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Announcing the Angry Robot Sock Amnesty
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It happens every year. Maybe it’ll be your mad Aunty Mabel, or your loving Mum, or your lazy brother-in-law, or maybe it’ll be the last-minute secret santa buyer in the office pool that you were unlucky enough to end up with.
But let’s face it, it’s pretty much guaranteed to happen: someone will give you some sort of Crap Present – usually oh, so jolly Xmas socks – at some point this holiday season.
Here at Angry Robot we’re no strangers to the Squishy Package of Impending Doom and we feel your pain, we really do.
Which is why we’re announcing the Angry Robot Sock Amnesty.
In a festive nut-shell: if you send us your Xmas socks (or any other crap presents that you’d be happy to see the back of) we will send you a voucher code for a free Angry Robot ebook in return.
We’ll then donate all your crap presents to charity on your behalf – after posting photos of the funniest and/or weirdest ones here on the Angry Robot blog, of course – and you’ll be able to read your ebook-of-choice in the warm glow of knowing you’ve Done Good.
And best of all, Aunty Mabel will never know…
[Full how-to-enter details below the jump:]
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Rampant Robots
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Here’s your bumper round-up of all things Robot. (Cue annoying dee-dee-diddly-dee news anchor ident sting overlaid with anachronistic sound of typewriters…)
Lovely Aliette de Bodard went deep, deep into the world of Acatl as she discussed the final novel in the Obsidian & Blood trilogy, Master of the House of Darts, with the Faster Times.
Aaand she made this lovely trailer for this latest Acatl novel too. Studio roll VT:
Aaaaaaaaand she’s running a really cool Aztec-themed competition on her blog. Check it out and win win win, as apparently they say!
Lovely Trent Jamieson talked all things Roil with the nice folks at Ranting Dragon.
Ahead of the concluding volume, King’s War, lovely Maurice Broaddus took a long, hard look at the extraordinary world of his Knights of Breton Court series for the Pudge Factor.
Lovely Lauren Beukes, modestly not mentioning much about her massive, massive new book deal (me and her mother, Mrs Harris, are so damn proud), was interviewed by Bruce Sterling. Yes, that Bruce Sterling.
Anne Lyle was lovely enough to share some advance secrets from her upcoming magical Elizabethan fantasy The Alchemist of Souls with Fran Terminielo.
The lovely KW Jeter was Guest of Honor at Steamcon III recently. Check out the pics and a great write up from Steampunk News. We think all our authors should get an official convention photo done with a girl with a boat on her head. No, just because.
And finally, no skateboarding puppies this week, but instead the lovely Lavie Tidhar gave great podcast for the Skiffy & Fanty Show in this discussion of his new novel Osama. It’s not by us, but it’s bloody great so fair dues and all that.
Sample Chapters – King’s War and Master of the House of Darts
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Both books will be published as eBooks worldwide on October 25th, and in the US and Canada on the same day. They are published in the UK on November 3rd.
Sample Chapters – Darkness Falling and Debris
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Both books will be published as eBooks worldwide on September 27th. Paperbacks on September 27th (US/Canada) and October 6th (UK).
Empire State preview over at Noir Week
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Those stand-up gents and dames over at Tor.com are running Noir Week right about now, and we thought we might just muscle in on a piece of their action.
So head on over thattaway for an exclusive sneak-read of a chapter from Adam Christopher‘s wondrous Empire State, a whole five months before it’s published.
Yes, really. Fly, fly now!
Sample Chapters – Reality 36 and The Crown of the Conqueror
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Both books will be published as eBooks worldwide on August 4th. Paperbacks on August 4th (UK) and August 30th (US/Canada).
Dead Bad Things and Roil – Sample Chapters
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Dead Bad Things is available as an eBook worldwide and in paperback in the UK on 1st September, and in paperback in the US/Canada on 27th September.
Roil is available as an eBook worldwide and in paperback in the US/Canada on 30th August and in paperback in the UK on 1st September.
Hard Spell and The World House:Restoration – Sample Chapters
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The first in the Occult Crimes Unit Investigation series:
Win an ARC of Restoration or Hard Spell
Posted by: | CommentsOk, so here’s the deal.
We have a few ARCs of Hard Spell by Justin Gustainis and The World House: Restoration by Guy Adams left in the office.
Would you like one?
If so, here’s what we want you to do:
In the comments section of this thread, give us the URL of something robot-related. Could be an image, an article, a song, whatever.
The ones that meet our arbitrary guidelines for winning (which we will probably make up on the spot) will win. Along with your link, simply state which book you would prefer, should you win. You’ll need to put your email address in so we can contact you, but that won’t show up in the comments (unless you type it into the comments box itself, of course. Duh).
Because we realise that Restoration needs you to have read The World House before you can fully enjoy it, we’re going to throw in a copy of that, too.
Now go – find some ‘bots. Deadline is Monday 13th June, 8.00am (GMT, or BST, or whatever the hell it is at the moment – UK time, anyway).
