The latest TLS has a nice review, by Jim Endersby, of a book they call Books and Naturalists, and which LibraryThing calls Nature Publishing in Britain (the latter title wouldn’t have caught my eye quite so effectively, I have to say).1 Packed into the half-page review are several moments of quality comedy. We learn of [...]
I needn’t have rushed to the bookstore for Kraken, and I wish Miéville had slowed down a bit too. And that his editor had been a bit more involved.
China Miéville’s Kraken isn’t out in the US until June. (His The City & The City recently won the Clarke award.) Today something reminded me that the European release date might be different — and indeed, the American Book Center listed it as released in May… but weren’t letting on when in May. Since it’s [...]
Polyphony is a short story anthology series, in the direction of “interstitial” or “slipstream” writing (“literary with a genre sensibility” being the “least elegant but most descriptive” phrase according to the introduction to volume 4). I own two volumes (3 and 4) and they have good stuff by good people inside. It turns out that [...]
Friday, February 12, 2010
It has been a good week for second-hand bookshopping. Not one but two James Tiptree, Jr collections, both from before Alice B. Sheldon was revealed as the woman behind the pseudonym. One has the famous Robert Silverberg introduction: “It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is [...]
I probably shouldn’t talk about this, to keep the competition down, but… The fabulous typography/design/art bookstore Nijhof & Lee is having their annual clearance sale. Except that last year they didn’t have one, so this is a biannual (even more stuff worth drooling over, no doubt). February 6 and 7, from 10am. I’ve never been [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Hey here’s happy news: Small Beer Press will be bringing Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others back into print in October. A book I’ve wanted for ages, and a publisher I like paying: win!
Here’s a nice setup. John Holbo and Belle Waring write a book about Plato: translations by Waring, commentary and illustrations by Holbo.1 They reserve e-publishing rights, so as well as the whole ink-and-paper business they can put it online, where you can read it in the surprisingly functional flash interface at issuu.com. You can download [...]
Small Beer press have an insane Buck a Book sale on. They have to clear out old stock to avoid having to pay for longterm storage — that must really suck given the state of the economy… So go help them out and score some great books really cheap! (I particularly recommend Angélica Gorodischer’s Kalpa [...]
China Miéville has a new book coming out. In stores four days before my birthday. Not that I’m hinting at anything, you understand.1 For those who don’t like spoilers, there’s a post on Suvudu with some details, plus video of the author not giving away the central conceit. For those who like spoilers, Publisher’s Weekly [...]