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Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats (Trade Paperback)

Before They Were Giants Now Shipping!

Before They Were Giants Now Shipping! Wednesday, July 28, 2010They say you always hurt the ones you love, and now that Before They Were Giants is shipping from the warehouse to subscribers and bookstores everywhere, I've looked back over the last few months of the blog and realized that I've only blogged about it once. Which is astonishing when you consider that this might just be the coolest product I've ever worked on in my life. ... Illustration by Kieran Yanner ... Allow me to elaborate:...
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Tags: Before They Were Giants Ben Bova Charles Stross China Mieville Cory Doctorow David Brin Greg Bear James L. Sutter Joe Haldeman Kim Stanley Robinson Larry Niven Michael Swanwick Nicola Griffith Piers Anthony Planet Stories R. A. Salvatore Spider Robinson William Gibson

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The Walrus & the Warwolf (Trade Paperback)

China Miéville on The Walrus & the Warwolf!—In Praise of Stupid Boys

China Miéville on The Walrus & the Warwolf! Monday, June 14, 2010Many of you already hip to the Planet Stories line likely already know about China Miéville's enthusiasm for Hugh Cook, the recently deceased New Zealand author whose capacity for bizarre and captivating fantasy worlds which staunchly refused to leave out any SF element (from magic to tech, dragons to pirates) was matched only by his ambition as an author (in which many thousands of published pages were considered just the tip...
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Tags: China Mieville Hugh Cook Kieran Yanner Planet Stories Walrus and the Warwolf

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The Walrus & the Warwolf (Trade Paperback)

Behold the Walrus!

Behold the Walrus! Monday, April 26, 2010 ... Photography by Chris Carey ... We've known since the beginning that The Walrus & the Warwolf was going to be a big book. Its immense, cyclopean girth is the main reason it languished out of print for years, before Erik boldly stepped up and announced that Planet Stories would accept the challenge. But having just seen the first-bound proofing copies from the printer, it's finally hitting home just what a monster we've created. ... This sucker is...
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The Walrus & the Warwolf (Trade Paperback)

Also Pirates!

... Also Pirates! Wednesday, March 24, 2010Given that here at Planet Stories we recently wrapped up production on Hugh Cook's Brobdingnagian-sized 464-page sci-fantasy adventure The Walrus & the Warwolf, I figured it's about time to show off the book's awesomely monstrous cover art by Keiran Yanner, and also to share with you what the book's presenter, award-winning novelist and builder of fantastic worlds China Miéville, has to say about Hugh Cook in his introduction. So without further ado,...
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Tags: China Mieville Hugh Cook Kieran Yanner Monsters Planet Stories Walrus and the Warwolf

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