Posts tagged: thomas pynchon

Release Week: Manly Wade Wellman's The Old Gods Waken, Eric Flint's Islands, Peter F. Hamilton's The Abyss Beyond Dreams, Daniel Abraham's A Shadow in Summer, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and Tim Robbins reads Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Posted on 2014-10-24 at 17:07 by Sam

OCTOBER 15-21, 2014: Appalachian folk magic from the legendary Manly Wade Wellman, a full cast radioplay adaptation of an Eric Flint novella, new space sf, backlist epic fantasy from Daniel Abraham, Pynchon's postmodern epic Gravity's Rainbow, and Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian tale Fahrenheit 451 under the voice of Tim Robbins headline this week's releases which also include: Ytasha Womack's Rayla 2212, Chuck Palahniuk's Beautiful You, Eliza Granville's debut novel Gretel and the Dark read by Stefan

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged daniel abraham, eric-flint, fahrenheit 451, george guidall, gravity's rainbow, islands, john lee, manly wade wellman, peter f hamilton, ray bradbury, rayla 2212, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki, tantor, thomas pynchon, tim robbins, ytasha womack

The Kitschies Finalists Announced

Posted on 2014-01-31 at 02:59 by Sam

Via SF Signal, the finalists for the 2013 Kitschies have been announced. The UK-based awards categories include the Golden Tentacle for best debut, the Red Tentacle for best novel, and the Inky Tentacle for best cover art, with the addition of some special mentions. The awards offer a fantastic and unique perspective on books, carving out a highly-curated sensibility of intelligent speculative fiction: "The Kitschies, presented by The Kraken Rum, reward the year's most progressive, intelligent and

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged a calculated life, a tale for the time being, ancillary justice, ann leckie, anne charnock, bleeding edge, mr penumbra's 24-hour bookstore, nexus, ramez naam, robin sloan, ruth ozeki, the kitschies, thomas pynchon

Release Week: Happy Hour in Hell, Neptune's Brood, The Rose and the Thorn, Bleeding Edge, and Neil Gaiman's Fortunately, the Milk

Posted on 2013-09-18 at 17:17 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 11-17, 2013: Urban fantasy, deep future sf, adventure fantasy, early 21st century technothriller, and more await listeners in this week's round of picks -- and even more await the "also out this week" reader/listener. (Let alone the "also also out this week" listings. Yes, I've gone Full Monty Python.) Near future, backlist epic fantasy, special edition audio anthology re-issues, resurrecting zombie Taft to run for president, Kafka-esque kittens, nuclear and non-nuclear non-fiction, and more. Whew

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged charles stross, michael j sullivan, neil gaiman, tad williams, thomas pynchon