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- Alex Lencicki - January 12th, 2009
Jennifer says:
I guess this time the title really does say it all. Like chips and salsa or squeezy cheese on Ritz crackers, this story should fire up a hunger in you that keeps you plowing through the pages like a fourth-day dieter at an all-you-can-eat buffet. The ghosts. The witches. The repeated assassination attempts. The fact that Jaz’s dad has brought his cigars and his room-clearing farts to the show. It all kinda makes you go, “Oh, no! I can’t! I shouldn’t! GIMME!”
And you thought Scotland was all just cute dudes in kilts and wee bonnie lasses. Ha!
One More Bite [UK | US] is out this month and you can find it at all good booksellers.
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- Alex Lencicki - January 7th, 2009
Jennifer Rardin returns this month with One More Bite (US | UK), the fifth installment in her Jaz Parks series. The action starts with Jaz and Vayl (along with a very unwelcome relation) on a flight bound for Scotland–where they have a little assassinating to do.
You can dive into chapter one right here – or start with an exclusive lead-up to the new book on Jen’s site.
by Alex Lencicki • 1 Comment • Posted in: All posts, Interviews
- The Orbit Team - January 7th, 2009
The Orbit UK Schedule page has been updated with details of another five great new Orbit UK titles that we’ll be publishing in March 2009. The following Orbit books will be available from all good bookstores – high street and online alike – round about March 5th:
- This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams – In this near-future thriller, Alternate Reality Games take centre-stage as the coolest ARG of all becomes deadly serious for some and just plain deadly for others.
- Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley – The first part of a brand new space opera series, in which the scattered remnants of humanity are forced to flee into space after Earth is devastated by a brutal alien invasion.
- Hand of Isis by Jo Graham – The new novel from the author of Black Ships explores the life of Charmian, handmaiden to Cleopatra of Egpyt at a time of great upheaval and change in the ancient world.
- Every Last Drop by Charlie Huston – In this, the latest Joe Pitt story, our anti-hero moves closer to the answers to some of the questions that have driven his vampyre existence, including the origin of the vyrus itself.
- Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey – The new Felix Castor book finds the London exorcist haunted by the ghosts of his Liverpudlian past as old, buried memories come calling, along with a visit from Fix’s holier-than-thou brother…
You can also see a preview of Orbit UK’s February 2009 titles, or you can check out our UK publishing schedule for January to March 2009.
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- Alex Lencicki - December 22nd, 2008
As we wind down for the holidays in the New York office we wanted to wish all the readers, reviewers, booksellers and authors who are part of our Orbit a very happy holiday. We’ll see you in the new year!
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- The Orbit Team - December 22nd, 2008
Odyssey 2010 – the next-but-one reincarnation of the annual Eastercon British National Science Fiction Convention – have announced that two of their Guests of Honour will be Orbit authors Iain M. Banks and Mike Carey.
It’s far too early for detailed programming, but as well as the traditional GoH interviews, Iain and Mike are bound to be involved in a number of panels, discussions and general bar-talk during the four-day convention, which in 2010 will return to the London Heathrow Radisson Edwardian; scene of this year’s Orbital 2008 event.
Other Guests of Honour announced for Eastercon 2010 include British SF authors Alastair Reynolds and Liz Williams, along with Artist Guest of Honour Carlos Ezquerra, and Fan Guests of Honour Jon and Fran Dowd (all Guest of Honour appearances are subject to work and other commitments).
For more information, see www.Odyssey2010.org.
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- The Orbit Team - December 22nd, 2008
Just a quick reminder that the public ballot to decide the finalists of the inaugural David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy opens on December 26th.
Following a recently announced change to the voting system, the five most popular fantasy titles of 2008 – as decided by the voters – will then be put forward to a second round of public voting in April 2009 (as opposed to the original panel of judges) for final consideration, with the winner announced on Friday 19th June 2009.
The final long-list of eligible nominated titles – including entries from Orbit authors Brian Ruckley, K.J. Parker, Brent Weeks, Kate Elliott, Jennifer Fallon, Karen Miller and Russell Kirkpatrick – has been made available via the DGLA website as a pdf download and an online voting form will be available from Thursday, with an additional incentive to participate early: the fist 100 voters will receive a limited edition DGLA wristband.
Visit www.gemmellaward.com for more information on the award, or to discuss the nominated titles. And don’t forget to vote, from December 26th onwards!
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- The Orbit Team - December 19th, 2008
Hello and welcome to the last Orbit Links round-up of 2008. Lots to tell you about this week, so – with but a brief segue to wish all our readers a happy, healthy and utterly book-filled holiday season – here we go:
- Fantasy Book Critic presents a 2008 review & 2009 preview from Kevin J. Anderson.
- Over at his Neth Space blog, Ken takes a look at R. Scott Bakker‘s forthcoming fantasy opus The Judging Eye and declares Bakker’s writing to be “nothing short of excellence”.
- Marie Brennan explores the fantasy genre’s fascination with monarchy in her latest column for SFNovelists.com. And RobotsAndVamps.com has posted a quick review of Midnight Never Come.
- SFFWorld.com has posted Rob Bedford’s review of Orphan’s Alliance by Robert Buettner and Robert reveals the cover and publication date for the fifth book in the Jason Wander series, Orphan’s Triumph.
- Blogger Graeme Flory re-traces his steps to re-visit Fool Moon, the second book in Jim Butcher‘s Dresden Files series, for his Graeme’s Fantasy Book Reviews blog, whilst Gav at NextRead posts a round-up review of the next three books.
- Mike Carey has written a Best of 2008 piece for the Forbidden Planet International blog.
- Reviewer Mark Chitty was highly impressed by Michael Cobley‘s forthcoming science fiction novel, Seeds of Earth.
- David Farland (Dave Wolverton) has some advice for writers on weathering a recession: write it out.
- Pamela Freeman‘s Blood Ties is critiqued by Aidan Moher of A Dribble of Ink and then discussed by Aidan, Pamela and others in the comments.
- Ian Graham is interviewed over at Speculative Horizons, talking about the prequel to Monument.
- Charlie Huston‘s Book of All Future Names project reaches volume IX: Shadding and Necrotic.
- Christopher Moore has contributed a 17-syllable Poetry of the Living Dead piece to the Zombie Haiku project.
- The Fantasy and Sci-Fi Lovin’ blog is giving away a copy of Orcs by Stan Nicholls.
- GreenManReview.com takes a look at forthcoming comic fantasy The Accidental Sorcerer by K.E. Mills.
- Philip Palmer asks: is the Keanu Reeves re-make of The Day The Earth Stood Still actually helping to save the Earth from alien invasion?
- Gary Reynolds has posted a chunk of Dark Space by Marianne de Pierres at his Concept SciFi blog and Fantasy Book Critic has a review of the sequel, Chaos Space.
- Jennifer Rardin talks to Reading With a Bite about her Jaz Parks series.
- Brian Ruckley has posted another selection of recommended books that pre-date the Internet.
- Brandon Sanderson re-visits an interview from this time last year to see how things have changed over twelve months of work on the final Wheel of Time instalment.
- Jeff Somers shares a random musing or two on the subject of Battlestar Galactica and romance in sci-fi.
- John Ottinger has posted a review of the first part of Scott Westerfeld‘s Risen Empire over at Grasping for the Wind.
- Australian Dark Fiction blog HorrorScope.com has posted a review of Earth Ascendant by Sean Williams.
See you in 2009!
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- The Orbit Team - December 19th, 2008
If you point your browser towards the publishing schedules section of the site, you’ll find we’ve posted a complete list of Orbit UK’s 2008 publications.
2008 has been another fantastic year for Orbit UK. In the past 12 months we’ve published a total of 80 books by no fewer than 43 different authors, including: Brent Weeks, Brian Ruckley, Celia Friedman, Charles Stross, Charlie Huston, Christopher Moore, David Farland, Drew Karpyshyn, Elizabeth Moon, Fiona MacIntosh, Glenda Larke, Iain M. Banks, Ian Irvine, J. V. Jones, Jacqueline Carey, Jeff Somers, Jennifer Fallon, Jennifer Rardin, Jim Butcher, Jo Graham, K. J. Parker, Karen Miller, Karen Traviss, Kate Elliott, Kelley Armstrong, Ken MacLeod, Laurell K Hamilton, Lilith Saintcrow, Marianne de Pierres, Marie Brennan, Pamela Freeman, Patricia Briggs, Philip Palmer, Raymond Benson, Robert Buettner, Russell Kirkpatrick, Sean Williams, Shaun Hutson, Tad Williams, Terry Brooks, Tom Holt and Trudi Canavan.
By our reckoning we’ve published 23 science fiction titles (including 4 sf tie-in novelisations), 35 fantasy or comic fantasy titles and 22 horror or urban fantasy titles. We also published 7 UK debuts, by Brent Weeks, Jo Graham, Marie Brennan, Pamela Freeman, Patricia Briggs, Philip Palmer and Robert Buettner.
So, head on over to that full 2008 publication list and double-check to see if there are any gaps in your to-be-read list that need filling! It’s not too late to add a few titles to your Christmas wish-list, or to buy a few last-minute presents for friends and loved ones. Or why not just treat yourself to some holiday reading matter (go on… you know you want to!)
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- The Orbit Team - December 19th, 2008
I’m delighted to say that we’ve bought ASH AND EMBER by the talented (and lovely!) Pamela Freeman. This atmospheric stand-alone adventure will feature ancient gods of lake, fire and river, and their clash with newer spirits. The people of the Twelve Domains will be caught in an escalating conflict governed by blood, belief and family loyalties shaped over ages past.
The new novel will be set in the same beautifully-crafted world of Pamela’s previous trilogy, which started with BLOOD TIES, but we will follow new protagonists. Plus the action will be set some time in the future of the Castings books. ASH AND EMBER is currently scheduled for publication in October 2010, so don’t forget – but we will remind you!
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- The Orbit Team - December 12th, 2008
I’m very pleased to confirm that we will be publishing two stand-alone follow ups to the forthcoming THIS IS NOT A GAME from Walter Jon Williams! The first of the pair, tentatively titled DEEP STATE, follows our game producer heroine from THIS IS NOT A GAME, Dagmar as she finds new ways to push the boundaries of games and politics, facing off against terrorists and spies in a dangerous contest of governments. Williams’s prescient, chilling vision of our future finds ever broader and more exciting horizons for the crowd’s place in the world. The next book in the series will continue to explore Dagmar’s strange, exciting world and find new speculative heights for Walter’s imagination.
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