Archive for September, 2009

Night Shade News & Notes

September 30th 2009 at 1:00 pm

Publishers Weekly gives Madness of Flowers by Jay Lake a Starred Review – "Exuberantly odd, melodramatically ironic and dangerously wonderful."

Night Shade News & Notes

September 25th 2009 at 1:00 pm

Pagan Book Reviews reviews Lightbreaker by Mark Teppo – "I would most definitely recommend this author to my readers, and he’s going on my short list of Authors Whose New Books Get Preordered."
Green Man Review reviews Fast Ships, Black Sails edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer – "The editors best exploit the surprising nature of [...]

Night Shade News & Notes

September 24th 2009 at 1:00 pm

Author John Scalzi turns over the reins to his blog to allow Paolo Bacigalupi to explain the "Big Idea" behind The Windup Girl – "The Windup Girl is set in a future Bangkok where sea levels have risen and oil has run out, and where a company man named Anderson Lake is on the hunt [...]

Night Shade News & Notes

September 21st 2009 at 1:00 pm

Graham Joyce's novel How to Make Friends With Demons (known in the UK as Memoris of a Master Forger by William Heaney) has won the British Fantasy Award for best novel. –

Night Shade News & Notes

September 18th 2009 at 1:00 pm

io9.com interviews Paolo Bacigalupi (The Windup Girl): – "I'd like [the environment] to become more of a component that figures into SF. My fear is that it becomes window dressing–that we create lots of global warming futures where sea level has risen. Or there's a tip of the hat to various species going under–a wave [...]

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by John Joseph Adams">The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by John Joseph Adams

September 15th 2009 at 1:16 pm

Sherlock Holmes is back!
Sherlock Holmes, the world’s first–and most famous–consulting detective, came to the world’s attention more than 120 years ago through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels and stories. But Conan Doyle didn’t reveal all of the Great Detective’s adventures…
Here are some of the best Holmes pastiches of the last 30 years, twenty-eight tales of [...]

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi">The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

September 15th 2009 at 1:06 pm

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen’s Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko…
Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the [...]

By Blood We Live edited by John Joseph Adams">By Blood We Live edited by John Joseph Adams

September 15th 2009 at 12:59 pm

Vampires. They are the most elegant of monsters—ancient, seductive, doomed, deadly. They lurk in the shadows, at your window, in your dreams. They are beautiful as anything you’ve ever seen, but their flesh is cold as the grave, and their lips taste of blood. From Dracula to Twilight; from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to True [...]

The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook">The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook

September 15th 2009 at 12:46 pm

Now in mass market paperback!
Glen Cook delivers a masterpiece of galaxy spanning space opera. For four thousand years, the Guardships ruled Canon Space with an iron fist. Immortal ships with an immortal crew roamed the galaxy, dealing swiftly and harshly with any mercantile houses or alien races that threatened the status quo.
But now the House [...]

Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher">Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher

September 15th 2009 at 12:44 pm

Now in mass market paperback!
Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and a vicious alien race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn’t remember.
Cormac signs up with Earth Central Security and is sent out [...]

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