Archive for August, 2008

PW on Shadow of the Scorpion

August 18th 2008 at 8:49 pm

Publishers Weekly reviews Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher: “An energetic, gory prequel to Asher’s ‘Polity’ novels (Gridlinked, etc.), this far-future novel alternates the youthful memories of Ian Cormac, Asher’s complex soldier-hero, with Cormac’s brutal adult efforts to master lethal-force training as an undercover agent in Earth Central Security’s conflict with the terroristic Jovian [...]

PW Interviews Liz Williams

August 18th 2008 at 8:09 pm

Publishers Weekly has a brief interview with The Shadow Pavilion author Liz Williams, in which she explains what inspired her to create the setting and characters of her Detective Inspector Chen series: “It came about from a visit to Hong Kong. An old friend of mine works on the South China Morning Post, and at [...]

More Reviews!

August 17th 2008 at 9:28 pm

io9 labels Pump Six author Paolo Bacigalupi an “author set to conquer.” Over at Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer plugs Greg Egan’s Incandescence and Neal Asher’s Shadow of the Scorpion. Technocrat.net also reviews Incandescence: “If you like your science-fiction to be the hard variety, then this is as hard as it gets. No galaxy-spanning meta-civilizations with abundant [...]

Two Takes on Implied Spaces

August 17th 2008 at 8:44 pm

A couple of new reviews of Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams: Bibliophile Stalker: “Fun and exciting all throughout, easily recommendable to anyone who has an appetite for adventure.” Fantasy Book Critic: “Overall, Implied Spaces leaves you with the sensation that a novel simply cannot be this much fun and have so many interesting ideas [...]

Night Shade Books authors invade Stargate Command

August 13th 2008 at 10:24 am

During Worldcon last week, myself (Wastelands), Walter Jon Williams (Implied Spaces), and Paolo Bacigalupi (Pump Six), went on a VIP tour of the NORAD facility at Cheyenne Mountain, which is known in SF circles for its relevance to the plot of the film WarGames and the television series Stargate SG-1. I wrote up a report [...]

The Latest and Greatest Reviews

August 4th 2008 at 5:18 pm

Publishers Weekly reviews The Shadow Pavilion by Liz Williams: “The fourth Det. Insp. Chen mystery (after 2007’s Precious Dragon) adds a bit of Bollywood to the high-stakes intrigues of Celestials and demons in Williams’s clever mix of Chinese folklore and police procedural. … The plot zips along via short, tightly written chapters, growing more and [...]

Worldcon

August 3rd 2008 at 8:48 pm

Several Night Shade Books authors and personnel will be in attendance at the 66th annual World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) this week, which is being held this year in Denver, CO. If you’re attending, be on the lookout for: John Joseph Adams, Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Glen Cook, Jeremy Lassen, Ross Lockhart, S. M. Stirling, [...]

Another Rave Review of Pump Six

August 2nd 2008 at 3:02 pm

Clay Evans of the Daily Camera reviews Paolo Bacigalupi’s Pump Six: “Pump Six and Other Stories [taps] into sources as varied as Harlan Ellison — plenty of gut punches — and H.G. Wells — Morlocks, by any other name … Bacigalupi creates believable, detailed, lived-in futures that just happen to portray an ugly set of [...]

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