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We're giving away advanced readers editions of CHILDREN OF SCARABAUEUS by Sara Creasy, the second novel in her action-packed science fiction series.
If you are interested in reading the book early AND writing a short review for us, email us at [email protected] with your name and address.
*US residents only, please.
Adam-Troy Castro has a fabulous new Andrea Cort short story in the newest issue of Analog--yay! This is set in the same world of his Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel, EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD, plus the next adventure THE THIRD CLAW OF GOD.
Here's some of the short story. After, check out the io9.com review here.
You can read the first few chapters of EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD here. Plus here are sample chapters from THE THIRD CLAW OF GOD.
Plus, next month brings the hysterically funny Z IS FOR ZOMBIE, illustrated by Johnny Atomic.
Diana
We're giving away advanced readers editions of A KINGDOM BESIEGED by Raymond E. Feist. The book (on sale April 12, 2011) begins the fifth and final Riftwar—the Chaoswar—in Feist’s epic Riftwar Cycle.
If you are interested in reading the book early AND writing a short review for us, email us at [email protected] with your name and address.
*US residents only, please.
We couldn't be more thrilled--Kim Harrison's upcoming PALE DEMON has just received a wonderful Starred Review from Publishers Weekly!!
"Harrison's intriguing ninth Hollows novel (after 2010's Black Magic Sanction) lives up to the earlier books, which established Harrison as a major urban fantasy player. ... Elegant and taut as a gymnast's cartwheel, Harrison's polished prose drives a story that will have readers swerving in their seats every time Rachel turns the wheel."
Booklist also gave PALE DEMON a starred review, saying: "an excellent entry that is guaranteed to satisfy Harrison’s legion of followers. (Should there be any overlap between Clint Eastwood and Kim Harrison fan clubs, that subset will certainly enjoy Harrison’s allusions here to Eastwood’s Pale Rider.) The Rachel Morgan series is fast becoming one of the hottest tickets in the urban-fantasy subgenre."
PALE DEMON goes on-sale Tuesday, 2/22/11. You can read early excerpts of PALE DEMON here.
-- Diana
Head over to Book Perk and get your copy of Richard Kadrey's latest novel! Offer ends January 27th so don't delay.
If you haven’t read SANDMAN SLIM, you’re missing out. If you have, get ready to KILL THE DEAD!
Here is just some of the praise:
“Sandman Slim is my kind of hero.” — Kim Harrison
“Richard Kadrey is a genius.” — Holly Black
“Everything a sequel should be; that is, more. … There’s hardly a moment where you’re not chewing your fingernails to the wrist wondering what happens next. … Kadrey is a hell of a writer, versatile and seasoned, and these pulpy, dark, ultraviolent novels are his best work yet.”— Cory Doctorow
We are absolutely thrilled that Sara Creasy's SONG OF SCARABAEUS is nominated for the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award! Congratulations Sara!
You can read some of SONG OF SCARABAEUS here.
Sara's next book, CHILDREN OF SCARABAEUS, will be out at the end of March. You can read the first chapter at Sara's website.
Full list of PKD Award nominees is here.
-- Diana
Can't wait for 2/22/11, and the release of Kim Harrison's PALE DEMON?
Plus you can download a free wallpaper of the PALE DEMON cover art here (along with that for BLACK MAGIC SANCTION).
-- Diana
by Helen Lowe
The end of one year and beginning of the next is always a great time for lists, both of “big hits” from the previous year and “looking forward to’s” for the next … And now, before I’ve even gotten last year’s lists properly sorted, it’s already Hugo Award nomination time again! (How did it come around so fast?)
The Hugo Awards are given each year by the World Science Fiction Society for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. The awards are made at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), which this year is Renovation (yup, it’s in Reno, Nevada!) And you may recall that last year I had a lot of fun reading all the fiction finalists for the 2010 Awards and then blogging about the process here on HarperVoyager USA, in the following post series:
The Hugo Awards: the Reading Has Begun
The Hugo Awards: Going Down to the Wire
The Hugo Awards: Making Tough Choices
The Hugo Awards 2010: Being There
The last post was possibly the most exciting as I got to actually attend the Hugo Award ceremony, which was fan-tas-tic—especially when my two top picks for “Best Novel”, Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl and China Miéville’s The City & The City, tied for the Hugo (which is only the 4th time that has happened in the 68-year history of the awards.) And now I am looking forward to doing it all over again this year! (Well, except maybe for the being at the actual ceremony part, Reno being an awful long way awa’ from my corner of the world.)
A lot of the new SFF releases you have loved in the past year may well be eligible for this year’s awards, so to find out how to nominate, look here. Nominations are open until 26 March and I’ve already got a few names on my list to throw into the ring—but I’m also very much looking forward to seeing what makes it onto the final shortlist and reading them all. If I have not done so already, of course!
But if the Hugo Awards are not for you—and just to prove that this is still the season of lists—you might prefer to post about your top SciFi picks for the past decade (specifically, eleven years, since it’s 2000-2010.) That’s what they’re wanting readers to do right now over on Tor.com, where the quest is on to identify a readers’ choice for the Best SciFi-Fantasy Novel for the Decade. Nominations are currently fast and furious and all you have to do to enter the fray and support your top SFF read of the past decade is post a comment—so how about it? Rock on over and have your say.
Alternatively, post a comment here to let me know both your favorite book of the past decade and/or your top picks for 2011 Hugo Award nominations (from books published in 2010.) It won’t be a competition, but I am really interested to hear what you have to say.
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Helen Lowe is a novelist, broadcaster and poet. Her latest novel, The Heir of Night: The Wall of Night, Book One, is published in the USA/Canada by HarperVoyager and is also available in Australia/New Zealand. (It will launch in the UK in March 2011.) Helen’s first novel Thornspell (Knopf, 2008) won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for “Best Novel: Young Adult” in 2009. In addition to guest posts on HarperVoyager USA, Helen also blogs on the first of every month on the Supernatural Underground and every day on her own Helen Lowe on Anything, Really site.
For more on The Heir of Night, you can check out another great review at Fantasy Book Review (showing the UK/AU/NZ cover.)
*Hugo Award photo credit J. Horlor
Huge congrats to Kim Harrison--BLACK MAGIC SANCTION is #13 on Publishers Weekly's mass market bestseller list!
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/bestsellers/mass-market-paper.html