Introducing Masque Books
Tags: anthologies, Flipside Publishing, Masque Books, Prime Books, Tansy Rayner RobertsThis week we added three new books from Prime Books new imprint Masque Books which will be publishing three sf/fantasy and/or sf/f romance per month. The launch titles include two names that might be familiar to Weightless readers: Erzebet YellowBoy (Land of Dreams) and E. Catherine Tobler (Rings of Anubis: Gold and Glass) as well as newcomer Sally McBride (Water, Circle, and Moon). Serial fiction fans, keep an eye on the middle title . . .
Also new this week, three big anthologies from Prime. I expect After the End: Recent Apocalypses to fly out of here. Yes, it’s a book of apocalypse stories, but Paula Guran had the great idea of only collecting stories from the last five years and she has put together a very well received book. The other two books are Superheroes edited by Rich Horton and Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations, which, like After the End, was edited by Paula Guran.
Best news for readers of international fiction: we’ve just added three new Flipside titles! The first is A Bottle of Stormclouds by Eliza Victoria, a refreshingly contemporary take on weird happenings and everyday life. Also added: the latest in the Philippine Speculative Fiction series, Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 8, as well as a great way to catch up on thirty stories that have been selected for previous volumes: The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005-2010.
And I should not let another week go by without noting for fans of Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Splashdance Silver that we recently added the followup: Liquid Gold (“Liquid Gold – the most seductively dangerous substance in the history of the cosmos – has just been discovered in the Mocklore Empire . . .”).
New Dean Alfar, Icarus, Nancy Kress,& more
Tags: Dean Francis Alfar, Flipside Publishing, Icarus, PM Press
Ok first before I forget: remember we have verrrrry handy Gifts & Gift Certificates available which should take the pressure off any holiday fever you have going. Send them a gift certificate, let them pick our their own DRM-free ebooks and, Voila! Bob’s your uncle, you’re all done.
Suggestions? How about this week’s two new titles from Flipside? More Dean Francis Alfar is always welcome so I’m glad to say we’ve added his first book, The Kite of Stars. The second title is if anything even more interesting, Alternative Alamat edited by Paolo Chikiamco has eleven stories which start off from the basic elements of Philippine mythology and then build on or question the underlying assumptions.
Nancy Kress fans? Pick up a copy of her thriller Dogs. Want more? How radical are you? How about this: Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet. “These speakers offer their ideas on what can be done to build a real resistance movement, one that includes all levels of direct action—action that can actually match the scale of the problem.” Let’s be part of the solution!
For those who love subscriptions, this week’s recommendation is Icarus edited by Steve Berman. You can pick up four issues at 75% off the cover price ($6.99) here. The new issue, #15, includes Peter Dube, Richard Bowes, Christopher Barzak (whose first novel was just optioned to film!), Stephen Graham Jones (who was a huge hit with the Clarion West students this summer), and JL Merrow.
Subscription segue: Later this week we’ll have the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies to keep fantasy fans happy.
For the holidays, coming up fast so the calendar says, I’d like peace on earth and for people to be nice to each other. Once those have been accomplished, on the material goods list, maybe an excellent pair of vegan boots? Since next Tuesday is Christmas Day we may not have any new books (although we may, I’m always the last to know) and I will be busy looking for Christmas cake, hoping for a selection box, and playing with wrapping paper. Check out these bestsellers as a place to start for gifts to send all those happy folks with new ereaders to fill.
This week: Kij Johnson, Lydia Millet, BCS, more
Tags: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, BookCyclone, Flipside Publishing, Small Beer Press
Weightless readers have already received their preordered copies of two new Small Beer books, Kij Johnson’s At the Mouth of the River of Bees—which includes the Hugo and Nebula Award winner, “The Man Who Bridged the Mist,” and Lydia Millet’s second Dissenters novel, The Shimmers in the Night.
Dissenters, wha . . .? Who . . . ? You can catch up with the first book in the series, The Fires Beneath the Sea for only $2.99!
We’re excited to feature our first title from Flipside Publishing in the Philippines, How to Traverse Terra Incognita, writer/editor/agent provocateur Dean Francis Alfar’s second collection of short fiction. DRM-free titles from around the world! Between Flipside and BookCyclone, you can really get a taste of the great fiction coming from the other side of the world (from me, in Massachusetts, YMMV, of course).
Meanwhile, New York Review of Science Fiction readers and subscribers from all around the world are making the switch to Weightless. Welcome aboard! Glad to have you. Hope you poke around and find some other books and mags you like.
Come Tuesday, no doubt we will have more new books but a little bird tells me that Michael and Scott are working hard on a fall subscription drive for Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Look out for that in the latter half of the week!