Archive for November, 2009

Night Shade News & Notes

November 30th 2009 at 1:00 pm

The San Francisco Chronicle names Paolo Bacigalupi's THE WINDUP GIRL to its holiday gift guide: – "a cautionary tale set in a near-future Thailand brought to the brink of disaster by bio-terrorism."

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November 28th 2009 at 1:00 pm

Time Magazine's Lev Grossman reviews THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bagicalupi: – "It's ridiculous how good this book is. … Bacigalupi's vision is almost as rich and shocking as William Gibson's vision was in 1984 … I hope he writes 10 sequels."

Listen to Kathrine Sparrow’s “Pirate Solutions” at Escape Pod

November 27th 2009 at 12:26 pm

Reader Jonathan K. Stephens writes in: “Arr Matey, thought you might like to know that Escape Pod has just posted an podcast of Kathrine Sparrow’s story ‘Pirate Solutions’ from Fast Ships, Black Sails… In the introduction, narrator Steve Eley does say that the story is from ‘the very cool anthology’ from Night Shade Press [...]

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November 23rd 2009 at 1:00 pm

Sacramento Book Review reviews THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi: – "Reminiscent of Philip K. Dick's Blade Runner. … Bacigalupi has created a fully imagined world in The Windup Girl that is densely packed with ideas about genetic manipulation, distribution of resources, the social order, and environmental degradation. However, he is never pedantic in addressing [...]

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November 21st 2009 at 1:00 pm

Library Journal, which gave Paolo Bacigalupi's THE WINDUP GIRL a starred review earlier in the year, now names it to its "Best Books of 2009" list: – "Postmodern Bangkok springs to life in Bacigalupi's brilliant dystopian tale of culture clash, recalling the best of China Miéville and Neal Stephenson."

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November 20th 2009 at 1:00 pm

io9 reviews ECLIPSE THREE edited by Jonathan Strahan: – "Eclipse Three should be required reading."

Update your address book, Night Shade Books has moved

November 19th 2009 at 2:23 pm

That’s right, the rumors are true. We’re moving. Right now, we’re in the process of packing our bags and moving our inventory across town to a new, much larger warehouse location.
Effective immediately, our address and phone number will be:
Night Shade Books
1661 Tennessee Street, #3H
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-206-1473
This move means that we’ll be able to continue [...]

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November 18th 2009 at 1:00 pm

Strange Horizons reviews THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR, VOL. 3, edited by Jonathan Strahan: – "A group of very good and often excellent stories."

Rules of ‘48 by Jack Cady">Rules of ‘48 by Jack Cady

November 16th 2009 at 2:46 pm

In a city with roots deep in the Confederacy, five men will endure seven deadly weeks that forever alter their perceptions of the world. For redneck auctioneer Wade and his son Jim, pawnbroker Lucky, auction grip Lester, and Howard, a kid from Jackson Street, the haunting events transpiring over the summer of 1948 will irrevocably [...]

House of Windows by John Langan">House of Windows by John Langan

November 16th 2009 at 2:30 pm

When a young writer finds himself cornered by a beautiful widow in the waning hours of a late-night cocktail party, he seeks at first to escape, to return to his wife and infant son. But the tale she weaves, of her missing husband, a renowned English professor, and her lost stepson, a soldier killed on [...]

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