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Ok, so everyone these days is doing the Zombie Apocalypse tango. Heck even I’m working on one (For certain values of working, I’ve had three chapters done for six months, but I digress). John Ringo, however, has now put every other ZA book, movie and video game to shame. There is a reason the man is the master. Part horror novel, part techno-thriller that would make Tom Clancy bow down in envy, UAGS is superb. Ringo takes a hard look at how a real ZA might happen, and his undead aren’t. Ringo uses the familiar trope of the “Zombie plague,” but turns it on it’s ear, using real science to show how it might happen. He then takes a close look at how someone might survive a real biological disaster and what steps … Read entire article »

Pacific Rim looks like 200 feet and 10,000 tons of AWESOME

29 April 2013 Comments Off

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New author Cedar Sanderson and self publishing

20 April 2013 Comments Off

(Editor’s Note: New Author Cedar Sanderson has graciously taken the helm today to give us a few thoughts on self publishing. Be nice kiddies and share the cookies.) If I couldn’t self-publish I probably would not have sought to become published. When I first started to study writing about ten years ago, I started to hear the stories about traditional publishing, and I figured out fairly quickly that I had little to no chance of ever being published. Maybe it was because I was also struggling with the other parts of my life, but I put aside any thoughts of publishing and just wrote when I could. About two years ago, now, I started to hear about self-publishing, and indie publishing. I started to write again after a hiatus of a couple of years, … Read entire article »

WordFire Press titles to become part of the Baen eBook library

9 April 2013 Comments Off

Kevin J. Anderson’s WordFire Press has just signed a deal for all their titles to join the Baen eBook Library, the largest SF-dedicated eBook site. WordFire Press features over fifty backlist and previously unpublished titles by Anderson, Frank Herbert, Bill Ransom, Brian Herbert, Neil Peart, and others. WordFire Press books are already distributed in most eBook formats through major eBook retail channels. Becoming part of the Baen eBook Library will introduce those titles to a very large, dedicated, and specialized audience. In coming months, WordFire Press books will be featured in the Baen newsletter, which goes out to more than ten thousand very interested readers of SF eBooks. Baen Books has long been a pioneer and innovator in electronic publishing and distribution, with a highly devoted following. All titles are DRM-free. Forthcoming … Read entire article »

Sarah A. Hoyt finalist for her second Prometheus Award

8 April 2013 Comments Off

The Libertarian Futurist Society will present its Prometheus Awards ceremony Labor Day weekend at the World Science Fiction Convention. Winners for Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) will be presented in San Antonio, Texas at LoneStarCon3, the 71st Annual World Science Fiction Convention to be held from August 29th through September 2, 2013. We are happy to announce the finalists for the Prometheus Best Novel award and for the Hall of Fame award. The Prometheus finalists for Best Novel recognize pro-freedom novels published in the last year. The finalists in the Best Novel category of this year’s Prometheus Award, for the best pro-freedom novel of 2013 are (in alphabetical order by author): * Arctic Rising, by Tobias Buckell (TOR Books) * The Unincorporated Future, by Dani and Eytan … Read entire article »

2013 Hugo Award finalists released!

30 March 2013 Comments Off

Below find a list of the 2013 Hugo Award finalists. Congratulations in particular to Baen Editrix and Publisher Extraordinaire Toni Weisskopf! Best Novel (1,113 ballots) 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) Blackout by Mira Grant (Orbit) Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi (Tor) Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed (DAW) Best Novella (587 ballots) After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications) The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon Publications) On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard (Immersion Press) San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats by Mira Grant (Orbit) “The Stars Do Not Lie” by Jay Lake (Asimov’s, Oct-Nov 2012) Best Novelette (616 ballots) “The Boy Who Cast No Shadow” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Postscripts: Unfit For Eden, PS Publications) “Fade To White” by Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld, August 2012) “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for … Read entire article »

New book trailer — Wade Boss: Hybrid Hunter

9 January 2013 Comments Off

WADE BOSS BOOK TRAILER from Marcus MacGregor on Vimeo. … Read entire article »

Live Action Robotech?

5 January 2013 1 Remark

This was done on a fan budget, can someone in Hollywood please, PLEASE pay attention and make this movie? Transformers, we don’t need no stinking Transformers! We got VERITECHS!!! (h/t Kate Paulk) … Read entire article »

Protecting Amazon from itself

3 January 2013 Comments Off

This is not an article against Amazon. While Amazon is a big company, and like all big companies it can do stupid things, in the twelve? Thirteen? Years, I’ve been a customer, I’ve found their customer service is exemplary and they really do bend over backwards to help the customer. As an indie publisher, I’m also more grateful than I can say for the chance to make some money on my back list. In a way this is a post to head off the inevitable conspiracy theories. But… But the one thing you can say about Amazon is that when they put their foot in it, they sink it into the entire bucket without hesitation. I still have libertarian minded friends who will not touch kindle because of the thing with 1984. I … Read entire article »

Butcher back in force with new Dresden Files ‘Cold Days’

2 January 2013 2 Remarks

Ok, so as I’ve said before, I’m a Jim Butcher fanboy. I absolutely love the Dresden Files. That being said, the last book, , was a bit of a disappointment. Not that I didn’t enjoy the book — I did. However to some degree I felt Butcher had jumped the shark a bit. Boy was I wrong. Enter, the 14th Dresden book and Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is back. As the Winter Knight. And boy does Mab have a doozy of a job for his first assassination. Throw in more crazy faerie queens, the return of Harrry’s apprentice, Outsiders, the mystery of just who Mac McAnally really is deepening and a revelation as to just what Harry’s purpose is since bonding with Demonreach and you have the basis of a return to the non-stop action of the old Dresden. … Read entire article »