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News from the Overlord

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 Editorial and Publicity 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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Big News from our Head Robot

Today all the little Robots are tilting their heads under Respectful Sadness Setting 004, as they digest the following webcast from AR headquarters:

Marc Gascoigne, founder and publisher of Angry Robot Books, has announced that he will be leaving the imprint at the end of the year. “After more than ten years building AR up into a popular, worldwide sci-fi imprint, it’s time for a new challenge.

12 Days, Christmas, Fan stuff, Kill Em All!, WTF

Festive Angstroms for All

Twas the week before Christmas and all through the base
Not a creature was stirring…

…Except for our Nick that is, who was running around stringing up festive entrails disguised as decorations. Alas, the smell got a bit too much for bipedal carbon-based marketing manager Mike, who demanded that we string up something that hadn’t in a former life been, well… strung up.

Never ones to upset others over the festive period we decided to heed

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Pre-Orders Now Available Through Our Website

It’s time to celebrate and re-pledge your fealty to the metallic Overlords!

“Why?” we hear you cry!

Well, let us lay this mind-numbingly amazing good news at your feet. YOU CAN NOW PRE-ORDER ALL OF OUR RELEASES DIRECTLY FROM THE WEBSITE!

*confetti canon explodes*

So now you don’t need to go anywhere else to get your hands/paws/claws on some of the best F, SF and WTF fiction around – not that you’d want to anyway…

Why

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Cover Reveal: Damnation by Peter McLean

Attention please!

While Peter McLean’s new novel Damnation isn’t set to explode until May next year, we can give you a small taste of it right now in the form of this amazing cover by the ever majestic Raid71.

It looks pretty excellent, right? A touch of lightning, a hint of fire and, inexplicably, a giant block of flats. Hmmm. You can see the complete cover over at Black Gate, along with the two

Angry Robot, Author Appearances, Awards, Conventions, Out and About, Robots at large

All things Fantasycon and the winning of lovely awards

bfs_1 Sorry to report but the Robots are a little rust-tinged and creaky this morning, as we attempt to kickstart ailing battery packs back to life after a splendid weekend at the UK Fantasycon, organised by the British Fantasy Society. Held in the once-majestic shambolic splendour of the Grand Hotel in Scarborough, a combination of wonderful people, fine autumnal seaside weather and us winning the Best Independent Publisher 2016 award

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Author Signing: Ferrett Steimetz

A Ferrett highresGS re you in San Francisco this weekend? Do you like excellent urban fantasy novels with heart? Do you love doughnuts? Then you’ll probably want to head over to Ferrett Steinmetz‘s signing at Borderlands Books.

Ferrett will be signing copies of his ‘Mancer series – Flex, The Flux and Fix – from 15:00 (PST) on Saturday. We’re sure there will also be a short reading and did we mention the doughnuts?

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Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Binary Storm

As you may remember, we’re publishing Christopher Hinz‘s Binary Storm – the prequel to his 1980s classic Liege-Killer – this September.

Here’s the synopsis:

Near the end of the 21st century, Earth is in chaos from environmental devastation and a vicious undeclared war against binaries, genetically engineered assassins. Composed of a single consciousness inhabiting two human bodies (tways), binaries are ruled by an alpha breed, the Royal Caste.
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The Robots Invade FantasyCon

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It’s almost FantasyCon time! WHOOOOOT!!!!

We’re super excited for the return of one of our favourite UK conventions and can’t wait to catch up with you all in sunny (fingers crossed) Scarborough for some great panels, excellent discussions and most importantly, a pint.
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Nook ‘Start-a-Series’ Promo: Seven Forges

Seven Forges

It’s getting to that time of year where the leaves change colour, the air gets colder and all you want to do is snuggle down on the sofa and read a good book.

Heh, who are we kidding, we always want to snuggle down and read a good book, but that’s by-the-by. New books are brilliant and Nook know this, which is why they’re holding a ‘start-a-series’ promotion on our lovely James A Moore’s Seven Forges, which

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Not that we’d recommend everyone submits this way…

Or, here’s how we signed up Jeff Noon’s amazing A Man of Shadows through the magical power of Twitter…

Picture the scene: it was March 3rd, a perfectly ordinary Thursday here on planet Earth. All of a sudden there was a ping on my Twitter feed, as a tweet mentioning my name turned in my notifications. This is what it said:

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New Metal

NickTyler Hail Robots,

You may have seen rumblings that we were looking for a new editorial assistant to take over some of the day-to-day running of the orbital death platform – organising the puny meatbags for sacrifice, polishing our vast, gleaming control panel…you know, that kind of thing.

We set up a very cunning trap that involved a pulley system, cage, shiny things and some books and are delighted to announce that we managed to catch one. It’s

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Talk Tuesday to Us: Alyc Helms

alyc.jig Good afternoon fellows, and welcome to another Talk Tuesday to Us! This week we have the wonderfully amazing Alyc Helms, author of the urban-fantasy-with-dragons Missy Masters series, which comprises of The Dragons of Heaven and The Conclave of Shadow, the latter of which will be out in the US two weeks today!

Before we get to Alyc’s answers, I’d just like to direct you to this amazing picture of her dancing…I’m not sure where, but look at

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UK Release: The Stars Are Legion

Small-size-cover We were really, really excited to read an early draft of Kameron Hurley‘s forthcoming The Stars Are Legion, so much so that when we heard it didn’t yet have a publisher in the UK/Commonwealth we knew just had to have it for ourselves.

Luckily, Kameron and her agent Hannah Bowman were happy to comply and we’ll be bringing The Stars Are Legion to you in January 2017.

The novel is being published in the US/Can by Saga

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Cover Reveal: The Rise of Io

Wesley Chu 5-2016-9208_2016 (2) Guys! Exciting news, if you hadn’t heard already! Wesley Chu is back with a whole new series. Now the new cover, designed by the marvellous Tommy Arnold, has been revealed over on the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy blog.

The Rise of Io is an exciting thrills and spills ride full of all the humour you’ve come to expect from Wes, and centres on a woman called Ella, who

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The Recoletta Series: Book 3

The Buried Life, by Carrie Patel Fans of Carrie Patel, good news!

We’re super excited to announce that we’re bringing you book three in Carrie’s Recoletta series so you can delve into the underground world of Recoletta and the inhabitants we love so much from The Buried Life and Cities & Thrones. Book three, named The Song of the Dead, will be released at, oooh, about this time next year.

Carrie: “I’m thrilled to be working on The Song of the