Things are coming down to the pointy end now. We’ve just completed the structural edits, and authors are working through our comments and providing redrafted material. Next up will be a copy edit then layout and final proofing. The wrinkle is that with a paper book and an ebook slated for this title that’s twice the [...]

coeur de lion is proud to announce the official line up for our forthcoming science fiction anthology Anywhere But Earth. Coming in late 2011, 29 original stories of humanity’s adventures out there, anywhere but Earth.

Margo Lanagan ‘Yon Horned Moon’

Richard Harland ‘An Exhibition of the Plague’

Sean McMullen ‘Spacebook’

Lee Battersby ‘At The End There Was a Man’

Jason Nahrung [...]

It has been a long, long haul. A twelve month reading period where we’ve received and read over 300 submissions from all over the world, but the dust is finally settling and we’re almost finalised our decisions. For statisticians among you the selection rate for stories submitted was a smidge under 9%, which is pretty normal [...]

It’s just over a month to the close of submissions for our new science fiction anthology Anywhere But Earth, so to celebrate we’re revealing the first cover mockup to an anxious public, and we think it looks pretty cool. No doubt there will be tweaks and changes before final print, but the main elements are in [...]

We’re in the long straight in terms of reading for Anywhere But Earth and the submissions are coming in thick and fast but quality is patchy. Since our last update, I’ve added only four new stories to the ABE line-up:
‘Sibo’ by Penny Love
‘Alien Tears’ by Wendy Waring
‘Hatchway’ by Simon Petrie, and
‘Eating Gnashdal’ by Jason Fischer.

But each [...]

Reading for Anywhere But Earth – coeur de lion’s science fiction anthology of stories set, you guessed it, anywhere but Earth – is reaching a frenzied pace. Submissions are open until the end of next February, but already the shape of the book is coming together, and we think it’s going to be mammoth. To date, [...]

A fairly steady stream of subs have been coming in over the past couple of months and we’re beginning to get immersed in the project. It’s often a surprise to see how writers take on your anthology’s thematic boundaries. It’s a little like chinese whispers. Some responses will be way off the mark but there are [...]

Well, since announcing our science fiction anthologyAnywhere But Earth open for subs in early February, there was an initial flurry of submissions (around thirty all up), mainly from overseas at this stage, from established authors and writing newbies.

As you might expect, quality has been variable but we’ve been impressed by a number of them. The good [...]

Shine

Anywhere But Earth is focused on a time when we’ve moved past the doom and gloom of our own current  global problems, even if we’re facing doom and gloom on another planet or orbital habitat. In part it’s a reaction to all the near-future apocalyptic books and stories that have been cropping up over the [...]