Archive for December, 2007
Bella Pagan - December 23rd, 2007
“… my android gave to me
Twelve alternate futures
Eleven starships shooting
Ten slayers slaying
Nine LARPers LARPing
Eight lemmings laughing
Seven heroes hunting
Six planets plotting
Five throwing stars
Four entangled qubits
Three diff’rence engines
Two uploaded humans and
A monolith on a dead moon.”
Hope you’ve enjoyed our festive song – erm, now back to the serious business of book publishing . . . Happy celebrations [...]
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Bella Pagan - December 21st, 2007
“… my android gave to me
Eleven starships shooting
Ten slayers slaying
Nine LARPers LARPing
Eight lemmings laughing
Seven heroes hunting
Six planets plotting
Fiiiiive throooowing staaaars
Four entangled qubits
Three diff’rence engines
Two uploaded humans and
A monoli-ith on a dead mooon.”
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Alex Lencicki - December 20th, 2007
Karen Miller talked with The Dragon Page Radio about The Innocent Mage and The Awakened Mage, as well as her upcoming Godspeaker trilogy, which will launch this Spring with Empress. You can listen to the podcast here.
And Orbit Publishing Director Tim Holman had a long ranging interview with Rick Kleffel at the Agony Column [...]
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Bella Pagan - December 19th, 2007
“… my android gave to me
Ten slayers slaying
Nine LARPers LARPing
Eight lemmings laughing
Seven heroes hunting
Six planets plotting
Five throwing stars
Four entangled qubits
Three diff’rence engines
Two uploaded humans and
A monolith on a dead moon.”
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The Orbit Team - December 19th, 2007
Via Charlie Stross’ journal, I found out about a group blog called www.sfnovelists.com. It features an impressive list of contributors, many of them Orbit authors — including Daniel Abraham, Kate Elliott, Tanya Huff, Charles Stross and Sean Williams (all published by Orbit UK); Karin Lowachee (published by Orbit US); and Marie Brennan and Karen Miller [...]
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Bella Pagan - December 19th, 2007
“… my android gave to me
Nine LARPers LARPing
Eight lemmings laughing
Seven heroes hunting
Six planets plotting
Five throwing stars
Four entangled qubits
Three diff’rence engines
Two uploaded humans and
A monolith on a dead moon.”
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Bella Pagan - December 18th, 2007
“… my android gave to me
Eight lemmings laughing
Seven heroes hunting
Six planets plotting
Five throwing stars
Four entangled qubits
Three diff’rence engines
Two uploaded humans and
A monolith on a dead moon.”
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Bella Pagan - December 18th, 2007
… my android gave to me
Seven heroes hunting
Six planets plotting
Five throwing stars
Four entangled qubits
Three diff’rence engines
Two uploaded humans and
A monolith on a dead moon.
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Bella Pagan - December 17th, 2007
“… my android gave to me
Six planets plotting
Five throwing stars
Four entangled qubits
Three diff’rence engines
Two uploaded humans and
A monolith on a dead moon.”
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Bella Pagan - December 17th, 2007
“… my android gave to me
Five throwing stars
Four entangled qubits
Three diff’rence engines
Two uploaded humans and
A monolith on a dead moon.”
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Bella Pagan - December 14th, 2007
… my android gave to me
Four entangled qubits
Three diff’rence engines
Two uploaded humans … and
A monolith on a dead moon.
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Alex Lencicki - December 14th, 2007
If you’re a member of Librarything (or just interested in the social lives of books) check out the Orbit US library. And if you are a member, friend us!
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Bella Pagan - December 13th, 2007
… my android gave to me
Three diff’rence engines
Two uploaded humans … and
A monolith on a dead moon.
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Bella Pagan - December 12th, 2007
. . . my android gave to me
Two uploaded humans
And a monolith on a dead moon.
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Alex Lencicki - December 11th, 2007
K.J. Parker’s Engineer Trilogy continues to wow the critics. In the Locus review of Evil for Evil (US, UK) and The Escapement (US, UK) Faren Miller says of the trilogy:
“The whole thing is brilliant – disturbingly so, since these fantasies (without a whit of magic) explore the human condition and reveal it all, [...]
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Darren Nash - December 11th, 2007
With the Yuletide fast approaching, the Orbit team* thought it worth indulging in a spot of fantastical fun to help count down the days until Christmas. In an act of inspired lunacy / luke-warm humour / gross irresponsibility (delete as appropriate), we’ve decided to post the Science Fiction and Fantasy Twelve Days of Christmas. And [...]
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The Orbit Team - December 11th, 2007
Some excellent news for fans of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series: following the sad news of Robert Jordan’s death earlier this year, it has been announced that fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson has been selected to complete the twelfth and final book in the series, A Memory of Light. You can read more about this [...]
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Darren Nash - December 7th, 2007
All right, I admit it: that’s a terrible title for a blog post. What’s far from terrible, though, is the fact that Glenda Larke, Marianne de Pierres and Sean Williams all have novels on the shortlist for the 2008 Aurealis Awards!
Glenda’s Song of the Shiver Barrens is shortlisted in Best Fantasy Novel Category, while [...]
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Samantha Smith - December 7th, 2007
Following Karen Miller’s wonderful piece about eating elephants, we have two more Orbit authors discussing their favourite quotes over at The Book Swede.
Jennifer Rardin, the fantastic debut author of Once Bitten, Twice Shy and Another One Bites the Dust, has a piece this week about humour in writing and in life:
Some of my stuff [...]
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Samantha Smith - December 3rd, 2007
J.V. Jones, author of A Sword from Red Ice, gave a great interview over at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist last week where she answered questions about her writing, her thoughts on the genre and what’s in store for the next Sword of Shadows book:
At this point even I don’t know who will succeed and who [...]
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