Stainless Steel Droppings (Free subscription) | yesterday
Boneshaker ~Cherie Priest –published 2009 –Tor Books, 416 pages –4.5/5 stars “A steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions, full of wonderfully gnarly details. This book is made of irresistable.” [...]
Xbox 360 Fanboy (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Microsoft and Tor Books have issued a friendly reminder that the Halo: Evolutions story collection has officially hit the shelves. The collection includes tales from the Halo universe penned by series authors Eric Nylund and Thomas Buckell, as well as others by 343 Industries' Frank O'Connor , Bungie's Robt McLees, sci-fi author Karen Traviss and others. The book retails for $14.99, but it can be...
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Feel burnt out over the weekend (was working at the office). Anyway, for your enjoyment, here's the Top 10 Scariest Filipino Monsters . Interviews Hour of the Wolf interviews Ellen Datlow and Richard Bowes (podcast). The Agony Column has a recording of the World Fantasy Convention Panel Podcast : Invention Versus Tradition . SciFiGuy.ca interviews Deborah Cooke/Claire Delacroix . (via Tor Books ) Suvudu...
Kathryn Cramer (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
From Tor.com: Earlier this year, Tor.com debuted as an imprint independent from Tor Books bypublishing Year’s Best Fantasy 9, David G. Hartwell’s and Kathryn Cramer’s definitive anthology of fantastical stories. While YBF9 is still available as a print-on demand edition,...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
With the Holidays just around the corner, I invited publishers to come up with special prize packs for the biggest giveaways of the year. In the next couple of weeks, you'll see similar contests cropping up, all of them a mix of autographed copies, bestselling titles, and Advance Reading Copies. The idea is to offer something that everyone will want to win. Tor Books, Orbit US, Del Rey and Bantam Spectra...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
[Interviewer's Note: This is a series of interviews featuring the contributors of The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar. It'll run every Monday to Friday until I run out of interviews. Two of these interviews will be reprinted in Apex Magazine but the rest are exclusive to SF Signal.] Jamil Nasir has published short fiction in numerous science fiction venues in the US and UK, including...
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Internet phenom Cory Doctorow is in Toronto this week on a promotional blitz. Last night, the author, activist, and journalist drew a packed crowd to the Toronto Public Library’s venerable Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy, where he read from his latest sci-fi novel, Makers (Tor Books), and generally basked in the adulation [...]
The Eternal Golden Braid (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
All Gunn, All the Time Ben Bova; The Sam Gunn Omnibu s (Tor Books; 2007; ISBN 978-0-7654-1620-2; cover by Vincent Di Fate). Previously read in 200 4 (in part) with the separate editions, I picked up this omnibus (it only took me two years to get to it!) when I saw there was new material added to the sequence. Sam Gunn is one of Bova's three main creations dealing with our "near future". The...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
This lucky bastard will received a copy of The Gathering Storm autographed by both Brandon Sanderson and Harriet McDougal, courtesy of the nice folks at Tor Books. For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . The winner is: - Manchu Ravi, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Many thanks to all the participants! God knows there were many for this one!;-)
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Couple of news that's not exactly genre news per se, but is important and concerns the community. First, Vylar Kaftan has a Letter to the San Jose police . This relates to an incident that happened in or near the San Jose Fairmont Hotel (where World Fantasy Con took place). The second item is author Catherynne M. Valente is stranded in Germany and is nearly out of funds . You can donate to Fairyland...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Interviews /Profiles Eye on Books interviews Brandon Sanderson (podcast). (via Tor Books ) Geekdad interviews Brandon Sanderson . (via Tor Books ) A Working Title interviews Tobias Buckell . Open Book Society interviews Michael A. Burstein . The Green Man Review interviews Christopher Golden . Keeping the Door interviews Greg Egan . (via Fabio Fernandes ) David Steffen interviews Jeremy C. Shipp ....
Stainless Steel Droppings (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Burn Me Deadly ~Alex Bledsoe –published 2009 –Tor Books, 320 pages –5/5 stars In March of 2008 I wrote of the first Eddie LaCrosse novel, The Sword-Edged Blonde: In private investigator Eddie LaCrosse, Bledsoe creates a character who is equal parts witty and charming, rough-and-tumble and roguish. LaCrosse’s journey reveals him to be a character of surprising depth in a [...]...
My Best Games (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Tor Books has released the contributor list and cover art for Halo short story collection, Halo: Evolutions.
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Finally made it to the George Optical V-Mall branch. Unfortunately, been straining my eyes too much so I need to relax them in order to get a proper check-up so no reading for me for the week (eep! time to go on a podcast download frenzy). Don't expect much next week... When it comes to personal plugs, I have a new essay at BSC Review: eBook Pricing – The Chicken or the Egg Dilemma . Oh, and...
Kotaku Australia (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Tor Books has released a list of the authors contributing to the Halo: Evolutions anthology novel, along with the cover art, featuring everyone’s favourite green suit of armour with a guy inside it. (more…)
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