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garygibsonsf · 01-30-2012, 10:34 AM

Announcing the launch of a new ebook publisher of reprint novels and short stories, Brain In A Jar Books.

Brain In A Jar is the brainchild (sorry) of Gary Gibson, a pro author of science fiction who, just before New Year’s Eve in 2011, had a minor epiphany when he realised he knew a number of writers with work that had been ‘resting’ for quite a while. ‘Resting’ meaning, some of their work was no longer in print. So he set out to do something about it, in this new era of ebook publishing. The result is Brain in a Jar Books. BIAJ is going to be publishing a number of ebooks by various authors – most Scottish – throughout 2012. Authors include: Mike Cobley, Angus McAllister, Duncan Lunan and Fergus Bannon. The vast majority of work being published by BIAJ has already appeared elsewhere, either in original hardback or paperback editions, or in various pro sf short story markets such as Asimov’s and Analog.

Here’s a quick look at what you can expect to be seeing coming from Brain In A Jar throughout the first half of 2012.

The first BIAJ publication is Iron Mosaic, by Mike Cobley – a collection of short fiction by the author of the Shadowkings and Humanity’s Fire trilogies, currently still available in hardcopy format by Immanion Press (who kindly granted us permission to release this ebook edition). The book was first published in the mid-2000s, before Mike won the contract to write the Humanity’s Fire series of space operas about to be published in the US by Orbit. His stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications, ranging from Interzone to Back Brain Recluse to the Other Edens anthologies from the Nineties. For the moment, the ebook of Iron Mosaic will (for contractual reasons) be available only in the UK, and it’s already available for £2.00.

Forthcoming in the next few months is The Cyber Puppets, by Angus McAllister. Angus is the author of (amongst others) The superb Krugg Syndrome and The Canongate Strangler. The Cyber Puppets was originally scheduled to be published by Big Engine several years back – only for that company to go out of business just two weeks before the book was due to be released.

Also forthcoming later is With Time Comes Concorde, and other stories, by Duncan Lunan. Duncan is the author of non-fiction works such as Man and the Planets, a runaway non-fiction bestseller when it was first published in the 70s. Since then, he’s published fiction as well as a huge number of non-fiction articles for leading US sf publications such as Analog and IASFM. With Time Comes Concorde will collect four linked novellas first published in Analog and IASFM.

Finally, there’s going to be a collection of short stories and essays by Fergus Bannon, whose novel Judgement has already been selling very well indeed on Amazon - and which was the original subject of this thread. I can’t tell you how pleased I am to see it getting the attention it deserves. If you want some indication of the quality of work I'm going to be bringing to you, you could do a lot worse than check it out. Judgement is of course coming into the Brain In A Jar fold, which includes a redesign to fit in with the house style (see the website for details).

And that’s just the start, really. The books will all be priced between 99 pence and £4.99. There's a dedicated blog/website at www.braininajarbooks.wordpress.com, where you can view all the book covers for forthcoming publications and find out any news on what's coming up later this year, as it happens.

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garygibsonsf Addict Posts: 321 Karma: 432192 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Device: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite	Announcing the launch of a new ebook publisher of reprint novels and short stories, Brain In A Jar Books. Brain In A Jar is the brainchild (sorry) of Gary Gibson, a pro author of science fiction who, just before New Year’s Eve in 2011, had a minor epiphany when he realised he knew a number of writers with work that had been ‘resting’ for quite a while. ‘Resting’ meaning, some of their work was no longer in print. So he set out to do something about it, in this new era of ebook publishing. The result is Brain in a Jar Books. BIAJ is going to be publishing a number of ebooks by various authors – most Scottish – throughout 2012. Authors include: Mike Cobley, Angus McAllister, Duncan Lunan and Fergus Bannon. The vast majority of work being published by BIAJ has already appeared elsewhere, either in original hardback or paperback editions, or in various pro sf short story markets such as Asimov’s and Analog. Here’s a quick look at what you can expect to be seeing coming from Brain In A Jar throughout the first half of 2012. The first BIAJ publication is Iron Mosaic, by Mike Cobley – a collection of short fiction by the author of the Shadowkings and Humanity’s Fire trilogies, currently still available in hardcopy format by Immanion Press (who kindly granted us permission to release this ebook edition). The book was first published in the mid-2000s, before Mike won the contract to write the Humanity’s Fire series of space operas about to be published in the US by Orbit. His stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications, ranging from Interzone to Back Brain Recluse to the Other Edens anthologies from the Nineties. For the moment, the ebook of Iron Mosaic will (for contractual reasons) be available only in the UK, and it’s already available for £2.00. Forthcoming in the next few months is The Cyber Puppets, by Angus McAllister. Angus is the author of (amongst others) The superb Krugg Syndrome and The Canongate Strangler. The Cyber Puppets was originally scheduled to be published by Big Engine several years back – only for that company to go out of business just two weeks before the book was due to be released. Also forthcoming later is With Time Comes Concorde, and other stories, by Duncan Lunan. Duncan is the author of non-fiction works such as Man and the Planets, a runaway non-fiction bestseller when it was first published in the 70s. Since then, he’s published fiction as well as a huge number of non-fiction articles for leading US sf publications such as Analog and IASFM. With Time Comes Concorde will collect four linked novellas first published in Analog and IASFM. Finally, there’s going to be a collection of short stories and essays by Fergus Bannon, whose novel Judgement has already been selling very well indeed on Amazon - and which was the original subject of this thread. I can’t tell you how pleased I am to see it getting the attention it deserves. If you want some indication of the quality of work I'm going to be bringing to you, you could do a lot worse than check it out. Judgement is of course coming into the Brain In A Jar fold, which includes a redesign to fit in with the house style (see the website for details). And that’s just the start, really. The books will all be priced between 99 pence and £4.99. There's a dedicated blog/website at www.braininajarbooks.wordpress.com, where you can view all the book covers for forthcoming publications and find out any news on what's coming up later this year, as it happens. Last edited by garygibsonsf; 01-30-2012 at 10:37 AM.