AncalagonTheBlack Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 Orbit US fall 2015/winter 2016 catalog: http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/CatalogOverview.aspx?catalogID=2230017 Only two books that i'm interested in reading from this lot : Traitor Son #3 and Black Wolves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 The King's Justice by Stephen R. Donaldson will be published in October 2015. http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sku=0399176977 This beautiful book is made up of two new, original novellas, never before published a sure cause for celebration among his fans. It is Donaldson’s first publication since finishing the Thomas Covenant series, and takes him in unexpected directions.In The King’s Justice, a stranger dressed in black arrives in the village of Settle’s Crossways, following the scent of a terrible crime. He even calls himself “Black,” though almost certainly that is not his name. The people of the village discover that they have a surprising urge to cooperate with this stranger, though the desire of inhabitants of quiet villages to cooperate with strangers is not common in their land, or most lands. But this gift will not save him as he discovers the nature of the evil concealed in Settle’s Crossways.The “Augur’s Gambit” is a daring plan created by Mayhew Gordian, Hieronomer to the Queen of Indemnie, a plan to save his Queen and his country. Gordian is a reader of entrails. In the bodies of chickens, lambs, piglets, and one stillborn infant he sees the same message: the island nation of Indemnie is doomed. But even in the face of certain destruction a man may fight, and the Hieronomer is utterly loyal to his beautiful Queen—and to her only daughter. The “Augur’s Gambit” is his mad attempt to save a kingdom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 Europe at Midnight (Fractured Europe Sequence #2) by Dave Hutchinson (Solaris Books) - November 2015http://www.solarisbooks.com/post/587 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Rhinos Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 It's been a long time since I read them but I recall really enjoying his two short story collections. I'm excited about the new novellas especially since I had no interest in Covenant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 New blurb for China Miéville's Three Moments of an Explosion: http://www.randomhouse.com/book/250954/three-moments-of-an-explosion-by-china-mieville/book The fiction of multiple award–winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate it in provocative, unexpected ways.London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure but violent purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse’s bones—designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what?Of such concepts and unforgettable images are made the twenty-eight stories in this collection—many published here for the first time. By turns speculative, satirical, and heart-wrenching, fresh in form and language, and featuring a cast of damaged yet hopeful seekers who come face-to-face with the deep weirdness of the world—and at times the deeper weirdness of themselves—Three Moments of an Explosion is a fitting showcase for one of our most original voices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted March 10, 2015 Author Share Posted March 10, 2015 Any word on Blake Charlton's final Spellbreaker book? I know this year he was working on the novel and hoped to get it out this year. Blake Charlton @blakecharlton Mar 3 sadly. the talk is now for a spring 2016 pub date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Seaworth Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Much thanks AtB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 New blurb for China Miéville's Three Moments of an Explosion: London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure but violent purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse’s bones—designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what? I realise I'm probably guilty of a lack of imagination here, but this just sounds like a load of old bollocks. Which is probably par for the course for Mehville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puntificator Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Getting a lot of buzz in the GRIMDARK community is next month's (April 23) release of The Vagrant by Peter Newman; it's also his debut: The Vagrant is his name. He has no other.Years have passed since humanity’s destruction emerged from the Breach.Friendless and alone he walks across a desolate, war-torn landscape.As each day passes the world tumbles further into depravity, bent and twisted by the new order, corrupted by the Usurper, the enemy, and his infernal horde.His purpose is to reach the Shining City, last bastion of the human race, and deliver the only weapon that may make a difference in the ongoing war.What little hope remains is dying. Abandoned by its leader, The Seven, and its heroes, The Seraph Knights, the last defences of a once great civilisation are crumbling into dust.But the Shining City is far away and the world is a very dangerous place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 There's a Grimdark community now? Oh boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puntificator Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I haven't seen any mention of last month's release of The Dead Hamlets by Peter Roman; it's the sequel to The Mona Lisa Sacrifice. Both are irreverent, over-the-top novels, and I've enjoyed them immensely. Here's the blurb for The Dead Hamlets: Something is rotten in the court of the faerie queen. A deadly spirit is killing off the faerie, and it has mysterious ties to Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet." The only one who can stop it is the immortal Cross, a charming rogue who also happens to be a drunk, a thief, and an angel killer. He is no friend of the faerie since they stole his daughter and made her one of their own. When it appears she may be the next victim of the haunting, though, he must race against time to save her. He encounters an eccentric and deadly cast of characters along the way: the real Witches of Macbeth, the undead playwright/demon hunter Christopher Marlowe, an eerie Alice from the Alice in Wonderland books, a deranged and magical scholar—and a very supernatural William Shakespeare. When Cross discovers a startling secret about the origins of "Hamlet" itself, he finds himself trapped in a ghost story even he may not be able to escape alive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puntificator Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 There's a Grimdark community now? Oh boy. We have a Facebook page, "Grimdark Fiction Readers and Writers," full of posts from its members; a regularly published online magazine "Grimdark Magazine" that has included new stories from Mark Lawrence and R. Scott Bakker; and at least one dedicated review website, Grimdark Alliance (which also has a Facebook page). So yeah, I think there is a GRIMDARK community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 New Margaret Atwood novel this autumn A new standalone novel from Margaret Atwood will be published by Bloomsbury in September.The Heart Goes Last, Atwood's first standalone novel since the Man Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin in 2000, will be published on 24th September The new novel is described as a "wickedly funny and deeply disturbing", set in the near future where lawful people are locked up while lawless people roam free. It centres on Charmaine and Sam, who live in their car and survive on odd jobs, when they see an advert for Consilience, a social experiment offering stable jobs and a house in return for giving up their freedom every second month, swapping their suburban home for a prison cell. However, unknown to each other Stan and Charmaine begin to develop obsessions with their "Alternates", the couple that couple that occupy their house when they are imprisoned, leading to a nightmare of mistrust, guilt and sexual desire. Editor-in-chief Alexandra Pringle, who signed rights from Vivienne Schuster and Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown, said: "The Heart Goes Last combines the powerful irony of The Handmaid’s Tale with the wicked playfulness of The Edible Woman. This is Margaret Atwood at the tip top of her form – stylish, witty, dark and delicious."http://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-margaret-atwood-novel-autumn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 Nod - I was mostly remarking about the date and it being a paperback - seems more like an Amazon database entry that was taken from elsewhere rather than a realistic publication date. It's now up at both Random House and HarperCollins UK.There is even a blurb on the HC site. http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008139544/green-earth http://www.randomhouse.com/book/259085/green-earth-by-kim-stanley-robinson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Moody Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 According to this Green Earth is "a condensed version" of the three Science in the Capitol books. Which matches with the use of character names and concepts from that trilogy in the blurb, and the fact that it's coming out as a paperback original in the same year as his new book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjax451 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Ah! That would explain it, then. Actually not an awful idea. I liked portions of those 3 books, but often felt that it desperately needed to be edited down to 1 or 2 books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett - http://io9.com/theres-one-more-terry-pratchett-book-still-to-come-1691712209 (Autumn)The Long Utopia by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter - http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062297334/the-long-utopia (June) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teng Ai Hui Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 I'm a couple months behind on listening to his vodcast, so I just heard about this one. Greg Proops's Smartest Book in the World is scheduled for release on May 5th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puntificator Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Cat Rambo's Beasts of Tabat comes out on April 1. The review that sold me on buying this book can be found at http://www.risingshadow.net/articles/453-a-review-of-cat-rambo-s-beasts-of-tabat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 Lightless by C.A. Higgins - On Sale Date: August 25, 2015Gravity meets Alien in this suspenseful debut science fiction adventure about a young woman trapped on a ship in deep space with two suspected terrorists. For readers of James S.A. Corey and Andy Weir.Like Gravity and The Martian, C.A. Higgin’s debut novel sets a deeply human story against the epic backdrop of outer space. It is the story of Althea, a young female engineer fighting for survival in desperate circumstances—her ship has been invaded by two mysterious men with a dark mission. It is also the story of Ivan, a so-called terrorist who might be a revolutionary—but whose secrets run even deeper. Set over the course of just three days in a small, claustrophobic ship, with the tension and suspense of Alien and the galaxy-spanning adventure of Leviathan Wakes…its darkest mysteries lie in the hearts of its characters.http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=9&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=2156678&org=&sku=0553394428 Not on Fire, but Burning by Greg Hrbek - On Sale Date: September 22, 2015Twenty-year-old Skyler saw the incident out her window: Some sort of metalic object hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge just before it collapsed and a mushroom cloud lifted above the city. Like everyone, she ran, but she couldn’t outrun the radiation, with her last thoughts being of her beloved baby brother, Dorian, safe in her distant family home.Flash forward to a post-incident America, where the country has been broken up into territories and Muslims have been herded onto the old Indian reservations in the west, even though no one has determined who set off the explosion that destroyed San Francisco. Twelve-year old Dorian dreams about killing Muslims and about his sister—even though Dorian’s parents insist Skyler never existed. Are they still shell-shocked, trying to put the past behind them…or is something more sinister going on?Meanwhile, across the street, Dorian’s neighbor adopts a Muslim orphan from the territories. It will set off a series of increasingly terrifying incidents that will lead to either tragedy or redemption for Dorian, as he struggles to prove that his sister existed—and was killed by a terrorist attack.Not on Fire, but Burning is unlike anything you’re read before—not exactly a thriller, not exactly sci-fi, not exactly speculative fiction, but rather a brilliant and absorbing adventure into the dark heart of an America that seems ripped from the headlines. But just as powerfully, it presents a captivating hero: A young boy driven by love to seek the truth, even if it means his deepest beliefs are wrong.http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=1&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=2156663&org=&sku=1612194532 Rising Tide by Rajan Khanna - On Sale Date: October 6, 2015http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=2&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=2156656&org=&sku=1633881008Gold Throne in Shadow by M.C. Planck - On Sale Date: October 13, 2015http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=3&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=2156656&org=&sku=1633880966The Geomancer: Vampire Empire: A Gareth and Adele Novel by Clay Griffith, Susan Griffithhttp://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=4&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=2156656&org=&sku=163388094XSlade House by David Mitchell - On Sale Date: October 27, 2015A headlong adrenaline-rush of a new novel by the author The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas, his most entertaining and accessible yet.An ordinary road in a town like yours: bus routes and red-brick houses. A dank narrow alley, easy to miss, even when you’re looking for it. A small black metal door set into the wall: no handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it opens onto a sunlit garden, sloping up to a house that doesn’t quite make sense…. Go through, and the door closes discreetly behind you. In David Mitchell’s exhilarating new novel, 5 “guests” separated by 9 years enter Slade House for a brief visit—only to vanish without trace from the outside world. Who draws them to the heart of Slade House, and why is the house missing from maps? Beginning in 1979 and ending in 2015, these 5 interlacing narratives will enchant Mitchell’s readers, old and new, with a signature blend of mystery, realism and the supernatural.http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=2&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=2156678&org=&sku=0812998685 Green Earth by Kim Stanley Robinson - On Sale Date: November 3, 2015As the conversation shifts from debate over the existence of global warming to discussions of how best to deal with its impact, books examining the moral imperatives of biotechnology are more timely than ever. Acclaimed author, Kim Stanley Robinson offers a chilling and highly realistic look at our potential environmental future with his newly revised and collected Science in the Capitol trilogy.Kim Stanley Robinson—award winning author of the bestselling Mars trilogy—is at the top of his game in this trio of near-future eco-thrillers set in our nation’s capital. Intelligent, suspenseful, and profoundly moving, this is a tale of everyday people caught up in extraodinary circumstances as science, technology, politics, and global climatic changes collide.http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=15&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=2156678&org=&sku=1101964839 Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke - On Sale Date: November 10, 2015It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, and on all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield.“Why am I alive? Where was I before I was born? What will happen to me when I die? Whatever well our lives are drawn from, it is deep, wild, mysterious, and unknowable…” Rules for a Knight is many things: a code of ethics; an intimate record of a lifelong quest; a careful recounting of a knight’s hardest won lessons, deepest aspirations, and most richly instructive failures; and an artifact, a relic of a father’s exquisite love.Drawing on the ancient teachings of Eastern and Western philosophy and religion, on literature, and poetry, and on the great spiritual and political writings of our time, Ethan Hawke has written a parable that—in the story of a young man’s journey toward a life of authenticity and meaning—captures the instinctive movement of the heart toward truth and beauty. Rules for a Knight has the appeal of Arthurian legend; the economy of Aesop; and the vitality, intelligence, and risk-taking that could only emanate from Ethan Hawke.http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=1&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=2156679&org=&sku=0307962334 The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day by Mark Z. Danielewski – May 12, 2015http://www.amazon.com/The-Familiar-Volume-One-Rainy/dp/0375714944The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski – October 27, 2015http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=11&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=2156679&org=&sku=0375714960Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson - On Sale Date: October 6, 2015A stunningly designed treasure hunt for fans of Mark Z. Danielewski. Bats of the Republic features original artwork and an immaculate design to create a unique novel of adventure and science fiction, of political intrigue and future dystopian struggles, and, at its riveting core, of love.In 1843 Chicago, fragile naturalist Zadock Thomas falls in love with the high society daughter of Joseph Gray, a prominent ornithologist. Mr. Gray sets an impossible condition for their marriage—Zadock must deliver a sealed and highly secretive letter to General Irion, fighting one thousand miles southwest, deep within the embattled and newly independent Republic of Texas. The fate of the Union lies within the mysterious contents of that sealed letter, but that is only the beginning…Three hundred years later, in the dystopian city-state of the Texas Republic, Zeke Thomas has just received news of the death of his grandfather, an esteemed Chicago senator. The world has crumbled. Paper documents are banned, citizens are watched, and dissenters are thrown over the walls into “the rot.” When Zeke inherits—and then loses—a very old, sealed letter from his grandfather, Zeke finds himself and the women he loves at the heart of a conspiracy whose secrets he must unravel, if it doesn’t destroy his relationship, his family legacy, and the entire republic first.The two propulsive narratives converge through a wildly creative assortment of documents, books within books, maps, notes, illustrations, and more. Zach Dodson has created a gorgeous work of art and an eye-popping commercial adventure for the 21st century.http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=7&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=2156679&org=&sku=0385539835 Beatlebone by Kevin Barry - On Sale Date: November 17, 2015A searing, surreal novel that bleeds fantasy and reality—and Beatles fandom—from one of literature’s most striking contempotary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane.It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour.http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=9&group=catalog&mailingID=0&mailingGroupID=0&catalogID=2156679&org=&sku=0385540299 Titan Books, Fall 2015 - http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/CatalogOverview.aspx?catalogID=2156644 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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