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DEAD MAN’S HAND now on sale!

DEAD MAN’S HAND, my new anthology of all-original weird western fiction, is now on sale! You can learn more on the DEAD MAN’S HAND website, including where you can buy the book.

The book’s website also features interviews with most of the authors, plus some free fiction from the book, and you can also read (or listen to) “Second Hand” by Rajan Khanna in the May issue of Lightspeed.

COVER COPY:

From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards, or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town.

Here are twenty-three original tales—stories of the Old West infused with elements of the fantastic—produced specifically for this volume by many of today’s finest writers. Included are Orson Scott Card’s first “Alvin Maker” story in a decade, and an original adventure by Fred Van Lente, writer of Cowboys & Aliens.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction—John Joseph Adams
The Red-Headed Dead—Joe R. Lansdale
The Old Slow Man and His Gold Gun From Space—Ben H. Winters
Hellfire on the High Frontier—David Farland
The Hell-Bound Stagecoach—Mike Resnick
Stingers and Strangers—Seanan McGuire
Bookkeeper, Narrator, Gunslinger—Charles Yu
Holy Jingle—Alan Dean Foster
The Man With No Heart—Beth Revis
Wrecking Party—Alastair Reynolds
Hell from the East—Hugh Howey
Second Hand—Rajan Khanna
Alvin and the Apple Tree—Orson Scott Card
Madam Damnable’s Sewing Circle—Elizabeth Bear
Strong Medicine—Tad Williams
Red Dreams—Jonathan Maberry
Bamboolzed—Kelley Armstrong
Sundown—Tobias S. Buckell
La Madre Del Oro—Jeffrey Ford
What I Assume You Shall Assume—Ken Liu
The Devil’s Jack—Laura Anne Gilman
The Golden Age—Walter Jon Williams
Neversleeps—Fred Van Lente
Dead Man’s Hand—Christie Yant

WEBSITE:
johnjosephadams.com/dead-mans-hand

FREE READS:
johnjosephadams.com/dead-mans-hand/free-reads

EDITIONS:

Trade Paperback
Ebook
Audiobook

BUY THE BOOK:

Eat, Meet, GEEK

I’ll be speaking at the Eat, Meet, GEEK meetup group’s monthly meeting/dinner in Los Angeles tonight (April 25) at 8pm PT.

Here’s a little blurb describing the group:

A monthly meeting of the best and brightest in the LA Art Scene. Whether you do VFX, comic books, act, write, or stand on your head, you don’t want to miss out on this dinner. We come together on the last Thursday of every month to catch up on news, meet fellow professionals, find work, hear our speaker and eat!

Info about my event in particular is here. Anyone is welcome to attend. It’s located at Canter’s Deli. The group asks for a $5 fee to help cover the cost of their speakers.

If you’re in the LA area and you’re free, come check it out!

Hugo Nominations!

I am honored to announce that Lightspeed and myself have once again both been nominated for the Hugo Award. Thanks so much to everyone who nominated me and the magazine, and congratulations to all of the other nominees. The full nominee list can be found here: thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2014-hugo-awards.

ROBOT UPRISINGS is now on sale!

ROBOT UPRISINGS, my new anthology co-edited with Daniel H. Wilson, is now on sale! You can learn more on the ROBOT UPRISINGS website, including where you can buy the book.

COVER COPY:

Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives. With contributions from a mix of bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming writers, and including a rare story by “the father of artificial intelligence,” Dr. John McCarthy, Robot Uprisings meticulously describes the exhilarating and terrifying near-future in which humans can only survive by being cleverer than the rebellious machines they have created.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Foreword—Daniel H. Wilson
Complex God—Scott Sigler
Cycles—Charles Yu
Lullaby—Anna North
Eighty Miles an Hour All the Way to Paradise—Genevieve Valentine
Executable—Hugh Howey (reprint)
The Omnibot Incident—Ernest Cline
Epoch—Cory Doctorow (reprint)
Human Intelligence—Jeff Abbott
The Golden Hour—Julianna Baggott
Sleepover—Alastair Reynolds (reprint)
Seasoning—Alan Dean Foster
Nanonauts! In Battle with Tiny Death-subs!—Ian McDonald
Of Dying Heroes and Deathless Deeds—Robin Wasserman
The Robot and the Baby—John McCarthy (reprint)
We are All Misfit Toys in the Aftermath of the Velveteen War—Seanan McGuire
Spider the Artist—Nnedi Okorafor (reprint)
Small Things—Daniel H. Wilson

WEBSITE:

johnjosephadams.com/robot-uprisings

WHERE TO BUY IT:

johnjosephadams.com/robot-uprisings/buy-the-book

I’m doing an “Ask Me Anything” interview on Reddit today

If you’ve got any questions you’ve been dying to ask me, pop on over to Reddit today and leave a question there for me to answer. Since it’s called an “Ask Me Anything” interview, you can ask me whatever you want, even if it’s just about whether or not I like pie.

The AMA is located at http://redd.it/22ixl3.

My Military Fantasy Anthology Has a Title: OPERATION ARCANA

You may recall back in December I announced a title contest for my military fantasy anthology, which will be published in early 2015 by Baen Books. Well, the contest is now over, and all the entries have been duly considered, and we’ve decided on a title: OPERATION ARCANA.

The lucky winner who suggested OPERATION ARCANA is J.P. Behrens. Honorable Mention goes to Steven Howell for his suggestion of RUNES OF ENGAGEMENT. (And he almost had the same suggestion as the winner, with ARMS & ARCANA.)

So a big thanks to J.P. and Steven, and to all of the 150+ folks who made suggestions. (Since you could submit up to five titles, in total there were more than 700 entries!)

I’ll be clear to announce the full table of contents in about a month or so. Stay tuned!

New Anthology Sale: PRESS START TO PLAY Sold to Vintage Books

Exciting news! I just sold a new anthology to Vintage Books, again in collaboration with Daniel H. Wilson (with whom I co-edited ROBOT UPRISINGS, which is due out April 8).

ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY

Video games are a multi-billion dollar a year industry that has outpaced movies and books combined. The humble, pixelated games of the ‘70s and ‘80s have evolved into the vivid, realistic, and immersive form of entertainment that now rivals all other forms of media for dominance in the consumer marketplace. For many, video games have become the cultural icons around which pop culture revolves.

PRESS START TO PLAY is an anthology of stories inspired by video games: stories that attempt to recreate the feel of a video game in prose form; stories that play with the concepts common (or exclusive) to video games; and stories about the creation of video games and/or about the video games—or the gamers—themselves.

These stories will appeal to anyone who has interacted with games, from hardcore teenaged fanatics, to men and women who game after their children have gone to bed, to your well-meaning aunt who won’t stop inviting you to join her farm-based Facebook games.

At the helm of this project are Daniel H. Wilson—bestselling novelist and expert in artificial intelligence—and John Joseph Adams—bestselling, Hugo Award-nominated editor of more than a dozen science fiction/fantasy anthologies and series editor of Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy (volume one forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin in 2015). Together, they have drawn on their wide-ranging contacts to assemble an incredibly talented group of authors who are eager to attack the topic of video games from startling and fascinating angles.

Under the direction of an A.I. specialist and a veteran editor, the anthology will expose readers to a strategically chosen mix of stories that explore novel video game concepts in prose narratives, such as save points, kill screens, gold-farming, respawning, first-person shooters, unlocking achievements, and getting “pwned.” Likewise, each of our authors is an accomplished specialist in areas such as science fiction, fantasy, and techno-thrillers, and many have experience writing for video games professionally.

Combining unique viewpoints and exacting realism, this anthology promises to thrill generations of readers, from those who grew up with Atari 2600s to the console and PC gamers of today.

PUBLISHER: Vintage Books
TENTATIVE PUBLICATION DATE: Late 2015

THE END IS NIGH is Now On Sale!

THE END IS NIGH, volume one of THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH series I’m co-editing (and publishing) with Hugh Howey, is now on sale!

Pop on over to THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH website to check out the (TOTALLY AWESOME) table of contents, which includes all-new, never-before-published stories by Hugh Howey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, Scott Sigler, Nancy Kress, Ben H. Winters, Tananarive Due, Robin Wasserman, and many more!

Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy

I’m delighted to announce that I have agreed to serve as the series editor of Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, a new entry in the prestigious Best American Series^® published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Our inaugural guest editor will be bestselling author and all-around swell guy Joe Hill. The first volume will be published in October 2015, collecting the best of 2014. [press release]

To help ensure that I don’t miss anything great, I am currently, and will be for the foreseeable future, accepting reader recommendations. I am also open to writers submitting their stories directly, and, in fact, would encourage writers to do so to help ensure I see everything.

To learn more about the series, including how to submit a story or recommendation, and what is eligible, please visit , visit johnjosephadams.com/best-american.

THE END IS NIGH is Now Available for Pre-Order!

THE END IS NIGH, volume one of THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH series I’m co-editing (and publishing) with Hugh Howey, is now available for pre-order. It goes on sale March 1. (We were originally going to publish it in June, but we finished it early, so…MARCH IT IS!)

Pop on over to THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH website to check out the (TOTALLY AWESOME) table of contents.

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