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Tag Archive: Stephen Baxter

The nominees for this year's Hugo Awards have been posted to the 2008 Worldcon website.

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Another round-up of the books and magazines that have been sent in to UKSFBN in the past couple of weeks. As always, many thanks indeed to the publishers concerned for bringing these titles to our attention.

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The shortlist for this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award was officially announced today.

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2008 is the 50th anniversary year of the British Science Fiction Association and as part of their year-long celebrations, they've announced the launch of a short story competition for writers from the UK and Ireland, with a £500 first prize for the bets example, as decided by their illustrious panel of judges.

The BSFA's Martin McGrath has been in touch with the pertinent details: "To mark the anniversary we're publishing Celebrations: an original anthology of British SF featuring some of the biggest names in the genre. We've also got the 50th Anniversary BSFA Awards at Eastercon - as well as a range of panels looking back over the last 50 years of fandom at the Con - picking this year's best novel and a 'retro' award for 50 years ago.

"Then there's the new BSFA website, our AGM will feature a panel of fans who were around at the founding of the BSFA, we're having a birthday party in November and we're running a 50th Anniversary short story competition.

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Our latest round-up of the books that have been sent in to UKSFBN in the past couple of weeks. As always, many thanks indeed to the publishers concerned for bringing these titles to our attention.

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A press release from Solaris Books has announced the publication of a brand new anthology of Steampunk-themed fiction: "BL Publishing is utterly delighted to announce the purchase of a major new anthology from editor and reviewer Nick Gevers [co-editor of the recent Infinity Plus anthology] for its growing Solaris imprint.

"Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology is a brand new anthology of all-original stories from some of the genre's foremost writers, which will be published simultaneously in both the US and UK by Solaris, in paperback, in Autumn 2008

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Another round-up of the books that have been sent to UKSFBN towers in the past few weeks. As always, many thanks indeed to the publishers concerned for bringing these titles to our attention.

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Last month saw the launch of a new promotion by Gollancz Books here in the UK: their Future Classics range. They've re-packaged eight current titles by some of the biggest names on their list - Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear, Greg Egan, Paul J. McAuley, Richard Morgan, Christopher Priest, Alastair Reynolds and Dan Simmons - with all-new cover art.

The new covers are certainly impressive. All eight are included in the article below, but to be honest the jpeg images really don't do them justice at all. For instance, Paul McAuley's Fairyland is printed with an iridescent ink, giving the patterning a holographic feel, Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space has a semi-mirrored finish with an embossed pattern, and the raised patterning on Stephen Baxter's Evolution cover is actually felt-textured.

The new designs are only intended to run for the duration of the promotion and then while stocks last; the revamped imagery won't be replacing the books' current covers in the long-run, and Gollancz won't be extending the concepts for any of the other titles in the relevant authors' series. Intrigued by the thinking behind the stand-alone concept, we sent an email to Gollancz editorial director Simon Spanton and asked him a few questions about the Future Classics.

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Following a titanic effort today, we've now caught up with all the books and 'zines that have been received here at the UKSFBN offices up to the end of Thursday August 16th. Another batch will follow shortly, but in the meantime, do check out the following to see what's new and interesting.

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The organisers of this year's Eurocon event dropped us a line to let us know about their stellar line-up of guests, namely: the legendary Anne McCaffrey, Brit SF supremo Stephen Baxter, award-winning Serbian writer Zoran Živković, celebrated space artist David A. Hardy, Ghost of Honour Stanislaw Lem and Danish Fan GoH Niels Dalgaard.

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Multi award-winning independent UK genre publisher PS Publishing sent out their latest e-bulletin yesterday, and announced a batch of new titles that will be due for publication from late 2007 onwards, including brand new work from Steven Erikson, Stephen Baxter, Ian Cameron Esslemont and more.

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The new, May / June 2007 issue of the UK's longest-running science fiction magazine, Interzone will be available from May 10th from publisher TTA Press.

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Another three or four weeks' worth of arrivals at the UK SF Book News offices, presented for your perusing pleasure. Including new titles from Robert Holdstock, Charlaine Harris, Hal Duncan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Steve Aylett, James Barclay, G.W. Dahlquist, Minister Faust, Steven Utley, Dan Simmons and Liz Williams and as well as proofs from Michael Marshall, David Gunn and Richard Morgan.

As always, many thanks to the publishers concerned for bringing these titles to our attention.

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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.

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Ian Whates, of Newcon Press, has been in touch to let us know about a new anthology that they're releasing in November, entitled Time Pieces.

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UK SF Book News has received the following books during the first half of October 2006 (many thanks to the publishers concerned for bringing them to our attention). Check out the list, there might be a new release or two that you've not seen yet. Read the Full Story...