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Future Treasures: Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds

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Alastair Reynolds’ Revenger was one of the most acclaimed SF novels of 2016. It was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and won the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book. SFX called it “By far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever written,” and The Guardian labeled it “”A swashbuckling thriller — Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly.” In his enthusiastic review for Black Gate, Brandon Crilly said: Reynolds’ work is always fast-paced and interesting, weaving the…

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Handling Wonderful Changes: The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken

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Black Gate has some of the best writers in the business, and we’re always proud when one of our bloggers has a new publication. But we’re doubly pleased when one of our writers produces a debut novel — and especially one as widely acclaimed as The Quantum Magician, by our Saturday blogger Derek Künsken. The Quantum Magician was published in trade paperback by Solaris earlier this month, and it’s already won rave accolades from writers such as Yoon Ha Lee, and Cixin Liu, who…

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The Strangest Alien: Julie E. Czerneda’s Esen-alit-Quar Returns in Two New Books

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Julie E. Czerneda is one of the leading SF writers of the 21st Century. A biologist by trade, she’s brought a unique appreciation for the far-ranging possibilities of extraterrestrial biology to her fiction, and the result has been some of the most joyously alien characters in all of modern SF. One of her most popular characters is Esen-alit-Quar, the alien protagonist of the Web Shifters trilogy (Beholder’s Eye, Changing Vision, and Hidden in Sight), published by DAW between 1998-2003. Who or what is Esen?…

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Experience an Alternate History Space Program with Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut Series

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Mary Robinette Kowal’s “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2014 (after some shenanigans that caused it to be weirdly disqualified in 2013). All that — not to mention her other accolades, including multiple Nebula nominations for her popular Glamourist Histories fantasy series — helped make it one of the most talked-about SF stories of the last decade. Read the complete text at Tor.com. “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” is the tale of Elma York, who led…

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The Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog on the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of June 2018

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June has been a fantastic month for new books. My TBR (to-be-read) pile is reaching structurally unsound heights already, and Jeff Somers at the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog isn’t helping matters any by showcasing nearly two dozen of the best new releases. Here’s a few of his more interesting selections. Brief Cases, by Jim Butcher (Ace Books, 448 pages, $28 hardcover/$14.99 digital, June 5, 2018) Butcher offers up 12 stories set in the world of Harry Dresden, wizard and…

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io9 on 28 New Sci-fi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your Shelves in May

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Cheryl Eddy at io9 has a gift for you folks who’ve run out of things to read already this month (Seriously, how does that happen?? Whatever, we don’t judge.) A tidy list of 28 New Sci-fi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your Shelves. 28! How does she do that, and with astonishingly little overlap with John DeNardo’s list of the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror in May? I have no idea, but perhaps dark magics were involved, and…

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Future Treasures: Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds

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Alastair Reynolds’ 2007 novel The Prefect introduced Prefect Tom Dreyfus, a hardened law enforcement officer tasked with maintaining democracy throughout the Glitter Band, part of Reynolds’s Revelation Space milieu. Publishers Weekly called the book “a fascinating hybrid of space opera, police procedural and character study… solid British SF adventure, evoking echoes of le Carré and Sayers with a liberal dash of Doctor Who.” A decade later Reynolds has written a sequel, in which Dreyfuss finds himself caught in a web…

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Keep Up With the Latest Releases from Black Gate Authors — October Edition

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As we head into fall, the list of upcoming novels, stories and features from Black Gate‘s authors and bloggers continues to expand — and grow more and more impressive. Here’s a partial list of the current and upcoming releases from some of your favorite BG writers. The Harbors of the Sun by Martha Wells, the last in the Books of the Raksura series, came out in July from Night Shade Books After the End of the World by Jonathan L. Howard, Volume…

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Weird Sea Adventures: A Review of the Archipelago Kickstarter Reward Magazine

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First there was the Weird Tale, which hit the mark. Then there was the Weird Western, which hit the mark for many, but not all. Now there is the Weird Sea… The advent of Archipelago came to my attention on Black Gate via Brandon Crilly’s post post earlier this year, which included some cool art and a teaser story – “The Ur-Ring” by Charlotte Ashley. As a longstanding fan of maritime literature, specifically the Richard Bolitho stories by Alexander Kent (pseudonym…

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The Late September Fantasy Magazine Rack

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I know, I know. We’re in October already. But I’m still not finished with all of September’s great magazines yet. Here are the ones that grabbed my attention in the last half of the month (links will bring you to magazine websites). Apex Magazine — Issue #100, with new fiction from Andrea Tang, plus reprints by Kameron Hurley & others Back Issue #100 — our second issue #100 this month is a 100-page centennial featuring Bronze Age comic fanzines Pulp Literature — with a story…

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