[A] superb collection of short stories
-- Graham Joyce
This is astonishing stuff -- clever, humane, and more than a little profound.
-- Robert Shearman
Why read A Book of Endings?
ABOOK OF ENDINGS, the 2009 short story collection from Deborah Biancotti and Twelfth Planet Press, has been shortlisted for the 2010 IAFA William L. Crawford Award and the 2010 Best Collection Aurealis Award.
The Book has made it onto the Locus Recommended Reading List, SF Signal's 40 Books from 2009 You Should Read list (compiled by Ellen Datlow, Scott Cup and Jayme Lynne Blaschke), 2010 Peter McNamara Convenor's Award recipient Justin Ackroyd's Picks for 2008-09, and Jeff VanderMeer's Best of 2009 recommendations list. It's been reviewed by Strange Horizons, The Age in Melbourne, and Australian HorrorScope. Two stories from The Book were nominated for the longlist in the British Science Fiction Awards (a near-miss the author still finds delightful!).
Described as a "superb collection of short stories" by Graham Joyce, with stories The Age calls "succinct and powerful", A BOOK OF ENDINGS collects stories from Clockwork Phoenix, Ideomancer, Eidolon 1, Borderlands, inifinity plus and anthologies including THE YEARS BEST AUSTRALIAN SF & FANTASY and the AUSTRALIAN DARK FANTASY AND HORROR.
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Twelfth Planet press page for A Book of Endings.
Sydney Launch:
3pm Saturday 10 October
NG Art Gallery
Upstairs at 3 Little Queen St
Chippendale NSW
(about 2 bus stops from Central Station or a 10-minute walk)
Launch MC: Margo Lanagan
Melbourne Launch:
5:00pm Saturday 15 August
Cabinet Bar
11 Rainbow Alley
Melbourne VIc
(3 minutes from the Continuum venue)
Launch MC: Jonathan Strahan
A Book of Endings: Press Release #2
Twelfth Planet Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of the first collected works of Deborah Biancotti, to be released at Conjecture, the Australian SF National Convention, in Adelaide, June 5-8, 2009.
Biancotti has been nominated for eight Ditmars in the past eight years. It's high time that the best of Deborah Biancotti's work be collected, presented and enjoyed all in one volume.
Table of Contents
The Distance Keeper
The Dying Light
The First and Final Game
King of All and the Metal Sentinel
Life's Work
Number 3 Raw Place
Pale Dark Soldier
The Razor Salesman
Seven Ages of the Protagonist
Silicon Cast
Stealing Free
Stone by Stone
Summa Seltzer Missive
The Tailor of Time
Watertight Lies
And including 6 new works:
Coming up for Air
Diamond Shell
Hush
Problems of Light and Dark
Six Suicides
This Time, Longing
In 2001 she won the Ditmar for Best New Talent. In 2002 she won the Best Short Story Ditmar for “King of All and the Metal Sentinel”. Her first published story, “The First and Final Game”, won the 2000 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story. Recent publication, “A Scar for Leida”, won the 2007 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story and was nominated for a Ditmar. She has received frequent honorable mentions in Datlow, Link and Grant's Year's Best Fantasy & Horror for stories such as “Surrender 1: Rope Artist” (2007), “Stealing Free” (2006), “Number 3 Raw Place” (2004), “Cinnamon Gate” (2004), “The Distance Keeper” (2003) and “Silicon Cast” (2002). “The Dying Light” (2006) and “Number 3 Raw Place” (2004) have both been reprinted in Congreve and Marquandt's Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction series.
Biancotti’s newest works include “Watertight Lies”, the opening story of 2012, published by Twelfth Planet Press (2008) and “The Tailor of Time” in Clockwork Phoenix, published by Norilana Books. Writing is underway for a large project in conjunction with Gilgamesh Press.
A Book of Endings: Press Release #1
Twelfth Planet Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of the first collected works of Deborah Biancotti, to be released in 2009.
Biancotti has been nominated for seven Ditmars in the past eight years. In 2001 she won the Ditmar for Best New Talent. In 2002 she won the Best Short Story Ditmar for King of All and the Metal Sentinel. Her first published story, The First and Final Game, won the 2000 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story. Her most recent publication, A Scar for Leida, won the 2007 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story and has again been nominated for a Ditmar.
She has received frequent honorable mentions in Datlow, Link and Grant's Year's Best Fantasy & Horror for stories such as Surrender 1: Rope Artist (2007), Stealing Free (2006), Number 3 Raw Place (2004), Cinnamon Gate (2004), The Distance Keeper (2003) and Silicon Cast (2002). The Dying Light (2006) and Number 3 Raw Place (2004) have both been reprinted in Congreve and Marquandt's Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction series.
Biancotti has upcoming work in 2012 and Clockwork Phoenix, and planning is underway for a large project in conjunction with Gilgamesh Press.
We think it's high time that the best of Deborah Biancotti's work be collected, presented and enjoyed all in one volume.
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