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couldn't find a video of the entertainment Leesa mentionsthere must be one
but Gutenberg has (view spoiler)
Marvel superheroes published as Penguin Classics!https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/se...
RandomPenguin has added Marvel comics to the Penguin Classics lineup. The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection begins with The Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America and Black Panther.
What next, Penguin Classics as Marvel movies?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...
The Ursula K. Le Guin Trust announces the Shortlist for the first Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize. The prize honors a book-length work of imaginative fiction with $25,000. The nine shortlisted books will be considered by a panel of five jurors—adrienne maree brown, Becky Chambers, Molly Gloss, David Mitchell, and Luis Alberto Urrea. The winner will be announced later this year on October 21st, 2022, Ursula K. Le Guin’s birthday.After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang
Appleseed by Matt Bell
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn
The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Summer in the City of Roses by Michelle Ruiz Keil
https://electricliterature.com/announ...
And Trike is MIA. He was locked out of Goodreads a few weeks ago.
Jan, where are you?
In November, RandomPenguin (or maybe RandomPenguinSimonSchuster) will publish a 30th anniversary edition of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson with new material from the author's archives.https://twitter.com/nealstephenson/st...
British Fantasy Awards Shortlistshttps://www.britishfantasysociety.org...
Nominees for the British Fantasy Award were announced this week. Winners to be announced at FantasyCon in September.
Best Fantasy Novel (The Robert Holdstock Award)
The Black Coast by Mike Brooks
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Sistersong by Lucy Holland
This is Our Undoing by Lorraine Wilson
The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
More categories at the BFS website link above.
Stephen King and the DOJ battle Random Penguins invading Simon & SchusterWith Amazon looming menacingly over the book industry, PenguinRandom acquired Simon & Schuster, but the Department of Justice is taking them to court on August 1. The DOJ couldn't stop the last big media merger, AT&T and Time Warner, so the Big Five publishers may become the Really Big One Plus Three Less Big publishers.
Stephen King Is Set to Testify in Book Publishing Antitrust Trial
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
Showdown: DOJ’s Bid to Block PRH Acquisition of S&S Is Heading to Trial
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...
In Final Briefs, DOJ, PRH Flesh Out Arguments Ahead of Trial
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...
Cory Doctorow explains "Why none of my books are available on Audible"https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/ca...
While making it so easy to consume audiobooks, Amazon seems to have descended into some questionable business practices. Scary stuff.
If London architecture, Metropolitan Police procedures, Roman history, British cuisine, and Newtonian magic aren't your thing, you can read up on the history of London rivers instead.The Lost Rivers of London by Nicholas Barton
Ruh roh. I guess there was a third silhouette cover for Whispers Under Ground. I don't recall seeing this edition.
which eventually got the UK cover here in the US.
Later US printings of Midnight Riot and Moon Over Soho used cover art like the original UK covers. I think subsequent books in the series used the same cover art for US and UK editions.
And Moon Over Soho audio cover art for the sake of completeness, including hair (maybe) and gun.
Cover art for one of the audio editions has hair and a more prominent hand gun!
Back when the book was first published in the US, there was some discussion about the cover design. The mass market paperback published in the US had a large bald man in silhouette.
The US cover of the second book in the series, Moon Over Soho, used a similar silhouette.
However, some of the cover photos used for marketing before the books were published clearly showed a large bald black man instead of a silhouette.
In the book, Peter Grant has short hair and he describes himself as somewhere between IC3 and IC6, British police communication codes for Black (IC3) and Arab or North African (IC6).
Was Constable Grant white-washed (or silhouette-washed)? I dunno. Book covers are weird.
If you want to see the latest RoL timeline which places the novels and graphic novels in time order, download a PDF from Titan Comicshttps://media.titan-comics.com/upload...
The 2022 Scribe Awards were handed out at SDCC today. These awards celebrate excellence in the field of writing licensed works that tie into other media such as television, movies, gaming, or comic books.Best Adapted Novel: Alien - Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson by Pat Cadigan
Best Original Novel – Speculative Fiction: Star Trek: Picard -Rogue Elements by John Jackson Miller
and more at
https://daytonward.wordpress.com/2022...
2022 World Fantasy Award Nominees Announcedhttps://www.sffworld.com/2022/07/news...
The nominees for best novel are:
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention, November 3-6, 2022
More nominees in the article
An enjoyable food and romance sci-fi read. I bought the Kindle edition and now Amazon is recommending all the other food and romance sci-fi novels on the planet ;-)
