Excerpt: Embassytown

Del Rey Spectra has released the first fifty-eight pages of China Mieville’s first Space Opera, Embassytown. The book hits shelves May 17, 2011.

The children of the embassy all saw the boat land. Their teachers and shiftparents had had them painting it for days. One wall of the room had been given over to their ideas. It’s been centuries since any voidcraft vented fire, as they imagined this one doing, but it’s a tradition to represent them with such trails. When I was young, I painted ships the same way.

Excerpt: Vampire Warlords

Vampire Warlords by Andy Remic from Angry Robot hits shelves today.

Product Description: Legendary warrior Kell must choose to flee the conquered land of Falanor, or fight for its people in this triumphant conclusion to the epic Clockwork Vampire Chronicles!

Excerpt: The Wise Man’s Fear

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss hits stores shelves today. Most of fantasy fandom has been waiting on this novel since about three days after Rothfuss' extraordinarily well-reviewed debut novel, The Name of the Wind, was released. I know I'll be in line when the local Barnes & Nobles opens this morning.

The real challenge will be restraining myself from reading pages at every stop light on the way home.

Excerpt from Richard Morgan's THE COLD COMMANDS

Yesterday, author Richard Morgan teased the next novel in his series, The Cold Commands, on his blog, writing:

Look – you’ve all been very patient.

Thank you.

Here’s a little something to tide you over until The Cold Commands actually hits the shelves. Strictly a Work In Progress, but I doubt it’s going to change very much in final draft, so here you go.

Read an excerpt from The Cold Commands on his blog.