taken from the beginning of Vonnegut's career, show a young author already grappling with themes and ideas that would define his work for decades to come. "Girl Pool" features typist Amy Lou Little, employee of the Kafkaesque Montezuma Forge and Foundry Company, who is tasked with transcribing a plea for help she receives on her Dictaphone from an escaped, dying murderer hiding somewhere in the works of the company's cavernous factory. The tale reveals Vonnegut investigating one of his recurring themes: the isolation brought by technology and the necessity for basic humanity in the workplace. The title story melds a sentimental meditation on the true meaning of Christmas with elements of the mystery genre as a hard-nosed reporter stalks the story of stolen nativity scene characters. While these early stories show an author still testing the boundaries of his craft and obsessions, Vonnegut's acute moral sense and knack for compelling prose are very much on display. In the foreword, Dave Eggers calls Vonnegut "a hippie Mark Twain," which perfectly captures an essential truth about this esteemed author. (Jan.) (c)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

# Hardcover: 272 pages
# Publisher: Delacorte Press (January 25, 2011)

mogao bi Beli put ovo da prevede, deluje mi zanimljivo

Quote from: Melkor on 30-10-2010, 22:07:05

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume One: The King of the Elves [1947-1952]
by Philip K. Dick

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Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. His many stories and novels, which include such classics as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, reflect a deeply personal world view, exploring the fragile, multifarious nature of reality itself and examining those elements that make us — or fail to make us — fully human. He did as much as anyone to demolish the artificial barrier between genre fiction and "literature," and the best of his work has earned a permanent place in American popular culture.

The King of the Elves is the opening installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, expanded from the previous Collected Stories set to incorporate new story notes, and two added tales, one previously unpublished, and one uncollected. This generous collection contains 22 stories and novellas including Dick's first published story, "Beyond Lies the Wub," together with such landmark tales as "The Preserving Machine," in which an attempt to preserve our fragile cultural heritage takes an unexpected turn, "The Variable Man," a brilliantly imagined novella encompassing war, time travel, and the varied uses of technology, and the title story, in which Shadrach Jones, owner of a dilapidated gas station in Colorado, stumbles into an ongoing war between trolls and elves, and encounters a fantastic — and utterly unexpected — destiny. Like the best of Dick's novels, these stories offer a wide variety of narrative and intellectual pleasures, and provide an ideal introduction to one of the singular imaginations of the modern era.

Table of Contents

    * Stability
    * Menace React
    * Roog
    * The Little Movement
    * Beyond Lies the Wub
    * The Gun
    * The Skull
    * The Defenders
    * Mr. Spaceship
    * Piper in the Woods
    * The Infinites
    * The Preserving Machine
    * Expendable
    * The Variable Man
    * The Indefatigable Frog
    * The Crystal Crypt
    * The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
    * The Builder
    * Meddler
    * Paycheck
    * The Great C
    * Out in the Garden
    * The King of the Elves
    * Colony
    * Prize Ship
    * Nanny
    * Notes

# Hardcover: 488 pages
# Publisher: Subterranean Press; Deluxe edition (31 Dec 2010)

je l' se meni čini, ili su kod nas autorske zbirke kratkih priča retka pojava? meni je kratka forma oduvek bila zanimljiva, ovo sa Mekdonaldom je pun pogodak. bilo bi dobro da se nešto slično uradi i sa Dikom ili recimo Gibsonom.

Ah, ti mora da ne znas: zbirke prica se ne prodaju!

Quote from: Melkor on 30-10-2010, 22:22:47
Ah, ti mora da ne znas: zbirke prica se ne prodaju!

čudno, ne vidim razlog. Sirijus se prodavao, Alef i Znak sagite takođe, Monoliti i šta ja znam... i danas ima tražnje za tim. evo i Ijan Mekdonald se prodaje, sudeći po komentarima na forumu. jel neko probao da izda neku zbirku?

    * Cover art by Rima Staines
    * Introduction by Lev Grossman




"You will encounter those stories in a new way here. You won't recognize them at first, when you meet them. They will have taken off their glasses, and let down their hair. And you'll say, like the old boss says to his secretary in the soap opera, in surprise and wonderment: Good heavens! You're beautiful!

They will smile. And then they will rip your heart out."

- Lev Grossman, from his introduction

PS Publishing, u decembru.

Look! Up in the Sky!

    * Nov. 23rd, 2010 at 9:30 PM

Spain
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's... yes, actually, it IS a plane. Jetboy's plane. And a whole bunch of blimps.

WILD CARDS is back. I'm talking volume one, originally published in 1987, the book that introduced a universe of high-flying aces and twisted jokers, and kicked off a series that is still going strong today, twenty-three years later. Tor has just released a reissue of the book in trade paperback format. It went on sale today, and you'll find it in your favorite local bookstore... most likely, right next to SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH.

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Now, maybe you're one of the hundreds of thousands of readers who already has a copy of WILD CARDS sitting on your shelf, so you figure you don't need to snap this one up. Well, you'd be wrong. We didn't just re-release the original book, we improved it with extra added content -- three brand new stories, by Michael Cassutt, David D. Levine, and Carrie Vaughn, covering some of the "lost years" in the Wild Cards timeline. Secret histories and tales untold till now.

The new stories are "Captain Cathode and the Secret Ace" by Michael Cassutt, "Powers" by David D. Levine, and "Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan" by Carrie Vaughn, stellar additions to the original lineup of work from Howard Waldrop, Roger Zelazny, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Walter Jon Williams, Lewis Shiner, Victor Milan, Edward Bryant, Leanne C. Harper, Stephen Leigh, John Jos. Miller, and yours truly. Jetboy, Dr. Tachyon, Fortunato, Yeoman, the Sleeper, Golden Boy, Mark Meadows, Sewerjack and Bagabond, Puppetman, and the Great and Powerful Turtle... they're all back, and this time they've brought friends.

Tnx to Whatever:

jasno je o cemu se ovde radi, zar ne?


Horror and erotica. Zombies and romance. Rigor Amortis.

Maybe a tender love story is your thing, a husband doting on his wife's rotting corpse. Or perhaps a forbidden encounter in a secret café, serving up the latest in delectable zombie cuisine, or some dirty, dirty dancing in the old-time honky-tonk. Voodoo sex-slaves and vending machine body-parts? You'll find those here, too.

Whatever your flavor, these short tales of undead Romance, Revenge, Risk, and Raunch will leave you shambling, moaning, and clawing for more.

:lol:

2010 se primice kraju i vreme je da se pocne sa best of listama, zar ne?

Sa Omnivoraciousa:

Redemption in Indigo Author Karen Lord's Top Ten Books Read in 2010

I try to read very little fiction when I am writing, so this year's books were truly guilty pleasures. It was a remarkably varied year, even more eclectic in style and genre than usual. One book came to my attention via a bad movie adaptation. One came to me through a chance encounter. Three came from attending readings where I allowed myself to be ensnared by the voice of the author (a beautiful experience; I recommend it highly). The rest are very much my usual fare. Ranking order is merely alphabetical.

Girl Genius Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm, Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio, and Cheyenne Wright - Full of adventure, romance and plenty of humour, this steampunk webcomic is set in an alternate Europa where Sparks clash and wrangle in the pursuit of power and Mad Science. Volumes 8 and 9 won Hugo Awards for Best Graphic Story for 2008 and 2009 respectively. In addition to the nine printed volumes, you can follow it online.

Gunnerkrigg Court, Volume 2: Research, Tom Siddell - Another speculative fiction webcomic, GC contrasts science with myth and fantasy in the setting of a seemingly-contemporary but utterly odd British boarding school. It mixes adventure and mystery with moments of humour, romance, and even mild horror to create a rich and complex story for all ages. Two volumes are available in print, and again you can follow it online. This and Girl Genius are my morning coffee.

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N. K. Jemisin - I always appreciate fantasy for the philosopher-reader, where politics and theology are powers as dangerous as magic. It's a fresh approach to the usual tale of young, gifted and destined to greatness.

The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5), Rick Riordan - All my favourites are here: myth and adventure, the growth and development of several heroes and heroines, a rich supporting cast of minor characters, and ordinary people who aren't petty or inept. A great end to a very enjoyable series.

Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer - This portrayal of global disaster is taken from the point of view of an ordinary family instead NASA astronaut heroes, chronicled by a teenager who finds her priorities shifting significantly throughout the book. There is drama without melodrama; certain understated moments are incredibly moving.

Meeks, Julia Holmes - A lyrical, sensual voice describes a dystopian world masquerading as a genteel painting by Seurat. Initially charming, it leaves behind a quiet horror of innocuous things like picnics, summer suits and sweets.

Mercy, Dvorah Simon - Full disclosure: this poet came to my attention when she wrote a poem that I loved so much I included it in a story I was writing. I didn't know she was a Nautilus award-winning poet and she didn't know I was a published author. We then exchanged books, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading her work. I rely on poetry to shake up my complacency of language and thought, and her poems, with their themes of love, death and everything in-between and beyond, do that for me.

A Presumption of Death, Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers - Jill Paton Walsh expertly continues the classic series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. It's a story set during World War II, which means rationing, blitz spirit, the RAF, spies and, of course, murder. The old familiar characters are lovingly drawn and engaging new ones are introduced.

Sly Mongoose, Tobias Buckell - This is science fiction in my vernacular. Following Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin, it has strong worldbuilding in both technology and sociology. Buckell does an excellent job of refining and expanding the universe of the first two books.

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, C. S. Lewis - This one's a bit of a cheat. I've loved it for years, but I had to buy it again this year because I can't remember who borrowed my first copy. An ugly, unloved daughter of a brutish king transforms herself into a warrior queen and challenges the gods for the love of Psyche, her beautiful, adored sister. I consider this to be Lewis's best work.

Half-Made World Author Felix Gilman's Top Ten Books Read in 2010

Thanks to Omnivoracious for inviting me to offer my year's top ten. Unfortunately this means I have to publicly admit that I'm two, maybe three years behind on my reading. I am completely out of the loop. I probably won't catch up with most of the hot books of 2010 until about 2015, by which time who knows if they'll even be publishing books any more? Oh well. This is a list of things I've read in the last year, mostly in the last few months, that have stood out for me in a way that makes me want to tell people about them. No particular order.

Thomas Ligotti – let's say Teatro Grottesco and My Work is Not Yet Done, but really could be any of his books. I've been working my way through his back catalogue. I avoided reading Ligotti for years because I kept seeing descriptions of him as "Lovecraftian" and assumed he was doing those sort of cutesy cosy Cthulhu-kitsch Lovecraft pastiches some people find amusing. Not so! He is like Lovecraft in the sense that he is utterly unlike anything else. Creepy and compelling and bleak and beautiful.

Robert Charles Wilson, Julian Comstock. A wonderful book, the best kind of sci-fi. Among its many virtues: the way Wilson builds his world (twenty-second century post-Oil feudal/theocratic America) through careful attention to language and ideology and culture and even the form and structure of the story his not-terribly reliable narrator is telling.

Roberto Bolano, 2666. I told you I was behind the times.

Norman Spinrad, He Walked Among Us. This one's actually from 2010! A sharp, tough, funny and weird sci-fi satire that deserves to be much more widely read. Matt Taibbi, Griftopia. Absolutely the best polemicist in American journalism. Most pundits would have rested on that, churning out well-written columns about nothing at all. Taibbi decided instead to buckle down and master the details of high finance. It was worth it. The most enjoyable (in a nightmarish, savage sort of a way) of this year's what-went-wrong -with-the-economy books.

Mary Robinette Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey. Also from 2010! An elegant, clever Austen-esque fantasy. Lively and great fun.

Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, Winner Take All Politics. Recommended to me just the other day by an actual political scientist, Henry Farrell of Crooked Timber. Another what-went-wrong-with-the-economy book, in its way, but on a deeper, more structural level. Wonderfully illuminating.

Michael Frayn, Spies. OK, this one's ancient – 2002 – but I only got round to reading it a month ago. Beautiful book. Starts off as the best book about childhood and memories of childhood I've read in years, and develops into a book about the confused and slippery nature of thought itself.
A. Alvarez, The Savage God. A study of suicide, art, and Sylvia Plath. An authentic classic, which I finally picked up and started reading during Thanksgiving dinner. (Yup).

Magnus Mills, Maintenance of Headway. I love Magnus Mills, I love everything he's written, and this is no exception. So odd I don't even know how to describe it except that it's about bus drivers. Mills is huge in the UK and as far as I know nobody reads him in America, which is a damn shame.

Jonathan Strahan, editor of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 5 and this year's excellent Legends Of Australian Fantasy anthology has shared his top ten science fiction and fantasy books of 2010 with us.

Check out his picks below. A big thanks to Bruce Gillespie, editor and publisher of fanzines SF Commentary, Steam Engine Time (with Jan Stinson) and Scratch Pad for his help in organising this list.

The Dervish House
Ian McDonald

The Dervish House centres on Istanbul in 2025. Turkey is part of Europe but sited on the edge, it is an Islamic country that looks to the West. The Dervish House is the story of the families that live in and around its titular house, it is at once a rich mosaic of Islamic life in the new century and a telling novel of future possibilities. - Publisher synopsis.

Under Heaven
Guy Gavriel Kay

For two long years Shen Tai has mourned his father, living like a hermit at the edge of the Kitan Empire, next to a great lake where a terrible battle was fought between the Kitai and the neighbouring Tagurans years before; a battle for which his father -- a great general -- was honoured, but never recovered from, and where the bones of 40,000 soldiers still lie exposed. - Publisher synopsis.

Kraken
China Miéville

A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre. 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? - Publisher synopsis

The Quantum Thief
Hannu Rajaniemi

Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist and trickster. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy - from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to steal their thoughts, to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of the Moving Cities of Mars. - Publisher synopsis

Blackout/All Clear
Connie Willis

In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with Blackout - a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people that shape history and, alarmingly perhaps, the future. All Clear is the sequel to Blackout. - Publisher synopsis

I Shall Wear Midnight
Terry Pratchett

Teen witch Tiffany Aching returns for a new Discworld adventure - along with her ever-present allies, the Nac Mac Feegle. Tiffany Aching, the young witch from The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith is back in a new adventure featuring Discworld characters both familiar to fans (like Granny Weatherwax) and new (meet Wee Mad Arthur, the Nac Mac Feegle on the City Watch). - Publisher synopsis.

Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor

Born into post-apocalyptic Africa to a mother who was raped after the slaughter of her entire tribe, Onyesonwu is tutored by a shaman and discovers that her magical destiny is to end the genocide of her people. - Publisher synopsis.


Cryoburn
Lois McMaster Bujold

Dispatched to investigate an immortality company's attempt to expand into the Barrayaran Empire, troubleshooter Miles discovers a generational conflict over resources before finding a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret. By the Hugo Award and Nebula Award-winning author of Brothers in Arms.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Charles Yu

Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time. Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally.

Surface Detail
Iain M. Banks

The dazzling new Culture novel from a modern master of science fiction - a tour de force of brilliant storytelling, world-building and imagination. It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit.

In episode 21 of the SF Signal (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/12/the-sf-signal-podcast-episode-021-interview-with-bud-sparhawk-which-new-author-published-in-2010-stands-out-in-your-mind/) Podcast Patrick Hester asks:

Q: Which new author published in 2010 stands out in your mind?

Everyone has to start somewhere - which genre author published this year stands out as a bright and shining star destined to go on to great things?

2010 in Review
Reviewed by Our Reviewers

03 January 2011

Niall Alexander: Another year come and gone, and somehow I've managed to read more in 2010 than ever before. Odder even than that for me, supposed former latecomer extraordinaire: the majority of the books I've burned the midnight oil with have been relatively new releases.
Habitation of the Blessed cover

Thus I've found it a fine twelvemonth. Damn it all, I've still to get to The Dervish House and Under Heaven—they'll be superlative, I'm sure—but between The Habitation of the Blessed, Cat Valente's exquisite Russian doll of a novel, and the omnibus editions of The Long Price, Daniel Abraham's superbly edgy debut, I've had a fantastic year of fantasy. Meanwhile my inner geek got it on with Hannu Rajaniemi's bafflingly brilliant first novel The Quantum Thief and the heartfelt hilarity of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. And then there was the wonder and the horror of Joe Hill's Horns.

However, the four score and more books I've devoured through 2010 have left me more than a little wanting for time to indulge my other major addiction. Of the precious few films I've squirreled away the time to sit down with, Martin Scorsese's intensely unnerving Shutter Island ranks the highest, poignant selkie fable Ondine demands more notice, while Inception and Splice—both of which I had the highest of hopes for—rather disappointed. And the less said about Frank Darabont's lifeless adaptation of The Walking Dead, the better.

An excellent vintage, otherwise, this year. And I expect I'll be drinking it in for some time to come.
The Dervish House cover

Nic Clarke: I usually wait for new releases to come out in paperback before I buy them, so a list of my favorite reads of 2010 is necessarily short, being composed of books sent to me for review. Happily, the reviewing gods gave me several gems this year. Top of the pile is Ian McDonald's The Dervish House, a giddy microcosmic mosaic of life in a near-future Istanbul, and a welcome return to form after the slightly uneven Brasyl. The award for most beautiful and painstakingly crafted novel of the year goes, of course, to Guy Gavriel Kay for Under Heaven (my review is here); I found it less emotionally involving than some of his earlier works, but Kay's characteristic thematic and aesthetic concerns receive arguably their most complete expression in his fantastical version of T'ang China.

Unlike McDonald and Kay, I was not familiar with Tricia Sullivan before reading her latest, but Lightborn proved an infectious and inventive tale of teenagers learning to cope for themselves in the wreckage of a town destroyed by adult irresponsibility and a mind-altering technology run amok. Honorable mentions for 2010, meanwhile, go to a pair of very effective trilogy openers: The Poison Throne by Celine Kiernan (my review) and The King's Bastard by Rowena Cory Daniells (my review). Both offer finely tuned character-driven fantasy, paced for tension and page-turning in a subgenre prone to bloat.
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L. Timmel Duchamp: Although its official US publication date was December 29, 2009, in practical terms, Kim Stanley Robinson's Galileo's Dream appeared in early 2010, and so for me it counts as one of the outstanding works of 2010. Here we come to know Galileo as a man of his time, his "genius" a gift that was nurtured and fulfilled in the matrix of his household network. Robinson's rich depiction imagines the very grain of such a life, suffused with joy, passion, sorrow, and irony. I find myself, in retrospect, thinking of it as a companion to Gwyneth Jones's Life. Other outstanding works: Library of America's Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories, Karen Joy Fowler's brilliant What I Didn't See and Other Stories, Rachel Swirsky's masterful "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" from Subterranean Magazine's summer issue, and Alice Kim Sola's sublime "The Other Graces" in Asimov's July 2010 issue. Also interesting: Anna Tambour's "Gnawer of the Moon Seeks Summit of Paradise" (in Sprawl, edited by Alisa Krasnostein, from Twelfth Planet Press), Holly Black's The Poison Eaters, Mary Robinette Kowal's Shades of Milk and Honey, and Daniel Abraham's Leviathan Wept.

Nader Elhefnawy: This year I was consistently struck by the preponderance of fantasy over science fiction in the listings of new releases. (Make of that what you will.) I was struck, too, by the abundance of "retro" science fiction, most evident in the ongoing "steampunk" boom. (I've written before about why I think this is the case, so I won't belabor the point here.)
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Where particular titles are concerned, my personal list of "events" includes the conclusion of two noteworthy series, Charles Stross's The Merchant Princes, with The Trade of Queens, and David J. Williams's Autumn Rain, each satisfactory (though in quite different ways). Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders's sword and sorcery anthology Swords & Dark Magic contained its share of worthwhile stories, but fell short of its publicity. (In the end, it wasn't at all clear what was so new about the "new" sword and sorcery, let alone how it represented an improvement on the older tradition.) I also enjoyed Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story, not least because of its surprising aplomb in handling its speculative elements.

I have had a less comprehensive view of "media" science fiction, but I would be remiss in failing to note the Syfy Channel's continued movement away from science fiction as it continues to embrace reality television, airing it every weeknight now and treating professional wrestling as the jewel in its crown.
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Niall Harrison: My reading in 2010 was most notable for containing an excitement of debuts (yes, that's the appropriate collective noun) that range across the spectrum of the fantastic. In the bronze medal position cluster one quartet of writers: Hannu Rajaniemi, for his vibrant posthuman heist yarn, The Quantum Thief; Robert Jackson Bennett, for his hypnotic depression-era gothic, Mr Shivers; Amelia Beamer, for her sharp pop-fiction apocalypse, The Loving Dead; and N. K. Jemisin, for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and—in particular—The Broken Kingdoms, which showcase a striking and political imagination. One step above them on the podium huddle another foursome: Karen Lord, for wise and witty trickster fantasy Redemption in Indigo; Charles Yu, for the smart and sentimental time-travel soliloquy How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe; Dexter Palmer, for retro-futuristic enchantment The Dream of Perpetual Motion (you can't make me say steampunk); and Isaac Marion, for zombie romance Warm Bodies which is, against all odds, inspirational. (First UK editions of Chris Beckett's The Holy Machine and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl mean that over here, both could be added to this listing.) And at the top of the heap is Francis Spufford for Red Plenty, which prises open the gap between the history and the reality of Soviet Russia through a series of note-perfect character portraits, and which is the finest book of any kind that I read in 2010. I can't justify claiming these writers as a generation, but I can't wait to see what each of them does next.
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Dan Hartland: Of all this year's books, the one I welcomed with most anticipation was Patrick Ness's Monsters of Men, which concluded his Chaos Walking trilogy in about as satisfying a manner as any reader had a right to expect. This, of course, means that it was weaker than one might have hoped, and continued some of the at times irritating tics of the preceding volumes. But it was also pacey, thoughtful, and slickly realized. The trilogy as a whole is required reading for anyone interested in contemporary SF.

Ness has enjoyed considerable good press; David Mitchell, on the other hand, received reviews more lukewarm than he is used to for this year's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. A function, perhaps, of the novel's unusual structure and plot, but also, I think, of its rather tricksy mixing of genre and register. Too little has been written about Mitchell's quirky use of the fantastic in his latest book, and if the novel doesn't always smooth out its bumps as well as it might have done, they are interesting, entertaining bumps nevertheless.

Finally, something of a cheat: A Book of Endings by Deborah Biancotti was actually published in August 2009, but I read and reviewed it for Strange Horizons in Februrary. Allow me to take this manufactured opportunity, therefore, to urge you to find it in 2011. Happy New Year.

CB Harvey: 2010? The more things change, the more they stay the same. No problem with that. It's great to see originality but there's pleasure too in seeing familiar things awarded a new twist.
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So in television the year started as it meant to continue, with Matt Smith's emergence as the Eleventh Doctor in probably the best Doctor Who debut since Jon Pertwee's "Spearhead in Space" forty years earlier. If the rest of the series didn't quite maintain the impetus it did at least deliver some cast iron classics along the way. The BBC also gave us a second season of Survivors—which will not, unfortunately, live to see a third.

I've become more beguiled with zombies, too, perhaps because of their ubiquity. The zombie march—well, stumble—gained momentum with the extraordinary television adaptation of The Walking Dead. In books I enjoyed Andrew Hook's And God Created Zombies, and Chris Golden's Zombie—An Undead Anthology showed that the living dead are at least as flexible an archetype as their vampire cousins.

And still the resurrections lumber this way. The BBC gifted a new version of the M. R. James classic "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad," benefiting from a modern sheen and a terrifying, discordant soundtrack. And then there was Tron, back as movie, video game, and comic book, one of the least accessible mainstream franchises you're liable to encounter but still somehow wonderful. Sure, familiarity frequently breeds contempt. But it so often makes my fannish heart sing.

David Hebblethwaite: 2010 was the year I finally discovered Ian McDonald. I found The Dervish House to be a beautiful portrait of interlocking lives, whose theme of people's being part of wider structures and systems is reflected elegantly throughout the novel. Along with this sprawling edifice, my other favorite fantastic read of the year was Light Boxes by Shane Jones, the short, dreamlike tale of a balloon-maker's war against February, which works on several levels at once, but refuses to be held to a definitive interpretation.
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Overall, 2010 was a good year for interesting SF and fantasy. I'd also recommend: Robert Jackson Bennett's Depression-era fantasy/horror/historical fusion, Mr Shivers; Lauren Beukes's understated urban fantasy, Zoo City; Tom Fletcher's fresh take on werewolves, The Leaping; Matt Haig's engaging tale of everyday vampires, The Radleys; M. D. Lachlan's Viking fantasy, Wolfsangel; Gwyneth Lewis's retelling and interrogation of myth, The Meat Tree; Adam Roberts's story of democratized warfare, New Model Army; and Charles Yu's time travel metafiction, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.

From previous years, Liz Jensen's The Rapture and Marcel Theroux's Far North were two excellent novels of a world transformed by climatic change; the content of A. C. Tillyer's story collection An A-Z of Possible Worlds was as striking as its presentation (twenty-six pamphlets in a box); Colin Greenland's Take Back Plenty was enormous fun; and Christopher Priest's magnificent The Affirmation reminded me that I really ought to read his work more often.

Matthew Jones: December always finds me in a confessional mood, and as 2010 draws to a close I once again have a dark secret to get off my chest: Christopher Nolan's Inception just didn't do it for me. For many it was the science fiction cinema event of the year. For me it was a little staid, a little confused, and a little less than the sum of its parts. Dream worlds on film can be imaginatively conceived and beautifully delivered, but Inception's dreams felt altogether too ordinary to me, no matter how stunning the visual effects.
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In contrast, Monsters was a film with a relatively small budget, comparatively few special effects and a much simpler premise, and yet it trounced Inception in almost every regard. Where the latter used the unfamiliar architecture of its dreams as little more than an interesting background for the high tempo action sequences to dash through, Monsters delivered a considered and sympathetic exploration of its world that allowed the story to unfold delicately, removing the need to distract the viewer with extended CGI sequences. As a result, it was emotionally and intellectually engaging in a way that Nolan's film strived for but never achieved.

For my money, however, the biggest triumph of science fiction's year was the return of an old friend from Gallifrey. In April, Doctor Who regenerated once more. New executive producer Steven Moffat blew away the cobwebs of the increasingly problematic reign of Russell T. Davies, and in swooped the youthful, exuberant, and sparkling new Doctor in the form of Matt Smith. It took me less than two episodes to forget that I had ever loved another Doctor (sorry, David Tennant), but the real reward here was the intelligence and warmth of the majority of the scripts. 2010 provided further proof that you just can't keep a good Time Lord down.

Chris Kammerud: 2010 was a year, like most years, in which there were many goodbyes, a few hellos, and a surprising amount of dead things which refused to stay dead. We said goodbye to Lost (that final shot of Jack: perfect) and hello to the new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new version of Doctor Who (that's 10 news if counting tires you). We also began to say goodbye to Harry Potter (again).
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2010 ultimately, though, was another banner year for the undead. We had, among other things, Zombie Economics, Zombies vs. Unicorns, The Walking Dead adapted for AMC by Frank Darabont, and also, of course, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. I haven't read Zombie Economics or Zombies vs. Unicorns, but I plan on reading the one with magic horses. The Walking Dead, I thought, succeeded in understanding that the title referred not to the zombies, but to a group of people struggling within the confines of horror to remember what it means to be alive and human. And, as for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, it managed to resurrect—with both brains and heart—the collective 8-bit unconscious of an entire generation, while simultaneously demonstrating that generation's remarkable capacity for distraction, interconnectedness, and general kick-assnesses. As such it was derided as insular and self-indulgent by some, and possibly the best movie ever about anything, by others. I lean towards the second camp, but then I once played The Ocarina of Time with my sister, more or less non-stop, for an entire day or possibly weekend. It's hard to remember, really. We were young, and time was different then.

Tony Keen: 2010 was another year when I didn't get to watch or view as much new SF as I'd like. I've spent a lot of time seeing through various projects, including a collection on Doctor Who for the Science Fiction Foundation, to be published in early 2011.
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Speaking of Who, 2010 saw Steven Moffat's first series as showrunner. A bit of a mixed bag, I felt. I liked the new Doctor (Matt Smith) and new companion, Amy Pond (Karen Gillan), but was not impressed by the new Daleks, and felt the finale shared a bit too much in common with series three's "Last of the Time Lords" in terms of mass belief pulling rabbits out of hats.

Once again, fiction book of the year was by Ian McDonald, this time The Dervish House, which I took with me to Istanbul. It was summed up perfectly by Niall Harrison: "Like River of Gods, but done a little bit better in just about every way; in particular, lower-key and all the better for it." Santa brought me Tricia Sullivan's Lightborn and Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief, both of which I'm looking forward to.

I've also accumulated some interesting-looking non-fiction this year, into which I have so far merely dipped. I have to declare an interest and say that I myself have chapters in the collections Space and Time and Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things, but have no such conflict of interest over British Science Fiction & Fantasy: Twenty Years, Two Surveys, Niall Harrison's revisiting of Paul Kincaid's 1989 Mexicon survey.

Here's to 2011!
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Paul Kincaid: One of the most interesting things to happen during 2010 has been a discussion, orchestrated by Niall Harrison at Torque Control, about the vanishing position of women in contemporary science fiction. A sidelight from this discussion, for me, threw into relief the way our understanding of what constitutes science fiction has narrowed over time. My best books of the year, therefore, are all works that challenge the wide-screen-baroque shoot-'em-ups and rapture-of-the-nerds digitized futures that have become the default genre formulae of late. Easily the best novel of the year was Generosity by Richard Powers; more fiction about science than science fiction, it is still an enthralling work about the social and individual cost of understanding. The novel that, if there is any justice, will clean up at this year's award ceremonies is The Dervish House by Ian McDonald, a vigorous account of the minutiae of everyday life in the very near future in the tumultuous city of Istanbul. It used to be common to find SF written with the same concerns and the same affect as the mainstream; it has become extraordinarily rare these days, which makes McDonald's novel even more important. As evidence that women do still write powerful SF, I offer Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan, which comes close to the formula but, in its concentration on what it takes to grow up, still proves how valuable good SF can be. In a year in which I seem to have read even more non-fiction than usual, the book I pick is the most difficult, the most troubling, the book I argued with and fought with from first page to last: Defined by a Hollow by Darko Suvin is not for the faint-hearted, it will puzzle you and make you angry, but it will still revitalize your engagement with the genre. Finally a novel that would have easily made my list last year had I read it just a few days earlier, which shows how arbitrary these lists are. The Rapture by Liz Jensen is simply an enthralling and engaging mainstream novel that somehow manages to pack as many science fictional thrills as you could hope to find. So remember, you don't have to go into outer space or encounter posthumans for it to be science fiction.
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Richard Larson: The highlights of 2010 for me were mostly in the category of short fiction. Two amazing collections were released—Jeff VanderMeer's The Third Bear and Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time—which considerably enrich and expand the field of the speculative short story. I've also been enthusiastically reading stories by Rick Bowes which have appeared throughout the year, most often exploring ideas of memory, history, and the effects of the passing of time, which are a part of a larger project that I can't wait to see all in one place. And yet even among this venerable company, the most memorable story I read all year was Alaya Dawn Johnson's "Love Will Tear Us Apart," part of the YA anthology Zombies vs. Unicorns (edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier), which I'm so happy is out there in the world, as the YA market tends to be dominated by series novels and it's nice to see short fiction jump into the mix with such a quality anthology.
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Duncan Lawie: New Model Army is the book I admired most this year. I'm not sure I actually liked it, but nor am I sure that Adam Roberts expects that of his work. By comparison, there were two books I loved this year—each a love letter to a city I love. Reading Ian McDonald's The Dervish House in London and China Miéville's Kraken in Istanbul may have increased their connectedness in my mind (since each is about the other city) yet both books combine secret histories with streets we can walk down. Miéville has unleashed prose so purple even the (British) cover is tinted with it and it perfectly suits the extravagant tale he tells of a magical battle to save London (and, coincidentally, the world). McDonald's writing, while more contained than Miéville's, also feels richer than his previous novel. The richness of mosaic, as Nic Clarke suggested, suits a novel describing a past and future of Istanbul through the miniature of several lives and five days.

An unexpected pleasure this year has been the company of Jonathan Strahan, usually with Gary K. Wolfe, in the Coode Street Podcast. Like old drinking buddies, there are familiar themes running through these conversations, but the strongest message is always one of deep interest in what our genres mean and where they are going.
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Michael Levy: I've mostly been reading children's and young adult science fiction and fantasy this year (because I'm co-authoring a book on the subject with Farah Mendlesohn) and there's been some wonderful stuff. My favorites include Elizabeth Hand's delicate contemporary fantasy Illyria, which concerns cousins whose relationship is closer than perhaps it should be; Holly Black's dark alternate universe tale The Curse Workers: White Cat, which features a noir, Depression-era atmosphere and some unusual magic; Catherine Fisher's Incarceron, a science fantasy set in a Gormenghast-like prison; Diana Wynne Jones whimsical Enchanted Glass; Philip Reeve's Fever Crumb, a beautifully done steampunkish prelude to his Mortal Engines quartet; Patrick Ness's Monsters of Men, the painful final volume in his award-winning Chaos Walking science fiction trilogy; Scott Westerfeld's steampunk dirigible tale Behemoth, sequel to his award-winning Leviathan; Jonathan Stroud's The Ring of Solomon, another tale of the demon Bartimaeus, this time set in an alternate universe ancient Middle East; Hiromi Goto's grim and disturbing mythological fantasy Half World; and Robin McKinley's lovely new fantasy, Pegasus which, despite its title, she has assured me, is very definitely not about winged horses. All of these books are well worth reading, though the Hand novella will probably work best for readers who don't generally like young adult fiction.

Martin Lewis: It is always good news when a new imprint launches but I think the appearance of Corvus on the UK scene was particularly exciting. Corvus is the new genre imprint from Atlantic and their SF list for 2010 consisted of Chris Beckett, Tim Powers, Jeff Vandermeer, Fay Wheldon, and Charles Yu. You'd be hard pressed to think of a better way to hit the ground running.
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The first six volumes of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series were finally released in the UK this year, just in advance of the concluding volume and the film adaptation. I wolfed the books down—so that's what all the fuss was about!—but unfortunately I found Scott Pilgrim vs. The World extremely problematic.

I read my first Joe Abercrombie novel—Best Served Cold—this year and was instantly converted into a fan. I'm looking forward to read his First Law trilogy over Christmas as I take a well deserved break from my duties as an Arthur C. Clarke judge. Said duties mean that I've got to keep schtum about most of my picks for the best of the year. Suffice to say, I think it has been a very strong year for science fiction literature.

The same can't be said of cinema though. Inception tried very hard to blow our minds and, even if it wasn't successful, I'm glad it tried. Otherwise it was very slim pickings and I suspect I am going to struggle to fill my Best Dramatic Presentation ballot for next year's Hugos.
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Jonathan McCalmont: For the second year in a row, one of my books of the year was written by Adam Roberts. New Model Army saw Roberts on really top form with some lovingly nuanced characterization, some brilliant descriptive passages (including a flight over Europe and some of the best battle scenes I have ever read) and more ideas than you can shake a Stick 2.0 at. The book is essentially everything that Little Brother tried to be but failed. A politically engaged and engaging look at the way in which social networking and the internet are changing our relationships with each other, with the state and with ourselves, New Model Army really should be in line for an award or two next year. Beautiful and powerful stuff. My other favorite read was provided by the critic Nicholas Ruddick whose The Fire in The Stone—Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel attempts to reclaim prehistoric fiction as a branch of the specfic family tree. Insightful, wide-ranging, and astonishingly eye-opening in its treatment of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Ruddick's book also lays the foundations for an entirely new way of looking at alternative history narratives.

Outside of the world of books I was particularly impressed by Fumi Yoshinaga's ongoing manga series Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (despite some jaw-droppingly bad translation work) as well as the Irish Studio Ghibli-style animated film The Secret of Kells and Gareth Edwards's Monsters, a low-budget journey into the hollowing out of the American empire.

David McWilliam: In the cinema, Kick-Ass exceeded its role as parody to become my favorite superhero film, largely due to Jane Goldman's script, which was smart, funny and, on occasion, surprisingly moving. The second Grimm Up North, Manchester's annual horror and science fiction film festival, was a massive improvement on the first year, with a stronger program and greater diversity making it look set to become a staple event for genre audiences in the UK over the coming years. Computer games continue to provide innovative ways of scaring their audiences, most notably the excellent Alan Wake, which combined Twin Peaks-style weirdness with the sort of tension created by John Carpenter at the height of his powers.
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A Matter of Blood, Sarah Pinborough's debut novel for Gollancz, impressed with its generic blending and intriguing metaphysical plot. With the sinister Apartment 16, Adam Nevill builds on the success of the brilliant Banquet for the Damned to consolidate his position as a powerful new voice in contemporary horror fiction. Another stunning ghost story from this year, albeit of a more gently disturbing nature, is Graham Joyce's The Silent Land. Charles Stross's The Fuller Memorandum may well be the best novel I have read by him and perfects his amusingly cynical Lovecraftian spy series that began with The Atrocity Archives. But, despite strong competition, my book of the year goes to Jeff VanderMeer's Finch, which takes the reader on a nightmare journey through a human city, Ambergris, under the occupation of a fungal race known as the gray caps. It combines Burroughsian drug narratives, Dickian identity crises, and Cronenbergian body horror, filtering them through a relentlessly dark noir plot. This novel blew me away and I urge you to read it. Now.

Farah Mendlesohn: Having spent most of the year with my books in storage, I haven't been in a hurry to acquire new ones. I've made an exception however for science and history of science books. The four standouts are two non-fiction and two fiction.
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Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was an impressive piece of research into a piece of racialized and class-structured medical history and an excoriating account of the injustices of the US medical system rolled into one. I maintain qualms over Skloot's attitude to the Lacks family, and her inability to question her own privilege, but the book offers challenges and questions I haven't seen expressed as well elsewhere and also communicated the excitement of scientific research. My second choice for non-fiction is Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender. Fine is a neurobiologist. In this book she has trawled through all the research papers into gender differences in babies, children, and adults, sorted the wheat from the chaff, and cried "bullshit" on most of the popular interpretations. I was particularly fascinated by the degree to which researchers have found that even asking someone their sex prior to a test can influence the result, and particularly humbling was the section on how smart, competent, and feminist women can unconsciously assess the importance of an activity in terms of whether it is majority men or women, and adapt accordingly.

In fiction, N. K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms was a very different kind of fantasy. If it aligns with any strand it is with Peake, both in the exploration of a corrupt political system and in the claustrophobia of the edifice within which it is set. A very different kind of science fiction is Francis Spufford's Red Plenty. Eagerly awaited by anyone who had read his non-fiction (particularly Backroom Boys) this didn't disappoint as Spufford set out to show the ways in which Russian mathematicians tried to create socialism through mathematical modeling. Fascinating and moving.

William Mingin: My chief mode of interaction with genre is reading around in the past, among the classics and not-so-classics. This year I re-read one literal classic with fantasy content, The Golden Ass of Apuleius (ca. 165 A.D.), translated by Jack Lindsay (the Robert Graves translation, a lovely, stately book, I have heard mocked by classicists as completely false to the style of original). It includes the "Amor and Psyche" story, one of the first fairy tales of Western culture, and gives a picture of both a bawdy, dangerous, misogynist culture and of ancient religious piety.

Another re-read was Poe's haunting, gloomy, and sensationalistic Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838). Then a first reading of some modern genre classics: Keith Roberts's Pavane (1968), dense, exquisitely written, with unforgettable scenes, though I wasn't completely comfortable with the SF/fantasy mix nor with the ending; and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (1996), an urban dark fantasy so note-perfect it almost does itself in by becoming slick.

And pulpy classics: The Ship of Ishtar (1926), the only major A. Merritt I didn't read in childhood, a fever dream, in supersaturated hues, of magic and desire, firmly rejecting life for the sake of fantasy; and Arthur O. Friel's The Pathless Trail (1922), a South American adventure, not dull or wooden as so many pulp "adventures" were, but strongly written, plausible, and exciting.

You can't shop in the past, looking for better prices, pace Nancy Kress; but writing, by its nature, preserves the past, reading lets us access it, and its resources are effectively endless.

Abigail Nussbaum: Had it not been nominated for the Clarke award, I probably never would have discovered my favorite science fiction novel of 2010. But it was, and I did, and what I found in Marcel Theroux's Far North was a beautifully, and bleakly, realized post-apocalyptic novel narrated by one of the most winning—because so flawed and at the same time so principled—protagonists I've ever encountered. My fantasy reading served up a mixed bag this year, but I was nevertheless pleased to discover that Kit Whitfield's In Great Waters more than lives up to its hype (you'll find it all over last year's reviewer roundup), combining the fantastic and historical genres into an utterly believable alternate past ruled by human-mermaid hybrids, and touching on the very meaning of what it is to be human, and the strains that occur when humanity encounters an alien species on its own planet.
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In media, I was bored by Inception, and Stephen Moffat's take on Doctor Who left me cold despite the occasional moment of brilliance. Two television series brightened what has otherwise become a rather barren landscape. The Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica, now cancelled after a single season, was flawed, but featured some of the most sophisticated SFnal worldbuilding, and some of the most thoughtful handling of the effects of new technology on human society, that I have ever seen on TV. At the very other end of the tonal scale lies Avatar: The Last Airbender (not to be confused with either the James Cameron or M. Night Shyamalan movies), which skews younger than I tend to care for, but handles issues of race and gender, explores themes of violence and redemption, and circumvents the inherent fascism of the YA quest fantasy with an intelligence and a seeming ease that put to shame a lot of allegedly adult-oriented genre TV—and it's a hell of a lot of fun too.

The most important genre-related development in my life in 2010, however, was taking over from Niall Harrison as editor of Strange Horizons's reviews department. It's only been a couple of months, but I've been having a wonderful time, and I look forward to continuing the work in 2011.
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Hallie O'Donovan: In 2010, there was none of the usual dithering about what was top of my reading list, as that place went to Connie Willis's Blackout and All Clear. Having waited for this book since Worldcon in 2005, it was almost bound to disappoint in some way. And it seems it did disappoint many, for reasons I quite understand. Despite that, I found it deeply engrossing and equally moving. It may be a cliché to talk of the quiet heroism of ordinary Londoners during World War II, but Willis succeeded in portraying that courage brilliantly, as her historians (time travelers) experience the terror and everyday concerns of life during the Blitz. The gradually connecting stories of the various historians kept me riveted for over 1,000 pages and engaged through the roughly nine-month wait for the second volume.

I also got enormous pleasure from Sherwood Smith's Ruritanian novels, both in draft and—in the case of the first, Coronets and Steel—in published form. Kim is a wonderfully real heroine and the exploration of what honor might mean to her in situations she would never have imagined herself being in is done with Smith's trademark thoughtfulness.

Finally, this year I discovered Sarah Prineas, whose middle grade fantasies are a bit younger than I normally read, but still, from the first chapter of The Magic Thief I was totally captivated. The writing style is pleasingly restrained, the protagonist a delight, and the disruption of gender and other stereotypes all the more effective for the lack of authorial grandstanding. And there are runic messages to decipher!
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Sara Polsky: Once again, most of my favorite books in 2010 were YA novels or collections. I loved Melina Marchetta's Finnikin of the Rock, a fantasy with a rich setting and a careful approach to serious issues like the treatment of war refugees. Then there's Holly Black's White Cat, an absolutely absorbing book. The Zombies vs. Unicorns anthology is a delightful and varied read. And Suzanne Collins's Mockingjay delivers the same intense reading experience as the two books it follows, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire.

As for non-YA reads, I haven't been able to stop thinking about Justin Cronin's The Passage. Not only are his science fictional creatures terrifying and memorable, but I couldn't get the human characters out of my head for days after I finished reading.
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Adam Roberts: I have a peculiar weakness for year's-end best-of lists in which preening experts recommend books I have not only not read, but have never even heard of. Alas, I can't emulate that here. The best SF novels I read this year—McDonald's Dervish House, Rajaniemi's Quantum Thief, Spufford's Red Plenty, Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe—are exactly the ones cropping up on everybody's lists. That's because they're all really very good. The best fantasy novel of the year is M. D. Lachlan's Wolfsangel; the best collection of short fiction probably Jeff Vandermeer's Third Bear (though I very much enjoyed this anonymous, 170-word SF short story, via Patrick Nielsen Hayden). The best online zine is Strange Horizons (ha!) and the best SF blog probably still Torque Control, for the short story clubs and reviews, though Niall's massively useful linkdumps have gotten fewer and further between. The best work of print SF criticism is harder to call: probably Gwyneth Jones's excellent collection Imagination/Space (though Peter Paik's intermittently excellent From Utopia to Apocalypse: SF and the Politics of Catastrophe is also noteworthy). TV has been disappointing, overshadowed by the massive anticlimax of the Lost finale; cinema little better, although one marginally genre film released this year (Toy Story 3) certainly touched real greatness. SF music: I very much like Daft Punk's Tron: Legacy soundtrack, although the reviews have been mixed. They call it a cross between Maurice Jarre and early Kraftwerk—as if that's a bad thing!
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Graham Sleight: My copy arrived only a few weeks ago, but the book that hit me most forcefully this year was Karen Joy Fowler's What I Didn't See and Other Stories, from Small Beer Press. The lead story, "The Pelican Bar," has already been justly celebrated, but there were many others here of similar quality. A clutch of stories about John Wilkes Booth underlines Fowler's preoccupation with US history and myth—a theme that runs back to stories like "The Faithful Companion at Forty" in her astonishingly accomplished first collection Artificial Things (1987). On any reckoning, she's one of the two or three most important writers of speculative fiction in the last few decades.
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Kari Sperring: 2010 was, for me, the year of little SFF—not the fault of the genre, but more a consequence of circumstances. N. K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms was a high-point of the first half of the year, and stands out for me as one the best books of 2010, along with Freda Warrington, Midsummer Night, and Lauren Beukes, Zoo City. French publisher Bragelonne finished the year off nicely for me with Le Dragon des Arcanes, the third volume in Pierre Pevel's mesmerizing series, Les Lames du Cardinal. I seem to have missed most of the cinematic releases this year: the closest thing for me to a really engaging genre film was not SF at all but Jackie Chan's engaging and plyaful The Spy Next Door, which plays closely to the comedic talents long beloved of those familiar with his Hong Kong films.

I was not one of those overwhelmed by Steven Moffat at the helm of Doctor Who: Matt Smith makes a strong doctor, but the levels of sentiment and soap remain too high for me and the episodes too cropped and emotionally driven. I preferred Channel 4's darkly clever Misfits.

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January 2011

    * Aaronovitch, Ben • Rivers of London • (Gollancz, hc)
    * Adams, John Joseph, ed. • Brave New Worlds • (Night Shade Books, anth, tpb)
    * Armstrong, Kelley • Counterfeit Magic • (Subterranean Press, nva, hc)
    * Azinger, Karen • The Steel Queen • (Harper Voyager, hc)
    * Bacigalupi, Paolo • The Alchemist • (Subterranean, nva, hc)
    * Bear, Elizabeth • The White City • (Subterranean Press, nva, hc)
    * Berg, Carol • The Soul Mirror • (Roc, tpb)
    * Buckell, Tobias S. • The Executioness • (Subterranean, nva, hc)
    * Card, Orson Scott • The Lost Gate • (Tor, hc)
    * de Bodard, Aliette • Harbinger of the Storm • (Angry Robot, tpb)
    * Donaldson, Stephen R. • The Best of Stephen R. Donaldson • (Subterranean Press, cln, hc)
    * Emshwiller, Carol • The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller • (NonStop Press, cln, hc)
    * Farmer, Philip José • Up the Bright River • (Subterranean Press, cln, hc)
    * Foglio, Phil, & Kaja Foglio • Agatha H. and the Airship City • (Night Shade Books, hc)
    * Haig, Matt • The Radleys • (Simon & Schuster/Free Press, hc)
    * Holt, Tom • Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages • (Orbit, tpb)
    * Jones, Gwyneth • The Universe of Things • (Aqueduct Press, cln, tpb)
    * King, J. Robert • Death's Disciples • (Angry Robot, tpb)
    * Lovegrove, James • Age of Odin • (Solaris, tpb)
    * Lovegrove, James • Age of Odin • (Solaris US)
    * Masterton, Graham • Ninth Nightmare • (Severn House, hc)
    * + McAuley, Paul • Cowboy Angels • (Pyr, tpb)
    * Moorcock, Michael • Modem Times 2. 0 • (PM Press/Outspoken Authors, cln, tpb)
    * Murakami, Ryu • Popular Hits of the Showa Era • (Norton, tpb)
    * Parker, K. J. • The Hammer • (Orbit US, tpb)
    * Parker, K. J. • The Hammer • (Orbit, tpb)
    * Robson, Justina • Down to the Bone • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Silverberg, Robert • Hunt the Space-Witch: Seven Adventures in Time and Space • (Paizo/Planet Stories, cln, tpb)
    * Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Engineering Infinity • (Solaris, anth, tpb)
    * Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Engineering Infinity • (Solaris US, anth)
    * Walton, Jo • Among Others • (Tor, hc)
    * + Warren, Kaaron • Walking the Tree • (Angry Robot US)
    * Williams, Conrad • Loss of Separation • (Solaris, tpb)
    * Wolfe, Gary K. • Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature • (Wesleyan University Press, nf, hc/tpb)
    * Wolfe, Gene • Home Fires • (Tor, hc)
       

February 2011

    * + Aaronovitch, Ben • Midnight Riot • (Ballantine Del Rey)
    * Abercrombie, Joe • The Heroes • (Gollancz, hc)
    * + Abercrombie, Joe • The Heroes • (Orbit US, hc)
    * Anderson, Poul • The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, Volume 4: Admiralty • (NESFA Press, cln, hc)
    * Bear, Elizabeth • The Sea Thy Mistress • (Tor, hc)
    * Bova, Ben • Leviathans of Jupiter • (Tor, hc)
    * Briggs, Patricia • River Marked • (Orbit)
    * Briggs, Patricia • River Marked • (Ace, hc)
    * Britain, Kristen • Blackveil • (DAW, hc)
    * Chadbourn, Mark • The Scar-Crow Men • (Pyr, tpb)
    * Courtenay Grimwood, Jon • The Fallen Blade • (Orbit, tpb)
    * Courtenay Grimwood, Jon • The Fallen Blade • (Orbit US, tpb)
    * + Deas, Stephen • The King of the Crags • (Roc, hc)
    * Delany, Samuel R. • Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders • (Alyson, tpb)
    * Ellis, Warren • Listener • (Morrow, hc)
    * Emshwiller, Carol • In the Time of War and Master of the Road to Nowhere • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * Erikson, Steven • The Crippled God • (Tor, hc)
    * Erikson, Steven • The Crippled God • (Bantam UK, hc)
    * Fforde, Jasper • One of Our Thursdays is Missing • (Hodder & Stoughton, hc)
    * Gilman, Laura Anne • Pack of Lies • (Luna, tpb)
    * Goodkind, Terry • The Omen Machine • (Harper Voyager, hc)
    * Goodkind, Terry • The Omen Machine • (Tor, hc)
    * Griffin, Kate • The Neon Court • (Orbit)
    * Hairston, Andrea • Redwood and Wildfire • (Aqueduct Press, tpb)
    * + Holt, Tom • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages • (Orbit US, tpb)
    * Hurley, Kameron • God's War • (Night Shade Books, tpb)
    * Kerr, Katharine • License to Ensorcell • (DAW)
    * Kittredge, Caitlin • The Iron Thorn • (Delacorte, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Lansdale, Joe R., ed. • Crucified Dreams • (Tachyon Publications, anth, tpb)
    * Lansdale, Joe R. • Hyenas • (Subterranean Press, cln, hc)
    * Lovegrove, James • Diversifications • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * MacLeod, Ian R. • Wake Up and Dream • (PS Publishing, hc)
    * Marr, Melissa • Darkest Mercy • (HarperCollins, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Martin, Gail Z. • The Sworn • (Orbit)
    * McDermott, J. M. • Never Knew Another • (Night Shade Books, tpb)
    * McLeod, Suzanne • The Bitter Seed of Magic • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Pierce, Tamora • Tortall and Other Lands • (Random House, cln, hc)
    * Priest, Cherie • Bloodshot • (Ballantine Spectra, tpb)
    * Reed, Kit • What Wolves Know • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * Ryman, Geoff • Paradise Tales • (Small Beer Press, cln, tpb)
    * Saberhagen, Joan, ed. • Golden Reflections • (Baen, anth, hc)
    * Stross, Charles • Boskone Book • (NESFA Press, cln, hc)
    * Swann, S. Andrew • Messiah • (DAW)
    * Tchaikovsky, Adrian • The Sea Watch • (Tor UK)
    * Weber, David, ed. • Worlds of Honor #5: In Fire Forged • (Baen, anth, hc)
    * Williams, Walter Jon • Deep State • (Orbit)
    * Williams, Walter Jon • Deep State • (Orbit US, tpb)
       

March 2011

    * Aylett, Steve • Rebel at the End of Time • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
    * Barlough, Jeffrey E. • A Tangle in Slops • (Gresham & Doyle, tpb)
    * Barnes, John • Daybreak Zero • (Ace, hc)
    * Beagle, Peter S. • Sleight of Hand • (Tachyon Publications, cln, tpb)
    * Bear, Elizabeth • Grail • (Ballantine Spectra)
    * Bishop, Anne • Twilight's Dawn • (Roc, cln, hc)
    * Buckner, M. M. • Gravity Pilot • (Tor, hc)
    * Bullington, Jesse • The Enterprise of Death • (Orbit, tpb)
    * Feist, Raymond E. • A Kingdom Besieged • (Harper Voyager, hc)
    * + Fforde, Jasper • One of Our Thursdays Is Missing • (Viking, hc)
    * Guran, Paula, ed. • Vampires: The Recent Undead • (Prime Books, anth, tpb)
    * Gustainis, Justin, ed. • Those Who Fight Monsters • (Hades/EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy, anth, tpb)
    * Hardinge, Frances • Twilight Robbery • (Macmillan Children's Books UK, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Harrison, Kim • Pale Demon • (Harper Voyager, hc)
    * Hodder, Mark • The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man • (Pyr, tpb)
    * Matheson, Richard • Other Kingdoms • (Tor, hc)
    * McGuire, Seanan • Late Eclipses • (DAW)
    * McKenna, Bridget, & Marti McKenna, eds. • End of an Aeon • (Fairwood Press, anth, tpb)
    * Moon, Elizabeth • Kings of the North • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
    * Moon, Elizabeth • Kings of the North • (Orbit)
    * Morris, Mark • Long Shadows, Nightmare Light • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * Piccirilli, Tom • Every Shallow Cut • (ChiZine Publications, hc/tpb)
    * Rambo, Cat, Paul Tremblay & Sean Wallace, eds. • Worlds of Fantasy: The Best of Fantasy Magazine • (Prime Books, anth, tpb)
    * Reed, Robert • Eater-of-Bone • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * Remic, Andy • Cloneworld • (Solaris, tpb)
    * Rothfuss, Patrick • The Wise Man's Fear • (DAW, hc)
    * Rothfuss, Patrick • The Wise Man's Fear • (Gollancz, hc)
    * Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five • (Night Shade Books, anth, tpb)
    * Tidhar, Lavie • Osama • (PS Publishing, hc)
    * Vaughn, Carrie • Steel • (HarperTeen, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Wells, Martha • The Cloud Roads • (Night Shade Books, tpb)
    * Whates, Ian • City of Hope and Despair • (Angry Robot, tpb)
    * + Williams, Conrad • Loss of Separation • (Solaris US)
       

April 2011

    * Abraham, Daniel • The Dragon's Path • (Orbit, tpb)
    * Abraham, Daniel • The Dragon's Path • (Orbit US, tpb)
    * Aiken, Joan • The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories • (Small Beer Press, cln, hc)
    * Armstrong, Kelley • The Gathering • (HarperCollins, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Armstrong, Kelley • The Gathering • (Little, Brown UK/Atom, nvl-ya, tpb)
    * Auel, Jean M. • The Land of Painted Caves • (Hodder & Stoughton, hc)
    * Auel, Jean M. • The Land of Painted Caves • (Crown, hc)
    * Bakker, R. Scott • The White Luck Warrior • (Overlook Press, hc)
    * Baxter, Stephen • Gravity Dreams • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
    * Beaulieu, Bradley P. • Winds of Khalakovo • (Night Shade Books, tpb)
    * Bennett, Robert Jackson • The Company Man • (Orbit US, tpb)
    * Bennett, Robert Jackson • The Company Man • (Orbit, hc)
    * Black, Holly • Red Glove • (McElderry, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Bledsoe, Alex • Dark Jenny • (Tor, tpb)
    * Brown, Eric • The Kings of Eternity • (Solaris US)
    * Brown, Eric • The Kings of Eternity • (Solaris, tpb)
    * Brust, Steven • Tiassa • (Tor, hc)
    * Butcher, Jim • Ghost Story • (Orbit, hc)
    * Butcher, Jim • Ghost Story • (Roc, hc)
    * Campbell, Alan • Sea of Ghosts • (Tor UK, hc)
    * Cherryh, C. J. • Betrayer • (DAW, hc)
    * Clare, Cassandra • The Mortal Instruments: City of Fallen Angels • (McElderry, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Datlow, Ellen, & Terri Windling, eds. • Teeth: Vampire Tales • (Harper, anth, hc)
    * + Feist, Raymond E. • A Kingdom Besieged • (Harper Voyager, hc)
    * Fox, Daniel • Hidden Cities • (Ballantine Del Rey, tpb)
    * Goodman, Alison • Eona • (Viking, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Goodman, Alison • Eona • (Random House/Fickling UK, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Hobb, Robin • Inheritance • (Harper Voyager, hc)
    * Hughes, Matthew • Yellow Cabochon • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
    * Hulick, Douglas • Among Thieves • (Tor UK)
    * Kennedy, Leigh • Collection • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * Lalumière, Claude • The Door to Lost Pages • (ChiZine Publications, hc/tpb)
    * Lo, Malinda • Huntress • (Little, Brown, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Maberry, Jonathan • The King of Plagues • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * McIntosh, Will • Soft Apocalypse • (Night Shade Books, tpb)
    * Morden, Simon • Equations of Life • (Orbit US)
    * Morden, Simon • Equations of Life • (Orbit, tpb)
    * Murphy, C. E. • Spirit Dances • (Luna, tpb)
    * Nickle, David • Eutopia • (ChiZine Publications, hc/tpb)
    * Nye, Jody Lynn • View from the Imperium • (Baen)
    * Okorafor, Nnedi • The Akata Witch • (Viking, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Orullian, Peter • The Unremembered • (Tor, hc)
    * Park, Paul • Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
    * + Pevel, Pierre • The Alchemist in the Shadows • (Pyr, tpb)
    * Pinborough, Sarah • A Shadow of the Soul • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Pohl, Frederik • All the Lives He Led • (Tor, hc)
    * Redick, Robert V. S. • The River of Shadows • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * + Redick, Robert V. S. • The River of Shadows • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
    * Sawyer, Robert J. • WWW: Wonder • (Ace, hc)
    * Sedia, Ekaterina, ed. • Bewere the Night • (Prime Books, anth, tpb)
    * Silverwood, Sarah • The Traitor's Gate • (Gollancz, hc)
    * Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Life on Mars: Tales of the New Frontier • (Viking, anth, hc)
    * Tidhar, Lavie • Camera Obscura • (Angry Robot, tpb)
    * Valente, Catherynne M. • Deathless • (Tor, hc)
    * Vaughn, Carrie • After the Golden Age • (Tor, hc)
    * + Wells, Dan • I Don't Want to Kill You • (Tor, hc)
       

May 2011

    * Anderson, Kevin J., ed. • Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 • (Tor, anth, tpb)
    * Baxter, Stephen • The Bronze Summer • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Canavan, Trudi • The Rogue • (Orbit US, hc)
    * Canavan, Trudi • The Rogue • (Orbit, hc/tpb)
    * Connolly, John • Hell's Bells • (Hodder & Stoughton, hc)
    * Cooper, Elspeth • Songs of the Earth • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Deas, Stephen • The Order of the Scales • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * + Esslemont, Ian C. • Stonewielder • (Tor, hc)
    * Files, Gemma • A Rope of Thorns • (ChiZine Publications, hc/tpb)
    * Freeman, Pamela • Ember and Ash • (Orbit)
    * Gilman, Laura Anne • Dragon Virus • (Fairwood Press, cln, tpb)
    * + Haddon, Mark • Boom! • (Random House/Yearling, nvl-ya, tpb)
    * Harris, Charlaine • Dead Reckoning • (Ace, hc)
    * Harris, Charlaine • Dead Reckoning • (Gollancz, hc)
    * + Hobb, Robin • The Inheritance • (Harper Voyager, tpb)
    * Hobson, M. K. • The Hidden Goddess • (Ballantine Spectra)
    * Hughes, Matthew • The Damned Busters • (Angry Robot, tpb)
    * Irvine, Ian • Mare Ultima • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
    * Jakober, Marie • The Demon Left Behind • (Hades Publications/EDGE SF and Fantasy, tpb)
    * Koontz, Dean • Frankenstein: The Dead Town • (Bantam)
    * Lachlan, M. D. • Fenrir • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Lee, Tanith • Court of the Crow • (Night Shade Books, hc)
    * Marshall, Michael • Killer Move • (Morrow, hc)
    * McCaffrey, Anne, & Todd McCaffrey • Dragon's Time • (Bantam UK, hc)
    * McDougall, Sophie • Savage City • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Miéville, China • Embassytown • (Macmillan, hc)
    * Miéville, China • Embassytown • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
    * Millet, Lydia • The Fires Beneath the Sea • (Small Beer Press, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Nix, Garth, & Sean Williams • Troubletwisters • (Scholastic Press, nvl-ya, tpb)
    * Novik, Naomi, & Yishan Li • Will Supervillains Be on the Final? • (Ballantine Del Rey, tpb)
    * Nylund, Eric • The Resisters • (Random House, nvl-ya, hc)
    * + Rajaniemi, Hannu • The Quantum Thief • (Tor, hc)
    * Roberts, Adam • By Light Alone • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Rusch, Kristine Kathryn • City of Ruins • (Pyr, tpb)
    * Saramago, José • Small Memories • (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, nf, hc)
    * Scalzi, John • Fuzzy Nation • (Tor, hc)
    * Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Eclipse Four • (Night Shade Books, anth, tpb)
    * Swanwick, Michael • Dancing With Bears • (Night Shade Books, hc)
    * + Tidhar, Lavie • Camera Obscura • (Angry Robot US)
    * Valentine, Genevieve • Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti • (Prime Books, tpb)
    * Wentworth, K. D., ed. • L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXVII • (Galaxy, anth)
    * Whates, Ian • The Noise Revealed • (Solaris, tpb)
    * + Wooding, Chris • Retribution Falls • (Ballantine Spectra, tpb)
    * Youers, Rio • Dark Dreams, Pale Horses • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
       

June 2011

    * Akers, Tim • Dead of Veridon • (Solaris US, tpb)
    * Anderson, M. T. • Empire of Gut and Bone • (Scholastic Press, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Brenchley, Chaz • Rotten Row • (PS Publishing, hc)
    * Carey, Jacqueline • Naamah's Blessing • (Grand Central, hc)
    * Carey, Jacqueline • Naamah's Blessing • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Corey, James S. A. • Leviathan Wakes • (Orbit US, tpb)
    * Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three • (Night Shade Books, anth, tpb)
    * Deas, Stephen • The Warlock's Shadow • (Gollancz, hc)
    * Douglass, Sara • The Devil's Diadem • (Harper Voyager, tpb)
    * Duchamp, L. Timmel • Never at Home • (Aqueduct Press, cln, tpb)
    * Duncan, Andy • The Pottawatomie Giant • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * Englehart, Steve • The Plain Man • (Tor, hc)
    * Fenner, Cathy, & Arnie Fenner, eds. • Steampunk Illuminations • (Underwood Books, anth, hc)
    * Foss, Chris • The Art of Chris Foss • (Titan Books, art, hc)
    * Gilman, Carolyn Ives • The Isles of the Forsaken • (ChiZine Publications, hc/tpb)
    * Godwin, Parke • The Prince from Nowhere • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
    * Goldstein, Lisa • The Uncertain Places • (Tachyon Publications, tpb)
    * Goonan, Katherine • Collection • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * Grant, Mira • Deadline • (Orbit US)
    * Grant, Mira • Deadline • (Orbit)
    * Hamilton, Laurell K. • Hit List • (Headline, hc)
    * Hamilton, Laurell K. • Hit List • (Berkley, hc)
    * + Hardinge, Frances • Fly Trap • (HarperCollins, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Hartwell, David G., & Kathryn Cramer, eds. • Year's Best SF 16 • (Harper Voyager, anth)
    * Horton, Rich, ed. • The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 Edition • (Prime Books, anth, tpb)
    * + Hughes, Matthew • The Damned Busters • (Angry Robot US)
    * Kushner, Ellen, & Holly Black, eds. • Welcome to Bordertown • (Random House, anth, hc)
    * Lackey, Mercedes • Unnatural Issue • (DAW, hc)
    * Lake, Jay, ed. • Hugo Award Showcase, 2011 Volume • (Prime Books, anth, tpb)
    * Lynch, Scott • The Republic of Thieves • (Gollancz, hc)
    * Lynch, Scott • The Republic of Thieves • (Ballantine Spectra, hc)
    * Martin, George R. R., ed. • Wild Cards: Fort Freak • (Tor, anth, hc)
    * Martinez, A. Lee • Chasing the Moon • (Orbit US, hc)
    * Navarro, Yvonne • Concrete Savior • (Pocket/Juno Books)
    * Newton, Mark Charan • Book of Transformations • (Tor UK, hc)
    * Resnick, Laura • Vamparazzi • (DAW)
    * Reynolds, Alastair • Blue Remembered Hills • (Gollancz, hc)
    * Rucker, Rudy • Jim and the Flims • (Night Shade Books, hc)
    * Sinclair, Alison • Shadowborn • (Roc, tpb)
    * Steele, Allen • Hex • (Ace, hc)
    * Steele, Jon • The Watchers • (Bantam UK, hc)
    * van Eekhout, Greg • The Boy at the End of the World • (Bloomsbury USA, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Warren, Kaaron • Mistification • (Angry Robot, tpb)
    * Wolfe, Gary K. • Sightings: Reviews • (Beccon Publications, nf, tpb)
    * Yep, Laurence • City of Ice • (Tor/Starscape, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Zafón, Carlos Ruiz • The Palace of Midnight • (Little, Brown, nvl-ya, hc)
       

July 2011

    * Anderson, Kevin J. • The Key to Creation • (Orbit US, tpb)
    * Ballantine, Philippa • Spectyr • (Ace)
    * Carriger, Gail • Blameless • (Orbit)
    * Carriger, Gail • Heartless • (Orbit US)
    * Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy • (St. Martin's, anth, hc)
    * + Douglass, Sara • The Devil's Diadem • (Harper Voyager, hc)
    * Dozois, Gardner • When the Great Days Come • (Prime Books, cln, hc)
    * Dozois, Gardner, ed. • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-eight Annual Collection • (St. Martin's Griffin, anth, tpb)
    * Drake, David • Out of the Waters • (Tor, hc)
    * Fenn, Jaine • Bringer of Light • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Gibson, Gary • Final Days • (Tor UK, hc)
    * Goonan, Kathleen Ann • This Shared Dream Called Earth • (Tor, hc)
    * Gould, Steven • 7th Sigma • (Tor, hc)
    * Grant, Charles • Scream Quietly • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * Gregory, Daryl • Raising Stony Mayhall • (Ballantine Del Rey, tpb)
    * Hoffman, Nina Kiriki • Meeting • (Viking, nvl-ya, hc)
    * Horwood, William • Hyddenworld: Summer • (Macmillan, hc)
    * Hunt, Stephen • Jack Cloudie • (Harper Voyager, hc/tpb)
    * Kearney, Paul • Kings of Morning • (Solaris)
    * Lackey, Mercedes • Beauty and the Werewolf • (Luna, hc)
    * Lloyd, Tom • The Dusk Watchman • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Marr, Melissa • Graveminder • (Morrow, hc)
    * + McCaffrey, Anne, & Todd McCaffrey • Dragon's Time • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
    * McMahon, Gary • The Concrete Grove • (Solaris, tpb)
    * Palmer, Philip • Hell Ship • (Orbit, tpb)
    * Palmer, Philip • Hell Ship • (Orbit US, tpb)
    * Romero, George A. • The Living Dead: The Beginning • (Grand Central, hc)
    * Scott, Rob • Asbury Park • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Sedia, Ekaterina • Heart of Iron • (Prime Books, tpb)
    * Smith, Gavin • War in Heaven • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Somers, Jeff • The Final Evolution • (Orbit)
    * Stross, Charles • Rule 34 • (Orbit, tpb)
    * Stross, Charles • Rule 34 • (Ace, hc)
    * Turtledove, Harry • The Big Switch • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
    * VanderMeer, Jeff, & Ann VanderMeer, eds. • The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities • (Harper Voyager, anth, hc)
    * Vaughn, Carrie • Kitty's Big Trouble • (Tor)
    * + Warren, Kaaron • Mistification • (Angry Robot US)
    * Watson, Howard, ed. • The Charmed Pot • (PS Publishing, anth, hc)
    * Wilbur, Rick, ed. • Future Media • (Tachyon Publications, anth, tpb)
    * Williams, Conrad • Iron Mantis • (Angry Robot)
    * Williams, Conrad • Penetralia • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * Wilson, Robert Charles • Vortex • (Tor, hc)
       

August 2011

    * Asher, Neal • The Departure • (Tor UK, hc)
    * Beagle, Peter S., & Joe R. Lansdale, eds. • Urban Fantasy • (Tachyon Publications, anth, tpb)
    * Carroll, Lee • Watchtower • (Tor, tpb)
    * Carroll, Lee • The Watchtower • (Bantam UK, tpb)
    * + Chandler, David • Den of Thieves • (Harper Voyager)
    * Duane, Diane • Omnitopia: East Wind • (DAW, hc)
    * Duncan, Dave • When the Saints • (Tor, hc)
    * Fowler, Christopher • The Horrors • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
    * Grant, John • Lonely Hunter • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
    * Guran, Paula, ed. • The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition • (Prime Books, anth, tpb)
    * + Gustainis, Justin • Hard Spell • (Angry Robot US, tpb)
    * Gustainis, Justin • Sympathy for the Devil • (Solaris US)
    * Harris, Charlaine, & Toni L. P. Kelner, eds. • Home Improvement: Undead Edition • (Ace, anth, hc)
    * Harrison, M. John • Pearlant • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Kent, Jasper • The Third Section • (Bantam UK, tpb)
    * Kollin, Dani, & Eytan Kollin • The Unincorporated Woman • (Tor, hc)
    * Lamplighter, L. Jagi • Prospero Regained • (Tor, hc)
    * Lawrence, Mark • Prince of Thorns • (Harper Voyager, hc/tpb)
    * Lee, Sharon, & Steve Miller • Ghost Ship • (Baen, hc)
    * Monette, Sarah, & Elizabeth Bear • The Tempering of Men • (Tor, hc)
    * Moody, David • Them or Us • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Niven, Larry, & Steven Barnes • The Moon Maze Game • (Tor, hc)
    * Rawn, Melanie • The Diviner • (DAW, hc)
    * Ruckley, Brian • The Edinburgh Dead • (Orbit, tpb)
    * Wooding, Chris • The Iron Jackal • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Wrede, Patricia C. • Across the Great Barrier • (Scholastic, nvl-ya, hc)
       

September 2011

    * Barclay, James • Elves: Rise of the TaiGethan • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Brennan, Marie • With Fate Conspire • (Tor, tpb)
    * Brooks, Terry • The Measure of the Magic • (Orbit, hc/tpb)
    * Brooks, Terry • The Measure of the Magic • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
    * Campbell, Ramsey • Ghosts Know • (PS Publishing, hc)
    * Campbell, Ramsey • The Inhabitant of the Lake • (PS Publishing, cln, hc)
    * Cashore, Kristin • Bitterblue • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Cooper, Brenda • Mayan December • (Prime Books, tpb)
    * Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Blood and Other Cravings • (Tor, anth, hc)
    * Doubinsky, Sebastien • Absinthe • (PS Publishing, nva, hc)
    * Elliott, Kate • Cold Fire • (Orbit, tpb)
    * Elliott, Kate • Cold Fire • (Orbit US, tpb)
    * + Erikson, Steven • The Crack'd Pot Trail • (Tor, nva, tpb)
    * Hamilton, Peter F. • Manhattan in Reverse • (Macmillan, cln, hc)
    * McGuire, Seanan • The Brightest Fell • (DAW)
    * McMahon, Gary • Dead Bad Things • (Angry Robot, tpb)
    * Meaney, John • Transmission • (Gollancz, hc/tpb)
    * Moore, Christopher • Sacre Bleu • (Morrow, hc)
    * Painter, Kristen • Blood Rights • (Orbit)
    * Rankin, Robert • The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age • (Gollancz, hc)
    * Royle, Nicholas • Regicide • (Solaris, tpb)
    * Slonczewski, Joan • The Highest Frontier • (Tor, hc)
    * Smith, Sherwood • Banner of the Damned • (DAW, hc)

Znači, ipak je dovršio trilogiju. Baš me interesuje koliko će biti zanimanje za Wilsonov Vortex?!

Nakon razočaravajućeg drugog dela, nisam siguran da li sam spreman dati para za Vortex.  :(

Ja hocu :) Na "sta citamo" sam i pisao zasto mislim da je i Axis dobra knjiga, ne upecatljiva kao Spin, ali ipak dobra.

From Publishers Weekly

Written as a birthday tribute to one of speculative fiction's most beloved forerunners, this slim volume honors Le Guin with accounts that detail how several friends and former students came to love her work. Evidence abounds of Le Guin's generous, inquiring, and feminist spirit, and her rare ability to show us "our own world, made strange and familiar." Readers who are not well-versed with the writer's bibliography may wonder what this seemingly specialized, celebratory selection could offer; rewardingly, Fowler and Notkin include poetry, short fiction, and essays that build a cumulative portrait extending beyond the basic facts of a life and, less overtly, examines the relationship between reading and writing, twining the pleasures of absorbing language with the act of learning the craft. For those who already admire Le Guin, this is an enchanting accompaniment to her work; for others, it presents a convincing introductory argument about science fiction as an imaginative, literary landscape.
(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Product Description

A private gift to Ursula K. Le Guin becomes a gift to all readers, an exciting chance to enjoy someone else's birthday present. In 2009, for the momentous occasion of Ursula K. Le Guin's 80th birthday, Karen Joy Fowler and Debbie Notkin put together a volume of tributes and appreciations, as a birthday present. The project, known in academic circles as a ''festschrift,'' or ''celebration book,'' resulted in a single copy, handbound in green leather, which Karen presented to Ursula a few days after her birthday in October. The original idea came from Kim Stanley Robinson, who also contributed an essay to the book. With Ms. Le Guin's kind agreement, Aqueduct Press is delighted to share this unique celebration with Le Guin's readers and fans. The book contains poetry, personal essays, academic essays, biographical information about Le Guin, as well as fiction, including previously unpublished fiction by Andrea Hairston and John Kessel. Publication will coincide with Le Guin's 81st birthday. Contributors include Eleanor Arnason, Brian Attebery, Richard Chwedyk, Karen Joy Fowler, Molly Gloss, Eileen Gunn, Andrea Hairston, Jed Hartman, Gwyneth Jones, John Kessel, Ellen Kushner, Nancy Kress, Sarah LeFanu, Vonda N. McIntyre, Pat Murphy, Julie Phillips, Paul Preuss, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nisi Shawl, Lisa Tuttle, Élisabeth Vonarburg, and Jo Walton, among others.

# Paperback: 239 pages
# Publisher: Aqueduct Press; First edition (October 21, 2010)
# Language: English

QuoteDan Simmons' new SF thriller, Flashback. Dan's many fans will recognize the title as that of a stunning novella from his collection, Lovedeath. Flashback the novel is a huge-to nearly 200,000 words-expansion of that tale.

A ocekuje se i, valjda nova, Barkerova zbirka ove godine.

Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
Samuel R. Delany

Yes, you did read that correctly. This is a new novel by one of science fiction's finest writers. That image is probably temporary while they work on a cover. An except is available online at the Boston Review (http://bostonreview.net/BR35.4/delany.php). — Cheryl Morgan

Najavljeno za februar, mada na sajtu izdavaca Alyson Books (kazu za sebe da su vodeci u LGBT izdavastvu) nema nikakvih informacija

Adam Roberts' 10 Best SF Novels of 2010

2010 was an unusually strong year for novel-length science fiction. I didn't read every SF novel published during last year, which means I've certainly missed some excellent titles. But I read as widely as possible, and I was impressed by an awful lot of it. It seems to me that the membrane separating genre SF and mainstream 'literary' writing is more porous as it's ever been—a thoroughly good thing, of course. And SF in 2010 is a much more actually globalised phenomenon than was the case twenty, or even ten, years ago, which is also a thoroughly good thing. Excellent SF is being written all over the world, and I'm only sorry that my linguistic inadequacies meant that I wasn't able to read books as yet untranslated into English such as Shimon Adaf's Kfor ('Frost'), which has been called 'the first masterpiece of Israeli SF', or Andreas Eschbach's Ein König für Deutschland ('A King for Germany'), which won last year's Kurd-Laßwitz prize.

The list that follows is alphabetical by surname.

Lauren Beukes, Zoo City (Angry Robot) Beuke's second novel is a darkly inventive and restless casserole of science-fictional, urban, fantastical and noir modes. The title refers to that portion of future-Johannesburg in which people infected with Acquired Aposymbiotic Familiarism (AAF), the 'Zoo Plague', live as outcasts. Sufferers generate animal familiars—actual creatures like twisted versions of Philip Pullman's daemons—but are also afflicted by a kind of existential doom called the Undertow; a premise that perhaps looks more Fantasy, pitched in one sentence there, than it feels in the actual experience of reading, if you see what I mean. Beukes's future city is as spiky, distinctive and material a place as any cyberpunkopolis, and quit a bit fresher. The narrative is brisk and well turned, but the great achievement here is tonal: atmospheric, smart and memorable work.

Project Itoh, Harmony (Haikasoru). Keikaku 'Project' Itoh's last novel (he completed it in hospital whilst being treated for the cancer that eventually killed him) manages to be simultaneously fast-moving and incident-filled and thoughtful and thought-provoking. We're in a post nuclear war future where the kinks have been ironed out of society, and life is governed by 'admedistrations' devoted to ensuring perfect health, happiness and good social order. Itoh's portrait of this is just on the believable side of schematic, partly because we're invited to identify with the without-cause rebels who want to smoke, drink and self-harm, at least we are until the moment have our preconceptions about everything bundled over in a surprisingly effective twist ending. Some of the novel's thriller-ish plot contortions are a little creaky in places, but this New Brave New World for the world of the 21st-century is a major intervention into contemporary utopian writing.

Tom McCarthy, C (Jonathan Cape; Knopf) There's been some debate as to whether McCarthy's Booker-shortlisted novel is 'properly' SF. But pigeonholes are graves, and this is such a stimulating, startling, complex device of a book it would be a shame if SF overlooked it. It's the life story of Serge Carrefax, who grows up at the turn of the twentieth-century obsessed with technology, flies planes in the First World War, and survives the conflict only to die at a postwar archaeological dig in Cairo. But it's not really about Serge; it is, rather, an ambitious meditation on the interpenetration of modernity by machines, and it develops a very SFnal thesis: that machines are more than tools or gadgets, that they generate ambient patterns in the new medium of the world they themselves create. McCarthy's penchant for a self-consciously High Modernist idiom has good and bad aspects: at its worst, the novel bogs down into pretentious intellectual preening. But at its best it soars.

Ian McDonald's The Dervish House (Gollancz; Pyr). A rich, accomplished portrait of near-future Istanbul that may be is the best thing McDonald has written—and that's saying something. It is the product of a writer at the top of his game: beautifully styled, complexly characterised and plotted without ever feeling heavy or dull. We move through interlinked worlds of Turkish commerce, industry, politics and the streetlife: half a dozen storylines are coiled together as neatly as DNA, each of them compelling and readable. McDonald manages to avoid the traps of condescension, or Orientalism, that lie in wait for the white Westerner writing about places that are neither of those things. A dervishly good book.

Hannu Rajaniemi The Quantum Thief (Gollancz). Rajaneimi's impressive debut is a heist-yarn set in a future solar system where the high-tech is so high as to be positively orbital. It's a cleverly inventive novel, nicely and unfussily intricate, and it has a lovely Dancers at the End of Time/Charles Stross/Greg Egan vibe to it. The science is rigorous, and the prose has a bracingly high quotient of neologisms and specificity, so much so that long stretches are perhaps rather too chewy. But, for all that, the word that comes uppermost in my mind when I think of this novel is: suave. Rajaniemi is a name to watch. And, indeed, to learn to pronounce correctly.

Francis Spufford Red Plenty (Faber). Spufford's fictionalised history of the middle decades of the Soviet Union's twentieth-century is beautifully written, compellingly characterised and achieves its huge ambition with a look-ma-no-hands effortlessness that looks almost (but isn't) show-offy. It's properly science fictional too, the science being speculatively extrapolated being economics rather than say physics. The fact that the BSFA have shortlisted Spufford's novel for their non-fiction award might wrongfoot dimmer minds than ours. We understand that this is a novel, not non-fiction. We see that the category of the BSFA's honour is nothing more than a testament to how convincingly Spufford has recreated his Soviet world.

Tricia Sullivan, Lightborn (Orbit). It took me a while to pick up Sullivan's new novel, because I'd got foolishly got the idea in my head that it was 'just another zombie novel' a genre I figured we'd seen enough of. I'm an idiot. Lightborn is no more 'just another zombie novel' than Proust is another book about baking. It is a powerful dramatisation of child-parent relations, an eloquent fabulation spun from a topic rarely handled in fiction (for all that it is an increasing concern of modern life): how do we cope when our parents succumb to dementia? Sullivan novum-izes this via a light-based consciousness technology called 'Shine' which, of course, malfunctions. As a consequence adults suffer chronic brain zaps, becoming either cataleptic, or trapped in manic or obsessive modes of behaviour. Children are unaffected and Sullivan's two main characters, the teenagers Roksana and Xavier, move through their city, Los Sombres, trying to figure out what is going on and how to care for these zombie-like (but assuredly not zombie) grown-ups. I found it an assured, absorbing and often moving novel. I wish I'd read it sooner.

Scarlett Thomas, Our Tragic Universe (Canongate; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). This limber metafiction about a writer living in a dead-end relationship in the West of England is a book of great charm and wit, one that deftly assimilates a great deal of observation, stuff and emotional wisdom to its deliberately open-ended story-lite structure. Meg (the writer) comes to wonder if her world is actually an Omega-point end-of-the-universe simulation, and Thomas plays cleverly with the coincidences and unsymmetries of life to get us wondering too. When I read it, months ago, it left me pleasantly nonplussed; but the longer it stays in my memory the more highly I find myself thinking of it.

Jean-Christophe Valtat, Aurorama (Melville). A nicely glitterfreeze exercise in Steampunk Victoriana, this, with lots to keep the reader engaged. Valtat's New Venice, an arctic settlement ruled by an courteous but dangerous secret police, is a splendidly ornate piece of worldbuilding; his two main characters are spicily enjoyable adventurers, and the incident-filled plot moves along briskly enough. Some of it is a bit over-familiar, and the Steampunk moment is surely behind us now; but Valtat generates many striking and beautiful moments here. It's not clear if the book is translated (no translator is listed) or if French national Valtat wrote it in English—if the latter, it's a positively Conradian stylistic achievement. Victoriantastic.

Charles Yu, How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe (Corvus; Pantheon) Yu's big-buzz debut is an idiosyncratic piece of work, and one of its idiosyncrasies is that trying to boil it down into a capsule review makes it sound considerably more lame than it actually is. (It is actually only 0.05% lame). So: it's the fictional memoir of a man called Charles Yu who works as a time-machine repair man in Minor Universe 31—a sciencefictional dimension, consisting of approximately 17 percent reality mixed in with all the best bits of SF. The novel is about him looking for his missing Dad, except that he spends most of the book bunking off, contemplating the nature of time and the universe, chatting with his artificial girlfriend and playing with Ed, his nonexistent but ontologically valid pet dog. But if this sounds precious, or indeed pretentious, then I can only say the experience of reading Yu's novel is neither of those things. On the contrary, this is a wonderfully warm, wise and often moving piece of fiction. It's whip-smart stuff, or smarter—Geek-smart perhaps. But it has heart too; a lovely piece of work.

Kada ce sve ovo prevesti na srpski? Nikada verovatno.

Ako će da prevode kao WIndup Girl, bolje da nikada ne prevedu.

The Dervish House se definitivno prevodi.

zakce, menaj ime topika

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You may remember the cover from my end of the year wrap-up as well as my words: The original Bordertown series (edited by Terri Windling) was massively influential on urban fantasy. It shook the foundations of the genre and I am so honored to be allowed to be part of this new book. Lots of stories by original contributors and also stories by people (like me!) for whom the Bordertown books were an important part of our coming up as writers.

WELCOME TO BORDERTOWN
edited by Holly Black & Ellen Kushner
with Introduction by series creator Terri Windling

Introduction - Terri Windling
Introduction - Holly Black
Bordertown Basics (Letter from the Diggers)
Welcome to Bordertown - Terri Windling & Ellen Kushner
Shannon's Law - Cory Doctorow
Cruel Sister (poem) - Patricia A. McKillip
Voice Like a Hole - Catherynne M. Valente
Stairs in Her Hair (song*) - Amal El-Mohtar
Incunabulum - Emma Bull
Run Back to the Border (song) - Steven Brust
Prince of Thirteen Days - Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Sages of Elsewhere - Will Shetterly
Soulja Grrrl: A Long Line Rap (song) - Jane Yolen
Crossings - Janni Lee Simner
Fair Trade (Comic) - Sara Ryan & Dylan Meconis
Lullabye: Night Song for a Halfie (song) - Jane Yolen
Our Stars, Our Selves - Tim Pratt
Elf Blood - Annette Curtis Klause
The Wall (poem) - Delia Sherman
Ours is the Prettiest - Nalo Hopkinson
We Do Not Come in Peace - Christopher Barzak
A Borderland Jump-Rope Rhyme (poem) - Jane Yolen
The Rowan Gentleman - Cassandra Clare & Holly Black
The Song of the Song (song) - Neil Gaiman
A Tangle of Green Men - Charles de Lint

The book will be published in hardcover by Random House on May 24, 2011. Woooo. Soon! And lots more fun stuff to come regarding it - including whatever we dream up at this meeting.

Holi Blek je odličan izbor za uređivanje ovakve zbirke.

poemz & songz...  xrotaeye

a kome to ne bude dosta, nek mi se javi za The Mammoth 1 & 2 Triše Telep... if only to attack the flanks of the would be flankers...yeeeiiihaaa....  :mrgreen:

Na koje tačno misliš? Ona ih ima bar desetak.

desetak...??!  :roll:

ja ti imam samo keca i dvojku, i dalje od toga ne mislim da skidam.  :oops:

Hmmm... Jedino što ima kec i dvojku, a da ja znam, je paranormalna romantika. A ona pride ima raznorazne romantike.

Quote from: LiBeat on 15-03-2011, 18:20:17
a kome to ne bude dosta, nek mi se javi za The Mammoth 1 & 2 Triše Telep

Da, misli na The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 1 i 2.

Ja to zapravo samo imam u kalibru, ali skroz omaškom, pa zato nisam ni čitala... mamemi...  :oops: :oops:

Jesmo li pominjali Eclipse 4? Nesto ne mogu da se setim da sam ranije naleteo na toc, a u opticaju je vec skoro 2 meseca  :( U svakom slucaju, obecava.

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Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
"Slow as a Bullet", Andy Duncan
"Tidal Forces", Caitlin R. Kiernan
"The Beancounter's Cat", Damien Broderick
"Story Kit", Kij Johnson
"The Man in Grey", Michael Swanwick
"Old Habits", Nalo Hopkinson
"The Vicar of Mars", Gwyneth Jones
"Fields of Gold", Rachel Swirsky
"Thought Experiment", Eileen Gunn
"The Double of My Double Is Not My Double", Jeffrey Ford
"Nine Muses", Emma Bull
"Dying Young", Peter M Ball
"The Panda Coin", Jo Walton
"Tourists", James Patrick Kelly

Ovo je must have!

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Two Worlds and in Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan, (Volume One)
by Caitlin R. Kiernan
(preorder—to be published September 2011)

Dust jacket by Lee Moyer

Limited: $60
Trade: $38

ISBN: 978-1-59606-391-4
Length: 576 pages

Caitlín R. Kiernan's short fiction was first published in 1995. Over the intervening decade and a half, she has proven not only one of dark fantasy and science fiction's most prolific and versatile authors, but, to quote Ramsey Campbell, "One of the most accomplished writers in the field, and very possibly the most lyrical." S. T. Joshi has written, "Kiernan's witchery of words creates a mesmerizing effect that we haven't seen since the days of Lovecraft and Bradbury."

Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (Volume One) presents a stunning retrospective of the first ten years of her work, a compilation of more than two hundred thousand words of short fiction, including many of her most acclaimed stories, as well as some of the author's personal favorites, several previously uncollected, hard-to-find pieces, and her sf novella, The Dry Salvages, and a rare collaboration with Poppy Z. Brite. Destined to become the definitive look at the early development of Kiernan's work, Two Worlds and In Between is a must for fans and collectors alike, as well as an unprecedented introduction to an author who, over the course of her career, has earned the praise of such luminaries as Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, Charles De Lint, and Clive Barker.

The Signed Limited Edition will feature sixteen pages of artwork from a variety of artists who've worked with Kiernan over the years, pages from her work on the DC/Vertigo comic The Dreaming, and a new chapbook, The Crimson Alphabet.

Limited: 600 signed numbered copies, bound in leather, with the bonus chapbook
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition

Table of Contents

    * Author's Introduction

Part One (1993-1999)

    * Emptiness Spoke Eloquent [1993]
    * Two Worlds, and In Between [1994]
    * To This Water (Johnstown, Pennsylvania 1889) [1994]
    * Tears Seven Times Salt [1994]
    * Breakfast in the House of the Rising Sun (Murder Ballad No. 1) [1995]
    * Estate [1996]
    * Rats Live on No Evil Star [1997]
    * Salmagundi (New York City, 1981) [1998]
    * Postcards from the King of Tides [1997]
    * Giants in the Earth [1995]
    * Zelda Fitzgerald in Ballet Attire [1995-1999]

Part Two (2000-2004)

    * Spindleshanks (New Orleans, 1956) [2000]
    * The Road of Pins [2001]
    * Onion [2001]
    * In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers [2001]
    * Night Story 1973 (with Poppy Z. Brite) [2001]
    * From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6 [2002]
    * Andromeda Among the Stones [2002]
    * La Peau Verte [2003]
    * Riding the White Bull [2003]
    * Waycross [2003]
    * The Dead and the Moonstruck [2004]
    * The Daughter of the Four of Pentacles [2004]
    * The Dry Salvages [2004]
    * The Worm in My Mind's Eye [2004]
    * Houses Under the Sea [2004]

    * Publication History
    * Ilustrations (Bonus in Limited)

A šta je ovo:

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Novi Mjevil, ovoga puta SF, za promenu :) Izasao u UK 28.04.mislim i vec je skupio dobrih kritika. Ja ga zeljno iscekujem, ali sticajem nekih bezveznih okolnosti, tek veceras cu ga naruciti.

Čini mi se da sam ga video u Delfima.

Hah, u medjuvremenu sam ga narucio (uz gomilu drugih knjiga) :) Ali nema veze, vazno da je dostupno i da je neka nasa knjizara nabavila nesto aktuelno.

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Here's the cover art for Blue Remembered Earth, the first book in the Poseidon's Children sequence by Alastair Reynolds. This new sequence will comprise three novels set at different points over 11,000 years of future history. The first novel focuses on an industrialised Africa as humanity settles the rest of the Solar system.

The novel is due out in the UK on 19 January 2012 and in the USA on 5 June 2012.

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Graham Joyce's new novel, Some Kind of Fairy Tale, is apparently a fresh take on the English 'woodland fantasy' subgenre (well-exemplified by Robert Holdstock's definitive Mythago Wood and Paul Kearney's A Different Kingdom) and will be published by Gollancz in the UK on 15 March with some nicely-understated cover art.

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2312 is Kim Stanley Robinson's next novel, a big epic set in and throughout the Solar system in the titular year. Sadly, the original plan to release the novel on 2 March (2/3/12 in the UK dating system) seems to have fallen through, with the novel currently scheduled for May instead. Orbit will be publishing in the UK with the suitably epic cover seen above.

Hebemu, jedva nadjoh topic "cekajuci nove knjige 2011". :)

"John Ajvide Lindqvist is rightly seen as one of the most exciting writers working in the horror genre at the moment – a rival, indeed, to Stephen King." --TheScotsman.com

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From the author of the international and New York Times bestseller Let the Right One In (Let Me In) comes this stunning and terrifying book which begins when a man's six-year-old daughter vanishes.One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While the couple explore the lighthouse, Maja disappears -- either into thin air or under thin ice -- leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to the island to regroup. He slowly realises that people are not telling him all they know; even his own mother, it seems, is keeping secrets. What is happening in Domaro, and what power does the sea have over the town's inhabitants?
As he did with Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a blockbuster cocktail of suspense in a narrative that barely pauses for breath.

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from SF Signal (http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FSfsignal?hl=en) by John(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.amazon.com%2Fimages%2FP%2F1597802816.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SL200_.jpg&hash=0ea89b2cf1d416326b300dd238bd564def16b85a) (http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1597802816/sfsignal-20)

Marty Halpern has posted the table of contents (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/10/alien-contact-anthology-table-of.html?utm_source=BP_recent) for his new anthology Alien Contact. Here is the anthology's complete table of contents, with links to each story's invidivual blog post on Marty's blog. In some instances, the entire text of the story was provided; in other instances, a link was provided to elsewhere online for the text and/or a podcast of the story.

   
• Marty Halpern -- "Introduction: Beginnings..." (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/04/alien-contact-anthology-beginnings.html)
• Paul McAuley -- "The Thought War" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/05/alien-contact-anthology-story-1.html)
• Neil Gaiman -- "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/05/alien-contact-anthology-story-2.html)
• Karen Joy Fowler -- "Face Value" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/05/alien-contact-anthology-story-3.html)
• Harry Turtledove -- "The Road Not Taken" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/05/alien-contact-anthology-story-4.html)
• George Alec Effinger -- "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/06/alien-contact-anthology-story-5.html)
• Stephen King --
• Pat Murphy -- "Recycling Strategies for the Inner City" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/06/alien-contact-anthology-story-7.html)
• Mike Resnick -- "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/06/alien-contact-anthology-story-8-43.html)
• Orson Scott Card -- "The Gold Bug" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/06/alien-contact-anthology-story-9_29.html)
• Bruce McAllister -- "Kin" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/07/alien-contact-anthology-story-10-kin-by.html)
• Ernest Hogan -- "Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's Song" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/07/alien-contact-anthology-story-11.html)
• Pat Cadigan -- "Angel" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/07/alien-contact-anthology-story-12.html)
• Ursula K. Le Guin -- "The First Contact with the Gorgonids" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/07/alien-contact-anthology-story-13.html)
• Adam-Troy Castro -- "Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/08/alien-contact-anthology-story-14.html)
• Michael Swanwick -- "A Midwinter's Tale" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/08/alien-contact-anthology-story-15.html)
• Mark W. Tiedemann -- "Texture of Other Ways" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/08/alien-contact-anthology-story-16.html)
• Cory Doctorow -- "To Go Boldly" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/08/alien-contact-anthology-story-17.html)-
• Elizabeth Moon -- "If Nudity Offends You" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/09/alien-contact-anthology-story-18.html)
• Nancy Kress -- "Laws of Survival" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/09/alien-contact-anthology-story-19.html)
• Jack Skillingstead -- "What You Are About to See" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/09/alien-contact-anthology-story-20.html)
• Robert Silverberg -- "Amanda and the Alien" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/09/alien-contact-anthology-story-21.html)
• Jeffrey Ford -- "Exo-Skeleton Town" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/09/alien-contact-anthology-story-22-exo.html)
• Molly Gloss -- "Lambing Season" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/10/alien-contact-anthology-story-23.html)
• Bruce Sterling -- "Swarm" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/10/alien-contact-anthology-story-24.html)
• Charles Stross -- "MAXO Signals" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/10/alien-contact-anthology-story-25.html)
• Stephen Baxter -- "Last Contact" (http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2011/10/alien-contact-anthology-story-26-last.html)

From the author of the international best seller The Gone-Away World--a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster's son and a retired secret agent who team up to save the world.

Joe Spork repairs clocks, a far cry from his late father, a flashy London gangster. But when Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. Joe's client, Edie Banister, is more than just a kindly old lady--she's a former superspy. And the device? It's a 1950s doomsday machine. And having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie's old arch-nemesis. With Joe's once-quiet world now populated with mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses, girls in pink leather, and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realizes that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she gave up years ago, and pick up his father's old gun...

Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Knopf (March 20, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307595951
ISBN-13: 978-0307595959
Shipping Weight: 1.9 pound

tnx to Oto

The short stories in this first collection by critically acclaimed writer Daryl Gregory run the gamut from science fiction to contemporary fantasy, with a few stories that defy easy classification. His characters may be neuroscientists, superhero sidekicks, middle-aged heroes of children's stories, or fantatics spreading a virus-borne religion, but they are all convincingly human.

Cover art by Antonello Silverini

"Facts do not begin to describe Daryl. Not describe him, not contain him, not constrain him. Both in person and in his fiction Daryl breaks the paltry bonds of fact. They cannot hold him. . . Read these stories for their human truths, for their inventiveness, for their verve. Most of all, read them for your own pleasure."  —Nancy Kress, author of Steal Against the Sky

"Brilliant...This is a collection for anyone who can think and feel.  From the beginning to the end, Unpossible and Other Stories grabbed me by the brain until my heart cried out in compassion.  It's a must-read book."  —James Van Pelt, author of Summer of the Apocalypse

"Amongst the most interesting of the newer writers to emerge in the past decade, and rapidly becoming one of the most unpredictable." —Gary K. Wolfe, Locus

Paperback: 276 pages
Publisher: Fairwood Press (Nov 2011)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1933846305
ISBN-13: 978-1933846309
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm

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Ovo će biti poslastica. Čovek je napisao tri veličanstvena romana, koji su prirodni nastavci jedan drugoga - kao tri strane iste medalje. Čitam čim izađe.

Monday, October 31, 2011

Last year we ran an article (http://fantasy-faction.com/2011/most-anticipated-fantasy-books-of-2011) where we chose our top 10 most anticipated novels for 2011. It proved overwhelmingly popular, amassing just shy of 20,000 hits! This year we decided to take things a little bit further though. Push a few boundaries.

We are going to do it in two phases. Phase one will be Fantasy-Faction's Top 10 novels to look forward to in 2012. Nothing different there right? Well, no, but it is Phase two, which will be exciting! Phase two will be... well, it's kind of a secret. But check back Wednesday and we think you'll be blown away with what we've come up with...

I guess we should start by saying; what a year 2011 was for Fantasy! Yet again we had some amazing books released. Débuts such as 'Prince of Thorns', 'Songs of the Earth' and 'Among Thieves' really stick out in my mind. Then we had the 'solidification' books, the books that proved that authors were as good as we hoped they were; Patrick Rothfuss's 'Wise Man's Fear' and Joe Abercrombie's 'The Heroes' are good examples. How about books from veterans such as: Steven Erikson, Jim Butcher and even the unexpected entry from G.R.R. Martin!!!
With such a good year for Fantasy in 2011, can 2012 really live up to it? Well, looking ahead I truly believe it can. We've got more big names in our top 10 and also a few débuts who are looking to shake things up a bit too. One thing that fantasy fans should stop and recognise is the foundation of new publishing label: 'Jo Fletcher Books'. Jo Fletcher is one of the most respected editors in the country and under her new label there are a huge amount of authors whose names you will soon be familiar with; Tom Pollock, Mazarkis Williams, Tom Fletcher, Will Elliott are just a few that spring to mind. This launch combined with the strengthening of the smaller labels and continued strong releases of the bigger labels confirms for me my beliefs.

Well, without further build up (and rambling) from me, let's move on to our top 10 releases of 2012 as chosen by our Readers, Twitter Fans, Forum Visitors and Goodreads Group Members.

The Alchemist of Souls by Anne Lyle
The Daemon Prism (Collegia Magica #2) by Carol Berg
The King's Blood (Dagger and the Coin #2) by Daniel Abraham
The King's Assassin (Memory of Flames #4) by Stephen Deas
The Skybound Sea (Aeon's Gate #3) by Sam Sykes

11. City of Dragons (The Rain Wilds Chronicles: Book Three) (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2F2012-6.jpg&hash=891bea853fc12d57e1776afe83fb4784b208afbd) (http://fantasy-faction.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2012-6.jpg)
You will see why we need a number 11 as we reach the peak of the list, but for now – just trust us, it's justified!

The Rain Wild Chronicles to date have included; 'The Dragon Keeper' and 'Dragon Haven'. The series was originally said to be just the two books, however Robin Hobb will release 'City of Dragons' early next year.
The Rain Wild Chronicles takes place in the years after the Liveship Traders trilogy, and runs concurrently with and following the events of the Tawny Man Trilogy. Unlike her earlier series, it is written in third-person narrative from the viewpoint of several of the key characters. The narrative joins these separate threads together as a party of malformed dragons, their human keepers and other supporters set out on a quest for the legendary Elderling city of Kelsingra.
To catch up with the series you technically only need to read the first two novels, however – you'd be rewarded greatly if you went back to the beginning of Hobb's career and began with 'Assassin's Apprentice'.
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10.Shadow Ops by Myke Cole (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2F2012-1.jpg&hash=6fa6eacba0c99b7b7fa539b0d39e0d230fe84449)
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The only Débutée in out Top 10 (shhhh – 11) and for good reason. For those who haven't heard of 'Myke Cole', he has been making a few waves lately. If you can't quite see it from the picture above, Peter V. Brett came out and told people that Myke's book was: "Black Hawk Down Meets the X-Men". Now, if that doesn't intrigue you, nothing will!!!
For a mil­len­nium, magic has been Latent in the world. Now, with the Great Reawak­ening, people are "coming up Latent," man­i­festing dan­gerous mag­ical abil­i­ties they often cannot con­trol. In response, the mil­i­tary estab­lishes the Super­nat­ural Oper­a­tions Corps (SOC), a deadly band of sor­cerers ded­i­cated to hunting down "Selfers" who use magic out­side gov­ern­ment con­trol. When army officer Oscar Britton comes up Latent with a rare and pro­hib­ited power, his life turns upside down. Trans­formed overnight from gov­ern­ment agent to public enemy number one, his attempt to stay alive and evade his former friends drives him into a shadow world he never knew lurked just below the sur­face of the one he's always lived in. He's about to learn that magic has changed all the rules he's ever known, and that his life isn't the only thing he's fighting for.
As this is Myke's first novel, all you need to do is pick up this first book and get reading! Having been lucky enough to read an ARC – I can tell you this book is a mile a minute and fantastic fun. Sadly, I've been condemned to silence though and cannot give you a full review until January... add it to your pre-order lists though... I swear you won't regret it (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-includes%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Ficon_wink.gif&hash=5c1b644146adfc7d60696b7d55d5bfcf65f33b44)
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9. Trinity Moon (Wild Hunt #2) by Elspeth Cooper (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2F2012-7.jpg&hash=b832b59bbf0da487cfcc4f199e232e103a8b196f) (http://fantasy-faction.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2012-7.jpg)
The next 3 on my list were almost impossible to put in any kind of order. Elspeth Cooper, Douglous Hulick and Mark Lawrence exploded onto the scene last year and came out top amongst the tens of début authors that hit our shelves earlier this year. Elspeth's poetic language, intriguing characters and solid magic system look like they will be taken to another level when book 2 is released in 2012.
Following the huge success of Elspeth's debut novel, 'Songs of the Earth', Trinity Moon ramps the saga up by ten. More characters, more danger, higher emotion and altogether more stunning set pieces. Commercially written, gripping and emotive from the first paragraph, Elspeth Cooper is a new fantasy star.
To catch up all you need to do is pick up the fantastic 'Songs of the Earth', which is book one in the series.
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8. Sworn in Steel (A Tale of the Kin #2) by Doug Hulick (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2F2012-2.jpg&hash=b757deea1a1a002aa34889404472c725a67ec354) (http://fantasy-faction.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2012-2.jpg)
Doug Hulick is one of the best first person writers writing today. He has a style reminiscent of those Raymond Chandler type P.I. books, but he puts you in a completely different setting and on the side of a character who is essentially a man who doesn't blink at stealing, snitching and murdering for decent pay. The first book was a mile a minute and we gave it an easy 5/5. The second book looks to expand the character of Drothe even further and we look forward to seeing where we go next!
It's been three months since Drothe killed a legend, burned down a portion of the imperial capital, and unexpectedly elevated himself into the ranks of the criminal elite. Now, as the newest Gray Prince in the underworld, he's learning just how good he used to have it.
With barely the beginnings of an organization to his name, Drothe is already being called out by other Gray Princes. And to make matters worse, when one dies, all signs point to Drothe as wielding the knife. As members of the Kin begin choosing sides – mostly against him – for what looks to be another impending war, Drothe is approached by a man who not only has the solution to Drothe's most pressing problem, but an offer of redemption. The only problem is the offer isn't for him.
Now Drothe finds himself on the way to the Despotate of Djan, the empire's long-standing enemy, with an offer to make and a price on his head. And the grains of sand in the hour glass are running out, fast...
To catch up simply check out 'Among Thieves' and enjoy a fantastic first person ride (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-includes%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Ficon_smile.gif&hash=64bc054f712e34870358a6e66cb37216e0721ed7)
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7. King of Thorns (Broken Empire #2) by Mark Lawrence (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2F2012-3.jpg&hash=c0d8374814587069e4d117433218a0050fadbee0) (http://fantasy-faction.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2012-3.jpg)
Disturbing, Beautiful, Chaotic, Poetic, Haunting, Exhilarating... Believe it or not these are all words I used to describe a single book. 'Prince of Thorns' the debut novel of British author; 'Mark Lawrence'. Something about Mark's first book rang true with me. We've all seen the young boy grows and becomes powerful type stories and more recently we've seen the grittier stories told with darker protagonists.
The Broken Empire burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lords and petty kings battle for the all-throne. The long road to avenge the slaughter of his mother and brother has shown Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath the hidden hands behind this endless war. He saw the game and vowed to sweep the board. First though he must gather his own pieces, learn the rules of play, and discover how to break them.
A six nation army, twenty thousand strong, marches toward Jorg's gates, led by a champion beloved of the people. Every decent man prays this shining hero will unite the empire and heal its wounds. Every omen says he will. Every good king knows to bend the knee in the face of overwhelming odds, if only to save their people and their lands. But King Jorg is not a good king.
Faced by an enemy many times his strength Jorg knows that he cannot win a fair fight. But playing fair was never part of Jorg's game plan.
Again, to catch up is simple, just pick up and read through the fantastic: 'Prince of Thorns'.
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6. Forge of Darkness (Kharkanas Trilogy #1) by Steven Erikson (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2F2012-13.jpg&hash=9cefdccc15d3ec0682eb74417127655faf9e9f22) (http://fantasy-faction.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2012-13.jpg)
Steven Erikson is one of the most well known Fantasy Writers around today and his Malazan books have become some of the most recognised within the genre. They start off a bit heavy; literally chucking you into the deep end, but those who make it past book one are rewarded for their staying power.
All I can tell you about this novel is what 'TheWertZone' has uncovered.
"Erikson's new book is set several hundred thousand years before the events of the main Malazan sequence and expands on the Tiste Andii and events in the city of Kharkanas (which appears, in a deserted state, in the main series novels). Anomander Rake is expected to feature heavily.
Erikson reports that the novel has come in at 292,000 words, noting that (ironically) this is 'short' by his standards. It falls between the length of Deadhouse Gates (272,000 words or over 900 pages in paperback) and House of Chains (306,000, or over 1,000 pages)."
To catch up and get a real feeling for the novel you are probably going to need to read Erikson's past 10 novels in the Malazan trilogy... enjoy!
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5. Railsea by China Mieville (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2F2012-12.jpg&hash=4d1124a70476a01967d9a5dc2a8072deba76a9c7) (http://fantasy-faction.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2012-12.jpg)
People seem to either love Mieville's work or simply 'not get it'. Simply put, this is because China's novels are pretty damned weird. His prose are poetic, but can sometimes take you on a bit of a trip. Those who do 'get it' though, really, really love his work and are on the edge of their seats in anticipation of his next novel.
All I can tell you guys is that 'Rail' and 'Sea' sounds kind of like some kind of train crossed with a boat? It is only 288 pages, so perhaps is going to be a YA book? As I find out more, we'll update you all.
I couldn't tell you what you'll need to do in order to be ready for this novel! China's work tends to vary between stand-alones and sequels and un-related sequels.
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4. Cold Days (Dresden Files #14) by Jim Butcher (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2F2012-10.jpg&hash=5670d03029f4aac67ebdbb7db4f9a93f8787d4ef)
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For those who have never heard of Harry Dresden, where have you been!? Harry Dresden is a Private Investigator who also has the added advantages (and disadvantages at times) of being a wizard. They are written in the sarcastic first person voice of Harry who tends to get hired in order to uncover the facts behind some kind of supernatural murder or crime.
The first couple of books were OK, nothing really breathtakingly brilliant about them, but from there they picked up and have quickly become fan favourites. Each novel is relatively short, but they certainly back a lot of great content in-between those covers.
I can't really say much about book 14 without completely ruining the previous 13 books and a HUGE plot twist in book 12/13 – so to catch up... read them! (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-includes%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Ficon_smile.gif&hash=64bc054f712e34870358a6e66cb37216e0721ed7)
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3. A Memory of Light: (Wheel of Time #14) by Brandon Sanderson (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2F2012-9.jpg&hash=577b5e4f304715fb00b6c086b76ce4bb8f407466) (http://fantasy-faction.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2012-9.jpg)
The Wheel of Time is one of the biggest and most successful Fantasy Series of all time.
A Memory of Light is the planned 14th and final book of the series. Sadly, as Robert Jordan passed away, it was for a while uncertain what would happen to the series which was at the time unfinished. To fans delight, talented author Brandon Sanderson picked up Jordan's notes and has all the skills and the backing to finish the series. His first 2 books (of the 3 that he wrote) have been well received. We actually had this in our top 10 to be released in 2011 last year... (now you see why we chose to run with 11!) but it is pretty much confirmed for 2012 (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-includes%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Ficon_smile.gif&hash=64bc054f712e34870358a6e66cb37216e0721ed7)
At the dawn of time, a deity known as the Creator forged the universe and the Wheel of Time, which, as it turns, spins all lives. The Wheel has seven spokes, each representing an age, and it rotates under the One Power, which flows from the True Source. Essentially composed of male and female halves (saidin and saidar) in opposition and in unison, this power turns the Wheel. Those humans who can use this power are known as channelers; the principal organization of such channelers in the books is called the Aes Sedai or 'Servants of All' in the Old Tongue.
To catch up... *gulp* you would need to read all 13 of the previous books, which are all in their own rights 'epic' ranging from about 600-800 pages I believe. Don't see it as such a bad thing though because I'm told (I haven't read this series) that it is one of the very best out there.
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2. The Republic of Thieves (The Gentlemen's Bastards #3) (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2FScottLynch.jpg&hash=a585d1120557440386697c13f2997c183ee2d637) (http://fantasy-faction.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ScottLynch.jpg)
It certainly seems absence makes the heart grow fonder. Lynch's book was in last years list too (although not quite second place) – perhaps  our interview with Scott a couple of months back, where he revealed his plans to really expand the series to a new level in book 3 means that our readers are anticipating it even further! Scott teased us with a short story in 2011, but it's republic of thieves we are all dying to read... after a number of false starts... will 2012 be the year it is released? Please Scott... Please make it so!!!
In the first book; After a devastating plague, a man known as the Thiefmaker pays off city guards to allow him to take newly-orphaned individuals, whom he plans to train as thieves. One orphan sneaks into the group of paid children, "thirty-one of thirty". The Thiefmaker soon discovers that this one child, Locke Lamora, is extremely clever but not "circumspect", and is a liability due to his lack of foresight or restraint. The Thiefmaker decides to sell Locke to Chains, a priest of the Nameless Thirteenth god, the Crooked Warden who protects thieves. Chains uses his temple as a front to operate the Gentlemen Bastards. They play confidence games on the city's richest citizens, in defiance of the Secret Peace (an unspoken agreement between the criminal underground and nobility that establishes a toleration of thievery and mischief in Camorr as long as the nobility is not targeted). Over time, Locke becomes known as the "Thorn of Camorr", an identity which is never linked to Locke, who maintains the pretence of being a perfectly ordinary sneak thief. The third book in this series will continue Lockes adventures.
To catch up you simply need to read the previous two books, both of which are highly enjoyable and offer some good variety.
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1. A Red Country by Joe Abercrombie (https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffantasy-faction.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2F2012-11.jpg&hash=713d08aa0ff4f944bcd1744fed10dc08a0f502b0) (http://fantasy-faction.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2012-11.jpg)
Who doesn't love Joe Abercrombie? He seems to have come from nowhere, taken his position as the face of 'Gritty' fantasy and relentlessly defended it over the past few years. It all began with his 'First Law Trilogy' and was then followed up brilliantly by 'Best Served Cold'. The forum and blogging communities seemed to come to an agreement that Joe's work had reached its peak in the brilliant 'Best Served Cold'. However, after releasing 'The Heroes' in January 2011, he proved that his writing is just getting better and better. I really don't think anyone was ready for the amount of 5 star reviews that it picked up or the spots on the best selling lists!
It is hard to put your finger on exactly what makes Joe Abercrombie such a fantastic author... perhaps if I had a few more fingers I'd point at fluent dialogue, unforced humour, stunningly complex characters and an ability to change settings and the types of stories he tells seamlessly. Congratulations to Joe for hitting the top spot of this list – let's hope it lives up to our extremely high expectations!
Some very sketchy details from Joe's blog: "my latest masterwork [is] workingly titled, 'A Red Country,' or possibly just, 'Red Country,' we will see on that score.  For those who have failed to follow this blog religiously for the past few months (shame on you faithless scum), it is another semi-standalone set in the world of The First Law, and fusing fantasy elements with western elements, in the same way that The Heroes was a fantasy/war story and Best Served Cold fantasy/thriller-ish.

Because so few details have been released so far, we cannot say for sure – but judged on 'The Heroes' you may well be able to get away with just reading '(A) Red Country' on its own. That being said, why on Earth would you want to do that? We implore you... no... demand you to go and pick up Joe's first 4 books... do it... do it now!!!
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We were lucky enough to catch up with Joe and get a comment from him upon presenting the award, this is what he had to say!
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'They say that a man should be humble in victory, to which I can only reply, why? What is the purpose of battle if one cannot build a bidet from the skulls of one's routed enemies? In spite of the several lesser works by lesser authors whose shattered corpses have been permitted to pollute the list, there was only ever going to be one winner. Indeed I am slightly disappointed that other possible as yet untitled, unwritten and uncontracted books by me did not occupy spaces 2-10. I will prepare my own list in which that is the case. Naturally I wish to thank everyone that voted, and the management of Fantasy Faction for the lavish cash prize which will presumably soon follow.'

Thursday, November 3, 2011

You've heard of: Gollancz, Tor, Voyager, Jo Fletcher, Solaris, Abaddon Books and Angry Robot, right? These are the publishing houses who are standing at the very forefront of our genre. Although rivals in a business sense, it is their combined dedication to bringing only the very highest level of fantasy novels to readers across our country that has seen Fantasy go from strength to strength in recent years.
When you look at how a book comes to market you come to realise the scale of what a publishing house does. Of course the writer creates the text, but the publishing house edits it, formats it, commissions cover art, decides what shelf it belongs on, picks a method to market it, negotiates with stores, organises signings and much, much more besides. What this means is that they build a huge bond with the books that they publish. When you begin meeting people within the industry you see that some of them seem to know the books as well as the authors!
Now, you may have seen Friday's article (http://fantasy-faction.com/2011/most-anticipated-fantasy-books-of-2012) where we looked ahead to our top 10 anticipated novels of 2012. The problem is though, we were just guessing. We haven't seen the writing or spoken to the authors and we certainly haven't been working busily away behind the scenes with them. Well, we know a few people who have... remember those publishing houses we mentioned earlier? Well, we approached each and every one of them and asked them: What exactly is it that you are looking forward to in 2012?

Not all of them could pick a 'top 5′, but all of them came back with 5 titles that we as fantasy fans should watch out for. What we present to you today Fantasy Fans is without doubt the most comprehensive list of books you need to keep an eye out for. It is a list made by people who spend their days working in the industry surrounded by books. So simply; who better to tell you what you should be looking out for in 2012?
The answer of course is no one, so enjoy your read through of what publishers across the country are most looking forward to in 2012.
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Irenicon by Aidan Harte – April A fabulous alternate history: Pavane meets The Sopranos, with a hefty dose of Rimbaldi artefacts from Alias, Irenicon has all the fun of Renaissance Italy, but with a sinister dark dimension.
A Cold Season by Alison Littlewood – January Fabulous novel from debut author Alison Littlewood. A cross between Rosemary¹s Baby and Dennis Wheatley, A Cold Season contains brilliant characterisation and chilling thrills.
The City's Son by Tom Pollock – June The first in The Skyscraper Throne trilogy, this is the story of a hidden London that is perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and China Mieville. Dedicated and feisty this novel will appeal to everyone from YA and beyond.
Mage's Blood by David Hair – July This is the first in The Moontide Quartet and as David Hair's YA fiction has already won him a devoted following in Australia, he is about to woo the world with this story of a world on the brink of cataclysm.
Blood's Pride by Evie Manieri – September This is an exciting new quest fantasy containing rich world-building, strong characterisation and a robust story that twists and turns to a tragic but satisfying conclusion.
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Empire State by Adam Christopher – January. There are so many reasons this book should be listed. It's our first book of the year (huzzah!). It's also Angry Robot's fiftieth book (double huzzah!). It's also the debut novel of a writer we first came to know through Twitter. It's also the first book to feature in Angry Robot's new WorldBuilder project, which allows fan writers, artists and other creatives to play in the world of the book. It's also (of course) a great novel – a superhero crime noir – which has already received dozens of positive endorsements from the best in the business. It was the last great science hero fight, but the energy blast ripped a hole in reality, and birthed the Empire State – a young, twisted parallel prohibition-era New York. When the rift starts to close, both worlds are threatened, and both must fight for the right to exist. An immensely fun read about a world torn apart, and the people trying to knit it back together.
Carpathia by Matt Forbeck – March. April 2012 sees the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, and the subsequent rescue of the survivors on the RMS Carpathia. Interestingly, the Carpathian mountains are the ones that surround Transylvania. Forbeck's book posits the question – what if the survivors of the Titanic were rescued by the Carpathia only to find it is inhabited by blood-sucking fiends? (Vampires, in this case, not bankers). Pure B-Movie thrills, where the lucky ones went down with the ship...
Alchemist of Souls by Anne Lyle – April Another debut author (we'll be publishing seven (ish) throughout 2012 – such is our commitment to discovering new talent). When Tudor explorers returned from the New World, they brought back a name out of half-forgotten Viking legend: skraylings. Red-sailed ships followed in the explorers' wake, bringing Native American goods – and a skrayling ambassador – to London. But what do these seemingly magical beings really want in Elizabeth I's capital? The first in the Nights Masque trilogy, and the start of what promises to be an amazing career for this superb fantasy writer.
Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig – May By the time Chuck's novel came to our attention he had already found a following due to his brilliantly subversive blog at terribleminds.com, where he exposes every myth about writing and publishing on a regular basis. His books for Angry Robot centre around Miriam Black – a troubled young woman with a terrible curse: when she touches you, she can see exactly how you will die, whether it's tomorrow, or fifty years from now. She manages to avoid getting involved, whenever she can, but what will happens when Miriam is tasked with solving a death she's going to unknowingly cause?
Strangeness and Charm by Mike Shevdon – June When Mike first signed with Angry Robot back in 2009, he was a debut author. We originally commissioned two books from him – Sixty-One Nails and The Road to Bedlam – the first two books in the Courts of the Feyre series. Superior urban fantasies, they immediately found an appreciative readership, so it was inevitable that we'd ask Mike to continue the story for us. We'll also be re-releasing books 1 and 2 alongside Strangeness and Charm, to enable new readers to catch up. For those of you who are already familiar with the stories: Alex has been saved from the fate that awaited her in Bedlam, but in freeing her, Niall has released others of their kind into the population – half-breed fey who have been mistreated, abused and tortured by the institution that was supposed to help them. Now, as Warder, he must find them and persuade them to swap their new-found liberty for security in the courts – but is the price of sanctuary to swap one cage for another?—
'A Crown Imperilled' by Raymond E. Feist – January Discover the fate of the original black Magician, Pug, and his crew of agents who safeguard the world of Midkemia, as prophecy becomes truth in the second book of the last ever Riftwar Cycle trilogy. This is a must read!
'City of Dragons' by Robin Hobb – April The third book in The Rain Wild Chronicles, following on from The Dragon Keeper and Dragon Haven, this is the continuation of a truly remarkable series from one of the doyennes of fantasy literature. Who has the courage to cross the raging Rain Wild river to reach the fabled city of Kelsingra? And what will happen when the tales of Kelsingra's riches reach the greedy ears in Bingtown and beyond? Hobb is the master of characterisation, and she doesn't falter for an instant here – pick up this series even if you haven't read any Hobb before, and you won't be disappointed.
'Sandman Slim' by Richard Kadrey – June Life sucks and then you die. Or, if you're James Stark, you spend eleven years in Hell as a hitman before finally escaping, only to land back in the hell-on-earth that is Los Angeles.
Now Stark's back, and ready for revenge. And absolution, and maybe even love. But when his first stop saddles him with an abusive talking head, Stark discovers that the road to absolution and revenge is much longer than you'd expect, and both Heaven and Hell have their own ideas for his future. Resurrection sucks. Saving the world is worse.
James Stark is a fantastic character and Kadrey has created a world in which he can flourish. The writing is sharp, the characters are fantastic and you will not be disappointed when you read it. Refreshingly awesome.
'King of Thorns' by Mark Lawrence – August The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lords and petty kings battle for the Broken Empire. The long road to avenge the slaughter of his mother and brother has shown Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath the hidden hands behind this endless war. He saw the game and vowed to sweep the board. First though he must gather his own pieces, learn the rules of play, and discover how to break them...
The highly anticipated sequel to Mark Lawrence's brutal-but-beautiful debut, Prince of Thorns, King of Thorns will see Jorg transition from boyhood into a man – but at what price to the Broken Empire? Mark is an author that continues to astound, shock, and awe with every word. A must read next August.
'Fever' by Lauren DeStefano – February Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago – surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness.
In the sequel to Lauren DeStefano's harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price – now that she has more to lose than ever. The story is hauntingly beautiful and Fever is the second part in what promises to be a remarkable trilogy.
'Earth Girl' by Janet Edwards – June 2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can't travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make. She's an 'ape', a 'throwback', but this is one ape girl who won't give in. But can she prove to the norms that she's more than just an Earth Girl?
This is YA science fiction with a smart, feisty heroine, incredible world-building and plenty of wit. Earth Girl is set in a distant future where humanity has learned how to portal off-world and explore other parts of the universe... except for those unfortunate few whose immune system can't handle living anywhere else but Earth. Jarra is one of those few, but she's determined to prove that just because she's confined to the planet, doesn't mean she can't reach for the stars.
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BABYLON STEEL – GAIE SEBOLD – JANUARY 2012 It's always nice to find a brilliant new author in fantasy. Babylon Steel is one of the most entertaining fantasies I've read, but what makes Gaie stand out from the crowd is that she writes about sex and sexuality so well. Not only is this a great adventure novel, but it's also a work about sexual freedom, fighting against prejudice and the choices we make in our emotional and sexual lives. In having the main character of the novel the madam of a brothel, Gaie has already made a brave choice, but it is what happens to Babylon and how profoundly she is changed by the events of this novel that make this such a fascinating read.
GREATSHADOW – JAMES MAXEY – FEBRUARY 2012 After having talked to James at World Fantasy Con a couple of years ago, it was clear that the time was right to work with him on a new project. What James manages to do with Greatshadow is no mean trick. Not only is this a solid fantasy novel, but it's also a super-hero novel and it has a kick-ass dragon at the centre of the plot. James seems to channel the spirit of Rider Haggard when he writes, while adding his own unique take on the genre. This novel is playful, witty and wise and, as the beginning of a new trilogy, you couldn't hope for a better opener.
DARK NORTH – PAUL FINCH – MARCH 2012 This is the second novel from Paul I'll have published but I've been reading Paul's dark and gritty fiction for a while now, and when he pitched for Mallory's Knights of Albion it was clear that his take on fantasy would add a fresh new voice to the series. This is both historical fantasy and Lovecraftian horror and Finch does a brilliant job of blending the two genres.
BESIEGED – ROWENA CORY DANIELLS – JULY 2012 It's great to be bringing Rowena back for a new series and The Outcast Chronicles is easily her most ambitious work yet. We all loved the King Rolen's Kin trilogy and what Rowena has achieved here is something entirely on a par, while being yet more rich and complex. In Rowena's world of the T'En, magic is linked to desire and sexual awakening. When you factor this into a world divided very rigorously along matriarchal and patriarchal lines it makes for fascinating conflicts. This promises to be a rich and epic narrative that will draw new readers and established fans alike.
BLOOD AND FEATHERS – LOU MORGAN – AUGUST 2012 Another debut and it's a delight to introduce people to such a distinctive new voice in urban fantasy. Lou pitched this as Alice in Wonderland goes to hell and that's not far off the truth. It's about the search for a family set against the backdrop of the continuing war against heaven and hell. Lou's angels are funny and wise, and sometimes utterly horrifying. The characterisation and dialogue really sparkle here, in a novel that is as heart-breaking as it is thrilling.
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THE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES – SCOTT LYNCH, March 15, 2012 He's back! The long-awaited return of the most exciting new commercial fantasy writer of the 21st century, Scott Lynch, and the most loveable of fantasy rogues: Locke Lamora! Readers have patiently awaiting this new story in 2012, their patience will finally be rewarded with the release of the year's most anticipated fantasy novel.
SOME KIND OF FAIRYTALE- GRAHAM JOYCE, March 15, 2012 A beautiful and very English fairytale from an award-winning master of his craft, Graham Joyce. A missing young woman, thought dead and gone by her family, returns unexpectedly one Christmas, full of stories of her adventures around the world. Nothing she says adds up though and top he brother, it sounds like she's been away with the fairies... and just maybe she has.
TRINITY MOON – ELSPETH COOPER – April Following the huge success of Elspeth's debut novel, 'Songs of the Earth', Trinity Moon ramps the saga up by ten. More characters, more danger, higher emotion and altogether more stunning set pieces. Commercially written, gripping and emotive from the first paragraph, Elspeth Cooper is a new fantasy star.
THE TRAITORS SON CYCLE: BOOK ONE – MILES CAMERON – June Miles Cameron is going to get mediaeval on your fantasy . . . and you're about the meet the toughest, meanest knight in history. He and his company are professional killers – dragon slayers, mercenaries and demon killers. If something big and nasty is killing people, he and his mobile army will put it down for good. He is the best at what he does. He is more than he seems. He is about to square off against something far, far more dangerous than he expected . . .This is a great setting, an amazing character and a brilliant story. More: this is fantasy made real. Hold on to your helmet, we're going dragon slaying for real . . .
DESTINY QUEST: LEGION OF SHADOW – MICHAEL J WARD – May Fantasy goes retro as the classic adventure gaming books of the 80s smash their way into the 21st Century with the Destiny Quest series. Heft you pencil, wield your dice and prepare for an old school adventure with a modern edge as you control the fate of your character through a gripping fantasy narrative. Originally self-published, Destiny Quest will introduce the phenomenon of fantasy gaming to a whole new generation.
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Forge of Darkness – Steve Erikson Having completed his genre-defining ten book 'Malazan Book of the Fallen' epic fantasy sequence, with The Crippled God (out in paperback in the New Year) STEVEN ERIKSON powers onwards with Forge of Darkness. Still set in the world of Malaz, it's the first novel in what is, I know, going to be a breathtaking new trilogy and one of the most eagerly awaited titles of 2012.
The Long Earth – Stephen Baxter & Terry Pratchett And talking of eagerly awaited, The Long Earth is the first novel in a planned series by two colossuses (should that be colossi?) of the genre world –SF polymath STEPHEN BAXTER and none other than the UK's bestselling fantasy writer, TERRY PRATCHETT – and must surely be the high point in every genre reader's year.
Apocalypse Cow – Michael Logan & Half Sick of Shadows – David Logan And talking of TERRY PRATCHETT. In 2010, we launched the first ever Terry Pratchett 'Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now' Debut Novel Prize and in 2012 we're extremely proud and rather excited to be publishing the joint winners – MICHAEL LOGAN's riotous zombies-with-a-difference novel, Apocalypse Cow – 'forget cud, they want blood' – and the seductive Half Sick of Shadows by DAVID LOGAN (no relation) which plays sly games with Time and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
The Devil's Looking Glass – Mark Chadbourn MARK CHADBOURN's a particular favourite of mine and he brings his swashbuckling historical fantasy trilogy – 'The Swords of Albion' – to a close with The Devil's Looking-Glass which finds Will Swyfte, Elizabethan England's answer to James Bond sailing the high seas in pursuit of England's most ancient foe...
A New Dragons of Pern Book – Anne & Tood McCaffrey And lastly – if I must – I can't go without mentioning a new novel from one of fantasy's most respected names: McCAFFREY (ANNE , writing with her son, TODD). It doesn't yet have a title but it's a 'Dragons of Pern' book and will a must for all fans.
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The beloved 'Chloe Healy' from Tor was travelling New York City – How lucky is she! (I actually think it's work related – so perhaps not?). Anyway, having to e-mail me back quickly from across the pond she has expressed her wish to rave about and discuss five of the following titles at a later date. As soon as Chloe can get back to me I'll update the page and tweet you all about it, for now though, enjoy her rather cheeky list (seeing that there are 8!).
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled – Alden Bell
Untitled (Deepgate 2) – Alan Campbell
Sworn in Steel – Douglas Hulick
Stormdancer – Jay Kristoff
Untitled (Book 4) – Mark Charan Newton
Untitled ( Shadows of Apt 8 ) – Adrian Tchaikovsky
Cops and Monsters – Paul Cornell
So Deep A Malice – John Gwynne
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Well, that just about Raps it up for us guys and girls! I hope you've enjoyed this huge, huge list of titles as much as I have. The bad news is of course you will probably be a couple hundred pounds worse off in a few hours time... Damned Amazon's Pre-Order Lists!!!

@zakk  xremyb

We're proud to announce the pub­li­ca­tion by Atlantic's Corvus imprint
of The Weird: A Com­pendium of Strange and Dark Fic­tions. We have col­lected over one hun­dred years of weird fic­tion in a sin­gle vol­ume of over 750,000 words, start­ing from around 1908 and end­ing in 2010. More than eigh­teen nation­al­i­ties are rep­re­sented and seven new trans­la­tions were com­mis­sioned for the book, most notably defin­i­tive trans­la­tions, by Gio Clair­val, of Julio Cortazar's "Axolotl" and Michel Bernanos' short novel "The Other Side of the Moun­tain" (the first trans­la­tions of these clas­sics in over fifty years). The pub­lish­ers believe this is the largest vol­ume of weird fic­tion ever housed between the cov­ers of one book.

Strands of The Weird rep­re­sented include clas­sic US/UK weird tales, the Bel­gian School of the Weird, Japan­ese weird, Latin Amer­i­can weird, Niger­ian weird, weird SF, Fem­i­nist weird, weird rit­ual, gen­eral inter­na­tional weird, and off­shoots of the weird orig­i­nat­ing with Sur­re­al­ism, Sym­bol­ism, and the Deca­dent movement.

Although anchored in many famil­iar and iconic names — includ­ing Stephen King, Shirley Jack­son, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavia But­ler, Clive Barker and George R.R. Mar­tin — The Weird also gave us an oppor­tu­nity to show­case sev­eral great writ­ers not as well known to read­ers of the weird. French mas­ter of weird fic­tion Claude Seignolle, for exam­ple, is rep­re­sented herein with "Ghoul­bird." Read­ers will also be delighted to dis­cover the work of the great Cata­lan writer Merce Rodor­eda (with the phan­tas­magor­i­cal "Sala­man­der"), grotes­queries by Eng­lish sur­re­al­ist Leonora Car­ring­ton, an excerpt from Kafka pre­cur­sor Alfred Kubin's cult clas­sic The Other Side, and Hagi­wara Sakutoro's quin­tes­sen­tial rumi­na­tion on the bound­ary between real­ity and the weird, "The Town of Cats."

Other high­lights include the short nov­els / long novel­las "The Beak Doc­tor" by Eric Basso, "Tainaron" by Leena Krohn, and "The Broth­er­hood of Muti­la­tion" by Brian Evenson.
"An irre­sistible sleep­ing sick­ness had Pearl in its grip. It broke out in the Archive and from there spread across the whole of the Realm." - Alfred Kubin, The Other Side (the begin­ning of the excerpt)



"I have often heard it scream. No, I am not ner­vous, I am not imag­i­na­tive, and I have never believed in ghosts, unless that thing is one." - F. Mar­ion Craw­ford, "The Scream­ing Skull"



"After leav­ing Vienna, and long before you come to Buda-Pesth, the Danube enters a region of sin­gu­lar lone­li­ness and des­o­la­tion, where its waters spread away on all sides regard­less of a main chan­nel, and the coun­try becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, cov­ered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes." - Alger­non Black­wood, "The Willows"



"Con­radin was ten years old, and the doc­tor had pro­nounced his pro­fes­sional opin­ion that the boy would not live another five years." - Saki, "Sredni Vashtar"



"April 15th, 190– Dear Sir, I am requested by the Coun­cil of the —- Asso­ci­a­tion to return to you the draft of the paper on The Truth of Alchemy, which you have been good enough to offer to read at our forth­com­ing meet­ing, and to inform you that the Coun­cil do not see their way to includ­ing it in this pro­gramme." - M.R. James, "Cast­ing The Runes"



"Despite the adver­tise­ments of rival firms, it is prob­a­bly that every trades­man knows that nobody in busi­ness at the present time has a posi­tion equal to that of Mr. Nuth"  - Lord Dun­sany, "How Nuth Would Have Prac­ticed His Art Upon The Gnoles"



"Melanchthon was danc­ing with the Bat, whose cos­tume rep­re­sented her in an inverted posi­tion."  - Gus­tav Meyrink, "The Man in the Bottle"



"The dead man lay alone and naked on a white cloth in a wide room, sur­rounded by depress­ing white walls, in the cruel sobri­ety of a dis­sec­tion room that seemed to shiver with the screams of an end­less tor­ture." - Georg Heym, "The Dis­sec­tion" (trans­lated by Gio Clairval)



"When Richard Brac­que­mont, med­ical stu­dent, decided to move into Room No. 7 of the lit­tle Hotel Stevens at 6 Rue Alfred Stevens, three peo­ple had already hanged them­selves from the window-sash of the room on three suc­ces­sive Fri­days." - Hans Heinz Ewers, "The Spider"



"My kins­man and myself were return­ing to Cal­cutta from our Puja trip when we met the man in a train." - Rabindranath Tagore, "The Hun­gry Stones"



"The fol­low­ing is the story told to me by the green man: 'It is only nat­ural, Sir, that you are sur­prised by the color of my face...'" - Luigi Ugolini, "The Veg­etable Man" (trans­lated by Bren­dan and Anna Connell)



"North of us a shaft of light shot half way to the zenith. It came from behind the five peaks." - A. Mer­ritt, "The Peo­ple of the Pit"



"Nei­ther in the past nor in the time to come could one imag­ine a per­son com­pa­ra­ble to the High Lord of Horikawa. I heard that, before his birth, Dai Itoku-Myo-o, the King of Mag­i­cal Sci­ence, appeared at his mother's bed­side." - Ryuno­suke Aku­ta­gawa, "The Hell Screen"



"I had been din­ing with my ever-interesting friend Mark Jenk­ins, at the lit­tle Ital­ian restau­rant near South Street." - Fran­cis Stevens, "Unseen – Unfeared" (pen name of Gertrude Bar­rows Bennett)



"'It's a remark­able appa­ra­tus,' said the Offi­cer to the Explorer and gazed with cer­tain look of admi­ra­tion at the device, with which he was, of course, thor­oughly famil­iar." - Franz Kafka, "In the Penal Colony"



"I was a young jour­ney­man at that time, like you, my dear boys, and I worked like a house on fire." - Ste­fan Gra­bin­ski, "The White Wyrak"



"There is some­thing ungodly about these night wire jobs." - H.F. Arnold, "The Night Wire"



"When a trav­eler in north cen­tral Mass­a­chu­setts takes the wrong fork at the junc­tion of Ayles­bury pike just beyond Dean's Cor­ners he comes upon a lonely and curi­ous coun­try." - H.P. Love­craft, "The Dun­wich Horror"



"On a foggy night in Novem­ber, Mr. Cor­bett, hav­ing guessed the mur­derer by the third chap­ter of his detec­tive story, arose in dis­ap­point­ment from his bed and went down­stairs in search of some­thing more sat­is­fac­tory to send him to sleep." - Mar­garet Irwin, "The Book"



"A man who is about to die is not likely to be very ele­gant in his last words: being in a hurry to sum up his whole life, he tends to make them rig­or­ously con­cise." - Jean Ray, "The Mainz Psalter"



"On a Rot­ter­dam dock, winches were fish­ing bales of old paper from the hold of a freighter. The wind was flut­ter­ing the mul­ti­col­ored stream­ers that hung from the bales when one of them burst open like a cask in a roar­ing fire." - Jean Ray, "The Shad­owy Street"



"'It is a very strange place,' said Amberville, 'but I scarcely know how to con­vey the impres­sion it made upon me.'" - Clark Ash­ton Smith, "Genius Loci"



"The qual­ity that incites the desire for travel has grad­u­ally dis­ap­peared from my fan­tasies." - Hagi­wara Saku­taro, "The Town of Cats"



"As Fos­ter moved uncon­sciously across the room, bent towards the book­case, and stood lean­ing for­ward a lit­tle, choos­ing now one book, now another with his eye, his host, see­ing the mus­cles of the back of his thin, scraggy neck stand out above his low flan­nel col­lar, thought of the ease with which he could squeeze that throat and the plea­sure, the tri­umphant, lust­ful plea­sure, that such an action would give him." - Hugh Wal­pole, "The Tarn"



"The jour­ney was long. The train, which ran only once a week on that for­got­ten branch line, car­ried no more than a few pas­sen­gers."- Bruno Schulz, "Sana­to­rium Under the Sign of the Hourglass"



"With a roar and a howl the thing was upon us, out of total dark­ness." - Robert Bar­bour John­son, "Far Below"



"Miss Mil­lick won­dered just what had hap­pened to Mr. Wran. He kept mak­ing the strangest remarks when she took dic­ta­tion. Just this morn­ing he had quickly turned around and asked, 'Have you ever seen a ghost, Miss Mil­lick?'" - Fritz Leiber, "Smoke Ghost"



"The time has come that I must tell the events which began in 40 Pest Street." - Leonora Car­ring­ton, "White Rabbits"



"It is less than five hun­dred years since an entire half of the world was dis­cov­ered." - Don­ald A. Woll­heim, "Mimic"



"Mr. Spall­ner put his hands over his face." - Ray Brad­bury, "The Crowd"



"Have you ever wrung dry a wet cloth? Wrung it bone white dry – with only the grip of your fin­gers and the mus­cles of your arms? If you have done this, you will under­stand bet­ter the sit­u­a­tion of the cap­tive at Device Z when the war­dens set them the task of the long sheet." –William San­som, "The Long Sheet"



"That same swel­ter­ing morn­ing that Beat­riz Viterbo died, after an impe­ri­ous con­fronta­tion with her ill­ness in which she had never for an instant stooped to either sen­ti­men­tal­ity or fear, I noticed that a new adver­tise­ment for some cig­a­rettes or other (blondes, I believe they were) had been posted on the iron bill­boards of the Plaza Con­sti­tu­cion; the fact deeply grieved me, for I real­ized that the vast unceas­ing uni­verse was already grow­ing away from her, and that this change was but the first in an infi­nite series." - Jorge Luis Borges, "The Aleph"



"When I was eleven years old, one of my uncles one day took me along with him to his farm." - Oympe Bhely-Quenum, "A Child in the Bush of Ghosts"



"The Allisons' coun­try cot­tage, seven miles from the near­est town, was set pret­tily on a hill; from three sides it looked down on soft trees and grass that sel­dom, even at mid­sum­mer, lay still and dry." - Shirley Jack­son, "The Sum­mer People"



"The gnoles had a bad rep­u­ta­tion, and Mortensen was quite aware of this." - Mar­garet St. Clair, "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles"



"At first there were just the two of them – he and she, together. That's the way it was when they bought the house." - Robert Bloch, "The Hun­gry House"



"He was a beau­ti­ful 'com­plete' gen­tle­man, he dressed with the finest and most costly clothes, all the parts of his body were com­pleted, he was a tall man but stout." - Amos Tutuola, "The Com­plete Gentleman"



"Aunt Amy was out on the front porch, rock­ing back and forth in the high-backed chair and fan­ning her­self, when Bill Soames rode his bicy­cle up the road and stopped in front of the house." - Jerome Bixby, "'It's a Good Life'"



"'Less strange, although with­out a doubt more exem­plary,' the other man then said, 'is the story of Mr. Percy Tay­lor, head­hunter in the Ama­zon jun­gle." - Augusto Mon­ter­roso, "Mis­ter Tay­lor" (trans­la­tion by Larry Nolen)



"There was a time when I thought quite often about the Axolotl." - Julio Cor­tazar, "Axolotl"



"Once a young man was on a visit to Rome." - William San­som, "A Woman Sel­dom Found"



"The Ger­many of that time was a land of val­leys and moun­tains and swift dark rivers, a green and fer­tile land where every­thing grew tall and straight out of the earth." - Charles Beau­mont, "The Howl­ing Man"



"That night I hated Father. He smelt of cab­bage. There was cig­a­rette ash all over his trousers." - Mervyn Peake, "Same Time, Same Place"



"When Ste­fano Roi turned twelve as a birth­day gift he asked his father, a sea cap­tain and the mas­ter of a fine sail­ing ship, to be taken on board." - Dino Buz­zati, "The Colomber" (trans­la­tion by Gio Clairval)



"I had just turned eigh­teen when, after a night of drink­ing, the hand of a friend guided mine into sign­ing myself onboard a galleon for one year." - Michel Bernanos, "The Other Side of the Moun­tain" (trans­la­tion by Gio Clairval)



"I strolled down to the water, beneath the wil­low tree and the water­cress bed. When I read the pond I knelt down. As always, the frogs gath­ered around me." - Merce Rodor­eda, "The Salamander"



"My old friend, Dr. *** from Chateau­roux, had rec­om­mended that I visit the manor of Guernipin in Brenne, between Mezieres and Ros­nay, if the mas­ter of the house was kind enough to invite me, his mood being such that he was sel­dom inclined to grant the requests of the strangers who solicited him." - Claude Seignolle, "The Ghoul­bird" (trans­la­tion by Gio Clairval)



"I felt we made an embar­rass­ing con­trast to the open seren­ity of the scene around us." - Gahan Wil­son, "The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be"



"'Don't look now,' John said to his wife, 'but there are a cou­ple of old girls two tables away who are try­ing to hyp­no­tise me.'" - Daphne du Mau­rier, "Don't Look Now"



"It was some­where at the back of beyond. May­bury would have found it dif­fi­cult to be more pre­cise." - Robert Aick­man, "The Hospice"



"If you leave L.A. by way of San Bernardino, headed for Route 66 and points east you must cross the Mojave Desert." - Den­nis Etchi­son, "It Only Comes Out At Night"



"He comes shyly hope­ful into the lab. He is unable to sup­press this child­ish­ness which has dev­iled him all his life, this ten­dency to wake up smil­ing, believ­ing for an instant that today will be dif­fer­ent." - James Tip­tree, Jr., "The Psy­chol­o­gist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats"



"Now I will try to keep awake. The fog. They must have come for me before morn­ing." - Eric Basso, "The Beak Doctor"



"Imme­di­ately on wish­ing my mother dead and see­ing the pain it caused her, I was sorry and cried so many tears that all the earth around me was drenched." - Jamaica Kin­caid, "My Mother"



"Simon Kress lived alone in a sprawl­ing manor house among the dry, rocky hills fifty kilo­me­ters from the city. So, when he was called away unex­pect­edly on busi­ness, he had no neigh­bors he could con­ve­niently impose on to take his pets." - George R. R. Mar­tin, "Sandkings"



'"We don't know what the hell's going on out there,' they told Gilson in Wash­ing­ton." - Bob Leman, "Window"



"He'd had an almost unbear­able day. As he walked home his self-control still oppressed him, like rusty armour." – Ram­sey Camp­bell, "The Brood"



"Dr. Win­ter stepped out of the tiny Grey­hound sta­tion and into the mid­night street that smelled of pines." - Michael Shea, "The Autopsy"



"It might have been in Club Jus­tine, or Jimbo's, or Sad Jack's, or the Rafters; Coretti could never be sure where he'd first seen her." - William Gib­son and John Shirley, "The Belong­ing Kind"



"Egnaro is a secret known to every­one but your­self." - M. John Har­ri­son, "Egnaro"



"Dear _______:  Do you like cats? I never asked you." - Joanna Russ, "The Lit­tle Dirty Girl"



"When I first arrived here it was after a hideous jour­ney." - M. John Har­ri­son, "The New Rays"



"When Sat­urn and Mars come together, you may also dis­cover Tele­napota." - Pre­men­dra Mitra, "The Dis­cov­ery of Telenapota"



"I was lying on the floor watch­ing TV and exer­cis­ing what was left of my legs when the newscaster's jaw col­lapsed." - F. Paul Wil­son, "Soft"



"My last night of child­hood began with a visit home. T'Gatoi's sis­ter had given us two ster­ile eggs. T'Gatoi gave one to my mother, brother, and sis­ters. She insisted that I eat the other one alone." - Octavia E. But­ler, "Bloodchild"



"It wasn't until the first week of the Yugosla­vian trip that Mick dis­cov­ered what a polit­i­cal bigot he'd cho­sen as a lover." - Clive Barker, "In the Hills, the Cities"



"How could I for­get the spring when we walked in the University's botan­i­cal gar­dens; for there is such a park here in Tainaron, too, large and care­fully tended." - Leena Krohn, Tainaron: Mail From Another City



"There lived, high above the empty streets in a tall build­ing, an old woman whose pet cat had recently died. In those days cats were rare and the woman had not the means to pur­chase another." – Garry Kil­worth, "Hog­foot Right and Bird-Hands"



"This lit­tle gook cadre with a pit­ted com­plex­ion drove me through the heart of Saigon – I couldn't relate to it as Ho Chi Minh City – and checked me into the Hotel Heroes of Tet, a place that must have been qui­etly ele­gant and very French back in the days when phi­los­o­phy was dis­cussed over Coin­treau rather than prac­ticed in the street, but now was filled with cheap production-line fur­ni­ture and tinted pho­tographs of Uncle Ho." - Lucius Shep­ard, "Shades"



"McGrath awoke sud­denly, just in time to see a huge mouth filled with small, sharp teeth clos­ing in his side." - Har­lan Elli­son, "The Func­tion of Dream Sleep"



"I was at work one day when a man came up to me and asked me my name." - Ben Okri, "Worlds That Flourish"



"Our heart stops." - Eliz­a­beth Hand, "The Boy in the Tree"



"The days were brief and atten­u­ated and the sea­son appeared to be fixed – nei­ther sum­mer nor win­ter, spring nor fall." - Joyce Carol Oates, "Family"



"'To the trea­sures and the plea­sures of the grave,' said my friend Louis, and raised his gob­let of absinthe to me in drunken bene­dic­tion." - Poppy Z. Brite, "His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood"



"As I am pass­ing, I hear a pathetic call for help from a ground-floor win­dow. I clam­ber up to the sill and jump into the room; I find myself in a room with heavy dark fur­ni­ture, with tassel-edged cov­ers, with moun­tains of var­ie­gated lit­tle cush­ions, with a dark­ened paint­ing of the Bay of Naples on the wall." - Michal Ajvaz, "The End of the Garden"



"In the sum­mer of 1954, Anna and Richard Becker dis­ap­peared from Yosemite National Park along with Paul Becker, their three-year-old son." - Karen Joy Fowler, "The Dark"



"Like wings. Rap­tur­ous as the muted screams, lush the beat­ing of air through chip­board walls, lus­cious like sex and oh, my, far more for­bid­den: what­ever it was, Lurleen knew it was wrong." - Kathe Koja, "Angels in Love"



"My husband's an Ice Man." - Haruki Murakami, "The Ice Man"



"Walk­ing through gray north Lon­don to the tube sta­tion, feel­ing guilty that he hadn't let Jenny drive him to work and yet relieved to have escaped another point­less argu­ment, Stu­art Holder glanced down at a pave­ment cov­ered in a leaf-fall of fast-food car­tons and white paper bags and saw, amid the dog turds, beer cans, and dead cig­a­rettes, some­thing hor­ri­ble." - Lisa Tut­tle, "Replacements"



"'You'll like this,' said Scha­ef­fer as he let Brovnik into the apart­ment. 'She was a pho­tog­ra­pher.'" - Marc Laid­law, "The Diane Arbus Sui­cide Portfolio"



"Gard­ner was drown­ing, and strangers were lay­ing hands on the bones of my fore­bears." - Steven Utley, "The Coun­try Doctor"



"Every morn­ing I drive the same route I drove when I still had to work." - Mar­tin Simp­son, "Last Rites and Resurrections"



"The hotel's owner and man­ager, George Hume, sat on the edge of his bed and smoked a cig­a­rette. 'The Franklins arrived today,' he said." - William Brown­ing Spencer, "The Ocean and All Its Devices"



"The Del­i­cate is pale, limbs pipe-cleaner thin, with a head as shiny hard as beetle-back." - Jef­frey Ford, "The Delicate"



"I am now a very old man and this is some­thing which hap­pened to me when I was very young – only nine years old." - Stephen King, "The Man in the Black Suit"



"The motor stalled in the mid­dle of a snowy land­scape, lodged in a rut, wouldn't budge an inch." - Angela Carter, "The Snow Pavilion"



"They humped it over metal hills and down through tor­tured val­leys of scrap and smok­ing slag." - Craig Padawer, "The Meat Garden"



"In the vast desert known as Ore­gon, dur­ing the peak years of the Bovine Brain Rot, a poor old woman lived all by her­self, in a hovel in a grave­yard." - Stepan Chap­man, "The Stiff and the Stile"



"Com­ing down to the old house was at first inter­est­ing, and then depress­ing." - Tanith Lee, "Yel­low and Red"



"'When you're Dead,' Saman­tha says, 'you don't have to brush your teeth...'" - Kelly Link, "The Specialist's Hat"



"Where the land ends and the unsleep­ing, omniv­o­rous Pacific has chewed the edge of the con­ti­nent ragged, the old house sits alone in the tall grass, wait­ing for Tara." - Caitlin R. Kier­nan, "A Redress For Andromeda"



"Thir­teen days after the Entwhistle-Ealing Bros. cir­cus left Ash­town, beat­ing a long retreat toward its win­ter head­quar­ters in Peru, Indi­ana, two boys out hunt­ing squir­rels in the woods along Portwine Road stum­bled on a body that was dressed in a mad suit of pur­ple and orange velour." - Michael Chabon, "The God of Dark Laughter"



"When the boy upstairs got hold of a pel­let gun and fired snips of potato at pass­ing cars, I took a turn." - China Mieville, "Details"



"From the bram­bles of a murderer's eyes the gaze of the genius of assas­sins falls on you: a sooty-winged owl with a blanched, dead mask of livid unfeath­ered skin." - Michael Cisco, "The Genius of Assas­sins: Three Dreams of Mur­der in the First Person"



"This is a true story, pretty much. As far as that goes, and what­ever good it does any­body." - Neil Gaiman, "Feed­ers and Eaters"



"The hall con­tained the fol­low­ing items, some of which were later cat­a­logued on faded yel­low sheets con­strained by blue lines and anointed with mildew:" - Jeff Van­der­Meer, "The Cage"



"His facial fur was a swirling won­der of blond and blue with high­lights the deep orange of a Novem­ber sun." - Jef­frey Ford, "The Beau­ti­ful Gelreesh"



"One gray morn­ing not long before the onset of win­ter, some trou­bling news swiftly trav­elled among us: the town man­ager was not in his office and seemed nowhere to be found." - Thomas Lig­otti, "The Town Manager"



"It was only later that he real­ized the rea­son they had called him, but by then it was too late for the infor­ma­tion to do him any good." - Brian Even­son, "The Broth­er­hood of Mutilation"



"You may remem­ber Alfred Muswell, whom devo­tees of the weird tale will know as the author of numer­ous arti­cles on the sub­ject of lit­er­ary ghost sto­ries. He died in obscu­rity just over a year ago." - Mark Samuels, "The White Hands"



"His hands didn't trem­ble as he traced his daugh­ter." - Daniel Abra­ham, "Flat Diane"



"We all went down to the tar-pit, with mats to spread our weight." - Margo Lana­gan, "Singing My Sis­ter Down"



"This win­ter morn­ing, when we crossed over the dune, we saw a man lying face down in a shal­low tide pool half a dozen yards from us." - T.M. Wright, "The Peo­ple on the Island"



"After the drive had grown long and monot­o­nous, Par­tridge shut his eyes and the woman was wait­ing." - Laird Bar­ron, "The Forest"



"The birds were white as they flew over the marsh, across the reedbeds and the frosted mere, but as they drew level with the hide their shade changed, from white to black." - Liz Williams, "The Hide"



"Pazazu, the Sumero-Assyrian demon of epi­demics (the south­west­ern desert wind) is an occul­tural oper­a­tive of the xero-informatic Abom­i­na­tion or Dust ( = 100 = NO GOD), and pos­si­bly the most awe-inspiring cultist of Tel­lurian Dustism in ancient Mesopotamia." - Reza Negarestani, "Dust Enforcer"



"The boy and his mother wake late in the swampy sum­mer morn­ings and sit on the edge of the porch drink­ing their first glass of water and spoon­ing out their wedges of melon and pick­ing the dead heads off pop­pies with their toes." - Micaela Mor­ris­sette, "The Familiars"



"It's so famil­iar now, that grainy dig­i­tal footage of the lions' den. We've rerun it a hun­dred times, picked over it obses­sively, advanced it frame by fuzzy frame." - Steve Duffy, "The Lion's Den"



"We're not sup­posed to walk through the struc­ture, but for eight years we've been watch­ing it from sixty-two feet away, too." - Stephen Gra­ham Jones, "Lit­tle Lambs



"Chil­dren are cruel. No one who has lived in the world need ask for proof of that." - K.J. Bishop, "Sav­ing the Glee­ful Horse"

Story order is chrono­log­i­cal except for a cou­ple of excep­tions trans­posed for the­matic rea­sons. Sto­ries trans­lated into Eng­lish are largely posi­tioned by date of first pub­li­ca­tion in their orig­i­nal lan­guage. Authors are North Amer­i­can or from the United King­dom unless oth­er­wise indicated.

E, sad samo nekako doci do ovoga...

Ovo bi bilo idealno za Monolit 11...

Publishers Weekly The Best Books of 2011 (http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2011)

Posto je punio baterije nekoliko godina, Brin se vraca. Ali, '80 su davno prosle i pitam se da li ima snage da iole bude relevantan.

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The cover blurb:

    Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF.

    As he did in his New York Times bestselling novel Earth, David Brin takes on the rapidly accelerating rate of change in technology in a very human way.

    Telepresence. The neural link world wide web, where a flash crowd can gather in an instant if something interesting is happening. We see it today--one man in Pakistan live-tweets the assault on Osama bin Laden, and the whole world turns to watch. A revolution in Egypt is coordinated online.

    Into the maelstrom of world-wide shared experience drops a game-changer. An alien artifact is plucked from Earth's orbit; an artifact that wants to communicate. News leaks out fast, and the world reacts as it always does: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence.

    Existence is packed with tension, with characters we care about in danger that seems unstoppable. It is a novel brimming with ideas about the future, and how humanity will--must--adapt to it. This is a big book from David Brin, and everyone is going to be talking about it.


Existence will be published on 19 June 2012 by Tor in the USA. The book does not appear to have a UK publisher at this time.

Amazon Best Books of 2011: Science Fiction & Fantasy (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_358085602_34?ie=UTF8&plgroup=2&docId=1000745161&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-1&pf_rd_r=11JZBW6G6BSNSAFKXG4B&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1328523022&pf_rd_i=3321372011).

...i evo Vortexa na listi. Niko jos nije procitao?

A po čemu su to najbolje knjige? Sa tog spiska sam pročitao tri: A Dance with Dragons, Leviathan Wakes i The Wise Man's Fear. Ova srednja je solidna, ali u najboljem slučaju prosečna priča. Jaka vrlo dobra ocena. Malo mi je paušalan taj spisak.

Znam koliko i ti. Mozda po prodaji, mozda po odluci nekog urednistva? U svakom slucaju, ovakva lista moze samo da poboljsa prodaju tih naslova.

Edit: pise gore, njihovi urednici, sta god i ko god oni bili :)

Quote from: Melkor on 11-11-2011, 15:01:55
...i evo Vortexa na listi. Niko jos nije procitao?

Hteo sam... a nikako da se nakanim da dovršim prvo Axis. A sad se pojavila Egzegeza...

Ma... Axis ti je žešći vejst of tajm a i Vortex će biti, garant...  :cry: :(  A i svi naslovi nose žešće popuste, pa već to dosta govori.  :evil:  Od svega me tu zanima jedino Ready Player One, Embassytown mi na ledu još odavno.

Quote from: LiBeat on 11-11-2011, 19:19:31
... Od svega me tu zanima jedino Ready Player One...

Nije to za tebe.

Ni Waltonova i Okoraforova?

Ni njih dve. Bar ne u dogledno vreme. Zakljucno sa Lindkvistovom Malom zvezdom sinoc, malko cu da pauziram sa tinejdz angstom... jos od dece kukuruza nisam bila ovako resena da se bacim na zanr koji prave odrasli o odraslima i za odrasle.  :mrgreen:   

Gaffe, a sto nije? 80te su bas moj kapofti, plus ne igram igrice pa me lako rpg impresionirati...

Jos Amazona Best of Comics and Graphic Novels (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_358085602_11?ie=UTF8&docId=1000745171&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-1&pf_rd_r=10NPZCC4RSGJ8KKTX7AA&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1330556822&pf_rd_i=3321372011)

Kirkus Reviews Science Fiction and Fantasy Best Fiction of 2011 (http://www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2011/fiction/2011-best-fiction-science-fiction-and-fantasy/).

KAKO je Blejk Čarlton završio na toj listi, pobogu!

što, jel nije fentezi ili ...?  :mrgreen:


(ali ozbiljno sada, kirkus se u zadnje vreme mnogo oteo, ali baš... to sve treba  xtwak )

Za njega sam bar cuo, ali ko su, dodjavola, Marie Brennan i Alex Bledsoe? A i ostatak liste je krajnje sumnjiv.

Ovako, čitao sam prvu njegovu knjigu i reč je o krajnje prosečnom piscu. Nije baš otvoreno nepismen i neuk kao neki drugi (Tom Lojd kams tu majnd), ali je daleko od toga da bude na spisku najboljih ostvarenja u prethodnoj godini, koja je bila veoma dobra. Meri Brenan je neka urbana fantastika, koja me nije privukla. Duže vreme mi je na spisku, ali jednostavno me ne privlači da je pročitam, naročito stoga što se baš i nije ovenčala hvalospevima. Snuff je lako moguće najdosadniji Pračetov roman iz Disksveta. Novog Dankana još nisam pročitao, pa ne mogu da sudim, ali ako je sudeći po njegovim ranijim romanima - biće to pristojno i zabavno, ali ništa više od toga. The Quantum Thief me nije kupio, mada ga svi veoma hvale, pa dopuštam da je stvar do mene. Modesita volim, ali nisam čitao ovaj serijal, opet hvaljen, kao ni Mjevila. Cold Commands je odličan sword and sorcery i zaslužuje mesto na ovoj listi, a Strosa nikako da krenem, pošto najpre hoću da završim Merchant Princess. Bledso se probio sa The Sword-Edged Blonde, što je valjda neka autoironična mešavine fantazije i palpa, po ugledu na romane o Traksasu (koje veoma volim). Promaklo mi je da ga pročitam. Džebiga, nema se vremena za baš sve...

Incoming! New Angry Robot Titles Through to September 2012! (http://angryrobotbooks.com/2011/11/incoming-new-angry-robot-titles-through-to-september-2012/)

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Richard Baedecker, the aptly named hero of this extraordinary novel, is a man adrift, searching for a lost sense of purpose. A former astronaut, Baedecker once walked on the moon, briefly escaping the tidal pull of gravity itself. Sixteen years later, gravity and other entropic forces have overtaken him. His marriage has ended. His professional life has grown increasingly meaningless. His relationship with his only son has all but disintegrated. At this critical moment, against the unlikely backdrop of Poona, India, Baedecker encounters a remarkable young woman named Maggie Brown, who will point him toward the "places of power" he has left behind and help him rediscover his essential self.

Phases of Gravity is a novel about the power of dreams and the possibility of second chances, about journeys remembered and newly undertaken. It is also, like so much of Dan Simmons's work, a deeply affecting reflection on "the richness and mystery of the universe." Moving effortlessly from the surface of the moon to the small towns of the American Midwest to the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota, and filled with wisdom, unexpected turnings, and flashes of irreverent wit, Phases of Gravity is, by any definition, a major work, the kind of durable, fully realized creation that only a master novelist could produce.
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Jonathan Strahan has posted the table of contents (http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/2011/11/27/table-of-contents-the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-six/) for his upcoming anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six, which should be out in March 2012:

   
• "The Case of Death and Honey" by Neil Gaiman (A Study in Sherlock)
• "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld, 4/11)
• "Tidal Forces" by Caitlín R Kiernan (Eclipse Four)
• "Younger Women" by Karen Joy Fowler (Subterranean, Summer 2011)
• "White Lines on a Green Field" by Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean, Fall 2011)
• "All That Touches The Air" by An Owomoyela (Lightspeed Magazine, 4/11)
• "What We Found" by Geoff Ryman (F&SF, 9-10/11)
• "The Server and the Dragon" by Hannu Rajaniemi (Engineering Infinity)
• "The Choice" by Paul McAuley (Asimov's, 1/11)
• "Malak" by Peter Watts (Engineering Infinity)
• "Old Habits" by Nalo Hopkinson (Eclipse Four)
• "A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong" by K. J. Parker (Subterranean, Winter 2011. )
• "Valley of the Girls" by Kelly Link (Subterranean, Spring 2011)
• "Brave Little Toaster" by Cory Doctorow (TRSF)
• "The Dala Horse" by Michael Swanwick (Tor.com, 7/11)
• "The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece" by M Rickert (F&SF, 9-10/11)
• "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu (F&SF, March/April 2011)
• "Steam Girl" by Dylan Horrocks (Steampunk!)
• "After the Apocalypse" by Maureen F. McHugh (After the Apocalypse)
• "Underbridge" by Peter S. Beagle (Naked City)
• "Relic" by Jeffrey Ford (The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities)
• "The Invasion of Venus" by Stephen Baxter (Engineering Infinity)
• "Woman Leaves Room" by Robert Reed (Lightspeed Magazine, 3/11)
• "Restoration" by Robert Shearman (Everyone's Just So So Special)
• "The Onset of a Paranormal Romance" by Bruce Sterling (Flurb, Fall-Winter 2011)
• "Catastrophic Disruption of the Head" by Margo Lanagan (The Wilful Eye: Tales from the Tower Vol. 1)
• "The Last Ride of the Glory Girls" by Libba Bray (Steampunk!)
• "The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book)" by Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld, 3/11)
• "Digging" by Ian McDonald (Life on Mars)
• "The Man Who Bridged the Mist" by Kij Johnson (Asimov's, 10-11/11)
• "Goodnight Moons" by Ellen Klages (Life on Mars)

Ok, to bi bilo to od horora za ovu godinu :)

Bram Stoker Award Reading List (http://www.horror.org/stoker/2011readinglist.htm)

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There is not one you. There are many yous. There is not one world. There are many worlds. Ours is one of billions of parallel earths. When Everett Singh's scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterious app on his computer. Suddenly, this fourteen-year-old has become the owner of the most valuable object in the multiverse—the Infundibulum—the map of all the parallel earths, and there are dark forces in the Ten Known Worlds who will stop at nothing to get it. They've got power, authority, and the might of ten planets—some of them more technologically advanced than our Earth—at their fingertips. He's got wits, intelligence, and a knack for Indian cooking. To keep the Infundibulum safe, Everett must trick his way through the Heisenberg Gate his dad helped build and go on the run in a parallel Earth. But to rescue his Dad from Charlotte Villiers and the sinister Order, this Planesrunner's going to need friends. Friends like Captain Anastasia Sixsmyth, her adopted daughter Sen, and the crew of the airship Everness. Can they rescue Everett's father and get the Infundibulum to safety? The game is afoot!Ian McDonald has written thirteen science fiction novels and has lost count of the number of stories. He's been nominated for every major science fiction award, and even won some. Ian also works in television, in program development—all those reality shows have to come from somewhere—and has written for screen as well as print. He lives in Northern Ireland, just outside Belfast, and loves to travel.

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An anthology to be published by Baen Books in April 2012. Now available for pre-order (http://www.amazon.com/Armored-John-Joseph-Adams/dp/1451638175/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312565712&sr=1-2).

Table of ContentsForeword— Orson Scott Card
Introduction— John Joseph Adams
The Johnson Maneuver — Ian Douglas
Hel's Half-Acre — Jack Campbell
Jungle Walkers — David Klecha & Tobias S. Buckell
The Last Run of the Coppelia — Genevieve Valentine
Death Reported of Last Surviving Veteran of Great War — Dan Abnett
The Cat's Pajamas — Jack McDevitt
Find Heaven and Hell in the Smallest Things — Simon R. Green
Power Armor: A Love Story — David Barr Kirtley
The Last Days of the Kelly Gang — David D. Levine
Field Test — Michael A. Stackpole
Trauma Pod — Alastair Reynolds
Contained Vacuum — David Sherman
You Do What You Do — Tanya Huff
Nomad — Karin Lowachee
Human Error — John Jackson Miller
Transfer of Ownership — Christie Yant
Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine —  Ethan Skarstedt & Brandon Sanderson
Don Quixote — Carrie Vaughn
The Poacher — Wendy N. Wagner & Jak Wagner
The Green — Lauren Beukes
Sticks and Stones — Robert Buettner
Helmet — Daniel H. Wilson
The N-Body Solution — Sean Williams

Neuništiv i nezadrživ, Elison objavljuje 4 nove knjige.  :)


http://sfscope.com/2011/12/harlan-ellison-releases-four-n.html (http://sfscope.com/2011/12/harlan-ellison-releases-four-n.html)

Kako io9 javlja (http://io9.com/5864672/how-to-use-time-travel-to-ruin-your-own-life-in-a-dozen-easy-lessons) neki Evan Mandery ima interesantnu knjigu (http://evanmandery.com/books/q/) pod imenom "Q". Mislim da bi mogla lepo da se proda kod nas.

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An anthology to be published by Baen Books in April 2012. Now available for pre-order (http://www.amazon.com/Armored-John-Joseph-Adams/dp/1451638175/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312565712&sr=1-2).

Table of ContentsForeword— Orson Scott Card
Introduction— John Joseph Adams
The Johnson Maneuver — Ian Douglas
Hel's Half-Acre — Jack Campbell
Jungle Walkers — David Klecha & Tobias S. Buckell
The Last Run of the Coppelia — Genevieve Valentine
Death Reported of Last Surviving Veteran of Great War — Dan Abnett
The Cat's Pajamas — Jack McDevitt
Find Heaven and Hell in the Smallest Things — Simon R. Green
Power Armor: A Love Story — David Barr Kirtley
The Last Days of the Kelly Gang — David D. Levine
Field Test — Michael A. Stackpole
Trauma Pod — Alastair Reynolds
Contained Vacuum — David Sherman
You Do What You Do — Tanya Huff
Nomad — Karin Lowachee
Human Error — John Jackson Miller
Transfer of Ownership — Christie Yant
Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine —  Ethan Skarstedt & Brandon Sanderson
Don Quixote — Carrie Vaughn
The Poacher — Wendy N. Wagner & Jak Wagner
The Green — Lauren Beukes
Sticks and Stones — Robert Buettner
Helmet — Daniel H. Wilson
The N-Body Solution — Sean Williams

Odličan kasting.

Pa, meni je 50% imena nepoznato...  :oops:  ali zato zbog onih drugih 50% skroz podrzavam tvoju procenu.  :)
a sad nesto i za tebe: J.J.Adams objavio TOC za decembarski Fantasy (http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/new-editorial/editorial-december-2011/), pa je on sada zvanicni editor i izdavac i za Fantasy i Lightspeed. Planira da ih spoji u jedno izdanje.   

Quote from: LiBeat on 05-12-2011, 09:01:28
Pa, meni je 50% imena nepoznato...  :oops:  ali zato zbog onih drugih 50% skroz podrzavam tvoju procenu.  :)
a sad nesto i za tebe: J.J.Adams objavio TOC za decembarski Fantasy (http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/new-editorial/editorial-december-2011/), pa je on sada zvanicni editor i izdavac i za Fantasy i Lightspeed. Planira da ih spoji u jedno izdanje.   

Ja sa onog spiska ne znam samo tri imena. Svi ostali su poprilično veliki. Doduše, solidan broj tih pisaca ne piše sf, već nešto drugo - pa ti možda zbog toga nisu poznati. Ali to su sve odlični pisci i drago mi je zbog tog pomaka u uređivačkoj politici Bejn Buksa, od smrti Džima Bejna.

ovo me zanima:


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Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury and combining the atmosphere of Edward Gorey with the phantasmagoric richness of setting found in Mervyn Peake, Deadfall Hotel guides you through a season spent in the ultimate haunted hotel. Christopher Fowler calls it "eerie, disturbing, yet strangely touching." Told through the story of a widower who takes the job of a manager at a remote hotel where the guests are not quite like you and me, accompanied by his daughter and the ghost of his wife, Deadfall Hotel chronicles what happens when nightmares seek a place of sanctuary, where werewolves and vampires, cults and creatures which cannot be named take their holiday. This literary exploration of the roots of horror in the collective unconscious may be the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy and World Fantasy award-winning author's finest creation to date.

Here's the complete table of contents for Years Best 6: (http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/2011/11/27/table-of-contents-the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-six/)

Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
The Case of Death and Honey, Neil Gaiman, (A Study in Sherlock)
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees, E. Lily Yu, (Clarkesworld, 4/11)
Tidal Forces, Caitlín R Kiernan, (Eclipse Four)
Younger Women, Karen Joy Fowler, (Subterranean, Summer 2011)
White Lines on a Green Field , Catherynne M. Valente, (Subterranean, Fall 2011)
All That Touches The Air, An Owomoyela, (Lightspeed Magazine, 4/11)
What We Found, Geoff Ryman, (F&SF, 9-10/11)
The Server and the Dragon, Hannu Rajaniemi, (Engineering Infinity)
The Choice, Paul McAuley, (Asimov's, 1/11)
Malak, Peter Watts, (Engineering Infinity)

Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2011/12/7e7f2af3e4aa11a6cd724edf9de18a07.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2011%2F12%2Fmedium_7e7f2af3e4aa11a6cd724edf9de18a07.jpg&hash=331b376daa0a9681a6a60962d10df84196bf5cb5)Old Habits, Nalo Hopkinson, (Eclipse Four)
A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong, K. J. Parker, (Subterranean, Winter 2011. )
Valley of the Girls, Kelly Link, (Subterranean, Spring 2011)
Brave Little Toaster, Cory Doctorow, (TRSF)
The Dala Horse, Michael Swanwick, (Tor.com, 7/11)
The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece, M Rickert, (F&SF, 9-10/11)
The Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu, (F&SF, March/April 2011)
Steam Girl, Dylan Horrocks, (Steampunk!)
After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh, (After the Apocalypse)
Underbridge, Peter S. Beagle, (Naked City)
Relic, Jeffrey Ford, (The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities)
The Invasion of Venus, Stephen Baxter, (Engineering Infinity)
Woman Leaves Room, Robert Reed, (Lightspeed Magazine, 3/11)
Restoration, Robert Shearman, (Everyone's Just So So Special)
The Onset of a Paranormal Romance, Bruce Sterling, (Flurb, Fall-Winter 2011)
Catastrophic Disruption of the Head, Margo Lanagan, (The Wilful Eye: Tales from the Tower Vol. 1)
The Last Ride of the Glory Girls, Libba Bray, (Steampunk!)
The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book) , Nnedi Okorafor, (Clarkesworld, 3/11)
Digging, Ian McDonald, (Life on Mars)
The Man Who Bridged the Mist, Kij Johnson, (Asimov's, 10-11/11)
Goodnight Moons, Ellen Klages, (Life on Mars)

Ovaj sadržaj me podseti na Study in Sherlock. To mi izgleda kao sjajna zbirka...

Od svih novih izdanja reprinta klasika kojih nema u slobodnoj prodaji, ovaj je verovatno u vrhu najnaj liste:


The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein and Other Gothic Tales
by Thomas Ligotti
Illustrated by Harry O. Morris


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Limited: $150
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The book also has a new introduction by Ligotti. It comes bound in printed cloth with a back panel velvet cloth, two ribbon markers, and is housed in a handsome slipcase. Some page spreads appear below.
Limited: 500 cloth bound copies, signed by the author, housed in a custom slipcase


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 Cover blurb for China Mieville's RAILSEA (http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2011/12/cover-blurb-for-china-mievilles-railsea.html) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lIbf2RcSgDA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lIbf2RcSgDA#)!

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• "Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's)
• "A Jar of Goodwill" by Tobias S. Buckell, Clarkesworld Magazine)
• "Balancing Accounts" by James Cambias (F&SF)
• "The Rising Waters" by Benjamin Crowell (Strange Horizons)
• "The Shipmaker" by Aliette De Bodard (Interzone)
• "I, Robot" by Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix)
• "Kiss Me Twice" by Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov's)
• "Algorithms for Love" by Ken Liu (Strange Horizons)
• "Alternate Girl's Expatriate Life" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Interzone)
• "The Djinn's Wife" by Ian McDonald (Asimov's)
• "Houses" by Mark Pantoja (Lightspeed Magazine)
• "Artifice and Intelligence" by Tim Pratt (Strange Horizons)
• "Stalker" by Robert Reed (Asimov's)
• "Droplet" by Benjamin Rosenbaum (F&SF)
• "Eros, Philia, Agape" by Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com)
• "Under the Eaves" by Lavie Tidhar (original)
• "Silently and Very Fast" by Catherynne M.Valente (WSFA Press / Clarkesworld)
• "The Nearest Thing" by Genevieve Valentine (Lightspeed Magazine)

ali naslovnica... :-x

 TOC: Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012 Edition (http://www.prime-books.com/2011/12/16/toc-rich-hortons-the-years-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-2012-edition/)Sean Wallace (http://www.prime-books.com/author/admin/) | Dec 16, 2011 in News (http://www.prime-books.com/category/news/)"The Silver Wind" by Nina Allen (Interzone)
"Martian Heart" by John Barnes (Life on Mars)
"East of Furious" by Jonathan Carroll (Conjunctions 56)
"Late Bloomer" by Suzy McKee Charnas (Teeth)
"The Last Sophia" by C.S.E. Cooney (Strange Horizons)
"Walking Stick Fires" by Alan DeNiro (Asimov's)
"The Adakian Eagle" by Bradley Denton (Down These Strange Streets)
"Rampion" by Alexandra Duncan (F&SF)
"And Weep Like Alexander" by Neil Gaiman (Fables from the Fountain)
"Pug" by Theodora Goss (Asimov's)
"Widows in the World" by Gavin Grant (Strange Horizons)
"Ghostweight" by Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld)
"Choose Your Own Adventure" by Kat Howard (Fantasy)
"Younger Women" by Karen Joy Fowler (Subterranean)
"The Man Who Bridged the Mist" by Kij Johnson (Asimov's)
"The Sighted Watchmaker" by Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed)
"Mulberry Boys" by Margo Lanagan (Blood and Other Cravings)
"Canterbury Hollow" by Chris Lawson (F&SF)
"Some of Them Closer" by Marissa Lingen (Analog)
"The Summer People" by Kelly Link (Steampunk!)
"The Choice" by Paul McAuley (Asimov's)
"A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong" by K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
"Woman Leaves Room" by Robert Reed (Lightspeed)
"My Chivalric Fiasco" by George Saunders (Harper's)
"Fields of Gold" by Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse 4)
"The Smell of Orange Groves" by Lavie Tidhar (Clarkesworld)
"The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland, for a Little While" by Catherynne M. Valente (Tor.com)
"The Sandal-Bride" by Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy)
"The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld)

Barnes & Noble Review Year's Best Reading 2011: Editor's Picks (http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/Year-s-Best-Reading-2011-Editor-s-Picks/ba-p/6447).

[size=-1]The Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories
by Jonathan Carroll
(preorder—to be published in June 2012)
Limited: $75
Trade: $45
ISBN: 978-1-59606-494-2
Length: 576 pages
"A gorgeous, frightening, imaginative, loving, unsettling, funny, thought provoking novel. It is a page-turner par excellence"
— Stephen King on Bones of the Moon
"A fabulous leap from your world into one of transcendent wonder and horror"
—Stanislaw Lem
Described by Michael Dirda in The Washington Post as "sexy, eery and addictive", the fiction of Jonathan Carroll occurs at the point where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the commonplace becomes unsettling, and yet where we nonetheless always recognize the stories being told because they are always about ourselves and what happens in our deepest, sometimes darkest hearts.
Always better known as a novelist—readers first experienced Carroll's elegant, eloquent, wondrous, terrible and often surreal fiction in his classic debut The Land of Laughs, which he followed with Bones of the Moon, Sleeping in Flame, A Child Across the Sky, and others—Carroll has also created a compelling and deeply moving body of short fiction. Perhaps more eclectic and slant-wise than some of his novels, stories like World Fantasy Award winning "Friend's Best Man" and Pushcart Prize and Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire honouree "Home on the Rain" stand amongst his very best work.
The Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories is the best and most complete collection of Jonathan Carroll's fiction ever published. It collects 37 stories written across a thirty year long career, a number appearing here in print for the first time, in a single landmark volume that stands as the perfect introduction to this unique and wonderful writer.
Limited: 350 signed numbered copies, bound in leather
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition
Table of Contents:
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• [size=-1]Mr. Fiddlehead[/size]

• [size=-1]Uh-Oh City[/size]

• [size=-1]Second Snow[/size]

• [size=-1]The Fall Collection[/size]

• [size=-1]Friend's Best Man[/size]

• [size=-1]The Sadness of Detail[/size]

• [size=-1]Waiting to Wave[/size]

• [size=-1]The Jane Fonda Room[/size]

• [size=-1]A Quarter Past You[/size]

• [size=-1]My Zoondel[/size]

• [size=-1]Learning to Leave[/size]

• [size=-1]The Panic Hand[/size]

• [size=-1]A Bear in the Mouth[/size]

• [size=-1]Postgraduate[/size]

• [size=-1]Tired Angel[/size]

• [size=-1]The Dead Love You[/size]

• [size=-1]Florian[/size]

• [size=-1]The Life of My Crime[/size]

• [size=-1]A Wheel in the Desert, the Moon on Some Swings[/size]

• [size=-1]A Flash in the Pants[/size]

• [size=-1]Black Cocktail[/size]

• [size=-1]Crimes of the Face[/size]

• [size=-1]Fish in a Barrel[/size]

• [size=-1]A Gravity Thief[/size]

• [size=-1]The Great Walt of China[/size]

• [size=-1]The Stolen Church[/size]

• [size=-1]Alone Alarm[/size]

• [size=-1]Asleep in Wolf's Clothing[/size]

• [size=-1]The Language of Heaven[/size]

• [size=-1]The Heidelberg Cylinder[/size]

• [size=-1]Elizabeth Thug[/size]

• [size=-1]Home on the Rain[/size]

• [size=-1]Vedran[/size]

• [size=-1]Water Can't Be Nervous[/size]

• [size=-1]East of Furious[/size]

• [size=-1]Nothing to Declare[/size]

• [size=-1]The Woman Who Married a Cloud[/size]

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The overlooked sci-fi of 2011    (http://entertainment.salon.com/2011/12/18/the_overlooked_sci_fi_of_2011/singleton/)      

These novels explore a virus-plagued West, a reality-altered utopia and a collapsed American empire 

By Paul Di Filippo (http://entertainment.salon.com/writer/paul_di_filippo/), Barnes & Noble Review (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/)

Koga mrzi da cita ceo clanak:

Will McIntosh - "Soft Apocalypse"
Kathleen Ann Goonan - "This Shared Dream" i "In War Times"
John Wright - "Count to a Trillion"   

Ova knjiga se već mesecima pominje:




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Taggert can heal and hurt with just a touch. When an ex calls for help, he risks the wrath of his enigmatic master to try and save her daughter.
But when Taggert realizes the daughter has more power than even he can imagine, he has to wrestle with the very nature of his skills, not to mention unmanned and uncreated gods, in order keep the girl safe. In the end, Taggert will have to use more than his power, he has to delve into his heart and soul to survive.

The Liminal People is a fast-paced science fiction thriller with shades of the Matrix or Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels don't worry, you haven't read this before: this is something all new.





U offu; neverovatno kako mi je Ričard Morgan izvetrio iz sećanja, Altered Carbon nije bio loš, naprotiv, ali bukvalno sam ga zaboravila nedelju dana nakon čitanja, a za Broken Angels nisam ni sigurna da li sam ga uopšte dovršila... stvarno, to je udžbenička cheap thrill definicija, i stvarno mi nije jasno kog se vraga na Morgana pozivaju, to me danas više odbija negoli privlači.  :roll:

Da, i meni su se ta tri romana spojila u jedan (solidan akcijas), ali Market Forces i Black Man nisu losi.

E, to nisam ni overila, ispucao je na trilogiji sav kredit za dalje poverenje...  :mrgreen:

Verovatno nemas strpljenja da se preterano bakces izlivima kuljajuceg testosterona. Ta trilogija jeste pristojna, pogotovo prva knjiga i steta je sto nije ostao na njoj. Market Forces je one gimmick knjiga, ostatak je Mad Maxovska jurnjava, dok se u Black Man trudi da ubaci jos koju dimenziju ispod odlicnih akcionih set-piecova i to mu oprastam kao clan tog levo orijentisanog hora kome propoveda.

 :)  u pravu si, moguće da sam malko prerasla neke stvari, bar u formatu u kom ih je ta trilogija nudila... ne što je bila loša, da se razumemo, nego eto, bila je isprazna i lako zaboravljiva.


(s druge strane, REAMDE je također kuljajući testosteron, pa sam sad već na finalnoj četvrtini a i dalje mi je okej, pa ti sad vidi...  :mrgreen: )


Ali amazonov fribi za THE LIMINAL PEOPLE prolazi test, plus me nimalo ne asocira na Morgana (a ni na Matrix, doduše, što je također plus u ovom kontekstu), tako da planiram da to overim kad izađe. Ima neke etno-draži baš kao i Zoo City i Indigo, pa valjda zbog toga...

What genre-related books, movies and other media are you most looking forward to in the new year? Here's what they said..


Jaym Gates Jaym Gates (http://www.jaymgates.com/) is a publicist and editor. She is still learning to avoid making jokes about things like zombie erotica, which tend to end up as anthologies like Rigor Amortis. She can be found at jaymgates.com (http://www.jaymgates.com/). 2012 is the year of the speculative movie, apparently. I saw the trailer for John Carter of Mars tonight, and...wow. I really hope this isn't an indicator for what we're going to be seeing. That being said, I'm a sucker for the pretty action/comic-based movies, and there's a slew of those coming up: The Avengers, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, Batman 3, Dark Tower, Hellboy 3.
(How seriously can you take my taste in movies? My guilty pleasures are Ice Age 4...The Expendables 2. Yeah, seriously. I'm shameless.)
For books: Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon is something to look forward to, and John Fultz adds to the Sword and Sorcery list with The Seven Princes. A few others I've got on my wish list are The Drowning Girl by Caitlyn Kiernan; The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin and The Blinding Light by Brent Weeks.



Jonathan Strahan Jonathan Strahan (http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/) co-founded Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy and worked as its co-editor and co-publisher from 1990 to 1999. He works for Locus magazine as Reviews Editor. As a freelance editor, Jonathan has edited or co-edited The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Volumes 1 and 2), Science Fiction: Best of 2003, The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the Best Short Novels series for the Science Fiction Book Club, among many others. Upcoming anthologies include Dream Castles: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Two (co-edited with Terry Dowling and Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron. I enjoyed 2011. It wasn't a great year, but it was a good year. I read a lot of short fiction, a handful of novels, watched far fewer movies than I wanted to, more TV than I'd intended to, and for the first time in over a decade even read some comics I loved (Warren Ellis's Planetary and Cosby & Stoke's Mr Stuffins, if you're interested). Perhaps unsurprisingly, my list of things I'm looking forward to in 2012 is either (to me) a clear outgrowth of my 2011 reading, obvious or vague. I'm looking forward to continuing my unstructured wander into comics, but I have no specific titles in mind. I also don't pay as much attention to movies as I used to, but I am eager to see Aardman's Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists, Disney/Pixar's Brave and John Carter (Warlord of Mars!), Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, and Martin Scorcese's Hugo. There are others I'll likely see, but those come to mind. I am looking forward to more Fringe, my very favourite SFnal TV show, and more Doctor Who. Both have slightly shaking looking futures, but that seems the norm for great SF tv.
And then there's books. I really didn't have to think too hard to come up with almost two dozen 2012 titles that I can't wait to see. Several are continuations of series, but most are stand-alones or collections. It probably says something about my personal preferences that there are more SF titles here than fantasy ones, but I figure that's ok.
Probably the single novel I'm looking forward to the most is Ian McDonald's second young adult SF book, Everness. It apparently picks up where his wonderful Planesrunner left off, and I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. I'm also very eager to read James S.A. Corey's Caliban's War. Abraham and Franck did a bang-up job with the first book in their 'Collapse' SF series, Leviathan's Wake, which was precisely the sort of SF novel I love, and I'm eager to get back to their story. Both Paul J. McAuley and Alastair Reynolds' have major SF novels due out early in the year, In the Mouth of the Whale and Blue Remembered Earth. The McAuley is the latest in his Quiet War sequence, while the Reynolds' starts a major new series for him. I've looked at both, and will be diving into them as soon as my Christmas break starts. I read Garth Nix's YA space opera A Confusion of Princes in manuscript. I've loved his work since I first read Sabriel, and think this is one of his very best books. I'll definitely be re-reading it when the book hits the shelves. I'm also curious as heck about China Mieville's Railsea. I think it's a young adult novel in the vein of Perdido Street Station, and if it is, it should be enormous fun. Ted Kosmatka's The Games comes out mid-year and is the debut novel from a really interesting short story writer. As always, I'm fascinated to see how he might make the shift from short to long stuff. The final SF novel I can't wait for is the intriguingly odd The Long Earth, an SF story by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. I've no idea what it'll be like, but it should be interesting!
Although, I'm certainly missing something, there are five fantasy novels I'm looking forward to for 2012. The first is Margo Lanagan's Sea Hearts, a novel that encompasses her marvellous World Fantasy Award winning novella "Sea-hearts", and her follow up to Tender Morsels. It sounds brilliant. Then there's Caitlin R. Kiernan's The Drowning Girl. Kiernan is one of the best short story writers we have, and anything she does is simply essential. This one doesn't sound easy reading, but it does sound like the kind of challenging book that I love. Daniel Abraham wrote my favourite epic fantasy of 2011, The Dragon's Path, and he follows it up with The King's Blood which should be a lot of fun. I've become a bit wary of Tim Powers' novels, especially after Three Ways to Never. Powers' novels are hit or miss for me, but when they do hit they are awesome. Advance reports suggest Hide Me Among the Graves is a hit, so I can't wait to see it. The final fantasy I'm looking forward to in 2012 is Mary Gentle's Black Opera. I loved Ash and if Black Opera is anywhere near as good it'll be something special.
I know I'll end up missing something special, but there is a small shelf of short story collections that look exciting in 2012. After more than a decade, Andy Duncan finally follows up his World Fantasy Award winning debut collection Beluthahatchie and Other Stories with The Pottawotamie Giant. I've read many of the stories in the book already, but this PS Publishing title is something I've been looking forward to for several years.  Speaking of looking forward to something for years, Subterranean will be publishing Lucius Shepard's The Dragon Griaule in May. It collects all of the existing 'Dragon Griaule' stories in one book, along with a long new one, and is probably as close to his long-promised The Grand Tour as we will ever see. Kij Johnson's second collection, At the Mouth of the River of Bees, is due out later in the year from Small Beer. Johnson has really blossomed as a short story writer in the last five years, and given that this will collects the best of her recent work it's almost certainly going to be the best single collection of 2012. I'm also very excited about Caitlin R. Kiernan's Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart, which will collect her recent work. This is the book that I expect to be vying with the Johnson for the title.  I'm always pleased to see a new collection from Tanith Lee, so Space is Just a Starry Night is very welcome, as is any new book from the terribly underrated Nina Kiriki Hoffman. I'll be grabbing Stirring the Bones the moment it comes out.  Jeffrey Ford will have Crackpot Palace, an enormous new collection out in August. It should be something. And finally, Subterranean are publishing Jonathan Carroll's The Woman Who Married a Cloud, which pretty much collects his entire body of short fiction. I fell for Carroll's work when I read The Land of Laughs, and  am eager to see this one at last.
Writing about these books has made me even more aware of all of the books I end up loving each year that I didn't know were coming out, or that surprised me. So while I'd add the new Diana Wynne Jones book, Reflections on the Magic of Writing, and the untitled Twelfth Planet Press collection from Margo Lanagan, both of which are essential, I'd also want to leave a couple spots on this list for the books none of us are looking forward to but which will surprise and delight us, and which will make 2012 worth talking about when the year is done and we're wondering about 2013.





Gary K. Wolfe Gary K. Wolfe, (http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/Wolfe/) Professor of Humanities and English at Roosevelt University and contributing editor and lead reviewer for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field, is the author of critical studies The Known and the Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction, David Lindsay, Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (with Ellen R. Weil). His Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996 (Beccon, 2005), received the British Science Fiction Association Award for best nonfiction, and was nominated for a Hugo Award. A second review collection, Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001, appeared in April 2010. Wolfe has received the Eaton Award, the Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association, the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and, in 2007, a World Fantasy Award for criticism. A collection of essays, Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature, is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. One of the advantages of reviewing is getting advance peeks at some of next year's books, so I can already report that a few early 2012 novels --Alastair Reynolds Blue Remembered Earth and Paul McAuley's In the Mouth of the Whale in SF, Margo Lanagan's Sea Hearts and Tim Powers's Hide Me Among the Graves in fantasy--are pretty likely to satisfy fans of these authors, and maybe create some new fans. Next on my pile is Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312, which marks a return to grand-scale hard SF and promises to be a major addition to the recent trend of solar-system based SF, which is beginning to look like a sort of compromise between far-future galactic tales and the more reined-in aesthetic of mundane SF.
Later in the year, according to Locus's Forthcoming Books list, there are plenty of titles announced by familiar names that I hope to catch: a new story colection by Kathleen Ann Goonan, who never seems to quite generate the buzz she deserves, and a second YA novel Railsea from China Mieville, who seems to always deserve the buzz he gets. Similarly high-profile in the YA arena is Paolo Bacigalupi's The Drowned Cities, his followup to the excellent Ship Breaker, though it's still unclear whether his second adult novel will show up by the end of the year. I'm also looking forward to Ian McDonald's Everness, the second volume in the series that begun with Planesrunner. Also on the YA ledger is Elizabeth Hand's Radiant Days, which combines the 1970s art scene with Arthur Rimbaud, both topics well-suited to her talents. Her other forthcoming novel, Available Dark, isn't really in our genre, but if it's as spooky as the first Cass Neary adventure Generation Loss it should be terrific. I understand there's also to be a new Jeffrey Ford collection, which is always a must-have.
Back on the hard SF side, I'm also looking forward to The Eternal Flame, the second novel in Greg Egan's Orthogonal series. A lot of readers found A Clockwork Rocket pretty challenging to get into, with its invented physics and coming-of-age science-education plot, but he left openings for the second one to be much more accessible. I'm also curious to see if Hanni Rajaniemi's second effort is as impressive as The Quantum Thief was. And, like everyone else, I'm expecting to have fun with Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross's The Rapture of the Nerds, a title which everyone should have in their library no matter what the book turns out like. I'm quite curious to see what John Varley's Slow Apocalypse will look like, though I confess I haven't kept up with his Thunder and Lightning series.
I'm not generally one who stands in line on the opening day of a blockbuster movie, and more often than not wait until I can get it streaming or on DVD. But I made an exception a couple of weeks ago for Hugo, and feel quite rewarded for my efforts. I'll likely see The Hobbit first run (if various production and contractual tangles don't delay it further), and probably for Cloud Atlas and John Carter as well, maybe even The Hunger Games (perhaps at an afternoon showing when the kids are still in school). I have some hopes for The Dark Knight Rises and Raven (partly because I think John Cusack would make a good Edgar Allan Poe), but I've already seen previews for Battleship and Men in Black 3, and suspect they're the sort of previews that give you all the money shots for free, so that you only have to see the movie for the lame banter. The only reason I can think of for seeing the remake of Total Recall is to dispel the taste of the first one, but that could backfire badly. One of these days, someone might actually read the Philip K. Dick story before turning it into a movie, rather than basing the whole budget on some screenwriter's pitch.
I'm even less reliable as a TV viewer, though I'm looking forward to the continuation of both the BBC Sherlock Holmes and, of course, Game of Thrones. The unknown factor late in the year will be the adaptation of Stephen King's Under the Dome, which, at least on the surface, seems to be the kind of King narrative that leads to pretty good movies as opposed to the kind of King narrative that leads to embarrassing disasters. Fringe remains about the only weekly SF series that I have any faith in, and it's consistently gotten better since its first season, and it actually has characters in it.

Year's Best Fantasy 10 Table of Contents   I am pleased to announce the table of contents for Year's Best Fantasy 10 edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, forthcoming from Tor.com.
Dragon's Deep · Cecelia Holland
The Green Bird · Kage Baker
Dulce Domum · Ellen Kushner
The Parable of the Shower · Leah Bobet
The Dragaman's Bride · Andy Duncan
Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela · Saladin Ahmed
Images of Anna · Nancy Kress
Icarus Saved from the Skies · Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown · Holly Black
The Score · Alaya Dawn Johnson
Sleight of Hand · Peter S. Beagle
Bigfoot and the Bodhisattva · James Morrow
A Delicate Architecture · Catherynne M. Valente
Swell · Elizabeth Bear
The Bones of Giants · Yoon Ha Lee
The Minuteman's Witch · Charles Coleman Finlay
Conquistador del la Noche · Carrie Vaughn
Winterborn · Liz Williams
Three Twilight Tales · Jo Walton
Power and Magic · Marly Youmans
The Avenger of Love · Jack Skillingstead
The Persistence of Souls · Sarah Zettel
An Invocation of Incuriosity · Neil Gaiman
Three Friends · Claude Lalumière
Shadow of the Valley · Fred Chappel
Technicolor· John Langan
Economancer · Carolyn Ives Gilman
 

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[/color]Territory (http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/emma-bull/territory/) by Emma Bull
For a touch of strange, try this "weird western" which puts a magical emphasis on the events of Tombstone, Ariz., in the late 1800s, when Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clanton brothers became legends.

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The Demi-Monde: Winter by Rod Rees
This science-fiction thriller introduces a disturbing virtual-reality world originally intended as a military-training ground and thus inhabited by virtual counterparts of some of history's most notorious and deadliest psychopaths. But this virtual playground gets frighteningly real when the president's daughter becomes trapped and the rescue team must avoid the virtual world "dupes" that are anxious to drain their real-world victims' blood.

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All About Emily by Connie Willis
In the near-future, an aging and cynical theater legend named Claire Havilland meets a devoted teenage fan who happens to be related to a famous artificial intelligence pioneer. Written in Willis' singular comic style, this short novel wraps robots, Broadway and self-discovery in a cozy holiday atmosphere.

Cek, u cemu je fora sa Territory? Procitao sam tu knjigu pre godine dve i uopste nije losa, samo mi nije jasno sta tu ima novo sem korica...

ovaj... ja na ovaj topik kačim i reprinte kad se pojave u e-izdanju...  :oops:

Quote from: LiBeat on 23-12-2011, 20:16:47
ovaj... ja na ovaj topik kačim i reprinte kad se pojave u e-izdanju...  :oops:

... zvanicno, mislis :-)

 :oops: :oops: :oops:


ehm, "zvanično" onoliko koliko dosegne e-mail izdavača...
... a "nezvanično" koliko dosegne ARC pirat...

... a ove su friško-izašle i na listi za nabavku:




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A tale of love, murder and revenge that crosses the boundaries between the real world and virtual reality.



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Europe, 2049. Nulight, a Tibetan refugee and notorious underground record company owner, emerges from an obscure Berlin night club realising that an alien invasion is imminent. Or is he hallucinating? A unique vision of future invasion and future music from the author of Memory Seed and Glass.

End-of-the-year books (http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/end-of-the-year-books/)
December 20, 2011 — Shana


The best-of-2011 lists are coming out and, as every year, they make me feel sorry for any book published in the last few weeks of the calendar year. They don't make it onto best-of lists published before the year is over. They're out after the brightest glow of holiday-season publicity. As a result, they don't do as well on awards lists.


From Locus: New Books Dec 6 (http://www.locusmag.com/Monitor/2011/12/new-books-6-december/), Dec 13 (http://www.locusmag.com/Monitor/2011/12/new-books-13-december/), Dec 20 (http://www.locusmag.com/Monitor/2011/12/new-books-20-december/). (Post by week received, so not all December books.) Here are some of December's, listed by Kirkus (http://www.kirkusreviews.com/blog/science-fiction-and-fantasy/10-sci-fi-and-fantasy-books-december/). Here are some of the fantasy novels out this month, by date. (http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2011/11/spotlight-on-december-books.html)


There's work there from Emma Bull, Connie Willis, Bruce Sterling, Rob Sawyer, and the BSFA's own Ian Whates. For non-fiction, there's Jessica Langer's Postcolonialism and Science Fiction in the UK (out in Jan 2012 in the US).

In the Mouth of the Whale
Paul McAuley

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A war between human and posthuman civilisations is about to erupt - and it will determine not only the future of the human species, but also its past!

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Fomalhaut was first colonised by the posthuman Quick, who established an archipelago of thistledown cities and edenic worldlets within the star's vast dust belt. Their peaceful, decadent civilisation was swiftly conquered by a band of ruthless, aggressive, unreconstructed humans who call themselves the True, then, a century before, the True beat back an advance party of Ghosts, a posthuman cult which colonised the nearby system of Beta Hydri after being driven from the Solar System a thousand years ago. Now the Ghosts have returned to Fomalhaut, to begin their end game: the conquest of its single gas giant planet, a captured interstellar wanderer far older than the rest of Fomalhaut's system. At its core is a sphere of hot metallic hydrogen with strange and powerful properties based on exotic quantum physics. The Quick believe it is inhabited by an ancient alien Mind; the True believe it can be developed into a weapon, and the Ghosts believe it can be transformed into a computational system so powerful it can reach into their past, collapse timelines, and fulfil the ancient prophecies of their founder.

The Islanders
Christopher Priest

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...piecing together the rather unpleasant lives of the main characters is entertaining; and there are episodes complete in themselves, short stories really, which are satisfying. The ghosts are excellent. And I consider the thryme an absolutely first-class invention. (THE GUARDIAN )

He understands the magic of imaginary worlds, where hot winds race across parched landscapes and everyone is a dreamer. It is his first book for nearly ten years, and well worth the wait... dotty but engrossing. (Max Davidson The Mail on Sunday )

A glowing mosaic of a novel, puzzling, transporting and nigh-on impossible not to start again immediately once finished. (Alison Flood The Sunday Times )

Filled with allusions to earlier stories, but never self-indulgently so, the book's ostensible exploration of the people and places of the Archipelago only serves to emphasise their unknowability. And our guide is someone with a very definite agenda. Gradually, a story of rivalry, trickery and murder begins to emerge. (GRIMMFESTBLOG )

I think that the Dream Archipelago experience the author presents in The Islanders and in the related story collection, is indeed a masterpiece of modern sff and I expect to be enchanted by it again and again across the years. (FANTASY BOOK CRITIC )

"The Islanders is a magnificent novel, one of my books of the year, and you must read it." (PUNKADIDDLE )

It's clever, it has its own witticism about it and when you add the final touch of a story that was hard to put down its one that left me exhausted when I turned the final page. A real joy and one I'll look forward to reading again. (FALCATTA TIMES )

You'll relish the mistiness and the lack of straight lines, the way the narrative fades in and out of clarity and the fact that, whereas other novelists tend always to provide something to hold on to, a handrail that will take you comfortably through the narrative, Priest never does. He certainly keeps hold of you with that unmistakable style that's beautifully restrained but also disturbingly vivid, but what he never does is say: 'This is the story.' (THE HERALD )
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Reality is illusory and magical in the stunning new literary SF novel from the multiple awarding winning Christopher Priest

2011 in review with io9 (http://io9.com/2011-in-review-with-io9/)         
Annalee Newitz     Dec 30, 2011  2:08 PM               

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2011

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Ne verujem da sam zaboravio da postujem Powersa  :-x A pre-orderovao sam ga pre 2 meseca. A u istom trosku sam pre-orderovo i:

Angelmaker
Nick Harkaway

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From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster's son and a retired secret agent who are forced to team up to save the world.

All Joe Spork wants is a quiet life. He repairs clockwork and lives above his shop in a wet, unknown bit of London. The bills don't always get paid and he's single and has no prospects of improving his lot, but at least he's not trying to compete with the reputation of Mathew "Tommy Gun" Spork, his infamous criminal dad.

Edie Banister lives quietly and wishes she didn't. She's nearly ninety and remembers when she wasn't. She's a former superspy and now she's... well... old. Worse yet, the things she fought to save don't seem to exist anymore, and she's beginning to wonder if they ever did.

When Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. The client? Unknown. And the device? It's a 1950s doomsday machine. And having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie's old arch-nemesis. With Joe's once-quiet world now populated with mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realises that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she gave up years ago, and pick up his father's old gun...

od koje ne znam sta da ocekujem ali mogu samo da se nadam da ce da dosegne debi od pre par godina.

Iz istog ordera mi je stigao

Briarpatch
Tim Pratt

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Pratt me (pod svojim imenom) do sada nije ni jednom razocarao te se nadam da ce zadrzati prethodni kvalitet.

A kad se vec hvalim uzeo sam i 2 proslogodisnja Gregory-a, omnibus Valenteove i The Weird  8-) (jos samo da to i procitam)

A Gallery of 99 SF/F/H Books Coming Out in January 2012 – Which Ones Do You Want? (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/01/a-gallery-of-99-sffh-books-coming-out-in-january-2012/)

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Series: Ender | Publication Date: January 17, 2012     

Ender's Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel...

At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children--the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten--a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth's history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come.

For there in space before them lies a derelict Formic colony ship. Aboard it, they will find both death and wonders--the life support that is failing on their own ship, room to grow, and labs in which to explore their own genetic anomaly and the mysterious disease that killed the ship's colony.   

Ono prethodno je gomila svega i svacega ali ovo je malko probranija lista naslova koji se ocekuju u januaru:


"The Man Who Rained" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Who-Rained-Ali-Shaw/dp/0857890328) by Ali Shaw. UK Release Date: January 1, 2012. Published by Atlantic. (SF/FAN).
"Seven Princes" by John R. Fultz. Release Date: January 3, 2012. Published by Orbit. (FAN).
"Leaves of Flame" (http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Flame-Benjamin-Tate/dp/0756407044/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325455790&sr=1-1) by Benjamin Tate. Release Date: January 3, 2012. Published by DAW. (FAN).
"The Daemon Prism" (http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Prism-Novel-Collegia-Magica/dp/0451464346/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325455845&sr=1-1) by Carol Berg. Release Date: January 3, 2012. Published by Roc. (FAN).
"A Path to Coldness of Heart" (http://www.amazon.com/Path-Coldness-Heart-Dread-Empire/dp/1597803294/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325455861&sr=1-1) by Glen Cook. Release Date: January 10, 2012. Published by Night Shade Books. (FAN).
"The Serpent Sea" (http://www.amazon.com/Serpent-Sea-Books-Raksura/dp/1597803324/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325455938&sr=1-1) by Martha Wells. Release Date: January 10, 2012. Published by Night Shade Books. (FAN).

Most Anticipated: The Great 2012 Book Preview (http://www.themillions.com/2012/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2012-book-preview.html)

Quote2012 is shaping up to be another exciting year for readers. While last year boasted long-awaited novels from David Foster Wallace, Haruki Murakami, and Jeffrey Eugenides, readers this year can look forward to new Toni Morrison, Richard Ford, Peter Carey, Lionel Shriver, and, of course, newly translated Roberto Bolaño, as well as, in the hazy distance of this coming fall and beyond, new Michael Chabon, Hilary Mantel, and John Banville. We also have a number of favorites stepping outside of fiction. Marilynn Robinson and Jonathan Franzen have new essay collections on the way. A pair of plays are on tap from Denis Johnson. A new W.G. Sebald poetry collection has been translated. And Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer have teamed to update a classic Jewish text. But that just offers the merest suggestion of the literary riches that 2012 has on offer. Riches that we have tried to capture in another of our big book previews.

The list that follows isn't exhaustive – no book preview could be – but, at 8,400 words strong and encompassing 81 titles, this is the only 2012 book preview you will ever need.

Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents (http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/382656.htmlhttp://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/382656.html) for her upcoming anthology  The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Four:

   
• "The Little Green God of Agony" by Stephen King
• "Stay" by Leah Bobet
• "The Moraine" by Simon Bestwick
• "Blackwood's Baby" by Laird Barron
• "Looker" by David Nickle
• "The Show" by Priya Sharma
• "Mulberry Boys" by  Margo Lanagan
• "Roots and All" by Brian Hodge
• "Final Girl Theory" by A. C. Wise
• "Omphalos" by Livia Llewellyn
• "Dermot" by Simon Bestwick
• "Black Feathers" by Alison J. Littlewood
• "Final Verse" by Chet Williamson
• "In the Absence of Murdock" by  Terry Lamsley
• "You Become the Neighborhood" by Glen Hirshberg
• "In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos" by John Langan
• "Little Pig" by Anna Taborska
• "The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine" by Peter Straub

         The Wertzone (http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/)           Sunday, 8 January 2012      The Shape of Things to Come: Books for 2012 (http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2012/01/shape-of-things-to-come-books-for-2012.html)   Some books to look out for this year. As always, cover art and release dates are not finalised and believe nothing before you see it on the shelves :-)

The Joy of Books (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8#ws)

aaaw  :lol:

FENOMENALO. Muzika me je oborila s nogu. Prosto me iznerviralo kad sam na YT video 310 looks i 1 like za ovakvo remek delce :(

Pobogu pa pogledaj kad je obavljeno :) i koje su sad brojke (a youtube ima bag da se brojač zakoči na ~300 iz nekog razloga :))

Melkor bre ima prst na pulsu, brži je bio i od lightning squidda i još nekih :)

io9 2012 preview (http://io9.com/io9-2012-preview/)       
By Kelly Faircloth   Jan 11, 2012 11:05 AM         

All The Science Fiction and Fantasy Books We're Dying to Read in 2012

Science fiction and fantasy books are bigger than ever. A Dance With Dragons and Stephen King's time-travel saga rule the bestseller lists. Literary authors all flock to write about zombies, apocalypses and time travel. And by all indications, 2012 is going to be an even greater year for genre books.
Here are 25 books we can't wait to read in 2012.
Top image: Detail of cover art for Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312.
January Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/0180545f2a2c9fd7454bbf7db8d6931b.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_0180545f2a2c9fd7454bbf7db8d6931b.jpg&hash=e34ec3db312fbefd3525595e8da68f31c0a6572e)Distrust That Particular Flavor (http://www.amazon.com/Distrust-Particular-Flavor-William-Gibson/dp/039915843X/?ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326210741&sr=8-1&tag=gmgamzn-20), William Gibson (Putnam) William Gibson is best known for cyberpunk works like Neuromancer and fifteen-minutes-into-the-future thrillers like Pattern Recognition. But he's always been a keen observer of that moment where the future meets the now, and Distrust That Particular Flavor gathers years' worth of nonfiction writing into a single volume. Included are essays for Wired and Rolling Stone, plus other articles and even a speech from Book Expo America. Read our review here. (http://io9.com/5874889/distrust-that-particular-flavor-reveals-how-autobiographical-william-gibsons-fiction-is)
Cinder (http://www.amazon.com/Cinder-Book-One-Lunar-Chronicles/dp/0312641893%20?tag=gmgamzn-20), Marissa Meyer (Feiwal and Friends)
Cinderella, re-imagined as a cyborg! Done and done.

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February Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/bada43a710e371ac91d0cdf5558c9dad.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_bada43a710e371ac91d0cdf5558c9dad.jpg&hash=def94332a029cb86a1b85c2ef251b0b07afe560b)The Fourth Wall (http://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Wall-Walter-Jon-Williams/dp/0316133396%20?tag=gmgamzn-20), Walter Jon Williams (Orbit) In the latest Dagmar Shaw adventure, she's doing what she does — in Hollywood. She hires a washed-up former child star, reduced to reality TV and an absolute mess. Once he's drawn into her dangerous orbit, suddenly someone is trying to kill him.

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March Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/d59392797ac12e1ae8a48adc64f4b669.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_d59392797ac12e1ae8a48adc64f4b669.jpg&hash=8d52ece863ae3cbff10f1cf6f40c6f44dddfa945)Angelmaker (http://www.amazon.com/Angelmaker-Nick-Harkaway/dp/0307595951/?ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326210938&sr=1-1&tag=gmgamzn-20), Nick Harkaway (Knopf) It's been nearly four years since Harkaway's fabulous, madcap debut, The Gone-Away World. Angelmaker looks to be equally wonderfully off-the-wall. The protagonist is one Joe Spork, repairer of antique clocks. He's also the son of a legendary gangster, but he'd like to avoid that part of his heritage, thank you very much. But things get a little crazy when Spork goes to work on a device and discovers his client is a retired superspy and this seemingly harmless object is a doomsday machine.
Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/7a062795edbb23433f915a882caea058.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_7a062795edbb23433f915a882caea058.jpg&hash=5ead633a538780ae4572f64d715b5ec3259b22b1)Crucible of Gold (http://www.amazon.com/Crucible-Gold-Naomi-Novik/dp/0345522869/?ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326151893&sr=8-1&tag=gmgamzn-20), Naomi Novik (Del Rey) In her latest novel of Napoleonic dragon-based derring-do, Naomi Novik sends protagonists Capt. Will Laurence and Temeraire to South America. They've been assigned to broker a peace with the forces of the African Tswana empire, who're besieging Rio. Unexpected events leave them stranded among the none-too-welcoming Incas.

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April Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/6b84a67ebee3cf5756f0c96e014ea43e.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_6b84a67ebee3cf5756f0c96e014ea43e.jpg&hash=6293c220d56d599bc96e6626579a2e055bf220b6)The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel (http://www.amazon.com/Wind-Through-Keyhole-Tower-Novel/dp/1451658907%20?tag=gmgamzn-20), Stephen King (Scribner) Set in the world of the Dark Tower, The Wind Through the Keyhole nevertheless stands alone. It's a story from Roland Deschain's difficult youth. Tracking a deadly shape-shifter, he meets a scared boy and comforts him with a story his mother used to tell him, before her death.
Triggers (http://www.amazon.com/Triggers-Robert-J-Sawyer/dp/1937007162/?ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_5&tag=gmgamzn-20), Robert J. Sawyer (Ace)
An attempt is made on the president's life, and he's taken to a top-notch research hospital for treatment. This should be a relatively simple matter of emergency surgery, but then a bomb goes off, triggering experimental trauma-treatment technologies that briefly allow some people a glimpse at other people's memories — including some of the president's state secrets.
Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/a3b3e6a0447a5730587294d6c5961290.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_a3b3e6a0447a5730587294d6c5961290.jpg&hash=1fd6da3f4a5bc47a29d427b59ed7922857c66215)The Night Sessions (http://www.amazon.com/Night-Sessions-Ken-MacLeod/dp/1616146133/?ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326210100&sr=8-1%20&tag=gmgamzn-20), Ken MacLeod (Pyr) Religiously motivated terrorism should be a thing of the past, and yet Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson stands in the ruins of a bombed church, tasked with figuring out who's behind this.

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May RailSea (http://www.amazon.com/Railsea-China-Mieville/dp/0345524527/?ref=tmm_hrd_title_0&tag=gmgamzn-20), China Mieville (Del Rey)
Mieville's next work of surreal genius is a young-adult novel — but don't think that means he's going to let up on the weird. Railsea is the novelist's take on Melville's Moby Dick, with perhaps a touch of Treasure Island to season the pot. But he's relocated the greatest oceangoing story of all time to an endless sea of — oh yes — rails.
The Drowned Cities (http://www.amazon.com/Drowned-Cities-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/0316056243/?ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326211238&sr=1-1&tag=gmgamzn-20), Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
Bacigalupi returns to the ruined world of Ship Breaker with the story of Mahlia and Mouse, fugitive child soldiers from an eternal civil war. They've made it out, but then they encounter another refugee, a bioengineered creature that's part man, part beast, fleeing from some determined pursuers.
Deadlocked (http://www.amazon.com/Deadlocked-Sookie-Stackhouse-Book-12/dp/1937007448%20?tag=gmgamzn-20), Charlaine Harris (Ace)
The 12th installment of the Sookie Stackhouse saga drops in May. Details are scant, but Harris has posted an excerpt (http://io9.com/5874770/%20http://www.charlaineharris.com/Deadlocked_2.html) on her website.
Glamour In Glass (http://www.amazon.com/Glamour-Glass-Mary-Robinette-Kowal/dp/0765325578/?ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326208449&sr=1-1%20&tag=gmgamzn-20), Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
With Glamour in Glass, Kowal returns to the Austenian world she introduced in her debut novel, Shades of Milk and Honey. Now married, Jane and Vincent set out for their honeymoon on the continent, shortly after Napoleon departs for Elba. But of course Boney isn't done, and so the artistic young couple quickly find themselves caught in the mess.
2312 (http://www.amazon.com/2312-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0316098124/?ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326208433&sr=1-1&tag=gmgamzn-20), Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
Three centuries from now, humanity has spread across the solar system. But things are unraveling. Something is afoot in the wondrous city of Terminator, on Mercury, where Swan Er Hong is being drawn into a conspiracy to destroy worlds.
Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/e44241b2bb41f94407fe13a268c2cede.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_e44241b2bb41f94407fe13a268c2cede.jpg&hash=04c2b2deff4ab443d48cf3632e9345a1eea1a944)The Killing Moon (http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Moon-Dreamblood-N-Jemisin/dp/0316187283/?ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326166463&sr=1-1-fkmr0%20&tag=gmgamzn-20), N.K. Jemisin (Orbit) An elite priesthood known as the Gatherers keeps the peace in the city of Gujaareh. These individuals collect and deploy dream magic as the populace sleeps, soothing any unrest before it can really get going. But then someone begins killing dreamers. Good news for the impatient: The sequel, The Shadowed Sun, will follow in June.

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June Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/23aa8f92e763b66f9c4c3646dc2f1bdf.png)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_23aa8f92e763b66f9c4c3646dc2f1bdf.png&hash=90c606dbbef73308d684ffc9066b9d598d84a123)Blue Remembered Earth (http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Remembered-Earth-Poseidons-Children/dp/0441020712/?ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326211488&sr=1-1&tag=gmgamzn-20), Alastair Reynolds (Ace) Blue Remembered Earth launches a brand-new trilogy from Reynolds, focusing on the Akinya family and their dynastic fortunes over the next ten thousand years. That's a pretty broad canvas. This first volume opens a century and a half from now in a blissful, poverty-free world. Scion Geoffrey Akinya would prefer a quiet, contemplative life, but his family needs him to investigate his entrepreneur grandmother's safe-deposit box on Luna. What he finds has world-altering implications.
Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/59d2fa35493686fd38b73ee255d5cd7c.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_59d2fa35493686fd38b73ee255d5cd7c.jpg&hash=e631da3e7042a89ae506e3b381b8f75f359db2a5)Caliban's War (http://www.amazon.com/Calibans-War-Expanse-James-Corey/dp/0316129062/?ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326208407&sr=1-1&tag=gmgamzn-20), James S.A. Corey (Orbit) As the follow-up to Leviathan Wakes begins, Jim Holden is still piecing together what happened on Ganymede and how the alien protomolecule wreaking havoc can be stopped. And make no mistake — that protomolecule is doing serious damage to the solar system's (admittedly precarious) balance of power.
Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/095e836ac468eab891366f924455a211.png)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_095e836ac468eab891366f924455a211.png&hash=9a9833444ffc560edb1543218d20bb68064a5432)RedShirts (http://io9.com/5874770/%20http://www.amazon.com/Redshirts-Novel-Three-John-Scalzi/dp/0765316994/ref=pd_sim_b_1), John Scalzi (Tor) There might not be a formal description or even many details available just yet, but that title and blurb say quite a bit about what to expect from Scalzi's latest standalone. It is not, however, a Star Trek novel.
Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/2e092ccd2986955951a8c88e227ddb15.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_2e092ccd2986955951a8c88e227ddb15.jpg&hash=eec35f3df6e229a15972eb75edddf7297beb5ece)Blackout (http://www.amazon.com/Blackout-Newsflesh-Trilogy-Mira-Grant/dp/0316081078/?ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326211591&sr=8-1&tag=gmgamzn-20), Mira Grant (Orbit) After the cliff-hanger at the end of Deadline, the conclusion to Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy about zombies and social media cannot possibly come fast enough.

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July Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/ac304d2eeafb3add1762b85406df3270.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_ac304d2eeafb3add1762b85406df3270.jpg&hash=74a71e0bd5108de34affe00f5ddacba660e88ea1)The Apocalypse Codex (http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Codex-Laundry-Files-Novel/dp/1937007464/?ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326211675&sr=1-1&tag=gmgamzn-20), Charles Stross (Ace) When an American megapreacher with a seemingly supernatural talent for faith healing starts getting chummy with the Prime Minister, the Laundry (the top-secret agency responsible for all things paranormal) sees some cause for concern. And so they send a freelancer — one Persephone Hazard, whose name says it all — to investigate. Meanwhile up-and-comer Bob Howard is assigned to keep an eye on Persephone.
Wake of the Bloody Angel (http://www.amazon.com/Wake-Bloody-Angel-Alex-Bledsoe/dp/0765327457/?ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326208517&sr=1-1-spell%20&tag=gmgamzn-20), Alex Bledsoe (Tor)
Eddie LaCrosse is hired to discover the fate of Black Edward Tew, a pirate-by-necessity who charmed a young barmaid then disappeared. That barmaid now runs her own tavern and wants to know what came of the man she loved. And so he sets out with a lovely former pirate to find the pirate (oh, and also his treasure).
Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/2b908b95d4d92c525fd6046b299377cf.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_2b908b95d4d92c525fd6046b299377cf.jpg&hash=7fcb28b01cc8aac15187d310335407e852340aef)Energized (http://www.amazon.com/Energized-Edward-M-Lerner/dp/0765328496/?ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_3%20&tag=gmgamzn-20), Edward M. Lerner (Tor) First serialized in Analog, this near-future energy-shortage thriller is now being made available in book form.

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Fall and beyond Some Remarks (http://www.amazon.com/Some-Remarks-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0062024434?tag=gmgamzn-20), Neal Stephenson (William Morrow)
What are these remarks regarding? That's a good question. But you know if they're coming from Neal Stephenson, they'll be brain-bending and thought-provoking.
Full size (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2012/01/1c2b5ff79e1d1a45d206e1facb86c32a.jpg)(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2Fmedium_1c2b5ff79e1d1a45d206e1facb86c32a.jpg&hash=cc23b7f999c569bdd57a95621b2f7c26a2b8efd8)The Fractal Prince (http://www.amazon.com/Fractal-Prince-Hannu-Rajaniemi/dp/0765329506/?ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326168071&sr=1-1%20&tag=gmgamzn-20), Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor) Details are scant, but the sequel to The Quantum Thief will return to Rajaniemi's whiz-bang puzzle-box of a far-future, so it's sure to be interesting.
Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross (Tor)
This new release will pair the already-published "Jury Service" and "Appeals Court" with a concluding novella, as well as (potentially) some additional plot glue to hold it all together. For more, we wrote about the deal here (http://io9.com/5540991/cory-doctorow-and-charles-stross-team-up-for-rapture-of-the-nerds).
The Eternal Flame, Greg Egan (Night Shade Books)
The second volume of Egan's Orthogonal series continues the tale of Yalda and her descendants, who're taking advantage of interstellar physics to develop the ultra-advanced science her planet desperately needs in the limited time available.
Did we forget anything? If there's something you're excited about that you don't see above, let us know in the comments!

eh kad bi jos budjav alnarii nastavio da izdaje novikovu to bi bilo sjajno

Quote from: Mo on 12-01-2012, 01:03:04
eh kad bi jos budjav alnarii nastavio da izdaje novikovu to bi bilo sjajno

Ne da bidne.

mda to obicno tako, steta, bas sam uzivala...

Prime Books has posted the table of contents (http://www.prime-books.com/2012/01/22/contents-years-best-dark-fantasy-horror-2012-edited-by-paula-guran/) for the upcoming anthology Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 edited by Paula Guran:

   
• "Hair" by Joan Aiken (The Monkey's Wedding & Other Stories / F&SF July/August)
• "Rakshashi" by Kelley Armstrong (The Monster's Corner: Through Inhuman Eyes)
• "Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin" by Adam Callaway (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #73, July 14, 2011)
• "The Lake" by Tananarive Due (The Monster's Corner: Through Inhuman Eyes)
• "Tell Me I'll See You Again" by Dennis Etchison (A Book of Horrors)
• "King Death" Paul Finch (King Death)
• "The Last Triangle" by Jeffrey Ford (Supernatural Noir)
• "Near Zennor by Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors)
• "Crossroads" by Laura Anne Gilman (Fantasy, Aug 2011)
• "After-Words" by Glen Hirshberg (The Janus Tree and Other Stories)
• "Rocket Man" by Stephen Graham Jones (Stymie, Vol. 4. Issue 1, Spring & Summer 2011)
• "The Colliers' Venus (1893)" by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy)
• "Catastrophic Disruption of the Head" by Margo Lanagan (The Wilful Eye: Tales from the Tower, Vol. 1)
• "The Bleeding Shadow" by Joe R. Lansdale (Down These Strange Streets)
• "Why Light?" by Tanith Lee (Teeth)
• "Conservation of Shadows" by Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld, August 2011)
• • A Tangle of Green Men, Charles de Lint (Welcome to Bordertown)
• "After the Apocalypse" by Maureen McHugh (After the Apocalypse)
• "Lord Dunsany's Teapot" Naomi Novak (The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities)
• "Mysteries of the Old Quarter" by Paul Park (Ghosts by Gaslight)
• "Vampire Lake, by Norman Partridge (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2)
• "A Journey of Only Two Paces" by Tim Powers (The Bible Repairman and Other Stories)
• "Four Legs in the Morning" by Norman Prentiss (Four Legs in the Morning)
• "The Fox Maiden" by Priya Sharma (On Spec, Summer 2011)
• "Time and Tide" by Alan Peter Ryan (F&SF, Sept/Oct 2011)
• "Sun Falls" by Angela Slatter (Dead Red Heart)
• "Still" by Tia V. Travis (Portents)
• "Objects in Dreams May Be Closer Than They Appear" by Lisa Tuttle (House of Fear)
• "The Bread We Eat in Dreams" by Catherynne M. Valente (Apex Magazine, Issue 30, November 2011)
• "All You Can Do Is Breathe" Kaaron Warren (Blood & Other Cravings)
• "Josh" by Gene Wolfe (Portents)

   
• "Outmoded Things" by Nancy Kress

   
• "The Man Who Came Late" by Harry Turtledove

   
• "A Slip in Time" by S. M. Stirling

   
• "Living and Working with Poul Anderson" by Karen Anderson

   
• "Dancing on The Edge of The Dark" by C. J. Cherryh

   
• "The Lingering Joy" by Stephen Baxter

   
• "Operation Xibalba" by Eric Flint

   
• "Tales Told" by Astrid Anderson Bear

   
• "The Fey of Cloudmoor" by Terry Brooks

   
• "Christmas in Gondwanaland" by Robert Silverberg

   
• "Latecomers" by David Brin

   
• "An Appreciation of Poul Anderson" by Jerry Pournelle

   
• "A Candle" by Raymond E. Feist

   
• "The Far End" by Larry Niven

   
• "Bloodpride"" by Gregory Benford

   
• "Three Lilies and Three Leopards (And a Participation Ribbon in Science)" by Tad Williams

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Danas izaslo!  :!:

He's the legendary Cyberpunk Guru. He roams our postmodern planet, from the polychrome tinsel of Los Angeles to the chicken-fried cyberculture of Austin... From the heretical Communist slums of gritty Belgrade to the Gothic industrial castles of artsy Torino...always whipping that slider-bar between the unthinkable and the unimaginable.

He's a Californian design visionary. He's an European electronic-art curator. He's a Swiss professor of media philosophy. He's a Prophet of Augmented Reality, even. He's an author, journalist, editor, critic, theorist, futurist, and blogger. Obviously he's pretty much anything that he can get his hands on.

And he never stops typing. This sixth collection of his fantastic stories is a comic arsenal of dark euphoria. It's even weirder, harsher and more twisted than the scary decade that inspired it. Boy, that's saying something.

If there's one thing dear to the heart of this exotic character, one vital prize he will never, ever surrender, one stony core to his mutable, globalized being, it's his fanatical allegiance to the radical potential of science fiction. That is the truth. Really. That is one hundred percent accurate. You could look that up on Wikipedia.

Just like some far-fetched, globe-trotting antihero from one of his own unsettling, yet darkly prophetic novels, he is... Actually, never mind who he is. Does that matter? Is that an issue for us, really? You know what? We're all done here. Turn the page. We need to pretty much move right along.

Tor.com tells us (http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/02/coming-soon-some-of-the-best-of-torcom-a-free-mini-ebook-anthology) that right now you can preorder the Kindle version of their upcoming eBook publication of Some of the Best of Tor.com (http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B006TXN540/sfsi0c-20), a collection of just some of the oustanding fiction (http://www.tor.com/stories/prose) that has appeared at their wesbite.


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The collection will include stories by Charlie Jane Anders, James Allan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Park, Matthew Sanborn Smith, Michael Swanwick, and Harry Turtedove.

Jos jedan mali podsetnik na proslu godinu:

A Dozen of the Best from 2011 (http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2012/02/a-dozen-of-the-best-from-2011/)
— posted Sunday 5 February 2012 @ 11:41 am PST
  In 2011, "the field" continued to shift and fragment and in the process proved itself to be exciting, deep, and passionately engaged with the world around it. The mammals are partying with the dinosaurs until late into the night, and the result is a wonderful diversity of approaches.
Novels bubbling up just under my top picks include Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief, Jesse Bullington's The Enterprise of Death, Lev Grossman's The Magician King, Stina Leicht's  Of Blood and Honey, Minister Faust's The Alchemists of Kush, N.K. Jemisin's The Kingdom of Gods, Kris Saknussemm's Enigmatic Pilot, and Carolyn Ives Gilman's Isles of the Forsaken. I encourage readers to seek out all of these novels—and to suggest their own best reads.
In the area of regrets, I have not yet read Christopher Priest's much-praised The Islanders or Catherynne M. Valente's The Folded World, but I am looking forward to both. Many people have also urged me to read Stephen King's time-travel novel 11/22/63. Two amazing reads — Lauren Beukes' Zoo City and Graham Joyce's The Silent Land — are left off my list because even though I encountered them in their 2011 North American editions, they were both originally published in the UK in 2010.
My top picks from 2011 are listed by author rather than any ranking system.
The Great Lover by Michael Cisco (Chômu Press) – After having written the best 2010 work of the weird, The Narrator, Michael Cisco has followed up that achievement with an idiosyncratic novel that requires the reader to acclimate to its unique rhythms and pacing. The Great Lover of the title is a sewerman and undead hero. The novel, to some measure, follows his strange adventures. Cisco effortlessly evokes both the grotesque and the sublime, providing scenes and situation that are often unique within weird fiction—or, for that matter, in fiction generally. To some degree, Cisco is operating in a sphere that most fiction writers never reach, or attain only rarely, and is doing it seemingly without effort. That he remains so unknown is an absolute travesty.
The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham (Doubleday) –Durham's The Sacred Band is a very satisfying conclusion to the Acacia Trilogy begun with Acacia and The Other Lands. The series broke with the tradition of photocopying photocopies of European feudal society to create heroic fantasy and also ignored the current trend of "dirty realism" in this subgenre. The novel effectively shows the interplay and conflict between multiple races across complex situations in several countries. And while The Sacred Band examines the uses and abuses of power, it doesn't skimp on strange magic, either. Some of the scenes in which Queen Corrin Akaran wields her power are "classic eldritch" in the best sense of iconic strange swords-and-sorcery. Themes and subplots begun in the earlier novels come together perfectly and yet not in pat ways. Explorations of odd cities, epic wars, mid-air battles between magical creatures, and a sea serpent erupting from the waves are just a few of the pleasures of this beautifully written and smartly realized novel.
God's War by Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books) – In this first book of a continuing series, Hurley created a unique science fictional world settled by Moslems that featured bug-based tech/magic along with a centuries-old war. It's a kaleidoscope of action, conflict, and intrigue driven by former assassin Nyx, a strong female character. Although at times the novel is almost too dizzying, it succeeds due to Hurley's investment in Nyx and in her assistant, a magician named Rhys, along with the fascinating insect-based tech and unique cultural underpinnings. Hurley's muscular prose style, the effective evocation of the world's desolation, and the rough energy behind the writing made God's War one of the most interesting SF reads of the year. 
Tattoo by Kirsten Imani Kasai (Del Rey) – This second book in the series begun with Ice Song raises the stakes considerably: the writing is stronger, more varied in its effects, the situations thought-provoking and sometimes disturbing, while her characters continue to be highly individual and interesting. In. Kasai's environmentally fragile world, human and animal genes combine and the rarest mutation of all–the Trader–can instantly switch genders. After having defeated mad Matuk the Collector in the first book, the protagonist, Sorykah finds that the Collector's death has unleashed even darker forces, the consequences explored in Tattoo. As far as I can tell, this novel is the most underrated of 2011, not receiving nearly enough attention. Comparisons to Ursula K. Le Guin, Tanith Lee, and Angela Carter are well-deserved, given the kinetic energy of Kasai's style and her unique imagination.
  A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (Bantam) – The fifth book in the hugely popular Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series may never have been able to live up to some fans' expectations...but underneath the weight of those desires lives and breathes a truly strange candidate for bestseller status: a huge, dense novel that devotes several scenes to bizarre and beautifully imaginative set-pieces on haunted rivers and in the supernatural North. A stalled military campaign stuck in the dead of winter is also evocative and harrowing. The approach Martin became known for in heroic fantasy—no character is safe from suddenly being run over by the wheels of fate or circumstance—may seem less shocking now given the rise of "gritpunk" epic fantasy, but is still effective. Scenes from the point of view of a certain famous dwarf are perhaps the baggiest in the novel, straining at times for sardonic effect. But A Dance with Dragons is still a stunning achievement, and should not be lumped in with more generic heroic fantasy series.
  Embassytown by China Miéville (Del Rey) – In reading an innovative novel like Embassytown, it soon becomes clear that contemporary science fiction considered as a "literature of ideas" separate from a "literature of entertainment" may need to raise its game. This tale of alien contact and the repercussions of the uses of language brings to mind the best of 1970s-era fiction from Le Guin and Lessing. Set on another planet and detailing the conflict between humans and the native civilization, the novel is by no means perfect—ironically, the sections of conventional action are poorly paced and repetitive—but when content to dwell in realms of the meditative, philosophical, and descriptive, the novel has a power and effect that lingers in the mind long after reading. It's a brutal rhapsody on words and communication.
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead) – Oyeyemi's fourth novel is an intricate, many-tangled creation that uses a welter of related stories to describe an affair between a writer and his muse. Oyeyemi freely mixes folktales and metafictional elements to examine love, disguises, and the nature of stories. You can get lost in the novel, only to reappear in a more familiar part of the maze. Overall, Mr. Fox reads like a mutant hybrid of the work of the Brontes, Witold Gombrowicz, Barbara Comyns, and Kelly Link. One of the best of the next generation of writers working in the interstices of realism and the fantastical, Oyeyemi continues to write thought-provoking, emotive, and unclassifiable fiction.
  Dancing with Bears by Michael Swanwick (Night Shade Books) – In this daring post-utopian novel complete with dangerously weird robots, con-men Darger and Surplus are on their way to Russia, having quite "innocently" acquired a caravan delivering a priceless gift from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Muscovy. Once they reach Moscow, an absurd level of intrigue, revolution, and double-crossing occurs. Fritz Leiber set a high bar indeed for loveable rogues with his Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser series. It's such a high bar that I find most riffs on this kind of thing tiresome and not at all witty.  But Michael Swanwick has, in Dancing with Bears, provided readers with two of the narstiest and most entertaining such rogues in recent memory.
Osama by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing) – Subtle, forceful, and beautifully written, this nuanced and fascinating novel is at heart a compelling alt-world mystery. In a milieu without global terrorism, Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden. The short chapters that comprise Osama waste few words while still featuring some beautiful writing. The word "haunting" is over-used as a descriptor, but it fits here: the novel haunts, it echoes, and it ghosts in a hypnotic, slipstreamy, and evocative way. Tidhar's progress as a writer has been swift and he's rapidly becoming one of the field's best and most flexible stylists.
  Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine (Prime Books) – In this first novel from a talented short story writer, the traveling Circus Tresaulti survives despite the threats posed by a vaguely defined post-apocalyptic milieu. The plot of the novel is firmly focused on the emotional lives of the circus performers and the tangled knot of their relationships. The circus is figuratively haunted by Bird, an aerialist who fell to his death. Valentine displays an extraordinary ability to weave the effects of that act into the foundation of Mechanique. In a sense, the novel is composed of a series of brief set-pieces about the characters that interlock to form a greater whole.
Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor Books) – This coming-of-age novel takes the form of diary entries from fifteen-year-old Morwenna Phelps as she deals with the aftermath of traumatic magical events involving her eldritch mother and even stranger faerie. That Morwenna is voraciously reading science fiction and fantasy throughout Among Others adds to its delights. Things Happen, of course, and there's useful ambiguity, to some extent, about the fantastical element, but as I wrote in a column for the New York Times Book Review, "The real key to appreciating the novel can be found in [this] passage: 'Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is all Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn't supposed to happen after the glorious last stand.' It's a terribly brave act, to write a novel that is in essence aftermath, but Walton succeeds brilliantly. The novel's a wonder and a joy."
  Zone One by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) – Whitehead knows his zombies, and in Zone One this amazing writer produced a near-perfect zombie epic. The novel is set mostly in a Manhattan after civilization is trying to rise again by clearing the iconic island of the undead. Whitehead's protagonist, whose name is given as Mark Spitz, is part of a zombie-clearing team, and through the course of three days the reader comes to know his back-story in intimate detail while also being treated to scary and darkly humorous zombie encounters in the present-day of the novel. It is a tour-de-force for Whitehead to be able to so completely flesh out his main character while jumping back and forth in time, and to at the same time trump many another novel and movie by providing brilliant zombie set-pieces that should satisfy any aficionado of the subgenre. Zone One is sad, funny, and scary, both action-packed and melancholy. It is also the best-written novel I encountered in 2011.

An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist; in

The Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist fantasy from Russia and epic fantasy from Poland; near-future tales from Mexico and Finland, or cyberpunk from South Africa: in this anthology one gets a glimpse of the complex and fascinating world of genre fiction – from all over our world. Featuring work from noted international authors such as Will Elliot, Hannu Rajaniemi, Shweta Narayan, Lauren Bukes, Ekaterina Sedia, Nnedi Okorafor, and Andrzej Sapkowski. Here's the table of contents:

   
• "Alternate Girl's Expatriate Life" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
• "Mr. Goop" by Ivor W. Hartmann
• "Trees of Bone" by Daliso Chaponda
• "The First Peruvian in Space" by Daniel Salvo (translated by Jose B. Adolph)
• "Eyes in the Vastness of Forever" by Gustavo Bondoni
• "The Tomb" by Chen Qiufan (translated by the author)
• "The Sound of Breaking Glass" by Joyce Chng
• "A Single Year" by Csilla Kleinheincz (translated by the author)
• "The Secret Origin of Spin-Man" by Andrew Drilon
• "Borrowed Time" by Anabel Enríquez Piñeiro (translated by Daniel W. Koon)
• "Branded" by Lauren Beukes
• "December 8th" by Raúl Flores (translated by Daniel W. Koon)
• "Hungry Man" by Will Elliott
• "Nira and I" by Shweta Narayan
• "Nothing Happened in 1999" by Fábio Fernandes
• "Shadow" by Tade Thompson
• "Shibuya no Love" by Hannu Rajaniemi
• "Maquech" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• "The Glory of the World" by Sergey Gerasimov
• "The New Neighbours" by Tim Jones
• "From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7" by Nnedi Okorafor
• "The Slows" by Gail Hareven (translated by Yaacov Jeffrey Green)
• "Zombie Lenin" by Ekaterina Sedia
• "Electric Sonalika" by Samit Basu
• "The Malady" by Andrzej Sapkowski (translated by Wiesiek Powaga)
• "A Life Made Possible Behind The Barricades" by Jacques Barcia

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Jeffrey Ford has posted the table of contents (http://jeffford2010.livejournal.com/50489.html) for his upcoming collection Crackpot Palace:

   
• "Polka dots and Moonbeams"
• "Down Atsion Road"
• "Sit the Dead"
• "The Seventh Expression of the Robot General"
• "86 Deathdick Road"
• "After Moreau"
• "The Hag's Peak Affair"
• "The Coral Heart"
• "The Double of My Double Is Not My Double"
• "Daltharee"
• "Ganesha"
• "Every Richie There Is"
• "The Dream of Reason"
• "The War Between Heaven and Hell Wallpaper"
• "Relic"
• "Glass Eels"
• "The Wish Head"
• "Weiroot"
• "Dr. Lash Remembers"
• "Daddy Long Legs of the Evening"

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Michael Bishop's mammoth career retrospective, The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy (http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=bishop01&Category_Code=B&Product_Count=15), is in stock and shipping. Mike's collection stands as a high point in our ongoing series of Best of short story collections. I've been reading him since I was seventeen, and can tell you that culling his oeuvre down to a representative 200,000 words was an act of editorial alchemy. Our thanks to Mike and Michael H. Hutchins for that, and to Bill Sheehan for the illuminating flap copy.

Here's part of the flap copy, to give you a sense of the collection:

In the course of a distinguished career now entering its fifth decade, Michael Bishop has amassed a large body of fiction notable for its intellectual range, narrative sophistication, and sheer stylistic elegance. This massive new retrospective,

The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy, amply celebrates that career, offering one example after another of Bishop's unique—and characteristic—virtuosity.
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The Drowned Cities
by Paolo Bacigalupi
(preorder—coming this Summer)
Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Jon Foster
Limited: $125
Length: 352 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59606-506-2
Lettered: $250
Matched Set of Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities Signed Limited Editions: $250
Collectors, please note: If you already own Ship Breaker, please send us an email to subpress@gmail.com letting us know which number or letter we need to match for The Drowned Cities.
We're proud to announce the signed limited edition of Paolo Bacigalupi's third novel, The Drowned Cities, which will be printed in two colors throughout, on 80# Finch, with a full-color dust jacket and a pair of full-color interior illustrations by Jon Foster.

ad eternum
by Elizabeth Bear
(preorder—to be published in March 2012)
Dust jacket by Patrick Arrasmith
Trade: $25
ISBN: 978-1-59606-444-7
Length: 96 pages
Limited: $45
Subterranean Press is proud to announce the capstone novella to the New Amsterdam series. The signed limited edition of ad eternum includes not only the novella proper, but an additional 9,000 word chapbook, "Underground".
For centuries, the wampyr has drifted from one place to another. From one life to another. It's 1962, and he's returned to New Amsterdam for the first time since he fled it on pain of death some sixty years before. On the eve of social revolution, on the cusp of a new way of life, he's nevertheless surrounded by inescapable reminders of who he used to be.
For a thousand years, he's chosen to change rather than to die. Now, at last, he faces a different future....

Elem, Vil Mekintoš je ostavio odličan utisak sa svojim debi romanom Tiha apokalipsa, pa je i Hitchers izašao krajem januara, samo je naslovnica... ubi bože:




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Two years ago, on the same day but miles apart, Finn Darby lost two of the most important people in his life: his wife Lorena, struck by lightning on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, and his abusive, alcoholic grandfather, Tom Darby, creator of the long-running newspaper comic strip Toy Shop. Against his grandfather's dying wish, Finn has resurrected Toy Shop, adding new characters, and the strip is more popular than ever, bringing in fan letters, merchandising deals, and talk of TV specials. Finn has even started dating again.When a terrorist attack decimates Atlanta, killing half a million souls, Finn begins blurting things in a strange voice beyond his control. The voice says things only his grandfather could know. Countless other residents of Atlanta are suffering a similar bizarre affliction. Is it mass hysteria, or have the dead returned to possess the living? Finn soon realizes he has a hitcher within his skin... his grandfather. And Grandpa isn't terribly happy about the changes Finn has been making to Toy Shop. Together with a pair of possessed friends, an aging rock star, and a waitress, Finn races against time to find a way to send the dead back to Deadland... or die trying!

Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents (http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/388265.html) for the upcoming anthology co-edited with Terri Windling: Queen Victoria's Book of Spells:

   
• "The Fairy Enterprise" by Jeffrey Ford
• "From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire)" by Genevieve Valentine
• "The Memory Book" by Maureen McHugh
• "Queen Victoria's Book of Spells" by Delia Sherman
• "La Reine D'Enfer" by Kathe Koja
• "Briar Rose" by Elizabeth Wein
• "The Governess" by Elizabeth Bear
• "Smithfield" by James P. Blaylock
• "The Unwanted Women of Surrey" by Kaaron Warren
• "Charged" by Leanna Renee Hieber
• "Mr. Splitfoot" by Dale Bailey
• "Phosperous" by Veronica Schanoes
• "We Without Us Were Shadows" by Catherynne M. Valente
• "The Vital Importance of the Superficial" by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer
• "The Jewel in the Toad Queen's Crown" by Jane Yolen
• "A Few Twigs He Left Behind" by Gregory Maguire
• "Their Monstrous Minds" by Tanith Lee
• "Estella Saves the Village" by Theodora Goss

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Publication Date: April 10, 2012    From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling post-apocalyptic tale in the vein of 1984 or The Road.
In the not-distant-enough future, a man takes a boat trip up the Susquehanna River with his most trusted friend, intent on reuniting with his son. But the man is pursued by an army, and his own harrowing past; and the familiar American landscape has been savaged by war and climate change until it is nearly unrecognizable.
Lost Everything is a stunning novel about family and faith, what we are afraid may come to be, and how to wring hope from hopelessness. 

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Beyond Grimm (http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Beyond-Grimm-Radford-and-Ross)

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In the future, teens rent their bodies to seniors who want to be young again. One girl discovers her renter plans to do more than party--her body will commit murder, if her mind can't stop it. Sixteen-year-old Callie lost her parents when the genocide spore wiped out everyone except those who were vaccinated first--the very young and very old. With no grandparents to claim Callie and her little brother, they go on the run, living as squatters, and fighting off unclaimed renegades who would kill for a cookie. Hope comes via Prime Destinations, run by a mysterious figure known only as The Old Man. He hires teens to rent their bodies to seniors, known as enders, who get to be young again. Callie's neurochip malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her rich renter, living in her mansion, driving her cars, even dating Blake, the grandson of a senator. It's a fairy-tale new life . . . until she uncovers the Body Bank's horrible plan. . . .



(Ovo cilja na Hunger Games publiku, tek da se zna. :) )

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Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents (http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/389148.html) for two anthologies she co-edited with Terri Windling, newly released in eBook format. They're titled A Wolf at the Door and Swan Sister:

Pat Cadigan danas najavila svoj roman, ali bez ikakvih detalja, samo da izlazi u toku godine i da je za intro zaslužna Lisa Tuttle.   :) 


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Prime Books has posted the table of contents (http://oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com/377990.html) for the upcoming (May 2012) anthology War and Space: Recent Combat edited by Rich Horton & Sean Wallace, described thusly:Conflict: a basic human instinct, helping humankind evolve even while threatening the very existence of the species . . . an instinct that will be as much a part of the future as it is now and always has been. For all the glories of war—the defeat of evil, the promise of freedom, justice, protection of the innocent, the righting of wrongs, technological innovation, heroism—there are also the horrors: individual grief, mass destruction, the elimination of entire cultures and great achievments, injustice, villainy, the annihilation of the innocent, and pain beyond bearing.
War and Space offers the ultimate speculation on the future of warfare—stories of insectoid anguish, genetically-engineered diplomats who cannot fail, aliens plundering humanity, a weaponized black hole-scenarios of triumph and defeat, great heroism and vile depravity . . . and more.


And here's the table of contents:

   
• "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359" by Ken MacLeod
• "Surf" by Suzanne Palmer
• "Another Life" by Charles Oberndorf
• "Between Two Dragons" by Yoon Ha Lee
• "Scales" by Alastair Reynolds
• "Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy" by Catherynne M. Valente
• "Leave" by Robert Reed
• "Mehra and Jiun" by Sandra McDonald
• "Her Husband's Hands" by Adam-Troy Castro
• "Remembrance" by Beth Bernobich
• "Palace Resolution" by Tom Purdom
• "The Observer" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• "The Long Chase" by Geoffrey Landis
• "Art of War" by Nancy Kress
• "Have You Any Wool" by Alan DeNiro
• "Carthago Delenda Est" by Genevieve Valentine
• "Rats of the System" by Paul McAuley
• "The Political Officer" by Charles Coleman Finlay
• "Amid the Words of War" by Cat Rambo
• "A Soldier of the City" by David Moles