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Angry Robot eBooks now available
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We’re big fans of eBooks, here at Angry Robot. Well, we’re big fans of books, and eBooks are just one of the formats that we love. We’ve been working furiously behind the scenes to get you eBook versions of our titles, and today we launch the first 9.
- Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
- Slights by Kaaron Warren
- Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett
- Winter Song by Colin Harvey
- The Crown of the Blood by Gav Thorpe
- Sixty-One Nails by Mike Shevdon
- The Road to Bedlam by Mike Shevdon
- Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
- Kell’s Legend by Andy Remic
Our eBooks can be purchased through a number of online retailers, including the Amazon US Kindle store*, Barnes and Noble, Sony Reader Store, and many others. In the UK you will shortly be able to purchase them through Amazon Kindle UK and Waterstones. Within a few days our titles will also appear in the Apple iBookstore.
We have also launched our own eBook store at
Our eBooks are all currently priced at £3.50 (through UK retails) or $4.99 (overseas).
and if you purchase your eBooks through our own store, you can download them as often as you need to (in case you change eReading devices, for instance, or lose access to your copy for any other reason). And all downloads from angryrobotstore.com are DRM-free!
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Kindle US Note:
The search facility for these titles isn’t currently working at the Amazon.com Kindle store, so here are the direct links, while the techie gurus work their magic:
- Moxyland
- Sixty-One Nails
- Slights
- Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero
- Winter Song
- Kell’s Legend
- The Road to Bedlam*
- Zoo City*
*available from Thursday September 2nd.
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:
Barnes & Noble Nook – Down to $149
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Barnes and Noble have just introduced a new model into their eReader range – the Nook WiFi is the same as their previously-available model, but with the 3G components stripped out. And at a price of US$149 (about £101) that’s a pretty attractive price point! Their 3G model has been reduced to £199, so it will be interesting to see how (if at all) Amazon responds with their Kindle pricing.
So – the start of a whole new chapter for eReader sales and purchasers, or the beginning of the end for dedicated eReading devices?
The Future Is…
Posted by: | CommentsIn the latest of our guest blogs, SF author Adam Christopher tells of his newly discovered love affair with digital media…
Recently, my wife and I did a spot of spring cleaning. There was one bookcase in particular, a chaotic jumble of books, ancient ornaments, and our not insubstantial CD collection. It was my wife who suggested we pack the CDs up and store them away. Why did we need to have access to them? We’d transferred the whole lot into iTunes in a lossless format, and that digital library was regularly backed up, so she suggested it was time to banish them to an inaccessible cupboard.
She was right, and I realised that the last physical CD we had bought had been in 2005. Read More→
Were you one of the few?
Posted by: | CommentsQuite a few people emailed us to tell us that they actually believed yesterday’s April Fool gag (Kell’s Legend – The Musical), which surprised us, while at the same time giving us a warm glow, inside.
The same thing happened last year, and our announcement was somewhat… sillier…
Click here to remind yourselves of last year’s gag.
Oh, and Happy Easter! We’ll be back in the office next week.
Kell’s Legend – the Musical
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We’ve been dying to break this news, and the ink is still wet on the contracts, but we are delighted (and a little bit intimidated) to announce that we have agreed to a limited run by the Royal Shakespeare Company of Kell’s Legend – The Musical.
Casting is yet to be confirmed, but there is already a director and a musical director attached, and Andy Remic will act as creative consultant (to ensure that no changes are introduced that conflict with events in future stories).
Leopold Earnest, Marketing Director of the RSC, told us:
This is a real divergence for the RSC. In 1988 we produced a musical version of Stephen King’s Carrie, but we’ve never before attempted high fantasy. We have been in solid discussions with Mr Remic for some time now, and we believe we have a script suitable for production at The Courtyard.
Check back in September for details of how you can win tickets to the opening night (November 12th).
Songs include:
- * Axe no questions
- * I’m just a love vachine
- * For the Kell of it
- * The Canker Can-Can
Script by Anthony Leigh, Book by James Meadows. An RSC/Angry Robot co-production.
Some awesome sample chapters from next month’s releases
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What a cracking trio of samples we have for you today!
Here are some sample chapters from our March titles (all out on 4th March in the UK, later in the year for the US and Canada).
We will be offering free sample chapters of all of our titles prior to release, because you’re worth it.
All rights reserved.
However, feel free to share these sample chapters with anyone you wish, or to post them on your own site. And if you like them, buy Ian’s, Tim’s and/or Maurice’s book(s).
Please note that the formatting will vary from that of the final commercial product. Click on the PDF icon to download the sample.
City of Dreams and Nightmare by Ian Whates
King Maker by Maurice Broaddus
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and don’t forget we have three incredible books out today:
Feel free to share these sample chapters with anyone you wish, or to post them on your own site. And if you like them, buy Guy’s, Thomas’ and/or Kaaron’s book(s).
Edge by Thomas Blackthorne (aka John Meaney)
Walking the Tree – now with free novella!
Posted by: | CommentsAngry Robot set its stall out from the very start as an imprint that would be trying different approaches to delivering stories. Over the last year we’ve been fortunate to be in a prime position to take advantage of the surge in eBook editions. Now here’s another idea we’d like to run past you.
While writing Walking the Tree, ace AR author Kaaron Warren naturally concentrated on her central character, Lillah. But as she explored that woman’s incredible journey around Botanica’s immense Tree, she became just as fascinated with the story of one of her young companions, Morace.
So fascinated, in fact… that she rewrote the whole book from Morace’s point of view! Well, we couldn’t just hide that away and so, if you buy a physical copy of Walking the Tree you’ll find, amongst our usual swathe of extras and freebies at the end, the first two chapters of his story… and a secret download link and password, that will allow you to download or read the entire novella. And if you get the eBook edition, well, you get the whole thing as an added extra.
Who knows – perhaps this sort of thing could catch on. I’m sure we could all think of secondary characters whose adventures we’d like to read from their POV. And plenty more who we wouldn’t, of course.
Mass debates on cover art
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There has been a lot of conversations online recently concerning cover art, and the depiction of black characters as part of the overall design. Angry Robot author Maurice Broaddus has written about it on his blog. Not surprising, as his Knights of Breton Court trilogy for Angry Robot features the main cast on the covers, and they’re *gasp* not white! [cue: end of the world music]
Read what he has to say here. Do read the links from his post, too, as they provide excellent background reading. His, is always an interesting blog.
The Bookman continues to attract critical acclaim:
This is a steampunk gem. The settings are marvellously detailed, giving you the feeling that there is a London in which Lizards reign and whales swim up the Thames to sing lullabies to the city dwellers… Bring on a sequel, Tidhar! I’m craving to know what happens after the ending!
Read the rest of the review over at SFF World.
Dan Abnett, meanwhile, continues to dominate Borders’ US blog, Babel Clash and has taken the opportunity to talk about Triumff and his other work for Angry Robot.
It’s energising to find an imprint like Angry Robot that happily wears its awareness of those risks on its sleeve, and is eager to see them being taken. It’s about attitude.
This is the bit where I snap my fingers and say someting street, like “you go, girl”. Honestly – if you were in the office right now, you’d see I can make it work.
Over at the superb Falcata Times, Mike Shevdn’s Sixty-One Nails is given the once-over:
If you’re looking for something in the UF Genre for someone special in your life or if you’re just wanting something that’s pretty unique and mind blowing then you just have to buy this book… The second novel in the series is out next year but take a tip from me. Get this now before the hype hits.
The sequel (The Road to Bedlam) hits the UK this summer.
And finally, UK Steampunk author Adam Christopher listed what he’d like from the Apple iPad, and rather encouragingly he had this to say aout Angry Robot:
If the tablet can deliver an exemplary reading experience, I want to subscribe to publishing houses. For an annual fee, I’ll take everything from Angry Robot Books, thanks very much, delivered to my tablet on release… There’s not a single title from Angry Robot that hasn’t been an excellent read, and I’ll happily take the rest of their output on spec.
It brings a tear to my eye, it truly does…
Links Round-up
Posted by: | CommentsSome interesting stuff…
A great review of Slights by the ever-talented Kaaron Warren over at AS If…
At its dark heart, this is a novel about families and how they function, or fail to function, after tragedy. Stevie is the broken child who’s never allowed or forced to grow up, skimming through her adult life and relationships without ever really interacting with them, trying to find meaning in the one constant in her world, death.
For those of you (and there are many) who enjoyed Tim Waggoner’s zombie PI tale, Nekropolis, you don’t have to wait until book 2 (Dead Streets) is out to get your next Matt Richter fix. Tim’s written a Matt Richter short story, which appears in the new anthology, Spells of the City.
Meanwhile, over at Punk Talk, (the blog of genre writer Jeffrey Thomas) Andy Remic talks about his writing career and his plans for the future.
Although originally I did start writing fantasy before I wrote SF, and was (and still am) deeply inspired by the fantasy works of David Gemmell. I’ve also brought along my thriller writing action skills to the writing of fantasy, so instead of bumbling along for 200 pages describing the dull politics of a dull-ass world, Kell’s Legend kicks off into action and is a fantasy rollercoaster ride! Great fun to write!! Hopefully, it’s great fun to read!
Meanwhile, don’t forget that every day this week you’ve been able to read the opening 5 chapters or so of Aliette de Bodard’s Servant of the Underworld and Lavie Tidhar’s The Bookman over at My Favourite Books and SF Signal, respectively.
And finally, for those of you who haven’t yet decided to go out and get Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by the incomparable Dan Abnett, pop over to Shadow Writer (horror writer Paul Kane’s blog) where you can read a free extract.
