Ticonderoga Publications is far more than totally chuffed to announce a forthcoming collection of stories by premiere Australian Fantasy writer Sara Douglass.
The substantial collection, scheduled for publication next year, is tentatively titled The Hall of Lost Footsteps.
Sara Douglass is the bestselling, award-winning writer of the Crucible, Troy Game, Darkglass Mountain and Wayfarer Redemption series.
Her short fiction has appeared in Eidolon, Dreaming Again and the World Fantasy Award winning Dreaming Down Under.
“Sara Douglass has written a number of wonderful powerful stories in addition to her novels,” Ticonderoga Editor Russell B Farr said.
“It will be great to be able to get all of these gems, 15 years’ worth, in one volume,” he said.
The Hall of Lost Footsteps will also feature a number of Wayfarer Redemption related tales, appearing in print for the first time.
“We’re expecting to include a story or two that will be totally original to the collection,” Russell added.
The Hall of Lost Footsteps is scheduled for publication in 2011, in limited edition hardcover and trade editions.
The Canberra Times' Colin Steele reviews Dead Sea Fruit and has this to say:
Ticonderoga Publications is an excellent small Western Australian publishing house. Dead Sea Fruit collects twenty-seven stories from award-winning Canberra author Kaaron Warren, ranging from already critically acclaimed pieces, such as "The Grinding House" and "Fresh Young Widow" to new stories such as "Sins of the Ancestors" and "The Coral Gatherer". American writer Lucius Shepard deftly introduces Warren's dark unsettling stories, with their "bleak dream logic", while Warren herself provides very useful background to each story in her afterword. Warren is one of our best dark fantasy writers.
(From Sunday Canberra Times, 30/01/11)
We're all doing a bit of a happy dance at TP as we've just read Tim Pratt's wonderful review of Dead Sea Fruit in the January 2011 issue of Locus:
Kaaron Warren is a talented Australian writer who deserves wider attention... Another standout is ‘‘Woman Train’’, about a train full of women rushing through cities filled exclusively by warring men, which I found reminiscent of Carol Emshwiller in both its subject matter and its impressive stream-of-consciousness style... Warren’s stories display a remarkable range, but there are two constants: they’re always meticulously written, and always unsettling."
You can read the full review on page 29 of Locus, January 2011.
eff Ritchie at Scary Minds gives Dead Sea Fruit a positively glowing review, and rates it at 9/10. He also says some very good things about the cover and overall presentation of the book.
Having highlighted some of the horror stories, and arguably ever story in the collection could be viewed as being primarily a dark genre outing, I would argue that the reader will appreciate even the stories that don't seem on the surface to be trying to scare them. As stated, the Author takes a warped view of what short fiction can achieve, and that has to be given top marks.
If you are a regular Warren reader or haven't had the pleasure of testing the waters with the Author then I would say Dead Sea Fruit is well worth dialling into. A recommended collection that should be a prerequisite of any true horror fan.
...the excellent volume Ticonderoga Publications have delivered that does full justice to the stories. The cover and internal artwork is by Olga Read and is extremely effective in representing the collection as a whole. Good quality paper stock and excellent choice of font make Dead Sea Fruit a pleasure to read.
You can read the full review here: www.scaryminds.com/reviews/2010/book70.php
Over 110,000 words of fiction from talented, award-winning writer Kaaron Warren. Includes the Aurealis Award-winning "The Grinding House", "Fresh Young Widow" and "A Positive". Twenty-six powerful tales that will amaze any fan of the fantastic.
Introduction by Lucius Shepard
Contents
Polish
Woman Train
Doll Money
State of Oblivion
Guarding the Mound
The Gibbet bell
Dead Sea Fruit
In the Drawback
Down to the Silver Spirits
The Softening
His Lipstick Minx
Coalescence
Cooling the Crows
Sins of the Ancestors
The Coral Gatherer
Ghost Jail
Bone Dog
A Positive
The Grinding House
Fresh Young Widow
The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall
Green
Edge of a Thing
The Census-Taker's Tale
Buster and Corky
The Capture Diamonds
Editions
Limited Hardcover Edition, 100 copies signed by all contributors. RRP $75 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9806288-5-2. Available from indiebooksonline.com
Regular Trade Edition. RRP $35 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9806288-6-9.
Peter Tennant gives The Girl With No Hands and other tales a wonderfully indepth review in the latest issue of Black Static magazine. Angela is the featured writer in this issue, and is also interviewed at length.
"...but Toto we are most definitely not in the Forest of Arden anymore, said the master of mangled metaphors."
The Canberra Times' Colin Steel reviews The Girl With No Hands and other tales
Brisbane based, Angela Slatter writes in the magical dark fantasy mould of Angela Carter. Slatter believes "colonised fairytales offer us a particular mode of living and interacting", which Jack Dann, in his introduction, says "explode the patriarchal messages embedded in traditional fairytales". Women thus strive to take control of their lives, for better or for worse. The overall standard of the sixteen stories is extremely high, particularly the haunting "The Jacaranda Wife", set in rural nineteenth century Australia, and "The Living Book" where a young woman is literally born to be read. Slatter also provides fascinating background to her stories in an Afterword. Slatter is an Australian author to watch.
(From Sunday Canberra Times, 30/01/11)
The latest edition of the Slow Glass Books catalogue features Angela Slatter's The Girl With No Hands and Other Tales on its cover.
Issue 229 of the catalogue also features three other TP titles: Belong, Scary Kisses and Dead Sea Fruit. Dead Sea Fruit and The Girl With No Hands score a Recommended rating.
We're a little chuffed at making the cover, the first time in our 15-year history.
Slow Glass Books is Australia's largest sf, fantasy and horror mail-order bookstore. Their website can be found at www.slowglass.com.au. They have been stocking TP titles since 1996.
Ellen Datlow has released a Christmas list, where she recommends a number of titles "for yourself or as gifts for others". Included on the list is Angela Slatter's The Girl With no Hands and other tales.
Congratulations to Angela for this fantastic achievement. The full list can be found here ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/313937.html
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