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Ich freue mich sagen zu können dass ich am DORT.con 2015 als internationaler Ehrengast teilnehmen werde. Weitere Details hier.

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Easter 2014 not yet here and I’ve got something in my diary for Easter 2015!   I’m proud to be a guest of honour at Dort-con (Dortmunder Science Fiction Convention) in Germany.  If you can read German, more details are here.   I’m looking forward to it.

Currently the only book of mine available in German is Messias Maschine.  I wrote a few notes for  German readers here, kindly translated by my friend Thure Etzold.

Dark Eden came out in the US and Canada yesterday!!    Random House have sent me a bunch of N American blog reviews that have appeared so far, and I’ll post the links here.  Haven’t read them all but the ones I have read are pretty good.

o   http://pili-inlovewithhandmade.blogspot.com/2014/03/mark-this-book-monday-arc-review-of_7244.html

o   http://books-forlife.blogspot.com/2014/04/dark-eden-chris-beckett.html

o   http://shetreadssoftly.blogspot.com/2014/03/dark-eden.html

o   http://www.fridaynirvana.com/fiction/2014/04/book-review-dark-eden-by-chris-beckett.html

o   http://www.fromlefttowrite.com/tag/feed-your-reader/

o   http://www.sfx.co.uk/2014/03/24/coming-up-in-the-sfx-book-club/

o   http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/giant-freakin-bookshelf-week-march-31-2014.html

o   http://www.myfriendsarefiction.com/my-to-read-list-for-march

o   http://anateasbookshelf.blogspot.com/2014/04/out-today-4114.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FNjvri+(Anatea%27s+Bookshelf)

o   http://thatvoice.net/blog/

o   http://carolsnotebook.com/2014/03/31/mailbox-monday-68/

I’ve just received the book proofs of the North American edition of Dark Eden, looking very smart with its eerie new cover image of the sunless forest of Eden.

And it’s now available for pre-order from Amazon.com and from Amazon Canada.  A new US audio book version is also under way.

This is the striking new cover for a reissue of The Holy Machine which will be available from early December from Corvus.   Corvus hope, as I do, that it will draw the attention of people who enjoyed Dark Eden, but haven’t yet come across this, my first novel.  There’s more information about the book here, and some thoughts on its history here.

As well as paperback and ebook, The Holy Machine is also available as an audiobook, narrated by John Banks.

This is the completely new and I think very beautiful cover for the US edition of Dark Eden, to be published on April 1st 2014 by Broadway (part of Random House).   Further details, preorders etc here.

It’s good to see both Dark Eden and The Peacock Cloak appearing in lists of recommended summer reading.  Dark Eden in the Guardian, Peacock Cloak in the Financial Times.

Rights to Dark Eden have now been brought by (in this order) US, Turkish, Russian, French and Polish publishers.  Details here on my agent (John Jarrold’s) website.

It’s actually quite appropriate that, after the UK and the US, the first publisher to take Dark Eden on should be Turkish, because in the back story to the book, the planet Eden was first discovered by five people, two of them British, two American, and one (Mehmet Haribey) Turkish.    That’s the reason Mehmet is a common name in Eden, along with Michael, Angela (or Gela), Dixon and Tommy.