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August 8, 2011

Book sale

I'm running another book sale this month in order to clean out my apartment a bit. I will be out of town (at Renovation and SF afterward) from August 16-25th but will be checking email. I will mail out your books as soon as I can get to the post office.


For those of you on facebook (which this automatically posts to) please come over to lj if you're interested.

The books are all anthologies I've edited and they are either out of print or hard to acquire.

I may have other titles than those I list so if there's something OP that you're interested in I may have a few copies. (no copies of YBFH #1).

All titles are offered signed and personalized; shipping in US is included in the listed price. I sell at cover price rounded up plus $4.00 for mass market paperbacks/$6.00 trade paperbacks and trade hardcovers within the US.

Foreign postage per book is $14--sorry-but that's what it costs to mail.
To purchase a book or books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve, and the total you expect to pay.

Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served.

I will comment to let you know your order has been received and that book is available, and to tell you what you owe. The address for money is datlow at datlow dot com. Please wait for my comment before sending money.

When paying, please include your real name, your lj name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form. When you pay, please make the payment "personal" so that neither of us get charged. For any foreign sales, you'll have to pay the extra paypal charge (which isn't very much on a book).

Key:

TPB = trade paperback (large format paperback)
HC = trade hardcover
OOP = Out of Print


Adult Fairy Tale series (with Terri Windling)

Black Swan, White Raven (Prime edition) TPB $19 two  one copy (although I may have another lurking in the apt)


A Whisper of Blood (William Morrow) HC OOP: $28 three copies available

Alien Sex (St Martin's Press) HC OOP: $25 one copy

Off Limits (follow up to Alien Sex) (St Martin's Press) HC OOP: $29 two copies available (one with slightly damaged cover $24)


Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #2 (with Windling) HC OOP $31 (bottom edge of cover slightly curled, inside front flap slight yellowing). One available sold

Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #2 (with Windling)TPB OOP $20 one available

Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #3 (with Windling) HC OOP $31 (slight yellowing around cover and two small holes (teethbites by cat?). One available sold

YBFH #9 (with Windling) TPB OOP $24 one available

YBFH #10 (with Windling) HC OOP $36 one available

YBFH #10 (with Windling) TPB OOP $24 one available

YBFH #11 (with Windling) TPB OOP $24 one available

YBFH# 12 (with Windling) HC OOP $36 one available

YBFH #17 (with Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant) HC OOP $41 three available

YBFH #20 (with Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant) HC OOP $39 one available

The mythic series (with Terri Windling)
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales HC OOP (2 available) ($26)

The Fairy Reel:Tales from the Twilight Realm HC OOP ($26) three available

OMNIVISIONS TWO TPB $21 two available
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Published on August 08, 2011 22:51

Two new reviews of Naked City

I woke up to a terrific review from Book Buzz and opened the September Fangoria to see that Naked City was chosen "Book of the Month". Some choice quotes:

"...a great selection of many of the current practitioners of this sub-genre like Patricia Briggs, Melissa Marr and Holly Black alongside such stalwarts as Elizabeth Bear and Pat Cadigan. Jim Butcher's story "Curses" is the first and one of the best."

"Some of the best stories are the truly weird ones like Christopher Fowler's Green Man story "Oblivion by Calvin Klein" and Jeffrey Ford's "Daddy Longlegs of the Evening." I loved loved loved Holly Black's tasty "Noble Rot" for taking on a female ghoul. And John Crowley's "And Go Like This" is simply, breathtakingly, one-of-a-kind awesomeness. I wouldn't dream of spoiling a word of it."
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Published on August 08, 2011 15:50

August 5, 2011

Change of KGB reader August 17th

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

(because of a scheduling difficulty Lauren Beukes will not
be reading). Instead we present:


N. K. Jemisin's fiction has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Tiptree,
Gemmell, World Fantasy, and Crawford awards, and has won the Romantic Times Reviewer's choice and Locus Award (for Best First Novel). Her short stories have most recently appeared in Clarkesworld, Postscripts, and Weird Tales, and forthcoming in the dystopian YA anthology After.
Her first two novels: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Kingdoms are currently out from Orbit Books.


&

Andrea Hairston is author of Redwood and Wildfire and Mindscape, shortlisted for the Phillip K Dick and Tiptree Awards, and winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award. She is a performer and award-winning playwright, and her plays have been produced at Yale Rep, the Kennedy Center, and on Public Radio & Television.
Pan Morigan is a composer, songwriter, and vocalist. She toured with Bobby McFerrin & Voicestra and has composed and performed for thirty productions including Castles of Gold, produced for Public Radio. Her CD, Wild Blue came out December. Hairston and Morigan do a performance/reading.



Wednesday August 17th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org

Books will be available for purchase thanks to Bluestockings Bookstore
Subscribe to our mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/
Readings are free
Forward to friends at your own discretion.

Partially supported by Cemetery Dance publications
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Published on August 05, 2011 05:23

Bride Flight

My mom kind of forced me to go see Bride Flight, a Dutch movie that her old friend Norman recommended. The idea sounded awful. The title even worse. (I thought it was about runaway brides). But....turns out that it's a brilliant movie that was out in the Netherlands in 2008 and has just made its way to the US. It's not playing in NY and I've no idea if it ever did, but it's here in South Florida and I'm glad for it.

A few years after the end of WWII three young Dutch women and one young Dutch man (who lived in Indonesia while it was still a Dutch colony) meet on a flight to New Zealand, where the four of them are relocating to start new lives. The women are married or about to marry men who are strangers or virtual strangers to them. One of the women lost her whole family to the Nazis. One is utterly attracted to the young man but is already committed to another Dutchman awaiting her in New Zealand. The four on the plane's lives are intertwined for the next 40 or 50 years (I'm not sure). The movie moves back and forth between the present and the past and is wonderfully acted by the young and old actors.

The US reviews I've just checked out are incredibly stupid. If you want more measured and more intelligent reviews read those on the imdb--there's only one negative review.

This is a romance (or many romances) yet it appeals to men and women. The context of the movie: religiosity, Jews who survived the camps, Dutch who survived being Japanese POWS, identity,
secrets, home.

The movie won a best movie award in the Netherlands. If you can find it in your city (or rent it on DVD) do so. It might be on netflix eventually (it's got a "save" by the title).
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Published on August 05, 2011 01:58

August 2, 2011

The Urban Landscape is Crucial

A nicely solid review on Tor.com of Naked City, edited by Ellen Datlow plus Charlaine Harris mentions some of the stories on her blog about what she's reading Books of the Week
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Published on August 02, 2011 23:50

Kaaron Warren interview Jeff Ford about "Daddy Longlegs of the Evening"

Kaaron talks to Jeff about his story "Daddy Longlegs of Evening" in Naked City
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Published on August 02, 2011 04:21

August 1, 2011

Snow Drop by Tanith Lee & Snow White, Blood Red

I just read this note in Ansible:
TANITH LEE's story 'Snow-Drop' became controversial when its inclusion
in a Cairo University fantasy-fiction reading list was denounced,
supposedly for the lesbian scene: 'Teaching homosexuality at Cairo
University', ranted an Egyptian paper. The story was taught for a
whole term without complaint; the _Guardian_ (29 June) suggests a
'fabricated moral scandal' intended to discredit the CU English
department, whose staff is predominantly female and one of whose
professors was recently elected as Cairo University's first-ever
female dean. [MPJ]


Coincidentally, "Snow-Drop" is in Terri and my first adult fairy tale anthology SNOW WHITE, BLOOD RED, which has just been reissued by B&N's Fall River imprint: http://tinyurl.com/4466smv

and interestingly, I remember one letter complaining about the sex in the story.

I was going to announce the reissue of SW,BR once bn.com posted the cover art, but I'm tired of waiting and this seems as good a time as ever to make the announcement. Beautiful, hardcover edition for &7.18.
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Published on August 01, 2011 22:17

July 29, 2011

paying forward

The wonderful Colleen Lindsay just reminded me during her Book Country chat that it's our responsibility (all readers) to pay forward and recommend writers/works we've enjoyed.

I just finished a grim yet hilarious story by Jeff Ford that's forthcoming from Jack Dann and Nick Gever's excellent original anthology Ghosts by Gaslight. It's from his Well-Built City trilogy and stars Physiognomist Cley. There are some wonderfully dark stories in the anthology by Laird Barron, Terry Dowling, John Langan, John Harwood, and others. It'll be out in September.

I'd also like to recommend the third volume of Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim novels: Aloha From Hell, which is clever, brutal, vicious, and a helluva a lot of fun. That should be out this fall (the second volume, Kill the Dead is just out in pb).
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Published on July 29, 2011 02:46

Hello I must be going+ photos from Porter Square Naked City reading

So...I wrote a post on LJ, pushed post and it got hung up and never posted. In addition, my DW posts are not going there. This is extraordinarily frustrating.

I've mostly been tweeting as it's quicker and everything goes directly to FB. (I don't care for the enforced brevity but...).

Briefly: toe's doing well--doc says to come back end of September and if it's still a little "thick" I can have a cortisone shot to help ease the internal scarring, but he thinks that over time it will continue to get better. No boot no cane. I'm walking. I told him I'm worried about winter when I'll be wearing closed shoes and boots but he says I could do so now if I want. ( I don't want).

Off to mom's tomorrow -steamy Florida for a week (if the threatened thunderstorms don't delay/cancel the flight). All you can eat Chinese/Japanese, lobster, Lucille's bbq, lots of movies (rented or in the theater--I'm going to see Harry Potter with my mom), may see some relatives. Reading for Best Horror #4 and catching up on my New Yorkers. I will be online too.

Oh yeah. I posted store guy Josh Cook's photos that he took of the reading in Cambridge, MA the 14th:http://tinyurl.com/3qesq4w
and of beautiful Bella here: http://tinyurl.com/433lgz4
I need to take new photos of Sophie. When I get home.
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Published on July 29, 2011 00:20

World Fantasy Award nominations announced

Congratulations everyone:

http://tinyurl.com/3ldzulr

World Fantasy Nominees and Lifetime Achievement Winners


The World Fantasy Awards Lifetime Achievement Winners for 2011 are Peter S. Beagle and Angélica Gorodischer. The awards are presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field.

The World Fantasy Awards nomination ballot has also been announced. Winners will be announced at this year's World Fantasy Convention, to be held October 27-30, in San Diego CA. (Lifetime Achievement winners are announced in advance of the event).

Nominees are:

Best Novel

Zoo City, Lauren Beukes (Jacana South Africa; Angry Robot)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc; Harper Voyager UK)
Redemption In Indigo, Karen Lord (Small Beer)
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)

Best Novella

Bone and Jewel Creatures, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
The Broken Man, Michael Byers (PS)
"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon", Elizabeth Hand (Stories: All-New Tales)
The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (ChiZine)
"The Mystery Knight", George R.R. Martin (Warriors)
"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window", Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer 2010)

Best Short Fiction

"Beautiful Men" , Christopher Fowler (Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts)
"Booth's Ghost", Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn't See and Other Stories)
"Ponies", Kij Johnson (Tor.com 11/17/10)
"Fossil-Figures", Joyce Carol Oates (Stories: All-New Tales)
"Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us", Mercurio D. Rivera (Black Static 8-9/10)

Best Anthology

The Way of the Wizard, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Prime)
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, Kate Bernheimer, ed. (Penguin)
Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds. (Tor)
Stories: All-New Tales, Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, eds. (Morrow; Headline Review)
Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, S.T. Joshi, ed. (PS)
Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds. (Eos)

Best Anthology

What I Didn't See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
The Ammonite Violin & Others, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
Holiday, M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)
Sourdough and Other Stories, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
The Third Bear, Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon)

Best Artist

Vincent Chong
Kinuko Y. Craft
Richard A. Kirk
John Picacio
Shaun Tan

Special Award, Professional

John Joseph Adams, for editing and anthologies
Lou Anders, for editing at Pyr
Marc Gascoigne, for Angry Robot
Stéphane Marsan & Alain Névant, for Bragelonne
Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi, for ChiZine

Special Award, Non-Professional

Stephen Jones, Michael Marshall Smith, & Amanda Foubister, for Brighton Shock!: The Souvenir Book Of The World Horror Convention 2010
Alisa Krasnostein, for Twelfth Planet Press
Matthew Kressel, for Sybil's Garage and Senses Five Press
Charles Tan, for Bibliophile Stalker
Lavie Tidhar, for The World SF Blog
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Published on July 29, 2011 00:12