How long is my Strange Horizons review of the latest posthumous Tolkien publication? Pretty long.
(Actually it’s part of a larger, secret strategy of mine to question the assumptions of SF and F characterisation, which I take to be bound by ‘a rather stiffly limitedly consecutive logic of human motivation.’ We need a couple more SFF Hamlets, and a couple fewer SFF Luke Skywalkers and Sigurds. Or so I believe …)
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Because I’ve just compiled this for Locus, no reason not to share here. (When we get as far out as next summer, things might shift a little bit, might drop another title in, etc… but…)
August 2009:
Mike Resnick, Stalking the Dragon (A Fable of Tonight, 3) – trade paperback, comedic urban fantasy
Justina Robson, Chasing the Dragon (Quantum Gravity 4) – trade paperback, urban fantasy
September 2009:
Tom Lloyd, The Grave Thief (Twilight Reign 3)- trade paperback, epic fantasy
Paul McAuley, The Quiet War – trade paperback, science fiction
James Barclay, Dawnthief (Chronicles of the Raven 1) – trade paperback, epic fantasy
October 2009:
Joel Shepherd, Sasha (A Trial of Blood & Steel,1) – trade paperback, epic fantasy
James Enge, A Crooked Way (2 of 3) – trade paperback, fantasy/swords & sorcery
James Barclay, Noonshade (Chronicles of the Raven 2) – trade paperback, epic fantasy
November 2009:
Mark Chadbourn, The Silver Skull (,The Sword of Albion, 1) – trade paperback, historical fantasy
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Diving into the Wreck – trade paperback, science fiction/space opera
James Barclay, Nightchild (Chronicles of the Raven 3) – trade paperback, epic fantasy
December 2009:
Mike Resnick, Starship: Flagship (Starship, 5) – hardcover, science fiction
January 2009:
Kay Kenyon, City Without End (Entire and the Rose, 3) – trade paperback, sci-fantasy
Kay Kenyon, Prince of Storms (Entire and the Rose, 4) – hardcover, sci-fantasy
February 2009:
David Louis Edelman, Geosynchron (Jump 225 Vol III) – trade paperback, science fiction
March 2010:
Joel Shepherd, Petrodor (A Trial of Blood & Steel, 2) – trade paperback, epic fantasy
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt 1) – trade paperback, epic fantasy
April 2010:
George Mann, Ghosts of Manhattan (1 of 2) – trade paperback, steampunk pulp/superhero adventure
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dragonfly Falling (Shadows of the Apt 2) – trade paperback, epic fantasy
May 2010:
Mark Chadbourn, The Devil in Green (Dark Age Book 1) – trade paperback, urban fantasy
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Blood of the Mantis (Shadows of the Apt 3) – trade paperback, epic fantasy
June 2010:
Mark Chadbourn, The Queen of Sinister (Dark Age Book 2) – trade paperback, urban fantasy
Ian McDonald, The Dervish House – hardcover, science fiction
Matthew Sturges, The Office of Shadow – trade paperback, fantasy
July 2010:
Mark Chadbourn, The Hounds of Avalon (Dark Age Book 3) – trade paperback, urban fantasy
August 2010:
Kay Kenyon, Prince of Storms (The Entire and the Rose, 4) PB after hardcover, sci-fantasy
Jon Sprunk, Shadow’s Son (1 of 3) – trade paperback, fantasy
Excited?
Things to Look Forward To For the Next Year Read More »
Gardner Dozois, in Locus July 2009:
“…although I like a well-crafted dystopian story as well as anyone else, the balance has swung too far in that direction, and nihilism, gloom, and black despair about the future have become so standard in the genre that it’s almost become stylized, and almost default setting, with few writers bothering to try to imagine viable human futures that somebody might actually want to live in.”
Well?
Coming September 2009:
But, that time is over. The Wytch Lords have escaped and The Raven find themselves fighting for the Dark College of magic, searching for the location of Dawnthief. It is a spell created to end the world, and it must be cast if any of them are to survive.
Dawnthief is a fast paced epic about a band of all-too-human heroes.
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Wonderful praise from Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing for Ian McDonald’s Desolation Road.
He goes on to say that Desolation Road, “pays homage to David Byrne’s Catherine Wheel, to Ray Bradbury’s entire canon and to Jack Vance, blending all these disparate creators in a way that surprises, delights, then surprises and delights again. Spanning centuries, the book includes transcendent math, alternate realities, corporate dystopias, travelling carnivals, post-singularity godlike AIs, geoengineering, and mechanical hobos, each integral to the plot.”
Yup.
Ian McDonald’s brilliant Mars book, DESOLATION ROAD, finally back in print Read More »
I am extremely pleased to report the news that Kay Kenyon’s A World Too Near
The winner will be announced at OryCon, which will be held in Portland November 27-29 (and at which Yours Truly will be attending as an Editor GoH). The winner will receive a grant of $1,000 and an engraved glass plaque.
The Endeavour Award honors a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. The judges this year are: Joe Haldeman, John Helfers, and Sarah Zettel.
The other finalists are: Anathem by Neal Stephenson, Ill Met in the Arena by Dave Duncan, Long Walks, Last Flights and Other Stories by Ken Scholes, and Space Magic by David Levine.
Congratulations to all the nominees!
A World Too Near up for 2009 Endeavour Award Read More »
So writes Paul Goat Allen in Unabashedly Bookish, the B&N Book Club blog. He quotes Orson Scott Card as saying that science fiction is “no longer a cutting-edge genre – the edge is now in fantasy.” Then Goat praises Ken Scholes’ Psalms of Isaak saga as being “actually post-apocalyptic science fiction cloaked in grand-scale fantasy.”
I’m not sure I’m onboard with Goat’s position, though I agree with his conclusion, that, “the hybridization of genres that I blogged about a few months ago – It’s the End of Genre Fiction As We Know It – and I Feel Fine – has affected science fiction just as noticeably as fantasy, mystery and romance. But it’s a good thing. It’s bringing the originality, the sense of wonder – and, most importantly, the readers – back to science fiction. Science Fiction is dead. Long live Science Fiction!”
Science Fiction is Dead! Long Live Science Fiction! Read More »
James Enge, author of Blood of Ambrose,
James Enge Sits Down with the Dragon Read More »
Derek Shearer, Professor of Diplomacy at Occidental College and former US ambassador, writing in The Huffington Post, on “Give Hope A Chance: The Renewal of Summer.” He speaks of his wife’s faith in Obama, the poignant feelings from his sister’s recent passing, and, his summer reading:
“I’ve also begun reading novels by British ‘science fiction’ writer Ian McDonald about other rising powers — India and Brazil. In River of Gods
Very glad you are enjoying the books, Derek. Next year will see the release of The Dervish House, set in Turkey in an even-nearer future. In the meantime, I hope you get your wish!
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James Enge’s Blood of Ambrose and Mike Resnick’s Stalking the Vampire
(The Fictionwise version of the first book in the John Justin Mallory series, Stalking the Unicorn, is also in the Kindle store for those who haven’t read book one.)
Blood of Ambrose & Stalking the Vampire: Now in Kindle Format Read More »
