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  Publication Date:September 3, 2013    An all-new tale of Marcus Yallow, the hero of the bestselling novels Little Brother and Homeland -- as he deals with the aftermath of a devastating Oakland earthquake, with the help of friends, hacker allies, and some very clever crowdsourced drones.   "I'd recommend Little Brother over pretty much any book I've read this year." --Neil Gaiman
At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.   Show more  Show less

With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live.
Business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family, the shop offers a variety of ways to end it all, with something to fit every budget.
The Tuvaches go mournfully about their business until the youngest member of the family threatens to destroy their contented misery by confronting them with something they've never encountered before: a love of life.

Publication Date:September 10, 2013   A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals

At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her precocious and willful daughter, Miriam, equally passionate in her activism, flees Rose's influence to embrace the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village.
     These women cast spells over the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her cousin, the feckless chess hustler Lenny Angrush; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam's (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinging husband, Tommy Gogan; their bewildered son, Sergius. Flawed and idealistic, Lethem's characters struggle to inhabit the utopian dream in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference.
     As the decades pass—from the parlor communism of the '30s, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, ragged '70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, up to the Occupy movement of the moment—we come to understand through Lethem's extraordinarily vivid storytelling that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal.
     Lethem's characters may pursue their fates within History with a capital H, but his novel is—at its mesmerizing, beating heart—about love.


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Thirteen is an new horror audio anthology edited by Scott Harrison featuring an impressive lineup of authors.Here's the description:

Edited by the mighty Scott Harrison and recorded & produced by Neil Gardner,

THIRTEEN contains 13 (well, obviously!) spine-tingling tales of terror, new short stories by some of our biggest and most beloved genre authors, read by some truly epic acting names.
THIRTEEN is an experiment to see how popular audiobook anthologies could be.  We already know genre fans love printed and e-book anthologies, so we hope the same will be true for audiobooks.  If we get good sales and support we hope to attract funding and backing from the likes of Audible to enable to release several anthologies every year.
Duration: 3hrs 36mins STEREOHere's the table of contents...

Side A

   
• "Hidden Track (part 1)" by Scott Harrison read by Barnaby Edwards
• "Dead Space" by  George Mann read by Greg Wise
• "A Girl, Sitting" by Mark Morris read by Jilly Bond
• "Finding The Path"" by Kaaron Warren read by Trevor White
• "The Hairstyle of the Devil" by  Martin Day read by Arthur Darvill
• "Down" by  Gary McMahon read by Stephen Rashbrook
• "Visions" by Cavan Scott read by Michael Maloney
• "Half Life" by Dan Abnett read by John Banks
• "Hidden Track (part 2) by Scott Harrison read by Barnaby Edwards

Side B

   
• "With Her In Spirit" by Stephen Gallagher read by Frances Barber
• "Tabula Rasa" by Alasdair Stuart read by Lalla Ward
• "One Hit Wanda" by Kim Newman read by Samuel West
• "A Glass of Water" by Mark Wright read by Gemma Arterton
• "Ghost Pit" by Simon Clark read by Jeff Harding
• "I Wish" by Johnny Mains read by Steven Cree
• "Hidden Track (part 3)" by Scott Harrison read by Barnaby Edwards

When Flora Elhayani is twelve years old, God appears to her through the television and suddenly, after being mute for two months, she can speak again. Flora changes her name to Ori, and acquires a new, fantastical vantage point of her life in the desert town of Netivot. Trying to decipher what the revelation holds for her, Ori comes across a rare series of young adult novels about a strange wonderland whose heroine plays special part in Ori's own coming of age.
Twenty years later, we meet Ori again. She now lives in Tel Aviv, where she is married to a successful man and is the mother of a little girl. She has become a writer for young adults, focusing her work on various Wonderland themes. Life is good – until a second revelation, very different from the first, rattles the very foundations of her life and puts all in doubt.
Sunburnt Faces examines the nature of revelation in a world in which the fantastical takes place only in situations of error and misunderstanding. But will the social and political nature of this world allow Ori to find the certainty without which she cannot live?

Shimon Adaf is one of Israel's foremost novelists and poets, and a winner of the prestigious Sapir Prize (the Israeli equivalent of the Man Booker Prize), amongst many other awards.

Here's the table of contents...

   
• "Infinities" by Vandana Singh
• "Rogue Farm" by Charles Stross
• "The Gambler" by Paolo Bacigalupi
• "Strood" by Neal Asher
• "Eros, Philia, Agape" by Rachel Swirsky
• "The Tale Of The Wicked" by John Scalzi
• "Bread And Bombs" by M. Rickert
• "The Waters Of Meribah" by Tony Ballantyne
• "Tk'tk'tk" by David Levine
• "The Nearest Thing" by Genevieve Valentine
• "Erosion" by Ian Creasey
• "The Calculus Plague" by Marissa Lingen
• "One Of Our Bastards Is Missing" by Paul Cornell
• "Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear
• "Finisterra" by David Moles
• "Evil Robot Monkey" by Mary Robinette Kowal
• "The Education Of Junior Number 12″ by Madeline Ashby
• "Toy Planes" by Tobias Buckell
• "The Algorithms For Love" by Ken Liu
• "The Albian Message" by Oliver Morton
• "To Hie From Far Cilenia" by Karl Schroeder
• "Savant Songs" by Brenda Cooper
• "Ikiryoh" by Liz Williams
• "The Prophet Of Flores" by Ted Kosmatka
• "How To Become A Mars Overlord" by Catherynne M. Valente
• "Second Person, Present Tense" by Daryl Gregory
• "Third Day Lights" by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• "Balancing Accounts" by James Cambias
• "A Vector Alphabet Of Interstellar Travel" by Yoon Ha Lee
• "His Master's Voice" by Hannu Rajaniemi
• "Plotters And Shooters" by Kage Baker
• "The Island" by Peter Watts
• "Escape To Other Worlds With Science Fiction" by Jo Walton
• "Chicken Little" by Cory Doctorow

  It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn't rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land.

Following years of catastrophic hurricanes, the Gulf Coast—stretching from the Florida panhandle to the western Louisiana border—has been brought to its knees. The region is so punished and depleted that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules.

Cohen is one who stayed. Unable to overcome the crushing loss of his wife and unborn child who were killed during an evacuation, he returned home to Mississippi to bury them on family land. Until now he hasn't had the strength to leave them behind, even to save himself.

But after his home is ransacked and all of his carefully accumulated supplies stolen, Cohen is finally forced from his shelter. On the road north, he encounters a colony of survivors led by a fanatical, snake-handling preacher named Aggie who has dangerous visions of repopulating the barren region.

Realizing what's in store for the women Aggie is holding against their will, Cohen is faced with a decision: continue to the Line alone, or try to shepherd the madman's captives across the unforgiving land with the biggest hurricane yet bearing down—and Cohen harboring a secret that may pose the greatest threat of all.

Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where the next devastating storm is never far behind.   Show more  Show less

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With the literary crossover appeal of Ursula K. Le Guin and China Miéville, Karen Lord is re-envisioning sci-fi for the twenty-first century with the story of a young hero exploring the galaxy-and discovering himself.
Karen Lord returns with The Galaxy Game, a new story and a new set of characters that both enriches its predecessor and stands alone. In this new novel, Rafi — the nephew of the heroine of Best — travels the universe with an intergalactic sports team, encountering strange new worlds and alien cultures. Lord's bold new vision of 21st-century science fiction has appeal to both devoted genre fans and readers of literary fiction.

Small Beer Press has posted the table of contents for the upcoming collection Horse of a Different Color: Stories by Howard Waldrop:

Here's the book description:

"If Philip K. Dick is our homegrown Borges (as Ursula K. Le Guin once said), then Waldrop is our very American magic-realist, as imaginative and playful as early Garcia Marquez or, better yet, Italo Calvino. . . . You never know what he'll come up with next, but somehow it's always a Waldrop story."—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"Waldrop subtly mutates the past, extrapolating the changes into some of the most insightful, and frequently amusing, stories being written today."—The Houston Post

"The most startling, original, and entertaining short story writer in science fiction today."—George R. R. Martin

"It always feels like Christmas when a new Howard Waldrop collection arrives."—Connie Willis

Howard Waldrop's stories are keys to the secrets of the stories behind the stories . . . or perhaps the stories between the stories everyone else knows. From "The Wolfman of Alcatraz" to a horrifying Hansel and Gretel, from "The Bravest Girl I Ever Knew" to the sixth Marx brother's story of a vaudeville act tracking down the Holy Grail, this new collection is a wunderkammer of strangeness.

Howard Waldrop, born in Mississippi and now living in Austin, Texas, is an American iconoclast. His highly original books include Them Bones and A Dozen Tough Jobs, and the collections Howard Who?, Night of the Cooters, Other Worlds, Better Lives, and Things Will Never Be the Same. He won the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his novelette "The Ugly Chickens."

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Publication Date:September 17, 2013 

New York Times Book Review
"Exemplary... dazzling and ludicrous. "

It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left.

Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics—carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into people's bank accounts—without having too much guilt about any of it. Otherwise, just your average working mom—two boys in elementary school, an off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-ex-husband Horst, life as normal as it ever gets in the neighborhood—till Maxine starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO, whereupon things begin rapidly to jam onto the subway and head downtown. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler's aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, plus elements of the Russian mob and various bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course.

With occasional excursions into the DeepWeb and out to Long Island, Thomas Pynchon, channeling his inner Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance of New York in the early days of the internet, not that distant in calendar time but galactically remote from where we've journeyed to since.

Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will she and Horst get back together? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?

Hey. Who wants to know?


Publishers Weekly
"No one, but no one, rivals Pynchon's range of language, his elasticity of syntax, his signature mix of dirty jokes, dread and shining decency... Bleeding Edge is a chamber symphony in P major, so generous of invention it sometimes sprawls, yet so sharp it ultimately pierces."

Library Journal
"Truly your most important reading for the fall... darkly hilarious."
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WikiWorld contains a choice assortment of Di Filippo's best and most recent work. The title story, a radical envisioning of near-future sociopolitical modes, received accolades from both Cory Doctorow and Warren Ellis. In addition, there are alternate history adventures such as "Yes We Have No Bananas" (which critic Gary Wolfe called "a new kind of science fiction"); homages to icons such as Stanislaw Lem ("The New Cyberiad"); collaborations with Rudy Rucker and Damien Broderick; and a posthuman odyssey ("Waves and Smart Magma"). WikiWorld is the best of the best from this British Science Fiction Association Award-winning and Nebula, Hugo, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Award-nominated author.

   The second novel in an astonishingly imaginative fantasy trilogy that began with the critically acclaimed Advent

If there's one thing Gavin Stokes knows, it's that something unimaginably dangerous has returned to the world. A mad dog runs amok, a mermaid floats in the bay, and a wild beast stalks the countryside. He and others make the same strange claim: magic has returned. All signs point to it.

Now, Gavin's aunt has disappeared. A young girl who's been accused of murder vanishes from a locked cell. She is at large somewhere in a vast wilderness. Meanwhile, a desolate child leaves the home that has kept her safe all her life and strikes out into the unknown. And a mother, half mad with grief for her lost son, sets off to find him.

There is a place where all their journeys meet. But someone is watching the roads . . .   Show more  Show less

The second William Wisting mystery to be translated into English, after the successful Dregs. Ove Bakkerud, newly separated and extremely disillusioned, is looking forward to a final quiet weekend at his summer home before closing for winter but, when the tourists leave, less welcome visitors arrive. Bakkerud's cottage is ransacked by burglars. Next door he discovers the body of a man who has been beaten to death. Police Inspector William Wisting has witnessed grotesque murders before, but the desperation he sees in this latest murder is something new. Against his wishes his daughter Line decides to stay in one of the summer cottages at the mouth of the fjord.

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Markus Selvage has been bent by life, ground up and spit out again. In San Francisco's darkest sexual underground, he is a perpetual innocent, looking within bodies – his own and others' – for the lost secrets of satisfaction. But extreme body modification is only the beginning of where he will go before he's finished...Book info as per Amazon US [Also available via Amazon UK]:

We are very happy to present cover art and synopsis for the upcoming book by Charles Stross, Equoid - A Laundry Novella. The book is scheduled to come out on 16th October, 2013.[/font]
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The "Laundry" is Britain's super-secret agency devoted to protecting the realm from the supernatural horrors that menace it. Now Bob Howard, Laundry agent, must travel to the quiet English countryside to deal with an outbreak of one of the worst horrors imaginable. For, as it turns out, unicorns are real. They're also ravenous killers from beyond spacetime...

 



We are very happy to present cover art and synopsis for the upcoming book by Mark Hodder, The Return of the Discontinued Man. The book is scheduled to come out on 8th July, 2014.

Synopsis:Explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and poet Algernon Swinburne return in a new series of wildly imaginative steampunk adventures.

SPRING HEELED JACK IS JUMPING BACK!

It's 9 p.m. on February 15, 1860, and Charles Babbage, the British Empire's most brilliant scientist, performs an experiment. Within moments, blood red snow falls from the sky and Spring Heeled Jack pops out of thin air in London's Leicester Square. Though utterly disoriented and apparently insane, the strange creature is intent on one thing: hunting Sir Richard Francis Burton!

Spring Heeled Jack isn't alone in his mental confusion. Burton can hardly function; he's experiencing one hallucination after another-visions of parallel realities and future history. Someone, or something, is trying to tell him about...what?

When the revelation comes, it sends Burton and his companions on an expedition even the great explorer could never have imagined-a voyage through time itself into a twisted future where steam technology has made a resurgence and a despotic intelligence rules over the British Empire!

No  one writes like Segal — her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit,  and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound  pleasure. From first  to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel." —Margot Livesey

Publisher: Melville House (October 1, 2013)

From the very beginning you are dragged into the world Sanderson has created, a world after Calamity where everything has changed. Normal people became Epics and have taken over ruling through fear and greed. Newcago has been turned into a city of steel with many people living underground, it is constantly night and is ruled by the worst epic of all Steelheart.

David Charleston has been researching epics ever since his father was killed by steelheart, he even knows some of their weaknesses, and he is the only person alive to have seen steelheart bleed and he is determined to see it happen again. David seeks out and joins the one group of people standing up to the Epics...the reckoners and together they plan to rid the world of as many epics as they can.

The second book in a new science fiction trilogy by a RED DWARF legend. In Robert Llewellyn's eagerly awaited sequel to News from Gardenia, Gavin Meckler is trying to get back to the present – but something is amiss. He soon realises he has travelled sideways through time, to another possible future as unlike Gardenia as our own era.

Arriving in a teeming megacity, Gavin discovers a highly technologically developed society in a vast urban landscape constructed around a seemingly endless series of squares, dense with lush vegetation and trees. Much of what Gavin sees is recognisable, but there is one important difference: here, women are the dominant gender, and men are becoming an endangered species.

As a man from 'the dark times' Gavin is the object of both fascination and hatred. He soon finds himself an unwitting player in the conflict between the powers that be and the militant Weaver Women, who advocate allowing the human male to become completely extinct.

If Gavin is to understand how he can help his gender, he has to start understanding himself.  About the Author Robert Llewellyn is an actor, novelist, screenwriter, comedian and TV presenter. He drives an electric car and writes under a rack of solar panels in Gloucestershire.

Publication Date:October 1, 2013   On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren--a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. 
An act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile human body. And only one purpose--to revenge herself on Anaander Mianaai, many-bodied, near-immortal Lord of the Radch.   Show more  Show less

Publication Date: October 1, 2013 | ISBN-10: 192740035X | ISBN-13: 978-1927400357 | Edition: 2     An old woman hangs in a cage; a young woman slaves on a rich lord's estate. How does a woman discover and assert her identity in a primeval, barbaric world? From slave dens to merchant cities to isolated mountains, Candas Jane Dorsey's first novel is a powerful exploration of gender, identity, and freedom.

Winner of James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Crawford Award, Prix Aurora Award.

As brilliant as William Gibson, as complex as Gene Wolfe, with a humanity and passion all her own. Candas Jane Dorsey isn't just a comer, she's a winner. -Ursula K. Le Guin

In terms of technique alone, Black Wine is one of the most sophisticated literary SF novels....Black Wine lives in its passionate prose and startling imagery....A rewarding and moving novel. -Locus   Show more  Show less

Publication Date:October 1, 2013   From Literature to Biterature is based on the premise that in the foreseeable future computers will become capable of creating works of literature. Among hundreds of other questions, it considers: Under which conditions would machines become capable of creative writing? Given that computer evolution will exceed the pace of natural evolution a million-fold, what will such a state of affairs entail in terms of art, culture, social life, and even nonhuman rights?

Drawing a map of impending literary, cultural, social, and technological revolutions, Peter Swirski boldly assumes that computers will leap from mere syntax-driven processing to semantically rich understanding. He argues that acknowledging biterature as a species of literature will involve adopting the same range of attitudes to computer authors (computhors) as to human ones and that it will be necessary to approach them as agents with internal states and creative intentions.

Ranging from the metafiction of Stanislaw Lem to the "Turing test" (familiar to scientists working in Artificial Intelligence and the philosophers of mind) to the evolutionary trends of culture and machines, Swirski's scenarios lay the groundwork for a new area of study on the cusp of literary futurology, evolutionary cognition, and philosophy of the future.   Show more  Show less

What Books Press (October 1, 2013)
Fiction. Exiled and abandoned on a distant planet, petty criminals enjoy their benign punishment, while one man plots to escape before the whole planet is transformed into a faux alien tourist attraction.About the Author       Rod Val Moore has published short stories in a variety of journals. In 1994 he won the Iowa Fiction Award for his story collection, Igloo Among Palms. He is the author of the novels BRITTLE STAR (What Books Press, 2013), and A History of Hands, winner of the Juniper Prize in Fiction and forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press in 2014.

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• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (October 1, 2013)
• Language: English
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  Alex de Campi and Igor Kordey's Eisner-nominated sci-fi thriller Smoke is back, packaged for the first time with its acclaimed sequel, Ashes, featuring the art of Carla Speed McNeil, Dan McDaid, Richard Pace, Bill Sienkiewicz, and more.  Reporter Katie Shah's exposes of the corruption of the English ruling class put her in the crosshairs of powerful men on a good day. Smoke and Ashes are the stories of the bad days, as she and assassin Rupert Cain become targets of a sinister cabal bent on controlling the nation's oil and of a psychotic intelligence that has uploaded itself onto the Internet!
  

 

   
• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Thistledown Press (September 30, 2013)
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Publication Date:September 30, 2013   This collection of 12 new essays draws together prominent literary experts to explore the importance of Scottish writer Iain (M.) Banks, both his mainstream and science fiction work. The book considers Banks as an habitual border crosser who makes things fresh and new by subversive and transgressive strategies. The essays are divided into four thematic areas: the Scottish context, the geographies of his writing, the impact of genre, and a combined focus on gender, games and play. The essays will be of particular interest to scholars of contemporary literature, Scottish literature and science fiction.   Show more  Show less

Guillermo del Toro - Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions



Over the last two decades, writer-director Guillermo del Toro has mapped out a territory in the popular imagination that is uniquely his own, astonishing audiences with Cronos, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, and a host of other films and creative endeavors. Now, for the first time, del Toro reveals the inspirations behind his signature artistic motifs, sharing the contents of his personal notebooks, collections, and other obsessions. The result is a startling, intimate glimpse into the life and mind of one of the world's most creative visionaries. Complete with running commentary, interview text, and annotations that contextualize the ample visual material, this deluxe compendium is every bit as inspired as del Toro is himself.

Contains a foreword by James Cameron, an afterword by Tom Cruise, and contributions from other luminaries, including Neil Gaiman and John Landis, among others.

Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Harper Design (October 29, 2013)

Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities

 


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How many genre references can you spot in this years Treehouse of Horror episode of the The Simpsons, served up from the crazy mind of Guillermo del Toro?


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Paulette Jiles, the bestselling author of the highly praised novels The Color of Lightning, Stormy Weather, and Enemy Women, pushes into new territory with Lighthouse Island—a captivating and atmospheric story set in the far future—a literary dystopian tale resonant with love and hope.
In the coming centuries the world's population has exploded. The earth is crowded with cities, animals are nearly all extinct, and drought is so widespread that water is rationed. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years, and no freedom, except for an elite few.

It is a harsh world for an orphan like Nadia Stepan. Growing up, she dreams of a green vacation spot called Lighthouse Island, in a place called the Pacific Northwest.
When an opportunity for escape arises, Nadia embarks on a dangerous and sometimes comic adventure. Along the way she meets a man who changes the course of her life: James Orotov, a mapmaker and demolition expert. Together, they evade arrest and head north toward a place of wild beauty that lies beyond the megapolis—Lighthouse Island.

Lucius Shepard's acclaimed Dragon Griaule stories are presented here for the first time in a single volume. This Fantasy Masterworks edition contains:

'The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule'
'The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter'
'The Father of Stones'
'Liar's House'
'The Taborin Scale'
'The Skull'

This is the definitive tail of the Dragon Griaule: a beast so immense its body forms part of the landscape . . .  See all Product Description 

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About the Author Patrick Weekes was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Stanford University, where he received a B.A. and an M.A. in English Literature. In 2005, Patrick joined BioWare's writing team in Alberta, Canada. Since then, he's worked on all three games in the Mass Effect trilogy, where he helped write characters like Mordin, Tali, and Samantha Traynor. He is now working with the Dragon Age team on the third game in the critically acclaimed series, and he has written tie-in fiction for both series, including Tali's issue in the Dark Horse "Mass Effect: Homeworlds" series and Dragon Age: Masked Empire, an upcoming novel to be released in July 2014. Patrick lives in Edmonton with his wife Karin, his two Lego-and-video-game-obsessed sons, and (currently) nine rescued animals. In his spare time, he takes on unrealistic Lego-building projects, practices Kenpo Karate, and embarrasses himself in video games.
 


Publication Date:October 8, 2013   Loch is seeking revenge.
It would help if she wasn't in jail.
The plan: to steal a priceless elven manuscript that once belonged to her family, but now is in the hands of the most powerful man in the Republic. To do so Loch—former soldier, former prisoner, current fugitive—must assemble a crack team of magical misfits that includes a cynical illusionist, a shapeshifting unicorn, a repentant death priestess, a talking magical warhammer, and a lad with seemingly no skills to help her break into the floating fortress of Heaven's Spire and the vault that holds her family's treasure—all while eluding the unrelenting pursuit of Justicar Pyvic, whose only mission is to see the law upheld.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Palace Job is a funny, action-packed, high-fantasy heist caper in the tradition of Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards series, from debut author Patrick Weekes.   Show more   

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"The Black Spider was a horror story of its day, written by a Swiss pastor, Albert Bitzius, under the pseudonym of Jeremias Gotthelf. What distinguishes it from, say, the horror stories of Gotthelf's contemporary, Edgar Allan Poe, is that Gotthelf firmly believed in the reality of the demon he created.... Gotthelf's talent is to make his horror credible by the simplicity of his style and the acuteness of his psychological perception, particularly of the herd instinct among the villagers. His story is a homily, showing how the everyday moral weaknesses of men and women give an opening to the spirit of evil. Christine's sin is not just in flirting with the Devil, but in thinking that she knows best." —Piers Paul Read, The Times (London)
 
"Jeremias Gotthelf: with him I'm just like the woman in Heinrich Pestalozzi's novel Lienhard und Gertrud who says 'Your priest has driven me out of church!' " —Robert Walser
 
"Perhaps the psychological theories of Freud and Jung and the nightmare fantasies of Kafka had to be absorbed before the European imagination was ready for Gotthelf's The Black Spider." —Herbert Waidson, author of Jeremias Gotthelf: An Introduction to the Swiss Novelist

"Gotthelf's writings are the utterance of the earnest life within and around him. He entered into the great mountain temple of nature, following within the veil such great high-priests as Wordsworth and Novalis. He is a true poet when he tells us in hushed voice of the hill-side storm, the relentless avalanche, the devastating torrent; or leads us rejoicing through the jubilant spring woods and grateful autumn fields. But his deepest interest lay in the human life which surrounded him, which spoke to him daily in dirge or psalm." —The British Quarterly Review (1863)             About the Author       Jeremias Gotthelf, the pen name of Albert Bitzius (1797–1854), was a Swiss pastor and the author of novels, novellas, short stories, and nonfiction, who used his writing to communicate his reformist concerns in the field of education and with regard to the plight of the poor. After the success of his first novel, Der Bauernspiegel oder Lebensgeschichte des Jeremias Gotthelf: Von ihm selbst beschrieben (The Peasants' Mirror; or, The Life History of Jeremias Gotthelf: Described by Himself; 1836) the author adopted the name of the story's protagonist. Among his major works to have appeared in English translation are The Black Spider; Ulric, the Farm Servant; and The Story of an Alpine Valley.
 
Susan Bernofsky is the translator of six books by Robert Walser as well as works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada, Hermann Hesse, Gregor von Rezzori, and others. The current chair of the PEN Translation Committee, she teaches at the Writing Program at Columbia University, where she is director of the Graduate Translation Program, and is at work on a biography of Walser.

  Product Description Catherine's last job ended badly. Corporate bullying at a top television production company saw her fired and forced to leave London, but she was determined to get her life back. A new job and now things look much brighter. Especially when a challenging new project presents itself – to catalogue the late M H Mason's wildly eccentric cache of antique dolls and puppets. Rarest of all, she'll get to examine his elaborate displays of posed, costumed and preserved animals, depicting scenes from World War I. When Mason's elderly niece invites her to stay at the Red House itself, where she maintains the collection, Catherine can't believe her luck. Until his niece exposes her to the dark message behind her uncle's 'Art'. Catherine tries to concentrate on the job, but M H Mason's damaged visions raise dark shadows from her own past. Shadows she'd hoped had finally been erased. Soon the barriers between reality, sanity and memory start to merge. And some truths seem too terrible to be real.

Also available from Adam Nevill: An Adam Nevill Horror Omnibus: Apartment 16, The Ritual and Last Days.  Book Description The Red House: home to the damaged genius of the late M. H. Mason, master taxidermist and puppeteer, where he lived and created some of his most disturbing works. The building and its treasure trove of antiques is long forgotten, but the time has come for his creations to rise from the darkness. Catherine Howard can't believe her luck when she's invited to value the contents of the house. When she first sees the elaborate displays of posed, costumed and preserved animals and macabre puppets, she's both thrilled and terrified. It's an opportunity to die for. But the Red House has secrets, secrets as dreadful and dark as those from Catherine's own past. At night the building comes alive with noises and movements: footsteps, and the fleeting glimpses of small shadows on the stairs. And soon the barriers between reality, sanity and nightmare begin to collapse . . .  See all Product Description

March 2014 from Mad Norwegian Press.


In Indistinguishable from Magic, more than 60 essays by New York Times-bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente (The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland) are brought together in print for the first time, sharing Cat's observations and insights about fairy tales and myths, pop culture, gender and race issues, an amateur's life on planet Earth and much more.
Join Cat as she studies the fantasy genre's inner clockwork to better comprehend its infatuation with medievalism (AKA "dragon bad, sword pretty"), considers the undervalued importance of the laundry machine to women's rights in locales as wide-ranging as Japan and the steampunk genre, and comes to understand that so much of shaping fantasy works is about making puppets seem real and sympathetic (otherwise, you're just playing with dolls).
Also featured: Cat takes a hard look at why she can't stop writing about Persephone, dwells upon the legacy of poets in Cleveland, and examines how stories teach us how to survive – if Gretel can kill the witch, Snow White can return from the dead, and Rapunzel can live in the desert, trust that you can too.

 
Rajaniemi

   
• Gollancz
• The Causal Angel
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• We are very happy to present cover art and synopsis for the upcoming book by Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel. The book is scheduled to come out on 6th May, 2014.
  Order your copy here:
  Amazon US | Amazon UK

   
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  Synopsis:With his infectious love of storytelling in all its forms, his rich characterisation and his unrivalled grasp of thrillingly bizarre cutting-edge science Hannu Rajaniemi has swiftly set a new benchmark for SF in the 21st century. And now with his third novel he completes the tale of his gentleman rogue, the many lives and minds of Jean de Flambeur. Influenced as much by the fin de siecle novels of Maurice leBlanc as he is by the greats of SF Rajaniemi weaves, intricate, warm capers through dazzling science, extraordinary visions of wild future and deep conjecture on the nature of reality and story. And now we find out what will happen to Jean, his employer Miele, the independently minded ship Perhonnen and the rest of a fractured and diverse humanity flung through the solar system.

 




Amazon has the (preliminary) cover art and synopsis of the upcoming novel The Enceladus Crisis by Michael J. Martinez, sequel to The Daedalus Incident.

Here's the synopsis:


Two dimensions collided on the rust-red deserts of Mars—and are destined to become entangled once more in this sequel to the critically acclaimed The Daedalus Incident.
Lieutenant Commander Shaila Jain has been given the assignment of her dreams: the first manned mission to Saturn. But there's competition and complications when she arrives aboard the survey ship Armstrong. The Chinese are vying for control of the critical moon Titan, and the moon Enceladus may harbor secrets deep under its icy crust. And back on Earth, Project DAEDALUS now seeks to defend against other dimensional incursions. But there are other players interested in opening the door between worlds . . . and they're getting impatient.
For Thomas Weatherby, it's been nineteen years since he was second lieutenant aboard HMS Daedalus. Now captain of the seventy-four-gun Fortitude, Weatherby helps destroy the French fleet at the Nile and must chase an escaped French ship from Egypt to Saturn, home of the enigmatic and increasingly unstable aliens who call themselves the Xan. Meanwhile, in Egypt, alchemist Andrew Finch has ingratiated himself with Napoleon's forces . . . and finds the true, horrible reason why the French invaded Egypt in the first place.
The thrilling follow-up to The Daedalus Incident, The Enceladus Crisis continues Martinez's Daedalus series with a combination of mystery, intrigue, and high adventure spanning two amazing dimensions.

 

   
• Publisher: Orbit (October 29, 2013)
• 
      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 Intestinal Bodyguard worm 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.    Show more  Show less

Grant, author of the excellent Newsflesh series, turns from the walking dead to something that could be even more frightening. In the near future, a medical-scientific breakthrough leads to the creation of the Intestinal Bodyguard, a genetically engineered parasite that lives inside the human body and wards off numerous illnesses: a tapeworm, basically, that makes us healthier and allows us to live longer. But now, when most people have a Bodyguard living inside them, something goes horribly wrong, and the parasites have decided they're tired of being guests inside our bodies. Grant is tackling some of the same themes here as she did in the Newsflesh novels (where the trouble started because a beneficial medical breakthrough had unintended consequences), and fans of that series will definitely want to check this new book out. But fans of Michael Crichton–style technothrillers will be equally enthralled: as wild as Grant's premise is, the novel is firmly anchored in real-world science and technology. Grant is well known to horror fans, but with Parasite, she's likely to acquire a new whole new group of readers. --David Pitt

Publication Date: 15 Oct 2013     Lacie is a college freshmen with a pill bottle next to her bed. When she's not studying, she mostly keeps to herself, and sees the people around her more as strangers than as friends. Things change when she falls asleep in class and wakes up in "Mr. Bagel's Donut Shop" some place in Michigan she's never heard of. Trapped in an insane world that's locked in perpetual night, Lacie must decide whether to save herself, or save a stranger.   Show More  Show Less

Publication Date: 16 Oct 2013     In 1984, a global nuclear catastrophe almost destroyed the world. Thirty years later, American society struggles to rebuild in the face of widespread fear, sickness and paranoia, as the chasm between the haves and the have-nots continues to grow. While fleeing from a gang of marauders, Laurie Sparks, a beautiful young monk with an appetite for the good life and a knack for finding trouble, seeks refuge within a sinister subterranean church and inadvertently exposes the dangerous secrets of his past. Laurie's adventures take him from desert wastelands to the decaying ruins of once-great cities, from seedy strip clubs and casinos to glamorous yachts on the Pacific and luxurious Park Avenue penthouses. In between nursing a whopping crush on his handsome traveling companion, Jonathan, and dodging the attentions of lechers, miscreants and murderers, Laurie yearns for clean sheets and room service and dreams of becoming the first television star of the post-apocalyptic age. An alternate-timeline reimagining of Morgan Richter's award-winning novel BIAS CUT, LONELY SATELLITE is a story about how hope may be found in the middle of desolation, how allies pop up in the unlikeliest of places, and how the apocalypse is easier to face with liberal doses of champagne and frequent bubble baths.   Show More  Show Less

   
• Publisher: Gollancz (17 Oct 2013)
• Review "Edgy SF. Comparisons to Philip K. Dick aren't too wide of the mark. Assured and uncompromising, Dark Heavens marks the emergence of a potential major new voice in British SF." --"Dreamwatch"  Product Description DARK HEAVENS takes us back to Roger Levy's stunning vision of a world counting out its final years as it literally falls apart. London is awash with volcanic ash, the population fatalistically playing out their lives in VR. But ReGenesis, the radical movement who started Earth's death with a series of controlled nuclear explosions in the Marina's trench, have not finished with the planet yet.
  
  RECKLESS SLEEP was a supremely assured and visionary SF debut. DARK HEAVENS builds on that promise with flair and verve.

jes' da je povelika, al' je lepa! 

Here's the table of contents...

• "The Third Level" by Jack Finney
• "Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester
• "The Cosmic Charge Account" by C. M. Kornbluth
• "The Anything Box" by Zenna Henderson
• "The Prize of Peril" by Robert Sheckley
• "—-All You Zombies—-" by Robert A. Heinlein
• "Green Magic" by Jack Vance
• "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" by Roger Zelazny
• "Narrow Valley" by R. A. Lafferty
• "Sundance" by Robert Silverberg
• "Attack of the Giant Baby" by Kit Reed
• "The Hundredth Dove" by Jane Yolen
• "Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan Ellison
• "Salvador" by Lucius Shepard
• "The Aliens Who Knew, I mean, Everything" by George Alec Effinger
• "Rat" by J. P. Kelly
• "The Friendship Light" by Gene Wolfe
• "The Bone Woman" by Charles de Lint
• "The Lincoln Train" by Maureen McHugh
• "Maneki Neko" by Bruce Sterling
• "Winemaster" by Robert Reed
• "Suicide Coast" by M. John Harrison
• "Have Not Have" by Geoff Ryman
• "The People of Sand & Slag" by Paolo Bacigalupi
• "Echo" by Liz Hand
• "The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates" by Stephen King
• "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu
• The cover art is by Thomas Canty; design by Elizabeth Story.
  
  
  http://www.tachyonpublications.com/book/VeryBestFSF2.html

In 1961, Derek Leech emerges fully formed from the polluted River Thames, destined to found a global media empire. In 1978, three ambitious young men strike a deal with Leech. They are offered wealth, glamour, and success, but a price must be paid. In 1994, Leech's purpose moves to its conclusion, and as the men struggle, they realize to truth of the ultimate price.   Show more 

   
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• Print Length: 400 pages
• Publisher: Titan Books (October 22, 2013)
• Language: English
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For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart. But there must always be an account...and the past has a habit of catching up to the present. Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of terrible war and unacknowledged heroism, - a life of dusty corridors and secret rooms, of furtive meetings and blood-stained fields - to answer one last, impossible question: What makes a hero?

(ova naslovnica jeste uzasna, doslovno, a i autora smatraju tek solidnim zanatlijom i nista vise, ali synopsis jest zanimljiv, pa... ako ikome padne saka vruci link za ovaj naslov, javite.  )



Publisher: ChiZine Publications (October 22, 2013)
From Publishers Weekly       A generation ago, the zombie uprising proved anticlimactic, the undead posing no real danger to the living. In stark contrast, efforts to deal with vast number of corpses — by catapulting millions of into them into space — had the undesired side-effect of dooming the people of Earth. WasteCorp, the corporation that devised and managed the space solution, is dedicated to urging people on their way; Sellers wander the world convincing entire communities to commit mass suicide. Glenn Dixon is one such Seller, a master of manipulation stalked by the novel's hapless narrator, himself once a Seller turned bounty hunter. Dixon proves finely adapted to his blighted world; his opponent is less fortunate, consigned to defeat and humiliation as he documents the last days. Barely more than a novella, the work nevertheless manages to provide a massive tome's worth of violence and depravity. Uninhibited by any sort of logic or realism, Burgess (Pontypool Changes Everything) is free to revel in torture and execution, dismemberment and nihilism, crafting a self-slain world where the worst prosper and would-be altruists are harshly punished. The author shows considerable talent at this questionable pursuit, offering the world a memorably repellent, absurdist vision of a dying planet. 

IFWG Publishing's e-zine SQ Mag offers up the best of 2012 with their inaugural anthology. Star Quake pays homage to all the major genres of speculative fiction with work from writers all over the world.
19 stories are featured, including original fiction by Jay Lake, Gary McMahon, Daniel I Russell and Daniel Pearlman.


Here is the table of contents for the new anthology Star Quake 1, Sq Mag's Best Of 2012:

   
• "The Narrow Gate" by Daniel Pearlman
• "Down in the Ship Mines" by Jay Lake
• "Woman With Red Hair" by Lawrence Buentello
• "Azurewrath" by Esme Carpenter
• "Rationalised" by Larry Hodges
• "Creeper" by Daniel I Russell
• "Navigator " by Shane Ward
• "A Debt Called In" by Michael B Fletcher
• "Nullus" by Mitchell Edgeworth
• "Masks" by Stephanie Barr
• "Toy" by Gary McMahon
• "Witness" by Laura Haddock
• "Sunflower" by M K Charles
• "CSS" by Warren Goodwin
• "Mermithergate Grin" by S Marston
• "The Observer" by Hansen Hovell Holladay
• "The Raptor and the Lion" by Larry Ivkovich
• "The Memory Eater" by Holly Day
• "Spacesuit with No Spaceman" by Sergio Palumbo

We are very happy to reveal US cover art and synopsis for the upcoming Paul McAuley collection, Confluence - The Trilogy. The book is scheduled to come out on 27th December, 2013.


Synopsis:
Confluence - a long, narrow man-made world, half fertile river valley, half crater-strewn desert. It is a world at the end of its time, a place of savagery, bureaucracy and war, inhabited by countless flying micro-machines and ten thousand bloodlines ruled by devotion to absent gods. It is the home of a singular young man named Yama. An infant who was discovered in a bier on the river, he was raised by the prelate of Aeolis until it was learned that his ancestry was unique. Yama appeared to be the last remaining scion of the Builders, closest of all races to the worshipped architects of Confluence. Now, awed and fearful of his increasing ability to awaken the machines the Builders left behind, Yama searches for his identity and a history that is both his and his world's.

This book, DOYLE AFTER DEATH, my new novel, is available TODAY in ebook format. The publisher is HarperCollins, for their Witness imprint.
[/color]If you're a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and want to know what happened to him after death (in fiction anyhow), why here's the book for you.
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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Bantam (October 29, 2013)



The perfect gift for fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels and HBO's Game of Thrones: a collection of wicked one-liners from the incomparable Imp of Casterly Rock, fully illustrated by Jonty Clark!

"My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind . . . and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge."

The jealous masses of the Seven Kingdoms may call him Halfman, but none have ever accused Tyrion Lannister of being a halfwit. His golden tongue has saved his skin slightly more often than it has landed him in mortal peril. Now, this special illustrated volume preserves his most essential knowledge for future generations, featuring time-tested guidance on such varied subjects as . . .

The art of persuasion
"The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth."

Fine dining
"A little honest loathing can be refreshing, like a tart wine after too much sweet."

The fair sex
"The young ones smell much better, but the old ones know more tricks."

Royal politics
"Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them."

Common ailments
"A sword through the bowels. A sure cure for constipation."

At once charming, insightful, and ruthlessly irreverent, The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister is short on pretense and overflowing with finely crafted gems—just like the man himself.

Hardcover: 322 pages
Publisher: Crowded Quarantine Publications (October 31, 2013)

How far would you go to save those you love? Into the house of the damned? Into Hell itself? It takes a near death experience to open Sam O'Donnell's eyes to what he is - just another addict on the road to ruin. He knows it's time to make a fresh start. And yet, when Sam and his wife move to an estate by the sea, nothing goes as planned. The estate is not what it seems. Something has taken it over. It is cold. It hungers. To save all he loves, Sam must go into the house of the damned...and into Hell itself. When weighed in the balance, a man can only face his demons alone and pray he is not found wanting. But Sam is not alone.