Bulgarian journalist Diana Georgieva recently interviewed Robert McCammon for the magazine Егоист. If you read Bulgarian, you can read the interview on their site here, or you can read the interview in English by clicking on the image below or here.
Category: The Border
Bulgarian publisher Deja Book has revealed the cover of their translation of The Border, which will be published later this month. The translation was done by Elena Pavlova, who also did the 2013 Bulgarian translation of Boy’s Life. The cover art is by Zhivko Petrov.
Bulgarian publisher Deja Book will publish a translation of The Border in October. The translation was done by Elena Pavlova, who also did the 2013 Bulgarian translation of Boy’s Life. The cover art is by Zhivko Petrov. This teaser image was posted on Facebook this morning:
Subterranean Press posted this on Facebook this morning:
Subterranean Press also shipped the lettered editions of The Border this week.
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Rick Neidlinger has composed and recorded two songs that were inspired by The Border. The songs, “Ethan” and “Gorgons Have Landed,” have been added to the Fan Audio page, where you can find other music inspired by Robert McCammon’s work.
I’ve also added two earlier songs by Rick: “Lizardman,” inspired by the McCammon short story of the same name, and “Weaving Of A Tale,” which is about story-writing in general.
You can listen to more of Rick’s music on his page on RiffWorld.com.
Subterranean Press posted this on Facebook this morning:
What a happy Thursday it is!
We have finished all customer and book store orders for THE BEST OF GREGORY BENFORD! Next up on the shipping line will be the limited edition of Robert McCammon‘s THE BORDER. Excited? We are!
The unabridged audiobook edition of The Border is now available from Audible. The audiobook is read by Fred Berman. A sample can be heard on the Audible product page for The Border.
The Audible edition can also be purchased via Amazon US and Amazon UK.
ebooks MINE Mister Slaughter Mystery Walk Reviews Stinger The Border The Night Boat The River of Souls
Review roundup and The Border ebook in Canada
The ebook edition of The Border is now available from Amazon CA! It’s also available for Kobo in Canada. The audiobook edition should be available on Monday, June 1.
There have been a number of blog reviews posted recently; here are some of them:
- Don’t Be Afraid of the Dork: Review: Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon
- Manly But Bookish: The Night Boat
- I, Popeye: Review: Robert McCammon’s “The River of Souls”
- Cody’s Bookshelf: Stinger Review
- Twirling, Twirling, Twirling Towards Freedom: Late-Early Robert R. McCammon Takes a Mystery Walk
- Neurosurgery 101: The Blog: Review: “Makeup” by Robert McCammon
- Titas Reads Books: Don’t Tempt a Mother! (review of MINE)
Here’s the Booklist review of The Border, now shipping from Subterranean Press!
Booklist: McCammon’s latest novel is a thrilling sf adventure. Two powerful, mysterious alien races are at war; Earth is caught in the middle, collateral damage. The planet is devastated, its people made nearly extinct. Those who have survived the catastrophic destruction caused by the alien war are succumbing to fallout from the battle, which is turning them into half-human creatures preying on those who are still human. Mankind seems doomed, but there is one small hope: a young boy who possesses powers that could save humanity. The problem is, the warring alien races might just prefer that humanity go extinct. Can this boy, who barely understands his own abilities, save the race? This is a very ambitious novel, an epic-scaled story of perseverance and survival in the face of monstrous odds. McCammon brings his usual storytelling gifts to the table: his ability to create characters who feel real, no matter how unreal the situations they find themselves in; dialogue that rings true; and a story that captures our imaginations from the very first page.
Subterranean Press posted this update on their website:
Robert McCammon’s return to epic sf/horror, The Border, is in stock and shipping. (The trade edition, that is. The limited and lettered editions will be out a few months down the road.)
His new novel of two alien races invading earth has drawn praise from Stephen King, Publishers Weekly, and, now, Booklist:
This is a very ambitious novel, an epic-scaled story of perseverance and survival in the face of monstrous odds. McCammon brings his usual storytelling gifts to the table: his ability to create characters who feel real, no matter how unreal the situations they find themselves in; dialogue that rings true; and a story that captures our imaginations from the very first page.
The first printing is over 97% sold out, with a second printing unlikely. You can order a signed copy of the trade hardcover through us, or an unsigned copy from your favorite large online retailer or indie.
About the Book:
World Fantasy award-winning, bestselling author Robert McCammon makes a triumphant return to the epic horror and apocalyptic tone reminiscent of his books Swan Song and Stinger in this gripping new novel, The Border, a saga of an Earth devastated by a war between two marauding alien civilizations.
But it is not just the living ships of the monstrous Gorgons or the motion-blurred shock troops of the armored Cyphers that endanger the holdouts in the human bastion of Panther Ridge. The world itself has turned against the handful of survivors, as one by one they succumb to despair and suicide or, even worse, are transformed by otherworldly pollution into hideous Gray Men, cannibalistic mutants driven by insatiable hunger. Into these desperate circumstances comes an amnesiac teenaged boy who names himself Ethan—a boy who must overcome mistrust and suspicion to master unknowable powers that may prove to be the last hope for humanity’s salvation. Those same powers make Ethan a threat to the warring aliens, long used to fearing only each other, and thrust him and his comrades into ever more perilous circumstances.
A major new novel from the unparalleled imagination of Robert McCammon, this dark epic of survival will both thrill readers and make them fall in love with his work all over again.
You can purchase The Border from Subterranean Press, Amazon US, Amazon CA, Amazon UK, B&N. You can also pre-order the audiobook from Audible and pre-order the ebook for Kindle, NOOK, Kobo.