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Archive for August, 2009

The Hugo Awards!

Just popping in here to mention that tonight in Montreal is the Hugo Awards ceremony. While your handsome Haikasoru editor didn’t win, we’re all thrilled that Stephen Segal (and Ann Vandermeer) won for best semi-professional magazine with Weird Tales. Stephen is not only the managing editor of the legendary magazine, he is the designer of the interiors for some of our forthcoming titles, including next month’s Usurper of the Sun. So congrats! A Hugo for the venerable magazine, which helped launched the careers of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard back in the pulp era, is decades in coming.

Oh, btw, I’m tooootally eligible for Best Long Form Editor next year, Hugo voters!

Two Great Lord reviews

Luke of Luke Reviews checks out The Lord of the Sands of Time and writes, in part:

…Ogawa picks interesting times to jump back to, from the dawn of mankind to World War II. Orville and Miyo become very human characters that are easy to relate to, and when they are in danger’s way, suspense fills you over their well-being.

It does, you know.

Also, over at SF Signal, JP Frantz also raves, saying:

After seeing humanity effectively wiped out in stream after stream, O is full of despair, but continues to try to save mankind. This determination, this self-sacrifice is one of the best part of the books. Despite O being a kind of cyborg, he is fully human in his emotions. And he’s willing to do just about anything to save even one timeline for humanity. He’s a terrific character to hang the story on and is the driving force behind the main story line in feudal Japan.

Both reviews gave The Lord of the Sands of Time four stars!  Well, what are you waiting for, functional time travel so you can have read the book already? Get to buying now before everyone else has already checked out our first Haikasoru offering! Your friends will make fun of you if you’re the last on your block…



The terrifying world of tomorrow…today!

The BBC is reporting that astronomers are puzzled by a strange bright spot which has appeared in the clouds of Venus. Even better, the spot was first observed by an amateur astronomer.*

In what one hopes is unrelated news, I received here in the office my advanced copies of Usurper of the Sun, a hard SF novel (and Seiun winner!) that details in its earliest chapters the discovery of a strange bright spot on Mercury by an amateur astronomer, namely high school girl Aki Shiraishi. Fun novel or horrifying guide to our grim future of climactic collapse and alien invasion? YOU decide.

* Oh, I’m sure the Venus spot is just volcanic activity and not aliens breaking the planet apart to build a ring around the sun. Totally, absolutely sure. I have no idea why I created a “Holy crap, we’re all gonna die!” tag.


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