September New Releases - Orbit Publishing

Transition
Iain M. Banks Author Website
Sep-09 0-316-07198-6 978-0-316-07198-7 HARDCOVER BOOK US:$25.99 CA:$31.99








The Philosopher is a torturer, and proud of it. AC is a dealer who became a trader who became a hedge-fund manager. Madame d’Ortolan seems to control nearly everything, while Mrs. Mulverhill the younger hopes to frustrate her. Mr. Oh is a reluctant assassin, amongst many other things. The person in the hospital bed is not entirely sure who they might be, or where, or even when.





The Drowning City
Amanda Downum - Author Website
Sep-09 0-316-06904-3 978-0-316-06904-5 MASS MARKET US:$7.99 CA:$9.99


Symir — the Drowning City. home to exiles and expatriates, pirates and smugglers. And violent revolutionaries who will stop at nothing to overthrow the corrupt Imperial government.

For Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, the brewing revolution is a chance to prove herself to her crown. All she has to do is find and finance the revolutionaries, and help topple the palaces of Symir. But she is torn between her new friends and her duties, and the longer she stays in this monsoon-drenched city, the more intrigue she uncovers — even the dead are plotting. As the waters rise and the dams crack, Isyllt must choose between her mission and the city she came to save.












Biting the Bullet
Jennifer Rardin - Author Website
Sep-09 0-316-04356-7 978-0-316-04356-4 MASS MARKET US:$7.99 CA:$9.99








I’m Lucille Robinson (aka Jaz Parks). This is a mission unlike anything my vampire boss, Vayl, and I have ever been on. It’s not our usual take-them-out-and-run; it’s an undercover mission that needs the whole gang: a psychic, an interpreter, and a weapons specialist.

We’ve never gone in which such heavy artillery before, but the more the merrier, right? Um…nope. At least not since Vayl and I learned part of our job is to ferret out a mole concealed in our unit.

To add to our problems, we’re being harried by a pack of reavers bent on revenge, and targeted by a Seer who wants to share Vayl’s power—at any cost. This is going to be a blast.















The Company
K. J. Parker Author Website
Sep-09 0-316-03852-0 978-0-316-03852-2 TRADE PAPERBACK US:$14.99 CA:$17.99







Hoping for a better life, five war veterans colonize an abandoned island. They take with them everything they could possibly need - food, clothes, tools, weapons, even wives.

But an unanticipated discovery shatters their dream and replaces it with a very different one. The colonists feel sure that their friendship will keep them together. Only then do they begin to realize that they’ve brought with them rather more than they bargained for.


For one of them, it seems, has been hiding a terrible secret from the rest of the company. And when the truth begins to emerge, it soon becomes clear that the war is far from over.

Marcus Pelegrimas Promos

Welcome to the nightmare . . .

There is a world you don't know about, inhabited by supernatural creatures of darkness—vampires, werewolves, and all manner of savage, impossible beasts that live for terror and slaughter and blood. They are all around us but you cannot see them, for knowledge of their presence—so close and so hungry—would surely drive any ordinary human insane.

But for centuries a special breed of hunter has kept the monsters at bay, preventing them from breaking through the increasingly fragile barriers protecting our mortal realm.

These guardians are called skinners.

But beware . . . for there are very few of them left.


Blood Blade (Skinners, Book 1)
By Marcus Pelegrimas

Price: $7.99
On Sale: 1/27/2009
Formats: Mass Market PB E-Book

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No one said fighting monsters was going to be easy . . .

You can't see them, but they're here: hiding in the pools of shadow outside a Chicago burger joint . . . wreaking havoc in Kansas City . . . feeding in sleazy "blood brothels" that cater to humans who itch to get bitten.

Cole was designing video games when he learned the truth—that foul creatures of the night lust for our blood . . . and our world. Now he's a "Skinner," a member of an ancient secret society of warriors entrusted with keeping the terror at bay. Monsters once chained to the wilderness are suddenly free and descending, razor claws ripping, on the unsuspecting city.

No one knows what's coming—but Cole and his seductive partner, Paige, will be the first to dive into the meat grinder.

Howling Legion (Skinners, Book 2)
By Marcus Pelegrimas
Price: $7.99
On Sale: 10/27/2009
Formats: Mass Market PB E-Book

Promo -- Xombies: Apocalypse Blues by Walter Greatshell

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Book: Paperback: Mass Market
8.26 x 5.23in 336 pages
ISBN 9780441018352
29 Sep 2009
Ace

Lulu Pangloss has problems. She has no friends, her mom is difficult, and her absentee father is a deadbeat. Things can hardly get any worse...or so she thinks.
Then the world comes to an end.

It starts with Agent X, a plague that turns women into raving, demonic predators--Xombies--who then hunt down and infect anyone they can catch. Guns are useless; armies are helpless.

With civilization collapsing all around her, Lulu hitches a ride with a crew of wary male refugees, and together they flee for the last place on Earth rumored to be safe.

But what they find is as unexpected, and as terrifying, as the hell they've left behind.




XOMBIES: APOCALYPTICON- The Shocking New Novel by Walter Greatshell, author of XOMBIES: APOCALYPSE BLUES.

Coming Soon!


XOMBIES: APOCALYPTICON is the continuing saga of the USS No-Name, an Ohio-Class submarine converted to a refugee vessel during the worldwide plague of "Agent X"--a disease that changes women into raving, homicidal Typhoid Marys.

Leading the fight to survive are Dr. Alice Langhorne, whose research helped spawn the plague; Commander Harvey Coombs, Navy captain minus a navy; Sal DeLuca, BMX champ facing the ultimate Xtreme sport; and troubled teenager Lulu Pangloss, who died and was born again.




MAD SKILLZ

Coming Soon!

MAD SKILLZ is the story of Madeline Grant, a teenage girl who suffers severe brain injuries in an accident, but who is saved by an experimental treatment: her brain is interfaced with a computer. This not only restores her ability to think, it makes her the smartest person on Earth. But there is a serious downside: How do you cope with a world in which everyone but you is shallow and stupid? And what if the shallow, stupid people who made your new brain are still in control of it? In fact, what if they can make you do anything they want?

THE LEAF BLOWER

Coming Soon!

The Leaf-Blower is a strange, pseudo-sci-fi novel I wrote immediately after Xombies. It’s my homage to the Japanese monster movies of my youth: Godzilla, War of the Gargantuas, etc. Basically it’s the story of an American living in Korea, a guy named Manny Lopes, who feels very small. Not only physically (in his own words, he’s a “Creole shrimp”), but his work, his marriage, his race, all conspire to make him feel puny and insignificant, the proverbial 98-pound weakling. Then one day an accident happens, a quantum explosion, and suddenly Manny is a giant - a really GIANT giant. And now there’s no stopping him: he’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction.

Like all my work, The Leaf-Blower takes some odd turns, and features characters like a North Korean assassin who thinks she’s Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. There’s also sex, violence, and action galore, with the army throwing everything it has against the rampaging colossus that is Manny Lopes. But there’s only one weapon that has any chance at all of stopping him: His wife.

TERMINAL ISLAND

Coming Soon!

Terminal Island is the next book that I wrote after Xombies and The Leaf-Blower. It's a psychological horror piece in the vein of The Wicker Man or The Magus, about a man investigating the disappearance of his elderly mother. Tracing her last know whereabouts, he travels with his wife and child to the sunny paradise of Catalina Island, a place he and his mother lived many years before...and where something terrible happened. Something so unspeakable he has blocked most of it out of his memory, and refuses to believe could have happened at all. But history is about to repeat itself...

Hunter's Need by Shiloh Walker Promo

Duke cant trust Analise. She betrayed him once before. After a desperate phone call, he realizes he has to face her. She needs help and he cant ignore his responsibilities. If he can just ignore his need for her, he might just get through this without losing his heartagain.





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