By Darkness Hid by Jill Williamson Wins a Christy!

Congratulations to Jill Williamson on winning a Christy award yesterday! Her fantasy novel By Darkness Hid won top place in the “Visionary” category. The award is well-deserved and a first for publisher Marcher Lord Press. Congrats to all!

For my previous review of By Darkness Hid, click here.

Top 10 SF/F Best-Sellers on Amazon

Here is a list of Amazon’s top 10 best-selling SciFi/Fantasy books for the week of June 20:

1. Mission of Honor by David Weber

2. Ancestor by Scott Sigler

3. The Palace of Impossible Dreams by Jennifer Fallon

4. The Omega Point by Whitley Strieber

5. Transformers: Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron by Alex Irvine

6. Flinx Transcendent by Alan Dean Foster

7. The Map of All Things by Kevin J. Anderson

8. Shades of Gray (Icarus Project, Book 2) by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge

9. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon

10. Star Wars Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia by Jason Fry

Mission of Honor, by David Weber

Part of my goal here is to let all of you know what the best-selling books are in SciFi and Fantasy (SF/F). As such, I will be posting what some of the best-sellers are according to Amazon. First on the list is Mission of Honor (Book 12 in the Honor Harrington series) by David Weber. This book has been ranked as the #1 best-selling SF/F book for the week of June 20. Here’s the official blurb:

The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been enemies for Honor Harrington’s entire life, and she has paid a price for the victories she’s achieved in that conflict. And now the unstoppable juggernaut of the mighty Solarian League is on a collision course with Manticore. The millions who have already died may have been only a foretaste of the billions of casualties just over the horizon, and Honor sees it coming.

She’s prepared to do anything, risk anything, to stop it, and she has a plan that may finally bring an end to the Havenite Wars and give even the Solarian League pause. But there are things not even Honor knows about. There are forces in play, hidden enemies in motion, all converging on the Star Kingdom of Manticore to crush the very life out of it, and Honor’s worst nightmares fall short of the oncoming reality.

But Manticore’s enemies may not have thought of everything after all. Because if everything Honor Harrington loves is going down to destruction, it won’t be going alone.

Publisher: Baen
Release Date: Baen lists July 2010, Amazon lists June 22
Hardcover, 864 pages
List Price: $27.00, currently on sale from Amazon for $14.58

Author’s Website: David Weber

Here’s my Amazon Associates link: Medal of Honor
(Yes, if you buy the book through this link, I will get a small commission.)

Cast Your Vote for the 2010 Clive Staples Award

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The Clive Staples Award (named in honor of C.S. Lewis) was created to bring attention to Christian speculative fiction and the wonderful books in this genre that never get recognized. The first award was granted in 2009 to Donita K. Paul. Now it’s time to vote for the 2010 nominees. Because this is a reader’s choice award, we need you!

Readers or authors may make nominations provided the books contain overt Christian content or a Christian worldview and are published in English by a royalty paying publisher between January 2009 and December 2009. Sub-genres included are: science fiction, fantasy, allegory, futuristic, supernatural, and supernatural suspense. Voters will be eligible if they have read two or more of the books nominated.

For more details, to cast your vote, or to nominate an author, click here:
Clive Staples Award for Christian Speculative Fiction

Voyage of the Dawn Treader Trailer Released

Well, the title of this post says it all. The movie based on C.S. Lewis‘ Voyage of the Dawn Treader is scheduled to be released December 2010. Here’s the official movie trailer.

Free E-book: Naomi Novik’s “His Majesty’s Dragon”

Here’s another good summer read. And the price is right! You can get a free e-book copy for Kindle, Nook, iPad (with the Kindle app), Sony Reader, and PDF. Here are the links:

Kindle (includes iPad and iPhone using the Kindle app)
Sony Reader
Nook
PDF

Happy reading!