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.
- June 27th, 2008
Welcome to our latest round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve spotted (or have been sent in to us) this past week:
Marie Brennan has been interviewed by Wyrdsmiths, the weblog for the Twin Cities area speculative fiction writers’ group.
US readers will be interested to hear that they can currently enter [...]
- June 27th, 2008
Over at Jennifer Rardin’s website, she’s posted the latest in her ongoing series of blog-interviews with fellow authors.
In her latest post, Jennifer talks to fellow Orbit author Brian Ruckley - to mark the occasion of the publication of his second novel, Bloodheir [UK/US] - about the villains in his Godless World series, the main [...]
- June 27th, 2008
August 2008 sees the UK publication of Ken MacLeod’s brand new novel, The Night Sessions.
With a near(-ish) future setting that will definitely appeal to fans of both Ken’s last novel, The Execution Channel and Charles Stross’ recent Orbit title, Halting State, The Night Sessions tells the story of the apparent resurgence of anti-religious terrorism, [...]
- June 25th, 2008
Brian Ruckley is over at A Dribble of Ink talking to Aidan about his new book Bloodheir:
Alright Brian, let’s get the easy question out of the way. Why should readers give a damn about your upcoming release Bloodheir?
Well I imagine those predisposed to give a damn (to whom I am, of [...]
- June 25th, 2008
Charles Stross’ upcoming Saturn’s Children makes i09.com’s list of the Twelve Books You Should Read at the Beach This Summer. Though we say why limit yourself to the beach? It’s just as good on the train to and from the office!
Saturn’s Children is available from all good bookshops this July. You can read an advance [...]
- June 23rd, 2008
In a few weeks’ time, the one and only Iain [M] Banks will be participating in an email QandA session, which will be conducted via the official Iain Banks website at www.iain-banks.net. We’re therefore looking for a selection of interesting, intelligent questions to put to him.
So if you’ve got a burning issue that you’d like [...]
- June 23rd, 2008
The sixth and final question in our Midnight Never Come themed prize quiz went live on Friday, on the Competition Gallery page over at www.midnightnevercome.com.
Correctly unravelling all six cryptic clues will grant you six entries to our email sweepstake. The competition will remain open for entries until midnight (GMT) on June 30, after which [...]
- June 20th, 2008
Welcome to our weekly round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve spotted elsewhere on the WWW (or have been pointed out to us) in the past seven days:
Over at Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review, blogger Graeme Flory has a number of good things to say about a trio of recent Orbit titles: [...]
- June 20th, 2008
The Edinburgh International Book Festival recently published its 2008 events schedule, which includes appearances by Orbit authors Iain M. Banks and Ken MacLeod.
Iain will be appearing on Wednesday August 13th, from 8.00 to 9.00 p.m. in a session billed as ‘The Biggart Bailey Event’, to talk about his latest novel, Matter [UK / US]. Tickets [...]
- June 18th, 2008
When Pamela Freeman was in the UK recently, we had a fascinating conversation about technology in fantasy (I felt quite awed at her knowledge!). And Pamela promised to write down some of her thoughts on the subject for our blog. So, in honour of Blood Ties (UK/US), her debut fantasy out this month, here [...]
- June 17th, 2008
This week’s official stats are in and we’re delighted to announce that Blood Noir [UK], the latest instalment in Laurell K. Hamilton’s legendary Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, has just spent its third week at the top of the UK Hardback SF/Fantasy best-seller charts, according to figures produced by Nielsen Bookdata.
Hearty congratulations to Laurell on [...]
- June 16th, 2008
The dice-of-randomness have spoken again and we’ve drawn weekly winner #2 in our Brian Ruckley Facebook competition. This week’s lucky winner is - Jan Ove B from Norway - who will be receiving a signed, personalised copy of Brian’s brand new novel, Bloodheir [UK/US] in the near future.
There are now just two more chances [...]
- June 13th, 2008
Here’s another quick round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve spotted (or have been pointed in the direction of) online this week:
Fantasy Book Critic interviews Jacqueline Carey (we’ll be publishing our first book from her this August).
Russell Kirkpatrick dispels a glamour-myth or two in a blog piece entitled ‘What’s it [...]
- June 13th, 2008
The third of six cryptic clues linked to the world of Marie Brennan’s Midnight Never Come [UK/US] has been revealed today, over at the Competition Gallery page of www.midnightnevercome.com.
Remember, correctly answering all three questions gives you a triple chance of winning the first prize of £250 / $500 of vouchers from your favourite book [...]
- June 11th, 2008
Over at Jackie Kessler’s blog the faerie Lune from Midnight Never Come answered questions from Jezebel, a former demon. It’s surprisingly civil, all things considered. Check it out here.
- June 11th, 2008
Sean says:
I’ve always conceived Astropolis as three fairly different books. Saturn Returns is a complicated psychological piece (with lots of explosions) in which Imre Bergamasc puts his mind back together and decides that he’s going to do the same thing for the galaxy. Earth Ascendant is what he tries to do with the pieces. How [...]
- June 11th, 2008
Brian says:
My new book – Bloodheir – is book two in my Godless World trilogy. It’s been entertaining to write, and will hopefully be entertaining to read, in part because it tracks the rise to power of the main villain in my story, and everyone likes writing and reading about the bad guys, right? [...]
- June 11th, 2008
Fiona says:
Goddess is the final ‘movement’ to the Percheron symphony. And if I continue with the orchestral reference then this is the book where the drums are rolling, the cymbals clashing and every musician is blowing, or strumming, or bowing, or banging. All the characters are on the move and we enjoy resolution to [...]
- June 11th, 2008
Pamela says:
Blood Ties is the first volume of an epic fantasy about dispossession, trust, enchantment, revenge and the unreliability of history. It’s also about the Eleven Domains - created by invasion, ruled by warlords - where it is possible to foretell the future… accurately.
An unusual element in Blood Ties is that, interspersed in the [...]
- June 11th, 2008
We’re delighted to announce the launch of a new feature series for OrbitBooks.net - ‘In Their Own Words’ - in which we’ll be presenting a selection of short guest blog pieces by Orbit authors, introducing their brand new Orbit titles in (you guessed it) their own words.
We’ll be kicking off shortly with posts from [...]
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