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Podcast: Lou Anders and Rick Kleffel Discuss the New Fantasy

I’m up on Rick Kleffel’s Agony Column podcast talking about what Rick calls “The New Fantasy,” and covering works by Joe Abercrombie, Tom Lloyd, Joel Shepherd, James Enge, Justina Robson, Mark Chadbourn, Matthew Sturges, Chris Roberson and others. We even discuss Doctor Who‘s latest casting announcement and the effect Obama may have on genre fiction. Here’s the direct link, and the show is available via iTunes as well (it’s episode 555).

Rick writes:

What’s darker, grittier and sells better than expected in days such as these which are already dark and gritty enough without the help of excellent fantasy writers? Well, it’s what I’m going to call for want of a better term, The New Fantasy, and since Lou Anders of Pyr Books is publishing a boatload of it in the upcoming months, I thought I’d give him a call. Lou Anders is a lucky guy. His job is to read a bunch of great fiction and then publish it, and as it happens — or at least as he observes and I concur — fiction does well during recessions. So what’s going to happen to the fiction market during a full-blown, we’re-wearin’-barrels Depression? Looks like it’s boom times for genre fiction. Lou and I explored The New Fantasy and talked about Pyr’s and other publishers current and upcoming titles.”

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I’ve been busy…

A host of recent acquisitions, which, since they have appeared in Locus and are being talked about on various websites, I might as well aggregate here to whet your collective appetites:

The Ghosts of Manhattan, and an untitled sequel, a “steampunk superhero” tale from George Mann (The Affinity Bridge).

The Grave Thief, Book Three of the Twilight Reign, gritty epic fantasy from Tom Lloyd.

The Quiet War, brilliant near-future space opera from Paul McAuley.

Sasha: A Trial of Blood & Steel, book one of a epic fantasy quartet, from Joel Shepherd. Very politically savvy stuff and more of that “gritty” fantasy we love so much.

Diving into the Wreck, from Kristine Kathryn Rusch, wonderful space opera adventure based on her Asimov’s Readers Choice Award-winning novella of the same name.

Dawnthief, Noonshade, and Nightchild, the Chronicles of the Raven trilogy – more (yes) “gritty” epic fantasy from James Barlcay.

The Office of Shadow, espionage meets epic fantasy in this sequel to Midwinter, from DC/Vertigo author Matthew Sturges.

Excited? I am.

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