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PTY · 24-12-2011, 11:16:31

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

PTY · 24-12-2011, 16:50:10

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

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

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

PTY · 27-12-2011, 23:01:08

End-of-the-year books
December 20, 2011 — Shana

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

From Locus: New Books Dec 6, Dec 13, Dec 20. (Post by week received, so not all December books.) Here are some of December's, listed by Kirkus. Here are some of the fantasy novels out this month, by date.

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

Melkor · 30-12-2011, 00:28:35

In the Mouth of the Whale
Paul McAuley

Book Description

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

Product Description

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

Melkor · 30-12-2011, 00:30:05

The Islanders
Christopher Priest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Melkor · 31-12-2011, 00:29:05

2011 in review with io9
Annalee Newitz Dec 30, 2011 2:08 PM

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2011

JasonBezArgonauta · 01-01-2012, 22:41:47

Tim Powers

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On the 13th of March 2012, Hide Me Among the Graves will be available to you and me. To take a quote from the publisher's web site, "A breathtaking historical thriller in which art and the supernatural collide, Hide Me Among the Graves transports readers back to mid-19th century London and features a reformed ex-prostitute, a veterinarian, and the vampire ghost of Lord Byron's onetime physician, uncle to poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti." For more information, visit the Willam Morrow web site.[/size][/font]

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A page for this novel has now been added to this site – you can access it by clicking the link above, or by using the Novels link to the left.

Melkor · 01-01-2012, 23:31:07

Ne verujem da sam zaboravio da postujem Powersa

A pre-orderovao sam ga pre 2 meseca. A u istom trosku sam pre-orderovo i:

Angelmaker
Nick Harkaway

QuoteProduct Description

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

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

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

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

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

Iz istog ordera mi je stigao

Briarpatch
Tim Pratt

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

A kad se vec hvalim uzeo sam i 2 proslogodisnja Gregory-a, omnibus Valenteove i The Weird

(jos samo da to i procitam)

PTY · 03-01-2012, 09:06:46

A Gallery of 99 SF/F/H Books Coming Out in January 2012 – Which Ones Do You Want?

PTY · 03-01-2012, 09:09:20

Series: Ender | Publication Date: January 17, 2012

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

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

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

PTY · 03-01-2012, 09:40:06

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

"The Man Who Rained" by Ali Shaw. UK Release Date: January 1, 2012. Published by Atlantic. (SF/FAN).
"Seven Princes" by John R. Fultz. Release Date: January 3, 2012. Published by Orbit. (FAN).
"Leaves of Flame" by Benjamin Tate. Release Date: January 3, 2012. Published by DAW. (FAN).
"The Daemon Prism" by Carol Berg. Release Date: January 3, 2012. Published by Roc. (FAN).
"A Path to Coldness of Heart" by Glen Cook. Release Date: January 10, 2012. Published by Night Shade Books. (FAN).
"The Serpent Sea" by Martha Wells. Release Date: January 10, 2012. Published by Night Shade Books. (FAN).

"Faith" by John Love. Release Date: January 10, 2012. Published by Night Shade Books. (SF).

"Gideon's Corpse" by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. Release Date: January 10, 2012. Published by Grand Central. (MISC).

"Orb Sceptre Throne" by Ian Cameron Esslemont. UK Release Date: January 12, 2012. Published by Bantam UK. (FAN).
"In the Lion's Mouth" by Michael Flynn. Release Date: January 17, 2012. Published by Tor. (SF).

"The Flame Alphabet" by Ben Marcus. Release Date: January 17, 2012. Published by Knopf. (FAN).
"Blue Remembered Earth" by Alastair Reynolds. UK Release Date: January 19, 2012. Published by Gollancz. (SF).

"In the Mouth of the Whale" by Paul McAuley. UK Release Date: January 19, 2012. Published by Gollancz. (SF). "Transmission" by John Meaney. UK Release Date: January 19, 2012. Published by Gollancz. (SF).
"Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon" by Mark Hodder. Release Date: January 24, 2012. Published by Pyr. (Steampunk).

Boneyards" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Release Date: January 24, 2012. Published by Pyr. (SF).

"Pineapple Grenade" by Tim Dorsey. Release Date: January 24, 2012. Published by William Morrow. (MISC).

"Heir of Novron" by Michael J. Sullivan. Release Date: January 31, 2012. Published by Orbit. (FAN / Omnibus).

"Giant Thief" by David Tallerman. Release Date: January 31, 2012. Published by Angry Robot. (FAN).
"Greatshadow" by James Maxey. Release Date: January 31, 2012. Published by Solaris. (FAN).

"The Great Game" by Lavie Tidhar. Release Date: January 31, 2012. Published by Angry Robot. (Steampunk).
"Sadie Walker Is Stranded" by Madeleine Roux. Release Date: January 31, 2012. Published by St. Martin's Griffin. (HF). "The Faceless" by Simon Bestwick. Release Date: January 31, 2012. Published by Solaris. (HF).

"Shadows West" by Joe R. Lansdale & John L. Lansdale. Release Date: January 31, 2012. Published by Subterranean Press.

Melkor · 04-01-2012, 13:28:29

Most Anticipated: The Great 2012 Book Preview

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

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

Melkor · 05-01-2012, 12:55:03

Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents for her upcoming anthology The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Four:

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

Melkor · 09-01-2012, 04:06:53

The Wertzone Sunday, 8 January 2012 The Shape of Things to Come: Books for 2012 Some books to look out for this year. As always, cover art and release dates are not finalised and believe nothing before you see it on the shelves

A Path to the Coldness of Heart by Glen Cook
Night Shade Books (UK & USA): 10 January

The eighth and apparently final book in the Dread Empire sequence, delayed by twenty years after the manuscript for the original book was stolen. Eagerly awaited by Cook's numerous fans.

Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds
Gollancz (UK): 19 January
Ace (USA): 15 June

The first novel in the Poseidon's Children sequence, which will chronicle the next eleven thousand years of human history as man evolves from a colonised Solar system to a galaxy-spanning civilisation (probably). A new Reynolds is always an exciting prospect, and this being the first in a 'sequence' (don't mention the word 'trilogy'...damn!), his first series book (but not really) since Absolution Gap nine years ago, makes it all the more interesting.

Orb, Sceptre, Throne by Ian Cameron EsslemontBantam (UK): 19 JanuaryTor (USA): 22 May

The main Malazan sequence may be concluded, but the world goes on. Orb, Sceptre, Throne takes us back to Darujhistan, city of blue fires, and reunites us with the surviving Bridgeburners and Kruppe as a new (or old) threat descends on the city). Expect lots of Seguleh and some answers to some long-standing questions.

A Crown Imperilled by Raymond E. Feist
HarperCollins Voyager (UK): 30 January
HarperCollins Voyager (USA): 13 March

The middle volume of the Chaoswar Saga is the penultimate-ever Riftwar sequence. Twenty-eight books in, and it's fair to say that a new Feist novel is not the big event it used to be, but nevertheless it's good to see him drawing his massive saga to a close after thirty years and preparing to move on to new pastures.

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin AhmedDAW Books (USA): 7 February

An epic fantasy inspired by The Arabian Nights, complete with genies, ghouls and a master thief called the Falcon Prince. Sounds fun.

City of Dragons by Robin HobbHarperCollins Voyager (USA): 7 February
HarperCollins Voyager (UK): 23 April

The third and penultimate book in the Rain Wild Chronicles (which is odd, as I thought this series was one book split in two due to length). American Amazon Vine customers already have had a preview of the book and the early reception has not been great, but Hobb's legions of fans will snap it up anyway.

Know No Fear by Dan Abnett
Black Library (UK & USA): 28 February

The nineteenth volume in The Horus Heresy series sees Dan Abnett describing a particularly iconic battle of the lengthy civil war, as the rival Astartes chapters known as the Word Bearers and the Ultramarines clash over the planet Calth.

Kings of Morning by Paul Kearney
Solaris (UK & USA): 1 March

Delayed several times, Kearney's Mach Trilogy finally reaches its epic conclusion.

Shadow's Master by Jon Sprunk
Gollancz (UK): 19 July
Pyr (USA): 27 March

The Shadow Saga reaches its conclusion.

The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
Hodder & Stoughton (UK): 24 April
Scribner (USA): 24 April

King returns to his Dark Tower sequence to fill in a blank bit between volumes 4 and 5. Should be worth a look for fans of the series.

Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
Gollancz (UK): 1 May
Dial (USA): 1 May

The third book in the Graceling sequence continues the story begun in Graceling and focuses on the secondary character of Bitterblue from that novel.

The King's Blood by Daniel AbrahamOrbit UK: 3 May
Orbit USA: 22 May

The second volume in the Dagger and the Coin sequence sees the stories of Mercus, Cithrin and Geder continue, as war and intrigue seethes around them.

Jack Glass by Adam Roberts
Gollancz (UK): 9 May

Three murders are committed by Jack Glass. Yet how he performs each murder, and why, is a surprise. Adam Roberts seems to be getting better with every book, so it'll be interesting to see how this fusion of SF and the crime thriller works out.

Railsea by China MievilleMacmillan (UK): 10 MayDel Rey (USA): 15 May

Mieville returns with a steampunk Moby Dick, a tale of moldywarpes and moletrains, vengeance and obsession.

The Black Mausoleum by Stephen Deas
Gollancz (UK): 17 May
Roc (USA): 2013

The sequel to the Memory of Flames trilogy is a semi-stand-alone setting up further books set in the Dragon Realms. Essentially, the Realms are in chaos as dragons continue hatching free. A small group of people set out to put the genie back in the bottle and re-enslave the dragons, if they can before humanity is wiped out.

2312 by Kim Stanley RobinsonOrbit UK: 24 MayOrbit USA: 22 May

Robinson returns to epic, futuristic SF. In the city of Terminator on Mercury, a discovery is made that will change the history of humanity, forever.

Black Opera by Mary Gentle
Gollancz (UK): 16 August
Night Shade (USA): 5 June

A major new novel from Gentle, set in a world where music has tremendous magical power. An atheist musician, Conrad, creates an opera which unleashes miracles, to the fury of the Church which claims all such magic comes from God. Conrad is recruited by the King of the Two Sicilies to create more miracles at his command. An interesting concept from the writer of Ash: A Secret History.

Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck)
Orbit UK: 7 JuneOrbit USA: 26 June

The second volume in The Expanse and the sequel to the very popular Leviathan Wakes sees Jim Holden back in the thick of the action as war again threatens the Solar system and the alien protomolecule continues to do something on the surface of Venus.

Existence by David Brin
Orbit UK: 7 June
Tor (USA): 29 June

David Brin's first novel in eleven years should be an interesting read, though the plot at the moment is being kept under wraps.

Lord of Slaughter by M.D. Lachlan
Gollancz (UK): 21 June

Lachlan's third Wolfsangel novel takes us to Constantinople in the 10th Century.

Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch
Gollancz (UK): 21 JuneDel Rey (USA): 29 May

The third volume in Aaronovitch's enjoyable Rivers of London series sees magic-using cop Peter Grant teaming up with a born-again Christian FBI agent to solve a crime with international repercussions. Expect a culture and religious clash as well as the normal magical shenanigans.

Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham JoyceGollancz (UK): 21 JuneDoubleday (USA): 10 July

A new Graham Joyce is always intriguing, and this sounds no different. A long-lost girl returns home after twenty years, sparking the beginnings of a story about woodlands and folk tales.

The Hammer and the Blade by Paul S. Kemp
Angry Robot (UK & USA): 26 June

Popular tie-in author Paul S. Kemp launches his first original series, featuring the adventuring duo Egil and Nix. Expect old-school, fast-paced fun.

The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis
Orbit UK: February 2013
Tor (USA): 17 July

The long, long-delayed middle volume of The Milkweed Triptych, Tregillis' account of an alternate Second World War and Cold War where the opposing powers have access to superhumans. One beneficial side-effect of the long delay is that Tregillis has already completed the final volume, Necessary Evil, which will be simultaneously published in the UK and USA in April 2013.

Sharps by K.J. Parker
Orbit (UK & USA): 17 July

Two warring kingdoms forge a new peace. Fencers from the two kingdoms fight an honorable and sportsmanlike competition to celebrate this peace, but things rapidly take a turn for the bloody. Parker returns to where her career began, with fencing and swords (the focus of her debut 1997 novel Colours in the Steel) and, it should be suspected, bloody mayhem.

The Air War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Macmillan (UK): August
Pyr (USA): tbc

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt sequence reaches its eighth volume, which is also the first in the final arc of the series (which will take things up to the tenth and final book). Expect a resumption of hostilities as the Wasp Empire makes good on new technological innovations and discoveries.

The Middle Kingdom by David Wingrove
Corvus (UK): 1 August 2012

Expect bibliographical confusion as Wingrove's twenty-volume recasting of his Chung Kuo sequence catches up with the beginnings of the original series. The 'new' Middle Kingdom is the third volume of the 'new' Chung Kuo but shares the name and much of is material from the first volume of the 'old' Chung Kuo. With the series due to kick into a much more ambitious schedule in 2013 (with six novels planned for publication that year), this is the calm before the storm and presumably a good jumping-on point for new readers.

Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson
Bantam (UK): 2 August
Tor (USA): tbc

Hundreds of thousands of years before the events of Gardens of the Moon, the Tiste Andii of Kharkanas - including Anomander Rake - are forced to confront a moment of crisis. The first in an epic trilogy that details some of the mythic underpinning of the Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence.

King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
HarperCollins Voyager (UK): 16 August
Ace (USA): 7 August

The middle volume of The Broken Empire trilogy furthers the adventures of Jorg and his post-apocalyptic world.

Night of the Swarm by Robert V.S. Redick
Gollancz (UK): 16 August
Del Rey (USA): tbc

The Chanthrand Voyage sequence reaches its epic conclusion.

Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski
Gollancz (UK): 16 August

Finally! After almost three years of delays, Polish superstar Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher sequence resumes with the publication of the second in five novels featuring Geralt, the witcher.

The Twelve by Justin Cronin
Ballantine (USA): 28 August
Orion (UK): 30 August

The sequel to the critically-acclaimed and mega-selling The Passage. The survivors of The Passage go on the offensive and launch the Second Viral War, determined to destroy the Twelve, the leaders of the viral infection, and free the world from their shadow.

The Fractal Prince by Hannu RajaniemiGollancz (UK): 20 September
Tor (USA): 4 September

The sequel to the well-received Quantum Thief, seeing posthuman con artist Jean le Flambeur having to break into the mind of a living god. Expect weirdness.

The Three Prince War by Pierre Pevel
Gollancz (UK): 20 September

Following up on his Cardinal's Blades trilogy, this is an epic fantasy featuring a conflict that erupts between brothers feuding for the throne of a kingdom.

The Republic of Thieves by Scott LynchGollancz (UK): 18 October
Bantam Spectra (USA): tbc

We may have gotten A Dance with Dragons and The Wise Man's Fear last year, but the third of the long-awaited fantasy novels remains MIA. Hopes were high that Lynch would have been able to deliver the novel before Christmas for a rapid release in the Spring, but this has clearly not happened, with Gollancz now listing a very late 2012 release. Hardcore fantasy fans remain eager for the new book, but with the fifth anniversary of the publication of Red Seas Under Red Skies approaching, this is one series that's going to need some re-establishing to get more casual readers fired up about it.

Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
Macmillan (UK): October
Del Rey (USA): tbc

Hamilton's new novel is his longest in some time - the longest since The Naked God, in fact - but is a stand-alone, set in a brand new universe and features shenanigans and whatnot in the year 2143 on a colony planet.

A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
Orbit UK: November
Tor (USA): November

By far the highest-profile speculative fiction release of 2012, A Memory of Light brings the massive Wheel of Time sequence to a close, fourteen volumes and almost twenty-three years after it began. If Sanderson can close the story with the aplomb he showed in The Gathering Storm and Towers of Midnight, this book should be a triumph.

Legends of the Red Sun #4 by Mark Charan Newton
Macmillan (UK): Late 2012
Del Rey (USA): tbc

Mark Charan Newton's Legends of the Red Sun reaches its conclusion this year. Interesting what to see Newton has in store for us given the fairly apocalyptic ending to The Book of Transformations.

Dangerous Women, edited by Gardner Dozois & George R.R. Martin
Tor Books (USA): Late 2012

Martin and Dozois' latest collection of short fiction from some of the biggest names in fantasy. A key highlight will be the fourth Dunk 'n' Egg novella, The She-Wolves (working title), which takes them to Winterfell some eighty years before the events of A Game of Thrones.

A Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
Gollancz (UK): Late 2012
Orbit USA: Late 2012

Joe Abercrombie's third semi-stand-alone, set in the world of The First Law trilogy. This is Abercrombie's homage to Westerns, filtered through the lens of fantasy. If there isn't at least one grizzled gunslinger riding into a dustbowl town on unicorn-back, I'll be disappointed.

Godborn by Paul S. Kemp
Wizards of the Coast (UK & USA): Late 2012

After a lengthy break tackling Star Wars and his own original fiction, Kemp returns to the character who made him famous, Erevis Cale, and the Forgotten Realms setting for the first volume of the Cycle of Night trilogy.

Requiem by Ken Scholes
Tor (USA): Late 2012

Delayed by the author's unfortunate illness, the penultimate volume of the Psalms of Isaak series is eagerly awaited by fans of the first three books.

Endlords by J.V. Jones
Orbit UK: Late 2012
Tor Books: Late 2012

The fifth and penultimate volume of the Sword of Shadows sequence, which from the title sounds like it will be concentrating a lot on the main enemies of the sequence.

The Sea-Beggars by Paul Kearney
Solaris (UK & USA): Late 2012

Paul Kearney's Sea-Beggars sequence was almost left unfinished forever when it was abruptly cancelled after the second volume, but the original publishers refused to let go of the publication rights. Following a lengthy struggle, the author and Solaris managed to regain the rights. All three books - including the never-before-seen grand finale, Storm of the Dead - will now be published in a new omnibus edition at the end of 2012.

The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
Gollancz: Late 2012

Typical. You spend ten years waiting for a Christopher Priest novel and then two turn up in rapid succession. Following on from the success of The Islanders last year, Priest's new novel should be interesting. Although we so far don't know a thing about it.

The World of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, Elio Garcia & Linda Antonsson
Bantam (USA): Late 2012

Companion books are usually so much filler, but this looks like being something special. Written over a long period by Westeros.org webmasters Garcia and Antonsson, using new information from George R.R. Martin (who is also providing editing and some new material for the book), this book will feature new, never-before-seen maps (including a 'world map' showcasing all the locations seen in the series), an extremely detailed history of the Seven Kingdoms and significant amounts of new artwork (including some additional Ted Nasmith castle pictures that haven't been seen so far). It's not The Winds of Winter, but should help make the wait a little more bearable.

The Unholy Consult by R. Scott Bakker
Overlook (USA): Late 2012
Orbit UK: Late 2012

Orbit seem to be adamant this will be published in 2012, though I suspect it may slip into 2013. The Unholy Consult will bring The Aspect-Emperor, the second movement of the massive Second Apocalypse series, to a monumental and epic conclusion.

Pariah by Dan Abnett
Black Library (UK & USA): Late 2012

Abnett unleashes the third and final trilogy in his Inquisitors sequence, following on from the excellent Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies. This final series - The Bequin Trilogy - focuses on Inquisitor Bequin and the confrontation between Ravenor and his former mentor, Eisenhorn.

2013 releases:
City in the Jungle by Ian Cameron Esslemont
Highprince of War by Brandon Sanderson (likely to have a title change)
The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
Ketty Jay Book 4 by Chris Wooding
Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb
Gaunt's Ghosts #14 by Dan Abnett
Cold Days by Jim Butcher (apparently a delay from mid-2012, but not confirmed yet)
Tales of Dunk & Egg by George R.R. Martin (collects the first four prequel novellas)

Melkor · 10-01-2012, 13:34:49

The Joy of Books

zakk · 10-01-2012, 15:58:54

aaaw

Berserker · 10-01-2012, 20:35:48

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

zakk · 10-01-2012, 21:11:02

Pobogu pa pogledaj kad je obavljeno

i koje su sad brojke (a youtube ima bag da se brojač zakoči na ~300 iz nekog razloga

)

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

Melkor · 11-01-2012, 22:15:17

io9 2012 preview
By Kelly Faircloth Jan 11, 2012 11:05 AM

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

Science fiction and fantasy books are bigger than ever. A Dance With Dragons and Stephen King's time-travel saga rule the bestseller lists. Literary authors all flock to write about zombies, apocalypses and time travel. And by all indications, 2012 is going to be an even greater year for genre books.
Here are 25 books we can't wait to read in 2012.
Top image: Detail of cover art for Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312.
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Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson (Putnam) William Gibson is best known for cyberpunk works like Neuromancer and fifteen-minutes-into-the-future thrillers like Pattern Recognition. But he's always been a keen observer of that moment where the future meets the now, and Distrust That Particular Flavor gathers years' worth of nonfiction writing into a single volume. Included are essays for Wired and Rolling Stone, plus other articles and even a speech from Book Expo America. Read our review here.
Cinder, Marissa Meyer (Feiwal and Friends)
Cinderella, re-imagined as a cyborg! Done and done.

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The Fourth Wall, Walter Jon Williams (Orbit) In the latest Dagmar Shaw adventure, she's doing what she does — in Hollywood. She hires a washed-up former child star, reduced to reality TV and an absolute mess. Once he's drawn into her dangerous orbit, suddenly someone is trying to kill him.

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Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway (Knopf) It's been nearly four years since Harkaway's fabulous, madcap debut, The Gone-Away World. Angelmaker looks to be equally wonderfully off-the-wall. The protagonist is one Joe Spork, repairer of antique clocks. He's also the son of a legendary gangster, but he'd like to avoid that part of his heritage, thank you very much. But things get a little crazy when Spork goes to work on a device and discovers his client is a retired superspy and this seemingly harmless object is a doomsday machine.
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Crucible of Gold, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) In her latest novel of Napoleonic dragon-based derring-do, Naomi Novik sends protagonists Capt. Will Laurence and Temeraire to South America. They've been assigned to broker a peace with the forces of the African Tswana empire, who're besieging Rio. Unexpected events leave them stranded among the none-too-welcoming Incas.

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The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel, Stephen King (Scribner) Set in the world of the Dark Tower, The Wind Through the Keyhole nevertheless stands alone. It's a story from Roland Deschain's difficult youth. Tracking a deadly shape-shifter, he meets a scared boy and comforts him with a story his mother used to tell him, before her death.
Triggers, Robert J. Sawyer (Ace)
An attempt is made on the president's life, and he's taken to a top-notch research hospital for treatment. This should be a relatively simple matter of emergency surgery, but then a bomb goes off, triggering experimental trauma-treatment technologies that briefly allow some people a glimpse at other people's memories — including some of the president's state secrets.
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The Night Sessions, Ken MacLeod (Pyr) Religiously motivated terrorism should be a thing of the past, and yet Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson stands in the ruins of a bombed church, tasked with figuring out who's behind this.

May RailSea, China Mieville (Del Rey)
Mieville's next work of surreal genius is a young-adult novel — but don't think that means he's going to let up on the weird. Railsea is the novelist's take on Melville's Moby Dick, with perhaps a touch of Treasure Island to season the pot. But he's relocated the greatest oceangoing story of all time to an endless sea of — oh yes — rails.
The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
Bacigalupi returns to the ruined world of Ship Breaker with the story of Mahlia and Mouse, fugitive child soldiers from an eternal civil war. They've made it out, but then they encounter another refugee, a bioengineered creature that's part man, part beast, fleeing from some determined pursuers.
Deadlocked, Charlaine Harris (Ace)
The 12th installment of the Sookie Stackhouse saga drops in May. Details are scant, but Harris has posted an excerpt on her website.
Glamour In Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
With Glamour in Glass, Kowal returns to the Austenian world she introduced in her debut novel, Shades of Milk and Honey. Now married, Jane and Vincent set out for their honeymoon on the continent, shortly after Napoleon departs for Elba. But of course Boney isn't done, and so the artistic young couple quickly find themselves caught in the mess.
2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
Three centuries from now, humanity has spread across the solar system. But things are unraveling. Something is afoot in the wondrous city of Terminator, on Mercury, where Swan Er Hong is being drawn into a conspiracy to destroy worlds.
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The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit) An elite priesthood known as the Gatherers keeps the peace in the city of Gujaareh. These individuals collect and deploy dream magic as the populace sleeps, soothing any unrest before it can really get going. But then someone begins killing dreamers. Good news for the impatient: The sequel, The Shadowed Sun, will follow in June.

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Blue Remembered Earth, Alastair Reynolds (Ace) Blue Remembered Earth launches a brand-new trilogy from Reynolds, focusing on the Akinya family and their dynastic fortunes over the next ten thousand years. That's a pretty broad canvas. This first volume opens a century and a half from now in a blissful, poverty-free world. Scion Geoffrey Akinya would prefer a quiet, contemplative life, but his family needs him to investigate his entrepreneur grandmother's safe-deposit box on Luna. What he finds has world-altering implications.
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Caliban's War, James S.A. Corey (Orbit) As the follow-up to Leviathan Wakes begins, Jim Holden is still piecing together what happened on Ganymede and how the alien protomolecule wreaking havoc can be stopped. And make no mistake — that protomolecule is doing serious damage to the solar system's (admittedly precarious) balance of power.
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RedShirts, John Scalzi (Tor) There might not be a formal description or even many details available just yet, but that title and blurb say quite a bit about what to expect from Scalzi's latest standalone. It is not, however, a Star Trek novel.
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Blackout, Mira Grant (Orbit) After the cliff-hanger at the end of Deadline, the conclusion to Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy about zombies and social media cannot possibly come fast enough.

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The Apocalypse Codex, Charles Stross (Ace) When an American megapreacher with a seemingly supernatural talent for faith healing starts getting chummy with the Prime Minister, the Laundry (the top-secret agency responsible for all things paranormal) sees some cause for concern. And so they send a freelancer — one Persephone Hazard, whose name says it all — to investigate. Meanwhile up-and-comer Bob Howard is assigned to keep an eye on Persephone.
Wake of the Bloody Angel, Alex Bledsoe (Tor)
Eddie LaCrosse is hired to discover the fate of Black Edward Tew, a pirate-by-necessity who charmed a young barmaid then disappeared. That barmaid now runs her own tavern and wants to know what came of the man she loved. And so he sets out with a lovely former pirate to find the pirate (oh, and also his treasure).
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Energized, Edward M. Lerner (Tor) First serialized in Analog, this near-future energy-shortage thriller is now being made available in book form.

Fall and beyond Some Remarks, Neal Stephenson (William Morrow)
What are these remarks regarding? That's a good question. But you know if they're coming from Neal Stephenson, they'll be brain-bending and thought-provoking.
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The Fractal Prince, Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor) Details are scant, but the sequel to The Quantum Thief will return to Rajaniemi's whiz-bang puzzle-box of a far-future, so it's sure to be interesting.
Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross (Tor)
This new release will pair the already-published "Jury Service" and "Appeals Court" with a concluding novella, as well as (potentially) some additional plot glue to hold it all together. For more, we wrote about the deal here.
The Eternal Flame, Greg Egan (Night Shade Books)
The second volume of Egan's Orthogonal series continues the tale of Yalda and her descendants, who're taking advantage of interstellar physics to develop the ultra-advanced science her planet desperately needs in the limited time available.
Did we forget anything? If there's something you're excited about that you don't see above, let us know in the comments!

Mo · 12-01-2012, 01:03:04

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

Nightflier · 12-01-2012, 01:04:05

Quote from: Mo on 12-01-2012, 01:03:04
eh kad bi jos budjav alnarii nastavio da izdaje novikovu to bi bilo sjajno

Ne da bidne.

Mo · 12-01-2012, 01:08:19

mda to obicno tako, steta, bas sam uzivala...

Melkor · 24-01-2012, 02:24:46

Prime Books has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 edited by Paula Guran:

"Hair" by Joan Aiken (The Monkey's Wedding & Other Stories / F&SF July/August)
"Rakshashi" by Kelley Armstrong (The Monster's Corner: Through Inhuman Eyes)
"Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin" by Adam Callaway (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #73, July 14, 2011)
"The Lake" by Tananarive Due (The Monster's Corner: Through Inhuman Eyes)
"Tell Me I'll See You Again" by Dennis Etchison (A Book of Horrors)
"King Death" Paul Finch (King Death)
"The Last Triangle" by Jeffrey Ford (Supernatural Noir)
"Near Zennor by Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors)
"Crossroads" by Laura Anne Gilman (Fantasy, Aug 2011)
"After-Words" by Glen Hirshberg (The Janus Tree and Other Stories)
"Rocket Man" by Stephen Graham Jones (Stymie, Vol. 4. Issue 1, Spring & Summer 2011)
"The Colliers' Venus (1893)" by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy)
"Catastrophic Disruption of the Head" by Margo Lanagan (The Wilful Eye: Tales from the Tower, Vol. 1)
"The Bleeding Shadow" by Joe R. Lansdale (Down These Strange Streets)
"Why Light?" by Tanith Lee (Teeth)
"Conservation of Shadows" by Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld, August 2011)
• A Tangle of Green Men, Charles de Lint (Welcome to Bordertown)
"After the Apocalypse" by Maureen McHugh (After the Apocalypse)
"Lord Dunsany's Teapot" Naomi Novak (The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities)
"Mysteries of the Old Quarter" by Paul Park (Ghosts by Gaslight)
"Vampire Lake, by Norman Partridge (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2)
"A Journey of Only Two Paces" by Tim Powers (The Bible Repairman and Other Stories)
"Four Legs in the Morning" by Norman Prentiss (Four Legs in the Morning)
"The Fox Maiden" by Priya Sharma (On Spec, Summer 2011)
"Time and Tide" by Alan Peter Ryan (F&SF, Sept/Oct 2011)
"Sun Falls" by Angela Slatter (Dead Red Heart)
"Still" by Tia V. Travis (Portents)
"Objects in Dreams May Be Closer Than They Appear" by Lisa Tuttle (House of Fear)
"The Bread We Eat in Dreams" by Catherynne M. Valente (Apex Magazine, Issue 30, November 2011)
"All You Can Do Is Breathe" Kaaron Warren (Blood & Other Cravings)
"Josh" by Gene Wolfe (Portents)

PTY · 30-01-2012, 20:38:07

Announcing MULTIVERSE: EXPLORING POUL ANDERSON'S WORLDS

"Outmoded Things" by Nancy Kress

"The Man Who Came Late" by Harry Turtledove

"A Slip in Time" by S. M. Stirling

"Living and Working with Poul Anderson" by Karen Anderson

"Dancing on The Edge of The Dark" by C. J. Cherryh

"The Lingering Joy" by Stephen Baxter

"Operation Xibalba" by Eric Flint

"Tales Told" by Astrid Anderson Bear

"The Fey of Cloudmoor" by Terry Brooks

"Christmas in Gondwanaland" by Robert Silverberg

"Latecomers" by David Brin

"An Appreciation of Poul Anderson" by Jerry Pournelle

"A Candle" by Raymond E. Feist

"The Far End" by Larry Niven

"Bloodpride"" by Gregory Benford

"Three Lilies and Three Leopards (And a Participation Ribbon in Science)" by Tad Williams

PTY · 31-01-2012, 13:21:06

Danas izaslo!

He's the legendary Cyberpunk Guru. He roams our postmodern planet, from the polychrome tinsel of Los Angeles to the chicken-fried cyberculture of Austin... From the heretical Communist slums of gritty Belgrade to the Gothic industrial castles of artsy Torino...always whipping that slider-bar between the unthinkable and the unimaginable.

He's a Californian design visionary. He's an European electronic-art curator. He's a Swiss professor of media philosophy. He's a Prophet of Augmented Reality, even. He's an author, journalist, editor, critic, theorist, futurist, and blogger. Obviously he's pretty much anything that he can get his hands on.

And he never stops typing. This sixth collection of his fantastic stories is a comic arsenal of dark euphoria. It's even weirder, harsher and more twisted than the scary decade that inspired it. Boy, that's saying something.

If there's one thing dear to the heart of this exotic character, one vital prize he will never, ever surrender, one stony core to his mutable, globalized being, it's his fanatical allegiance to the radical potential of science fiction. That is the truth. Really. That is one hundred percent accurate. You could look that up on Wikipedia.

Just like some far-fetched, globe-trotting antihero from one of his own unsettling, yet darkly prophetic novels, he is... Actually, never mind who he is. Does that matter? Is that an issue for us, really? You know what? We're all done here. Turn the page. We need to pretty much move right along.

PTY · 01-02-2012, 17:41:07

Bruce Sterling — Another Glowing Review from THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS

Bruce Sterling's newest foray into short sf, Gothic High-Tech, should be in our warehouse in the next two weeks, and ship shortly thereafter. We already have enough distributor and wholesale orders to render it out of print, which will no doubt be hastened by the following review from The New York Journal of Books:
"Bruce Sterling has managed to pen a delivery vessel for a futuristic, anarchistic, dystopian idea of human potential. And in the end, Gothic High Tech leaves the reader with the notion that even with all this mess, there are ways out of every quandary—even if those ways are unimaginable now or far different than we'd hoped."

PTY · 03-02-2012, 11:47:56

Tor.com tells us that right now you can preorder the Kindle version of their upcoming eBook publication of Some of the Best of Tor.com, a collection of just some of the oustanding fiction that has appeared at their wesbite.

The collection will include stories by Charlie Jane Anders, James Allan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Park, Matthew Sanborn Smith, Michael Swanwick, and Harry Turtedove.

Melkor · 06-02-2012, 00:40:27

Jos jedan mali podsetnik na proslu godinu:

A Dozen of the Best from 2011
— posted Sunday 5 February 2012 @ 11:41 am PST

by Jeff VanderMeer

In 2011, "the field" continued to shift and fragment and in the process proved itself to be exciting, deep, and passionately engaged with the world around it. The mammals are partying with the dinosaurs until late into the night, and the result is a wonderful diversity of approaches.
Novels bubbling up just under my top picks include Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief, Jesse Bullington's The Enterprise of Death, Lev Grossman's The Magician King, Stina Leicht's Of Blood and Honey, Minister Faust's The Alchemists of Kush, N.K. Jemisin's The Kingdom of Gods, Kris Saknussemm's Enigmatic Pilot, and Carolyn Ives Gilman's Isles of the Forsaken. I encourage readers to seek out all of these novels—and to suggest their own best reads.
In the area of regrets, I have not yet read Christopher Priest's much-praised The Islanders or Catherynne M. Valente's The Folded World, but I am looking forward to both. Many people have also urged me to read Stephen King's time-travel novel 11/22/63. Two amazing reads — Lauren Beukes' Zoo City and Graham Joyce's The Silent Land — are left off my list because even though I encountered them in their 2011 North American editions, they were both originally published in the UK in 2010.
My top picks from 2011 are listed by author rather than any ranking system.
The Great Lover by Michael Cisco (Chômu Press) – After having written the best 2010 work of the weird, The Narrator, Michael Cisco has followed up that achievement with an idiosyncratic novel that requires the reader to acclimate to its unique rhythms and pacing. The Great Lover of the title is a sewerman and undead hero. The novel, to some measure, follows his strange adventures. Cisco effortlessly evokes both the grotesque and the sublime, providing scenes and situation that are often unique within weird fiction—or, for that matter, in fiction generally. To some degree, Cisco is operating in a sphere that most fiction writers never reach, or attain only rarely, and is doing it seemingly without effort. That he remains so unknown is an absolute travesty.
The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham (Doubleday) –Durham's The Sacred Band is a very satisfying conclusion to the Acacia Trilogy begun with Acacia and The Other Lands. The series broke with the tradition of photocopying photocopies of European feudal society to create heroic fantasy and also ignored the current trend of "dirty realism" in this subgenre. The novel effectively shows the interplay and conflict between multiple races across complex situations in several countries. And while The Sacred Band examines the uses and abuses of power, it doesn't skimp on strange magic, either. Some of the scenes in which Queen Corrin Akaran wields her power are "classic eldritch" in the best sense of iconic strange swords-and-sorcery. Themes and subplots begun in the earlier novels come together perfectly and yet not in pat ways. Explorations of odd cities, epic wars, mid-air battles between magical creatures, and a sea serpent erupting from the waves are just a few of the pleasures of this beautifully written and smartly realized novel.
God's War by Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books) – In this first book of a continuing series, Hurley created a unique science fictional world settled by Moslems that featured bug-based tech/magic along with a centuries-old war. It's a kaleidoscope of action, conflict, and intrigue driven by former assassin Nyx, a strong female character. Although at times the novel is almost too dizzying, it succeeds due to Hurley's investment in Nyx and in her assistant, a magician named Rhys, along with the fascinating insect-based tech and unique cultural underpinnings. Hurley's muscular prose style, the effective evocation of the world's desolation, and the rough energy behind the writing made God's War one of the most interesting SF reads of the year.
Tattoo by Kirsten Imani Kasai (Del Rey) – This second book in the series begun with Ice Song raises the stakes considerably: the writing is stronger, more varied in its effects, the situations thought-provoking and sometimes disturbing, while her characters continue to be highly individual and interesting. In. Kasai's environmentally fragile world, human and animal genes combine and the rarest mutation of all–the Trader–can instantly switch genders. After having defeated mad Matuk the Collector in the first book, the protagonist, Sorykah finds that the Collector's death has unleashed even darker forces, the consequences explored in Tattoo. As far as I can tell, this novel is the most underrated of 2011, not receiving nearly enough attention. Comparisons to Ursula K. Le Guin, Tanith Lee, and Angela Carter are well-deserved, given the kinetic energy of Kasai's style and her unique imagination.
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (Bantam) – The fifth book in the hugely popular Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series may never have been able to live up to some fans' expectations...but underneath the weight of those desires lives and breathes a truly strange candidate for bestseller status: a huge, dense novel that devotes several scenes to bizarre and beautifully imaginative set-pieces on haunted rivers and in the supernatural North. A stalled military campaign stuck in the dead of winter is also evocative and harrowing. The approach Martin became known for in heroic fantasy—no character is safe from suddenly being run over by the wheels of fate or circumstance—may seem less shocking now given the rise of "gritpunk" epic fantasy, but is still effective. Scenes from the point of view of a certain famous dwarf are perhaps the baggiest in the novel, straining at times for sardonic effect. But A Dance with Dragons is still a stunning achievement, and should not be lumped in with more generic heroic fantasy series.
Embassytown by China Miéville (Del Rey) – In reading an innovative novel like Embassytown, it soon becomes clear that contemporary science fiction considered as a "literature of ideas" separate from a "literature of entertainment" may need to raise its game. This tale of alien contact and the repercussions of the uses of language brings to mind the best of 1970s-era fiction from Le Guin and Lessing. Set on another planet and detailing the conflict between humans and the native civilization, the novel is by no means perfect—ironically, the sections of conventional action are poorly paced and repetitive—but when content to dwell in realms of the meditative, philosophical, and descriptive, the novel has a power and effect that lingers in the mind long after reading. It's a brutal rhapsody on words and communication.
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead) – Oyeyemi's fourth novel is an intricate, many-tangled creation that uses a welter of related stories to describe an affair between a writer and his muse. Oyeyemi freely mixes folktales and metafictional elements to examine love, disguises, and the nature of stories. You can get lost in the novel, only to reappear in a more familiar part of the maze. Overall, Mr. Fox reads like a mutant hybrid of the work of the Brontes, Witold Gombrowicz, Barbara Comyns, and Kelly Link. One of the best of the next generation of writers working in the interstices of realism and the fantastical, Oyeyemi continues to write thought-provoking, emotive, and unclassifiable fiction.
Dancing with Bears by Michael Swanwick (Night Shade Books) – In this daring post-utopian novel complete with dangerously weird robots, con-men Darger and Surplus are on their way to Russia, having quite "innocently" acquired a caravan delivering a priceless gift from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Muscovy. Once they reach Moscow, an absurd level of intrigue, revolution, and double-crossing occurs. Fritz Leiber set a high bar indeed for loveable rogues with his Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser series. It's such a high bar that I find most riffs on this kind of thing tiresome and not at all witty. But Michael Swanwick has, in Dancing with Bears, provided readers with two of the narstiest and most entertaining such rogues in recent memory.
Osama by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing) – Subtle, forceful, and beautifully written, this nuanced and fascinating novel is at heart a compelling alt-world mystery. In a milieu without global terrorism, Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden. The short chapters that comprise Osama waste few words while still featuring some beautiful writing. The word "haunting" is over-used as a descriptor, but it fits here: the novel haunts, it echoes, and it ghosts in a hypnotic, slipstreamy, and evocative way. Tidhar's progress as a writer has been swift and he's rapidly becoming one of the field's best and most flexible stylists.
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine (Prime Books) – In this first novel from a talented short story writer, the traveling Circus Tresaulti survives despite the threats posed by a vaguely defined post-apocalyptic milieu. The plot of the novel is firmly focused on the emotional lives of the circus performers and the tangled knot of their relationships. The circus is figuratively haunted by Bird, an aerialist who fell to his death. Valentine displays an extraordinary ability to weave the effects of that act into the foundation of Mechanique. In a sense, the novel is composed of a series of brief set-pieces about the characters that interlock to form a greater whole.
Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor Books) – This coming-of-age novel takes the form of diary entries from fifteen-year-old Morwenna Phelps as she deals with the aftermath of traumatic magical events involving her eldritch mother and even stranger faerie. That Morwenna is voraciously reading science fiction and fantasy throughout Among Others adds to its delights. Things Happen, of course, and there's useful ambiguity, to some extent, about the fantastical element, but as I wrote in a column for the New York Times Book Review, "The real key to appreciating the novel can be found in [this] passage: 'Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is all Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn't supposed to happen after the glorious last stand.' It's a terribly brave act, to write a novel that is in essence aftermath, but Walton succeeds brilliantly. The novel's a wonder and a joy."
Zone One by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) – Whitehead knows his zombies, and in Zone One this amazing writer produced a near-perfect zombie epic. The novel is set mostly in a Manhattan after civilization is trying to rise again by clearing the iconic island of the undead. Whitehead's protagonist, whose name is given as Mark Spitz, is part of a zombie-clearing team, and through the course of three days the reader comes to know his back-story in intimate detail while also being treated to scary and darkly humorous zombie encounters in the present-day of the novel. It is a tour-de-force for Whitehead to be able to so completely flesh out his main character while jumping back and forth in time, and to at the same time trump many another novel and movie by providing brilliant zombie set-pieces that should satisfy any aficionado of the subgenre. Zone One is sad, funny, and scary, both action-packed and melancholy. It is also the best-written novel I encountered in 2011.

Melkor · 15-02-2012, 00:01:34

Lavie Tidhar has posted the cover and table of contents to the Apex Book of World SF 2.

An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist; in

The Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist fantasy from Russia and epic fantasy from Poland; near-future tales from Mexico and Finland, or cyberpunk from South Africa: in this anthology one gets a glimpse of the complex and fascinating world of genre fiction – from all over our world. Featuring work from noted international authors such as Will Elliot, Hannu Rajaniemi, Shweta Narayan, Lauren Bukes, Ekaterina Sedia, Nnedi Okorafor, and Andrzej Sapkowski. Here's the table of contents:

"Alternate Girl's Expatriate Life" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
"Mr. Goop" by Ivor W. Hartmann
"Trees of Bone" by Daliso Chaponda
"The First Peruvian in Space" by Daniel Salvo (translated by Jose B. Adolph)
"Eyes in the Vastness of Forever" by Gustavo Bondoni
"The Tomb" by Chen Qiufan (translated by the author)
"The Sound of Breaking Glass" by Joyce Chng
"A Single Year" by Csilla Kleinheincz (translated by the author)
"The Secret Origin of Spin-Man" by Andrew Drilon
"Borrowed Time" by Anabel Enríquez Piñeiro (translated by Daniel W. Koon)
"Branded" by Lauren Beukes
"December 8th" by Raúl Flores (translated by Daniel W. Koon)
"Hungry Man" by Will Elliott
"Nira and I" by Shweta Narayan
"Nothing Happened in 1999" by Fábio Fernandes
"Shadow" by Tade Thompson
"Shibuya no Love" by Hannu Rajaniemi
"Maquech" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"The Glory of the World" by Sergey Gerasimov
"The New Neighbours" by Tim Jones
"From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7" by Nnedi Okorafor
"The Slows" by Gail Hareven (translated by Yaacov Jeffrey Green)
"Zombie Lenin" by Ekaterina Sedia
"Electric Sonalika" by Samit Basu
"The Malady" by Andrzej Sapkowski (translated by Wiesiek Powaga)
"A Life Made Possible Behind The Barricades" by Jacques Barcia

Melkor · 20-02-2012, 00:38:08

Jeffrey Ford has posted the table of contents for his upcoming collection Crackpot Palace:

"Polka dots and Moonbeams"
"Down Atsion Road"
"Sit the Dead"
"The Seventh Expression of the Robot General"
"86 Deathdick Road"
"After Moreau"
"The Hag's Peak Affair"
"The Coral Heart"
"The Double of My Double Is Not My Double"
"Daltharee"
"Ganesha"
"Every Richie There Is"
"The Dream of Reason"
"The War Between Heaven and Hell Wallpaper"
"Relic"
"Glass Eels"
"The Wish Head"
"Weiroot"
"Dr. Lash Remembers"
"Daddy Long Legs of the Evening"

PTY · 20-02-2012, 14:44:45

Michael Bishop's mammoth career retrospective, The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy, is in stock and shipping. Mike's collection stands as a high point in our ongoing series of Best of short story collections. I've been reading him since I was seventeen, and can tell you that culling his oeuvre down to a representative 200,000 words was an act of editorial alchemy. Our thanks to Mike and Michael H. Hutchins for that, and to Bill Sheehan for the illuminating flap copy.

Here's part of the flap copy, to give you a sense of the collection:

In the course of a distinguished career now entering its fifth decade, Michael Bishop has amassed a large body of fiction notable for its intellectual range, narrative sophistication, and sheer stylistic elegance. This massive new retrospective,

The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy, amply celebrates that career, offering one example after another of Bishop's unique—and characteristic—virtuosity.
Posted on Sunday, February 19th, 2012 at 11:20 am.

PTY · 20-02-2012, 14:47:35

The Drowned Cities
by Paolo Bacigalupi
(preorder—coming this Summer)
Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Jon Foster
Limited: $125
Length: 352 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59606-506-2
Lettered: $250
Matched Set of Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities Signed Limited Editions: $250
Collectors, please note: If you already own Ship Breaker, please send us an email to subpress@gmail.com letting us know which number or letter we need to match for The Drowned Cities.

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We're proud to announce the signed limited edition of Paolo Bacigalupi's third novel, The Drowned Cities, which will be printed in two colors throughout, on 80# Finch, with a full-color dust jacket and a pair of full-color interior illustrations by Jon Foster.

(vest toliko nova da jos nemaju ni naslovnicu...

)

PTY · 20-02-2012, 14:51:17

ad eternum
by Elizabeth Bear
(preorder—to be published in March 2012)
Dust jacket by Patrick Arrasmith
Trade: $25
ISBN: 978-1-59606-444-7
Length: 96 pages
Limited: $45
Subterranean Press is proud to announce the capstone novella to the New Amsterdam series. The signed limited edition of ad eternum includes not only the novella proper, but an additional 9,000 word chapbook, "Underground".

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For centuries, the wampyr has drifted from one place to another. From one life to another. It's 1962, and he's returned to New Amsterdam for the first time since he fled it on pain of death some sixty years before. On the eve of social revolution, on the cusp of a new way of life, he's nevertheless surrounded by inescapable reminders of who he used to be.
For a thousand years, he's chosen to change rather than to die. Now, at last, he faces a different future....

PTY · 26-02-2012, 07:45:54

Elem, Vil Mekintoš je ostavio odličan utisak sa svojim debi romanom Tiha apokalipsa, pa je i Hitchers izašao krajem januara, samo je naslovnica... ubi bože:

Two years ago, on the same day but miles apart, Finn Darby lost two of the most important people in his life: his wife Lorena, struck by lightning on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, and his abusive, alcoholic grandfather, Tom Darby, creator of the long-running newspaper comic strip Toy Shop. Against his grandfather's dying wish, Finn has resurrected Toy Shop, adding new characters, and the strip is more popular than ever, bringing in fan letters, merchandising deals, and talk of TV specials. Finn has even started dating again.When a terrorist attack decimates Atlanta, killing half a million souls, Finn begins blurting things in a strange voice beyond his control. The voice says things only his grandfather could know. Countless other residents of Atlanta are suffering a similar bizarre affliction. Is it mass hysteria, or have the dead returned to possess the living? Finn soon realizes he has a hitcher within his skin... his grandfather. And Grandpa isn't terribly happy about the changes Finn has been making to Toy Shop. Together with a pair of possessed friends, an aging rock star, and a waitress, Finn races against time to find a way to send the dead back to Deadland... or die trying!

PTY · 04-03-2012, 09:22:17

Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology co-edited with Terri Windling: Queen Victoria's Book of Spells:

"The Fairy Enterprise" by Jeffrey Ford
"From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire)" by Genevieve Valentine
"The Memory Book" by Maureen McHugh
"Queen Victoria's Book of Spells" by Delia Sherman
"La Reine D'Enfer" by Kathe Koja
"Briar Rose" by Elizabeth Wein
"The Governess" by Elizabeth Bear
"Smithfield" by James P. Blaylock
"The Unwanted Women of Surrey" by Kaaron Warren
"Charged" by Leanna Renee Hieber
"Mr. Splitfoot" by Dale Bailey
"Phosperous" by Veronica Schanoes
"We Without Us Were Shadows" by Catherynne M. Valente
"The Vital Importance of the Superficial" by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer
"The Jewel in the Toad Queen's Crown" by Jane Yolen
"A Few Twigs He Left Behind" by Gregory Maguire
"Their Monstrous Minds" by Tanith Lee
"Estella Saves the Village" by Theodora Goss

Melkor · 09-03-2012, 00:29:47

Publication Date: April 10, 2012 From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling post-apocalyptic tale in the vein of 1984 or The Road.
In the not-distant-enough future, a man takes a boat trip up the Susquehanna River with his most trusted friend, intent on reuniting with his son. But the man is pursued by an army, and his own harrowing past; and the familiar American landscape has been savaged by war and climate change until it is nearly unrecognizable.
Lost Everything is a stunning novel about family and faith, what we are afraid may come to be, and how to wring hope from hopelessness.

PTY · 14-03-2012, 18:00:39

Beyond Grimm

PTY · 14-03-2012, 18:15:46

In the future, teens rent their bodies to seniors who want to be young again. One girl discovers her renter plans to do more than party--her body will commit murder, if her mind can't stop it. Sixteen-year-old Callie lost her parents when the genocide spore wiped out everyone except those who were vaccinated first--the very young and very old. With no grandparents to claim Callie and her little brother, they go on the run, living as squatters, and fighting off unclaimed renegades who would kill for a cookie. Hope comes via Prime Destinations, run by a mysterious figure known only as The Old Man. He hires teens to rent their bodies to seniors, known as enders, who get to be young again. Callie's neurochip malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her rich renter, living in her mansion, driving her cars, even dating Blake, the grandson of a senator. It's a fairy-tale new life . . . until she uncovers the Body Bank's horrible plan. . . .

(Ovo cilja na Hunger Games publiku, tek da se zna.

)

PTY · 16-03-2012, 11:59:19

Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents for two anthologies she co-edited with Terri Windling, newly released in eBook format. They're titled A Wolf at the Door and Swan Sister:

PTY · 21-03-2012, 18:00:49

Pat Cadigan danas najavila svoj roman, ali bez ikakvih detalja, samo da izlazi u toku godine i da je za intro zaslužna Lisa Tuttle.

PTY · 22-03-2012, 19:53:30

Prime Books has posted the table of contents for the upcoming (May 2012) anthology War and Space: Recent Combat edited by Rich Horton & Sean Wallace, described thusly:Conflict: a basic human instinct, helping humankind evolve even while threatening the very existence of the species . . . an instinct that will be as much a part of the future as it is now and always has been. For all the glories of war—the defeat of evil, the promise of freedom, justice, protection of the innocent, the righting of wrongs, technological innovation, heroism—there are also the horrors: individual grief, mass destruction, the elimination of entire cultures and great achievments, injustice, villainy, the annihilation of the innocent, and pain beyond bearing.
War and Space offers the ultimate speculation on the future of warfare—stories of insectoid anguish, genetically-engineered diplomats who cannot fail, aliens plundering humanity, a weaponized black hole-scenarios of triumph and defeat, great heroism and vile depravity . . . and more.

And here's the table of contents:

"Who's Afraid of Wolf 359" by Ken MacLeod
"Surf" by Suzanne Palmer
"Another Life" by Charles Oberndorf
"Between Two Dragons" by Yoon Ha Lee
"Scales" by Alastair Reynolds
"Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy" by Catherynne M. Valente
"Leave" by Robert Reed
"Mehra and Jiun" by Sandra McDonald
"Her Husband's Hands" by Adam-Troy Castro
"Remembrance" by Beth Bernobich
"Palace Resolution" by Tom Purdom
"The Observer" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"The Long Chase" by Geoffrey Landis
"Art of War" by Nancy Kress
"Have You Any Wool" by Alan DeNiro
"Carthago Delenda Est" by Genevieve Valentine
"Rats of the System" by Paul McAuley
"The Political Officer" by Charles Coleman Finlay
"Amid the Words of War" by Cat Rambo
"A Soldier of the City" by David Moles

PTY · 22-03-2012, 20:23:01

Amy Peterson is a self-replicating humanoid robot known as a VonNeumann.

For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother's past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.

Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she's learning impossible things about her clade's history - like the fact that she alone can kill humans without failsafing...

Publication date: July 31, 2012

(von Neumann mašina...

)

Melkor · 24-03-2012, 01:54:21

Trailer for EXISTENCE by David Brin - a near future novel with a limited edition 3D cover

This June, the classic science fiction author David Brin makes an epic return with EXISTENCE, a novel of our near future that's both brilliant and terrifying. It is a tour de force of storytelling from a modern master of science fiction.

Available on 21st June 2012, the limited edition 3D cover is only available until stocks last and is available from all good retailers.

Melkor · 24-03-2012, 04:45:54

Laird Barron's Debut Full-Length Novel 'The Croning' from Night Shade Books, Now Available for Pre-Order

I love me some Laird Barron. Yes, I know. How very original. It's like saying, "Lovecraft did some good work," or "Kubrick really knew his way around a camera." Barron has garnered awards, accolades, and acclaim by the bushel basket, and all of it has been well deserved. Hype doesn't get you very far when the proof is right there stained in black and white. He has the rep because he's earned it.

Laird Barron was one of the first living writers of speculative fiction that I read after making the leap from Lovecraft (aka "The Foundation"), and ever since then, I voraciously read and carefully collect his works like I do the old Weirdling Masters of the Pulp Golden Age - or more recently, Grau Haus faves Thomas Ligotti and T.E.D Klein. He's one of those "instant classic" sort of writers, who only come along a few times a generation. Luckily for us, he came of literary age during our time, so we can all lean back in our nano-powered rocking chairs some decades hence, whistle through our noses, and let fly a nostalgic "I remember when..."

Barron just makes it look easy. His effortless blend of the coldly cosmic with the uncomfortable heat and grit of the natural world make the everyday happenstance or forgotten patch of flyover wilderness a brush with the brutally unsettling. Danger can lurk within any shadowed vale where the old psalms are still sung. Incalculable danger waits at the end of every weed-choked country driveway. Mankind has been driven quietly mad, and is seeking to bring down Everything by unlocking the doors that were never meant to be opened. Dread drenches the Barronic air, which is what makes his fiction so engrossing, and so terrifying. I sometimes heave a sigh of relief at the end of one of his stories - not because I'm glad it's over, but that I'm glad that the poor, unlucky sap I've just been reading about for thirty pages isn't me. It's like finally waking up after a seemingly real nightmare and kissing the bedroom carpet because none of it was real.

That's what Laird Barron does. He writes nightmares that we can walk away from. And thank the mute gods, we can walk back to them, as well.

We covered the release of Barron's last book, the novella The Light is the Darkness (with a titular nod to my current musical obsession Lustmord) - masterfully crafted, bound, and published by Infernal House and Miskatonic Books - through a review by Cosmicomicon regular Alex Lugo published here back in November. Today, I'm here to bring you news of The Croning, which is his first full-length novel, published by the good peeps at Night Shade Books (who most recently brought us the fantastic The Book of Cthulhu, edited by Ross E. Lockhart, which contains the epic Laird Barron tale "The Men From Porlock", which will surely go down in the annals as one of the most celebrated stories in the modern era of the genre).

From the Night Shade Books presser:

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us... Coming May 2012

Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge of a chasm for most of his nearly eighty years, leading a charmed life between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering realization. Now, all things must converge. Donald will discover the dark secrets along the edges, unearthing savage truths about his wife Michelle, their adult twins, and all he knows and trusts. For Donald is about to stumble on the secret...

... of The Croning.

From Laird Barron, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of The Imago Sequence and Occultation, comes The Croning, a debut novel of cosmic horror.

The Croning can be pre-ordered now through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other larger electronic outlets.

Just a word of caution to procrastinators: Barron's books sell out rather quickly, so don't sleep on The Croning. You need to jump on this now, before you're combing eBay for out-of-print copies, cursing your lack of foresight while bemoaning your separation from the dark, strange places that only a few left on earth can show you.

PTY · 25-03-2012, 23:27:40

Nikako da prokljuvim ko je pisao ovaj hajpi rivju...

Melkor · 26-03-2012, 00:45:19

http://cosmicomicon.blogspot.com/

Pojma nemam ko je

Ali Barrona sam izdvojio sto mu za price vec par godina kruzi poprilican hajp. Na zalost, procitao sam samo jednu ili dve, nikako da nabavim te zbirke, uvek iskoci nesto prece.

PTY · 26-03-2012, 10:29:23

Orbit UK is proud to announce the release in June of a spectacular new novel from a grand master of science fiction – with a very special limited edition cover.
Over 20 years ago, David Brin began the Uplift series – a set of novels that would sweep the board for science fiction awards year after year. David would go on to create a vast range of fiction, computer game storylines and graphic novels – as well as having his novel The Postman turned into a major motion picture.
Now, 10 years after his last book, David Brin returns in epic style with Existence (UK | ANZ), an all-encompassing novel of the near future. Both brilliant and terrifying, the book portrays mankind facing a crisis and potentially its imminent demise.
We are also thrilled to unveil the news that the first edition of Existence, released on 21st June 2012, will feature a cover with a unique 3D "lenticular" effect. The cover gives an impression of floating in space miles above Earth, and its distinctive nature means this book is likely to fast become a collectors' item. There will be just one print run of this edition – and it will only be available until stocks last.

Existence

PTY · 29-03-2012, 22:57:58

She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art bridges time.

It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870. The teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to the images and voice that will make his name. The meshed power of words and art thins the boundaries between the present and the past - and allows these two troubled, brilliant artists to enter each other's worlds. Radiant Days is a peerless follow- up to Elizabeth Hand's unforgettable, multiplestarred Illyria.

(ne znam zašto, ali imam užasam dežavu po pitanju ovog sadržaja...)

PTY · 30-03-2012, 16:03:48

Scott Sigler reinvented the alien-invasion story in his bestselling novels Infected and Contagious... rebooted the biotech thriller in Ancestor...now, in his most ambitious, sweeping novel to date, he works his magic on the paranormal thriller, taking us inside a terrifying underworld of subterranean predators that only his twisted mind could invent.
Homicide detective Bryan Clauser is losing his mind.
How else to explain the dreams he keeps having—dreams that mirror, with impossible accuracy, the gruesome serial murders taking place all over San Francisco? How else to explain the feelings these dreams provoke in him—not disgust, not horror, but excitement?
As Bryan and his longtime partner, Lawrence "Pookie" Chang, investigate the murders, they learn that things are even stranger than they at first seem. For the victims are all enemies of a seemingly ordinary young boy—a boy who is gripped by the same dreams that haunt Bryan. Meanwhile, a shadowy vigilante, seemingly armed with superhuman powers, is out there killing the killers. And Bryan and Pookie's superiors—from the mayor on down—seem strangely eager to keep the detectives from discovering the truth.
Doubting his own sanity and stripped of his badge, Bryan begins to suspect that he's stumbled into the crosshairs of a shadow war that has gripped his city for more than a century—a war waged by a race of killers living in San Francisco's unknown, underground ruins, emerging at night to feed on those who will not be missed.
And as Bryan learns the truth about his own intimate connections to the killings, he discovers that those who matter most to him are in mortal danger...and that he may be the only man gifted—or cursed—with the power to do battle with the nocturnals.
Featuring a dazzlingly plotted mystery and a terrifying descent into a nightmarish underworld—along with some of the most incredible action scenes ever put to paper, and an explosive, gut-wrenching conclusion you won't soon forget—Nocturnal is the most spectacular outing to date from one of the genre's brightest stars.

NOCTURNAL

PTY · 31-03-2012, 10:01:14

PREPARE TO DIE!

Nine years ago, Steve Clarke was just a teenage boy in love with the girl of his dreams. Then a freak chemical spill transformed him into Reaver, the man whose super-powerful fists can literally take a year off a bad guy's life.

Days ago, he found himself at the mercy of his arch-nemesis Octagon and a whole crew of fiendish super-villains, who gave him two weeks to settle his affairs–and prepare to die.

Now, after years of extraordinary adventures and crushing tragedies, the world's greatest hero is returning to where it all began in search of the boy he once was . . . and the girl he never forgot.

Exciting, scandalous, and ultimately moving, Prepare to Die! is a unique new look at the last days of a legend.

Publication date: June 5, 2012

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