Titan Books will be reissuing my novel Captain Nemo in the US and the UK in September. This has always been one of my favorites among my novels, and I'm very happy to see it brought back into print. Most readers know Capain Nemo only as the enigmatic protagonist of Jules Verne's classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But what if Nemo was a real man, whose actual life was more fantastic and adventurous than all the fictions it inspired? Here is the epic tale of Andre Nemo, the man behind the myth. The free-spirited and inventive son of a...
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Our first review on HELLHOLE! From Booklist: (starred review) Hellhole is a militaristic sf story of galactic proportions. The underdog, General Tiber Adolphus, had taken on the corrupted Constellation and lost as a direct result of choosing a moral high ground. The ruler of the Constellation, Diadem Michella Duchenet, does not have him executed but, rather, exiled permanently to a planet in the Deep Zone. The Diadem is the powerful ruler of a system not unlike that of Louis XVI of France, a feudal system of nobility that tramples the common people for the benefit of the few scheming nobles at...
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When designing our "Life Lessons from the Desert" 2011 Calendar, Tim compiled the book covers of all my releases and reprints for 2010. Another busy year! My upcoming titles in 2011 include: • Hellhole (with Brian Herbert) • Star Challengers #2: Space Station Crisis (with Rebecca Moesta) • Star Challengers #3: Asteroid Crisis (with Rebecca Moesta) • Terra Incognita #3: The Key to Creation • Blood Lite 3 • Ill Wind (with Doug Beason, reprint) • Captain Nemo (reprint) And probably a few others. I hope you all have a prosperous and productive 2011, with plenty of time to read!
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Brian and I just received this letter from a Marine stationed in the desert. Perhaps not as unpleasant a place as fictional Arrakis, but still a tough place to do pleasure reading: "Hi, I am a U.S. Marine over in Afghanistan right now and since I joined the Marines I haven't read a book in three years. Since I have been out here for my second deployment I found your book "The Winds of Dune". Because of your book it has got me back into reading again, every chance I get to read I take it. So I just wanted...
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