In mid-January, I posted several beautiful screenshots from an upcoming MMORPG called Tera Online. Well, TheOctagon is at it again and I just can’t resist showing these off:
For those interested in seeing more from TheOctagon, he’s gathered together 100 of his favourite Tera Online screenshots and created wallpapers from each one. They’re hi-res and they’re gorgeous.
Author – Daniel Abraham
Trade Paperback
Pages: 592
Publisher: Orbit Books
Release Date: April 7th, 2011
ISBN-10: 0316080683
ISBN-13: 978-0316080682
In June of 2010, I threw a bit of a fit. I’d learned that not only was Tor Books not going to be publishing anymore novels by Daniel Abraham, they weren’t even going to do his fans the service of releasing the final volume of his The Long Price Quartet in paperback. I went on record, then, saying that Tor would regret letting the promising author go, that they were foolish to let such a promising young writer slip through their fingers.
Orbit Books wasted no time in snapping up Abraham and immediately announcing The Dagger and the Coin, a new series completely unrelated to The Long Price Quartet and set within a more familiar frame that was sure to appeal to the casual Fantasy fan that is so important in ensuring Abraham’s continued and inevitable rise through the genre. Tor made a mistake in letting him go and there’s no better proof of that than The Dragon’s Path, the first volume of The Dagger and the Coin.
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Via Battle Hymns, I ran across this cool project from everyone’s favourite New Weird/Cephalopod/Space Opera crossover writer, China Mieville:
Posted on Mieville’s Tumblr, Rejectamentalist Manifesto, the web comic, titled London Intrusion, features many of the same strengths and elements seen in Mieville’s prose fiction: it’s urban, it’s weird and it’s filled with shades of grey (hah!)
At the time this article is being written, Mieville has published eight ‘parts’, each written and illustrated by himself. A many of many talents, no? For a writer known to take readers to strange and unexpected corners of the world (whether ours or a secondary world he’s crafted), it should be fun to see Mieville work in a medium that’s completely unshackled from expectations of sales, publishers and marketing departments. If his ‘mainstream’ prose is weird, I can only imagine what he’s got in store for London Intrusion.
I don’t post many excerpts. It’s not that I don’t have the opportunity, it’s just that they don’t often excite me. When I had the chance to post the prologue to The Dragon’s Path, the first volume in Daniel Abraham’s The Dagger and the Coin series, all that apathy went running out the door, screaming into the fields behind my house. I was giddy as a school girl.
I hope you enjoy it.
The prologue of The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham begins after the jump:
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Oh my. Celine Kiernan‘s US/UK covers are nice enough in a pedestrian kinda way, but this set of covers from Australia blows them clear out of the water. It’s great to see a publisher take an idea and execute it so surely. Seriously, click on the image above to see them int their hi-res glory. The seamless black and white artwork from Elise Hurst is beautiful, and the touch of colour in the title is just enough. The only thing I don’t completely love are the Roman numerals cluttering up the titles. I haven’t been so enamoured with a set of covers since I first saw the UK covers for Joe Abercrombie’s novels.
Unfortunately, any excitement and motivation to read the series stirred up by the covers is stamped down again by the fact that the protagonist of the series is named ‘Wynter’. So close, Kiernan. So close.
