July 1, 7pm, I’ll be at McNally Jackson reading and signing SHIP BREAKER and WINDUP GIRL with Scott Westerfeld, author of LEVIATHAN (and so many other cool titles), and Jon Armstrong, author of GREY.

July 3, I’ll be appearing on WBAI’s Hour of the Wolf from 5am-7am (yes, *am*, bring coffee, please, bring coffee). Should be a good time on 99.5 FM.

July 6, 7pm, I’ll be reading with Nebula-nominated author Saladin Ahmed at the NYRSF Reading Series at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art. The full press release is below. Looking forward to it very much.

The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings
presents
Saladin Ahmed
Paolo Bacigalupi

Tuesday, July 6th — Doors open 6:30 PM
SoHo Gallery for Digital Art
138 Sullivan Street (directions and links below)
$5 suggested donation

Just when you thought the 20th Anniversary series was over, we keep coming up with surprises. But with a lineup like this, we just had to extend for at least one more month.

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Saladin Ahmed has been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award, the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and the Harper’s Pen Award for Best Sword & Sorcery/Heroic Fantasy Short Story. His fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Clockwork Phoenix 2, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Drabblecast, PodCastle, Expanded Horizons, and the Portuguese F/SF magazine Bang!. His poetry has earned fellowships from the University of Michigan, Brooklyn College, and the Bronx Council on the Arts, and has appeared in over a dozen journals and anthologies. He was born in Detroit and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and twins. His Web site is http://saladinahmed.com

Paolo Bacigalupi’s writing has appeared in High Country News, Salon.com, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. It has been anthologized in various “Year’s Best” collections of short science fiction and fantasy, nominated for three Nebula and five Hugo Awards, and won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best sf short story of the year.

His debut novel THE WINDUP GIRL was named by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best novels of 2009, has won the Nebula Award and was nominated for the Hugo. His short story collection PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES was a 2008 LOCUS Award winner for Best Collection and also named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. His most recent novel, SHIP BREAKER, has just been released from Little, Brown. He currently lives in Western Colorado with his wife and son, where he is working on a new novel. His Web site is http://windupstories.com

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The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series is celebrating its 20th season of providing performances from some of the best writers in science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, etc. The series usually takes place the first Tuesday of every month, but maintains flexibility in time and place, so be sure to stay in touch through the mailing list and the Web.

Admission is by a $5 donation. If circumstances make this a hardship, let us know and we will accommodate you.

Jim Freund is Producer and Executive Curator of The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings. He has been involved in producing radio programs of and about literary sf/f since 1967. His long-running live radio program, “Hour of the Wolf,” broadcasts and streams every Saturday morning from 5:00 to 7:00. The broadcasts are also available as a stream ‘on-demand’ for 2 weeks after broadcast at http://archive.wbai.org

The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art (http://sohodigart.com) is dedicated to re-establishing SoHo as an international center for the development of new artistic forms, concepts and ideas. A screens-instead-of-canvases approach allows a wide selection of art from around the world which would otherwise never make it to the City. The SGDA is availible for private gatherings and events of all kinds. For bookings call (800) 420-5590 or visit http://sohogallerynyc.com

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WHEN:
Tuesday, 7/6
Doors open at 6:30 — event begins at 7

WHERE:
The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art
138 Sullivan Street (between Houston & Prince St.)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=138+Sullivan+St.+New+York+NY+10012

HOW:
By Subway
6, C, E to Spring St.; A, B D or F to West 4th; 1 train to Houston St; or R, W to Prince St.

There are many convenient bus lines that come within a couple of blocks of the gallery. Use the link above for an interactive transit map.

Also of note, I know that I’ve Facebooked and Twittered about it, but WINDUP GIRL has also won the Nebula Award, and the Compton Crook Award, and it’s currently a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award and the Hugo. It’s been an amazing year.

SHIP BREAKER was a chance for me to write a high-octane adventure story while still touching on themes like peak oil and global warming that fascinate me. It focuses on Nailer, a boy working scavenge on a ship breaking operation, tearing apart the last oil tankers and freighters of the Accelerated Age. It’s dirty, deadly work, and he and the rest of his crew are always one failed quota away from being kicked back to the beaches to starve. But out on the ocean, Nailer can see beautiful high-tech clipper ships sailing past–a new life, fast and clean and free. If only he can find a way to get out to it.

The book just picked up a Starred Review in Publishers Weekly and it’s been made a selection of the Junior Library Guild.

W00t!

THE WINDUP GIRL *does indeed* have a Kindle version available, but not through Amazon. Webscriptions.net sells the eBook of WINDUP GIRL and it’s compatible with everything from Kindle and iPad/iPhone/Touch/ to Nook and Sony. You can get it for just $6 and it’s DRM-free:

Purchase THE WINDUP GIRL in eBook format.

Also, PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES has completely sold out in hardcover (except one last signed copy lurking in my local bookstore here in Paonia, hee hee). A trade paperback will be released in December, but for those of you who read eBooks, there’s no need to wait. The eBook edition is available at Webscriptions.net, same deal as above: $6, DRM-free.

Purchase PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES as an eBook.

So if you’ve got a Kindle or a Nook or an iPhone or an iPad or whatever your digital reader of choice might be, yes, you *can* get digital versions of my books.

Enjoy!

It’s been a wild ride with TWG, and I want to thank everyone who read the book and liked it enough to vote for it. When we launched it at last year’s World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal, I didn’t dream it would be a candidate for this sort of attention.

So, again, thank you thank you thank you, and congratulations to all the other nominees. It’s an honor to be in such fine company.

THE WINDUP GIRL has been nominated for the Nebula Award, and to top it off, my novelette, “The Gambler,” is also a nominee. You can read “The Gambler” free over at PYR Books’ website. It’s a great honor to be nominated, made doubly so by the high quality of the novels and stories that are in competition for the award.

In other WINDUP GIRL news, a couple of other rave reviews have come in:

Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow: “…an exciting story about industrial espionage, civil war, and political struggle, filled with heart-thudding action sequences, sordid sex, and enough technical speculation for two lesser novels.”

SF Reviews.net (Four Stars): “Grimy post-ecocrunch near-future dystopia in which peak oil peaked ages ago, and the most cherished source of energy is measured in the tightly regulated calories… If you like worldbuilding, this novel’s vision… makes Blade Runner look like it was shot on plywood backdrops in someone’s garage”

Awesome.

TIME Magazine: “Bacigalupi is a worthy successor to William Gibson: this is cyberpunk without computers.”

Techland: “It’s ridiculous how good this book is.”

Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2009: “Bacigalupi’s powerful debut warns of dire ecological collapse and the evils of colonialism in an eerily plausible near future Thailand.”

Library Journal, Best Books of 2009: “Postmodern Bangkok springs to life in Bacigalupi’s brilliant dystopian tale of culture clash, recalling the best of China Miéville and Neal Stephenson.”

Barnes & Nobles Book Club – Unabashedly Bookish: “Paolo Bacigalupi’s debut novel The Windup Girl is nothing short of an instant dystopian classic – replete with genetically engineered elephants, clipper ships and dirigibles.”

Winner, ALA 2010 Reading List Awards: “Bacigalupi constructs a sobering and nuanced of future Bangkok teetering on the edge of disaster. In this inhospitable environment, a disparate group of characters calculates how to survive. The novel’s gritty tone, provocative story line, and sympathetic characters evoke a world that is frightening real.”

Charles Stross describes some strategic aspects in the fight. Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider’s guide to the fight

And Scott Westerfeld sums up the battle in clean clear prose, so anyone can understand how–if not exactly why–it came to this: Zinc blinked.

Update 11:26pm: Scalzi analyzes Amazon’s media strategy… and finds it hilariously wanting. All the many ways Amazon so very failed the weekend.

Lots and lots of other smarts and fun via the twitter trend #amazonfail