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Kage Baker — Announcing NELL GWYNNE'S ON LAND AND AT SEA




Following the publication of The Best of Kage Baker, we're only too happy to announce that our relationship with Kage will continue with Nell Gwynne's On Land and At Sea, a novel begun by Kage, who also made extensive notes, and completed by her sister, Kathleen Bartholomew.
The Ladies of Nell Gwynne's are not your run-of-the-mill demi-mondaines. They are refined and educated ladies all, engaged in the more elegant and expensive forms of carnal delight in order to make their their way in a hard world. But they also serve the Queen and the Empire, as the invaluable Ladies' Auxiliary of the technocratic Gentlemen's Speculative Society.

However, even the most dedicated operatives need a holiday from time to time. Nell Gwynne's shuts down for a month at the height of every summer for recreation and relaxation. This summer the Ladies have retired to a respectable boarding house in Torquay, since Mrs.Corvey, the Proprietress, is very fond of the sea. She also needs a deal of relaxing, as the cook at Nell Gwynne's has abruptly gotten religion and departed without notice for a less exotic position...

That is Mrs. Corvey's only worry, though, when she and the Ladies arrive in Torquay, the Riveria of England. They all look forward to taking the sun, some moderate sea bathing, reading novels and indulging in a little light archeology. As Herbertina happily observes, "Here's to blessed chastity!"
However, Torquay has recently been invaded by an eccentric and overly romantic American, who has peculiar intentions—both toward the placid coast of Tor Bay, and the unassailable privacy of Lady Beatrice. There are rumours and sightings of a sea monster. There are dead butlers and thugs and fox terriers in inconvenient places. And the Ladies cannot summon assistance from the GSS, all of whose agents are pursuing convoluted schemes abroad in Europe.

It appears their holidays will not be nearly as quiet as might be hoped ... but they will certainly be interesting.

                  Posted   on Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 at 7:55 am.               

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The CBLDF is proud to offer our supporters an exciting new premium by Neil Gaiman & David Mack!  This beautiful, exclusive print was contributed by our friends at Neverwear. Silk-screened in Austin, Texas these are  the variant blue test run, created in very limited quantities prior to the standard edition grey run.

Printed on a gorgeous French paper called Madero Beach, a 70 weight 8.5 " x 11″ recycled stock, the prints are full of flecks and bits. Creamy off-white, with 3 colors to show off David Mack's luscious artwork and lettering.

They are hand-numbered, in an extremely limited artist/printer edition of 90. They are not available anywhere else!
(At this time, these are not signed.)
Here is the entire text of the beautiful poem Neil composed, illustrated and illuminated by Mr. Mack:

I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You're the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You're my letter to desire: And you'll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You're my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends. -Neil Gaiman

http://cbldf.org/homepage/new-neil-gaiman-david-mack-print-debuts/

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A Book Cover Gallery of 152 Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books Coming Out in June 2012!!

(a dobar je fazon pogoditi zanr po naslovnici.  )

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oh, oh, OMG!! 

Genocidal Organ by Project Itoh announced, cover art, synopsis and release date!!!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1421542722/sfsi0c-20?tag=sfsi0c-20




Second book by Project Itoh (after excellent Harmony) will be called Genocidal Organ will be released in US on August 21st, 2012 and can already be ordered here. Genocidal organ is set in the same setting as Harmony and was in fact written before Harmony in 2007.

Here's what we can expect:

The war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave of genocides. The mysterious American John Paul seems to be behind the collapse of the world system, and it's up to intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd to track John Paul across the wreckage of civilizations, and to find the true heart of darkness—a genocidal organ.

http://upcoming4.me/media-news/book-news/item/10051-genocidal-organ-by-project-itoh-announced,-cover-art,-synopsis-and-release-date

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Ekaterina Sedia has posted the table of contents for her upcoming anthology Circus: Fantasy Under the Big Top. Check out this stellar lineup:




CIRCUS: FANTASY UNDER THE BIG TOP Table of Contents

Introduction
"Something About a Death, Something About a Fire" Peter Straub
"Smoke & Mirrors" Amanda Downum
"Calliope: A Steam Romance" Andrew J McKiernan
"Welcome to the Greatest Show in the Universe" Deborah Walker
"Vanishing Act" E. Catherine Tobler
"Quin's Shanghai Circus" Jeff VanderMeer
"Scream Angel" Douglas Smith
"The Vostrasovitch Clockwork Animal and Traveling Forest Show at the End of the World" Jessica Reisman
"Study, for Solo Piano" Genevieve Valentine
"Making My Entrance Again with My Usual Flair" Ken Scholes
"The Quest" Barry B. Longyear
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" Kij Johnson
"Courting the Queen of Sheba" Amanda C. Davis
"Circus Circus" Eric Witchey
"Phantasy Moste Grotesk" Felicity Dowker
"Learning to Leave" Christopher Barzak
"Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" Neal Barrett Jr
"The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue" Holly Black
"Manipulating Paper Birds" Cate Gardner
"Winter Quarters" Howard Waldrop

http://ekaterinasedia.com/index.php/2012/06/01/circus-fantasy-under-the-big-top/

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The unstoppable Kevin J Anderson is publishing another book this year. Latest in the announcements is the release of The Martian War which is currently stated to be published on September 25th, 2012.

Here's the synopsis:What if the Martian invasion was not entirely the product of H.G. Wells's vivid imagination? What if Wells witnessed something that spurred him to write The War of the Worlds as a warning?


From drafty London flats to the steamy Sahara, to the surface of the moon and beyond, The Martian War takes the reader on an exhilarating journey with Wells and his companions.

http://upcoming4.me/media-news/book-news/item/10052-martian-war-by-kevin-j-anderson,-cover-art,-synopsis-and-release-date

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Here's the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming novel Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriot by Project Itoh, a book inspired by the successful videogame franchise:

METAL GEAR SOLID: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS delivers the latest bullet-ridden adventures of Solid Snake, a crack soldier who is part of a worldwide nanotechnology network known as the Sons of the Patriots. Time is running out for Snake though, as he will soon succumb to the FOXDIE virus, but not before spreading the disease to nearly everyone he encounters, in essence becoming a walking biological weapon. Snake will need every advantage he can get, as the SOP network is about to be hacked by his old enemy Liquid Ocelot, and whoever controls SOP controls the world.

The book will be avilable on June 19th, 2012.

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EPIC
by John Joseph AdamsTrade paperback / 6 x 9 / 624pp. / $17.95 / November 2012

Foreword by Brent Weeks

"Homecoming" by Robin Hobb
"The Word of Unbinding" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"The Burning Man" by Tad Williams
"As the Wheel Turns" by Aliette de Bodard
"The Alchemist" by Paolo Bacigalupi
"Sandmagic" by Orson Scott Card
"The Road to Levinshir" by Patrick Rothfuss
"Rysn" by Brandon Sanderson
"While the Gods Laugh" by Michael Moorcock
"Mother of All Russiya" by Melanie Rawn
"Riding the Shore of the River of Death" by Kate Elliott
"The Bound Man" by Mary Robinette Kowal
"The Narcomancer" by N. K. Jemisin
"Strife Lingers in Memory" by Carrie Vaughn
"The Mad Apprentice" by Trudi Canavan
"Otherling" by Juliet Marillier
"The Mystery Knight" by George R. R. MartinThere is a sickness in the land. Prophets tell of the fall of empires, the rise of champions. Great beasts stir in vaults beneath the hills, beneath the waves. Armies mass. Gods walk. The world will be torn asunder.


Epic fantasy is storytelling at its biggest and best. From the creation myths and quest sagas of ancient times to the mega-popular fantasy novels of today, these are the stories that express our greatest hopes and fears, that create worlds so rich we long to return to them again and again, and that inspire us with their timeless values of courage and friendship in the face of ultimate evil—tales that transport us to the most ancient realms, and show us the most noble sacrifices, the most astonishing wonders.


Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams (Wastelands, The Living Dead) brings you seventeen tales by today's leading authors of epic fantasy, including George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire), Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea), Robin Hobb (Realms of Elderlings), Kate Elliott (Crown of Stars), Tad Williams (Of Memory, Sorrow & Thorn), Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle), and more.


Return again to lands you've loved, or visit magical new worlds. Victory against the coming darkness is never certain, but one thing's for sure—your adventure will be epic.


http://tachyonpublications.com/book/Epic.html?Session_ID=new

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On July 10, 2012, Del Rey will be publishing Year Zero by Rob Reid (the guy who started the company that built the Rhapsody music service).

Here's the description:
An alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet. Worse, they were lawyering up. . . .
In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe—and the inner workings of our absurdly dysfunctional music industry.

Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it's a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. And boy, do they have news.

The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanity's music ever since "Year Zero" (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven a vast intergalactic society to commit the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang. The resulting fines and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe. We humans suddenly own everything—and the aliens are not amused.

Nick Carter has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get ugly, and he's an unlikely galaxy-hopping hero: He's scared of heights. He's also about to be fired. And he happens to have the same name as a Backstreet Boy. But he does know a thing or two about copyright law. And he's packing a couple of other pencil-pushing superpowers that could come in handy.

Soon he's on the run from a sinister parrot and a highly combustible vacuum cleaner. With Carly and Frampton as his guides, Nick now has forty-eight hours to save humanity, while hopefully wowing the hot girl who lives down the hall from him.


And here's the book trailer...

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This month sees the release of Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa, my collaboration with Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author and SFWA Grand Master Philip José Farmer. Yeah, those honorific titles leave me humbled and in awe too, and they're enough to make my inner voice frequently exclaim, "Whoa, wait a minute, how did this happen? How did I end up working with the Wizard of Peoria to complete the long-awaited-and long feared to be forever stalled-conclusion to his Khokarsa series?"


The answer, as is often the case with big inner-voice questions, varies wildly depending on how far back you want to trace it. You could say it began in the early 1970s when I was four years old and over at my grandfather's house for Christmas, as my older brother tuned in a snowy, barely discernible image of Mr. Spock on a UHF channel. It might have been when, in grade school, I picked up and started reading a giant tome titled Science Fiction by H. G. Wells. Or when, between the ages of twelve and fifteen, I obsessively read every single novel then in print by Edgar Rice Burroughs. (I would have read them all in only a few months but it was the pre-Internet Age and the books were so hard to track down-but boy did I have fun searching them out!) Quite early in that latter period I picked up three books by Philip José Farmer: The Maker of Universes,Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke, and, fatefully, Hadon of Ancient Opar, which I regarded as the best of the lot. Other Farmers, of course, quickly followed, such as the Riverworld series; the rest of the World of Tiers books; the other Wold Newton "biography," Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life(which led to many more hours of reading during the lengthy hunt to complete my Bantam Doc Savage collection); Time's Last Gift (a new edition of this classic novel of time travel is now available from Titan Books, with an afterword I've written to explain how this novel serves as a sort of prequel to Gods of Opar);Venus on the Half-Shell by "Kilgore Trout"; and on and on until, still in my teenage years, I had almost all of them.



Early on I knew there was something different about Farmer. He had this funny way of planting little magic seeds in his writing. Seeds that, if nurtured by the water of attention, would sprout into the most fantastically bizarre trees of the imagination. These seeds were little, seeming irrelevancies in his novels and short stories — here, an arcane factoid; there, a character that seemed a little off but who was so tantalizingly familiar; and over yonder, a genealogical incongruity that appearedundermined the storyline. But if you took notice of these disparate "mythemes" (to borrow anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss's term for the smallest bundle of meaning in a narrative), and if you held them in your awareness as you read more of Farmer's work, these seedlings squirmed and wriggled, sprouting roots and branches and then entire trunks, until you eventually had a whole Brobdingnagian World Tree rising up out of your imagination — a grand meta-story that suddenly made you feel like you yourself were a character in the Grand Adventure. And the weird thing, the gratifying thing — and I believe, the enduring thing — about Farmer's palimpsest method of writing was that it was for the self-initiated only. You couldn't sit there and read passively or you missed half the fun.


Farmer, above all, is a Trickster. He knew some people would grok the seedlings, understand they were a doorway, a pocket-universe-hopping "gate" that opened the way so that the normally too-passive reader could step through to discover a new kind of experience — not an inactive one, but rather one that can only be calledcreative reading. An opportunity not only to share in the writer's experience, but to take the story beyond it until it seems like a living thing in your mind...and sometimes out of it. Farmer makes his readers pause on a mystical brink — sometimes with skepticism, other times with the sheer joy of faith — and consider that Kilgore Trout might really have written Venus on the Half-Shell, or that the identity of Tarzan of the Apes justmight actually be discernible if you spent enough time poring over the dusty pages of Burke's Peerage. When Farmer makes deadpan statements such as Doc Savage is "a man as real as you or I, and perhaps even more real," his initiated readers understand this in a unique way. It's a shared, knowing look between the author and the reader, a secret handshake of sorts.


Why do I think he did all this? For one, because it's the way his mind worked. To cite another term used by Levi-Strauss, Farmer was a bricoleur. That is, someone skilled in taking what's at hand regardless of its intended purpose — whether that be, in Farmer's case, a rich background in pop lit (i.e., pulp, SF/F, children's, etc.) as well as classic literature; or his Renaissance man's knowledge of anthropology, or linguistics, or religion; or the love he had for lighter-than-air craft, or Sir Richard Francis Burton, or Krazy Kat, or you name it — and crafting it into a new thing that often transcends the original. Farmer created bricolage because that's how his deep love for knowledge imprinted him — he couldn't help but plant the seedlings in his work because that's how he saw the world. You can see this bricolage clearly at work in his merging of the peoples of different ages and cultures in the Riverworld series; or in how he took hundreds of literary characters and ingeniously linked them all together to form the Wold Newton Family; or in the many backbiting and closely related Lords of theWorld of Tiers series, who formed pocket universes of their own, all of them linked via cleverly booby-trapped gates, but which somehow could never manage to keep the other Lords out. All of these examples are metaphors for how Farmer couldn't prevent the neural pathways in his brain from finding ways to connect seemingly disparate bundles of information (quite appropriately, Joe Lansdale once called Farmer "the Man with the Electric Brain").








Of course, just as often, I think Farmer sowed his magical seedlings throughout his bricolage simply because he wanted to laugh his ass off. I did say he was a Trickster, after all.
In any case, if I had to provide a single answer to the question of how I came to coauthor a novel with Philip José Farmer, it would be because of those seedlings, those mythemes, that were planted in my imagination so long ago. Without them I never would have begun writing articles about his work in the early 1990s (the one I'm most proud of having been reprinted in revised form in Win Scott Eckert's 2005 Locus Award Finalist anthology Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe). Nor would I have begun corresponding with Farmer in 1997, or a year later hopped in my car and drove halfway across the country to just meet him and listen to him talk about his work. Eventually, Phil Farmer and Michael Croteau called on me to serve as editor of Farmerphile, a digest magazine dedicated to printing rare and previously unpublished works by Farmer. And it was while working with these materials that Mike uncovered in Phil's files the partial manuscript and outline to what would eventually be titled The Song of Kwasin, the final installment of the Khokarsa trilogy. (Incidentally, these papers were found on the same trip during which Mike Croteau and Win Scott Eckert discovered the materials relating to The Evil and Pemberley House, which Win would later go on to complete with Phil's permission.)
In the next few weeks after the find, I carefully drafted a proposal and sent it off to Phil. It was one of the gutsiest things I've ever done. Phil, who by this time had retired from writing and was experiencing a declining health, wrote back with great enthusiasm, saying he approved of my proposal and wanted me to complete the novel. As late as 1999, Phil himself had been considering writing the conclusion of the trilogy, and I think the unforeseen prospect of making good on his intentions excited him. We discussed some details about the novel's close, and Phil told me what he had in mind now that The Song of Kwasin would be the conclusion to a trilogy rather than a novel in the middle of a longer series. I was attending graduate school for writing at this point, and needed to finish my thesis before I could break ground on Kwasin, but Phil and his wife Bette were firmly supportive of this and wanted me to hold off until I'd earned my degree.
I completed the first draft of The Song of Kwasin in early 2008. Phil wasn't doing so well now, but Bette Farmer read the novel aloud to him, telling me how Phil lit up at hearing of Kwasin's adventures, which made me very happy to say the least. Then, in January 2009, while visiting Phil about a month before he passed, I uncovered another trove of Khokarsa materials in the files (in addition to another assortment of Khokarsa files I'd found in 2006 and to which Phil graciously gave me access while I was writing the novel). These newly found papers included the complete Khokarsan syllabary and several drafts of an article on Khokarsan linguistics as well as other addenda — the best sense I can give you of Phil's world building is to say that it's truly Tolkienesque in its breadth and detail. In any event, it was a lucky find. I used this new information to make some adjustments to the final draft of the novel, which is at last seeing print Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa, an omnibus of the series now available from Subterranean Press.


The road to Khokarsa has been a long, strange, and winding one for me, and it's not a path that I could ever walk again if I tried. But I'm glad I did, just as I'm glad for all those seedlings Philip José Farmer planted in my imagination so many years ago. I know I wouldn't — and couldn't — have written The Song of Kwasinwithout them.

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Gollancz acquires new Brandon Sanderson series – STEELHEART is coming!

Gollancz, the SFF imprint of Orion Publishing, has acquired the first YA series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, it was announced today by Simon Spanton, Deputy Publishing Director. UK & Commonwealth rights were bought from John Richard Parker of the Zeno Literary Agency.

Gollancz will publish the first novel, STEELHEART, in Autumn 2013 in a simultaneous publication programme with the American publishers, Delacorte Press. Simon Spanton said "Brandon Sanderson has already proved himself to be one of our best-loved fantasy authors. We are hugely delighted to be able to join him on this new adventure. STEELHEART had me from page one. It was an exhilarating ride and I'm sure fans of Brandon – existing and new – will fall in love with his fantastic tale."

Brandon Sanderson is a #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning fantasy author with books published in over twenty-five languages, and millions of copies sold around the world.

The first novel of Sanderson's new series, STEELHEART, follows David – a teenager in the city that was once called Chicago – as he searches for the extraordinarily powerful Epic named Steelheart, who killed his father. Steelheart possesses the strength of ten men and can control the elements. It is said no bullet can harm him, no sword can split his skin, no explosion can burn him. Nobody fights back... nobody but the Reckoners.

A shadowy group of ordinary humans, the Reckoners spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then taking them out. For the death of his father, David wants to be there for the kill. For years, like the Reckoners, David has been studying, and planning, and he has something they need. Not an object, but an experience. He's seen Steelheart bleed.

STEELHEART takes an action-heavy plot, layers in complexity, and delivers twists and a breathtaking conclusion, as David and the Reckoners try to undo the dystopia the Epics have created. According to Sanderson's agent Eddie Schneider, STEELHEART has entered preliminary negotiations for a major Hollywood deal.

http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2012/06/gollancz-buys-new-brandon-sanderson-series-steelheart/

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Gollancz Acquires Three Fairy Tale Novellas from Sarah Pinborough

Gollancz, the Science-Fiction and Fantasy imprint of Orion, can today announce the World rights acquisition of three linked fairy tale novellas, with a twist, from the pen of the talented Sarah Pinborough. Agent Veronique Baxter of the David Higham Associates did the deal with Gillian Redfearn, Editorial Director of Gollancz.

Each of the 40,000 word novellas will be published in separate editions, most likely as illustrated hardbacks, in 2013, and each of them contains a sexy retelling of a traditional tale. The stories are cunningly interwoven, fresh and smart, and designed to breathe a dark and compelling new life into the fairy tale world. Delving into the psychology and true motives of some beloved characters – and doing so at a very timely moment – this is a fun, intriguing and sometimes surprising trio.

Sarah Pinborough commented: 'I'm really excited to be able to go back to some of the oldest and most well-loved stories in the world and re-dress them in new deliciously dark colours. I'm hoping to make the reader smile and shiver in equal measure.'

'Gollancz has never published novellas before, so for us to take the plunge required a really special project, which Sarah has provided. Her outlines for these stories are fabulous – familiar and challenging, dark and mischievous. These will be such fun to publish, and I think they're going to put a big smile on readers' faces,' Gillian Redfearn said, about this new project.

You can follow @SarahPinborough on twitter or visit www.sarahpinborough.com for all the latest news.

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   Gina Misiroglu is a pop-culture historian, best-selling author, and editor of The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes (2nd edition, Visible Ink Press). To find out more about what happens to superheroes in the Silver Age, look for Gina's next guest blog coming soon!   The Silver Age: Heroes ReemergeBy Gina Misiroglu, author of The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes (Visible Ink Press / $24.95).

In 1956 DC Comics, struggling to find new concepts that might attract readers, introduced a "tryout" title, Showcase. "The first three Showcases "flopped," editor Julius "Julie" Schwartz recalled in his autobiography, Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics (2000), "and we were at an editorial meeting trying to decide what to do in number four when I suggested that we try to revive the Flash." This renewal was given the green light despite the trepidation of other editors still battle-weary from the demise of superheroes several years earlier.

Schwartz steered the project into a fresh direction. Jay Garrick, the Flash of comics' Golden Age (1938-1954), was ignored-for a time, at least-and a new character, police scientist Barry Allen, obtained superspeed in his initial excursion in Showcase #4 (September-October 1956). Given a sporty costume by artist Carmine Infantino, the Flash mixed action, style, and imagination, an attractive alternative to DC's other series and to then-current television fare, where special-effects limitations made such superactivity impossible (or laughable when attempted). Brisk sales warranted three more Showcase appearances before the "Fastest Man Alive" sped into his own magazine.

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... a stize i drugi deo Ortogonala:



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/159780293X/sfsi0c-20?tag=sfsi0c-20


Here's the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming novel The Eternal Flame by Greg Egan, the second book in his  Orthogonal series, following The Clockwork Rocket . Here's the synopsis:

Greg Egan's

The Clockwork Rocket introduced readers to an exotic universe where the laws of physics are very different from our own, where the speed of light varies in ways Einstein would never allow, and where intelligent life has evolved in unique and fascinating ways. Now Egan continues his epic tale of alien beings embarked on a desperate voyage to save their world . . . .

The generation ship Peerless is in search of advanced technology capable of sparing their home planet from imminent destruction. In theory, the ship is traveling fast enough that it can traverse the cosmos for generations–and still return home only a few years after they departed. But a critical fuel shortage threatens to cut their urgent voyage short, even as a population explosion stretches the ship's life-support capacity to its limits.

When the astronomer Tamara discovers the Object, a meteor whose trajectory will bring it within range of the Peerless, she sees a risky solution to the fuel crisis. Meanwhile, the biologist Carlo searches for a better way to control fertility, despite the traditions and prejudices of their society. As the scientists clash with the ship's leaders, they find themselves caught up in two equally dangerous revolutions: one in the sexual roles of their species, the other in their very understanding of the nature of matter and energy.

The Eternal Flame lights up the mind with dazzling new frontiers of physics and biology, as only Greg Egan could imagine them.

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A sweeping, threaded narrative of the global phenomenon known as the Vampire Wars! Mankind is silently infected by a millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Now, in some rare cases, a person's so-called "junk DNA" becomes activated, and depending on their racial and ethnic heritage they begin to manifest one of the many diverse forms of the "others" that are the true basis for the legends of supernatural creatures. These aren't your usual vampires and werewolves – it goes much deeper than that. Conceived by Jonathan Maberry, V Wars features stories from various "frontlines" as reported by such contributors as Nancy Holder, Yvonne Navarro, James A. Moore, Gregory Frost, John Everson, Keith R.A. DeCandido, and Scott Nicholson (as well as Maberry himself, of course). The result is a compelling series of tales that create a unique chronicle of mankind's response to this sudden, hidden threat to humanity.

And here's the table of contents...

   
• "Junk" Part 1 by Jonathan Maberry
• "Roadkill" Part 1 by Nancy Holder
• "Junk" Part 2 by Jonathan Maberry
• "Love Less" Part 1 by John Everson
• "Junk" Part 3 by Jonathan Maberry
• "Epiphany" Part 1 by Yvonne Navarro
• "Junk" Part 4 by Jonathan Maberry
• "The Ballad of Big Charlie" Part 1 by Keith R.A. DeCandido
• "Junk" Part 5 by Jonathan Maberry
• "Heartsick" by Scott Nicholson
• "Junk" Part 6 by Jonathan Maberry
• "Roadkill" Part 2 by Nancy Holder
• "Vulpes" Part 1 by Gregory Frost
• "Escalation" by Jonathan Maberry
• "Stalking Anna Lei" Part 1 by James A. Moore
• "The Ballad of Big Charlie" Part 2 by Keith R.A. DeCandido
• "Species Genocide" by Jonathan Maberry
• "Stalking Anna Lei" Part 2 by James A. Moore
• "The Ballad of Big Charlie" Part 3 by Keith R.A. DeCandido
• "Embedded" by Jonathan Maberry
• "Vulpes" Part 2 by Gregory Frost
• "Epiphany" Part 2 by Yvonne Navarro
• "Last Bites" by Jonathan Maberry

Also; check out the V-Wars website.

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John C. Wright has posted the cover art and synopsis of his upcoming novel The Hermetic Millennia, the 2nd volume of his Count to the Eschaton Sequence (which began with Count to a Trillion):




Here's the synopsis:

A kaleidoscopic vision of future history and human evolution, as witnessed by the one man who may hold the key to humanity's salvation against an approaching alien threat...

Continuing from

Count to a Trillion, Menelaus Illation Montrose — Texas gunslinger, idealist, and posthuman genius — has gone into cryo-suspension following the discovery that, in 8,000 years, a powerful alien intelligence will reach Earth to assess humanity's value as slaves. Montrose intends to be alive to meet that threat, but he is awakened repeatedly throughout the centuries to confront the woes of an ever-changing and violent world, witnessing millennia of change compressed into a few years of subjective time.

The result is a breathtaking vision of future history like nothing before imagined: sweeping, tumultuous, and evermore alien, as Montrose's immortal enemies and former shipmates from the starship Hermetic harness the forces of evolution and social engineering to continuously reshape the Earth in their image, seeking to create a version of man the approaching slavers will find worthy.

John C. Wright also has an excerpt.

Publication date is December 24, 2012.

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Black Wings II - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror [jhc] edited by S.T. Joshi  THIS PRODUCT IS AT OUR PRINTERS AND IS  AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER.   All orders are processed on a strictly first come first, served basis, so please order in good time to avoid disappointment. The anticipated release date is stated below but please be aware that finished products may take longer to arrive from our printers.
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TITLE: Black Wings II - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horrror
AN ANTHOLOGY edited by S.T. Joshi
PUBLICATION DATE: June 2012
EDITION: Jacketed Hardcover
COVER ART: Jason Van Hollander
PRINT RUN: Unsigned
INTRODUCTION: S.T. Joshi
ISBN: 978-1-848631-19-9

SYNOPSIS:

This second instalment of S. T. Joshi's critically acclaimed Black Wings series contains eighteen stories by leading contemporary writers, all drawing upon themes, images, and ideas from the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft. Caitlín R. Kiernan has written a poetic reinterpretation of "The Hound," while Nicholas Royle plays a fascinating riff on the existential horror of "The Outsider." Three separate tales, by Jason C. Eckhardt, Brian Evenson, and Jonathan Thomas, ring changes on Lovecraft's seminal story, "The Call of Cthulhu." Nick Mamatas writes an ingenious elaboration of "The Whisperer in Darkness."
 
The cosmic indifferentism that is the core of Lovecraft's fiction is treated in various ways by John Langan, Melanie Tem, Tom Fletcher, Darrell Schweitzer, and Richard Gavin. The archaeological horror that we find in some of Lovecraft's most powerful tales is revivified by Donald Tyson, while Lovecraft's media presence is made the subject of half-comic, half-horrific tales by Don Webb and Chet Williamson. John Shirley, Rick Dakan, and Jason V Brock use Lovecraft's life and outlook as springboards for imaginative tales of psychological and supernatural horror.
 
All in all, Black Wings II affords a rich feast of terror inspired by the twentieth century's greatest writer of the supernatural.

CONTENTS

When Death Wakes Me to Myself - John Shirley
View - Tom Fletcher
Houndwife  -  Caitlín R. Kiernan
King of Cat Swamp  - Jonathan Thomas
Dead Media - Nick Mamatas
The Abject  -  Richard Gavin
Dahlias  -  Melanie Tem
Bloom - John Langan
And the Sea Gave Up the Dead  -  Jason C. Eckhardt
Casting Call  -  Don Webb
The Clockwork King, the Queen of Glass, and the Man with the Hundred Knives  -  Darrell Schweitzer
The Other Man -  Nicholas Royle
Waiting at the Crossroads Motel  - Steve Rasnic Tem
The Wilcox Remainder - Brian Evenson
Correlated Discontents - Rick Dakan
The Skinless Face - Donald Tyson
The History of a Letter  - Jason V Brock
Appointed - Chet Williamson

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If you are one of the first 100 people to preorder the book, you will get a custom laminated bookmark, just like the ones we sent out with the first 100 copies of The Worlds of José Farmer 2.

Publication will be in late summer, hopefully in time for FarmerCon VII, August 9 – 12. Here is the working table of contents (subject to change).

Foreword by Frederik Pohl
Peoria-Colored Worlds
Missing the Wit and Creativity by Michael Bailey
Down in Phil Farmer's Basement by Steven Connelly
Over All, After All by Philip José Farmer
Of Friendships and Influences
The Holy Spirit of Science Fiction by Bruce Sterling
The Robert Traurig Letters by Philip José Farmer
A Box of Influence by Chris Garcia
Wild Weird Clime by Philip José Farmer
To Be, or Not to Be by Tom Wode Bellman
Worlds in Disguise
Trout Masque Rectifier by Jonathan Swift Somers III
Kilgore, Kurt, and Me by David M. Harris
The Many Dooms of Harold Hall by Charlotte Corday-Marat
Desires Denied by Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor
Classic Worlds
Osiris on Crutches by Philip José Farmer & Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor
The Genuine Imposter by Rick Lai
The Long Wet Dream of Rip van Winkle by Philip José Farmer
Up, Out, and Over, Roger by Philip José Farmer
Expanded Worlds
The Wild Huntsman by Win Scott Eckert
Dakota's Gate by Heidi Ruby Miller
The Last of the Guaranys by Octavio Aragão & Carlos Orsi
Trickster of the Apes by S.M. Stirling

Of course, if you already own a copy of The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1 and 2 with matching numbers, we will send you the same number of volume 3.

[PTY]

Valentica je hiperaktivna. 



You'll encounter strange, compelling magics interwoven within a haunted book made of vegetation, cities that come to life and go to war, and surreal suburban nightmares played out through the eyes of children. The Book of Apex: Volume 3 contains work by Seanan McGuire, Saladin Ahmed, Theodora Goss, Forrest Aguirre, Cat Rambo, Ian Tregillis, Annalee Newitz, Peter M. Ball, and many other masters of the short form.

Here's the table of contents...

   
• "To the Mistress of the Labyrinth Give Honey" by Heather McDougal
• "I Am Thinking of You in the Spaces Between" by Shira Lipkin
• "Frank" by Betsy Phillips
• "Namasté Prime" by Grá Linnaea
• "The Whispered Thing" by Zach Lynott
• "The Tiger Hunt" by Rabbit Seagraves
• "The Neighborly Thing to Do" by T.J. Weyler
• "The Widow and the Xir" by Indrapramit Das
• "Your Cities" by Anaea Lay
• "The Doves of Hartleigh Garden" by Kathryn Weaver
• "Recipe Collecting in the Asteroid Belt" by Jeremy R. Butler
• "Twilight of the Eco-Terrorist" by Annalee Newitz
• "Biba Jibun" by Eugie Foster
• "The Eater" by Michael J. Deluca
• "The Dust and the Red" by Darin Bradley
• "The Speaking Bone" by Kat Howard
• "Close Your Eyes" by Cat Rambo
• "Langknech and Tzi-Tzi in the Land of the Mad" by Forrest Aguirre
• "The Itaewon Eschatology" by Douglas F. Warrick
• "The Tolling of Pavlov's Bells" by Seanan McGuire
• "Pale, and from a Sea-Wave Rising" by C.S.E. Cooney
• "Radishes" by Nick Wolven
• "The Faithful Soldier, Prompted" by Saladin Ahmed
• "50 Fatwas for the Virtuous Vampire" by Pamela Taylor
• "The Green Book" by Amal El-Mohtar
• "Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)" by Ian Tregillis
• "The Girl Who Had Six Fingers" by Brenda Stokes Barron
• "L'esprit de L'escalier" by Peter M. Ball
• "Portage" by An Owomoyela
• "FOUR IS ME! WITH SQUEEEEEE! (AND LOLER)" by Nick Mamatas
• "Fair Ladies" by Theodora Goss

[PTY]

Editor Roberto Mendes has sent in the table of contents for the premiere issue of International Speculative Fiction Magazine, which you can download for free:


Editorial by

   
• Editorial By Roberto Mendes (Portugal)

Short Stories

   
• "The Wind-Blown Man" by Aliette de Bodard (France)
• "The Death of Mr. Teodorescu" by Cristian Mihail Teodorescu (Romania)
• "The Ethics of Treoson" by Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro (Brazil)

Article

   
• Dispatches from Brazil by Fábio Fernandes (Brazil)

Interview

   
• A Conversation with Judit Lörinczy (Hungary) by Cristian Tamas (Romania)

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Salvage and Demolition, the astonishing new 21,000 word novella by Tim Powers, begins when Richard Blanzac, a San Francisco-based rare book dealer, opens a box of consignment items and encounters the unexpected. There, among an assortment of literary rarities, he discovers a manuscript in verse, an Ace Double Novel, and a scattering of very old cigarette butts. These commonplace objects serve as catalysts for an extraordinary—and unpredictable—adventure.

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

      ***

Salvage and Demolition will be printed in two colors throughout, copiously illustrated by J. K. Potter

http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/salvage_and_demolition

[PTY]

Great news for scifi, fantasy buffs in UK. Established science-fiction and fantasy imprint, Del Rey, known to their US counterparts will start publishing in the UK in early 2013. Del Ray will be led by editorial director Michael Rowley at the helm, and first expected books will include two from Mark Hodder, previously announced A Red Sun Also Rises, followed by a second book in Steampunk series The Burton & Swinburne Adventures currently without confirmed title.


Debut author Liesel Schwarz will also publish her Steampunk trilogy The Chronicles of Light and Shadow, with the first book in the series, A Conspiracy of Alchemists, to be published early 2013. Rowley described it as "full of action, suspense and passion" and claimed readers would be "begging for more".



As for other books, The Penitent Damned series by Django Wexler has also been snapped. The first book in the series, The Thousand Names, comes in summer 2013 and is described as "an epic fantasy that is full of great characters in a unique setting, complete with conspiracies, politics and bloodshed galore".




http://upcoming4.me/media-news/book-news/item/10159-del-rey-to-launch-in-the-uk-in-2013,-first-books-mark-hodder,-liesel-schwarz,-django-wexler

[PTY]

TOC: 'Solaris 1.5′ Edited by Ian Whates    By John DeNardo |   Friday, July 6th

                                           


Ian Whates has posted the table of contents for his new anthology (available July 17th) Solaris Rising 1.5, an eBook-only mini-anthology intended to bridge the gap between Solaris Rising (2011) and Solaris Rising 2 (2013):

   
• "What Did Tessimond Tell You?" by Adam Roberts
• "Two Sisters in Exile" by Aliette de Bodard
• "The Second Civil War" by Mike Resnick
• "Another Apocalypse" by Gareth L Powell
• "Charlotte" by Sarah Lotz
• "The Gift" by Phillip Vine
• "It" by Tanith Lee
• "A New Arrival at the House of Love" by Paul Cornell
• "A Palazzo in the Stars" by Paul de Filippo

[PTY]

Subterranean has posted the table of contents for their upcoming collection Other Seasons by Neal Barrett, Jr.




Here's the book description:Neal Barrett, Jr. answers (sometimes) to a number of names: Odd, Weird, Gonzo, and, as a former collection points out: Slightly Off Center. Barrett is all of the above, and more. From readers who have followed his career come accolades such as brilliant, unique, sheer genius. Other writers respect his status as a master of words, his ability to weave rhythm and poetry into his tales.
Barrett jumps in and out of genres at will, or simply invents one of his own. He likes to bring his favorite characters together, and see what they'll do. In "Sallie C." he puts The Wright Brothers, young Erwin Rommel and Sheriff Pat Garrett in a shabby hotel out west."Highbrow" finds generations of devoted workers building a half-mile high statue of Richard Nixon."Tony Red Dog" describes the trials and tribulations of the only Apache in the New York mob.
Neal Barrett, Jr. has made a special effort to give us a number of dark, funny, and hopefully impossible views of the future. Present in this collection are "Under Old New York," "Radio Station St. Jack," and the much heralded "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus."
Clearly, Nostrodamus missed the boat. Read and enjoy...

[Melkor]

Nikad ga nisam citao, mislim. Ti?

[PTY]

Covek mi je misterija, iskreno.
Cesto se pominje u fandomu, a u zadnjih par godina price su mu i prisutne na netu, Subterranean i Asimov's uglavnom, tako da sam po svoj prilici nesto od toga okrznula, sve i ako se sad ne secam. Znam da sam u skorije vreme naisla na rivjue njegovih novijih romana, Piggs i jos nesto, a bilo ga je i nesto malo po kolekcijama, tako da... sve u svemu, covek ima preko osam banki a aktivno pise najmanje 5, i garant smo se negde uzgredno sreli.

[PTY]

Editor Ross E. Lockhart has posted the table of contents for his upcoming (10/2012) anthology The Book of Cthulhu II:

Here's the book description:

Last year, Night Shade Books unleashed The Book of Cthulhu onto an unsuspecting world. Critically acclaimed as "the ultimate Cthulhu anthology" and "a 'must read' for fans of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos," The Book of Cthulhu went where no collection of mythos tales had gone before: to the very edge of madness... and beyond.

For nearly a century, H. P. Lovecraft's tales of malevolent Great Old Ones existing beyond the dimensions of this world, beyond the borders of sanity, have captured and held the imaginations of writers and aficionados of the dark, the macabre, the fantastic, and the horrible. Now, because you demanded more, anthologist Ross E. Lockhart has risked all to dive back into the Cthulhu canon, combing through mind-shattering manuscripts and moldering tomes to bring you The Book of Cthulhu 2, with even more tales of tentacles, terror, and madness.

Featuring monstrous stories by many of weird fiction's brightest lights, The Book of Cthulhu 2 brings you even more tales inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's greatest creation: The Cthulhu mythos.

This year, the stars are right...

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!

[PTY]

Prime Books has posted the table of contents and cover for the upcoming anthology Season of Wonder edited by Paula Guran:

Here's the book description:

Wonders abound with the winter holidays. Yuletide brings marvels and miracles both fantastic and futuristic. Christmas spirits can bring haunting holidays, seasonal songs might be sung by unearthly choirs, and magical celebrations are the norm during this very special time of the year. The best stories from many realms of fantasy and a multitude of future universes, gift-wrapped in one spectacular treasury of wintertime wonder.

Here's the excellent lineup...

   
• "The Night Things Changed" by Dana Cameron
• "Wise Men" by Orson Scott Card
• "Go Toward the Light" by Harlan Ellison
• "Home for Christmas" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan
• "The Best Christmas Ever" by James Patrick Kelly
• "Dulce Domum" by Ellen Kushner
• "Pal o' Mine" by Charles de Lint
• "A Woman's Best Friend" by Robert Reed
• "The Christmas Witch" by M. Rickert
• "Loop" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• "A Christmas Story" by Sarban
• "If Dragon's Mass Eve Be Cold and Clear" by Ken Scholes
• "Christmas at Hostage Canyon" by James Stoddard
• "The Winter Solstice" by Evelyn Vaughn
• "Newsletter" by Connie Willis
• "Julian: A Christmas Story" by Robert Charles Wilson
• "How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen" by Gene Wolfe

[PTY]

Today, HarperCollins announced a new multi-book deal with Neil Gaiman focusing on children's books.


The five-book output will begin on January 8th with the release ofChu's Day, a picture book about a Panda named Chu who has an outsized sneeze. (Inspired by the famous Sneezing Panda video, perhaps?) Chu's Day will be illustrated by Adam Rex, the author of Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich. A sequel will follow.


The deal also includes three middle-grade titles, one of them a sequel to Odd and the Frost Giants, one of them a new title called Fortunately, the Milk, which will feature art by Skottie Young, the artist behind Marvel Comics' Oz book retellings, and which the release heralds as "an ode to the pleasure and wonders of storytelling itself." The third book is currently untitled.


http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/07/next-5-neil-gaiman-books-announced

[PTY]

Preorder Dark Faith: Invocations with Dark Faith for $25


Religion, science, magic, love, family — everyone believes in something, and that faith pulls us through the darkness and the light.  The second coming of Dark Faith cries from the depths with 26 stories of sacrifice and redemption.


Sublet an apartment inside God's head.  Hunt giant Buddhas in a post-apocalyptic future.  Visit a city where an artist's fantastic creations alter reality.  Discover the deep cosmic purpose behind your office vending machine.  Wield godlike powers and suffer the most heartbreaking of human limitations.


Join Max Allan Collins, Mike Resnick, Jay Lake, Jennifer Pelland, Laird Barron, Tom Piccirilli, Nisi Shawl, and a host of genre's best writers for an exploration into the things we hold dear and the truths that shatter us.


Table of Contents:

"Subletting God's Head" by Tom Piccirilli
"The Cancer Catechism" by Jay Lake
"The Big Blue Peacock" by Nick Mamatas
"Kill the Buddha" by Elizabeth Twist
"Robotnik" by Lavie Tidhar
"Prometheus Possessed" by Matt Cardin
"Night Train" by Alma Alexander
"The Sandfather" by Richard Wright
"Sacrifice" by Jennifer Pelland
"Thou Art God" by Tim Waggoner
"Wishflowers" by Tim Pratt
"Coin Drop" by Richard Dansky
"Starter Kit" by R.J. Sullivan
"A Little Faith" by Max Allan Collins and Matthew Clemens
"The Revealed Truth" by Mike Resnick
"God's Dig" by Kelly Eiro
"The Divinity Boutique" by Brian J. Hatcher
"The Birth of Pegasus" by K. Tempest Bradford
"All This Pure Light Leaking In" by LaShawn M. Wanak
"Fin De Siècle" by Gemma Files
"The Angel Seems" by Jeffrey Ford
"Magdala Amygdala" by Lucy A. Snyder
"A Strange Form of Life" by Laird Barron
"In Blood and Song" by Nisi Shawl and Michael Ehart
"Little Lies, Dear Leader" by Kyle S. Johnson
"I Inhale the City, the City Exhales Me" by Douglas F. Warrick
Cover Artist:
  Anderzak

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The collected short stories of detective John J. Mallory, the hero of Resnick's Stalking The Unicorn, Stalking The Vampire and Stalking The Dragon. Eight, hilarious tales of a hard-boiled detective from our world, unhappily stranded in a Manhattan filled with trolls, pink elephants, a blue-nosed reindeer, powerful demons and more. The title story appears here for the first time.

   
• "Post Time in Pink"
• "The Blue-Nosed Reindeer"
• "Card Shark"
• "The Chinese Sandman"
• "The Amorous Broom"
• "The Long and Short of It"
• "Shell Game"
• "Stalking the Zombie"

There's also a preface by Connie Willis

[PTY]

"No one can doubt that the wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. No one can doubt that cooperation in the pursuit of knowledge must lead to freedom of the mind and freedom of the soul."
—President John F. Kennedy, from a speech at University of California, March 23, 1962

In a world gone wrong, heroes and villains are not always easy to distinguish and every individual has the ability to contribute something powerful.

In this stunning collection of original and rediscovered stories of tragedy and hope, the stars are a diverse group of students, street kids, good girls, kidnappers, and child laborers pitted against their environments, their governments, differing cultures, and sometimes one another as they seek answers in their dystopian worlds. Take a journey through time from a nuclear nightmare of the past to society's far future beyond Earth with these eleven stories by masters of speculative fiction. Includes stories by Paolo Bacigalupi, Ursula K. Le Guin, Malinda Lo, Cindy Pon, Daniel H. Wilson, and more.

Here's the impressive table of contents...

   
• "The Last Day" by Ellen Oh
• "Freshee's Frogurt" by Daniel H. Wilson
• "Uncertainty Principle" by K. Tempest Bradford
• "Pattern Recognition" by Ken Liu
• "Gods of Dimming Light" by Greg van Eekhout
• "Next Door" by Rahul Kanakia
• "Good Girl" by Malinda Lo
• "A Pocket Full of Dharma" by Paolo Bacigalupi
• "Blue Skies" by Cindy Pon
• "What Arms to Hold" by Rajan Khanna
• "Solitude" by Ursula K. Le Guin

[PTY]

Bilo kuda - Resnik svuda! 




In his long and storied career, Mike Resnick has won all of science fiction's most prestigious awards. He has won the Nebula, the Hugo, and numerous readers awards. He has won the Japanese Hugo, as well as major awards in Spain, France, Poland and Croatia.

The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures focuses on Mike's most recent award-winners and nominees with the exception of heartbreaking "The Last Dog," Mike's very first award-winning short story and his multi-award-winning classic "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge."

From examinations of life and death to questions of eternity, Mike's short fiction explores the range of the human experience—even though his characters include dogs, robots and aliens.

   This collection has everything to appeal to the most devoted Mike Resnick fan, including a never-before-seen-in-print novella, "Six Blind Men And An Alien." The story, set in Africa like so many of Mike's award-winners, is one of his most spectacular works to date.

The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures shows why Mike Resnick is one of science fiction's most treasured writers—and one of its most beloved.

Limited: 1000 signed numbered hardcover copies


Table of Contents

   
•       Introduction
•       Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge
•       Barnaby in Exile
•       The Last Dog
•       Article of Faith
•       The Big Guy
•       The Boy Who Cried "Dragon!"
•       Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders
•       Distant Replay
•       The Bride of Frankenstein
•       The One That Got Away
•       All the Things You Are
•       The Incarceration of Captain Nebula
•       Six Blind Men and an Alien

From Publishers Weekly:

"This easy-reading collection of 12 of Resnick's latest tales, plus his first prizewinner from 1977, ably brings out his classic SF approach to topics like faith and love, often with African settings and perspectives. Variously humorous, ironic, and straightforward emotional pleas, these are stories that John W. Campbell would have been glad to publish."

http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/the_incarceration_of_captain_nebula_and_other_lost_futures

[PTY]

We're going to take a look at Cory Doctorow's upcoming novels this week! Let's start with a joint work between him and Charles Stross, out on September 4 -Rapture of the Nerds:

Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.

Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun.

The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar-system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander...and when that happens, it casually spams Earth's networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there's always someone who'll take a bite from the forbidden apple.

So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth's anthill, there's Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors.

http://www.tor.com/stories/2012/07/rapture-of-the-nerds-excerpt

[PTY]

Novi roman Lauren Beukes je još uvek haš-haš ali procureo je cover art:

[PTY]

A najzad i jedna knjiga za Jevtropijevićku  :













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


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

[PTY]

Jonathan Strahan has posted the table of contents for his upcoming anthology Edge of Infinity, a direct follow on from last year's Engineering Infinity, but this time is focused on "hard SF/adventure set in an industrialised, settled pre-starflight solar system":




"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". Those were Neil Armstrong's immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new hard SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System. From the slow turning, eccentric inferno of Mercury to the farthest chunks of ice and rock skimming our heliosphere, every inch of our Solar System is the stage for the greatest adventure in humanity's history. Set to feature stories by Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Paul McAuley, An Owomoyela, Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, Bruce Sterling, Peter Watts, John Barnes, and James S.A. Corey, Edge of Infinity is hard SF adventure at its best and most exhilarating.

Here's the table of contents...

   
• "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi" by Pat Cadigan
• "The Deeps of the Sky" by Elizabeth Bear
• "Drive" by James S.A. Corey
• "The Road to NPS" by Sandra McDonald & Stephen D. Covey
• "Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh" by John Barnes
• "Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden" by Paul McAuley
• "Safety Tests" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• "Bricks, Sticks, Straw" by Gwyneth Jones
• "Tyche and the Ants" by Hannu Rajaniemi
• "Obelisk" by Stephen Baxter
• "Vainglory" by Alastair Reynolds
• "Water Rights" by An Owomayela
• "The Peak of Eternal Light" by Bruce Sterling

[Melkor]

Kad smo kod Strahana, da li je odustao od Eclipse, zna li ko?

[PTY]

Skoro je na blogu zvucao prilicno depresivno, umor i stres uzeli danak, protumacila sam to kao najavu da ce biti ili pauze ili silnog usporavanja a eklipsa bi tu bila medju prvima. nije ni cudo, kad se vidi gde ga sve ima.

[Gaff]

Kad smo kod Strahana, da li je odustao od Eclipse, zna li ko?

Mislim da nije. U ovom podcastu govori nešto malo o tome (od 00:21) šta kako i zašto.

http://writerandcritic.podbean.com/2012/07/20/episode-21-akata-witch-and-the-drowning-girl-plus-galveston/

[Melkor]

Hvala, odslusacu cast kad se vrnem kuci. Steta bi bilo da odustane od Eklipse, tematskih antologija imamo vise nego dovoljno, originalne antologije su bas retke, jos meni odgovara njegovo urednikovanje.

[PTY]

i jos malo Resnika:




Mike Resnick has sent along the cover art for his upcoming novel, The Doctor and the Rough Rider: A Weird West Tale, the follow on book to The Buntline Special and The Doctor and the Kid.

Here's the synopsis from The Book Depository:

The successful Wild West meets steampunk series continues. The battle lines are drawn: Theodore Roosevelt and Geronimo against the most powerful of the medicine men, a supernatural creature that seemingly nothing can harm; and Doc Holliday against the man with more credited kills than any gunfighter in history. It does not promise to be a tranquil summer.

[PTY]

There has already been some talk about the upcoming Peter F Hamiltons Fallers trilogy and now some more details have emerged. It seems that initially we will be getting two books, and that as reported, the book will mark the return to Commonwealth Universe and will be set before the Void trilogy. The books will be concerned with the story of Nigel Sheldon and what happened when he broke into the Void.

First book will be called The Chronicle of the Fallers and will be published in 2014

http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/peter-f-hamilton-s-the-chronicle-of-the-fallers-to-come-out-in-the-2014

[Gaff]

Lavie Tidhar has posted the table of contents for an upcoming anthology in which he appears, Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana, which is being published by Zubaan Books in India:

   
• "Kalyug Amended" by Molshree Ambastha
• "Exile" by Neelanjana Banerjee
• "Fragments from The Book of Beauty" by Priya Sarukkai Chabria
• "Sita's Descent" by Indrapramit Das
• "The Good King" by Abha Dawesar
• "Sita to Vaidehi — Another Journey" by Sucharita Dutta-Asane
• "Day of the Deer" by Lavanya Karthik
• "Weak Heart" by Tabish Khair
• "Regressions" by Swapna Kishore
• "The Ramayana as an American Reality Television Show: Internet Activity Following the Mutilation of Surpanakha" by Kuzhali Manickavel
• "Petrichor" by Sharanya Manivannan (Tharini Manivannan)
• "The Princess in the Forest" by Mary Anne Mohanraj
• "Falling into the Earth" by Shweta Narayan
• "Vaidehi and her Earth Mother" by Pratap Reddy
• "The Mango Grove" by Julia A. Rosenthal
• "The Chance" by Pervin Saket
• "Oblivion: A Journey" by Vandana Singh
• "Game of Asylum Seekers (Women)" by K.Srilata
• "Making" by Aishwarya Subramanian
• "This, Other World" by Lavie Tidhar
• "Machanu Visits The Underworld" by Tori Truslow
• "Sarama" by Deepak Unnikrishnan
• "Great Disobedience" by Abirami Velliangiri

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/04/toc-breaking-the-bow-speculative-fiction-inspired-by-the-ramayana-edited-by-anil-menon-and-vandana-singh/

i razgovor o toj temi:

Anil Menon and Vandana Singh, co-editors of the recent Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana




A kad smo već kod indijske SF:

I would like to see an English translation of a story that is among the first science fiction stories from India.  It is called Niruddesher Kahini and it was published in Bengali in 1896 by the scientist and polymath Jagadish Chandra Bose.

J. C. Bose and other Indian SF

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i jos malo Resnika

I onda još malo Resnika:

PS Publishing has posted the cover art, synopsis and table of contents for the upcoming collection Masters of The Galaxy by Mike Resnick.

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Resnik, Resnik, svuda Resnik... 




Nego, evo nešto vrlo zanimljivo, bar za novopečenog fana Ekaterine Sedie kao što sam ja:


Interesting new anthology entitled Circus - Fantasy Under The Big Top is set to be published on 5th September, 2012 and it sports very impressive table of contents. Anthology is edited by our favorite Ekaterina Sedia and is set to feature "stories of circuses traditional and bizarre, futuristic and steeped in tradition, joyful and heart-breaking"

















Introduction
"Something About a Death, Something About a Fire" Peter Straub
"Smoke & Mirrors" Amanda Downum
"Calliope: A Steam Romance" Andrew J McKiernan
"Welcome to the Greatest Show in the Universe" Deborah Walker
"Vanishing Act" E. Catherine Toble
r"Quin's Shanghai Circus" Jeff VanderMeer
"Scream Angel" Douglas Smith
"The Vostrasovitch Clockwork Animal and Traveling Forest Show at the End of the World" Jessica Reisman
"Study, for Solo Piano" Genevieve Valentine
"Making My Entrance Again with My Usual Flair" Ken Scholes
"The Quest" Barry B. Longyear
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" Kij Johnson
"Courting the Queen of Sheba" Amanda C. Davis
"Circus Circus" Eric Witchey
"Phantasy Moste Grotesk" Felicity Dowker
"Learning to Leave" Christopher Barzak
"Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" Neal Barrett Jr
"The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue" Holly Black
"Manipulating Paper Birds" Cate Gardner
"Winter Quarters" Howard Waldrop

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Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy cover art and table of contents


Prime Books are known for their excellent anthologies and according to recently released table of contents, upcoming anthology Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy will be no exception. Anthology is edited by Paula Guran and will feature stories by Bruce Sterling, Elizabeth Bear and others. The release date currently stands at 10th October 2012 and you can already order your copy here.

Table of contents:

   
• Elizabeth Bear, "Hobnoblin Blues"
• Poppy Z. Brite, "Arise"
• Edward Bryant "Stone"
• Pat Cadigan "Rock On"
• Lawrence C. Connolly "Mercenary" (Original)
• Bradley Denton "We Love Lydia Love"
• Elizabeth Hand "The Erl-King"
• Del James "Mourningstar" (Original)
• Graham Joyce "Last Rising Son"
• Greg Kihn "Then Play On"
• Marc Laidlaw "Wunderkindergarten"
• Caitlín R. Kiernan "Paedomorphosis"
• Charles de Lint "That Was Radio Clash"
• Graham Masterton "Voodoo Child"
• Alastair Reynolds "At Budokan"
• David J. Schow "Odeed":
• Lewis Shiner "Jeff Beck":
• John Shirley "Freezone"
• Lucius Shepard "...How My Heart Breaks When I Sing This Song..."
• Norman Spinrad "The Big Flash"
• Bruce Sterling "We See Things Differently"
• Michael Swanwick "The Feast of Saint Janis"
• F. Paul Wilson "Bob Dylan, Troy Johnson, and the Speed Queen"
• Howard Waldrop "Flying Saucer Rock and Roll"

Brajtovica??? ili bolje, Mr. Brajt? 

(za naslovnicu svrnite na: http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/rock-on-the-greatest-hits-of-science-fiction-fantasy-cover-art-and-table-of-contents)

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Announcing the Futuredaze AuthorsPosted on July 30, 2012by Erin Underwood Because of the additional interested created for  Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction by our Kickstarter campaign, we thought that releasing a new update was in order. Normally, we would wait to announce the actual Table of Contents (TOC) until all of the titles are ironed out, but we've had a few queries about the author line-up and thought we could at least share this information.

This is a very full anthology. One of the most exciting things about Futuredaze is that the authors range from award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors to new writers who are seeing their work in print for the first time, not to mention we have one writer who is actually a young adult as well as 14 pieces from international writers in Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Scotland, and England.

We are excited to announce that Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction, edited by Hannah Strom-Martin and Erin Underwood, will be available from Underwords in February 2013. We are equally excited to reveal the authors for the anthology, all of whom are listed below. The actual TOC will be relaeased soon along with the cover art for the anthology.

http://underwordsblog.com/2012/07/30/futuredaze-authors/

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Despite wars with Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as 9/11, the United States' dependence on foreign oil has kept the nation tied to the Middle East. A scientist has developed a cure for America's addiction—a slow-acting virus that feeds on petroleum, turning it solid. But he didn't consider that his contagion of an Iraqi oil field could spread to infect the fuel supply of the entire world...
In Los Angeles, screenwriter Dave Marshall heard this scenario from a retired US marine and government insider who acted as a consultant on Dave's last film. It sounded as implausible as many of his scripts, but the reality is much more frightening than anything he could have envisioned.
An ordinary guy armed with extraordinary information, Dave hopes his survivor's instinct will kick in so he can protect his wife and daughter from the coming apocalypse that will alter the future of Earth—and humanity...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441017576/sfsi0c-20?tag=sfsi0c-20

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The Coraline and American Gods author has been hinting to his Twitter followers today that he would soon announce the title to his upcoming novel. Then he nearly made his fans wait until the following morning. But he still followed through. And the title is... (EW can be a tease too)...

The Ocean at the End of the Lane.

Let the speculation of just what fantastical oddities we'll find at this ocean begin.

http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/08/02/neil-gaiman-new-book-title/