Magic Tales Theme Anthology Bundle 2 Available from Baen Books...

The second Magic Tales e-book anthology bundle is now available from Baen Books. It includes Dinosaurs II, Invaders, Magicats I and Magicats 2, Sea Serpents, and Nanotech. Here's the link:  Baen Bundle

Cheers!

  --JACK

New Story Online...

The Review of Australian Fiction, an online literary magazine, has just published my story "Waiting for Medusa" in Volume 5: Issue 6.  It is SF, and the protagonist is a...dog. A beagle to be specific. The ARF is a subscription journal, and you can find it at: Booki.sh.

Kate Eltham, Director of the Brisbane Writers' Festival, is the issue's editor. The companion story in this volume is by Robert G. Cook: this is his debut Australian publication.

A slightly different version of "Waiting for Medusa" is scheduled for publication in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

I'll be giving a reading of the story at the Conflux Natcon in Canberra on Friday, April 26th at 3:30 pm. If you're attending the convention, come and listen and say hello. I can certainly use beta-testers! The URL for Conflux is Conflux 9

I'm also giving a workshop, but more about the convention in my next post.

Cheers!

  --JACK

Magic Tales Series Available Online...

Baen Books will be publishing e-book editions of the entire Magic Tales fantasy and science fiction series I edited with that editor's editor and raconteur Gardner Dozois. They have commissioned new covers, and the books look wonderful! The first of six 'discounted bundles' is now out. (The volumes can, of course, also be purchased individually.)

This first bundle includes:

Aliens Among Us

Armageddons

Beyond Flesh

Demons

Future Crimes

Immortals

Herewith the publisher's blurb (bless their hearts!):

Wonder inducing. Mind blowing. Comprehensive. Simply amazing. This entire collection includes hundreds of popular and award-winning science fiction and fantasy stories collected in thirty-five volumes gathered by the winner of fifteen Hugo awards for editing, the inimitable Gardner Dozois, and award-winning writer and anthologist, Jack Dann.

We are presenting these thirty-five anthologies in six discount bundles. Get them all, and you will own a huge swath of some of the best short science fiction ever written.

These are luminous, superb stories collected around popular science fiction and fantasy themes. They are written by dozens and dozens of amazing authors. Poul Anderson, Charles Sheffield, Gregory Benford, Fritz Leiber, Brian Aldiss, Ursula K. LeGuin, Arthur C. Clarke, Harry Turtledove, Neal Stephenson, Cordwainer Smith, Greg Bear, William Gibson, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Fred Saberhagen—the distinguished list goes on and on!

 Here is the link:  CLICK HERE

Cheers!

    --JACK

Newcastle Writers' Festival...

I'll be a guest at the Newcastle Writers' Festival, April 6-7th. It should be fun, as I'll be doing a gig hosted by ABC Radio's Richard Fidler exploring...sin. That's at The Theatre Lane at 8:30 pm on Saturday.

On Sunday I'll be on a panel hosted by Russell Blackford with fellow guests Margo Lanagan and Janeen Webb. It will take place at City Hall at 1:30 pm,  and the topic is Dreaming Australia: a Celebration of Home-grown Speculative Fiction.

Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones. The URL for the festival is CLICK HERE and the schedule of events can be found at: CLICK HERE.

Terrorism...

Chimera Publications have just published "Cafe Culture" and "Mohammed's Angel" as one of the first two e-publications in the new Aurealis Duo Series...and the stories are free to download! You can find them here: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/291883#download

As they write on their site:

"We asked some of Australia's top fantasy and science fiction authors to select two of their stories tied together by a single theme and to write an introduction on how they had explored that theme — to give some insight into their writing and how they see the big issues. We also paired the writers with Australia's top SF artists, so that each publication also showcases the illustrator. Then we released the publications in pairs. The result is the Aurealis Duos series.

"In Terrorism, Jack Dann, an expat New Yorker and multi-award winning SF author who eats Vegemite with an American accent says, 'I didn't feel patriotic the morning that the towers fell... I just felt that someone had burned down my house... the only way I could get my arms around the subject was to write about... us. No treatise on terrorism and suicide bombing here, just two stories that are set on the other side of the looking glass.'"

Amazon Author Central

I'm in the process of setting up an Amazon website at Amazon Author Central. It's still a bit rough-cut, but you can find it, er, me at https://www.amazon.com/author/jackdann

LinkedIn...?

I've just been told: "You have one of the top 5% most viewed LinkedIn profiles for 2012."

What that means, and whether it's part of a LinkedIn advertising fantasy, I couldn't say...