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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.
- Author Brian Staveley reveals how he felt on first seeing the cover to his upcoming novel, The Emperor’s Blades, by artist Richard Anderson. We can’t wait to read it!
- Microsoft and Steven Spielberg have teamed up to create a live-action Halo TV show.
- Have you seen the new Man of Steel trailer? The movie’s looking better and better!
- Astronaut Sally Ride has been posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. We think it’s well-deserved – and about time!
- More TV news this week: there’s a new animated Star Wars series coming! We miss Clone Wars, but we’re excited for this new one as well.
- Matt Smith and David Tennant are teaming up for the 50th Anniversary Doctor Who special, and they sat down to do an adorable interview together.
And, just to make Friday that much sweeter, here’s a list of sweepstakes and sales we have going on!
- The Ultimate Urban Fantasy Sweepstakes (Ends 5/31)
- Goodreads First Reads: Sea Change by S. M. Wheeler (Ends 5/29)
- Goodreads First Reads: Solstice by P.J. Hoover (Ends 5/29)
- Goodreads Giveaway: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Ends 5/29)
- eBook Sale: The Hum and the Shiver, by Alex Bledsoe, is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 6/7)
- Goodreads First Reads: Thieves’ Quarry by D. B. Jackson (Ends 6/12)
- eBook Sale: Lamentation, by Ken Scholes, is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 6/14)
- eBook Sale: Building Harlequin’s Moon, by Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper, is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 6/21)
- Goodreads First Reads: Drift by Jon McGoran (Ends 6/21)
Goodreads First Reads: Drift by Jon McGoran
About Drift: When Philadelphia narcotics detective Doyle Carrick loses his mother and step-father within weeks of each other, he gains a twenty-day suspension for unprofessional behavior and instructions to lay low at the unfamiliar house he’s inherited in rural Pennsylvania.
Feeling restless and out of place, Doyle is surprised to find himself falling for his new neighbor, Nola Watkins, who’s under pressure to sell her organic farm to a large and mysterious development company. He’s more surprised to see high-powered drug dealers driving the small-town roads—dealers his bosses don’t want to hear about.
But when the drug bust Doyle’s been pushing for goes bad and the threats against Nola turn violent, Doyle begins to discover that what’s growing in the farmland around Philadelphia is much deadlier than anything he could have imagined . . .
Quick, clever, and terrifying, Jon McGoran’s Drift is a commercial thriller in the tradition of Nelson DeMille’s Plum Island.
Enter for a chance to win here!
(Ends June 19)
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.
- Astronaut Chris Hadfield made a strong showing to be crowned King of Space before he returned to Earth earlier this week. Case in point? Check him out singing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in space.
- Book Expo America is at the end of the month, and we’ll be there! Here’s our schedule of panels and author signings – come say hi!
- Tor.com is starting a reread of Glen Cook’s Black Company series! To get the ball rolling, the first ebook, The Black Company, is on sale for $2.99.
- There’s a new, longer trailer for the upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show! We’re really excited about this one. You?
- Congratulations to the nominees for the John W. Campbell Award! Especially to the Tor authors nominated: David Brin, Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, and Hannu Rajaniemi.
- Ta’veren Tees is currently donating 10% of the proceeds for its new Challenge Coin to the Wounded Warrior Project, in honor of Robert Jordan’s military service. A beautiful item that benefits a great cause. Thanks, Ta’veren Tees!
And, just to make Friday that much sweeter, here’s a list of sweepstakes and sales we have going on!
- The Ultimate Urban Fantasy Sweepstakes (Ends 5/31)
- Goodreads First Reads: The Navigator by Michael Pocalyko (Ends 5/22)
- Goodreads First Reads: The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson (Ends 5/22)
- Goodreads First Reads: Sea Change by S. M. Wheeler (Ends 5/29)
- Goodreads First Reads: Solstice by P.J. Hoover (Ends 5/29)
- Goodreads Giveaway: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Ends 5/29)
- eBook Sale: The Hum and the Shiver, by Alex Bledsoe, is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 6/7)
- Goodreads First Reads: Thieves’ Quarry by D. B. Jackson (Ends 6/12)
- eBook Sale: Lamentation, by Ken Scholes, is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 6/14)
- eBook Sale: Building Harlequin’s Moon, by Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper, is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 6/21)
Goodreads First Reads: Thieves’ Quarry by D. B. Jackson
About Thieves’ Quarry: Ethan Kaille isn’t the likeliest hero. A former sailor with a troubled past, Ethan is a thieftaker, using conjuring skills to hunt down those who steal from the good citizens of Boston. And while chasing down miscreants in 1768 makes his life a perilous one, the simmering political tensions between loyalists like himself and rabble-rousing revolutionaries like Samuel Adams and others of his ilk are perhaps even more dangerous to his health.
When one hundred sailors of King George III’s Royal Navy are mysteriously killed on a ship in Boston Harbor, Ethan is thrust into dire peril. For he—and not Boston’s premier thieftaker, Sephira Pryce—is asked to find the truth behind their deaths. City Sheriff Edmund Greenleaf suspects conjuring was used in the dastardly crime, and even Pryce knows that Ethan is better equipped to contend with matters of what most of Boston considers dark arts. But even Ethan is daunted by magic powerful enough to fell so many in a single stroke. When he starts to investigate, he realizes that the mass murderer will stop at nothing to evade capture. And making his task more difficult is the British fleet’s occupation of the city after the colonials’ violent protests after the seizure of John Hancock’s ship. Kaille will need all his own magic, street smarts, and a bit of luck to keep this Boston massacre from giving the hotheads of Colonial Boston an excuse for inciting a riot—or worse.
Thieves’ Quarry is a stunning second novel in D. B. Jackson’s Thieftaker Chronicles.
Enter for a chance to win here!
(Ends June 12)
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.
- The trailer for Ender’s Game is here!
- In addition to the trailer, check out an interview with star Asa Butterfield as he talks about his space camp regimen.
- Help send David Brin to Mars!
- The Los Angeles Times blog Jacket Copy dug into their archives and found a great video featuring Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, and Studs Terkel in conversation.
- I would pay money to see a full movie version of this: Star Wars Episode VII: Return of the Junior Jedi.
- The nominees for the 2012 Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced! Congratulations in particular to Tor’s own Brian Evenson and his novel Immobility.
The Tor/Forge newsletter went out this week! Check out these fascinating articles from our authors:
- Four Songs for Stealing Planets by Dan Krokos
- Changing the World by Susan Palwick
- Genre Identity Crisis by Paul Cornell
And, just to make Friday that much sweeter, here’s a list of sweepstakes and sales we have going on!
- The Ultimate Urban Fantasy Sweepstakes (Ends 5/31)
- Goodreads First Reads: Sandstorm by Alan L. Lee (Ends 5/13)
- Waiting on Wednesday: Solstice by P. J. Hoover (Ends 5/14)
- Goodreads First Reads: Requiem by Ken Scholes (Ends 5/15)
- Goodreads First Reads: The Navigator by Michael Pocalyko (Ends 5/22)
- Goodreads First Reads: The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson (Ends 5/22)
- Goodreads First Reads: Sea Change by S. M. Wheeler (Ends 5/29)
- Goodreads First Reads: Solstice by P.J. Hoover (Ends 5/29)
- Goodreads Giveaway: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Ends 5/29)
- eBook Sale: The Hum and the Shiver, by Alex Bledsoe, is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 6/7)
- eBook Sale: Lamentation, by Ken Scholes, is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 6/14)
- eBook Sale: Building Harlequin’s Moon, by Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper, is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 6/21)
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.
- A ten second teaser of the Ender’s Game movie trailer has been released! Plus, here’s an interview with Brandon Soo Hoo, who plays Fly Molo.
- Congratulations to Hank Phillippi Ryan, whose novel The Other Woman won the Mary Higgins Clark Award! And congratulations as well to Ralph Peters, whose Cain at Gettysburg won the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction!
- Kotaku brings up the possibility of…an EVE Online tv show. What do you think?
- Want to get trivia and exclusive info on Brandon Sanderson? Sign up here or text EPIC to 555111.
- Author Hilary Davidson chose her favorite independent book stores while out on tour. Did any of your favorites make the list?
- D. B. Jackson, the author of Thieftaker, has set up a fundraiser to benefit the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.
- Over on Tor.com, Emily has been knocking it out of the park lately. Her recent article on the endurance of Lt. Uhura is another great example.
- I’m sure I’m not the only one who found this both disturbing and fascinating: they’ve found evidence of cannibalism at the Jamestown colony.
And, just to make Friday that much sweeter, here’s a list of sweepstakes and sales we have going on!
- The Ultimate Urban Fantasy Sweepstakes (Ends 5/31)
- Goodreads First Reads: Sold for Endless Rue by Madeleine E. Robins (Ends 5/6)
- Goodreads Giveaway: A Dog’s Journey by W. Bruce Cameron (Ends 5/7)
- Goodreads First Reads: Sandstorm by Alan L. Lee (Ends 5/13)
- Goodreads First Reads: Requiem by Ken Scholes (Ends 5/15)
- Goodreads First Reads: The Navigator by Michael Pocalyko (Ends 5/22)
- Goodreads First Reads: The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson (Ends 5/22)
- Goodreads First Reads: Sea Change by S. M. Wheeler (Ends 5/29)
- Goodreads First Reads: Solstice by P.J. Hoover (Ends 5/29)
- Goodreads Giveaway: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Ends 5/29)
- eBook Sale: The Hum and the Shiver, by Alex Bledsoe, is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 6/7)
- eBook Sale: Lamentation, by Ken Scholes, is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 6/14)
- eBook Sale: Building Harlequin’s Moon, by Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper, is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 6/21)
April 2013 #TorChat Sweepstakes
Did you participate in today’s #TorChat? We hope you enjoyed it and look forward to your participation in next month’s chat!
In the meantime, here’s your chance to win a prize! Three lucky winners will receive a hardcover edition of A Time of Change, by Aimée and David Thurlo, and a mass market paperback edition of So Damn Lucky by Deborah Coonts. Leave a comment below to enter!
And again, we’d like to thank Deborah Coonts and David and Aimée Thurlo for participating. And thanks to our own Publicist Aisha Cloud for moderating!
Sweepstakes closes to new entries on April 24th at noon.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. You must be 18 or older and a legal resident of the 50 United States or D.C. to enter. Promotion begins April 17, 2013 at 4:30 p.m. ET. and ends April 24, 2013, 12:00 p.m. ET. Void in Puerto Rico and wherever prohibited by law. Please see full details and official rules go here. Sponsor: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.
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.
- The Way of Kings reread has begun on Tor.com!
- Create your own Game of Thrones coat of arms for your viewing party this weekend. The (unofficial) Tor House motto: We Strive to Entertain.
- This is parenting done right. A truly magnificent Star Wars nursery. My childhood dreams would have been amazingly sweet in a room like this, don’t you think?
- Game of Thrones isn’t the only TV show coming back this weekend: so is Doctor Who! Check out trailers for the upcoming episode on BBC America and Tor.com.
- This week was Dinosaur Week on Tor.com! There are some great posts to check out, including 8 Essential Dinosaur Movies and the lovely Picturing Dinosaurs.
And, just to make Friday that much sweeter, here’s a list of sweepstakes and sales we have going on!
- eBook Sale: Hellhole eBook is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 4/3)
- Goodreads First Reads: Hell or Richmond by Ralph Peters (Ends 4/10)
- Goodreads First Reads: The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson (Ends 4/16)
- Goodreads First Reads: The Human Division by John Scalzi (Ends 4/17)
- Goodreads First Reads: Mending the Moon by Susan Palwick (Ends 4/17)
- Goodreads Giveaway: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Ends 4/24)
- eBook Sale: Bitter Seeds eBook is on sale $2.99 (Ends 5/1)
- eBook Sale: The Way of Kings eBook is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 5/1)
- eBook Sale: Wide Open eBook is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 5/1)
Urban Fantasy Sweepstakes
Tor.com
- Let’s Sort the Arrested Development Cast Into Hogwarts Houses
- A Private Little War (Excerpt)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch: “Move Along Home”
- The Man From Primrose Lane Ebook is $3.99 For Two More Weeks!
- Publishing Jargon-Buster: Ten Words Unpacked
- Guns Don’t Kill People—Monkeys With Guns Kill People!
- Two Weeks Left to Get The Hum and the Shiver for $2.99
- Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Toll the Hounds, Chapter Eleven
- Three Short Stories With Stranded Time Travellers
- The Healer Sweepstakes!
Heroes and Heartbreakers
- Poll: Who Would You Want to Get Fast and Furious With?
- First Look: Jacquelyn Frank’s Forever (May 28, 2013)
- Friday Beefcake: Men in (and out of!) Uniform
- First Look: Jill Sorenson’s Freefall (May 28, 2013)
- Taking a Great Author Out from the Underlight: Why You Should be Reading Jax Garren
- Playing the Part: Exclusive Excerpt
- Catching Up with Continuum (And Its Ships!)
- Don Jon Movie Trailer
- First Look: Molly Harper’s A Witch’s Handbook of Kisses and Curses (May 28, 2013)
- Fire Inside: Exclusive Excerpt
Criminal Element
- Tropical Summer Reads
- I Spy…Someone Reading a Great Book
- It’s All in the Duds: What the Well-Dressed Detective is Wearing
- Gangster Cinema, British Style: The Long Good Friday
- The Purrrr-fect Spy: Operation Acoustic Kitty
- Nobody Expects the Space Inquisition: Warhammer 40K Tie-in Novels
- Thinking of Manderley: The Strange History of Stonemere
- Art and Science Collide: Be Careful Where You Leave Your DNA
- Why I Believe in Blue Bloods
- Fresh Meat: Wounded Prey by Sean Lynch
