Libro gratis: Rocket Fuel

Para celebrar su décimo aniversario, la gente de Tor.com ha creado un libro con los artículos más interesantes publicados en su blog y lo ha dejado disponible para su descarga gratuita. El título del libro es Rocket Fuel, con la portada que anexo y los contenidos que podéis ver a continuación:

Prefacio – Bridget McGovernUnder the Covers with a Flashlight: Our Lives as Readers – Emily Asher-Perrin
Sometimes, Horror is the Only Fiction That Understands You – Leah Schnelbach
The Bodies of the Girls Who Made Me: Fanfic and the Modern World – Seanan McGuire
Writing Women Characters as Human Beings – Kate Elliott
Meet My Alien Family: Writing Across Cultures in Science Fiction – Becky Chambers
So How Does a Centaur Eat, Anyway? – Judith Tarr
Fantasy, Reading, and Escapism – Jo Walton
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (and Why You Should Read It) – Leigh Butler
Robert Jordan: The American Tolkien – Michael Livingston
The Trial of Galadriel – Jeff LaSala
Good Idols: Terry Pratchett & the Appropriate Hug – Lish McBride
Orwell and the Librarian, a Love Story – Alex Brown
Beloved: The Best Horror Novel the Horror Genre Has Never Claimed – Grady Hendrix
The Peril of Being Disbelieved: Horror and the Intuition of Women – Emily Asher-Perrin
What Rape Apologists Need to Learn From Jessica Jones – Natalie Zutter
In Defense of Villainesses – Sarah Gailey
Queering SFF: Writing Queer—Languages of Power – Brit Mandelo
Sleeps With Monsters: There’s A Counter In My Head – Liz Bourke
Apologize to No One: V for Vendetta is More Important Today Than it Ever Was – Emily Asher-Perrin
Five Books about Loving Everybody – Nisi Shawl
Safe as Life: A Four-Part Essay on Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle – Brit Mandelo
The Complete American Gods Mix Tape – Bridget McGovern
Rewatching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: “Far Beyond the Stars” – Keith R.A. DeCandido
The POC Guide to Writing Dialect In Fiction – Kai Ashante Wilson
Homecoming: How Afrofuturism Bridges the Past and the Present – Tochi Onyebuchi
Nobody Gets Mad About Hamlet Remakes: Why Superheroes Are the New Cultural Mythology – Ryan Britt
Sowing History: A Gardener’s Tale – Ursula Vernon
Not Saving the World? How Does That Even Work? – Jo Walton
Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” Defies Genre – Gabrielle Bellot
Soon I Won’t Know What the Future Looks Like – Chris Lough
Bouncy Prose and Distant Threats: An Appreciation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s (or Sorcerer’s) Stone – Mari Ness
Joy, Sorrow, Regret, and Reassurance: The Singular Beauty of The Last Unicorn – Bridget McGovern
One Day You Wake Up and You Are Grown: Fairyland and the Secrets of Growing Up – Molly Templeton
Preparing Myself for Death with Joe Versus the Volcano – Leah Schnelbach

Portada de Ancestral Night

Aquí os traigo la que será portada de Ancestral Night, la nueva novela de Elizabeth Bear.

El diseño es de Tomás Almeida.

Esta es la nota de prensa:

Cutting edge ideas and amazing characters in an SF novel that announces the arrival of multi-award winning Elizabeth Bear to the Gollancz list.

A wild, big-ideas space opera that will appeal to fans of Iain M. Banks, Peter F. Hamilton and Al Reynolds from a John W. Campbell and multiple Hugo award winning author.

Haimey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law…
usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence–with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big–just once–to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human–and alien–vessels.

A wild adventure across an imagined cosmos where every FTL journey creates its own mini-universe. A universe that is just waking up to the knowledge that a long-dead, hugely powerful alien species may still be around. Knowledge that could tip the perilous peace mankind has found into war.

Tiene buena pinta, ¿verdad?

Tor.com publicará una novella de Gareth Powell

Tor.com ha anunciado al adquisición de una novella de Gareth Powell, titulada Ragged Allice.

De momento hay pocos datos sobre el libro, pero mirad que frase más intrigante para ir abriendo boca:

A small Welsh town. A string of murders. And a detective who can literally see the evil in people’s souls.

La sinopsis:

Orphaned at an early age, DCI Holly Craig grew up in the small Welsh coastal town of Pontyrhudd. As soon as she was old enough, she ran away to London and joined the police. Now, fifteen years later, she’s back in her old hometown to investigate what seems at first to be a simple hit-and-run, but which soon escalates into something far deadlier and unexpectedly personal—something that will take all of her peculiar talents to solve.

Ragged Allice se sale y mucho de su estilo habitual, más humorístico con Ack-Ack Macaque. Siento curiosidad por esta obra, ¿y vosotros?

Ganador del premio John W. Campbell Memorial 2018

Ya conocemos al ganador del premio John W. Campbell de este año la novela  The Genius Plague de David Walton.

La ceremonia de entrega tuvo lugar el día 22 de junio y el jurado dijo esto:

Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss established the award to honor the late editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine (now Analog), and continue his efforts to encourage writers to produce their best work. Many consider Campbell – who edited the magazine and guided its authors from 1937 until his death in 1971 – the father of modern SF.

El jurado estaba formado por Gregory Benford, Sheila Finch, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Paul Kincaid, Christopher McKitterick , Pamela Sargent , and Lisa Yaszek.

Nominados a los premios British Fantasy 2018

Ya conocemos a los nominados a los premios British Fantasy de este año. Son los siguientes:

Mejor antología

2084, ed. George Sandison (Unsung Stories)
Dark Satanic Mills: Great British Horror Book 2, ed. Steve Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
Imposter Syndrome, ed. James Everington & Dan Howarth (Dark Minds Press)
New Fears, ed. Mark Morris (Titan Books)
Pacific Monsters, ed. Margret Helgadottir (Fox Spirit)

Mejor artista

Ben Baldwin
Jeffrey Alan Love
Victo Ngai
Daniele Sera
Sophie E Tallis
Sana Takeda

Mejor audio

Anansi Boys (de Neil Gaiman, adaptado por Dirk Maggs para Radio 4)
Brave New Words podcast (Ed Fortune y Starburst Magazine)
Breaking the Glass Slipper podcast (Lucy Hounsom, Charlotte Bond & Megan Leigh)
Ivory Towers (de Richard H Brooks, dirigido por Karim Kronfli para 11th Hour Audio Productions)
PseudoPod podcast (Alasdair Stuart y Escape Artists)
Tea & Jeopardy podcast (Emma & Peter Newman)

Mejor colección

Norse Mythology, de Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
Strange Weather, de Joe Hill (Gollancz)
Tanith by Choice, de Tanith Lee (Newcon Press)
Tender: Stories, de Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
You Will Grow Into Them, de Malcolm Devlin (Unsung Stories)

Mejor cómic

Bitch Planet Vol 2: President Bitch, de Kelly Sue DeConnick, Taki Soma & Valentine de Landro (Image)
Grim & Bold, de Joshua Cornah (Kristell Ink)
Monstress, Vol. 2, de Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)
Tomorrow, de Jack Lothian & Garry Mac (BHP Comics)
The Wicked + The Divine Vol 5: Imperial Phase Part 1, de Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie (Image)

Mejor novela de fantasía (Premio Robert Holdstock)

Age of Assassins, de RJ Barker (Orbit)
The Court of Broken Knives, de Anna Smith Spark (HarperVoyager)
The Ninth Rain, de Jen Williams (Headline)
Under the Pendulum Sun, de Jeanette Ng (Angry Robot)

Mejor película / producción televisiva

Black Mirror, Series 4, de Charlie Brooker (Netflix)
Get Out, de Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures)
The Good Place, Season 1, de Michael Schur (Netflix)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, de Rian Johnson (Lucasfilm)
Stranger Things, Season 2, de Matt & Ross Duffer (Netflix)
Twin Peaks: the Return, de Mark Frost & David Lynch (Sky Atlantic)
Wonder Woman, de Zack Snyder, Allan Heinberg & Jason Fuchs (Warner Bros.)

Mejor novela de terror (Premio August Derleth)

Behind Her Eyes, de Sarah Pinborough (Harper Collins)
The Boy on the Bridge, de MR Carey (Orbit)
The Changeling, de Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
The Crow Garden, de Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)
Relics, de Tim Lebbon (Titan Books)

Mejor editorial independiente

Fox Spirit
Grimbold Books
Newcon Press
Salt Publishing
Unsung Stories

Mejor magazine

Black Static, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
Grimdark Magazine, ed. Adrian Collins
Interzone, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
Shoreline of Infinity, ed. Noel Chidwick

Mejor recién llegado (Premio Sydney J Bounds)

RJ Barker, por Age of Assassins (Orbit)
SA Chakraborty, por The City of Brass (HarperVoyager)
Ed McDonald, por Blackwing (Orion)
Jeanette Ng, por Under the Pendulum Sun (Angry Robot)
Anna Smith Spark, por The Court of Broken Knives (HarperVoyager)

Mejor no ficción

Gender Identity and Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. FT Barbini (Luna Press)
Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
Luminescent Threads, ed. Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal (12th Planet Press)
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, de Ursula K Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction, de Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, de Maura McHugh (Electric Dreamhouse Press)

Mejor novella

Brother’s Ruin, de Emma Newman (Tor.com)
Cottingley, de Alison Littlewood (Newcon Press)
The Murders of Molly Southbourne, de Tade Thompson (Tor.com)
Naming the Bones, de Laura Mauro (Dark Minds Press)
Passing Strange, de Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
A Pocketful of Crows, de Joanne Harris (Gollancz)

Mejor relato corto

“The Anniversary,” de Ruth EJ Booth (en Black Static #61) (TTA Press)
“Four Abstracts,” de Nina Allan (en New Fears) (Titan Books)
“Illumination,” de Joanne Hall (en Book of Dragons) (Kristell Ink)
“The Little Gift,” de Stephen Volk (PS Publishing)
“Looking for Laika,” de Laura Mauro (en Interzone #273) (TTA Press)
“Shepherd’s Business,” de Stephen Gallagher (en New Fears) (Titan Books)

¡Enhorabuena a los ganadores!

Portada de Dragon Heart

Hoy os traigo una noticia que me hace muchísima ilusión, porque Peter Higgins es un autor que me gusta mucho pero al que creo que se conoce poco, por estos lares y por otros.

Así que cuando me encontré por casualidad la noticia de la publicación de su siguiente novela, la alegría fue doble.Lo único malo es que no sale hasta enero del 2019 y la espera se me va a hacer larga.

Esta es la sinopsis:

As they fight their way across a dying land, Shay and Cass will do anything to keep their daughter, Hope, alive. The family faces unimaginable dangers as they try to stay together, and stay alive, long enough to reach safety. But when the heart of a dragon starts to beat in Hope’s chest, they fear they’ll lose her to a battle they can’t possibly help her win . . .

La portada de Dragon Heart es de James Nunn.

Portada de Knee-Deep in Grit

Aquí os traigo la que será portada de Knee-Deep in Grit: Two Bloody Years of Grimdark Ficiton, una recopilación de los relatos publicados en Grimdark Magazine.

Se trata de 25 relatos de autores conocidos y otros no tan conocidos.

El listado de autores es:

Peter Fugazzotto

T.R. Napper

Michael R. Fletcher

David Annandale

Anatoly Belilovsky

Mike Gelprin

Matthew Ward

R. Scott Bakker

Aaron Fox-Lerner

Kelly Sandoval

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Siobhan Gallagher

Mike Brooks

Peter Orullian

Sean Patrick Hazlett

Gav Thorpe

T.C. Powell

James A. Moore

Nicholas Wisseman

Gerri Leen

Victor Milan

Tara Calaby

Brandon Daubs

Mark Lawrence

Aliette de Bodard

Esta es la portada:

Gracias a @mertonio por el aviso.

Sellos para celebrar el 50 aniversario de 2001

El servicio postal de la isla de Mann ha trabajado en colaboración con Warner Bros. para desarrollar una serie de sellos para celebrar el 50 aniversario de la película 2001 : Una odisea en el espacio. Los sellos han sido diseñados por la agencia creativa londinense Glazier Design.

Cada imagen contiene secretos, mensajes destinados a los fans de la película. Se pueden adquirir aquí.