TOR’S SPRING/SUMMER CATALOG
I happened to be browsing around and saw the PDF of Tor’s spring/summer 2014 catalog. Wait a minute, said I, THE ULTRA THIN MAN is coming out in August. Is there something in the catalog about it?
There was. As happens with catalogs like this, where no jacket cover yet exists, there’s a blank there, but book information—available formats, prices, page count, size and weight, marketing plans—were there. I suspect some of that is subject to change.
But most intriguing was the book description, which I had not yet seen. Here on my website, I created my own “jacket copy” to have something descriptive about the book’s content, but it was very cool to read someone else’s description. (I don’t know who wrote it.) I’ll double-check with my editor, but I’m assuming I’ll be able to put Tor’s description on my site in place of the existing one. To see the catalog (which has ALL the upcoming spring/summer books for Tor), you can click here: http://media.us.macmillan.com/Catalogs/Current/TOR_Spring-2014_05_2013.pdf
But no need to click if you don’t want to. Here’s the text from the catalog for THE ULTRA THIN MAN:
A tense and fast-paced near-future thriller where aliens, terrorists, and interplanetary conspiracies collide.
In the twenty-second century, a future in which mortaline wire controls the weather on the settled planets and entire refugee camps drowse in drug-induced slumber, no one—alive or dead, human or alien—is quite what they seem. When terrorists manage to crash Coral, the moon, into its home planet of Ribon, forcing evacuation, it’s up to Dave Crowell and Alan Brindos, contract detectives for the Network Intelligence Organization, to solve a case of interplanetary consequences. Crowell’s and Brindos’s investigation plunges them neck-deep into a conspiracy much more dangerous than anything they could have imagined.
The two detectives soon find themselves separated, chasing opposite leads: Brindos has to hunt down the massive Helk alien Terl Plenko, shadow leader of the terrorist Movement of Worlds. Crowell, meanwhile, runs into something far more sinister—an elaborate frame job that puts our heroes on the hook for treason.
Crowell and Brindos are forced to fight through the intrigue to discover the depths of an interstellar conspiracy. And to answer the all-important question: Who, and what, is the Ultra Thin Man?
