Tag: Collection

VENUS IN BLOOM in Japan!

Posted on Monday, October 7th, 2019

VENUS IN BLOOM, a new collection of short fiction by Lavie Tidhar is out now in Japan! Published by Hal-Con as 金星は花に満ちて, here’s the synopsis…

ブックマン秘史三部作などで知られるラヴィ・ティドハーが、宇宙ＳＦからポスト・サイバーパンクまでの定番設定を全て盛りこんだ《コンティニュイティ》シリーズを中心として自らが選んだ日本初のオリジナル短篇集である。

Per Lavie’s website, here’s a bit more information…

‘Venus In Bloom collects five of my stories, including an introduction and story notes. It is available as a slim paperback, illustrated by Masato Hisa, who was my fellow Guest of Honour at Hal-Con this year, and who also designs the monsters for the Japanese Power Rangers! Which is about as cool as it comes. (I also have one of his original pieces at home now, which I got at a secret room auction… err, don’t ask).’

The book includes the following stories:

  • Venus in Bloom
  • Earthrise
  • Talking To Ghosts At The Edge of the World
  • Neom
  • Terminal

Lavie is the multi-award winning, critically-acclaimed author of CENTRAL STATION, UNHOLY LAND, THE VIOLENT CENTURY, A MAN LIES DREAMING, and many more novels, short stories and novellas. His next novel is BY FORCE ALONE, which we’ll share more about in the near future.

ICYMI: Aliette de Bodard’s OF WARS, AND MEMORIES, AND STARLIGHT coming soon!

Posted on Monday, May 6th, 2019

Announced last week, we are very happy to report that Subterranean Press will be publishing Aliette de Bodard‘s first collection of short fiction! OF WARS, AND MEMORIES, AND STARLIGHT is due to be published in September. Here’s the synopsis…

A major first collection from a writer fast becoming one of the stars of the genre… Aliette de Bodard, multiple award winner and author of The Tea Master and the Detective, now brings readers fourteen dazzling tales that showcase the richly textured worldbuilding and beloved characters that have brought her so much acclaim.

Come discover the breadth and endless invention of her universes, ranging from a dark Gothic Paris devastated by a magical war; to the multiple award-winning Xuya, a far-future space opera inspired by Vietnamese culture where scholars administrate planets and sentient spaceships are part of families.

In the Nebula award and Locus award winning “Immersion”, a young girl working in a restaurant on a colonized space station crosses paths with an older woman who has cast off her own identity. In the novelette “Children of Thorns, Children of Water”, a shapeshifting dragon infiltrating a ruined mansion finds more than he’s bargained for when his partner is snatched by eerie, child-like creatures. And in the award-winning “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight”, three very different people — a scholar, an engineer, and a spaceship — all must deal with the loss of a woman who was the cornerstone of their world.

This collection includes a never-before seen 20,000-word novella, “Of Birthdays, and Fungus, and Kindness”, set in Bodard’s alternative dark Paris.

de Bodard’s short fiction has racked up a whole host of awards and nominations, and this collection is a great way to discover and re-read the author’s magnificent work.

Subterranean Press also publish Aliette’s acclaimed Xuya novella THE TEA MASTER AND THE DETECTIVE in North America (it is available elsewhere via the JABberwocky eBook Program). Also: both the novella and the Xuya universe have been nominated for Hugo Awards this year!

Aliette’s latest series is the Dominion of the Fallen — some of the short fiction in the new collection is set in the same world — published in the UK by Gollancz and in North America by Roc Books.

New Zelazny Omnibus available in Bulgaria

Posted on Thursday, May 10th, 2018

Смъртта и светлината, a new omnibus of Roger Zelazny‘s fiction, is now available in Bulgaria. Published by Бард, here’s the synopsis…

Сборникът съдържа следните произведения:

1. Четири истории от утре

· Вратите на лицето му, лампите на устата му
· Роза за Еклесиаста
· Фуриите
· Сърцето на гробищата

2. Господарят на светлината

3. Една нощ през самотния октомври

Странният поетичен свят на Зелазни е главозамайваща смес от забавна сатира и философски размисли. Ранните му разкази са великолепно написани – мечтателни и в същото време задълбочени. Бурният екшън „Вратите на лицето му, лампите на устата му“, емоционално разтърсващият „Роза за Еклисиаста“, смешно-сърцераздирателната басня „Фуриите“ и мрачният трагичен романс „Сърцето на гробищата“ са изумително близки до съвременната чувствителност.

Сложният, интригуващ и тайнствен роман „Господарят на светлината“, донесъл на Зелазни наградата „Хюго“ през 1968 г., пресъздава хиндуисткия пантеон с помощта на науката, хвърля светлина върху връзката между човечеството и технологиите и разказва трогателна човешка история. „Една нощ през самотния октомври“ – последната книга на Зелазни преди смъртта му – е дръзко оригинална амалгама от ужаси, хумор, мистерия и фантазия: скъпоценност, излъчваща мрачен блясък.

The omnibus includes FOUR FOR TOMORROW (a collection of four novelettes, first published in 1967), LORD OF LIGHT (1967) and A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER (1993).

The latter was recently published by Farrago in the UK. Here’s the English-language synopsis…

All is not what it seems.

In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowls the midnight streets with his faithful watchdog Snuff – gathering together the grisly ingredients they will need for an upcoming ancient and unearthly rite. For soon after the death of the moon, black magic will summon the Elder Gods back into the world. And all manner of Players, both human and undead, are preparing to participate.

Some have come to open the gates. Some have come to slam them shut. And now the dread night approaches – so let the Game begin.

Farrago has also published Zelazny’s DOORWAYS IN THE SAND.

Zeno represents Roger Zelazny in Translation, on behalf of the Zelazny Estate.