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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expanded from the previous Collected Stories set to incorporate new story notes, and two added tales, one previously unpublished, and one uncollected.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)

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.



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.

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 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.
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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.
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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.
Survivors series 2 cover

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. — 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



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...  

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....  

Na koje tačno misliš? Ona ih ima bar desetak.

desetak...??! 

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

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... 

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.



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!



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:

http://www.algoritam.hr/?m=3&p=proizvod&kat=136&id=145910#

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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.

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.



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.



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




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.

http://klub-knjige.blogspot.com/2011/10/john-ajvide-lindqvist-harbour.html

 

from SF Signal by John

Marty Halpern has posted the table of contents 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..."
• Paul McAuley -- "The Thought War"
• Neil Gaiman -- "How to Talk to Girls at Parties"
• Karen Joy Fowler -- "Face Value"
• Harry Turtledove -- "The Road Not Taken"
• George Alec Effinger -- "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything"
• Stephen King --
• Pat Murphy -- "Recycling Strategies for the Inner City"
• Mike Resnick -- "The 43 Antarean Dynasties"
• Orson Scott Card -- "The Gold Bug"
• Bruce McAllister -- "Kin"
• Ernest Hogan -- "Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's Song"
• Pat Cadigan -- "Angel"
• Ursula K. Le Guin -- "The First Contact with the Gorgonids"
• Adam-Troy Castro -- "Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's"
• Michael Swanwick -- "A Midwinter's Tale"
• Mark W. Tiedemann -- "Texture of Other Ways"
• Cory Doctorow -- "To Go Boldly"-
• Elizabeth Moon -- "If Nudity Offends You"
• Nancy Kress -- "Laws of Survival"
• Jack Skillingstead -- "What You Are About to See"
• Robert Silverberg -- "Amanda and the Alien"
• Jeffrey Ford -- "Exo-Skeleton Town"
• Molly Gloss -- "Lambing Season"
• Bruce Sterling -- "Swarm"
• Charles Stross -- "MAXO Signals"
• Stephen Baxter -- "Last Contact"

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

@zakk 

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 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)
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

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
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9. Trinity Moon (Wild Hunt #2) by Elspeth Cooper
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
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
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7. King of Thorns (Broken Empire #2) by Mark Lawrence
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
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
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

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!
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3. A Memory of Light: (Wheel of Time #14) by Brandon Sanderson
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
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)
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
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!



'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 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 

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.

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