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Oz Reimagined

edited by John Joseph Adams & Douglas Cohen

When L. Frank Baum introduced Dorothy and friends to the American public in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz became an instant, bestselling hit. Today the whimsical tale remains a cultural phenomenon that continues to spawn wildly popular books, movies, and musicals. Now, editors John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen have brought together leading fantasy writers such as Orson Scott Card, Tad Williams, Jane Yolen, Jonathan Maberry, and Seanan McGuire to create the ultimate anthology for Oz fans—and, really, any reader with an appetite for richly imagined worlds. Some stories are dystopian… Some are dreamlike… All are undeniably Oz.

Publisher: 47North/Amazon Publishing

Publication Date: Feb. 26, 2013

SIGNING: 7PM Today at The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, AZ

I’m on tour! Tor Books is sending me on a short, regional/west coast book tour in support of the release of my new anthology, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. Today’s event is listed below, but you can also check out the whole tour schedule to see if I’m coming to a bookstore near you.

Poisoned Pen

SIGNING
Feb. 25, 7:00pm
4014 N Goldwater Blvd STE 101, Scottsdale, AZ
Also featuring contributor Diana Gabaldon!

READING/SIGNING: 3PM Today at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, CA

I’m on tour! Tor Books is sending me on a short, regional/west coast book tour in support of the release of my new anthology, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. Today’s event is listed below, but you can also check out the whole tour schedule to see if I’m coming to a bookstore near you.

Borderlands

READING / SIGNING

Feb. 23, 3:00pm

866 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA

Also featuring contributor Seanan McGuire!

READING/SIGNING: 7PM Today at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego, CA

I’m on tour! Tor Books is sending me on a short, regional/west coast book tour in support of the release of my new anthology, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. Today’s event is listed below, but you can also check out the whole tour schedule to see if I’m coming to a bookstore near you.

Mysterious Galaxy

READING / SIGNING

Feb. 22, 7:00pm

7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd Ste 302, San Diego, CA

Also featuring contributor Austin Grossman!

READING/SIGNING: 7:30PM Today at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, CA

I’m on tour! Tor Books is sending me on a short, regional/west coast book tour in support of the release of my new anthology, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. Today’s event is listed below, but you can also check out the whole tour schedule to see if I’m coming to a bookstore near you.

Kepler’s Books

READING / SIGNING

Feb. 21, 7:30pm

1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park CA

 

TorChat Today at 4PM ET on Twitter

Join me today for a Twitter chat with contributors to The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. Here’s the press release from Tor:

This Wednesday, February 20, at 4 PM EST #TorChat is taking you behind the scenes in some very dangerous places—the minds of several mad scientists. Joining readers will be the mistress of time travel and author of the New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon; the creator of Soon I Will Be Invincible’s Doctor Impossible, Austin Grossman; and creative genius (and by that, we mean mad scientist) Seanan McGuire, the author of the October Daye series, as well as the Newsflesh Trilogy (as Mira Grant). Together, they’ll be discussing the perfect layout to the underground lair, how to perfect your evil laugh, and, of course, the best way to try to take over the world!

The chat will be loosely moderated by editor extraordinaire and mad scientist wrangler John Joseph Adams, a fanastic anthologist, editor, and the publisher of Lightspeed Magazine. We hope all you budding evil geniuses will follow the chat and join in using the Twitter hashtag #TorChat!

JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS (@JohnJosephAdams) is the bestselling editor of Wastelands, Under the Moons of Mars, Seeds of Change, The Living Dead, The Way of the Wizard, By Blood We Live, and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He’s a two-time finalist for the Hugo and a three-time finalist for the World Fantasy Award. He is also the publisher and editor of Lightspeed Magazine, and the co-host of Wired.com’s “The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy” podcast. His newest anthology is The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, publishing on February 19th.

DIANA GABALDON(@Writer_DG) is the author of the award-winning, number one New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, which includeOutlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums Of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath Of Snow And Ashes, and An Echo In The Bone, with twenty million copies in print worldwide. She has also written a graphic novel calledThe Exile, and a number of novels and novellas about her character, Lord John Grey, the latest of which, The Scottish Prisoner, came out in 2011. The eighth novel in the main series, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood, will be published in 2013.

AUSTIN GROSSMAN (@Austin_Grossman) is the author of Soon I Will Be Invincible, which was nominated for the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. His writing has appeared in Granta, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He is a video game design consultant and a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, and he has written and designed for a number of critically acclaimed video games, including Ultima Underworld II, System Shock, Trespasser, andDeus Ex. His second novel, You, came out from Mulholland Books in 2012, and his short fiction has also appeared in the anthology Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom.

SEANAN MCGUIRE(@seananmcguire) is the author of the October Daye and InCryptid urban fantasy series. Writing under the open pseudonym Mira Grant, she is the author the Newsflesh trilogy—which includes Feed,Deadline, and Blackout—which she describes as “science fiction zombie political thrillers” that focus on blogging, medical technology, and the ethics of fear. A story set in that milieu appeared in John Joseph Adams’s anthologyThe Living Dead 2. Her other short work has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Book View Café, The Edge of Propinquity, Apex Magazine, and in the anthologies Zombiesque and Tales from the Ur-Bar.

NOW ON SALE: The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

Mwa-ha-ha-ha!

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, edited by yours truly, is now on sale and available wherever books are sold. Here’s the cover copy:

[image error]Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy or otherwise dominate the world as we know it.

Dr. Frankenstein was the first truly mad scientist of the modern era. And where did it get him? Destroyed by his own creation. And Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo, a man ahead of his time as well as out of his head, what did he do to deserve persecution?

Even Lex Luthor, by all counts a genius, has been hindered not once, not twice, but so many times that it has taken hundreds of comic books, a few films and no fewer than ten full seasons of a television series to keep him properly thwarted.

It’s just not fair. So those of us who are so twisted and sick that we love mad scientists have created this guide. Some of the names have been changed to protect the guilty, but you’ll recognize them. But it doesn’t matter. This guide is not for you. It’s for them, the underhanded, over-brained, paranoiacs who so desperately need our help.

What lies behind those unfocused, restless eyes and drooling, wicked grins? Why–and how–do they concoct their nefarious plots? Why are they so set on taking over the world? If you’ve ever asked yourself any of these questions, you’re in luck: Because we are exposing their secrets, aiding and abetting their evil. It all awaits, within.

Watch out, world!

All original, all nefarious, all conquering tales from the megalomaniacal pens of DIANA GABALDON, AUSTIN GROSSMAN, SEANAN McGUIRE, NAOMI NOVIK, DANIEL H. WILSON and 17 OTHER EVIL GENIUSES

To learn more, visit the website I built for the book, which features Free Reads, interviews with the authors, and more!

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

edited by John Joseph Adams

Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy or otherwise dominate the world as we know it.

All original, all nefarious, all conquering tales from the megalomaniacal pens of DIANA GABALDON, AUSTIN GROSSMAN, SEANAN McGUIRE, NAOMI NOVIK, DANIEL H. WILSON and 17 OTHER EVIL GENIUSES.

Publisher: Tor Books

Publication Date: Feb. 19, 2013

Locus Awards Nomination Period Now Open

This year’s Locus Awards nomination period is now open.

Anyone may vote for the Locus Awards. In each category, you may vote for up to five works or nominees, ranking them 1 (first place) through 5 (fifth). Listed options in each category are based on Locus‘s 2012 Recommended Reading List, with options in categories for editor, artist, magazine, and publisher including results of the past two years. You are welcome to use the write-in boxes to vote for other titles and nominees in any category. Nominations close April 15, 2013. To nominate, go here.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2012.

All of Lightspeed‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast).
All of Nightmare‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast).
Selected stories from Armored are available online.
Selected stories from Under the Moons of Mars are available online.
Selected stories from Other Worlds Than These (reprints) are available online (not eligible for the short fiction categories, but this may assist you in nominating in the Anthology category).
Selected stories from Epic: Legends of Fantasy (reprints) are available online (not eligible for the short fiction categories, but this may assist you in nominating in the Anthology category).

After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2012 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with.

Novelettes

Lightspeed

The Sweet Spot — A. M. Dellamonica — 7700 words — (Lightspeed)
The Sympathy — Eric Gregory — 8200 words — (Lightspeed)

Nightmare

Property Condemned — Jonathan Maberry — 8900 words — (Nightmare)
Frontier Death Song — Laird Barron — 9950 words — (Nightmare)

Armored

The N-Body Solution — Sean Williams — 9300 words — (Armored)
Jungle Walkers — Tobias S. Buckell & David Klecha — 8325 words — (Armored)
The Last Run of the Coppelia — Genevieve Valentine — 8050 words — (Armored)
HARRE — Ethan Skarstedt & Brandon Sanderson — 8750 words — (Armored)
Nomad — Karin Lowachee — 7700 words — (Armored)
The Cat’s Pajamas — Jack McDevitt — 7800 words — (Armored)
Find Heaven and Hell in the Smallest Things — Simon R Green — 9442 words — (Armored)

Under the Moons of Mars

The Metal Men of Mars — Joe R. Lansdale — 8000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Ghost That Haunts the Superstition Mountains — Chris Claremont — 8100 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Jasoom Project — S. M. Stirling — 11110 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)

Short Stories

Lightspeed

Forget You — Marc Laidlaw — 1400 words — (Lightspeed)
Mother Ship — Caroline M. Yoachim — 1400 words — (Lightspeed)
Beauty — David Barr Kirtley — 2000 words — (Lightspeed)
Dreams in Dust — D. Thomas Minton — 2000 words — (Lightspeed)
Requiem in the Key of Prose — Jake Kerr — 2200 words — (Lightspeed)
Breaking the Frame — Kat Howard — 2200 words — (Lightspeed)
War 3.01 — Keith Brooke — 2400 words — (Lightspeed)
The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species — Ken Liu — 2600 words — (Lightspeed)
The Children of Hamelin — Dale Bailey — 3000 words — (Lightspeed)
How Many Miles to Babylon? — Megan Arkenberg — 3081 words — (Lightspeed)
Ghost River Red — Aidan Doyle — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
Sun Dogs — Brooke Bolander — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
The Suicide’s Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition — Megan Arkenberg — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring — Genevieve Valentine — 3500 words — (Lightspeed)
A Well-Adjusted Man — Tom Crosshill — 3500 words — (Lightspeed)
The Seven Samovars — Peter Sursi — 3700 words — (Lightspeed)
My Wife Hates Time Travel — Adam-Troy Castro — 3700 words — (Lightspeed)
The Day They Came — Kali Wallace — 3900 words — (Lightspeed)
Test — Steven Utley — 4000 words — (Lightspeed)
Seven Smiles and Seven Frowns — Richard Bowes — 4100 words — (Lightspeed)
My Teacher, My Enemy — Kelsey Ann Barrett — 4200 words — (Lightspeed)
A Moment Before It Struck — Linda Nagata — 4300 words — (Lightspeed)
Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream — Maria Dahvana Headley — 4400 words — (Lightspeed)
The Cross-Time Accountants Fail To Kill Hitler Because Chuck Berry Does The Twist — C. C. Finlay — 4900 words — (Lightspeed)
The Cristóbal Effect — Simon McCaffery — 5000 words — (Lightspeed)
Spindles — L. B. Gale — 5000 words — (Lightspeed)
Bear and Shifty — Benjamin Parzybok — 5200 words — (Lightspeed)
Blue Lace Agate — Sarah Monette — 5400 words — (Lightspeed)
La Alma Perdida de Marguerite Espinoza — Jeremiah Tolbert — 5500 words — (Lightspeed)
Alarms — S. L. Gilbow — 5600 words — (Lightspeed)
Searching for Slave Leia — Sandra McDonald — 5700 words — (Lightspeed)
Flowing Unimpeded to the Enlightenment — Robert Reed — 5850 words — (Lightspeed)
Family Teeth (Part 6): St. Polycarp’s Home For Happy Wanderers — Sarah Langan — 5900 words — (Lightspeed)
Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring — Brooke Bolander — 6000 words — (Lightspeed)
Nightside on Callisto — Linda Nagata — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
Renfrew’s Course — John Langan — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
Family Teeth (Part 5): American Jackal — J.T. Petty — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
Flash Bang Remember — Tina / Caroline Connolly / Yoachim — 6500 words — (Lightspeed)
Ruminations in an Alien Tongue — Vandana Singh — 6700 words — (Lightspeed)
Monster, Finder, Shifter — Nina Kiriki Hoffman — 6700 words — (Lightspeed)
On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant) — Marissa Lingen — 6900 words — (Lightspeed)
Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil — Carrie Vaughn — 7000 words — (Lightspeed)
A Plague of Zhe — Maggie Clark — 7000 words — (Lightspeed)
The Five Elements of the Heart Mind — Ken Liu — 7300 words — (Lightspeed)
Mother of All Russiya — Melanie Rawn — 7400 words — (Lightspeed)
The Perfect Match — Ken Liu — 7450 words — (Lightspeed)

Nightmare

Good Fences — Genevieve Valentine — 3050 words — (Nightmare)
Afterlife — Sarah Langan — 5850 words — (Nightmare)
Construction Project — Desirina Boskovich — 2640 words — (Nightmare)
At Lorn Hall — Ramsey Campbell — 6900 words — (Nightmare)
Chop Shop — J. B. Park — 2924 words — (Nightmare)
Foul Weather — Daniel H. Wilson — 2600 words — (Nightmare)

Armored

The Johnson Maneuver — Ian Douglas — 6100 words — (Armored)
Hel’s Half-Acre — Jack Campbell — 6000 words — (Armored)
Death Reported of Last Surviving Veteran of Great War — Dan Abnett — 1500 words — (Armored)
Power Armor: A Love Story — David Barr Kirtley — 4100 words — (Armored)
The Last Days of the Kelly Gang — David D. Levine — 6000 words — (Armored)
Field Test — Michael A. Stackpole — 6300 words — (Armored)
Trauma Pod — Alastair Reynolds — 6600 words — (Armored)
Contained Vacuum — David Sherman — 7000 words — (Armored)
You Do What You Do — Tanya Huff — 5781 words — (Armored)
Human Error — John Jackson Miller — 5400 words — (Armored)
Transfer of Ownership — Christie Yant — 1750 words — (Armored)
Don Quixote — Carrie Vaughn — 4200 words — (Armored)
The Poacher — Wendy N. Wagner & Jak Wagner — 4800 words — (Armored)
The Green — Lauren Beukes — 5230 words — (Armored)
Sticks and Stones — Robert Buettner — 5450 words — (Armored)
Helmet — Daniel H. Wilson — 6000 words — (Armored)

Under the Moons of Mars

Coming of Age on Barsoom — Catherynne M. Valente — 3500 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Three Deaths — David Barr Kirtley — 4400 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
River Gods of Mars — Austin Grossman — 4630 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
A Tinker of Warhoon — Tobias S. Buckell — 5000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
A Game of Mars — Genevieve Valentine — 5000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Ape-Man of Mars — Peter S. Beagle — 5456 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Woola’s Song — Theodora Goss — 5600 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Bronze Man of Mars — L. E. Modesitt, Jr. — 5630 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Vengeance of Mars — Robin Wasserman — 5700 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
The Death Song of Dwar Guntha — Jonathan Maberry — 6000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
Sidekick of Mars — Garth Nix — 6123 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)

Anthology

Under the Moons of Mars
Armored
Other Worlds Than These
Epic: Legends of Fantasy

Magazine of Fanzine

Lightspeed Magazine
Nightmare Magazine

Editor – Pro or Fan

John Joseph Adams

Artist – Pro or Fan

Galen Dara [gallery of Lightspeed illustrations] [other 2012 illustrations]

Powell’s Books

READING / SIGNING

7:00pm

Portland, OR

Also featuring David D. Levine & Daniel  H. Wilson

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