- Something Wicked Issue 18 (February 2012)
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #87 Rajan Khanna et al.
- Lightspeed Magazine Issue 21 John Joseph Adams et al.
Updates, we gots updates
Tags: FableCroft, Prime Books, Small Beer Press, Tachyon
Hey, that was a fun week. We ran a quick test on the upcoming Weekly Weightless One-Day sale and it was very successful. Suffice to say I think I know which book will be #1 this month. We’re skipping next week (it being Thanksgiving!) and WW1day1book sale will be back on December 5th with a bang!
Two collections came out this week and immediately found happy readers: Kabu, Kabu by Nnedi Okorafor (the reviews on this are terrific) and Beyond the Rift from Canadian (“banned in the USA) science fiction writer Peter S. Watts. Kage Baker fans should not miss her final collection, In the Company of Thieves.
There are four new books from FableCroft—getting in all these Australian publishers’ work is awesome!—and a couple more from our friends at Aqueduct, including Lori Selke’s The XY Conspiracy which kicks off from this intriguing UFO-hunter’s question: Why Are There No Women in Black?
Over at Small Beer we launched another book into the litmosphere, Alan DeNiro’s new collection Tyrannia and Other Renditions. You can listen to an interview with Alan and hear him read from the book on this KFAI interview.
And in more price chopping news: Livia Day’s foodie mystery (the one with the fun video) A Trifle Dead has dropped to $6.99.
Peter Watts, Karen Hueler, Weekly Sale TK
Tags: ChiZine Publications, Flash Fiction Online, Karen Hueler, Peter Watts, Tachyon
Michael and I are working on a feature we’re looking forward to launching before the end of the year: the Weekly Weightless One Day Sale. Every Thursday we’ll have one book on super sale: at least 50% off. Add your name to the sale email list here.
It’s a busy time here at Weightless, although I like to think the website is going along nice and smoothly from your side. Well, apart from the huge mistake I made last week when I emailed thousands of readers I shouldn’t have. Thanks everyone for being so understanding. Suffice to say I will not be sending out any more emails without running it by Michael first.
We just added Karen Heuler’s collection The Inner City, which, along with Yoon Ha Lee’s The Conservation of Shadows was selected as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year. Two short story collections in the top 5 sf&f books? Alright!
Another book that’s proving very popular is Peter Watts new collection Beyond the Rift from Tachyon. I don’t know if this is Peter’s first collection (ok, I could check that), but it is flying off the virtual shelf. (Note to self: Need new metaphors.)
Not to be missed: Mary Anne Mohanraj’s The Stars Change. Mary Anne did a Kickstarter for the book a couple of years ago and it is great to see it coming out in all formats.
Also, a personal fave, Maureen F. McHugh’s “Special Economics,” is reprinted in the new issue of Clarkesworld. Hey, reviews of fave (or, er, unfave, I suppose) books are always welcome!
And that’s it for this afternoon. Enjoy your weekend!
ChiZine!
Tags: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, ChiZine Publications, FableCroft, Kathleen Jennings, Robert Hoge, Steampunk, Tachyon
Fans of Apex and Nightmare rejoice, today we added 30+ titles from ChiZine Publications with books from Tim Pratt, Gemma Files, Nick Kaufmann, and, you know, many more. For instance, check out Imaginarium 2012 which is the first in a series, The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction, and James Marshall wins catchiest title award with Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies.
Actually, Rick Klaw may win best title with his Tachyon book, The Apes of Wrath, which collects stories from Pat Murphy , the late Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop, Karen Joy Fowler, among others. (Karen has a new novel coming this summer from Penguin Putnam: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Read it and weep—but don’t read the spoiler-y jacket copy!)
Also new today: The Steampunk Megapack, Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #113, and The Transcriber by Kristen Witucki.
We added two titles from Australia’s FableCroft, Epilogue and After the Rain, both edited by Tehani Wessely.
I like the sound of Epilogue: “Twelve writers take on the end of the world and go beyond, to what comes next” but I want to recommend (unread as yet!) After the Rain as it has stories from two favorite people, Kathleen Jennings (whose art has graced a number of Small Beer books) and Robert Hoge, whose memoir, Ugly, I am reading right now. It comes out from Hachette Australia in August and it is fabulous. I don’t know that we’ll have it here to sell—hey, you never know—but I’m going to be rec’ing it again and again so you might as well preorder it now!
(Got totally distracted there by Kathleen’s “Dalek of the Pigeons” post.)
Icarus down a wing?
Tags: Icarus Magazine, Lethe Press, Michael J. DeLuca, Tachyon
Or: get 50% off Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction using this code:
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What else is on sale? Check here. You can also re-order the whole site by lowest price.
We also added a few more Lethe Press titles, including Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (with stories by Georgina Bruce, Jewelle Gomez, Michelle Labbé, Steve Berman, Rachel Swirsky, Ellen Kushner, Zen Cho, Csilla Kleinheincz, Catherine Lundoff, Nora Olsen, N. K. Jemisin, & more):
. . . tales—from new voices as well as award-winning authors—that celebrate the spirit of Russ’s fiction: stories of sorceresses and spectral women, lost daughters and sisters of myth. The transformative power of the written word becomes magic and tests the boundaries of gender, identity, and a woman’s dreams.
Tachyon got off to a great start last week with Eileen Gunn’s Stable Strategies and Others being the most popular.
And we added a new Small Beer title: Three Messages and a Warning—34 newly translated Mexican SF&F stories. Irresistible! And it includes two stories translated by none other than Weightless’s own Michael J. DeLuca! We’ll have a couple of the stories on the Small Beer podcast (and two more will be on Podcastle) and yYou can get a taste of the book here:
Claudia Guillén, The Drop
Mauricio Montiel Figueiras, Photophobia
This week it will also be all about new issues of magazines. We’ll post them as soon as we get them. Here are the mags already released:
Welcome: Tachyon Publications!
Tags: Less Than Three, Lethe Press, Marshall Moore, Tachyon
We’re very happy to announce that we’ve added another great publisher: Tachyon Publications! Tachyon are based in San Francisco and are responsible for all those great anthologies you’ve seen in recent years: Rewired, Steampunk II, that kind of thing, as well as tons of other great books. Most of their ebooks come in epub, mobi, and pdf flavors. So yay, yay, and yay!
We also added a dozen or so new titles from Less Than Three Press—we now have 60+ of their books! Dance in the Dark is the most popular so far.
Two Marshall Moore titles, The Concrete Sky and Black Shapes in a Darkened Room are on sale at 99 cents each as a promotion until his new book, The Infernal Republic, releases in February.
Next week we have sale coming on all Steve Berman’s books and then it will be time for the February magazines to begin dropping—always the busiest time of the month around here.
I am heading (with Kelly) for Australia and New Zealand next month—can’t wait to say hello to Brisbane, Adelaide, Wellington!—which will mean Michael will be holding up 100% of the sky. He’s done it before and will do it again, at least until the end of the world later this year.
Over in Small Beer land, we have a new email newsletter (shiny, tidy!) which will sometimes feature Weightless stuff and the second paper printing of Maureen McHugh’s Philip K. Dick Award finalist After the Apocalypse is now in stock. Fortunately it was never out of stock here. Ha.
Ebooks are apparently going to make up 214% of all book sales by this time next month.* As long as people are reading and people running interesting indie presses, we’re happy.
Ciao!
* Statistic brought to you by some analyst whose mother received a Kindle for Christmas.