I’m pleased to announce that Edges (Inverted Frontier #1) is now an AUDIOBOOK!
Far better late than never, right?
Edges is read by Nicole Poole. The publisher is Tantor Media.
Or click here to find it at Audible.
Silver is scheduled to release on June 16.
Thank you to everyone who purchased a copy of Edges, or requested a copy from a library. It’s greatly appreciated. There would be little point in continuing to write without people interested in reading my work.
I do have an additional favor to ask — it’s the usual favor…
If you’ve read and enjoyed Edges, please consider posting a reader review — at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iBooks, or wherever. It really does help me to sell more copies and selling more copies keeps me in business.
THANK YOU!
Edges is Out Today!
If you pre-ordered the ebook, you should have received it. If you pre-ordered the print version, you should have it soon.
Thank you to everyone who preordered!
If you didn’t preorder, I hope you’ll consider purchasing a copy today.
For those not yet familiar . . . Edges is a new entry point into my classic Nanotech Succession story world.
Here’s a short version of the back-cover description:
Deception Well is a world on the edge, a lone surviving outpost at the farthest reach of human expansion. Now a determined crew resolves to cross the light years to explore the fallen worlds of old and discover what monstrous life might have grown up among the ruins. A far-future space-faring adventure from the award-winning author of VAST. 🙂
A couple of nice reviews came in yesterday. Over at LitStack, Sharon Browning says:
Edges is “a masterful effort, operating both at a slow burn and with a ratcheting intensity that comes to a stunning climax. Linda Nagata has once again given us a future that dances along a razor’s edge—entertaining, thrilling, humbling . . . and hopeful, despite the threat, despite the danger, despite the sacrifice.”
And at Locus, Russell Letson, who is familiar with the earlier Nanotech novels, says:
“In the imaginary coffee-house of my mind, Nagata’s Succession novels are hanging out with thematic and subgeneric cousins by Neal Asher, Iain M. Banks, Greg Bear, Greg Benford, Greg Egan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, and Robert Reed, discussing the post-human condition, how many nanotechnologies can fit on the head of a pin, the nature and place of sentience in the universe, and whether there is a Long Game in which humankind can play and survive. There’s a portrait of Olaf Stapledon hanging over the mantelpiece, along with a long-barreled raygun. Both are icons of the tradition.”
You do not need to have read the Nanotech Succession novels to enjoy Edges! It’s written as a new on-ramp to the Nanotech story world.
Find Edges online:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon AU
Amazon DE
Thank you!
Congratulations to Roland and Stan, who each won a proof copy of Edges!
And thank you to everyone who participated. Your comments are deeply appreciated! I hope you enjoy Edges when it comes out in just over a week. 🙂
Michael Patrick Hicks is a writer of thrillers and horror fiction, and also a reviewer at his own site, High Fever Books. I sent him an advance copy of Edges. He’s posted a very nice write-up, which you can read here.
In the review, he mentions the book came with “the slight warning that this was going to be a far different read than The Red books or her previous release, The Last Good Man.” And that is very true!
Over the years, I’ve explored different segments of genre and different styles of writing. Edges was a deliberate return to the earlier books. As I wrote it, I had in mind those who’d read and enjoyed the Nanotech Succession novels — and of course I am hoping to win new readers too!
But like Vast, Edges is not your usual space opera. I think that has caught some early readers by surprise. But if you like things a little bit different, maybe Edges is for you.
Click here to read the opening chapters. See if you like it.
In the meantime…
Let’s do a giveaway!
I have two proof copies of Edges that never found their way to reviewers. I want to give both away to readers of this blog.
My apologies to my international readers, but I have to limit the giveaways to addresses in the USA because of the astronomical cost of international postage.
If you are in the USA and you’d like to be entered to win a signed proof copy of Edges, say hello in the comments and let me know if you’ve read any of the earlier Nanotech Succession books, or if you’re bravely diving in for the first time to this far-future story world. That’s all you need to do.
If you’re reading this on Goodreads: please come on over to my blog to comment.
I’ll let this run for a week and then ask Google’s random number generator to pick the winners. It’d be nice to get at least ten entries.
Another short post, this time for those who prefer print.
The print edition of Edges is now available for preorder!
Barnes & Noble is offering it at 27%-off the list price today. (I have no idea how long the discount will last).
Find it here.
The print edition is available through Amazon too.
It should also be showing up very shortly in the online catalogs of indie stores such as Powell’s and Tattered Cover. If you shop at an independent store, ask them to bring in a couple of copies!
Publication date is April 2.
This is just a quick post for those who like to get their ebooks from Kobo…
Edges is now available for preorder at Kobo. Find it here. Link goes to the US store, but I think Kobo redirects to the correct regional store if you’re outside of the USA.
In case anyone missed the earlier announcement, here are the links to other vendors:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon AU
Amazon DE
I’m expecting proof copies of the print edition to arrive in the next few days. If I don’t have to make any corrections, then print copies will soon be available for preorder too. I’ll let you know.
Publication date is April 2.
Introducing
Edges
Inverted Frontier, book 1
Edges cover for Linda Nagata’s Inverted Frontier Book 1 by artist Sarah Anne Langton
Here’s the cover copy:
From the Edge of Apocalypse:
Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization—those star systems closest to Earth, known as the Hallowed Vasties—have all fallen to ruins. Powerful telescopes can see only dust and debris where once there were orbital mega-structures so huge they eclipsed the light of their parent stars.
No one knows for sure what caused the Hallowed Vasties to fail, but a hardened adventurer named Urban intends to find out. He has the resources to do it. He commands a captive alien starship fully capable of facing the dangers that lie beyond Deception Well.
With a ship’s company of explorers and scientists, Urban is embarking on a voyage of re-discovery. They will be the first in centuries to confront the hazards of an inverted frontier as they venture back along the path of human migration. Their goal: to unravel the mystery of the Hallowed Vasties and to discover what monstrous life might have grown up among the ruins.
Edges is a new entry point into the classic story world of Linda Nagata’s The Nanotech Succession.
Click here to read the opening chapters on my website.
Release date: April 2, 2019.
The ebook is now available for preorder at:
Amazon US — Amazon UK — Amazon AU — Amazon DE
Print preorders to follow, probably sometime in midMarch.
Preorders at Kobo should be available around midMarch. Email me at linda at mythicisland dot com if you’d like me to email you when Kobo preorders are ready.
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Sarah Anne Langton is the artist who created this beautiful cover. The cover was ready long before the book. The framed print of it I have on my desk served as an important source of inspiration during the long rewrite. Thank you, Sarah!
I also have to mention that Sarah has the COOLEST domain name. 🙂