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SF Book Releases This Week: July 29, 2014

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Mik Murdoch: The Power Within by Michell Plested

Mik ...

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Published on July 29, 2014 06:36

AISFP Podcast 268 – Greg van Eekhout, CALIFORNIA BONES

Shaun Farrell (some of you know who he is) returns from the great beyond to interview Greg van Eekhout, author of CALIFORNIA BONES, for this fourth appearance on Adventures in Scifi Publishing. It’s a little known fact that Greg has technically appeared in well over 150 episodes of the show as his voice has been used in the podcast intro for several years.

Shaun and Greg ...

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Published on July 28, 2014 17:33

Graphic Novel Review: ZITA THE SPACEGIRL by Ben Hatke

Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke
Paperback, 192 pages
Published February 1st 2011 by First Second Books

Publisher Description:

Zita’s life took a cosmic left turn in the blink of an eye.

When her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and finds herself a stranger on a strange planet. Humanoid chickens and neurotic ...

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Published on July 28, 2014 03:59

Game Review: Wolfenstein The New Order

This game has no right being as good as it is.

There. I’ve said it.

Wolfenstein: the New Order from Machine Games is an action adventure first person shooter (FPS) set in an alternate version of 1960’s Europe where the Nazis won the war. You play as special forces operative Captain William “B.J” Blazkowicz, who is on a self appointed mission to rid the world ...

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Published on July 24, 2014 03:55

Book Review: ROGUES by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois have produced many anthologies together, and I can honestly say the arrival of ROGUES had me the most excited. While initially, I had this book on pre-order because I wanted to read the story by Patrick Rothfuss, I was continually impressed by the quality of works in this collection.

In the vein of WARRIORS, the ROGUES collection delivers us ...

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Published on July 23, 2014 03:59

Q and A with Scott Kenemore, author of Zombie, Indiana (+Giveaway)

Skyhorse is offering 3 copies of Zombie, Indiana by Scott Kenemore to AISFP Newsletter subscribers. Join our list by one week from today and you’ll be entered. (US only for this giveaway)

*Zombie, Indiana is now available on Kindle Unlimited. Click book cover for link.

What kind of zombie apocalypse are we dealing with in this series and what terrains do our characters encounter?

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Published on July 22, 2014 11:37

SF Book Releases This Week: July 22, 2014

Thanks for stopping by another SF Book Releases This Week. If you are an indie or small press author and would like your book included in this list, email us at adventuresinscifipublishing [at] gmail [dot] com. If you love free books, reviews and podcasts, sign up to our newsletter and be entered in our weekly giveaways.

Valor (The Faithful and the Fallen) by John Gwynne

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Published on July 22, 2014 03:50

AISFP Podcast 267 – Kim Vandervort, Hadley Rille Book’s True Heroines of Fantasy

Brent Bowen chats with Hadley Rille Books author and editor Kim Vandevort about true heroines in fiction and how the publishing house battles the “Trinity complex” and works to bring strong female characters to the page.

In support of delivering strong female characters, Hadley Rille Books launched a crowd-funding campaign to bolster their distribution and marketing capabilities while also looking to keep an eye to new talent.

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Published on July 21, 2014 18:48

5 Lessons to Write a Series with Tim Marquitz

Tim Marquitz, Editor and Chief of Ragnarok Publications, recently released Exit Wounds: Demon Squad #7. Not many people have written a series that long (and it’s not his only one – Dead West is sweet zombie action). It’s an honor to have him come on and share with us what he’s learned. He also has a sweet giveaway to offer:

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Published on July 21, 2014 04:01

Book Review – DEAD WEST: OMNIBUS by Marquitz, Martin and Soward

Dead West Omnibus is the collected edition of two novels by Tim Marquitz, J.M. Martin and Kenny Soward: Those Poor, Poor Bastards, and The Ten Thousand Things, published by Ragnarok Publications. As I wrote in my review of the Those Poor, Poor Bastards, this zombie romp through the wild west is unique, fast paced and well written. The Ten Thousand Things amps up ...

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Published on July 18, 2014 11:57