Risingshadow: August 2017 Edition

Guy Adams' The Change (vol. 1-3) was published by Solaris Books (Rebellion Publishing) in July 2017. Information about Guy Adams: Guy Adams is the author of The World House novels, the Deadbeat series and the weird westerns The Good, the Bad and the Infernal and Once Upon a Time in Hell. He has also written many other books. To find out more information about him, please click here to visit his official website. Information about The Change: The Change 1: London - Orbital One minute ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Robert J. Duperre. About Robert J. Duperre: Robert J. Duperre is a really great guy. Actually, he's not. Though he is the author of eight novels that offer a mix of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and co-wrote The Breaking World with David Dalglish an epic fantasy adventure series published by 47North. Robert lives in rural Connecticut with his wife, the artist Jessica Torrant. Media links: Facebook - ... [read more]

Neal Asher's Infinity Engine was published by Night Shade Books in the US in March 2017. Information about Neal Asher: Neal Asher was born 1961 in Billericay, Essex, the son of a school teacher and a lecturer in applied mathematics who were also SF aficionados. Prior to 2000 the Asher had stories accepted by British small press SF and fantasy magazines but post 2000 his writing career took flight. Pan Macmillan offered him a three-book contract and have now published many more UK, America, ... [read more]

The Spirit of the Place and Other Strange Tales: The Complete Short Stories of Elizabeth Walter was published by Shadow Publishing in March 2017. Information about The Spirit of the Place and Other Strange Tales: The Complete Short Stories of Elizabeth Walter: The Spirit of the Place And Other Strange Tales: The Complete Short Stories of Elizabeth Walter. All of Elizabeth Walter's 31 short stories collected in one volume for the first time. Supernatural, eerie and uncanny tales from her ... [read more]

Paul Kane's Nailbiters was published by Black Shuck Books in February 2017. Information about Paul B. Kane: Paul B. Kane is an award-winning author and editor, who has worked in the fields of SF and Dark Fantasy (most notably the bestselling Arrowhead trilogy, a post-apocalyptic reworking of Robin Hood – as Paul Kane – gathered together in the sell-out Hooded Man omnibus) and the Y.A. market (The Rainbow Man, as P.B. Kane). He penned the well received Sherlock Holmes stories ‘The ... [read more]

Ronlyn Domingue's The Plague Diaries will be published by Atria Books in August 2017. Information about Ronlyn Domingue: Ronlyn Domingue (pronounced ron-lin doh-mang, equal emphasis on all syllables) is the author of The Mapmaker's War and The Chronicle of Secret Riven, Books 1 and 2 of the Keeper of Tales Trilogy. The third book, The Plague Diaries, is forthcoming in August 2017. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, The Mercy of Thin Air, was published in ten languages, was a fiction ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Gail Z. Martin about her new epic Darkhurst fantasy series. Gail Z. Martin is the author of Vendetta: A Deadly Curiosities Novel in her urban fantasy series set in Charleston, SC (Solaris Books); Shadow and Flame the fourth and final book in the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga (Orbit Books); The Shadowed Path (Solaris Books) and Iron and Blood a new Steampunk series (Solaris Books) co-authored with Larry N. Martin. The first novel in her brand new epic ... [read more]

John Gribbin's Don't Look Back was published by Elsewhen Press in a digital edition in May 2017. The paperback edition will be published in August 2017. Information about John Gribbin: John Gribbin was born in 1946 in Maidstone, Kent. He studied physics at the University of Sussex and went on to complete an MSc in astronomy at the same University before moving to the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, to work for his PhD. After working for the journal Nature and New Scientist, and three ... [read more]

Kieran Shea's Off Rock was published by Titan Books in April 2017. Information about Kieran Shea: Kieran Shea is the author of the Koko series of science-fiction adventures: Koko Takes a Holiday and Koko the Mighty. He has been nominated for the Story South's Million Writers Award twice. Follow him on Twitter @BlackIrishBlarn. Information about Off Rock: In the year 2778, Jimmy Vik is feeling dissatisfied. After busting his ass for assorted interstellar mining outfits for close to two ... [read more]

(Wings of Fire #10)

The new prophecy comes to a thrilling conclusion in the New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series! A young NightWing may have had the first true prophecy in generations... Something is coming to shake the earth.Something is coming to scorch the ground.Jade Mountain will fall beneath thunder and ice.Unless the lost city of night can be found. Will the return of Darkstalker bring a horrible future to Pyrrhia? Or can five young dragons save the world - again? Don't miss the thrilling conclusion to the new prophecy in the epic, bestselling Wings of Fire series! [read more]

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THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “If you liked Gone Girl, you’ll like this.”—Stephen King Ten years ago, six friends went on vacation. One made it out alive…. In that instant, college student Quincy Carpenter became a member of a very exclusive club—a group of survivors the press dubbed “The Final Girls”: Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who endured the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran ... [read more]

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(Bobiverse #3)

Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can't stay out of trouble. They've created enough colonies so humanity shouldn't go extinct. But political squabbles have a bad habit of dying hard, and the Brazilian probes are still trying to take out the competition. And the Bobs have picked a fight with an older, more powerful species with a large appetite and a short temper. Still stinging from getting ... [read more]

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(Bannerless #1)

A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she's learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society. Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn't just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before. A culture of population control has developed in which people, organized into households, must earn the ... [read more]

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Welcome to the strangest world in science fiction. Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right. Theo, in turn, relies on Seth for mobility, and for ordinary vision looking forwards and backwards. Like everyone else in their world, they are symbionts, depending on each other to survive. In the universe containing Seth’s world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a “dark cone” ... [read more]

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Three neighboring villages on the Ukrainian/Romanian border are the final refuge for the last of the mythical creatures of Eastern Europe. Now, on the eve of the war that may eradicate their kind — and with the ruthless Night Police descending upon their sanctuary — they tell their stories and confront their destinies. Eerie and unsettling like the best fairy tales, these incisor-sharp portraits of ghosts, witches, sirens, and seers — and the mortals who live at their side and in their thrall — will chill your marrow and tear at your heart. [read more]

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(Heartstrikers #4)

To save his family from his tyrannical mother, Julius had to step on a lot of tails. That doesn’t win a Nice Dragon many friends, but just when he thinks he’s starting to make progress, a new threat arrives. Turns out, things can get worse. Heartstriker hasn’t begun to pay for its secrets, and the dragons of China are here to collect. When the Golden Emperor demands his surrender, Julius will have to choose between loyalty to the sister who's always watched over him and preserving the clan he gave everything to protect. [read more]

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(Cassandra Palmer #8)

Next in the New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series featuring Cassie Palmer, whose ability to see the future and talk to ghosts gets her mixed up with vampires, fae, and non-stop action. Ever since being stuck with the job of pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world, Cassie Palmer has been playing catch up. Catch up on the lifetime’s worth of training she missed being raised by a psychotic vampire instead of at the fabled pythian court. Catch up on the powerful, and sometimes ... [read more]

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(The Water Dragon's Bride #2)

After a ritual in the village leaves her hovering on the brink of death, Asahi is rescued by the power of the water dragon god! Has he awakened to feelings of compassion, or does Asahi need to flee this treacherous world before something even worse happens to her? [read more]

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(Serafina #3)

The storms are coming.... Something has happened to Serafina. She has awoken into a darkness she does not understand, scarred from a terrible battle, only to find that life at Biltmore Estate has changed in unimaginable ways. Old friends do unthinkable things and enemies seem all around. A mysterious threat moves towards Biltmore, a force without a name, bringing with it violent storms and flooding that stands to uproot everything in its path. Serafina must uncover the truth about what has ... [read more]

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(Noumenon #1)

With nods to Arthur C. Clarke’s Rama series, the real science of Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves, a touch of Hugh Howey’s Wool, and told through echoes of Octavia Butler’s voice, this is a powerful tale of space travel, adventure, discovery, and humanity that unfolds through a series of generational vignettes In 2088, humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth’s solar system. But one uncertainty remains: Where do we go? Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has an idea. He’s ... [read more]

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(The Nyquist Mysteries #1)

Below the neon skies of Dayzone - a city where the lights never go out, and night has been banished - lowly private eye John Nyquist takes on a teenage runaway case. His quest to track down Eleanor Bale takes him from Dayzone, to the permanently blacked-out alleyways of Nocturna. As the vicious, seemingly invisible serial killer known only as Quicksilver haunts the streets, Nyquist starts to suspect that the runaway girl holds within her the key to the city's fate. In the end, there's only one place left to search: the strange, mysterious realm known as Dusk. [read more]

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(Intergalactic Dating Agency)

Three human women are lured to a charming small town where an unlikely matchmaker reveals that she needs them for her desperate clients - three achingly gorgeous aliens.   If they play along, the girls will soon be free to go – so long as these hunky, cinnamon roll heroes don’t manage to win their hearts first… This Stargazer Alien Romance Collection includes 3 full romances, featuring: good-natured aliens who are tailor-made to please and ferociously defend their mates, a matchmaking ... [read more]

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(The Hallowed War #2)

MAD GODS WALK THE LAND Tensions flare between north and south, and hatreds erupt into war. Yet the conflicts of men are quickly overshadowed by a far greater threat. Creatures long kept confined rise from below, spreading destruction on an unimaginable scale. The flames of war are fanned by the Celestial Church, whose inquisitors and holy knights seek to destroy the pagans wherever they are found. A secret cabal creates unexpected allies, and pursues its own dark agenda... While Malcolm ... [read more]

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(Robin Hood: Demon's Bane #3)

These are dark days for England. The Hood is dead. The Sheriff has summoned an ally - one who leads an army sufficient to enter Sherwood and crush the resistance. Then comes news that King Richard is the prisoner of a pagan ruler. What began as a rebellion has become a war for the throne. With hordes of demons and men at his disposal, the Sheriff is poised to seize power. A desperate mission is mounted to rescue Richard, while those who remain behind must hold off the enemy. Yet even if the true king returns, an epic battle will erupt, and the outcome cannot be foretold. [read more]

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(The Brimstone Files #1)

A salacious throwback to the detective pulps of the 70s, Hex-Rated kicks off the new urban fantasy series the Brimstone Files. Fall, 1970. Los Angeles has always been a den of danger and bliss, but even darker tidings brew in the City of Angels. Cults, magic, and the supernatural are leaking into the worlds of glamour and dives of the gutter. To the spectators walking down Hollywood Blvd, it's just more proof that La La Land is over the cuckoo's nest. But to former child magician and Korean ... [read more]

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Sometimes it's not the kid you expect who falls through to magicland, sometimes it's... Elliott. He's grumpy, nerdy, and appalled by both the dearth of technology and the levels of fitness involved in swinging swords around. He's a little enchanted by the elves and mermaids. Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people (human or otherwise) he finds that two unlikely ideas, friendship and world peace, may actually be possible. [read more]

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(Shattering the Ley #3)

The last book in Joshua Palmatier’s high fantasy trilogy, set in a city powered by a magical ley line network acting like an electrical system.In this final volume of Palmatier’s Ley trilogy, Wielder Kara Tremain and Allan Garrett have seized control of the new Nexus — the hub of magical power for Tumbor city — created by the White Cloak cult at the Needle, taking their leader prisoner. Kara intends to use the Needle’s Nexus to heal the distortion over the city, allowing the ley ... [read more]

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(The Faraman Prophecy #1)

The Faraman Polity was created by the first Luqs, and has been ruled for generations by those of the Luqs bloodline. It is a burgeoning empire maintained by the combined efforts of the standing military force and the Talents of the Halls of Law. While the military preserves and protects, it is the Halls’ Talents — those gifted from birth with magical abilities — who serve as the agents and judges of the Law. For no one can successfully lie to a Talent. Not only can they read people by the ... [read more]

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(Black Shuck Shadows #3)

Black Shuck Shadows presents a collectable series of micro-collections, intended as a sampler to introduce readers to the best in classic and modern horror. In Unquiet Waters, Niveau offers four stories of aquatic terror. Contents 1. To Drown the World 2. The Reflection 3. Rapture of the Deep 4. Where the Water Comes In [read more]

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