On Literary Criticism: Everything Sucks
- September 10th, 2009
Jeff Somers, author of The Eternal Prison, has a few words for his critics.
Category: Commentary
I like toys. We all do, whether we admit it or not. Cars, houses, and clothes are grown up toys. Ninety-five percent of the SUV owners in the universe are merely expressing their inner child’s frustration that they can’t buy…
My first addition to the official Orbit blog page. This is serious. This is important. This is something to think about. So I’m going to just leap into the fray and admit something.
Fantasy is silly.
It just is. There’s…
YOU SUCK!!!
- September 1st, 2009
No, we’re not just throwing out random insults at our readers for the hell of it . . . this is actually the title of the new laugh-out-loud vamp-themed book from Christopher Moore, which Publishers Weekly have aptly described…
ITOW’s – Jim Butcher on the Codex Alera and K.E. Mills on the Rogue Agent series
- July 17th, 2009
Jim says:
The first two Codex Alera novels were faced with with a considerable disadvantage–the main protagonist was a child.
Now granted, this is hardly anything new when it comes to fantasy protagonists, but it
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Charles N. Brown, 1937-2009
- July 15th, 2009
We’d like to note the passing of and fondly remember Charles N. Brown, founder and longtime editor of Locus magazine, who died July 12. His numerous opinions regarding sf, fantasy, its practitioners, its critics, and its media spinoffs are…
The Most Awesomely Bad SFF Cover in the World
- July 6th, 2009
Here at Orbit we’re very proud that our books tend to be smart, sophisticated — dare we say, awesome? (yes, we dare) — but there’s still a part of all of us that loves the look and feel of a…
The Grand Conjunction
- May 21st, 2009
The Grand Conjunction (UK/AUZ), Sean William’s fantastic conclusion to the Astropolis series, is out this month and the reviewers have been saying some great things about it. Gary at Conceptscifi.com thinks that:
‘The Grand Conjunction is an absolute winner and
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Red-Headed Stepchild
- April 3rd, 2009
It’s got vampires, it’s got mages, it’s got assassins . . . and it’s got feisty vamp-mage-assassins! That’s right, it’s Red-Headed Stepchild (UK/US), Jaye Wells’ fantastic debut, and it’s out this week. Here are some of the great reviews it’s been getting:…
Tim Holman vs. DRAGONS!
- April 2nd, 2009
Orbit Publisher Tim Holman stopped by The Dragon Page podcast to discuss all things “e” with Mike and Mike. You can listen to the show here.