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.
- March 20th, 2009
Hello and welcome to a few tid-bits of recent interweb activities:
Kate Elliott and Mike Cobley talk about ‘others’ in SF/F i.e. aliens etc. on bookgeeks. Both the science fiction and fantasy genres have a traditional reliance on ‘others’ - from extra-terrestrials and elves to angels and demons. How do you set out to create plausible [...]
- 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. [...]
- December 12th, 2008
Welcome, one and all, to the penultimate Orbit Authors links list of 2008. There’ll be one more next week and then the Orbit Team will be taking a break for a couple of weeks, to relax and enjoy the holiday season. Don’t forget, if you spot anything Orbit-related you can send a link in to [...]
- December 5th, 2008
Welcome to our weekly round-up of Orbit Author links. Without any further ado:
Suvudu.com has been talking to a whole bunch of Orbit authors this week, starting with Kevin J. Anderson’s five questions.
Terry Brooks is the second…
…and Jacqueline Carey is the third.
One from the archives: Graeme Flory has discovered Ian Graham’s [...]
- November 28th, 2008
“Happy Thanksgiving / Black Friday shop-til-you-drop-fest!” to our US readers. “Chin-up, it’s nearly the weekend!” to our UK readers. “Smile, it’s the weekend already!” to our Australian readers. And to everyone else: hello, and welcome, whatever your timezone, to our regular round-up of Orbit Author links:
Marie Brennan posts a selection of first lines from [...]
- November 21st, 2008
Is it Friday already? This week has just flown by. Must be time for another round-up of Orbit Author online activity (try saying that ten times fast with a mouth full of toffee…)
Blogger Graeme Flory gave R. Scott Bakker’s The Judging Eye a whopping 9.75/10 in his glowing review and Larry at OF Blog [...]
- November 7th, 2008
Hello again and welcome to another weekly Orbit Author links round-up. Without further ado:
Blogger Graeme Flory has good things to say about Kelley Armstrong’s latest Otherworld novel, Living With the Dead and is also giving away three copies of the book in an email sweepstake. Hagelrat at Un:Bound was likewise impressed.
Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist [...]
- October 31st, 2008
Hello and a very Happy Hallowe’en / All Hallows’ Eve / Stuff-Your-Face-With-Candy Night to you all. Here are a few online treats (no tricks, we promise!) featuring Orbit Authors or coverage of their books:
Jennifer Rardin has a zombie (!) story up at The League of Reluctant Adults.
Marie Brennan shares a midnight revelation on [...]
- October 24th, 2008
Welcome once again to our weekly round-up of links to various bits of Orbit Author-related online activity that we’ve spotted over the course of the past week:
Over at Grasping for the Wind, John is calling K.J Parker’s The Company a ‘must read’.
Pat from Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist is a fan as well, and says [...]
- October 17th, 2008
Welcome once again to our weekly round-up of links to various bits of Orbit Author-related online activity that we’ve spotted over the course of the past week:
Robert Buettner applies the Page 99 Test to his next book, Orphan’s Alliance, which we’re publishing early next year.
Simon over at the BookGeeks reviews Sean Williams’ Saturn [...]
- October 10th, 2008
Welcome once again to our weekly Orbit Author links round-up.
Marie Brennan offers an insight into the full-time writerly life.
Suvudu.com hails Terry Brooks - best known for his truly epic Shannara saga - as an overlooked star of the extremely popular urban fantasy sub-genre.
A quick one from the archives: Mike Carey’s first Orbit [...]
- October 3rd, 2008
Plenty of Orbit author-related online activity to tell you about this week, so without further ado:
Kelley Armstrong is writing a new ‘Otherworld’ story for the mini-anthology A Fantasy Medley, which was recently announced by US indie press Subterranean.
Blogger Liz thoroughly enjoyed Marie Brennan’s Midnight Never Come and says so over at myfavouritebooks.blogspot.com.
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- September 26th, 2008
Welcome once again to our weekly round-up of online Orbit author activity:
BookSpotCentral has posted a review of Daniel Abrahams’ A Shadow in Summer, the first part of The Long Price.
StrangeHorizons.com reviewer R.J. Burgess overcomes an assumed dislike of novels inspired by RPGs to discover that there’s a lot to like in Marie Brennan’s [...]
- September 19th, 2008
Arrrrrr me hearties! Cap’n Orbit here, markin’ International Talk Like a Pirate Day wi’ another fine haul o’ Orbit Author Links, plundered from the briny depths of T’Interwebs! Arrrrrr!
Trudi Canavan will be one of the Guests of Honour at next year’s Swancon in Perth, April 9th - 13th.
Felicia Day (Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along [...]
- September 12th, 2008
Welcome to our regular Friday lunchtime Orbit links round-up. Shake the rain from your coat, pull up a chair, put your feet up by the fire and enjoy a hot cuppa while we tell you what some our our authors have been up to online in the past week or so…
Dazed Digital has posted [...]
- September 5th, 2008
Here’s another selection of links to items of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve found online during the past week:
FlamesRising.com has posted a review of The Gypsy Morph, the brand new Genesis of Shannara novel by Terry Brooks.
Graeme Flory finds a lot to like in Lilith Saintcrow’s new ‘Jill Kismet’ novel, Hunter’s Prayer.
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- August 29th, 2008
Welcome to our latest round-up of links to items of interest featuring Orbit authors. Without further ado:
Recent novels by Iain M Banks and Charles Stross are mentioned in a discussion on the topic of intelligent design in science fiction over at IO9.com.
Terry Brooks did a very nice thing for a soldier serving in [...]
- August 22nd, 2008
It’s Friday lunchtime, which can mean only one thing (well, around here, anyhow): it’s time for our weekly round-up post of links to items of interest featuring Orbit authors:
Marie Brennan comments on varying reader reactions to her work, and possible reasons therefore, over at sfnovelists.com.
Marianne de Pierres and Sean Williams have both [...]
- August 15th, 2008
Welcome to our latest weekly round-up post of links to Orbit authors’ activities elsewhere on the WWW:
Over at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist right now, you have a chance to win a 13-book Orbit prize pack.
Michael Cobley has posted an extract from his soon-to-be-published short story ‘Weapon of Choice‘.
Bookbag reviewer Natalie Baker [...]
- August 8th, 2008
It’s the eighth day of the eighth month of the eight year of the century and the Olympic Games are kicking off (if that’s even vaguely the right term) in Beijing. But you guys don’t care about all that running and jumping and swimming and stuff, do you? No! What you really want is your [...]
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