Archive for January, 2011

News & Notes

January 21st 2011 at 1:00 pm

Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review interviews Kameron Hurley (GOD'S WAR): – "I lived in Durban, South Africa for a year and a half where bugs were just a way of life. I’d wake up with cockroaches on my pillow, and watch nests of bugs swarm out from under the tub in the bathroom, and [...]

News & Notes

January 20th 2011 at 1:00 pm

Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review reviews GOD'S WAR by Kameron Hurley – "God's War dissects and melds bugs to machines while humans can control swarms of bugs to do their bidding. There is high technology on this world although much of it is given more a magic feel as the people who master the [...]

News & Notes

January 19th 2011 at 1:00 pm

Fantasy Book Critic reviews NEVER KNEW ANOTHER by J. M. McDermott – "Incredibly fascinating." Lightspeed Magazine interviews Paolo Bacigalupi (THE WINDUP GIRL, PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES): – "Bacigalupi’s work always seems to be one step ahead of both trends and history. The Windup Girl was published at a time when the public had just [...]

News & Notes

January 18th 2011 at 1:00 pm

Kameron Hurley, author of the debut novel GOD'S WAR, is the featured guest today on John Scalzi's The Big Idea: – "When is a bounty hunter not a bounty hunter? The answer: when author Kameron Hurley writes about one. In that case, the bounty hunter becomes something more, and in becoming more, becomes the seed [...]

By Popular Demand: Agatha H and the Airship City – Hardcover second printing ships Feb 28, 2011

January 18th 2011 at 10:52 am

By popular demand, we will be publishing a second hardcover printing of Phil and Kaja Foglio’s gaslamp fantasy, Agatha H and the Airship City…

This Just In: Cover Art for Teresa Frohock’s Miserere: An Autumn Tale

January 18th 2011 at 10:19 am

We’ve just approved cover art for Teresa Frohock’s forthcoming Miserere: An Autumn Tale (July 2011), just one of the books you can pre-order during our half-price sale…

YARN by Jon Armstrong Named a Finalist for the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award!

January 17th 2011 at 10:17 pm

The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States.  The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and the award ceremony is sponsored by the NorthWest Science [...]

News & Notes

January 17th 2011 at 1:00 pm

THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi is a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award: – Other novel nominees are: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, The Restoration Game by Ken Macleod, The Dervish House by Ian McDonald, and Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan.

News & Notes

January 15th 2011 at 1:00 pm

Fandomania reviews THE HABITATION OF THE BLESSED by Catherynne M. Valente – "Valente is a wonderful writer with a great command of language and a way with description. One thing that particularly struck me was the way each writer in the story had a distinct voice and writing style, rather than Valente’s voice alone. … [...]

News & Notes

January 14th 2011 at 1:00 pm

The LA Times reviews YARN by Jon Armstrong – "The succinct title of Jon Armstrong's second novel, "Yarn" (Night Shade Books, 309 pp., $14.99), does double duty: It's a yarn about yarn, a tale about textiles in a furiously imagined far future in which the delirious thrills of white-hot couture get their naked-lunch close-up. It's [...]