Books
| Wil Wheaton remembers ST: TNG's first season in fun, snarky book | |||
| News > Books | October 13, 2009 | ||
 Wil Wheaton's Memories of the Future isn't a tell-all about Star Trek, it's "do you remember this? how could we do that? wasn't that a blast?" and more...
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| See all of Charles Vess's Drawing Down the Moon online | |||
| News > Books | October 8, 2009 | ||
 Dark Horse is publishing Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess in late December, but they're making the entire contents available online right now...
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| Scholastic will merge the ancient Greek gods with 21st Century media | |||
| News > Books | October 8, 2009 | ||
 Scholastic's new non-fiction line, Mythlopedia, will offer middle grades looks at ancient Greek mythology using the tropes from the lives of today's children...
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| Norilana's Under the Rose features "cutting-edge" sf | |||
| News > Books | October 7, 2009 | ||
 Norilana's newest original anthology includes stories by Lou Anders, John Grant, Ken Rand, Uncle River, Ekaterina Sedia, William John Watkins, Ian Whates...
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| Cory Doctorow's Norwegian Little Brother available as free pdf | |||
| News > Books | October 6, 2009 | ||
 Norwegian publisher Samlaget has released the pdf version of its translation of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother as a freely downloadable file...
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| PS sale on Ramsey Campbell, pre-orders for Joe Hill, and poetry | |||
| News > Publishers | October 6, 2009 | ||
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PS Publishing is offering a sale on Ramsey Campbell's books in October, 25-30%. They'll start taking pre-orders on the new Joe Hill book this weekend. And they'll be launching a new poetry imprint...
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| Tor's "Fantasy Firsts" giveaway, and a chance to meet Brandon Sanderson | |||
| News > Contests | September 25, 2009 | ||
  Tor is giving away 1,000 copies of both Mistborn and The Eye of the World to introduce new readers to their big fantasy series. Sanderson has also announced the titles of the final two Wheel of Time books, and a chance to meet him personally on his signing tour (deadline is this weekend)...
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| Circlet celebrating Bisexuality Day with a new ebook collection | |||
| News > Books | September 22, 2009 | ||
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Circlet Press, speculative fiction's erotic publisher, is recognizing "Celebrate Bisexuality Day" with the release of a new electronic anthology, Like Twin Stars, featuring the work of N.K. Jemisin, Giselle Renard, and Neil Hudson...
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| Justin Cronin's vampire novel The Passage to be adapted for film by John Logan for big money | |||
| News > Media Sales | September 21, 2009 | ||
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Justin Cronin's third novel, futuristic vampire tale The Passage, is being adapted for the big screen by John Logan. Fox 2000 is paying Logan more than $1 million to turn the book into a script for Ridley Scott to direct...
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| Prologue of The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time book 12, part 1) now available | |||
| News > Books | September 17, 2009 | ||
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The prologue of the first book of the three-volume twelfth book of the Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, is now available in a variety of formats...
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| WSFA Press revives with Harry Turtledove's Reincarnations | |||
| News > Publishers | September 17, 2009 | ||
 The Washington Science Fiction Association is reviving its tradition of publishing a book to coincide with its annual convention. The first entry in the new series is Reincarnations, a collection of Guest of Honor Harry Turtledove's short stories...
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| Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback being podcast, FlashForward featured on CBC | |||
| News > Books | September 10, 2009 | ||
  Robert J. Sawyer's novel FlashForward is featured on CBC Radio's Book Club, as the tv series based on it is set to debut. Meanwhile, his Rollback is offered as a serialized free podcast narrated by Alessandro Juliani...
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| Year's Best Fantasy 9 is Tor.com's first POD publication | |
| News > Books | September 9, 2009 |
 Tor.com publishes its first book under its own imprint: Hartwell and Cramer's Year's Best Fantasy 9, which is available only as a POD title...
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| Steven Erikson's Crack'd Pot Trail available for pre-order from PS Publishing | |||
| News > Books | September 3, 2009 | ||
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Steven Erikson's newest "novella", Crack'd Pot Trail, will be published by PS Publishing this December, and is available for pre-order from PS Publishing...
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| Anne Dick revises her biography Search for Philip K. Dick | |||
| News > Books | September 2, 2009 | ||
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The original was published 16 years ago with a $120 price tag. Now Philip K. Dick's third wife, Anne, has revised her memior/biography/autobiography Search for Philip K. Dick, and it's available for the much more affordable price of $17.00...
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| Tanith Lee's Night's Master now available in "definitive" edition | |||
| News > Books | September 2, 2009 | ||
 Norilana Books debuts its TaLeKa imprint with the definitive edition of Tanith Lee's Night's Master (originally published in 1986) in both hardcover and trade paperback...
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| Dave Freer's newest novel being serialized online to help him emigrate | |
| News > Books | September 1, 2009 |
| Dave Freer is serializing his new novel, Save the Dragons, in the hopes of raising sufficient funds to pay for the quarantine of his family's eight furry companions when they move from South Africa to Australia... | |
| The Secret History of Science Fiction being revealed | |||
| News > Books | August 20, 2009 | ||
 James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel's third anthology for Tachyon, The Secret History of Science Ficction, now has a list of contents to go with its October publication date...
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| Harlan County goodies up for grabs to publicize Harlan County Horror | |||
| News > Contests | August 19, 2009 | ||
 Talk about Harlan County Horror to win some nifty Harlan (Kentucky) swag, including something from the actual mayor of Harlan...
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| True Blood season three, "Sookie" books 11-13, and more Charlaine Harris news | |
| News > Book & Novel Sales | August 18, 2009 |
| Agent Joshua Bilmes reports HBO's renewal of True Blood for a third season, the sale of the 11th, 12th, and 13th "Sookie Stackhouse" books, and more... | |
| Lee and Miller looking for Fledgling pre-supporters | |||
| News > Books | August 17, 2009 | ||
 Sharon Lee and Steve Miller originally sought donations for their web-serialized novel Fledgling. Now that Baen is publishing the book, they're looking for those early donors to make sure everyone promised a copy of the book receives one...
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| Bradley Denton's Buddy Holly coming to the big screen, and he's giving away the book | |||
| News > Media Sales | August 14, 2009 | ||
 Bradley Denton's 1991 novel Buddy Holly is Alive and Well and on Ganymede has a director and star attached for the feature film version. And to celebrate, Denton is giving away free pdf copies of the book...
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| Suvudu cutting off free e-book downloads next week | |
| News > Books | August 13, 2009 |
| Random House has been giving away electronic copies of five books for the last five months. The offer ends next week, so if you don't have a copy yet... | |
| Move the tiles, make more pictures: Tor's Makers tile game | |||
| News > Publishers | August 6, 2009 | ||
 Tor is offering a free flash tile game to complement the free serialization the precedes the actual print publication of Cory Doctorow's new novel, Makers...
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| Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Freelancer's Survival Guide now up to 19 chapters | |||
| News > Books | August 5, 2009 | ||
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch continues to offer her free (for donations) Freelancer's Survival Guide. The nineteen chapters (thus far) now also offer an index...
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