As mentioned yesterday, to celebrate the forthcoming release of the first in Rowena Cory Daniells' brand new trilogy, The Outcast Chronicles, we're giving readers the chance to experience her first best-selling series for Solaris at a fraction of the price!
King Rolen's Kin trilogy was a hit when it was released in 2010, with the three books being published over three months - something we're doing again with The Outcast Chronicles, beginning with the gorgeous looking Besieged in July.
The King's Bastard,The Uncrowned King, and The Usurper are now available for just £3 EACH as DRM-free ebooks from the Rebellion store
And talking about The Outcast Chronicles, check out this awesome trailer for the series!
The King Rolen's Kin trilogy was a hit when it was released in 2010, with the three books being published over three months - something we're doing again with The Outcast Chronicles, beginning with the gorgeous looking Besieged in July.
The King's Bastard, The Uncrowned King, and The Usurper are now available for just £3 EACH as DRM-free ebooks from the Rebellion store!
Den of Geek gave The King's Bastard four out of five and said it was "exciting, daring and silly in all the right proportions", while SFX said it delivered the "page-turning, plot-twisting, breakneck adventure" that got them reading fantasy in the first place!
And don't forget that an exclusive ebook novella set in the world of King Rolen's Kin, The King's Man, will be coming soon!
In keeping with the near-constant downpour outside, we have a deluge of new reviews of Solaris titles for you upon this drenched morning which should be enough to keep the memories of the gloriously sunny weekend in your minds...
First off, Starburst has given Guy Haley's Champion of Mars an excellent eight out of ten, calling his first title for Solaris "highly entertaining and original, and well worth a look."
There's also love for Deadfall Hotel over at Invisible Vanguard, with Steve Rasnic Tem's blend of weirdness, surrealism, and horror getting a nice write-up: "fans of the graphic novels Locke and Key, House of Mystery, Fables, or the work of Edward Gorey will feel right at home here, as will anyone who ever wished that Neil Gaiman had written The Shining instead of Stephen King."
And talking of horror, Christopher Fowler's excellent Hell Train has gone head-to-head with Tempest by Julie Cross in a competition to see which of the two books the reviewer most wanted to continue reading after the first 50 pages. Hell Train delivered a knock-out blow and has progressed to the next round, where it could end up facing Simon Bestwick's The Faceless.
In a great Solaris round-up, The Nameless Zine has reviewed a whopping FIVE of our titles this month, including calling Juliet E. McKenna's Darkening Skies "enthralling", saying that House of Fear is "one of the best thematic anthologies to come along in years", declaring that James Maxey's Greatshadow is "a must for dragon fantasy lovers who demand good writing and can't put it down action. If I used a star system it would get a five", recommending that "lovers of horror with [a] unique twist" will love Simon Bestwick's The Faceless, and admitting that they "couldn't put down" Paul Kearney's Kings of Morning.
And finally, Regicide by Nicholas Royle gets reviewed by the Sacremento/San Francisco Book Review site which calls it "interesting and thoughtful" and says "when the plot engages in the second half, it all comes together nicely in a spooky kinda way".
There's also love for Deadfall Hotel over at Invisible Vanguard, with Steve Rasnic Tem's blend of weirdness, surrealism, and horror getting a nice write-up: "fans of the graphic novels Locke and Key, House of Mystery, Fables, or the work of Edward Gorey will feel right at home here, as will anyone who ever wished that Neil Gaiman had written The Shining instead of Stephen King."
In a great Solaris round-up, The Nameless Zine has reviewed a whopping FIVE of our titles this month, including calling Juliet E. McKenna's Darkening Skies "enthralling", saying that House of Fear is "one of the best thematic anthologies to come along in years", declaring that James Maxey's Greatshadow is "a must for dragon fantasy lovers who demand good writing and can't put it down action. If I used a star system it would get a five", recommending that "lovers of horror with [a] unique twist" will love Simon Bestwick's The Faceless, and admitting that they "couldn't put down" Paul Kearney's Kings of Morning.
We love what we do, and we hope you do too. So when someone says 'well done' for doing what we love it makes it even more worthwhile...
We're delighted to have discovered that our House of Fear anthology, edited by our own Jonathan Oliver, has been nominated for 'Best Anthology' in the British Fantasy Society Awards! Not only that, but one of the short stories from the collection, Florrie by Adam Nevill, has been nominated for the 'Short Fiction' award!
Huzzah!
And just a day after we announce that Solaris is to publish Lavie Tidhar's groundbreaking Osama in paperback, than the title is announced as one of the contenders for the finals of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award! Fingers crossed for Lavie, for what is an absolutely stunning book that we're delighted to be publishing.
Double huzzah!
Keep an eye on the Solaris Editors Blog for future updates!
Huzzah!
And just a day after we announce that Solaris is to publish Lavie Tidhar's groundbreaking Osama in paperback, than the title is announced as one of the contenders for the finals of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award! Fingers crossed for Lavie, for what is an absolutely stunning book that we're delighted to be publishing.
Double huzzah!
Keep an eye on the Solaris Editors Blog for future updates!
Solaris Publication Day: Red and Dead(fall)
10-05-2012
Here at Solaris Towers we believe in giving you more. More great books. More fantastic authors. More ... stuff.
And today, we give you two lots of more. More Mars. More weird. More Solaris.
Champion of Mars
Champion of Mars by Guy Haley is OUT NOW in paperback and on Kindle in the UK and Ireland, and in paperback and on Kindle in North America!
£7.99 (UK) ISBN 978-1-907992-84-1$8.99/$10.99 (US & CAN) ISBN 978-1-907992-85-8
In the far future, Mars is dying a second time.
The Final War of men and spirits is beginning.
In a last bid for peace, disgraced champion Yoechakenon Val Mora and his spirit lover Kaibeli are set free from the Arena to find the long-missing Librarian of Mars, the only hope to save mankind.
In the near future, a scientist running from a painful past, joins the Mars colonisation effort, cataloguing the remnants of its biosphere before it is swept away by the terraforming programme. When an artefact is discovered deep in the caverns of the red planet, the consequences ripple throughout time, affecting Holland’s present, the distant days of Yoechakanon, and the eras that bridge the aeons between.
Stephen Baxter himself said of Champion of Mars: “A novel with an ambition on the scale of Olympus Mons itself, and it delivers. Recommended.”
Guy answered some questions from us about his take on the Red Planet and also gives you, the reader, an exclusive extract on his blog.
Deadfall Hotel by Steve Rasnic Tem is OUT NOW in paperback and Kindle in the UK and Ireland, and in paperback and Kindle in North America!
£7.99 (UK) ISBN 978-1-907992-82-7$8.99/$10.99 (US & CAN) 978-1-907992-83-4
The Deadfall Hotel is where our nightmares go, where the dead pause to rest between worlds, and where Richard Carter and his daughter Serena go to rediscover life — if the things at the hotel don’t kill them first.
The product of nearly twenty years of work, Deadfall Hotel is arguably Solaris’ most ambitious and striking title to date. Steve Rasnic Tem’s entrancing and powerful prose combines the atmosphere of Edward Gorey with the phantasmagoric richness of Mervyn Peake, creating a unique work of genius that will leave you spellbound.
Explore for yourself what may be the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy and World Fantasy award-winning author's finest creation to date with an extended excerpt from the novel, courtesy of Weird Fiction Review.
Terror Tree said: "This is no ordinary novel. It is not a comfortable read and it is incredibly surreal. However, it is a book that must be read."
"A dark and moving story of love, loss and change, with a posse of horror kittens thrown into the mix," said The Guardian.
< And Spooky Reads said "...just when you think you’ve found the lay of the land in this most rich and fertile of imaginative plains, and you’re thrown a twist or turn, or simple line of speech masquerading as so much more. Just when you think you’ve nailed a certain style or emotion in the text and again it buckles and surprises."
Read an extended excerpt from the novel courtesy of Weird Fiction Review, and then read Steve Rasnic Tem in his own words at the Create Your Own Genre blog.
And today, we give you two lots of more. More Mars. More weird. More Solaris.
Champion of Mars
Champion of Mars by Guy Haley is OUT NOW in paperback and on Kindle in the UK and Ireland, and in paperback and on Kindle in North America!£7.99 (UK) ISBN 978-1-907992-84-1$8.99/$10.99 (US & CAN) ISBN 978-1-907992-85-8
The Final War of men and spirits is beginning.
In a last bid for peace, disgraced champion Yoechakenon Val Mora and his spirit lover Kaibeli are set free from the Arena to find the long-missing Librarian of Mars, the only hope to save mankind.
In the near future, a scientist running from a painful past, joins the Mars colonisation effort, cataloguing the remnants of its biosphere before it is swept away by the terraforming programme. When an artefact is discovered deep in the caverns of the red planet, the consequences ripple throughout time, affecting Holland’s present, the distant days of Yoechakanon, and the eras that bridge the aeons between.
Stephen Baxter himself said of Champion of Mars: “A novel with an ambition on the scale of Olympus Mons itself, and it delivers. Recommended.”
Guy answered some questions from us about his take on the Red Planet and also gives you, the reader, an exclusive extract on his blog.
Deadfall Hotel
£7.99 (UK) ISBN 978-1-907992-82-7$8.99/$10.99 (US & CAN) 978-1-907992-83-4
The Deadfall Hotel is where our nightmares go, where the dead pause to rest between worlds, and where Richard Carter and his daughter Serena go to rediscover life — if the things at the hotel don’t kill them first.
The product of nearly twenty years of work, Deadfall Hotel is arguably Solaris’ most ambitious and striking title to date. Steve Rasnic Tem’s entrancing and powerful prose combines the atmosphere of Edward Gorey with the phantasmagoric richness of Mervyn Peake, creating a unique work of genius that will leave you spellbound.
Explore for yourself what may be the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy and World Fantasy award-winning author's finest creation to date with an extended excerpt from the novel, courtesy of Weird Fiction Review.
Terror Tree said: "This is no ordinary novel. It is not a comfortable read and it is incredibly surreal. However, it is a book that must be read."
"A dark and moving story of love, loss and change, with a posse of horror kittens thrown into the mix," said The Guardian.
< And Spooky Reads said "...just when you think you’ve found the lay of the land in this most rich and fertile of imaginative plains, and you’re thrown a twist or turn, or simple line of speech masquerading as so much more. Just when you think you’ve nailed a certain style or emotion in the text and again it buckles and surprises."
Read an extended excerpt from the novel courtesy of Weird Fiction Review, and then read Steve Rasnic Tem in his own words at the Create Your Own Genre blog.
Solaris is proud to announce that it has acquired world English mass market rights to Lavie Tidhar’s highly-praised and BSFA Award-nominated novel Osama from the Zeno Agency.
Lauded as one of the most significant genre books of the year, Osama will be released in October 2012.
The most exciting, daring and sensitive, fictional engagement with the post-9/11 era, Osama is set in an alternate world without global terrorism. A private detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden – Vigilante...
Joe’s quest to find the man takes him across the world, from the backwaters of Asia to the European Capitals of Paris and London, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books are fiction? Chased by unknown assailants, Joe’s identity slowly fragments as he discovers the shadowy world of the refugees, ghostly entities haunting the world in which he lives. Where do they come from? And what do they want? Joe knows how the story should end, but even he is not ready for the truths he’ll find in New York and, finally, on top a quiet hill above Kabul—nor for the choice he will at last have to make...
The critical reception of Osama has been nothing short of astonishing and it was nominated for the prestigious BSFA award last year. The hardback from PS Publishing was published in October last year.
Lavie Tidhar was in Dar-es-Salaam during the American embassy bombings in 1998, and stayed in the same hotel as the Al Qaeda operatives in Nairobi. Since then he and his now-wife have narrowly avoided both the 2005 London, King’s Cross and 2004 Sinai attacks—experiences that led to the creation of Osama.
Tidhar brilliantly delves into the modern global subconscious, mixing together film noir, non-fiction, alternative history and thrillers to create an unsettling yet utterly compelling portrayal of our times.
“Bears comparison with the best of Philip K Dick’s paranoid, alternate-history fantasies. It’s beautifully written and undeniably powerful.” – The Financial Times
“Not a writer to mess around with half measures … brings to mind Philip K Dick’s seminal science fiction novel The Man in the High Castle.” – The Guardian
JUNIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER, £16-18,000 p.a.
REBELLION, OXFORD.
Rebellion publishes two fiction imprints, Solaris and Abaddon Books, along with 2000 AD, encompassing the weekly comic 2000 AD, the monthly Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD Graphic Novels.
We are seeking a full-time junior graphic designer to join our busy publishing department in Oxford. The successful candidate will have a graphic design qualification, a good knowledge of Adobe InDesign and Photoshop and familiarity with Quark and Adobe Illustrator.
Duties will include: flowing in text and laying out interior pages for novels; prepping comic strip pages for print; scanning/colour correction and basic image manipulation; making corrections and final pdfs; designing advertisements; assembling the files for graphic novels. The successful candidate will be required to develop a broad knowledge of our archive to source and choose images for external licensees and others. Experience of design for websites and the internet will be useful.
There will be scope to develop this design role, however this position is not a platform for submitting or producing artwork for Rebellion-published comics and graphic novels.
To apply please send your CV and any available graphic design work portfolio link or hobby work to vacancies@rebellion.co.uk
Rebellion can only consider applicants who can legally work in the UK.
We're delighted to announce that Gaie Sebold's stunning fantasy debut, Babylon Steel, has been nominated for the Compton Crook Award. This is given every year by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society at Balticon.
Past winners of the award include Paolo Bacigalupi, Naomi Novik and Elizabeth Moon.
Congratulations to Gaie from all of us at Solaris!
“Eric Brown spins a terrific yarn.”
– SFX on Guardians of the Phoenix
Eric Brown is one of the strongest voices in SF today and we at Abaddon/Solaris Towers are all very much enthusiastic Brownites!
The best-selling author of Helix, Engineman and The Kings of Eternity, while he may not have punctuated the mainstream consciousness in the way Alastair Reynolds or Iain M Banks has (yet) he's the kind of writer that inspires others in the indsutry, bringing a remarkable freshness and sense of scale to space opera but not missing out on the most important part - the human element.
“A masterful storyteller. Eric Brown is often lauded as the next big thing in science fiction and you can see why...”
– Strange Horizons
Last year's Kings of Eternity was published to widespread acclaim by Solaris last year and 2012 is going to be another bumper year for Eric Brown fans at Abaddon and Solaris...
First off we have the beginning of a brand new shared world, specially created for Abaddon by Eric.
Weirdspace is a thrilling new space-opera series which begins in June, with the release of The Devil's Nebula.
In the first book in this epic new series, he introduces readers to the human smugglers, veterans and ne’erdowells who are part of the Expansion – and their uneasy neighbours, the Vetch Empire.
When an evil race threatens not only the Expansion, but the Vetch too - an evil from another dimension which infests humans and Vetch alike and bends individuals to do their hideous bidding, only cooperation between them means the difference between a chance of survival and no chance at all.
Eric has meticulously created a massive shared world of interstellar potential, which other writers will explore with each new book.
On top of this, in October Solaris is publishing Mr Brown's sequel to his ever-popular Helix - Helix Wars.
Published in 2007 and reprinted several times since, Helix was another breathtaking leap into the unknown by this master of the imagination. It revealed the worlds of a mindbogglingly vast spiral construct, wound around a single sun. The work of an ancient alien race known only as the Builders, the helix resembles a spiral staircase with each twist or circle consisting of well over ten thousand worlds. Like a bead on a string, each world has its own unique atmosphere and there the alien races of the helix number some six thousand, all at varying levels of technological accomplishment.
As the name suggests, in Helix Wars things are not all hunky dory in this constellation of worlds!
If this has whet your appetite, The Speculative Scotsman has not just produced a great interview with the man himself, but has also put together a pretty authoritative guide to his work which is well worth a read!
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Toxicity
by Andy Remic
Utopia crumbles on May 29th (US & Canada) and 7th June (UK)
£8.99 (UK) ISBN 978-1-78108-003-0
$8.99/$10.99 (US & CAN) ISBN 978-1-78108-004-7
Available as an ebook
Welcome to Manna – the utopian galaxy where all races exist in harmony. Ruled by perfect alien machines, Manna is a place of wisdom, technology and art. But on the edge of the galaxy, far away from romantic holiday cruises, hides Toxicity, a reprocessing planet where The Greenstar Company deals with all Manna’s waste. ALL of it.
But ECO terrorist Jenni Xi is fighting a cleanup war against The Company. Yet when a sabotage goes horribly wrong, she learns the future of the planet – and it’s far worse than she ever dreamed. Along with swashbuckler and bon viveur Svoolzard Koolimax and a torture model Anarchy Android known simply as The Dentist, Xi must survive on this polluted world long enough to ensure that the fate of Manna changes forever…
Remic’s irresistible blend of high-octane military SF and good old fashioned adventure is an absolute delight. Edgy, over-the-top, and provocative – Remic is the master of action!
"If you’re looking for something that mixes the sensibilities of Blackadder and an Iron Maiden album cover, with a pinch of vintage 2000 AD thrown in, then look no further."
– Financial Times on Cloneworld
About the Series
Described by the Guardian as “hard-hitting, galaxy-spanning, no-holds-barred, old-fashioned action adventure,” the Combat K and Anarchy novels are set in a universe of their own – one of planet shattering action, hard-bitten characters and epic intergalactic battles. This is a universe where anything goes, and usually does. Toxicity is the sixth book in the Combat K/Anarchy series.
About the Author
Andy Remic is the author of many Fantasy and SF novels, currently – Spiral, Quake, Warhead, War Machine, Biohell, Hardcore, Kell’s Legend, Soul Stealers, Cloneworld and Vampire Warlords. When kicked to describe himself, Remic claims to have a love of extreme sports, kickass bikes and happy nurses. Once a member of an elite Combat K squad, he has retired from military service and claims to be a cross between an alcoholic Indiana Jones and a bubbly Lara Croft, only without the breasts. Remic lives in Lincolnshire and likes to think lewdly about zombies. www.andyremic.wordpress.com
