New enhanced editions of two Anna Tambour books from infinity plus

New infinity plus ebook editions of Anna Tambour's first two books, the collection Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & and the novel Spotted Lily, include much new material: stories, poems, artwork and the downright uncategorisable.
 
Jan. 28, 2011 - PRLog -- www.infinityplus.co.uk/books/at.htm

New enhanced editions of two Anna Tambour books from infinity plus

January 2011:

"Exuberant Decadence brought into the twenty-first century ... verve, style, and an endless appetite for succulent detail. Rapacious, intelligent and witty."
--Jeff VanderMeer

New infinity plus ebook editions of Anna Tambour's first two books, the collection Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & and the novel Spotted Lily, include much new material: stories, poems, artwork and the downright uncategorisable.

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Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales &

More than 30 stories and poems from an author described by SF Site as "one of the most delightful, original, and varied new writers on hand". Includes 17,000 words of bonus material.

Temptation, indulgence, exploration and shortcuts. Love and compulsion. An ocean in Kansas, the Magic Lino, the real story behind the one told by Robert Louis Stevenson, a chef dying of ennui, gathering bluebirds, paying with candywrap. And the greatest story ever told--by Asher E. Treat, of course. The glorious chaos of singing, prancing, perfumed and stinking, the dead and the busy, tragic and achingly otherwise--life itself.

The print edition of this book was chosen in two categories (Collection and Novelette) in the annual Locus Recommended Reading List.

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Spotted Lily

Angela Pendergast, escapee from the Australian bush, grew up with the smell of hot mutton fat in her hair, the thought of her teeth crunching a cold Tim Tam chocolate biscuit-the height of decadent frivolity.

Now, though her tastes have grown and she knows absolutely what she wants, her life is embarrassingly stuck. So when the Devil drops into her bedroom in her sharehouse in inner-city Sydney with a contract in hand, she signs. He's got only a Hell's week to fulfil his side, but in the meantime he must chaperone her ... or is it the other way around?

Shortlisted for the William L. Crawford Award.

A Locus Recommended Reading List selection.

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"Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & could never be mistaken for ordinary genre fiction ... don't imagine this as high falutin' 'lit'rature' accessible only to people with advanced degrees. Anyone with a taste for beauty, audacity, sensuality, and wit can find much to enjoy here."
--Faren Miller, Locus

"... odd and surreal ... sometimes whimsical, and often wonderfully strange."
--Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

"Anna Tambour is an Australian writer of decidedly offbeat stories... she has a supremely quirky viewpoint and a tendency toward genre-bending and strange humour. But I had no idea to what extent! Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & is a revelation and a delight. Tambour's writing ranges from mainstream to slipstream, to animal and plant fantasies, metafiction, horror, science fiction, and stories odd enough that they can hardly be described as anything but 'Tambour fiction'."
--Rich Horton, "A Different Drum: Anna Tambour's First Collection Reviewed", Lost Pages

"Anna Tambour for me is one of those underrated speculative fiction authors."
--Charles Tan, Bibliophile Stalker

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Anna Tambour's infinity plus ebooks are available in the Kindle ebook format, priced $3.44 / £2.23. More formats will be available soon.

Last year the Kindle was the number one bestselling product in Amazon's history, out-selling even Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Kindle ebooks are now outselling both hardback and paperback editions at Amazon. They can also be read on PCs, Macs, smart phones and other devices.

About infinity plus:
- infinity plus was originally a science fiction, fantasy and horror showcase that ran from 1997 to 2007 and remains online as an archive
- the infinity plus ebook imprint launched in December 2010 with titles from Eric Brown, Kaitlin Queen and Keith Brooke
- within a few weeks of its relaunch as an ebook imprint infinity plus has had top ten bestsellers in three categories at Amazon
- the website holds more than 2.1 million words of fiction, 1000 book reviews and 100 interviews
- authors featured on the site include Stephen Baxter, Mary Gentle, Peter F Hamilton, Gwyneth Jones, Vonda N McIntyre, Michael Moorcock, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, Jack Vance, Connie Willis and Gene Wolfe
- there have been three infinity plus print anthologies
- Praise for infinity plus:
 - "looks great. And it's good to find quality fiction on the web" (Ellen Datlow)
 - "one of the Internet's most valuable resources for intelligent science fiction of high literary quality" (Gardner Dozois)
 - "the best place for genre fiction on the web" (SFX)
 - "first-rate" (Locus Online)

Further information:
- www.infinityplus.co.uk/books/at.htm
- www.infinityplus.co.uk/books
- for any further information, interviews, review copies, etc, contact infinity plus publisher Keith Brooke: keith@keithbrooke.co.uk

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