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The Edge of the World

The Edge of the World Kevin J. Anderson

Journey to the edge of the world with Kevin J. Anderson's fantasy debut. Read an extract.

Monster

Monster A. Lee Martinez

The thing was big and white and hairy and it was eating all the ice cream in the walk-in freezer. Read an extract.

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In Orbit With Orbit at Book Expo America

This year’s Book Expo America, held this past weekend in New York, was a rousing success for Orbit. Attendees lined up at our booth on both Friday afternoon and Saturday morning to meet Orbit author
Gail Carriger.
Ms. Carriger not only demonstrated the superb fashion sense one should expect the creator of the Parasol Protectorate to have, [...]

Congratulations to Ken MacLeod!

So, how did you spend your Saturday evening? I spent mine at LX 2009, the 60th Eastercon, watching multiple World Fantasy Award-winning author, Tim Powers, present Ken MacLeod with a well-deserved BSFA Award for Best Novel for his latest book, The Night Sessions. A gripping hybrid of SF thriller and police procedural, The Night Sessions [...]

Jeff Somers takes Comicon

Orbit’s Jeff Somers posted a hilarious video of his experiences as a Comicon newbie. Check it out!

Ken MacLeod’s THE NIGHT SESSIONS shortlisted for BSFA Award

Following on from Ken MacLeod’s excellent showing on last year’s awards shortlists, we’re delighted to announce that 2009 has begun in similar fashion. We’ve just received news that his dark, near-future SF thriller, The Night Sessions, has been shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Best Novel!
Many congratulations to Ken and thanks to those who nominated The [...]

Charles Stross is GoH at MeCon 2008, August 29th-31st

The eleventh annual MeCon convention takes place at Queen’s University Student Union in the city of Belfast from the 29th-31st August this year, and the Guest of Honour will be Orbit’s very own Charles Stross.
Charles will be taking part in a variety of events and readings over the course of the weekend, details of [...]

What I Learned at Comicon

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 [...]

Orbit authors taking part in Conflux 5 Virtual Minicon

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 [...]

Lilith Saintcrow – Comicon and beyond!

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 [...]

If You’re Going to Wiscon…

If you’re going to Wiscon, look out for Orbit author Pamela Freeman. She’ll be there talking about her new book, Blood Ties, and reading from her academic work (If you get a chance to chat, be sure to ask her about her thoughts on science in fantasy fiction.)
Pamela’s Wiscon Schedule (check the site for up-to-date [...]

Orbit Authors at Alt.Fiction 2008

This Saturday’s annual Alt.Fiction event in Derby was a fantastic example of just how vibrant and lively the UK genre scene currently is. A panel-packed day offered readings from some of the UK’s top genre talent - including Orbit’s very own Charles Stross, Mike Carey, Philip Palmer (who has posted his own Alt.Fiction write-up) and [...]

Orbit Authors at Alt.Fiction

This Saturday, April 26th, the cream of the UK genre fiction crop will be heading to Derby’s Assembly Rooms for the third annual Alt.Fiction Festival.
Alt.Fiction is a one-day convention that brings together sf/f/h authors, readers and publishers for a series of panel sessions, workshops, readings and more. Think Eastercon or Fantasycon, condensed into a single [...]

2010 and All That

Further to Bella’s post, below, on the 2008 Eastercon, I thought it worth mentioning that Eastercon returns to the Radisson Edwardian at Heathrow (amusingly nicknamed the “Radisson Non-Euclidean” by convention wags), in two years time. Even more exciting for us at Orbit Towers is that the convention committee have shown the great good taste to invite [...]

Eastercon Action

Back refreshed after some post-Easter holiday, I thought I’d give a little round-up of the weekend’s Eastercon excitements. These didn’t include the weather (a most distracting hail storm during Darren’s Very Important Panel), or getting lost in the hotel’s Shining-esque corridors and missing breakfast, so I’ll spare you that.

So, over the Easter weekend, two key [...]

Alt.Fiction Line-Up Announced

We’re happy to announce that Brian Ruckley, Charles Stross, Mike Carey and Philip Palmer are going to be at this year’s Alt.Fiction event, taking place at the Assembly Room in Derby on Saturday, April 26th.
If you’re not familiar with Alt.Fiction it’s a fantastic weekend of writers, writing and all things genre. The schedule of [...]

Banks and MacLeod at Aye Write!

Just a reminder to all those in the Glasgow area - and all those who have a chance to get to the Glasgow area - the Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival is on this weekend. Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod will be discussing their latest novels, Matter and The Execution Channel, at The [...]

It’s All In The Execution

The shortlist for the 2007 BSFA Awards has recently been announced, and we’re absolutely delighted to see Ken MacLeod’s wonderful The Execution Channel in the running for the Best Novel. 

Fighting has spread across the Middle East and Central Asia to the borders of China. In the US, refugees from climate-change disaster subsist in FEMA camps. Images [...]

Terry Brooks UK Tour

Terry Brooks(photo: Judine Brooks)

Internationally-bestselling author Terry Brooks is going to be touring the UK later this month to promote his new book The Elves of Cintra. Selecting places to do book signings is always a fraught process — especially for an author as popular as Terry with fans all around the country. Future tours will [...]

A Devil of a Short List

Mike Carey(photo: Charlie Hopkinson)

Much ecstatic piping on the tin whistle (Clarke original, key of D, natch) greeted the news that Mike Carey’s superb debut The Devil You Know, featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor, has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society’s August Derleth Award for Best Novel.
The award will be presented at Fantasycon in [...]

Virtual Convention

Some more convention news, this time from Australia: Conflux 4 takes place in Canberra from 28 September to 1 October. As part of the build up to Conflux 4, there’s a ‘virtual minicon’ taking place on 4-5 August on the convention forums. A number of the guests appearing at the main convention will be chatting [...]

Orbit at Alt.Fiction 2008

It’s still quite a long way off, but planning has already started for the Alt.Fiction event in Derby next April.
2007 was Orbit’s first year at the event, and we really enjoyed it: I appeared on a panel with literary agent John Jarrold and John Berlyne of sfrevu.com, Mike Carey did a workshop and a reading, [...]

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