Risingshadow: May 2016 Edition

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Jay Posey. Jay is a narrative designer, author, and screenwriter by trade. He started working in the video game industry in 1998, and has been writing professionally for over a decade. Currently employed as Senior Narrative Designer at Red Storm Entertainment, he’s spent around eight years writing and designing for Tom Clancy’s award-winning Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six franchises. A contributing author to the book Professional ... [read more]

Gavin Scott's The Age of Treachery was published by Titan Books in April 2016. Information about Gavin Scott: Gavin Scott is a British Hollywood screenwriter who spent twenty years as a radio and television reporter for BBC and ITN, and has worked in film and television with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. His films include Small Soldiers and The Borrowers; among his television series are The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and War and Peace: his next project is Dunkirk for Working Title. ... [read more]

Donald Michael Platt's The Sorceress and the Skull was published by Penmore Press in February 2016. Information about Donald Michael Platt: Donald Michael Platt was born and raised in San Francisco, graduated from Lowell High School and received his BA in history from the University of California at Berkeley. After two years in the army, Donald attended graduate school at San Jose State, where he won a batch of literary awards in the annual Senator Phelan Literary Contest. Donald taught ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Lorraine Carey. (This guest post has been written in third person.) Information about Lorraine Carey in her own words: "I am a veteran Children’s Reading Specialist, teacher, book reviewer and author. Having taught in several states has given me a vast background knowledge of different cultures and teaching modalities. I have taught in Ohio, Arizona, New Mexico, California and currently Grand Cayman. After years of reading with ... [read more]

Tanya Reimer's Can't Dream Without You was published as an e-book by Elsewhen Press in January 2016. The paperback edition was published in February 2016. Information about Tanya Reimer: Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Tanya enjoys using the tranquil prairies as a setting to her not-so-peaceful speculative fiction. She is married with two children which means among her accomplishments are the necessary magical abilities to find a lost tooth in a park of sand and whisper away monsters from ... [read more]

Melanie R. Meadors is the author of fantasy and science fiction stories where heroes don't always carry swords and knights in shining armor often lose to nerds who study their weaknesses. She’s been known to befriend wandering garden gnomes, do battle with metal-eating squirrels, and has been called a superhero on more than one occasion. Her work has been published in Circle Magazine, The Wheel, and Prick of the Spindle, and she was a finalist in the 2014 Jim Baen Memorial Science Fiction ... [read more]

Dead Letters (edited by Conrad Williams) was published by Titan Books in April 2016. Information about the editor: Conrad Williams has written seven novels, four novellas and a short story collection. One won the August Derleth award for Best Novel in 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 Newcomer in 1993, and another British Fantasy Award ... [read more]

Cody Goodfellow's Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales was published by Hippocampus Press in March/April 2016. Information about Cody Goodfellow: Cody Goodfellow has written five novels and three collections. He wrote, co-produced, and scored the short Lovecraftian hygiene film Stay at Home Dad, which can be viewed on YouTube. He is also director of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival–San Pedro, and co-founder of Perilous Press, an occasional micropublisher of modern cosmic ... [read more]

Hal Duncan's Testament was published by Eibonvale Press in October 2015. Information about Hal Duncan: Hal Duncan is a scion of 1970s Scotland, a queer kid who left Kilwinning to study at Glasgow University and never looked back. In the early '90s, he joined the Glasgow SF Writer's Circle, torched everything he'd ever written, and wrote his first functional short story, "Slab City, April 16," published in the Flamingo Book of Scottish Short Fiction 1994. The gods having patently smiled upon ... [read more]

Helen Lowe's Daughter of Blood, the third novel in The Wall of Night series of epic fanatsy novels, was published by Harper Voyager and Orbit Books in January 2016. Information about Helen Lowe: Helen Lowe is an award-winning novelist, poet, interviewer, and blogger, whose first novel, Thornspell (Knopf), was published to critical praise in 2008. Her second, The Heir of Night (The Wall of Night Series, Book One) won the Gemmell Morningstar Award 2012. The sequel, The Gathering of The Lost, ... [read more]

(The Wild Robot #1)

Wall-E meets Hatchet in this New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to ... [read more]

Science FictionChildrens

(The Foreigner Universe #17)

The seventeenth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences... The human and atevi inhabitants of Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, have picked up a signal from an alien kyo ship telling them that the ship is inbound toward Alpha. Five thousand of the inhabitants of Alpha are human refugees from the now derelict Reunion Station. They have seen this scenario before, when a single kyo ship swooped into the ... [read more]

Science FictionSpace Opera

(The Beginning After the End #3)

King Grey has unrivaled strength, wealth, and prestige in a world governed by martial ability. However, solitude lingers closely behind those with great power. Beneath the glamorous exterior of a powerful king lurks the shell of a man, devoid of purpose and will. Reincarnated into a new world filled with magic and monsters, the king has a second chance to relive his life. Correcting the mistakes of his past will not be his only challenge, however. Underneath the peace and prosperity of the new ... [read more]

Fantasy

(Frontlines #4)

The assault on Earth was thwarted by the destruction of the aliens’ seed ship, but with Mars still under Lanky control, survivors work frantically to rebuild fighting capacity and shore up planetary defenses. Platoon sergeant Andrew Grayson must crash-course train new volunteers — all while dulling his searing memories of battle with alcohol and meds. Knowing Earth’s uneasy respite won’t last, the North American Commonwealth and their Sino-Russian allies hurtle toward two ... [read more]

Science FictionMilitary Science Fiction

Space opera with a bang, as a young castout is caught up in an interstellar war. DISOWNED IN A HARSH GALAXY Cast out by his family and exiled from the Rimward Commonwealth, Simon Forrester must make a new life for himself as an apprentice to the powerful Commerce Guild.  But others aboard the merchant vessel Stacked Deck have a hidden agenda that might lead directly to interstellar war. Now with rising tensions between the Commonwealth and the neighboring League of Democracies ... [read more]

Science FictionSpace Opera

(The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear #1)

13 dazzling stories and a rare screenplay by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Queen of Angels, Eon, and Hull Zero Three Greg Bear’s ability to transform challenging scientific concepts into gripping fiction has won him numerous awards and an avid following. He has written novels about interstellar war, human evolution, intelligent bacteria, international terrorism, and the exploration of deep space — but he doesn’t stop there. This brilliant collection of Bear’s ... [read more]

Science FictionShort Stories

(The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear #3)

7 remarkable stories, newly revised for this collection, showcase the award-winning talents of one of the 21st century s finest writers of speculative fiction Whether penning science fiction ("Moving Mars," "Queen of Angels," "War Dogs"), alternate history (the Mongoliad series with Neal Stephenson), or fantasy ("Sleepside," "The Infinity Concerto"), Greg Bear tells stories that engage the reader s intellect while gripping the imagination. His short fiction is no ... [read more]

Science FictionShort Stories

(Afterlife Saga #8)

‘Together we stand and together we fall.’ Because this time, what is asked of the Chosen One, she cannot do alone. Keira finds herself enlisting the help of her friends as she goes beyond the realms of sanity and steps into a world the likes of no other. One that is filled with personal demons she has no choice but try and tame. Join our heroine as she must face the Fates head on and discover what it truly means to be the Electus. [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal RomanceVampires

(Black Blade #3)

"The characters are as fantastic as Estep fans have come to expect." – RT Book ReviewsBad Things Always Come In Threes...As a thief, I'm good at three things: hiding in the shadows, getting in and out unseen, and uncovering secrets. I put these skills to work for the Sinclair Family, one of the magical mobs that run the tourist town of Cloudburst Falls. Everyone knows Victor Draconi wants to take over all the other Families - and kill every last Sinclair. What they don't know is ... [read more]

FantasyYoung AdultUrban Fantasy

(Harmony Black #2)

FBI agent Harmony Black and her team, Vigilant Lock, face a new type of threat: one from beyond the stars. They’d always heard the Red Knight was an urban legend: in 1954, three years before Sputnik launched, a mysterious satellite was sighted circling Earth, though no power on the planet had such technology. But the Red Knight is real, and what’s more, it’s inextricably linked to a supernatural force no one yet understands. Like a moth to a flame, this dark presence ... [read more]

FantasyUrban Fantasy

(Return of the Elves #1)

A deathbed promise Arlyn’s quest is simple: Find her father and let him know her mother is dead. After all, Arlyn had promised her mother she’d go. The problem? Her father's people are myths and legends, and he doesn't even live on Earth. But despite a long journey through the mysterious mists of the Veil, finding him turns out to be the easy part. A dream long-buried After five hundred years, Kai has given up on finding his soulbonded. So when he stumbles across Arlyn after returning ... [read more]

FantasyRomance

(Outriders #1)

A daring hostage rescue leads to the discovery of an imminent terrorist attack. Thanks to the Outriders, thousands of lives are saved. Until they aren’t. Despite the intelligence and the warnings provided by the unit, the terrorist attack goes off unhindered. What was supposed to be a triumph becomes a tragedy, and a “mission completed” completely unravels. And when they learn the reasons why, the Outriders find themselves tasked with stopping a war before it can ever ... [read more]

Science FictionMilitary Science Fiction

(Terra Ignota #1)

Hugo Award nominee 2017. The first book of Terra Ignota, a four-book political SF epic set in a human future of extraordinary originality Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer - a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away. The ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(Evagardian #1)

The interstellar war has ended, but four soldiers face a predatory alien species far from home... I was on a dead ship on an unknown planet with three trainees freshly graduated into the Imperial Service. I tried to look on the bright side. He was the last to awake. The label on his sleeper pod identifies him as an Admiral of the Evagardian Empire — a surprise to him as much as to the three recent recruits now under his command. He wears no uniform and is ignorant of military ... [read more]

Science FictionMilitary Science Fiction

Neukom Literary Arts Award 2018. A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover Miriam is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the data stream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin Isobel is infatuated with ... [read more]

Science Fiction

Nebula Award Nominee 2016. A novella. The Minerva Sierra Challenge is a grueling spectacle, the cyborg’s Tour de France. Rich thrill-seekers with corporate sponsorships, extensive support teams, and top-of-the-line exoskeletal and internal augmentations pit themselves against the elements in a day-long race across the Sierra Nevada. Marmeg Guinto doesn’t have funding, and she doesn’t have support. She cobbled her gear together from parts she found in rich people’s dumpsters and ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(The Crimson Empire #2)

Action-packed epic fantasy from a bold new voice in the genre – a retired warrior returns to battle to seek revenge for a terrible blow, old friends and old enemies will pay the price After five hundred years, the Sunken Kingdom has returned, and brought with it a monstrous secret that threatens to destroy every country on the Star. As an inhuman army gathers on its shores, poised to invade the Immaculate Isles, the members of the Cobalt Company face an ugly choice: abandon their ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(The Case Files of Justis Fearsson #3)

Book #3 in The Case Files of Justis Fearsson, the critically acclaimed contemporary fantasy series from fantasy all-star David B. Coe. A hardboiled, magic-using private detective fights dark sorcerers in Phoenix, Arizona. Justis Fearsson is a weremyste and a private detective. He wields potent magic, but every month, on the full moon, he loses his mind. His battles with insanity have already cost him his job as a cop; he can’t afford to let them interfere with his latest case. ... [read more]

FantasyUrban Fantasy

The debut of a stunning new talent. A poor, young woman rises to the heights of a crumbling empire, where she must speak hard truth to power in order to save a world from chaos. Everybody Wants Answers. No One Wants the Truth. The Arunkel empire has stood a thousand years, forged by wealth and conquest, but now rebellion is stirring on the borders and treachery brews in the palace halls. Elsewhere, in a remote mountain village, a young mother sells the prophesies of her sister, ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(Earth's Revolution #2)

A new chapter in Hoyt's celebrated Darkship series dawns with revolution on Earth as the Good Men fall. DOWN WITH THE TYRANNY OF THE GOOD MEN! A spaceship mechanic has no place in a fairytale. But now Zen Sienna finds herself in a beautiful palace being courted by the ruler of vast lands. Yet soon Zen is caught up in a revolution that comes a bit too close to imitating the original French revolution — complete with beheadings.  Now swept up in a turmoil of fire and blood, she ... [read more]

Science Fiction