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Perin

E ovo mi se čini skroz cool :D

Nightflier

E a na ovo ću da svršim kad se objavi.  xdrinka :!: :|
Sebarsko je da budu gladni.
First 666

Melkor

Podseti me da ne pozajmljujem knjige od tebe  ;)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Kler_Vojant


Nightflier

Ma neću - sem ako ne prodaju plastificirana izdanja, kao ona za bebe.
Sebarsko je da budu gladni.
First 666

Melkor

The Thief of Broken Toys
Tim Lebbon , Erik Mohr
(Illustrator)


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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

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

And Now the Nightmare Begins: The Horror Zine
editor: Jeani Rector


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.
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

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."

"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

Birds of Prey
Seven Sardonic Stories
Collection of stories by Julian Barnes, Richard Burton, Daphne Du Maurier, Christopher Ondaatje, Edgar Allan Poe and Salman Rushdie



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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

The Unlikely World of Faraway Frankie
by Keith Brooke  


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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

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:



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

"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

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!

"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

Zero History
William Gibson


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

Bigend trilogy:

   1. Pattern Recognition (2003)
   2. Spook Country (2007)
   3. Zero History (2010)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

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-)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

- The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard -


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
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

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
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

The Night Bookmobile
A Graphic Novel by
Audrey Niffenegger


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





"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

Stories
All-New Tales
By Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio


Product Description

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.

Book Description

   "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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

cutter

čekajući nove knjige 2011:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/30/philip-k-dick-visionary-journals-published





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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".



zakk

Izašlo?! Što niko ne javlja BRE!

Jevrejska policijska stanica - Majkl Čabon 

http://www.dereta.rs/knjiga.jsp?id=16165
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

Melkor

Mislim da smo pricali o tome na putu za Zg. Verovatno u nekom od tvojih "dremljivih" trenutaka  xfrog
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Mica Milovanovic

Mica

zakk

Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

Melkor

Full Dark, No Stars
by Stephen King



'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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Paranoid

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

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.

Melkor

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

nego

Leviathan Wept and Other Stories
(2010)
A collection of stories by
Daniel Abraham



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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Nightflier

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.
Sebarsko je da budu gladni.
First 666

zakk

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
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

Melkor

The Ammonite Violin & Other
by Caitlin R. Kiernan


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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

zakk

The Boneshaker (2010)
A novel by Kate Milford



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?
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

zakk

Windblowne (2010)
A novel by Stephen Messer



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.

Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

Nightflier

Quote from: zakk on 24-05-2010, 11:42:14
The Boneshaker (2010)
A novel by Kate Milford



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.
Sebarsko je da budu gladni.
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Melkor

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.
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

divča



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)
And every life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank,
A quite unlosable game.

Melkor

The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson


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
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Nightflier

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



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.
Sebarsko je da budu gladni.
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Melkor

Da osvezim malo topik

Gothic Realities: The Impact of Horror Fiction on Modern Culture
L. Andrew Cooper


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
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

The Painted Boy
(2010)
A novel by

Charles de Lint


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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

Sunset Park
(2010)
A novel by

Paul Auster


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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

Surface Detail  
Iain M. Banks


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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

Pathfinder
Orson Scott Card
(The first book in the Serpent World series)



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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

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...
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Nightflier

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...
Sebarsko je da budu gladni.
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
A novel by Charles Yu


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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin [Paperback]
Karen Joy Fowler (Author, Editor), Debbie Notkin (Author, Editor)


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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

Engineering Infinity
Jonathan Strahan
(Editor)


   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)

"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

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


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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

Home Fires
Gene Wolfe
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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

Melkor

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


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)
"Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality."

tomat

Quote from: Melkor on 26-10-2010, 01:47:13
While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut


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)

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