John Birmingham has been a rising star in the Del Rey pantheon of authors, and if you haven’t read any of his books, I highly suggest you do so (Angels of Vengeance, the third book in his most recent trilogy, comes out April 10th of this year). John’s ability to set a stage with a believable, world-changing event, and then throw a cast of characters into the mix to fend for themselves in the new paradigm, is simply amazing. He writes science fiction that feels immediate because it is immediate, and the action that unfolds will have you white-knuckled as you hold on for dear life.
Well, I’m very happy to announce that Del Rey will continue to publish John Birmingham, as we’ve signed him up for three more books! Again, these novels will have a contemporary setting that explodes into chaos. But, unlike his previous novels, in which technology played the pivotal role, John is delving into something new:
Monsters.
For when an oil rig drills too deep, it unleashes a torrent of nightmares—the creatures of legend and myth, always thought to be figments of our imagination.
It turns out they’re very, very real.
And for David Hooper, a firefighter on the oil rig, he learns very quickly it’s kill or be killed…and he’s not ready to be killed just yet.
Slated to start publishing in Spring 2014, these three books will be the stand-alone adventures of David Hooper as he tries to survive a world where dragons and leviathans and orcs are not simply stories to frighten children, but a threat to the survival of humankind.
I’m so excited for these novels, and I can’t wait to tell you more about them as the manuscripts start coming in.
