ZNAK SAGITE — više od fantastike — edicija, časopis, knjižara...

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



The cover blurb:

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

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

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

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

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


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

Amazon Best Books of 2011: Science Fiction & Fantasy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nije to za tebe.

Ni Waltonova i Okoraforova?

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

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

Jos Amazona Best of Comics and Graphic Novels

Kirkus Reviews Science Fiction and Fantasy Best Fiction of 2011.

KAKO je Blejk Čarlton završio na toj listi, pobogu!

što, jel nije fentezi ili ...? 


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

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

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

Incoming! New Angry Robot Titles Through to September 2012!

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

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

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

Ok, to bi bilo to od horora za ovu godinu

Bram Stoker Award Reading List

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

An anthology to be published by Baen Books in April 2012. Now available for pre-order.

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

Neuništiv i nezadrživ, Elison objavljuje 4 nove knjige. 


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

Kako io9 javlja neki Evan Mandery ima interesantnu knjigu pod imenom "Q". Mislim da bi mogla lepo da se proda kod nas.

Quote from: LiBeat on 03-12-2011, 08:43:50








An anthology to be published by Baen Books in April 2012. Now available for pre-order.

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

Odličan kasting.

Pa, meni je 50% imena nepoznato...    ali zato zbog onih drugih 50% skroz podrzavam tvoju procenu. 
a sad nesto i za tebe: J.J.Adams objavio TOC za decembarski Fantasy, pa je on sada zvanicni editor i izdavac i za Fantasy i Lightspeed. Planira da ih spoji u jedno izdanje.   

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

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

ovo me zanima:










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

Here's the complete table of contents for Years Best 6:

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

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

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

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


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




Published by Centipede Press
Limited: $150
This new edition of Thomas Ligotti's brilliant vignettes is a cause for celebration. Not only has the text been substantially revised by Thomas Ligotti, but artist Harry O. Morris has created eleven new artworks for the book. The text is gorgeously set and designed. Each copy is signed by Thomas Ligotti and Harry O. Morris.
The book also has a new introduction by Ligotti. It comes bound in printed cloth with a back panel velvet cloth, two ribbon markers, and is housed in a handsome slipcase. Some page spreads appear below.
Limited: 500 cloth bound copies, signed by the author, housed in a custom slipcase


http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=ligotti05&Category_Code=NEW&Product_Count=4

 Cover blurb for China Mieville's RAILSEA 

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

Editor Sean Wallace has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology he co-edited with Rich Horton, Robots: The Recent A.I.:

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

ali naslovnica...

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

Barnes & Noble Review Year's Best Reading 2011: Editor's Picks.

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

• [size=-1]Uh-Oh City[/size]

• [size=-1]Second Snow[/size]

• [size=-1]The Fall Collection[/size]

• [size=-1]Friend's Best Man[/size]

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

• [size=-1]Waiting to Wave[/size]

• [size=-1]The Jane Fonda Room[/size]

• [size=-1]A Quarter Past You[/size]

• [size=-1]My Zoondel[/size]

• [size=-1]Learning to Leave[/size]

• [size=-1]The Panic Hand[/size]

• [size=-1]A Bear in the Mouth[/size]

• [size=-1]Postgraduate[/size]

• [size=-1]Tired Angel[/size]

• [size=-1]The Dead Love You[/size]

• [size=-1]Florian[/size]

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

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

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

• [size=-1]Black Cocktail[/size]

• [size=-1]Crimes of the Face[/size]

• [size=-1]Fish in a Barrel[/size]

• [size=-1]A Gravity Thief[/size]

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

• [size=-1]The Stolen Church[/size]

• [size=-1]Alone Alarm[/size]

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

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

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

• [size=-1]Elizabeth Thug[/size]

• [size=-1]Home on the Rain[/size]

• [size=-1]Vedran[/size]

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

• [size=-1]East of Furious[/size]

• [size=-1]Nothing to Declare[/size]

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

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The overlooked sci-fi of 2011         

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

By Paul Di Filippo, Barnes & Noble Review

Koga mrzi da cita ceo clanak:

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

Ova knjiga se već mesecima pominje:


















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

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





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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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


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



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





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

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

[/color]Territory by Emma Bull
For a touch of strange, try this "weird western" which puts a magical emphasis on the events of Tombstone, Ariz., in the late 1800s, when Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clanton brothers became legends.

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

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

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

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

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

... zvanicno, mislis