Risingshadow: November 2017 Edition

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by 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, ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Gail Z. Martin. Gail Z. Martin writes epic fantasy, urban fantasy and steampunk for Solaris Books and Orbit Books. Vengeance: A Darkhurst novel, is the second in a new epic fantasy series for Solaris (coming April, 2018). Her Deadly Curiosities urban fantasy series set in Charleston, SC has a new novel, Vendetta, and a new collection, Trifles and Folly. Spells, Salt, and Steel is the first in another new urban fantasy series set in ... [read more]

T. R. Thompson's The Blood within the Stone was published by Odyssey Books in July 2017. Information about T. R. Thompson: Tom is an Australian speculative fiction writer. He lives in Belgrave on the outskirts of Melbourne with his wife and two young sons. When not writing or reading he spends too much time gaming and taking long meandering walks through the forest that always seem to end up at a tavern. The Blood Within the Stone is his first novel. Click here to visit his official ... [read more]

New Fears (edited by Mark Morris) was published by Titan Books in September 2017. Information about Mark Morris: Mark Morris has written over twenty-five novels, including four books in the popular Doctor Who range. He is also the author of two short story collections and several novellas. His short fiction, articles and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines, and he is editor of Cinema Macabre, a book of horror movie essays for which he won the 2007 British ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post about worldbuilding by Aidan Russell. Aidan Russell is not a New York Times bestselling author, but he has written a few short stories for 13Thirty Books’ Never Fear anthologies alongside a few bestsellers. He also drinks Irish car-bombs faster than Tom Monteleone, a matter of historical fact. He is the author of Road of the Lost, the first book in his epic fantasy series, which will be available for pre-order in October 2017. Aidan ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Glynn Stewart. Glynn Stewart is the author of Starship’s Mage, a bestselling science fiction and fantasy series where faster-than-light travel is possible - but only because of magic. His other ongoing works include science fiction series Duchy of Terra, Castle Federation and Vigilante, as well as the urban fantasy series ONSET. Writing managed to liberate Glynn from a bleak future as an accountant. With his personality and ... [read more]

Allen Ashley's The Planet Suite was published by Eibonvale Press in May/June 2016. Information about Allen Ashley: Allen Ashley is an award-winning editor, writer, poet, creative writing tutor, event host, critical reader, writing mentor, singer and lyricist. Allen is available for readings, running workshops at any level, moderating panels, hosting literary and musical events, and writing-related consultations. Allen currently runs five regular creative writing groups including a Novel ... [read more]

All of the books featured on this page have been published by Tachyon Publications. Tachyon Publications is an independent press specialising in speculative fiction. Information about the books: Ellen Klages: Wicked Wonders (May 2017): The award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea returns with smart and subversive new tales A rebellious child identifies with Maleficent instead of Sleeping Beauty. Best friends Anna and Corry share one last morning on Earth. A solitary woman inherits a ... [read more]

Eric Brown's Binary System was published by Solaris Books in August 2017. Binary System is an omnibus edition of the novellas Binary and System. Information about Eric Brown: Eric Brown reviews for the Guardian and has written over fifty books. His latest novels include Jani and the Greater Game, Jani and the Great Pursuit and, with Una McCormack, The Baba Yaga, the third book in the Weird Space series. Click here to visit his official website. Information about Binary ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Ashley Franz Holzmann. About the Author A Boy Named Sue, named Ashley, who goes by Ash around his friends. Ashley grew up overseas on Air Force bases. He once bought a 70s VW bus so he could drive it across the country. He married his first love — they were long distance for seven years. He reads poetry constantly; believes experiences define a life, and pursuing art is the purpose behind his existence. Ashley kept all of his Legos ... [read more]

(Dogs of War #1)

Rex is a Good Dog. He loves humans. He hates enemies. He's utterly obedient to Master. He's also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multi-form Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Southeastern Mexico. Rex is a genetically engineered bioform, a deadly weapon in a dirty war. He has the intelligence to carry ... [read more]

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(Infinite Stars #1)

Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt. The most seminal new collection of its kind — a genuine Space Opera “must have” featuring new stories of Ender’s Game (Card), the Lost Fleet (Campbell), Dune (Herbert and Anderson), Vatta’s War (Moon), Legion of the Damned (Deitz), and a new David Weber story. Reprints include Drake’s RCN & Bujold’s Vorkosigan INFINITE STARS is the definitive collection of original short stories by today’s finest authors of space opera and military science ... [read more]

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A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling novel Wool, and then with other enthralling works such as Sand and Beacon 23. Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey’s science fiction and fantasy short fiction, ... [read more]

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From the author of NPR's Best Book of 2016 — a sweeping romantic fantasy set during the Belle Epoque, as a love triangle consumes two telekinetics and the woman striving to keep them apart. Antonina Beaulieu is in the glittering city of Loisail for her first Grand Season, where she will attend balls and mingle among high society in hopes of landing a suitable husband. But Antonina is telekinetic, and strange events in her past have made her the subject of malicious gossip and hardly a ... [read more]

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(Everybody Loves Large Chests #1)

Large chests are said to encompass all manner of hopes and dreams. Men covet them. Women envy them. But one fact holds true - everyone wants to get their hands on some big ones. The same holds true for one intrepid adventurer - a strapping young lad by the name of Himmel. Armed with his grandfather’s trusty longsword and the dream of being the strongest, he sets out on the journey of a lifetime! It is sure to be a long and dangerous road, fraught with danger! And it all starts with a simple ... [read more]

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(Shieldrunner Pirates #1)

Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates — only to discover the pirates are hiding from a malevolent AI. Now they have to outwit the AI if they want to join the pirate crew — and survive long enough to enjoy it. Adda and Iridian are newly minted engineers, but aren’t able to find any work in a solar system ruined by economic collapse after an interplanetary war. Desperate for employment, they hijack a colony ship and plan to join a famed pirate crew living in luxury at ... [read more]

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(The Walking Dead Books (graphic novel collections) #14)

The time has come. The forces are aligning. Alexandria's war against the Whisperers has begun! Has Rick brought about the demise of everything he's built? Or will he triumph once again? Know this... there will be a cost.Collects THE WALKING DEAD #157-168. [read more]

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Daniel Martin has never forgotten his childhood encounters with Frank Watkins, the man who built his family a summer home out of cardboard and plywood. Frank's gaze was oddly confusing, as if he was attempting to discern the proper way to behave because he didn't know how to respond in a human manner. Since Frank obviously wasn't an alien, young Daniel thought maybe the man was crazy. In the end, Daniel would learn the terrifying truth about Frank Watkins. And as an adult, Daniel is about to discover there are more of THEM out there... [read more]

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What if the pandemic you thought would kill you made you more intelligent instead? In the Amazon jungle, a disease is spreading. To those who survive, it grants enhanced communication, memory, and pattern recognition. But the miracle may be the sinister survival mechanism of a fungal organism, manipulating the infected into serving it. Paul Johns, a mycologist, is convinced the fungal host is the next stage of human evolution, while his brother Neil, an analyst at the NSA, is committed to its ... [read more]

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(The Water Dragon's Bride #3)

Unable to return home, Asahi grows into a lovely young woman. As a priestess, she must spend time with the water dragon god for a ritual every year, but because of her connection to the water dragon god’s power, someone kidnaps her! Will Asahi be able to escape unscathed? [read more]

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(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]

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(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]

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(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]

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(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]

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(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]

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(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]

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(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]

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(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]

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(Caveman Aliens #3)

Dar'axShe came out of the dark, and I just took her.She's the first woman I've ever seen. My crotch swells when I look at her. She turns my world upside down just by existing.I only know one thing for sure:She's mine.   HeidiDar'ax is the kind of alien caveman who takes what he wants.I kind of like that in a guy.It's just that what he's taken now is ME.He just threw me over his lap and trotted away with me into the jungle of this jurassic planet.On a freaking T. Rex.Because those lethal ... [read more]

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(The Cthulhu Casebooks #2)

A brand new series featuring Sherlock Holmes battling the denizens of Cthulhu Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts, has a new resident academic, a certain Professor James Moriarty. He and a young biology undergraduate called Herbert West are attempting a diabolical experiment that will enable him to conquer the world on behalf of his evil, elder-god masters. Sherlock Holmes must travel to America to stop his nemesis before he can tap the secrets of the fabled Necronomicon and unleash hell on earth. [read more]

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