E-Books: October-November
Antczak, Stephen L. : Daydreams Undertaken
(Amazon Digital Services B005GP89PW, $3.99, ebook, 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Aug 2011
Collection of 24 stories, 8 previously unpublished. This is an expanded version of the print book published in 2004.
• The author provides a foreword, and afterword, and introductions to each story.
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Brooke, Keith : Lord of Stone
(Infinity Plus B005ZTNDN2, $2.99, ebook, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
Fantasy novel, first published in 2001 by Borgo Press, about a foreign traveler in a land where magic is dying out and now beset by civil war.
• The Infinity Plus site has this description.
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* Doctorow, Cory : Chicken Little
(40K B0064EG7RQ, $2.99, ebook, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 4 Nov 2011
SF novella, first published in 2010 in Elizabeth Anne Hull’s anthology Gateways, here issued as a stand-alone ebook with illustrations by Franco Brambilla.
• The author posted about this release here.
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* Forest, Susan : Lucy
(RosettaBooks B005WZAU3U, $1.99, ebook, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 18 Oct 2011
Novelette-length story, co-winner of The Galaxy Project contest in conjunction with the e-book release of 23 classic stories from 1950s Galaxy magazine.
• The story concerns human colonists on an unsuccessfully terraformed planet, and a scientist who works out a solution to the virus that threatens their existence.
• Amazon has a description and comments from contest judge Robert Silverberg. (Other judges were Barry N. Malzberg and David Drake.)
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* Grant, John : The Life Business
(Infinity Plus B00669TKYG, $0.99, ebook, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 10 Nov 2011
Short story about a schoolboy confronting violence in Northern Ireland in the late 20th century.
• This is the sixth volume in Infinity Plus’ series of “Singles”, ebook editions of previously published short work. The second set of five also includes Lisa Tuttle’s The Bone Flute (for which the author wrote an afterword explaining why she refused the Nebula Award for the story), Eric Brown’s The Death of Cassandra Quebec, Kit Reed’s Playmate, and Anna Tambour’s Picking Blueberries.
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* Heinlein, Robert A. : The Year of the Jackpot
(RosettaBooks B005QQOA0E, $1.99, ebook, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Sat 1 Oct 2011
SF novelette, first published in Galaxy magazine in 1952, about increasing social chaos in a near-future McCarthyite era.
• This is one of 23 stories from Galaxy magazine of the 1950s released as part of The Galaxy Project, which also just conducted a contest for new works in the spirit of editor H.L. Gold’s magazine.
• Amazon.com lists the other titles by Pohl, Vonnegut, Kornbluth, Knight, del Rey, et al., and substantial descriptions of the stories and their backgrounds on each page. Each volume also has an introduction by a contemporary; the Heinlein volume here is introduced by Paul Di Filippo.
• Barry N. Malzberg discussed the project in a recent interview for SF Signal.
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Locke, M. Lee : Cloud Haven
(Amazon Digital Services B005O546S8, $3.99, ebook, September 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Mon 19 Sep 2011
Ebook edition of a young adult SF novel about a brother and sister who flee to a planet of living clouds.
• It was first published by Domhan Books in 2001.
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Palmer, Stephen : Muezzinland
(Infinity Plus B0061YAHMU, $2.99, ebook, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Mon 31 Oct 2011
(First edition: Cosmos Books, October 2002)
SF novel set in the 22nd century about two sisters fleeing their mother, the empress of Ghana.
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* Perry, Anne C., & Jared Shurin, eds. : Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse
(Jurassic London B00624EIBK, $2.99, ebook, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 4 Nov 2011
Anthology of 18 original stories set at the end of the world.
• Authors include Lauren Beukes, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Andy Remic, and Jonathan Oliver, and has a forward by Tom Hunter.
• The book was released as an e-book on November 4th, and then in hardcover on November 18th, to coincide with Tate Britain’s John Martin: Apocalypse exhibition.
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* Walton, Robert : Vienna Station
(RosettaBooks B005WZATYU, $1.99, ebook, October 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 18 Oct 2011
Novelette-length story, co-winner of The Galaxy Project contest in conjunction with the e-book release of 23 classic stories from 1950s Galaxy magazine.
• The story concerns an O’Neill colony whose masters plan to use a cloned Mozart in a plan to crush competitor space stations.
• Amazon has a description and comments from contest judge David Drake. (Other judges were Barry N. Malzberg and Robert Silverberg.)
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