Archive for the ‘Science Fiction’ Category
Brilliant books; brilliant readers; brilliant audiobooks!
Gollancz Team: Paul S - February 20th, 2012
Alastair Reynolds, Audio Books, Ben Aaronovitch, Brandon Sanderson, Charlaine Harris, Dark Fantasy, Elspeth Cooper, Fantasy, Joe Abercrombie, Kristin Cashore, Patrick Rothfuss, Science Fiction, Young Adult
Audio publishing is, without doubt, the most fun you can have in the book world without a free bar – I mean, where else can you sit and listen to a former member of the Rocky Horror band give voice to a squirrel that sounds like it’s been taking coke (or at least overdosing on red bull)? We’re slowly recording more and more Gollancz titles for release as unabridged downloads, so we’re really pleased to have this chance to tell … More
Tags: Alastair Reynolds, Allan Corduner, Audio Books, Ben Aaronovitch, Bitterblue, Blue Remembered Earth, Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark, Emma Powell, Fire, Graceling, Joe Abercrombie, Johanna Parker, Kirstin Cashore, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Michael Kramer, Mistborn Books, Patrick Rothfuss, Rupert Degas, Songs of the Earth, Steven Pacey, The Alloy of Law, The Blade Itself, The Final Empire, The Name of the Wind, The Sookie Stackhouse Series, The Way of Kings
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Gollancz Titles on the Locus Recommended Reading List
Gollancz Team: Darren - February 13th, 2012
Alastair Reynolds, Fantasy, Joe Abercrombie, Patrick Rothfuss, Paul McAuley, Rae Carson, Richard Morgan, Robert V.S. Redick, Science Fiction, Stephen Baxter, Young Adult
Every year, Locus, the magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field, compiles a Recommended Reading List to help readers sort through the vast number of novels, collections, anthologies, stories, etc that are published each year. They’ve just released 2011’s list, which is as good a roadmap through last year’s territory as you’re going to find, and contains a number of items of Gollanczish goodness:
SF Novels
The Islanders by … More
Tags: Alastair Reynolds, Christopher Priest, Fantasy, Hannu Rajainemi, Holly Black, Ian McDonald, Joe Abercrombie, Locus Recommended Reading List; Stephen Baxter, Patrick Rothfuss, Paul McAuley, Rae Carson, Richard Morgan, Robert V.S. Redick, Science Fiction, Young Adult
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Jack Glass Cover Reveal
Gollancz Team: Simon - February 2nd, 2012
Adam Roberts, Cover Art, Science Fiction
A supremely clever melding of golden-age crime themes with golden-age SF themes. A tricksy crime novel told in three stories. A who-dunnit where you know from the beginning who dunnit (that would be Jack Glass), but are still surprised when you discover how he did it. What on earth (or indeed off earth) would you put on the cover? Tried loads of ideas, nothing worked. Went back to the beginning. To the title. Jack Glass. The … More
Tags: Adam Roberts, Cover Art Reveal, Jack Glass, Science Fiction
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Gollancz Signs Debut SF Novel From Mitch Benn
Gollancz Team: Simon - February 1st, 2012
Acquisitions, Science Fiction
Gollancz, the SF and Fantasy imprint of Orion Books, has signed up the debut science fiction novel from ‘The Now Show’ star Mitch Benn after an impromptu exchange on Twitter.
The deal came about when the award-winning comedian and songwriter tweeted that he had time to kill in London and Gollancz Deputy Publishing Director Simon Spanton, who follows Benn on the micro-blogging site, suggested he should use that time to come by the Gollancz offices to discuss the SF novel ‘that … More
Tags: Acquisitions, Mitch Benn, Science Fiction, Terra, The Now Show
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