Wellington City Libraries along with IP (Interactive Publications) invite you to the launch of Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, on Monday 19^th October at 5.30 pm ground floor Central Library, Victoria Street. This amazing anthology is edited by poet, fiction writer, critic and publisher Mark Pirie and Tim Jones, poet and fiction writer, both Wellingtonians. There is an impressive number of New Zealand writers represented in this anthology. The readers for the evening include poets Janis Freegard, Nic Hill, Jack Perkins, Rachel McAlpine, Helen Rickerby, Robin Fry and the editors Mark Pirie and Tim Jones.

The seating will be available on a first come first served based.

So come along and join us for a wonderful evening of poetry.

This month’s Science Fiction Recent Picks feature assassins, sorcerers, clones, a portal to hell, warring gods and fallen angels, humanity on the brink of extinction, a math prodigy, the downtrodden masses of a corporation-owned world, sinister plots, vengeance, resurrection, space cowboys, mortal enemies, the founding of a new world, a witches’ coven, revolution, war, and a yeti in the frozen food aisle at the supermarket. For all of the above (and more!) check out our  Science Fiction Recent Picks for July. Whew.

Mars life, the conclusion to the story begun in Mars and Return to Mars by multiple Hugo winner, Ben Bova has just arrived. It is part of his Grand Tour future histories series, the most gripping and intelligent contemporary science fiction sagas. In Mars Life, Jamie Waterman returns to Mars to prove, against political and religious protest, that the world was originally colonized by Martians. Ben Bova was born in 1932 and has published over 116 science fact and fiction books. He has been an editor of Analog, and is past president of the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America. He lives in Florida.
Avid readers of science fiction can now find titles on any science fiction topic using our new drop down search option, located on the Fiction web pages. This links directly to our catalogue.

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Our science fiction recent picks for May showcase all manner of martians, mages, and magical creatures. Jim Butcher is back, with his latest Harry Dresden story, and Mercedes Lackey features as well. Also included this month: much in the way of fantastical worlds, political plots and rebellion, and a struggling detective agency in a New York that is home to vampires and trolls as well as humans.

New science fiction and fantasy this month includes a Harlan Ellison retrospective and titles about cuckolded sorcerers and Magi wars. Conor Corderoy’s ‘Dark rain’ is set on dying Earth, where the super-rich experience crime-free luxury in Domes and the rest of humanity lives outside in endless rain. Mel Odom’s ‘The destruction of the books’ features “lowly librarians” who must save the precious volumes of the Vault of All Known Knowledge or darkness will descend upon the world. Sounds like daily life at WCL.

Yes, it’s time for new science fiction and fantasy books. There are new titles by popular authors David & Leigh Eddings and David Weber. Jim Butcher’s Proven guilty features the only wizard in Chicago’s phonebook. C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp have produced Touch of evil, in which Kate is troubled enough by her probable future as queen of the parasites; then she meets a sexy werewolf.

New fiction this month includes a new book by Booker Prize winner D.B.C. Pierre, and a book about a wonderful Antiques Roadshow experience.

Reviews are available here, and a complete list of new fiction titles is available here.

There are also recommendations from our new science fiction & fantasy and New Zealand fiction books.