Journey to the edge of the world with Kevin J. Anderson's fantasy debut. Read an extract.
The thing was big and white and hairy and it was eating all the ice cream in the walk-in freezer. Read an extract.
- October 31st, 2007
Happy Halloween from everyone here at Orbit! In honor of this most scary holiday, Jennifer Rardin, author of Once Bitten, Twice Shy (US / UK ) and the upcoming Another One Bites the Dust, has written us a Jaz Parks treat!
Taking Out the Trash: A Jaz Parks Mini-Mission
The demon appeared just as the president’s [...]
- October 29th, 2007
Another great review for Jennifer Rardin, as LoveVampires is calling Another One Bites the Dust:
Fast-paced, exciting and entertaining . . . recommended reading. It has mystery, spies, mad villains, romance, humour and vampires. Really, what’s not to like?
In other kick-ass vampire news, check out the interview they did with Charlie Huston, whose latest novel, No [...]
- October 25th, 2007
Devices and Desires is getting terrific reviews for its US launch. The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly said:
“Parker’s intricately plotted and meticulously detailed book, the first in a proposed trilogy, moves as deliberately and precisely as an antique watch.”
Publishers Weekly called it an “exquisite feat of literary engineering.” And in the [...]
- October 25th, 2007
Sarah over at Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books has a lot to say about Jennifer Rardin’s Once Bitten Twice Shy — and lot of it has to do with how Jasmine “Jaz” Parks kicks serious ass. They’re hilarious and irreverent and I have to say, I love their taste in books!
- October 25th, 2007
There are some great reviews coming in for Daniel Abraham’s The Long Price. Starburst says of it:
In this enjoyable, intelligent, original fantasy series, plot springs with tragic inevitability from character and there are no heroes and villains but only often flawed but eminently understandable human beings
SFX go further in their review:
Far from being a [...]
- October 24th, 2007
Jeff Somers has achieved a trifecta of geekery, with a review of The Electric Church on Aint It Cool, another review at the indispensable CHUD.com, and an interview in Your Mom’s Basement.
Elsewhere, at Ficlets, he talks about the book’s journey to publication.
- October 23rd, 2007
We’re extremely sorry to say that the Mike Carey event scheduled for Thursday 25 October has been cancelled by the organisers.
- October 16th, 2007
We’ve received a number of queries from fans asking if there is any news regarding the final volume of The Wheel of Time, which Robert Jordan was writing when he sadly passed away last month. At this stage, there is no news. As soon as we have news, we will announce it here.
- October 15th, 2007
Once Bitten, Twice Shy is getting great reviews! The The New York Post featured it in their “Required Reading” column, and over at Katie’s Reading, Katie says:
“Before I started reading Once Bitten, Twice Shy I had read several reviews that claimed that this was a good book, a great book even. But in no way [...]
- October 15th, 2007
Orbit UK author Mike Carey will be doing a talk and signing on Thursday 25 October. It’s at at the Rutherford Theatre, 76 Portland Place, W1B 1NT, from 7.00pm. Tickets are £7 (£5 for concessions), and are available by contacting events.london@blackwell.co.uk, calling 0845 456 9876 or dropping into the Blackwells bookshop at 100 Charing Cross [...]
- October 15th, 2007
SFCrowsnest has just added some fantastic reviews of classic and new Orbit books. Now’s your chance to check out some great SF & Fantasy you might have missed:
Of Spindrift, the latest book in Allen Steele’s critically acclaimed Coyote series, they say:
Steele’s clean, crisp writing and careful scientific invention reminds me of Clarke’s Rendezvous With [...]
- October 15th, 2007
Words of praise in the latest Aurealis magazine for two of Orbit’s top Australian scribes, Sean Williams and Marianne de Pierres:
Sean has produced some good work in the past; he’s had the opportunity to flex his writing muscles in a wide variety of projects. In Saturn Returns, I felt a new assuredness, a strength of [...]
- October 8th, 2007
Are you a US resident? Are you concerned about surviving (and thriving!) in a future populated by cybernetic monks and brutal security forces? If you answered yes, check out the near-future-dystopia-survival-kit sweepstakes at the Orbiteer. And be sure to sign up to our newsletter for upcoming contests and exclusives.
- October 5th, 2007
We’re delighted to see that Ken MacLeod has gone from writing SF to appearing in an SF short story! The critically acclaimed author of The Execution Channel and the Hugo, Clarke and BSFA Award-nominated Learning The World, gets a mention from a character in Security Question by Ramon Rozas III, an online short story [...]
- October 5th, 2007
Scifichick.com is hosting a giveaway of Jennifer Rardin’s Once Bitten, Twice Shy. Stop by for a chance to win.
- October 4th, 2007
Following on a fantastic review and interview, The Book Swede is now giving away six copies of Karen Miller’s The Awakened Mage.
Be sure to visit for a chance to win one of the most popular books this year!
- October 3rd, 2007
Congratulations to Karen Miller, whose second novel, The Awakened Mage (out this week), has charged straight to the top of the SFF paperback bestseller charts in the UK. In the US, both The Innocent Mage and The Awakened Mage are among the Top 5 mass-market fantasy bestsellers. Karen is very happy — and so are [...]
- October 1st, 2007
Over at BN.com, Paul Di Filippo writes about the history of SF dystopias, and says of The Electric Church:
Somers’ strategy of blending Invasion of the Body Snatchers with allusions to contemporary cults coats this profane, kickass thriller with a veneer of social commentary reminiscent of some Galaxy-era novel reinterpreted by Warren Ellis.
Read the whole piece [...]
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