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.
- June 26th, 2009
Praise for Brian Ruckley’s Fall of Thanes continues to snowball (*) around the web.
Over at the Hotlist, Pat calls it :
Dark, bloody, depressing, uncompromising, with a poignant ending that should satisfy most fans and characters that stay true to themselves till the very end, Fall of Thanes is an impressive conclusion to what is definitely [...]
- 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 a joy to read.’
And Liviu at Fantasy Book Critic says:
‘The novel succeeds grandly indeed. Highly, highly recommended.’
This is [...]
- 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:
Kat Richardson calls it ‘Brassy, sassy and hip’.
Karen Chance thinks it’s ‘Fast-paced and funny . . [...]
- March 12th, 2009
…This is a novel that will blow your mind.
Walter Jon Williams’ latest novel, This Is Not a Game (UK/US) was released in the UK this week and getting some fantastic reviews:
Gary Wolfe at Locus says, ‘This Is Not a Game begins at a full run, with superstar ARG developer Dagmar Shaw trapped in a hotel [...]
- February 12th, 2009
We have just bought two new books in David Farland’s fabulously imaginative Runelords series, which began with The Sum of all Men. Berserker (Runelords book eight) and Runelords book nine continue the story of a world that was torn into damaged shadows of itself in ages past, creating a multitude of worlds all corrupted [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 21st, 2008
K.J. Parker’s fantastic new novel, The Company (UK/US) is out now and getting some great reviews. One of our favourites has been in this month’s SFX, on newsstands tomorrow, which describes it as:
‘Tightly written and hugely satisfying, it’s the equivalent of a four-course banquet packed into one book, and takes a long look at the [...]
- September 17th, 2008
We recently released all three books (to-date) in Robert Buettner’s Jason Wander series in the UK (having first re-published them with new cover art in the US this April) and it’s lead to a definite resurgence of interest in the series.
Over at UK-based blog / webzine Concept SciFi, blogger Gary Reynolds has posted a [...]
- August 27th, 2008
Two Orbit Authors - Brian Ruckley and Jeff Somers - recently took part in the first BookGeeks SF and Fantasy Writers’ Panel.
The round-robin discussion, which also includes contributions from authors Alastair Reynolds and Jaine Fenn, is on the subject of the marriage of prose and visuals. Specifically: maps (is their inclusion in sf / [...]
- 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 1st, 2008
Welcome once more, gentle reader, to our regular Friday links round-up. We have another choice selection of Orbit authors’ online activities for you to peruse this week:
The Biology in Science Fiction blog has picked up and commented on one of the questions from the recent Iain [M] Banks Email Q&A and IO9 highlights the [...]
- July 18th, 2008
Former military intelligence officer turned military-sf writer Robert Buettner is the subject of the 47th Adventures in SciFi Publishing podcast.
The first three volumes in Robert’s Jason Wander series are out now from Orbit US and will all be published by Orbit UK in August:
#1 - Orphanage [US / UK]
#2 - Orphan’s Destiny [US / [...]
- July 11th, 2008
In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen a flurry of reviews of Lilith Saintcrow’s brand new novel, Night Shift [US | UK], the first in a new series starring kick-ass demon-hunter Jill Kismet.
Writing for the My Favourite Books blog, Liz was particularly impressed with the strength of Lilith’s new protagonist:
“Lilith has again created [...]
- June 10th, 2008
Marie Brennan, author of Midnight Never Come (UK/US) is guest blogging over at miladyinsanity about the perks of being a writer:
Then — cue the world’s smallest violin — the travel stopped. Well, not stopped, precisely; there was a stretch of time in graduate school where I averaged one out-of-state trip every month for a year [...]
- June 4th, 2008
Big Dumb Object has a great review of Sean Williams’ Saturn Returns today, calling it:
Space opera with cool (far) future tech. Just up my street. The main plot follows Imre Bergamasc as he tracks down his old crack team of soldiers, along with trying to figure out what in the galaxy is going on. . [...]
- June 3rd, 2008
This month’s Locus has a fantastic review of Marie Brennan’s Midnight Never Come (UK/US), saying:
Brennan ably combines elements of danger, romance, and individual moral choices that could affect the fates of great realms, for a tale that’s rich in plot and character. She interweaves historic and fantastic details with scholarship, inspired acts of imagination, [...]
- June 3rd, 2008
Rob over at Fantasy Book Critic is adding to the string of great reviews for Brian Ruckley’s Bloodheir (UK/US), saying:
There are battles, assassinations, and the war between the True Bloods and the Black Road becomes as intense as it has ever been…I am really looking forward to the final book in the trilogy and hope [...]
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