Archive for September, 2008

Advance Buzz: Lightbreaker

September 11th 2008 at 7:55 pm

While we’re dishing out the blurbs for Graham Joyce, we might as well share the love authors are heaping on Mark Teppo’s novel, Lightbreaker, as well. Here’s what a few of his peers had to say about Mark’s debut: "Grim and refined, Teppo’s aggressive near-noir is rich and strange — heavily and deftly textured. It’s [...]

The Hits Keep Comin’

September 11th 2008 at 6:40 pm

You may recall me posting last week about the news that Graham Joyce is a finalist for this year’s O. Henry Award. His nominated story, "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen," was first published in The Paris Review, then expanded into a novel, How to Make Friends with Demons, which Night Shade will be publishing [...]

Locus Review, New & Notables

September 11th 2008 at 5:58 pm

The September issue of Locus Magazine has a nice review of The Shadow Pavilion by Liz Williams: “Williams comes up with a wonderfully devious version of the happy ending.” Also of interest: Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams and Incandescence by Greg Egan are both included in the “New & Notable” roundup.

Strange Horizons: Implied Spaces is “damn fine entertainment”

September 11th 2008 at 2:58 pm

Strange Horizons reviews Walter Jon Williams’s Implied Spaces: “This beast of a novel snarls. It oozes. Its stitching is grotesque. But as well as being damn fine entertainment and looking cool when taken out into public places (the jacket art by dos Santos is hilariously accurate and a flag to all the right people) it [...]

io9 on The Living Dead

September 9th 2008 at 4:05 pm

io9 showed The Living Dead some love today: “If you love zombies whether they are fast or slow, infected or mind controlled, then you need to dig into John Joseph Adams’ new anthology The Living Dead. With stories by (among others) Kelly Link, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, and Dan Simmons, [...]

Eclipse Two, or Our Loss is Your Gain.

September 9th 2008 at 11:57 am

We’ve just posted final contents for Eclipse Two, the follow-up to master anthologist Jonathan Strahan’s critically acclaimed collection of new science fiction and fantasy, Eclipse One. Eclipse Two features extraordinary tales by many of fantastic fiction’s brightest lights, including Nancy Kress, Peter S. Beagle, Stephen Baxter, Ken Scholes, Alastair Reynolds, and Terry Dowling. Unfortunately, the [...]

Green Man reviews Neal Asher

September 8th 2008 at 1:35 pm

Green Man Review reviews Neal Asher’s Shadow of the Scorpion: “Asher tells big stories. … This mission still involves terrorists with anti-matter weapons capable of blowing away large chunks of planet, incredibly durable crab-like aliens capable of shrugging off a hit from heavy artillery, and more alien ecologies and far-future technologies than you can shake [...]

Excerpt: Lightbreaker by Mark Teppo

September 8th 2008 at 12:58 pm

Fantasy BookSpot—now renamed BookSpot Central—has just posted the second of their exclusive Night Shade Books excerpts: The first two chapters of new writer Mark Teppo’s debut novel Lightbreaker, which we’ll be publishing in October.

Night Shade on Facebook

September 7th 2008 at 10:32 am

Night Shade Books now has a Facebook page. Drop by and become a fan of us and help spread the word!

Implied Spaces meets Spore

September 6th 2008 at 10:52 pm

Implied Spaces author Walter Jon Williams has just announced that he’s the writer behind the new game Spore, which is, according to some sources, the most anticipated video game release ever. Or, rather: “I wrote all the dialog and some of the situations in the space game, which is the last— the ultimate, if you [...]

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