Bookselling This Week on Orbit

Alex Lencicki - July 20th, 2007

Orbit Publishing Director Tim Holman talked to Bookselling This Week about the launch of Orbit in the US. Read the full interview on the ABA website.

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The Electric Church on SFsite.com

Alex Lencicki - July 20th, 2007

The SF Site has posted a terrific early review of The Electric Church by Jeff Somers (on sale in September in the US and UK).

“Somers writes with assurance and style. This is fun, cyberpunky noir SF with just

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Learning From Our Four-Colour Colleagues

Darren Nash - July 19th, 2007

Interesting commentary here from US writer Edward Champion’s blog. He’s noted the success of the comic industry’s Free Comic Book Day, and wonders whether the book trade shouldn’t follow suit.

We already have

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The Atrocity Archives in Information Week

The Orbit Team - July 19th, 2007

Charles Stross’ latest book The Atrocity Archives has picked up an excellent review in Information Week, which describes it as “great fun . . . I recommend Stross’ work highly; I’ve…

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Heart of the Mirage Preview

The Orbit Team - July 18th, 2007

Next month sees Orbit’s publication of Heart of the Mirage by Glenda Larke. Born and raised in the Australian outback, Glenda has travelled the world and has spent the last 30 years living in Malaysia.…

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Moore yattering . . .

Darren Nash - July 18th, 2007

Just spotted something of interest to all right-minded people: Iain Emsley’s excellent blog, Yatterings, has an interview with laugh-out-loud funny Orbit author, Christopher Moore.

Moore’s A Dirty Job is in the bookshops…

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Debatable Spaces

The Orbit Team - July 17th, 2007

Philip Palmer
(photo: Charlie Hopkinson)

In January 2008, we’re publishing Debatable Space, a debut novel by Philip Palmer. Subtitled ‘a tale of revenge and revolution’, it’s a…

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Chaos Theory

Darren Nash - July 17th, 2007

Hot on the heels of the publication of Dark Space, Marianne de Pierres has decided on a title for the second book in the Sentients of Orion series: Chaos Space. With chaos theory at…

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Buettner and Battlestar

Devi Pillai - July 16th, 2007

Robert Buettner, author of Orphanage and Orphan’s Destiny (which Orbit US will reissue along with the new book Orphan’s Journey in April 2008) was interviewed in Steven Euin Cobb’s podcast The Future and You.

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Jaz Parks has a new look

Devi Pillai - July 16th, 2007

I’m thrilled to announce an updated cover design for the US edition of Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin. We’re publishing her first book in October and we thought this was a fabulous look to start off…

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