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.
- July 31st, 2008
The Orcs are coming! And to help introduce them we’ve created an Orc Mail website and Orc widgets.
And… if you’re one of the first ten people to post an Orc widget to your website or myspace page, and you email us the link at orbit@hbgusa.com, we’ll send you a finished copy of [...]
- July 30th, 2008
Breaking Dawn, the fourth title in Stephenie Meyer’s global mega-selling Twilight Saga series, will be published in the UK on Monday August 4th.
To celebrate the launch of the eagerly-awaited conclusion to the story of Bella and Edward, dozens of boosktores right across the UK - including Borders Oxford Street branch and Waterstone’s Manchester Arndale - [...]
- July 30th, 2008
Over at Of Blog of the Fallen, Larry has translated this June 2008 Fantasymundo interview with Andrzej Sapkowski. There are some marvelous insights from the author, including this digression on cats:
“For me the cats are an obsession. … I believe that they are supernatural creatures, with an identity and personality of their own … . [...]
- July 29th, 2008
A new usage for the word “harpooning” (Thanks Lilith!)
Big frakkin’ bags are a big frakkin’ hit.
No matter how innocent the intent, grown men with giant Curious George dolls should not offer free hugs on Kid’s Day. (Ew dude, seriously).
Everybody is duly excited about The Watchmen and Twilight (I know, right?)
The Orcs Are Coming!
140,000 people is [...]
- July 29th, 2008
Canberra’s fifth annual Conflux convention takes place later this year, over the weekend of Friday October 3rd - Monday October 6th, at The Marque, Canberra, Australia.
Ahead of the main event, Conflux is staging a Virtual Minicon this coming weekend, August 2nd - August 3rd.
Participation is easy: simply sign up for the Conflux Forums and [...]
- July 25th, 2008
Welcome to our regular Friday links round-up. Plenty to get through this week, so without further ado:
New blog on the block, Suvudu.com, has posted video footage of Kelley Armstrong signing for fans at Comicon.
Marie Brennan has purchased an original music composition in an online charity action which will become a theme for Midnight [...]
- July 25th, 2008
Jeff VanderMeer put six questions to Marie Brennan, author of Midnight Never Come [UK/US], for a piece on the Amazon.com blog, Omnivoracious.
Marie answers questions on her academic background in archaeology and folklore and how that helps her writing to develop and maintain a sense of perspective and separation from twenty-first century modes of thought and [...]
- July 24th, 2008
According to our content-management system (and we have no reason to believe that it would lie to us) this is the 300th post to go out on the Orbit website since we launched it back in March last year.
To celebrate, we thought we’d take the opportunity to consult with our traffic analytics software and [...]
- July 24th, 2008
We’ve just re-launched the UK website of mega-bestselling author Stephenie Meyer, whose Twilight saga is published in the UK by Orbit’s sister-imprint, Atom.
It looks a lot like this:
The fourth book of the saga, Breaking Dawn, will be published in the UK on August 4th and there are launch-day events taking place right across [...]
- July 24th, 2008
Iain [M] Banks enjoyed providing answers for his first email Q&A session so much that he’s asked us to set up another one right away.
And so, without further ado, we hereby call for all you Banks-fans and readers to send in your questions for Iain. Visit the official Iain Banks website for more information, [...]
- July 23rd, 2008
Over at io9.com Annalee Newitz has an interesting article on ARGs and pop culture marketing – The Argument Against ARGs. While she acknowledges that ARGs can be fun, she’s bothered by the ways that they blur marketing and entertainment.
“… what I’d like to see are ARGs for their own sakes — ARGs that involve [...]
- July 23rd, 2008
Over at FantasyBookCritic, blogger Robert Thompson has posted a hugely complimentary review of the second of Mike Carey’s Felix Castor novels, Vicious Circle, which we published back in 2006 (and have since followed up with volume three in the series, Dead Men’s Boots).
Robert says:
“Vicious Circle … makes a strong case for being one of the [...]
- July 21st, 2008
Well, not beyond really, but Lilith Saintcrow will be at Comicon in San Diego! She’ll be on the “Looking at Our World: Eye on the Present” panel along with Kelley Armstrong, L. A. Banks, Kate Brallier, Marjorie M. Liu, C. E. Murphy, Justine Musk, and moderator Samantha Sommersby ( Room 3). That’s a [...]
- July 21st, 2008
We’ve just posted the write-up of the first email Q&A session with Iain [M] Banks, over at his official website, www.iain-banks.net.
In case you missed the announcement first time around, we invited readers of this site and www.iain-banks.net to submit their questions for Iain - ideally something other than the usual sort of thing he tends [...]
- July 21st, 2008
Ken MacLeod is the subject of the latest podcast interview at www.scifidimensions.com.
The discussion ranges across a number of subjects, including Ken’s new novel, The Night Sessions, which we’re publishing in the UK next month, and his previous title, The Execution Channel, which we published in paperback back in March.
Interviewer John C Snider also discusses [...]
- July 18th, 2008
Welcome to this week’s round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve found (or have been sent in to us) over the course of the past seven days or so:
Marie Brennan revisists the concept of ‘Hard Fantasy’ over at sfnovelists.com.
Jo Graham answers a common reader-query: “When did you know that you [...]
- July 18th, 2008
Former military intelligence officer turned military-sf writer Robert Buettner is the subject of the 47th Adventures in SciFi Publishing podcast.
The first three volumes in Robert’s Jason Wander series are out now from Orbit US and will all be published by Orbit UK in August:
#1 - Orphanage [US / UK]
#2 - Orphan’s Destiny [US / [...]
- July 18th, 2008
Over at www.sfsite.com one of the bestselling fantasy authors of the past 30 years, Terry Brooks, has been interviewed by top UK fan-journo, Sandy Auden.
Sandy talks to Terry about the genesis of the Genesis of Shannara series - Armageddon’s Children and The Elves of Cintra - and how he planned the books to act [...]
- July 14th, 2008
Marie Brennan pops in over at Whatever, John Scalzi’s blog, to talk about her novel, Midnight Never Come, and the Big Idea behind it:
What would faeries be doing while English history is trundling along? Of course, that automatically implies something: that the fae aren’t static, timeless creatures. They have a history, too, and it reflects, [...]
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