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Angry Robot Launches in the US and Canada today
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This will be the first of several posts today, as we’re all so gosh-darned excited here at Angry Robot Towers. You see, today’s the day we launch our first six titles in the USA and Canada, but then you already knew that, as the title of this post gave more than a little clue.
It’s been a fascinating, exciting journey, with one or two minor hiccups along the way, and we’re in a stronger position than we’ve been in since Angry Robot was first conceived, just over two years ago, in Hammersmith, London, England.
At 1.00 this afternoon (BST) we’ll be cracking open a bottle of champagne to celebrate, and invite you* to do the same**.
Check back throughout the day for further updates, competitions, news, and general buffoonery.
*Not at our expense, naturally – we’re lovely people, but we’re not rolling in money! 
** Feel free to substitute cola, tea, coffee, or the beverage of your choice.
Lavie Tidhar, Dan Abnett and @SFXmagazine
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Lavie
Yesterday was a long day, but thoroughly enjoyable. I travelled from York to London and back (a 450 mile round trip) to meet The Bookman author Lavie Tidhar for lunch, on one of his occasional forays to the UK, followed by an evening spend with Dan Abnett Esquire, his lovely wife Nik, and various member of the British Science Fiction Association. I interviewed Dan for the BSFA, and – as always – he was a fascinating interviewee, talking with great passion for around an hour and a half about his work for various tie-in universes (in comic, novel and screenplay formats) as well as his later work with original fiction. The BSFA always have a raffle at these events, so Dan brought a few of his graphic novels, Angry Robot supplied a few books, and The Black Library generously donated some books and audiobooks, too.
Last night was also the SFX party to celebrate the world’s biggest SF magazine reaching issue 200! That’s quite an achievement! Unfortunately, though I was invited (and accepted the invitation) I got my dates muddled up,and didn’t realise it was on the same night I was interviewing Dan, so I missed the party, though Lavie went in my stead, and thoroughly enjoyed himself, by all accounts. Congratulations to Dave Bradley and his team – and here’s to the next 200!
So, a good time had by all (despite the torrential rain – yeah, thanks, London).
We’ll be podcasting the interview with Dan soon, so keep an eye (and an ear) out for that.
Two brief reminders – Dan Abnett and Lauren Beukes
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If you’re in the London area (or can travel to it) tomorrow (25th August), it’s well worth popping into Belgravia, where I will be interviewing multi-million-selling novelist, comic-writer and screenwriter,Dan Abnett for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA).
Dan is a great speaker, and with over 20 years’ experience in the business, he’s always fascinating to listen to.
Venue:
Upstairs Room
The Antelope Tavern
22, Eaton Terrace
Belgravia
London
SW1W 8EZ
Nearest Tube: Sloane Square (District/Circle)
All welcome! (FREE entry. Non-members welcome.)
Interview will commence at 7.00 pm, but the room is open from 6.00 (and fans in the downstairs bar from 5.00).
There will be a raffle (£1 for five tickets), with a selection of sf novels as prizes.
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And don’t forget – you have until next Tuesday to enter the SFX Magazine competition to win a copy of Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City in limited edition hardback. Click here for the competition details.
If you don’t feel lucky, you can buy the hardback exclusively from Forbidden Planet – and we only printed 100 to sell – now that’s limited edition!
Or, you can wait for the paperback, which is out in the UK on September 2nd (December 28th in the US and Canada). Pre-order it from Amazon UK, or Waterstones, or pop into your local independent shop and ask them to order it for you.
- Limited Edition Hardback: £20
- Paperback: £7.99
- eBook: £3.50
Lissun and lurn
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We do like our podcasts, and we know quite a few of you do, too.
So, just in case you’ve missed them, here’s a list of recent podcasts featuring the Angry Robot crew:
Angry Robot Podcast number 2 – featuring Kaaron Warren and Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes – Interview at the British Science Fiction Association
Angry Robot Podcast number 1 – featuring Marc Gascoigne and Lee Harris
Alt.Fiction podcasts:
(10) The World of Publishing – featuring Marc Gasgoigne (of Angry Robot), Steve Tribe, Jenni Hill and Jon Weir
(3) Blogging and the Internet – featuring Lee Harris (of Angry Robot), Vincent Holland-Keen and Alasdair Stuart
And fon’t forget – for the Angry Robot monthly podcast:
Meet Dan Abnett next week!
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If you’re in the London area (or can travel to it) next Wednesday (25th August), it’s well worth popping into Belgravia, where I will be interviewing multi-million-selling novelist, comic-writer and screenwriter, Dan Abnett for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA).
Dan is a great speaker, and with over 20 years’ experience in the business, he’s always fascinating to listen to.
So, whether you’re a fan of his comic work, his Black Library novels, his TV tie-ins, or his new, original fiction, pop along. It’s free to come along, and you don’t have to be a member of the BSFA to attend. What larks!
I have plenty of interesting questions lined up for him, but if there’s something you’re dying to ask Dan, put it in the comments section, here – the interview will be recorded, and podcast, later.
Venue:
Upstairs Room
The Antelope Tavern
22, Eaton Terrace
Belgravia
London
SW1W 8EZ
Nearest Tube: Sloane Square (District/Circle)
All welcome! (No entry fee or tickets. Non-members welcome.)
Interview will commence at 7.00 pm, but the room is open from 6.00 (and fans in the downstairs bar from 5).
There will be a raffle (£1 for five tickets), with a selection of sf novels as prizes.
Lauren’s interview at the BSFA (podcast)
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If you missed the (extremely well-attended) British Science Fiction Association get-together last week, with special guest Lauren Beukes, you can listen to it here.
This month, the special guest is Dan Abnett – well worth attending (August 25th, London). I’ll be interviewing Dan about his writing career – his comics, his novels, his screenwriting. And Dan is always worth listening to.
Venue details here. It’s free, and you don’t have to be a member!
Zoo City – Free sample chapters
Posted by: | CommentsAs you know, Lauren Beukes is in the UK next week, visiting various places (see here for details on where you can find her) and you can still pre-order a limited edition hardback of her new novel, Zoo City from Forbidden Planet (though don’t leave it too long, there are only 100 on sale and they’re selling very quickly!)
If you can’t wait until the book is out (and quite frankly, we don’t blame you), how about the first 50 pages to whet your appetite?
Click for full-screen. You can embed the free sample in your own site – just copy the code (by clicking on the “menu” button in the bottom right corner of the sample, and selecting “Copy embed code”) into your site.
Post-Alt.Fiction
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Well, what a marvellous event that was. Saturday’s Alt.Fiction festival was a hymn to the good and the great in genre writing. As previously mentioned, Angry Robot was very present there, with both Robot Overlords in attendance, along with seven of our authors.
It was a great opportunity to catch up with our authors, and with friends from all over the SF spectrum – both new and old – including Amanda Rutter (Floor to Ceiling Books), Adele Harrison and Vincent Holland-Keen (Un:Bound), Adam Christopher, John Berlyne, Paul Cornell, Gollancz’s Jon Weir, the BFS regulars - Martin, Jenny, Tim, Mark, Sarah, Rob – and, of course, Catherine Rogers (from Writing East Midlands) and her team, for putting together such a great event!*
If you didn’t manage to attend, you may be interested to know that many podcasts were recorded at the event, and many of the panels, too – these are to be broadcast from the Alt.Fiction website every week from next Monday. You may have missed the fun, but you can catch up with some of the many and varied opinions from the guests.
And as for next year? Well, we’re already looking forward to it – and it’ll go in our diaries as soon as the date is announced!
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* and many, many more of you, of course – namechecking everyone would be very time-consuming, and we have books to make!
MEET LAUREN BEUKES and get your Limited Edition signed Zoo City hardback
Posted by: | CommentsAt the end of July, Angry Robot’s very own Lauren Beukes will be visiting the UK. It’s not often Lauren gets to visit, so to celebrate, we’re releasing a limited edition collectable hardback version of her next novel, Zoo City. We’ve never done this before, so the book is likely to sell out quite quickly, and at only £20 it’s a bargain!
The limited edition will be exclusive to Forbidden Planet in the UK, and you can find out more, here (including details of a rather special charity auction).
Zoo City UK Cover
Lauren will be signing Zoo City at the London Forbidden Planet Megastore from 6.00-7.00pm on Thursday July 29th. Come along and say “Hi” and pick up a copy of the book.
British Science Fiction Association
The night before Lauren’s signing at Forbidden Planet she will be the special guest at the July meeting of the British Science Fiction Association, where she will be reading from Zoo City, prior to an interview. There will be a Q&A session at the end, and you don’t have to be a member of the BSFA to attend.
The reading / interview will be at the upstairs bar of:
The Antelope Tavern, 22 Eaton Terrace, Belgravia, London SW1W 8EZ (nearest tube station is Sloane Square on the District and Circle lines).
The reading will commence around 7.00pm, but people usually start gathering in the downstairs bar from 5.00pm onwards.
British Fantasy Society
Lauren will also be the guest at the first BFS Open Night of the year. Well, not Open Night so much as Open Afternoon. For those of you who might find it hard to get to central London on a weekday evening, Lauren’s BFS event is on Saturday 31st July from 1.00pm until 5.00pm at The George pub on The Strand, WC2R 1AP (nearest tube station: Temple). And again, you don’t have to be a member to attend, though you can join on the day if you wish.
So, those dates again:
Wednesday 28th July: BSFA meeting - 7.00pm onwards (but any time from 5.00 for general chit-chat)
Thursday 29th July: Forbidden Planet signing – 6.00pm until 7.00pm (see here for details)
Saturday 31st July: BFS meeting – 1.00pm until 5.00pm
Alt.Fiction – The Angry Robot Schedule
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As you no doubt know, Angry Robot will be out in spades at next weekend’s Alt.Fiction convention – nine of us, in fact!
This is where you’ll find us (I’ve included Angry Robot authors who are doing panels/signings for other publishers, too). People in bold are Angry Robot peeps:
10am - SciFi Panel (Cinema 1)
Colin Harvey, Paul Cornell, Tony Ballantyne
11am – Podcast – Blogging and the Internet (Mac Suite)
Andy Remic, Lee Harris, Alasdair Stuart, Sharon Ring, Vincent Holland-Keen
12pm – BBC Books Panel (cinema 1)
Guy Adams, David Llewelyn, Mark Morris, Sarah Pinborough, Justin Richards, Steve Tribe
1pm- Fantasy Panel (cinema 1)
Ian Whates, Juliet McKenna, Chaz Brenchley, Mark Charan Newton, Ian Whates, Alex Bell, Kari Sperring
1pm- Podcast – Tie-In Fiction (Mac Suite)
Gav Thorpe, Simon Guerrier, James Goss, Graham McNeill
2pm – Horror Panel (cinema 1)
Gary McMahon, Conrad Williams, Tim Lebbon, Stephen Jones, Sarah Pinborough
2pm - Angry Robot Readings (Cinema 2)
Ian Whates, Gav Thorpe, Andy Remic, Mike Shevdon
2pm – BBC Books Signing (Box)
Guy Adams, James Goss, Simon Guerrier, David Llewelyn, Mark Morris, Sarah Pinborough, Justin Richards, Rob Shearman
3pm - What Is Alternative Fiction? (Cinema 1)
Marc Gascoigne, Graham Joyce, Peter Crowther, Ramsey Campbell, Juliet McKenna
3pm – Podcast – Writing SF – The Future of the Future (Mac Suite)
Colin Harvey, Tony Ballantyne, Michael Cobley
4pm – Local Author Signing (Box)
Gav Thorpe, Kim Lakin-Smith, Mark Chadbourn, Graham Joyce
4pm – The World of Publishing (Mac Suite)
Marc Gascoigne, Steve Tribe, Jon Weir, Jenni Hill- Podcast
8pm – Internet and Social Media for Writers (Box)
Lee Harris, Paul Cornell, Mark Charan Newton
(yes – 8.00pm!!! Aaaarghhh!)
