Angry Robot 99p Summer Promotion

Angry Robot Books have teamed up with Amazon UK to offer a range of their e-books for just 99p over the summer, including several of their international titles! The promotion runs throughout July and August. Titles available: Moxyland by Lauren Beukes (South Africa) The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar (Israel/South Africa) Servant of the Underworld by...

Kaaron Warren’s Novel Comes With Free Novella

Apex Book of World SF contributor Kaaron Warren's last novel from Angry Robot Books, Walking the Tree, now comes with a free novella. Here's the official press release: While writing Walking the Tree, ace AR author Kaaron Warren naturally concentrated on her central character, Lillah. But as she explored that woman’s incredible journey around Botanica’s...

Monday Original Content: Australian SF Round Table

Monday Original Content: A Round Table on Australian SF with Gillian Polack, Simon Brown, Yaritji Green and Tessa Kum. By Kaaron Warren Australians have a long history of Science Fiction and Fantasy literature. May Gibbs’ wrote Snugglepot and Cuddlepie in 1918. These famous gumnut babies and their mortal enemies the Banksia men are part of...

Apex Book of World SF Interview Series #5: Kaaron Warren

The fifth in our interview series with Apex Book of World SF contributors, conducted by Charles Tan and published over at SF Signal. And this time, it's Kaaron Warren: As far as your question regarding the speculative field of fiction in Fiji, local writers write almost entirely in the realist mode. The works of writers such as Satendra...

World SF Round Table 1: On Environment and Background

Launching the World SF News Blog reboot, the first in our series of original posts. This week, the first of a two-part round table where writers answer a single question (yes, we did borrow the idea from SF Signal!) Our guests this week are Kaaron Warren, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Vandana Singh and Aliette de Bodard. Q:...

Exotic Gothic 3

Via Charles Tan, we came across the complete table of contents for the anthology Exotic Gothic 3, and not only does it contain a story from Apex Book of World SF contributor Tunku Halim, as we reported, but also - it's uncanny! - stories from no less than three other of our contributors! These being...

Aliette de Bodard sells three books; interviewed

Apex Book of World SF contributor Aliette de Bodard has just signed a three book deal with Angry Robot, the new genre imprint from HarperCollins - congratulations Aliette! She is interviewed by Marshall Payne over on the Bibliophile Stalker blog:I was born in New York, but didn't really stay long enough for that to make...

Apex Book of World SF authors at Worldcon

Four of the contributors to the Apex Book of World SF (out 1st September, but why not pre-order now?) will be attending the upcoming WorldCon in Canada. So if you're going, do look out for Kaaron Warren (who will be travelling in from Fiji), Aliette de Bodard, travelling in from France, Nir Yaniv, travelling in from Israel, and Jetse de...

Kaaron Warren’s first novel, Slights, released

Apex Book of World SF contributor, Australian writer and Fiji resident, Kaaron Warren [blog][wikipedia] has recently signed a deal for three books with new HarperCollins imprint Angry Robot - and her first novel, Slights, is now out!Stephanie is a killer. After an accident in which her mother dies, she has a near-death experience, and finds herself...