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August 6, 2014
July 10, 2014
NEWS: OZ REIMAGINED is one of Amazon’s “Kindle Summer Reading Deals” and is on Sale for $2 Thru 8/9/14!
OZ REIMAGINED is one of Amazon’s “Kindle Summer Reading Deals” and is on sale for $2 through August 9! [link]
If you’ve already bought and enjoyed the book, please tell a friend!
Here’s the Table of Contents:
Foreword: Oz and Ourselves—Gregory Maguire
Introduction: There’s No Place Like Oz—John Joseph Adams & Douglas Cohen
The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz—Rae Carson & C.C. Finlay
Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust—Seanan McGuire
Lost Girls of Oz—Theodora Goss
The Boy Detective of Oz: An Otherland Story—Tad Williams
Dorothy Dreams—Simon R. Green
Dead Blue—David Farland
One Flew Over the Rainbow—Robin Wasserman
The Veiled Shanghai—Ken Liu
Beyond the Naked Eye—Rachel Swirsky
A Tornado of Dorothys—Kat Howard
Blown Away—Jane Yolen
City So Bright—Dale Bailey
Off to See the Emperor—Orson Scott Card
A Meeting in Oz—Jeffrey Ford
The Cobbler of Oz—Jonathan Maberry
Plus, each story in the anthology has been illustrated by artist Galen Dara, who also provided the cover for the book.
Visit the FREE READS/EXCERPTS page to read selections from the anthology. You can also visit the AUTHOR INTERVIEWS page where you can read interviews with the authors.
July 1, 2014
NEWS: HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects is now on sale!
HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects, my new anthology about improbable, futuristic, magical & alternate-world crowdfunding projects, is now on sale!
You can learn more on the HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! website, including where you can buy the book. You can also peruse the FREE READS, AUTHOR INTERVIEWS, or PROJECTS BLURBS pages to get a feel for the anthology and learn more about the stories.
COVER COPY:
If you’re a regular backer of Kickstarters, you’ve probably seen some unique crowdfunding projects in your time. But one thing all of those campaigns—boringly!—had in common was: They abided by the physical laws of the universe!
HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! is an anthology of science fiction/fantasy stories told in the form of fictional crowdfunding pitches, using the components (and restrictions) of the format to tell the story. This includes but is not limited to: Project Goals, Rewards, User Comments, Project Updates, FAQs, and more. The idea is to replicate the feel of reading a crowdfunding pitch, so that even though the projects may be preposterous in the real world, they will feel like authentic crowdfunding projects as much as possible.
So if what you’ve always been looking for in a Kickstarter—and couldn’t find—was a project that allowed you to protect yourself from spoilers, buy wishes, find lost objects, or support a wildlife preserve for supernatural creatures, then HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects may be just the thing you’ve been looking for.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION
John Joseph Adams
HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!!
Keffy R.M. Kehrli
FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY
Jeremiah Tolbert
ZERO G R&J
Mary Robinette Kowal
A MEMORIAL TO THE PATRIOTS
Jake Kerr
I WANT TO BE A LIONESS
Chuck Wendig
LIBERTY: SEEKING SUPPORT FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS FOR A NON-HUMAN BEING
Samuel Peralta
HELP SUMMON THE MOST HOLY FOLDED ONE!
Harry Connolly
FULFILL MY DESTINY—AND SAVE THE WORLD!
Matt Forbeck
LARPING THE APOCALYPSE 2: THE NANO-PLAGUE
Tim Pratt
FUND TAPHOGNOSIS INDUSTRIES
Tobias S. Buckell
CATASSASSINS!
Veronica Belmont
FINDER OF LOST THINGS
Monte Cook
PRIMA NOCTA DETECTIVE AGENCY NEEDS YOU
Genevieve Valentine
SO JUICY TRANSFORMING STRIPS
Matt Williamson
THE SPIRIT OF MARS: FUND A SACRED JOURNEY TO THE RED PLANET
Andrew Penn Romine
FLASHED FORWARD
Bradley Beaulieu
HELP ME FOLLOW MY SISTER INTO THE LAND OF THE DEAD
Carmen Maria Machado
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
Michael J. Sullivan
A PRACTICAL MECHANISM FOR OVERCOMING THE DIRECTIONALITY OF TEMPORAL FLOW
David D. Levine
LIFE-SIZED ARENA TETRIS!
David Malki!
ZIPPERS
Derek Van Gorder
I USED TO LOVE H.E.R.
Maurice Broaddus
LOCALLY GROWN, ORGANIC
Kat Howard
LET’S KEEP BURT GRIMSBY’S HEAD FROZEN!
Heather Lindsley
JEROME 3.0
Jason Gurley
HELP ME DESTROY CANNES!
Jonathan L. Howard
SAVE THE PHOTOPHOBIC HEMOGLOBIVORES WITH THE SANGUINE RESERVE!
Mur Lafferty
NOSFERATU, BRUTUS?
Scott Sigler
UPDATES
Vylar Kaftan and Shannon Prickett
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
MECHANICAL ANIMALS
Brooke Bolander
KISMET™
Daniel H. Wilson
BRING ABOUT THE HALLOWEEN ETERNAL!!!
Seanan McGuire
WEBSITE:
www.johnjosephadams.com/robot-army
WHERE TO BUY IT:
HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects
edited by John Joseph Adams
If you’re a regular backer of Kickstarters, you’ve probably seen some unique crowdfunding projects in your time. But one thing all of those campaigns—boringly!—had in common was: They abided by the physical laws of the universe! HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! is an anthology of science fiction/fantasy stories told in the form of fictional crowdfunding project pitches, using the components (and restrictions) of the format to tell the story. This includes but is not limited to: Project Goals, Rewards, User Comments, Project Updates, FAQs, and more. The idea is to replicate the feel of reading a crowdfunding pitch, so that even though the projects may be preposterous in the real world, they will feel like authentic crowdfunding projects as much as possible. So if what you’ve always been looking for in a Kickstarter—and couldn’t find—was a project that allowed you to SUMMON DEMONS, DEFY GRAVITY, WIELD MAGIC, or VIOLATE CAUSALITY, then HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects may be just the thing you’ve been looking for.
Publisher: John Joseph Adams
Publication Date: July 1, 2014
June 27, 2014
NEWS: The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is on Sale for $1.99
My anthology, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is on sale today for $1.99. It appears to be US/Canada-only. It’s on sale in the following stores:
Kindle
Nook
If I discover it’s on sale elsewhere as well I’ll update this post.
June 21, 2014
NEWS: THE END IS NIGH is a Kindle Daily Deal Today (6/21) — On Sale for $1.99!
THE END IS NIGH, the “pre-apocalypse” anthology I co-edited with Hugh Howey, is part of Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal today (June 21). That means the ebook edition, which normally sells for $6.99, is on sale for just $1.99! That’s 22 stories, and more than 130,000 words for just under two bucks. (Note: The Kindle Daily Deal is for US customers only. Sorry!)
I think it’s a really great book naturally, but don’t take my word for it. Here’s what some reviewers have said about it:
“The End Is Nigh is very good. Of course it is. Adams and Howey are a two-man tour-de-force of post-apocalyptic lit. … Ultimately, the best thing about The End Is Nigh is how elegantly it balances on the thin line between beauty and devastation. There’s no story in the book that didn’t break my heart at least a little, and there’s none of the twenty-two that hasn’t stuck with me, hard.” — Wired.com
“Even if you aren’t typically a fan of short stories, really do pick this up. If you love apocalypse stories, pick this up. Actually no matter what you like, pick this up…seriously.” —Seattle Geekly
“Destined to be a favorite among end-of-the-world enthusiasts.” —FEARnet
Additionally, the anthology has racked up 70 reviews over on Amazon and has a 4.3/5 average star rating.
Among the 22 stories it contains includes new, never-before-published stories by Paolo Bacigalupi, Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, Nancy Kress, Scott Sigler, Ben H. Winters, Charlie Jane Anders, Jonathan Maberry, Robin Wasserman, Tananarive Due, and many more. You can learn more about the anthology—and read free samples from the book—on its official website.
May 30, 2014
Table of Contents: HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects
HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects contains 32 all-new, never-before-published stories, plus a reprint of the eponymous story that inspired the anthology. It will go on sale on July 1, 2014.
Here’s the final table of contents:
INTRODUCTION
John Joseph Adams
HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!!
Keffy R.M. Kehrli
FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY
Jeremiah Tolbert
ZERO G R&J
Mary Robinette Kowal
A MEMORIAL TO THE PATRIOTS
Jake Kerr
I WANT TO BE A LIONESS
Chuck Wendig
LIBERTY: SEEKING SUPPORT FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS FOR A NON-HUMAN BEING
Samuel Peralta
HELP SUMMON THE MOST HOLY FOLDED ONE!
Harry Connolly
FULFILL MY DESTINY—AND SAVE THE WORLD!
Matt Forbeck
LARPING THE APOCALYPSE 2: THE NANO-PLAGUE
Tim Pratt
FUND TAPHOGNOSIS INDUSTRIES
Tobias S. Buckell
CATASSASSINS!
Veronica Belmont
FINDER OF LOST THINGS
Monte Cook
PRIMA NOCTA DETECTIVE AGENCY NEEDS YOU
Genevieve Valentine
SO JUICY TRANSFORMING STRIPS
Matt Williamson
THE SPIRIT OF MARS: FUND A SACRED JOURNEY TO THE RED PLANET
Andrew Penn Romine
FLASHED FORWARD
Bradley Beaulieu
HELP ME FOLLOW MY SISTER INTO THE LAND OF THE DEAD
Carmen Maria Machado
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
Michael J. Sullivan
A PRACTICAL MECHANISM FOR OVERCOMING THE DIRECTIONALITY OF TEMPORAL FLOW
David D. Levine
LIFE-SIZED ARENA TETRIS!
David Malki!
ZIPPERS
Derek Van Gorder
I USED TO LOVE H.E.R.
Maurice Broaddus
LOCALLY GROWN, ORGANIC
Kat Howard
LET’S KEEP BURT GRIMSBY’S HEAD FROZEN!
Heather Lindsley
JEROME 3.0
Jason Gurley
HELP ME DESTROY CANNES!
Jonathan L. Howard
SAVE THE PHOTOPHOBIC HEMOGLOBIVORES WITH THE SANGUINE RESERVE!
Mur Lafferty
NOSFERATU, BRUTUS?
Scott Sigler
UPDATES
Vylar Kaftan and Shannon Prickett
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
MECHANICAL ANIMALS
Brooke Bolander
KISMET™
Daniel H. Wilson
BRING ABOUT THE HALLOWEEN ETERNAL!!!
Seanan McGuire
Cover by Jason Gurley
Hugo Voter Packet Now Available!
The Hugo Voter Packet is now available for download to registered members of Worldcon.
My contributions to the packet include my anthology, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination (Best Editor, Short Form), and a 2013 sampler of Lightspeed which contains every original story published in 2013 (Semiprozine).
May 13, 2014
DEAD MAN’S HAND now on sale!
DEAD MAN’S HAND, my new anthology of all-original weird western fiction, is now on sale! You can learn more on the DEAD MAN’S HAND website, including where you can buy the book.
The book’s website also features interviews with most of the authors, plus some free fiction from the book, and you can also read (or listen to) “Second Hand” by Rajan Khanna in the May issue of Lightspeed.
COVER COPY:
From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards, or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town.
Here are twenty-three original tales—stories of the Old West infused with elements of the fantastic—produced specifically for this volume by many of today’s finest writers. Included are Orson Scott Card’s first “Alvin Maker” story in a decade, and an original adventure by Fred Van Lente, writer of Cowboys & Aliens.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction—John Joseph Adams
The Red-Headed Dead—Joe R. Lansdale
The Old Slow Man and His Gold Gun From Space—Ben H. Winters
Hellfire on the High Frontier—David Farland
The Hell-Bound Stagecoach—Mike Resnick
Stingers and Strangers—Seanan McGuire
Bookkeeper, Narrator, Gunslinger—Charles Yu
Holy Jingle—Alan Dean Foster
The Man With No Heart—Beth Revis
Wrecking Party—Alastair Reynolds
Hell from the East—Hugh Howey
Second Hand—Rajan Khanna
Alvin and the Apple Tree—Orson Scott Card
Madam Damnable’s Sewing Circle—Elizabeth Bear
Strong Medicine—Tad Williams
Red Dreams—Jonathan Maberry
Bamboolzed—Kelley Armstrong
Sundown—Tobias S. Buckell
La Madre Del Oro—Jeffrey Ford
What I Assume You Shall Assume—Ken Liu
The Devil’s Jack—Laura Anne Gilman
The Golden Age—Walter Jon Williams
Neversleeps—Fred Van Lente
Dead Man’s Hand—Christie Yant
WEBSITE:
johnjosephadams.com/dead-mans-hand
FREE READS:
johnjosephadams.com/dead-mans-hand/free-reads
EDITIONS:
Trade Paperback
Ebook
Audiobook
BUY THE BOOK:
Amazon
B&N
Powell’s
More options
May 1, 2014
Dead Man’s Hand
edited by John Joseph Adams
The weird western is the forefather of steampunk, with a history that includes Stephen King’s Dark Tower and Card’s Alvin Maker. But where steampunk is Victorian, weird westerns are darker, grittier; in a weird western, the protagonist might be gunned down in a duel, killed by a vampire, or confronted by aliens on the streets of a dusty frontier town. In Dead Man’s Hand editor John Joseph Adams has produced an anthology that includes stories from many of today’s most talented authors, some new to the genre and others well-known to readers. The twenty-two original works—produced specifically for this volume—will range from a brand new Orson Scott Card tale (his first “Alvin Maker” story in a decade), to an original adventure by Fred Van Lente (creator of Cowboys & Aliens). It will also include stories such as Elizabeth Bear’s story of a steampunk bordello, and new writer Rajan Khanna’s exploration of sorcery found in a magical deck of playing cards.
Publisher: Titan Books
Publication Date: May 13, 2014
