Archive for June, 2010

Paolo Bacigalupi Events in New York

June 29th 2010 at 2:19 pm

Paolo Bacigalupi, author of the Nebula and Locus Award-winning novel The Windup Girl, will be making several appearances in New York this week. July 1, 7:00pm The New Dystopians McNally Jackson Bookstore (52 Prince St.) Discussion, Reading w/ Scott Westerfeld (Leviathan, Uglies)  & Jon Armstrong (Grey, Yarn) July 3, 5:00am Hour of the Wolf radio [...]

Publishers Weekly gives WINGS OF FIRE a STARRED REVIEW

June 28th 2010 at 6:52 pm

Love dragons? WINGS OF FIRE, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Marianne S. Jablon, has received a starred review in Publishers Weekly…

THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi wins the Locus Award!

June 26th 2010 at 3:17 pm

THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi has won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. The Locus Awards are presented to winners of Locus Magazine‘s annual readers’ poll, which was established in the early ’70s specifically to provide recommendations and suggestions to Hugo Awards voters. Over the decades the Locus Awards have often drawn more voters than [...]

News & Notes

June 23rd 2010 at 1:00 pm

The Neverending Panel interviews THE LOVING DEAD's Amelia Beamer – [Video]: Amelia talks about her debut novel, The Loving Dead, and what it's like to work as an editor at SF's most prestigious magazine, Locus.

News & Notes

June 22nd 2010 at 1:00 pm

THE WINDUP GIRL named a finalist for the 2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award! – Here's a complete list of the finalists: The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood (Talese); The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade); Transition, Iain M. Banks (Orbit); Makers, Cory Doctorow (Tor); Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress (Tor); Gardens of [...]

News & Notes

June 20th 2010 at 1:00 pm

Innsmouth Free Press reviews THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR VOL. 2, edited by Ellen Datlow: – "This collection of horror stories is one of the best I’ve read."

News & Notes

June 19th 2010 at 1:00 pm

io9 reviews ZENDEGI by Greg Egan: – "Both beautifully written and relentlessly intelligent, Zendegi is like a marvelous, precision-engineered watch. It never sacrifices its thematic content to its science, or it's richly-drawn characters to either, but enmeshes them fully, treating them as the deeply-interconnected pieces of the human experience that they are. Zendegi is highly [...]

Amelia Beamer Talks Zombies, Trader Joes, Nightmares, Writing, and Her Novel The Loving Dead at If You’re Just Joining Us

June 17th 2010 at 1:53 pm

Amelia Beamer Talks Zombies, Trader Joes, Nightmares, Writing, and Her Novel The Loving Dead at If You’re Just Joining Us…

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June 10th 2010 at 12:09 pm

If Chuck Palahniuk and Christopher Moore had a zombie love child, it would look like The Loving Dead, a darkly comic debut novel by Amelia Beamer.

The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson: Final Cover Revealed!

June 10th 2010 at 11:59 am

Coming this August, The New York Times best-selling and Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson delivers a stunning collection of his best short fiction, including the new, never-before-published story, “The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942.” Here’s a sneak peek at the cover…