Stellar New Titles From Pyr

Pyr titles have flooded the studio these last few months. We’ve featured several Pyr authors in recent months, but there just isn’t enough time for us to feature all of the authors we would like. These are great books written by talented authors, so the second best thing we can do is recommend them here, give you a synopsis, and encourage you to check them out. Christmas is right around the corner you know.

Before we reveal the new titles, here’s a list of Pyr interviews for your listening pleasure:

Mark Chadbourn
Kay Kenyon
James Enge
David Louis Edelman
Chris Roberson
Lou Anders
Tom Lloyd
Lou Anders
Michael Moorcock
Kay Kenyon

Now, on to the new books!

James Barclay | Dawnthief: Chronicles of the Raven 1
The Raven: six men and an elf, sword for hire in the wars that have torn apart Balaia. For years their loyalty has been only to themselves and their code. But, that time is over. The Wytch Lords have escaped and The Raven find themselves fighting for the Dark College of magic, searching for the location of Dawnthief. It is a spell created to end the world, and it must be cast if any of them are to survive.

James Barclay | Nightchild: Chronicles of the Raven 3
There Is A New Power Coming. It will sweep aside the four colleges of magic. It is the power of the land, and it has manifested itself in Lyanna, a five year old girl. Unknowingly, she could destroy Balaia. Desperate to maintain their power, the colleges will do anything to control the child. If that fails, they will kill her.

James Barclay | Noonshade: Chronicles of the Raven 2
Now the land of Balaia, still riven by war, must live with the consequences. The Dawnthief spell—designed to destroy the world, but cast to save it—has torn a hole in the sky, a pathway into the dragon dimension, and, through it, unfriendly eyes are turning to Balaia…

Paul McAuley | The Quiet War
Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been grabbed by a few powerful families and their green saints. Millions of people are imprisoned in teeming cities; millions more labour on Pharaonic projects to rebuild ruined ecosystems…

Ian McDonald | Desolation Road
It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality from Adam Black’s Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational ‘Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel) to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with—and married—the same woman. This early novel by Ian McDonald was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Diving into the Wreck
Boss loves to dive historical ships, derelict spacecraft found adrift in the blackness between the stars. Then one day, Boss finds the claim of a lifetime: an enormous spacecraft, incredibly old, and apparently Earth-made. It’s impossible for something so old, built in the days before Faster Than Light travel, to have journeyed this far from Earth. What Boss finds could rewrite history, cost lives, and start an intergalactic war.

Joel Shepherd | Sasha: A Trial of Blood & Steel
Spurning her royal heritage to be raised by the great warrior, Kessligh, her exquisite swordplay astonishes all who witness it. But Sasha is still young, untested in battle and often led by her rash temper. Her defiant wilfulness is attracting the wrong kind of attention. When the Udalyn people—the symbol of Goeren-yai pride and courage—are attacked, Sasha will face her moment of testing. How will she act? Is she ready to lead? Can she be the savior they need her to be?

Matthew Sturges | Midwinter
Winter comes to the land only once in a hundred years. But the snow covers ancient secrets: secrets that could topple a kingdom. Mauritaine was a war hero. Then he was accused of treason and sentenced to life without parole at Crere Sulace, a dark and ancient prison in the mountains, far from the City Emerald. But now the Seelie Queen – Regina Titania herself – has offered him one last chance to redeem himself, an opportunity to regain his freedom and his honor.

Empire in Black and Gold: Shadows of the Apt 1| Adrian Tchaikovsky | March 2010 | Trade Paperback | 6 x 9 | $16.00 |
The Wasp Empire has been devouring city after city with its highly trained armies, its machines, it killing Art, and now its hunger for conquest and war has become insatiable. Only the ageing Stenwold Maker, spymaster, artificer and statesman, can see that the long days of peace are over.