Night Shade Books News
Night Shade News & Notes
- Realms of Fantasy has a review forthcoming in their June 2010 issue of TAILS OF WONDER AND IMAGINATION edited by Ellen Datlow: – "Readers who love cats will find these tales well worth chasing."
- Publishers Weekly gives a starred review to THE GREEN LEOPARD PLAGUE AND OTHER STORIES by Walter Jon Williams: – "In this provocative, entertaining collection of nine reprints, Williams (Implied Spaces) brings together tales of the College of Mystery as well as other explorations of the gray region where psyche and technology meet. Standouts include the Nebula-winning “Daddy’s World,” in which a young boy finds himself trapped in a nightmare not of his making; “The Last Ride of German Freddie,” an alternate history in which Friedrich Nietzsche meets Wyatt Earp; “Incarnation Day,” wherein humanity raises its children as computer programs; and the title story, another Nebula winner, about a utopian society’s birth and psychological effects. Coupled with extensive notes from the author, these stories invite readers to share and enjoy Williams’s extensive knowledge of history, psychology, and culture."
SALE: 50% Off All In-Stock and Forthcoming Night Shade Titles!
It’s that time of year again: sale time at Night Shade Books! We’ve got a lot of big new titles coming in, and we need to clear space in a big way (and pay off a few print bills)! So for the next week, from Monday, March 15 until midnight on Sunday, March 21, we’re offering 50% off all in-stock and forthcoming* Night Shade titles, with a four book minimum order. Just use the coupon code 50NSB2010 at checkout, and we’ll do the rest!
Now would be a great time to pick up a copy of the hottest science fiction novel of 2009, Paolo Bacigalupi’s Nebula Award-finalist The Windup Girl. Get it now while we’ve still got some hardcovers in stock!
You’ll also want to consider pre-ordering what’s sure to be one of the most talked about books this year, Amelia Beamer’s debut novel The Loving Dead, the zombie-comedy-romance that authors such as Connie Willis, John Skipp, and Christopher Moore are all raving about. And don’t forget, we’ve also got the brand new novel by Hard SF-master Greg Egan, Zendegi, which is sure to end up on the major award ballots next year.
Or maybe you’re an aficionado of fine short fiction? If so, we have many fine selections for you to choose from, whether it be currently available titles like the bestselling anthology The Living Dead, or the critically-acclaimed Eclipse series, or legendary editor Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two. If you’ve got all of those already, be sure to check out this year’s newcomers to our stable: Sympathy for the Devil edited by Tim Pratt, Wings of Fire edited by Jonathan Strahan, or The Living Dead 2 edited by John Joseph Adams. See below for a more extensive list of our forthcoming 2010 titles, all of which are eligible for this sale!
Order up, so that we can keep bringing you the best in SF, Fantasy and Horror! Once again, just enter the coupon code 50NSB2010 at checkout, and we’ll take 50% off your order of any four or more Night Shade Books!
* Preorders will ship as published. Estimated publication dates are subject to change. Subscriptions to Electric Velocipede are not eligible for this discount promotion.
Night Shade News & Notes
- SF Signal reviews SHADOWLINE by Glen Cook: – "A terrific, solid read, a step up above other examples in the genre, and its focus on the story and characters is admirable. Shadowline is a rich, engaging read."
Night Shade News & Notes
- The Cleveland Plain Dealer reviews HESPIRA by Matthew Hughes: – "A wry, whimsical delight … Hughes' account of this far future detective at work is grand, elaborate fun. Still, the most engaging thing about "Hespira" is the Alice-in-Wonderland complexity of this curiouser and curiouser story. Grade: A"
Night Shade Titles Temporarily Unavailable on Amazon.com
Night Shade’s distributor, Diamond Books, has had a database error that caused Amazon to de-list all of the titles that Diamond distributes. This database error has been identified and corrected by Diamond. Diamond is now working with Amazon to get all of Diamond’s titles re-listed on Amazon. Sources at Diamond have informed Night Shade that this should happen within the next 24 hours. While Night Shade is not responsible for this problem, we would like to apologize to all of our authors and customers who have been frustrated by this incident. We share your frustration.
Night Shade News & Notes
- Tampa Books Examiner reviews PRECIOUS DRAGON by Liz Williams: – "I can’t say enough good things about this series. I love it, look forward to reading more … and I think any lover of real mythological fantasy and (good storytelling) will too."
Night Shade News & Notes
- The Speculative Scotsman reviews MALL OF CTHULHU by Seamus Cooper: – "Cooper's first novel is a great, break-neck read, with a tight-knit cast of appealing, charismatic characters and a narrative packed full of whimsy and darkly fantastic wonders. Equal parts comedy, horror and action as madness and mythos intertwine, Seamus Cooper has created in The Mall of Cthulhu a book that's hard to beat in terms of its sheer energy and exuberance."
- THE LIVING DEAD 2's table of contents is announced: – Stories by Max Brooks, Robert Kirkman, David Wellington, Jonathan Maberry, and more!
READ IT BEFORE YOU CAN BUY IT:The Loving Dead Free Online Serial!
Zombies are seemingly everywhere these days, but with all the permutations of the zombie we’ve seen in recent years, no one has dared to make zombies sexy…UNTIL NOW.
The Loving Dead by debut novelist Amelia Beamer is a zombie-comedy-romance that reads like the zombie love-child of Chuck Palahniuk and Christopher Moore. It tells the story of Kate and Michael, twenty-something housemates working at the same Trader Joe’s supermarket, who are thoroughly screwed when people start turning into zombies at their house party in the Oakland hills. The zombie plague is a sexually transmitted disease, turning its victims into shambling, horny, voracious killers after an incubation period where they become increasingly promiscuous. Thrust into extremes by the unfolding tragedy, Kate and Michael are forced to confront the decisions they’ve made, and their fears of commitment, while trying to stay alive. Kate tries to escape on a Zeppelin ride with her secret sugar daddy — but people keep turning into zombies, forcing her to fight for her life, never mind the avalanche of trouble that develops from a few too many innocent lies. Michael convinces Kate to meet him in the one place in the Bay Area that’s likely to be safe and secure from the zombie hordes: Alcatraz. But can they stay human long enough?
Named one of the “20 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2010″ by science fiction blog io9, The Loving Dead will be published in July, butio9 doesn’t have to wait till then to read it, and neither do you!
Still not convinced? Check out some advance praise for The Loving Dead:
- “Zombies are all over the place right now, but trust me, you’ve never read a zombie novel like this! Amelia Beamer’s The Loving Dead is about zombies, all right, but it’s zombies with Xanax, zeppelins, Trader Joe’s, iPhone apps, sex, humor, adventure, NPR, Ikea, and Indiana Jones! It’s a rollercoaster ride of a read and a true original!” –Connie Willis, Hugo Award-winning author of Doomsday Book and Blackout
- “The Loving Dead is really kind of hot, in a very creepy way. Read it. You know you’d love you some sweet zombie sumpin’ sumpin’. Buy it, bitches! Ride this zombie zeppelin of love like there’s no tomorrow.” –Christopher Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Lamb and A Dirty Job
- “Amelia Beamer’s The Loving Dead is strange, sick, sexy and scary. It’s also wickedly funny and a damn good read.” –Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestseller and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Dragon Factory and Patient Zero
- “If you like raunchy comedy with whips, brains, and zombies, this is the book for you.” –Mario Acevedo, author of Werewolf Smackdown
- “Promising young writer Amelia Beamer delivers plenty of requisite zombie gore and sex, but adds well-observed characters you get involved with, plus a kink ending that makes you glad she did.” –Cecelia Holland, author of The Witches’ Kitchen and Varanger
Night Shade News & Notes
- Monsters and Critics reviews RULES OF 48 by Jack Cady: – “Cady’s chronicling gift is evident in his last book as he immerses readers in the Deep South during the summer of 1948.”
- Monsters and Critics reviews TAILS OF WONDER AND IMAGINATION edited by Ellen Datlow: – “Feline fanciers and sci-fi fans will revel in this topnotch collection of forty previously released short stories that run the gambit from bittersweet to frightening while just skirting the anthropomorphic pitfalls that seem an inherent part of cat literature.”
- Bookgasm reviews TAILS OF WONDER AND IMAGINATION edited by Ellen Datlow: – “A clever collection of cat stories, focused enough to appeal to the cat lover, but broad enough to be of interest to any science-fiction, fantasy or horror readers. … a great gift for any genre-loving cat person.”
- Innsmouth Free Press reviews TAILS OF WONDER AND IMAGINATION by Ellen Datlow: – “Tails of Wonder and Imagination, edited by Ellen Datlow, does a wonderful job of catering to those of us who prefer a more feline sort of company. The anthology featured an excellent variety of stories in different genres; there was everything from macabre to sci-fi, literary fiction to fantasy. So, there is something for everyone.”
- Orion Magazine reviews THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi: – “Deftly plotted and evocative …. Bacigalupi cares for Language in ways rare in much genre fiction, which gives this novel a chance of moving beyond the science-fiction world, much as other dystopian works, such as Ursula LeGuin’s The Dispossessed or John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar have done. … The Windup Girl doesn’t forsake people, or prose in service of premise or plot. Bacigalupi understands that ideas matter only as lives matter. Which is why, despite a grim view of the century or two to come, there is a sense of hope for right action and for an evolution in humanity, metaphoric or literal.”
Mark Teppo Talks
Mark Teppo, author of the critically-acclaimed occult thriller Lightbreaker and its recently-released-unleashed sequel, Heartland, is guest blogging at Omnivoracious this week. Here’s Mark, opining On the Nature of Magick and On the Existence of Monsters.
And over at Fantasy Magazine, Jonathan Wood interviews Mark, taking an in-depth look at Lightbreaker: Mark Teppo: Of Men and Magick…
