[pat5150]

Hi there,

The American imprint of Orbit will officially be launching next fall and their website is still under construction, but you can see their lineup at www.orbitbooks.net.

Orbit US will open the show with the excellent debut by Brian Ruckley, Winterbirth, in September 2007. Other authors include Jeff Somers, Lilith Saintcrow, Karen Miller, K. J. Parker, Russell Kirkpatrick, Iain M. Banks, and more!

Check out their website for the full details!;)

Patrick

[Rob B]

Logically, they are carrying over some of the authors from the Warner/Aspect line. The Karen Miller and Ruckley look the most interesting to me.

[U-Borat]

I still think they need to take a leaf out of UK companies in cover-art.
Though the Winterbirth one might actually be better than the UK one.

[Mithfânion]

Indeed it does, very nice cover for Winterbirth. That's the one I read from this list.

Others to lookout for:

The new Banks Culture novel called " Matter" out in February. Electric Church by Jeff Somers sounds good as well. The Karen Miller sounds generic but maybe good so I will check it out at the very least.

The Engineer and Fires of Heaven trilogies don't really appeal to me.

[JohnH]

Miller's series starts out well, but by the end of the first book totally descends into really generic and a bit of overly-contrived plot elements. Still, I do think she can write. Her next series starts in May in Australia and I might go ahead and indulge my curiosity -- books are pretty much the only item to reach my customs quota from Australia. NOt like I am going to bring back some Marmite and I already have two boom-a-rangs.

Glad to see Escapement is getting a simultaneous release and will save me a bit on exchange rates and packing space or shipping fees -- either a premium in December. Also that makes me hope that the second Ruckley is more likely to debut both sides of the Atlantic and the cover is no better or worse than the UK edition for book one, so I don't have the severe anal shelves must be al matchy issue kicking in.

The Electric Church and Black Ships sound either appalling or uniquely interesting. Not sure which. Either way, they hold my attention enough to keep them in mind for the future.

[Mithfânion]

Everyone will have different ways of rating a story but one of the things that just really grates on me in Fantasy is Fantasy authors populating their stories with bad and uninspired names. I was just reading an excerpt of the Karen Miller book and encounter names like "Prince Gar". Reminds me of bad books with main characters called King Dave or Prince Jared. Just awful, as was the excerpt I continued reading, seems very childish all in all.

[U-Borat]

Her 1st book really isn't anything special, IIRC. That's Karen Miller btw.

KJ Parker and Ruckley are the big names. (might be the first time I willingly collect a US edition of a book- Winterbirth!)

[Warewolf]

Not to derail the thread, but I hope Gollancz follows suit and starts publishing their stuff in the US.

[JohnH]

Well many of the authors who have Gollancz as their UK publisher do have US publishers already.

[pat5150]

Many Gollancz works are being published by Pyr in North America.:)

Patrick