Novosti iz sveta Fantastike

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 Džef Vandermer je juče na fejsu bio van sebe od sreće što mu je žena sad deo Tor tima, i to kao editor za kratku prozu. Mazeltov!



Welcome Ann VanderMeer, New Consulting Fiction Editor for Tor.com

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In celebration of our two September releases, TRAJECTORY by John. S. Barker on 1st September, and MONSTERS ANONYMOUS by Theresa Derwin on 30th September, Anarchy Books is offering a FREE EBOOK every single day of September!

We're also running a competition with our very good friends, GEEK SYNDICATE, to win Anarchy Books' entire digital catalogue of ebooks and their associated specially composed soundtracks, and our Geek Ninja Buddies will also give you exclusive info on where to find some of the hidden links and free books available from Anarchy this September.

For more information during every Sizzling September Promo Day, visit Anarchy Books and Geek Syndicate... and remember to follow the White Rabbit...

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Stefan Petrucha on Zombie Noir (with Free Excerpt and Exciting News Announcement!)



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So how do you mix sputtering neon signs and graveyard gore?


Noir and Zombies always seemed natural partners to me (or, if you like obvious jokes, unnatural partners.) Noir means dark (well, technically, black, en français). Noir is ratty, grim, cynical. The world and characters it depicts are more often than not, dead inside, their dreams shattered or forsaken. They go through the motions of life in the best idle-zombie way.  Even the noblest noir figures aren't heroes so much as hapless, forced, by fate or circumstance, to take a stand.

Take Sam Spade, who says in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, "When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it."

Difficult words coming from the man who slept with his partner's wife.

Point being, in noir, what good exists doesn't come down to from on high, it's dragged into being by gritty, fallible hands. Watching it play out is akin to watching sausages being made.
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Gollancz is to release the entire science fiction and fantasy back catalogue of Michael Moorcock, plus much of his literary fiction.

The two-year publishing project will launch in February 2013, with publication of Moorcock's last three Elric novels, Daughter of Dreams, Destiny's Brother and Son of the Wolf. The programme will go on to bring back all of the author's genre works, including Hawkmoon, Corum, Von Bek and the Eternal Champion books. Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novels will also be in the mix.

The books will be published as Gollancz print editions and as e-books from Gollancz's online SF&F digital library SF Gateway.

The publisher said the new books are "definitive editions, carefully prepared with the author and his longstanding friend, bibliographer and editor, John Davey".

"The new versions will be particularly important to fans as they will present the Elric stories in a consistent internal chronological order together with associational material never previously published," Gollancz said.

Moorcock said: "This new programme will make available many of my books which have been hard to obtain in any form and will now be available in both print and electronic form in newly revised definitive editions."

The project was put in place by Orion deputy c.e.o. and publisher Malcolm Edwards and Caspar Dennis of the Abner Stein Agency, acting for Howard Morhaim.


http://www.thebookseller.com/news/major-moorcock-publishing-project-gollancz.html

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DC Comics hasn't exactly been filling Catwoman fans with hope during its latest series. The first issue of the New 52 Catwoman run has become synonymous with everything people find despicable about the depiction of females in comics. It is within this fiasco that the cover for Catwoman #0 was born. After much Internet criticism, the cover has since been changed to a slightly less cringe-inducing version.

Both are by artist Guillem March, but the second at least conforms to some semblance of reality. That isn't to say that this will calm the clamoring — which is justified — but it's a step in the right direction. The changes between the two are minute for the most part but important.





Her body isn't wildly out of proportion, for starters, and she's even apparently grown a bit modest and zipped up. The position she's in manages to include a number of body parts somehow absent from the first image, and her head isn't painfully slanted. Overall, a lovely change to what was a disappointing cover.

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PETER HARRINGTON WILL BE OFFERING FOR SALE FROM 26 SEPTEMBER

[SHELLEY, Mary.] Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. London: for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.

First edition, presentation copy to Lord Byron, with the author's autograph inscription to the front flyleaf: "To Lord Byron from the Author". An unsurpassable association copy of the best known fiction of the Romantic era, perhaps the most evocative presentation copy conceivable in all nineteenth-century literature.

This item will be exhibited at Peter Harrington from 26 September to 3 October 2012.

More details to be released at 20:00 BST, 25 September 2012. These include a video and full description of the history of this unique book.

http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/pages/events-and-fairs-ph/news/

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For those who have not read The Onion today, I have your daily dose of crazy all ready for you.

Jazan Wild, a comics creator who is most well known for suing NBC in 2010 for $60 million over copyright infringement, is now pursuing a different lawsuit against HarperCollins. Wild is claiming that one recent HC title, Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr, infringes upon his trademark.

Not copyright – trademark.

Wild is claiming that HarperCollins is using the trademarked phrase as the title of a book to intentionally confuse readers into thinking that a fantasy novel which was published last week was related to a comics series which Wild had published in 2006.

Crazy, right?  Any sane person would have put a few minutes thought into the matter and realized that such an obvious phrase as Carnival of Souls would likely have been used as a title many times before. In fact, Bookfinder turned up at least a couple dozen different books, movies, TV episodes, and more – some of which dates back to 1962. And if you look inside books, Google says that it found the phrase no less than 5600 times (with some duplication, obviously).

But that's not the end of the craziness. No, it's with the book reviewers that the crazy truly begins.

(ostatak imate ovde: http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/09/11/author-sues-book-reviewers-over-trademark-infringement )

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http://litreactor.com/news/18-year-old-signs-six-figure-deal-with-harpercollins-for-vampire-series


When Abigail Gibbs read the Twilight series, she thought it was great and all, but told the BBC that her ideal version was bloodier, edgier, and more British. So she did what any 15-year-old would do in that situation: Wrote her own version and posted it on Wattpad. She got to nearly seventeen million readers, at which point she was spotted and signed to HarperCollins by age 18. Wait...what?

   Gibbs's new six-figure deal with the Big Six publisher includes her original novel, The Dark Heroine: Dinner With A Vampire, as well as a yet-to-be-completed sequel, which she'll write in between her classes at Oxford University. Gibbs describes the book, the story of a teen kidnapped by vampires and the ensuing love triangle, as "the sexiest romance you'll read this year"—slightly disturbing when you consider that it was written by a 15-year-old.

   The eBook edition is available in the UK starting today and in the US on September 18th. The paperback will hit stores in October. The times they are a-changin', and the path to success isn't as straightforward as it used to be. Personally, I think it's a good thing because who knows if talented young authors like Gibbs would get picked up through traditional means. What do you think of her route to publication?

   On another note, is anybody but me sick of vampires yet? They're sooooo 2009, and zombies are so 2010. Can we get some sea monsters or mummies or ogres up in here, please? I mean, where do we go from here, people?

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Actor Kevin Costner has signed a book deal with Simon & Schuster's Atria Books imprint for an adventure series. It begins with The Explorers Guild, Volume One: Passage to Shambhala in 2014. The book is aimed at a broad group of readers, ranging from "young adult to more mature mystery and adventure enthusiasts."

Writer and art director Jon Baird (pictured, left) also worked on the project with Costner (middle), which will be illustrated by Rick Ross (right). Rob Weisbach and Fonda Snyder at Rob Weisbach Creative Management negotiated the deal with publisher Judith Curr. Atria senior editor Sarah Durand and assistant editor Daniel Loedel will edit the book.

Here's more from the release: "Behind the staid rooms of an old world gentlemen's club operates a darker, more mysterious organization: The Explorers Guild, a clandestine group of adventurers who seek out the places where light gives way to shadow and reason is usurped by myth ... Set against the backdrop of World War I, with Western Civilization spiraling into chaos, the first installment in The Explorers Guild series, A Passage to Shambhala, concerns the Guild's quest to find Shambhala, the golden city of Buddhist myth. Each member is driven toward the City for a different reason: one believes that finding it will save his brother's life; another hopes that it will reveal a path to spiritual enlightenment. Some believe the power of the city can be used to restore peace, while others are certain that Shambhala is responsible for bringing mankind to the brink of apocalypse."


http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/kevin-costner-lands-book-deal-for-serialized-adventure_b57494

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 by Adam Whitehead

With publication of Joe Abercrombie's Red Country just a few months away, review copies have been released into the wild and promotional materials are doing the rounds. Impressively, these have revealed that The First Law has now sold more than 1 million copies worldwide (though not specifying whether this was just the trilogy or includes the two stand-alone novels as well). An impressive achievement from Joe there.

Meanwhile, Gollancz has revealed (via Twitter) that the current working release date for Richard Morgan's The Dark Defiles - the conclusion to the Land Fit For Heroes series - is August 2013. There are two previews of the book currently up on the author's blog.

Intriguingly, Morgan has hinted that The Dark Defiles might become too large for one volume, and he and Gollancz are looking at the manuscript to see if it will be one huge book or two merely biggish ones. Watch this space for news on that.

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Frederik Pohl has posted the table of contents for the new ebook version of his 1975 collection The Best of Frederik Pohl:

A selection of the cream of the crop from three decades of science fiction stories by one of the field's most honored and popular writers. Includes such classics as "Day Million," "The Midas Plague," "The Day the Martians Came," and sixteen more stories. With an afterword by the author.

Here's the table of contents...

   
• "The Tunnel under the World"
• "Punch"
• "Three Portraits and a Prayer"
• "Howard Chandler Christie: The Lovely Young Girl"
• "A Time cover attributed to Artzybasheff"
• "Gilbert Stuart: His Late Period"
• "Day Million"
• "Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus"
• "We Never Mention Aunt Nora"
• "The Day the Martians Came"
• "The Midas Plague"
• "The Snowmen"
• "How to Count on Your Fingers"
• "Grandy Devil"
• "Speed Trap"
• "The Richest Man in Levittown"
• "The Day the Icicle Works Closed"
• "The Hated"
• "The Martian in the Attic"
• "The Census Takers" and "The Children of Night"

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Your Near-Future Post-Apocalypse Has Arrived: H+ The Digital Series

Humanity goes offline. Survival goes on.

That's the tagline of a cool near-future post-apocalyptic web series called H+. Produced by Bryan Singer (X-Men, The Usual Suspects), H+: The Digital Series "takes viewers on a journey into an apocalyptic future where technology has begun to spiral out of control... a future where the world's population has retired its cell phones and laptops in favor of a stunning new device by Hplus Nano Teoranta, an innovative technology company that has found a way to connect the Internet to the human mind 24 hours a day."

New episodes every Wednesday.

It's quite well done, surpassing many television shows in terms in quality and concept.

H+ Episode 1: Driving Under

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Eclipse is Coming Online! 

by admin on September 17, 2012 in Eclipse Online
 

The multi-award winning Eclipse series (Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Aurealis) is coming to Nightshadebooks.com! Exact launch date is to come

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http://www.johnjosephadams.com/2012/09/new-anthology-wastelands-2/ 

New Anthology: WASTELANDS 2Good news, post-apocalyptic fiction fans: And no, I don't mean the new TV show, Revolution. Even better: I'm going to be doing a follow up volume to my critically-acclaimed anthology, Wastelands, which will be called, at least for now, Wastelands 2.

As I've done with most of my other anthologies, I'd like to solicit recommendations, so if you have any outstanding examples of post-apocalyptic fiction you'd like to point out to me, please feel free to let me know about them by entering them into my post-apocalyptic fiction database.

As I did with my previous sequel anthology, The Living Dead 2, for Wastelands 2, I will likely be focusing on very new material, primarily stories published since Wastelands (Vol. 1) was assembled. The first volume was published in January 2008, but since it was mostly edited the year before, basically I'll primarily be looking for material published from 2007-Present.

Since this is an anthology, obviously I'm primarily interested in short fiction, but if you want to recommend novels or novel series, that is welcome too, as I may include a "for further reading" list in the anthology. Note, however, that there is an extensive list of novels in Wastelands (Vol. 1), so again this would primarily be of interest for material published 2007-Present.

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Dr. Sleep

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 ... i nešto za ljubitelje paranormalnog, mističnog i tako već sličnog im džeza:


Meanwhile, John Llewellyn Probert has written a novel! It's his first! It's groovy, and so is he! It's called The House that Death Built and is available in three (3!) formats! It's available in eBook format, which is DRM-​​free as is the case with all Atomic Fez eBooks; there's a paperback edition; and there's a Limited, Numbered, Hardback edition which is signed by both the author and the cover artist! Atomic Fez isn't in the habit of doing 'collector's editions", but as this is John's début as a novelist, it seemed apt to create a special version of this title, just for him. It may also be the final outing for the characters "Mr Massene Henderson" and "Miss Samantha Jephcott", which are the "specialists in paranormal adventure" he created to engage in daring-​​do against the spirit world, and who have previously only appeared in the short stories collected in Against the Darkness (available from Screaming Dreams through THIS LINK).




http://www.atomicfez.com/2012/09/17/new-titles-2012/

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Just for ONE day only, on September 21, 2012, Stephen Leigh's "The Woods" will be offered free via Amazon. While I apologize that this is only an Amazon promotion, the book is DRM free so should be easy to convert. The book is regular priced at $9.99 for paperback and $5.99 for digital.

You may use this link

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008Z915KC?tag=arcman-20

Or search for ASIN B008Z915KC on Amazon.

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A new trailer is out for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey!

"...far to the east, over ranges and rivers, lies a single, solitary peak..."

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/the-hobbit/feature-trailer

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одлично, не певају у трејлеру!

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I wish this was more than a news clip! Funny how Serkis mentions how people have mimicked the voice back to him in the intervening years since Lord of the Rings.  There's a certain someone I know (looks at Tim) who will do the Gollum voice on command. I think I will hand him my copy of The Hobbit and ask him to read the good parts.

Andy Serkis reads The Hobbit as Gollum on stage

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Warner Bros. has partnered with Kabam to create two free-to-play games inspired by The Hobbit for the web and mobile devices.

Both The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth for mobile devices and The Hobbit: Armies of the Third Age for web browsers will be multiplayer strategy games, due out in Autumn 2012.

The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth will task players with building and managing their own kingdom in Middle-earth, including joining with other players to engage in war, while The Hobbit:  Armies of the Third Age will offer gamers strategic combat, whilst controlling iconic characters including Bilbo and Gandalf at the head of an army of Elves, Dwarves or Orcs.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/26/warner-bros-announces-the-hobbit-games

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You've probably heard of the risque novel "50 Shades of Grey" since it's now the best selling paperback of all time. But you may not know that it's Twilight fan fiction! It seems shocking that a fan fiction novel has become so popular, but 50 Shades isn't the first book to break through the fan community boundaries into mainstream culture. Over 100 years ago, Sherlock Holmes' popularity created a profusion of well received fan fiction. It allowed authors from amateur to professional to explore the world originally created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and pave the way for other future fan fiction canons, including Star Wars, Harry Potter, and yes, 50 Shades of Grey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=beJdVmiQijM#!

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SCI-FI NOVEL "WORLD ENOUGH, AND TIME" EBOOK FOR 99 CENTS TODAY ONLY

World Enough, and Time by Best-Selling Author James Kahn Available Before Launch for One-Day Promotion

CAMPBELL, Calif. – September 27, 2012 – Today FastPencil announced a special 99 cents ebook promotion for the World Enough, and Time, the first title in the popular sci-fi series "New World Trilogy" by New York Times best-selling author James Kahn. The ebook is available before launch for 99 cents today only on Amazon.com. The book will be publicly available on October 3 for $14.95 in paperback and $7.99 in ebook format.

The "New World Trilogy" is a fantasy adventure trilogy written by renowned sci-fi author James Kahn, who is known for his books "Return of the Jedi" and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." The trilogy is being re-released with new illustrations and original content with added plot twists.

World Enough, and Time kicks off the trilogy by explaining a post-apocalyptic setting 200 years into the future where humans are a dying species. Readers will follow Joshua as he faces personal tragedy in the kidnapping of his wife and will witness his willingness to do whatever it takes to rescue her in a surreal landscape filled with science-based mythological creatures.

Kahn is a best-selling author who has worked with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas and sci-fi editor Judy Lynn Del Rey. His books include "Return of the Jedi," which made the New York Times Best-Seller List, as well as "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," "The Goonies" and "Poltergeist." He has also written for numerous television shows including "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Xena: Warrior Princess."

Pricing and Availability
World Enough, and Time is available today only in ebook for 99 cents on Amazon.

World Enough, and Time will become publicly available October 3 in paperback for $14.95 through the FastPencil PREMIERE Marketplace, major book chains and distributors – from Barnes and Noble to Baker & Taylor – as well as in ebook form for $7.99 through major e-retailers, including Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

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Jane Frances Gunn, 87, died September 27, 2012 at Brandon Woods.
Born April 8, 1925 in Phillipsburg, KS, Gunn worked for the KU News Bureau; as the librarian for the KU School of Journalism; as a reporter for the Kansas City Kansan; and as the co-owner and later the sole owner of the Emporium, a Lawrence art consignment gallery.
She is survived by her younger son, Kevin, and her husband, James Gunn. Mr. Gunn, the founding director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at Kansas University, is an editor and writer of science fiction, and has won numerous awards in the genre, including the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master award in 2007.

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Through the magic of Google Play, Iain M. Banks, Alastair Reynolds, and Peter F. Hamilton gathered to answer reader questions. Now, through the magic of YouTube (more magic!) you can see the chat session right here.
Warning: great stuff ahead...

Read the rest of this entry

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Last week, we reported the news that Guillermo del Toro's novel turned comic "The Strain" would be coming to TV. Well, looks like you can watch it a bit earlier than that: starting tomorrow, Felicia Day's Geek & Sundry channel will start serializing a Dark Horse Motion Comic based on the book.

The Strain is a modern take on the vampire mythology, pitting an elderly pawnbroker against raging blood-sucking hordes, because kids these days are super into pawnbrokers. You can check out "The Strain" starting tomorrow, but here's a sneak peak at some pics from the episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AGrpvLMAJM#ws]Dark Horse Comics RELAUNCH! - The Strain[/color]

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Captain Picard ce jos jednom biti profa X, which is nice.

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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Night Shade Books publicity, publicity@nightshadebooks.com

SAN FRANCISCO (October 1, 2012) — Night Shade Books is delighted to announce that from October 8, 2012, the award-winning Eclipse series will be available to readers online and free of charge at Nightshadebooks.com. Following the lead and success of other short fiction publications, Eclipse will continue its fifth and subsequent volumes as a primarily electronic publication.

Born out of a love for the short story form and a deep appreciation for the work of anthologists such as Terry Carr and Damon Knight, the Eclipse series was launched by Editor Jonathan Strahan and Night Shade Books in 2006. A varietal collection of both science fiction and fantasy, Eclipse has delivered original fiction by some of the genre's most celebrated authors such as Peter S. Beagle, Maureen McHugh, Andy Duncan, Garth Nix, Ellen Klages, Gwyneth Jones, Ted Chaing, Jeffrey Ford, Deryl Gregory, Caitlín R. Kiernan and others.
Hugo award-nominated author Jonathan Strahan says, "We've taken the dream of Eclipse – that idea of the rare and unusual, the strange and eldritch – and we've stripped it down and rebuilt it for a new decade. Now we're taking it out for a spin. There may be things added to it in the coming months, and things removed, but at its core there will be at least two new stories every month, the best I can find by the most exciting writers in the field."
Eclipse Online will be a free, online publication and does not require a subscription, sign-up or payment with a story released by Editor Jonathan Strahan every first and fourth Monday of the month.
An early publication schedule will be announced shortly.
About the Editor:
Jonathan Strahan has edited more than twenty anthologies and collections, including The Locus Awards (with Charles N. Brown), The New Space Opera (with Gardner Dozois), The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year and The Starry Rift. He has won the Ditmar, William J. Atheling Jr. and Peter McNamara awards for his work as an anthologist and reviewer, and was nominated for a Hugo Award for his editorial work. Strahan is currently the reviews editor for Locus.
Eclipse Online will launch will launch October 8 2012. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.nightshadebooks.com/, or contact us at publicity@nightshadebooks.com.

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One of the first major blogging events we've done on Tor.com was for steampunk, and every autumn with the turning of the leaves, the H.M.S. Stubbington gets its engines stoked for another bout of gears, cogs, and 19^th-century know-how. Now, Year Four into this brass madness, the question comes to mind: "Why does steampunk still matter?"

James Schafer, the co-owner of the Steampunk on Facebook page, sent that missive to me and several other steampunk tinkerers, academics, costumers, and event planners several months back, and its been on my mind ever since. Has our love for dirigibles gotten our heads too far into the clouds? Are we wandering, directionless, befuddled about what had brought us here? Are steampunks only good for quirky cameo appearances on reality TV or at the beginning of sitcoms about financially-challenged young women?

   Everyone had their own answers to Schafer's question, and here's the best one I've come up with:

"Steampunk matters because it's a verb now (or, always has been)."

More than just an aesthetic or a subgenre, it is a movement, with the emphasis on "move." People do steampunk: whether writing it, drawing it, performing it, building it, or dreaming it.

   So for Steampunk Week, we're looking at what steampunk does that makes it relevant to the science fiction/fantasy community – and the greater world outside it. You'll get bits of politics, art, literature, music, history, culture, and everything in between.*

   *And if this week isn't enough, know that we run steampunk things all year round, and browse through the archives for our steampunk blogging events from 2009, 2010, and 2011.

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Posto je Jo Walton trenutno u centru paznje sa Among Others, Guardian se posvetio profilisanju:




On Sunday night, Welsh-born novelist Jo Walton hit the hat-trick. Despite not yet having been published in the UK, her book, Among Others, took the British Fantasy award for best novel at Brighton's Fantasycon 2012 – its third major award this year. The novel – which scooped the Hugo award last month and tucked the Nebula under its belt in May – overcame stiff competition for the prize in the form of The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie, Stephen King's 11.22.63, Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin-Smith and George RR Martin's A Dance With Dragons at the British Fantasy Society event. Not bad going for a girl from the valleys.

In addition to the three major prizes it's now won, Among Others has also been nominated for a World Fantasy award at November's World Fantasy Convention – one of only a handful of novels ever to get such a grand-slam shortlisting for all the major science fiction literary prizes. The World Fantasy award will be presented in Toronto, which might have an extra sweetness for Walton if Among Others wins. Although born in Aberdare, Wales, she's now a permanent resident of Canada, and her career has taken place mainly Stateside.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/02/jo-walton-among-others-interview

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Now through December 31st, 2012, you can get the audiobook Legion by Brandon Sanderson for the low, low price of FREE!

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AmazonAmazon Studios Has Optioned Its First Novel   Amazon Studios has optioned the rights to the horror novel Seed by Ania Ahlborn. Testing a book as a movie is a first for Amazon Studios. So far, the company has only optioned movie scripts and episodic series projects.

"Our primary objective at Amazon Studios is to develop great, commercial projects that our customers love," explained Roy Price, director of Amazon Studios, in a statement. "Ania Ahlborn's SEED has been a top seller for Amazon Publishing's 47North so we already have a sense of the mainstream attraction of the story and are excited to keep the project in-house for movie development."

The book started life as a self-published novel  in 2010 which quickly rose up the charts through word-of-mouth popularity. Amazon picked up the book and released it this past July. After success on Amazon's sci-fi imprint 47North, Amazon is testing various big screen adaptations of the Southern gothic tale.

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... pošto je ovo jedina igrica sa kojom sam ikad ubijala vreme, smatram da je njuzvorti!   






Rovio teases Star Wars-themed Angry Birds


Rovio Entertainment has just slipped out a cryptic animated GIF of one of the Angry Birds with a lightsaber. Whether that means we'll see a full-blown Android game with little green pigs dressed up like stormtroopers is anyone's guess, but Rovio promises that we'll learn more at an event in Times Square, New York, at 10 AM EST on October 8 (next Monday). They also gently suggest that we hit up Toys R Us at 8 AM EST, so it's entirely likely that this is just some kind of new plushie they're selling.Rovio is no stranger to licensing deals, having scored a fairly big one with Disney for the film Rio last year. More recently, Rovio is coming off of their launch of Bad Piggies, a physics-based building game featuring the antagonists of their first hit mobile game. An excess of cross-branding deals like this could make the Angry Birds brand even more stale than the plethora of toys, calendars, and other merchandise have. Then again, if they have a fresh spin on the Angry Birds gameplay and do the Star Wars franchise justice, it could freshen up the birds for another couple of months.Are you guys optimistic about the next Angry Birds, or has it been done to death? Star Wars fans, do you find this kind of cross-licensing tacky or cute? http://www.androidcentral.com/rovio-teases-star-wars-themed-angry-birds

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced on Sunday that it had acquired the United States rights to publish a previously unknown work by J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Fall of Arthur." The book, set for publication in May, chronicles the last days of King Arthur and will be edited by Tolkien's son Christopher, who will also provide commentary and notes. Tolkien, the author of "The Lord of the Rings," died in 1973. This is the first new work by him to be unearthed since "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun" was released in 2009.

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Taj Christopher ima 88 godina.

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Baen Books has created a web-based, science fiction strategy game called Planet Baen, where players get to colonize a new world. It incorporates elements from many different Baen series as part of the normal gameplay, often focusing on a particular series in any given month. (October will features Larry Correia's Monster Hunters International series. November will see more focus on Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga.)

Here's the coolest part: It's free to play and as you progress in the game, you win free ebooks from Baen's ebook site, Baen Ebooks!

So, wanna have some fun and win free eBooks? Then check out Planet Baen!

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Adaptation, Deals Alan Dean Foster to Write Novelization of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek SequelBy Jason Boog on October 11, 2012 4:23 PM Alan Dean Foster will write the novelization of the sequel to J.J. Abrams' 2009 blockbuster Star Trek reboot. Gallery Books will publish Star Trek Into Darkness in May 2013, alongside the film that was written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Damon Lindel.

A veteran of film novelizations, Foster wrote the novel tie-in for Abrams' first Star Trek film. You can explore his massive bibliography at this link. Here's more about Foster, from the release:

Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as

Star Wars, the first three Alien films, Alien Nation, and The Chronicles of Riddick. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trekmovie. His novel Shadowkeep was the first ever book adaptation of an original computer game.

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/alan-dean-foster-to-write-novelization-of-j-j-abrams-star-trek-sequel_b58988

[PTY]

From director Guillermo del Toro and novelist Chuck Hogan, and based on the Dark Horse comics series The Strain, comes a new motion comic on the Geek and Sundry Youtube channel.




When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and goes dark on the runway, the Center for Disease Control, fearing a terrorist attack, calls in Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team of expert biological-threat first responders. Only an elderly pawnbroker from Spanish Harlem suspects a darker purpose behind the event–an ancient threat intent on covering mankind in darkness...

Dark Horse Comics RELAUNCH! - The Strain

[PTY]

 

Rudy Rucker -H.264 800Kbps.mov
Rudy Rucker at the Philip K. Dick Festival in San Francisco "Haunted by Philip K. Dick"

[PTY]

a kad smo vec kod Rudija:

Latest in the treats that we are getting these days from Rudy Rucker is his complete collection of stories which he just put online as an HTML file. Stories are not under Creative Commons licence but rather serve as a free sample and incitement to buy regular books.
This huge collection also includes collaborations with Bruce Sterling, Paul Di Filippo, Marc Laidlaw, John Shirley, Rudy Rucker Jr., Terry Bisson, and Eileen Gunn.




http://www.rudyrucker.com/transrealbooks/completestories/

Table of Contents
Introduction
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Enlightenment Rabies
Schrödinger's Cat
Sufferin' Succotash
A New Golden Age
Faraway Eyes
The 57th Franz Kafka
The Indian Rope Trick Explained
A New Experiment With Time
The Man Who Ate Himself
Tales of Houdini
The Facts of Life
Buzz
The Last Einstein-Rosen Bridge
Pac-Man
Pi in the Sky
WishloopInertia
Bringing in the Sheaves
The Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Message Found in a Copy of Flatland
Plastic Letters
Monument to the Third International
Rapture in Space
Storming the Cosmos (Written with Bruce Sterling)
In Frozen Time
Soft Death
Inside Out
Instability (Written with Paul Di Filippo)
The Man Who Was a Cosmic String
Probability Pipeline (Written with Marc Laidlaw)
As Above, So Below
Chaos Surfari (Written with Marc Laidlaw)
Big Jelly (Written with Bruce Sterling)
Easy As Pie
The Andy Warhol Sandcandle (Written with Marc Laidlaw)
Cobb Wakes Up
The Square Root of Pythagoras (Written with Paul Di Filippo)
Pockets (Written with John Shirley)
Junk DNA (Written with Bruce Sterling)
The Use of the Ellipse the Catalog the Meter & the Vibrating Plane
Jenna and Me (Written with Rudy Rucker Jr.)
Six Thought Experiments Concerning the Nature of Computation
MS Found in a Minidrive
Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch
The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club
Panpsychism Proved
Elves of the Subdimensions (Written with Paul Di Filippo)
2+2=5 (Written with Terry Bisson)
Visions of the Metanovel
The Third Bomb
The Imitation Game
Hormiga Canyon (Written with Bruce Sterling)
The Perfect Wave (Written with Marc Laidlaw)
Tangier Routines
Message Found In A Gravity Wave
Qlone
Colliding Branes (Written with Bruce Sterling)
Jack and the Aktuals or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory
All Hangy (Written with John Shirley)
To See Infinity Bare (Written with Paul Di Filippo)
Bad Ideas
Good Night, Moon (Written with Bruce Sterling)
Fjaerland (Written with Paul DiFilippo)
The Fnoor Hen
Hive Mind Man (Written with Eileen Gunn)
My Office Mate

[PTY]

Announcing Europa SF


Europa SF is a new portal for science fiction and fantasy news from all around Europe.

Currently on the site is a report on SF/F in Lithuania; Hungary SF Summary 2012; German SF in the New Millennium, and much more!

The Europa SF team is:

Ahrvid Engholm – Sweden
Antuza Genescu – Romania
Aleksandar Ziljak – Croatia
Cristian Tamas – Romania
Frank Beckers – Belgium
George Sotirhos – Greece
Jan van't Ent – Holland
Juhan Habicht – Estonia
Lina Kulikauskienė – Lithuania
Marian Truta – Romania
Roberto Mendes – Portugal
SFmag.hu – Hungary
Sven Kloepping – Germany

From their editorial:

You are invited to take part in a project that we consider more than necessary: the building of a European platform dedicated to all SF communities in Europe.

Essentially, this is where things stand currently in Europe: we have no idea what other European communities do. This may sound a tad categorical, but we must admit that to take the pulse of the SF communities in our neighbouring countries is not an easy task to fulfil. What new authors have been published in one country or another? What SF&F events are taking place in one country or another? What conventions will be held on our continent in the near future? And so on...

On a personal level, through direct contacts, things may seem better. If we want to know what's going on in a community from another country, we just send an email to someone we know there and wait for their reply. Then, the information received will reach a small circle of fans. Best case scenario, the person who has requested this information will write an article about it and post it on a site or publish it in a printed magazine in his or her country.

EUROPA SF wants to bring the members of the European fandom together to build a continental-scale data network. Editors, writers, fans, anyone with an interest in SF will be able to see what is happening in any European country and will inform, in turn, the entire SF community about their own major conventions.

Check them out!

[PTY]

Terra Nova is a new anthology of contemporary science fiction stories that will be published simultaneously in Spain and Argentina this December in Spanish language. An ebook edition with English translations of the short stories originally written in Spanish will shortly follow.

Recently, the amazing cover art by Ángel Benito (shown above these lines) was revealed and the table of contents was announced: 

   
• Foreword, by Luis Pestarini and Mariano Villarreal
• "The Paper Menagerie", by Ken Liu (USA)
  
        
  • 2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (winner)
  • 2012 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (winner)
  • 2012 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist)
  • 2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (finalist)
  • 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee)
• "Deirdre", by Lola Robles (Spain)
• "Memories of a Zombie Country", by Erick J. Mota (Cuba)
• "Light a Solitary Candle", by Víctor Conde (Spain)
• "Bodies", by Juanfran Jiménez (Spain)
• "A Day Without Dad", by Ian Watson (United Kingdom)
• "Memory", by Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría (Argentina)
• "The Lifecycle of Software Objects", by Ted Chiang (USA)
  
        
  • 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novella (winner)
  • 2011 Locus Award for Best Novella (winner)
  • 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee)

The price of the paperback edition (about 250 pages) will be 15€ for Spain (rest of the world, please contact), with subscriptions available for residents in Spain. Ebook editions in Spanish and English (the latter including only the Spanish and Latin American stories) will be published in early 2013.   Please visit the Terra Nova website for further information.

[PTY]

A Federal Court ruled that Joe Shuster's heirs do not have the right to reclaim copyright on Superman, a character co-created by Shuster and Jerry Siegel.  The judge noted that a 1992 agreement to receive annual payments from DC Comics in exchange for all rights to the character made by Shuster's sister superseded the Shuster heirs' claim under "termination rights" in U.S. copyright law. In 2008, Siegel's widow was able to successfully reclaim some of the copyright.

For more information...

[PTY]

This video features  with science fiction author an futurist David Brin talking about the role of science fiction as literature, the merits and hazards of extrapolation in science fiction, cynicism in sf and enlightened optimism in the face of that cynicism.

Science Fiction Horizons with David Brin - It Came From Riverside (Extra)

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Worldbuilders, a non-profit organization founded by Patrick Rothfuss, is raising money for their cause by offering a 2013 Fantasy Pin-Up Calendar. All proceeds from the sale of the calendar will go to Worldbuilders in support of Heifer International.
Each month the calendar will feature a pin-up based on a different author's works and/or characters illustrated by Lee Moyer. Participating authors include:


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Locus Online to Host All-Time Best Polls in November
— posted by Mark R. Kelly  at Sunday 21 October 2012 @ 11:59 pm BST

Locus Online will host a set of all-time best polls, covering both novels and short fiction, beginning November 1st, for one month. These will be the first such polls hosted by Locus since 1998; earlier polls were run in 1975 and 1987. This time we'll do two all-century polls, for 20th century works (1901 – 2000) and 21st century works so far (2001- just to 2010), with five categories in each set:

SF novel
Fantasy novel
novella
novelette
short story

That's the current plan. We split the centuries to avoid pitting relatively recent works against more established works, just as the 1998 polls were limited to works published before 1990. (And, incidentally, it will be interesting to see how our 21st century poll compares to the Tor.com poll last year, which covered 11 years 2000-2010.)

The 20th century categories will allow 10 votes per category, rather than the usual 5. Points will be awarded in a sliding scale analogous to the traditional "Carr" system for ranking five items in a category (worth 8 points down to 4 points); in 10 item categories, 1st place will be worth 18 points, 10th place 9 points, so that a 1st place vote is still worth twice as much as a 10th place vote, and not 10 times as much.

As always with Locus polls, the ballots will be seeded with candidate options, partly to remind voters of works they might otherwise not consider, and partly to make the tallying easier to the extent that those options are used. But write-ins will certainly be allowed, as always. This is one reason we're announcing the polls in advance: if you don't want to be influenced by the candidate options, put on your thinking caps *now*, and start planning what to vote for. You will have lots of choices: again, you will be able to vote for 5 items in each of the 5 21st century categories, and 10 items in each of the 20th century categories, a total of 75.

These plans aren't set in stone, so suggestions for how the polling might be done differently or better will be considered. But we're working to have these online by November 1st, with a target for postings results by mid-December.

[Melkor]

Novi "gate" u nastajanju -.-

http://www.pornokitsch.com/2012/10/new-releases-mammoth-best-new-horror-23-stephen-jones.html

[PTY]

Eh, Vandermer malko agituje na fejsu, uglavnom zbog zene... sta ja znam, kanda je kjut, ako ostane tako i ne otme se kontroli. A Okorafor je ostala kul kao i uvek, posvetila je tome svega par recenica, taman koliko sve to zasluzuje, mada ja i dalje nisam nacistu da li covek zaista nije shvatio sta je ona rekla povodom Lavkrafta, ili samo sramno provocira. Ali zanimljivo mi sto su komentari na mamuta otkrili jedan mozda novi momenat i sentiment medju tom ekipom - svako malo neko izjavi kako mu je vise muka od Lavkrafta i lavkraftijane generalno.   

[PTY]

Kad smo vec kod Vandermerovih, i ovo ima neke male i periferne veze:

[
The
second page has The Weird review, review by Michael Dirda. Now I want to get the
ghost story volume, too. It's a good paring, since we deliberately didn't
include more than a couple of ghost stories, so there's very little overlap. Gio Clairval's translation of "The Other Side of the
Mountain" is mentioned. To address Dirda's question about Zivkovic, Hershberg,
and Oliver directly: Zivkovic would be in any iconic fantasy or lit volume but
he is not a Weird writer really; Hershberg and Oliver would be in any iconic
volume of horror fiction. Them's the hard decisions you have to make for
classification purposes.

... a referise se na ovaj rivju.

[PTY]

This Friday, well-known science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson will join Desert Initiative Direector Greg Esser, and Portuguese artist Miguel Palma in an hour-long panel-style discussion titled "Landscape, Art and Other Worlds."

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackalope/2012/10/kim-stanley-robinson-landscape-art-and-other-worlds.php