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PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES in trade paperback

So, a funny thing happened with my debut short story collection. One day, there were a couple thousand copies sitting in Night Shade Books’ warehouse. The next day, they were sold out. And then they turned into a very expensive collectible. The last I saw, a used hardcover was going for around $100, and signed first editions were much more.

Which is kind of cool. Unless you actually want to read the thing.

It’s taken a little while, but I can now announce that PUMP SIX is coming back into print, in a trade paperback edition for the very affordable price of $14.95. I just got my author’s copies of the book, and it looks lovely, and that also means that it’s making its way into stores now. Should be fully distributed in the near future.

And if you just can’t wait, I gather that Borderlands Books in San Francisco already has copies in hand.

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Czech and German covers…

…for PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES and THE WINDUP GIRL

I really like both of these. Very cool to think of them finding their way into new languages.

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Hugo Award for The Windup Girl

Just got the news this morning that THE WINDUP GIRL has won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. It tied for the win with China Mieville’s excellent The City & The City. Thanks so much to everyone who voted for it. I’m blown away and so pleased with this huge honor.

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WINDUP GIRL wins the John W. Campbell Award

for best science fiction novel of the year.

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Appearing in NYC

An update on my whereabouts as I roam the East Coast. I’m in NYC for the next few days, and will be doing some readings and signings around town.

July 1, 7pm, I’ll be at McNally Jackson reading and signing SHIP BREAKER and WINDUP GIRL with Scott Westerfeld, author of LEVIATHAN (and so many other cool titles), and Jon Armstrong, author of GREY.

July 3, I’ll be appearing on WBAI’s Hour of the Wolf from 5am-7am (yes, *am*, bring coffee, please, bring coffee). Should be a good time on 99.5 FM.

July 6, 7pm, I’ll be reading with Nebula-nominated author Saladin Ahmed at the NYRSF Reading Series at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art. The full press release is below. Looking forward to it very much.

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WINDUP GIRL wins a Locus Award

Thanks so much to the Locus readers who put it in the winners circle for Best First Novel and congratulations to all the other winners, and nominees as well. It was a great list this year. http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/06/2010-locus-awards-winners/

Also of note, I know that I’ve Facebooked and Twittered about it, but WINDUP GIRL has also won the Nebula Award, and the Compton Crook Award, and it’s currently a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award and the Hugo. It’s been an amazing year.

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SHIP BREAKER released

SHIP BREAKER, my debut YA novel is out in the wild. I heard that it’s been popping up in stores over the last week, but now it’s officially released. Here’s the book, with my son doing the heavy lifting:

SHIP BREAKER was a chance for me to write a high-octane adventure story while still touching on themes like peak oil and global warming that fascinate me. It focuses on Nailer, a boy working scavenge on a ship breaking operation, tearing apart the last oil tankers and freighters of the Accelerated Age. It’s dirty, deadly work, and he and the rest of his crew are always one failed quota away from being kicked back to the beaches to starve. But out on the ocean, Nailer can see beautiful high-tech clipper ships sailing past–a new life, fast and clean and free. If only he can find a way to get out to it.

The book just picked up a Starred Review in Publishers Weekly and it’s been made a selection of the Junior Library Guild.

W00t!

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THE WINDUP GIRL for Kindle (and every other eBook reader, too)

I’ve been getting enough questions about a Kindle/eBook version of THE WINDUP GIRL that I thought I’d post this here:

THE WINDUP GIRL *does indeed* have a Kindle version available, but not through Amazon. Webscriptions.net sells the eBook of WINDUP GIRL and it’s compatible with everything from Kindle and iPad/iPhone/Touch/ to Nook and Sony. You can get it for just $6 and it’s DRM-free:

Purchase THE WINDUP GIRL in eBook format.

Also, PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES has completely sold out in hardcover (except one last signed copy lurking in my local bookstore here in Paonia, hee hee). A trade paperback will be released in December, but for those of you who read eBooks, there’s no need to wait. The eBook edition is available at Webscriptions.net, same deal as above: $6, DRM-free.

Purchase PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES as an eBook.

So if you’ve got a Kindle or a Nook or an iPhone or an iPad or whatever your digital reader of choice might be, yes, you *can* get digital versions of my books.

Enjoy!

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WINDUP GIRL nominated for the Hugo Award

Just like the headline says, THE WINDUP GIRL has made the final ballot for the Hugo Award, along with a very strong slate of other works.

It’s been a wild ride with TWG, and I want to thank everyone who read the book and liked it enough to vote for it. When we launched it at last year’s World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal, I didn’t dream it would be a candidate for this sort of attention.

So, again, thank you thank you thank you, and congratulations to all the other nominees. It’s an honor to be in such fine company.

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WINDUP GIRL and “The Gambler” nominated for the Nebula Award

Once again, behind on blog updates:

THE WINDUP GIRL has been nominated for the Nebula Award, and to top it off, my novelette, “The Gambler,” is also a nominee. You can read “The Gambler” free over at PYR Books’ website. It’s a great honor to be nominated, made doubly so by the high quality of the novels and stories that are in competition for the award.

In other WINDUP GIRL news, a couple of other rave reviews have come in:

Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow: “…an exciting story about industrial espionage, civil war, and political struggle, filled with heart-thudding action sequences, sordid sex, and enough technical speculation for two lesser novels.”

SF Reviews.net (Four Stars): “Grimy post-ecocrunch near-future dystopia in which peak oil peaked ages ago, and the most cherished source of energy is measured in the tightly regulated calories… If you like worldbuilding, this novel’s vision… makes Blade Runner look like it was shot on plywood backdrops in someone’s garage”

Awesome.

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