Archive for September, 2010

Win a Zombie Prize Pack Valued at More Than $500, including a copy of THE LIVING DEAD 2!

September 13th 2010 at 10:35 am

Our friends over at Tor.com are celebrating all things zombie this week, all week long. One of the ways they’re celebrating is with a “Name-that-Zombie Caption Contest” in which you can win copies of The Living Dead & The Living Dead 2 edited by John Joseph Adams, The Loving Dead by Amelia Beamer, and Zombies [...]

News & Notes

September 11th 2010 at 1:00 pm

Tor.com reviews THE ZOMBIES OF LAKE WOEBEGOTTEN by Harrison Geillor – "Enough laugh-out-loud moments and nostalgic references to make the book pretty much fun, more or less, overall."

News & Notes

September 7th 2010 at 1:00 pm

Realms of Fantasy reviews THE LOVING DEAD by Amelia Beamer – "Beamer’s version of zombiehood is still about eating brains—and just about any other portion of the human anatomy—but she foregrounds what has, until now, mostly been the erotic subtext of the genre. … Beamer’s zombies hunger for us—and we lust for them. It’s the [...]

THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi wins the HUGO AWARD!

September 5th 2010 at 11:09 am

Congratulations to Paolo Bacigalupi, whose debut novel THE WINDUP GIRL, has just won the Hugo Award for best novel. THE WINDUP GIRL had already won the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Compton Crook Award. According to the data in the Locus Online Index to Science Fiction Awards, [...]

News & Notes

September 3rd 2010 at 1:00 pm

Read a chapter from Jon Armstrong's forthcoming YARN, "A Peculiar Fashion Business," in Flurb #10 – Snippet: "When I am asked about my talents in the yarn arts, I like to say that there is no such thing as talent. When they ask how I came to be one of the world’s top designers, I [...]

News & Notes

September 2nd 2010 at 1:00 pm

The SF Site reviews THE LOVING DEAD by Amelia Beamer – "With her horrifically comic first novel The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer taps into the cultural zeitgeist of the early 21st century. Much like the great zombie film progenitor, Night of the Living Dead, Beamer uses the undead to represent the fractured real world around [...]