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Book View Café Publishes Kimbriel’s Fires of Nuala

Hey, I made the press release this week!

Book View Café has published FIRES OF NUALA from Campbell Award-nominated Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. FIRES OF NUALA concerns the people of the planet Nuala, a world cursed by radiation...and riches. Mutant microbes and high ground radiation make it a deceptive paradise, but wealthy planets always attract predators. This time, one predator may be Nuala's salvation. Originally published by Warner Books in 1988, FIRES OF NUALA garnered much praise and recommendations for reading from such entities as Locus Magazine. BVC is releasing the ebook version of the book in epub, mobi, pdf, and prc formats.

Read chapter 1 of FIRES OF NUALA for free: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Katharine-Eliska-Kimbriel/Novels/

Buy the ebook for $4.99: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Kimbriel-Fires-of-Nuala
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-10-10 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I only discovered Liaden around the millenium myself ^^. When I had followed Pat Hodgell's journey to Meisha Merlin and saw that they released books by Diane Duane and then I thought why not try the Liaden collections - at the same time they were being reissued as paperbacks so I bought the rest in that way.

Some of the Anne McCaffrey books haven't aged so gracefully but the Crystal Singer trilogy, The Tower and the Hive series (mostly) and her first Petaybee trilogy with Elizabeth Moon (also her first Ship novel with Mercedes Lackey) still work for me like a charm. Some of the Pern books do it for me, too.

I have the Forgotten Beasts of Eld only in paperback. I discovered McKillip with the Riddlemaster of Hed and then looked around for her backlist.

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[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-10-10 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The first FORGOTTEN PBk was the cover I remember, I think -- since I was buying only PBks at that point. The character was also on the hardback I remember, but the pbk really made me look back at the character. And Pat told me that it felt too strong for the character, so the drawing became Darame to me. (Pat's a very shy, reserved woman, so I can see how the drawing was bold for her.)

I was worried that my books had aged too much, but they still read well for me. I was really worried about the first one (my Campbell nominee book) because it is a much older civilization, more mannered, more spiritual than the Darame books. But it's still a good book -- I hope you'll like it, too.
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-10-10 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, so do I ^^. I'm not too worried. I liked Allie and now I know that I like the first Nuala book, so now I have a positive preconception regarding your books.

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[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-10-10 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
What I hope is that people who liked one thing I wrote will try another, different thing. I'll try anything done by an author whose work I liked previously (except a strong horror novel -- I don't like gory horror, I like to be in control of the scare factor!) But I'll try most anything else. Everyone has favorites -- I have friends who like the SF best, and others who like the Alfreda books best. That's okay.

So that is good news!
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