As reported in the Guardian: Ian McDonald’s Brasyl
A shortlist of six titles will be announced for the Warwick prize on January 23 next year, with a winner announced in February at the University of Warwick.
Congratulations to Ian and best of luck!
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Street Teamer Calico Reaction has posted a list of her Favorite Reads: 2007. Delighted to see Justina Robson’s Keeping It Real
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Joseph Mallozzi, executive producer of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis, is a big SF&F reader – and you know it’s always interesting to me to discover people from the filmic side of the genre who are. He’s such a heavy reader, in fact, that each month Joe picks two science fiction titles and two fantasy titles and asks his readership votes for one of each to read and discuss.
Recently, our own Sean Williams’ The Crooked Letter
“Free copies of The Blood Debt
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From Fantasy Book Critic:
Breakaway,
and Killswitch
!!! So please read the rules below and completely fill out the form to enter! North American Residents Only. Giveaway ends Friday, November 30, 2007 – 11:59AM PST. Click here for rules and entry form.
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Fantasy Book Critic is holding a contest. Twenty lucky winners will be awarded an advance reading copy of Joe Abercrombie’s fantasy debut The Blade Itself.
Meanwhile, here is the final full jacket of the book. This was composed by Jaqueline Cooke, following the original design by Laura Brett. Astute readers will notice font changes from the UK edition, though we share the letter “h.” Also the final printed version will see gold foil used to limn the title and author’s name, with the arrow design and the words “the first law: book one” in solid foil.
“If you’re fond of bloodless, turgid fantasy with characters as thin as newspaper and as boring as plaster saints, Joe Abercrombie is really going to ruin your day. A long career for this guy would be a gift to our genre.”- Scott Lynch, author of The Lies of Locke Lamora
Fantasy Book Critic is hosting a Sean Williams Giveaway. Three lucky winners will be awarded the first three volumes of The Books of the Cataclysm by Sean Williams: The Crooked Letter,
“…the mind-blowing concept is enough to make me want more. ” Fantasy Book Critic
“[E]xplores the nature of life, death, and reality. Big subjects, but with the precision of an archaeological expert, Williams is more than up to the task. There is a lot to admire in Williams’ epic fantasy, the wide range of global religions and myths of which his afterlife is comprised, to the characterization of the protagonists. The story has the mythic resonance of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman and American Gods, the dark fantasy/horror one might associate with something like Stephen King’s Dark Tower saga, the multiple universes/realities of Moorcock’s Eternal Champion mythos, and the strange, weird creatures one might associate with China Miéville’s Bas-lag novels. Williams imagined world is equal part those novels which preceded his, but fortunately, there is enough newness to both the approach and vision to make this the work of a singular vision….” [R]eading many of the other titles Lou Anders has published with Pyr, I shouldn’t have been surprised with both the quality of the writing and the breadth of Williams’ imagination. Like a lot of the other books published by Pyr, Williams captures what makes a tried and true genre like Epic Fantasy so popular and enjoyable of a genre and spins a tale with his unique voice. This is the type of book you finish and can’t wait to read the sequel.”- SFFWorld.com
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Patrick of Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist offers his thoughts on Justina Robson’s Keeping It Real,
“This is a fun, entertaining and action-packed novel. There’s a lot of humor, and the pace is at times fast and furious. I was using Keeping it Real as my “commute” book, and I was always disappointed when I realized that my stop was next. Indeed, I found myself turning those pages, always eager to see what would happen next.”
Patrick also offers his thoughts on what KIR has to say about our line. He feels its inclusion in the list “demonstrates just how diversified Pyr’s stable of writers and novels will ultimately be. Once again, it’s evident that their desire to publish works that are different from what’s being released by the powerhouses continues to fuel Pyr’s passion for both science fiction and fantasy. And although they made a name for themselves with thought-provoking books by authors such as Ian McDonald, Sean Williams, David Louis Edelman and many others, by publishing novels such as Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself and Justina Robson’s Keeping it Real they show that Pyr is not averse to release more humorous and entertaining books.
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A contest to win one of two copies of Sean Williams’s The Crooked Letter, first volume of his Books of the Cataclysm series, starts today on Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist. Here are the details. Good luck!
Pat says, “Pyr books are gradually making a very good name for themselves, with many of their releases pleasing fans and reviewers alike. As such, Pyr books are a welcome addition to the speculative fiction publishing world. Sean Williams’ The Crooked Letter was brought to my attention by a number of positive reviews. To all ends and purposes, this novel appears to be something else, something special.”
Well, we certainly agree. Sean’s fantasy is quite extraordinary. As Hal Duncan (author of Vellum), has said, “Williams’s mix of grand metaphysical vision, weird landscapes and wild adventure
makes for a great read, but it’s the deeply human story at the heart of The Crooked Letter that really makes it something wonderful.”
Meanwhile, Sean has uploaded some very fun photos from the World Science Fiction Convention, including shots of his visit to see Gary Numan playing at the House of Blues, the author of several Star Wars novels with a group of Stormtroopers, and this shot of Sean and Garth Nix in the Batmobile.
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