Archive for February, 2010

io9′s Book Club on THE WINDUP GIRL and Q&A with Paolo Bacigalupi

February 25th 2010 at 5:00 pm

SF blog io9 is currently featuring Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Windup Girl as their book club pick for February. If you haven’t already, be sure to pop over and offer up your thoughts about the book and discuss it with the other readers. Also, if you have any questions for Paolo about The Windup Girl [...]

Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories is off to the printer

February 24th 2010 at 9:53 am

Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories is off to the printer…

THE WINDUP GIRL is a finalist for the Nebula Award!

February 19th 2010 at 10:14 am

It’s been receiving critical-acclaim left and right ever since it came out, and now The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi has been named as a finalist for the Nebula Award–one of the most prestigious honors in all of science fiction/fantasy. Paolo’s story, “The Gambler,” which appeared in Lou Anders’ anthology Fast Forward 2, was also [...]

Now available for pre-order…

February 19th 2010 at 9:21 am

2010 is off to a stellar start…

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Two edited by Ellen Datlow">The Best Horror of the Year Volume Two edited by Ellen Datlow

February 18th 2010 at 12:23 pm

What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the seventeen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan">The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan

February 11th 2010 at 2:21 pm

A ruthless venture capitalist finds love–or something chemically similar–in an Atlanta strip club; a girl in grey conjures a man from a handful of moonshine; an ship blazing a highway between the stars discovers an island of life on a distant gas giant; a boy becomes a man by mastering the sword; a rebellious young woman suffers a strange incarceration; an astronaut shares a lifeboat–and herself–with an unfathomable alien; an infected girl counts the days until she becomes a vampire; an aviatrix and an inventor square off against saboteurs and monstrous brains; a big man travels to a tiny moon to examine an ancient starship covered with flowers…

Night Shade News & Notes

February 10th 2010 at 1:00 pm

Fandomania reviews THE IMPROBABLE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: – "A fine collection… Newcomers to Sherlock Holmes likely will find something to enjoy in The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, but I think longtime fans of the writing of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will get a lot more out of the book. They get to see [...]

Night Shade ebooks: DRM-Free, only $6.00

February 3rd 2010 at 6:21 pm

While other ebook retailers are battling over ebook pricing and DRM, we here at Night Shade Books thought it might be a good time to point out that you can purchase DRM-free, multi-format ebooks of most Night Shade Books titles from our ebook store on Baen Webscriptions–for just $6.00 each!

Night Shade News & Notes

February 1st 2010 at 1:00 pm

School Library Journal reviews THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR, VOL. 1 edited by Ellen Datlow: – "This collection is not to be missed." The SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER reviews HOUSE OF WINDOWS by John Langan: – "House of Windows is a remarkably engaging synthesis of the themes of Charles Dickens, ubiquitous tales of terror such as [...]

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