Posts Tagged ‘James S.A. Corey’
- Ellen Wright - May 9th, 2013
Locus has just announced the finalists for the 2013 Locus Awards, and we’re thrilled to see some familiar names on the list! Congratulations to Iain M. Banks, James S.A. Corey, and Kim Stanley Robinson for their nominations in the Science Fiction Novel category; and to N.K. Jemisin and Charles Stross for their nominations in the Fantasy Novel category.
Below are the full lists of nominees for those two categories.
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
- The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (US | UK | ANZ)
- Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Caliban’s War, James S.A. Corey (US | UK | ANZ)
- 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (US | UK | ANZ)
- Redshirts, John Scalzi
FANTASY NOVEL
- The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (US | UK | ANZ)
- The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal
- Hide Me Among the Graves, Tim Powers
- The Apocalypse Codex, Charles Stross (UK | ANZ)
You can see the rest of the categories and finalists here. The winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in late June.
by Ellen Wright • Post a Comment • Posted in: Awards, Orbit Australia, Orbit UK, Orbit US
- The Orbit Team - January 9th, 2013
We were thrilled to see some Orbit books and authors on “Best of” round-ups for 2012. See below for some great recommendations!
Publishers Weekly Best Books 2012, SF/Fantasy/Horror
THE TROUPE by Robert Jackson Bennett
THE KILLING MOON by N.K. Jemisin
NPR Year’s Best Science Fiction
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Library Journal Best Books 2012, SF/Fantasy
STRAY SOULS by Kate Griffin
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
RT Book Reviews, Editors’ Best of 2012
THE KILLING MOON by N.K. Jemisin
Los Angeles Public Library, Best of 2012: Fiction
TIMELESS by Gail Carriger
io9, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2012
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
THE KILLING MOON and THE SHADOWED SUN by N.K. Jemisin
Explorations: The B&N SciFi and Fantasy Blog, The Best Fantasy Releases of 2012
THE BLINDING KNIFE by Brent Weeks
SEVEN PRINCES by John R. Fultz
RED COUNTRY by Joe Abercrombie
THE KILLING MOON by N.K. Jemisin
Best Paranormal Fantasy Releases of 2012
BLUE-BLOODED VAMP by Jaye Wells
COLD DAYS by Jim Butcher
TEMPEST’S FURY by Nicole Peeler
Best Apocalyptic Fiction Releases of 2012 and Best Zombie Fiction Releases of 2012
BLACKOUT by Mira Grant
Reddit r/Fantasy Best of 2012
THE BLINDING KNIFE by Brent Weeks
The Book Smugglers
THE KILLING MOON by N.K. Jemisin
Fantasy Faction
RED COUNTRY by Joe Abercrombie
THE BLINDING KNIFE by Brent Weeks
BITTER SEEDS by Ian Tregillis
The Wertzone
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
RED COUNTRY by Joe Abercrombie
SHARPS by K.J. Parker
THE KILLING MOON by N.K. Jemisin
EXISTENCE by David Brin
THE KING’S BLOOD by Daniel Abraham
The Midnight Garden
BLACKOUT by Mira Grant
Rob’s Blog o’Stuff
THE TROUPE by Robert Jackson Bennet
THE KING’S BLOOD by Daniel Abraham
RED COUNTRY by Joe Abercrombie
EXISTENCE by David Brin
BLACKOUT by Mira Grant
CALIBAN’S WAR by James S.A. Corey
SEEDS OF EARTH by Michael Cobley
The Eli Monpress series by Rachel Aaron
The Speculative Scotsman
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Ranting Dragon
THE KILLING MOON by N.K. Jemisin
SHARPS by K.J. Parker
THE BLINDING KNIFE by Brent Weeks
To find out more about these titles and where you can purchase them, visit our corporate websites in the (US | UK | AUS). Feel free to share your favorites from 2012 in the comments below.
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- The Orbit Team - November 15th, 2012
The second round of voting for the Goodreads Choice Awards is now live! Check it out and vote for your favorites. Below are the Orbit books we’re thrilled to see still on the list. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Joe Abercrombie - November 7th, 2012
There is a new way to receive updates on James S. A. Corey’s publishing activities over on Facebook. Become a fan of the official Facebook fanpage and connect with other fans of the Expanse series. You’ll also gain access to exclusive excerpts from the upcoming novel ABADDON’S GATE!
For those of you who haven’t picked up these books yet, you can read a sample from LEVIATHAN WAKES (UK | US | AUS) here and get hooked on this critically-acclaimed SF series.
Praise for The Expanse series
“It’s been too long since we’ve had a really kickass space opera. Leviathan Wakes is interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written.” — George R.R. Martin
This is the future the way it was supposed to be.” – The Wall Street Journal on Leviathan Wakes
“A worthy sequel to Leviathan’s Wake. Compelling characters and a plot that combines political intrigue with military sf create a memorable story that begs for film adaptation.” – Library Journal
by Joe Abercrombie • Post a Comment • Posted in: News, Orbit Australia, Orbit UK, Orbit US
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One of the unexpected and, I think, very good things that the rise of ebooks has done is haul the novella back out of the shadows. When I started writing, the common wisdom went that novella-length work, that is stories between 17,500 and 40,000 words, was the sweet spot to write if you wanted awards because so few got published. If there are only fifteen stories written in your category in a single year, it’s not that hard to get in the top five. Or at least that was the theory.
That day, I’m pleased to report, has passed.
It was never the novella’s fault. It’s actually the length that is best suited to the modern reader and to science fiction. It’s got about as much room for plot as a two-hour movie. There’s enough room to really go into an idea or set of ideas, and not so much room that it threatens to get dull. I love novellas. But once the golden age of the Ace double passed, they were a pain in the ass to publish.
For a magazine, printing a novella meant there wasn’t room for much else in a given month. And that meant there were fewer authors’ names to put on the cover. And that meant there were fewer sales of the magazine, so novellas were pretty much a non-starter. For a book publisher, a novella is too small to charge full price for, even though the costs of setting up a production run aren’t that much less. The wise choice, especially among the mass-market publishers, was to print something a little bit longer that you could charge full price for.
But then ebooks came and when we signed the contracts for the second run of Expanse books, part of it was a call for five novellas set in the same world. I was delighted. We’d written a short story before – The Butcher of Anderson Station – but it was done with print markets in mind. To have the luxury of a full novella’s length was great. We got to tell the stories that didn’t quite fit in the big epic-sized books, we didn’t have to try to compress the stories into the constraints of magazine wordcounts, and there would be a new James SA Corey story out that was big enough to satisfy folks between the major novels.
The only down side is that there’s not an easy category for awards anymore.
Small price to pay, I think.
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GODS OF RISK , a new story of The Expanse, by James S.A. Corey is available now in the US. Corey’s space operas have traveled the far reaches of our solar system, and now turns their attention to our neighbor, Mars. Visit the Orbit Short Fiction today to find out where you can pick up this new fantastic novella.
by James S.A. Corey •Post a Comment • Categories: Guest Post, Orbit US • Tags: Daniel Abraham, James S.A. Corey, Orbit Short Fiction, science fiction, the Expanse, Ty Frank
- The Orbit Team - July 30th, 2012
Voting for the Hugo Awards closes tomorrow, July 31st! You can see the full list of nominees on the Chicon 7 website.
When you’re voting, don’t forget to consider works by some of our fabulous Orbit authors. Mira Grant’s DEADLINE (US | UK | ANZ) and James S.A. Corey’s LEVIATHAN WAKES (US | UK | ANZ) are both up for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, while Mira Grant’s COUNTDOWN, published as part of the Orbit Short Fiction program, is up for Best Novella.
Mira Grant, as Seanan McGuire, is up for another two Hugos: for Best Related Work for her album Wicked Girls and for Best Fancast as part of SF Squeecast. This ties the record for nominations on a single Hugo slate, and marks the first time a woman has been nominated for four Hugo Awards in the same year.
Mur Lafferty, author of the upcoming THE SHAMBLING GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY, is also a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
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- Ellen Wright - June 28th, 2012
Orbit will be at San Diego Comic-Con this year! Watch this space for details.
July 7
Rachel Aaron at Barnes & Noble, Forest Drive, Columbia, SC, 7:00 PM
July 12-15
James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) at ReaderCon, Burlington, MA
July 13
Kate Locke (with Eli August) at the Way Station, Brooklyn, NY
July 25-28
Nicole Peeler at RWA Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA
July 27-29
Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire) will be Guest of Honor at Confluence, Pittsburgh, PA
Robert Jackson Bennett at ArmadilloCon, Austin, TX
July 28
Kate Elliott (with Lynn Flewelling) at Mysterious Galaxy, Redondo Beach, CA, 2:30 PM
by Ellen Wright • Post a Comment • Posted in: Events, Orbit US
- Tom Bouman - June 26th, 2012
Please stand by for a tightbeam from Orbit Books:
For anyone who enjoyed last year’s Hugo-nominated barnburner LEVIATHAN WAKES (US | UK | AUS) the next book in the Expanse series is a must-read.
Earth and Mars are rattling sabers following a grisly attack on the asteroid colony Ganymede, and heroes familiar and new are drawn into the fray. This reader would happily follow Captain James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante to the ends of the solar system, and may yet. But some new faces have joined the cast, including Bobbie Draper, gunnery sergeant in the Martian Marines (and her beyond-deadly combat suit), and Chrisjen Aravasala, an Earth politician as grandmotherly as she is shrewd, sharp-tongued, and determined to keep UN forces and Mars from all-out war.
CALIBAN’S WAR (US | UK | AUS) keeps up the faster-than-light pace set by LEVIATHAN WAKES, and raises the stakes, putting the fate of the entire solar system (and one missing little girl) in the balance. Says Kirkus Reviews: “Topnotch space opera … The characters, many familiar from before, grow as the story expands; tension mounts, action explodes and pages turn relentlessly.”
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- Kirk Benshoff - June 4th, 2012
God, I love this series. So much so… I think all of you should titivate that calculator on steroids you have on your person with the absurdly cool art from CALIBAN’S WAR (US | UK | AUS) by James S. A. Corey by Daniel Dociu.
Bring it on.
BRING IT ON!!!
Below are all the wallpaper download links. If anyone needs a specific dimension… you’re on your own.
BA HA HA HA HA
Just kidding. Let us know and we’ll hook you up. :)
1024 x 768 | 1280 x 800 | 1440 x 900 | 1680 x 1050 |1920 x 1200 | iPhone | iPad | Facebook
by Kirk Benshoff • Post a Comment • Posted in: Art, Orbit Australia, Orbit UK, Orbit US, Uncategorized, Wallpaper
- Ellen Wright - May 31st, 2012
May 30 – June 3
Kim Stanley Robinson at SpaceFest
May 31 – June 3
Jaye Wells at Imaginales
June 1-3
Rachel Aaron at ConCarolinas
June 5
Kim Stanley Robinson at Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA, 7 PM
N.K. Jemisin at New York Review of Science Fiction, New York, NY, 7 PM
June 6
N.K. Jemisin at New York Public Library, New York, NY, 6 PM
June 7
Jaye Wells and Kevin Hearne at A Real Bookstore, Dallas, TX, 7 PM
June 8
Kim Stanley Robinson at Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, 7:30 PM
June 9
V.M. Zito at Friendly Neighborhood Comics, Bellingham, MA, 12 PM
Kim Stanley Robinson and Iain M. Banks in conversation at Conference Centre, British Library, London, 3 PM
June 16
Kim Stanley Robinson at Capitola Book Cafe, Capitola, CA
June 23
James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) at Alamosa Books, Albuquerque, NM, 2 PM
June 30
Jaye Wells at Murder by the Book, Houston, TX, 4:30 PM
by Ellen Wright • Post a Comment • Posted in: Events, Orbit UK, Orbit US
