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Tag Archives: science fiction
Another self-pub phenom hits bookstore shelves
Self-publication continues to be a road to success for authors, especially genre authors. Of course, last year’s success of 50 Shades of Grey is the ultimate example, but authors like Amanda Hocking, Lisa Genova and Brunonia Barry are among those … Continue reading
What we’re reading Wednesday: ‘Amped’
Amped by Daniel H. Wilson Doubleday • $25.95 • ISBN 9780385535151 on sale June 5, 2012 Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse might have been the most fun I’ve ever had while reading a book. (And I think Steven Spielberg agrees—movie coming … Continue reading
A new book for fans of ‘The Matrix’ and comic books
Lately we’ve been telling you about books that are coming out down the road in 2012—like sequels to A Discovery of Witches and The Passage; an international bestseller from Germany; or the latest from Little Bee author Chris Cleave. That’s … Continue reading
The big dogs in sci-fi
Saturday night’s Hugo Award ceremony at the World Science Fiction Convention celebrated some fantastic authors and illustrators, not to mention lovers of sci-fi and fantasy everywhere. Check out some of the winners: Best Novel: Blackout and its sequel All Clear … Continue reading
Hooked on Dresden
It’s been a big summer for fans of science fiction and fantasy, what with the publication of George R.R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons (our reviewer called it “the most-anticipated fantasy release since—well—the fourth book in the Song of Ice … Continue reading
A new book from Margaret Atwood
I would like to take this moment to give a shout out to the awesome futuristic book jacket for Margaret Atwood’s forthcoming In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. How cool is this? The book comes out on October … Continue reading
Animorphs are back
It was nearly a year ago when I posted about the re-launch of the Baby-Sitters Club, and now we can anticipate another major re-launch. Drumroll, please . . . Animorphs! In May 2011, Scholastic will re-launch K.A. Applegate’s Animorphs series, … Continue reading
Are Meyer’s adult projects eclipsed by Twilight?
On April 13, Stephenie Meyer‘s first adult novel, The Host, will be released in paperback. Little, Brown has big plans for the new edition, which includes a bonus chapter and a telling “author of the Twilight saga” stamp on the … Continue reading
Nebula news
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. announced the Nebula Award Nominees today. The awards celebrate—you guessed it—the best in science fiction and fantasy writing. The Awards honor a short story, novelette, novel, YA book and movie. View … Continue reading
What We're Reading Wednesday
Blackout by Connie Willis February 2010, Spectra Eileen, Polly and Mike are historians at Oxford in 2060, where a time-travel machine can send researchers into the past to study history as it happens. Eileen is observing the children evacuated to … Continue reading
Getting into 'Under the Dome'
As a child I stole my mom’s Stephen King novels from her bedside table (nothing like the lure of the forbidden!) and continued to read him through my teens. Over the last few years I’ve been a more sporadic King … Continue reading
Neil Gaiman wins the Hugo
Congrats to Neil Gaiman, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Graveyard Book. Guess the judges were “astounded by Gaiman’s sharp, spine-tingling storytelling,” as BookPage reviewer Angela Leeper promised readers would be in our October 2008 review … Continue reading
Why we love YA
Ursula Le Guin won the Nebula Award (her sixth by our count) for best novel at a ceremony Saturday night at UCLA. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America chose Le Guin’s Powers, the third book in the Annals … Continue reading
