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... Adrian Barnes?





Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no-one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no-one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand can still sleep, and they've all shared the same strange, golden dream. A handful of children still sleep as well, but what they're dreaming remains a mystery. After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises in which those previously on the fringes of society take the lead. One couple experience a lifetime in a week as he continues to sleep, she begins to disintegrate before him, and the new world swallows the old one whole. NOD.

... V.E. Schwab?



A masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers.
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.
Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?
In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn't automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.

Robert Reed.






Publication Date:May 28, 2013    The Ship has traveled the universe for longer than any of the near-immortal crew can recall, its true purpose and origins unknown. It is larger than many planets, housing thousands of alien races and just as many secrets.

Now one of those secrets has been discovered: at the center of the Ship is . . . a planet. Marrow. But when a team of the Ship's best and brightest are sent down to investigate, will they return with the origins of the Ship--or will they bring doom to everyone on board?

Robert Reed, whose fantastic stories have been filling all the major SF magazines for the past several years, spins a captivating tale of adventure and wonder on an incredible scale in this novel based on his acclaimed novella.

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a evo sta on sam kaze: 


MARROW the novel began with a novelette called "The Remoras" and the invention of Quee Lee and Perri, my eternal couple enjoying a near-infinite voyage onboard the Great Ship.  Kris Rusch at The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction bought "The Remoras" and made it her cover story.  Success made me confident enough to try a second story.  "Aeon's Child" introduces the eternally pissed-of Pamir, and in a side role, the noble captain Washen.  Of course I sent "Child" to Kris, but it was too long and Pamir proved too grim, which is why that tale ended was published by Gardner Dozois and Asimov's SF.
Two stories, and the Great Ship had no home berth.
Scott Edelman was the editor at SF Age, and because he was paying more than other magazines, I sent him a novella called "Marrow".  Washen was the center of that story, and one of my favorite creations, Miocene, had a fine role in the action.  It was a one-damned-thing-after-another story, with the author trying to top himself on every page.  Scott liked it and published it, and the novella was subsequently nominated for a Hugo.  People occasionally assured me that I was that year's frontrunner.  Which goes to show that people don't know very much.  I think my story beat out the "No Award" option, but that might be all it did.  The real, lasting benefit came when my former editor for novels, Jim Frenkel, suggested that I use those twenty thousand words, plus another one hundred thousand, to build a novel.
With the new MARROW, I made at least one lucky decision early on.  Unlike the shorter stories, I decided to begin with an omniscient, omnipresent voice.  Whether or not this was the Great Ship's voice, I can't say.  Honestly, I don't remember intentions.  But the all-seeing POV served as a general overview to the Ship, which helped me as much as any reader get an appreciation for the machine's size and staggering age.

The original novella lives inside MARROW's first half, with added material and changes to the plot that helped facilitate the novel's second half.  The result was a stronger narrative, what with more details and some necessary foundation work on the source material.  Scott Edelman claims that the first Marrow was perfect as it was, but then again, he's not a reliable witness to these events.
Of course, neither am I.

During the '90s, I worked with electronic typewriters and simple word processors.  MARROW was generated on one of those primitive machines.  I went through a truckload of Brothers before finally making the investment in my first computer--a dicey Gateway that has been replaced by a string of slightly less primitive machines.

Anyway, with the novella anchoring the front section, I needed another bridge from the indescribable observer, after which came an original story about greed and passion, ambition and dumb luck.  The Great Ship is stolen from the Master Captain, and the Great Ship is retaken by the presumed Forces of Good, and my cast of characters, drawn from the previous shorter stories, get to play critical roles in the action.

The day-by-day writing is lost to me, thankfully.  I don't know how a writer could continue if he or she couldn't forget thousands of words every day.  But the genesis of a few scenes linger.  My favorite moment in MARROW is near the end.  Washen has won her war, using the liquid hydrogen fuel to spectacular effect, and I rather expected her to take her victory to the logical end:  Obliterating the Ship's enemies.  Yet in the end, she holds back, revealing empathy and wisdom that showed me quite a lot.  I might take credit for her beneficence, but that would feel like a lie.  Washen is better my instincts, and because of that, she's a better captain than I would ever be.


My least favorite moment was added because my editor wanted romance between Washen and Pamir.  He claimed that readers expect and deserve affairs between characters.  The two did have a history.  They are tens of thousands of years old, after all.  Why wouldn't they share beds now and again?  I didn't agree with the copy-edited romance, but I did as I was told, and in the end, the love feels considerably less genuine than Quee Lee and Perri--and that's true even though I used the relationship in the sequel, THE WELL OF STARS.

            I've written more than a dozen Great Ship stories since MARROW was published.  On the whole, the works seem to be growing stronger, at least in my unreliable mind.  I am trying to produce an epub book called THE GREATSHIP, which should be out in a few weeks or months, or maybe it already is available when you read this.  The volume will gather together most of the stories, save for original "Marrow" and the most recent titles, and each has been rewritten a little or a lot with new bridges standing between them, and their author tried to place each work along the epic's timeline.

            The Great Ship is going someplace.
            I know where.  But I didn't realize where it was going until just last year.
            The revelations aren't over, either.  Just the other day, shoveling dirt in the backyard, I suddenly discovered something critical about Quee Lee and Perri.
            Why did it take me so long to see the obvious?
            Again, I would make a miserably poor captain, and a horrible pilot, and on my best days, my writing comes and goes.
            But my giant imaginary ship continues on.

Ofir Touche Gafla:











As an epilogist, Ben Mendelssohn appreciates an unexpected ending. But when that denouement is the untimely demise of his beloved wife, Ben is incapable of coping. Marian was more than his life partner; she was the fiber that held together all that he is. And Ben is willing to do anything, even enter the unknown beyond, if it means a chance to be with her again.One bullet to the brain later, Ben is in the Other World, where he discovers a vast and curiously secular existence utterly unlike anything he could have imagined: a realm of sprawling cities where the deceased of every age live an eternal second life, and where forests of family trees are tended by mysterious humans who never lived in the previous world. But Ben cannot find Marian.Desperate for a reunion, he enlists an unconventional afterlife investigator to track her down, little knowing that his search is entangled in events that continue to unfold in the world of the living. It is a search that confronts Ben with one heart-rending shock after another; with the best and worst of human nature; with the resilience and fragility of love; and with truths that will haunt him through eternity.








A evo što sam Ofir kaže o knjizi:




It all started with a TV commercial I saw one night. A perfect looking family – man, woman and child – on a perfect looking beach in some perfect looking world. Idyllic, pastoral, euphoric. And unreal. When I saw this trio of bliss the first thought that crossed my mind was 'How enviable'. The second was 'How unreal'. I just couldn't buy it. They looked so otherworldly. And this is how The Other World came to be. I dashed to my study and started constructing the rules and regulations of a world where I initially believed such peace of mind could be obtained- no health worries, no financial concerns, no pressing matters, no fear of the unknown. I literally saw it, and in my mind that unbelievable family resided in such a world.



And then it all had to do with my philosophical musings on the subject of the end and its manipulative aspect in art as in life. I have always questioned the full stop, the period, the last word in a novel. No stop is full, every period is, well, periodic, and no word is really last. I have always wondered what came next, since 'The End' is but a means to a fabricated ending, one that will wrap things up and say 'Alright, ladies and gentlemen, this is where I wanted to get you, now please step down'. And if every ending is designed to fit the framework of a particular story, what about the ultimate end? Perhaps death is not the end per se, but an end of a kind, and a beginning of something else? I instantly knew that I wanted to write a story that begins at the conventional ending point, that is to say, with the death of the protagonist.


Not unsurprisingly, people mistake my books for my beliefs. Readers repeatedly ask me whether I believe in life after death. I always say I believe in life before death. My private beliefs are not that interesting. However, one thing that was really important to me when I started writing this novel was the nature of the other world, namely, being an alternative to another world we know so well: It is a secular world, judgment-free, anything but heaven, hell or any such place whose moral compass is the finger of reproach. I just wanted to pose an alternative, as ridiculous as it may be, to any other post-mortem version, that time and fear have rendered immutable. Funnily enough, many religious people have expressed a 'suspicious' fondness for this book.


There's a British philosopher, Roger Scruton, who once said that the consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. This is another way of looking at the story behind the story of this novel. So many exciting reactions have come my way over the years, some of them from sick people who said the book gave them hope, fiction or no fiction. And then there was a certain lady who approached me during a signing, looked me in the eye and asked, dead serious (no pun intended) whether the book was autobiographical. Honestly. I stared back at her and smiled.

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Ofir Touche Gafla

... Filippo Bologna?

One of the things I enjoy the most, whenever I'm traveling in Italy, is talking to locals and discovering their local specialties. Each and every place I've visited always had something they're particularly and fanatically proud of - be it some local delicacy, a writer only their town could've produced or a brand of car they're manufacturing. And they're always willing to go on at lengths why is it exactly that their particular thing is the best one in the world. But what's really interesting is that once you get to really know the people, you quickly realize that everyone feels the same down to the smallest bits of society - basically everyone is also competing with everyone else, even on neighborhood levels, about little things, such as who makes best pasta or something. All this is really charming and is quite a significant part of being Italian. Needless to say, this can sometimes go out of hand and things quickly turn nasty. Latest novel by Filippo Bologna, The Parrots is exploring exactly this aspect of everyday Italian life and revolves around a literary prize and three men willing to battle for it, using any means necessary.

The Beginner is adored by critics but not by his readers. He has a rather trendy goatee beard and is a frequent sight on the literary festival circle. On the other hand, The Master is old and has just received the prostate cancer diagnosis. He feel like his writing life has been one huge failure but sees the price as the potential source of money. Third person is The Writer who is currently in his prime but the prize for him might just mean difference between life and death. Three men are not willing to play nice and just wait for the jury to come to the decision and soon The Parrots unexpectedly turns into a shambolic affair where everyone is doing pretty insane stuff - just to increase it's chances of winning the price.
The Parrots is a stunning read. While enjoyed it, I've felt like I was watching a bit weird, lost forgotten cousin of Fellini's Amarcord. In it, Bologna perfectly captured intricacies of everyday life while at the same time, he made an ironic, exaggerated and often funny commentary on the Italian society in general. Excellent second novel novel by one of the most exciting young talents of the Italian literature.
Additional benefit of The Parrots is that, after reading it, you'll never look at any literary prize in the same way. You just won't be able to help yourself guessing who on the shortlist fills the role of The Beginner, The Writer and The Master.

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Order "The Parrots" here:
Amazon US | Amazon UK
Thanks to Pushkin Press for providing a review copy

... David Gullen?

njegov debi roman ima vrlo dobre preporuke:




Novik and Josie have a lot of catching up to do. Two years he's been in jail; two years she's been waiting. They never want to be apart again.  A stress-filled encounter with some "Old-fashioned Boys" at a chain eatery turns their best of intentions upside-down; they're now on the run and in posession of a super-hot sentient muscle car and over 190 million dollars, covered with a potent psychoactive power.
Welcome to the Shopocalypse.


Praise for Shopocalypse: "Dave Gullen's debut novel is huge, enthralling, packed with bold ideas and genre-shattering extrapolations. And his characters get so deep inside your head you're still arguing with them days later. Seriously, you need this book." - Mike Carey
"Global warming has really begun to bite, but human consumption of resources has become more frantic than ever in this clever, dark and often very funny satire on rapacious capitalism." - Chris Beckett
"A sharp and witty take on the perils of consumerism. To be honest, it was fairly terrifying -- very believable." - Francis Knight
"Subversive. Hilarious. Touching. Brilliant." - Jaine Fenn

 
...Robert Harken?




By 2040, efficient machines displace humans in nearly all tasks. Unable to contribute and too poor to consume, these surplus people succumb to propaganda from Earth's Emigration Effort and become cargo on interstellar starships launched toward distant solar systems. Aiden Haven, one of the displaced, departs Earth on the eve of parity between human and artificial intelligence. Believing he embarks on an adventure to resuscitate his life, Aiden underestimates the risks of colonizing an inhospitable new planet. When his daughter, Sarah, resurrects the future that colonists abandoned on Earth—a future now stalking them—father and daughter must face forces of nature and Earth's legacy or witness the destruction of their colony's last refuge.
Rules change; adapt or perish.
"Recalling a time when sf placed an emphasis on science and theoretical speculation, Harken's thoughtful debut should appeal to fans of Ben Bova's planetary series (Mars; Venus; Jupiter), Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red Mars; Green Mars; Blue Mars), and James Blish's classic Cities in Flight."—Library Journal (Starred Review and Science Fiction & Fantasy Debut of the Month, January 2013)
"Impressive and original . . . A first class read from beginning to end, Life on Nubis is very highly recommended."—Midwest Book Review (Reviewed by Jack Mason for MBR Bookwatch, May, 2013)

u ovom slucaju autor nije nepoznat, naprotiv, ali sama knjiga nosi i sporedne kuriozitete.





'The conscious extraction of meaning from a procession of words is not, after all, the only way of interacting with a text, or with anything else in the world...'

A dealer in old books, lost books--books no-one knows even exist. A man who works for him, prizing meaning from places where it is deeply hidden. A book, at first unintelligible...but which begins to reveal its secrets in ways the translator could never have guessed.

This is the story of The Gist, but that s only the beginning of the journey. Michael Marshall Smith's original novelette was then translated into French by Benoit Domis, before being rendered back into English by Nicholas Royle--who had no access to the original text or author during the process.

All three versions are presented in this edition. The idea is to discover what happened during the process, how much the story changed while passing through two other minds and another language...

To see if The Gist survived.

... Roger Levy?






Our planet is falling apart from tectonic palsy in this offbeat debut novel, thanks to crazed fundamentalists eager for the End Times: "The Earth was dead from the moment ReGenesis triggered the chain of nuclear devices it had set along the floor of the Marianas trench in the Pacific Ocean". With fault-lines cracking everywhere and even safe zones like England wracked by tremors and landslips, society is in a sanity-challenged mess. Escape into virtual reality becomes ever more popular. VR "gamezones" have a special, painful meaning for Far Warriors like reluctant hero Jon Sciler, who were sent to clean out the hostile native life of the colony world Dirangesept. What seemed a simple task, a shoot-'em-up game with Earth's invincible remote-controlled "autoids" pitted against primitives, went horribly, inexplicably wrong. The remnants of Sciler's team returned scarred and publicly shamed. Now a vengeful serial killer is apparently targeting Far Warrior veterans--at least those who sign up with the VR outfit Maze. Maze is running endless, mysterious tests on its impossibly realistic gameworld Cathar, haunted by magic and presence that even the operators don't understand. Must dying in Cathar always mean dying in reality? Sciler's struggle to make sense of how he is being manipulated by Maze and stranger forces leads to serious danger in and out of VR--for friends as well as himself--eventually uncovering the true legacy of the Dirangesept disaster. A fast-moving, street-wise, intensely paranoid SF thriller. --David Langford
  Book Description An extraordinarily exciting SF debut of conspiracies and mistaken realities from a writer who has it in him to be the British heir to Philip K. Dick

... Dave Eggers?






The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award.

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

...Gabi Gleichmann?



Today, where authors wanting to break into the scene are ten a penny and the whole market is over-saturated with fiction that can be at best described as not very good, it takes a particular courage to write a 700+ page debut novel. Some might call it an act of sheer lunacy but if you ask me, the whole things is probably down to that old adage. Authors need to write - no matter the consequences. And sometimes, not very often, these massive debut door-stoppers turn out to be something really extraordinary. However, this time I'm not talking about Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries, this year's Man Booker Prize winner but about impressive and just as long "The Elixir of Immortality" by Gabi Gleichmann.

Publisher: Other Press (October 1, 2013)
Amazon US | Amazon UK

Set over a vast period that spans some thousand years, "The Elixir of Immortality" explores in details aspects of both European and Jewish history as experienced by the members of Spinoza family. The story goes that Spinoza family is in the possession of a secret manuscript which contains the recipe of immortality. Said manuscript is passed from father to son down the generations but as the thirty-sixth generation of family slowly coming to it's natural end, Ari Spinoza doesn't have a son to pass manuscript to. Lying on his deathbed, in an ongoing fight against looming oblivion, Ari starts spinning his tale about the history of his family - because being forgotten is even worse than being dead.
Drawing deep on the tales heard over the years from his great uncle Fernando, and a thousand page manuscript written by his ancestor, it soon comes to light that Spinoza family played significant part in almost every major cultural event in Europe throughout the last thousand years. Moving in waves, the story moves from medieval Portugal to Amsterdam, then Spain during the era of Spanish Inquisition, French Revolution, and concluding with both world wars.
Throughout the narrative, Gleichmann puts his protagonists in all kinds of situations, ranging from truly outrageous and often very funny events up to tragic horrors of war, showing us that life needs to be lived. Even immortality itself is worthless if you don't experience it in it's fullness. In it's fabric, "The Elixir of Immortality" is not unlike Marquez's classic One Hundred Years of Solitude and delights for all the same reasons. It is impressive and monumental achievement and firmly places Gabi Gleichmann as one of the major talents of the global literary scene. 

Kathleen Ann Doonan?

znam za nju ali nista njeno do sada nisam citala.


 


evo sta ona kaze za In War Times: This is the cover of the UK ebook edition of IN WAR TIMES, just published.

It is a photo of my father, Thomas E. Goonan, whose memoirs, editing, and ideas helped shape the book. Additional kudos, like pull quotes from starred reviews in PW ("Paralleling the evolution of modern jazz with the creative ferment of science, Goonan delivers a bravura performance."), Kirkus (A complex, low-key, thoughtful and often dazzling journey through worlds that might, and perhaps should, have been."), and Booklist ("An authentic classic."), are inside, along with blurbs by Peter Straub, David Marusek, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones,and Kelly Link. It was the ALA's Best SF Novel of the Year and won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. All in all, a satisfying experience.

... Nate Kenyon?

ima dosta objavljenih naslova, ali tek se na ovaj najnoviji roman cesce nailazi, verovatno zato sto je otkupljen za ekranizaciju.







THE FUTURE IS HERE AND IT DOESN'T NEED YOU



In Nate Kenyon's Day One, scandal-plagued hacker journalist John Hawke is hot on the trail of the explosive story that might save his career. James Weller, the former CEO of giant technology company Eclipse, has founded a new start-up, and he's agreed to let Hawke do a profile on him. Hawke knows something very big is in the works at Eclipse---and he wants to use the profile as a foot in the door to find out more.

After he arrives in Weller's office in New York City, a seemingly normal day quickly turns into a nightmare as anything with an Internet connection begins to malfunction. Hawke receives a call from his frantic wife just before the phones go dead. Soon he and a small band of survivors are struggling for their very lives as they find themselves thrust into the middle of a war zone---with no obvious enemy in sight.

The bridges and tunnels have been destroyed. New York City is under attack from a deadly and brilliant enemy that can be anywhere and can occupy anything with a computer chip. Somehow Hawke must find a way back to his pregnant wife and young son. Their lives depend upon it . . . and so does the rest of the human race.



Nate Kenyon writes thrillers, suspense and horror for Thomas Dunne Books. He also writes video game novelizations for Blizzard Entertainment in the worlds of StarCraft and Diablo. His novel, Bloodstone, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist and winner of the P&E Horror Novel of the Year. His novel, The Reach, was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist. His latest novel is the techno-thriller Day One (Thomas Dunne/St. Martins Press). Booklist gave it a starred review, calling it "exciting and inventive." Library Journal called it a "must" and Kenyon's "scariest to date." Day One was also recently optioned for a film. Visit him at NateKenyon.com.




a ima ovde i intervju: 

... Gareth L. Powell?







Gareth L. Powell is a novelist based in Bristol, UK. He has written four novels and a collection of short stories. His short stories have featured in Interzone magazine as well as numerous anthologies , and his novels have been favourably reviewed in the Guardian. He has written about science fiction for The Irish Times and SFX, and recently penned a comic strip for 2000AD. You can find him on Twitter (@garethlpowell)

His upcoming book Hive Monkey, sequel to Ack-Ack Macaque, will be released by Solaris Books in January 2014.

... William Hertling?


(e al me uhvati amazon na besplatne knjige, pa to je cudo jedno. )

elem, ovo mu je objavljeno krajem 2011




nije lose, nije lose. stil malko neizbrusen, kako to vec biva kod indie pocetnika ali nadoknadjuje to sa vesto konstruisanim zapletom i dobro izvajanim likovima. a i tema  je dobra, singulariti bauk i kako ce se probuditi i sve nas prozdrati (i to kroz email aplikaciju, lovlibejbi, a sve vrlo uverljivo sklopljeno, sa solidnom informativnom zaledjinom ali prezentovanom u prilicno neobaveznom maniru lisenom suvisnih tehnikalija. zaplet dobro tempiran, tehno-strana u striktnoj sluzbi trilera, bas kako i prilici, medjuljudski odnosi taman dovoljno suptilni da realisticno ozive ceo povelik ansambl protagonista, suspens isto solidan, sve u svemu - prilicno zabavno citanje.

2012 mu je izasao i nastavak: