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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.
- 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)
Find Tor Books at BEA!
Book Expo America 2013 takes place in New York City from May 29th to June 1st and we’ll be there! Take a look below to see which Tor authors, editors, and more will be appearing. Meet Brandon Sanderson, Ellen Datlow, Kendare Blake, and more!
Tor Books will also be present in the Macmillan section at booth 1557 for the entirety of the conference. Stop by and say hello!
Wednesday May 29th
- Book Blogger Conference Editor Insight Panel with Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Senior Editor at Tor Books (Location TBD). 10:10am-11am.
- Children’s Librarians Dinner w/Kendare Blake (Anna Dressed in Blood, Antigoddess). 7pm-9pm at the Princeton Club of NY, 15 W. 43rd Street.
Thursday May 30th
Author Signings at Meeting Room MR 3211 (Tor Table #17)
- Kendare Blake (Anna Dressed in Blood, Antigoddess) 9:30 am-10:30am
- Dan Krokos (Planet Thieves) 11:30am-12:30pm
- Brandon Sanderson (The Way of Kings, The Rithmatist) 2pm-3pm (Note: This event is ticketed.)
Friday May 31th
Horror Writers of America Signing at Table #24
- Ellen Datlow (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, Tor.com) 2:30pm-3:30pm
Signings at Booth 1557
- Brandon Sanderson (The Way of Kings, The Rithmatist) 3:00-4:30pm
Author Signings at Meeting Room MR 3211 (Tor Table #17)
- V.E. Schwab (Viscious) 2pm-3pm
- Edward Lazellari (The Lost Prince) 3pm-4pm
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)
Goodreads Giveaway: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
About The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson, widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, begins a grand cycle of his own, with The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive.
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.
It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.
One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.
Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.
Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar’s niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan’s motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.
The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.
Speak again the ancient oaths,
Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.
and return to men the Shards they once bore.
The Knights Radiant must stand again.
Enter for a chance to win here!
(Ends May 29)
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
- Morning Roundup: Sherlock and Watson Defend Their Turf
- Brandon Sanderson’s New YA Novel The Rithmatist Debuts on the New York Times Bestseller List!
- Charles Stross on the Merchant Princes Series: Crib Sheet
- The Garden of Stones Sweepstakes!
- A Discourse in Steel (Excerpt)
- Farscape Rewatch: “Scratch ’n’ Sniff"
- Made to Order Apocalypse: Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
- Replica Sweepstakes!
- Revealing the Cover for Brian Staveley’s The Emperor’s Blades
- (Trying-Mightily-Hard-To-Be) A Comprehensive Reference Guide to Good Omens
Heroes and Heartbreakers
- What Fan Fiction Would You Like to Read?
- First Look: Nancy Gideon’s Prince of Shadows (May 27, 2013)
- Squick Me Out, Part 4: Return of the Moist
- Exclusive Cover Reveal: Cat Devon’s Love Your Entity!
- Shapeshifted: Exclusive Excerpt
- Bad Bromance: The History of Styxx and Acheron
- June 2013 Upcoming Romance Novel Releases Shopping List
- Dracula On Network Television This Fall!
- Witch Will You Choose?: What to Read and Watch If You Like the Witches of Lost Girl
- Maya Banks to Publish New Trilogy Set in Sweet Series World!
Criminal Element
- Why I Believe in Blue Bloods
- Fresh Meat: Wounded Prey by Sean Lynch
- The Dreadful Beauty of Top of the Lake
- Introducing the Criminal Element Book Club!
- Fresh Meat: Transparent by Natalie Whipple
- Car Guy: Does a Minivan Beat a Muscle Car? Maybe, Yeah.
- Memento Mori: Abandoned Victorian Lego Houses
- Lawyers on TV: The Case of the Vanishing Hero
- Fresh Meat: Graveland by Alan Glynn
- Taking Food Waaaaayyyyyy Too Seriously
