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The Dervish House: Too Bloody Good

Richard Morgan (The Steel Remains, Altered Carbon) has posted his thoughts on Ian McDonald's The Dervish House to his blog, in a piece entitled "If you only read one SF book this year….".

"….make sure it's Ian McDonald's The Dervish House...Ian McDonald is one of a very small and select number of writers whose work actually makes me jealous – I read him and catch myself thinking over and over goddamnit, I wish I'd written this!!! Well – turns out The Dervish House is no exception to this...

Masked and Swords & Dark Magic Love

A second review for Swords & Dark Magic has popped up in Locus magazine (July 2010 issue), this one by  Rich Horton.  He  calls the book, "a collection devoted to the 'New  Swords and Sorcery,' which is to say, more or less, the old Swords and Sorcery  with extra cynicism. Granting  of course that cynicism was hardly absent from  Sword and Sorcery, this book  does seem more of our time. And it's solid from beginning to end." Getting particular attention is Gene Wolfe's "Bloodsport,"...

MASKED: engaging, entertaining and sometimes even thought-provoking

Drew Bittner has just reviewed my forthcoming superhero anthology Masked for SFRevu.

He writes that Masked is "a fun read," which "delivers heroes and villains who run the gamut from the world-shaking to the penny-ante. ...Lou Anders has assembled a collection of engaging, entertaining and sometimes even thought-provoking stories about the human (and superhuman) condition. Many of these characters will stay with the reader long after the book is set down. Now if only we could find the ongoing ...

MASKED, MALLOZZI & ME

Stargate Writer, Co-Executive Producer, anthology-contributor, friend to SF&F writers everywhere, and all around great guy Joseph Mallozzi has announced on his blog that my forthcoming superhero anthology Masked will be his September pick for his book of the month club. I will be stopping by the week of September 13th for a Q&A. I was Joe's first ever guest, and I look forward to being back. He has great fans!

Time Magazine Endorses Swords & Dark Magic

Lev Grossman, TIME columnist and The Magicians author, has chosen Swords & Dark Magic , along with Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio's Stories: All-New Tales ,  as his two picks in TIME magazine's feature on summer books!

In an article in the July 12, 2010 issue entitled "Page Turners: The summer's hot writers on what's on their nightstand, Kindle or beach chair," Grossman writes "Fantasy is going through an explosion of creativity. Two new anthologies showcase the best of it."

Not a lot of words,...

You Can All Shut the Hell Up Now.

Here's your flying car.

Meanwhile, here's my original September 2008 piece on this.
I'm Tired of Flying Cars Or rather, I'm tired of people trotting out the cliched quip of "Where's my flying car?" whenever they talk about the future not living up to expectations. And I got to say, what's the big deal about flying cars? The future is certainly living up to my expectations without them. I carry over 7k songs around in my pocket in something smaller than a pack of cigarettes - that's every ...

Masked Available for ebook preorder

My forthcoming superhero prose anthology, Masked , has just appeared for preorders on both the Kindle and the B&N eReader/Nook. I don't see it in iBooks yet, but hopefully that's coming, along with other formats.

Once more, the Publishers Weekly review:

"Anders ( Fast Forward ) delivers an ambitious collection of superhero tales that provide top-notch plots and characterizations while honoring their four-color roots. In Daryl Gregory's superbly metafictional "Message from the Bubble Gum Factor...

@LouAnders debuts

So, with all the attention that my anthologies Swords & Dark Magic and the forthcoming Masked have been getting, and with the nightly status updates on the word count of my own YA novel-in-progress, I've decided to create a second Twitter account. In what is sure to be a vain attempt to have some kind of an identity aside from Pyr, I'm going to split in two. Ouch.

Henceforth (with allowances for overlap and speed-typing mistakes), @Pyr_Books will be used for all Pyr-relevant news, reviews, aut...

Swords & Dark Magic: The Magic is Unleashed!

My Eos anthology, Swords & Dark Magic, co-edited with Jonathan Strahan, is now IN STOCK at Amazon, B&N, Borders, etc... and is available for the Kindle, B&N ereader/Nook, and in iBooks. And I'm sure you can get it at fine independents like Borderlands Books as well.

Once again, the Table of Contents:
Check Your Dark Lord at the Door" — Lou Anders & Jonathan Strahan Goats of Glory — Steven Erikson Tides Elba: A Tale of the Black Company — Glen Cook Bloodsport — Gene Wolfe The Singing Spear —...

Time for a Cassandra Kresnov Movie

See this trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution:



Then compare it to this:

Joel Shepherd's Cassandra Kresnov trilogy of Crossover, Breakaway, and Killswitch would make one hell of a movie, and should look just about like Deus Ex with the lead replaced by a Katee Sackoff-type.