Risingshadow: December 2017 Edition

Peter R. Ellis' Cold Fire was published by Elsewhen Press in a digital edition in August 2017 and in a paperback edition in October 2017. Information about Peter R. Ellis: Peter would like to say he’s been a writer all his life but it is only since retiring as a teacher in 2010 that he has been able to devote enough time to writing to call it a career. Brought up in Cardiff, he studied Chemical Physics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, then taught chemistry (and a bit of physics) in ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Michael Fiegel. Michael Fiegel is a writer and game designer known in Internet circles as the creator of the satiric website Ninja Burger. He has written in both the pen-and-paper and computer game industries on award-winning and acclaimed titles such as Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising and Hellas: Worlds of Sun & Stone. His nonfiction humor book, Ninja Burger: Honorable Employee Handbook, was published in 2006. Michael's first novel, Blackbird, is a ... [read more]

Ian C. Esslemont's Deadhouse Landing will be published by Penguin Random House (Bantam Press) in the UK in November 2017. Information about Ian C. Esslemont: Ian C. Esslemont was born in Brandon, Manitoba, but grew up in Winnipeg. He has studied archaeology and creative writing, has traveled extensively in southeast Asia, and lived in Thailand and Japan for several years. He now lives in Alaska with his wife and children and is currently working on another novel set in the world of Malaz, a ... [read more]

Tarn Richardson's The Risen was published in May 2017. Information about Tarn Richardson: Tarn Richardson is the author of The Darkest Hand trilogy, published by Duckworth Overlook in Europe and Australia, and Overlook Press in the US and Canada. Consisting of The Hunted (free prequel novella), The Damned (2015), The Fallen (2016) and The Risen (2017), The Darkest Hand trilogy unleashes the flawed but brilliant Inquisitor Poldek Tacit upon a Europe engulfed by the First World War. The ... [read more]

Nightscript: Volume III (edited by C.M. Muller) was published in September/October 2017. Information about C.M. Muller: C.M. Muller lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with his wife and two sons - and, of course, all those quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore. He is related to the Norwegian writer Jonas Lie and draws much inspiration from that scrivener of old. His tales have appeared in Shadows & Tall Trees, Supernatural Tales, and Weirdbook. Click here to visit his official ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Christopher Charman. About Christopher Charman: When he isn’t selling houses as a real estate broker or playing jazz, Christopher Charman is writing. His undergraduate degree in Egyptian Archeology from UC Berkeley led inevitably to a 20+ year career in technical support and information technology, but Chris returned to a state of grace and sanity by completing his MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University in 2013. ... [read more]

Simon Avery's The Teardrop Method was published by TTA Press in September 2017. Information about Simon Avery: Born in 1971, Simon Avery lives and works in Birmingham. Over the last twenty-two years he has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies including Black Static, Crimewave, The Best British Mysteries IV, Beneath the Ground, Birmingham Noir, Terror Tales of Yorkshire and Something Remains. He has been nominated for the Crime Writers Association Dagger award and the ... [read more]

Richard Gessner's The Conduit and Other Visionary Tales of Morphing Whimsy was published by Rain Mountain Press in September 2017. Information about Richard Gessner: Richard Gessner's fiction has been published in Air Fish: an anthology of speculative work, Rampike, Ice River, Coe Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Happy, The Act, Sein und Werden, Skidrow Penthouse, The Pannus Index, Fiction International and many other magazines. A collection, Excerpts from the Diary of a Neanderthal ... [read more]

(The Daevabad Trilogy #1)

World Fantasy Award nominee 2018. Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty — an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and One Thousand and One Nights, in which the fate of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a defiant young con artist Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone ... [read more]

FantasyHistorical Fantasy

(The Green Bone Saga #1)

World Fantasy Award nominee 2018, Nebula Award nominee 2017. JADE CITY is a gripping, The Godfather-style saga with magic and kungfu, set in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. TWO RUTHLESS FAMILIES, ONE SOURCE OF POWER: JADE. Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. Magical Kekonese jade has long been mined, traded, stolen and killed for. For centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family used it to enhance their abilities and defend the island from foreign ... [read more]

Fantasy

(Terrible Worlds: Revolutions #1)

Scions have no limits. Scions do not die. And Scions do not disappear. Sergent Ted Regan has a problem. A son of one of the great corporate families, a Scion, has gone missing at the front. He should have been protected by his Ironclad - the lethal battle suits that make the Scions masters of war - but something has gone catastrophically wrong. Now Regan and his men, ill equipped and demoralised, must go behind enemy lines, find the missing Scion, and uncover how his suit failed. Is there a ... [read more]

Science FictionMilitary Science Fiction

(The Divine Dungeon #3)

The dead walk the land. The dungeon rises. War will move the Heavens and the Earth. Powerful necromancers are on the move, and the dungeon has become a battleground. Without his faithful Wisp, Cal's mind slips--he begins creating traps and monsters that go against his already loose morals. A direct threat from an unexpected force causes Cal's mind to stabilize, but he doesn't know for how long. Using every resource at his disposal, he works to keep his mind clear while he funds a search for ... [read more]

FantasyLitRPG

(Keeper of the Lost Cities #6)

Sophie and her friends face battles unlike anything they’ve seen before in this thrilling sixth book of the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Sophie Foster is struggling. Grieving. Scrambling. But she knows one thing: she will not be defeated. The Neverseen have had their victories — but the battle is far from over. It’s time to change tactics. Make sacrifices. Reexamine everything. Maybe even time for Sophie to trust her enemies. All paths lead ... [read more]

FantasyYoung Adult

(Warriors: A Vision of Shadows #4)

Erin Hunter’s #1 bestselling Warriors series continues! Discover more epic adventures in the fourth book in this sixth action-packed story arc. Each hardcover also includes a double-sided jacket with a bonus poster! SkyClan has returned to its rightful place among the other four warrior Clans, hoping to find a new territory to call home. But not every cat is convinced that this is where SkyClan belongs. The careful balance around the lake is more fragile than ever before — and the fate of ... [read more]

FantasyYoung AdultCatsAnimal Fantasy

(Expeditionary Force #5)

United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite Expeditionary Force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-Merry Band of Pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of lightyears from home. The ancient alien AI they nicknamed ‘Skippy’ is apparently dead, and even if they can by some miracle revive him, he might never be the same. [read more]

Science Fiction

(Brotherband Chronicles #7)

The Herons take to the high seas to fend off pirates and rescue the heir to an empire in the newest adventure from John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice! After weeks of turbulent travels at sea, Hal and the Herons return home to Hallasholm as Stig clashes against foes in the annual Maktig competition to decide Skandia's greatest warrior. But then a late-night knock on the door brings someone Stig never expected to see again, and a request the Herons are ... [read more]

FantasyYoung Adult

(The Axiom #1)

A ragtag crew of humans and posthumans discover alien technology that could change the fate of humanity... or awaken an ancient evil and destroy all life in the galaxy. The close-knit crew of the White Raven run freight, salvage, and (sometimes) security at the fringes of our solar system. They discover the wreck of a centuries-old exploration vessel floating light years away from its intended destination and revive its sole occupant, who wakes with news of First Contact. When the crew break ... [read more]

Science FictionHard Science Fiction

(Black Wings #6)

Edited by S. T. Joshi. This sixth volume of S. T. Joshi s acclaimed Black Wings series demonstrates as never before how infinitely malleable are H. P. Lovecraft s weird conceptions. The twenty-two stories and poems in this book run the gamut of modes and genres, but each of them is fueled by elements large and small drawn from Lovecraft s inexhaustibly rich corpus of writing. Cosmicism is central to Lovecraft s imaginative vision, and it oftentimes is manifested in tales of archaeological ... [read more]

HorrorAnthologyWeird FictionCthulhu

(The Expanse #7)

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series - now a major television series. AN OLD ENEMY RETURNS In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and belt have ... [read more]

Science FictionSpace Opera

(Super Sales on Super Heroes #2)

In a world full of super powers, Felix had a pretty crappy one. After learning to harness his ability to modify any item he owns, he now runs a corporation that is rapidly expanding. Legion. After tangling with the local Heroes guild they’ve finally settled into a semblance of stability. Sounds great on paper. Run your company, make money, be your own boss, settle down. Except that with running a business, comes an inordinate amount of responsibilities. Like making sure everything ... [read more]

FantasyLitRPGHarem

(The Invisible Library #4)

Librarian spy Irene and her apprentice Kai go to Prohibition-era New York in their fourth adventure in the bibliophilic fantasy series from the author of The Burning Page. After unavoidably torching a number of priceless manuscripts in an effort to save the Library, Librarian Irene is in hot water. When Irene is approached by a dragon who wants her to find a copy of a very rare book to impress her superiors, Irene decides to kill two birds with one stone. Given that the Library itself ... [read more]

FantasyAlternate History

(Terra Ignota #3)

The Will to Battle ― the third book of 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series ― a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity “A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent.” ― Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(Crystal Shards Online #1)

"There's only one rule...don't get hit." Ryan's life sucks. His brother is a jerk, his mom is sick, and his legs are next to useless thanks to a neurological disorder. Plus the world ended two centuries ago from nuclear war. Now, what's left of humanity live below ground, with the only escape from reality being the massive VR world of Crystal Shards Online. But even ingame, Ryan's life sucks. Unable to play a combat class due to his condition, he works as a miner, earning barely enough to ... [read more]

FantasyScience FictionLitRPG

(The Jester King #4)

Mere hours before Myrredith's execution, Billy is locked in battle with Ergyfel's demon, and Hugh fights to stay alive in Gwythian occupied Dyven. Can either get past Prince Hereweald's army in time to rescue Myrredith from the ax? Just trying may cost Billy the spellbinder Tirn Aill needs so desperately. Billy's visions point to a spellbinder in Castle Orgulous, making a showdown with Ergyfel unavoidable. But Billy's no match for the wizard-king's sorcery and he knows it. He must cast away ... [read more]

Fantasy

(Sectors New Allies Series #1)

Jill Garrison, a maintenance tech at the Sectors Amarcae 7 colony, goes to sleep one night as usual only to wake up in her nightgown stranded in the middle of a forest on an unknown world. There’s no time to think as she’s stalked by carnivorous predators and rescued by genetically engineered warriors calling themselves the Badari. Turns out they and she, along with her whole colony, are now prisoners of the Khagrish, a ruthless race of alien scientists. Working for enemies of the Sectors, ... [read more]

Science FictionRomance

(Queen's Quality #2)

In a bid to move forward, Kyutaro and Fumi share a sweet secret! Later, when they go to The Inside with Sendai to cleanse Ms. Hayashi’s Mind Vault, will they succeed in saving her? And what is Bug Handler Ataru plotting in order to turn Fumi into the Black Queen? [read more]

FantasyRomanceYoung AdultMysteryParanormal Fantasy

(The Psalms of Isaak #5)

Ken Scholes completes his five-book epic that began with his acclaimed first novel Lamentation. The battle for control of The Named Lands has captivated readers for ten years as both characters and readers have learned the true nature of world called Lasthome. Now the struggle between the Andro-Francine Order of the Named Lands and the Y Zirite Empire has reached a terrible turning point. Believing that his son is dead, Rudolfo has pretended to join with the triumphant Y zirite forces but his ... [read more]

FantasyScience Fiction

(Glass Town)

A brilliantly rendered story about obsession and one man’s attempt to unravel the mystery that destroyed his grandfather’s life, set against a magical and intricately woven cityscape. Steven Savile has been an international sensation, selling over half a million copies of his novels worldwide and writing for cult favorite television shows including Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Stargate. Now, he is finally making his US debut with Glass Town, a brilliantly composed novel revolving around the ... [read more]

Fantasy