Spontaneous ∂erivation

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Someone decided to Upload™ himself illegally after his death. Also, how do you have sex with a cyborg boyfriend?

This is an oldie—from 1999 in the UK, finally appearing in the US theatre. You can also find her 2004 critically acclaimed novel in the Kindle store, Natural History.

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Mind alteration, mind control, moral dilemmas, and short-listed for the 2001 Arthur C. Clarke award.

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From the writer who brought you Brasyl (not yet available in the Kindle store) comes its precursor, River of Gods, bringing a future India to life.

I’ve been waiting for this one for a long, long time.

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The first two books of Edelman’s debut Jump 225 trilogy are now available in the Kindle store. The second book, MultiReal, also makes its first showing in the Kindle store today.

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Well, we have book two of the Starship series, but no book one (Starship: Mutiny) in the Kindle store yet. Military SF opera.

I never feel comfortable starting smack in the middle of that type of series.

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Now this anthology I’ve been waiting for as well! Nineteen stories of—well, the title covers it all—edited by Lou Anders!

Includes stories by Robert Charles Wilson, Justina Robson, Paolo Bacigalupi, Robyn Hitchcock, Kage Baker, Tony Ballantyne, Elizabeth Bear, Stephen Baxter, A. M. Dellamonica, Larry Niven with Brenda Cooper, Louise Marley, Ken MacLeod, Mike Resnick with Nancy Kress, Ian McDonald, Pamela Sargent, Mary A. Turzillo, George Zebrowski, Gene Wolfe, John Meaney, and Paul Di Filippo.

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File this under humorous paranormal investigator fantasy, the sequel to Stalking the Unicorn: A Fable of Tonight (also available in the Kindle store).

No Stalking the Dragon yet, though, but there’s plenty of time.

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The third book in the Quantum Gravity series. The first two (Keeping it Real and Selling Out) are not yet available.

Cyborg Action Girl is tossed into political intrigue and dangerous byplay between elves and demons.

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Dave Freer comments, “A powerful obsessive dynastic fantasy with clever shades of Arthurian mythos.” And I definitely can’t do better than that. For those looking for a series, this is a stand-alone debut novel.

Mind you, authors and publishers sometimes go back on their word….

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Marked optimized for Kindle DX, due to plenty of pictures and complicated layouts (like all good Making Of books do).

In fact, now that the DX is around, books like this have a lot more play in the field. As well as your typical textbook.

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The Age of Unreason series is now completely present in the Kindle store. It took a few months, and apparently either some righteous and painful scanning or some digging through files to re-discover PDFs and reformat… but now they’re all here.

1. Newton’s Cannon
2. A Calculus of Angels
3. Empire of Unreason
4. The Shadows of God

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A collection of every single Kirinyaga story, sequenced into an overall narrative. An SF utopia classic, based on the cultures of Africa.

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The most relevant bit of the blurb, I think: “… everything changed in an instant when inventor Barrington Boles succeeded in making Max the human gate to numerous parallelities.”

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The last book in the Sangreal Trilogy, a science fiction fantasy about a boy who discovers a dreaming gateway into Eos, complete with grails and princesses and things. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the bad guys aren’t also in his waking world.

Its sister books, The Greenstone Grail and The Sword of Straw, are also available in the Kindle store.

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The second book in the Apprentice Adept SF/fantasy series, which goes on for seven more books. None of the others are available yet for the Kindle.

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The Dark Angel TV series (cyber/bio/etc-punk) died an early death, but lives on in books like The Eyes Only Dossier. Although it’s optimized for Kindle DX, the experience isn’t particularly downgraded for regular Kindles (although obviously pictures of the well-done police reports and evidence photos are much smaller).

You can also buy both seasons on DVD these days.

And the Dark Angel trilogy (expanding upon the TV series) are also available for the Kindle:

1. Dark Angel: Before Dawn
2. Dark Angel: Skin Game
3. Dark Angel: After the Dark

Someone really loved this series.

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The beginning of a sequel series to The Sun Sword.

The Sun Sword sextet itself is recommended on the Song of Ice and Fire message boards for lovers of George R.R. Martin’s indomitable series, but none of the Sun Sword books (much less its preceding duology) are yet available for the Kindle.

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An anthology of nineteen fantasy stories divided into different history ages (Age of Antiquity, Age of Sails, Colonial Age, Age of Pioneers, Pre-Modern Age, Age Ahead).

Stories by Rob St. Martin, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Caitlin Sweet, Urania Fung, Karina Sumner-Smith, Natalie Millman, Ika Vanderkoeck, Brad Carson, Jana Paniccia, Ceri Young, Liz Holliday, Sandra Tayler, Kristen Bonn, Linda A.B. Davis, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Jennifer Crow, Tony Pi, Queenie Tirone, K.J. Gould, and Costi Gurgu.

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The first book in Swann’s new Hostile Takeover Trilogy, featuring a Terran Confederacy that implodes, human refugees founding a group of colonies, and mysterious emissions from space, which are almost never a good thing.

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The second book in the Nessantico Cycle, another epic fantasy empire world-building series. Another recommendation for George R.R. Martin fans, from the man himself (!).

The first book, A Magic of Twilight, is also available on the Kindle.

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An anthology of eleven alternate history stories, featuring the talents of Robert Charles Wilson, Jeff VanderMeer, Stephen Baxter, Theodora Goss, Liz Williams, Gene Wolfe, Greg van Eekhout, Alstair Reynolds, Paul Park, Lucius Shephard, and Benjamin Rosenbaum.

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The sequel to Marseguro (also available in the Kindle store), where a far-future Dr. Moreau type flees with his created race of genetically modified humans—Selkies, adapted to water environments—to the water world of Marseguro.

He was followed, of course.

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The first book in the series Inda’s Story, which is specifically not a YA work.

The three existing books are all available in the Kindle Store, for a change:

1. Inda
2. The Fox
3. The King’s Shield

A fourth book, Treason’s Shore is forthcoming in August 2009.

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A new urban fantasy (not involving investigators of any shape or form as main characters) featuring a young museum research assistant who inherits a mysterious shop from his grandmother.

The customers who show up are indeed something else entirely.

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Another urban fantasy setting with an unusual premis: the world of fantasy and reality collied for a fantasy author.

The previous books in this series include Moon in the Mirror and Hounding the Moon.

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Seventeen stories involving swordplay across the world.

From the pens of Kristine Kathyryn Rusch, Mike Moscoe, Allan Rouselle, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Phaedra M. Weldon, Peter Orullian, David H. Hendrickson, Gail Selinger, Terry Hayman, Dan C. Duval, Laura Resnik, Loren L. Coleman, John Alvin Pitts, Janna Silvertein, Annie Reed, J. Steven York, Jean Rabe.

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What are you going to do when you and your twin find yourselves at the heart of a custody battle between a goddess and… Lucifer himself? Three trials and three temptations and a grandmother out of a Dahl novel.

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Cassiel is a Djinn of utmost power. Well, was. She was cursed and bound in human flesh as punishment for defying her master, and now she lives among us. And an old enemy is hunting her.

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Another volume in Briggs’ smash hit paranormal romance series featuring shape-shifter Mercy Thompson. The other three books are also available on the Kindle: Moon Called, Blood Bound, and Iron Kissed.

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The final book in the Destroyermen series, where ships from different worlds are caught in time and thrown into other dimension. Peace is not a feature. Crusade and Into the Storm are also available for the Kindle.

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Miles Flint is fighting a war on two fronts: first, with the usual corrupted power brokers, and second, with his daughter Talia running off to find her five other clones.

And for $1.59, you can find the Hugo-nominated novella that started the series in The Retrieval Artist and Other Stories, as well as eight other stories featuring Rusch’s characters from various series.

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Another themed short story anthology from Greenberg, this volume features paranormal crime fiction.

The stories:

“Web Ginn House” by Phaedra Weldon
“The Hex is In” by Mike Resnick
“If Vanity Doesn’t Kill Me” by Michael A. Stackpole
“Witness to the Fall” by Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
“The Best Defense” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“Call of the Second Wolf” by Steven Mohan, Jr.
“The Old Girlfriend of Doom” by Dean Wesley Smith
“Second Sight” by Ilsa J. Bick
“The True Secret of Magic, Only $1.98, box 47, Portland, ORE.”
     by Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
“The Sweet Smell of Cherries” by Devon Monk
“Eye Opening” by Jason Schmetzer
“Faith’s Curse” by Randall Bills
“The Wish of a Wish” by Robert T. Jeschonek
“RPG Reunion” by Peter Orullian
“Treasure” by Leslie Claire Walker
“She’s Not There” by Steve Perry

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A climate crisis novel that takes place far in the future, and is chock full of characters and plot. This is a *big* book.

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Paranormal romance. Shape-shifting dragon lovers. World needs saving. Series of stand-alone books. You know the drill.

The other two books in this series, Kiss of Fire and Kiss of Fury, are now available on the Kindle.

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A paranormal romance in a Scottish seaside village of a different sort: Gabe MacGowan’s pub, Odin’s Thumb, is haunted by ghosts, including that of his dead wife. He hires Allie, an American exorcist, to help him.

Will she succeed in banishing the spirits to the next world? Can he learn how to love again? Find out.

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A first novel (but not the first book for Cockcroft; he has also illustrated children’s picture books) involving time shifting and really surreal things happening around you and to your family.

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The last book in a famous Russian author’s series, Watch. The other books are not yet available for the Kindle (now that’s something we haven’t seen in a while).

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A tale told this time by the prince rather than the princess, Prince George falls in love with strongly independent Princess Beatrice, and discovers not only that she can magically communicate with her hound, but finds himself at the center of an ancient legend.

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A teenage girl with mystical powers that can bring down storms desires most one thing: to meet the father who supposedly died before she was born. The second novel, Breathe, is also available on the Kindle.

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The ties of a tightly-knit family are strained when the father mysteriously disappears, and the kids later discover the underwater world of Ingo, populated by mer-people, and discover that their true heritage is under the sea, so to speak. The story continues in Tide Knot, also available on the Kindle.

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Three women—a coffee shop owner new to town, a web mistress, and an ancient history professor—and their dogs find out that Summerville, Ohio is the center of a supernatural phenomenon involving a goddess who wants to (for some reason) take over Ohio.¹

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Little Firkin, Scotland, is home to Amelie Chase, banished witchling, and her guardian, Fanny Walcott. Really strange things start happening when two travelers come by with strange stories tying to both of their pasts.