http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/book deals http://io9.com/tag/book deals We see tons of novels about dystopian futures, but any novel that features enslaved mutants in a dystopian future automatically gets onto our to-read list. According to Publisher's Marketplace, the duology Pandora's Box and Icarus' Wings by K.M. Ruiz just got a book deal with Thomas Dunne Books. The duology is "pitched as "Blade Runner meets X-Men," about a "Psion" with the ability to channel electricity, and her fight to survive both a post-apocalyptic world government which enslaves all Psions as their soldiers and the supposedly-human son of Earth's most powerful family, who wants to remake the planet in his image, no matter how many people he has to kill to do it. [Publisher's Marketplace] More »
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Zombies have taken over malls. They've taken over Jane Austin and Charles Dickens. And now they're coming for the Beatles in the upcoming book Paul Is Undead, which chronicles the rise and fall of an undead Fab Four. More »
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When we heard a novel about a mortician who gets sucked into a world of reviving corpses, evil corporate loyalty programs and sexy fun had gotten Rachel Caine a three-book deal with Roc, we were dying to know more. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5324786&view=rss&microfeed=true Neal Stephenson confirmed his status as one of science fiction's leading authors, in the wake of the acclaimed Anathem, by selling his next book in what Publisher's Marketplace calls a "major deal." (In other words, it was worth at least $500,000.) But the book, called REAMDE, is classified as "thriller" rather than "science fiction." Does that mean Stephenson is abandoning the genre? More likely, he's doing a near-future novel, and handling the thriller genre much the same way he did in 1994's Interface, co-written with his uncle J. Frederick George. As for the title — is it just "README" misspelled, or does it have some deeper significance? [Publisher's Marketplace, thanks Clinton!] More »
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When the living dead rise up and start consuming the rest of us, the mainstream media totally misses the story — but the bloggers don't, in Seanan McGuire's Feed. Her zombies-and-blogger-drama trilogy just sold to Orbit Books in an auction. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5305543&view=rss&microfeed=true New York improv comedian and writer DC Pierson just sold a novel that's being billed as "Superbad meets E.T." The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep And Didn't Have To, forthcoming from Broadway, is about two outcast teens who bond over their love of comic books and science fiction. One of them never sleeps, and instead just "recharges his brain with protracted spasms, which may or may not commingle with the universe to bring both their scifi fantasies to life." [Publishers Marketplace] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5090045&view=rss&microfeed=true First-time science fiction author Ben Drexler's novel, Volare, got a book deal with Bantam Dell. Volare is "the story of an untraditional family unraveling and reconnecting in the wake of a terrible family secret, and a son struggling to navigate his memories and his future after his mother's passing." I'm not sure if this is the same Ben Drexler who's an online activist for the Genocide Intervention Network, or another Ben Drexler. Either way, congrats. Also newly sold: Buzz Aldrin's memoir of lunar exploration, alcoholism and love, Magnificent Desolation. [Publishers Marketplace (login required)] More »
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