Scifi- ja fantasiakirjat http://en.risingshadow.net Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:32:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://en.risingshadow.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=44 Andy Duncan's novella, The Night Cache, was published in late 2009 by PS Publishing (http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/). The Night Cache is a World Fantasy Award nominee.Here's some information about Andy Duncan:Andy Duncan is the author of Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press, 2000) and The Night Cache (PS Publishing, 2009). He has also edited Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (with F. Brett Cox, Tor Books, 2004).Andy Duncan's website can be found here (http://www.angelfire.com/al/andyduncan/) and his blog can be found here (http://beluthahatchie.blogspot.com/).Here's the official description of The Night Cache from the publisher's website:From Andy Duncan, master of the Southern tall tale, author of the acclaimed Beluthahatchie, a new novelette about lesbian love, cryptography, and signals from beyond the grave...When Jenny, lowly cashier for a certain major book store chain, flirts with female customers, it is not in the expectation of lasting romance. But at last one of them reciprocates sincerely, and a deep love is born, as if predestined, and indeed Jenny's new lover is called Destiny, Destiny Creech, initiate in an eccentric subculture that hunts carefully concealed caches by means of GPS readings, coded co-ordinates, and oddball intuition. The happiness of the two persists for a time, but when death sunders the partnership, the living and the departed must find one another again, and now the clues are cryptic indeed...The Night Cache is Andy Duncan at his witty best, and a fine foretaste of his upcoming collection from PS Publishing, The Pottawatomie Giant and other Stories. A REVIEW OF ANDY DUNCAN'S THE NIGHT CACHE Articles - Articles Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:38:29 +0100 http://en.risingshadow.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=95&Itemid=78 2010 Hugo Award WinnersBest Novel: TIE: The City The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK); The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)Best Novella: “Palimpsest”, Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace, Orbit)Best Novelette: “The Island”, Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos)Best Short Story: “Bridesicle”, Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09)Best Related Book: This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is “I”), Jack Vance (Subterranean)Best Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm Written by Kaja and Phil Foglio; Art by Phil Foglio; Colours by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Moon Screenplay by Nathan Parker; Story by Duncan Jones; Directed by Duncan Jones (Liberty Films)Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who: “The Waters of Mars” Written by Russell T Davies Phil Ford; Directed by Graeme Harper (BBC Wales)Best Editor Short Form: Patrick Nielsen HaydenBest Editor Long Form: Ellen DatlowBest Professional Artist: Shaun TanBest Semiprozine: Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, Cheryl MorganBest Fan Writer: Frederik PohlBest Fanzine: StarShipSofa edited by Tony C. SmithBest Fan Artist: Brad W. Foster And the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines): Seanan McGuireMore info (http://www.thehugoawards.org/2010/09/2010-hugo-award-winners/). News - News Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:30:00 +0100 http://en.risingshadow.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid=44 Helen Lowe is a poet and a new fantasy writer, whose debut book, Thornspell, was published in 2008. She lives in New Zealand. She's currently writing a fantasy series called The Wall of Night (the first book of this series will be published soon).Thornspell won the Sir Julius Vogel Award 2009 for Best Novel (Young Adult) and was a Storylines Childrens' Literature Trust Notable Book 2009.Helen Lowe's official website can be found here (http://www.helenlowe.info/).The official Thornspell website can be found here (http://www.thornspell.info/). A REVIEW OF HELEN LOWE'S THORNSPELL Articles - Articles Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:13:13 +0100 http://en.risingshadow.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=93&Itemid=78 The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works in 2009 has been announced. The awards will be presented in Columbus OH, October 28-31, 2010. Nominees are: Novel Blood of Ambrose, James Enge (Pyr)The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)The City The City, China Miéville (Macmillan UK/Del Rey)Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland)In Great Waters, Kit Whitfield (Jonathan Cape UK/Del Rey) Novella The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker (Subterranean)“The Lion’s Den”, Steve Duffy (Nemonymous Nine: Cern Zoo)The Night Cache, Andy Duncan (PS)“Sea-Hearts”, Margo Lanagan (X6)“Everland”, Paul Witcover (Everland and Other Stories) More info (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/08/2009-world-fantasy-awards-nominees/). News - News Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:37 +0100 http://en.risingshadow.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=92&Itemid=44 Brendan Connell's Unpleasant Tales was published in April 2010 by Eibonvale Press (http://www.eibonvalepress.co.uk/), which is a small press run by a writer, artist and reader who loves books. Eibonvale Press publishes horror, magic realism, slipstream and surreal fiction.Here's Risingshadow.net's review of Brendan's Connell's Unpleasant Tales. A REVIEW OF BRENDAN CONNELL'S UNPLEASANT TALES Articles - Articles Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:08:16 +0100 http://en.risingshadow.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=91&Itemid=78 Chimaera Publications, publishers of Aurealis magazine and SpecFaction NSW are delighted to announce that the 2010 Aurealis Awards are now open to entries.The Aurealis Awards, Australia's premier awards for Speculative Fiction, are for works of speculative fiction written by an Australian citizen, or permanent resident, and published for the first time between 1 November 2009 and 31 December 2010. This is an extension to the previous cut off to allow more time for entries.The Awards’ founder, Dirk Strasser says, “With twelve categories ranging from Best Horror Short Story to Best Fantasy Novel, Young Adult Fiction and Children’s Picture Book, these awards truly cover the variety of literary works within the Speculative Fiction genre.”“This is the first time the awards have been hosted by Sydney and we are confident that SpecFaction NSW Inc will maintain the high standard of excellence the Speculative Fiction community have come to expect,” Dirk added.Entries close on Friday 31 December 2010. Finalists will be announced in late March 2011 and winners announced at a special presentation evening in Sydney in late April or early May 2011. For more information on the awards and to register your entry, go to the Aurealis Awards website at www.aurealisawards.com (http://www.aurealisawards.com/).For more information contact the Awards co-convenors, Nathan Burrage and Susan Wardle, at convenors@aurealisawards.com . News - News Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:04:25 +0100 http://en.risingshadow.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=90&Itemid=44 Jay Lake's The Baby Killers will be published by PS Publishing (http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/) in August 2010.Here's the description of The Baby Killers from the publisher's website: Within our tale, gentle reader, you will see writ before you a palimpsest of low living and high misdemeanor, and the curious redresses that are visited as a result thereof... In The Baby Killers, Jay Lake restages mankind's Fall from Grace as an alternate-history steampunk fable. Written in a style of rambunctious Victoriana-that-never-was, this novella is set in Philadelphia in 1907, when that city serves as the seat of the British Dominion of the Americas, and as a Pandora's Box of sin and vice. The Governor-General has a taste for violating innocents, while the good Dr. Scholes uses them to fashion his mechanized agents of Justice. The Gollinoster, a feminine incarnation of angry retribution, wanders beneath the city streets – and an undying creature of ancient destruction is rushing to meet her. Villains and heroes (categories that overlap significantly) battle in a story of debauchery, degradation, radical experimentation, mad metaphysics... and a farting Frenchman.Both popular culture and actual history are mined here to create a tale in which the use of idealized technology meets our darkest desires... and the result is positively electric.A REVIEW OF JAY LAKE'S THE BABY KILLERS Articles - Articles Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:03:41 +0100 http://en.risingshadow.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=44 Rjurik Davidson's The Library of Forgotten Books will be published by PS Publishing (http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/) in the summer of 2010.Rjurik Davidson is probably an unknown writer to several readers, so here's some information about him:Rjurik Davidson is a freelance writer and editor. Over the years he has worked as a kitchen-hand, salesperson, cook, telemarketer, musician, writer, tutor, activist and lecturer. He has travelled widely, driven the Nullarbor Plain (with the longest stretch of straight road in the world) too many times to remember, and lived in Perth, Los Angeles and Paris. He speaks crippled French with a perfect accent, which causes all sorts of mix-ups. He has bunked with Indonesian democracy activists, travelled overland through Java during rioting, watched David Lynch movies in Berlin, been harassed by the mafia in a Novgorod nightclub. He has written short stories, essays, reviews and screenplays, and has been short-listed for and won a number of awards. He is currently Associate Editor of Overland magazine, and lives in Melbourne. Rjurik Davidons's blog can be found here (http://rjurikdavidson.blogspot.com/).A REVIEW OF RJURIK DAVIDSON'S THE LIBRARY OF FORGOTTEN BOOKS Articles - Articles Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:16:13 +0100 http://en.risingshadow.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=88&Itemid=44 Lavie Tidhar's Cloud Permutations is a novella, which will be published by PS Publishing (http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/) in July 2010.Lavie Tidhar is the author of The Tel-Aviv Dossier (with Nir Yaniv), HebrewPunk, An Occupation of Angels and The Bookman. Lavie Tidhar's official website can be found here (http://lavietidhar.wordpress.com/).A REVIEW OF LAVIE TIDHAR'S CLOUD PERMUTATIONS Articles - Articles Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:58:09 +0100 http://en.risingshadow.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=87&Itemid=44 Laird Barron's The Imago Sequence and Other Stories was published in 2007. It's Laird Barron's first short story collection and the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection.Here's my short review of Laird Barron's first short story collection. Several people have already written fantastic reviews about this collection, so I don't have anything new to add, but I'll write a short review anyway, because every horror fan should read The Imago Sequence and Other Stories.A REVIEW OF LAIRD BARRON'S THE IMAGO SEQUENCE AND OTHER STORIES Articles - Articles Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:43:06 +0100