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[PTY]

Cover art and synopsis for the second part of the "The Dark Legacy Of Shannara" Trilogy entitled Bloodfire Quest has been unveiled. The book is expected to hit the shelves on March 19th, 2013 and you can already order your copy here



For the impatient ones, here's the synopsis:The quest for the missing Elfstones – relics filled with powerful ancient magic – has gone badly awry.
The Ard Rhys and her followers have been trapped inside the harsh mirror-world of the Forbidding, whose barriers are slowly eroding. Now they are at the mercy of all the creatures who were banished from her world because they were deemed too dangerous to live.
What's more, the twins, Railing and Redden, have been separated for the first time in their lives – one caught in the Forbidding, and the other willing to do anything to get his brother out...

This is the second novel in a breathtaking new series from the master of fantasy Terry Brooks. Returning to his core Shannara world, this spellbinding series will astound both seasoned Terry Brooks fans and those discovering his magical world for the first time.


http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/terry-brooks-bloodfire-quest-cover-art-synopsis-and-release-date-reveal

[PTY]

Unfettered anthology cover art unveiled                           

Unfettered is one of the most anticipated anthologies of the year and you should definitely buy yourself a copy if you can. First of all, it's all for the good cause as all proceeds go to help writer Shawn Speakman in his battle against cancer. Second, authors contributing include: Terry Brooks, Patrick Rothfuss, Naomi Novik, Brandon Sanderson, RA Salvatore, Tad Williams, Jacqueline Carey, Daniel Abraham, Peter V.Brett, Robert VS Redick, Peter Orullian, Todd Lockwood, Carrie Vaughn, Blake Charlton, Kevin Hearne, Mark Lawrence, David Anthony Durham, Jennifer Bosworth, Lev Grossman, Steven Erikson, and Shawn Speakman.
Unfettered will be published in early 2013 and now we show you the cover art.

http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/unfettered-anthology-cover-art-unveiled

[PTY]

opet pogresan topik...

[Gaff]

Geek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity

Do you have the hots for that uber-sexy IT chick who knows exactly how to turn your computer on? Do you find a mad scientist's lab a sexier setting than the bridal suite at the Ritz? Do you take tours through the natural history museum just so you can watch the tour guide talk about the hardness of perfectly preserved dino bones? Know how to twiddle a game controller with the best of them? Then you'll love Geek Love. Geek Love will be a collection that celebrates geekdom in all its erotic, smart, hot-as-an-exploding-chem-lab ways. Think smart and sexy, girls with glasses, boys with brains, computers with all the right hardware.

http://geekloveanthology.wordpress.com/

[PTY]

A kome se dopao The Half-Made World, evo dobre vesti:


















This is the story Harry Ransom. If you know his name it's most likely as the inventor of the Ransom Process, a stroke of genius that changed the world.
Or you may have read about how he lost the battle of Jasper City, or won it, depending on where you stand in matters of politics.
Friends called him Hal or Harry, or by one of a half-dozen aliases, of which he had more than any honest man should. He often went byProfessor Harry Ransom, and though he never had anything you might call a formal education, he definitely earned it.
If you're reading this in the future, Ransom City must be a great and glittering metropolis by now, with a big bronze statue of Harry Ransom in a park somewhere. You might be standing on its sidewalk and not wonder in the least of how it grew to its current glory. Well, here is its story, full of adventure and intrigue. And it all starts with the day that old Harry Ransom crossed paths with Liv Alverhyusen and John Creedmoor, two fugitives running from the Line, amidst a war with no end.




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[Melkor]

 

[PTY]

...  e, onda ti evo još malko stimpankičnih gudiza:





















1864. London is a city in transition. The Constantine Affliction–a strange malady that kills some of its victims and physically transforms others into the opposite sex–has spread scandal and upheaval throughout society. Scientific marvels and disasters, such as clockwork courtesans, the alchemical fires of Whitechapel, electric carriages, and acidic monsters lurking in the Thames, have forever altered the face of the city.

Pembroke "Pimm" Hanover is an aristocrat with an interest in criminology, who uses his keen powers of observation to assist the police or private individuals–at least when he's sober enough to do so. Ellie Skyler, who hides her gender behind the byline "E. Skye," is an intrepid journalist driven by both passion and necessity to uncover the truth, no matter where it hides.

When Pimm and Skye stumble onto a dark plot that links the city's most notorious criminal overlord with the Queen's new consort, famed scientist Sir Bertram Oswald, they soon find the forces of both high and low society arrayed against them. Can they save the city from the arcane machinations of one of history's most monsters–and uncover the shocking origin of . . . THE CONSTANTINE AFFLICTION.

[Melkor]

Ali Gilman nije steampunk!!! Znam da su ga prodavali kao takvog, ali The Half-Made World ima veze sa ovim sto se danas naziva steampunkom ko ja sa poljoprivredom. I vodoprivredom. Ne da znam sta je (sto je dobro, kad nema etiketu, jelte), bar znam sta nije

[PTY]

Pa dobro onda, kad naiđeš na nekoga ko tvrdi da Gilman jeste stimpank, a ti mu onda reci sve to. 

[PTY]

 
Eric Brown - The Serene Invasion cover art, release date reveal!

It's 2025 and the world is riven by war, terrorist attacks, poverty and increasingly desperate demands for water, oil, and natural resources. The West and China confront each other over an inseperable ideological divide, each desperate to sustain their future.
And then the Serene arrive, enigmatic aliens form Delta Pavonis V, and nothing will ever be the same again.
The Serene bring peace to an ailing world, an end to poverty and violence - but not everyone supports the seemingly benign invasion.
There are forces out there who wish to return to the bad old days, and will stop at nothing to oppose the Serene.

[PTY]

Chuck Wendig - Gods and Monsters: Unclean Spirits cover art and release date unveiled!


The gods and goddesses are real. And they are here on Earth.

A polytheistic pantheon—a tangle of gods and divine hierarchies—once kept the world at an arm's length, warring with one another, using mankind's belief and devotion to give them power. In this way, the world had balance: a grim and bloody balance, but a balance just the same.

But a single god sought dominance and gathered his armies of angels behind him to oust the other gods in a shattering of the cosmic order, a sundering of the divinities. As Lucifer fell to Hell, the gods and goddesses fell to earth.

And it's there they remain—seemingly eternal, masquerading as humans and managing only a fraction of the power they once had as gods. They fall to old patterns, collecting sycophants and worshippers in order to war against one another in the battle for the hearts of men. They bring with them their children young and old, demi-gods who are half-human, half-divine. And they bring with them their monstrous races—crass abnormalities created to serve the gods. Undead eunuch magicians. Rampaging minotaurs. Shapeshifting yokai.

They would do anything to usher in a rebirth of the old ways. To reclaim the seat of true power.

[PTY]

Very interesting anthology has just been published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Anthology features eighteen stories that revolve around steampunk themes and features stories by authors such as Margaret Ronald, Yoon Ha Lee, Aliette de Bodard and Tony Pi.

   
• "Salvage" by Margaret Ronald
• "The Curse of Chimère" by Tony Pi
• "To the Gods of Time and Engines, a Gift" by Dean Wells
• "Clockwork Heart, Clockwork Soul" by Kris Dikeman
• "The Leafsmith in Love" by K.J. Kabza
• "Cold Iron and Green Vines" by Wendy N. Wagner
• "The Secret of Pogopolis" by Matthew Bey
• "Kreisler's Automata" by Matthew David Surridge
• "The God Thieves" by Derek Künsken
• "Playing for Amarante" by A.B. Treadwell
• "Six Seeds" by Sara M. Harvey
• "Waiting for Number Five" by Tom Crosshill
• "The Motor, the Mirror, the Mind" by T.F. Davenport
• "Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood" by Aliette de Bodard
• "The Manufactory" by Dru Pagliassotti
• "Architectural Constants" by Yoon Ha Lee
• "Calibrated Allies" by Marissa Lingen
• "The Mathematics of Faith" by Jonathan Wood

[PTY]

... a sad, nesto i za Dacko:





Joe Abercrombie's Red Country is almost upon us, so we feel it's a perfect case to showcase UK cover art. As always, Gollancz have made fine work. Red Country is coming out on October 23rd and you can already order your copy here

Synopsis:
They burned her home.
They stole her brother and sister.
But vengeance is following.


Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried.


Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust . . .

[PTY]

Everett Singh has escaped with the Infundibulum from the clutches of Charlotte Villiers and the Order, but at a terrible price. His father is missing, banished to one of the billions of parallel universes of the Panoply of All Worlds, and Everett and the crew of the airship Everness have taken a wild Heisenberg jump to a random parallel plane. Everett is smart and resourceful, and from the refuge of a desolate frozen Earth far beyond the Plenitude, where he and his friends have gone into hiding, he makes plans to rescue his family. But the villainous Charlotte Villiers is one step ahead of him. The action traverses three different parallel Earths: one is a frozen wasteland; one is just like ours, except that the alien Thryn Sentiency has occupied the Moon since 1964, sharing its technology with humankind; and one is the embargoed home of dead London, where the remnants of humanity battle a terrifying nanotechnology run wild. Across these parallel planes of existence, Everett faces terrible choices of morality and power. But he has the love and support of Sen, Captain Anastasia Sixsmyth, and the rest of the crew of Everness as he learns that the deadliest enemy isn't the Order or the world-devouring nanotech Nahn—it's himself.

[Dacko]

... a sad, nesto i za Dacko:
 

[PTY]

...a tek ovo ima da ti izmami osmejak, ako već nisi overila:



The best-selling fantasy trilogy, from one of Gollancz' biggest authors.
Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers.

Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards. Vain, shallow, selfish and self-obsessed, the biggest blot on his horizon is having to get out of bed in the morning to train with obsessive and boring old men.


And Logen Ninefingers, an infamous warrior with a bloody past, is about to wake up in a hole in the snow with plans to settle a blood feud with Bethod, the new King of the Northmen, once and for all - ideally by running away from it. But as he's discovering, old habits die really, really hard indeed . . .



. . . especially when Bayaz gets involved. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Glotka, Jezal and Logen a whole lot more difficult . . .











The Blade Itself (eBook)

Joe Abercrombie £1.99


(ja nisam, ali planiram to sad za sezonu putovanja, i to samo zarad tvoje preporuke. )

[Dacko]

To sam pročitala, kao i nastavak Before They Are Hanged, a čeka me još treći deo trilogije kad nađem malo vremena. I knjige su upravo zgodne za putovanja, onako sočne laganice sa simpatičnim varvarinom koji u knjizi radi sve ono što inače viđamo po filmovima, znači s mnooogo preterivanja u bitkama, i sve se može lepo zamisliti – najviše mi liči na strip bez oblačića. Samo, moj sud o knjigama nije nešto merodavan pošto mi se dopadnu čim su iole zabavne, budući da zbog posla čitam mnoštvo nekih knjiga koje me baš nimalo ne zanimaju. Dobro, ponekad mi plate da uradim i neku fantastiku, ali ni onda nisam objektivna, u stvari tek tad su male šanse da mi se ne dopadne knjiga koju bih svakako čitala i za džabe.

[PTY]

e pa sad, daj mi barem kaži ko je (po tebi, naravno) merodavan za ovakvu vrst preporuka, pa da se lakše ravnamo ubuduće. 


Šalim se, naravno. Eto, šta da radim, priznajem, kriva sam, prerasla sam onu značajnu životnu fazu u kojoj se iz fentezija crpe egzistencijalna saznanja i sad se glanc presamitim ko britvica kad naletim na fentezi koji sebe uzima za ozbiljno. 

[Dacko]

Ni ja takve romane ne mogu više da čitam, nije da neću, nego ne mogu, a da li to konačna faza, još ne znam. Uostalom, oduvek sam više padala na duhovitost Hobita nego na epski patos Gospodara, pa mi je najdraže kad u fantastici bude mnogo humora. Što se preporuka tiče, ja čitam sve živo ne obazirući se na njih, jer ne znam nikog s čijim se ukusom moj potpuno poklapa. Kritike mi znače utoliko što skrenu pažnju na nekog autora za koga nisam čula, ali jednako mu zavirim u knjigu i kad ga žestoko ispljuju i kad ga nahvale. No dobro, ja sam od onih koji čitaju i svaki redić reklamne brošure kad u blizini nema nikakvog drugog štiva...   

[PTY]

Kritike mi znače utoliko što skrenu pažnju na nekog autora za koga nisam čula, ali jednako mu zavirim u knjigu i kad ga žestoko ispljuju i kad ga nahvale. No dobro, ja sam od onih koji čitaju i svaki redić reklamne brošure kad u blizini nema nikakvog drugog štiva...   

My Sentiments exactly!   
Ima mnogo knjiga koje su me razgalile i pored loših rivjua, a da o hajpu sad i ne govorim: nekako smo uslovljena da me hajp stavi na veliki oprez, što i bude poželjno u većini slučajeva, ali ipak... tu i tamo, pokaže se kao hendikep, ta moja predrasuda. Isto tako, dosta hvaljenih knjiga me ostavilo hladnom, pa to je valjda taj balans koji se sam od sebe uspostavlja na nivou kvantiteta. Sad sam nekako više u fazonu da svaku knjigu overim na fribiju od prvih tridesetak strana i ako me tu uhvati, nalazim da me retko koja knjiga kasnije razočara.


Ali pouzdano otkrivam da volim (čuj volim, obožavam) autore koji imaju smisao za humor. Ali ne bilo kakav humor, ne slapstik glavinjanje, nego upravo one autore koji naginju pomalo mračnijem, da ne kažem crnjem humoru. Cinizam, sarkazam i ostale lekovite literarne alatkice... znaš već i sama. Noviji SF nekako kanda baš i ne obiluje time, pa tu i tamo moram da svrnem i na druge zelene pašnjake. 

[angel011]

@Dacko: epski patos Gospodara? Ok, ja sam to prvi put čitala sa 7 godina pa epski patos ne bih primetila sve i da me je šutirao i ujedao, meni je to bila super avantura. Šta sam propustila? 

[Dacko]

Baš ništa, tako ga je i trebalo čitati, da izvučeš iz njega šta ti prija i šta ti se sviđa, ali epskog patosa ima onoliko – presudne bitke, nemoguće ljubavi, sudbina naroda u rukama jednog čoveka, pardon hobita itd. Jeste to ublaženo humorom i zabavnim dogodovštinama, ali zato se pojavio film, pa muzikom i scenskim efektima potcrtao sve te epske scene, pa se još pogodilo da ga moj muž gleda jednom godišnje i to u najdužoj verziji, a u autu povremeno pušta muziku iz filma... i tako, ispalo je da čak i rohanskih jahača u nekom trenutku može biti previše, što nikom ne bih verovala da mi je kazao pre petnaestak godina. Hobit mi je favorit, sad ga čitam klincu i jednako uživam u dijalozima, pa mi je čak i bolje preveden nego Gospodar, pe svega zato što je tu osmišljen Golumov govor (,,šta ima on u svojim džepsima"). 
@Libeat: Onda potvrđujem preporuku za Aberkrombija. Ako ništa, makar zato što njegov varvarin prvi put sa ženskom ne zablista, no se pokaže kao realističan brzopotezni primerak čoveka koji sto godina nije bio sa nekim.

[PTY]

wow! sa sedam godina čitala Gospodara? wowow, ja sam sa sedam godina taman otkrivala Ripa Kirbija i Modesti Blejz. 

[PTY]

Thousands of years before the rise of men, the dwarfs and elves are stalwart allies and enjoy a era of unrivalled peace and prosperity. But when dwarf trading caravans are attacked and their merchants slain, the elves are accused of betrayal. Quick to condemn the people of Ulthuan as traitors, the mountain lords nevertheless try to prevent conflict, but the elves' arrogance undoes any chance of reconciliation and war is inevitable. Snorri Halfhand, son of the High King and no particular friend of the elves, is at the vanguard of the war with his cousin Morgrim Blackbeard. At the city of Tor Alessi a vast army stands against the dwarfs. Here Snorri will meet his destiny against the elven King Caledor as the first blow is struck in a conflict that could bring about the fall of two great civilisations.And here's the book info from Amazon US:

[Anomander Rejk]

Meni je Aberkrombi Džo ok. Tačno ono što očekujem od fantastike- solidna priča, dosta akcije, likovi koji nisu crno-beli spasioci sveta i Mračni gospodari, malo sarkazma i crnog humora, pomalo mračan svet. Bez preteranih opisa i smarajuće dubokoumne  filozofije, baš ono što mi i treba, fino da se opustim uz čitanje  .

[angel011]

wow! sa sedam godina čitala Gospodara? wowow, ja sam sa sedam godina taman otkrivala Ripa Kirbija i Modesti Blejz. 

Ripa Kirbija i Modesti Blejz sam otkrila godinama nakon toga... Možda mi je razvoj išao pogrešnim redosledom. 

[Dacko]

Svejedno, i samo pročitati celog Gospodara u sedmoj godini, nevezano za stepen razumevanja, svakako je žešće napredno.

[PTY]

Almost Heaven...

Or is it? Is Appalachia as mysterious and wonderful as people say? Or does its enduring beauty hold something dark. Something dreadful. Something very hungry for our flesh. Can the people of the region stand up against the hordes of the Undead and thrive as they have thrived under other worst circumstances?

Appalachian Undead takes a look at the dark side of Appalachia, where the Undead walk, driven by old magic and worse, their hunger for us. Nestled in the safety of the hills, the inhabitants have thrived and adapted even to the worst of conditions, but can they survive against an army that never tires and never stops feeding? With new intriguing tales of the Undead, this anthology contains work by some of the best names in horror, including Jonathan Maberry, Gary A. Braunbeck, Tim Lebbon, Elizabeth Massie, Lucy Snyder, Bev Vincent, Tim Waggoner and many more.

   
• "When Granny Comes Marchin' Home Again" by Elizabeth Massie
• "Calling Death" by Jonathan Maberry
• "Hide and Seek" by Tim Waggoner
• "Twilight of the Zombie Game Preserve..." by S. Clayton Rhodes
• "Being in Shadow" by Maurice Broaddus
• "Sitting up with the Dead- Bev Vincent
• "The Girl and the Guardian" by Simon McCaffery
• "Repent, Jessie Shimmer! -Lucy Snyder
• "Almost Heaven -Michael Paul Gonzalez
• "On Stagger" by G. Cameron Fuller
• "We Take Care of Our Own" by John Everson
• "Sleeper" by Tim Lebbon
• "Reckless" by Eliot Parker
• "Company's Coming" by Ronald Kelly
• "Black Friday" by Karin Fuller
• "Spoiled" by Paul Moore
• "Miranda Jo's Girl" by Steve Rasnic Tem
• "Times Is Tough in Musky Holler" by John Skipp & Dori Miller
• "Long Days to Come" by K. Allen Wood
• "Brother Hollis Gives His Final Sermon from a Rickety Make-Shift Pulpit in the Remains of a Smokehouse that now Serves as His Church" by Gary A. Braunbeck

[PTY]

 
I'm just about done with my novel Turing & Burroughs that I've been working on for two years.  I'll be selling it through my Transreal Books site starting around September 22, 2012.

Right now you can read my book-length set of notes for the novel, "Notes for Turing & Burroughs," it's a free PDF online, it's about 4 Meg, the length of a novel, profusely illustrated, a free download brought to you by Transreal Books




Rudi je, vala, prica za sebe. 

[PTY]

• "The Wrong Fairy" by Audrey Niffenegger
• "If I Die" by Kill My Cat" by Sarah Lotz
• "Shuffle" by Will Hill
• "Domestic Magic" by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
• "Cad Coddeu" by Liz Williams
• "Party Tricks" by Dan Abnett
• "First and Last and Always" by Thana Niveau
• "The Art of Escapology" by Alison Littlewood
• "The Baby" by Christopher Fowler
• "Do as Thou Wilt" by Storm Constantine
• "Bottom Line" by Lou Morgan
• "MailerDaemon" by Sophia McDougall
• "Buttons" by Gail Z. Martin
• "Nanny Grey" by Gemma Files
• "Dumb Lucy" by Robert Shearman

[Melkor]

http://io9.com/5937312/this-falls-must+read-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books

September Blackwood by Gwenda Bond (Angry Robot/Strange Chemistry)
Bond's debut young-adult novel takes place on Roanoake, where the mysterious disappearance of 114 people is just a tourist fable — until 114 people disappear in the present day, and two 17-year-olds may be the only ones who can figure it out.
The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross (Tor)
This is a fix-up novel made out of a series of short stories, set at the end of the 21st century — only a billion people remain on Earth, the rest of the population having become posthuman and swarmed (literally) across the solar system. But who's going to save the remaining humans from being spammed with "get evolved quick" schemes?
Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager)
Sandman Slim is back — and this time he's literally in Hell, not just in Los Angeles. We exclusively published the first 40 pages of this novel a while back.
The Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams (Daw)
The Shadowmarch author turns his hand to urban fantasy, about a flawed angel named Bobby Dollar who judges newly deceased souls — until a soul goes missing. Adam Whitehead said this novel "moves like a whippet with its tail on fire." Read an excerpt here.
The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan (Knopf)
The Tender Morsels author is back with a story of men who pull their wives from the sea — but the witch Misskaella helps men to get their "sea wives" — and extracts a payment. Sounds gorgeous and haunting.
Slow Apocalypse by John Varley (Ace)
The Steel Beach author creates a thriller in which a scientist develops a compound that turns all petroleum solid — starting with an Iraqi oil field, but soon enough the whole world's oil supply.


October The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Orbit)
A new Culture novel is always grounds for major celebration — but this time, Banks is delving into the origins of his star-spanning super-advanced civilization, and it could be the best Culture book in forever.
The Twelve by Justin Cronin (Ballantine)
The second book in Cronin's Passage trilogy. This time around, we see more of the mayhem in the present day as the "Virals" emerge — plus the desperate attempt to vanquish the Twelve, 100 years from now.
Dark Currents by Jacqueline Carey (Penguin/Roc)
Daisy Johanssen is an enforcer for the Norse goddess Hel, in this new urban fantasy novel by the author of the Kushiel books. One of the fall's best books, according to Publishers Weekly and us.
Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow (Tor)
Doctorow is returning to young adult fiction, with this story of young guerilla film-makers who take on the entertainment industry and its brutal anti-piracy laws. You can read an excerpt at Tor.com
Space is Just a Starry Night by Tanith Lee (Aqueduct)
A brand new collection of short fiction by the great fantasy author — and the title is apparently a quote from the song Dayna sings in that Blake's 7 episode that Lee wrote, "Sarcophagus." More Tanith Lee is always good news.
Bowl of Heaven by Larry Niven and Gregory Benford (Tor)
In this first collaboration by the two hard science fiction masters, a group of young struggling artists gather in a cafe and debate the meaning of youth... or maybe not. Actually, a human expedition to another star system is interrupted when they discover a massive, huge bowl-shaped object "half-englobing" a star — which is on a direct path to the same star system as the humans intend to visit.


November Red Country by Joe Abercrombie (Orbit)
The author of The Heroes is back with another bloodthirsty, gritty fantasy novel. Sky South, a young hero with a bloody past, is getting her Liam Neeson on after someone has kidnapped her brother and sister, with just her cowardly stepfather Lamb for company. Sky South will hunt you down. And she will find you. And she will... you know the rest.
The Diviners by Libba Bray (Little, Brown)
Evie gets to leave her small hometown and go to New York City — but unfortunately, she's stuck living with her Uncle Will, proprietor of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult — referred as "The Museum of the Creepy Crawlies." To make matters worse, there's a rash of supernatural murders — and Evie's secret power may make her the only person who can get to the bottom of things.
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
Yes, it's a brand new Vorkosigan novel! This time, we're following Miles' cousin Ivan Vorpatril, a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan's got a cozy life — until he's asked to protect a young woman who's been targeted by a criminal syndicate. And it appears she has some secrets that could strike at the heart of an important Barrayaran family.
The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor)
The sequel to Rajaniemi's breakout hit The Quantum Thief — and once again the dizzying ideas include a physicist receiving a paper that's way ahead of anything we have now, and a thief trying to break into a Schrodinger's Box.
Errantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer Press)
When you see the name "Elizabeth Hand" and the words "strange stories" next to each other, you should run to your local bookstore to investigate. The Shirley Jackson Award-winning author shows you the strangeness of everyday life, including your unbelievably odd neighbors and creepy coworkers.
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer Press)
This is the second volume in a series of Le Guin's stories — for some reason, Volume One is coming a month later, in December. Le Guin herself has selected these stories, which are unconnected to any of her novels. A great chance to delve into Le Guin's fantastic short fiction.
The Godspeaker Trilogy by Karen Miller (Orbit)
We're really excited that Orbit is finally putting out omnibus editions of Karen Miller's great epic fantasy works — and especially the Godspeaker Trilogy, which is one of the most fascinating trilogies we've read in the past decade. The first two books tell the story of two very different women achieving political power in an often terrifying, unstable world — and then the third book puts the two women on a collision course.


December Moscow but Dreaming by Ekaterina Sedia (Prime Books)
The House of Discarded Dreams author is back with a collection of 21 stories, many of them set in Russia at the dawn or end of Communism. This volume has already gotten a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
A Red Sun Also Rises by Mark Hodder (Pyr Books)
The Spring-Heeled Jack author tells the story of a Vicar in a sleepy town who meets a hunchback named Clarissa... and then they somehow encounter Jack the Ripper, and get transported to another planet, one with twin suns and an alien species who are master mimics. Yes, it sounds completely demented.
Peace by Gene Wolfe (Tor)
This classic novel about a bitter old man whose imagination turns out to have the power to reshape reality is finally getting a brand new edition, with an afterword by Neil Gaiman.
Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton (Del Rey)
It's a hundred years from now, and we've solved most of our problems — we've discovered near-instantaneous travel across light years, and fixed our energy shortages and fixed the environment. These amazing advances are mostly in the hands of the all-powerful North family, who are made up of generations of clones. Unfortunately, as Multiplicity taught us, the more generations of clones you make, the more problems tend to crop up.
The Folly of the World by Jesse Bullington (Orbit)
The author of The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart is already winning praise for his strange story of a devastating flood and its aftermath, in 1421. Into the flood sail a crazed thug, a ruthless conman, and their companion, a feral girl.

[PTY]

It seems that people at Clarion Publishing definitely have the nose for discovering new talent. After reading his collection two times, newcomer Damien Kelly is no exception. Seasons Of The Macabre collects fourteen short stories (and I mean really short stories - some are only a page long) previously released in three e-book collections loosely covering the rocky terrain of psychological horror. As you probably know, it takes great skill to write good psychological story because even a single wrong word can spoil the atmosphere, especially if your preferred format is such short one but Kelly certainly knows his stuff and often successfully accomplishes the feeling of unease.



It probably doesn't make much sense to go into details of particular stories because mentioning almost anything would be a major spoiler in itself but some stories simply must be mentioned - the opening duo of stories featuring children, one with Santa and one with turkey are both fantastic. And my favourite must be the story entitled "And What Will The Robin Do Then, Poor Thing?" about a robin making dots in the glass (however strange that must sound).


To conclude, "Season of the macabre" offers great bite size thrills and is best enjoyed one story daily. Well recommended!

[Melkor]

George R.R. Martin has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology Old Mars he co-edited with Gardner Dozois. It's just been delivered to the publisher (Bantam), so not much more is known...but here's what we do know about the anthology gleaned from George's post:

>OLD MARS is a new anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories about Old Mars (not the real post-Mariner Mars, but the one we all loved as kids, with the canals and the dead cities and the various flavors of Martian).

The anthology will feature fifteen original, never-before-published short stories and novelettes, story notes and author intros by Gardner Dozois, and an introduction by George R.R. Martin. Here's the table of contents...

   
• "Martian Blood" by Allen M. Steele
• "The Ugly Duckling" by Matthew Hughes
• "The Wreck Of The Mars Adventure" by David D. Levine
• "Swords Of Zar-tu-kan" by S.M. Stirling
• "Shoals" by Mary Rosenblum
• "In The Tombs Of The Martian Kings" by Mike Resnick
• "Out Of Scarlight" by Liz Williams
• "The Dead Sea-bottom Scrolls" by Howard Waldrop
• "A Man Without Honor" by James S.A. Corey
• "Written In Dust" by Melinda Snodgrass
• "The Lost Canal" by Michael Moorcock
• "The Sunstone" by Phyllis Eisenstein
• "King Of The Cheap Romance" by Joe R. Lansdale
• "Mariner" by Chris Roberson
• "The Queen Of Night's Aria" by Ian Mcdonald

[PTY]

Underland Press

Final TOC for Cyberpunk anthology:

William Gibson
Cory Doctorow
Jonathan Lethem

Bruce Sterling
Kim Stanley Robinson
Daniel H. Wilson
John Shirley
Paul Di Filippo
Greg Bear
Pat Cadigan
Gwyneth Jones
James Patrick Kelly
David Marusek
Ben Parzybok
Cat Rambo
Lewis Shiner
Shiner & Sterling
Mark Teppo
Paul Tremblay
Rudy Rucker

[Ghoul]

ova genijalnost izlazi sredinom septembra: verovatno ću da pišem prikaz za RUE MORGUE:

A SEASON IN CARCOSA
an anthology inspired by Robert Chambers' KING IN YELLOW
edited by Joe Pulver



Joel Lane "My Voice is Dead"
Simon Strantzas "Beyond the Banks of the River Seine"
Don Webb "Movie Night at Phil's"
Daniel Mills "MS Found in a Chicago Hotel Room"
Gary McMahon "it sees me when I'm not looking"
Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
Cate Gardner "Yellow Bird Strings"
Edward Morris "The Teatre & Its Double"
Richard Gavin "The Hymn of the Hyades"
Gemma Files "Slick Black Bones and Soft Black Stars"
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. "Not Enough Hope"
Kristin Prevallet "Whose Hearts are Pure Gold"
Richard A. Lupoff "April Dawn"
Anna Tambour "King Wolf"
Michael Kelly "The White-Face at Dawn"
Cody Goodfellow "Wishing Well"
John Langan "Sweetums"
Pearce Hansen "The King is Yellow"
Laird Barron "D T"
Robin Spriggs "Salvation in Yellow"
Allyson Bird "The Beat Hotel"

[Nightflier]

    Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
    Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
    Shall dry and die in

        Lost Carcosa.

[PTY]

New book by Al Ewing is coming up on May 7th, 2013 and is set to be called The Fictional Man. We are also very happy to show you an excellent cover art as well as the synopsis.

Here's the synopsis:Hollywood: Niles Golan is writing a remake of a camp-classic spy movie. The studio has plans for a franchise, so rather than hiring an actor, the protagonist will be 'translated' into a cloned human body.

It's common practice - Niles' therapist is a Fictional. So is his best friend. So (maybe) is the woman in the bar he can't stop staring at. Fictionals are a part of daily life now, especially in LA.

In fact, it's getting hard to tell who's a Fictional and who's not...

Funny, clever, profound and moving, The Fictional Man is set to be Al Ewing's break-through novel.

[PTY]

This Fall's Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Books


What do science fiction and fantasy books have in store for you this fall? There are new fantasy series by Tad Williams and Jacqueline Carey. A brand new Culture novel by Iain M. Banks. Collaborations between Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, and Larry Niven and Gregory Benford. A classic Gene Wolfe novel. A massive Ursula K. Le Guin story collection. And much, much more.

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[Melkor]

This year marks Tarzan's 100th anniversary, and we have just the book for it — take a look at Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan by Robin Maxwell, out on September 18:

Cambridge, England, 1905. Jane Porter is hardly a typical woman of her time. The only female student in Cambridge University's medical program, she is far more comfortable in a lab coat dissecting corpses than she is in a corset and gown sipping afternoon tea. A budding paleoanthropologist, Jane dreams of traveling the globe in search of fossils that will prove the evolutionary theories of her scientific hero, Charles Darwin.

When dashing American explorer Ral Conrath invites Jane and her father to join an expedition deep into West Africa, she can hardly believe her luck. Africa is every bit as exotic and fascinating as she has always imagined, but Jane quickly learns that the lush jungle is full of secrets—and so is Ral Conrath. When danger strikes, Jane finds her hero, the key to humanity's past, and an all-consuming love in one extraordinary man: Tarzan of the Apes.

Jane is the first version of the Tarzan story written by a woman and authorized by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate. Its publication marks the centennial of the original Tarzan of the Apes.

[zakk]

 

[Melkor]

The Best of Japanese Speculative Fiction, in One Amazing Book                          

In his introduction to The Future is Japanese, co-editor Nick Mamatas notes that Japanese Science Fiction is just like "Western Science Fiction, in that it is hard and soft, dark and whimsical, rigorous and fantastical." And Mamatas' new book, coedited with Masumi Washington, serves as a fantastic bridge between Western and Japanese SF. The anthology brings over some authors who aren't well known in the West and takes some well-known Western authors over.

The Future is Japanese collects a bunch of short stories that look at the present and far future of Japan. The result is an utterly gripping collection of authors across thirteen stories, all relating to Japan or Japanese culture. For someone like me who's never been to Japan, this anthology presents a vivid, diverse and very interesting take on Japan and its future.

There's nary a story in here that doesn't capture the imagination. The book starts off with a bang in "Mono No Aware" by Ken Liu, a great story about nationality, after Earth is struck by the Hammer, a massive, planet-killing asteroid. (Disclaimer - I read a copy of this story when it was in draft form). This story sets the tone for the anthology: What's covered here isn't just the physical location of Japan, (although that figures in heavily for most stories), but the culture of Japan.

Recently, there seems to be a collective desire for science fiction that isn't about a future United States, and The Future is Japanese is a great move in that direction.



Other stories rapidly follow suit: "The Sound of Breaking Up" by Felicity Savage takes on an increasingly isolated, internet based culture, while mixing in a good dose of time travel and an end-of-civilization vibe that would work well as a Fringe episode. "The Indifference Engine" by Project Itoh is an incredibly difficult and emotional story about ethnic warfare, and the lengths that people will go to 'solve' the problem. Bruce Sterling's "Goddess of Mercy" is a fascinating take on piracy in a post-apocalyptic Japan. "The Sea of Trees" by Rachel Swirsky is a break from the science fiction and into contemporary fantasy with an off-kilter ghost story. The highlight of the entire anthology, however, is saved until the end, with "Autogenic Dreaming: Interview with the Columns of Clouds" by TOBI Hirotaka, which presents a wonderfully complex and beautiful story about a serial killer, cloud computing and the future of creativity.

I can't speak for how much of an 'authentic' view of the future of Japan this is: There's a wide mix of authors and ethnic backgrounds here, and this has been something on my mind as I went through the book: speculation aside, does this really present an authentic view of Japan and its culture? But by the end of the volume, I came away with the great feeling that this was an excellent anthology of speculative fiction, with a collection of stories that are genuinely unique, interesting and relevant.

[PTY]

Concluding part of the excellent trilogy by Rowena Cory Daniells entitled Sanctuary is to be published today by Solaris Books. Unfortunately, people in the UK will have to wait for another two weeks until 13th September.

Synopsis:
For three months this summer Solaris has brought you Rowena Cory Daniells' epic new fantasy trilogy – and now the consummate storyteller brings The Outcast Chronicles to its shattering conclusion.  For hundreds of years, the mystics lived alongside the true-men, until King Charald laid siege to the mystic's island city and exiled them. Imoshen, most powerful of the female mystics, was elected to lead her people into exile. She faces threats from within, from male mystics who think they would make a better leader. And her people face threats from true-men, who have confiscated their ships. They must set sail by the first day of winter. Those who are left behind will be executed.  But once they set sail, they face winter storms, hostile harbours and sea-raiders who know their ships are laden with treasure. But Imoshen knows full well that the mystics cannot run for ever. They need somewhere to call home. They need... Sanctuary.  The thrilling end to this trilogy is another web of golden fantasy from Daniells in a series that will keep fans of George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb or Gail Z. Martin enthralled.

[PTY]

Solaris Books have just announced that the have acquired the latest book by Ben Jeapes. The book in question is called Phoenicia's Worlds and is set to be published in August 2013. You might know Ben from his excellent His Majesty's Starship.

Unfortunately we don't have a cover art yet but luckily we are able to give you the synopsis:
"La Nueva Temporada is Earth's only extrasolar colony; an Earth-type planet caught in the grip of a very Earth-type Ice Age. Alex Mateo wants nothing more than to stay and contribute to the terraforming of his homeworld. But tragedy strikes the colony, and to save it from starvation and collapse Alex must reluctantly entrust himself to the only starship in existence to make the long, slower than light journey back to Earth.

   But it is his brother Quin, who loathes La Nueva Temporada and all the people on it, who must watch his world collapse around him and become its ultimate saviour."

[Gaff]

This year marks Tarzan's 100th anniversary, and we have just the book for it — take a look at Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan by Robin Maxwell, out on September 18:

Cambridge, England, 1905. Jane Porter is hardly a typical woman of her time. The only female student in Cambridge University's medical program, she is far more comfortable in a lab coat dissecting corpses than she is in a corset and gown sipping afternoon tea. A budding paleoanthropologist, Jane dreams of traveling the globe in search of fossils that will prove the evolutionary theories of her scientific hero, Charles Darwin.

When dashing American explorer Ral Conrath invites Jane and her father to join an expedition deep into West Africa, she can hardly believe her luck. Africa is every bit as exotic and fascinating as she has always imagined, but Jane quickly learns that the lush jungle is full of secrets—and so is Ral Conrath. When danger strikes, Jane finds her hero, the key to humanity's past, and an all-consuming love in one extraordinary man: Tarzan of the Apes.

Jane is the first version of the Tarzan story written by a woman and authorized by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate. Its publication marks the centennial of the original Tarzan of the Apes.

Book Excerpt and Interview with Robin Maxwell, author of ~ Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan



http://www.layersofthought.net/2012/08/book-excerpt-and-interview-with-robin.html

[Melkor]

Prime Books has posted the table of contents for the upcoming Holly Phillips collection At the Edge of Waking:
Here's the book description:

With In the Palace of Repose, her debut collection of mostly unpublished work, Holly Phillips accomplished the improbable. The unknown Canadian author received critical acclaim and numerous honors including the 2006 Sunburst Award and nominations for the World Fantasy and Crawford Awards. Her accomplished prose sang with a unique voice, seamlessly blending emotion, insight, and craft. Now, At the Edge of Waking presents her latest tales written with even more depth and range-including a new, never-published story. Portraying human reaction to dire change or extreme circumstance, combining the real intruded upon by the fantastic or the fantastic grounded in reality, Phillips describes the world as it is, as it may be, as something impossible yet entirely acceptable, enthralling the reader with her words.

Here's the table of contents...

   
• "Three Days of Rain"
• "Cold Water Survival"
• "Brother of the Moon"
• "The Rescue"
• "Country Mothers' Sons"
• "Proving the Rule"
• "Virgin of the Sands"
• "Gin"
• "Queen of the Butterfly Kingdom"
• "The Long, Cold Goodbye"
• "Castle Rock" (original to this collection)

Book info as per Amazon US:

   
• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Prime Books (September 4, 2012)
• ISBN-10: 1607013568
• ISBN-13: 978-1607013563

[PTY]

Sequel to the Concrete Groove and the second part of the trilogy by Gary McMahon is set to be published in August and September by Solaris Books.

Here's the synopsis:Ben arrives in the Concrete Grove to research a book about the Northumbrian Poltergeist, an infamous paranormal incident from the early 1970s. A set of twins were haunted by a spirit they nicknamed Captain Clickety, and the media of the time were split between derision and hysteria. 
As Ben teases out the supressed details of the story, he finds himself drawn to an emotionally damaged woman whose young daughter went missing years ago during a period of similar child abductions.

Then the scarecrows appear, their heads plastered with photographs of the missing and the dead. House pets are found slaughtered, their bodies built into bloody totems. Hummingbirds flock to certain areas of the estate, as if awaiting the arrival of something...

A door has been opened and a presence is about to step through. The Hummingbird Twins, beset by strange visions, might know the secret, but they aren't talking. It is up to Ben to put the ghosts to rest and unravel fact from fiction. He is about to discover that the story he seeks is in fact his own story, and only he can plot the ending.

[PTY]

Anthology with simple title Magic is set to be published on 6th November by Solaris Books and features an impressive list of contributors.

Here's the official blurbs:


They gather in darkness, sharing ancient and arcane knowledge as they manipulate the very matter of reality itself. Spells and conjuration; legerdemain and prestidigitation – these are the mistresses and masters of the esoteric arts. Magic comes alive in their hands. British Fantasy Award nominee, Jonathan Oliver, gathers together sixteen stories of magic, featuring some of today's finest practitioners, including Audrey Niffenegger, Christopher Fowler, Gemma Files, Thana Niveau, Robert Shearman, Will Hill, Sarah Lotz, Storm Constantine, Dan Abnett, Sophia McDougall, Alison Littlewood, Lou Morgan, Gail Z. Martin and others.



Table of contents:

   
• The Wrong Fairy by Audrey Niffenegger
• If I Die, Kill my Cat by Sarah Lotz
• Shuffle by Will Hill
• Domestic Magic by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
• Cad Coddeau by Liz Williams
• Party Tricks by Dan Abnett
• First and Last and Always by Thana Niveau
• The Art of Escapology by Alison Littlewood
• The Baby by Christopher Fowler
• Do as Thou Wilt by Storm Constantine
• Bottom Line by Lou Morgan
• Mailer Daemon by Sophia McDougall
• Buttons by Gail Z. Martin
• Nanny Grey by Gemma Files
• Dumb Lucy by Robert Shearman

[PTY]

A Book Cover Gallery of 163 Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books Coming Out in September 2012

[PTY]

Amazon has the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming steampunk novel The Aylesford Skull by James P. Blaylock, one of the sub-genre's originators.

Here's the synopsis:

It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives – brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer – is at home in Aylesford with his family. However, a few miles to the north a steam launch has been taken by pirates above Egypt Bay; the crew murdered and pitched overboard. In Aylesford itself a grave is opened and possibly robbed of the skull. The suspected grave robber, the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, is an old nemesis of Langdon St. Ives.

When Dr. Narbondo returns to kidnap his four-year-old son Eddie and then vanishes into the night, St. Ives and his factotum Hasbro race to London in pursuit...

The first new steampunk novel in over twenty years from one of the genre's founding fathers!

[PTY]

Small Beer Press has sent along the table of contents for Ursula K. Le Guin's upcoming multi-volume collection Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin.

Here's the description:

Ursula K. Le Guin's stories have shaped the way many readers see the world. By giving voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaking truth to power—all the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor—she has proven herself one of our greatest writers. This two-volume selection of Le Guin's stories — as selected by the author — omits stories directly connected to novels. The first volume, Where on Earth, focuses on Le Guin's interests in realism and magic realism and includes stories from The Compass Rose, Orsinian Tales, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Buffalo Gals, Searoad, and Unlocking the Air. The companion volume Outer Space Inner Lands includes Le Guin's best known nonrealistic stories. Both volumes include new introductions by the author.