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Table of Contents: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven



It feels like I've been in whirlwind since the plane touched down in Perth and the Toronto trip came to an end. There have been parties, celebrations, book projects to start, and book projects to finish. I'm working on the Locus Recommended Reading list while also trying to edit reviews, give the day job due diligence and spend some time with the family.

In amongst all of that, I've found some time to finish the table of contents for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven, which will be published by Night Shade Books in March 2013.   I still have the introduction to finish and the running order to finalise (this is simply an alphabetical listing), but I'm very happy with it.  As always, there were stories I would liked to have squeezed in, ones that permissions weren't available for and so on, but that's always the case.  I'm actually a bit stunned that this is my 36th anthology! Anyway, without further ado here is the table of contents!


    "The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times", Eleanor Arnason
    "Great Grandmother in the Cellar", Peter S. Beagle
    "Immersion", Aliette de Bodard
    "Troll Blood", Peter Dickinson
    "Close Encounters", Andy Duncan
    "Blood Drive", Jeffrey Ford
    "Adventure Story", Neil Gaiman
    "The Grinnell Method", Molly Gloss
    "Beautiful Boys", Theodora Goss
    "The Easthound", Nalo Hopkinson
    "Mantis Wives", Kij Johnson
    "Bricks", Sticks", Straw", Gwyneth Jones
    "Goggles c 1910", Caitlin R. Kiernan
    "The Education of a Witch", Ellen Klages
    "The Color Least Used by Nature", Ted Kosmatka
    "Significant Dust", Margo Lanagan
    "Two Houses", Kelly Link
    "Mono No Aware", Ken Liu
    "Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione", Ring Racing", Fiddler's Green", the Potter's Garden", Paul McAuley
    "Swift", Brutal Retaliation", Megan McCarron
    "About Fairies", Pat Murphy
    "Nahiku West", Linda Nagata
    "Let Maps to Others", K.J. Parker
    "Jack Shade in the Forest of Souls", Rachel Pollack
    "Katabasis", Robert Reed
    "What Did Tessimond Tell You?", Adam Roberts
    "The Contrary Gardener", Christopher Rowe
    "Joke in Four Panels", Robert Shearman
    "Domestic Magic", Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem
    "Reindeer Mountain", Karin Tidbeck
    "Fade to White", Catherynne M. Valente
    "A Bead of Jasper", Four Small Stones", Genevieve Valentine

... i dok cekamo Murkokove nove knjige  , evo jednog zanimljivog reprinta:





Cover art for the upcoming release of the A Nomad of the Time Streams by Michael Moorcock has been unveiled. The book will be published on August 13th, 2013 by Titan Books and this is the first time in over 10 years that it will be in print.

Order your copy here:

   
• Amazon US

Synopsis:Bastable encounters an alternate 1941 where the Great War never happened and Great Britain and Germany became allies in a world intimidated by Japanese imperialism. In this world's Russian Empire, Bastable joins the Russian Imperial Airship Navy and is subsequently imprisoned by the rebel Dugashvii, the 'Steel Tsar', also known as Joseph Stalin.

Publication Date: November 27, 2012 
    The first short story collection by award-winning author Ekaterina Sedia! One of the more resonant voices to emerge in recent years, this Russian-born author explores the edge between the mundane and fantastical in tales inspired by her homeland as well as worldwide folkloric traditions. With foreword by World Fantasy Award-winner Jeffrey Ford, Moscow But Dreaming showcases singular and lyrical writing that will appeal to fans of slipstream and magical realism, as well as those interested in the uncanny and Russian history.   Show More  Show Less

Publication Date: December 1, 2012     A collection of fungal wonders...and terrors. In this new anthology, writers reach into the rich territory first explored by William Hope Hodgson a century ago: the land of the fungi. Stories range from noir to dark fantasy, from steampunk to body horror. Join authors such as Jeff VanderMeer, Laird Barron, Nick Mamatas, W.H. Pugmire, Lavie Tidhar, Ann K.Schwader, Jesse Bullington, Molly Tanzer and Simon Strantzas through a dizzying journey of fungal tales. Feast upon Fungi.   Show More  Show Less 

... a nesto i za Melkorovu dusu   





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Release Date: November 27, 2012       This is a history of the decades-long love affair between a powerful alternative sexuality called BDSM (bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sadism/masochism) and an innovative narrative genre called science fiction and fantasy (SF&F). The book shows how SF&F provides easy access to the language, symbols, rituals and ethics of BDSM. Science fiction and fantasy offer strikingly positive representations of BDSM, while the marginal status of SF&F ensures that these representations will not normalize BDSM out of existence. These sympathetic yet subversive representations encourage audiences to view BDSM as an ethical sexuality, while simultaneously permitting BDSM to retain its transgressive identity. This book explores representations of BDSM in the Wonder Woman comics of the 1940s, in the novels and short stories that Samuel Delany and James Tiptree wrote between the 1960s and 1980s, and in the television shows of the 1990s and 2000s: Buffy, Angel, Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse.   Show More  Show Less 

... a bogami nesto i za Gaffa! 



Publication Date: December 2012 | ISBN-10: 095431154X | ISBN-13: 978-0954311544     The space suit is an icon of space flight. It is the very symbol of interplanetary exploration - of pioneering adventure, of excitement and danger, and of man's quest to learn more of other worlds.This book follows the remarkable history of the space suit through science fiction and fact. With an absorbing blend of drama and detail, Brett Gooden explains how this seemingly impossible dream gradually evolved into the complex suits of today and how the quest continues for the 'Mars and Beyond' suits of tomorrow.Man has dreamt of flying into space and walking on other planets for hundreds of years. But the risks to the human body involved in making this a reality only were only first recognized when, in the 1800s, an adventurous few climbed high mountains and took the first tentative steps into the sky under hydrogen filled balloons.Gradually it became clear that to leave the earth's atmosphere and gravity, our frail bodies would need protection from many dangers. Jules Verne, in his epic novel Around the Moon in 1872, recognized this need and was one of the first to suggest that some form of suit, similar to that used by deep sea divers, might allow his space voyagers to venture safely into the vacuum outside their spaceship.In the period between the World Wars, daring pilots, competing with each other, ventured higher and higher into the thinner atmosphere. They challenged the physiologists and engineers to provide them with special suits to achieve this goal.At the same time, cheap pulp fiction magazines pumped out colorful adventures of humans in space. Their eye-catching cover illustrations became the archetypical feature of these 'pulps' and allowed artists to give vent to their wildest fantasy. Nevertheless, their inventive dreams for space suits fed back to the scientific community. Fiction influenced fact. Complemented by astonishing and detailed illustrations, this book unlocks the seemingly impenetrable secrets of how the space suit was made into a practical and essential device. How simple everyday items such as the car tire, the caterpillar and the concertina provided critical clues that eventually brought the space suit to reality. This is the fascinating, extraordinary and often bizarre story of the Space suit - through Fact and Fiction.   Show More  Show Less 

i jos jedna novoizasla zanimljivost:



Publication Date: November 26, 2012   What happens when every wish you make is immediately granted by God? If you could use the power of music to travel through time? If your body was the battleground for a strange, alien invasion?

In this, his debut collection in English, Israeli author Nir Yaniv shows his remarkable versatility, collecting stories from over a decade of writing and a wide range of the fantastic. In turns humorous, lyrical, profound - but always entertaining - these are the haunting tales of an author at the height of his power.

"Each story is a bright flash of odd brilliance... unmissable." - Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award winning author of Osama.

"A fantastic, wonderful, weird story ... Speaks very powerfully to the human spirit." - Strange Horizons, on "Undercity"

"Hypnotic, surreal and prophetic, Nir Yaniv's "The Dream of the Blue Man" is a story you won't soon forget." - World Fantasy Award winner Ann VanderMeer   Show More 

This stellar collection by John Varley contains eleven provocative, utterly distinctive stories and novellas. None of them are currently available in any other book. Some have been unavailable in any form for twenty-five years or more. The result is a publishing event that no admirer of Varley—or of first-rate imaginative fiction—can afford to miss.
   The bulk of these stories comprise what the author calls a "Grand Tour of the Solar System," moving from one thoroughly imagined setting to another with deceptive ease. "The Funhouse Effect" is a tale of mystery, intrigue, and illusion that takes place on a mechanized comet moving toward the sun's corona. "Retrograde Summer" is an account of gender reversals and family secrets set against the radically unstable backdrop of Mercury. "Bagatelle" pits a recurring Varley character—Police Chief Anna-Louise Bach—against a living bomb that threatens to devastate Luna's Dresden City. Other stories range from Venus ("In the Bowl") to an underground "disneyland" on Pluto ("Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe) to the unexplored reaches of deep space ("The Black Hole Passes"). The collection ends with two very different offerings that are nonetheless vintage Varley. "The Unprocessed Word" is a whimsical reflection on one writer's relationship with a ubiquitous, constantly evolving technology, while "The Manhattan Phone Book (Abridged)" is a brief, absolutely chilling meditation on the consequences of nuclear proliferation.
   Whatever the tone, style, or subject matter, Varley remains in complete control of this impressively varied material.  Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe and Other Stories provides intellectual stimulation and pure entertainment in equal measure, and bears the unmistakable hallmark of a master storyteller on every page.

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Uh, zar on još objavljuje... Jesi li čitala nešto novije od njega?

Na zalost ne, posto su to uglavnom trilogije.. doduse, imam Gaea trilogiju i to planiram da overim, ali prvo je na tapetu najnoviji Slow Apocalypse.

After the End: Recent Apocalypses
Edited by Paula Guran
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | 6″X9″ | $15.95 | ISBN: 9781607013907
Publication Date: June 2013

From the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh to Norse prophecies of Ragnarök to the Revelations of Saint John to Cormac McCarthy's The Road, any number of fictional zombie Armageddons, and the dystopic world of The Hunger Games, we have always wondered what will happen after the world as we know it ends. No matter what the doomsday scenario—cataclysmic climate change, political chaos, societal collapse, nuclear war, pestilence, or so many other dreaded variations—we inevitably believe that even though the world perishes, some portion of humankind will live on. Such stories involve death and disaster, but they are also tales of rebirth and survival. Grim or triumphant, these outstanding post-apocalyptic stories selected from the best of those published in the tumultuous last decade allow us to consider what life will be like after the end.


Contents (alphabetically listed by author):
• Paolo Bacigalupi, "Pump Six"
• Kage Baker, "The Books"
• Lauren Beukes, "Chislehurst Messiah"
• Blake Butler, "The Disappeared"
• Cory Doctorow, "Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar)"
• Brian Evenson, "The Adjudicator"
• Steven Gould, "A Story, with Beans"
• Margo Lanagan, "The Fifth Star In the Southern Cross"
• Livia Llewellyn, "Horses"
• M.J. Locke, "True North"
• John Mantooth, "The Cecilia Paradox"
• Maureen McHugh, "After the Apocalypse"
• Simon Morden, "Never, Never, Three Times Never"
• Nnedi Okorafor, "Tumaki"
• Paul Park, "Ragnarok"
• Mary Rosenblum, "The Egg Man"
• John Shirley, "Isolation Point, California"
• Bruce Sterling, "Goddess of Mercy"
• Paul Tremblay, "We Will Never Live in the Castle"
• Carrie Vaughn, "Amaryllis"

Audible has posted the table of contents for the audio anthology Rip-Off!, available later this month. The cover will be one of the three shown here, as voted on Audible's facebook page.
Here's the audiobook description:

In

Rip-Off!, 13 of today's best and most-honored writers of speculative fiction face a challenge even they would be hard-pressed to conceive: pick your favorite opening line from a classic piece of fiction (or even non-fiction) – then use it as the first sentence of an entirely original short story.
In the world of Rip-Off!, "Call me Ishmael" introduces a tough-as-nails private eye – who carries a harpoon; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz inspires the tale of an aging female astronaut who's being treated by a doctor named – Dorothy Gale; and Huckleberry Finn leads to a wild ride with a foul-mouthed riverboat captain who plies the waters of Hell.
Once you listen to Rip-Off! you'll agree: If Shakespeare or Dickens were alive today, they'd be ripping off the authors in this great collection.
As a bonus, the authors introduce their stories, explaining what they ripped-off – and why.
Rip-Off! was produced in partnership with SFWA – Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Gardner Dozois served as project editor.The stories included in Rip-Off! are:


The stories included in Rip-Off! are:

   
• "Fireborn" by Robert Charles Wilson
• "The Evening Line" by Mike Resnick
• "No Decent Patrimony" by Elizabeth Bear
• "The Big Whale" by Allen M. Steele
• "Begone" by Daryl Gregory
• "The Red Menace" by Lavie Tidhar
• "Muse of Fire" by John Scalzi
• "Writer's Block" by Nancy Kress
• "Highland Reel" by Jack Campbell
• "Karin Coxswain", or, "Death as She Is Truly Lived" by Paul Di Filippo
• "The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal
• "Every Fuzzy Beast of the Earth, Every Pink Fowl of the Air" by Tad Williams
• "Declaration" by James Patrick Kelly

Book info as per Amazon US:

Here's the cover art and synopsis of Ian Sales' upcoming sequel to Adrift On The Sea Of Rains: The Eye With Which The Universe Beholds Itself, which will be published in January 2013.

>THE EYE WITH WHICH THE UNIVERSE BEHOLDS ITSELF
Book two of the Apollo Quartet by Ian Sales

For fifteen years, Earth has had a scientific station on an exoplanet orbiting Gliese 876. It is humanity's only presence outside the Solar System. But a new and powerful telescope at L5 can detect no evidence of Phaeton Base, even though it should be able to. So the US has sent Brigadier Colonel Bradley Elliott, USAF, to investigate. Twenty years before, Elliott was the first, and to date only, man to land on the Martian surface. What he discovered there gave the US the stars, but it might also be responsible for the disappearance of Phaeton Base...

Editor Scott Harrison has sent along an updated table of contents and cover image for his upcoming anthology Resurrection Engines: 15 Extraordinary Tales of Scientific Romance, being published by Snowbooks.

Here's the book description:>Resurrection Engines is an anthology of Steampunk and Alternate Timeline 'retellings' and 'reimagining's' of classic fiction tales (Edgar Allen Poe, Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythology, Moby Dick, Charles Dickens, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, etc) from some of today's finest Steampunk writers.

And here's the table of contents with each author's chosen classic or author.

   
• "The Soul-Eaters of Raveloe" by Alison Littlewood (Silas Marner)
• "A Journey To The Centre Of The Moon" by Alan K. Baker (Journey to the Centre of the Earth)
• "She-Who-Thinks-For-Herself" by Juliet E. McKenna (H. Rider Haggard)
• "The Great Steam Time Machine" by Brian Herbert & Bruce Taylor (H.G. Wells)
• "Silver Selene" by Philip Palmer (Wilkie Collins)
• "White Fangoria" by Roland Moore (White Fang)
• "The God Of All Machines" by Scott Harrison (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)
• "The Crime Of The Ancient Mariner" by Adam Roberts (Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner)
• "There Leviathan" by Jonathan Green (Moby Dick)
• "The Island Of Peter Pandora" by Kim Lakin-Smith (Peter Pan / The Island of Dr Moreau)
• "The Ghost Of Christmas Sideways" by Simon Bucher-Jones (A Christmas Carol)
• "Talented Witches" by Paul Magrs (Wuthering Heights)
• "Fairest Of Them All" by Cavan Scott (Snow White)
• "Tidewrack Medusa" by Rachel E. Pollock (Treasure Island)
• "Robin Hood And The Eater Of Worlds" by Jim Mortimore (Robin Hood

    Release Date: July 30, 2013      La Nueva Temporada is Earth's only extrasolar colony – an Earth-type planet caught in the grip of a very Earth-type Ice Age. Alex Mateo wants nothing more than to stay and contribute to the terraforming of his homeworld. But tragedy strikes the colony, and to save it from starvation and collapse Alex must reluctantly entrust himself to Phoenicia, the only starship in existence, to make the long, slower than light journey back to Earth.• But it is his brother Quin, who loathes La Nueva Temporada and all the people on it, who must watch his world collapse around him and become its ultimate saviour.   Show More  Show Less

Release Date: March 5, 2013     
The doughnut is a thing of beauty.
A circle of fried doughy perfection.
A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps.
For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more.

Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. And he doesn't have any money.

Before Theo has time to fully appreciate the pointlessness of his own miserable existence, news arrives that his good friend Professor Pieter van Goyen, renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, has died.

By leaving the apparently worthless contents of his safety deposit to Theo, however, the professor has set him on a quest of epic proportions. A journey that will rewrite the laws of physics. A battle to save humanity itself.

This is the tale of a man who had nothing and gave it all up to find his destiny - and a doughnut.   Show More

Release Date: June 18, 2013       

At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics—at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science .Students harness the hidden power of language to manipulate the mind and learn to break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. The very best will graduate as "poets": adept wielders of languagewho belong to a nameless organization that is as influential as it is secretive.

Whip-smart orphan Emily Ruff is making a living running a three-card Monte game on the streets of San Francisco when she attracts the attention of the organization's recruiters. She is flown across the country for the school's strange and rigorous entrance exams, where, once admitted, she will be taught the fundamentals of persuasion by Brontë, Eliot, and Lowell—who have adopted the names of famous poets to conceal their true identities. For in the organization, nothing is more dangerous than revealing who you are: Poets must never expose their feelings lest they be manipulated. Emily becomes the school's most talented prodigy until she makes a catastrophic mistake: She falls in love.

Meanwhile, a seemingly innocent man named Wil Jamieson is brutally ambushed by two strange men in an airport bathroom. Although he has no recollection of anything they claim he's done, it turns out Wil is the key to a secret war between rival factions of poets and is quickly caught in their increasingly deadly crossfire. Pursued relentlessly by people with powers he can barely comprehend and protected by the very man who first attacked him, Wil discovers that everything he thought he knew about his past was fiction. In order to survive, must journey to the toxically decimated tow nof Broken Hill, Australia, to discover who he is and why an entire town was blown off the map.

As the two narratives converge, the shocking work of the poets is fully revealed, the body count rises, and the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel event which would leave all language meaningless. Max Barry's most spellbinding and ambitious novel yet, Lexicon is a brilliant thriller that explores language, power, identity, and our capacity to love—whatever the cost.
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Tor will be trying something new with John Scalzi's latest novel in the Old Man's War series, The Human Division. Before the novel sees its hardcover release date in May 2013, Tor will be publishing a series of digital e-book episodes that comprise the book. Each episode will be a complete story and, taken together, there will be a longer story arc.  You can see the cover for Chapter 6 ("The Back Channel") right here. This episode will be on-sale on Feb 19, 2013.

PS Publishing has posted ordering information for the 800-page, two-volume reference Unutterable Horror A History of Supernatural Fiction Volume 1 and Volume 2 edited by S.T. Joshi. Or, to use their full titles:

• Volume 1: From Gilgamesh to the End of the Nineteenth Century
• Volume 2: The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

Cover reveal the second: it's The Big Reap – the third book in Chris F. Holm's Collector series – which we will be publishing in August 2013. That's quite a while to wait, we know, but in the meantime you can tantalise your imagination with a good, long look at this:


Who Collects the Collectors?
Sam Thornton has had many run-ins with his celestial masters, but he's always been sure of his own actions. However, when he's tasked with dispatching the mythical Brethren – a group of former Collectors who have cast off their ties to Hell – is he still working on the side of right?



As per the first two books in theCollectorseries –Dead Harvest andThe Wrong Goodbye – the artistry has been provided byAmazing15, who are certainly living up to their own billing. Won't they all look handsome together on the bookshelf? Yes. Yes, they will.


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Second novel to be translated to English by the winner of World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, Angelica Gorodischer will be Trafalgar and will be published on February 12th, 2013. This time book will be translated by Amalia Gladhart.

http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/angelica-gorodischer-s-trafalgar-cover-art-synopsis-and-release-date

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Publication Date: February 12, 2013




Don't rush Trafalgar Medrano when he starts telling you about his latest intergalactic sales trip. He likes to stretch things out over precisely seven coffees. No one knows whether he actu-ally travels to the stars, but he tells the best tall tales in the city, so why doubt him? Trafalgar is Angélica Gorodischer's second novel to be translated into English. Her first, Kalpa Imperial, was selected for the New York Times summer reading list.


Angélica Gorodischer lives in Rosario, Argentina. She has received many awards, most recently the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Release Date: May 28, 2013



A brand new series brignig you Fantasy stories from some of the biggest and most exciting names in the genre! The authors lined up to appear in the launch volume include Trudi Canavan, Elizabeth Bear, Daniel Abraham, Saladin Ahmed, Glen Cook, and Scott Lynch. Other big name authors are to be announced.An amazing array of the most popular and exciting names in Fantasy are set to appear in the first in a brand new series of Fantasy anthologies featuring original fiction, from the master editor Jonathan Strahan. The authors Daniel Abraham, Saladin Ahmed, Elizabeth Bear, Trudi Canavan, Glen Cook, and Scott Lynch are just a handful of the exciting names lined up to appear in this collection.



About the Author
Jonathan Strahan is a multiple award-winning editor and anthologist. He is also the reviews editor of Locus. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife and their two daughters. He has previously edited two exceptional SF anthologies for Solaris: Egeineering Infinity and Edge of Infinity.

There is no such thing as conservation of shadows. When light destroys shadows, darkness does not gain in density elsewhere. When shadows steal over earth and across the sky, darkness is not diluted.
Featuring an Introduction by Aliette De Bodard, Conservation of Shadows features a selection of short stories from Yoon Ha Lee.

Link nam daj nasusni...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1607013878/sfsi0c-20

Odlicno sto ni na autorovom ni izdavacevom sajtu nema pomena o knjizi. Dorbo, Prime jeste pomalo kao ZS.

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lee_08_11/

WHOA! 













100 years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. This is the story of the First Formic War.

Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. Not soon enough to convince skeptical governments that there was a threat. They didn't believe that until space stations and ships and colonies went up in sudden flame.
And when that happened, only Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police could move fast enough to meet the threat.




a čak ni amazon nije u toku: 


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765329050/sfsi0c-20

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/12/19-gene-wolfe-titles-available-as-ebooks-again/

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/12/19-gene-wolfe-books-now-available-again-in-ebook

19 Gene Wolfe Books Now Available Again in Ebook 
     We're sure we're not the only ones who began to pine for classic Gene Wolfe stories upon hearing that he will be the recipient of the 2012 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. Thankfully, Tor Books has just announced that nineteen books formerly out of print (!!!) from his back catalog are now available as ebooks, including Peace, featuring a new afterword by Neil Gaiman.
   

   
• Shadow & Claw (Collecting Shadow of the Torturer and Claw of the Conciliator)

The tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession — showing mercy toward his victim.

   
• Sword & Citadel (Collecting Sword of the Lictor and Citadel of the Autarch)

The third volume in Wolfe's remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home.

   
• The Urth of the New Sun

Severian, formerly a member of the Torturers' Guild and now Autarch of Urth, travels beyond the boundaries of time and space aboard the Ship of Tzadkiel on a mission to bring the New Sun to his dying planet.

   
• Nightside of the Long Sun

Life on the Whorl, and the struggles and triumphs of Patera Silk to satisfy the demands of the gods, will captivate readers yearning for something new and different in science fiction, for the magic of the future.

   
• There are Doors

The story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways-interdimensional gateways-to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life, if necessary, for her love. For in her world, to be her mate . . . is to die.

   
• Soldier of the Mist

The first volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape.

   
• Soldier of Arete

The second volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape.

   
• The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Far out from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in an eternal dance. It is said a race of shapeshifters once lived here, only to perish when men came. But one man believes they can still be found, somewhere in the back of the beyond.

   
• Castleview

In the town of Castleview, Illinois, Tom Howard is murdered at the factory he manages—on the same day that Will E. Shields and his family, newly come to Castleview, arrive with a realtor in tow to see Howard's house. From an attic window, Shields glimpses the phantom castle that has given the town its name.
They are discussing the house with Sally Howard when the police arrive bearing the dreadful news. Then, driving back to the motel, Shields nearly hits a gigantic horseman in the rain...beginning a series of collisions with the mythological that only Gene Wolfe could tell.

   
• Endangered Species

This is a hefty volume of over 30 unforgettable stories in a variety of genres— SF, fantasy, horror, mainstream-many of them offering variations on themes and situations found in folklore and fairy tales, and including two stories, "The Cat" and "The Map," which are set in the universe of his New Sun novels.

   
• Storeys From the Old Hotel

Storeys from the Old Hotel includes many of Gene Wolfe's most appealing and engaging works, from short-shorts that can be read in single setting to whimsical fantasy and even Sherlock Holmes pastiches. It is a literary feast for anyone interested in the best science fiction has to offer.

   
• Castle of Days

This volume brings together two of Wolfe's most sought-after books, long out of print—Gene Wolfe's Book of Days and The Castle of the Otter—and adds to them 39 essays collected here for the first time.

   
• Free Live Free

"Free Live Free," said the newspaper ad, and the out-of-work detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the overweight prostitute Candy Garth are brought together to live for a time in Free's old house, a house scheduled for demolition to make way for a highway.
Free drops mysterious hints of his exile from his homeland, and of the lost key to his return. And so when demolition occurs and Free disappears, the four make a pact to continue the search, which ultimately takes them far beyond their wildest dreams.

   
• The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories

he Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcends all genre definitions. The stories within are mined with depth charges, explosions of meaning and illumination that will keep you thinking and feeling long after you have finished reading.

   
• Devil in a Forest

He lives deep in the forest in the time of King Wenceslas, in a village older than record. The young man's hero-worship of the charming highwayman, Wat, is tempered by growing suspicion of Wat's cold savagery, and his fear of the sorcerous powers of Mother Cloot is tempered by her kindness. He must decide which of these powers to stand by in the coming battle between Good and Evil that not even his isolated village will be able to avoid.

   
• Pandora by Holly Hollander

The box is heavy, locked, and very old.
The only clue to its contents is the name written in gold upon its lid: PANDORA.
Holly Hollander, a bright teenage girl in Illinois, is understandably curious about what's inside, but when the box is opened, death is unleashed...
...leaving Holly at the center of an intricate mystery that only she can solve.

   
• Peace

The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself.

Neeeeeee, a ja sam ih  teskom mukom nabavljao godinama!!! 

(Nice) 

Here is the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming novel Gods and Monsters: Unclean Spirits by Chuck Wendig.
Here's the synopsis:The gods and goddesses are real. And they are here on Earth.
A polytheistic pantheon—a tangle of gods and divine hierarchies—once kept the world at an arm's length, warring with one another, using mankind's belief and devotion to give them power. In this way, the world had balance: a grim and bloody balance, but a balance just the same.
But a single god sought dominance and gathered his armies of angels behind him to oust the other gods in a shattering of the cosmic order, a sundering of the divinities. As Lucifer fell to Hell, the gods and goddesses fell to earth.
And it's there they remain—seemingly eternal, masquerading as humans and managing only a fraction of the power they once had as gods. They fall to old patterns, collecting sycophants and worshippers in order to war against one another in the battle for the hearts of men. They bring with them their children young and old, demi-gods who are half-human, half-divine. And they bring with them their monstrous races—crass abnormalities created to serve the gods. Undead eunuch magicians. Rampaging minotaurs. Shapeshifting yokai.
They would do anything to usher in a rebirth of the old ways. To reclaim the seat of true power.

Amazon has posted the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming novel Zero Point by Neal Asher.
Here's the synopsis:Earth's Zero Asset citizens no longer face extermination from orbit. Thanks to Alan Saul, the Committee's network of control is a smoking ruin and its robotic enforcers lie dormant. But power abhors a vacuum and, scrambling from the wreckage, comes the ruthless Serene Galahad. She must act while the last vestiges of Committee infrastructure remain intact – and she has the means to ensure command is hers. On Mars, Var Delex fights for the survival of Antares Base, while the Argus Space Station hurls towards the red planet. And she knows whomever, or whatever, trashed Earth is still aboard. Var must save the base, while also dealing with the first signs of rebellion. And aboard Argus Station, Alan Saul's mind has expanded into the local computer network. In the process, he uncovers the ghastly experiments of the Humanoid Unit Development, the possibility of eternal life, and a madman who may hold the keys to interstellar flight. But Earth's agents are closer than Saul thinks, and the killing will soon begin.

Ovo najverovatnije nije vredno kupovine ali nije mala stvar za roman da ima cak 3(!) autora. 



Publication Date: 21 Mar 2013      Once, in a city known as Bessa, there was a sultan named Bokhari Al-Bokhari, who was thrown down by the zealots of the ascetic Hakkim Mehdad. The sultan, his wives and children were put to the sword, while his 365 concubines were sent to a neighbouring caliph as tribute, Hakkim having no use for the pleasures of the flesh.

But a day after the caravan had departed from Bessa, Hakkim discovered the terrible secret that the concubines had hidden from him.His reaction was swift and cruel.

Kill the women of the harem forthwith, along with their children and maidservants. Let not one survive. Their bodies let the desert claim, and their names be fed to silence.

This, then, is the tale - or tales - of how a remarkable group of women fight together to survive both the fury of Hakkim and the rigours of the desert. It is the tale of Zuleika, whose hidden past holds the key to their future, and of Rem, the librarian whose tears are ink. Of the wise Gursoon, who defines the group's conscience, and of the silver-tongued thief, Anwar Das, who knows when to ignore that conscience.

This is the tale of the forging of a rabble of concubines, children, camel-herds and thieves into an army of silk and steel. It is the tale of the redemption and rise of Bessa, fabled City of Women. And it is the tale of an act of kindness that carries the seed of death, and will return to bring darkness and the end of a dream . . .   Show More  Show Less 

Quote from: LiBeat on 22-01-2013, 06:30:24
Ovo najverovatnije nije vredno kupovine ali nije mala stvar za roman da ima cak 3(!) autora. 



Publication Date: 21 Mar 2013      Once, in a city known as Bessa, there was a sultan named Bokhari Al-Bokhari, who was thrown down by the zealots of the ascetic Hakkim Mehdad. The sultan, his wives and children were put to the sword, while his 365 concubines were sent to a neighbouring caliph as tribute, Hakkim having no use for the pleasures of the flesh.

But a day after the caravan had departed from Bessa, Hakkim discovered the terrible secret that the concubines had hidden from him.His reaction was swift and cruel.

Kill the women of the harem forthwith, along with their children and maidservants. Let not one survive. Their bodies let the desert claim, and their names be fed to silence.

This, then, is the tale - or tales - of how a remarkable group of women fight together to survive both the fury of Hakkim and the rigours of the desert. It is the tale of Zuleika, whose hidden past holds the key to their future, and of Rem, the librarian whose tears are ink. Of the wise Gursoon, who defines the group's conscience, and of the silver-tongued thief, Anwar Das, who knows when to ignore that conscience.

This is the tale of the forging of a rabble of concubines, children, camel-herds and thieves into an army of silk and steel. It is the tale of the redemption and rise of Bessa, fabled City of Women. And it is the tale of an act of kindness that carries the seed of death, and will return to bring darkness and the end of a dream . . .   Show More  Show Less 

Meni se prilicno dopao The Devil You Know Majka Kerija, kao i sve ono sto radi u stripu, posebno nekoliko poslednjih godina rada na XMen naslovima...

Istina, istina, ima dosta ljudi kojima se Filiks Kastor jako dopada, mada vise hvale petu knjigu negoli prvu. Ali iskreno receno, nemam bog zna kakvu zelju da citam ovaj konkretno sinopsis razradjen sestorucno... ali naravno, sasvim je moguce da sam u krivu.

Publication Date: January 21, 2013     Zoologica Fantastica includes fifteen stories of devilish creatures, unknown species, and weird beasts from air, sea, and land. Cryptofiction is a form of science fiction, where the excitement of zoological discovery meets imaginative biology and adventure. The stories in this anthology arise from the pulps (primarily the 1920s and 1930s), the bedrock of today's speculative fiction. From giant insects to Sargasso Sea monsters, creatures from past eons, or horrors from the cavernous depths, these stories celebrate the as yet undiscovered creatures that hide in the far corners of our planet, waiting for unwary explorers to cross their paths.   Show more  Show less 

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The Future Fire editors' blog has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology We See a Different Frontier, an anthology of colonialism-themed speculative fiction, edited by Djibril al-Ayad and Fabio Fernandes:

   
• "The Arrangement of Their Parts" by Shweta Narayan
• "Pancho Villa's Flying Circus" by Ernest Hogan
• "Them Ships" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• "Old Domes" by J.Y. Yang
• "A Bridge of Words" by Dinesh Rao
• "The Gambiarra Effect" by Fabio Fernandes *
• "Droplet" by Rahul Kanakia
• "Lotus" by Joyce Chng
• "Dark Continents" by Lavie Tidhar
• "A Heap of Broken Images" by Sunny Moraine
• "Fleet" by Sandra McDonald
• "Remembering Turinam" by Nalin A. Ratnayake
• "Vector" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• "I Stole the D.C.'s Eyeglass" by Sofia Samatar
• "Forests of the Night" by Gabriel Murray
• "What Really Happened in Ficandula" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

The book also includes a Preface by Aliette de Bodard, an Introduction by Fabio Fernandes and a Critical Afterword by Ekaterina Sedia.

Neil Gaiman has another new book coming out. This time it's the non-fiction Make Good Art which feature his graduation speech from May 2012. The book is set to be released on May 14th, 2013 and you can see the synopsis below.


Amazon US | Amazon UK

Words of wisdom on making a good life and good art from the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author-the graduation speech he delivered to The University of the Arts in May 2012
For more than three decades Neil Gaiman has "made good art" in nearly every available medium, from comics to novels to Tweets. In May 2012, he was asked to share his insights to the graduating class of the University of Arts in Philadelphia. Make Good Art is the text of Gaiman's commencement speech, now available for every reader in this elegantly designed volume.

In this remarkable volume, Gaiman shares the motivating, joyful, sometimes frustrating, and always inspiring lessons he has learned throughout his groundbreaking career. He offers encouragement for anyone, no matter what age or stage of life, to go forth, be creative, and make good art.

Whether graduating from school, embarking on a new adventure, or simply looking for a little inspiration, Make Good Art is an antidote for complacency. Clever, funny, and profound, it encourages us to embrace uncertainty, break the rules, and nurture our unique individual vision, and reminds us of the limitless possibilities inherent in the creative process, and the delights that come from conjuring magic-making good art.

Publication Date: June 20, 2013     A photographer returns to a near-future Britain after the death of his wife in a terrorist incident in Afghanistan. And finds that the IRGB has, itself, been suffering terrorist attacks. But no-one knows quite what is happening or how. Just that there are similarities between what killed the photographer's wife and what happened in West London. Soon he is drawn into a hall of mirrors at the heart of government. In the First World War a magician is asked to travel to the frontline to help a naval aerial reconnaissance unit hide its planes from the German guns. On the way to France he meets a certain H.G. Wells. In the Second World War on the airfields of Bomber Commands there is also an obsession with camouflage, with misdirection. With deceit. And in a garden, an old man raises a conch shell to his ear and initiates the first Adjacency.   Show more  Show less   

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Release date: April 30, 2013      NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns.
Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country.
Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing – and terrifying – playground of amusements he calls "Christmasland."

Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble—and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx's unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He's on the road again and he's picked up a new passenger: Vic's own son.    Show more  Show less

HELL, YEAH! 






George R.R. Martin has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology he edited with Gardner Dozois,Dangerous Women (originally titled Femmes Fatale).







Says George of the book:The Abercrombie is set against his RED COUNTRY backdrop, the Holland gives us Eleanor of Aquitaine, Jim Butcher returns us to Harry Dresden's world, Lev Grossman contributes a tale of life at Brakebills, Steve Stirling revisits his Emberverse, Diana Gabaldon's story features Jamie Fraser of OUTLANDER fame, the Spector is a Wild Cards story featuring Hoodoo Mama and the Amazing Bubbles, and mine own contribution... well, it's some of that fake history I have been writing lo these many months, the true (mostly) story of the origins of the Dance of the Dragons. The stand-alone stories, not part of any series, feature some amazing work as well. For those who like to lose themselves in long stories, the Brandon Sanderson story, the Diana Gabaldon story, the Caroline Spector story, and my "Princess and Queen" are novellas. Huge mothers.








Here's the table of contents...

   
• "Some Desperado" by Joe Abercrombie
• "My Heart Is Either Broken" by Megan Abbott
• "Nora's Song" by Cecelia Holland
• "The Hands That Are Not There" by Melinda Snodgrass
• "Bombshells" by Jim Butcher
• "Raisa Stepanova" by Carrie Vaughn
• "Wrestling Jesus" by Joe R. Lansdale
• "Neighbors" by Megan Lindholm
• "I Know How To Pick 'em" by Lawrence Block
• "Shadows For Silence In The Forests Of Hell" by Brandon Sanderson
• "A Queen In Exile" by Sharon Kay Penman
• "The Girl In The Mirror" by Lev Grossman
• "Second Arabesque, Very Slowly" by Nancy Kress
• "City Lazarus" by Diana Rowland
• "Virgins" by Diana Gabaldon
• "Hell Hath No Fury" by Sherilynn Kenyon
• "Pronouncing Doom" by S.M. Stirling
• "Name The Beast" by Sam Sykes
• "Caretakers" by Pat Cadigan
• "Lies My Mother Told Me" by Caroline Spector
• "The Princess And The Queen" by George R.R. Martin

Release date: March 26, 2013



Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist --- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police.


A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists.


Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head.

 

Now this is a great idea for an anthology promotion: Have one of the book's authors (in this case, David Levine) read his short story (in this case, "Letter to the Editor") in character  as the mad  scientist Dr. Talon.

Not only do you get free fiction...you get a wonderful performance as well.

The anthology is The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination edited by John Joseph Adams, a themed anthology with 22 stories.





Dr. Talon's "Letter to the Editor" - David D. Levine

Jedan od proslogodisnjih Kickstarter crowdfunding projekata:




My first foray into crowdfunding via Kickstarter, Beyond The Sun was inspired by "Respite," a story by Autumn Rachel Dryden published in Intergalactic Medicine Show's first issue. It was also inspired by memories of my grandmas and I sitting around talking about the stars and NASA and what might be out there, and what it might be like to explore the stars. To my delight, I found that a lot of science fiction writers had similar dreams and experiences and the concept was a hit. Luckily, so did the fans who graciously backed the project.

Beyond The Sun funded successfully on October 17, 2012, 2 months after I launched it. It came in at 95250 words of fiction, 18 stories chosen from 25 submissions by invited writers at all levels.
With great artwork by award-winning artist Mitchell Bentley, picked up by Fairwood Press for publication in July 2013, and edited by myself, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, it gives me great pleasure to present to you today the Table of Contents:

   
• Introduction by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
• Acknowledgements by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
• "Flipping The Switch" by Jamie Todd Rubin
• "Migration" by Nancy Kress
• "Parker's Paradise" by Jean Johnson
• "Respite" by Autumn Rachel Dryden
• "The Bricks of Eta Cassiopeiae" by Brad R. Torgersen
• "Inner Sphere Blues" by Simon C. Larter
• "Rumspringa" by Jason Sanford
• "The Far Side Of The Wilderness" by Alex Shvartsman
• "Elsewhere, Within, Elsewhen" by Cat Rambo
• "Dust Angels" by Jennifer Brozek
• "Voice Of The Martyrs" by Maurice Broaddus
• "One Way Ticket" by Jaleta Clegg
• "The Gambrels Of The Sky" by Erin Hoffman
• "The Dybbyk of Mazel Tov IV" by Robert Silverberg
• "Chasing Satellites" by Anthony R. Cardno
• "A Soaring Pillar Of Brightness" by Nancy Fulda
• "The Hanging Judge" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• "Observation Post" by Mike Resnick
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Publication Date: January 31, 2013     Salvage and Demolition, the astonishing new 21,000 word novella by Tim Powers, begins when Richard Blanzac, a San Francisco-based rare book dealer, opens a box of consignment items and encounters the unexpected. There, among an assortment of literary rarities, he discovers a manuscript in verse, an Ace Double Novel, and a scattering of very old cigarette butts. These commonplace objects serve as catalysts for an extraordinary--and unpredictable--adventure.

Without warning, Blanzac finds himself traversing a 'circle of discontinuity' that leads from the present day to the San Francisco of 1957. Caught up in that circle are an ancient Sumerian deity, a forgotten Beat-era poet named Sophie Greenwald, and an apocalyptic cult in search of the key to absolute non-existence. With unobtrusive artistry, Powers weaves these elements into something strange and utterly compelling. The resulting story is at once a romance, a thriller, and the kind of intricately constructed time travel story that only the author of The Anubis Gates--that quintessential time travel classic--could have written. Ingenious, affecting, and endlessly inventive, Salvage and Demoliton is a compact gem from the pen of a modern master, a man whose singular creations never fail to dazzle and delight.   Show more  Show less 

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Release date: February 26, 2013      When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen. If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't. But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theaters of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: Was it really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, Renaissance set designer Adriano Lavicini, creator of the so-called Teleportation Device? And why is it that a handsome, clever, modest guy like him can't—just once in a while—get himself laid? From Ned Beauman, the author of the acclaimed Boxer, Beetle, comes a historical novel that doesn't know what year it is; a noir novel that turns all the lights on; a romance novel that arrives drunk to dinner; a science fiction novel that can't remember what isotope means; a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and (largely) coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it.   Show more  Show less 

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Release date: January 29, 2013     "Cat, this is Finn. He's going to be your tutor."

Finn looks and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task now is to tutor Cat. As she grows into a beautiful young woman, Finn is her guardian, her constant companion... and more.

But when the government grants rights to the ever-increasing robot population, however, Finn struggles to find his place in the world.

Details of the anticipated new book by Mira Grant, Parasite have been unveiled. According to current schedule book is expected to hit the shelves on 5th November 2013 and will be published by Orbit Books.

You can order your copy here:
Amazon UK | Amazon US

For the impatient ones, here's the synopsis:

A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.
We owe our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the tapeworm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system - even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams. Now, years on, almost every human being has a SymboGen tapeworm living within them.

But these parasites are getting restless. They want their own lives . . . and will do anything to get them.

Publication Date: February 5, 2013 | Series: The Owner (Book 1)     TWO WORLDS, ONE ENEMY


Earth

An overpopulated world is under the brutal, high-tech thumb of the Committee. Towering robot shepherds, pain-inducers, and reader guns maintain control over masses of zero-asset citizens, but for the elite this not enough. Twelve billion must human beings must die before the Earth can be stabilized, and the Argus satellite laser network is almost ready.

Waking in a crate destined for an incinerator, Alan Saul remembers only pain and his torturer's face. But he has company: Janus, a rogue AI inhabiting the forbidden hardware in his skull. Saul intends to stop Argus and get his revenge on the Committee–once he finds out who he used to be.


Mars.

Abandoned by the Committee, the Antares Base faces extinction. The colonists there will not be returning to Earth nor will they be receiving any additional supplies or support. Unless they are very ingenious, they will run out of resources and be dead within five years.

As if that's not dire enough, Varalia Delex finds herself caught in a violent power struggle with the base's ruthless political officers–who see everyone else as expendable. As spilled blood turns the Red Planet even redder, Var discovers that Mars holds very new and interesting ways to die   Show more  Show less

Release date: February 5, 2013      In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.
In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications.
In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea.
And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.
Thus begins Michael Crichton's exciting and provocative techno-thriller State of Fear. Only Crichton's unique ability to blend scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction could bring such disparate elements to such a heart-stopping conclusion.    Show more  Show less

Release date: February 5, 2013 | ISBN-10: 1780764103 | ISBN-13: 978-1780764108       Cinema and science fiction were made for each other. The science fiction genre has produced some of the most extraordinary films ever made, yet science fiction cinema is about more than just special effects. It has also provided a vehicle for filmmakers and writers to comment on their own societies and cultures. This new exploration of the genre examines landmark science fiction films from the 1930s to the present. They include genre classics such as Things to Come, Forbidden Planet and 2001: A Space Odyssey alongside modern blockbusters Star Wars and Avatar. Chapman and Cull consider both screen originals and adaptations of the work of major science fiction authors. They also range widely across the genre from pulp adventure and space opera to political allegory and speculative documentary – there is even a science fiction musical. Informed throughout by extensive research in US and British archives, the book documents the production histories of each film to show how they made their way to the screen – and why they turned out the way they did.   Show more  Show less

Release date: February 5, 2013      Welcome to our genetic world.
Fast, furious, and out of control.
This is not the world of the future—it's the world right now.
Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blonds becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only four hundred genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease?
We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one-fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else—and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes....
The future is closer than you think.    Show more  Show less