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.
- March 28th, 2008
Back refreshed after some post-Easter holiday, I thought I’d give a little round-up of the weekend’s Eastercon excitements. These didn’t include the weather (a most distracting hail storm during Darren’s Very Important Panel), or getting lost in the hotel’s Shining-esque corridors and missing breakfast, so I’ll spare you that.
So, over the Easter weekend, two key [...]
- March 28th, 2008
On the PaperCuts blog Dave Itzkoff has a very cool little interview with physicist Michio Kaku on the reasons we won’t teleporting, time traveling, or – er — precoging anytime soon. Left out of his theory, however, is whether investing in the Time Travel Fund increases your odds, so I’m still hopeful.
- March 27th, 2008
Following up on the post below, the cover debate continues here, here, here and elsewhere. I left a comment at Lou Ander’s blog that explains a bit more on our approach to cover design.
One thing to add: a few people have expressed the view that for a publisher the most important thing about a cover [...]
- March 26th, 2008
We’re very excited to be releasing our first Jim Butcher title in UK hardback. Small Favour is the excellent tenth book in the Dresden Files series. It sees Harry trying to pay off one of the favours he owes to the Winter Queen of Faerie, but things, of course, were never going to be that [...]
- March 26th, 2008
2 mins and 18 secs is all it takes Philip Palmer to make me want to read Debatable Space (US/UK) again. See Philip talking about his stunning debut novel here:
- March 25th, 2008
The web-comic Unshelved took a look at Jeff Somer’s The Electric Church over the weekend. Check it out!
- March 25th, 2008
We’re delighted to announce a new addition to the Orbit team in the UK. Darren Turpin joins us on 7 April, in the role of Marketing Executive. Also known to some in genre circles as Ariel, Darren has been involved with science fiction and fantasy for many years. During his time as a bookseller, he [...]
- March 24th, 2008
Ron Hogan at Galleycat and a poster at Metafilter have recently drawn attention to the covers of of three Orbit authors, Charles Stross and Ken MacLeod (Orbit in the UK only), and Iain M. Banks (Orbit in the UK and US).
For the most part, when we publish an author in the US and the UK, [...]
- March 24th, 2008
Here’s video, along with the complete audio podcast, of Iain M. Banks and Ken MacLeod’s readings and conversation at last weekend’s Aye Write! festival in Glasgow.
- March 21st, 2008
The shortlist for the 2008 Hugo Awards has just been released, and we are delighted to see that Charles Stross’s cutting-edge near future heist thriller, Halting State, has made the ballot. This is the fifth consecutive year that a Charles Stross novel has been shortlisted for the Hugo, passing the great Robert Silverberg’s previous record, [...]
- March 21st, 2008
If you haven’t discovered the Culture yet, check out this post at Slashdot by reviewer (and astrophysicist!) Simon DeDeo. For US newbies we can heartily recommend either Consider Phlebas or The Player of Games, both out this month from Orbit.
- March 19th, 2008
The News At 10:00 last night carried the sad story that Sir Arthur C. Clarke had passed away, some three months after his 90th birthday.
Although best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke’s work encompassed so much more than just an iconic date. The Fountains of Paradise won both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards [...]
- March 14th, 2008
Pop over to Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist for a chance to win a copy of Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Last Wish.
The Last Wish introduces The Witcher, one of the best loved heroes of fantasy in Europe, and recently the star of the hit PC video game from Atari. You can check out the trailer for the [...]
- March 14th, 2008
We’re happy to announce that Brian Ruckley, Charles Stross, Mike Carey and Philip Palmer are going to be at this year’s Alt.Fiction event, taking place at the Assembly Room in Derby on Saturday, April 26th.
If you’re not familiar with Alt.Fiction it’s a fantastic weekend of writers, writing and all things genre. The schedule of [...]
- March 11th, 2008
Over at her livejournal Jo Graham discusses the “Warrior Princess” archetype in fantasy, and explains how she aimed to make Gull – the priestess in Black Ships – distinct from it.
“I think it’s important that our stories talk about the full range of human experience. Throughout human history important and interesting things have been [...]
- March 11th, 2008
Your intarwebs would have to be broken for you not to know that the shortlist for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award has just been announced. Shortlists are inevitably the source of much discussion and usually some controversy, and this year’s Clarke Award shortlist is no exception. There has been much written already about whether some books [...]
- March 10th, 2008
Via Charlie Huston’s excellent website comes news that Charlie has been interviewed in Second Life - or, more correctly, his avatar has been interviewed on the Second Life Cable Network, SLCN.TV. As the man himself says:
“Carlos Suave is a Latin R&B Producer, the owner of a West Hollywood lounge, and a Promoter Extraordinaire, and, [...]
- March 7th, 2008
Stan Nicholls’ ORCS is one of the most entertaining fantasy books of recent years. The idea is simple: take fantasy’s ultimate bad guys (the orcs); add a teaspoon of compassion, followed by a great big dollop of aggression. Sit back and enjoy the fun. ORCS has already been a huge bestseller, with worldwide sales rapidly [...]
- March 7th, 2008
Just a reminder to all those in the Glasgow area - and all those who have a chance to get to the Glasgow area - the Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival is on this weekend. Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod will be discussing their latest novels, Matter and The Execution Channel, at The [...]
- March 5th, 2008
This week, 11 of the Top 20 Fantasy bestsellers in the US are urban fantasy titles, including the Top 3. Most people are aware of the growth of urban fantasy over recent years, but I wonder how many are aware of the degree to which it now dominates the fantasy bestseller lists? This week’s chart [...]
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