Deadline is reporting that Frederik Pohl’s classic, multiple award-winning science fiction novel Gateway is the new television project of Entertainment One Television and De Laurentiis Company. No writer has been named yet, but the producers, who had been pursuing this project for years, had always envisioned it as a television series, which provides a larger storytelling canvas allowing them “the opportunity of exploring the rich world of the novel and the complexity of its characters”.
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Atlantic Books has posted the cover and synopsis for the upcoming novel Mother of Eden by Chris Beckett, sequel to the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Dark Eden.

Here’s the synopsis (larger cover after the jump):
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Candlemark & Gleam has acquired The Seeker Star by Susan Jane Bigelow. The Seeker Star is the second book in Susan’s Grayline Sisters series, following The Daughter Star.

Here’s the description of The Seeker Star:

Find your sisters, Violet.

So said Aunt Melody, but Violet Grayline knew it was impossible. Marta and Beth had disappeared at the end of the Haven War, leaving their middle sister alone in their harsh homeland of Gideon. No one knows where they went, there’s no trail to follow, and Violet keeps getting warnings to forget all about it.

Violet’s going after them anyway. She won’t let threats, the meddling of the alien Abrax, strange portals to other worlds or even her own planet’s government stop her.

After all, what does she have to lose? Her husband didn’t want her, her country turned its back on her, and everyone seems convinced that she’s nobody.

But if there’s one thing governments, generals, aliens and priests will learn, it’s to never, ever underestimate Violet Grayline.

What will you give up, to change the world?

The winners of our giveaway for No Hero by Jonathan Wood have been chosen and notified.

Congratulations to:

• Ben L.
• Cheryl C.
• Mark M.
• Nels W.
• Ty M.

You will be receiving your prizes soon!

Thanks to everyone who entered.

Out this week from Titan Books is No Hero by Jonathan Wood and SF Signal brings you an exclusive excerpt!

Here’s what the book is about:

Oxford police detective Arthur Wallace is no hero. He’s a good cop, but prefers for action and heroics remain on the screen, safely performed by professionals. But then, secretive government agency MI37 comes calling, hoping to recruit Arthur in their struggle against horrors from another dimension known as the Progeny. Can an everyman stand against sanity-ripping cosmic horrors?

Following is an excerpt from No Hero…
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There are so many good things to share with fellow genre fans, that’s it’s hard to catch them all….which is my lame excuse for not extolling the virtues of Locus Magazine more than I do.

And I’m not just saying that because this month’s issue shines the spotlight on SF Signal. (OMG-HOW-COOL-IS-THAT?) No, I’m actually a happy subscriber to the digital edition, which is waiting for me in my inbox on the first day of every month. (I used to subscribe years ago to the print edition…but that venture — through no fault of Locus — was a comedy of postal errors — and another story.)

What do I like about Locus Magazine? The author profiles are always illuminating, the reviews are consistently insightful, the news is informative, the publishing notes (especially the ones noting upcoming publications) stoke my fannish flames, the articles are interesting, and heck — it’s even a hoot to see magazine ads that feature genre books. In a more general sense, it’s a genuine treat to see an entire magazine devoted to the speculative fiction field, and not just an inch of column space added as an afterthought.

In short — I thoroughly enjoy Locus Magazine (and its online counterpart, Locus Online) and you will too. Might I recommend the latest issue which shines a spotlight on a trio of Hugo-winning nerds…?

Here’s the audio from the awesome album Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Reads Slaughterhouse-Five, which features not only a snippets of the author reading selections from his book, but also some his stories of the book’s conception.

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Tachyon has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology The Cutting Room: Dark Reflections of the Silver Screen edited by Ellen Datlow, now available for pre-order.

Here’s the book description:

What happens after the closing credits and before the lights go out? When you turn off your TV, but still aren’t able to sleep? Sometimes only the written word will do. These twenty-two classic tales are a chilling homage to the silver screen. Discover that James Dean’s death was not an accident, a trip to Oz is a one-way ticket, and zombies were behind the corporate greed of the 1980s. Learn how reality is edited (and found overly long) and how the final girl, the film’s sole survivor, emerges with a captive audience. Join award-winning and bestselling authors from Neil Gaiman to Peter Straub in a journey to the darkest depths of the theater.

Here’s the table of contents…
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Here’s The Telekinetics singing “Science Fiction”. Enjoy!

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There is still some time left for you to enter our giveaway for The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan…but hurry, time is running out!

See the original post for details on how to enter.

Marty Halpern shares the cover for the upcoming Daryl Gregory novella We Are All Completely Fine.

Here’s what it’s about:
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Here’s the trailer for I Remember the Future, an Australian film based on the short story of the same name written by Michael A. Burstein. The professionally-done student film is directed by Klayton Stainer and stars Reg Gorman, Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, Dean Kirkright Emily Coupe and others. The film is about an elderly writer who struggles with his fading mind and the future during a visit from his estranged daughter.

“I Remember The Future” and several other of Burstein’s award-nominated stories are collected in the collection I Remember the Future.

Here’s the trailer.
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Story Bundle has announced a new pay-what-you-want Fantasy eBook Bundle!

You know the deal with Story Bundle, right? They’re offering up a DRM-free set of eBooks (in this case, 6 fantasy eBooks) for which you can name your price. They also allow you to give a portion of the proceeds from each bundle to charity.

Here are the titles included the latest bundle:
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Tachyon (and Marty Halpern) has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 2 edited by Gordon Van Gelder, now available for pre-order.

Here’s the book description:

Fantasy & Science Fiction continues to showcase some of the most famous authors writing in any genre. The magazine jumpstarted the careers of bestselling authors such as Roger Zelazny, Bruce Sterling, and Jane Yolen and continues to champion bold new crossover talents including Paolo Baciagalupi and Ken Liu.

Now drawing upon F&SF’s impressive history of classic and contemporary tales, this extraordinary companion anthology revisits and expands upon sixty-five years’ worth of top-notch fiction. These broad-ranging, award-winning tales appeal to readers of genre fiction and beyond, exploring alternate history, time travel, urban fantasy, virtual reality, modern myth, horror, interstellar travel, epic fantasy, mystery, and space opera.

Here’s the table of contents…
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In the interest of full disclosure, here are the books we received this week.
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Carn is a short, dark film by Jeff Le Bars in which a young boy gets lost in the wilderness and encounters a wolf…
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Check out the table of contents for the upcoming anthology Extreme Planets: A Science Fiction Anthology of Alien Worlds….

But first, here’s the book description:

Two decades ago astronomers confirmed the existence of planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. Today more than 800 such worlds have been identified, and scientists now estimate that at least 160 billion star-bound planets are to be found in the Milky Way Galaxy alone. But more surprising is just how diverse and bizarre those worlds are.

Extreme Planets is a science fiction anthology of stories set on alien worlds that push the limits of what we once believed possible in a planetary environment. Visit the bizarre moons, dwarf planets and asteroids of our own Solar Systems, and in the deeper reaches of space encounter super-Earths with extreme gravity fields, carbon planets featuring mountain ranges of pure diamond, and ocean worlds shrouded by seas hundreds of kilometres thick. The challenges these environments present to the humans that explore and colonise them are many, and are the subject matter of these tales.

Cover illustration by Paul Drummond. The anthology features 15 tales from leading science fiction authors and rising stars in the genre.

Here’s the table of contents…
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Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Andrew Smith’s brand new coming-of-age young adult dystopian novel Grasshopper Jungle was just optioned for film by Sony Pictures.

For those unfamiliar with the book (which Entertainment Weekly rated with an A-), here’s the synopsis:

In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things.

This is the truth. This is history.
It’s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it.
You know what I mean.

Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.

Reviews for the book make no bones about this being a story about a teenagers coming to terms with their emerging sexuality. It also has giant bugs.

The story is being adapted by Scott Rosenberg, screenwriter for such films as Con Air, Beautiful Girls and High Fidelity. Deadline describes it as Stand By Me meets Attack The Block.

Child of Words is the new SF&F magazine from Big Pulp. Published twice annually, each issue contains a mix of science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry.

Here’s the table of contents for the first issue, available now…
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Amazon has the cover and synopsis for the upcoming novel The Falcon Throne by Karen Miller, the first book in her new epic fantasy series The Tarnished Crown.

Here’s the synopsis (larger version of the cover follows):
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