Odd Couple At Heart Of Virtu

Apr. 26 —

Fantasy author Sarah Monette, who is a current finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, told SCI FI Wire that her latest novel, The Virtu, is in a lot of ways the second half of her first novel, Melusine.

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Wastelands Update

Some of you may have noticed that Galleycat recently ran a little piece about the sale of my post-apocalyptic reprint anthology, Wastelands. Also, a notice recently ran in, I believe, Publisher’s Lunch, which my agent, Jenny Rappaport, replicates here.

While I’m at it, I should also say that the new pub date is Feb. 2008, I’m told. Also, I secured a few more permissions: Stephen King’s “The End of the Whole Mess” and Octavia E. Butler’s “Speech Sounds.”

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Rainbow Extrapolates Future

Apr. 24 —

Hugo-Award-winning SF author Vernor Vinge, whose novel Rainbows End is a current finalist for both the Hugo and Prometheus awards, told SCI FI Wire that the book explores the interaction of major tech trends with gaming, medicine, tyranny and terrorism.

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Rollback Explores Aging

Apr. 19 —

Multiple award-winning SF author Robert J. Sawyer, whose novel Rollback is the SCI FI Essentials pick for April, told SCI FI Wire that the book juxtaposes two ideas: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and aging.

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Magical Tomes, Anyone?

My pal Jeremy Tolbert is looking for some help with a supersecret project he’s working on:

I’m working on a little web project that is going to be really fun, but I need titles of magical tomes, both real, historical ones, and invented ones. I’d like to include magical tomes that some of you may have used in your fiction as easter eggs. Just need the titles. Please leave me a comment with the titles and I will work them into the site. Sorry that I am being a bit mysterious, but I want this project to be fun for you too when it’s done and if I tell you about it now, then it won’t be as exciting.

Anyone?

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Glasshouse Throws Stones

Apr. 18 —

Hugo Award-winning SF author Charles Stross, whose novel Glasshouse is a current finalist for both the Hugo and Prometheus awards, told SCI FI Wire that the book is about Robin, a man who wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing.

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Peeps Puts Sex In Vampirism

Apr. 13 —

Best-selling author Scott Westerfeld–whose novel Peeps is a current finalist for the Andre Norton Award for best young-adult SF/fantasy novel of the year–told SCI FI Wire that the book is about a young man in New York who has been infected with an unusual sexually transmitted parasite.

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