If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Christopher Fowler is to launch his first book for Solaris in the New Year, which is being billed as “the ultimate Hammer Horror they never made.” Hell Train reaches the UK on the 5th of January and is set to [...]
A new author who provides a “distinctive new voice” in urban fantasy is due to release her debut novel, Blood and Feathers, in August next year. Lou Morgan, who was first published by the British Fantasy Society in 2008 with a short story, has pitched the novel as “Alice in Wonderland goes to hell”. The [...]
Rebellion Publishing have announced the opening of a new digital store in which users can download the best in genre writing with a click of a button. Solaris and Abaddon books, an imprint offering a wide range of sci-fi, horror and fantasy will be available in their entirety for the first time in both ePub [...]
Solaris books are set to release a fresh and fun title from debut author Gaie Sebold just in time for the New Year. Babylon Steel will be available from the 27th December in the UK and 5th January in the US. “Ex-sword-for-hire Babylon Steel runs the best brothel in the city. She’s got elves using [...]
Solaris has announced a new book that it has commissioned from Gareth l.Powell, author of The Recollection and Silversands and one of the most exciting new voices in science fiction. Ack-Ack Macaque is due for publication in January 2013 and is based on the short story of the same name which won Interzone magazine’s 2007 [...]
The Hour of Dust and Ashes is book three in the well-loved Charlie Madigan series by Kelly Gay and is out in paperback on the 8th December. Charlie Madigan knows that the off-world drug ‘ash’ makes humans the perfect vessels for possession. Which means that she will do anything to save her sister Bryn, who [...]
A new novel from bestselling author John Connolly is out next week, entitled Hells Bells in the UK and Infernal in the US. Hells Bells is the story of Samuel Johnson, who finds himself in trouble when, not content with being in love with the wrong girl, he is also the subject of the wrath [...]
Due for release in November is a new novel from Hugo award winning author, Vernor Vinge, published by Tor. Nearly ten years ago, Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children survived a disaster that almost obliterated the human race and ended up on Tines World. The pack animals that are the Tines and Ravna [...]
Coming soon from Avon is the second instalment in the Vampire Federation series, The Cross, by Scott Mariani. “There are worse things than vampires…” The ancient Cross of Ardaich was thought to have been destroyed in the bloody war between the Vampire Federation and the Trads, and is deeply feared by vampires. Even worse, its [...]
“What does a vampire eat during the zombie apocalypse?” A new book in the Tomes of the Dead series from Abaddon Books, Double Dead by Chuck Wendig, is the tale of Coburn, who finds himself with a problem when he wakes from a five year slumber. The issue is that human civilisation has fallen in [...]
November 1st brings a sizzling mix of the occult and steampunk from debut novelist Richard Ford. Kultus is “a steam-powered burlesque of brutal demonic action from the latest break-out talent from Solaris”. The novel follows the adventures of Thaddeus Blaklok, a mercenary who is seeking a mysterious key for unknown benefactors. However, he is not [...]
Abaddon Books have announced a new venture in genre publishing where the readers are in charge of the story. Time’s Arrow will be the latest instalment in the Steampunk novel series, Pax Britannia, the longest continuously running series in the world. Pax Britannia is set in a world where the Victorian age never ended and [...]
A must for all Star Wars fanatics is the new Haynes manual, out in November for the iconic spaceship the Millennium Falcon. The spaceship, piloted by Han Solo and Chewbacca in the original sci-fi epic trilogy is detailed in full-colour cutaways, together with other art and photographs. The manual provides the most detailed technical information [...]
An exciting new trilogy is soon to be unveiled from bestselling fantasy author Raymond E Feist. A Kingdom Besieged (Midkemian Trilogy 1) is due for release by Harper Voyager today, an exciting event in epic fantasy that many fans will be rushing out to buy. Discover the fate of the original black Magician, Pug, and [...]
Hot on the heels of the first in the Iron Druid Chronicles, Hounded, by Kevin Hearne, comes Hexed, the next chapter in the story of Atticus O’Sullivan, the last of the Druids. Orbit have announced that it will be released in the UK in October. Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn’t care much for [...]
Out just in time for the New Year is a new title by the author of the popular Mistborn series, Brandon Sanderson. Warbreaker is to be released by Gollancz Books on 29th December 2011. Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, [...]
Mulholland Books presents a new book from experienced writers Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunston and Stephen Romano entitled Black Light: Don’t Look too Deep. The novel is due to be released in October. Now, the Black Light. I see everything. Everything the dead people see. This is where they live. If you have a supernatural problem [...]
The latest in classic and horror mashup novels is to be released at the beginning of next month by Proxima. Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens by Jonathan Pinnock is a ‘sequel’ to Pride and Prejudice set a year or so into the marriage of Elizabeth and Mr Darcy. Elizabeth Darcy has much on her mind: [...]
The first in a new sci-fi series by Peter Crowther, The Forever Twilight trilogy, is to be launched at the beginning of October by Angry Robot Books. Darkness Falling is the story of a typical, all-American backwater, until the night the monsters arrive… When four employees of KMRT Radio investigate an unearthly light that cuts [...]
A new title from Swedish horror writer John Ajvide Lindqvist is to be released next month. Following on from the excellent Handling the Undead and Let the Right One In, is Lindqvist’s latest offering, Little Star. One autumn day in 1992, former pop singer Lennart Cederstrom finds something unexpected in the forest: a baby girl [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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