http://www.nightshadebooks.com An independent publisher of quality science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Thu, 08 May 2008 03:40:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The depth and breadth of science fiction and fantasy fiction continues to change with every passing year. The twenty-five stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully map this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer. The ... http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2008/03/05/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-vol-2-edited-by-jonathan-strahan/ Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. ... http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2008/02/19/pump-six-and-other-stories-by-paolo-baciglaupi/ Now available in Mass Market Paperback! When inspector Chen goes on Holiday, Chen's demonic partner Zhu Irzh finds himself alone in Singapore Three. The missing body of a brutally murdered socialite and the strange experiments of a well connected, beautiful young heiress leads Zhu into a maze of murder and ... http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2008/02/14/the-demon-and-the-city-by-liz-williams/ Now in its second printing. The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures is the first installment in our five volume set collecting the works of one of the great fantasists of the 20th Century. This volume concentrates on Hodgson's nautical fiction, the material that first helped him ... http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2008/02/14/the-collected-fiction-of-william-hope-hodgson-volume-one/ Glen Cook delivers a masterpiece of galaxy spanning space opera. For four thousand years, the Guardships ruled Canon Space with an iron fist. But now the House Tregesser believes they have an edge; a force from outside Canon Space offers them the resources to throw off Guardship rule. Their gambits ... http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2008/01/17/the-dragon-never-sleeps-by-glen-cook/ John Constantine meets Chow Yun-Fat in Snake Agent, the first in Liz Williams' acclaimed series of near-future occult thrillers. Detective Inspector Chen is the Singapore Three police department's snake agent, in charge of supernatural and mystical investigations. Now available in Mass Market Paperback! Liz Williams delivers the first in a ... http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2008/01/15/snake-agent-by-liz-williams/ From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing so, these visionary authors have addressed one of the most challenging and enduring ... http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2007/03/26/wastelands-edited-by-john-joseph-adams/ Night Shade Books is proud to present The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Volume 3: the third and final volume collecting David Drake's landmark, genre-defining military SF series, for the first time, in a uniform hardcover set. This volume contains the last two Slammers Novels: The Sharp End (1993) and Paying ... http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2007/03/25/grey-by-jon-armstrong/ An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse One: New Science ... http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2007/03/24/passage-at-arms-by-glen-cook/