Forthcoming Books

The 2008 Pyr Sampler eBook

We’ve just made a 326-page sample book we printed to give out at conventions available as a free PDF-format ebook. It contains sizable excerpts from 7 of our 2008 titles and is online for download here from both the catalog and forthcoming book pages. If you are viewing this on the pyrsf.com (as opposed to the pyrsf.blogspot.com page), click “catalog” and “forthcoming” in the menu bar on your left, or you’ll get a window in a window, and who knows where it will end.

Excerpts are from Joe Abercrombie’s Before They Are Hanged, Kay Kenyon’s A World Too Near, Theodore Judson’s The Martian General’s Daughter, Robert Silverberg’s Son of Man, David Louis Edelman’s MultiReal, and Mike Resnick’s Stalking the Unicorn and Stalking the Dragon.

Happy Reading!

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Williams, Avery, McDonald, Oh My!

Sean Williams is interviewed on the wonderful Adventures in SciFi Publishing podcast, available via iTunes and as a direct download. (Also interviewed, best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson.)

Meanwhile, The Book Swede takes us all the way back to our first season with a review of Fiona Avery’s historical fantasy, The Crown Rose.Says the Swede, “This is a good read. It combines classic French history, with an even older story, with generally good, intriguing and likeable characterisations, and a very well imagined 13th century Paris. It does indeed has a certain YA feel to it, but certainly less than the cover would seem to indicate, and is quite a fun feel-good read, but with enough battles, etc to keep my interest! 8.5/10.”

And Gardner Dozois has posted the contents of his forthcoming The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Edition. I’m thrilled that “Sanjeev and Robotwallah” by Ian McDonald has made the list, as it appeared originally in my own Fast Forward 1.Here’s the full list at SFScope.

Finally, we’ve uploaded a few more book pages from our 2008 season. Click “Forthcoming” on the left to see if you are on the Pyr site, and if you are viewing this through a feed click here.

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They’re Here! Blade and River!

Ian McDonald’s Hugo and Clarke nominated River of Gods is now out in trade paperback. It’ll be in stores in early September, and is already listed as in stock at Amazon.com.

What’s more, Joe Abercrombie’s extraordinary fantasy debut The Blade Itself is also out. I just got my copies day before yesterday. Like River of Gods, its also on Amazon already. And Blood, Blade & Thruster magazine just posted this tremendous review. They introduce The Blade Itself in this manner: “Desperately in need of some genre fiction with character driven plot, plenty of violence, and strong anti-hero protagonists, but tired of waiting for George R. R. Martin to finish his epic Game of Thrones series?” Which is as nice an intro as I could ask for.

Reviewer Lucien Spelman goes on to say that Joe’s novel is “a fantasy novel full of enough ironic and slightly self-deprecating humor and Scorceseesque violence to make the average hipper than thou non-fantasy reader want to learn more about the genre (my favorite kind to convert), yet filled with enough touchstones to make your average Tolkien weaned fantasy reader quite happy indeed.”

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Wishing on a Rising Star

Alexis Glynn Latner’s debut novel, Hurricane Moon, is now listing as being in stock on Amazon, and should be in stores in a few weeks. We’ve also recently uploaded the first three chapters online, where you can read them there or download as a PDF.

Meanwhile, I see that the website of Rice University, where alum Alexis serves as Fondren Library Circulation Assistant, has uploaded an article on her exciting debut. As she tells journalist Jessica Stark, “My highest aspiration is that one of my stories inspires someone to think about the universe differently. That kind of thinking can bring hope; hope that can help someone get through a bad night.”

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Book Expo America

Pyr will be at Book Expo America next weekend, from May 31st to June 3rd, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York. We’ll be in parent company Prometheus Books’ booth, # 4532, and, FYI, its possible we’ll only be listed in the program as “Prometheus Books.” I’ll only be there Friday and Saturday myself, but attendees will want to stop by and pick up the exclusive Part One galley we’ve made for Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself. Oh, and while we’re on the subject, check out the subtly different US cover.

Other Prometheus freebies include t-shirts, books and buttons, and in addition to The Blade Itself, they’ll be featuring their titles Nothing: Something to Believe in by Nica Lalli, Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend by Barbara Oakley, and something tantalizingly titled The Humble Little Condom: A History by Aine Collier.

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Keeping It Real @ Borders

Beginning tomorrow, 3/6, and running fourteen days through 3/19, Justina Robson’s magnificent sci-fantasy novel Keeping It Real (Quantum Gravity, Book 1) will be on a “quality paperback table” in every Borders Books store in the US. This is a table display outside the SF section. I’ve very excited (very!) by this promotion and very curious to see how it goes. In view of this, I would very much appreciate hearing of any and all sightings in various Borders around the US of A. Please let me know where you saw the book, how it was displayed, how many were on hand, what you thought of it, etc… I’d love to post some pictures of the display in various stores, so feel free to put those digital camera phones to good use and email me the results!

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The Metatemporal Detective

Very happy to announce that we’ll be producing another book with the wonderful Michael Moorcock. We’ve just inked a deal for The Metatemporal Detective, a short story collection featuring Sir Seaton Begg, the multiverse’s most famous metatemporal detective, as he battles his age-old enemy Count Zodiac (sometimes known as Elric of Melnibone) across the infinite moonbeam roads of the multiverse. The book will include an original tale, “The Flaneur of the Arcades d’Opera,” to provide a concluding note to the detectives battles with his arch foe.

Moorcock says, “The world of the stories is mostly set against a London where electric trams and other electric vehicles are the norm, where the internal combustion engine doesn’t exist, where mounted tram robbers ply ‘the lines’. New Orleans is run by a mysterious people who seem to speak a form of French patois and are called the Machinoix. And in the American set stories there are pools of ‘colour’ which are the power sources, while in Biloxi the Biloxi Fault threatens to blow up the world and the Mississippi is running backwards. We are never entirely sure, however, if these are the same world or intersecting ‘planes’ of the multiverse. As in the Cornelius stories, that’s up to the reader to decide.”

More details – cover artist etc… – as they become available.

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For Your Viewing Pleasure: Hurricane Moon

I let this one sit up at Meme Therapy for a bit, where it was part of the interview with artist Brian W. Dow. But now I think we can show it here, along with the front cover layout. Illustration is by Brian, with design from Brian & Prometheus in-house artist Nicole Lecht, who makes her Pyr debut. The book – the first novel from Analog regular Alexis Glynn Latner – is slated for a July 2007 release. A story of planetary colonization, full of danger, romance and interpersonal conflict, Dow captures the spirit of the book beautifully in his wrap-around illustration. Do you trust that guy in the bottom left? I’m not sure you should.

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