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Signs coming tomorrow

23 June 2013

I’m sitting here in the Dalek Pride t-shirt I got last week at Hypericon (a fun little science fiction and fantasy convention here in Nashville), pretty excited by all the stuff my peeps have done in the past month or so.

Also! We have a new book coming out tomorrow. Well, officially tomorrow, but actually it’s already up at Amazon and Barnes & Noble—which you’d already know if you followed us on Facebook or Twitter. Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories is a collection of a dozen intertwined short stories by New Zealand author RJ Astruc, featuring airship crashes, Interpol agents, artificial intelligence, hologram cities, bioterrorism and psychic gamblers. Official announcement, naturally, tomorrow.

 

News for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:

• Margaret Atwood was interviewed by Morning Edition host Sheila Coles; will be at Harbourfront in Toronto at the end of October; and was featured in The Guardian for her digital publishing.
• Kristin Bock was interviewed for The Recorder in Greenfield, Mass.
• Brian Evenson is at HTMLGIANT talking about his summer reads.
• Seth Fried‘s “Notifications” is in The New Yorker. He and Julia Mehoke have a brand new webcomic, The FactSpace (e.g.: “FACT: Daylight Saving Time was invented to confuse the people who make time bombs.”)
• Akashic Books’ The Marijuana Chronicles contains a short story by Joyce Carol Oates and comes out the day after Canada Day (that is, next Tuesday); Oates’ “To Marlon Brando In Hell” recently appeared in Port and her commentary, “If You Wish To Be A Writer, Have Sex With Someone Who Works In Publishing,” in the Onion.
• E. Lily Yu‘s “The Urashima Effect” appeared at Clarkesworld (also as a podcast); her “The Forgetting Shiraz” appeared in Boston Review; she also appeared on Jonathan Strahan’s Notes from Code Street podcast.

 

And for 140 And Counting contributors:

Ken Liu‘s “Mono no aware” appeared in Lightspeed Magazine and was reviewed in detail and with spoilers by Carl V. Anderson at Stainless Steel Droppings; he’s also Lightspeed‘s author spotlight. Simon Kewin was interviewed by Jeff Chapman about The Genehunter, and December House has revealed the gorgeous cover for his Young Adult / Fantasy novel Engn (left). Steven Saus is raising funds at Kickstarter for What Fates Impose, an anthology of original speculative stories about the complications of predicting the future.

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