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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY publisher SOLARIS announces FIRST signings
BL Publishing is very pleased to announce the first three signings to its brand new science fiction and fantasy imprint, Solaris.
ASHOK BANKER – IRON GODS
Acclaimed author of the highly successful Ramayana series, ASHOK BANKER presents a galaxy-spanning spectacle of classic science fiction. Iron Gods is wrought on a truly epic scale, an adventure-filled, high concept space opera deep in the vein of Greg Bear’s Forge of God and Peter F Hamilton’s The Reality Dysfunction.
This powerful new novel examines the consequences of first contact with alien beings and the fallout that occurs when they alter the course of the human race forever. Infused with an Indian aesthetic, but drawing deeply on Western sensibilities too, this is science fiction with a truly global – and universal – perspective.
Praise for Ashok Banker
"A cracking good yarn... Bask in the warm waters of one of the sources of world mythology, made more accessible to the modern, Western reader by Banker's excellent narrative interpretation... In a word, Wow!"
—The Alien Online
JEFFREY THOMAS – DEADSTOCK
Highly regarded short story writer JEFFREY THOMAS pens a gritty SF detective thriller set amongst the dirty streets of his famed setting, the city of Punktown. Deadstock is ultra-noir science fiction at its very best – raw, edgy and dark. Adding a modern twist to the cyberpunk genre, it follows Private Detective Jeremy Stake as he hunts living genetic experiments through a bleak dystopian future, all the while doing battle with his own personal demons and trying to stay one step ahead of his sinister employer.
This bold new novel will appeal to fans of Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon, William Gibson’s Neuromancer and George Alec Effinger’s When Gravity Fails.
Praise for Jeffrey Thomas and Punktown
"Punktown is searing and alien and anxious and rich, and it is humane, and it is moving. Jeffrey Thomas has done something wonderful."
– China Mieville
NATASHA RHODES – DANTE’S GIRL
Fresh from the novelization of the smash hit Blade: Trinity movie, rock music photographer NATASHA RHODES has written a contemporary vampire novel set amidst the glamour and corruption of LA. Dark and sexy, this is modern fantasy with a cosmopolitan twist that will appeal to all fans of supernatural literature, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sex and the City.
Dante’s Girl marks the beginning of a fantastic series of dark supernatural adventures in the vein of Laurel K Hamilton’s Anita Blake sequence or Kelley Armstrong’s Bitten.
Praise for Natasha Rhodes
"Taut and gripping, Natasha Rhodes’s prose is that precious thing: the stuff you just can’t put down…"
—Dan Abnett
Solaris publisher Marc Gascoigne adds: "This is just the first of a wave of announcements of signings to our new imprint. As we suspected, the arrival of Solaris has revealed a large untapped pool of SF and Fantasy writing talent. We’re especially gratified to welcome Ashok Banker; although known for his rich epic fantasies, his move to hard SF is nothing short of spectacular and we’re very pleased to offer a home for his new direction. Stay tuned for plenty more announcements soon!"
IRON GODS, DEADSTOCK and DANTE’S GIRL will be published by SOLARIS in spring 2007, for simultaneous release in the UK and USA. All deals were concluded by Solaris commissioning editors Christian Dunn and Mark Newton.
