Best Lists, Dirda on NSB

John Joseph Adams | December 22nd 2008 at 11:06 pm

Michael Dirda, in The Washington Post, includes Night Shade in his list of the best independent publishers on the scene today.

Adventures in Reading names its Top Nine Books Published in 2008, which includes two Night Shade titles: “#4: Wastelands, by John Joseph Adams (editor): A reprint anthology consisting of stories about life afte apocalypse, the stories contained within are some of the best SFF has to offer. From Octavia Butler’s "Speech Sounds" to Elizabeth Bear’s "And the Deep Blue Sea", Wastelands probably has something for all readers and enough post-destructive goodness to make this a standout for any year. | #6: Fast Ships, Black Sails, by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer (editors): Pirates, pirates, pirates! Space pirates, ice pirates, and pirates who actually sail traditional ships. With Rachel Swirsky’s story as one of the highlights, this is one anthology not to be missed.”

Speaking of the VanderMeers, Literary Kicks interviews Jeff.

io9’s Chilling Books to Read and Share in the Darkness of Winter includes Shadow of the Scorpion, by Neal Asher: ”This politico-military space opera tells the story of a soldier, Ian Cormac, coming of age in the smoking remains of a war between the human-dominated Polity and the alien Prador. Cormac is the hero of several other Asher novels, but this is a stand-alone book and can be read without knowing much about his universe. What pleases about Asher is that he’s not afraid to put his ‘hyperfit’ hero into hideously murky ethical situations - and his casual cynicism is a welcome respite from the usual straightforward military tale.”

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