Triple Threat at Book View Café

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We have three new releases this week, proving again that Book View Cafe has a little something for everyone. First, new member Lois Gresh with Eldritch Evolutions.

Eldritch Evolutions is the first collection of short stories by Lois Gresh, one of the most talented writers working these days in the realms of imagination.

These tales of weird fiction blend elements wrung from science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror. Full of unique ideas, bizarre plot twists, and fascinating characters, these tales show a feel for pacing and structure, and a wild sense of humor. They always surprise and delight.

Eldritch Evolutions was on the HWA Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot for Best Collection of 2011.

Lois Gresh is the New York Times Best-Selling Author of 27 books and 45 short stories. Her books have been published in approximately 20 languages. Lois has received Bram Stoker Award, Nebula Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award, and International Horror Guild Award nominations for her work.

March 20, 2012 $5.99 ISBN: 978-1-61138-157-3



Then, Pati Nagle's Swords Over Fireshore

The tale of the ælven's struggle against their kindred foes, the vampiric alben, continues...

Eliani and Turisan, mindspeakers separated by duty the day after their handfasting, yearn to be reunited as they aid in the fight to hold onto Fireshore. The capital city of that realm has been captured by the alben leader, Shalár, and along with it, Fireshore's governor and Eliani's beloved cousin!

Shalár now has her eye on Woodrun, the center of Fireshore's darkwood production. As Turisan races to bring an army to Woodrun’s defense, Eliani must rescue the captives from Shalár’s toils. Hiding from alben pursuers in the darkwood forest, she encounters a group of exiles, the Lost, who suffer the alben’s curse of bloodthirst but strive to follow the ælven creed.

Are the Lost enemies or friends? Ælven or alben? The distinctions blur as the ælven approach a conflict that could destroy their hope of holding Fireshore.

“In fantasy, the tropes of vampires and elves have both been done to death, but Nagle makes both fresh and the characters, not their situations or their preferences for blood, carry the novel.” —RT Book Reviews, on Heart of the Exiled

Pati Nagle's stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Cricket, and others. She was a Writers of the Future and Theodore Sturgeon Award finalist. Her novels include the Blood of the Kindred series (The Betrayal, Heart of the Exiled), and urban fantasy Immortal.

March 21, 2012 $4.99 ISBN: 978-1-61138-163-4



Finally, Linda Nagata's second Stories of the Puzzle Lands book, Hepen the Watcher.

A fast-paced, mythic fantasy by the author of The Dread Hammer:

The demon Dismay’s murderous nature has earned him the ire of his beloved wife, who has sent him away in a fit of temper. In his exile he ventures south into Lutawa, a land ruled by an immortal king who punishes treason with the terrible weapon of infernal fire. Believing this king to be the same cruel deity known in the north as Hepen the Watcher, Dismay resolves to kill him--and accidentally ensnares two innocent young women, Ui and Eleanor, in his schemes.

Linda Nagata is the author of nine novels including The Bohr Maker, winner of the Locus Award for best first novel, and the novella "Goddesses," the first online publication to receive a Nebula award. She lives with her husband in their long-time home on the island of Maui.

Keywords: fantasy, fantasy adventure, dark fantasy, sword and sorcery

March 20, 2012 $4.99 ISBN: 978-1-937197-09-4