This year’s Arthur C Clarke award was announced in unusual style with last year’s winner, Tade Thompson, having the honour of tweeting the news. That’s right, the announcement was tweeted. 2020, right? The honour of this year’s award goes to Namwali Serpell for her novel The Old Drift. In a series of tweets announcing the win, Tade Thompson had this
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With the previously announced launch of the Ad Astra Imprint from House of Zeus, today we’re bringing you a very special Out This Week! feature on all of their launch titles! 1st October 2020 – Hold Up the Sky – Cixin Liu A collection of award-winning short stories – a breathtaking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. Liu’s writing takes the
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29th September – Battle Ground – Jim Butcher Things are about to get serious for Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional Wizard, in the next entry in the No. 1 New York Times and No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Dresden Files. Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red
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22nd September 2020 – The Immortal Words – Jeff Wheeler To defeat an immortal evil, a young warrior must enter the land of the dead in the spellbinding conclusion to Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler’s epic Grave Kingdom trilogy. As kingdoms fall, brave young warrior Bingmei fights to fulfill a prophecy and save what’s left of the world from the
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15th September 2020 – The Trouble With Peace – Joe Abercrombie Second in the AGE OF MADNESS trilogy, THE TROUBLE WITH PEACE is the next instalment of a series which is revolutionising fantasy . . . Conspiracy. Betrayal. Rebellion.Peace is just another kind of battlefield . . . Savine dan Glokta, once Adua’s most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune
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When someone says “Alien”, we tend to have a very green mental image. But “alien” doesn’t have to mean the little bug-eyed men in flying saucers; it isn’t always the enemy in a monster suit, trying to destroy the White House. Sometimes it’s an incomprehensible viewpoint, or trying to survive in a radically different place. Sometimes it’s simply trying to
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1st September 2020 – A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire – Jennifer L. Armentrout Everything Poppy has ever believed in is a lie, including the man she was falling in love with. Thrust among those who see her as a symbol of a monstrous kingdom, she barely knows who she is without the veil of the Maiden. But what she
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2020 has been a scary year. Like some dark fantasy or horror story. Or a dystopian tale about the end of the world. So… Why not embrace that spirit? Show this year from hell that you can take whatever it dishes out, because you know what dark fantasies and horror stories are really like. And you’ve seen more ends of the world than 2020 could even
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25th August 2020 – Belle Vue – C.S. Alleyne Jealousy. Betrayal. Murder. And a hunger for vengeance that spans the centuries… History student Alex Palmer is thrilled when his girlfriend, Claire Ryan, buys an apartment in Belle Vue Manor, formerly a Victorian lunatic asylum. But as Alex begins to discover the dark truth about the asylum’s past, he, Claire, and their friend Marianne
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Independent publishing house Head of Zeus has announced the launch of Ad Astra, a new imprint at the cutting edge of high concept Science Fiction and Fantasy. “I’ve been a fan [of Science Fiction] since the age of 11 when I traded my stamp album for a copy of HG Wells’s collected short stories, and I’ve never looked back. But
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