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VanderMeer, Ann and Jeff - Fast Ships, Black Sails
nightshadebooks.com - 10/16/2008
VanderMeer, Ann and Jeff - Fast Ships, Black Sails
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Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger--and, yes, plunder . Oh, the Devil does love a pirate--and so do readers everywhere. Swashbuckling from ...
Steampunk, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors
tachyonpublications.com - 10/14/2008
Steampunk, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors
— tachyonpublications.com — photo credit: Michel Jacinto Ann VanderMeer has been a publisher and editor for over twenty years who... currently serves as the fiction editor of Weird Tales and as a guest editor for Best American Fantasy . She is the founder of the award-winning ... (more) Steampunk, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors

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Clarkesworld Magazine — The Third Bear by Jeff VanderMeer
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 10/18/2008
Clarkesworld Magazine — The Third Bear by Jeff VanderMeer
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — It made its home in the deep forest near the village of Grommin, and all anyone ever... saw of it, before the end, would be hard eyes and the dark barrel of its muzzle. The smell of piss and blood and shit and bubbles of saliva and half-eaten food. The ... (more) Clarkesworld Magazine — The Third Bear by Jeff ...

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Ninjas take over Ecstatic Days: challenge pirates
Enter the Octopus — What? I walk away from Ecstatic Days for one weekend and when I return it’s crawling with ninjas...at least…one ninja: Sir Tessa. And can you believe that this Wacky WallWalker has the nerve to challenge the supreme awesomeness of the new “Fast Ships, Black Sails” pirate anthology from Night Shade books and ...

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Ecstatic Days — This is the introduction you didn’t get at the beginning of the week. Hi. I’m Tessa. I’m not a ninja. I’m not the ghost of Malcolm X either. I’m merely a humble data entry operator. Yah, I don’t have much going for me. Occasionally I’m a writer, in an erratic and entirely undisciplined fashioned (the most accessible samples can be found here). Occasionally I’m Ann’s editorial assistant for Weird Tales, and it bears repeating that if you don’t want your story to come anywhere near me, your only course of action is to write a piece so gobsmackingly genius that Ann buys it right then and there without ...

Books in the Mail (W/E 10/18/2008)
Rob's Blog o' Stuff — The theme this week is middle books in series in which I haven’t read previous volumes. Here goes… Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card (Tor Hardcvover 11/11/2008)– Who hasn’t read Card’s landmark Ender novels? I went through a phase over a couple of years where I was devouring most of ...

Feature: 5 Animated Pirates
Bibliophile Stalker — Every Wednesday, I'll have an essay or a feature on any topic that catches my fancy! Night Shade Books will be releasing Jeff & Ann Vandermeer's Fast Ships, Black Sails so I thought to highlight some pirates from my own personal history. Alas, as a kid, I wasn't really reading books but playing video games and watching anime so... (feel free to add your favorite pirates in the comments section) 1) The Lost Vikings - Arguably one of the first pirates were the vikings. Loot, pillage, and plunder! In the case of this addictive puzzle game created by the then-unknown company called Silicon & ...

SPOTLIGHT: Books of December 2008
Fantasy Book Critic — Welcome to the December 2008 edition of Fantasy Book Critic’s monthly SPOTLIGHT which covers fantasy, science fiction, horror, thrillers, YA, and more. Previous spotlights are listed at the end of this article. So another holiday season is here and you know what that means: presents! So if ...

Fast Ships and Black Sails
Tor.com — Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger—and, yes, plunder. Oh, the Devil does love a pirate—and so do readers everywhere. - Night Shade Books website I was very excited when this book, edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, was announced. It features a great line-up: Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, Carrie Vaughan, Michael Moorock, Elizabeth Bear, Eric Flint, and ...

Review | Fast Ships, Black Sails edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Night Shade Books)
Walker of Worlds — Title: Fast Ships, Black Sails Author: Ann & Jeff VanderMeer Publisher: Night Shade Books Format: Paperback Pages: 256 Release Date: 15th October 2008 Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger--and, yes, plunder. Oh, the Devil does love a pirate--and so do readers everywhere. Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, ...

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