Posts tagged ‘Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories’
“What a gruesome question. Let’s see. If you leave a tadpole in a jar in the sun it will die.” – Margaret Atwood
News for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:
- Margaret Atwood will be a guest speaker at the 2013 World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP) in Montreal, Canada between December 3 and 6; she has committed to writing a contemporary version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, for the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death; she’s been interviewed in the Ottawa Citizen, The List, The Guardian and The Scotsman; and, of course, her MaddAdam is out.
- Paolo Bacigalupi was on Jonathan Stahan’s podcast to discuss his middle-grade novel Zombie Baseball Beatdown and other topics; he’ll be in Denver, CO October 18-20, at Williams College, MA October 22-24, and here in Nashville, TN for the Southern Festival of Books October 12; and has work in the Twenty-First Century Science Fiction anthology (along with 140 And Counting‘s Ken Liu).
- Ed Pavlić will read from his latest collection of poetry, Visiting Hours at the Color Line, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave, Athens, GA.
- Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself for the Washington Post; has a new short story in The American Reader (“Sex With Camel“); and has a new book: Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong.
And for 140 And Counting contributors:
 |
|
- Stella Pierides is giving away copies of Feeding the Doves (a collection of 31 stories and haibun from Fruit Dove Press) at Goodreads.
Finally, this is a great reader review of Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories at LibraryThing:
|
 |
22 September 2013
grotesquely captivating
I love this reader review of Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories over at Smashwords:
|
|
News for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:
- Margaret Atwood‘s first commissioned opera, Pauline, will be performed by City Opera Vancouver next May; the opera is about poet Pauline Johnson. A trailer has been released for her forthcoming MaddAddam:
- Tina Connolly‘s story “Old Dead Futures” is part of Tor.com’s 5th birthday celebration.
- Alexander Lumans will be reading at Bucknell University with Ross Gay on Tuesday, February 18, 2014.
- Joyce Carol Oates‘ poem “Too Young to Marry but Not Too Young to Die” appears in The New Yorker; she also tweeted ten writing tips recently.
And for 140 And Counting contributors:
- Peg Duthie has work in the very cool conceptual anthology Overplay/Underdone.
- Simon Kewin has guest posts at Winged Reviews, M. Pax and Musings of a Penniless Writer about his Engn, a YA fantasy novel.
- Deborah P. Kolodji‘s poem “Basho After Cinderella” is at Rattle.
- September’s Asimov’s includes David C. Kopaska-Merkel‘s poem “Archive Copy.”
- Stella Pierides has reprinted her haiku that appeared in the June Presence.
31 July 2013
Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories
Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories: released on 24 June 2013.
|
 |
In this enchanting and sometimes gruesome collection of short stories, New Zealand author RJ Astruc tells several intertwined tales, about the libertine engineer Val, the thief Bink Ottoman, the all-powerful a-class AI RESYS, the famous international terrorist Bouboucar Bottle and the not as well-known international terrorist Katya Sushi, and a whole cast of airship dwellers, Interpol agents, geneticists, mutants, holograms, and others living on the cutting edge of morality.
What people are saying about Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories:
There are zero teddy bears having zero picnics in this book, and in fact I am now a little frightened that Astruc will see this comment and write a story about a teddy bear picnic of betrayal, greed, and casual experimentation on live subjects.
…These stories won’t be to everyone’s taste; nothing is. But they’re very well-handled and doing something that will probably appeal to people who wanted to like Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl, whether they found that work successful or not.
—Marissa Lingen, “Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories, by R. J. Astruc,” Novel Gazing Redux, 11 June 2013.
Table of Contents:
Propagation
Signs Over the Pacific
Turning Pol
Faceless in Halukan
The Bad Thing
Ma-Ma
Greenwich Mean Time Plus
Nemutaph
Katya in Quarantine
The Future of Lole San Paulo
How You Make the Straight
Mother & Daughter
Other work by RJ Astruc available online:
- “Regret Incorporated” (with Andy Astruc), Daily Science Fiction, 27 September 2011.
- “Johnny and Babushka,” Electric Spec, 30 November 2010.
- “The Perfume Eater,” Strange Horizons, 16 July 2007.
- Find a more complete list at the author’s website.
24 June 2013
RJ Astruc
RJ Astruc lives in New Zealand and has written two novels: Harmonica + Gig and A Festival of Skeletons. RJ’s short stories have appeared in many magazines including Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, ASIM, Aurealis and Midnight Echo.
Books for Upper Rubber Boot:
Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories: released on 24 June 2013.
|
|
Other work by RJ Astruc available online:
- “Regret Incorporated” (with Andy Astruc), Daily Science Fiction, 27 September 2011.
- “Johnny and Babushka,” Electric Spec, 30 November 2010.
- “The Perfume Eater,” Strange Horizons, 16 July 2007.
24 June 2013
Signs coming tomorrow
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:
 |
|
23 June 2013
“The Romantics and the Bohemians wrote poems to impress girls and get drunk–exactly what Chet is trying to bring to Nashville.”
| Hi there peeps. I took the day off from my day job today so I could work on URB stuff, and I’m really excited about some of the stuff we’re bringing into the world in the next fews months, not least Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories and The Mask Game. I’ll be working on The Mask Game cover art in the next few weeks.
This afternoon I stopped at East Side Story and met their proprietor, Chuck Beard, and dropped off some copies of Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days. Chuck posed for a photo (below). |
|
Lots of news to report! For Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors: a review of The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home by Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman is up at The Toronto Review of Books; Booklist Online has a new cute, contentless interview with Paolo Bacigalupi; Davis McCombs received the 2013 Laman Library Writers Fellowship; reviews of Daddy Love by Joyce Carol Oates are up at Pop Matters and The Times; and Chet Weise is featured in the latest issue of Native (check out page 35). If you live near Bellingham, WA, you should go see him performing poetry (and selling anthologies!) on 22 February 2013 with two seminal garage/punk bands, The Mono Men and Fireballs of Freedom.
 |
For 140 And Counting contributors: David C. Kopaska-Merkel‘s Luminous Worlds should come out this month from Dark Regions Press; David was also recently interviewed by The Mystic Nebula; Peter Newton‘s haiku appeared in Neverending Story; so did Liam Wilkinson‘s; Jonathan Pinnock has two poems in The Pygmy Giant: “Dissonant Love Song #2” and “Dali’s Moustache“, and The Independent gave his Dot Dash four stars; Miriam Sagan‘s short story “The Nun” appears in Orion headless. |
7 February 2013