The "Hawk" has Flown

 

Ronnie ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Rockabilly Singer and Mentor to the Band, Dies at 87

Ronnie Hawkins, the universally revered Southern rockabilly singer who helped shape and launch the Band and other Canadian rock artists, died at 87 following a long-term illness.

 

An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows

 

An Accident of Stars 

Foz Meadows 

 

Reissue out on the 28th June

A young woman finds herself in a kingdom ruled by sorcery, as one of fantasy's most daring new writers subverts the traditional "portal fantasy" saga to create something both fresh and deeply moving.

 

When Saffron Coulter stumbles through a hole in reality, she finds herself trapped in Kena, a magical realm on the brink of civil war.

 

There, her fate becomes intertwined with that of three very different women: Zech, the fast-thinking acolyte of a cunning, powerful exile; Viya, the spoiled, runaway consort of the empire-building ruler, Vex Leoden; and Gwen, an Earth-born worldwalker whose greatest regret is putting Leoden on the throne.

 

Pursued by Leoden and aided by the Shavaktiin, a secretive order of storytellers and mystics, the rebels flee to Veksh, a neighboring matriarchy ruled by the fearsome Council of Queens. Saffron is out of her world and out of her depth, but the further she travels, the more she finds herself bound to her friends with ties of blood and magic.

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	­ “Fantasy readers who appreciate strong characters and excellent world-building will immerse themselves in this tale.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review   "The sophistication, thematic ambition and range of viewpoint characters make this a mature work of fantasy." –BFSA ­ Click Here for More! ­

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The Splendid City by Karen Heuler

 

­ ­ ­ Click Here for More! ­ ­ "Karen Heuler’s The Splendid City  is a wonderful fabulation, both humorous and contemplative, about the desperate state of US politics and society." —Jeffrey Ford, author of Big Dark Hole   "A thoroughly original and quirky novel." —Liz Williams, author of Comet Weather ­

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­ The Splendid City  Karen Heuler   Out 14th June ­ In the state of Liberty, water is rationed at alarming prices, free speech is hardly without a cost, and Texas has just declared itself its own country.    In this society, paranoia is well-suited because eyes and ears are all around, and they are judging. Always judging. This terrifying (and yet somehow vaguely familiar) terrain is explored via Eleanor – a young woman eagerly learning about the gifts of her magic through the support of her coven.   But being a white witch is not as easy as they portray it in the books, and she’s already been placed under ‘house arrest’ with a letch named Stan, a co-worker who wronged her in the past and now exists in the form of a cat. A talking cat who loves craft beers, picket lines, and duping and ‘shooting’ people.   Eleanor has no time for Stan and his shenanigans, because she finds herself helping another coven locate a missing witch which she thinks is mysteriously linked to the shortage of water in Liberty.

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Coming soon from Micvhael Bishop

 This is a proof of the cover of the next book in the new editions of Michael Bishop;s out of print titles. It is available from www.fairwoodpress.com and is available for pre-order. I'm ordering mine today!

After Glow by Tim Jordan

 

­ ­ ­ ­ Click Here for More! ­ ­ "Running beneath the violent tangle of identity and memory is a fascinating exploration of how people cope – or fail to – with adversity." – Publishers Weekly  ­ ­

­ ­  After Glow Tim Jordan   Out 24th May ­ Glow is not gone. Glow remains. Glow is alive.   The nanotech drug is now everywhere. It creeps across the world, a mind-bending plague, a brain-altering poison that lives on from host to host, twisting everyone to its will.   Still recovering from his addiction, Rex remains in hiding, battling the voices in his head that are not all his own. Some days are peaceful, others are downright terrifying. But there are bigger problems to face – a new alliance threatens the balance of power in the world again, and a dangerous enemy from Rex's past tracks him down.   Can Rex really be the cure for the plague that Sisters promised him, or the root of humanity’s downfall? Faced with ultimate destruction, Rex must decide if he really is a prophet... or just a coward?

 

Mercury Rising by R.W.W. Greene Out 10th May from Angry Robot

 

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­ "Greene remixes sci-fi conventions into a wild, satisfying adventure in a nearly picaresque vein…Readers willing to roll with the punches will delight in following Greene’s winding path." – Publishers Weekly   "Everything I've come to love about Greene: impeccable story logic, fantastic prose, sly humor, and hope in all its glory." – Zig Zag Claybourne, author of Afro Puffs are the Antennae of the Universe

Mercury Rising R.W.W. Greene Out 10th May ­ Even in a technologically-advanced, Kennedy-Didn’t-Die alternate-history, Brooklyn Lamontagne is going nowhere fast.   The year is 1975, thirty years after Robert Oppenheimer invented the Oppenheimer Atomic Engine, twenty-five years after the first human walked on the moon, and eighteen years after Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven sacrificed their lives to stop the alien invaders. Brooklyn just wants to keep his mother’s rent paid, earn a little scratch of his own, steer clear of the cops, and maybe get laid sometime in the near future. Simple pleasures, right? But a killer with a baseball bat and a mysterious box of 8-track tapes is about to make his life real complicated.   So, rot away in prison or sign up to defend the planet from the assholes who dropped a meteorite on Cleveland?  Brooklyn crosses his fingers and picks  the Earth Orbital Forces. A few years in the trenches and then -- assuming he survives -- he'll get his life back, right? Unfortunately, the universe has other plans, and Brooklyn is launched into a story about saving humanity, finding family, and growing as a person -- while coping with high-stakes space battles, mystery science experiments and finding out the real enemies aren’t the tentacled monsters on the recruitment poster. Unless they are. ­

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