New Books!

There are a few book releases that might be of interest to you guys today.

First up is Deader Still by Anton Strout (aka Anton's Trout . . . which brings up an image I don't really want to think about).





Go check it out!

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Also hitting the shelves today is Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente.





Here's an interview with Catherynne Valente where she talks about her book, writing, etc. Hope you enjoy!

What was your inspiration for writing Palimpsest?

A couple of years ago, Ekaterina Sedia was putting together this anthology
called Paper Cities. It was an anthology of urban fantasy, not exactly the
kind that has a woman in leather pants on the cover, or exactly the kind
Charles DeLint might write, but decadent, bizarre urban landscapes. She
asked me to make her a city. I was a bit burned out on making up fantasy
cities, as there are a number of them in my last novel, In the Cities of
Coin and Spice. So I started taking apart the idea of a city in my head,
what a city is, what it contains. And ultimately, all a city is is people.
So I began to plan a city that lived as a virus, a memetic virus and a
physical one, that would manifest as a mark on human skin, something that
looked like a streetmap. From there it was a short jump to the idea that
such a virus could be sexually transmitted--cities are also complex networks
of connections between people, and to turn that around, to have a city
created by complex connections rather than creating them, was fascinating to
me. Hence, Palimpsest was born.

( Read more! )

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And now the links to Amazon.com! If you were thinking of ordering these books from Amazon (or any other books at all), just click through the link. I use the "kickback" from Amazon to help fund the free books I give away here and over at dawbooks.