Archive for April, 2010

Starfishers: The Starfishers Trilogy, Volume Two by Glen Cook">Starfishers: The Starfishers Trilogy, Volume Two by Glen Cook

April 11th 2010 at 9:21 pm

They are the dragons of the cosmos, Starfish; creatures of pure fusion energy, wise and ancient giants, drifting in herds along the edge of the galaxy.

Michael A. Stackpole reads for charity

April 9th 2010 at 12:12 pm

Michael A. Stackpole, author of the forthcoming The Crown Colonies series, which begins in November with At the Queen’s Command, will be doing a charity reading of the book for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life programĀ  via Second Life, starting tonight. As long as folks donate, he’ll keep reading. Several more evenings are [...]

Night Shade News & Notes

April 7th 2010 at 1:00 pm

Grasping for the Wind reviews THE SPIRAL LABYRINTH by Matthew Hughes – "I highly recommend The Spiral Labyrinth. Hughes is a superb writer, one whose prose is easily comfortable and familiar, but who also writes a mystery of unusual setting and details that has a surprise ending that should have been self-evident from the text, [...]

Night Shade News & Notes

April 6th 2010 at 1:00 pm

THE WINDUP GIRL's Paolo Bacigalupi is profiled in THE DAILY SENTINEL newspaper: – The science fiction genre can be consuming, and Bacigalupi’s interest in it began as a boy. He read “Citizen of the Galaxy” by Robert Heinlein when he was a third-grader. “I’ve read it probably a dozen times since then,” Bacigalupi said. “My [...]

THE WINDUP GIRL is a finalist for the Hugo Award!

April 4th 2010 at 4:39 pm

Congratulations to Paolo Bacigalupi, whose first novel, THE WINDUP GIRL is a finalist for the Hugo Award. This follows on the heels of it being named a finalist for the Nebula Award and reams of critical acclaim. Cheers to Paolo! Other Night Shade nominees include “It Takes Two” by Nicola Griffith from ECLIPSE THREE edited [...]