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Date Archive: January 2007
Jan
31
Orbit Books announces 2006 annual results
Posted in: Press Room on 31st January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Orbit Books, the SF imprint of Little, Brown Book Group has announced record results for 2006.
Jan
30
New Ken MacLeod SF novel due April ‘07 from Orbit
Posted in: UKSFBN Talks To on 30th January 2007 by Sandy Auden
Ken MacLeod has delivered his latest SF novel, The Execution Channel [Amazon], to Orbit Books UK, and we dropped him a line to see what else we could find out about his new work.
Our latest round-up of shorter news items, with links out to further information. This latest batch includes info on HBO's forthcoming Song of Ice and Fire mini-series, a signing by Brit author Liz Williams, an extract from the new Steph Swainston novel, the naming of the 2007 WHC Grand Master, and more...
Jan
24
Penguin UK Glass Books flash mob to take London [+]
Posted in: What's On on 24th January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Penguin UK publicist Colin Brush, the man charged with bringing the single volume hardback edition of G.W. Dahlquist's Victorian mystery tale The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters to the attention of the Great British public, has come up with a novel way of doing so; although you'll have to be up early tomorrow morning to catch him at it...
Jan
22
Science Fiction Foundation offers SF MasterClass
Posted in: What's On on 22nd January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
The University of Liverpool and the Science Fiction Foundation have announced the launch of the Science Fiction Foundation Masterclass; a course in SF criticism to be delivered by course leaders Andrew M. Butler, Joan Haran and Brian Stableford.
Another round-up of shorter news items, with links out to more information, including details of a Terry Gilliam signing in London, a new Warren Ellis novel, an interview with fantasy author Robert Holdstock and more...
Jan
20
Two major new graphic novels from Titan, early ‘07
Posted in: Press Room on 20th January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
The UK's leading publisher of graphic novels, Titan Books, has announced two headline releases to kick off 2007 in some style: the Moore / Moore / Reppion / Oakley and Freeman created Albion and the graphic novel version of Darren Aronofsky's surrealist movie The Fountain.
Jan
19
Fantasycon 2007: progress report #1, GoH news
Posted in: What's On on 19th January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Alex Davies, publicity officer for the 2007 British Fantasy Convention has sent around the first convention progress report, complete with early programme outline news, and details of the convention's first two Guests of Honour and Master of Ceremonies.
Jan
18
JJLA Update: news from Zoran Zivkovic and Stephen Hunt
Posted in: What's On on 18th January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
John Jarrold, of John Jarrold Literary Agency fame, has released two pieces of client news recently, about Serbian genre writer Zoran Zivkovic and debut British fantasy author Stephen Hunt [wiki].
Jan
16
Books Received Dec 3rd 2006 - Jan 16th 2007
Posted in: Books Received on 16th January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
UK SF Book News has received the following books during December last year and the first half or so of January, including new titles from Joe Abercrombie, Jonathan Barnes, Hal Duncan, Stephen Hunt, Stephen Baxter, Naomi Novik, and more, as well as a selection of top-notch novellas from PS Publishing. As always, many thanks to the publishers concerned for bringing these titles to our attention.
Jan
15
Paul Cornell invites you to Doctor the Top 40
Posted in: Press Room on 15th January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Paul Cornell, TV and comics writer, novelist, short fictionist, you name it, would like to invite you - the science fiction sympathising elements of the Great British public - to enter into a dastardly plot to fix the outcome of the nation's weekly pop charts:
Our first quick selection of shorter news items for 2007:
Jan
13
New Stephen King story for Postscripts #10
Posted in: Press Room on 13th January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
:: UKSFBN Exclusive :: We've learned from Peter Crowther - of multi- British Fantasy Award, World Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award winning UK small press PS Publishing - that a brand new story, 'Graduation Afternoon', by legendary horror maestro Stephen King will be included in the special tenth edition of the PS magazine, Postscripts.
Jan
11
Josh Kirby Exhibition, Liverpool, Jun - Sep ‘07
Posted in: What's On on 11th January 2007 by Sandy Auden
The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool will be hosting the first retrospective exhibition of the work of celebrated fantasy artist Josh Kirby, between June 16th and September 30th this year.
Jan
10
Penguin invites you to open the Malice Box
Posted in: Press Room on 10th January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Penguin UK imprint Michael Joseph has unveiled The Malice Box Quest, a five-week, interactive, online scavenger hunt drawing on themes from the forthcoming thriller The Malice Box by Martin Langfield.
Jan
10
Elastic’s 21st title: Mat Coward’s So Far, So Near
Posted in: Press Room on 10th January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
British Fantasy Award-winning Elastic Press is continuing its mission to publish the very best in high-quality short fiction with its twenty-first publication: So Far, So Near, by Somerset-based writer Mat Coward, author of the "notoriously unhelpful" guide to the art and craft of writing, Success, and How to Avoid It [Amazon].
Jan
8
Guy Gavriel Kay’s Ysabel - charity auction launched
Posted in: Press Room on 8th January 2007 by UKSFBN admin
To celebrate the launch of Guy Gavriel Kay’s new novel, Ysabel, his Canadian publishers, Penguin Group (Canada) have announced today that the first book off the press will be autographed by the author and auctioned on Ebay.ca, with all proceeds from the auction will be donated to Indigo Books & Music, Inc.’s Love of Reading Fund.
Jan
6
New Ashraf Bey books coming from Jon Courtenay Grimwood in 2007
Posted in: UKSFBN Talks To on 6th January 2007 by Sandy Auden
Jon Courtenay Grimwood has sold three new Ashraf Bey books to Gollancz publishers. "It's five years after the events of Felaheen," said Grimwood. "Hani is now in her mid teens. Her cousin Prince Murad, who is now Emir of Tunis is in love with her. Raf is effectively Hani's bodyguard and Zara acts, mostly unwillingly, as Hani's chaperone. So it's all the old characters (because I liked them), but a little older. And the emphasis will be on Hani, after all she's ridiculously rich, she's related to everybody and she's rapidly turning into the Ottoman Empire's most eligible heiress, much to her disgust.
Jan
2
Author Update: Eric Brown on his 2007 releases
Posted in: UKSFBN Talks To on 2nd January 2007 by Sandy Auden
British sf author Eric Brown has two reasons to celebrate in 2007 - PS Publishing are releasing his long novella Starship Summer [PS Pub] and Barrington Stoke will be releasing his children's SF book, An Alien Ate Me for Breakfast! [BS] .