PANEL: SciFi & Fantasy Bridging Genres: The Novel, Short Story, & Graphic Novel(2:30pm-3:20pm, Harriet Doerr Stage)

Award-winning anthology editor & co-host of Wired.com’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast John Joseph Adams (The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination), fantasy novelist, comic book writer, and actress/filmmaker Amber Benson (The Golden Age of Death), science fiction short story and novel writer Robin Winter (Future Past), and moderator Tim Beedle (Dark Crystal) talk working across genres in science fiction and fantasy! Plus: Book signings after the panel.

Titan Books announced today that next spring it will publish Dead Man’s Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West (May 2014, Trade Paperback), an exclusive “weird western” anthology, edited by John Joseph Adams, that will include stories from many of today’s most talented authors, some new to the genre and others well-known to readers.

The twenty-two original works—produced specifically for this volume—will range from a brand new Orson Scott Card tale (his first “Alvin Maker” story in a decade), to an original adventure by Fred Van Lente (creator of Cowboys & Aliens). It will also include stories such as Elizabeth Bear’s story of a steampunk bordello, and new writer Rajan Khanna’s exploration of sorcery found in a magical deck of playing cards.

“The weird western is the forefather of steampunk, with a history that includes Stephen King’s Dark Tower and Card’s Alvin Maker,” editor John Joseph Adams explains.  “But where steampunk is Victorian, weird westerns are darker, grittier, so the protagonist might be gunned down in a duel, killed by a vampire, or confronted by aliens on the streets of a dusty frontier town.”

The phrase “dead man’s hand’ refers to the poker hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot and killed by the coward Jack McCall.  “What the hand actually was seems to be open to some debate,” Adams continues.  “I suppose the only way we could ever know for sure would be to reanimate his corpse or to travel back in time … both of which are the stuff of the “weird western” tale—stories of the Old West infused with elements of the fantastic.”

Here’s the full table of contents (in alphabetical order):

• Bamboolzed—Kelley Armstrong
• Karen Memory—Elizabeth Bear
• Sundown—Tobias Buckell
• Alvin and the Apple Tree—Orson Scott Card
• Clockwork—David Farland
• La Madre Del Oro—Jeffrey Ford
• Holy Jingle—Alan Dean Foster
• The Devil’s Jack—Laura Anne Gilman
• [Title TK]—Hugh Howey
• Second Hand—Rajan Khanna
• The Red-Headed Dead—Joe R. Lansdale
• What I Assume You Shall Assume—Ken Liu
• Ghostwood—Jonathan Maberry
• Stingers and Strangers—Seanan McGuire
• The Hell-Bound Stagecoach—Mike Resnick
• The Man With No Heart—Beth Revis
• Wrecking Party—Alastair Reynolds
• Neversleeps—Fred van Lente
• The Golden Age—Walter Jon Williams
• Medicine Dance, Arizona—Tad Williams
• The Old Slow Man and His Gold Gun From Space—Ben Winters
• Bookkeeper, Narrator, Gunslinger—Charles Yu

Speaking of awards, in case you missed the news earlier: The Nebula Award nominees for this year have also been announced, and Lightspeed has two finalists in the short story category: “Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream” by Maria Dahvana Headley and “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” by Ken Liu.

So congrats again to Ken and Maria, and also to all of the other nominees for both the Hugo and Nebula.

• Hugo Award Nominees
• Nebula Award Nominees

• Powell’s Books @ Cedar Hills Crossing
  • READING / SIGNING
  • Mar. 5, 7:00pm
  • 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, OR
  • Also featuring contributors David D. Levine and Daniel  H. Wilson

• Emerald City Comic Con
  • PANEL: The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination
  • Sunday, Mar. 3, 1:20pm – 2:15pm
  • Hall C | Rooms 602-603
  • Washington State Convention Center, 800 Convention Pl, Seattle, WA
  • Also featuring contributors Daniel H. Wilson, Seanan McGuire, and Chris Claremont!

• University Bookstore
  • READING / SIGNING
  • Feb. 28, 7:00pm
  • 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA

Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond

Trade Paperback

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Powell’s
• Books-a-Million
• Indiebound

Ebook

• Kindle

Single Stories

Each of the stories in the anthology are also available for pre-order individually as Kindle Singles. (You can also see a gallery of all the covers.)

• The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz—Rae Carson & C.C. Finlay
• Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust—Seanan McGuire
• Lost Girls of Oz—Theodora Goss
• The Boy Detective of Oz: An Otherland Story—Tad Williams
• Dorothy Dreams—Simon R. Green
• Dead Blue—David Farland
• One Flew Over the Rainbow—Robin Wasserman
• The Veiled Shanghai—Ken Liu
• Beyond the Naked Eye—Rachel Swirsky
• A Tornado of Dorothys—Kat Howard
• Blown Away—Jane Yolen
• City So Bright—Dale Bailey
• Off to See the Emperor—Orson Scott Card
• A Meeting in Oz—Jeffrey Ford
• The Cobbler of Oz—Jonathan Maberry

Audio

• Amazon
• Audible
• Barnes & Noble