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Shadowline: The Starfishers Trilogy, Volume One by Glen Cook">Shadowline: The Starfishers Trilogy, Volume One by Glen Cook

January 18th 2010 at 7:33 pm

The passing of an era… The shaping of a soldier… Vendetta!
Centuries ago, a private army’s deadly strike on the planet Prefactlas freed human slaves from cruel Sangaree masters. A single Sangaree survived–the young Norbon heir, who swore vengeance on the Storm family and their soldiers. Generations later, his carefully mapped revenge scheme is about to [...]

Review Roundup

February 2nd 2009 at 12:20 pm

Static Multimedia reviews Eclipse Two, giving it 3/4 stars: “This collection celebrates the short story. … While a novel lets you dive into another person’s imagination and watch a story slowly unfold before you, a short story collection is a kind of sampler platter, allowing you to bounce from idea to idea so quickly you [...]

Happy New Reviews

January 2nd 2009 at 5:18 pm

Clarkesworld Magazine just published an interview with several anthologists, discussing the art and craft of editing anthologies, including me, Jonathan Strahan, Ellen Datlow, James Lowder, and Jeff & Ann VanderMeer.
The Agony Column interviews Night Shade Books editor-in-Chief Jeremy Lassen about Jonathan Strahan’s Eclipse Two. [MP3]
io9 reviews Neal Asher’s Shadow of the Scorpion: “Neal Asher’s [...]

Best Lists, Dirda on NSB

December 22nd 2008 at 11:06 pm

Michael Dirda, in The Washington Post, includes Night Shade in his list of the best independent publishers on the scene today.
Adventures in Reading names its Top Nine Books Published in 2008, which includes two Night Shade titles: “#4: Wastelands, by John Joseph Adams (editor): A reprint anthology consisting of stories about life afte apocalypse, [...]

Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher">Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher

October 15th 2008 at 2:54 pm

Ian Cormac’s Early Years!
Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and a vicious alien race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn’t remember.
Cormac signs up with Earth Central Security and is sent out to [...]

SCI FI Weekly on Shadow of the Scorpion

September 22nd 2008 at 7:06 pm

SCI FI Weekly has a review of Neal Asher’s Shadow of the Scorpion, which garnered an A- rating: “A rather grim yet compelling depiction of the oddball hells of future wartime … Not to mention a goodly amount of hip and exciting technological and sociological extrapolation, and many convulsive, propulsive action scenes.”

The Latest Batch of Love for Night Shade Books

September 16th 2008 at 7:23 pm

Book Spot Central (formerly Fantasy Book Spot) has a nice review of The Living Dead: “Standout stories in the collection are difficult to choose because this book contains the best selection of zombie fiction I’ve ever encountered. … A satisfyingly thick volume with excellent variety.”
Bibliophile Stalker has an interview with Laird Barron, author of The [...]

Green Man reviews Neal Asher

September 8th 2008 at 1:35 pm

Green Man Review reviews Neal Asher’s Shadow of the Scorpion: “Asher tells big stories. … This mission still involves terrorists with anti-matter weapons capable of blowing away large chunks of planet, incredibly durable crab-like aliens capable of shrugging off a hit from heavy artillery, and more alien ecologies and far-future technologies than you can shake [...]

Booklist reviews Shadow of the Scorpion

September 1st 2008 at 6:54 pm

Regina Schroeder reviews Neal Asher’s Shadow of the Scorpion for Booklist: “Here Asher retreats to the formative years of his series hero Ian Cormac to reveal formative  events in two time lines to reader and character alike. Growing up in the last years of the Prador war,  Ian deals with the loss of his father, [...]

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