The Week in Review

Welcome to the week in review! Every Friday, we comb through the links and images we found and shared this week, and pull the very best for this post. Consider it concentrated genre goodness from all around the web.
 

 

• Check out the book trailer for The Six-Gun Tarot, by R. S. Belcher. Buffy meets Deadwood in a dark, wildly imaginative historical fantasy.

• Here’s another amazing book trailer for you: meet the Hugo Award-winning author who’s also…a mad scientist!

• Brandon Sanderson did a #TorChat this week! If you missed it, Tor.com collected some of his answers to fans’ questions.

• Artist Michael Whelan talks about the process he went through creating the cover painting for A Memory of Light.

• Across the pond, Tor UK talks to Cherie Priest about her Clockwork Century series. And, speaking of Tor UK, we’re delighted to report they now have a Facebook page!

• And last, but definitely not least, “Walk the Plank,” the second episode in John Scalzi’s ebook experiment The Human Division, released this week. Follow along with Ron Hogan’s read-along on Tor.com.

 
And, just to make Friday that much sweeter, here’s a list of sweepstakes and sales we have going on!

• Waiting on Wednesday: Breaking Point by Kristen Simmons (Ends 1/29)
• #TorChat January Sweepstakes: Win a copy of Brandon Sanderson’s The Rithmatist (Ends 1/30)
• Goodreads First Reads: The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination edited by John Joseph Adams (Ends 1/31)
• Goodreads First Reads: Firebrand by Gillian Phillip (Ends 1/31)
• Goodreads First Reads: Blood’s Pride by Evie Manieri (Ends 1/31)
• Goodreads First Reads: Deep Down by Deborah Coates (Ends 2/13)
• Goodreads First Reads: The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett (Ends 2/13)
• eBook Sale: Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn (Ends 3/6)

The Week in Review

Welcome to the week in review! Every Friday, we comb through the links and images we found and shared this week, and pull the very best for this post. Consider it concentrated genre goodness from all around the web.

• Tor.com has revealed Michael Whelan’s cover of A Memory of Light!
• The dates for John Scalzi’s Redshirts tour have been announced. Scalzi is also doing a fan art contest for the book.
• Over on our Facebook page, we want to know: what sci-fi technology are you most looking forward to? Flying cars? Warp drives? Something else?
• The 2012 Locus Award Finalists have been announced. Did any of your favorites make the list?
• Theoryland spent an hour with Harriet McDougal.
• Terry Goodkind’s Facebook page has released “the first of many clues.” Clues to what? Stick around to find out!
• Don’t forget: tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day! What are you looking forward to picking up?
• And last, but not least, The Avengers premiered last night. Are you planning on seeing it this weekend?

 

The Tor/Forge newsletter went out this week! Check out these fascinating articles from our authors:

• The Weird: It’s Weird… And You’ll Like It! by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
• Mysterious Ashes by James Swain
• Bending Genre, Bending Gender by A. M. Dellamonica
• Information Versus Ignorance by Jared Axelrod, with illustrations by Steve Walker
• The Case for Genre by Walter Mosley
• Me First by David Lubar

 

And, just to make Friday that much sweeter, here’s a list of sweepstakes we have going on!

• A Dog’s Journey by W. Bruce Cameron (Ends 5/18)
• Earthseed by Pamela Sargent (Ends 5/25)
• The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (Ends 5/25)
• The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis (Ends 6/8)
• A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell (Ends 6/8)
• Dark Companion by Marta Acosta (Ends 6/8)
• Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston (Ends 6/8)
• The Hollow City by Dan Wells (Ends 6/8)
• Queen’s Hunt by Beth Bernobich (Ends 6/8)
• Thieftaker by D. B. Jackson (Ends 6/8)