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Biggest news is the imminent arrival of the Gustav Gloom series of middle-school novels from Grossett and Dunlap, starting with the big launch of GUSTAV GLOOM AND THE PEOPLE TAKER on August 18 2012, and following a few short months later with GUSTAV GLOOM AND THE SHADOW CABINET. (There will be more to follow.) Gustav is a very strange young boy who’s gotten that way after a very strange childhood, but I guarantee that you’ll love the series and its unique mixture of the whimsical and the macabre.
There have also been oodles of activity on the short story front: multiple short stories, novelettes and novellas, all set to hit at approximately the same time.
Already available on the racks: the novella “With Unclean Hands,” simultaneously the newest and oldest adventure of the prickly Dip Corps troubleshooter Andrea Cort from my novels EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD and THE THIRD CLAW OF GOD. It’s the newest adventure because it’s never seen print before; it’s the oldest because it’s chronologically the earliest of her cases ever chronicled. She is young, inexperienced, lonely, and even more unstable and unsure of herself than we’ve ever seen. So, naturally, I kick her real hard. “With Unclean Hands” appears in the November issue of ANALOG.
Related to her universe but not including her: the novella “Our Human,” set on a savage backwater world where the last ragged survivors of an expedition into an inhospitable wilderness finally locate the alien village sheltering the infamous war criminal known as The Beast Magrison. The hunters are aliens from two different species; the village is inhabited by strange aliens of yet another species; and Magrison himself is no sterling advertisement for our own kind. Who’s human in this situation? The answer may surprise you, and upset you. Coming online on Tor.Com.
Also online, and expected in October, is “Her Husband’s Hands” (I seem to have been on a hands kick of late), a near-future science fiction story about a young wife whose husband returns from war literally a fraction of his former self. Advanced technology has completely changed the working definition of “survivor” to the most grotesque degree, but can she find it within herself to live with what’s left? You’ll find out the answer on Lightspeedmagazine.com.
Leaving science fiction and entering the realm of horror -- not that any of the previous stories were all bunnies and horsies -- we have “The Cherub,” the entire life story of a boy born to a world where the relationship between human beings and their personal demons is visible at a distance. But the creature he has riding his shoulders is different from the creature riding the shoulders of his friends and neighbors, in a most fundamental way. Where’s the evil? You’ll find that out in DEMONS, the new giant anthology from horror-meister John Skipp, due out in stores in October.
A little further out: “In The Manure Car,” dyspeptic flash-fiction for the strange future-train travel anthology, THE SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS!
Lots of reprints coming out as well. “Sunday Night Yams At Minnie And Earl’s” will be reprinted in Matty Halpern’s Night Shade Books anthology ALIEN CONTACT. “Arvies,” already reprinted in Rich Horton’s YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, will also see print again in the STARSHIP SOFA anthology and in the 2012 NEBULA AWARDS anthology. I’m dancing as fast as I can, here.
Also: the long-unavailable, riotous collection VOSSOFF AND NIMMITZ is now an E-Book, available for a pittance on Amazon!
Stay tuned for more information on Gustav Gloom! More to come!
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