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If you, like us, have enjoyed the Expanse series by James SA Corey, you'll be happy to know that in less that two weeks time, new 69 pages novella entitled Gods of Risk sees the light of day. Novella is e-book only and will be 69 pages long.


You can preorder your copy here

Here's the synopsis:
As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, sixteen-year-old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war. A gifted chemist vying for a place at the university, David leads a secret life as a manufacturer for a ruthless drug dealer. When his friend Leelee goes missing, leaving signs of the dealer's involvement, David takes it upon himself to save her. But first he must shake his aunt Bobbie Draper, an ex-marine who has been set adrift in her own life after a mysterious series of events nobody is talking about. Set in the hard-scrabble solar system of Leviathan Wakes and Caliban's War, Chemistry deepens James S. A. Corey's acclaimed Expanse series.

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  Book Description Publication Date: January 8, 2013 | Series: The Arcadian Conflict     The Earth is dying. Humanity — over-breeding, over-consuming — is destroying the very planet they call home. Multinational corporations despoil the environment, market genetically modified crops to control the food supply, and use their wealth and influence and private armies to crush anything, and anyone, that gets in the way of their profits. Nothing human can stop them. But something unhuman might. Once they did not fear the sun. Once they could breathe the air and sleep where they chose. But now they can rest only within the uncontaminated soil of Mother Earth—and the time has come for them to fight back against the ruthless corporations that threaten their immortal existence.

They are the last guardians of paradise, more than human but less than angels. They call themselves the Arcadians. We know them as vampires. . . .   Show More  Show Less 

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http://georgemann.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/and-so-it-begins/

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Ripped Genes: The Biopunk Special Issue Ebook (Morpheus Tales Special Issues) [Kindle Edition]

John Rovito(Author), Richard Farren Barber(Author), Nicholas Stirling(Author), David Barber(Author), Alan Spencer(Author), J.B. Ronan(Author),Benjamin Jones(Author), Douglas J. Ogurek(Author), Matt Leyshon(Author),Samuel Diamond(Editor)













Morpheus Tales is proud to present: Ripped Genes: The Biopunk Special Issue edited by Samuel Diamond. Featuring The New Fatherhood By Benjamin F Jones, Setting Down By Douglas J. Ogurek, Fishing the Life in Notochords By Matt Leyshon, Harvest By J.B. Ronan, Richard and the Silver Marks By Nicholas Stirling, Baby Boom By Alan Spencer, Killing Larmark By David Barber, Ecce Homo By John Rovito, Clone By Jennifer Marie Brissett, Mousetrap By Oscar Windsor-Smith, Anti-Bodies By Wednesday Silverwood, Screaming Monkeys By Dev Jarrett, Legacy By Richard Farren Barber. One reviewer said: Cutting edge SF at it's very best! Devilishly good stuff!








http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0094QU2A4/sfsi0c-20?tag=sfsi0c-20

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Angry Robot Books have released their publishing schedule for the first half of the 2013.



Nexus by Ramez Naam (World: Jan 2013)


The Merchant of Dreams by Anne Lyle (World: Jan 2013)


The Bookman Histories (Omnibus) by Lavie Tidhar (World: Jan 2013)


The Mad Scientist's Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke (World: Feb 2013)


She Returns From War by Lee Collins (World: Feb 2013)


Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman (World: Mar 2013)


Hell to Pay by Matthew Hughes (World: Mar 2013)


Monstercide by Dan Abnett (World: Apr 2013)


The Marching Dead by Lee Battersby (World: Apr 2013)


Black Feathers by Joseph D'Lacey (World: Apr 2013)




The Age Atomic by Adam Christopher (World: May 2013)


Known Devil by Justin Gustainis (World: May 2013)


The Eighth Court by Mike Shevdon (World: 2013)


A Discourse in Steel by Paul S. Kemp (World: Jun 2013)


The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu (World: Jun 2013)

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Six-Gun Snow White (preorder) by Catherynne M. Valente         

(preorder—to be published in Spring 2013)

Dust jacket illustration by Charles Vess.


From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes a brilliant reinvention of one the best known fairy tales of all time. In the novella Six-Gun Snow White, Valente transports the title's heroine to a masterfully evoked Old West where Coyote is just as likely to be found as the seven dwarves.

A plain-spoken, appealing narrator relates the history of her parents—a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him. With her mother's death in childbirth, so begins a heroine's tale equal parts heartbreak and strength. This girl has been born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child. After being hidden for years, a very wicked stepmother finally gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have. Filled with fascinating glimpses through the fabled looking glass and a close-up look at hard living in the gritty gun-slinging West, readers will be enchanted by this story at once familiar and entirely new.

Limited: 1000 signed numbered hardcover copies

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Ovo je must have!!!

At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories


A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in "The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror," "Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year," and "The Secret History of Fantasy."
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
The Horse Raiders
Spar
Fox Magic
Names for Water
Schrodinger's Cathouse
My Wife Reincarnated as a Solitaire
Chenting, in the Land of the Dead
The Bitey Cat
The Empress Jingu Fishes
Wolf Trapping
The Man Who Bridged the Mist
Ponies
The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles
The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change
Kij Johnson's stories have won the Sturgeon and World Fantasy awards. She has taught writing; worked at Tor, Dark Horse, and Microsoft; worked as a radio announcer; run bookstores; and waitressed in a strip bar.

   
• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Big Mouth House (30 Aug 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931520801
• ISBN-13: 978-1931520805
• Product Dimensions: 14 x 2.9 x 21.6 cm

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Here's the the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming novel Debris Dreams by David Colby, being published in November 2012 by Candlemark & Gleam.




The year is 2068, the place is near earth orbit, an environment so hostile to human life that every day is a constant reminder that the only thing keeping you from a painful, horrifying death is the thin metal and technological systems that surround you. For Drusilla Xao and her contemporaries...this is home. Dru and her fellows are not your average teenagers. They were raised and taught by AIs and a cycle of off-watch adults, their parents sometimes weeks or months away. Through it all, Dru kept herself sane in the classic way: Video games, browsing the Lag-Net (so called because it connects stations in orbit to Earth born cities...and because light-speed limitations make it extremely laggy) and pining over her Earth-born girlfriend, Sarah.

And then, in one instant, the orderly life that they had known was shattered. A terrorist attack on an unfinished space elevator causes a cascade of debris impacts, which destroy station after station, killing thousands and sparking a war between the distant Earth and their rebellious Lunar colony. Dru's parents are killed and her hopes for one day visiting Earth are dashed, as the cloud of debris that choke the Earth's orbit prevents travel to and from the surface. Now, the only chance for the war to be won is to create an army with what is left in orbit...and while all the adults have vital life sustaining jobs to accomplish, Dru and her contemporaries haven't qualified for a single one.

Now, their lives are all too familiar to those who live on Earth. Their lives are the lives of the millions of men and women throughout history who have joined the military: Long periods of boredom followed by infinitesimal moments of absolute terror. But for Dru, the horror of war has given her the chance to make a difference.

If she can survive.

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Check out the cover art and synopsis of the Karen Lord's next novel The Best of All Possible Worlds.

Cover art shown here. Here's the synopsis:

When Grace Delarua, civil servant of the government of Cygnus Beta, is assigned to work with Dllenahkh from the new Sadiri settlement, her routine job suddenly becomes very interesting. Formerly the galaxy's ruling elite, Dllenahkh and his group of Sadiri    refugees are the excess males of a decimated population, desperate in their search for stability, security ... and wives. Some people would let the Ministry of Family Planning handle the matchmaking duties, but Dllenahkh, conscientious as ever, decides to track down the descendants of previous Sadiri settlers.

Grace gets swept along on a year of travel and discovery that changes her life completely and challenges the very idea of what it means to be Cygnian or Sadiri. The Best of All Possible Worlds is Grace's journal, and a story about survival and identity on several    levels – individual, familial, national, global, and human.

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Our featured book for this week is the fantastic anthology Imaginarium 2012 - The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. As the title says, it collects some of the best Canadian speculative writing from 2012 and features authors like Cory Doctorow, Steven Erikson, Petter Watts and Kelley Armstrong.

Order your copy here
Here's the description
ChiZine Publications and Tightrope Books unite in a joint venture to produce a yearly anthology of speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and magic realism). Canadian speculative fiction has been increasingly recognized internationally for the calibre of its authors and their insight into the nature of social and cultural identities, the implications of new technologies, and the relationship between humankind and its environments. At their best, these pieces disrupt habits and overcome barriers of cultural perception to make the familiar strange through the use of speculative elements such as magic and technology. They provide glimpses of alternate realities and possible futures and pasts that provoke an ethical, social, political, environmental, and biological inquiry into what it means to be human.

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If you have been following the development of Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross you might have stumbled upon the information that the series was not exactly as Stross intended. It was stretched into more books that it was originally intended and it certainly showed. However, TOR UK and Charles Stross have announced the release of the Omnibus editions which will not only collect the series but "author's cut" it according to Stross' wishes. Based on the information we can expect some 4-5% less material but lots of continuity and typo fixes.

Book will be split into three volumes out of which first will be called The Bloodline Feud and is expected to come out in April 2013. The rest of the series will follow at one month intervals and will be called "The Trader's War" and the "The Revolution Trade".

We can't wait!

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oko ovog naslova ima toliko ispraznog haš-haša da me sad već polako i zanima, iako me Štros po pravilu ne zanima.


http://www.amazon.com/Tall-Tail-Tor-Com-Original-ebook/dp/B00942QOB4/ref=sr_1_776?s=books&ie=UTF8&tag=upcoming00-20&qid=1347609375&sr=1-776

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Chronicling the events and key ideas from the second half of the 20th century in both the world of science fiction and the world at large, this collection of insights and musings from a Grand Master of the genre offers a unique perspective with the edge of honed artist. Robert Silverberg offers up essays on unique scientific ideas as well as on real characters and society that contemplates the end-of-world empires, resonating with contemporary news and headlines but also taking into account the role of the writer who seeks inspiration in true events. The author also takes stock of his contemporaries, providing an inside look at the lives of other greats such as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Phillip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, James Tiptree Jr., and Jack Vance. This edition includes an expanded section on writing science fiction, creating an invaluable resource for new writers venturing into the field on whom Silverberg has made a significant impact.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933065516/sfsi0c-20

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Stories to Captivate the Imagination: Welcome to the worlds of Saladin Ahmed

A medieval physician asked to do the impossible. A gun slinging Muslim wizard in the old West. A disgruntled super villain pining for prison reform. A cybernetic soldier who might or might not be receiving messages from God. Prepare yourself to be transported to new and fantastical worlds.

The short stories in this collection have been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards. They've been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and other anthologies, recorded for numerous podcasts, and translated into several foreign languages. Now they are collected in one place for the first time. Experience for yourself the original voice of one of fantasy's rising stars!

PRAISE FOR SALADIN AHMED
"Ahmed's characters...are a terrific blend of the realistic and the awesomely magical." — io9

"[Ahmed is] revitalizing the fantasy genre with fresh perspectives and original stories." — Library Journal

"Ahmed's debut masterfully paints a world both bright and terrible." — Publishers Weekly

"An arresting, sumptuous and thoroughly satisfying debut." — Kirkus Reviews


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B009CVYQG2/sfsi0c-20

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A Non-Fiction Book
September 20th, 2012 | Work, spirit tracks
This was the post at Publishers Marketplace:

Author of RED, CROOKED LITTLE VEIN and forthcoming GUN MACHINE, Warren Ellis's SPIRIT TRACKS, about the future of the city, the ghosts that haunt it and the science-fiction condition we live in, to

Sean McDonald at Farrar, Straus, by Lydia Wills at Lydia Wills (world English).
That's Farrar, Straus & Giroux, an incredibly impressive publishing house with an incredibly impressive list.  Lydia's an absolute miracle worker.

SPIRIT TRACKS is the working title of a book based upon the talk I gave in Berlin last year, which appeared here, in its original waytoolong form, in twenty-nine parts.

So... this is happening.  I am writing a serious non-fiction book for a serious non-fiction list.  Which is kind of strange, isn't it?  As I said a few weeks ago, the career's gone in an odd direction again over the last few years.  Sometimes I wonder if people will look back over my CV and ask themselves what the hell I thought I was doing.

I start this book next year, after I finish the current novel.  It may or may not have the same title when it's announced as going on the publication schedule.  Really looking forward to working with Sean McDonald, who's edited some of my favourite non-fiction over the last several years, including Steven Johnson's magnificent GHOST MAP.

I'm a novelist and a non-fiction author now.  Strange days.

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14333

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The debut collection by award-winning Australian dark fantasist Felicity Dowker.
"She is one of those rare and talented writers of horror who can creep you out while still making you admire the graceful construction of her prose." – World Fantasy Award nominee Angela Slatter
"Felicity Dowker is one of the all-too-rare writers who really understands both horror and its appeal. She can show the terrifying aspect of things as outre as enchanted dragons or the zombie apocalypse, or as commonplace as dysfunctional families and the Santa Claus army. To borrow her own words, 'It hurts, and it's horrible, and it's beautiful . . . and we might as well enjoy it'." – Award-winning Stephen Dedman.




http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=10&products_id=118

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Hrvatski Algoritam objavio:





Bizarno i brutalno ubojstvo bivšeg menadžera grupe "Nazgul" potaknut će nekadašnjeg underground novinara, danas pisca Sandyja Blaira na obilazak preživjelih članova benda. "Nazgűli", koji su svoju inspiraciju crpli iz Tolkienove mitologije, bili su senzacija krajem šezdesetih sve dok im usred koncerta snajperskim hicem nije ubijen vodeći vokal Patick Hobbins, zvan Hobbit.
Prateći nostalgičan trag vlastite mladosti Sandy Blair će proputovati kroz Ameriku izgubljenih iluzija, izblijedjelih sjećanja i zaboravljenih ideala da bi postao svjedokom rađanja novog "Nazgula" koji će u kolopletu demonskog uskrsnuća , vizija i telepatske kontrole uma odsvirati svoj krvavi rekvijem za jedno nestalo doba.
Ovo je priča o generaciji koja je stasala na rock-glazbi, koja je izmislila slobodnu ljubav, živjela protestne marševe, stvorila underground tisak, krvlju platila pacifizam i nosila cvijeće u kosi, generacija koja je kroz svoje sazrijevanje promijenila svijet da bi se utopila u sivilu sustava ili nestala na marginama današnjeg društva.
George R.R.Martin, autor Pjesme sudnjeg dana, najcjenjeniji je stilist na području znanstvene fantastike, dobro poznat hrvatskoj publici po brojnim nagrađivanim pripovijestima objavljenim tijekom posljednjih dvadeset godina u SF časopisima "Siriusu" i "Futuri". Danas već klasika, ovaj kultni rock-horror roman napisan 1983. godine po mišljenju Stephena Kinga najbolje je djelo napisano o glazbi i mitu šezdesetih.

U prijevodu Božice Jakovlev, uz ilustraciju Igora Kordeja, Pjesma sudnjeg dana Georgea R.R. Martina u nakladi "Algoritma" osvojit će srca svih onih koji su osjetili dah šezdesetih i koji još čuvaju svoje stare ploče.

http://www.algoritam.hr/?m=1&p=proizvod&kat=36&id=690

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Lavie Tidhar has posted the table of contents for an anthology he is in, Unidentified Funny Objects, set to be published in November:




BOOK CONTENT

• "El and Al vs. Himmler's Hideous Horde from Hell" by Mike Resnick
• "The Alchemist's Children" by Nathaniel Lee
• "Moon Landing" by Lavie Tidhar
• "Fight Finale from the Near Future" by James Beamon
• "Love Thy Neighbors" by Ken Liu
• "The Alien Invasion As Seen In The Twitter Stream of @dweebless" by Jake Kerr"
• "Dreaming Harry" by Stephanie Burgis
• "The Last Dragon Slayer" by Chuck Rothman
• "The Real Thing" by Don Sakers
• "2001 Revisited via 1969? by Bruce Golden
• "The Working Stiff" by Matt Mikalatos
• "Temporal Shimmies" by Jennifer Pelland
• "One-Hand Tantra" by Ferrett Steinmetz
• "Of Mat and Math" by Anatoly Belilovsky
• "Timber!" by Scott Almes
• "Go Karts of the Gods" by Michael Kurland
• "No Silver Lining" by Zach Shephard
• "If You Act Now" by Sergey Lukyanenko
• "My Kingdom for a Horse" by Stephen D. Rogers
• "First Date" by Jamie Lackey
• "All I Want for Christmas" by Siobhan Gallagher
• "Venus of Willendorf" by Deborah Walker
• "An Unchanted Sword" by Jeff Stehman
• "The Day They Repossessed my Zombies" by K.G. Jewell
• "The Fifty One Suitors of Princess Jamatpie" by Leah Cypess
• "The Secret Life of Sleeping Beauty" by Charity Tahmaseb
• "The Velveteen Golem" by David Sklar
• "The Worm's Eye View" by Jody Lynn Nye
• "Cake from Mars" by Marko Kloos
• 
  WEB CONTENT
• "The Ogre King and the Piemaker" by Tarl Kudrick – September
• "You Bet" by Alex Shvartsman – October
• "Mr. Terwilliger Confesses" by Amanda C. Davis – November
• "Demonology for Nerds" by Andrew F. Rey – December
• "A Midnight Carnival at Sunset" by Terra LeMay – January
• "Morte Cousine" by Kara Dalkey – February

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Cover art, release date for the long awaited fourth book in the Paladin's Legacy series by Elizabeth Moon have been unveiled. The book will be published on June 11th, 2013 by Del Rey. Goodreads also have the synopsis which sounds quite interesting.

You can already order your copy here

As for synopsis:
The Eight Kingdoms are under threat. Throughout the north, magic is re-emerging after centuries of absence, popping up in family after family-even those with no known mage parentage. Nor is it confined to the privileged classes, but is appearing in rich and poor alike. This is bad enough in lands where such powers are not considered illegal, but now some kingdoms are instituting pogroms, killing everyone in whom the powers emerge, no matter how young or old they might be.


And with one very determined traitor at work, intent on undoing any effort at peace no matter how many lives it costs, the future hangs in the balance. It is only the dedication of a few resolute heroes who can turn the tides... if they can survive.

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 After (Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia) [Hardcover]  Ellen Datlow (Author), Terri Windling (Author)

   
• "The Segment" by Genevieve Valentine
• "After the Cure" by Carrie Ryan
• "Valedictorian" by N.K. Jemisin
• "Visiting Nelson" by Katherine Langrish
• "All I Know of Freedom" by Carol Emshwiller
• "The Other Elder" by Beth Revis
• "The Great Game at the End of the World" by Matthew Kressel
• "Reunion" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• "Faint Heart" by Sarah Rees Brennan
• "Blood Drive" by Jeffrey Ford
• "Reality Girl" by Richard Bowes
• "Hw th'Irth Wint Wrong by Hapless Joey @ homeskool.guv" by Gregory Maguire
• "Rust With Wings" by Steven Gould
• "The Easthound" by Nalo Hopkinson
• "Gray" by Jane Yolen
• "Before" by Carolyn Dunn
• "Fake Plastic Trees" by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• "You Won't Feel a Thing" by Garth Nix
• "The Marker" by Cecil Castellucci

   
• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion Books (9 Oct 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423146190
• ISBN-13: 978-1423146193
• Product Dimensions: 21 x 14 cm

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 Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron [Hardcover]  Neil Gaiman (Author), Holly Black (Author), Garth Nix (Author), Jonathan Strahan (Editor)



  A stellar cast of acclaimed fantasy writers weave spellbinding tales that bring the world of witches to life. Boasting over 70 awards between them, including a Newbery Medal, five Hugo Awards and a Carnegie Medal, authors including Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix and Holly Black delve into the realms of magic to explore all things witchy... From familiars that talk, to covens that offer dark secrets to explore, these are tales to tickle the hair on the back of your neck and send shivers down your spine.

   
• Introduction: Looking Under the Hat", Jonathan Strahan
• "Stray Magic", Diana Peterfreund
• "Payment Due", Frances Hardinge
• "A Handful of Ashes", Garth Nix
• "Little Gods", Holly Black
• "Barrio Girls", Charles de Lint
• "Felidis", Tanith Lee
• "Witch Work", Neil Gaiman (poem)
• "The Education of a Witch", Ellen Klages
• "The Threefold World", Ellen Kushner
• "The Witch in the Wood", Delia Sherman
• "Which Witch", Patricia A. McKillip
• "The Carved Forest", Tim Pratt
• "Burning Castles", M. Rickert
• "The Stone Witch", Isobelle Carmody
• "Andersen's Witch", Jane Yolen
• "B Is for Bigfoot", Jim Butcher
• "Great-Grandmother in the Cellar", Peter S. Beagle
• "Crow and Caper, Caper and Crow", Margo Lanagan

   
• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: Hot Key Books (4 Oct 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1471400131
• ISBN-13: 978-1471400131

 

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Whoa!

    Release Date: November 27, 2012       

   "The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to."


A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of "fast ones," shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution.


And on the edges of reality a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schrödinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not.



Jean de Flambeur is back. And he's running out of time.



In Hannu Rajaniemi's sparkling follow-up to the critically acclaimed international sensation The Quantum Thief, he returns to his awe-inspiring vision of the universe...and we discover what the future held for Earth.



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Subterranean Press has posted the table of contents for the upcoming collection Magic Highways: The Early Jack Vance, Volume 3 edited by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan:

Here's the book description:



The Ultimate Grandeur

Fantasy and Science Fiction Grandmaster Jack Vance is very much a writer of the Space Age. His time "traveling" the magic highways of his imagination spans the period bracketed by the final years of World War 2 and the Cassini–Huygens probe reaching Saturn space in late 2004, the year he brought his magnificent career to a close.

In those first thrilling, dangerous, heady days, science did seem to promise all the answers, and it was in a "double" universe of the familiar workaday world and the utterly unlimited one of the imagination that the ever-practical yet romantic, diligently physics-savvy yet as often wildly improvisational Jack Vance worked.

Even as he wrote tales set in the far future of his acclaimed Dying Earth, even as he produced mysteries and suspense stories of a much less fanciful kind, Jack's determined quest to become a "million words a year" man saw him ranging a universe criss-crossed with busy interstellar highways: a network of flourishing trade and tourist routes leading to new frontiers, far-flung colonies, alien worlds, with ample room for exotic races, travelers, traders and scoundrels, even space pirates, ample opportunity for grand schemes of every kind.

Magic Highways gathers sixteen of those early space adventures from that exciting first decade, spanning the years 1946 to 1956. In these frequently inventive, often surprising space operas, Jack takes us to vivid destinations along the vast interstellar highways of a future where anything is possible.


Here's the table of contents...

   
• "Phalid's Fate"
• "Planet of the Black Dust"
• "Ultimate Quest"
• "Men of the Ten Books"
• "The Planet Machine"
• "Dover Spargill's Ghastly Floater"
• "Winner Lose All"
• "Sabotage on Sulfur Planet"
• "The House Lords"
• "Sanatoris Short-cut"
• "The Unspeakable McInch"
• "The Sub-Standard Sardines"
• "The Howling Bounders"
• "The King of Thieves"
• "The Spa of the Stars"
• "To B or Not to C or to D"

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Here's the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming novel The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch, the third book in the Gentleman Bastards sequence.

Here's the synopsis:

After their adventures on the high seas, Locke and Jean are brought back to earth with a thump. Jean is mourning the loss of his lover and Locke must live with the fallout of crossing the all-powerful magical assassins the Bonds Magi. It is a fall-out that will pit both men against Locke's own long lost love. Sabetha is Locke's childhood sweetheart, the love of Locke's life and now it is time for them to meet again. Employed on different sides of a vicious dispute between factions of the Bonds Sabetha has just one goal – to destroy Locke for ever. The Gentleman Bastard sequence has become a literary sensation in fantasy circles and now, with the third book, Scott Lynch is set to seal that success.

Book info as per Amazon US:

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Here's the the cover art and synopsis of Gail Carriger's upcoming novel Etiquette & Espionage, the first book in her young adult Finishing School series set 25 years before her widely aclaimed Parasol Protectorate series...

Here's the synopsis:

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school.

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea–and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But little do Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish, all right–but it's a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries. Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at school.

First in a four book YA series set 25 years before the Parasol Protectorate but in the same universe.

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Cover art for upcoming Neil Gaiman's children's book called Chu's Day has unexpectedly appeared on twitter and it looks amazing! The book will be published on January 8th, 2013 and you can already preorder it here Here's a short glimpse about what we can expect:Chu is a little panda with a big sneeze.
When Chu sneezes, bad things happen.
Will Chu sneeze today?

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Amazon is offering most excellent Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim story Devil in the Dollhouse for free! We don't know how long this offer will last so be quick!

Get your copy here
Here's is the synopsis:
James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, has a new job, but being the new Lucifer in town gives fresh meaning to the word "Hell." Especially when he hears of hideous massacres near a haunted fortress out on Hell's frontier.

As far as Stark's concerned, the more dead Hellions, the better, but he still has to prove that no one screws with Sandman Slim. And facing creatures so terrible even Hell does not want them is no cakewalk, even for Lucifer.

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PRELIMINARY COVER ART FOR THE MONGOLIAD: BOOK THREE BY NEAL STEPHENSON AND GREG BEAR UNVEILED













Preliminary cover art for the third and final book in the excellent The Foreworld Saga - The Mongoliad Book Three by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear and others has been released. The book is expected to come out on 26th February 2013. The book will also be released as an hardcover deluxe edition which will featured extra prequel short story called Seer.

   

Here's the synopsis:
The shadow of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II hangs over the shattered Holy Roman Church as the cardinals remain deadlocked, unable to choose a new pope. Only the Binders and a mad priest have a hope of uniting the Church against the invading Mongol host. An untested band of young warriors stands against the dissolute Khan, Onghwe, fighting for glory and freedom in the Khan's sadistic circus of swords, and the brave band of Shield-Brethren who set out to stop the Mongol threat single-handedly race against their nemesis before he can raise the entire empire against them. Veteran knight Feronantus, haunted by his life in exile, leads the dwindling company of Shield-Brethren to their final battle, molding them into a team that will outlast him. No good hero lives forever. Or fights alone.
In this third and final book of the Mongoliad trilogy from Neal Stephenson and company, the gripping personal stories of medieval freedom fighters collide to form an epic, imaginative recounting of a moment in history when a world in peril relied solely on the courage of its people.
A note on this edition: The Mongoliad began as a social media experiment, combining serial story-telling with a unique level of interaction between authors and audience during the creative process. Since its original iteration, The Mongoliad has been restructured, edited, and rewritten under the supervision of its authors to create a more cohesive reading experience and will be published as a trilogy of novels. This edition is the definitive edition and is the authors' preferred text.

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A Book Cover Gallery of 209+ Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books Coming Out in October 2012

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/10/a-book-cover-gallery-of-209-science-fiction-fantasy-horror-books-coming-out-in-october-2012/#more-62240

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http://io9.com/5948353/all-the-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books-you-cant-afford-to-miss-in-october

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Hell yeah!! 

Subterranean Press has posted the beautiful Tom Kidd cover art and synopsis of the upcoming (June 2013) novella The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz by Dan Simmons.




Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Tom Kidd

   Jack Vance's stories of the Dying Earth are among the most indelible creations of 20th century fantasy. Set on a far future Earth moving toward extinction under a slowly dying sun, these baroque tales of wonder have exerted a profound influence on generations of writers. One of those writers is Dan Simmons, who acknowledges that influence in spectacular fashion in The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderoz, an informed and loving act of literary homage.

   The narrative begins at a critical moment in the Dying Earth's history, a moment when signs and portents indicate that the long anticipated death of the planet is finally at hand. Against this backdrop, Simmons's protagonist—Shrue the diabolist—learns of the death of Ulfant Banderoz, ancient magus and sole proprietor of the legendary Ultimate Library and Final Compendium of Thaumaturgical Lore. Determined to possess its secrets, Shrue sets out in search of the fabled library, guided by the severed nose of the deceased magician. The narrative that follows tells the story of that quest, a quest whose outcome will affect the fate of the entire dying planet.

   The result is a hugely engrossing novella filled with marvels, bizarre encounters, and an array of astonishing creatures—the pelgranes, daihaks, and assorted elementals of Jack Vance's boundless imagination. Written with wit, fidelity, and grace, and rooted in its author's obvious affection for his source material, The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderoz is something special, a collaborative gem in which the talents and sensibilities of two master storytellers come powerfully—and seamlessly—together.

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

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Cover art and the release date for the upcoming young adult book The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson have been unveiled. The book will be published on May 14, 2013 by Tor Teen. Cover art was designed by Christopher Gibbs


The official synopsis is not out yet but Tor blog says  "The Rithmatist is about a 14-year-old kid named Joel who wants desperately to be a Rithmatist. But he wasn't Chosen, so he doesn't have the ability to bring chalklings or Rithmatic lines to life. All he can do is watch as The Rithmatist students at Armedius Academy learn the mystical art that he would give anything to practice. Then Rithmatist students start disappearing, kidnapped from their rooms at night, leaving only trails of blood. Joel's professor asks him to help investigate—putting Joel and his friend Melody on the trail of a discovery that could change Rithmatics—and their world—forever...."

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Wolfhound Century  -  Peter Higgins


  A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest, lies the most recent fallen angel, its vast stone form half-buried and fused into the rock by the violence of impact. As its dark energy leeches into the crash site, so a circle of death expands around it, slowly - inexorably - killing everything it touches. Alone in the wilderness, it reaches out with its mind. The endless forest and its antique folklore are no concern to Inspector Vissarion Lom, summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist - and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown terrorism with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists. Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head at the children's home. Lom's investigation reveals a conspiracy that extends to the top echelons of the party. When he exposes who - or rather what - is the controlling intelligence behind this, it is time for the detective to change sides. Pursued by rogue police agents and their man-crushing mudjhik, Lom must protect Kantor's step-daughter Maroussia, who has discovered what is hidden beneath police headquarters: a secret so ancient that only the forest remembers. As they try to escape the capital and flee down river, elemental forces are gathering. The earth itself is on the move.

"An amazing, fast-paced story in a fantasy world poised dangerously on the edge of quantum probability, a world where angels war with reality" (Peter F. Hamilton )

"I absolutely loved WOLFHOUND CENTURY. Higgins's world is a truly original creation, Russian cosmism and Slavic mythology filtered through steampunk and le Carre. What really captured me was his beautiful style and language: his metaphors and associations flow smoothly like the waters of the Mir, and, like Lom without his angel stone, make you see the world in a new way."

(Hannu Rajaniemi

)

"Like vintage Mieville or Vandermeer, but with all the violent narrative thriller drive of Fleming at his edgiest. I fell into Wolfhound Century and devoured it in three days flat.Peter Higgins is a great discovery, a gifted writer with a route map to some fascinating new dark corners of the imagination, and a fine addition to the contemporary fantasy canon."

(Richard Morgan ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.    About the Author Peter Higgins read English at Oxford and was Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College before joining the Civil Service. He began writing fantasy and SF stories in 2006 and his work has appeared in FANTASY: BEST OF THE YEAR 2007 and BEST NEW FANTASY 2. He is married with three children and lives in South Wales.

Publication Date: March 21, 2013
 

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 Epic  John Joseph Adams





Publication Date: 1 Nov 2012    From the creation myths and quest sagas of ancient times to the megapopular fantasy novels of today, this quintessential anthology of epic fantasy is adventurous storytelling at its best. With rich and vibrant world building, readers are transported to antiquated realms to witness noble sacrifices and astonishing wonders. Gathering a comprehensive survey of beloved stories from the genre, this compilation includes stories by such luminaries as George R R Martin, Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, Ursula K Le Guin, Robin Hobb, and Tad Williams. Inspiring and larger-than-life, these tales offer timeless values of courage and friendship in the face of ultimate evil and express mankind's greatest hopes and fears.

   
• 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. Martin

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 Shoggoths in Bloom  Elizabeth Bear

Includes an introduction by Scott Lynch.

Table of Contents:

Tideline
Sonny Liston Takes The Fall
Sounding
The Something-Dreaming  Game
The Cold Blacksmith
In the House of Aryaman, A Lonely Signal  Burns
Orm the Beautiful
The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe
Love  Among the Talus
Cryptic Coloration
The Ladies
Shoggoths in Bloom
The  Girl Who Sang Rose Madder
Dolly
Gods of the Forge
Annie Webber
The  Horrid Glory of Its Wings
Confessor
The Leavings of the Wolf
The Death  of Terrestrial Radio

Publication Date: 23 Oct 2012

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 The Rise of Ransom City (Half-Made World)
Felix Gilman

   
• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books (27 Nov 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765329409
• ISBN-13: 978-0765329400
• Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.6 x 3 cm

Prethodna knjiga je bila jedan od upecatljivijih iz prosle godine, steta sto je nekako prosla ispod radara.

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 Errantry: Strange Stories   Hand  Elizabeth

   
• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Perseus Books (29 Nov 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1618730304
• ISBN-13: 978-1618730305
• Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm

No one is innocent, no one unexamined in Shirley Jackson award-winning author Elizabeth Hand's new collection of stories. From the mysterious people next door to the odd guy in the next office over, Hand teases apart the dark strangenesses of everyday life to show us the impossibilities, broken dreams, and improbable dreams that surely can never come true.
"Ten evocative novellas and stories whisper of hidden mysteries carved on the bruised consciousness of victims and victimizers. Memories and love are as dangerous as the supernatural, and Hand often denies readers neat conclusions, preferring disturbing ambiguity. The Hugo-nominated "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" marries science fiction and magical realism as three men recreate a legendary aircraft's doomed flight for a dying woman. A grieving widow in "Near Zennor" unearths a secret of spectral kidnapping in an ancient countryside. "Hungerford Bridge," a lesser piece, shares a secret that can only be enjoyed twice in one's life. Celtic myth and human frailty entangle in the darkly romantic "The Far Shore." The vicious nature of romantic love is dissected with expressionistic abandon in the dreamlike "Summerteeth." Hand's outsiders haunt themselves, the forces of darkness answering to the calls of their battered souls. Yet strange hope clings to these surreal elegies, insisting on the power of human emotion even in the shadow of despair. Elegant nightmares, sensuously told.

"

   
• "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon"
• "Near Zennor"
• "Hungerford Bridge"
• "The Far Shore"
• "Winter's Wife"
• "Cruel Up North"
• "Summerteeth"
• "The Return of the Fire Witch"
• "Uncle Lou"
• "Errantry"

Praise for Elizabeth Hand:
"Fiercely frightening yet hauntingly beautiful."—Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent Girl
"A sinful pleasure."—Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love
No one is innocent, no one unexamined in award-winner Elizabeth Hand's new collection. From the summer isles to the mysterious people next door all the way to the odd guy one cubicle over, Hand teases apart the dark strangenesses of everyday life to show us the impossibilities, broken dreams, and improbable dreams that surely can never come true.
Elizabeth Hand's novels include Shirley Jackson Award–winner Generation Loss, Mortal Love, and Available Dark.   

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 Moscow But Dreaming  Ekaterina Sedia

   
• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Prime Books (5 Dec 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1607013622
• ISBN-13: 978-1607013624
• Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm

The first short story collection by award-winning author Ekaterina Sedia! One of the more resonant voices to emerge in recent years, this Russian-born author explores the edge between the mundane and fantastical in tales inspired by her homeland as well as worldwide folkloric traditions. With foreword by World Fantasy Award-winner Jeffrey Ford, Moscow But Dreaming showcases singular and lyrical writing that will appeal to fans of slipstream and magical realism, as well as those interested in the uncanny and Russian history. 

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 Edge of Infiinity: Fourteen New Short Stories

   
• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Solaris (6 Dec 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1781080550
• ISBN-13: 978-1781080559
• Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 2 cm

"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.

   
• "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

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Salvage and Demolition (preorder) by Tim Powers      

   
• ISBN: 978-1-59606-515-4
• Length: 160 pages

(preorder—to be published December 2012)
Dust jacket and interior illustrations by J. K. Potter
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.
Limited: 350 signed numbered copies, bound in leather
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition

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After UK cover art, we are happy to show you US cover art for the upcoming Newbury and Hobbes adventure, The Executioner's Heart by George Mann. To remind, The Executioner's Heart comes out on July 9, 2012 and in the US it will be published by Tor Books.

You can order your copy here
Here's the synopsis:A serial killer is loose on the streets of London, murdering apparently random members of the gentry with violent abandon. The corpses are each found with their chest cavities cracked open and their hearts removed. Charles Bainbridge, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, suspects an occult significance to the crimes and brings Newbury and Veronica in to investigate.

(Malko su se zbunili ovi na apkomingu, taj naslov zapravo izlazi 28 juna 2013, ali valjda su postavili tacnu naslovnicu... )

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The enhanced edition on American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman is currently on sale on Amazon. This enhanced edition includes reading the Introduction,Note on Text, Interview with Jesus and How Dare You and excerpts from the multi-voice audiobook recording. There are a total of 26 audio excerpts.
http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/get-enhanced-edition-of-american-gods-by-neil-gaiman-for-limited-time-on-sale

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a sprema se i TERMINUS, neka vrst sajdvejz prikvela na vrlo dobri roman Outpost Adama Bakera:

We are happy to show you the cover art for the Adam Baker's new upcoming books Terminus. Book will be published on 14th March, 2013 by Hodder and below you can read the synopsis.





The world has been over-run by a lethal infection. Humanity ravaged by a pathogen that leaves victims demented, mutated, locked half-way between life and death. Major cities have been bombed. Manhattan has been reduced to radioactive rubble. A rescue squad enters the subway tunnels beneath New York. The squad are searching for Dr Conrad Ekks, head of a research team charged with synthesising an antidote to the lethal virus. Ekks and his team took refuge in Fenwick Street, an abandoned subway station, hours before a tactical nuclear weapon levelled Manhattan. The squad battle floodwaters and lethal radiation as they search the tunnels for Ekks and his team. They confront infected, irradiated survivors as they struggle to locate a cure to the disease that threatens to extinguish the human race.

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Writing on his blog, Richard K Morgan has revealed early version of the cover art for his upcoming book The Dark Defiles. The cover art looks a lot darker than the first two books in the series. Other details are not currently know but the books is scheduled to come out around August 2013. More details to follow.

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Naslovnica privlači 

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Završnica trilogije. Najbolja epska fantastika/mač i magija posle Stivena Eriksona, iako sam ga popljuvao na prvo čitanje, pošto sam popizdeo od toga da svi heroji budu krčmari sa crnim mačevima, tako da nisam odmakao dalje od nekoliko poglavlja. Ali kada sam ponovo uzeo da čitam... Uf!

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Koje su prve dve knjige?

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The Steel Remains & The Cold Commands.

http://nightfliersbookspace.blogspot.com/2012/01/nightfliers-best-ov-d-best-2011-deo_14.html

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Hvala i mialio sam da su te al bolje da proverim.