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Doctor Who Summer
I have two Doctor Who books out this summer, one fiction, one non-fiction.The King's Dragon
They called it Enamour. It turned minds, sold merchandise, and swayed elections. And it did its job far too well...
In the city-state of Geath, the King lives in a golden hall, and the people want for nothing. Everyone is happy and everyone is rich. Or so it seems. When the Doctor, Amy and Rory look beneath the surface, they discover a city of secrets. In dark corners, strange creatures are stirring. At the heart of the hall, a great metal dragon oozes gold. Then the Herald appears, demanding the return of her treasure... And next come the gunships.
The battle for possession of the treasure has begun, and only the Doctor and his friends can save the people of the city from being destroyed in the crossfire of an ancient civil war. But will the King surrender his new-found wealth? Or will he fight to keep it?
Buy the book: Amazon.co.uk (read an exclusive prelude at Amazon) - The Book Depository (free delivery worldwide)
Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
Edited by: Ross P. Garner, Melissa Beattie and Una McCormack
The successful regeneration of Doctor Who in the twenty-first century has sparked unprecedented popular success and renewed interest within the academy.
The ten essays assembled in this volume draw on a variety of critical approaches--from cultural theory to audience studies, to classical reception and musicology--to form a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
With additional contributions from Andrew Pixley, Robert Shearman, Barnaby Edwards, and Matt Hills, the volume is intended to be accessible to everyone, from interested academics in relevant fields to the general public.
You can find out more about the book here, and read a sample/TOC here [PDF file].
Coming Soon: Requiems for the Departed
Unreality-SF.net Story of the Year
Red Hand of Crime: author line-up
Gerard Brennan, co-editor with Mike Stone of Red Hand of Crime: the Irish Mythology Anthology, has announced the author line-up on his blog. Spot my name!
You can read the full list of authors here. The book in on schedule for release in Summer 2010, from Morrigan Books.
The Never-Ending Sacrifice, by Una McCormack
A Cardassian orphan raised by Bajorans returns to his home planet in this complex, multi-layered Deep Space Nine novel.
Simon and Schuster, 2009
Rugal is an orphaned Cardassian who has been raised by the people his race once conquered, the Bajorans. Reluctantly repatriated to Cardassia as a teenager, Rugal becomes the living witness to the downfall of the proud people to whom he was born, first by the invading Klingons, then during the Cardassians' unholy pact with the Dominion - a partnership that culminated in a near-genocide.
Through it all, Rugal's singular perspective illuminates the choices that brought the Cardassians to their ruin... even as he learns that the Cardassian soul is not as easy to understand as he imagined.
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Excerpt from "The Never-Ending Sacrifice"
You can now read an excerpt of The Never-Ending Sacrifice. On the Simon and Schuster website, here. And - coming soon to a newsagent near you! - Star Trek Magazine 20 contains an extract and review, along with other goodies related to some film or other that came out earlier this year. Available early August in the US, mid-August in the UK.The Sea is Not Full, by Una McCormack
Una has a story in the anthology "The Red Hand of Crime", due to be published in Summer 2010.The Great Gig in the Sky, by Una McCormack
A story about some of my favourite things: folk music, sensitive young men, and the unreal city which I and others haunt...in Subterfuge, ed. Ian Whates (NewCon Press, 2008)
Buy the book: NewCon Press (UK)
The Slave War, by Una McCormack
One in an anthology of Doctor Who stories on the subject of leadership, "The Slave War" takes the Doctor (Patrick Troughton), Ben, Polly, and Jamie to Italy in the first century BCE, at the height of the Spartacus rebellion.in Doctor Who: The Quality of Leadership, ed. Keith DeCandido (Big Finish, 2008)
Buy the book: Big Finish Books (UK)
Sea Change, by Una McCormack
In a near-future Britain, a teenage girl discovers how the boundaries between haves and have-nots are not fluid. This story first appeared in a special issue of Foundation: the International Review of Science Fiction.in The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 25, ed. Gardner Dozois (St.Martin's Press, 2008)
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