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Contents of Cramer & Hartwell's Year's Best Fantasy 9
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Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell's 9th annual Year's Best Fantasy will be published by Tor. The contents of the book will include...

Book 12 of The Wheel of Time will be a trilogy
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Publisher Tor Books, Editor Harriet McDougal, and posthumous co-author Brandon Sanderson have announced that the 12th, and theoretically final, volume of Robert Jordan's magnum opus The Wheel of Time will in fact be a trilogy, with the first volume appearing in November...

Chris Dolley's first novel, Resnonance, now available as free e-book
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Science fiction-mystery author Chris Dolley is offering his first novel, Resonance (published by Baen in 2005), as a free e-book in a variety of formats. The book follows Graham Smith, who the world thinks weird, but who knows better, as he Observes the world...

Wiley publishing three studies of science fiction
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Wiley-Blackwell is releasing Philosophy in the Twilight Zone, The Science Fiction Handbook, and Science Fiction and Philosophy in the coming months, focusing on sf's connections with and relations to the real world...

Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF 26 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 26 will cover 2008. Authors represented in this volume include...

Contents of Cramer & Hartwell's Year's Best SF 14
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Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell's 14th annual Year's Best SF will be published by Eos this May. The contents of the book will include...

PS publishing The Very Best of Gene Wolfe as chosen by the author
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PS Publishing is bringing out a limited edition The Very Best of Gene Wolfe, containing 32 stories chosen by Wolfe, along with an introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson...

Lee & Miller's Saltation now available as a free podcast
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Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's Liaden Universe novel Saltation is now available as a free weekly podcast narrated by Charlie Schlenker...

Catherine Asaro's newest novel comes with its own soundtrack, which she helped write
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Catherine Asaro's Diamond Star will be released in May, preceded by the soundtrack, from the band Point Valid, which is coming in April. The book tells of the royal prince-turned-rock-star caught in interstellar political intrigue...

Zombie PI Matt Richter to star in Nekropolis
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Tim Waggoner's newest novel, Nekropolis, follows zombie PI Matt Richter in the mean streets of Nekropolis...

Random House giving away free ebooks
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Random House, through its Suvudu web site, is offering free e-copies of several books, all of which are firsts in their series...

Pyr offering Sean Williams' The Crooked Letter as free ebook
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Pyr SF is joining the free ebook field by offering The Crooked Letter, the first volume in Sean Williams' Books of the Cataclysm...

Natasha Mostert's new novel to support "Fighting for Peace"
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Some of the proceeds from Natasha Mostert's fifth novel, Keeper of Light and Dust, will go to support the Cooperation for Peace and Unity's "Fighting for Peace", an initiative teaching Afghan women to box...

ChiZine Publications' 2009 Schedule
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ChiZine Publications expects to publish six books this year: a novel by Daniel Rabuzzi, collections by David Nickle, Claude Lalumière, and Douglas Smith, and novella by Nick Kaufmann and Robert Wiersema...

Editor John Joseph Adams seeking Sherlock Holmes suggestions
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John Joseph Adams is editing a reprint anthology entitled The Improbably Adevntures of Sherlock Holmes, and is looking for suggestions...

Apex's Book of World SF to include stories from around the planet
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Lavie Tidhar is editing The Apex Book of World SF, and including stories first published in many different languages...

Ellen Datlow's Naked City has announced line-up
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Ellen Datlow has set the table of contents for her new anthology of urban fantasy, including stories from Peter S. Beagle, Jim Butcher, John Crowley, Jeffrey Ford...

Contents of Songs of the Dying Earth announced; pre-orders selling fast
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George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois's anthology in honor of Jack Vance, Songs of the Dying Earth, will have original stories by Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Mike Resnick, Lucius Shepard, Dan Simmons, Tad Williams...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt confirms publication of "new" J.R.R. Tolkien book
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Written before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrùn is an English narrative retelling of old Norse epics...

Diamonds in the Sky is free sf/astronomy anthology
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Diamonds in the Sky is a new/reprint anthology of stories discussing astronomical concepts, sponsored by a NSF grant and available for free online...

Deborah J. Ross's Lace and Blade 2 anthology celebrates Valentine's Day
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Small-press publisher Norilana Books has released the second of their annual romantic fantasy anthologies, tied to Valentine's Day. Editor Deborah J. Ross has assembled nine "fantastic stories of adventure, derring-do, love, and glamorous yet subtle magic"...

David Robbins post-apocalyptic Endworld to be reborn
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David Robbins's 27-volume, post-apocalyptic Endworld series appeared between 1986 and 1991. Dorchester is republishing it, starting with a new prequel novel...

PS Publishing buys three books, fiction for Postscripts, and a Lovecraftian anthology
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PS Publishing's Peter Crowther reports the purchase of three books, stories for Postscripts magazine, and the table of contents for S.T. Joshi's Lovecraftian horror anthology Black Wings...

Line-up of John Joseph Adams's Federations is now set
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John Joseph Adams's Foundations explores life in vast interstellar societies, with new and reprint stories from Lois McMaster Bujold, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, Harry Turtledove, and 19 others...

VIZ Media launching Haikasoru to translate Japanese sf novels into English
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Editor Nick Mamatas will head up VIZ's new imprint, Haikasoru, which will publish English-language translations of Japanese sf novels starting with...
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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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