Eric T. Reynolds

Projects and Book Signings

2008-07-19T21:20:02Z

Hadley Rille Books will publish The Best of Abyss & Apex, safewrite, Wendy S. Delmater, ed. This book will be full of and award-nominated and honorable mentioned stories. This is going to be a fun project and I get to work closely with safewrite and saycestsay. The cover art will be provided by Monolithic Studios. Take a look at some of their work. It's fabulous. Plan is to publish the book in time for World Fantasy Convention. Cover design will be shown at Denvention3/Worldcon.

shsilver will be with me along with the National Space Society folks over at the NSS table at Worldcon where we'll announce the Return to Luna contest winners. Tentative time: Saturday, 4:00pm.

jaylake and I will co-edit the anthology Foorprints, to be published in 2009. Will post submission guidelines very soon, but for a preliminary look at the idea see Jay's LJ comment about the Apollo 17 landing site and comments that follow. The submission period will be from 1 August 2008 through 31 October 2008.

The publish timeframe for the Global Warming Aftermaths anthology is this autumn (N. Hemisphere). Finalizing that over the next few weeks.

The Archaeology Novel Series to be published next year by Hadley Rille Books starts to ramp up toward the end of this year. Each novel will be a fictional account of an ancient event of the author's choosing and field of expertise. (The authors for this series have academic and/or field experience in archaeology.) The books should appeal to a mainstream audience, but SF/F readers should also find them enjoyable and informative. Novelists will include Jenny Blackford, kltownsend, Ann Walters. Another is pending.

Book signings coming up:

Barren Worlds July 26th at Rediscovered Bookshop in Boise, ID, 2pm. Authors: mehub and Ken McConnell.

Barren Worlds and Ruins Metropolis July 26th at Mystery & Imagination Bookshop in Glendale, CA, 2pm. Authors: saycestsay, shaunaroberts, Andrew Tisbert, writerknv.

Ruins Metropolis August 9th at Pandemonium Books in Cambridge, MA, 2pm. More details soon.

Barren Worlds and Ruins Metropolis August 17th at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, CA, 2pm I think, double-checking that. More details soon.

Campbell Conference Readings and Autograph session

2008-07-11T16:44:29Z

If you're in the Lawrence Kansas area tomorrow, July 12th, there will be author readings and a book signing at 12:45 at the Univ of Kansas Oread Bookstore. Authors present will include Robin Wayne Bailey, Karen Joy Fowler, Kathleen Ann Goonan, James Gunn, kij_johnson, mckitterick, Frederik Pohl, Lane Robbins, jimvanpelt and Yours Truly. Authors who attended the workshop will also be there including mallory_blog.

Lawrence

2008-07-11T02:12:33Z

I headed over to Lawrence today to sit in on the last hour of James Gunn's workshop figuring I'd hang around for a few minutes afterward and say hi to the workshoppers including mallory_blog, and then Mallory and I end up there in the lobby for almost three hours discussing everything from the Golden Age of science fiction to gender issues in SF and Fantasy to the scenic wonders of the West (Western United States) to critiquing stories, to talking about cars, or I should say: talking about talking about cars. It was a lot of fun and I really gained a lot from our discussion; she really knows this stuff.

It was nice seeing James Gunn and mckitterick (who was his usual bouncy self). jimvanpelt came in and we all had an enjoyable talk for a while there on the comfortable chairs and couches.

Honorable Mentions

2008-07-08T20:38:54Z

Ten stories originally published by Hadley Rille Books in 2007 are included in Gardner Dozois's honorable mentions list, in addition to the two stories included, in The Year's Best Science Fiction - Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, just released. All three Hadley Rille Books anthologies from 2007 are represented.

Congratulations to:

Jenny Blackford, "Python" Ruins Terra
Sue Blalock, "Charybdis" Ruins Extraterrestrial
Tobias S. Buckell, "Io, Robot" Visual Journeys
Richard Chwedyk, "Where We Go" Visual Journeys
Jay Lake, "After Bonestell" Visual Journeys
Chris McKitterick, "Jupiter Whispers" Visual Journeys
Chris McKitterick, "The Empty Utopia" Ruins Extraterrestrial
G. David Nordley, "Hell Orbit" Visual Journeys
Justin Stanchfield, "Beyond the Wall" Ruins Extraterrestrial (incl in TYBSF)
Justin Stanchfield, "Exile's Child" Visual Journeys
Lavie Tidhar, "The Fateful Voyage of Dame La Liberté" Ruins Extraterrestrial
James Van Pelt, "Of Late I Dreamt of Venus" Visual Journeys (incl in TYBSF)

Visual Journeys
Ruins Terra
Ruins Extraterrestrial

Journey into Barren Worlds

2008-07-05T02:32:10Z

Hadley Rille Books's latest anthology, Barren Worlds, is
now available from Amazon.com, available from www.amazon.co.uk and here from barnesandnoble.com.

Table of Contents here.

Like the companion anthology, Desolate Places, it is full of great works imagined by authors who take you into the realms of barren places throughout the Universe.

ericreynolds @ 2008-07-04T18:16:00

2008-07-04T23:14:31Z

saycestsay has a pic up here from the Sundance Book signing on July 2nd. Hey, I'd want to read stories by them, wouldn't you?

Future book signings include:

Rediscovered Bookshop, July 26th, Boise, ID
Bookfellows/Mystery & Imagination Bookstore, July 26th, Glendale, CA
Pandemonium Books, Cambridge, MA, August 16th
Borlerlands Books, San Francisco, CA, August (day not yet determined)

More info soon, including attending authors.

Return to Luna Contest Reminder

2008-06-14T02:37:46Z

The Return to Luna contest jointly run by The National Space Society and Hadley Rille Books ends at 23:59, 15 June 2008 (your local time or US Central time, whichever is later).

Guidelines here.

Edit: The contest is now closed to submissions. All of the submissions have been entered into the contest and authors have been sent confirmation emails. We will soon have the stories out to the panel of jurors and we expect to announce winners later this summer.

Ruins Metropolis available on Amazon.co.uk

2008-06-13T04:05:01Z

Available here, heavily discounted from the cover price of £9.99 to £6.59. Great price for a trade paperback, excellent quality printing, fantastic stories. (Pay no attention to that dispatched within 8 to 10 days blurb. I think it will go out sooner.)

EDIT: Amazon.com (US) has dropped the price on Ruins Metropolis to $10.85 (cover price is $15.95). This (and the UK price) is excellent for a trade paperback, 352 pages, 35 stories, 6 x 9 inch / 22.4 x 15.2 cm.

Ruins Metropolis is now available

2008-06-10T17:11:42Z

Ruins Metropolis. The third volume in the Ruins series from Hadley Rille Books. Thirty-five fantasy and science fiction stories based on Debbie Hughes's cover art, "The Spirits of Hathor."

Available from Amazon.com, soon to be available in some bricks and mortar bookstores.

Preliminary Worldcon Schedule

2008-06-06T00:00:06Z

Got word today that I'll be on the following panels at Worldcon:

Hadley Rille Books Presentation - Thur - 10:00

Searching the Ruins: Archaeology in Science Fiction - Fri - 14:30

Sounds good to me....

Book signing / reading event in Reno, Nevada

2008-06-02T23:40:38Z

Thanks to will_couvillier's great work, there's a book signing event scheduled at Sundance Bookstore in Reno, Nevada, for July 2nd, 6:30pm. Several Hadley Rille Books authors will attend and sign and read from various titles. There will be another local author or two autographing and reading from their books as well. Additionally, the bookstore is sponsoring a science fiction short story contest. Sounds like a lot of great fun.

(Now, go over to will_couvillier's LJ and urge him on for the reading!)

Visual Journeys review

2008-05-17T06:49:05Z

Review in Some Fantastic by Christopher J. Garcia of Visual Journeys. Takes a moment to load. Scroll down to page 8.

Very nice mentions of stories from saycestsay, mckitterick, jaylake, frankwu, will_couvillier and more.

Note: the article starts on page 8 continues on page 9, and there's more on page 10 after the space-time graph.

Hadley Rille Books Signings and Anthology updates

2008-05-01T00:40:12Z

saycestsay will sign copies of Desolate Places and possibly have some copies of Visual Journeys on hand at 2pm, Saturday, May 3rd at Bookfellows/Mystery and Imagination bookstore in Glendale, California. So if you're in the LA area....

Broad Universe will have copies of Desolate Places on hand at their table at Wiscon and mount_oregano will be there to sign copies.

mckitterick signed copies of Visual Journeys at the Nebula Awards last weekend (and shame on me for not posting before the event). I am checking to see if Book People in Austin will carry some copies.

Ruins Metropolis is off to the printer this week and I expect to be sending out contributor copies in May as well as release the book then. (And if I get copies in time, will have some for Broad Universe at WisCon.)

Currently working on preliminary formatting and copyediting Barren Worlds. Will be working with elenuial and expect to have proofs out to authors in May.

Preliminary editing work beginning on Global Warming Aftermaths. Expecting to publish early July 2008, in time for the Campbell Conference and for Denvention3/Worldcon66 in August.

Receiving stories for the Return to Luna contest, jointly run by Hadley Rille Books and the National Space Society. robdarnell has been slush reading and doing great at keeping up with the load. We expect the volume to increase over the next month and a half as the June 15th deadline nears. The stories that he sends on will be forwarded to the jurors starting mid-June. If we can swing it, we will announce winners at Worldcon. Expect to publish the book around October 2008.

And lastly, Hadley Rille Books will begin publishing a new series of short novels on archaeological subjects later this year, authored by professionals in the field. More on that soon....

Global Warming Aftermaths

2008-04-22T01:59:11Z

This summer Hadley Rille Books will publish the new anthology, Global Warming Aftermaths, edited by Eric T. Reynolds.

The theme of this anthology will be the possible consequences of humanity's contributions to greenhouse gases contributing to climate change and what kind of world people just a couple of generations from now will inhabit.

Contributors

Z. S. Adani
Camille Alexa
Gustavo Bondoni
David Brin
Willis Couvillier
Tad Daley
Jude-Marie Green
James Gunn
Lancer Kind
Jay Lake
Christopher McKitterick
Lawrence M. Schoen

Watch for updates.

Desolate Places book signing pics

2008-04-16T01:54:38Z

Here are a couple from Spring Creek & Elko, Nevada. Video of Pandemonium Books coming soon.

Jude-Marie Green, Willis Couvillier, Ed "FV" Edwards

Jude-Marie Green, Willis Couvillier, Ed "FV" Edwards

Jude-Marie Green, Unknown, Ed "FV" Edwards, Willis Couvillier

Local author, Shirley McCullough, right, joined the group with her book, BARREN PLACE. Interesting title . . . .

Very successful signing and I believe nearly all copies sold.

Book Signings Today

2008-04-12T15:59:34Z

Just a reminder for those of you in the Cambridge, MA, and Spring Creek/Elko, NV areas.

The attending authors will read their stories from Desolate Places at Pandemonium Books in Cambridge starting at 2pm today. There might be time for Q&A and of course they will sign copies afterward.

The attending authors will sign copies of Desolate Places, Visual Journeys, Ruins Terra and Ruins Extraterrestrial at the Spring Creek/Elko events at 9:30am and 1:30pm today.

Authors, Places and Times. All times local.

Edit: Pics and videos taken by the authors to be posted soon.

Desolate Places Book signings publicity

2008-04-05T16:08:56Z

More publicity for Desolate Places launch events on April 12th.

Nevada Signings

Spring Creek Coffee Company and Enchanted Paper signings.

Cambridge, MA Signings at Pandemonium Books

Boston Globe On-line Things To Do

Boston Globe On-Line A&E

Thanks to F.V. "Ed" Edwards and elenuial for the tips.

Desolate Places author events

2008-03-26T03:02:02Z

There will be three book signing events for Desolate Places authors on April 12th.

Pandemonium Books in Cambridge, MA, 12 April 2008: Authors Paul L. Bates, Scott C. Carr, Shelley Savran Houlihan, Stephen D. Rogers and co-editor Adam Nakama elenuial will be there for signing and all sorts of other fascinating stuff that will arise. Copies of Desolate Places will be available.

Similarly, two locations in Nevada, 12 April 2008:
Authors Willis Couvillier will_couvillier, F.V. "Ed" Edwards, Jude-Marie Green saycestsay will appear at the following locations for a similar and equally fascinating time:
* Spring Creek Coffee Co., 263 Spring Valley Parkway, Spring Creek, NV, from 9:30 AM to 12:30PM.
* Enchanted Paper, 545 Court Street, Elko, NV, from 1:30 PM to 3:30PM.
Copies of Desolate Places will be available along with some copies of Ruins Terra, Ruins Extraterrestrial and Visual Journeys.

Another Desolate Places event will be held at Bookfellows in LA in late April/Early May. Working on others including a possible event in Toronto and future events possibly in Florida, Virginia and other states and an event in Liverpool, England, and Sydney, Australia.

My personal journey through Arthur C. Clarke's works

2008-03-19T17:47:59Z

As a kid the first written work I encountered by Arthur C. Clarke was not science fiction, but was a popular science book called The Promise of Space published in 1968. I was around eleven and not much of a reader at the time. But my dad was and one day I noticed the book sitting on an end table where he had left it. I started thumbing through the book and within a minute Clarke's words were pulling me through the pages.

By coincidence, a couple of weeks later, after I had read most of the book, my English teacher assigned the short story "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth . . ." I was excited to find it was written by this "new" author I had discovered, a science writer who wrote fiction as well! So this author who had fascinated me with astronomy and space science was creating stories set within those fascinating settings, and those stories contained many aspects of the science that he was explaining in his non-fiction. "If I FOrget Thee, Oh Earth . . ." grabbed my attention on many levels and even though it was written almost two decades before I read it, it was not dated. This story will forever remain my favorite piece of fiction.

Not too many weeks later I discovered the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was out, but I knew it would never reach the single theater in my small town. But when I discovered the library had the book I rushed down to check it out (I mean, there would be a rush on it, right?). Again I found fascinating settings filled with science. I was through the book in no time and so I read it again and when it came book report time for English class that was the one.

That summer I started acquiring all the Clarke works I could get my hands on including: Childhood's End, Prelude to Space, The Sands of Mars; and later I found several short story collections including Tales of Ten Worlds, Expedition to Earth, and others. I read "The Nine Billion Names of God" and others. At the same time I found The Exploration of Space on my dad's bookshelf and, like The Promise of Space, it grabbed my attention even though it had been published twenty years earlier. (And it was the start of my fascination with past visions of the future.) The book had done very well for him as a book club edition in the early 1950s. (If you can find a copy of the book, it's fascinating how he takes the reader into the "future," showing optimistic scenarios of space travel and lunar settlement.)

A couple of years later I joined the Science Fiction Book Club (and am still a member) and found more Clarke works including the collection The Wind From the Sun and several anthologies containing a story by him. The Book Club introduced me to other great SF authors as well and I started expanding my horizons within the genre.

A couple more years went by and just as I was worried I would run out of Clarke reading material Randezvous With Rama came out and once again I was thrilled to read a story with science concepts interlaced throughout.

Over the years there were other works that I inevitably had missed, mostly because they were hard to find or out of print. Two novels I had heard of, Earthlight, and A Fall of Moondust, seemed always beyond my reach, but then in the early 1990s I found a used copy of the former and the latter came out in a newly re-released mass market paperback. At the same time, Hammer of God was released and a couple of years later, 3001: The Final Odyssey. I was thrilled to have more new material. Since the 1960s Clarke would often say that he was done writing this or that only to come out with something new a few years later. Naturally as my reading horizons expanded within SF and outside the genre I continued to remain loyal to Clarke as my favorite. One can only imagine the thrill I felt when he agreed to write the Foreword to the first anthology I edited, Golden Age SF: Tales of a Bygone Future, published in 2006. Even conversing with him via email was more than I ever had hoped to do.

Better and anyone, Arthur C. Clarke weaved the wonder and beauty of the Univere into his prose. His stories often contained puzzles that the characters had to work out, sometimes in order to survive. His descriptions were vivid and he often put humanity in its place within them. He was a scientist's science fiction writer. We are fortunate to have his works and are also fortunate for all those authors he inspired. For me, his works have been the steady anchor to which the Universe is attached.

Thilina Heenatigala's blog.

The National Space Society's Statement on Arthur C. Clarke's Legacy.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke

2008-03-18T22:01:46Z

An aide reports that Sir Arthur C. Clarke has passed away at the age of 90.

He was the most influential science / science fiction author of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He influenced the world as a science fiction writer not only with his sense of wonder and appreciation of the beauty of the universe, but also as a science writer--one of the reasons we gained the will to venture into space. He inspired generations of scientists and authors. He fought against pseudoscience and other unfortunate forces that threaten the advancement of science. He has impacted all of our lives with his innovative approaches and new ideas, one of which--communications satellites in geosync orbit--earned him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Planet Earth (and the Universe) has lost a great mind.

Here's a video he made in December 2007 around his 90th birthday

"I intend to go to the Moon when the tourist service starts; and I hope (but hardly expect) to go to Mars. . . ." --from Expedition to Earth.

BARREN WORLDS Table of Contents

2008-03-12T02:48:21Z

Cover art below. (Will be posting minor updates to that soon.)

Drew Arrants	"Man Alone"
Adele Cosgrove-Bray adele_cb	"Project"
Geraint D'Arcy	"The Sound of Sun Rising"
Lawrence R. Dagstine http://www.lawrencedagstine.com	"Living Amongst the Lizards"
Tristan Davenport	"Elysium"
Graham Fielding http://gavinglove.blogspot.com/	"Rats"
Ginny Gilroy	"The Secret Life of Jane Gray"
C.E. Grayson http://therandomavenger.blogspot.com	"This Abandoned Sky"
Rob Haines rob_haines	"He Would Have Given Them Wings"
Jasmine Hammer jasminehammer	"Cleveland"
Erin Hartshorn abennettstrong	"Winterset"
Martin Hayes http://www.paroneiria.com	"Something Out of Nothing"
Geoffrey Maloney http://jerryswig.blogspot.com/	"The Secret Life of Mars"
Mary Ellen Martin mehub	"Tiger’s Eye View"
Tracie McBride	"After The Storm"
Ken McConnell http://myview.w0pht.org	"Ocherva"
Kevin James Miller	"A Small Show on Double Gamma 3"
Shane Nelson	"Alone On This Chance Planet"
Michael H. Obilade	"Fallout"
Sue Penkivech	"Saying Goodbye"
Shauna Roberts	"Elessa the Restless"
Lawrence M. Schoen klingonguy	"Gift Time"
Ted Stetson	"Blue Dome of Sky"
Gene Stewart	"Bad People"
David Tallerman http://davidtallerman.net/	"Allotment"
Andrew Tisbert http://www.andrewtisbert.com	"Candhiga’s Corpse and the Birds at the Edge of the Sea"
Geoffrey Thorne	"Antiope in Black"
William Blake Vogel III	"Otsego Undead"
Christopher Woods	"Moon and Bones and Birds"

Barren Worlds from Hadley Rille Books, edited by Eric T. Reynolds with Adam Nakama.

The National Space Society and Hadley Rille Books Announce . . .

2008-03-01T03:43:32Z

The National Space Society and Hadley Rille Books announce the Return to Luna Short Story Contest.

Submission guidelines here.

A jury of authors and editors will select the winning stories that will be published in the anthology Return to Luna edited by Yours Truly. Jurors include: tobias_buckell, mabfan, tomdupree, saycestsay, Geoffrey Landis, jaylake, mckitterick, klingonguy, Allen Steele and ianrandalstrock.

Science Fiction stories set in the near future, about humanity's colonization of the Moon.

I'll post on specficmarkets and other locations as well.

Desolate Places is available from Amazon

2008-02-27T17:01:03Z

Moments after Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface he referred to it as "magnificent desolation." There's a fascination with a place with no, or minimal, human encroachment, a place that nature has carved out with no interference from us. In this new anthology you will encounter 40 interpretations of desolate places and how those who inhabit them (some by choice, some not) cope with the barrenness.

Desolate Places is now available from Amazon.com.

Cover Photograph by Erich Hernandez-Baquero.
Table of Contents here.
Desolate Places, Published by Hadley Rille Books, Edited by Eric T. Reynolds with Adam Nakama.

(Edit 7:36 CT: It's out of stock at Amazon now. But they should replenish right away. Might take them a day or so. Continue ordering . . .)

Ruins Extraterrestrial review

2008-02-24T22:11:19Z

nancyfulda's review of Ruins Extraterrestrial is up with some nice words about stories by Justin Stanchfield, Lavie Tidhar, Douglas Smith, wendy_waring, mckitterick, bondo_ba, Harvey Welles & Philip Raines, Jonathan Shipley, and kythiaranos.

Lunar Eclipse

2008-02-21T02:15:34Z

At this moment, the shadow line is passing over Hadley Rille.

Just thought I'd point that out.

NASA, AS15-85-11451 (H)

NASA, AS15-11720 (H)