Risingshadow: December 2015 Edition

Joel Lane's Scar City was published by Eibonvale Press in October 2015. Information about Joel Lane: Joel Lane was a British author, poet, critic and anthology editor from Birmingham, a place that can be felt in a substantial part of his writing. His work has been published in numerous collections and he has received several awards throughout his career, including the British Fantasy Award in 1994 and 2008, the Shirley Jackson Award in 2008 and the World Fantasy Award in 2013. He was also ... [read more]

Michael Reynier's Horthólary: Tales from Montagascony was published by Tartarus Press in October 2015. Information about Michael Reynier: Michael Reynier is British and works in London. He studied as an archae­ologist and worked at the British Museum and the University of Leicester before moving into university administration. He is married with two children. Information about Horthólary: Tales from Montagascony: These four tales from Montagascony span almost the entire life of ... [read more]

The Art of Stephen Hickman was published by Titan Books in November 2015. Information about Stephen Hickman: Stephen Hickman has been illustrating science fiction and fantasy for three decades. His work is inspired by the masters of fantasy and science fiction writing - J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, A. Merritt, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Clark Ashton Smith. He has illustrated over 400 book covers for acclaimed SFF authors. Click here to visit his official website. Information about The ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Jonathan Strahan about his latest anthology, Meeting Infinity (Solaris Books, December 2015). Meeting Infinity is part of The Infinity Project series. Jonathan Strahan is an award-winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster. Since 1997 he has has edited more than forty anthologies including The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Infinity, New Space Opera, and Eclipse anthology series. He is the recipient of the World Fantasy Award, a ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Paul Meloy. Paul Meloy was born in 1966 in South London. He is the author of Islington Crocodiles and Dogs With Their Eyes Shut, and the forthcoming collection Electric Breakfast. His work has been published in Black Static, Interzone and a variety of award-winning anthologies. He lives in Devon with his family. The Night Clock is his long-awaited debut novel. Click here to read Risingshadow's review of The Night Clock. AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL MELOY [read more]

Zoë Sumra's Sailor to a Siren was published as e-book by Elsewhen Press in July 2015. The paperback edition was published in November 2015. Information about Zoë Sumra: Zoë was born in London, but spent her later childhood living in Lancashire, where she started writing novels at the age of twelve due to extreme boredom. After completing the obligatory epic fantasy trilogy in her teens, she spent four years at the University of St Andrews, where she learnt to fence both foil and sabre and ... [read more]

Conrad Williams' Dust and Desire was published by Titan Books in November 2015. Information about Conrad Williams: Conrad Williams is the author of seven novels, four novellas and a collection of short stories. One was the winner of the August Derleth award for Best Novel (British Fantasy Awards 2010), while The Unblemished won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel in 2007 (he beat the shortlisted Stephen King on both occasions). He won the British Fantasy Award for Best ... [read more]

Katrina Mountfort's Forbidden Alliance was published by Elsewhen Press as an e-book in September 2015. The paperback edition will be published in November 2015. Information about Katrina Mountfort: Katrina was born in Leeds. After a degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Food Science, she started work as a scientist. Since then, she's had a varied career. Her philosophy of life is that we only regret the things we don't try, and she's been a homeopath, performed forensic science research and ... [read more]

Paul Meloy's The Night Clock was published by Solaris Books in November 2015. Information about Paul Meloy: Paul Meloy has published most of his stories in The Third Alternative and Black Static, plus Interzone, Nemonymous and anthologies such as The British Invasion and Paper Cities. His story 'Black Static' won the British Fantasy Award. He works as a psychiatric nurse in Cambridge. Click here to visit the author's Wikipedia page. Information about The Night Clock: Phil Trevena's ... [read more]

A Choice of Treasons giveaway has ended. Five lucky winners have been selected randomly among all the participants. The winners have been contacted personally via e-mail. Thank you for all the participants and congratulations to the winners!   [read more]

2015 World Fantasy Award winners are: Life Achievement Winners Ramsey Campbell Sheri S. Tepper Novel David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks (Random House/Sceptre UK) Novella Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine (Tachyon Publications) Short Story Scott Nicolay, Do You Like to Look at Monsters? (Fedogan & Bremer, chapbook) Anthology Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, eds., Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales (Candlewick Press) Collection Helen ... [read more]

Karen Azinger's The Battle Immortal was published in October 2015. Information about Karen Azinger: Karen L. Azinger has always loved fantasy fiction, and always hoped that someday she could give back to the genre a little of the joy that reading has always given her. Eight years ago on a hike in the Columbia River Gorge she realized she had enough original ideas to finally write an epic fantasy. She started writing and never stopped. The Steel Queen is her first book, born from that hike in ... [read more]

(Pendergast #15)

A secret chamber. A mysterious shipwreck. A murder in the desolate salt marshes. A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated-and sinister-than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated. Pendergast, together with his ward Constance Greene, travels to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the wine cellar, they find something considerably more disturbing: a bricked-up niche that once held a crumbling skeleton. [read more]

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(Keeper of the Lost Cities #4)

Sophie Foster is on the run — but at least she's not alone.Her closest friends from the Lost Cities have gone with her to join the Black Swan. They still have doubts about the shadowy organization, but the only way to find answers is to start working with them. And as they settle into their new lives, they uncover secrets far bigger than anything they’d imagined.But their enemies are far from done, and unleash a terrifying plague that threatens the safety of an entire species. Sophie and her ... [read more]

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Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away―the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source ... [read more]

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(Warriors: Super Edition #8)

Warriors Super Edition: Moth Flight's Vision is an epic stand-alone adventure in Erin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series! Set after the events of the Dawn of the Clans prequel arc, this Super Edition follows WindClan's first medicine cat, Moth Flight, on a quest that changes the shape of the warrior Clans forever. The five warrior Clans are newly formed, and the forest is at peace — but in WindClan, one young cat is troubled by strange visions that will lead her to a destiny ... [read more]

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(The Elite Guards #1)

From betrayal and pain, can two very different worlds be saved? A naïve beauty... Olivia has never questioned the teachings of the Witches Guild, never questioned the Elders; it’s the only life she’s ever known. An uncontrollable hunger... Ristan has spent centuries trying to contain his true nature, restraining his Demon and its voracious hunger for souls. A situation neither of them were prepared for. They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and Olivia can’t ... [read more]

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(Kingdom of Clockwork #2)

In a future Denmark, Karl Nielsen, Royal Clockmaker, is recalled to the Round Tower to design the King's most ambitious project yet - a vehicle to travel into space. The second book in the Kingdom of Clockwork series is a quirky, humorous tale of Nordic monarchs, Irish monks, jazz records, airships, submarines, spacecraft and conspiracies. [read more]

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(Air Awakens #2)

Soldier... Sorcerer... Savior... Who is Vhalla Yarl? Vhalla Yarl marches to war as property of the Solaris Empire. The Emperor counts on her to bring victory, the Senate counts on her death, and the only thing Vhalla can count on is the fight of her life. As she grapples with the ghosts of her past, new challenges in the present threaten to shatter the remnants of her fragile sanity. Will she maintain her humanity? Or will she truly become the Empire’s monster? Fire Falling is the second book in the Air Awakens Series. [read more]

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(A Shade of Vampire #20)

After the oracle's prediction of Ben's fate, what options does the Novak have left? Will he attempt to fight his destiny? Can such a battle even be won? Jeramiah still lurks in The Shade like a shadow. Why is he still on the island? Why did he even come in the first place? [read more]

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(Idol Dreams #1)

At age 31, office worker Chikage Deguchi feels she missed her chances at love and success. When word gets out that she’s a virgin, Chikage is humiliated and wishes she could return to the time when she was still young and popular. She takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to when she was 15. Now Chikage is determined to pursue everything she missed out on all those years ago—including becoming a star! [read more]

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(Afterlife Saga #7)

Time. Truth. Life. ‘There is weakness in all when lies are told but the strength in each is what we must behold.’ Can our Chosen One find her way back from the deception and chaos that surrounds her or is this the life of a trapped girl, broken and lost forever? A worldwide search might be on the cards but what if the girl they're looking for was never meant to be found? These are the questions both sides face in a race against time, truth and the life they are all trying to save. ... [read more]

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Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters' The Thing. Two men while away the days in an arctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. One is practical and open. The other surly, superior and obsessed with reading one book - by the philosopher Kant. As a storm brews and they lose contact with the outside world they debate Kant, reality and the emptiness of the universe. The come to hate each other, and they learn that they are not alone. [read more]

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A novella. Brothers Macbeth and Drederick Tooms should have it made as fair-haired scions of an impossibly rich and powerful family of industrialists. Alas, life is complicated in mid-1950s USA when you’re child heirs to the throne of Sword Enterprises, a corporation that has enshrined Machiavelli’s The Prince as its operating manual and whose patriarch believes, Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds, would be a swell company logo. Consider also those long, cruel ... [read more]

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(The Wings of War #1)

Among the scattered fringe cities bordering the Cienbal desert, the true name of the Monster of Karth is spoken only in whispers...  RAZ I'SYUL ARRO.  A sellsword of the utmost caliber, Raz is a killer of paramount skill and highest regard. Towering tall even amongst the atherian, he is the only of his kind to live free in the "civilized" confines of mankind's varied cultures. He has no need of loyalties, his sole affections pledged to the gold crowns that buy his time and skills. Wed to ... [read more]

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(Barsk #1)

Nebula Award nominee 2015. The Sixth Sense meets Dune meets Planet of the Apes in a moving science fiction novel set so far in the future, humanity is gone and forgotten An historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared by the past. A child who feels no pain and who should not exist sees the future. Between them are truths that will shake worlds. In a distant future, no remnants of human beings remain, but their successors thrive throughout the galaxy. These are the offspring of ... [read more]

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(The Shattered Sigil #3)

The epic conclusion to the Shattered Sigil Trilogy - a tale of blood magic, spies, and wilderness adventure. Dev's never been a man afraid of a challenge. Not only has he kept his vow to his dead mentor, rescuing a child in the face of impossible odds, but he's freed his mage friend Kiran from both the sadistic master who seeks to enslave him and the foreign Council that wants to kill him. But Kiran's master Ruslan is planning a brutal revenge, one that will raze an entire country ... [read more]

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(The Infinity Project #4)

Edited by Jonathan Strahan. Continuing the award-nominated SF anthology series from multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan. The world we are living in is changing every day. We surf future shock every morning when we get out of bed. And with every passing day we are increasingly asked: how do we have to change to live in the future we are faced with? Whether it’s climate change, inundated coastlines and drowned cities; the cramped confines of a tin can hurtling ... [read more]

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Edited by Shawn Speakman. Not bound, as a book. Free. Like Unfettered before it, the contributing writers of Unbound were allowed to submit the tales they wished fans of genre to read — without the constraints of a shackling theme. The result is magical. Twenty-three all-original stories are sure to captivate you — some will move you to tears while others will keep you turning the pages long into the night. The power of Unbound lies in its variety of tales and the voices behind ... [read more]

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World Fantasy Award nominee 2016. From cities of giant insects to a mysterious woman claiming to be the female Don Quixote, Leena Krohn’s fiction has fascinated and intrigued readers for over forty years. Within these covers you will discover a pelican that can talk and a city of gold. You will find yourself exploring a future of intelligence both artificial and biotech, along with a mysterious plant that induces strange visions. Krohn writes eloquently, passionately, about the nature of ... [read more]

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(Fairy Tail: Ice Trail #1)

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS After a battle with an evil demon, an entire village is laid waste. All perish, except for one boy. Keeping his master's teachings close to his heart, this lone survivor sets out on a journey westwards in search of new sights and unimaginable power. The boy's name: Gray Fullbuster. For the first time, experience Gray's childhood adventures, and follow him down the path that will lead him to Fairy Tail!  [read more]

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(The Elder Empire: Sea #2)

Calder has survived the battle on the Gray Island, and escaped the Heart of Nakothi with his sanity intact. The Empire is without a leader, and he's perfectly placed to take the reins himself. But he is not Emperor yet. The world is divided between those who support Imperial tradition and those who believe no one can take the throne. Calder must do everything he can to hold the Empire together, even as the Elders lurk in the shadows, ready to devour mankind. Meanwhile, Shera and her ... [read more]

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