Archive for May, 2011

May is Zombie Awareness Month!

May 15th 2011 at 10:53 pm

The Zombie Research Society has declared that during the month of May, people are encouraged to wear a gray ribbon, “to acknowledge the coming danger.” I swear we didn’t make this up in an effort to self promote! Zombie Awareness Month is real…Even The Wall Street Journal (blog) says so. If grey isn’t your color, [...]

What would Kurt Russell do?

May 10th 2011 at 5:34 pm

“What would Kurt Russell do?” is a question often pondered on the job by Night Shade employees. Do you find yourself asking the same question?? Send a video to info@nightshadebooks.com of your contemplative moment and be part of an original Night Shade Books book trailer. You’ll also be entering to win books!! If you haven’t [...]

Mad Science: An Interview With Phil Foglio

May 10th 2011 at 5:20 pm

Phil Foglio has been talking to Diamond Bookshelf about Magic, Steam Punk and what it’s like to work with Night Shade on the Agatha H novels! “What prompted you to write a prose version of the Agatha H. narrative? [...] Well we did it backwards. We did the comic first. But when we wrote the [...]

io9 talks Eclipse Four

May 10th 2011 at 4:02 pm

io9 has given a shout out to Eclipse Four on its May Hot Bookshelf Injection, “We’ll have a review of the book in a few days, but for now, let’s just say it’s well worth checking out, like all the previous outings.” Keep an eye out!

Will McIntosh talks Soft Apocalypse

May 10th 2011 at 3:35 pm

Will McIntosh has been talking to Jon Armstrong at his If You’re Just Joining Us podcast. “We talk about Soft Apocalypse, dating in the collapse, seeing a movie made of one of his short stories, how he found his wife, and the day he proposed to her and conked out!” Listen to the podcast by [...]

Hunger for Wonderful Stories: A Review of Eclipse Four

May 4th 2011 at 7:51 pm

Eclipse Four, edited by Jonathan Strahan, hit the shelves this week and Brit Mandelo has written an awesome review on the Tor.com website. Brit says, “The Eclipse series of anthologies edited by Hugo-nominee Jonathan Strahan are, as the flap copy says, “in the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies such as Universe, Orbit, and Starlight.” [...]

An Interview with Teresa Frohock

May 4th 2011 at 5:35 pm

Miserere: An Autumn Tale is the stunning debut novel by Teresa Frohock. She recently spoke to Sarah at the All Things Books blog about Miserere and the experience of finding out her first novel was going to be published! Read the interview here.

Dancing With Bears by Michael Swanwick">Dancing With Bears by Michael Swanwick

May 2nd 2011 at 2:43 pm

Michael Swanwick — The Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy award-wining author of Stations Of The Tide — delivers a stunning “Post Utopian” novel of swashbuckling adventure, dangerous women, and genocidal AIs. Dancing with Bears follows the adventures of notorious con-men Darger and Surplus: They’ve lied and cheated their way onto the caravan that is delivering [...]

Eclipse Four edited by Jonathan Strahan">Eclipse Four edited by Jonathan Strahan

May 2nd 2011 at 1:07 pm

To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true… In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies such as Universe, Orbit, and [...]

Zendegi by Greg Egan">Zendegi by Greg Egan

May 2nd 2011 at 12:42 pm

Zendegi is about to become a battlefield!

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