The Sturgeon Award is a juried prize celebrating the best of SF's short fiction. The award is presented at the Campbell Conference at the University of Kansas alongside the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel. A list of this year's nominees may be found here.

The cover image for The Gathering Storm, the twelfth volume of The Wheel of Time series, has been released by Tor Books. The Gathering Storm, which was to be the series finale, is now the first book in a final trilogy to be finished by author Brandon Sanderson (interviewed here) after Robert Jordan's death in 2007.

Tor has also recently announced a four-book deal with Sanderson, who will pen a new fantasy series called The Way of Kings. The advances for the new series are in the six figures, and with sales-related bonuses, could top out at 2.5 million.

 

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Death Was in the Picture$27.95 add to cart

Linda L. Richards' first novel featuring drunken private dick Dexter J. Theroux and plucky secretary Kitty Pangborn, Death Was the Other Woman, was one of my favourite novels of 2008. The follow up, Death Was in the Picture will without a doubt find itself in similar company for 2009. Linda was kind enough to agree to a brief email interview to answer some of my questions.

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Busted Flush: A Wild Cards Novel$27.95 add to cart

Wild Cards series editor George R.R. Martin announced on his blog that Tor, the series' most recent publisher, will be reissuing the first three volumes in what is now the longest running shared universe in fiction. What format these new editions of Wild Cards, Aces High and Jokers Wild will take is still up in the air. But as an added bonus, the first book will feature three new stories by authors Michael Cassutt, David D. Levine and Carrie Vaughn (interviewed here.)

Read reviews of the first two books in the most recent Wild Cards triad, Inside Straight here, and Busted Flush here. The concluding volume, Suicide Kings, is due in December.