Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner are pleased to announce the release of their latest collaboration: Destroyer of Worlds.

 The brilliant, xenophobic Pak are fleeing the chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy’s core. Nothing and no one is going to impede their migration. Devastated worlds — any civilization that could possibly have interfered — lie shattered in their wake. And now the Fleet of Worlds is in their sights….

 The trillion Puppeteers who inhabit the Fleet might have the resources to confront the threat — but Puppeteers are philosophical cowards. They don’t confront anyone. They need allies to investigate the situation and then take action. Who better than the Puppeteers’ newly independent one-time slave world, New Terra?

 Sigmund Ausfaller, former Earth intelligence agent and current paranoid, finds himself leading the war against the Pak. With his own allies, the enigmatic, aquatic Gw’oth, Sigmund prepares to face everyone’s mutual enemy. And neither humans nor Gw’oth have any intention of becoming cannon fodder….

 EARLY PRAISE:

 ”Old-fashioned cerebral science fiction, with a huge array of fascinating aliens, subtle interactions between them, and knotty problems for them to solve.”

 - Kirkus Reviews

 ”Combines sparkling wit and ‘old school’ hard sf with masterly storytelling and cosmic vision … enjoy the return of good, old-fashioned sf, packed with ideas, philosophical musings, and plenty of space action.”

 — Library Journal

 Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner are members of SFWA

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“One of the greatest dark fantasies ever written — in any genre.”
– Tanith Lee

THE CAPTAIN’S WITCH by Rosemary Hawley Jarman

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ROSEMARY HAWLEY JARMAN was born in Worcester, England and came to fame in 1971 with her novel We Speak No Treason. Reprinted many times, the book’s hero is the much maligned King Richard III. It sold 30,000 copies in its first week of publication, and gained her the prestigious Author’s Club Silver Quill for best first novel, while in the U.S.A. she was nominated as a Daughter of Mark Twain. Further equally successful novels followed, also an illustrated account of the Battle of Agincourt. She lives in an antique stone cottage between sea and mountain in West Wales. The Captain’s Witch is her first fantasy novel, and she is now working on a sequel.

Her website is: http://www.rosemaryhawleyjarman.com

The Captain’s Witch by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Norilana Books Fantasy
420 pages

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Not every miracle is for the best …

 Edward M. Lerner is pleased to announce the release of his latest near-future thriller — the Sci Fi Essential title for October — Small Miracles.

 Garner Nanotechnology is prototyping nanotech-enhanced protective suits and autonomous first-aid nanobots. It’s cutting-edge stuff, and when it saves Brent Cleary from a pipeline explosion that killed hundreds, the Army takes notice.

 A near-death experience changes a person, so no one is entirely surprised when easy-going Brent turns focused and cold. But Kim O’Donnell, Brent’s best friend, cannot get past some of the changes. This just isn’t her friend, and she wonders what has gotten into him.

 With an Army field trial imminent and the company’s future on the line, possible nanotech side effects aren’t something anyone will discuss. The bad news is, Kim is right. Something has gotten into Brent — and while he is the first of his kind, he has already seen to it that he isn’t the last. 

 If Kim can’t stop Brent and his cadre, old-fashioned humanity is doomed….

 EARLY PRAISE:

 ”From its explosive beginning to its explosive finale, Small Miracles is fast paced and very high tech  … I couldn’t put it down, especially during the last fifty pages when so many lives were in danger. The epilogue is wonderfully downbeat and open, letting the reader know that the real nightmare has just begun.”

 — SFrevu

 ”I was royally entertained. For the duration of the book, I was convinced I understood nanotechnology.”

 — Larry Niven, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of Ringworld

 ”Edward M. Lerner’s Small Miracles is a splendid combination of hard SF and a technothriller about nanotechnology gone really, really wrong.”

 — Eric Flint, NYT bestselling author of the Ring of Fire series

 ”Lerner shows what it might be like to live in times of artificial intelligence. An entrancing and frightening novel.”

— Jerry Pournelle, NYT bestselling co-author of Escape from Hell

Edward M. Lerner is a member of SFWA.

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Everyone’s heard of LOLcats. But have you ever seen a LOL-Kzin? Hr-r-r, of course you haven’t. Now’s your chance to make one!

Step 1. Scream and leap to the Man-Kzin covers gallery on the Baen Books Facebook page or the Man-Kzin section under Larry Niven at the Baen online catalog:

http://www.baen.com/author_catalog.asp?author=lniven

Step 2. Choose your cover.

Step 3. Create a LOL-Kzin caption.

Step 4. Submit your entry to info@baen.com. (Yes, multiple entries allowed)

The editors of Baen Books will be the judges. Entries will be judged on originality, sophisticated word play (yes, we mean puns) and overall fun factor.

Winner will receive a Man-Kzin print autographed by the artist, Stephen Hickman. The creator of the bestselling Man-Kzin Wars series, Larry Niven, disclaims any responsibility for this contest.

Now hunt well, and bring us pleasing quarries, er, entries!

For more contests from Baen, see  www.baen.com, or the Baen Books Facebook page.

Deadline for entries is Nov. 9, 2009.

Under the Rose edited by Dave Hutchinson

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From fantasy to dark fantasy and horror to science fiction and the hard-to-categorize works of the imagination that fall somewhere in-between, there is something here to appeal to the most curious reader.

This volume includes stories by: was born in Sheffield in 1960. He’s the author of the novel The Villages and the short-story collections Thumbprints, Fools Gold, Torn Air, The Paradise Equation and As The Crow Flies. He’s the co-editor (with John Grant) of Strange Pleasures 2 and the editor of Strange Pleasures 3. His short stories have appeared in Interzone, SciFiction, Revolution SF, Infinity Plus, Live Without A Net (Lou Anders, ed.) Celebration (Ian Whates, ed.) and Subterfuge (Ian Whates, ed.)
He lives in London.

Pauline E Dungate, Tim Lieder, William John Watkins, Mel Sterling, Jean Graham, Ken Rand, Teri Smith, Liza Granville, Ralan Conley, Stuart Jaffe, CL Russo, James Targett, Ren Holton, Donna Scott, Justin Stanchfield, Lou Anders and Chris Roberson, Ian Whates, Gaie Sebold, Jean Tschohl Quinn, Angel Arango, Ekaterina Sedia, Edwina Harvey, Sarah Totton, William R Eakin, Uncle River, and John Grant.

Dave Hutchinson

Under the Rose edited by Dave Hutchinson
Norilana Books Fantasy
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The deal was made by their agent, Jennifer Jackson, of the Donald A. Maass Literary Agency.  The ten titles will be released as four omnibus editions, starting in June 2010, to accompany recent and upcoming Liaden titles from Baen:  Fledgling, Saltation, and Mouse and Dragon.

This includes the novels THE BIRTHGRAVE, VAZKOR, SON OF VAZKOR, and QUEST FOR THE WHITE WITCH, and, in The Wars of Vis sequence, THE STORM LORD, ANACKIRE, and THE WHITE SERPENT, plus one new previously unpublished, untitled original sequel to conclude the Wars of Vis sequence. The books will be released starting in 2010, from the dedicated TaLeKa imprint.

TANITH LEE is the author of 77 novels, 14 collections, and almost 300 short stories, plus 4 radio plays (broadcast by the BBC) and 2 scripts for the TV cult UK SF series Blake’s 7. Her work, which has been translated into over 17 languages, ranges through fantasy, SF, gothic, YA and children’s books, contemporary, historical and detective novels, and horror. This year she was awarded the prestigious title of Grand Master of Horror 2009. Major awards include the August Derleth Award for DEATH’S MASTER, the second book in the Flat Earth series.

TaLeKa is a new dedicated imprint of Norilana Books, showcasing the works of Tanith Lee and the art of John Kaiine.

http://www.norilana.com/norilana-taleka.htmNorilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 250 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women’s fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/Contact:

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• Congratulations to Donald Mead who has upgraded from Associate to Active with sales to Writers of the Future and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
• Kevin J. Anderson will be editing BLOOD LITE 2 for Pocket Books and Horror Writers Association.
• Paul Levinson conducted a podcast interview with former SFWA president Robert J. Sawyer about the new tv series, Flash Forward, based on his novel.

Leslie What, SFWA member, has been nominated for an Oregon Book Award for her story collection, Crazy Love!

The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually for the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature. All finalists are promoted in libraries and bookstores across the state, and invited to take part in the Oregon Book Awards Author Tour, which brings finalists to public libraries and independent bookstores in towns including North Bend, Eugene, Newport and Astoria. Oregon Book Awards Special Awards honor some of the state’s most dedicated supporters and lovers of books.

This year’s award ceremony will be held October 26, at 7:30 pm in Portland, Oregon.

The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is a prized and juried award presented annually. It is based on excellence of writing and awarded to a Canadian writer who has published a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection any time during the previous calendar year. Named after the novel by Phyllis Gotlieb (1926-2009), one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian speculative fiction, the award consists of a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted medallion which incorporates a “Sunburst” logo, designed by Marcel Gagné.

The Sunburst jury said: “An unquenchable thirst for story and a phenomenal command of his craft make Andrew Davidson’s The Gargoyle a reader’s dream. This ferociously ambitious, incendiary (at times literally) story of one man’s phoenix-like transformation at the hands of a woman, possibly mad, who claims to have known him for 700 years, is prepared to fall on its own highly charged imaginative sword at any time, but never does. Davidson manages to evoke squirm-inducing horror and abiding love with the same unblinking powers of observation and self-consciousness. As the relationship between narrator and Marianne deepens and her tale of their shared history unfolds, past and present converge in ways tragic and redemptive, and immensely satisfying.”

About Little Brother, the Sunburst jury said: “Many novels take a chapter or two to introduce the setting and protagonists and get the plot on the road. Not so Little Brother — it sings and zings from the first page, perhaps even the first line. Readers will immediately be swept up in the story of 17-year-old Marcus and his buddies, who, after a terrorist attack on not-so-far-future San Francisco, get caught in a government street-sweep simply because, well, they were there. So they must be guilty, right? After Marcus is finally let go, he decides that something needs to be done about this horrifying erosion of liberties and the scary world made scarier by the very people who are supposed to protect us. Besides, some of his friends are still, ominously, missing. Using his technogeek expertise, the Internet and every contact he has, Marcus takes on the school system, the government, Homeland Security, and anyone else standing in the way of freedoms both small and large. In anyone else’s hands this material might so easily have come off as preachy or even trite, but Doctorow’s superb handling of his protagonists and his plot turn the story into a nail-biting, heartbreaking, rollercoaster of a novel that will leave the reader anguished and sweating over the fate of its characters. Thankfully, the novel wasn’t doled out in installments, like Dickens, or we would all have been waiting on the virtual pier, begging to know what became, not of Little Nell, but of Marcus and his friends. A gem of a book — topical, well written, and not to be missed.”

This is Cory Doctorow’s second Sunburst Award; he won the 2004 Award for “A Place So Foreign and Eight More”.

The jurors for the 2009 award were Barbara Berson, John Dupuis, Ed Greenwood, Sandra Kasturi and Simon Rose. They selected five adult and five young adult shortlisted works as representing the finest of Canadian fantastic literature published during the 2008 calendar year.

The other shortlisted works for the 2009 adult award were:

Night Child by Jes Battis

The Alchemist’s Code by Dave Duncan

Things Go Flying by Shari Lapeña

Half a Crown by Jo Walton

The other shortlisted works for the 2009 young adult award were:
The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

Dingo by Charles de Lint

Wild Talent: A Novel of the Supernatural by Eileen Kernaghan

Night Runner by Max Turner

Andrew Davidson lives in Winnipeg. Cory Doctorow lives in London, England.

The 2010 Award jurors will be Don Bassingthwaite, Gemma Files, Susie Moloney, Ursula Pflug and Ed Willett.

For additional information about the Sunburst Award, the nominees and jurors, as well as previous awards, eligibility and the selection process, please visit the website at www.sunburstaward.org.