Archive for October, 2011

An Interview with Rob Ziegler

October 18th 2011 at 2:56 pm

The Mad Hatter interviews debut novelist Rob Ziegler. Rob’s novel, Seed, comes out next month and it really isn’t one to be missed! It’s available for pre-order from many of the better retailers. Here’s the interview to give you a sneaky peek into the world of Rob Ziegler and Seed, “Rob Ziegler is a name [...]

A Review: Necropolis

October 17th 2011 at 5:08 pm

Here’s an awesome review of Michael Dempsey’s exciting debut, Necropolis, “Is there any genre yet that hasn’t somehow taken a spin on the detective novel? Where you’ve got the hardened investigator tirelessly prowling the streets, roughing up suspects, drinking hard, and getting into shootouts with various criminal factions–all for the sake of truth, justice, and [...]

A Review: Infidel

October 17th 2011 at 5:06 pm

Strange Horizons has reviewed Volume 2 in Kameron Hurley’s Bel Dame Apocrypha, Infidel. “This week I’ve been travelling for work-related reasons (first Belgrade, now Brussels), which has meant enough time on planes to finish Infidel, Kameron Hurley’s just-published second novel. Anyone who follows me on Twitter may remember that I got a bit excited about [...]

Suvudu Booked! with Will McIntosh

October 17th 2011 at 5:02 pm

“Welcome to Booked!, a feature where we ask an author to share their favorite books with our readers. Today’s guest is Will McIntosh, whose latest novel, Soft Apocalypse, is available now. In this post, McIntosh writes about Replay, by Ken Grimwood. Jeff Winston dies of a heart attack in 1988, at age 43. He awakens [...]

Publishers Weekly gives The Emperor’s Knife a STARRED review!

October 16th 2011 at 3:30 pm

Publishers Weekly call The Emperor’s Knife a, “riveting and intense debut.” They say, “Compelling characterizations will keep fans of grim fantasy entirely enthralled.” The fantastic debut from Mazarkis Williams will be available early December, pre-order your copy now!

Boing Boing review Agatha H and the Airship City

October 13th 2011 at 4:14 pm

Cory Doctorow says on Boing Boing, “Agatha H. and the Airship City is the first prose novel about Agatha Clay, the heroine of their Hugo-winning webcomic Girl Genius. I’ve been reading the Foglios since I was a sprout poring over Dragon magazine, and doting on Phil Foglio’s back-page comic What’s New? with Phil and Dixie; [...]

A Review: Seed

October 13th 2011 at 4:03 pm

November will see the release of Seed, the awesome debut novel from Rob Ziegler. Last week Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, now you can check out what Staffer’s Musings has to say! “Much like Night Shade flag bearer The Wind-Up Girl (Bacigalupi), Seed is a near term science fiction novel that centers around [...]

Guest Blog

October 12th 2011 at 4:21 pm

Michael Dempsey, author of the recently released awesome novel Necropolis has guest posted over at the Night Bazaar, “I’ve always had a knee-jerk reaction to authority (and not in a good way). But I grudgingly concede that we need rules in life. Things would be ugly out there if everyone ignored traffic lights, put aluminum [...]

Speculate! talk The Book of Cthulhu.

October 12th 2011 at 4:15 pm

“Welcome back for Episode 26 of Speculate! The Podcast for Writers, Readers and Fans. In this episode we start a new sequence of shows on the new anthology from publisher Night Shade Books and editor Ross Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu, investigating (gulp!) the Elder Gods with our reaction to stories by Laird Barron, Elizabeth [...]

A Fungus Among Us: William Hope Hodgson’s “The Voice in the Night”

October 11th 2011 at 11:30 am

I listened to Pseudopod’s excellent reading of William Hope Hodgson’s classic nautical chiller, “The Voice in the Night” on my drive in to the city this morning, imagining strange voices calling from the distance as I crossed the fog-enshrouded Golden Gate Bridge…

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