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Release date: February 5, 2013     Say you're a time traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying with himself. Every year, he travels to an abandoned hotel in New York City in 2071, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and drinks twelve-year-old Scotch (lots of it) with all the other versions of who he has been and who he will be. Sure, the party is the same year after year, but at least it's one party where he can really, well, be himself. The year he turns 39, though, the party takes a stressful turn for the worse. Before he even makes it into the grand ballroom for a drink he encounters the body of his forty-year-old self, dead of a gunshot wound to the head. As the older versions of himself at the party point out, the onus is on him to figure out what went wrong--he has one year to stop himself from being murdered, or they're all goners. As he follows clues that he may or may not have willingly left for himself, he discovers rampant paranoia and suspicion among his younger selves, and a frightening conspiracy among the Elders. Most complicated of all is a haunting woman possibly named Lily who turns up at the party this year, the first person besides himself he's ever seen at the party. For the first time, he has something to lose. Here's hoping he can save some version of his own life   Show more  Show less

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Hotly anticipated new book by Lavie Tidhar has been announced and it will be called The Violent Century. Based on the synopsis, we're in for an exciting ride. The book is scheduled to come out on 24 October, 2013 by Hodder Stoughton.

Preorder your copy here:
Amazon UK | Amazon US

Synopsis:For seventy years they'd guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable at first, bound together by a shared fate. Until a night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart.

But there must always be an account... and the past has a habit of catching up to the present.
Recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of terrible war and unacknowledged heroism, a life of dusty corridors and secret rooms; of furtive meetings and blood-stained fields, to answer one last, impossible question:
What makes a hero?

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New Releases: The Daylight War by Peter V. BrettHere's your spoiler-free review in 15 words:
http://www.pornokitsch.com/

If you liked the first two, you'll like this one. If you didn't, you won't.

Or read on.

The Daylight War is the third book in Peter V. Brett's series about a demon-plagued dying earth. The set-up is still the series' most appealing attribute: a world where, every night, brutish monsters rise from the earth to rend and slay. Prior to the events of The Warded Man (the first book in the series), people merely cowered behind 'warded' walls after the sun goes down, but the rediscovery of combat magic has led to a counter-attack by humanity.

Arlen Bales, the rediscoverer in question, is believed by most right-thinkin' people to be the "Deliverer", a messianic figure, here to save folks from the demons. Jardir, the leader of a country of shameless Arabic analogues, also has possession of the combat magic - courtesy of some devious backstabbery. He's believed to be the Deliverer by his people. Although the two are mature enough to recognise that the demons are the main problem, both Arlen and Jardir each want to be the one and only Chosen One. Thus the "daylight war" - puny human vs puny human while the demons lick their chops and wait for sundown.

Caught between Arlen and Jardir are their wimmenfolks - Inevera, Jardir's first wife, and Leesha, a healer who has earned the affections (nudge, wink) of both men. The two women are powerful rivals and this book is their story...

...except it isn't.

Just check out the plot blurb on Amazon and the summary on the publisher's site. Neither even  mentions the name of a female character. Inevera and Leesha may be the point of view characters for the vast majority of The Daylight War, but, as the blurbs confirm, the book is in no way about them.
Lots and lots of spoilers from here on out. If you're still trying to figure out if you should read this book, please see the 15 word review at the top of the page.

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TITLE Universes
A COLLECTION by Stephen Baxter
PUBLICATION DATE  March 2014
EDITION  Jacketed Hardcover

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Release date: September 17, 2013     Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave.
One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.   Show more  Show less

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Release date: February 12, 2013     Some places are too good to be true.
Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. 
In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. 
After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different ...
From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew.    Show more  Show less 

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Release date: February 12, 2013 | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Original    Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui's masterpiece, Paprika unites his surreal, quirky imagination with a mind-bending narrative about a psychiatric institute that has developed the technology to invade people's dreams.

When prototype models of a dream-invading device go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to drive people insane. Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies, with the subconscious as their battleground, and the future of the waking world at stake.   Show more  Show less 

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Release date: July 16, 2013 | Series: Seven Against Chaos   

Harlan Ellison, science fiction's brightest luminary, has joined forces with multi-award winning artist Paul Chadwick, creator of the incomparable Concrete, to bring you SEVEN AGAINST CHAOS, a graphic novel that is singular, powerful and unpredictable. This extraordinary odyssey of mystery and adventure will take you to the rim of reality and beyond.

In a distant future, Earth is in grave danger: The fabric of reality itself in unraveling, leading to catastrophic natural disasters, displaced souls appearing from bygone eras, and sudden, shocking cases of spontaneous combustion. The only hope for Earth's survival is a force of seven warriors, each with his or her special abilities. But can these alien Seven Samurai learn to get along in time to find the source of the gathering chaos and save all of reality?   Show more  Show less

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Kaze GRRM:

Gardner Dozois and I have just learned that Bantam has scheduled our all-original retro-SF anthology OLD MARS for release on October 8 of this year.  The anthology will feature fifteen original, never-before-published short stories and novelettes about Mars, story notes and author intros by Gardner, and an introduction by yours truly.

The setting will NOT be the real (but somewhat boring) post-Mariner Mars, but rather the Mars thatwe all loved as kids, the one with the canals and the dead cities and the myriad marvelous Martians.



((Gotta love that retro rocket ship.  I sure do)).




Here's the lineup of stories and contributors:

RED PLANET BLUES (Introduction) by George R.R. Martin
MARTIAN BLOOD, by Allen M. Steele
THE UGLY DUCKLING, by Matthew Hughes
THE WRECK OF THE MARS ADVENTURE, by David D. Levine
SWORDS OF ZAR-TU-KAN, by S.M. Stirling
SHOALS, by Mary Rosenblum
IN THE TOMBS OF THE MARTIAN KINGS, by Mike Resnick
OUT OF SCARLIGHT, by Liz Williams
THE DEAD SEA-BOTTOM SCROLLS, by Howard Waldrop
A MAN WITHOUT HONOR, by James S.A. Corey
WRITTEN IN DUST, by Melinda Snodgrass
THE LOST CANAL, by Michael Moorcock
THE SUNSTONE, by Phyllis Eisenstein
KING OF THE CHEAP ROMANCE, by Joe R. Lansdale
MARINER, by Chris Roberson
THE QUEEN OF NIGHT'S ARIA, by Ian McDonald


 
Gargoo and I had a lot of fun putting this one together, and I hope you folks will have as much fun reading it.  So circle October 8 on your calendars.  Old Mars is lovely in the fall.

http://grrm.livejournal.com/312592.html

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New Wild Cards fiction out today from Daniel Abraham on Tor.com —

After many many volumes of print stories, this is the first web fiction since the American Hero website and the first traditional stand-alone story. More are in the works so check it out as well as the next print volume, Lowball.

http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/

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Publication Date: July 31, 2013



The Lansdale name is legendary in the horror field. Now acclaimed musician and actress Kasey Lansdale follows in her father's footsteps, making her editing debut with this anthology of monstrously innovative stories. The twelve creatures that stalk the pages of Impossible Monsters spring from the twisted imaginations of a dozen of today s most noted authors.

International superstar Neil Gaiman is a storyteller s storyteller, and with 'Click-Clack the Rattlebag' he weaves an atmospheric tale that ensures readers will never hear a simple bedtime story the same way again.

In 'The Glitter of the Crowns,' New York Times-bestselling author Charlaine Harris, the creator of the Sookie Stackhouse series, turns her attention from vampires to werewolves--but appearances may be deceiving where monsters are concerned.

Mystery legend Anne Perry offers 'Monster,' a story that takes the reader from an antiquarian bookstore in Cambridge to the blue seas of the Mediterranean and leaves the reader guessing until the very last page in true whodunit style.

And, of course, this anthology wouldn't be complete without a contribution from beloved, award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale, who offers the latest adventure of supernatural sleuth Dana Roberts in 'The Case of the Angry Traveler.'

Including stories by the likes of Al Sarrantonio and David J. Schow, among others, this collection of tales delivers on its promise. Because these monsters are never what the reader expects...


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This title will be released on November 12, 2013.

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Release date: February 19, 2013 | Series: Demi-Monde Saga     The shadows of war grow ever darker across the Demi-Monde.
Norma Williams knows she was a fool to be lured into the virtual nightmare that is the Demi-Monde. When the agent sent in the game to save her goes rogue and a long forgotten evil is awoken, it falls to Norma to lead the resistance.
Lost, without a plan, and with the army of the ForthRight marching ever closer, she must come to terms with terrible new responsibilities and with the knowledge that those she thought were her friends are now her enemies. To triumph in this surreal cyber-world she must be more than she ever believed she could be . . . or perish.    Show more  Show less 

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Publication Date: February 19, 2013     Fantasy worlds are never mere backdrops. They are an integral part of the work, and refuse to remain separate from other elements. These worlds combine landscape with narrative logic by incorporating alternative rules about cause and effect or physical transformation. They become actors in the drama--interacting with the characters, offering assistance or hindrance, and making ethical demands. In Here Be Dragons, Stefan Ekman provides a wide-ranging survey of the ubiquitous fantasy map as the point of departure for an in-depth discussion of what such maps can tell us about what is important in the fictional worlds and the stories that take place there. With particular focus on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Ekman shows how fantasy settings deserve serious attention from both readers and critics. Includes insightful readings of works by Steven Brust, Garth Nix, Robert Holdstock, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, China Mieville, Patricia McKillip, Tim Powers, Lisa Goldstein, Steven R. Donaldson, Robert Jordan, and Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess.   Show more  Show less

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Publication Date:February 20, 2013     In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the marriage question with his lover and how best to "come out" to his traditional Chinese parents.
At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.   Show more  Show less

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http://daganbooks.com/titles/fish/

Edited by Carrie Cuinn & KV Taylor

Cover by Galen Dara

Camille Alexa, "The Skin of Her Skin"
M. Bennardo, "The Fish-Wife's Tale"
Polenth Blake, "Thwarting the Fiends"
Shay Darrach, "I Know a Secret"
Amanda C. Davis, "O How the Wet Folk Sing"
Paul A. Dixon, "One Let Go"
Corinne Duyvis, "The Applause of Others"
Megan Engelhardt, "Anansi and the New Thing"
Sam Fleming, "What the Water Gave Her"
Andrew S. Fuller, "A Salmon Tale, 2072"
H.L. Fullerton, "The Fish Are There On Land"
Cate Gardner, "Too Delicate for Human Form"
Zachary George, "You, Fish"
Sarah Hendrix, "Never to Return"
Tim Kane, "Vanity Mirror"
Andrea Kneeland, "Becoming Human"
Jessie Kwak, "Needlepoint Fish of Azure City"
April L'Orange, "Quick Karma"
Claude Lalumière, "Xandra's Brine"
Ken Liu, "How Do You Know If a Fish Is Happy?"
Tracie McBride, "The Touch of Taniwha"
T.J. McIntyre, "How Did the Catfish Get a Flat Head, You Wonder?"
Timothy Nakayama, "Fallen Dragon"
Mel Obedoza, "The Fisherman and Golden Fish"
Suzanne Palmer, "Lanternfish In the Overworld"
Jennifer R. Povey, "Water Demons"
Cat Rambo, "The Fisher Queen"
Maria Romasco-Moore, "Fisheye"
Alex Shvartsman, "Life at the Lake's Shore"
A. D. Spencer, "Fish Tears"
Bear Weiter, "The Talking Fish of Shangri-La"
Mjke Wood, "The Last Fisherman of Habitat 37"
Andreea Zup, "Maria and the Fish"

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Since Ian Tregillis is one of our favourite writers, we are more than happy to show you cover art for Something More Than Night. It looks very intriguing. Something More Than Night will be published on December 3rd, 2013 by Tor Books.

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ToC: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2013 edited by Paula Guran


Laird Barron, "Hand of Glory" (The Book of Cthulhu 2)
Peter S. Beagle, "Great-Grandmother in the Cellar" (Under My Hat)
Peter Bell, "Glamour of Madness"  (The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows)
Joseph Bruchac, "Down in the Valley" (Postscripts #28/29: Exotic Gothic 4)
Jim Butcher, "Bigfoot on Campus" (Hex Appeal)
Mike Carey, "Iphigenia In Aulis" (An Apple for the Creature)
Terry Dowling, "Nightside Eye" (Cemetery Dance #66)
K. M. Ferebee, "The Bird Country" (Shimmer #15)
Jeffrey Ford, "The Natural History of Autumn" (F&SF, July/August 2012)
Neil Gaiman, "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury" (The Shadow Show)
Theodora Goss, "England Under the White Witch" (Clarkesworld, Issue 73)
Maria Dahvana Headley, "Game" (Subterranean, Fall 2012)
Robert Hood, "Escena de un Asesinato" (Postscripts #28/29: Exotic Gothic 4)
Stephen Graham Jones, "Welcome to the Reptile House" (Strange Aeons #9)
Caitlín R Kiernan, "Fake Plastic Trees: (After)
Ellen Klages, "The Education of a Witch" (Under My Hat)
Marc Laidlaw, "Forget You" (Lightspeed, June 2012)
John Langan, "Renfrew's Course" (Lightspeed, April 2012)
Joe R. Lansdale. "The Tall Grass" (Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations)
Tim Lebbon, "Slaughterhouse Blues" (Nothing As It Seems)
Alison Littlewood, "The Eyes of Water (The Eyes of Water)
Good Hunting, Ken Liu  (Strange Horizons, October 2012)
Helen Marshall, "No Ghosts In London" (Hair Side, Flesh Side)
Sarah Monette, "Blue Lace Agate" (Lightspeed, January 2012)
Ekaterina Sedia, "End of White" (Shotguns v Cthulhu)
Priya Sharma, "Pearls" (Bourbon Penn 04)
Robert Shearman, "Bedtime Stories for Yasmin" (Shadows & Tall Trees 4)
John Shirley, "When Death Wakes Me to Myself" (Black Wings II)
Cory Skerry, "Sinking Among Lilies" (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #92)
Simon Strantzas, "Go Home Again" (Fungi)
Rachel Swirsky, "The Sea of Trees" (The Future Is Japanese)
Melanie Tem, "Dahlias" (Black Wings II)
Karen Tidbeck, "Arvid Pekon" (Jagganath: Stories)
Genevieve Valentine, "Armless Maidens of the American West" (Apex, August 7, 2012)
Brooke Wonders, "Everything Must Go" (Clarkesworld, Issue 74)

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http://www.prime-books.com/2013/01/14/contents-announced-for-zombies-shambling-through-the-ages-ed-steve-berman/

It's a wonder humanity ever survived into the twenty-first century. Even Neanderthals knew to bury the dead beneath stones to prevent corpses from rising. Ancient civilizations feared slain warriors would return from battlefields, medieval physicians worried that bodies would rise from plague pits, many cultures buried the dead at crossroads to prevent the dead from walking. In Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages, editor Steve Berman has collected stories that reveal the threat of revenants and the living dead is far from recent. From the Bronze Age to World War II, this anthology guides us through millennia of thrills, chills, kills, carnage, horror, and havoc wreaked throughout history by the walking dead.





TOC:


~Before Lazarus~

"Blood Marker" by Victoria Janssen
"Selected Sources for the Babylonian Plague of the Dead (572-571 BCE)" by Alex Dally MacFarlane
"Immortals" by Nathan Southard
"The Cost of Moving the Dead" by E. L. Kemper
"Hauntings and Hungers on the Banks of the Vipasa" by Rajan Khanna

~After Lazarus~

~Antiquity~
"A Frenzy of Ravens" by Christopher M. Cevasco
"The Wedding of Osiris" by Adam Morrow
~The Middle Ages~
"The Hyena's Blessing" by Alex Jeffers
"The Good Shepherdess" by S. J. Chambers
"The Fledglings of Time" by Carrie Laben
~16th and 17th Centuries~
"Hung from a Hairy Tree" by Samantha Henderson
"Good Deaths" by Paul Berger
"Dead Reckoning" by Elaine Pascale
"Grit in a Diseased Eye" by Lee Thomas
"Theater is Dead" by Raoul Wainscoting
"The Suspected Deaths of Henry Everey by Fedini
~18th Century~
"Deathless" by Ed Kurtz
"Tantivy" by Molly Tanzer
"Cinereous" by Livia Llewellyn
~19th Century~
"The Wailing Hills" by L. Lark
"As the Crow Flies" by Rita Oakes
"Seneca Falls: First Recorded Outbreak of Strain Z" by Dayna Ingram
"Pegleg and Paddy Save the World" by Jonathan Maberry
"Dead in the Water" by Richard Larson
"Starvation Army" by Joe McKinney
"Lonegan's Luck" by Stephen Graham Jones
"The Rickshaw Pusher " by Mercurio D. Rivera
"The Revenge of Oscar Wilde" by Sean Eads
~Early 20th Century~
"The Gringo" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"The End of the Caroll A. Deering" by Bob Hole
"Tell Me Like You Done Before" by Scott Edelman
"Wineville, California (1928)" by Richard Gropp
"The Fated Sky" by Aimee Payne
"The Crocodiles" by Steven Popkes

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James Lovegrove's Pantheon series is a strange beast. The novels and novellas published so far are only related in the sense through the fact that they all feature gods in one shape or another and, if they didn't have the standard "Age of" part of the title you would be forgiven for mistaking them for completely unrelated pieces of work. However, there is one constant that always stands behind the names Lovegrove and Pantheon. You can always expect a cracking good read. Latest (is it fifth novel already?) addition to the series, Age of Voodoo, is no different.




Coming out on February 26th by Solaris Books in both UK and US, Age Of Voodoo is set around, well you've probably guessed it from the title, Voodoo and Samedi. Stepping back from full-on military SF and alternative history, Age of Voodoo is more of a straight affair and follows the retired specialist Lex Dove who receives the call while sipping cocktails in the Caribbean. Leaving life of leisure behind, he must take one last mission leading American black ops team into the heart of the abandoned Cold War bunker. However, the unthinkable happens and Lex Dove is pushed into the strange world of voodoo, monsters and all sorts of complications. As is always the case with Pantheon books, Age of Voodoo is bursting with insane action and frantic pace with lots of background information so before you know it, the story will sweep you from your feet and you'll be taken for the exciting ride.
So - if you've somehow missed Pantheon series and want to give it a go (you should!), Age of Voodoo is great place to start. You're definitely in for a treat if you like this kind of story.Age of Voodoo by James Lovegrove on February 26th by Solaris Books

Order your copy here:
Amazon US | Amazon UK

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Publication Date:February 26, 2013    The author of the acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel The Old Man and the Wasteland returns! Amid the remains of a world destroyed by a devastating Global Thermonuclear Armageddon, barbaric tribes rule the New American Dark Age. A boy and his horse must complete the final mission of the last United States soldier, and what unfolds is an epic journey across an America gone savage.   Show more  Show less

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Publication Date: February 26, 2013      Before email, before "the web," before hackers and GPS and sexting, before titanium implants, before Google Goggles, before Siri, and before each and every one of us carried a computer in our pockets, there was cyberpunk, and science fiction was never the same.

Cyberpunk writers—serious, smart, and courageous in the face of change—exposed the naiveté of a society rushing headlong into technological unknowns. Technology could not save us, they argued, and it might in fact ruin us. Now, thirty years after The Movement party-crashed the science fiction scene, the cyberpunk reality has largely come to be. The future they imagined is here.

In this book, you'll find stories by legendary cyberpunk authors like Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, as well as stories by new cyberpunk voices like Cory Doctorow and Jonathan Lethem. You'll find stories about society gone wrong and society saved, about soulless humans and soulful machines, about futures worth fighting for and futures that do nothing but kill.

Welcome to your cyberpunk world.

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... a evo i jedne Micine miljenice... 




Publication Date: March 1, 2013     Ballerina Lucia del Mar has two great passions: dance, which consumes most of her waking hours, and the Internet, which brings the outside world into her tightly regimented life. These two passions collide when a White House performance and reception leads to an encounter with handsome Moroccan businessman Rashid al-Jazari, creator of a brilliant technology that has set the Internet rumor mill ablaze.

A second, seemingly chance meeting with Rashid plunges Lucia into a deadly world of desire and intrigue, for although his work has implications she cannot foresee, there are those who do understand and would turn its great power to their own destructive purposes. As Lucia is drawn deeper and deeper into Rashid's life and work, cut off from the outside world, she finds herself becoming more attracted to him. But is her seclusion within Rashid's well-guarded Moroccan home intended to ensure her safety -- or her silence? And is it already too late to stop the terrible consequences his new technology could unleash?   Show more  Show less 

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Publication Date: February 28, 2013     This collection of unabridged, spectacular steampunk speculations includes several classics of the genre. These tales will sweep you away with their amazing automata, daring dirigibles, grinding gears, and scintillating steam as days long gone are infused with tech. In Smoke City, by Christopher Barzak, a woman comes to terms with the loss of her family to the child labor mills of the city. A doctor tries to cope with a strange plague terrorizing the citizens of London in Jeffrey Ford s Dr. Lash Remembers. In Machine Maid, by Margo Lanagan, a sexually repressed wife gets revenge on her husband through a robot maid. Friedrich Engels strives to spread class revolution as a labor organizer for factory cyborg matchstick girls in Arbeitskraft, by Nick Mamatas. In Ninety Thousand Horses, by Sean McMullen, an acclaimed mathematician, with a murky past, is forced to spy for an industrialist prior to becoming Britain s foremost rocket expert during World War II. An orphan boy builds an automaton, in an aging scientist s laboratory, that becomes more than an idle companion in Cherie Priest s Tanglefoot (A Clockwork Century Story). In Clockwork Fairies, by Cat Rambo, an English aristocrat courts a woman who would rather spend her time in a laboratory than at high society balls. At Chicago s Columbian Exposition, in 1893, an Algerian bodyguard crosses paths with a disoriented naked man in Chris Roberson s Edison s Frankenstein. . In A Serpent in the Gears, by Margaret Ronald, a dirigible journeys to an isolated land and discovers people and animals merged with machine parts. Radio Jones finds a way to listen in on the Naked Brains, who rule the world, while Rudy the Red fights against the oppressors in Zeppelin City, by Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn. Read by Tom Dheere, Vanessa Hart, and Nancy Linari. 520 minutes in length on 8 compact discs.   Show more  Show less

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Publication Date: February 28, 2013     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.   Show more  Show less

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Release date: March 26, 2013     Following the exceptionally well received first collection, Solaris Rising 2 brings even more best-selling and cutting edge SF authors together for another extraodrinary volume of ground-breaking stories. Having re-affirmed Solaris's proud reputation for producing high quality science fiction antologies in the first volume, Solaris Rising 2 is the next collection in this exciting series. Featuring stories by Allan Steele, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kim Lakin-Smith, Paul Cornell, Eugie Foster, Nick Harkaway, Nancy Kress, Kay Kenyon, James Lovegrove, Robert Reed, Mercurio D. Rivera, Norman Spinrad, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Liz Williams, Vandana Singh, Martin Sketchley, and more. These stories are guaranteed to surprise, thrill and delight, and maintain our mission to demonstrate why science fiction remains the most exiting, varied and inspiring of all fiction genres. In Solaris Rising we showed both the quality and variety that modern science fiction can produce. In Solaris Rising 2, we'll be taking that much, much further.   Show more  Show less 

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Release date: April 30, 2013      When out-of-shape IT technician Roen woke up and started hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumed he was losing it.

He wasn't.

He now has a passenger in his brain – an ancient alien life-form called Tao, whose race crash-landed on Earth before the first fish crawled out of the oceans. Now split into two opposing factions – the peace-loving, but under-represented Prophus, and the savage, powerful Genjix – the aliens have been in a state of civil war for centuries. Both sides are searching for a way off-planet, and the Genjix will sacrifice the entire human race, if that's what it takes.

Meanwhile, Roen is having to train to be the ultimate secret agent. Like that's going to end up well...

File Under: Science Fiction [ The Tug of War | I Was Genghis | Diary of a Slob | Spy vs Spy ]
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In an alternative 1890, the British Empire's reach and power is almost absolute, and from a technologically-advanced London where steam-power is king and airships ply the skies, Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world – including the east coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775.
But London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast, where Gideon Smith whiles away his days fishing on his father's clockwork gearship and dreaming of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of Captain Lucian Trigger, the Hero of the Empire, as presented in Gideon's favourite "penny dreadful" periodical, World Marvels & Wonders.
When Gideon's father is lost at sea in highly mysterious circumstances, Gideon is convinced that supernatural forces are at work. The writer Bram Stoker, holidaying in nearby Whitby, fears that a vampire from Transylvania is abroad on English soil, but is the dark agency that killed Arthur Smith and his crew even more ancient and foul – murderous, mummified creatures from the shifting sands of Egypt?
Deciding only Captain Lucian Trigger himself can aid him in his search for answers, Gideon sets off for London, and on the way rescues the mysterious mechanical girl Maria from a tumbledown house of shadows and iniquities.
Looking for heroes but finding only mysteries and unanswered questions, it falls to Gideon Smith to step up to the plate and attempt to save the day... but can a humble fisherman really become the true Hero of the Empire?

Book info as per Amazon US [Also available via Amazon UK]:

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An exciting anthology is coming out by Titan Books on September 24th, 2013. War of the Worlds : Global Dispatches is edited by Kevin J Anderson and will feature stories "In the spirit of H.G. Wells's classic tale of Martian invasion". Anthology has stories from really stellar line-up which includes Mike Resnick, Walter Jon Williams, Daniel Marcus, Robert Silverberg, Janet Berliner, Howard Waldrop, Doug Beason, Barbara Hambly, George Alec Effinger, Allen Steele, Mark W. Tiedemann, Gregory Benford and David Brin, Don Webb, Daniel Keys Moran and Jodi Moran, M. Shayne Bell, Dave Wolverton and Connie Willis.
Order your copy here:
Amazon US | Amazon UK

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Tales of the Wold Newton Universe

A collection of Wold Newton-inspired short stories by Farmerphiles, experts, and the Grand Master of SF himself.

I am pleased to announce that Titan Books has settled on the final Table of Contents for the Wold Newton Anthology, Tales of the Wold Newton Universe. The book collects, for the first time ever in one volume, Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton short stories, and also includes tales by other writers.



The Introduction by Win Scott Eckert (coauthor with Farmer of the Wold Newton novel The Evil in Pemberley House) and Christopher Paul Carey (coauthor with Farmer of the Khokarsa novel The Song of Kwasin) will provide an overview of Farmer's Wold Newton Family and Mythos. In addition, Eckert and Carey will provide brief introductions to the stories themselves, explaining why each entry is a Wold Newton tale.



Tales of the Wold Newton Universe is available for preorder at Amazon, AmazonUK, and B&N. As with all the Farmer books from Titan, there will also be an eBook version.

Contents

Introduction by Win Scott Eckert and Christopher Paul Carey

The Great Detective and Others
"The Problem of the Sore Bridge--Among Others" by Harry Manders	Philip José Farmer
"A Scarletin Study" by Jonathan Swift Somers III	Philip José Farmer
"The Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight" by Jonathan Swift Somers III	Philip José Farmer
Pulp Inspirations
"Skinburn"	Philip José Farmer
"The Freshman"	Philip José Farmer
"After King Kong Fell"	Philip José Farmer
Wold Newton Prehistory: The Khokarsa Series
"Kwasin and the Bear God"	Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey
Wold Newton Prehistory: John Gribardsun & Time's Last Gift
"Into Time's Abyss"	John Allen Small
"The Last of the Guaranys"	Octavio Aragão & Carlos Orsi
Wold Newton Origins / Secrets of the Nine
"The Wild Huntsman"	Win Scott Eckert

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Joanne Anderton (known by her excellent Suited and Debris) has revealed table of contents for her upcoming short story collection The Bone Chime Song and other stories. The Bone Chime Song and other stories will be released in April 2013 by Fablecroft Press.

Order your copy here:
FableCroft



Table of contents:

• Introduction – Kaaron Warren
• The Bone Chime Song
• Mah Song
• Shadow of Drought
• Sanaa's Army
• From the Dry Heart to the Sea
• Always a Price
• Out Hunting for Teeth
• Death Masque
• Flowers in the shadow of the Garden
• A Memory Trapped in Light
• Trail of Dead
• Fence Lines
• Tied to the Waste

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A Very British History by Paul McAuley



TITLE A Very British History [The best science fiction stories of Paul McAuley, 1985–2011]
A COLLECTION by Paul McAuley
PUBLICATION DATE  March 2014
EDITION  Jacketed Hardcover
COVER ART  Jim Burns
PRINT RUN unsigned
ISBN  978-1-848635-96-8

SYNOPSIS

TIMES ALTERED, TIMES TO COME

While the use of genetically engineered dolls in combat games in near-future Holland poses profound ethical questions, their liberated cousins threaten to alter the nature of human existence; on an artificial world beyond the edge of the Milky Way, one of the last humans triggers a revolution amongst alien races abandoned there by her ancestors; in the ocean of Europa, a hunter confronts a monster with its own agenda; in 'The Two Dicks', bestselling author Philip K. Dick has a life-changing meeting with President Nixon; while in 'Cross Road Blues' the fate of American history hinges on the career of an itinerant blues musician; and in the Sturgeon Award-winning novella 'The Choice', two young men make very different decisions about how they will come to terms with a world transformed by climate change and alien interference.

Selected by the author himself from his output across over a quarter of a century, this landmark collection contains the
very finest science fiction stories by one of Britain's foremost masters of the genre. From sharply satirical alternate histories to explorations of the outer edges of biotechnology, from tales of extravagant far futures to visions of the transformative challenges of deep space, they showcase the reach and restless intelligence of a writer Publishers Weekly has praised as being 'one of the field's finest practitioners'.

Paul McAuley has published 19 crime and science-fiction novels, including Fairyland, which won the Arthur C. Clarke and John W. Campbell Awards, Mind's Eye, The Quiet War, and Gardens of the Sun. His latest novel is Evening's Empires. He has also published over eighty short stories, winning the British Fantasy Society award for 'The Temptation of Doctor Stein', the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for 'The Choice' and the Philip K. Dick Award for 'Four Hundred Billion Stars'. Formerly a research biologist, he is now a full-time writer, and lives in North London.

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These are love stories. And also monster stories. Sometimes these are monsters in their traditional guises, sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, or ourselves. The often working-class people in these stories are driven to extremes by love. Sometimes, they are ruined; sometimes redeemed. All are faced with the loneliest corners of themselves and strive to find an escape.
Interviews
Read an interview.
the Laurel of Asheville
Shirley Jackson Awards blog
BooklifeNow
Reviews
Tor.com on "Sunbleached."
Colleen Mondor on "North American Lake Monsters."
Lucius Shepard writing an appreciation of "You Go Where It Takes You."
Two videos in which Nathan participated, promoting Teeth (Ellen Datlow, ed.), which featured "Sunbleached."
"Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite short fiction writers."—Jeff VanderMeer
"Nathan Ballingrud's 'The Way Station' is another story of the sort I've come to expect from him: emotionally intense, riveting, and deeply upsetting in many ways. It deals with loss, with the aftereffects of Katrina on a homeless alcoholic who's haunted by the city itself be-fore the flood, and in doing so it's wrenching. . . . It's an excellent story that paints a riveting por-trait of a man, his city, and his loss."—Tor.com on The Naked City
"But the two most remarkable stories in Naked City are by relatively new authors: 'The Projected Girl' (Haifa) by Lavie Tidhar and 'The Way Station' (New Orleans and St. Petersburg, Florida) by Nathan Ballingrud are both heartbreakers."—John Clute on Strange Horizons
Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts but has spent most of his life in the South. He worked as a bartender in New Orleans and New York City and a cook on offshore oil rigs. His story "The Monsters of Heaven" won the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his daughter.
Table of Contents
You Go Where It Takes YouWild AcreS.S.The CrevasseThe Monsters of HeavenSunbleachedNorth American Lake MonstersThe Way StationThe Good Husband




http://smallbeerpress.com/forthcoming/2012/10/26/north-american-lake-monsters/

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After original cover art, we are happy to show you alternate cover art for the upcoming James Lovegrove collection, Age of Godpunk. To remind, Age of Godpunk will be released on August 27, 2013 and will collect three previously published ebook novellas.
Order your copy here:
Amazon US | Amazon UK








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nakon puno hajpa, evo i naslovnica:



Release date: September 24, 2013     Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death.  Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep."  Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.   Show more 

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Prophet of Bones: A Novel   
Ted Kosmatka



Release date: April 2, 2013

Paul Carlson, a brilliant young scientist, is summoned from his laboratory job to the remote Indonesian island of Flores to collect DNA samples from the ancient bones of a strange, new species of tool user unearthed by an archaeological dig. The questions the find raises seem to cast doubt on the very foundations of modern science, which has proven the world to be only 5,800 years old, but before Paul can fully grapple with the implications of his find, the dig is violently shut down by paramilitaries.

Paul flees with two of his friends, yet within days one has vanished and the other is murdered in an attack that costs Paul an eye, and very nearly his life. Back in America, Paul tries to resume the comfortable life he left behind, but he can't cast the questions raised by the dig from his mind. Paul begins to piece together a puzzle which seems to threaten the very fabric of society, but world's governments and Martial Johnston, the eccentric billionaire who financed Paul's dig, will stop at nothing to silence him

Review

"Gripping, dark, and well written...Kosmatka paints in broad strokes yet still nails the details...this is a compelling juggernaut of a read."—Library Journal

"An exciting alternate-universe thriller... readers will gulp this on down."—PW

"A near-perfect blending of traditional thriller and alternate-reality scientific and theological fantasy... has best-seller written all over it."—Booklist, Starred Review

"A masterwork of intrigue and menace. I couldn't put Prophet of Bones down until I reached the climax...An eye-opening and page-turning read without parallel."—Clive Cussler

"Ted Kosmatka is both an excellent writer and a hell of a storyteller...Prophet of Bones is truly hard to put down. This is what a novel is about"—Nelson DeMille

"Written with confidence, in a sure hand, the tension leaps from the page. All of the right elements combine—danger, treachery, and action. Buckle up, hunker down, and get ready for an all-nighter."—Steve Berry
About the Author

Ted Kosmatka is the author of one previous novel, The Games. His short fiction has been nominated for both the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and appeared in numerous Year's Best collections.

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wow... gde li si samo to nasao? upcoming4me me najstrasnije izneverava.

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Under the countless billions of stars in the universe, what forms will alien life take? How will they live? And what will happen when we meet them? Aliens: Recent Encounters collects answers to these questions from some of today's best science fiction writers. From first encounters to life alongside aliens – and stories of the aliens' own lives – here are many futures: violent and peaceful, star-spanning and personal. Only one thing is certain: alien life will defy our expectations.


An Owomoyela – Frozen Voice
Ken Liu – The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
Catherynne M. Valente – Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy
Zen Cho – The Four Generations of Chang E
Vandana Singh – The Tetrahedon
Paul McAuley – The Man
Ursula K. Le Guin – Seasons of the Ansarac
Molly Gloss – Lambing Season
Desirina Boskovich – Celadon
Genevieve Valentine – Carthago Delenda Est
Caitlín R. Kiernan – I Am the Abyss and I Am the Light
Jamie Barras – The Beekeeper
Robert Reed – Noumenon
Elizabeth Bear – The Death of Terrestial Radio
Sofia Samatar – Honey Bear
Karin Lowachee – The Forgotten Ones
Jeremiah Tolbert – The Godfall's Chemsong
Alastair Reynolds – For the Ages
Brooke Bolander – Sun Dogs
Nisi Shawl – Honorary Earthling
Samantha Henderson – Shallot
Sonya Taaffe – The Boy Who Learned How to Shudder
Eleanor Arnason – Knapsack Poems
Gitte Christensen – Nullipara
Indrapramit Das – muo-ka's Child
Jeffrey Ford – The Dismantled Invention of Fate
Karin Tidbeck – Jagannath
Pervin Saket – Test of Fire
Nancy Kress – My Mother, Dancing
Greg van Eekhout – Native Aliens
Lavie Tidhar – Covenant
Yoon Ha Lee – A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel

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Publication Date: March 5, 2013      One of science fiction's premiere stylists, M. John Harrison has received abundant praise and awards for his wildly imaginative ideas and transcendent prose. Now he returns to the richly complex universe of Light and Nova Swing with a stunning new novel that braids three glittering strands into a tapestry that spans vast reaches of time and space.

In the near future, an elderly English widow is stirred from her mundane existence by surreal omens and visitations. Centuries later, the space freighter Nova Swing takes on an illegal alien artifact as cargo, with consequences beyond reckoning. While on a distant planet, a nameless policewoman tries to bring order to an event zone where ordinary physics do not apply, only to find herself caught up in something even stranger and more sublime. . . .
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    Publication Date: March 12, 2013      "I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead..." writes the heroine of Marlen Haushofer's The Wall, a quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human being. Surmising her solitude is the result of a too successful military experiment, she begins the terrifying work of not only survival, but self-renewal. The Wall is at once a simple and moving talk — of potatoes and beans, of hoping for a calf, of counting matches, of forgetting the taste of sugar and the use of one's name — and a disturbing meditation on 20th century history.
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Publication Date:March 6, 2013    Terrain, by Genevieve Valentine, is a steampunk western about six diverse people living and working together on a farm outside a small town in Wyoming. The encroaching Union Pacific railroad wants the land, threatening their home and their livelihood, running a unique message service with mechanical "dogs" (actually looking more insectile) that can climb up mountains where the Pony Express cannot.
At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.   Show more  Show less

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Publication Date:March 4, 2013   The cursed village of Ewerton, Wisconsin is one of the great "bad places" in weird literature: a town that's just thoroughly bad to the bone--evil and dark and full of human suffering. And now A. R. Morlan returns to the scene of her classic horror novels, The Amulet and Dark Journey, with 25 horrific tales of men and women pushed beyond the limits of endurance. As Ardath Mayhar says: "The horror she evokes is not so much occult as uniquely human. The worst of human traits are her stock in trade. The hints of otherworldly elements are used in just the right proportions to make one shiver." And Robert Reginald states: "She drives the stake of horror right through the center of your quivering heart!   Show more  Show less   

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Coming in January 2014...

http://solaris-editors-blog.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-big-reveal-what-do-you-say-to-cigar.html

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pogresan topik, zakk ako mozes prebaci na 'cekajuci nove knjige'...

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Uspelo!

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zahvaljujem . 

a sad - samting komplitli... lejm & sejm. 




Madeline Ashby is one lucky author. Not only did she get a strikingly creepy (and awesome) cover for her first novel, vN, she got another one for its sequel, iD.  Nice work by artist Martin Bland.

(... a kripi kover je bilo jedino sto je valjalo kod prve knjige.  )

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Publication Date: 1 Aug 2013 | Series: The Skyscraper Throne     

Pen's life is all about secrets: the secret of the city's spirits, deities and monsters her best friend Beth discovered, living just beyond the notice of modern Londoners; the secret of how she got the intricate scars that disfigure her so cruelly - and the most closely guarded secret of all: Parva, her mirror-sister, forged from her reflections in a school bathroom mirror. Pen's reflected twin is the only girl who really understands her.
Then Parva is abducted and Pen makes a terrible bargain for the means to track her down. In London-Under-Glass, looks are currency, and Pen's scars make her a rare and valuable commodity. But some in the reflected city will do anything to keep Pen from the secret of what happened to the sister who shared her face.    Show More  Show Less

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Gene Wolfe has a new book coming out and we are more than happy to be able to show you the cover art and synopsis for it! The book is called The Land Across and will be on sale on November 26, 2013.



Order your copy here:
Amazon US | Amazon UK

For the impatient ones, here's the synopsis:

A novel of the fantastic set in an imagined country in Europe

An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but they are not in some ways as threatening as the brute forces of bureaucracy and corruption in that country. Is our hero in fact a spy for the CIA? Or is he an innocent citizen caught in a Kafkaesque trap?

Gene Wolfe keeps us guessing until the very end, and after.

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"Sand and Seawater" by Joanne Anderton & Rabia Gale
"Indigo Gold" by Deborah Biancotti
"Firefly Epilogue" by Jodi Cleghorn
"The Ways of the Wyrding Women" by Rowena Cory Daniells
"The ships of Culwinna" by Thoraiya Dyer
"Shadows" by Kate Gordon
"By Blood and Incantation" by Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter
"Ella and the Flame" by Kathleen Jennings
"Original" by Penny Love
"Always Greener" by Michelle Marquardt
"Morning Star" by DK Mok
"Winter's Heart" by Faith Mudge
"Cold White Daughter" by Tansy Rayner Roberts
"Baby Steps" by Barbara Robson
"Number 73 Glad Avenue" by Suzanne J Willis
"Daughters of Battendown" by Cat Sparks

http://www.angelaslatter.com/cover-reveal-one-small-step/