M
ike Resnick’s Starship: Mutiny, the first book in his Starship series, has just appeared for the Kindle. This is good, given that books 2 and 4 have been up a while. Also, before you say it, other ebook formats are coming soon!
This is Mutiny, Mr Christian!! Read More »
Check it. Over on SFFAudio, the first review of a Pyr book’s audio edition! Yup, audio edition. Mike Resnick’s Starship Mutiny is out in audio from Audible.com. I’ve heard about 3 minutes and was very impressed with the quality. We didn’t actually have anything to do with this – it was a deal directly between Mike and Audible, but I’m happy to see it happen, and a big believer that a great audio book can inspire someone to go back and buy the “archival quality” hardcover (as I did with Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Stephen King’s The Gunslinger both, for example.) Meanwhile, SFFAudio says:
“I can’t say that Resnick’s broken any new ground, but what he does is bring an immediacy and intelligence to the Military SF sub-genre. …all the gravitas of his intellectual legacy informs the action. It’s as if SF’s own Tolstoy were writing Horatio Hornblower by way of The Odyssey….The whole novel took me less than 36 hours to consume, its highly addictive listening and I confess I was downloading the follow-up book before I’d even finished this one. For a novel so light in ideas, the heart of SF, it’s hard to call it ‘unmissable,’ but on the other hand it masterfully achieves precisely what it intends to; it’s intelligent and entertaining Military SF – and that is still no small feat. Starship: Mutiny: Highly recommended!”
Red Alert: Starship Mutiny the Audiobook Read More »
“Pyr is quickly becoming the standard by which all other sci-fi imprints are judged.” – Bookgasm.com
Ian McDonald’s Brasyl:
Quill nominee, Salon.com’s Summer Reading Recommendation, Starred Review in PW, Starred Review in Booklist, A grade in SciFi Weekly, B+ in Entertainment Weekly. Ranked # 5 on the bestselling hardcover list at San Francisco-based independent genre bookstore Borderlands Books for May 2007
Ian McDonald’s River of Gods (paperback available September 2007):
BSFA Award winner, Arthur C. Clarke nominee, Hugo nominee, starred review in Library Journal
Justina Robson’s Keeping It Real (Quantum Gravity Book One)
Locus Recommended Read, Starburst Five Star Review
Kay Kenyon’s Bright of the Sky (Book One of The Entire and the Rose):
Starred Review in Publishers Weekly, A grade in SciFi Weekly
David Louis Edelman’s Infoquake (Volume One of the Jump 225 Trilogy):
Barnes & Noble’s # 1 Editor’s Choice Top 10 SF&F Novels for 2006, John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Novel 2006, Bookgasm’s 5 Best SciFi Books of 2006
Mike Resnick’s Starship: Mutiny and Starship Pirate (5 book Starship series):
B in Sci Fi Weekly
Recent Awards & Nominations for Pyr:
Recommendations/Endorsements:
Foreign Awards given to Pyr books for their overseas editions:
2 Years, 4 Months and Counting… Read More »
Rob H. Bedford, over on SFFWorld, posts his review of Mike Resnick’s Starship: Pirate:
“What makes this novel so enjoyable is the dialogue; the majority of the story is
told through the words of the characters. Snappy banter between Cole and Forrice, his closest friend, Cole and Sharon, his lover, frankly between Cole and any of the characters proves entertaining. There are some omniscient narrative scenes, but most of the action and plot is relayed through the characters themselves. This allows the entire story to move along at a brisk pace, even more so with the brevity of the novel. As with Starship: Mutiny, R
esnick puts a lot of story, ample amounts of action balanced with tension in a short novel. With no words wasted, the story is very entertaining. While a very character-driven story, Resnick also brings in enough action to balance out the story…. With the two of five project Starship novels published, Resnick is building a nice, thoroughly entertaining Space Opera.”
Rob’s thoughts on the previous book, Starship: Mutiny,
the Starship Saga Continues… Read More »
Mike Resnick is interviewed by John Joseph Adams over on Sci Fi Wire. They talk about the Starship series – Mutiny,
Meanwhile, a handful of new Pyr reviews popped up on the Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation site.
Susan Griffiths says of Chris Roberson’s Paragaea: A Planetary Romance:
“I found the storytelling effective enough to conjure up images in my mind as well as inspiring interest in the characters and the world they inhabit. I found it a shame to get to the end of the book as I could have gladly read more – and it was perfect to lose myself in as I sat on a train that was delayed for several hours to the point when I lost track of time. So, on that note, I would recommend it as an enjoyable, well written and an engaging fantasy adventure with a consistently developing story.”
Whereas Tony Chester really likes George Zebrowski’s Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia:
“…an SF classic and a book which contains all the sense of wonder that truly good SF could wish for… Bearing in mind that this is an old novel and, therefore, one which was heavily influenced by the science of its day, it has to be said that it has held up remarkably well over time and does not seem implausible even now, even given current cosmology… Macrolife ticks all the right boxes, and it is probably its very unfussiness that has contributed to its longevity. …good is good and quality tells, and I’m damn sure there’s many a current writer of SF who would give their right arms to write a book that will survive as long as this one. Needless to say, recommended to all.”
Mike Resnick Interview & Concatenation Reviews Read More »