Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels comes to bookstores in January. In 1963, the first Turing Gate is built; in 1966, the first man steps into an alternate universe, and an empire is born.

For fifteen years, the version of America that calls itself the Real has used its Turing gate technology to infiltrate a wide variety of alternate Americas, rebuilding those wrecked by nuclear war, fomenting revolutions and waging war to free others from communist or fascist rule, and establishing a Pan-American Alliance. Then a nation exhausted by endless strife elects Jimmy Carter on a reconstruction and reconciliation ticket, the CIA's covert operations wind down, and the Real begins to wage peace rather than war.

But some people believe that it is the Real's manifest destiny to impose its idea of truth, justice, and the American way in every known alternate history, and they're prepared to do anything to reverse Carter's peacenik doctrine. When Adam Stone, a former CIA field officer, one of the Cowboy Angels who worked covertly in other histories, volunteers for reactivation after an old friend begins a killing spree across alternate histories, his mission uncovers a startling secret about the operation of the Turing gates and leads him into the heart of an audacious conspiracy to change the history of every America in the multiverse-including our own.

Cowboy Angels is a vivid, helter-skelter thriller in which one version of America discovers the true cost of empire building, and one man discovers that an individual really can make a difference.

Ares Express

The Wolf Age

"LJ Best Books 2010: Genre Fiction

"The mercenaries of the Raven journey to the heart of the elven continent of Calaius to save the land from dying in a superbly visualized fantasy adventure reminiscent of Glen Cook's classic Black Company tales."

"Just the absolute best vampire novel VampChix has read all year. Simple enough? I've been touting the winner since October..."

Tome of the Undergates

"I discovered James Enge through his story in the Swords & Dark Magic anthology, and I am so glad that I did. His work has rekindled my love for sword & sorcery through its combination of vigorous action, depth of character, and crisp prose...He takes the basic heroic mode of sword & sorcery and expands upon it even as he plays with it. His books have a classical heft to them, but are neither stiff nor dated. He refreshes the genre by taking old roads and then suddenly going off into the misty woods beyond, making new paths that wind in and out of our expectations. Really top-notch stuff!"

The Mad Hatter's Bookshelf and Book Review posted the "Best Books of 2010 (That I've Read)" list.  Mark Hodder's The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack wins for Best Steampunk novel, while Clay and Susan Griffith's The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire Book 1) is the runner-up for Best Vampire novel. Also worth noting, Lou's aforementioned anthology, Swords & Dark Magic, done for Eos and co-edited with Jonathan Strahan, makes Best Anthology. While not a Pyr book, several Pyr-related authors appear inside, including the James Enge story "The Singing Spear," which is scoring well with reviewers and turning many readers on to his novel length work.  

Also, Stainless Steel Droppings The Best: 2010 in Review includes Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Diving into the Wreck and Ian McDonald's Cyberabad Days as among the best works they read this past year.  They write of Diving into the Wreck: 

"Diving into the Wreck is an intense, introspective, character-driven adventure that has moved to the top of my list of books to recommend to those who either have never tried science fiction, or are of the belief that science fiction isn't for them.
Boss is a fully realized character....You cannot help but get to know Boss in a deep and personal way which makes for a very satisfying reading experience."

And of Cyberabad Days:

"Cyberabad Days is a return to the world of Ian McDonald's BSFA-winning novel River of Gods. Like an exotic dish, this collection of seven stories (6 previously published, 1 new), is flavored with spices from the old world and the new. I savored hints of Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick amidst what I might have initially thought was an incongruous mixture: a Britain born son of Irish and Scottish parents writing stories set in a future India, steeped in that nation's rich cultural heritage. Cyberabad Days was a new and exciting literary experience, blending familiar science fiction ideas of future tech and artificial intelligence with a language and heritage that is far removed from my everyday experience. Ian McDonald brings the history of the Indian people, albeit a 'history' viewed from a time three plus decades in the future, in a way that sparks an interest in this diverse and storied nation."

Fantasy Literature has just posted their FanLit's Favorite Books of 2010 list. Joel Shepherd's Tracato and Jasper Kent's Thirteen Years Later make the list. Ian McDonald's The Dervish House makes the separate Science Fiction list. (And Swords & Dark Magic again makes the anthology list.)

You can check out excerpts from many of these books at our Sample Chapter page.  We're thrilled that so many readers and reviewers appreciate our 2010 releases.