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Here’s another selection of links to items of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve found online during the past week:

As always, if you see any online articles, reviews or interviews that feature an Orbit author, please feel free to drop us a line and let us know! We’ll happily name-check your website or blog with a heads-up credit in return (please remember to provide us with a link…)

This month we’re publishing the mass-market (regular sized) paperback of Charles Stross’s near-future novel of crime and computer gaming, Halting State.

A whole bunch of reviewers rather enjoyed it when it first came out last year in the US and we think BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow summed it up pretty darn well in his review:

“Charlie Stross’s latest novel Halting State starts out as a hilarious post-cyberpunk police procedural, turns into a gripping post-cyberpunk technothriller, and escalates into a Big Ideas book about the future of economics, virtual worlds, the nation state and policing, while managing to crack a string of geeky in-jokes, play off a heaping helping of gripping action scenes, and telling a pretty good love story.”

But don’t just take Cory’s word for it (or ours)… you can sample the opening section of the story for yourself, courtesy of this extract from Halting State that we’ve posted elsewhere on the site.

And please feel free to leave your own mini-review of the book (or a link to your review elsewhere) in the comments, below, if you’ve already discovered the joy of Halting State for yourself and want to shout it to the world. We’d love to hear your thoughts.

We’ve just updated the Orbit UK Schedule page with six great new titles that we’ll be bringing to UK readers in November 2008:

• Living With the Dead by Kelley Armstrong - her brand new Otherworld novel.
• A Sword From Red Ice by J.V. Jones - book three of the Sword of Shadows saga.
• Chaos Space by Marianne de Pierres - the second part of Marianne’s Sentients of Orion space opera saga.
• Earth Ascendant by Sean Williams - part two of Sean’s galaxy-spanning Astropolis series.
• Shadow’s Edge by Brent Weeks - the second part of Brent’s debut fantasy series about a reformed assassin seeking to escape his violent past.
• The Curse on the Chosen by Ian Irvine - the second instalment of the epic fantasy saga The Song of the Tears.

Click the titles to read the trailer text over at the schedule page, and start firing up those retailer wish-lists!