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Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF 27 Contents
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Gardner Dozois has announced the table of contents for his Year's Best Science Fiction, the granddaddy of them all. Volume 27 will cover 2009. Stories in this volume will include...

Norilana publishes Sky Whales and Other Wonders
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Norilana's newest anthology, Sky Whales and Other Wonders, has stories by John Grant, Tanith Lee, Mary A. Turzillo, JoSelle Vanderhooft...

Orbit US's Spring/Summer 2010 Publication Schedule
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Orbit Books announces their forthcoming books for Spring and Summer 2010. Most all are fantasy titles...

Book View Cafe's second anthology, The Shadow Conspiracy, is now available
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Book View Cafe has published its second in-house anthology, The Shadow Conspiracy, which revolves around the other strange happenings at the gathering which produced Frankenstein...

Will Shetterly self-publishes a novel beloved by editors, but not publishers
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Will Shetterly has decided to "follow the Doctorow plan" for his newest novel, Midnight Girl, offering it for free and in a variety of formats...

Lee and Miller looking for lost Fledgling supporters
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Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have sent out all pre-supporter copies of their new novel Fledgling, but have lost contact with eighteen people...

Vera Nazarian mashes-up Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
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Vera Nazarian's mash-up of Jane Austen's Masnfield Park brings in mummies, ancient Egyptian pharaohs, curses, and more...

Norilana publishes Sword and Sorceress XXIV
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Norilana latest installment of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress anthology series features stories by Josepha Sherman, Dave Smeds, Cynthia Ward, K.D. Wentworth...

Book View Cafe launches Book View Press with Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls
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Book View Cafe is launching Book View Press, and their first e-book publication is Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls, an anthology featuring the work of 15 members...

Small Beer Press's Working Writer's Daily Planner slightly delayed
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Small Beer Press's Working Writer's Daily Planner 2010 has been slightly delayed, but the publisher is offering a sample chapter (the month of March) for free...

Dorchester Publishing reveals its next six months' worth of titles
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Dorchester Publishing will be releasing two horror novels a month for the next six months, along with a nice selection of paranormal romances, and a few...

Mercury Retrograde withdraws Raven Wakes the World
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Publisher Barbara Friend Ish of Mercury Retrograde Press writes: "An unfortunate legal and ethical situation has left Mercury Retrograde with no appropriate option but to withdraw the book Raven Wakes the World: Tales for the Winter Holiday by John Adcox from publication."

Anders & Strahan's New Sword and Sorcery anthology's contents
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Editors Lou Anders and Jonathan Strahan have announced the table of contents of their Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery. It will feature C.J. Cherryh, Michael Moorcock, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe...

Wil Wheaton remembers ST: TNG's first season in fun, snarky book
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Wil Wheaton's Memories of the Future isn't a tell-all about Star Trek, it's "do you remember this? how could we do that? wasn't that a blast?" and more...

See all of Charles Vess's Drawing Down the Moon online
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Dark Horse is publishing Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess in late December, but they're making the entire contents available online right now...

Scholastic will merge the ancient Greek gods with 21st Century media
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Scholastic's new non-fiction line, Mythlopedia, will offer middle grades looks at ancient Greek mythology using the tropes from the lives of today's children...

Norilana's Under the Rose features "cutting-edge" sf
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Norilana's newest original anthology includes stories by Lou Anders, John Grant, Ken Rand, Uncle River, Ekaterina Sedia, William John Watkins, Ian Whates...

Cory Doctorow's Norwegian Little Brother available as free pdf
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Norwegian publisher Samlaget has released the pdf version of its translation of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother as a freely downloadable file...

PS sale on Ramsey Campbell, pre-orders for Joe Hill, and poetry
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PS Publishing is offering a sale on Ramsey Campbell's books in October, 25-30%. They'll start taking pre-orders on the new Joe Hill book this weekend. And they'll be launching a new poetry imprint...

Tor's "Fantasy Firsts" giveaway, and a chance to meet Brandon Sanderson
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Tor is giving away 1,000 copies of both Mistborn and The Eye of the World to introduce new readers to their big fantasy series. Sanderson has also announced the titles of the final two Wheel of Time books, and a chance to meet him personally on his signing tour (deadline is this weekend)...

Circlet celebrating Bisexuality Day with a new ebook collection
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Circlet Press, speculative fiction's erotic publisher, is recognizing "Celebrate Bisexuality Day" with the release of a new electronic anthology, Like Twin Stars, featuring the work of N.K. Jemisin, Giselle Renard, and Neil Hudson...

Justin Cronin's vampire novel The Passage to be adapted for film by John Logan for big money
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Justin Cronin's third novel, futuristic vampire tale The Passage, is being adapted for the big screen by John Logan. Fox 2000 is paying Logan more than $1 million to turn the book into a script for Ridley Scott to direct...

Prologue of The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time book 12, part 1) now available
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The prologue of the first book of the three-volume twelfth book of the Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, is now available in a variety of formats...

WSFA Press revives with Harry Turtledove's Reincarnations
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The Washington Science Fiction Association is reviving its tradition of publishing a book to coincide with its annual convention. The first entry in the new series is Reincarnations, a collection of Guest of Honor Harry Turtledove's short stories...

Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback being podcast, FlashForward featured on CBC
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Robert J. Sawyer's novel FlashForward is featured on CBC Radio's Book Club, as the tv series based on it is set to debut. Meanwhile, his Rollback is offered as a serialized free podcast narrated by Alessandro Juliani...
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Mansfield Park and Mummies
by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarian
Unlike the other monster mash-ups, this witty, scintillating, insane and surprisingly romantic Jane Austen parody is written by a Lady.
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