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October 24, 2009

Marianne de Pierres' Sentients of Orion trilogy is now available in the US - You can now buy Dark Space and Chaos Space through TOR.com.


October 22, 2009

Forthcoming books:
From Hodder - Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde (Jan 2010), Ancestor by Scott Sigler (Mar 2010)
From Little, Brown - Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card (Jan 2010), Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar, Mr Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett (Feb 2010)
From Gollancz - The Cardinal's Blade by Pierre Pevel (Jan 2010), Chasing the Dragon by Justina Robson (Jan 2010), Wake by Robert J Sawyer (Jan 2010), Horns by Joe Hill (Feb 2010), Retromancer by Robert Rankin (Feb 2010), The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson (Feb 2010)
From Voyager - Hourglass by Claudia Gray (Feb 2010), Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb (Mar 2010), The Pilgrims by Will Elliott (Mar 2010), The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and the Struggle by L J Smith, The Vampire Diaries: The Fury and the Dark Reunion by L J Smith


October 20, 2009

Jonathan Strahan announces the Swords and Dark Magic Table of Contents - coauthored with Lou Anders, the fantasy anthology will be out next July.


October 18, 2009

Prime Books, the award-winning independent press and publisher of Fantasy Magazine, has announced that in June 2010 it will launch a new online magazine called Lightspeed (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com), which will publish four science fiction short stories every month, along with an assortment of non-fiction features. Lightspeed will be edited by John Joseph Adams (fiction) and Andrea Kail (non-fiction). Lightspeed will focus exclusively on science fiction. New content will be posted twice a week, including one piece of fiction, and one piece of non-fiction. The fiction selections each month will consist of two original stories and two reprints, except for the debut issue, which will feature four original pieces of fiction. All of the non-fiction will be original. Lightspeed will open to fiction submissions and non-fiction queries on January 1, 2010. Guidelines for fiction and non-fiction will be available on Lightspeed's website by December 1, 2009.

Justine Larbalestier talks about Hating Female Characters

With the Shine anthology—next year’s must-have collection of near-future, optimistic SF—now slated for an April 2010 release, and with exuberant SF as thin on the ground as bankers without bonuses, DayBreak Magazine is intended to alleviate the waiting and fill the gap. Simultaneously quenching your thirst for upbeat stories while also whetting your appetite for the main uplifting dish, DayBreak Magazine ( http://daybreakmagazine.wordpress.com/) will feature a positive, forward-looking story every second Friday until the print Shine anthology is released, or possibly even a bit beyond that date. Launched on Friday October 16, the second story will be released on Friday October 30, one the eve of Halloween. A new story every two weeks: stories set all over the world, all depicting a future in which you would actually love to live. All for free.