Norilana Books

SFRevu gives a solid review to Clockwork Phoenix 2 edited by Mike Allen time_shark.

"...a collection worthy of serious attention. I expect I'll see several of these stories again, in a year's best collection or two. Original anthologies of this strength should be encouraged, particularly as we see the digest-sized magazines cutting back and the market for short fiction ever shrinking. Fortunately, it's no sacrifice to support such an endeavor when the stories are this good."
-- Terry Weyna, SFRevu.com

Read the rest of the review here...

Listen to this very interesting podcast, The Sofanauts NO 24, where Clockwork Phoenix editor Mike Allen (time_shark) gets to chat at length about some wild and crazy things with Jeff VanderMeer, Jeremy Tolbert, and host Tony C Smith.

It's not to be missed. :-)

Our anthology author Saladin Ahmed's wonderful fantasy story "Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela" originally published in Clockwork Phoenix 2 is specially featured for free online, at Fantasy Book Critic!

Norilana Books warmly congratulates our anthology author Vandana Singh whose wonderful story "Oblivion: A Journey," originally published in the critically acclaimed Clockwork Phoenix 2 edited by Mike Allen (time_shark), has been chosen for publication in Year's Best SF 14 edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

Congratulations, Vandana! :-)

Incidentally, there's another Clockwork Phoenix free copy giveaway contest over at the Fantasy Book Critic, go look and see if you can snag a freebie copy!

Poet, Nebula Finalist, and our excellent Clockwork Phoenix editor Mike Allen is interviewed over at Marshall's Super-Sekrit Friends Clubhouse. Go check it out!

The tireless and marvelous Charles Tan (chartlesatan) reviews over at Bibliophile Stalker the fantasy anthology Clockwork Phoenix 2 edited by Mike Allen (time_shark)

"One of the problems with establishing a new anthology series is developing a brand identity. I enjoyed the first Clockwork Phoenix so the question that constantly nagged me is whether the sequel is up to the task. In a certain way, I was setting myself up for disappointment: Clockwork Phoenix 2 is a very different animal from the first and hopefully that's a good thing. There's a lot more willingness here to try and experiment with different modes of storytelling, making each story stand out as it's very different from the one that preceded it. It features a diverse set of styles and techniques while never sacrificing readability...."

Read the rest of the review...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Norilana Books proudly presents Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness edited by Mike Allen (time_shark).

Story marries style. The result is a cornucopia of modern cutting-edge fantasy.

The second volume of this extraordinary new annual anthology series of fantastic literature dares to surpass the first, with works that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle with the manner in which they cross genre boundaries, that aren't afraid to experiment with storytelling techniques, and yet seamlessly blend form with meaningful function.

Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness edited by Mike Allen



"Allen finds his groove for this second annual anthology of weird stories, selecting 16 wonderfully evocative, well-written tales... Each story fits neatly alongside the next, and the diversity of topics, perspectives and authors makes this cosmopolitan anthology a winner."
—Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness edited by Mike Allen
Imprint: Norilana Books Fantasy
Trade Paperback
July 1, 2009
Retail Price:
$11.95 USD - £8.00 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-027-3
ISBN-10: 1-60762-027-8
296 pages

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Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 240 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles.
For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

Contact:

Vera Nazarian, Publisher
Norilana Books, P.O. Box 2188, Winnetka, CA 91396
service (at) norilana.com - http://www.norilana.com/
Catalog of Books in Print:
http://www.norilana.com/norilana-catalog.htm
Blog: http://norilanabooks.livejournal.com/

We're proud to announce another Norilana Books first -- a Starred Review from Publishers Weekly for one of our titles:

Clockwork Phoenix 2 edited by Mike Allen

"Allen finds his groove for this second annual anthology of weird stories, selecting 16 wonderfully evocative, well-written tales... Each story fits neatly alongside the next, and the diversity of topics, perspectives and authors makes this cosmopolitan anthology a winner."

-- Publishers Weekly Starred Review

CONGRATULATIONS to Mike (time_shark) and all our wonderful, talented, brilliant authors!

And talking about reading periods, editor Mike Allen (time_shark) has just announced the reading period for Clockwork Phoenix 3.

Clockwork Phoenix 2 edited by Mike Allen. Cover image design also by Mike (time_shark).

Coming July 1, 2009, from Norilana Books.

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Cover jacket flat:

It's official, and now it can be said...

2008 Nebula Award® Ballot

SFWA is proud to announce the nominees for the 2009 Nebula Awards. The awards will be presented at the 2009 Nebula Awards® Weekend, April 24-26,2009 in Los Angeles, California. For more information on the awards and the Nebulas Weekend, please see http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/nebulaweekend

Novels

Little Brother - Doctorow, Cory (Tor, Apr08)
Powers - Le Guin, Ursula K. (Harcourt, Sep07)
Cauldron - McDevitt, Jack (Ace, Nov07)
Brasyl - McDonald, Ian (Pyr, May07)
Making Money - Pratchett, Terry (Harper, Sep07)
Superpowers - Schwartz, David J. (Three Rivers Press, Jun08)

Novellas

"The Spacetime Pool" - Asaro, Catherine (Analog, Mar08)
"Dark Heaven" - Benford, Gregory (Alien Crimes, ed. Mike Resnick, SFBC, Jan07)
"Dangerous Space" - Eskridge, Kelley (Dangerous Space, Aqueduct Press, Jun07)
"The Political Prisoner" - Finlay, Charles Coleman (F&SF, Aug08)
"The Duke in His Castle" - Nazarian, Vera (Norilana Books, Jun08)

Novelettes

"If Angels Fight" - Bowes, Richard (F&SF, Feb08)
"Dark Rooms" - Goldstein, Lisa (Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 07)
"Pride and Prometheus" - Kessel, John (F&SF, Jan08)
"Night Wind" - Rosenblum, Mary (Lace and Blade, ed. Deborah J. Ross, Norilana Books, Feb08)
"Baby Doll" - Sinisalo, Johanna (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, ed. James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Tor, Jun07 )
"Kaleidoscope" - Wentworth, K.D. (F&SF, May07)

Short Stories

"The Button Bin" - Allen, Mike (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, Oct07)
"The Dreaming Wind" - Ford, Jeffrey (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking, Jul07)
"Trophy Wives" - Hoffman, Nina Kiriki (Fellowship Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes, DAW Books, Jan08)
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss"- Johnson, Kij (Asimov’s, Jul08)
"The Tomb Wife"- Jones, Gwyneth (F&SF, Aug07)
"Don't Stop" - Kelly, James Patrick (Asimov’s, Jun07)
"The Ray Gun: A Love Story" - Garner, James Alan
"Mars: A Traveler's Guide" - Nestvold, Ruth

Scripts

The Dark Knight - Nolan, Jonathan; Nolan, Christopher, Goyer, David S. (Warner Bros., Jul08)
WALL-E Screenplay - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter (Walt Disney June 2008)
The Shrine - Wright, Brad (Stargate Atlantis, Aug08)

Norton

Graceling - Cashore, Kristin (Harcourt, Oct08)
Lamplighter - Cornish, D.M. (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2, Putnam Juvenile, May08))
Savvy - Law, Ingrid (Dial, May08)
The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Pearson, Mary E. (Henry Holt and Company, Apr08)
Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) - Wilce, Ysabeau S. (Harcourt, Sep08)

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Congratulations to all the nominees!

And congratulations especially to our very own Mary Rosenblum and her novelette "Night Wind" from the Norilana Books anthology Lace and Blade, her wonderful editor Deborah J. Ross (deborahjross), and our excellent Clockwork Phoenix editor Mike Allen (time_shark) with a short story from Helix! And yup, my own novella too... :-)

Wow, this is the first year Norilana Books is all over the Nebula Final ballot! :-)

Deborah J. Brannon, at The Green Man Review
reviews the fantasy anthology Clockwork Phoenix edited by Mike Allen time_shark:

"It was definitely an anthology that necessarily folded out over time, best consumed slowly and intermittently rather than quickly. There were enough excellent stories here that I'm sure to check out the second collection, due out in Summer 2009."

Read the rest of the review...

Another Clockwork Phoenix free book giveaway!

Here's your chance to get your free copy from Pat's Fantasy Hotlist! :-)

Mike Allen time_shark who edits our critically acclaimed Clockwork Phoenix anthology series, is interviewed over at Enter the Octopus.

"The idea's to find stories that combine compelling, offbeat tales with beautiful and unusual storytelling, stories that both experiment and entertain. For certain, some stories are more unusual than beautiful and vise versa.

"I also wanted variety. Norilana Books markets Clockwork Phoenix as a fantasy anthology, but as I'm someone who regards almost all forms of 'speculative literature' as fantasy, that means just about anything goes: to me Vandana Singh's 'Oblivion: A Journey,' with its cross-breeding of Hindu mythology and biomorphing space opera sits just fine beside the twisted sacrificial magic in Marie Brennan’s 'A Mask of Flesh.' ..."

Read the complete interview...

In the fun news department, FantasyBookCritic is giving away two copies of Clockwork Phoenix, the hot new anthology everyone's talking about, signed by the editor, Mike Allen time_shark!

A free story sample from Clockwork Phoenix!

Jay Tomio has posted "Bell, Book, and Candle" by Leah Bobet over at Fantasybookspot.com...

Enjoy!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Norilana Books presents Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness edited by Mike Allen (time_shark).

You hold in your hands a cornucopia of modern cutting-edge fantasy.


The first volume of this extraordinary new annual anthology series of fantastic literature explodes on the scene with works that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle with the manner in which they cross genre boundaries, that aren't afraid to experiment with storytelling techniques, and yet seamlessly blend form with meaningful function.

Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness edited by Mike Allen



"Author and editor Allen (Mythic) has compiled a neatly packaged set of short stories that flow cleverly and seamlessly from one inspiration to another.... Lush descriptions and exotic imagery startle, engross, chill and electrify the reader, and all 19 stories have a strong and delicious taste of weird."
—Publishers Weekly

Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness edited by Mike Allen
Imprint: Norilana Books Fantasy
Trade Paperback
July 1, 2008
Retail Price:
$10.95 USD - £7.60 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-934169-98-8
ISBN-10: 1-934169-98-6
288 pages

Click here for more information...

Order Your Copy:

- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
- Amazon UK
- Amazon CA
- Amazon FR
- Amazon DE
- Amazon JP

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 160 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles.
For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

Contact:

Vera Nazarian, Publisher
Norilana Books, P.O. Box 2188, Winnetka, CA 91396
service (at) norilana.com - http://www.norilana.com/
Catalog of Books in Print:
http://www.norilana.com/norilana-catalog.htm
Blog: http://norilanabooks.livejournal.com/

Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness edited by Mike Allen (time_shark)

Coming July 1, 2008 from Norilana Books Fantasy.

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Cover jacket flat:

Clockwork Phoenix
Edited by Mike Allen (time_shark). Norilana/Fantasy (www.norilana.com), $10.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-934169-98-8


"Author and editor Allen (Mythic) has compiled a neatly packaged set of short stories that flow cleverly and seamlessly from one inspiration to another. In "The City of Blind Delight" by Catherynne M. Valente, a man inadvertently ends up on a train that takes him to an inescapable city of extraordinary wonders. In "All the Little Gods We Are," Hugo winner John Grant takes a mind trip to possible parallel universes. Modern topics make an appearance among the whimsy and strangeness: Ekaterina Sedia delves into the misunderstandings that occur between cultures and languages in "There Is a Monster Under Helen's Bed," while Tanith Lee gleefully skewers gender politics with "The Woman," giving the reader a glimpse of what might happen if there was only one fertile woman left in a world of men. Lush descriptions and exotic imagery startle, engross, chill and electrify the reader, and all 19 stories have a strong and delicious taste of weird." (July)
-- Publishers Weekly (May 12 2008)

Clockwork Phoenix edited by Mike Allen

Coming July 2008.

Click on image to see full-size... (Note, this is the ARC edition, not the final cover.)

Cover design by Bob Snare (rtred), Mike Allen (time_shark), and myself.