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News from the Overlord

by Marc December 10, 2018 0 comments

As you may have heard, Angry Robot is making the move from the cosy town of Nottingham to the bright lights of London, where we’ll be joining the Watkins Media mothership. Whilst this is a big change, we feel confident that AR will continue to thrive and deliver the same amazing sci-fi and wtf fiction that you know and love from our new home.

Additionally, a new robot – Gemma Creffield – has joined the ranks as Publicity and Editorial Co-Ordinator. Gemma has worked as a publicist for Watkins Media for several years, creating and driving successful campaigns across their

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Amazon US Monthly Deal: Under the Pendulum Sun $1.99

by Nick Tyler December 1, 2018 0 comments

This is a bargain you just can’t miss: Jeannette Ng’s extraordinarily dark tale of the fae, Under the Pendulum Sun is available on Amazon.com for just $1.99 for all of December! Don’t live in the US? No worries, you can snap it up from us too.

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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: The Resurrectionist of Caligo

by Penny Reeve November 20, 2018 0 comments

Angry Robot author Alicia Zaloga — Alicia Zaloga

Good news, friends! We’ve got a new novel heading your way.

Angry Robot will be releasing the incredible The Resurrectionist of Caligo in June 2019, written by author duo Wendy Trimboli and Alicia Zaloga.

The novel is an absolute gem of a read, full of Victoriana, murder, intrigue and one of the coolest magic systems we’ve seen for years!

Here’s the synposis:

‘Man of Science’

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Cover Reveal: God of Broken Things

by Penny Reeve November 13, 2018 0 comments

We’ve got a brand new cover reveal for you all!

You’ve hopefully already picked up Cameron Johnston’s brilliantly wrought grimdark The Traitor God, which we released this past June. Hot on its heels comes the sequel, God of Broken Things, which will be hitting shelves in June 2019 and which now has a flipping badass cover for you all to feast your eyes on.

Here’s the synopsis:

Tyrant magus Edrin Walker destroyed the monster sent by the Skallgrim, but not before it laid waste to Setharis, and infested their magical elite with mind-controlling parasites. Edrin’s own Gift

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Angry Robot at World Fantasy Con

by Penny Reeve October 25, 2018 0 comments

We told you yesterday that we’d be at MCM Comic Con in London but that’s not the only place our authors are hanging out this weekend. Both Kaaron Warren (Slights) and James A Moore (The Last Sacrifice) will be at World Fantasy Con, with the former being Guest of Honour.

Here’s where the pair will be all weekend. As always, programmes are subject to change so do double check your schedule on the day to see that all is in order.

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Angry Robot at MCM London

by Penny Reeve October 24, 2018 0 comments

It seems that our Robots weren’t ready to stop partying after last week’s incredible FantasyCon, so they’re back at it again this week, with a visit to MCM Comic Con, London. Tim Pratt (The Wrong Stars, The Dreaming Stars), Jeannette Ng (Under the Pendulum Sun) and Micah Yongo (Lost Gods) will all be at the convention, talking on panels, signing novels and generally taking in the great atmosphere.

Below are their schedules for the weekend, though as always, these things are subject to change so do download the incredibly useful MCM app for all of the

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Jeannette Ng Wins ‘Best Newcomer’ at the BFAs!

by Penny Reeve October 24, 2018 0 comments

Woooohooooo!!! Friends, we have great news! *throws glitter*

Jeannette Ng won ‘Best Newcomer’ at the British Fantasy Awards!

Best Newcomer goes to @jeannette_ng for Under The Pendulum Sun! And delivers a THUNDEROUS and vital speech about the need to build the future without obsessively honoring the past, truer now more than ever.

— Alasdair @ Fantasycon (@AlasdairStuart) October 21, 2018

Jeannette, whose novel Under

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New Book Announcement: SHADOWBLADE by Anna Kashina

by Lottie Llewelyn-Wells October 19, 2018 0 comments

Behold some wondrous new book news! *fires confetti cannon*

The amazing Anna Kashina, author of the Majat Code Series, is back with a brand new Angry Robot author Anna Kashina novel Shadowblade. This stunning epic fantasy novel with swords, politics, romance and a badass heroine will be heading your way in May 2019.

Here’s the full synopsis:

Naia dreams of becoming a Jaihar Blademaster, but after assaulting a teacher, her future seems ruined. The timely intervention of a powerful stranger suddenly

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Cover Reveal: The Beast of Nightfall Lodge

by Penny Reeve October 17, 2018 0 comments

Good morrow, Robot fans.

We’re currently busy creating the most wonderful 2019 covers for you to feast your eyes on, as you might be noticing from the amount of cover reveal posts we’ve been publishing! Today’s artwork is something a bit special for a cold, autumnal day: S A Sidor‘s The Beast of Nightfall Lodge.

Created by immensely talented dark artist of the damned, Dan Strange, the cover perfectly encapsulates the pulpy goodness of S A’s work.

We honestly can’t wait for you to read The Beast of Nightfall Lodge, which is the sequel to May’s Fury

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The Sisters Mederos to Germany PLUS Fog Season Cover Reveal

by Penny Reeve October 5, 2018 0 comments

Happy Friday, humans!

We’ve got some good news for all fans of Patrice Sarath’s The Sisters Mederos: the crack team at Watkins Media have sold German rights to the novel to Feder & Schwert GmbH. So, if your German is up to scratch and you want to read The Sisters Mederos in both English and German then you’ll soon be in luck. Or, if you have any friends who would prefer to read this intriguing, sororal, magical novel in their mother tongue, let them know!

Now, the good news isn’t over. While we have you, we wanted to captialise

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Lost Gods Sequel, plus Translation

by Penny Reeve September 17, 2018 0 comments

Lost Gods by Micah Yongo That’s right you’re hearing us correctly, Micah Yongo‘s superb epic fantasy, Lost Gods, has a sequel! Pale Kings will continue the incredible story of the Five Realms as the gods return to claim their world. The novel will be available for downloading to your ocular nerve endings in April 2019.

If that news wasn’t exciting enough, we’ve got translation news too! Lost Gods is right now being translated into

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COVER REVEAL: Five Unicorn Flush

by Penny Reeve September 7, 2018 0 comments

Do you remember way back in July when we published T J Berry‘s incredible debut, Space Unicorn Blues? Well, we’re here to tell you that the sequel, Five Unicorn Flush is coming, and it now has a gorgeous, gorgeous new cover. Full metal thanks, as always to cover artist extraordinaire, Lee Gibbons.

Head on over to the full cover reveal on the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, where you can also read a post from T J on five fantasy worlds that DEFINITELY want to kill you.

The novel will be hitting shelves in May of 2019.

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Angry Robot invades Dragon Con.

by Lottie Llewelyn-Wells August 29, 2018 0 comments

The Traitor God by Cameron Johnston Happy Wednesday fleshlings. It’s time to celebrate because we’ve packed up some authors and shipped them out for a weekend at Dragon Con!

Atlanta’s premium pop-culture con, covering sci-fi, fantasy, comics, books, film, gaming and so much more, takes place from the 30th August to 3rd September. Throughout the event we’ve got several writers taking

part in panels, signings and readings so go along and say hi! Don’t worry, they’re all very lovely

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Seven Forges: To Find the Overlords

by Penny Reeve August 21, 2018 0 comments

The Seven Forges Novels by James A Moore Listen up, fans of James A Moore‘s Seven Forges series – Seven Forges, The Blasted Lands, City of Wonders and The Silent Army – our Jim has only gone and written himself a new short story, set in the Fellein Empire. The story takes place at the same time as events in The Silent Army, so if you’re a fan then you definitely

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New Robot in the Ranks: Darius Hinks

by Penny Reeve August 20, 2018 0 comments

AR Author Darius Hinks

News! New news!

We’ve signed ourselves a new author! And not just any old new author, it’s Gemmell Award-winning author Darius Hinks.

You may know of Darius from his work at Black Library, where he writes novels in the Warhammer universe, including Warrior Priest, which won the aforementioned Morningstar Award.

However, this new novel, The Ingenious, will be Darius’s debut writing within his own IP and goodness, has he written a

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Under the Pendulum Sun Reading Group Discussion Notes

by Penny Reeve August 15, 2018 0 comments

Well, after a busy Nine Worlds and a fancy new award, or should we say the Subjective Chaos *Kind of Award*, to her name it’s great to see that Jeannette Ng and Under the Pendulum Sun are still riding high in your hearts.

In fact we’re delighted to announce that, due to popular demand, we’ve created an Under the Pendulum Sun reading group discussion guide. Including questions such as ‘how would you categorise the book in terms of genre’ and ‘in what way does Arcadia reflect our own society?’ the guide is a wonderful accompaniment for any reading group that