Yearly Archives: 2007

I just got the news. I have to email all of the book’s contributors when I get home tonight, but The Starry Rift has been picked up by The Junior Library Guild in the US.  This is terrific news!!  The publisher is delighted, I’m delighted. It’s great.  And it follows on from last week’s announcement … Continue reading »

I’d love to tell you that I’ve been too busy to post, but I’ve mostly been distracted and apathetic, which doesn’t sound good. I got a lot done before I went to Saratoga Springs for World Fantasy, had a great trip, came back, and really didn’t much want to think overly about things science fictional. … Continue reading »

Ian McDonald has quietly announced that the good folks over at Gollancz will publish a collection of his ‘River of Gods’ stories, tentatively titled Cyberabad Days, in late 2008.  This is incredibly cool for a bunch of reasons.  First, Ian is one of the best short story writers working in the field today, and his … Continue reading »

Some things are always cool, and some things have their moment in the sun. I suspect steampunk is going to sit somewhere in between. Steampunk – that gonzo form of Victoriana which reached its height with Tim Powers’ The Anubis Gates, James P. Blaylock’s Homunculus, and K.W. Jeter’s Infernal Devices (all published within a few … Continue reading »

LA Times critic Ed Parks has published his end-of-year round up for the newspaper, Favorite SciFi Books of 2007, and Eclipse One is the lead-off title! Parks discusses Andy Duncan’s remarkable “Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse” (1) and is enthusiastic about the book as a whole. He also says great things about another Night Shade … Continue reading »