As obras de Zoran Zivkovic estão a ser publicadas em força por várias editoras, entre as quais se destacam a PS Publishing  e a Aio Publishing. Ambas lançam versões de coleccionador, de aspecto atraente, de boa qualidade e com preço concordante.

Deste autor apenas podem encontrar, em português, Biblioteca, publicado pela Cavalo de Ferro, em edição de capa padronizada e, para mim, pouco atractiva. São seis belos contos, marcantes para quem gosta de tocar nas páginas de um livro, de ler eternamente novas obras ou de passar os dias entre livros.

Do autor conseguem encontrar alguns, poucos, contos: The Astronomer, Fingernails e Words.

Pela PS Publishing, serão publicados o tríptico The Writer, The Book, The Reader e The Bridge. Aqui fica a sinopse de The Bridge:

What is the link between red hair, a red bowling ball and a red bikini? Between an overcoat with asymmetrical lapels, a scarf with two blotches and a pair of non-matching sneakers? In this brainteasing trio of stories, Zoran Zivkovic explores the collision of realities: a man encounters an alternate self, a woman out on a shopping trip runs into her dead neighbour and a fourteen-year-old girl chases her seventeen-year-old future son across town. Rough absurd redicament, surreal situations and hot pursuit, Zivkovic addresses deep and ultimately poignant questions of fate and chance, the vagaries of human character and the hidden potential which lies within us all.

De Dan Simmons, o autor de Song of Kali (World Fantasy Best Novel), Hyperion (Hugo Best Novel winner), e do mais recente The Terror, é lançado Drood, por diversas editoras, mas já em este mês pela Little Brown and Company. Só em Abril será lançada a versão da Subterranean Press que apresenta a capa à direita:

On June 9th, 1865, Charles Dickens, “the most popular novelist in England, perhaps the world,” boards a train bound from Folkstone to London, accompanied by his youthful mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. Shortly afterward, the train derails near the village of Staplehurst, toppling into an abyss. Dickens emerges from the carnage physically, if not mentally, unscathed. And he has a story to tell.

He tells it, with typical Dickensian brio, to his friend and occasional collaborator, Wilkie Collins, the narrator of this magisterial novel. The story concerns an otherworldly figure who calls himself “Drood,” and who moves through the wreckage like a pale, unholy apparition. The mysteries surrounding Drood form the heart of an epic narrative encompassing ancient religious practices, subterranean cities, hallucinatory visions, madness, murder, and the limitless power of the creative imagination. The result is a fever dream of a book that vividly recreates the sights, sounds, and smells of 19th century London, while illuminating the final years of a great writer’s life. Absorbing, moving, and constantly surprising, Drood shows us Dan Simmons at his inimitable — and mesmerizing — best.

The Rise of the Iron Moon é o livro mais recente de Stephen Hunt, o mesmo autor de The Court of the Air e The Kingdom Beyont the Waves. Supostamente, The Rise of the Iron Moon decorre no mesmo mundo de estilo victoriano. Podem encontrar um excerto do livro, online.

Born into captivity, orphan Purity Drake one day finds herself on the run with a foreign vagrant from the North. Her strange rescuer claims he is on the run himself from terrible forces who mean to enslave the Kingdom of Jackals as they conquered his own nation. As Jackals girds itself for war against an army of near-unkillable beasts serving an ancient evil with a terrible secret, it soon becomes clear that their only hope is a strange little royalist girl and the last, desperate plan of an escaped slave…