Risingshadow: September 2017 Edition

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by William Sutton. William Sutton comes from Dunblane, Scotland. He has written for The Times and the Fortean Times, acted in the longest play in the world, and played cricket for Brazil. His first novel is a Victorian mystery of a gleaming metropolis mired in corruption. He writes for international magazines about language, music and futurology. His plays have been produced on radio and in London fringe theatres. He has performed at ... [read more]

Nina Allan's The Rift was published by Titan Books in July 2017. Information about Nina Allan: Nina Allan's debut novel The Race was shortlisted for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the BSFA Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle. She has won the BSFA Award for Short Fiction, the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, and the Aeon Award. She has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award four times and was a finalist for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award. Click here to visit her official ... [read more]

The winners of the 2017 Hugo Awards have been announced. The 2017 Hugo Awards were presented on the evening of Friday, August 11, 2017 at a ceremony at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention in Helsinki, Finland. Best Novel  The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit Books) All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Books / Titan Books) A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager US) Death’s End by Cixin Liu (Tor Books / Head of ... [read more]

Tarn Richardson's The Fallen was published in 2016. 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 Damned ... [read more]

(The Hedge Knight #3)

A full-color graphic novel edition of The Mystery Knight, one of the thrilling Dunk and Egg novellas from George R. R. Martin’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and a prequel of sorts to A Game of Thrones “Every wedding needs a singer, and every tourney needs a mystery knight.” Westeros is eerily peaceful. King Aerys I sits on the Iron Throne. A ravaging plague has abated. Yet beneath the surface, tensions linger sixteen years after a failed rebellion. In these restless times, noble ... [read more]

FantasyComics

(The Embraced #2)

The second book in one of the freshest, most breathtaking fantasy romance series to come along in years! Growing up on the Isle of Moon, Brigitta knows nothing of her past, except that she is Embraced: born with powers that forced her into hiding. Everything changes when she learns she’s a princess, hidden away from her villainous half-brother who now rules the kingdom. But he knows about Brigitta, and he’ll do anything to get her back. Unless a certain roguish pirate has anything to say ... [read more]

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(The Golden Wolf Saga #1)

Since the death of Ragnvald Eysteinsson's father in battle, he has worked hard to protect his sister Svanhild and planned to inherit his family's land when he comes of age. But when the captain of his ship tries to kill him on the way home from a raiding excursion, he must confront his stepfather's betrayal, and find a way to protect his birthright. It is no easy feat in Viking-Age Norway, where a hundred petty rulers kill over parcels of land, and a prophesied high king is rising. But where ... [read more]

FantasyHistorical Fiction

(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]

Science Fiction

(Annals of the Bitch Queen #1)

A queen of a divided land must unite her people, even if they hate her, even if it means stopping a ruin that she helped create. A debut epic fantasy from an exciting new voice. "I murdered a man and made my husband leave the night before they crowned me." Born under the crumbling towers of Oren-yaro, Queen Talyien was the shining jewel and legacy of the bloody War of the Wolves that nearly tore her nation apart. Her upcoming marriage to the son of her father's rival heralds peaceful days to ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(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]

Science FictionSpace Opera

(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]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(The Nahx Invasions #1)

The 5th Wave meets Beauty and the Beast in this fast-paced and heart-stopping novel about an invasion of murderous creatures and one girl fighting for her life at the end of the world. He has no voice or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind. Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall. His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting. Until a human kills her... Sixteen-year-old Raven is at summer ... [read more]

Science FictionYoung Adult

(A Shade of Vampire #48)

"Whatever came after tonight, it was going to be a harrowingly bumpy ride..." Reunite with the Shadians in the action-packed 48th book of the series: A Tip of Balance. [read more]

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A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts — even as she falls in love with a faerie prince — in this gorgeous debut novel. Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron — ... [read more]

FantasyYoung Adult

(The Corporation Wars #3)

The enemy is out in the open. The Reaction has seized control of a resource-rich moon. Now it's enslaving conscious robots - and luring the Corporations into lucrative deals. Taransay is out in the jungle. Her friends are inside a smart boulder on the slope of an active volcano. The planet is super-habitable - for its own life, not hers. But soon, the alien infestation growing on her robot body is the least of her problems. Carlos is out of patience. With the Reaction arming for conquest, ... [read more]

Science FictionSpace Opera

(The Beginning After the End #5)

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

(Major Bhaajan #2)

TOUGH FEMALE P.I. EXPLORING THE UNDERWORLD OF A VAST STAR EMPIRE. Book two in a new series set in the world of Catherine Asaro's Skolian Empire series. Major Bhaajan achieved the impossible. Born to the Undercity, the slums below the City of Cries on the planet Raylicon, she broke free from crushing poverty and crime to become a military officer with Imperial Space Command. Now retired from military duty, she walks the mean streets of Undercity as a private investigator. And she is about to ... [read more]

Science FictionSpace Opera

“Don’t call them ghosts, Amichai. The dead vote. They own buildings. They’re your employers. Don’t think they can’t destroy you just because they don’t have bodies.” Heaven is a real place the living built, and it’s called The Upterlife. At the moment of death, the consciousness of obedient citizens are uploaded to hi-tech servers, where fifteen generations of the dead run rampant in video game paradise. Amichai Damrosch loves his sister enough to murder her into everlasting ... [read more]

Science FictionThriller

Nebula Award nominee 2017. The highly anticipated science fiction debut from a well-connected science/SF journalist and founder of io9, exploring themes of technology and culture in an accessible style Autonomous features a rakish pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her own submarine. A notorious anti-patent scientist who has styled herself as a Robin Hood-style heroine fighting to bring cheap drugs to the poor, Jack’s latest drug is leaving a trail of lethal ... [read more]

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(Afterlife Saga #10)

As Keira still finds Persian sands beneath her feet, she is yet to discover the true meaning of what it is to be The Chosen One to the King of Kings. For now that Arsaces has her, he simply plans on keeping her…No matter what the cost. Even if that means fighting the prophecy and stealing her from the only world she has ever known… A world that is about to end. [read more]

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(The Drifting Lands #1)

The hunt for a mythical, truth-refracting jewel sees out heroine race across space in this Star Wars inspired space caper. It is called the Axiom Diamond: a mythical relic with the power to show its bearer any truth they desire. Men have sought for it across many planets for centuries, but in vain. Aimee de Laurent, apprentice portalmage, is thrown into the race to find the gem when her first portal-casting goes awry, sending Aimee, her mentor, and the skyship Elysium into the war-torn midst ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(Caveman Aliens #2)

Jurassic Park meets Sex and the City.- Amazon reviewer Ar'oxShe's small, round and soft. And so alluring my loins swell by the sight of her. Surely she was sent by the Ancestors to be my Mate.The tribe will rejoice when they see her.She's mine now.   EmiliaHe's a seven feet tall caveman with muscles the size of tree trunks, fangs like a tiger and a smouldering fire in his eyes. He makes my knees buckle just by looking at me.And he's saved me from deadly dinosaurs about twenty times. If he ... [read more]

Science FictionRomanceAdultAlien RomanceAbduction

(Corsairs #1)

A pirate doesn’t ask for permission - he takes. When I see the delicate human female collared and enslaved by the smuggler I’m about to swindle, I do what any male would do. I take her from him. It’s what I do best, after all. Now Fran’s mine, and I’m never giving her up. On board my spaceship, she’ll be safe. She’ll wear my clothes, eat my food, and sleep in my bed. I’ll keep her safe from a galaxy that wishes her harm. But my sweet Fran wants nothing more than to return ... [read more]

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