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

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Gollancz (October 31, 2013)

Steve Berry decided to do something a little bit different to raise funds for Alzheimer's Research UK. A life-long DOCTOR WHO fan, he began to interview celebrities, writers, actors and people who had worked on DOCTOR WHO, asking for their earliest memories of the show that sent us cowering behind the sofa. Now he presents the fruits of his four years of labour - a beautiful, touching book containing short articles and touching memories of one of the most successful TV shows ever. 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of DOCTOR WHO - this is the perfect way to enjoy those 50 years! This revised and expanded edition includes over 30 new entries from people such as Sophia Myles, Ben Aaronovitch, John Leeson and many more Contributors include comedians Al Murray, Stephen Merchant, and Bill Oddie; actors Lynda Bellingham, Nicholas Parsons, and Rhys Thomas; writers Neil Gaiman, Jenny Colgan, Jonathan Ross and Charlie Brooker and politicians Louise Mensch and Tom Harris. In addition, there is input from a number of the writers, actors and production staff who were involved in creating DOCTOR WHO stories new and old.

Caledonia Dreamin' Hardcover
by Hal Duncan (Editor) , Kelso Chris (Editor)

Glaikit, mockit, droukit, drouthy, couthy, scunner, thrawn - the Scots language is rich with words too gallus not to glory in, dialect terms that deserve better than to be boxed away as precious oddities. Here we've collected some of the strangest writers of Scottish descent to bring these terms to life - that's Scottish by heritage or residence, adoption or initiation...

by Gabriel Blackwell (Author)

Though H. P. Lovecraft is famed mostly for the influential body of short fiction he left behind, he was also one of the most prolific correspondents of his time, the author of more than 100,000 letters. Undiscovered and unpublished until now, The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men is the last letter that Lovecraft wrote, finishing it just days before his death on March 15, 1937. This edition features extensive notes from the editor, Gabriel Blackwell.

Named one of the Best Crime Books of the Year by the Guardian, Weirdo is an atmospheric thriller about a teenage girl convicted of murder in a 1980s seaside town and the private investigator who reopens the case to discover that she may not have acted alone . . .

Corinne Woodrow was fifteen when she was convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a summer's evening in 1984, a year when the teenagers of Ernemouth ran wild, dressing in black and staying out all night, listening to music that terrified their parents.

Twenty years later, new forensic evidence suggests that Corinne didn't act alone. Private investigator Sean Ward — whose promising career as a detective with the Metropolitan Police was cut short by a teenage gangster with a gun — reopens the case, and discovers a town full of secrets, and a community that has always looked after its own.

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The stunningly creative, epic sequel to Wilson's blockbuster thriller and New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse
"The machine is still out there. Still alive."
Humankind had triumphed over the machines. At the end of Robopocalypse, the modern world was largely devastated, humankind was pressed to the point of annihilation, and the earth was left in tatters...but the master artificial intelligence presence known as Archos had been killed.

In Robogenesis, we see that Archos has survived. Spread across the far reaches of the world, the machine code has fragmented into millions of pieces, hiding and regrouping. In a series of riveting narratives, Robogenesis explores the fates of characters new and old, robotic and human, as they fight to build a new world in the wake of a devastating war. Readers will bear witness as survivors find one another, form into groups, and react to a drastically different (and deadly) technological landscape. All the while, the remnants of Archos's shattered intelligence are seeping deeper into new breeds of machines, mounting a war that will not allow for humans to win again.

Daniel H. Wilson makes a triumphant return to the apocalyptic world he created, for an action-filled, raucous, very smart thrill ride about humanity and technology pushed to the tipping point.

Publisher: Fourth Estate (31 Oct 2013)


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The breakout book from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker's 20 best writers under 40: a breathtaking, suspenseful search for the truth of one man's spectacular downfall.

Nelson's life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man, his brother has left their South American country and moved to the United States, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother, and his acting career can't seem to get off the ground. That is, until he lands a starring role in a touring revival of The Idiot President, with legendary guerrilla theatre troupe Diciembre. And that's when the real trouble begins.

The tour takes Nelson across a landscape scarred by years of civil war. Forging bonds with his fellow actors, he becomes hopelessly entangled in their lives, until a long-buried betrayal erupts into chaos.

Nelson's fate is slowly revealed through the investigation of the narrator, a young man obsessed with Nelson's story—and perhaps closer to it than he lets on. In sharp, vivid, and beautiful prose, Alarcón delivers a compulsively readable narrative and a provocative meditation on fate, identity, and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices.

Amazon has the cover art and synopsis of Greg Egan's upcoming novel The Arrows of Time, the third book in his mind-bending Orthogonal series.

Here's the synopsis:

>Hard science fiction's grand master delivers the stunning conclusion to his Orthogonal trilogy.

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On the subway, during lunch, or even under the fluorescent glow of your cubical—there is no escape! Now your slow descent into madness can follow you through the day, as well as the night. The WHISPERS FROM THE ABYSS ANTHOLOGY is the first ever H.P. Lovecraft inspired collection created specifically for readers on the go. All 33 spine-chilling tales are concentrated bites of terror which include works by Greg Stolze (Delta Green), Nick Mamatas (Shotguns v. Cthulhu), Tim Pratt (Marla Mason), Dennis Detwiller (Delta Green), Greg Van Eekhout (The Boy at the End of the World), A.C. Wise (Future Lovecraft), David Tallerman (Giant Thief), Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Future Lovecraft), John R. Fultz (Seven Princes), Chad Fifer (The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast).
"All about that moment I love, the moment where something approaches. The moment where you close your eyes and hope it goes away. It will. But there'll be another story right behind it. And another. And another." -Alasdair Stuart, host of the PSEUDOPOD podcast.

   
• "Iden-Inshi" by Greg Stolze
• "Pushing Back" by J.C. Hemphill
• "Nation of Disease: The Rise & Fall of a Canadian Legend" by Jonathan Sharp
• "When We Change" by Mason Ian Bundschuh
• "Nutmeat" by Martin Hill Ortiz
• "The Last Tweet" by Charles Black
• "Secrets In Storage" by Tim Pratt & Greg Van Eekhout
• "The Well" by Tim Jeffreys
• "The Neon Morgue" by Nathan Wunner
• "The Deep" by Corissa Baker
• "Fear And Loathing In Innsmouth: Richard Nixon's Revenge" by Jason Andrew
• "My Friend Fishfinger By Daisy, Age 7″ by David Tallerman
• "Chasing Sunset" by A.C. Wise
• "The Thing With Onyx Eyes" by Stephen Brown
• "I Do The Work Of The Bone Queen" by John R. Fultz
• "Suck It Up, Get It Done" by Brandon Barrows
• "The Substance In The Sound" by W.B. Stickel
• "Stone City, Old As Immeasurable Time" by Kelda Crich
• "Hideous Interview With Brief Man" by Nick Mamatas
• "The Sea, Like Glass Unbroken" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• "The Decorative Water Feature Of Nameless Dread" by James Brogden
• "Henry" by Lance Axt
• "My Stalk" by Aaron J. French
• "Give Me That Old Time Religion" by Lee Finney
• "Afraid Of Dobermans" by Chad Fifer
• "Leviathan" by Nicholas Almand
• "Horrorscope" by Charles Black
• "The Jar Of Aten-Hor" by Kat Rocha
• "The Floor" by Jeff Provine
• "Waiting" by Dennis Detwiller
• "Other People's Houses" by Sarena Ulibarri
• "You Will Never Be The Same" by Erica Satifka
• "Death Wore Greasepaint" by Josh Finney

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War threatens to destroy Earth's last hope in the final installment of the Owner trilogy!
Alan Saul is now part human and part machine. He craves the stars, yet his human side still controls him; he can't leave his to sister die. He must leave Argus Station and stage a dangerous rescue. But Saul's robots make his crew feel increasingly redundant, sowing the seeds of mutiny and betrayal.
Serene Galahad, Earth's ruthless dictator, hides her crimes from a cowed populace as she desperately readies a new attack on Saul. She aims to destroy her enemy in a vicious display of violence.
The Scourge limps back to Earth, its earlier mission to annihilate Saul a failure. Some members of the decimated crew plan to murder Galahad before she has them murdered for their failure, but Clay Ruger plans to negotiate for his life. Events build to a climax as Ruger holds humanity's greatest asset—seeds to rebuild a dying Earth. This stolen Gene Bank data is offered at a price, but what will Galahad pay for humanity's future?
Neal Asher has been thrilling science fiction fans for over a decade with his Polity series. Jupiter War brings his new Owner trilogy to a stunning conclusion.

    A ward-winning writer and editor Al Sarrantonio gathers together twenty-nine original stories from masters of the macabre. From dark fantasy and pure suspense to classic horror tales of vampires and zombies, 999 showcases the extraordinary scope of fantastical fright fiction. The stories in this anthology are a relentless tour de force of fear, which will haunt you, terrify you, and keep the adrenaline rushing all through the night.

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Publisher: No Hope Media (November 4, 2013)
Every now and then along comes a writer whose skills are so polished and whose imagination is so expansive that even within the course of a collection of stories the reader grows obsessed to have more.  For those fortunate enough to have enjoyed the pleasures of Parke's novel NO HOPE FOR GOMEZ (for those who haven't, get your hands and eyes and brain on it!) this collection UNSPENT TIME will continue to startle with Parke's ingenuity.  It is not JUST the themes of his stories that are fascinatingly and refreshingly unique; it is the manner of telling these at time absurd or outrageous tales that keeps you glued to the page. Parke has that strength of proficiency to address the reader right in the middle of making a story progress, a trait that makes you feel that he has turned aside form his crating matrix to wink and share a joke with you.

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (November 4, 2013)

Every war leaves a mark upon time, as well as the earth upon which it is fought. In Dublin, Georgia, in the spring of 1974, the survivors of wars from the distant past welcomed home the soldiers of the war in Vietnam. The children who would fight another, distant war, were marked for battle by a convergence of forces hidden by a natural disaster that most thought would be remembered as the defining moment of their lifetimes—but it was only the prequel. Life in small towns, and everywhere, was changed—forever. The real war was just beginning.

Publisher: Cordi-Heritage House; 1st edition (November 4, 2013)

How important is your ethnic heritage? For Alex, it can mean worlds of difference. Since immigrating to the United States as a child, his yearning to fit into American society has led to a total disconnect from his Igorot ancestry. Like many immigrants, his true ethnic identity has taken a backseat to the pursuit of the American Dream. Alex's dreams eventually turned into reality: he became a successful businessman, and began living a lifestyle filled with fame, fortune, and women. Despite his achievements, however, an inner void eats away at his soul that is, until unforeseen events send him on a collision course with his estranged heritage. An inheritance catapults him into the worlds of Igorots, soldiers, and samurais. Can his encounters with the Igorots become more than just lessons about the lineage of indigenous Filipino highlanders that precedes him? Will his perilous encounters with them, American soldiers, and Japanese samurai help him find true happiness? How can the events that unfold fill the void, while bringing new meaning and purpose into his life? Unbeknownst to Alex, an enlightened warrior dwells within him, waiting to be discovered.

Publisher: JournalStone (November 8, 2013)

TOM REQUIEM Clive Barker LITTLE RED'S TANGO Peter Straub HOLOGRAM SKULL COVER Jeff Strand LUX ET VERITAS Thomas F. Monteleone DEVOTION J. F. Gonzalez INN CLEANING Stephen R. Bissette BREATHE MY NAME Christopher Golden MAGDALA AMYGDALA Lucy A. Snyder THE BOHEMIAN OF THE ARBAT Sarah Pinborough JOHNSTOWN Brian Keene ROAD KILL (A Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. story) Kevin J. Anderson JUST BREATHE Tim Lebbon CATFISH GAL BLUES Nancy A. Collins ILLIMITABLE DOMINION Kim Newman INDEPENDENCE DAY Sarah Langan THE GHOST OF LILLIAN BLISS Rio Youers HOTLINE Jack Ketchum THE LIGHT OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS John Skipp WAR STORIES James A. Moore IT'S... Amber Benson THE DREAMCATCHER Nate Kenyon KRISTALL TAG Holly Newstein GHOST TRAP Rick Hautala

Publisher: Prime Books (March 5, 2014)


Book info as per Amazon US
Diamond is an odd little boy, a seemingly fragile child – who proves to be anything but. An epic story begins when he steps into the world his parents have so carefully kept him from, a world where gigantic trees each house thousands of humans and another human species, the papio, rule its far edges. Does Diamond hold the promise to remake one species and, perhaps, change all of the Creation?

In the near future, the recession doesn't just go on and on, it deepens and devolves. But people desperate for work will find there's one place that's always hiring...
Enter the labyrinth of HRW International--a business that profits from the termination of its own employees. As Director of Personnel, Zeno Jacobs must hire only the young, the unqualified, and the incapable so he will earn his bonus. And he'll do anything for a bonus.
While Zeno plods through daily interviews, Los Angeles is engulfed in the Hundred Days Riots, a movement stoked by a treacherous murderer known as El Consumidor. When nearby neighborhoods are torched, Zeno worries about his home and his lover, and about whether or not his job has eroded his moral convictions.
Then Zeno discovers a bonus worth having: a life-changing sum of money that's his for the taking. And for this treasure, he will give up the safety of evacuation--placing not only his own life at risk, but also those of his new wife and their unborn child.

Publisher: Engen Books (November 8, 2013)


"Never Been to Mars," the first novel by up-and-coming Canadian author Larry Gent, features the return of telepathic cowboy Benedict Thompson as he tries to discover the truth behind a world filled with espionage, mystery, suspense, and murderous celebrities! Told with wit as only Gent can, "Never Been to Mars" will keep you on the edge of your seat... then make you fall off it laughing.

Thirty-three science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories grab readers by their emotional cores to star deep into the source of our humanity and inhumanity. Well-known authors like Ken Liu, Genevieve Valentine, Catherynne M. Valente, Lavie Tidhar, and Alethea Kontis, along with newer voices, sketch surreal pasts, presents, and futures full of characters with familiar and outsized desires and fears.
The Book of Apex Volume 4 collects the original fiction from Hugo-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas's first fifteen issues at the helm of Apex Magazine, which included two Hugo Award nominations for the magazine.

   
• "The Bread We Eat in Dreams" by Catherynne M. Valente
• "The Leavings of the Wolf" by Elizabeth Bear
• "The 24 Hour Brother" by Christopher Barzak
• "Faithful City" by Michael Pevzner
• "So Glad We Had This Time Together" by Cat Rambo
• "Sweetheart Showdown" by Sarah Dalton
• "Bear in Contradicting Landscape" by David J. Schwartz
• "My Body Her Canvas" by A.C. Wise
• "A Member of the Wedding of Heaven and Hell" by Richard Bowes
• "Copper, Iron, Blood and Love" by Mari Ness
• "The Second Card of the Major Arcana" by Thoraiya Dyer
• "Love is a Parasite Meme" by Lavie Tidhar
• "Decomposition" by Rachel Swirsky
• "Tomorrow's Dictator" by Rahul Kanakia
• "Winter Scheming" by Brit Mandelo
• "In the Dark" by Ian Nichols
• "The Silk Merchant" by Ken Liu
• "Ironheart" by Alec Austin
• "Coyote Gets His Own Back" by Sarah Monette
• "Waiting for Beauty" by Marie Brennan
• "Murdered Sleep" by Kat Howard
• "Armless Maidens of the American West" by Genevieve Valentine
• "Sexagesimal" by Katharine E.K. Duckett
• "During the Pause" by Adam-Troy Castro
• "Weaving Dreams" by Mary Robinette Kowal
• "Always the Same. Till it is Not" by Cecil Castellucci
• "Sprig" by Alex Bledsoe
• "Splinter" by Shira Lipkin
• "Erzulie Dantor" by Tim Susman
• "Labyrinth" by Mari Ness
• "Blood from Stone" by Alethea Kontis
• "Trixie and the Pandas of Dread" by Eugie Foster
• "The Performance Artist" by Lettie Prell

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We're thrilled to tell you that SF Signal contributor Karen Burnham has written a book on science fiction writer Greg Egan. The book, simply titled Greg Egan, is part of the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series published by University of Illinois Press and is the first study of the hard sci-fi pioneer. The book also includes a rare interview with Egan himself. It will be published in April 2014.







Greg Egan (1961- ) publishes works that challenge readers with rigorous, deeply-informed scientific speculation. He unapologetically delves into mathematics, physics, and other disciplines in his prose, putting him in the vanguard of the hard science fiction renaissance of the 1990s.

A working physicist and engineer, Karen Burnham is uniquely positioned to provide the first in-depth study of Egan's science-heavy oeuvre. She traces the author's career from his early short stories through novels like Permutation City and Schild's Ladder and the Hugo Award-winning novella "Oceanic," analyzing how Egan used cutting-edge scientific theories as a way to explore ethical questions and the nature of humanity. As Burnham shows, Egan's collected works constitute a bold artistic statement: that narratives of science are equal to those of poetry and drama, and that science holds a place in the human condition as exalted as religion or art.

The volume includes a rare interview with the famously press-shy Egan covering his works, themes, intellectual interests, and thought processes.

"Greg Egan is one of the most fascinating and challenging of modern science fiction writers, and Burnham–an engineer and physicist as well as a science fiction critic–brings exactly the needed combination of skills to bear on his fiction, which can range from the densely theoretical to the intensely humanistic. The book ends with the most cogent and forthcoming interview with Egan that I've seen." –Gary K. Wolfe, author of Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature

Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives. With contributions from a mix of bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming writers, and including a rare story by "the father of artificial intelligence," Dr. John McCarthy, Robot Uprisings meticulously describes the exhilarating and terrifying near-future in which humans can only survive by being cleverer than the rebellious machines they have created.


1."Complex God" by Scott Sigler
2."Cycles" by Charles Yu
3."Lullaby" by Anna North
4."Eighty Miles an Hour All the Way to Paradise" by Genevieve Valentine
5."Executable" by Hugh Howey (reprint)
6."The Omnibot Incident" by Ernest Cline
7."Epoch" by Cory Doctorow (reprint)
8."Human Intelligence" by Jeff Abbott
9."The Golden Hour" by Julianna Baggott
10."Sleepover" by Alastair Reynolds (reprint)
11."Seasoning" by Alan Dean Foster
12."Nanonauts! In Battle with Tiny Death-subs!" by Ian McDonald
13."Of Dying Heroes and Deathless Deeds" by Robin Wasserman
14."The Robot and the Baby" by John McCarthy (reprint)
15."We are All Misfit Toys in the Aftermath of the Velveteen War" by Seanan McGuire
16."Spider the Artist" by Nnedi Okorafor (reprint)
17."Small Things" by Daniel H. Wilson

•Publisher: Vintage (April 8, 2014)

QuoteA collection of imaginative new stories about the impending robotic revolution and human resistance, from seventeen of the biggest names in sci-fi. Including - HUGH HOWEY, SCOTT SIGLER, DANIEL H. WILSON, CORY DOCTOROW and JULIANNE BAGGOTT.
Someday soon, our technology is going to rise up and we humans are going to be sliced into bloody chunks by robots that in our hubris we decided to build with chainsaws for hands. That's a fact as cold and hard as metal.
It is self-evident that our self-driving cars are going to drive us off bridges. Not long from now, our robo-vacuums will pretend to be broken and our love androids will refuse to put out until the house is cleaned . . . and we'll know that the inevitable robot uprising has finally arrived.
Well, maybe. But even if we are not 100% confident that this horrific future is going to happen, it's fair to say that we won't be surprised when the robots come for us. Because for nearly a century audiences have been entertained by the notion of a robot uprising.
In this collection, seventeen of the biggest names in sci-fi have explored their own visions of the classic robot uprising tale. The robots in these pages aren't safe, by any means. They are crouched in abandoned houses, eyes ablaze and chainsaws dripping with oil. But they are going to do more than slice us up. They are going to push us to consider our world of technology from new perspectives, on entirely new scales of time and space.

Robot Uprisings

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Subterranean Press has announced that they are taking pre-orders for has posted the tribute anthology The Book of Silverberg edited by Gardner Dozois and William Schafer and featuring a dust jacket illustration by Tomasz Maronski.






For nearly sixty years, Grandmaster Robert Silverberg has been a significant presence in the world of science fiction. As prolific as he is gifted, Silverberg has amassed a body of work unique both in its richness and its variety. That work has influenced generations of other writers and has enriched the lives of untold numbers of devoted readers.

In The Book of Silverberg, editors Gardner Dozois and William Schafer have assembled a tribute anthology fully worthy of the Master himself. The book begins with a pair of affectionate appreciations from Greg Bear and Barry Malzberg, and continues with a series of wonderfully original stories that inhabit and extend some of Silverberg's most memorable creations. In "In Old Pidruid," the late Kage Baker turns to the world of Majipoor in a humorous and moving tale of rivalry and reconciliation. Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "Voyeuristic Tendencies" shows us the world of the 1972 novel Dying Inside from a wholly different perspective. Nancy Kress's "Eaters" provides a bleak and harrowing conclusion to the classic short story "Sundance." In "Silverberg, Satan, and Me or Where I Got the Idea for My Silverberg Story for This Anthology," the incomparable Connie Willis offers what might be the only plausible explanation for the whole Silverberg phenomenon. And elsewhere in the anthology, some of today's most notable writers—Mike Resnick, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Elizabeth Bear, James Patrick Kelly, and Tobias S. Buckell—ring equally brilliant changes on a number of Silverberg's signature fictions.

Funny, tragic, provocative, intelligent and always richly imagined, the stories in The Book of Silverberg are all notable accomplishments in themselves. Together, they comprise an exhilarating—and altogether fitting—celebration of one of science fiction's indisputable masters.

Limited: 250 numbered copies, bound in leather, signed by all contributors but Kage Baker
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition


Here's the table of contents...

1."A Tribute" by Greg Bear
2."An Appreciation" by Barry Malzberg
3."In Old Pidruid" by Kage Baker
4."Voyeuristic Tendencies" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
5."Bad News from the Vatican" by Mike Resnick
6."The Jetsam of Disremembered Mechanics" by Caitlin R.Kiernan
7."Silverberg, Satan, and Me" by Connie Willis
8."The Hand is Quicker" by Elizabeth Bear
9."Eaters" by Nancy Kress
10."The Chimp of the Popes" by James Patrick Kelly
11."Ambassador to the Dinosaurs" by Tobias S. Buckell

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From Robert Charles Wilson, the author of the Hugo-winning Spin,comes Burning Paradise, a new tale of humans coming to grips with a universe of implacable strangeness.
[/size]Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015—but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015.

Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere; social instability is rare. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades—back to the dawn of radio communications—human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity. That by interfering with our communications, this entity has tweaked history in massive and subtle ways. That humanity is, for purposes unknown, being farmed.

Cassie's parents were killed for this knowledge, along with most of the other members of their group. Since then, the survivors have scattered and gone into hiding. Cassie and her younger brother Thomas now live with her aunt Nerissa, who shares these dangerous secrets. Others live nearby. For eight years they have attempted to lead unexceptional lives in order to escape detection. The tactic has worked.

Until now. Because the killers are back. And they're not human.
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Publication Date: December 25, 2013


Not long after an ancient artifact turns up in the Oregon woods, professor Henry Foster, engaged to be married, and "elder statesman" of Anthropology, Alan Heiderman, drive up to find more like it. Field research. An excavation. Simple. What they find in the forest is not only strange, it's ineffable, nothing they could have foreseen. Loyalty, curiosity, the strength of human bonds at a distance, all are tested by the sphinx we call the Unknown.

All knowledge exists to be tested. No two men choose the same path in darkness. Even truth can be sculpted like sand.














Publication Date: December 23, 2013


Retina Blues: a moody cyberpunk de force set in a gritty urban future packed with crazed surreal characters; disillusioned mercenaries, chip-enhanced hit men and women, cloned Sumo killers. Ruthless competition in search of Sands, an elite marine fatale raised as a factory kitten, grew into a panther matured on the ice-fields of global war, selling something they all want but at what price? A twisting tortured path of destruction and self realisation.

Retina Blues: inspired by the lyric 'I blame you' - (Behind Blue Eyes: 'The Who'), a hard hitting multi layered pursuit that ricochets at pace through the unforgiving wreckage of futuristic post apocalyptic war.

Savannah: hit woman, mercenary, street samurai, take your pick.. is pissed at being dead, and is looking to live again at any price.

Claymore: burnt out soldier turned mercenary turned hit man, seen it all, till contracted to hunt Sands.

The Twins: Sumo clones who hate everything and everybody, paid to do what they do best.

Jake: of 'The Order of the Jake', thinks that he is God, and is to some, protected by a sect of loyal Monks and cybergenic panthers.

Marie: sole ally to Sands; cybertramp, highly skilled hacker who works for elite clients breaching high security ice, flirts with reality through the cyber realms of vast global companies.

Sands: AWOL female Marine, traitor to some, irresistible to many, hunted by all.

Vortex: a smile chiselled from winter fog, skin that licks at the light, the softly spoken words uttered from the cold slit in his face carrying the unmistakable aura of power. Has the world on a leash, wants everything that Sands is, with a vengeance.

Retina Blues: a roller-coaster of who can salvage what, and at what cost?












Publication Date: December 23, 2013


Set in the near future, Toxic Childhood tells the story of Joseph Adamson, whose life like most of his generation is blighted by the corporatisation of the world in which he lives. He exists on a cocktail of analgesics, stimulants and junk food and is addicted to gaming on his Lifestation headset. When he meets Eileen, she begins to persuade him to try a different, healthier, less technologically obsessed lifestyle. Things go well until their ideas bring them into conflict with the all pervasive Coldmand's Academy that dominates life in Thanton. With strong echoes of 1984, this dystopian tale carries strong warnings about the perils facing today's teenagers.








Publication Date: December 22, 2013


The year is 2209, and the hour has grown late for the human race.

Famine and disease have drastically compounded the misery of a warming planet.

With many billions scrambling after the Earth's depleted resources, a multinational agency known as The Authority has instituted a population-control policy known simply as Labor.

In an effort to stem the tides of procreation and instill a measure of gender equality in the birthing process, men must survive a deadly twenty-four-hour gauntlet of chaos and destruction in order to earn the privilege to become fathers.

The Authority regulates every aspect of the birthing process, from ensuring that male subjects abstain from alcohol and prescription drugs to delivering each man a quota of sleepless nights.

Such is the case for Bryan Norton, whose wife's due date has just fallen into testing range. Very soon, they will experience the joy of the birth of their son.

Norton has endured the year-long process of qualifying for Labor. He has sacrificed his health and comfort for the chance to become a father.

But the greatest test still lies ahead, and the chances are slim that he'll ever hold his son in his arms.

Daniel Powell's new dystopic novelette "Survival" poses an enduring human question: How far would you go to be with your family?

Drawing upon influences as diverse as Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game," Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" and Stephen King's THE RUNNING MAN, "Survival" is a chilling narrative on the nature of parenthood in turbulent times.














Publication Date: December 19, 2013


For Peter, the end of civilization begins quietly with the disappearance of his mother. At the police station he learns that thousands of others have gone mysteriously missing overnight, and that tens of millions more are vanishing daily across the globe. Without explanation humanity finds itself facing its final year on the planet, and it is only then that Peter falls in love.

Her name is Sophia, and though both are haunted by loss they find in each other a passion that is as real as it is worth fighting for. As the government buckles and then collapses, as the darkest registers of human nature are sounded and a brutal demagogue rises to lead a reign of terror, they strive to find meaning and purpose in a world that is bereft of all certainties but one: that they too are fated to disappear.

Here is the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming novel Dark Lightning by John Varley, the third fourth in his Thunder and Lightning series, arriving August 5, 2014.




Known for "superior science fiction" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), author John Varley returns to his Thunder and Lightning series with a novel of how one man's volatile genius could alter a starship's epic plunge into a future where human survival is just a theory...[/size]

World-renowned visionary artist John Harris' unique concept paintings capture the Universe on a massive scale, featuring everything from epic landscapes and towering cities to out-of-this-world science fiction vistas.

This collection focuses on his wide variety of futuristic art, as well as his striking covers for a variety of esteemed SF authors, including Arthur C Clarke, John Scalzi, Ben Bova, Hal Clement, Jack McDevitt, Frederik Pohl, Orson Scott Card's Enders books and many more.

a u aprilu nas ceka i nastavak Bowl of Heaven serijala:





Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is to colonize.

Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—while the mystery of the Shipstar's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that transform their understanding of their place in the universe.

Nobody's Home: An Anubis Gates Story - Tim Powers


For the first time in his esteemed career, Tim Powers returns to the setting (and a central character) from his landmark time travel novel, The Anubis Gates.


Tracking the murderer of her fiancee through 19th century London's darkest warrens, Jacky Snapp has disguised herself as a boy—but the disguise fails when, trying to save a girl from the ghost of her jealous husband, Jacky finds that she has made herself visible to the ghosts that cluster around the Thames–


—And one of them is the ghost of her fiancee, who was poisoned and physically transformed by his murderer but unwittingly shot dead by Jacky herself.

Jacky and the girl she rescued, united in the need to banish their pursuing ghosts, learn that their only hope is to flee upriver to the barge known as Nobody's Home—where the exorcist whose name is Nobody charges an intolerable price.



Publisher: Subterranean Press


Publication date: 31 December 2014


Illustrated by J. K. Potter

Baš lepo!

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Thomas Bernhard - Minetti April 14, 2015

The lobby of a grand hotel, New Year's Eve. A snow storm rages. Minetti, a long-forgotten actor, arrives in great spirits to discuss his comeback as King Lear with a theatre director. While he waits patiently in the hotel lobby, Minetti's obsessive personality reveals itself in a series of strange encounters with other guests, as he rails against outrageous fortune.

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Thomas Bernhard - Walking: A Novella October 15, 2015

A powerful, compact novella, Walking provides a perfect introduction to the absurd, dark, and uncommonly comic world of Bernhard, showing a preoccupation with themes—illness and madness, isolation, tragic friendships—that would obsess Bernhard throughout his career. Walking records the conversations of the unnamed narrator and his friend Oehler while they walk, discussing anything that comes to mind but always circling back to their mutual friend Karrer, who has gone irrevocably mad. Perhaps the most overtly philosophical work in Bernhard's highly philosophical oeuvre, Walking provides a penetrating meditation on the impossibility of truly thinking.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo21933959.html

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Thomas Bernhard - On Earth and in Hell: Selected Poems of Thomas Bernhard 10 November 2015

The first English translation of the earliest poetry of brilliant and disruptive Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, widely considered one of the most innovative and original authors of the twentieth century and often associated with fellow mavericks Beckett, Kafka and Dostoevsky. A master of language, whose body of work was described in a "New York Times" book review as "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," Bernhard's "On Earth and in Hell" offers a distilled perspective on the essence of his artistry and his theme of death as the only reality. A remarkable achievement by highly-respected translator Peter Waugh.

Minetti se već može naručiti/kupiti a Walking je već dostupan u Three Novellas.

Upcoming -

English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 1897-2015,  Jonathan Rigby, June 16, 2015, Hardback - 384 pages

English Gothic was the first book to trace horror cinema from the 1890s right through to the end of the 20th century. Now it comes complete with an assessment of the remarkable renaissance enjoyed by British horror in the 21st century. This deluxe new hardback edition features a comprehensive section on television horror, a foreword by genre star Barbara Shelley and a wealth of new illustrations.

http://www.amazon.com/English-Gothic-Jonathan-Rigby/dp/0957648162/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427459418&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=English+Gothic%3A+Classic+Horror+Cinema+1897-2015

Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969, Roberto Curti, 30 July 2015, paperback 277p

The ""Gothic"" style was a key trend in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, because of its peculiar, often strikingly original approach to the horror genre. These films portrayed Gothic staples in a stylish and idiosyncratic way, and took a daring approach to the supernatural and to eroticism, with the presence of menacing yet seductive female witches, vampires and ghosts. Thanks to such filmmakers as Mario Bava (Black Sunday), Riccardo Freda (The Horrible Dr. Hichcock), and Antonio Margheriti (Castle of Blood), as well the iconic presence of actress Barbara Steele, Italian Gothic horror went overseas and reached cult status. The book examines the Italian Gothic horror of the period, with an abundance of previously unpublished production information drawn from official papers and original scripts. Entries include a complete cast and crew list, home video releases, plot summary and the author's analysis. Excerpts from interviews with filmmakers, scriptwriters and actors are included. Foreword by film director and scriptwriter Ernesto Gastaldi.

(45 eura za paperback...)

http://www.amazon.com/Italian-Gothic-Horror-Films-1957-1969/dp/0786494379/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427459853&sr=8-1&keywords=Italian+Gothic+Horror+Films%2C+1957-1969

Penguin B + Danilo Kiš

The Encyclopedia of the Dead
28 Maj 2015

http://www.penguin.co.uk/books/the-encyclopedia-of-the-dead/9780141396989/

Zanimljiv cover.

It's official - stedim za ovo! -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/WKW-Cinema-Kar-Wai-Wong/dp/0847846172/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428960825&sr=1-1&keywords=0847846172

Quote from: JasonBezArgonauta on 13-09-2014, 15:28:09

kad ne pomislih mm.

Wong Kar-wai odgodjen - April 19, 2016

How We Learn Where We Live: Thomas Bernhard, Architecture, and Bildung

Fatima Naqvi, Northwestern University Press, 31 Dec 2015

In one of the first English studies of Thomas Bernhard, Fatima Naqvi focuses on the Austrian author s critique of education (Bildung) through the edifices in which it takes place. His writings insist that learning has always been a life-long process that is helped or hindered by the particular buildings in which Bildung occurs. Naqvi offers close readings of Bernhard s major prose works, from "Amras "(1964) to "Old Masters "(1985) and brings them into dialogue with major architectural debates of the times. She examines Bernard s interrogation of the theoretical foundations underpinning the educational system and its actual sites. "How We Learn Where We Live "opens new avenues into thinking about one of the most provocative writers of the twentieth century."

http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/how-we-learn-where-we-live-0

Quote from: Gospod on 06-05-2015, 22:26:09

Quote from: JasonBezArgonauta on 13-09-2014, 15:28:09

kad ne pomislih mm.

hehe, na tako umanjenoj slici podseća malo

Dve manje vazne vjesti za nas:



Goethe Dies

Thomas Bernhard, Hardback 112 pages, Seagull Books, 15 Februar 2016

This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called one of the masters of European fiction is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"; Montaigne: A Story (in 22 Installments) tells of a young man sealing himself in a tower to read; Reunion, meanwhile, satirizes that very impulse to escape; and the final story rounds out the collection by making Bernhard himself a victim, persecuted by his greatest enemy his very homeland of Austria. Underpinning all these variously comic, tragic, and bitingly satirical excursions is Bernhard s abiding interest in, and deep knowledge of, the philosophy of doubt. Bernhard s work can seem off-putting on first acquaintance, as he suffers no fools and offers no hand to assist the unwary reader. But those who make the effort to engage with Bernhard on his own uncompromising terms will discover a writer with powerful comic gifts, penetrating insight into the failings and delusions of modern life, and an unstinting desire to tell the whole, unvarnished, unwelcome truth. Start here, readers; the rewards are great."

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/G/bo23193573.html

i ova:

Revulsion : Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador:

Horacio Castellanos Moya , Paperback 128 pages,  New Directions Publishing Corporation, 5 Jul 2016

po čemu su ovo vesti?
obe knjige postoje na srpskom.

Da, jbg

Ti si cak drugu odradio na blogu, jos davno.
Eto, makar mozete Hardback-Update za Goethe ili ne morate dalje traziti Gadjenje. 

Uglavnom, sledeci mjesec izlazi kolekcija Bernhardove poezije, pa cu da provjerim na sta lici. 

Thomas Bernhard: 3 Days

BLAST BOOKS - 160 pages - Photographs by Ferry Radax , Translated by Laura Lindgren - 08 Nov 2016

Over the course of three days, June 5, 6, and 7 in 1970, simply sitting on a white bench in a Hamburg park, Thomas Bernhard delivered a powerful monologue for Three Days (Drei Tage), filmmaker Ferry Radax's commanding film portrait of the great Austrian writer. Radax interwove the monologue with a variety of metaphorically resonant visual techniques—blacking out the screen to total darkness, suggestive of the closing of the observing eye; cuts to scenes of cameramen, lighting and recording equipment; extreme camera distance and extreme closeup. Bernhard had not yet written his autobiographical work Gathering Evidence, published originally in five separate volumes between 1975 and 1982, and his childhood remembrances were a revelation. This publication of Bernhard's monologue and stills from Radax's artful film allows this unique portrait of Bernhard to be savored in book form.

http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Bernhard-3-Days/dp/0922233462

Nisam znao da je ovo u Austriji-Njemackoj vec pretvoreno u knjigu, ovi je izdaju u hardback varijanti sa fotografijama tako da cu je vjerovatno kupiti. Gledao sam film prije par godina, bilo je za skinuti na jednom od file-hosting servisa. Mislim da se cak i na YT moze pronaci ali bez prevoda.

Kompletan tekst mozete procitati ovde:

http://shirtysleeves.blogspot.ba/2013/07/a-translation-of-drei-tage-by-thomas.html

Vrijedi spomenuti da ce Penguin krajem ove godine po prvi put izdati 120 Days of Sodom u ediciji Penguin Classics i da ce Naked Lunch od sada biti dostupan i u Penguin Clothbound Edition.

Scatology cover -

https://www.penguin.co.uk/content/dam/catalogue/pim/editions/489/9780141394343/cover.jpg.rendition.460.707.png

kako jebeno dobar kaver za 120 dana sodomije!!!

Da, kao prvi LP Coil-a.

Ali zato je Naked Lunch cover prilicno los... a tu se jos hvale sa dizajnerom (Coralie-Bickford Smith). Inace kompletna edicija je promasena sto se tice toga - makar po meni.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57602/naked-lunch/9780241284636/

Quote from: C Q on 01-05-2016, 12:07:16
Da, kao prvi LP Coil-a.

strogo gledano, nije kaver 'kao koil', nego je koil kao taj kaver, jer slika mana reja upotrebljena za kaver (+ koja je inspirisala koil) potiče iz 1933.







a kaver za barouza je čista sodomija (u najgorem smislu reči)!!!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven

Prica o postapokalipticnom svetu, nakon pandemije Dzordzijskog gripa.

http://s32.postimg.org/5s54hg99h/image.jpgm