It's pimpin' time

[threemonkeys]

Next week at the Phoenix club meeting we plan to look at the year ahead including the publications to look forward to. I'm doing this bit and am structuring it in an "Amazon says...", "Dymocks say" structure with stuff taken from web sites or local book sellers. But I thought I could have a "My flist says" page. So what do you think I should tell the local sf fans about. Give me some authors/titles etc. Don't be afraid to promote your own work or the work of friends. Don't assume I already know. Make the scope as wide as you like - books, zines, webzines, comics, plays, musicals and so on. Go on, don't be shy.

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[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

The Aurealis winners, but especially The Arrival. This is on the principle that no-one notices most of them till the year after the judging in any case. It's a doubly good thing - stuff that can be looked forward to next week instead of in 8 months time.

Stuff that was on the Nix/etc little booklet of Aussie forthcomings (some of which is out and other bits of which were postponed and can be happily loked forward to - or in the case of my book is still scaring me silly).

Lots of wonderful BFF due to appear, including by Russell K. Some old stuff in new editions beacuse of the restructuring of publishing with takeovers, but some fun new stuff as well. Speaking of fantasy writers, there's a short story by Jenny Fallon in the currnet ASIM and possibly/probably an interview with Trudi Canavan in the enxt one (the interview is done but I don't know when it will appear - I was the interviewer, which explains my oddly gappy knowledge of the future).

Kim Westwood has signed up with HarperVoyager, so there will be an SF novel to watch for, but I suspect it won't come out till 2008. Still, that will make SF readers happy - stuff for them is a bit rare on the ground and Kim is very good.

Is that enough?

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that is most helpful although you will have to expand a bit on "the Nix/etc little booklet of Aussie forthcomings".

Russell K's new BFF is in the shops now. I intend to give it some solid pimping at the meeting.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Garth and a couple of other people put together a little booklet for one of the major international cons (WFC?) of stuff to watch out for. I can't find it at the place it was originally stored on the web, but I think this might be a cached version: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:p-QzDfpjzlYJ:members.ozemail.com.au/~garthnix/WFCUpload3.pdf+&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=au

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

There are at least 3 on that list that are still forthcoming. Strange to read it and discover how many books were delayed for one reason or another. I would strongly recommend Kaaron Warren's The Glas Woman. It's The Grinding House, true, but with extra stuff and the extra stuff is *good*.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Cool that works and looks very useful indeed.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

For new books, I'd pimp the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik, and anything by Kage Baker.

Er, don't have time to write an explanation now. Do you want/need one?

[lobelet.livejournal.com]

Can't argue with any of that. I really enjoyed "Temeraire".

As far as Kage Baker goes there's a new collection of company-based short stories out (Gods And Pawns), and the very last (ie concluding) company novel is scheduled for July. It's called "The Sons Of Heaven". Subterranean Press are also publishing an over-priced collection called "Rude Mechanicals" in May.

Although "The Sons Of Heaven" will finish off the long story arc that Kage Baker has been developing for donkey's years now, it probably won't be that last Company book ever. There are still a lot of uncollected short stories and the nature of the format is such that she could go on writing stories and novels for ever if she wanted to.

Tor have just (re-)published Avram Davidson's "Adventures In Unhistory" which may be of interest. Personally I've lusted after it for many years and it's nice to see it available in a mass market edition at long last. Even I draw the line at paying umpteen hundred dollars for a second hand book, on the rare occasions that you even see a second hand copy of the original small-pres edition.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Thanks, this is what I need. Today, Matt told me the that the third Novik book has been released locally rather than as an import (which Dymocks have been doing). I'm glad Baker is finishing The Company - it has run its course really. I really want to see what she does next.

[darthsappho.livejournal.com]

I have nothing to announce for this month's meeting... *smiles enigmatically*

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

*nods conspiratorially*

[russellk.livejournal.com]

I second that Kaaron Warren comment by Gillian.

[russellk.livejournal.com]

Oh, and thanks for the pimping!

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

No argument from me - I thought The Grinding House was brilliant.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. The local shops seem to have a lot of copies to shift so I'll see if I can help.