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io9 - Oct 4, 2008
October 2 was a red-letter day for anyone who reads. After all, it's not every day that a high-quality, groundbreaking SF publisher offers up a totally affordable package of their entire collection — but on Thursday …
Also tagged: books, small beer press, political science fiction, kelly link
io9 - Aug 5, 2008
Space opera and military science fiction are huge again, but I'm not aware of anybody publishing the type of wonderfully nihilistic space adventures that William Barton used to write in the 1990s. Barton, with …
Also tagged: books, william barton
io9 - Jul 21, 2008
With a face made of porcelain, a wind-up heart, and a talent for alchemy, Mattie is hardly a typical science fictional robot. While most novels about robots focus on how these humanoid machines are stronger and smarter …
Also tagged: books, the alchemy of stone, ekaterina sedia
io9 - Jul 21, 2008
Tor Books, one of the biggest and most venerable publishers of excellent science fiction writing, has just launched a new blog that promises to bring the crunchy goodness of a Tor book to your RSS reader every day …
Also tagged: blogs, books, science fiction, tor books, tor com
io9 - Jul 5, 2008
With The Dark Knight less than two weeks away from opening, now is the time to start pretending that you know all there is to know about Batman in order to impress family and friends alike. To help you do that, we've …
Also tagged: top, joker, the dark knight, batman, dc comics, the killing joke, the dark knight returns
io9 - Jun 25, 2008
What would the United States look like after the collapse of everything? The answer isn't a zombie-strewn wasteland or a sudden revival of punk-rock fashions, but rather something more like a flashback to the mid-19th …
Also tagged: top, liberation, brian francis slattery, liberation being the adventures of the slick six after the collapse of america
io9 - Jun 24, 2008
It's boiling hot up here in the Earth's northern hemisphere, so hopefully at some point you'll find yourself vacationing at a beach — or at least lounging near a large body of water. And when that happens, you'll need …
Also tagged: books, top, summer reading
io9 - Jun 23, 2008
If you like alternate history, alternate sexuality, and crazy international intrigue, you won't be able to resist Kushiel's Mercy. In bookstores this month, it's the final adventure in Jacqueline Carey's bestselling …
Also tagged: books, review, top, kushiel series, kushiel s mercy, jacqueline carey
io9 - Jun 12, 2008
Back in the old days of text files and BBSes — days that hopefully you don't remember, kids — we used to do things like trade warez and pr0n cuz we were 1337 haXOrz man. No really, we were. But the people who were the …
Also tagged: technology, books, hackers, hope, best of 2600
io9 - Jun 11, 2008
The success of Harry Potter has established that the young adult market in fiction can be insanely lucrative, as have subsequent scifi successful scifi series like Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy and Scott …
Also tagged: books, feature, top, young adult fiction