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Contributor & Book News, & Review Round-up

28 July 2014

Lots of great reading from, and news for, Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:

• Paolo Bacigalupi‘s new novel The Water Knife, will be “about a water war between Phoenix and Las Vegas.”
• Kelly Link‘s Magic for Beginners was Flavorwire’s Book of the Week at the beginning of July.
• Chet Weise co-edited and appears in Language Lessons: Volume 1, released on Jack White’s Third Man, and including work from other Apocalypse Now alums Brian Barker, Pinckney Benedict, Nicky Beer, Andrew McFadyen Ketchum and Wayne Miller as well as two poems by URB editor Joanne Merriam.
• E. Lily Yu‘s “The Urashima Effect” was reviewed at Marooned Off Vesta.

And for 140 And Counting contributors:

• Berit Ellingsen‘s short story “Dancing on the Red Planet” is in the newly released The Apex Book of World SF 3. Her “Grains of Sand” appears in the winter edition of Blue Fifth Review.
• Simon Kewin‘s short story “Eighteen Million Butterflies” came out last month in Lakeside Circus.

Simon & Schuster’s new science fiction and fantasy imprint, SAGA, debuts spring 2015 with some great books, including Ken Liu‘s first novel, The Grace of Kings. (Liu also has work in our spring 2015 anthology, How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens.) Additionally: his translation of the first of the Chinese best-selling trilogy, Liu Cixin’s Three Body trilogy, The Three-Body Problem, will be released in November; and, his short story, “The Clockwork Soldier,” was reviewed by io9.

• Simon Sylvester‘s flash fiction piece, “Charlie Loved the Circus,” is up at The List, which also reviewed his The Visitors.
• Charles Trumbull has a piece about haiku in, unusually, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

 

Lyn Lifshin, whose persona poetry collection Marilyn Monroe: Poems we published back in December, has a new poetry collection out with Texas Review Press entitled Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle.

 

Corey Mesler‘s The Sky Needs More Work will be released on Thursday, and is already available for pre-order at Kobo! Here’s a sample:

Mesler’s book was recently reviewed by Susan Cushman at Pen & Palette, who wrote, in part, “…the subject matter is dripping with delicious verbal concoctions… This book is not to be missed.”

 

Speaking of reviews, Upper Rubber Boot titles are getting some great reader reviews!

Bicycle Girl is not for the faint-hearted, as it includes some brutal scenes of interrogation, but this is a fascinating depiction of an all-too-credible future played out in a convincing (and refreshingly non-standard) setting.
—Amazon.co.uk reader VikingS, on Tade Thompson’s “Bicycle Girl“

Best 99 cents I’ve spent in a long time. …It left me with the feeling that my brain had just been set afire (in a good way).
—Amazon.com reader Barbara A. Varacalli, on David M. Harris’ “Changing the World“

This was a lovely, quick read with some powerful imagery!
—Amazon.com reader Colleen B., on Shira Lipkin’s “The Selves We Leave Behind“

Entry filed under: News. Tags: Berit Ellingsen, Charles Trumbull, Chet Weise, corey mesler, David M. Harris, E. Lily Yu, Kelly Link, Ken Liu, Lyn Lifshin, Paolo Bacigalupi, Shira Lipkin, Simon Kewin, Simon Sylvester, Tade Thompson.