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Greetings:
And welcome to the latest issue of the Pyr® newsletter, where we decide to get real, or rather MultiReal.
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An Anniversary of sorts...
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This week begins my 50th month as an employee of Prometheus Books (the parent company of the Pyr imprint).
Coincidentally, our 50th book, David Louis Edelman's MultiReal, is at the
printer right now. Which makes this an anniversary of sorts.
It also makes this a great time to announce the exciting news that we
are expanding the Pyr line by nearly half again as many books per year as we
previously publish (or, from 20 books a year - give or take - to around 29). Yay! More work for me. Yay! More good books for you.
And what a long, strange trip it's been so far, no?
Actually, no - what a fast, mad rush it's been. 50 books! And out of that 50:
- 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel nominee: Ian McDonald Brasyl
- 2008 Hugo Award for Best Editor Long Form, nominee: Lou Anders
- 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee: Joe Abercrombie
- 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee: David Louis Edelman
- 2008 Philip K. Dick Award nominee: Adam Roberts Gradisil
- 2007 Quill Award nominee: Ian McDonald, Brasyl
- 2007 Hugo Award for Best Editor Long Form nominee: Lou Anders
- 2007 Chesley Award for Best Art Director nominee: Lou Anders
- 2006 World Fantasy Award - Special Award, Professional nominee: Lou Anders
- 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel nominee: David Louis Edelman, Infoquake
- 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award winner: John Meaney, Paradox
- 2005 Philip K Dick Award nominee: Justina Robson, Silver Screen
- 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee: Chris Roberson
- 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee: Chris Roberson
Which ain't bad as one metric of success, if we do say so ourselves.
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Free Stuff Online
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This wonderful occasion also sees some changes over at the Pyr website, where we've added a Sample Chapters page that aggregates all the free reading in one spot (there's a lot of it!), and also a page that displays all our book banners for downloads. Nineteen book selections and nineteen banners up now. Check them out. They'll be more as we make 'em.
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Speaking of that 50th Book...
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 I'm personally very proud of MultiReal, and its predecessor Infoquake. Almost
everyone we have worked with at Pyr had an impressive track record
going in, if not multiple award winning novels to their credit - like
Mike Resnick or Michael Moorcock - then at least multiple award-winning
short fiction stories and "Year's Best" inclusions prior to their first
novels - like Chris Roberson or John Meaney. David Louis Edelman was the only
author who came in out of the cold, yanked right from the pile of
unsolicited manuscripts with not a single genre credit to his name. I
picked Infoquake up
in a spare moment, expecting it wouldn't take more than a few pages to
be sadly disappointed, and instead was blown away by the brilliant
world-building and compelling story. I couldn't put it down until
I'd read it to the end and was moving to acquire it within a week.
 That it has done so well - Barnes & Noble's
Editor's Choice for the Science Fiction Book of the Year 2006, John W.
Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Novel 2006, #5 on Bookgasm's 5
Best Sci-Fi Books of 2006, and a 2008 John W. Campbell Best New Writer
award nomination for Edelman himself based on the strength of this one
book - is at the very least confirmation that I am not completely crazy. Which is nice.
And, incidentally, Publishers Weekly
just called MultiReal - referring to the actual MacGuffin of the story
not the title (hence no italics) - "one of the most fascinating singularity technologies
in years." Which is also nice.
We've done something a little special with this forthcoming title that we've never done before, which is that we've licensed the first  book to our friends at Solaris Books for simultaneous mass market publication of book one alongside our trade paperback edition of MultiReal. Here is their page for the Solaris mass market of Infoquake. Our two art departments have worked together with fabulous cover illustrator Stephan Martiniere to ensure matching cover designs, making this a perfect time to jump on the Jump 225 trilogy bandwagon if you haven't already.
What's more, Dave himself has just completely overhauled his website in anticipation of the debut of MultiReal. Included along with copious background articles and extras are audio excerpts of both books - MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and Windows Media audio versions of the first seven chapters of Infoquake, plus the first five chapters of MultiReal. The whole website is one of the best author sites I've ever seen, so, you know, check it out.
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That's it for this issue. As ever, be sure to see the coupon at the bottom of this newsletter, and please feel free to check out our entire catalog and drop by our blog.
Happy Reading,
Lou Anders
Editorial Director, Pyr®
an imprint of Prometheus Books
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