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FEBRUARY 2009 UPDATE!
THE THIRD CLAW OF GOD (HarperCollins Eos) will be out at the end of this month! The second Andrea Cort novel takes place on a space elevator taking Andrea and her companions Oscin and Skye Porrinyard down to the planet Xana, home of the powerful Bettelhine Munitions Corporation. Andrea has come to Xana because of an unexplained summons from magnate Hans Bettelhine, whose product has fueled bloodshed on a thousand different worlds. She doesn’t know that there will be a murder even before she reaches the planetary surface…or that her trip to Xana will affect her in ways she can’t even guess. That’s THE THIRD CLAW OF GOD, which takes Andrea into Agatha Christie territory, and which features among its supporting players a recurring character who will be familiar to long-time readers. Available everywhere in late February.
The previous Andrea Cort novel, EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD (Harper Collins Eos), is still available. It takes place in the same far-future universe as Adam’s Hugo and Nebula nominee "The Funeral March of the Marionettes" and his Nebula nominee "The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes," and stars Andrea Cort, the profoundly damaged investigator who figured in his novella "Unseen Demons." There have been a pair of suspicious deaths on space station One One One, where software intelligences known as the AIsource have turned the usual model for outer-space habitats literally upside down. Before long, Andrea learns that she might not even be able to trust the human beings around her, as she finds herself the next target of the unknown killer. Surrounded by lies, corruption, and madness, Andrea must brave forces far more powerful than herself, to uncover the secret that may provide a clue to the tragedies of her own past. That's EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD, first of a new series.
Adam’s latest short stories appear in the April and May 2009 issues of ANALOG. April sees the novella “Gunfight on Farside,” a sequel to his Nebula nominee “Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl’s.” Young Jessie James is a bureaucrat employed on a thoroughly-tamed Moon, who has risked everything for a face-to-face meeting with a reclusive old man famous as the victor of the first gunfight on the moon. He’s as famous, in his own way, as Wyatt Earp, but there’s a loose end to the story, a question that the legend never stops to ask. But knowing the real story will change Jessie’s destiny.
The May 2009 ANALOG sees the novelette “Among the Tchi,” about a hapless human novelist who has unwisely answered an invitation to be writer-in-residence at an alien literary seminar. Like many novelists, he’s eager for recognition and is happy to receive recognition…but the Tchi do not share human standards of literary quality and have a special reception in mind.
Adam’s critically acclaimed THE SHALLOW END OF THE POOL (Creeping Hemlock Press) is a grisly examination of one of those nasty dysfunctional families where estranged parents enlist the kids in their personal warfare. Can you spell Gladiators? THE SHALLOW END OF THE POOL is one of the nastiest story of his career and has already been up for a couple awards. Check it out.
Adam contributed to FAKE ALIBIS (BenBella Books), a novel by Frank Sibila that will be out in late 2009. Stay tuned for details.
He continues to work on the top secret projects Project G, Project Z, and Project D! All are exciting and in various stages in the pipeline. Stay tuned for further details.
He remains the main book reviewer for SCI FI magazine, appearing bi-monthly. He also continues writing for Scifiwire.com.
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