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Vic Wertz (Technical Director), Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 02:39 PM

We've just announced the Planet Stories releases for May and July 2010:

In May, we release Template: A Novel of the Archonate, by Matthew Hughes, with an introduction by Jay Lake.

July sees Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats, a collection of the first published stories from 15-well-known authors. Each story will be accompanied by insightful remarks from the author that place the stories into the context of their careers.

As always, covers are mockups, and will change.

SirUrza (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, GameMastery Maps, Planet Stories Subscriber), Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 03:11 PM

Interesting choice not to put R. A. Salvatore's name on the cover of Giants.

James Sutter (Editor), Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 05:25 PM

SirUrza wrote:

Interesting choice not to put R. A. Salvatore's name on the cover of Giants.

No offense intended to Mr. Salvatore, but sometimes not every name can fit on the cover... and I'm sure that Salvatore himself would agree that folks like Ben "I've Been A Science Fiction Badass Since Before Your Parents Were Born" Bova deserve top billing. :)

Again, though, this is just a mock-up cover. I'm extremely excited to see how the final cover turns out.

SirUrza (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, GameMastery Maps, Planet Stories Subscriber), Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 08:41 PM

James Sutter wrote:

No offense intended to Mr. Salvatore, but sometimes not every name can fit on the cover... and I'm sure that Salvatore himself would agree that folks like Ben "I've Been A Science Fiction Badass Since Before Your Parents Were Born" Bova deserve top billing. :)

Indeed and while I know Ben and his writing, I'm wager there are a lot more people between the ages of say... 15-25 who haven't.. but know who wrote the Drizzt novels. :P

Erik Mona (Publisher), Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 08:52 PM

Guess what? Not the real cover. :)

jjb1011jjb, Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 09:33 PM

before they were giants is gonna be a must buy for me i absolutly love anthologies and some of thoes authers iv been very interested in how they started

SirUrza (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, GameMastery Maps, Planet Stories Subscriber), Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 11:17 PM

Erik Mona wrote:

Guess what? Not the real cover. :)

Yeah I know now, still though just saying.

Blue Tyson (Planet Stories Subscriber), Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 02:42 AM

I've read Template, that is pretty reasonable. Pretty new, too! :)

Erik Mona (Publisher), Sun, Nov 8, 2009, 11:08 AM

I'm three chapters from the end of Matthew Hughes's book Majestrum, which is all kinds of excellent.

Blue Tyson (Planet Stories Subscriber), Mon, Nov 9, 2009, 05:52 AM

Erik Mona wrote:

I'm three chapters from the end of Matthew Hughes's book Majestrum, which is all kinds of excellent.

You should probably get his collection, too. Quite sure you'll like those stories, too.

If fact, I would imagine you could probably get one autographed, now. :)

Elorebaen (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Planet Stories Subscriber), Mon, Nov 9, 2009, 07:47 AM

Looking forward to them!