Today is release day for MENTATS OF DUNE, our thirteenth installment in the saga, follow-up to SISTERHOOD OF DUNE and the first new Dune novel in two years.  Enjoy another sample chapter—and I hope you'll get the book from Tor Books (US) and Simon & Schuster (UK) If we accept advanced technology in any form, we will begin to make excuses and justifications for using it.  There are so many ways to take the wrong path and tumble down a slippery slope, down, down, down.  Loyal Butlerians, we must be ever-vigilant and strong!  The Emperor’s Committee on Orthodoxy does not...
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Last month, Rebecca and I were on the Oregon coast teaching an intensive, invitation-only anthology workshop (approx 46 students) with Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, John Helfers, and Kerrie Lynn Hughes—as the result of which, I'm editing a new anthology for the Fiction River series, PULSE POUNDERS, and Rebecca is editing a YA anthology called SPARKS. photo by Annie Reed photo by Kim Mainord PULSE POUNDERS stories "start with a bang, end with a bang, with a lot of bang in between."  I read through a stack of 46 submitted manuscripts and also solicited other pieces for the book,...
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Can't stop thinking big?  I've got a lot of new CLOCKWORK ANGELS to show off. ECW Press is releasing the trade paperback of CLOCKWORK ANGELS the novel in May, with a lovely new Hugh Syme cover, a modification of his "Headlong Flight" painting. The trade paperback edition is less expensive (around $15) but it won't have all the beautiful full-color illustrations. You can still get the hardcover from ECW or the eBooks in all formats from WordFire Press. Here's Hugh's new cover   BOOM! Studios will release the first issue (of six) of CLOCKWORK ANGELS: The Graphic Novel, scripted by...
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I’ve participated in several book bundles over the past couple of years—horror, science fiction, fantasy—but I’ve never been so excited about such an awesome batch of titles from storybundle.com. The new “truly epic fantasy bundle” that debuts today from storybundle.com is a veritable Who’s Who of bestselling modern fantasy, featuring works by Neil Gaiman (an original American Gods novella!), Brandon Sanderson, David Farland, Tracy Hickman, James Artimus Owen, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Peter David, Kevin J. Anderson, and a collaboration between popular game designer Peter J. Wacks (Cyberpunk, Interface Zero) and prog-rock recording artist Mark Ryan (whose first Vizuddha album had...
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